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If humans were to grow up without social structure or education, they would not be very effective at survival.
It is due to learning skills through education, etc that makes humans effective.

What we have here is specific populations of corvid species that grew up in relative isolation/protection that enabled them to have social structure to exist between generations.

It should be feasible to influence other corvid populations to show such remarkable feats. As long as there is no big mortality, the younger birds should learn from the older.
> The DOL made the time and a half for work over 40 hrs per week to increase labor demand.

The only possible effect of this policy is to decrease demand for labor.
and i'm obviously not.
Both? ;)
While we're at it, maybe all my coworkers could speak in an American accent, too. That would just be so much easier.
I'm liking the recent design changes, however, I don't like the new implementation of contrib. activity... information overload!
> ZERO net money entering the economy

If I borrow money from the bank, they simply list it as a credit to my checking account. I can then write checks to buy things. The vendor deposits my checks in his checking account. The money never left the bank, but it still resulted in commerce - for all intents and purposes, it "entered the economy".
Out of curiosity, may I ask which country?
"temporarily embarrassed millionaires" — http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/
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> Further (and this is perhaps less on-topic), why do all UIs need to be written in HTML/CSS these days to be considered "modern"?

Because there are a lot of web developers who want to make a desktop app without having to learn C++. Not to mention there are a lot more web developers than C++/Qt/any-other-technology developers in general.
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Food service employees don't usually get sick days and sick days aren't required by law. Imagine how many people they infect.
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One aspect about this that did not sit well was that bluetooth speakers will not work if they use security as "Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported." an aspect that puts me off. For example a neighbor got a branded speaker with the usual extra's like mic and ability to work with phones and it had no PIN code and I demonstrated how anybody can connect and indeed record using that built in mic.

So I hope that improves though you can just use a wired speaker, which would be somewhat better anyhow.
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I think it is better if you mask your server ip using some service like CloudFlare and assign it a domain name when making public apps with links to your server.
You might still divide your feelings about the American ruling class, and Edward Snowden, presently facing criminal prosecution and long time, possibly (though doubtfully) death.

So, no, yours isn't the only reason to support pardoning Snowden.

It's also, distantly, possible that the act of allowing for the potential good of his actions might lead more to question an unwavering support of present American principles, values, and policies.
I don't have sick days, they just come out of our vacation days. Management thinks if you give people "sick days" they will say they are sick when they aren't just to get a day off.

I take sick days when I hurt my back and can't get out of bed but end up with my phone and iPad in bed taking emails and attending meetings/calls
To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of [detainee]
Why not position it as an accident avoidance system?

Most accidents occur due to distracted drivers.
A self braking car preventing drivers from rear ending other cars can easily be justified as a good investment.
Having something like this to "upgrade" any car to a better safety system makes more sense to me from a marketing standpoint.
Super simple drop-in shoutbox for web apps with customer data API
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Fight back against a rapist, maybe get seriously injured or killed. It's damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-socialism-never-took-...
lol thats why you don't buy expensive dysons - HÖMDRY has a blue UV light that kills germs - No other hand dryer else has this
I dunno, when I turned around and shoved my bully (he was a loser-stoner, not a jock) into the wall after he was shoving me while I was taking a piss, he didn't say "Oh hey cool, it's a two player game, I like this guy", he punched me in the head 5 times.

But sure, it's just kids being dumb and silly.
This is an interesting question. I wonder if the limitations are due to particularities of English and other common languages in general, or to particularities of human speech in general.
That is crazy stuff. Weird as a numbers station
Is your position that "food critic" is not a legitimate job, or that there is no value in NYT restaurant reviews?

Once you admit there is, then by definition someone's job involves a lot of eating. I think that's pretty much all he meant by saying that his body is not his own. If anything, the better comparison is with football PLAYERS, who also make bodily sacrifices in the practice of their chosen profession.
That shows where my brain is at. It concerns a Javascript UI package (https://github.com/trueadm/inferno ) and not an OS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) ).
The CPI does track these changes:

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpihqaqanda.htm#Question_1

If a t-shirt's quality declines, then it's actually getting more expensive, and that should be tracked.

If computers get better, then that should equally be tracked, otherwise you're introducing an asymmetry, where products get better -> price index doesn't change, but products get worse -> price index increases.

In fact, computers have rapidly gotten both better and cheaper over the last decades. A new 486DX2/66 machine ran around $2500 in 1992 -- now a basic desktop shouldn't run you more than $300-400.
There are two common schemes: one that combines vacation and sick leave in "Paid Time Off" ("PTO") banks and one that tracks them separately. It is almost uniformly the case for programmers outside the Bay Area to work for companies with one or the other (usually the former).

This is one reason why I think it's funny when developers mistakenly think of their managers and higher as "colleagues." Software developers are much closer to blue collar workers than white collar workers from a social status perspective.
It's a common trope usually referring to poor/middle class people that vote Republican because they believe they will be well-off one day and benefit from lower taxes and less welfare.

It comes from a quote attributed to John Steinbeck:
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
>If I have a mild headache, can I take a sick day?

Yes.

>What if I'm nauseous when I wake up, but I'm fine by lunch?

Take half a sick day?

>Can I use sick days for psychological reasons?

Yes.

>What if someone sees me in public and thinks I don't look sick?

When taking a sick day, limit your public outings to the doctor / pharmacist.
Your employer also doesn't have control of when you get sick.
> Stating a movie is based on an actual account from witnesses/survivors/etc generally makes it sell better.

Although, which is perhaps egeozcan's point, it doesn't necessarily make it actually better.
I prefer to pull out my sketchbook and try to visualize/diagram the problem/challenge in (sometimes) several ways.. This always helps me get a new perspective on it.. And get some cool doodles in which is always fun.
> It doesn't take much sophistication to recognize that inflation measuring the cost of a basket of goods is affected when the goods change either through substitution or changes in quality.

In theory, yes. It takes a little more sophistication to realize that, in practice, "the iPad being faster" doesn't actually cancel the burden of higher food prices.
Talk to your rubber duck

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging, works for design problems as well)

Move around (not slowly walking to the kitchen to fetch yet another coffee, something more energetic)
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"Fine Bob, you can have that one... again? Damn it Bob, stop being an asshole."

People can be that "dumb", I wouldn't read too much into it.

Also it looked like the "first" bird "stole" the stick from the "second" bird in the first place, so it could just be some well deserved payback ;)
Did you read the article? They tested newly-hatched chicks that had never seen a tool be used, and the chicks still instinctively tried to use tools (though they were clumsy at first, and gained skill at using the tools over a few months).
Giving specific benefits often ends up going along with requiring specific proof of need for the benefit. I had classes in college where attendance was part of the grade. Additionally if you had to miss a class due to being sick, you had to produce a doctor's note. The attitude for myself and others was largely fuck that, I'm not going to the doctor for a cold or flu. I'll just come in and infect everyone, hopefully the administration/teacher who introduced such a policy...
I had a similar setup at a late stage tech startup that ended up going public while I was there. So not all companies in any industry will fit the mold of how you might expect them to behave.

Also, I recall my time in Japan where I had 0 sick days and 10 PTO days for the year. The explicitly communicated expectation was that PTO was to be reserved for weddings, funerals, and sick days. Also, doing everything possible to not get sick was described as part of your professional obligation.

So even my relatively poor benefits at said SV startup was leagues beyond what I had as a salaryman soldier. ;)
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Reminded an episode of the west wing:

> It doesn't matter if most voters don't benefit. They all believe that someday
they will.
> That's the problem with the American dream. It makes everyone concerned for
the day they're gonna be rich

http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTransc...
Ridiculous sick day policies are sort of covered here: http://www.inc.com/lolly-daskal/10-dumb-rules-that-make-your...

They only discourage people from keeping contagious colds away and at home which means more get affected and hurt office productivity more!
Does the word error rate account for context? For example, if I heard "clown" instead of "cloud", I would probably treat it as something I misheard it in the context of the sentence and correct my understanding accordingly. I guess what I am trying to ask is that if the system reaches 4% (human error rate for same sample), can it really be considered to be on-par?
How did she create it? What did she use as a development framework or a back end? How is she funding her servers and databases?
Yes, I've studied the economic principals underlying Nordic socioeconomic success. Again, I believe other methods will need to be undertaken to achieve the same outcome, due to the drastic cultural and economic differences between Nordic countries and the United States.

That's not cargo culting. That's adapting to your circumstances.
I remember reading that porn sites are often used as vectors for malware etc. Porn is not something people talk about openly so it's easier to use those sites to infect a target. Porn traffic is huge yet nobody really say they watch porn.

Either that, or the Kremlin doesn't like porn, which I doubt.
What skills did these critical hires have that couldn't be found in the United States?
(1) Spring is not as bad as you probably think. A few years ago I got thrown into the deep end of several large projects that involved Spring and found it was particularly painful.

I got over it by reading the Spring manual cover to cover at the gym and then got confident enough to look at the source code and write my own extension modules.

If you learn Spring by "making little changes to an existing codebase" and "looking up answers on Google and Stackoverflow" you are D00MED. If this is how people have been building your codebase, you are D0UBLE D00MED.

If you understand how it works, it is not so bad.

(2) Many of the alternatives are worse. I built a huge Silverlight GUI app before my recent Java Jag and initialization issues were a continuous pain in the ass. Every time we changed something about the app, the order in which things had to initialize in the app changed and things would break and we were always suffering. Spring figures out what depends on what and takes a big burden off your shoulders. Teardown was not such a big issue with that app, but I build a lot of data processing apps where teardown is critical or otherwise transactions don't get completed, data files are corrupted, and similarly Spring handles that for me.

(3) The "Spring X" subframeworks are hit-or-miss, just as the many off-brand products that are sold under the "Microsoft" or "Oracle" brands. The real Spring Framework is excellent, but "Spring Batch" and "Spring Data" and many things like that tend to suck.

(4) I'm building my own framework now that is starting to eat the Spring framework in my projects. The center of it is a system that converts RDF to Java data and converts Java data to RDF. With the backwards-chaining inference capabilities in RDF it is easy to do the topological sort and figure out which order things need to happen in.

Unlike Spring this system is bidirectional (you can snapshot something that already exists) and you can use SPARQL to do queries of either the "system map" or the objects created from the "system map" and you can do all kinds of inference. You can even turn Spring bean descriptions to and from RDF (these are Java objects too) so one of the big questions is if and how much stuff from Spring we decide to incorporate into the system.

Practically though I am using less Spring and more Turtle.

We haven't made a hard decision about making this thing open source but we are learning in that direction. See

http://ontology2.com/the-book/rdf-a-new-slant.html
I would like to think that I am exceptionally well read in SF... and I have never heard of any of these folks.

They may be great. I dunno.

I was expecting:

Asimov (biochemist), Sagan (physicist), Brin (astrophysics, space science), Forward (physicist), Czerneda (biologist), Watts (biologist), Benford (astrophysicist), Taylor (physics, space science), Brotherton (astrophysicist), Asaro (physics and chemistry), Kondo (astrophysicist), Landis (physics), Rajaniemi (mathematical physics)... those are the ones off the top of my head, I'm certainly missing many.

I can vouch for all of the above authors being able to tell a story.
Yup, employers often fail to see how they are incentivizing contagion in their offices by having the sick day policies they do.
I mostly agree with you, but I think the out-of-the-box immutable data structures and sugar around around maps are very nice compared to the out-of-the-box scheme/racket experience.
Unlimited time off and zero days time off are pretty much the same thing.

If they really wanted you to take time off they'd have a minimum, but strangely few "unlimited" companies do, why is that? Most non-unlimited companies give you a set amount that "expire" which essentially encourages you to use them all (which is a GOOD thing).

PS - And no doubt there will be an anecdote below about the one company that does have a minimum. My point is that that company is a unicorn, most unlimited companies have no minimum and don't legitimately expect/want you to take a lot of days.
Fatal Tesla Crash in China Involved Autopilot, Government TV Says
>It's really hard to take you seriously when you say something like this. If someone's behavior really is remarkable, then there should be no need to exaggerate. If you exaggerate, it suggests that maybe your complaint isn't legitimate.

It's also hard to take them seriously, and you to some extent since you decided to take offense about an issue that no one in this thread even raised, usually the first sign of "irrationality" is taking offense when not only it wasn't directed at you, but also wasn't even given to anyone.

>Why do you say that?...

Because even Elon Musk said so, they are banking on the Model S and X to push the Model 3.
Overall the profitability of the Model 3 is still questionable, they are using very expensive materials and platform even for the base model, they are betting on state based rebates to keep it close to 30K (which is risky since those rebates can disappear) and their overall profit margins would be relying on the people that buy the premium modules and upgrades for the model 3, as well as of course buying the very expensive Model S and X's especially the higher end models of those like the P100D.

That's where the money is some Core i3/5s are effectively Xeons (or the otherway around depending on how you want to look at it) but Intel sells them for as low as under 100$ while their Xeon counterparts go for 3-5 times the price, what Tesla is doing is effectively binning and selling very minor upgrades at very high relative costs (e.g. using Intel again akin to the 6700 vs 6700K same CPU 50$ difference (300 vs 350$) for an unlocked multiplier which is effectively a microcode patch) which may or may not work for cars.

>If you ask the average consumer that cares about electric vehicles, they probably do know about Tesla.

This is an utterly irrelevant question to ask if you want to make a change in the world, even Elon Musk made this same argument, the point of the cars like the Bolt isn't to sell them to people who want to buy an electric car specifically but to anyone who wants to buy a car in general.

This is why range and price point are so important, if you are able to bring an electric car to a range equivalent to a gas car (without refueling) under the 30,000 price point you have yourself the ability to push for real change in the automotive industry and more important a real environmental change both locally and globally.

The whole idea is to make the fact that a car is electric so irrelevant that it would be akin to asking if a car has power steering in this day and age. So pretty much when we get to the point of:
>The average person doesn't really care much about that
Is when we "win".
I deplore the model of the world where acquiring a PhD is a choice made by an individual, and what you should do is cash in on your credentials.

When we ignore the social component of our lives, big surprise, it atrophies and dies. I have a PhD because many people (a society) invested in me to get one. My PhD is not something I should use for my own enrichment by building a "career" and a "startup" to satisfy my job requirements, there should be a substantial portion of my effort that is socially directed, that gives back the enormous amount that was given to me to get me here.

This is why I will remain stuck in academia forever, desperately seeking that shrinking universe where someone can attempt to produce pure public goods.
Its the first petition that I find worth signing. I did it through Amnesty Intl as I dont live in the US. Only with an email address I dont know how credible the petition is, I wanted to prove that I'm standing up and supporting him. We either die all together like Maya, or we win.

I didnt understand where the money from donations go, but I could donate also for the right cause.
For example, Julius Genachowski, donated just under $3.5 million to the DNC and OFA, and in exchange was appointed chairman of the FCC by Obama in 2009.

Nothing in the documents proves this. It only shows what we already know, which is that in any administration, there is a correlation between donations and appointments. What you would need is a written communication prior to the donation requesting or offering the appointment in exchange. That would be evidence. This is nothing.
Will Snowden write a book?

Im curious about an in depth story of his leaks and him. Citizen 4 didn't provide a lot.
They can encourage presenteeism (e.g. by a fixed number of sick days, policies requiring doctor notes for just one day ill) so sick people spread their germs. They can overwork you and cause stress.

In my experience, managers are particularly good at coming in and spreading germs because they "had an important meeting and so much to do."!
Libertarian yes. They are not neocons at all. Where do you see that in the show?

Edit: I just remembered that Matt and Trey made Team America World Police back in 2004--back when even Democrats like Clinton were gung ho about Iraq.

In it, they did a thorough job mocking the neocons, their enablers across the aisle, and their shared appetite for "preemptive" war.
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Is this like MetaFont?
But where are you going to get enough crows in one place to build an army?

Maybe Danville, IL

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-01-26/news/ct-met-cr...

Or Terre Haute, IN

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/us/terre-haute-battles-cro...
What can we improve in GitLab that would have convinced you to stay?
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> but I definitely don't think it's due to someone actively deciding to fudge the figures.

What they've done instead is change the CPI formula a couple times to avoid it from reflecting price increases.

For example, they replaced steak with hamburger a few years ago when steak got too expensive.
That is called lying through omission.
Reading The Little Prince every five years has indeed been my routine (since high school). Glad I'm not the only one :)
> I have never heard of any of these folks

I also read a lot and I haven't heard of any of them either.
Nope, totally wrong. The service you deliver to your children will far outweigh that rendered by them, at least in their youth. Inverse for renter / landlord.
GM was the first to produce a consumer electric car, in 1996:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

They ended up destroying their own stock of cars. For electric car enthusiasts, this was seen as a proof that big automotive manufacturer would never dare go along that path.

I do think that GM latest electric car happened because of Tesla, and would not have happened if competition did not exist.
So you might summarise Chomsky's book as "some people are more persuasive than others"

Does he also say that these people may be powerful because they are persuasive?
It's not right right to put that responsibility on individual employees.

It's the employer's responsibility to maximize productivity across their work force. If they want to reduce infection to maximize productivity then it's their responsibility to make sure employees have enough sick time. If management doesn't care enough to have a reasonable policy, why should individual employees care about overall productivity?
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The sale of a public office is corruption. But nothing in the article provides any evidence of such a sale, at least nothing that wasn't already public. In every administration we see donors getting appointments. But correlation isn't causation---it's plausible that well-connected, politically active people would both be likely to donate and likely to be appointed to important positions.