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No, in the middle ages (and it's returning now) there were debtor's prisons, which libertarians are very strong opponents of. That in and of itself is huge.
We should, of course, be fair to all people. Especially as the most powerful country on earth, to play the gorilla is patently unfair.
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it's more like an ASIC.

Did you mean s/ASIC/FPGA/ ?
Actually reducing tobacco use can increase public spending on health. Lung cancer tends to take people out pretty quickly, while those who live longer run up higher costs.

(that said, I tend to be "pro sin tax")
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Lockheed has one in Fort Worth. Best I can tell they want to run aerodynamics simulations on it.

I actually interviewed for a field engineer position with D-Wave embedded at Lockheed in Fort Worth. Apparently I wasn't smart enough for them because they went radio silent after the phone interview.
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>There would probably be suicide measures for a scenario where life support runs out.

That's a problem that really just takes care of itself.
Not sure of your breakdown on salary/options/whatever. On a $170k salary I had no problem with a wife staying at home and 3 kids but we weren't living downtown, we were in a suburb a few miles east.

$1400/mo rent isn't too bad for that part of town, no matter the square footage. It's not a steal, but I've had friends pay double for 2 bedrooms that were awful.

No state income tax which is awesome- moving back to Oregon was a real kick in the tax bill after being away for a few years.

Seattle is a fun city that doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg to live well in. But you can make it as expensive as you want it to be.

I've only been gone a few months and miss all the meetups for any tech you might want to talk about.
I thought Google voice required you to receive an automated phone call with a code to sign up.
> The benefit I'm not seeing is having a human being (be it a fast food worker, or a waiter) take your order

All you have to get is that people enjoy ceremony, feeling special, appearing above their station or other individuals due to biological underpinnings. Logical people like yourself are above that silliness, most people aren't and I don't see a renaissance on the way for objective thinking. I'd argue it's going the other way.

Edit: this sort of comes back to economic policy relying on rational choice theory or the rational actor, when we know it completely ignores the reality of how people make decisions. Several threads on HN have discussed how economic policy needs to move away from rational choice theory and adopt psychological models to predict behavior. Humans aren't logical.
And I also mean fair to all immigrants by granting all of any potential immigrants equal chance of acceptance, regardless of geography --but with an eye toward their potential contribution to the US --just as many other nations' immigration policies do.

Let's also remember, up and till WWi we were not a rich country. We were quite rural and not all that excellent. Many of today's poor countries were not that far behind the US.
I think you'd be surprised how many older staunch conservatives nevertheless experimented with drugs at some point earlier in their lives. And if not drugs, something else that is illegal and carries stiff penalties. The point is the hypocrisy of demanding such stiff penalties for classes of crimes that most people are guilty of at least one at some point in their lives.
Using diceware strings as the secret questions/answers is good because they are then readable and pronounceable over the phone if you ever actually have to use them.
Your description of daylight hours is more in line with Anchorage, AK on the winter solstice at 61°N, not Seattle at 47°N.
Man, I'm 34 with 10 years experience and a CS degree. In Alaska I make 65k as a Sr. Programmer/Analyst. Been at the same job for 6 years. Wages for programmers is lower than the national average despite a dramatically high cost of living.

Economy up here is in the toilet thanks to the price of oil so looking for a job is terrifying.

I need to find a remote gig... Or leave the state with the intention of moving back in a year.
Yeah this thread is a humble brag. 170k in a state with no income tax and housing at $1400, you don't need to be a software engineer to calculate your disposable income after that.
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The Stackanetes project[0] has been using KPM and Jsonette in order to template out a fully configurable OpenStack cluster running on Kubernetes. It's a pretty awesome achievement. The project is pretty far along and I've even seen them demo live migration of VMs across Kubernetes workers.

[0]: https://github.com/stackanetes/stackanetes
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One thing I find worrying about arguments in favor of illegal immigration/very lax immigration policies is how easily it can come across as being in favor of indentured servitude and having a lower class to support the upper class. We say they do jobs "nobody else wants to do" for suboptimal wages, and they do it right because they fear what'll happen if they don't. And we proudly say that they contribute by paying taxes that support citizens while taking nothing in return.

You could honestly make a solid argument in favor of slavery using the same exact points. Go to a poor, dangerous country like Yemen, offer someone a contract saying they can live in a safe country so long as they accept that they get zero benefits, they'll be deported should they mess up their job, and a large portion of their income will support their citizens. Of course, this sounds terrible, because you're making them sign a contract and this is seen as taking advantage of them, when it's entirely their choice to go for it. But when no written contract is involved, we sweep it under the rug and even get people saying it's great because it boosts our economy.
I'm curious how you find it not creepy. Imagine every company you every interacted with spawned a flea sized drone to spy on you at all times. Are you saying you would not find that creepy?

Sure, they could potentially provide you with better service by spying on you 100% of the time. Would you accept that trade off?

I'm curious why is FB knowing every site I visit (or every site that has FB related analytics/ads/comments/like buttons/etc) embedded not creepy to you?

I get that when I visit the GAP or Target or Walmart there are security cameras. I get that they could use that info to decide how to better arrange the store. I get that they could even do something like notice what I'm looking at, put displays on the aisles and beam useful help/ads at me (I see you're looking at diapers, maybe you'd like some wet tissue on aisle 3)

But I'd find it creepy if their surveillance extended outside their store. I'd find it creepy if they could partner with every security camera with every other store. I look at shoes at Ecco an get a message from Walmart "We noticed you looking at shoes. We have lots of shoes on sale!" or "We saw you looked at jackets at Nordstroms. Your friend liked that green one you looked at".

Why is that any less creepy when I visit non-FB websites?
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I don't speak Japanese, nor do I know particularly much about their culture or how it might be changing - but there's a quite common topic of differences between "western and asian" web design. So maybe you should keep it separate and have a more targeted design for each language.

https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-differe...

The product I work on has both English as well as multiple Asian languages but we keep them the same just using different languages for each.
No, the D-Wave chip has a fixed topology, unlike an FPGA which lets you connect gates more-or-less arbitrarily.
More likely they will go from a union job with more security to being worried about their job all the time..
> No, if people like to have funky colors, they would be expecting to paint a house when they buy it anyway.

This argument applies equally to people who like beige, if they even exist. Some people are good at imagining what a house will look like after painting. Most are not. Of the latter group, some like bold colors. None of this should be controversial at all.
> Average Google engineers wouldn't make this.

Yeah they would. They'd probably earn much more.

http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
Am I the only one made uncomfortable by someone asking if 170k is a good salary, and made even more uncomfortable by the people inquiring if that's enough to maintain a decent quality of life? 170k is over 2.5x the median income in Seattle, and people start families and find contentment with far less.

Perhaps a less entitled way of phrasing the question would have been "Is 170k an appropriate salary for a software dev in Seattle?" I think my issue is with the implication that 170k might not be a good salary to maintain high standard of living.

As tech workers with the potential to earn these large sums, we should be aware of our privilege, and cognizant of how the rest of the population lives.
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My younger brother (9year) who don't know english well. I will say he can just read simple english stories in english, is very curious to learn programming. Any app/websites which I can use to get him started. Much resources look outdated like Alice from MIT.
It seems to me that both the manuscript and its annotations are being entirely misinterpreted by the other commenters here. It doesn't help that the article in question is giving so few details or context.

Near as I can tell, the manuscript is creating some sort of allegory whereby a creator god (in this case that of Christianity) creates humanity, to be compared with the way that humans create or make cheese.

In that context, the "is cheese rational?" annotation is expressing doubt at the validity of the comparison, by pointing out that the distinguishing feature of humans is their ability to think (to reason or be rational).

The second annotation about cheese being animal and eaten seems to further criticize the comparison by pointing out that human is to cheese not as creator is to humanity.

At least without some deep theological background into the time and place of the writings, that would be my interpretation.
can it be used as a library? for a go web app which already uses built-in http server?
Man, you're doing such a good job at dead pan I just can't decide if you're joking or not :)
It's a bad analogy because they don't upgrade ships while they are in use. People aren't saying software is most stable when it's not used, they are saying it's most stable when people stop changing it.
Of course the internet people and journalists are in the right.
This is a huge opportunity for Apple's own ad network, iAd, to really take off. Now that they have the advertisers who are willing to spend money and the information on iOS users who actually spend money in the App Store, this makes iAd much more valuable. Apple loves to control their ecosystem so having their own ad network implemented in majority of ad-revenue-based iOS apps would work out quite well.
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Why?

It's a credit card, you're not liable for fraudulent charges and you're saving it with the largest company in the world (market cap).
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In a general sense, definitely. The median household income in the United States is a third of that and the median Seattle income is still less than half that [0]. I suspect yeidayeida wants to know if they can do better given their qualifications and meant good in that sense.

[0]: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/washington/seattle/
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> I can think you can see the point I'm making: yes, Apple has a big pile of cash, a fat amount of profit and high stock value. However, Alphabet its influence and reach is far, far beyond that of Apple. Its just not as flashy & visible.

Yes, I agree essentially with the above line (though Apple & Alphabet have comparable market values, which is why I said Alphabet has an excellent outlook). I didn't intend to start a minor flame war, as I meant "giant among giants" in the financial sense only, which of course is hugely important.

In terms of influence/clout (measured in eyeballs, political heft, economic clout via product ecosystems, etc.) Alphabet likely does edge out even Apple (perhaps not "far, far beyond"). However & without going into too much detail, I think my point still stands: from a "game theory" angle, there would likely be no strategic reason for Apple to join a partnership in this case.
This is a tech forum and not reddit. Most folks here are within the tech industry and I have seen threads where people have been discussing $400k salaries like it is no big deal. So I feel this is a fair way to phrase the question given the forum's context.
It's pretty middle of the road, there are plenty of devs that pull in twice that. It's due to stock however, so it also depends on how well your company is doing.
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https://codecombat.com/ is pretty cool. I think it is a fine level for 9 yo.
Are you then in favor of removing visa entry requirements for the citizens of Mexico?

The current status quo of mandating that legal visitors to the United States adhere to the terms of their visas, but looking the other way for anyone entering illegally seems just a tiny bit hypocritical to someone on the Mexican side.
Asteroids don't cause extinctions by coming in and blowing everything to smithereens. Rather, the ejecta causes firestorms, and an impact winter can wreck the biosphere and prevent sunlight from reaching the surface. But even during the worst of this, Earth will remain more hospitable than Mars.

There's no reason for a self-sufficient (nuclear?) underground or underwater habitat to notice global firestorms or impact winters. They would notice a direct hit, but you can hedge against that by building them in multiples around the globe.
Are you that guy from the UK? I think we've had this conversation before.
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You're not going to like my answer, but here goes.

First, you made a big mistake in turning down FB because "you would be one level lower." I know those levels seem like a big deal when you're working for those promotions, but ultimately, they really don't matter. The only things that really matter: how much are they paying you, what will you be working on, and how is it going to affect your future career prospects. From a salary perspective, I'm sure FB would have offered you more, if nothing else, purely through additional leverage for negotiating. From a career perspective, having the Facebook brand on your resume, and the contacts you'll make there, would have helped your future prospects immensely. Compared to these benefits, being "one level lower" is pretty meaningless.

Second, given that you're someone smart/accomplished enough to get an offer from FB, and have 10 years of SW experience, 170k seems low. Check out the other HN threads about salaries at top software companies. Plenty of people with similar or less qualifications report total comps of 250k. That's the level of comp you should realistically be shooting for.

Third, even if 170k is "lower than you deserve", that's irrelevant. The only question worth asking is whether 170k is better than your next best option. Go find a cost-of-living calculator and you can easily figure out whether 170k in Seattle beats your current salary-location. In an ideal world, they will give you 3 months to make a decision, and during this time, you can go interview with all the other major companies, in order to find a better offer. Realistically, since you've already turned down FB and the other companies will have long interview timelines, you don't have the time for this. If the 170k offer is better than your current situation, just accept it, and you can then reevaluate your situation 2 years from now.
> they are both derivatives of governmental logos used in the UK

No they aren't. The MOS logo uses emblems of the British state (crown and portcullis) to create a design that's completely different from that of any British state institution, as demonstrated by your own example.

The logo of "Ministry of Testing" is not inspired by any Government emblem, it's literally just the MOS logo with one word changed and a ninja instead of a portcullis/speaker.

A company that makes $100k/month and brags about its "uber cool" design should be able to do better than that.
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im surprised that in each of these cases, the same company is used to deliver the package?

why dont they send the first try with UPS, and the second with FedEx or someone else?
Why would I want to use this over something like Caddy?
You don't mention what size company this offer is from, but in general for the established A-list tech companies a Senior SDE in Seattle would be making at least that in total comp (salary + RSUs + average bonus if applicable). That having been said, 170K for a couple in Seattle is more than enough for a comfortable lifestyle + savings.

Regarding your other questions: You can pursue the same indoor hobbies as anywhere else obviously. Outdoors-wise, we have some of the best hiking in the world, great ski/snowboarding locally and ~4 hrs to Whistler for world-class, and sea kayaking right out the door. There are is also a very strong cycling community here, though the road biking is more obvious than the mountain biking. If you're willing to drive a bit further on weekends, there's also world-class wind surfing and white water kayaking.

As for "very cold in winter" - it rarely gets very cold, but then I grew up in eastern Canada so maybe my reference is skewed. The coldest it gets with any regularity is low 40s/high 30s. What may be more concerning in terms of winter conditions is that fact that we get extended periods of cloudy weather and shorter day light hours compared to the bay area which some people find depressing.
Isn't this already happening? I stream games to devices around my house from my office where I have my desktop, and a small Debian server as a media server, mumble hosting and the occasional chivalry or CoD4 server with friends. I get that the server has a bit of a barrier for entry, but the game streaming, that's just Steam. Granted you need some kind of i386 or x86_64 device at the streaming end that can install steam.
Think of it as a new opportunity to invent a new "favorite" at random. It will confuse whoever tries to break into your account.
If I were single I'd never move to Seattle. The nightmare stories I heard of single friends that went there... I'd rather not say unless it be confused as a curse.
If people create value for an organization shouldn't they capture some of it for themselves? The less a developer is paid, the more the execs/investors are pocketing. That money goes somewhere.
When was the historical moment when machine learning earned the synonym of AI?
Are you then in favor a visa-free regime between United States and other Northern/Central American countries? It just seems silly to pay for the infrastructure for visas, passport verifications and border control, and the current status quo rewards only illegal immigration path.
Yea but Samsung has Bada, Knox, Tizen (partially), JerryScript, Kies, etc
You should be equally skeptical of any scientists stating things like that. A scientist has all kinds of motivations to publish novel research. The first scientist publishing that smoking causes cancer had as many motivations to lie as the scientist that published research claiming it didn't. The latter was direct financial support, the former was prestige and fame that would go directly into a tenure package and be considered during grant approval.

If ad hominems become acceptable then you quickly open the door to worthless discussions around things like climate change because everyone can point out that the scientists behind the research are motivated to advance anthropogenic climate change or risk being ostracized.

Evaluate the content, not the messenger. Anything else is lazy.

If you are concerned the content is a lie, ask for the backing data, don't dismiss it.
> came to work jobs no one else would take

This is a particular piece of rhetoric I find distasteful. If there are jobs that are structured such that only an illegal immigrant, who by definition exists outside the normal labor pool and its protections, will take, that job should not exist in that form or at that pay rate. Full stop.

So the fact that jobs that "no one else would take" exist and are being taken by illegal immigrants isn't a good thing. If you're in favor of expanded immigration, making that claim doesn't help your case. It substantiates the case that anti-immigration proponents have always made, which is that immigrants take the bottom out of the labor market and help keep salaries down.

After all, if nobody would take a job doing some particularly onerous job at a pittance per hour, then the employer would have to pay more, or automate, or find a more efficient way of doing the job. Refusing to do these jobs is the correct response when they are clearly undercompensated.

There are lots of people in the legal labor market who do terribly unpleasant, physically strenuous, or frankly dangerous jobs, but they typically (outside of illegal or exploitative markets) do them for reasonable wages. Someone who SCUBA dives in raw sewage or nuclear waste, for instance, is probably going to demand a fair compensation for the unpleasantness of the job. The same should be true with people who work in slaughterhouses or picking strawberries or tarring asphalt roofs. The narrative that "Americans just won't do" certain jobs is one that is created by cheapskate, exploitative employers who don't want to pay the market rate for particularly ugly jobs. Parroting it is water-carrying for these exploitative industries.
I admit that I have no idea what the accident rate is in Uruguay or Brazil.

In the US:

The Department of Transportation gets reports of one accident per 250k miles (roughly). It is broadly agreed that many accidents are unreported, with estimates of the true rate ranging from 1/200k miles to about 1/75k miles.

For example, this document from the US Department of Transportation:

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

suggests 5,687,000 total crashes (including fatality, injury, and non-injury) in the US in 2013.

This graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M12MTVUSM227NFWA

puts total vehicle miles driven in 2013 in the US at 2,980,181,000,000.

So divide: 5,687,000 / 2,980,181,000,000
Can you go into more detail on the image recognition? Do you mean AR-style image recognition ("find exactly this image"), or more image /classification/ (here's what's in this image)?
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Well I would argue that Argentina does set a precedent: a government decided to default on some of its debts, but some of its creditors (the so-called 'vulture funds') attacked this decision in US court. The US court ruled in favor of the creditors and allowed the seizing of Argentina's assets in several banks.

A UN resolution vote to prevent those practices (and thus reaffirming the kind of sovereignty you describe) was voted by a huge majority but rejected by the US.

I am not sure where I stand on this issue, but USA was already rejecting the notion of sovereignty when it comes to debt defaults, I think it is logical to reject it too when it comes to terrorism.