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> how many more of these rooms exist, and where exactly they are

Dozens, if not hundreds, in every major US city at the very least. Have we really not learned anything in the recent years, that we're still unsure about such basic questions? Imagine the KGB at its peak activity, bump it up by a few orders of magnitude, and you have the NSA. Man, despite everything, the US is still really good at brainwashing even its most tech savvy citizens.

> I'm surprised we haven't had many more leaks about them given what I would consider the ease of identifying them

I think you're greatly overestimating "the easy of identifying them", and how much the average AT&T employee knows/cares. Things are also probably much better hidden now compared to 2006.
Looking into the brains of habitual short sleepers
The difficulty, of course, is reducing the amount of abuse against people without reducing the amount of discourse. Twitter is having serious issues figuring that out.
OP here. It forced me to log in then showed error 9068, which doesn't appear on their error codes page.

However, there's a workaround as described in the forum comments in the linked page. Use the search button (green triangle for PS3) and I could watch stuff normally.
Yeah I considered NUMMI but I thought the Delta plant would be better comparison since it was built in the mid 2000's and NUMMI was built in the mid-80s (although obviously upgraded multiple times).

The Delta plant employs ~4,000 employees so you get about 70 cars/employee/year.

If NUMMI was making 310k vehicles per year with 4,700 employees according to Wiki, that would be about 66 cars/employee/year -- which is much closer than I expected.

Last year Tesla turned out 50,000 vehicles and they currently have ~6,000 employees in Fremont -- or about 8 cars/employee/year.

Obviously an unfair comparison since Tesla is ramping production and NUMMI / Delta are both final assembly plants and Tesla is doing a lot of stamping and component production in Fremont but interesting nonetheless.
The "trick" is probably to pay someone else to think about those problems by buying an international index fund like VXUS. If you're not comfortable with emerging markets, find one that excludes them
> any good manager/boss/supervisor/leader/etc will want to be updated regularly

Of course they want to, that's how they justify their existence. The question is do they need to have that constant ability to look over your shoulder for work to be done.
So, if there was a massive crash in the stock market, you wouldn't be tempted to buy some shares at low prices?
...And they destroyed their 3rd party app/developer ecosystem which would have helped their growth.
My sites use local storage and I inform the user - consider the possibility someone is using a public computer and you've stored locally what they though was private.
Reporter/EU Official: When will you trigger Article 50 already?

UK Government: Mañana

Reporter/EU Official: ¿En Español?

UK Government: Sí, en Español.

Reportero / Oficial de la UE: ¿Cuándo va a desencadenar el artículo 50 ya?

UK Government: Mañana.

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Reportero / Oficial de la UE: Ah, sí. Mañana.
Unless you're career progress is dependent on a traditional degree (university professor, old school corporation, etc.), I would say go with whichever route allows you to actually both learn and apply the materials to the fullest extent.

The important thing is that you're able to learn and master the material and use it to create real value in the world. If you can do that, I don't think anyone will care how you came by it.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
What government are you talking about?

Until recently I couldn't avoid government insurance here in America, and the IRS penalizes me monthly for it at a rate higher than the cost of subsidized insurance.

And flouride in your water doesn't replace toothpaste. Are you seriously trying to tell me if I don't brush but drink enough water a day, without changing my sugar consumption and after-meal rinsing habits, that my gums will stay healthy? I don't think you really know what you're talking about.
Yeah, it's called having a focus.

Remember this "opinionated software" thing?

Plus, it works for them, made them the biggest company on the planet while they were NOT following the armchair quarterbacks, so?
For the ones with the best intentions they probably think that, on average if not in every particular case, they're pulling the switch to make the trolley hit one person instead of five (so to speak), and that not doing so would make the world a worse place.

For the ones with the worst intentions, it's likely something to do with chasing material and/or social rewards. (edit) And they don't much care about how much it hurts others.
> The answer seems to be that many people feel Uber is a decent investment compared to alternatives.

Yes, but I'm not convinced they think this for sensible reasons. People follow a herd mentality, and invest in Uber simply because others are doing so - if that many people are doing it, it must be a sure thing, right?
That's hardly the point. The point is that if not regulated, at a level where the average person can keep up, be healthy and have a life outside work, then some employers will push and exploit people.

Also employees shouldn't be rewarded for self destructive behaviour. Sadly many companies can't tell the self destructive from the people who just happen to enjoy what they do. And some of the self destructive actually do love their job.
You don't even need strong incentives. The ozone hole was a target for the same types of people who now fight against the idea of climate change. For example, in one of his books, Rush Limbaugh dismissed the idea that humans could ever be responsible for any significant amount of ozone damage, because volcanos produce thousands of times more ozone-depleting chemicals.
I had a similar thought when I saw a person working for a company called favor (https://favordelivery.com/). The dictionary definition of favor: a kind or helpful act that you do for someone.
Create a dockerfile that does performs installation of all the tools that you need, execute that once to create an image and then share the image with everyone else who needs it, possibly through a private registry.

We use that approach now to store some build environments for embedded systems, where our prebuilt and shared images contain all 3rd party dependencies (which are only slowly changing). We use then those images to build our own software. Depending on the use case we create new images from it, or only spawn containers for compiling something, copy the artifacts outside of the container and remove them again. Works really well for us.
How is it any different to talking on the phone?

In the early nineties only yuppies had cellphones, and people laughed at people talking on the phone on the street, bus etc.

Now it's completely normal.
And this is our fault as programmers. We build crappy systems.
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I live somewhere with single-payer (Ontario, Canada) and while it definitely increases access for the poor or unemployed, the wait times and service quality are far worse than they are for employed persons with insurance in the United States.

I assure you, we still wait 3+ months to see a specialist.
I don't think you are cut out for a job at the big tech companies simply because they do put so much weight on discrete math and puzzle solving.

I say this as a person who is pretty much in the same boat.
Reid Hoffman trying to lure Trump to release his taxes – and having fun with it
That growth rate is real, not nominal.
Having clustered tables seems to be a prerequisite for using this kind of index. How does this work in practice?

The CLUSTER command is a one-time reordering, and I assume a seriously expensive operation. But it doesn't affect any later insertions. So would one just run a CLUSTER periodically, or are there better ways to do this?
It hinges on them getting public transportation agreements locked down with cities before Google or Tesla do. Imagine a major city where 80%+ of the vehicles are run by a single company and the rest are paying a toll to be on the road.

Uber doesn't appear to be any more overvalued than stocks and bonds, broadly. It may be a big gamble but so is buying $1 billion of bonds that yield .25%.
I guess this proves that economic suicide does not have to be rushed decision. The EU is going to make an example of the U.K. When you have interest rates at zero, a large deficit (both current account and governmental), and a political system at war with itself, then it might not be the best time to leave.
Very interesting article. We had a database class last semester which hardly mentioned anything new, making me believe that I generally knew most things there were to know about databases. I'm sure there will be people here saying this doesn't even go that deep, but this reminded me how much more is going inside a database.

It also makes me think database technology is less dead than it seems. Hot topics these days are things like redis and mongodb, and even nosql is already old news and on its decline (when looking at typical HN front page topics anyway). Yet there is still so much tech put in good old relational databases.
Rooftop solar is on average a $25,000 - $35,000 investment, and that's not even counting energy storage required to actually be off-grid. I don't think that only the rich should have reliable energy, and the poor should suffer brownouts to theoretically save some infrastructure costs.

I'm assuming you are talking USD, if so? Are you sure you have your numbers correct? That seems ridiculously expensive compared to say Australia. First link on DuckDuckGo: https://www.solarquotes.com.au/panels/cost/
I take it that the idea of fixing why these countries are dissatisfied is not on the table?
The thing about referendum democracy is, if they voted again today the result would probably be different. Why is the public's desire from the past more binding than the public's desire today? The timing of referendums is a political game played by the elites to manipulate the results. But you couldn't run the country if there were periodic votes and the public changed their minds back and forth repeatedly. Direct democracy doesn't work for long term planning which is why representative democracy with slow changes in government is the only way to make a modern democracy work.
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Yes! Too many people apply household economics to the state.
If anything has been proven since the GFC it's that Keynsian stimulus works (when it is supposed to be used not all the time, e.g. in a liquidity trap, i.e. now)
Hey! My appendectomy was around $50k. I didn't have insurance, and it ended up being cheaper since I just ignored all the medical bills.
I want to second this. At my current job, many people WFH or WFHotel or WFCar (voice only). Most of my silicon valley customers do this too.

In a previous life, I was chained to the desk 8-5 with lunch breaks - but that's one of the reasons I left.
Maybe your statement is evidence that it is too easy for those in power to tarnish the reputations of those which seek to curb their power
If you dont want to invest in emerging markets, its not the end of the world.

The risks can be higher but so are the rewards. The most important thing is to not just invest in a market blindly. Try your best to understand that market and keep tabs on that market.

You don't have to diversify for the sake for diversification. You can invest domestically and diversify by industries.
> I see it as news distribution + a little chatter with friends.

It looks much more like "a little chatter with foes", IMO.
If it's that easy to do it accidentally, I rather suspect China's intelligence services have it already covered via compromised employees and hacked servers.
Backing down would also give the critics even more ammunition for the next EU crisis. The European politicians are exceedingly good that keeping having new referendums until the people vote in a pro-EU direction, but the anti-EU side never get "do-overs".
Not just there, though I'm sure it's horrendously painful to navigate as officious a bureaucracy as India's can be. A friend in Kansas has two — very much alive — special needs children, one of whom, he was informed in a very brusque letter from the state agency that helps them out, had died, and that benefits would therefore cease forthwith.

It took weeks to sort that out.
That was inevitable. I don't think you can be a foreign company and become "beloved by regulators" in China.

(There are some good reasons for China to favor Chinese business, but it would be nice if they were honest and acknowledged that, instead of pretending like everything is fair when it's not.)
LLVM is obviously not a daemon which is why having it as a daemon would be one point. Even that would have been more flexible, simple, and far less invasive and corruptive.

There was no mess of init scripts. The only mess introduced was through poor integration practices through the introduction of corporate induced timelines and requirements, who then introduced an even worse solution.
"Imagine a major city where 80%+ of the vehicles are run by a single company and the rest are paying a toll to be on the road."

Wait, what? Is that really the goal? Is that even legal? I guess the closest approximation of that is legal monopolies for companies like the telecoms and maybe utilities like electricity & gas, but I doubt if Uber et al. want to be treated like that?
In diplomacy and international relations, the US has killed countless civilians

The United States has also conducted at least 4 wars since the end of World War II; should America be condemned for not having smart bombs in the Korean war?

, used nuclear weapons

...to end World War II and save countless lives, US and Japanese, by avoiding an invasion of Japan. Just the fact that the US was able to end the horrible incendiary bombing of Japanese cities and force Japan's truculent leaders into immediate surrender argues that the use of nuclear weapons in World War II saved far more lives than it cost.

But historical revisionism wins out against lost memories of the worst war ever fought and only barely won.

, launched unjustified invasions of other countries, deposed democratically elected foreign leaders for opposing American interests

The United States is tremendously powerful, and yet generally acts with restraint. And would the world have been better off if more countries had allied themselves with the Soviet Union?

, and to this day spies on everyone we possibly can.

If American power and influence has created a world so stable and peaceful that there are Polly-Annas who believe that espionage isn't universal and endemic among all nations, then that is a very good thing in my opinion.

But that's not the same as behaving well. And a far cry from behaving well enough to be entrusted with "supreme military power".

Nature and international relations abhors a vacuum; no one 'entrusted' the United States to the role they now occupy. Would you be happier if China filled this vacuum?
Courage (or, the mistake of the 3.5mm mini plug)
The edited pitches they show on TV are way too long to only have 15 mins of raw footage. Surely the actual pitches are much longer than that.
I'm sorry, I differ. 17 million people voted to leave. 16 million voted to remain. There are 64 million people in the UK. 2 major regions voted to remain. This is the best example I have seen thus of the 'Tyranny of the minority', and this is not democracy in action.
So if someone runs across an old Craftsman add for a $2.00 philips head screwdriver that's $5.00 today, even though it hasn't changed (if anything it's probably cheaper to produce), they're dishonest?
I dunno, I think to do that they'd have to have an Apple App Store level of oversight on their third party devs products, which would be about as restrictive to the devs as the changes they actually did make, plus prohibitively expensive for Twitter.
> As an american who works just as he does, and have for roughly 10 years, this is simply not true.

For you. I worked remotely for an American consulting company a while back and you were expected to be reachable during the business hours and respond in less than 30 minutes. If you missed that window more than once, that number shrank to 10 minutes. The turnover rate was high.

I agree with everything you're saying, but not all remote employers agree with us.
Think about this where have the most controversial comments from Trump come from in the past few months? Almost all of them have come from twitter. Twitter is were people go to make daily comments and air their thoughts and plans to the world. It is much different than facebook and instagram where people share their life experiences and things that already happend
I live in a town of about 5,000 that is 15 minutes from a city of 200,000 and we have an AT&T building in our small downtown. It's about the same size as the frozen yogurt place next door, but it has two 1000+ gallon gas tanks sitting outside. I've lived here for years and never seen anyone go in or out, and the sign on the door says that packages should be delivered to the tavern next door. The door itself has blacked out windows.

It's super weird. I'm not saying it's a spy room, I guess it could be a tiny datacenter or switching building, but it's still super weird.
I don't understand why people are getting upset at all! If you don't like it, don't buy it.
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Right, it is a prerequisite, and there are some complexities in practice.

You're right -- CLUSTER is a seriously expensive operation and locks the entire table, to boot. So we didn't really do that. Instead, we used pg_repack which is a great tool to do online clustering without the locks.

Additionally, we use pg_partman (another great tool!) to partition our data by month. Once a given month is finished, we can ensure the partition table for that month is ordered optimally and then never worry about it again.

This particular table is mostly appended to, so it's not so bad. If you were updating or deleting records, you'd have to run pg_repack more aggressively (or take similar actions) to get good performance.
If we end up with wealth taxes you are still more screwed by contributing to a Roth instead of a 401k, because at least with the 401k you avoided paying taxes in the past.
Is it because there was not enough demand from consumers to justify the cost, but that rail was too important a piece of infrastructure that it couldn't just go away? I mean the top performing asset class for Berkshire Hathaway had been railway for a long time, albeit carriers not rail infrastructure.
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What's not compatible? He says he's getting the work done. I work exactly like he does for an American company in the bay area and it works out extremely well. Unless you have a deadline that day, I don't see what difference it makes whether you finish the project at 5pm or 7pm or 11pm as long as you get your tasks for the day done. Or are you just assuming that he's not putting in as much work because he's taking a break and isn't American?
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> Don't Google Yourself:

> ...

> A group of private investigators hired by Dateline NBC located McDermott when they noticed a centralized cluster of IP addresses originating near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, all clicking onto a site dedicated to tracing his whereabouts.

I.e. do google yourself; just don't click on the results. Pull the content from Google's cache, or go through an anonymizer.
Good point - on Should I Invest In Crowdfunding?

"Crowdfunding has a bit of an adverse selection problem, where only companies which are insufficiently attractive to more professional angels .... go"
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Doesn't that defeat the purpose of any privacy settings they have?
Even as a protocol, there'd still need to be some means of governing the distribution, storage, and retrieval of tweets. A simple P2P network would make it much harder to gain a foothold when nobody is mirroring your content.

I think Twitter the corporation could make a viable business of filling that role by selling access to infrastructure for the protocol to developers of end-user applications and various data hounds.
What country/city/language/business, just out of curiosity?
I don't think you ever have full visibility into something as speculative as Uber so following the herd is understandable even if it's not likely to yield big returns for most people. Also, I would not discount early investors assuming they can sell out before the levee breaks. That seems pretty rational.
Not everyone is the same, there are a lot of people who come straight out of college to the big companies who end up not being incredible software engineers. And vice versa.

Not everyone can prove their real skillset to the Facebooks of this world in an interview, with very little SE real world experience. You don't need to aim so high to enjoy your job and learn a lot.
Have you considered trying an interview boot camp? As awful as the state of the industry is for such a thing to even exist, having feedback and mentoring could be an additional aid over studying and practicing on your own. Interviews are conversations and not solo HackerRank tests, after all.
Relating this back to techie-problems, perhaps we need the moderate Practically Secure Crypto Hypothesis:

"You are astoundingly unlikely to create something better and more-secure from seeing a blog-post, reading some Wikipedia articles, etc. than a team of PhDs who did nothing but study mathematical theory, cryptography, and code-breaking for the last few years, and accordingly are vanishingly unlikely to create a new scheme which is more secure than existing standards once you account for performance and maintenance."
On the other hand, countries which are dissatisfied may work hard to give the UK as good a deal as possible, knowing that it will set a precedent which might end up applying to them.
Satisfying everyone is not possible. Giving everyone the most fair outcome... well, they're politicians, so that's an unlikely scenario too, and even if it was all fair, some would be unhappy.

Take the Netherlands. From what I know, we pay more to the EU than we receive in subsidies and stuff, and hopefully trade is making up for that (who knows).

Take Spain. If I remember correctly, they're getting more from the EU than they pay, so for them it's a definite win.

So if the leaders from these countries go and negotiate, what's fair? Should we share all our wealth next month with the rest of Europe? Sounds unfair towards us. Should we keep it all and not invest in the EU? Also not a great idea.

Every penny we pay will make us more unhappy; yet every penny we don't share will make the other party more unhappy. I'm not sure there always are good outcomes. (This is probably one of the reasons why governments and politicians are fairly universally hated.)

A similar example could be constructed with the refugees issue. Some countries are being overrun; others only receive as many as those front-line countries send through. The front-line countries want to send as many as possible; we want to get as few as possible. Every extra refugee makes our representatives less happy about the deal and every refugee less makes them less happy about the deal.
Any country being able to threaten to call the whole thing off makes solving such issues exponentially more difficult.