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> There are a lot of people in this group who also will go out and protest

Trump, of all people, has given no indication at all that his policy decisions will be swayed by protest.

> The slippery slope fallacy falls short.

It's not a slippery slope when Trump said that a Muslim ban was what he was going to do! It's not "oh, he might bring up banning all Muslims from entering at this rate". He already said he wanted to do that. Explicitly.
Thanks for this comment. But the issue is more complicated
w.r.t SA https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/world/middleeast/saudi-ar...

Agree with your Pakistan comments
You're being selective in your quote of Trump. What he said was...

* “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.” *

That is a very different statement from you said.
I mean, if we're already going to use faith-based targeting, might as well throw a little sexism in the mix for full effect.
Historically speaking those are yesterday.

Heck, I remember the Vietnam war and the end of it (I was 12 at the time).

Of course it will work. If enough people will get off their well-fed asses that is, and there lies the biggest problem.

> I think Trump opposition is also in trouble for not having a clear goal unless the goal is "remove Trump because I wanted Hillary to win".

No, that would be the wrong goal.

More something along the lines of 'stop this madness or we'll shut the country down until congress presents a working plan on how we're going to:

(1) get rid of Trump

(2) put safeguards in place that limit the power of the Presidency

Way too much power in those executive orders, it should not be possible for a single individual to affect the world this radically on such a short timespan without adequate debate and on-the-record voting by people that can be held accountable.

Republicans are in power, they own this mess, they should solve it. And if they don't perceive it as a mess it is fairly easy to make them see the light if enough people will connect, and I suspect that by now plenty of Republicans see it the same way.
Please don't make things up and slur people with them. Unless you have a mind reader (which you don't in this case; the claim is false), you'd have no way of knowing this.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508809 and marked it off-topic.
>Many products of Silicon Valley and Hollywood companies are simply blocked in China. Mainly to protect Chinese young companies. As far I known Google is completely blocked in China. Hollywood movies are also not freely distributed in China. And for some reason it is Trump accused of acting against free trade.

This is whataboutism at its finest. We are not talking about China because this has nothing to do with China.
The last three Libertarian candidates for President are:

2016 former Republican Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson
2012 former Republican Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson
2008 former GOP House member and Clinton prosecutor Bobb Barr

Gary Johnson ran as both a Republican and a Libertarian in 2008. Republican Ron Paul has run as a Libertarian.

On the evidence, the Libertarian Party is a flag of convenience for Republicans.
You might be breathing with your chest instead of your belly. Try filling your belly with air as you inhale.
Random side thought: How do I signal in an ambiguous situation to the car on who's going first. Like Super high traffic and I want to merge in front of them or let them go first? Currently I do that with a wave. Which is super effective on a motorcycle as people almost always say "sure we can squeeze you in here" which lets me get places way faster.
Given, there are a lot of languages that you can implement reasonably easily in CL...
Yeah, while I get that the general public misses this, I'm surprised to see people who apparently think that "engineer" means a Star Trek-style omnicompetent generalist.
I agree that we far too often conflate "health insurance" and "health care".

That said, while in some sense "health problems" are guaranteed, the range of costs involved is huge.
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So, there's multiple traps here.

1 - I think that you want to be reimbursed, not given a bonus. The difference is you'll pay tax on the bonus, but if you're just reimbursed, no tax. If you must get it as a bonus, take your estimated expenses and divide by .6 to get the required bonus. Also don't forget that the US has two tax systems and this could bump you up close to AMT.

2 - make sure that, in case the job blows up, at bare minimum your required repayment falls by 1/12 each month. Better yet, no required repayment. You don't want to be in a situation that just happened to a friend of mine where 6 months in he and his manager mutually agreed it wasn't working and they want $25k back.

edit: I'd suggest 6 months with it falling 1/6 each month. If your new employer pushes back, I'd point out you're taking the far bigger risk here by moving countries.
I'm also unsure about protest banners, but on the general theme of holding your fire, "this is exactly how big companies lose against startups. They wait around to see what the startup will do, and by the time they have figured out that it’s important it is too late to catch up. This is why Andy Grove’s motto at Intel was “Only the paranoid survive.” So working with startups has taught me: don’t wait until it is too late. Protest early and often. We wouldn’t even be here if people hadn’t grossly underestimated Trump to begin with." (From Albert Wengler earlier this week, http://continuations.com/post/156262260395/what-i-learned-fr...)
That's not what Trump says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump...
That is, I'd expect that a Christian in the middle east would be more likely to have citizenship or family in a western nation than your average Syrian.

Why would you assume that? These are Syrian Christians who have lived their for centuries. They are no different than other Syrians other than their religious beliefs.
I assumed the "autonomous green light" was added in post-production, along with the timer and the company logo.

Google had another crash last month.[1] As usual, it was probably the other driver's fault. Other driver apparently botched a left turn in a two-lane left turn intersection at Rengsdorf and El Camino. Google drives in traffic on the SF peninsula every day, and we know exactly how many times they've crashed. It's reassuring seeing all those miles with only the occasional fender-bumper. It's not like Tesla slamming into something on a freeway at full speed. Three times.

Still waiting for the CA DMV to post the 2016 autonomous vehicle disconnect reports. Those cover December through November and are due Jan 1st, so DMV should have them up by now.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/3d358211-3f0c-430e...
I am not sure that legal aid/advocacy will help those affected here. The President has wide latitude to make immigration decisions. Love it or hate it, the new policy is what it is and the courts are likely not in a legal position to be able to overturn or make an end-run around it, regardless of how compelling the argument in a given case is. Encouraging new and timely legislation is much more likely to be effective if you are opposed to this executive order.
(I am in agreement with the article)

Both Knuth and Hoare would never think that carefully choosing the optimal or near-optimal architecture or algorithm is premature.

Unless the number of things you are processing is small and it doesn't matter what you do, you may as well do the easiest thing. Or, if the optimal thing is super hairy, are you sure it will be worth it?

They are just arguing for a bit of common sense: identify the most important performance issues, and make sure you work on those. There are all kinds of optimizations that people bring up that are way down the list in terms of impact.

'Nuff said!
Democrats totally destabilized the Middle East?

Alternative facts, alternative reality.
> Guys, Donald Trump might be President. We need to speak out in our support for Clinton.

Donald Trump becomes our democratically elected President.

> Guys, _now_ is the time to take a stand against Donald Trump.

No, the time was 6 months ago. You failed.

It is astounding to me how little respect Silicon Valley elites have for the democratic process. This article is another instance of the continued marginalization of the massive voter base who voted for Trump, and, if it were read by them, would do nothing but convince them that Trump was the right choice.

How about, instead of saying "Trump is really bad", we encourage those in power to work with him and find solutions to the problems he has highlighted that work across the isle? Sam is just perpetrating class and party politics with this article, and its infuriating.
I haven't messed with nix, but I've used guix, which I think nix is a similar concept to. It's basically ansible on steroids, with every aspect of the system defined declaratively. Guix at least isn't quite "there yet", but it probably will be before too long...
Total laser focus on one thing seems like a great mantra for building a company (or turning around a failing one). But for sustaining a company that's already successful, I'm not so sure. If you really believe there's a Next Big Thing that you can bet the company on and win, like the iPhone, then maybe it makes sense to let other product lines languish. But, now that most of the world's population carry a computer in their pocket at all times, what if there is nothing else that big that remains to be done?

There's still lots of room for Apple to grow their existing Mac business. They've started to make inroads into the enterprise market, traditionally dominated by Windows. They could really press that. They could stay competitive in more markets than just the thin-and-light laptop market -- the Mini is one example, the high-end laptop market is another, and the workstation market is a third.

Instead, they're apparently conceding these battles, and turning their massive resources toward finding another Next Big Thing, which may not even exist.
Apple doesn't just update chips and throw it over the wall. It is, for better or for worse, always a large scale qa, supply chain and engineering effort.
> White also responded to media inquiries about a neighbor’s report of the sound of a generator and an odor of burning rubber coming from the couple’s fourplex in the 3000 block of Deakin Street.

Sounds like they were likely running a laser cutter and the "generator" sound was actually an air compressor. (These are used to blow the smoke out of the way of the beam so that you get a cleaner, more accurate cut.)

Chlorine gas is a major risk with a lot of materials, but presumably there could by other kinds of nasty fumes depending on what they were cutting.

edit: others are saying that it was in fact CO, so I'll go with that. I'd still like to know what they were cutting, though.
Disclaimer: Theoretical physics postdoc, working in an unrelated subject area. Not necessarily an expert, but I do have some comments.

> Niels Bohr proposed that electrons don't have enough energy to radiate away, and thus are forced to continue to spin around the nucleus.[0] This was the seed that fruited the quantization of energy and eventually our modern understanding of Quantum Mechanics.

The first sentence is correct, though the history directly begins in 1900 with Planck's quantization hypothesis in the context of black body radiation. Bohr's paper, which I assume you're referring to, came in 1913.

> In a way, the quantization of reality at very small scales does appear to prevent the laws of thermodynamics from occurring. This is just one form of Zero-Point Energy[1]. Maybe these time crystals are another form - maybe some large objects radiate some kind of time-entropy, and these are too small (or configured in some other way), such that they are also mechanically prevented from doing so?

I do to take an issue with this paragraph, in that it doesn't really map to any well defined concepts in modern physics. The "quantization of reality at very small scales" (by which I assume you're referring to the speculative idea of fundamentally quantized spacetime) doesn't really have anything directly to do with thermodynamics - the laws of thermodynamics are necessarily statistical laws, produced by the behavior of ensembles defined by particular distributions. They have no particular validity in (most) very small scale systems and I don't see how the quantization is relevant here. Nor do any of these remarks help you violate the conservation of energy with respect to any larger systems.

I have no idea what "time-entropy" means, but generally speaking this notion of time crystals doesn't have anything intrinsically to do with violating energy conservation or producing useful work (in the physical sense) in any new fashion. Rather, it represents a fairly ingenious way of applying the established mathematical tools of analyzing symmetries to systems that exhibit complex periodic behavior rather than just spatial symmetries. In that regard, I think the example of satellite motion presented by Latham Boyle [1] was very illustrative without being misleading or overly suggestive.

I hope this response isn't overly snarky, I just wanted to clarify a few misconceptions I've seen a lot in the last few days.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.5876
LED signs attached to the car.
I agree, but they often are the ones who have the most to lose. They lose their job and then aren't able to pay rent that month/feed their family etc.

A VP or probably even a middle manager taking a similar stand likely has cash saved up/secondary income/investments/other options to withstand this sort of change with fewer catastrophic results.
I'm actively trying to figure out how people can have constructive discussions with each other. The US is effectively split and I strongly believe that further isolating ourselves from one another only increases the polarization that resulted in the kind of election we had—across the board.

I'm glad to hear you're sticking to your convictions and getting involved. Unfortunately those two things alone, coupled with dissociation, can equally describe a lot of hateful groups as well. It can also lead to the "tyranny of democracy", when those in power aren't listening to those who they may disagree with yet still represent. I think all three (conviction, involvement, engagement) need to be blended for a truly fair and good end.
All the points you make are heavily characteristic of NYC as well as double parking, rampant cabbie pickups and drop offs, midtown crosswalk blockade by heavy pedestrian traffic, etc

I would love to see how the self driving contraptions handle this city at rush hour.
Valid, but I think it comes mostly from the loudest people being the ones that haven't done so. They're the ones that need attention, because they're driving so many personal attacks (which largely make people more extreme, not less).

As always, there are exceptions (like you). Which is broadly what the comment was claiming - Trump voters are not 100% made up of nazis, in essence.
The judicial branch is not in Trump's pocket (at least yet), but it moves much more slowly than the two others.
How do you know they aren't already doing it? From what I've read, the Executive Order was somewhat vague. Border officials do have some discretion.

Maybe they are strictly interpreting it in order to cause an outrage?
Emphasis on "just". Yes, obviously getting fresh air is an important step when you suffer from CO poisoning but it's not sufficient. Even the site you linked to mentions you should get additional treatment.

Intuitively most people would think that just stopping to breathe CO is sufficient and breathing fresh air would displace it as quickly as with other common gasses (i.e. you may cough for a bit but recover in minutes) but the point is that CO is clingy.

EDIT: Elsewhere you agree with the assessment that the half-life under "fresh air" is somewhere around 4 hours, so I think you would agree that "just breathe fresh air for a bit" (implying minutes, maybe an hour) isn't a satisfactory treatment in serious cases.
Yes, but it brings into question the 'hateful rhetoric' narrative, when it appears that minorities did not perceive it as such(at least, based on how they voted). If minorities viewed Trumps statements as dangerous to them, wouldn't you expect fewer minorities to vote for Trump than, say, Romney?
Silicon Valley should let go of politics and look inward; only supporting one party leaves you without influence when the other party wins.
Wow, calm down.

The cost of relocation is the cost of relocation. That's any cost incurred by the process of relocating. In that person's case, it includes rent. Your case is different. End of story.
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Not sure that that would beat someone doing hyper-ventilation. Hyper-ventilating easily adds 1:30 - 2 minutes of time holding my breath.
unfortunately, my answer to this is hypocritical, given the trump presidency: drag the regressives kicking and screaming into a more liberal future, one step at a time, carrying their dead weight as gently and as gracefully as we can, because it's the right thing to do.

i don't care if it sounds scary: the backward people of the world are our brethren, and we can't leave them behind even though they're inconvenient and ungrateful. they resent us looking down on them, but they have earned it.

it's what we as a liberal society have done for 200+ years now. the conservatives never get tired of losing on the long term because they frequently win battles in the short term.

the march toward enlightenment would be much faster without the dead weight of the viciously tribalistic and the willfully ignorant. but they're humans too, so we're obligated to improve the lives of their grandchildren by working toward a better future today. their grandchildren will be more liberal, and so, we'll have won.

this is a paternalistic view, to be sure. but we've seen how inept the backward tribes are at managing their own futures... and how much effort they expend on trying to ruin it for everyone else. better to let more evolved minds guide the rubes.
Forgive me if I am skeptical about whether or not you have moved from one country to another with a family while maintaining a certain level of comfort.

Yes, it's possible to move with an economy class ticket and a backpack. Indeed that's how I moved to the US, but expecting your employees to do this is typically not considered a good way to attract talent.
It's a tangent — and I'll take the downvotes if people want to ding me for asking, given the context — but since you're here: can you please help me understand why your product is useless without the cloud? I'd have gleefully bought one, except for that. And with that, I'm not touching it.
Sorry, I still don't understand. Why would an absence of effect predict anything other than a zero difference (assuming infinite samples)?
Any idea why that is?
In the short term...
That happens more than once. Google cars sometimes do that when they don't have a good view of cross traffic due to corner obstructions. It's the right thing to do, but it's resulted in Google cars being rear-ended at very low speed several times.
Chicago is a huge city. Yes, it has a crime problem. Yes, "something" needs to be done. That doesn't mean policies like Trump's are necessarily the right ones. I've visited Chicago. It was a beautiful and wonderful place, and I did not have any fear.
He was leaving himself notes which he later didn't recognize, he thought someone was in the apartment! It was suggestions on reddit tnat made him realize it was CO poisoning.
Both parties have had a _significant_ hand in it, dating back to GHWB and Clinton. Don't you forgot that either, lest we remember Obama as anything other than a President who liked droning brown people.
A good number of the supermarkets and other retailers around me are still just swiping cards. Gas pumps of course as well.

I'm guessing the added cost of the fraud liability for swiped cards is turning out to be lower than the cost to convert to chip readers.
>> About 2 weeks, IIRC.

Does the CO actually get out or do the red blood cells die and get replaced?
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OK, it's good to know it wasn't yours. Thanks.

It would be appropriate to put a CO detector in your units before somebody does that with one of yours. That definitely needs to be in the "filtered" units that are supposed to operate with no ventilation.
I'm glad I'm not the only person that picked up on this.

It's a little hypocritical to get outraged when the opposition does it and keep silent when your own party does the same thing.
Perhaps it is because religious minorities are heavily persecuted in those countries.

If Trump wanted a Muslim ban, why wouldn't he ban Indonesians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, etc?
We who oppose this ban are not opposing it because we think it will be permanent. We are not OK with a temporary ban either. (Few think that this xenophobic era of far right blood-and-soil nationalism will last forever, after all.)
That is how it should be in principle. In this case, the problem is not the political system, it is the politics.

(In other words, you get what you vote for.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim_(spacer)
Person who enacted the ban campaigned on banning Muslims. Perhaps it's not some sort of big coincidence.
Is this what "Breathe" on the Apple Watch tries to help doing?

I never bothered to measure the intervals, so does anyone know if there's more to it? (the watch has access to heart rate and shows a current rate result afterwards; maybe it's adjusting heart rate goals over time?)
The article suggests that the major impediment to solving the puzzle is funding, presumably for more archeological digs, and finding more clues.
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Uhhhh, bad things happen to people who publicly support trump in liberal bastions. A throwaway account is perfectly reasonable.

I cannot count the number of times I hear supposedly tolerant people yell "Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences." Where the consequences is usually violence. But thats OK, because it is not the government doing the violence.

Being coy about being a Trump supporter is a necessary precaution.
Fabulous question. I believe not. The only mammalian model that makes sense to me requires there to be only ONE point of central executive in the brain. If more than one could arise, you'd have chaos. All coordination of bilateral activity would be impossible, much less the initiation of action or a chain of perceptual focus or cognitive reasoning.

With all animals above worms having bilateral symmetry, the introduction of one side becoming dominant must have ocurred very early in evolution. Thus ALL species with any cortex at all must have circuitry that prevents the bigger parts the nervous system from becoming fully decoupled and 'going' rogue.
Sounds pretty fair. Maybe your estimates are based on taking the deluxe option on everything? Personally if I was being moved to California I would consider putting up with a lower priced but still decent hotel room for a few weeks, cheap coach air travel (you may have already priced it as coach, not saying you chose first class, but I'm saying you can shop around within coach with different dates and times and get cheap coach prices which are way less than the highest price coach prices), dorm-style cheap furniture to start out with, and maybe sell a car or two instead of moving them. My relo package was only $10k but that was many years ago when rent was cheaper.