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so this time they failed - is throwing mud on the Internet the only way of settling this? Or just most convenient and with best chance of payout? Something smells fishy here - many many people see the big pile of money at Uber and get some ideas
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Ah that makes more sense. I thought the OP was implying Razer is Chinese as I have seen others do.
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i agree with your point about multinationals but this case is more interesting than that. Uber isn't Coca Cola. They essentially used tactics like this to go from plucky underdog to multinational.
>Sure, but what civilized nation requires someone with a spouse and children who are citizens to get a visa in the first place?

The US?

Reminds me of the Syrian American guy I met. He was a US citizen who moved to Syria in the early 2000's. Got married there and had kids. Then when the civil war occurred, he returned to the US, but could not bring his family.

His kids were US citizens, but he had never done the paperwork. So he set about doing it. Before too long they could enter the US.

But his wife? That's not "automatic". Even though her husband and kids were US citizens, she had to go through the whole motions of applying, etc. Not allowed to come visit the US in the interim. As a result, his kids did not come to the US - they couldn't leave her alone.
Don't you think that maybe there's just so much shady crap at Uber that it's flying all over? When Theranos got picked apart, I don't think anybody was sitting on stories, I think they were gleefully publishing them as soon as they got a tip. Perhaps seeing Susan Fowler come forward with her name attached has emboldened other Uber employees who felt like what they were doing was wrong.
In a world where multinationals have the power to evade the law in a deliberate and systematic way, AND the government uses the same techniques to spy on its own people for its own motives, it's easy for individuals to claim that neither group of entities need this kind of coercive power over others.

Or at least, it should be.
Yes, because you can totally make a moral equivalence between the NSA, and the bylaw enforcement office of the City of Calgary.

This is like drawing a moral equivalence between an abusive sweatshop and every company in the world. Smash the system, and overthrow the bourgeois!
As mentioned above, there are plenty of jurisdictions where, if uber was illegal, this would be textbook obstruction of justice on the part of uber (because uber is deliberately obstructing the investigation of the drivers, who are committing a crime)
Who are you in 1917 Russia?
Cash isn't really anonymous either. Serial numbers make it traceable, albeit with large time granularity. All banks and many large retailers track deposits and payments by serial number. That plus CCTV and cell tower data will usually be enough to identify someone with a pattern of spending dirty money.
> Taking her claims at face value, she's not making a strong case for sexism.

Agree.

It's "just" a common case of "bad" management.
Hours, sure. But your original 15 minute build time exceeds the author's 10 minute cutoff. I'm questioning whether that seemed to be a huge issue.
I know install glances and use it in place of htop on all servers. Much more info and more customizable than htop.
Have you had a different experience with other companies?

My experience living in Germany has been that its been pretty hard to get American keyboards. Apple for instance only lets businesses oder laptops with US keyboards in Germany.
I don't like the US government much, but I like it a lot better than the average multinational. When it comes down to it, we don't have more than our choice of devils.

If I don't like Uber, I can... stop using Uber. What can I do if I don't like the service a state provides - can I opt out and stop paying? No, my only option is to flee - which the state will often try and prevent you doing anyway.

The state is a huge corporation, that will use force to change you for its services, whether they are good or not, or whether you use them or not. Your only option to avoid this involuntary charge s to flee - and the state reserves the right to employ violence to stop you doing even that.

It seems pretty clear to me which is more immoral.
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I think it's a mistake to interpret the wave of stories about Uber's misbehavior as indicative of a "hit job" or "media bias" against Uber. Courage is contagious, and as people have started to speak out publicly against Uber's abuses, it appears current and former employees are becoming emboldened to share their experiences as well. I hope that this wave of public backlash will demonstrate to Uber, and the tech industry as a whole, that the market is not blind to unethical behavior, and cutthroat competition at the expense of your employees and the law is not necessarily a winning strategy.
Last month, I needed to add a periodic job to a simple Rails app to snapshot some data and send it to another system. I discussed the design with a colleague, a Rails expert, who went into the pros and cons of various worker-queue configurations. In the end, I added a hidden API call, and deployed a shell script along the lines of

while true; do
curl https://rails.app/do/the/thing
sleep 3600
done

The actual version is slightly larger because of error checking etc., but that's the gist. So that's one example of replacing (or rather: avoiding) a distributed system (an asynchronous job queue) with a small shell script.

I don't mean to say that shell scripts always can replace more complex systems, but sometimes they're enough.
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Uber was always too shady to be justifiably plucky
It's not, of itself, incriminating.

And if you can't sell it, you've still got clean clothes.
>It's sad how deep the Guardian has gone down the rabbithole in terms of writing exactly what lifestyle leftists are prepared to pay for (and nothing else).

Keep in mind that this was not a news article. It was in the Opinions section authored by the woman herself.

Pick any major news outlet and you'll easily find problems with the opinion pieces.
Wow. That looks busier than a train station. Can't believe any of them can focus on anything at all.
Better question: why did he abandon it?
I also got bit by this. Razer's simpler wired keyboards and mice might be OK, but their systems are fundamentally broken.

The Razer Blade Stealth (7500u) has broken Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C support. Most popular devices simply won't work at all, even though they work with other Kaby Lake computers, and even though they work with Razer's own previous Stealth laptop (6500u model).

The Razer Core has broken display software (double vsync lag) which makes it not work properly if you use an external GPU and monitor (which is ostensibly the purpose of the device)

Additionally, the Razer Core's USB ports just flat out don't work. There's a power short of some sort in the internal USB hub, so that if you plug in a device that draws any more than the lowest amount of power, it cycles through a connecting/disconnecting state, looping forever.

All of these are fundamental flaws with the product itself, so you can (and will be asked to) RMA units over and over for eternity, but you'll never get the problem fixed.

---

Razer Support has known about all of these issues for months now. There is zero communication coming from Razer -- they won't discuss their design flaws, they won't support their devices, they won't even acknowledge these issues as happening.

When asked directly, the CEO claimed he "wasn't looking at product reliability because we're actually one of the top few in terms of product quality". - https://www.reddit.com/r/razer/comments/5v8zkh/improving_raz... Since Razer's leadership doesn't care about quality at all, I can't imagine the company will ever care either.

At this point, I'm not spending another dime with Razer ever again, and certainly couldn't recommend any one else do so.
This is completely company and personality dependent. Unless you're a single digit hire at a very fratty startup, I wouldn't sweat it.
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As a sanity check on this subthread, this is an article about secure messaging and threat assessment for teens.
Let's say you're not a complete idiot and avoid the use of floats altogether, what subtle errors would you avoid by using arbitrary precision numbers over integers?
It's a basic right to engage in economic transactions without being tracked, but I don't agree you necessarily have the right to "spend money" (as in government currency) without being tracked.

If you want to engage in transactions without being tracked in a cashless society, you always have the option of using alternative currencies.
This is reminiscent of a dynamic seen with certain intelligence programs.
Isn't obstruction of justice something that happens after a crime has been committed? If I'm a thief and I do my thieving in the middle of the night when no one is around that's an attempt to hinder discovery but it's not obstruction of justice (I don't think?).

Similarly if Uber is operating illegally in a city and they use software to avoid picking up a city official in a sting operation that doesn't sound like obstruction.

I'm no lawyer though.
Unlike Theranos, Uber has a product that works very well and at a low cost to the consumer.
Did you just make the argument that the government enforcing the laws is immoral?
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Most money is already digital.
The article says the husband did not make enough to sponsor her visa. We have similar in the USA but that is to bring the spouse to the country, those rules don't apply once they are here.
I mean, I you weren't already doing iOS dev, why have an overpriced paperweight like a MBP?
Warning: They keep using underspecced parts in the cpu supply, and treat customers like idiots by pretending to never heard about the problem(Apple tactic to avoid warranty/lawsuit).

Did your Razer die? Did manufacturer propose $700 fix? Watch this: https://mailin.repair/blog/razer-laptop-motherboard-failure-...
Remember: if you're hopping for any kind of open environment then you should probably be running in the opposite direction of Qualcomm.
Yes, exactly. Hence almost.
Flee? Sure, if you are already wanted for arrest. Otherwise you can also move/emigrate. Which sounds a lot less dramatic than 'flee'.
bash them for the sexism agreed, but not everything. When riding a taxi was ridiculously expensive. Uber made it affordable and bought it to the middle class. Haters will remain haters.
The Oroville Dam is really a crazy undertaking when you consider: 1) it primarily serves to move water all the way from north of Sacramento to San Joaquin Valley / Southern California, 2) despite generating some amount of electricity, it actually consumes 3/4 of that energy just in transporting the water (over mountain ranges). More generally, the State Water Project (of which the dam is a part) is the largest electricity consumer in the state of California.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-California-Natural-Histo... (kind of "dry", but extremely informative)
Thats a good tactic, I have done similar things in the past by using mind maps to first create an overview which then created more flow and less overthinking.

"Unnecessarily complex sub systems just to get the flexibility I don't need." I would be lying if I said that I am not familiar with this... :)
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This. It's crazy to me that my entire generation loves to say "I don't own a TV" while staring at videos on their tiny laptops (or even phones) all day. You don't need cable or any other subscription to get a lot out of a TV.
More or less irritating than a Lightning-3.5mm adapter?
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> That said, the dirt coming from Uber seems to be a lot worse and a lot more widespread for a company that is 1/30th the size of what Amazon was 2 years ago.

I assume this is ignoring drivers? Surely if you include the contractors the size difference isn't so stark. I would actually expect Uber to be larger, but I don't know.
Wait what? How does that make any sense?

Edit: This comment was written before the parent added the /s tag.
There is a distinction to be made between the living room and the family room. Family rooms tend to have TVs, and living rooms are for sitting+conversating.

This is an article of clearly well-off households and their living rooms. Your mention of PS4 and tvs leads me to believe you're younger, and that your friends are perhaps not living in houses the size of those that the German upper/upper-middle class families whose homes are pictured. I don't think I know anyone in my own social circle who has both a family room and a living room, because the extra room is almost always turned in to another bedroom.

e: Please continue the conversation, tell me what I had read wrong -- simply downvoting me is rude and unconstructive.
"I'm confused by what laws were broken by Greyball. It's certainly deceptive, but is that illegal?
"

Depending on circumstances/jurisdiction, and done for the explicit purpose of preventing law enforcement or other officials from being able to catch criminals (again, the uber drivers breaking the law by driving when it's banned), yes, it's absolutely illegal.

(whether it should be is a different question, but it definitely is)
(Article is from 2016.)
It was a comment based on her appearance (and assumedly how 'sexy' she was dressing). That's the reason.

If a Male manager told her she probably isn't doing well because of how she dresses (and she dresses reasonably) that would be sexism, so it's the same thing if it's another women doing it.

On the scale of sexism this isn't as bad as the other things reported about Uber (she wasn't propositioned for example), but I believe you could argue it as sexism (IANAL, you'd need to one tell you for sure).
Yes absolutely. This is something that is on our roadmap. generally speaking, certain powerful features of the HSA (as you pointed out) are not well understood by people. We want to build product to pull out the best features and highlight them. This is a great thought. Keep them coming!
My bad. I did not see the language choices in the select menu are not alphabetized. Should have looked at it more carefully before commenting.
Of course not. But some percentage of customers still use cash. So the store might raise prices by 1.5 pct instead of the 3pct that Visa charges them. This essentially means those who use cash are subsidizing the card users. If they raise it the full 3 percent then the cash users are paying extra for a service they don't even use!
IANAL or even very knowledgeable so I could be way off here. Looking up the legal definition of fraud, I found that it requires:

(1) a false statement of a material fact, (2) knowledge on the part of the defendant that the statement is untrue, (3) intent on the part of the defendant to deceive the alleged victim, (4) justifiable reliance by the alleged victim on the statement, and (5) injury to the alleged victim as a result.

1-4 seem obvious enough, but I'm not sure about #5. Would wasting their time or interfering with their enforcement job be enough to qualify as "injury"? Or, since they're acting on behalf of the local government, would it count as injury against that government due to not being able to prosecute crimes and apply fines that they would have been able to if Uber hadn't lied?
Kind of weird IMO to think of a company as deserving or not deserving something. It's a group of people with a with array of opinions and behavior, many of whom probably like having a place to work

It's much more constructive to want the organization to get better than to cheer on some kind of punishment we think it's owed
It looks that way - and for what it's worth, it's not exactly an unprecedented position.
I have essentially the same tutorial on my readme here: https://github.com/divbit/grimoire except I've included a step where Ubuntu uncomplicated firewall is setup. I wonder if anyone has any suggestions on other basic security measures that should be taken for a private git repo?
As horrible as Uber is, it hasn't done any extrajudicial drone strikes on civilians, yet.
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If I understand correctly the Netherlands plan to go cashless. There were already cashless fast food restaurants when I was there in 2013. No cash allowed.

http://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/index.cfm/newsletter/a...
It's a form of association and assembly. Both of which are considered legal rights in US and other jurisdictions, with the proviso that they are conducted peaceably.
This is an absurd false equivalency. The NSA isn't tracking down drivers, this is local law enforcement. They could be investigating a crime related to an Uber driver, but not specifically about the legality of the service.

What if you were just robbed or assaulted by a driver and Uber sends fake data about nearby cars when a cop is trying to use the app to track them down?
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Expanding on your point about 12 years ago:

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-feds-and-...

More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of California’s largest water agencies rejected concerns that the massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam — at risk of collapse Sunday night and prompting the evacuation of 185,000 people — could erode during heavy winter rains and cause a catastrophe.

Three environmental groups — the Friends of the River, the Sierra Club and the South Yuba Citizens League — filed a motion with the federal government on Oct. 17, 2005, as part of Oroville Dam’s relicensing process, urging federal officials to require that the dam’s emergency spillway be armored with concrete, rather than remain as an earthen hillside.

The groups filed the motion with FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They said that the dam, built and owned by the state of California, and finished in 1968, did not meet modern safety standards because in the event of extreme rain and flooding, fast-rising water would overwhelm the main concrete spillway, then flow down the emergency spillway, and that could cause heavy erosion that would create flooding for communities downstream, but also could cause a failure, known as “loss of crest control.”
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This is why I had reservations about many high end mechanical keyboards that had all their macro/lighting/etc support done via software. Found out that Ducky makes keyboards that are 100% hardware configured, no OS even needed, just power. (Also IKBC keyboards do configuration via firmware too, I believe.)

As for my mouse, I had to use some Corsair junk to configure the button mappings, sensitivity, and turn down their ridiculous LED, but then it saved the settings to the mouse firmware so I can uninstall it and use it just fine on Linux. No more touching it again. Still not happy about it. Would rather it had been some tiny DIP switches underneath.
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I'm moving to a new company for a job as Dev Manager. During my week off, I'd like to pick up some new ideas.

What resources (books, videos, courses, etc.) have inspired you in the way you approach work?
The Fire Next Time. Short and to the point.
Before anyone says public service: I would point to Sweden as a counter example.

Swedish public radio/TV (modelled after the BBC - there's a license fee for owning a TV receiver) used to be relatively benign, although leftist-leaning. Still, they had solid, smart and honest people who did good reporting. It used to be a very prestigeous place to work for anyone, regardless of political leaning. And there really wasn't much more money to be made elsewhere unless you started your own company.

The past decade has been depressing. As the Internet has killed the newspapers and quality reporting has ceased to pay well, our public TV has become a propaganda organ for low-paid activists. Somehow 99% of these people are leftist.

Pretty much all of the younger journalists at our public TV and radio (SVT and SR) are going into their jobs out of a (again, 99% of the time leftist) political conviction. (Smarter and/or less idealistic people get a job in the private sector.)

In recent years this created a dangerous scenario:

a) You have real humans, living in an actual society. They observe their environment. They do notice the crimes their friends and neighbors are victims of.

b) You have the public service media constantly stating/arguing for how everything is fine.

Obviously this dissonance creates a massive (and justifiably deserved) mistrust in "media".
Not many phones do.

But a few have done what you suggest. At least slightly. The Galaxy s6 came in an active version that had like 30% more battery and better water resistance and a slightly tougher default shell.

I don't know how their sales were for the 2 models but I hope they were good enough to continue the trend
This is certainly a hardball approach, but I see nothing especially wrong with it. When you install Uber, you authorize it to send location data. If you happen to work at a transportation enforcement office, that is going to be immediately apparent to them unless you take countermeasures, such as using a GPS spoofing app.

If I declare myself to be an enemy of a given entity, I fully expect them to use every resource at their disposal to attempt to defeat me - especially when that entity has billions of dollars at stake. That they are using tactics like this shouldn't be surprising. It should be expected.

I kind of have a newfound respect for Uber's ingenuity after reading this. It's probably one of hundreds of examples of the reasons that they have risen so fast.
Welcome to libertarianism.
Only if by startup you mean a company that rich investors showered with tens of billions of dollars.
For what it's worth, the US government requires income tax to be paid on foreign earnings, even while living and working overseas. To avoid that, you'd have to also renounce citizenships, which is expensive and at the government's discretion.
We should hold governments and companies accountable no matter what they do.

It's not a hate campaign to call institutions out on their transgressions. It's not unfair to call out injustice wherever it exists.
Agree that deferred maintenance is the primary culprit, based on what everyone is saying... The spillway should have withstood the flow of water from the extensive rainfall if operating within specifications.

While there was a lot of rain, and climate change is affecting long-term weather patterns, I think it would be misleading to associate the Oroville Dam problems to climate change.
So, distribute clothes to your employees.

Bonus: You set the message by choosing to give tshirts, shirts or suits.
The default currency type I've seen used for accounting is a decimal with 4 digits trailing the decimal. I forget the leading digits, but it is something like 14.

Basically I think the idea with 4 digits after the decimal is that the smallest denomination you can have is 1 penny, and that allows you to calculate percentages of pennies accurately to a hundredth of a percentage point.
For 2017, the individual limit is $3,400 and for families it is $6,750. You are right that HSA accountholders are limited to these amounts as of today.
This is false. On apple.de you can currently order 9 different keyboard layouts, including US.
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