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But if the official party platform includes climate change denial and other explicitly anti-science positions, wouldn't it just be a waste of time and money to try to put up candidates who the party would refuse? Sure, it worked for Trump, but I think he's an exception - good luck finding conservative scientists with his particular mix of personality traits and pre-existing celebrity status (and perceived business acumen).

More broadly I think the "changing the party from the inside" tack is a dead end, especially for the Republican party whose power actors seem to only ever double down on their positions and tactics.
Interesting but I disagree. Basically the entire Old Testament is edited and to enforce a certain interpretation of the Israelites' history, namely that turning away from God caused bad things to happen. It has a fairly consistent and coherent agenda.
Brexit is a bad example because the predictions were accurate. If you are a foreign investor (your main currency being something other than GBP) and invested in the FTSE then the loss on your GBP was higher than your profit on the index. Slightly different story for UK based investors: While you made a profit on your FTSE ETF, those gains will to some extent be offset by a rise in inflation. Stocks are in general a good protection against higher inflation - which is exactly what is happening in the UK.
Any language can be written without a good IDE. This argument is always given when a language doesn't have a good IDE.
No stress. I work at a large healthcare company in the Netherlands, we do science, oncology. There are no real hard dead lines because stuff either works or it doesn't and is killed before it does (us scientists are known to keep trying for too long apparently). I get motivated when stuff gets hard and I get to learn new things. Currently I just had my second child and my project allows for me to work in public transport or at home easily (doing data science on our Linux cluster) making it easier to get to 8 hrs a day and still be at home to assist my wife (who was quite "damaged" during the delivery) as much as possible. This is important because I have an insane commute of 80 min. I like my job.

I work 90% meaning I have a day off every two weeks. Plus, in the Netherlands there is Parenting leave meaning you can have about 1000 hours of unpaid leave anytime you like during your kids first 4 years, of course this is to be discussed with the boss but in my case it is always possible (I do it when it does not interfere with important meetings, conferences, colloquiums etc.) This is on top of the usual 5 weeks paid vacation every dutch person has.
> ultra-rich may actually have something to worry about

True, especially in less-developed or stable countries where kidnap gangs are a real problem.

> it's not the cookie-cutter, mixed income, urban sprawl neighborhoods that are going to be set ablaze

It tends to be the dense, liminal, downtown areas that are set ablaze. Being well off certainly does help you get away from the fires.

But I think a lot of people dislike preppers because of the implication that this effort is a substitute for being involved in preventing the disaster in the first place - or, on the nuttier fringe, seemingly trying to accelerate it. Especially political involvement.

Remember, for many people having insecure accomodation, food supply, and access to medical care is everyday life.

(your advice page seems to be from the sensible wing of "preparedness", assigning sensible probabilities to risks)
If you push your start date back one week, you'll please your previous employer at the cost of displeasing your new employer. Why would that tradeoff be at all worthwhile?
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>But in actual fact a lot of people behind the scenes worked very hard to make sure it didn't become a problem.

Even more worked harder to sell useless drugs for the epidemic.
I don't know about SystemD's code policies. But certainly serious vulnerabilities have been found even in C code where changes went through code review (the famous Chrome sandbox escape due to an undefined bitshift was noted to have been reviewed and explicitly "LGTMed" by two people).

And the decision about whether to code review is not necessarily static. A language that reduces the cost and/or increases the benefits of code reviews changes the decision space. And a more expressive language can free up developer time to spend on things like code review.
> Lastly... one viewpoint presented in the article is that it's somehow immoral for the CEOs to worry about self-preservation instead of trying to give back to the community.

The thing that I don't like with this reasoning is that it implies there is a limit of wealth and that above that line, the benefit of regular economy stop applying and the rich person, on a voluntary basis should just have the decency to invest back directly into the community instead of through the regular means.

I somewhat agree with that on principle, but if people really share that thinking then it should really become a law: punitive tax level, maximum salary, don't know of any practical mechanism, but that's not the point, it is not even discussed by any party.

Otherwise there is no reason you can criticise the rich for buying the stuff he wants than the poor (relatively) for doing exactly the same.
I am not confused there are just more cases.

A lot of people are using VPN providers to download illegal content via torrents. And in case there are no logs on the servers (which most providers advertise) the copyright holder has no way of knowing who you are since they only see that the traffic is coming and going from the providers IP address.
Just a personal anecdote from a person who works in an at-will state, and who has seen employees let go with no notice or reason: they don't owe me anything, and I don't owe them anything, so I would not feel bad about doing what is in my best interest at the drop of a hat. That being said, I do feel a moral obligation to my fellow employees (but not the company), and would give more notice than the business deserves if I were to leave. However, once my decision had been made, and my notice had been given, I would not jeopardize my new opportunity at all, regardless of what had changed since.

Best of luck your new endeavor, and I hope you get it all worked out to everyone's satisfaction.
Please don't use HN for partisan battle. It's not what this site is for, you're way off topic here (even more than others in the thread), and dropping a lit match like '0bama' on a petrol-soaked battlefield amounts to trolling whether you meant it that way or not.
Dane here. I have to give current month + 1 month notice (the result is that everybody gives the notice on the last workday of that month) and I have 3 or 4 months of warning if I am being laid of.

However, there is an out in that I can be terminated immediately if I commit a serious infraction (steal from the company, forge documents, or something of that nature) or if I don't show up at all.

Longer notice periods can be agreed on, but then it has to be mutual, e.g if they double my notice period, their notice period is also doubled.
I used to actually lose weight when in the US because of this (and Red Bull being hard to find), but now you have Mars bars, Creme Eggs, and Red Bull almost everywhere.. oops :) Hershey's is vile (to me), but I guess it's all down to what you grow up with.
A lot of kids today think that laziness and a "fuck all" attitude is totally ok. They don't think education is important and frankly don't realize the potential consequences this may have on them in later life.

When I was a kid, I had to slop pigs, and shovel the shit out of the pen. My dad would say to me as we were shoveling pig shit or doing some other awful work, "This is why you get good grades. Some day you are going to college so you don't end up like your old man."

I had issues with my oldest kid taking a bad attitude at school and not caring about her education. I thought back to my childhood, then I took my daughter out and gave her a shovel. When she asked what she was supposed to do with it, I told her, "You are going to dig so you can practice up on how to be good at digging ditches, since that is the type of work you will be qualified for if you don't get a good education."

I got a call from her teacher a few weeks later telling me how they couldn't believe the complete 180 she had made at school and that she had never seen anything like it. She wanted to know what I had done. When I told her the teacher was amazed at what a harsh yet unique "punishment" it was, but said that "maybe more kids should be made to dig ditches".
Was it expected that "uncertainty about Trump would drop off"? And in 1 week or less?
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I think that will be up to the Supreme Court to decide. Not you.
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What you are advocating sounds like fundamentalism. That's a bad starting point for objectivity.
Agreeing with sibling comments here. Starting to work remotely has made me a lot more zen. And being in charge of my own schedule is a cherry on top.
Why is it scaremongering? Why should consumers not be informed what's in their food? We're told how many carbs something has. This allows keto followers to chose accordingly. We're told if it's kosher. This allows Jews and Muslims and people with taste to choose accordingly. We label the ingredients at a chemical level. This allows consumers to pick the types of fats or sweeteners. Why should we exclude stock/source information from the consumer?
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Agreed. I attribute it to many people feeling this issue and wanting to see the topic discussed here since the comments are often very enlightening. Not actually about the article's quality.
I fail to see how "last-minute lobbying from groups backed by Apple and others" won't stop the bill this time around again. And next year. And to 2050, for example.

Fact of the matter is, lobbying is actually legal, which is a whole different problem from which many others stem -- including the one discussed in the article.
I'm just a little confused about this though. If everyone thinks the market will decline due to Trump, then doesn't the market actually decline? What I'm saying is that apparently there were even more people making the opposite guess.
>With 25% taxes, I work for 3 months of the year for someone else. If I choose not to pay, then people with guns come to lock me up. How is that not slavery?

Because they will not come with guns if you choose not to work.

I do not think you understand slavery, where you cannot choose not to work.
This is driven by expectations of Trump's deregulatory agenda. He says he's going to cut 75% of regulations.

I can't believe this is happening. America is back people.
It's like going to battle in a ship that's already on fire. Get out as soon as you can, if it's a huge struggle to make it to launch things are just going to get worse
Jeez dude, it was a joke - calm down.

People are gonna make bad decisions regardless of drugs, it's not like you have a smoke and the first thought that crosses your mind is "DRIVE".
>You can't do that in Haskell either, and any FP purist would blanch at a statement like that.

Obviously you've never met State and/or lens then.

Yes, you can do it -- and no, I never said it should follow pure FP principles.
If you know fundamentals things do not change that quickly. True paradigm shifts (such as FP) that require ground up revisit of internalized knowledge happen at a fairly stately pace.
> About the only people who were having a really bad time were the people in former Yugoslavia.

Or the people anywhere in the vicinity of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War (which conveniently didn't appear in the news much). Pretty sure they were having a much worse time than people in former Yugoslavia...
>It's not slavery because you could choose not to work at all and pay no taxes.

It's conditional upon you choosing to work, but the demand made upon you is illegitimate nonetheless. You choosing to work and consequently earning income does not grant someone else a moral right to force you hand over a share of that income to them (to labour for them).

>You have the choice in these nations to live (albeit a modest life) without working at all. That's the opposite of slavery. It's closer to aristocracy!

Given it's a life dependent on income forcibly redistributed from others, it's similar to the life of a slave owner, but a very poor one that shares the loot with millions of other co-recipients.
>But 20k dow says nothing more about the state of the economy than the 19.9 dow did a few days ago.

It's not the 20k vs 19.9 it's a) the record high, b) the upward trend.
I don't understand how the analogy stands? The warning was if [Brexit/Trump] then bad market outcome because those things are intrinsically bad. It's not a bug that can be fixed - it's a situation to be analysed.

Not only that but the bad impact was one of the given reasons to not do the thing in the first place. "A Brexit vote might cause some problems but they are fixable" is a pretty different message to "A Brexit vote will cause an instant recession".
In my experiences abilities in different subjects are highly correlated. So someone who is very good in science/math is unlikely to be completely dumb when it comes to history/language. So your proposal would actually give rise to (intellectually) segregated schools in all but name. So we might as well make it formal.
With Brexit the pound also dropped significantly. Even if the markets truck along they've been devalued.

The pound dropping has a number of effects (good or bad, it depends on your perspective). It pushed up the market in some areas where the were bargains to be had. It hammered others. It also changed the trade balance of payments

Great in the short term if you're an exporter. Terrible if you're buying a supercomputer, or planning a trip. These sorts of things have a much longer term impact.
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> The worst boss I've ever seen took some programming classes as a door into management - he knew enough to be dangerous when telling programmers what to do, but not enough to be helpful.

But this doesn't satisfy the original assertion, right? The article specifically references deep expertise. Taking some programming classes is not that.
>Ok, but please do not vote for anyone calling themselves "scientist" who practices NHST, you will only be perpetuating this nation- (even civilization-) destroying practice:

Can you expand on this? What is NHST?
And your point is that any next step after wondering would be a MVP. I don't think it is logically wrong, but I'm talking about "lean startup MVP's" that every student is shipping like crazy nowadays, flooding the internet with useless stuff. I don't mean that this should not be allowed, just that I don't think this proccess is a good approach to create a well succeded technology project. But it is good to learn more about tech, development, and fail fast :)
Although I was never demoted (I left), I completely see where you're coming from.

When I was a manager, I stripped away red-tape and created an environment which I felt gave engineers room for self-improvement - particularly if I could see that they were smart and ambitious and needed to be stretched. Since then I've been freelancing, however a few of my ex-colleagues from way back have told me that I was one of the best managers they'd had. The simple reason for this was that I'd concentrated on making sure they enjoyed their job.

Perhaps they were just being nice, but I know I've had similar experiences. The managers that I've enjoyed working with have always been the type that would remove menial work (this doesn't include hoarding all of the opportunities for high-level decision making which is a massive red-flag) and help you find opportunities to learn or explore the kind of work you're passionate in.

Non-technical managers often see somebody that's good at what they do as a resource that must be overseen and exploited for as much work output as possible. Bean-counting ensues and that person finds that they have next to no autonomy which causes them to resent their job and eventually leave.
How does a tunnel eliminate traffic? That doesn't make any sense.
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Lousy work culture that produces the best output in the world. If it is so bad why don't you stay in Switzerland and give up your American passport? Something must be making up for the competitive work culture. I wonder what that is.
Scientists I think are too ideological to make good leaders by themselves. It takes all kinds of kinds. You need historians, engineers, scientists, marketeers, salesman, and finally organizer-executors. Right now our government seems mainly ran by salesman...
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Irrational market.
So the author says the obvious, what motivates developers is autonomy, mastery and purpose. But he didn't say a single tip on how to overcome demotivation when all these are denied, as is in majority of corporate job positions. Communities won't bring you autonomy, mastery or purpose to your job.

It might bring these things to some side project you are doing, but you are still as shackled by higher ups, as denied of personal growth and as purposeless as it was before joining the community. So money is the only real answer. Money and a threat of being fired because of bad performance, which would result in very bad economic situation.
What about all the oil under there?
He did make a 100 day plan.
Then you are a tax consumer, living off the productive output of others. Your agents within the state apparatus extract income from the rest of society by force and give it to you. Aristocracy, indeed.

(This assumes that the government has crowded out private charity, which is the case in most developed countries.)
Yea, I was in a school full of knuckleheads and criminals (rural town, most students were expected to go work in the local mill after graduating. College? LOL). I can count on one hand the number of students in my year who ever even made it out of the state. Most of the rest are probably in jail or running meth labs. I would have given anything to go to one of the richer schools where you could interact with folks, peers and teachers, who gave a shit, and where didn't have to worry about getting assaulted daily.
Tracking.

You break kids up by test score and then put all the top kids together, all the middle kids together, and all the bottom kids together. My public school experimented with it for one year, but reverted. Rumor was, parents felt like their kids were being written off in the 6th grade.
Are you suggesting that use (or otherwise) of statistical significance tests in a scientific field would have an affect on your performance as an elected representative?
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Honestly sometimes it's zero stress. I feel absolutely fine. But stress creeps up on me - and I know it's hitting a peak when I start to get alopecia holes in my beard. It's only then I realise what's going on and how I'm feeling. A bit like boiling a frog, I guess.

A physical manifestation is an ugly and unwelcome reminder to get on top of things.
> We're all too busy focusing on our own shit and own insecurities to worry about anything you have going on in your head.

YES.
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scientists are liberals, almost exclusively.

there are a few oddballs who aren't financially liberal, and a few oddballs who aren't socially liberal-- but we're talking like 1/100 for each of those cases.

realistically, most of the scientists i've ever met would fall into the green party best, but hold their nose and vote democratic party because it's the closest they'll get to actually liberal policies.

>to get scientific minded people into running for the republican seats

the republican electorate is largely anti-intellectual and distrustful of scientists, so that won't work. i don't mean to be dismissive here... but it just isn't going to work because of the culture. no way, no how-- those people are not accessible by the eggheads. i guess if you got a climate denier or creation scientist or some other quack out there, it might work... but that would defeat the point.

i do agree that the only way we'll survive is by driving a wedge within the republican party so that they don't vote as a unified bloc consistently. i'm really not sure what demographic to go after in order to make that happen, though.
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What job sites cater to software engineering jobs in non-profits or companies/startups focused on social justice impact?
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> The value was not wiped out

This is a misinterpretation too. I did not say the value was wiped out.
What can a scientist do that no other person can at a macro-level?

On minimum wage, there are scientists who have two schools of thoughts:

a. Minimum wage can be increased without negative impact to individuals
b. Minimum wage is a horrible action that harkens back to racist unions trying to keep black people out of jobs and has unseen consequences in a labor market.

In this instance, the answer from the 314 Action group is that those scientists that agree with Democrat policies are more equal to others.

Another example of this would be in the realm of climate change modeling. Let's say we have two climate models that utilize carbon dioxide as an input. Model A uses less of a feedback loop than Model B, resulting in less global average increase in temperature. Both were put together by top scientists, there is just an existing dispute in the scientific community as to the amount of feedback that can occur. Will these scientist politicians be able to allocate resources any better than a politician? If according to the Atlantic, the next five years is the time to act, will there be time to set up a committee to review the differences and make recommendations?
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Looks really good. I usually judge a library by it's data table. This one seems surprisingly featured.
For a columnar database, that's a continuous chunk of memory. Assuming 32bit q defaults to 32bit int, 1.1 billion integers across four machines means each 64-core (with 4 threads/core) KNL chip is averaging over 275M elements of int array, or 1.1M 32bit int operations per thread. Now think again whether that's amazing or not.
Sure, it's a generalization. This, within the English language, means anything over 60% of the population in question. I've had multiple conversations with well over 120 self described liberals from multiple parts of the US. Most of their reason for hating guns fall on "they're scary". That's not scientific. The reason I bring this up is the scientists in question are backing the Democrats. This party, to use another generalization (an abstraction if you will), houses the majority of liberals in the country. Therefore, the Dems are not the paragons of rational thought.

Many of the Democrats are as much sheep as the Republicans. I've had fewer conversations with them about food. I eat eggs. I eat a high fat diet. They all tell me I'm going to get high cholesterol and be in worse shape. I try to explain the science of diet. They point me to old research that says eggs are bad.