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What program would you suggest, that isn't being done, that would reduce homelessness or drug overdose?

Just one of the 59 cruise missiles fired on Syria yesterday would fund intervening in and saving hundreds of lives - they cost $1.41 million each. Some people may refuse help, many, many people in these situations don't get help. Soup kitchens, treatment for mental illness, shelters, training, are all worthy causes which cost very little to run.

There are so many useful programs that could be funded, which are being defunded this year in order to prioritise spending on the military (already the largest in the world by some margin) and searching social accounts/mobile phones and storing passwords for who knows what reason (it certainly isn't to prevent terrorism).
Not sure what you mean by additional time off, so not sure how to answer that.

While my company doesn't strictly fit several of those things, I do think it's generally pretty good for people with families. Most people in my department are raising families (including the management), and there is some flexibility. But really we're just one office in part of a much larger company too.

It's 8-5, where it's rare that people work overtime (unless they're architects or higher, they tend to work about 45-50 hours), if you need to take a couple hours off here and there it's not usually a problem if you let them know ahead of time. There is a remote work program but it's not a remote culture company, yet. There are a few employees that work remotely, though, including the CTO.

Oh, the healthcare benefits aren't very good though (used to be, until we got swallowed up by the larger company and were forced to switch to their plans). Several people have left because of it. Yeah, nevermind. I'll leave it off this list.
My experience has been exactly the reverse. Promises have made async code much easier to read and understand. There is a little learning curve, but it's not so bad.
Probably depends on your friend's location and the number of companies he's interviewing with.

I'm single, but at my company (at least on my team) the start and end hours are pretty flexible as long as you're getting work done. For instance, I generally get in about 10-15 minutes before 9AM, and then I can usually leave either around 4:25PM or 5PM (depending on which train I'm taking back home) and I'll take a 30-60 minute lunch break.

I know not all companies are so flexible, but I'm sure there are still quite a few that are.
>I never consider interviewing and negotiations a waste of time.

As an employer, I do.

I once made the mistake of spending a lot of time interviewing a candidate assuming that their salary expectations would be around market rates...they weren't. This was years ago and it chaps me a bit to this day that I made such a rookie blunder. I won't make that mistake again. I ask for a range right off and give one in return. This saves a lot of time if expectations are way off.
I think the first question should be, is the currency debt based or equity based? We currently have debt based. And in reality anyone can start their own currency, any time they want, using the current rules. Many-o-times I thought the federal reserve needed a competitor. But to answer your question I would say yes it can be simulated on a computer. I would imagine it would be the same as using a single country.
Isn't that in large part due to income disparity. The place where it needs to be fixed has wages far higher than the place where it's made.

Also that companies design stuff to break, and design things to be hard to fix.

Legally mandating long warranties and long term parts availability would probably help?
Huh. I use audiobooks when I'm cooking dinner, cleaning the kitchen, doing chores, but I don't speed read them. If you're looking for suggestions:

- Plugged -- Eoin Colfer

- Screwed -- Eoin Colfer

- Half {a King, the World, a War} -- Joe Abercrombie

- Also everything else written by Joe Abercrombie

- Seveneves -- Neal Stephenson

Sometimes it's not about how good the book is, but about the reader. That's the difference in the audio medium. Plugged and Screwed were books I only picked up because the reader of Half a King read them. They were stellar in audio form, but I don't normally go for those types of books in written form.

This can also up new avenues for how to spend time, outside of the multitasking case. I was staying with a friend a few months ago, and before bed we laid around for an hour listening to an audiobook that I wanted to share. It was like being a family in the olden days sitting around listening to a radio. Really great experience. I can't recommend it enough.
S/Kademlia does not solve this problem; it simply slows down the rate at which an adversary can attack the system by a small amount (i.e. by making node ID creation more expensive and increasing a key/value pair's number of replicas).

There are several DHT papers that talk about bootstrapping DHTs off of social networks. They all fail to solve the Sybil problem in the same way: an adversary simply attacks the social network by pretending to be many people.
You should at least get the same amount of overtime off after the crunch.
>On the other hand owning Google or Facebook shares was a good idea, no?

Was it? Did you buy, make money, and sell?

What about the guy you sold to? Is he the Greater Fool? How much money do you make from buying and holding a stock that pays no dividends, forever?
Solutions inherently aren't political. They're outside of it. They may be decided upon in a political manner.

But when you already have a solution in mind... Politics is an obstacle or a gauntlet, not the solution you're working towards.
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Both Google and Oracle made it a condition of getting hired. Meaning they were ready to walk away if previous pay wasn't disclosed. Oracle even wanted scans of W2s ...
Citation soup doesn't really add anything to a discussion.

Why not link to the Wiki article you copied the sources from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
That's how us government jobs work too :)
At least one of those assertions is pretty easy to find online:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/324411-obam...

I won't even attempt the other stuff.
> a trick that I learned is to answer that it's in your employee confidentiality agreement not to discuss the terms of your employment.

Except that this is a lie. In the US, it is ILLEGAL to have an employee agreement that states this (at least if you are an employee potentially capable of unionizing).

If I wanted to make up an untrue reason for keeping the data confidential, I would make up something more interesting than this. But instead, I'd prefer to simply keep mum. Or not... if I've been particularly well-compensated in my previous position I might be quite willing to share that salary information, accompanied with an assurance that I would be willing to negotiate a lower salary (if I am actually willing) in exchange for other things like flexible working conditions, autonomy, or greater responsibility.
Well funded startup 3-5 million with traction. About 5-10 employees at the time.

Also, it's not like I would be the one doing all the hard work, that would be up to my wife.
Its interesting trying to figure out from your comment what kind of people you intend on working with. On one hand you conclude that given the opportunity your employees will wake the wrong choice. So if you can't trust them to make good decisions what do you trust them with? If they can't make tooling choices can they make algorithmic choices, if they can't make algorithmic choices can they really decide what kind of language constructs to use.

If I can't trust you to make a good choice on which technology to use why do I think I can trust you to make good choices in other aspects of your job. If you don't feel confident to make a technical choice then what you are telling me is you don't understand, and don't want to learn. Not really a desirable quality.
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>Did you miss the November election? That should be proof enough.

Liberals won the popular vote...

> Compare the anti-Vietnam-war protests of the early 1970s to the anti-Iraq-war protests in the 2000s... oh wait, there were no anti-war protests in the 2000s; everyone in America was all for that.

That is a disingenuous comparison. The support for the Iraq war was so high because a the biggest terrorist attack in US history had just happened and we were going after the people we thought responsible. If you compare a similar situation WWII and Pearl Harbor, there were not protests for that either. In fact support for Japanese internment was high.

> Compare the birthrates for liberal, irreligious people to conservative, religious people.

Birth rates for people who typically "vote liberal"(minorities) in the united states are much higher than those of "conservative voters" (white people).
>I feel it is good that founders are increasingly able to keep their companies under their control.

Huh? An IPO is literally going to the public to sell a stake in the company.

If you want to maintain control, don't go public. This has been a truism for 100 years.
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Ad some stock exchanges take a dim view of this sort of dual share class the Daily Mails parent company got kicked out of one of the FTSE indexes over this
You assume that SIS, Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda don't have goals beyond killing, and I think that's incorrect. AQAP seems to mostly want Western interests out of Yemen and Saudi. Al Shabab are loosely Stalinists and seem to be looking to control territory in Somalia and Ethiopia with Islamic jurisprudence , and I think they have some land issues not dissimilar to the EZLN(though I'm not sure I understand that correctly). ISIS/DAESH seem to want to draw Western powers into a costly proxy war with the aim of toppling regional powers. As evidenced by their early successes they seem to aim to use this chaos to build a state and call upon adherents to their brand of violent and regressive Sunni(esque) philosophy.

While these groups are less sympathetic than the IRA, early ANC, or ETA(to an extent), it's a mistake, I think, to view them as wholly different, or less human.

*Edit to clarify, these guys are definitely assholes and we need to have strategies to counter their goals.
If it's such a big deal to employers, and they don't want to waste their time, why don't they name a number first?

I won't object.
UCLA creates gmail accounts for all students (if they don't already have one) so using Google products is standard. A lot of people are hating on him for using Google stuff, but not all of these decisions are up to him, he has to get them approved and Google is (unfortunately) pretty standard here
I am not against new. I'm almost embarrassingly simple to get enthusiastic about new tech.

The things I mention however are things I have found to be actual problems in my workflow.

They obviously work well for others and I respect that. I hope others can respect my observation that with Mac/Unity alt-tab more keystrokes or waiting might be necessary.

It is also an objective observation that with Mac style shared menu on top of the screen in a dual monitor setup you will sometimes have to move the pointer across two screens to reach the menu, then back again to continie working.
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I'd highly recommend not lying a hiring manager.
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Very clever. I can see the use in this.

Might also be a good way to schedule reminders for myself. Get a reminder after three months to change my home's water filter by just send an email.

Some privacy concerns you could address about how emails you receive are handled. I assume you need to retain some context of the original email to make the reminder useful – recipients, subject, body – what are you storing, in what way, how long?
So you think this twitter account is at the same level as the Fox News commentator who feds say faked a CIA career?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fox-news-... https://archive.fo/Sj3w8
The main thing I don't like about audio is not being able to highlight or reflect on things, even re-reading portions several times to really learn something.

I like being able to cross reference materials and go deeper on things I read, and when I re-read a book, I see notes that I had forgotten about, which is near impossible with audio.

It seems its all about high amounts of shallow exposure to different concepts, good for "knowing what you don't know" but not really learning what you don't know.
Deepmind released three AlphaGo vs. AlphaGo matches last year and around the new year AlphaGo played 60 games against top professionals online winning all of them. There have been rumours about AlphaGo vs. Ke Jie (No. 1 Go player), but nothing has been confirmed yet.
My anecdotal experience: companies are much more "family friendly" when the CEO and senior managers themselves have families.

Stated differently, paraphrasing the CEO that just had their first kid: "holy crap, this is a lot of work!!!!" You have not truly experienced sleep deprivation until you have had sustained, parental sleep deprivation.
ha! can't stop watching the numbers roll. Whatsapp is going crazy!!!
Agreed. More likely, however, a software architect commands a range of salaries in your area (eg 80-130k with a few outliers either side). As an 'average' performer in this scenario, you would do well to anchor your 'value' at 120k and let them make excuses why 105k is more reasonable. The alternative (let them anchor you at 90k and then you have to explain to the recruiter why you are worth 15k more) will be trickier in most cases.
If only the rest of the industry was so mature.
In my personal experience, I have always found it that the books I've listened are the first to fade from my memory. Second came books consumed as ebooks and last, old fashioned paper books.

I believe that the act of touching the book, carrying with you everywhere, leaving it on the table, seems to make its content much more memorable for me than reading it as an ebook or listening to it.

I find it that I still remember the details of hundreds of books I have read as a teenager, while I sometimes don't even realize that I've already read a certain book that I've read as an ebook or listened to.
Those games are actually quite interesting because, though not blitz speed, are still on much tighter timers than the big Lee Sedol match, and that exercises different strengths for both the human and the AI.
There's a case to be made for an employee protection preventing an employer from firing an employee for refusing to produce pay stubs from a past employer. However, I've said it before -- preventing a question from being asked is state overreach and constitutes a violation of the first amendment, in my opinion.
I didn't at the time. I do now.
If you're at the top of employees, it might be time to become the boss...
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence...

> An internal investigation by the C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program.
This is patently absurd. Let's walk through an example: I think you're being rude to everyone here. It's wrong for you to disagree with me.

By abandoning any pretence of objective analysis you're reducing rudeness to a meaningless concept.
Right.

Which makes it mildly ironic that John Wheeler, a leading early proponent of many-worlds, also proposed the one-electron universe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
Conway's Law in your environment should probably be interpreted that you have a team that can't talk or work together at all. It has nothing to do with what technical choices they are making, even if you imposed a rigid technical structure you would still have divergent nanoservices because your team can't communicate.
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What drove the driving downturn?
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One thing that's super important in this is to know your market value. Regardless of whether you like your job or not, it's absolutely worth dipping a couple toes into the water every year or so, just to get a feel for what your skillset is worth. Doing this when not actively seeking a change takes off a lot of the pressure for a move when you are looking for a change.
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Our society isn't mature enough for basic income to be viable... it's going to take many decades to get there.

Let's focus on education and healthcare first. An effective universal education and healthcare system could be the foundation for BI in the distant future (both socially and politically).
If these are honestly your answers to these questions and you in fact give lies as answers, you sound like exactly the type of person I absolutely hate working with and actively try to weed out during interviewing.

To anyone reading this new to the industry, there are absolutely legitimate ways to answer these questions without lying.

> Why do you want to work here? (money, and the desire to pay the bills and feed my children)

That is a given for nearly any job. If it's your only reason you want to take this particular job, it tells me you have zero passion for your work. The people I know who are like this are what I'd describe as "9-5" employees, don't learn anything outside of work, and basically do the bare minimum at everything.

I want to work with someone that's at least somewhat excited about the job they're going to be doing, and bring some energy, new ideas and actually care about doing a good job. It's the difference between a day labourer and a craftsman.

> Where do you see yourself in 5 years? (probably not at this company)

So? That's fine. Is anyone hiring with the expectation or even desire their employees stay for 5 years?

There are many good ways to answer this, but it's definitely not "doing the same thing as today, with the same technology stack, tools and level of knowledge".

> What is your biggest weakness? (not like I would actually tell a stranger a real answer)

This is kind of a crappy interview question, but there are decent ways to answer it [1]. They are not asking for your deep, personal failings, but for your weaknesses as they apply to the job at hand.

[1] https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/66620/which-ow...
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The story of Milo and the terms he broke has been widely publicized. He broke those terms, and that is not in question. Other people's behavior has absolutely nothing to do with Milo being banned for his behavior.
Seems about right. My company is HQ'd in (typically family friendly) Utah (I'm in Seattle office) and the CEO is a family guy. The culture has pretty healthy expectations.
It's a classic negotiation problem.

From the employee's point of view:

If you specify a number, you have either A) disqualified yourself due to it being too high or B) set a cap on your potential salary (they may have been willing to pay more). Neither scenario represents upside for you.

From the employer's point of view:

If the company specifies a number, it has either A) disqualified itself due to it being too low or B) set a minimum that it will have to pay (candidate may have been willing to accept less). Neither scenario represents upside.
Actually, you (they) kinda do want to incentivise not working.

The idea is that, currently, "not working" is dis-incentivised to such a degree that it creates more problems than it solves. Consider:

- For currently unemployed people: are they lacking in motivation, or in ability?

- For people who legitimately cannot find employment: is it moral to expose them to policies aimed at punishing 'freeloaders'?

- Considering existing work-requirements even for basic assistance with food and housing: is it correct to say these operate from a model of human motivation where people stop trying as soon as they can afford the basic necessities of life?

- Do you stop trying as soon as you know you have enough food and a roof over your head for the foreseeable future?

- Do you know anybody who does that?

- If people are forced into jobs with the thread of starvation or homelessness, what are the trade-offs they are required to make? I. e. to what degree is this forcing short-termism, and hindering their ability to invest time into, for example, education?

- To what degree does the looming threat of starvation compromise the position of low-income workers in negotiations with employers?

- Consider some model citizen from the lower middle class that you can think of: maybe a factory worker from the midwest, or an accountant's clerk in Houston, whatever... They have been gainfully employed for all their (adult) life, and will be for the foreseeable future. Question: How much needless anxiety is that person possibly experiencing, because they are just some random economic events away from complete destitution?

- To what degree could society profit by mitigating some of the risks associated with attempting something new?
I was working for a company that was moving from remote work to full-time in the office. My former co-worker and I decided to start our own company so we could stay remote and close to our families. I have 7 kids, he has 8 and we both homeschool.

That was almost 6 years ago and I've never regretted it. If you value time with your family, nobody is a better boss than you. It's not unusual for me to shoot an IM over to my business partner that goes something like "Really nice weather today. We're headed to the park for an hour or two."
I only heard about this today. But I would not be a customer probably.

I think gmail is stable enough, I never thought of losing emails.

I have used gmail for a long time, it really documents my life. one day, if I lose my gmail account, I will feel sad. but those emails are less than 0.01 percent of all the emails in the account. it isn't worth signing up a service for that 0.01 percent I guess.

Overall, regarding the idea, I feel that it is like selling an insurance for a very specific rare disease.
That's what the windows on ARM version is supposed to solve.
>> The rest have their basic income absorbed by their taxes.

Isn't this whole notion of BI dependent on the political support of a large share of Americans who think they'll get money - and now you're saying they won't ?

Or in other words - why aren't talking about unemployment insurance that doesn't forces you to work ? because that's what's your offer is.
There is 0 chance any past employer is going to divulge compensation details of a former employee to some random jackass recruiter that comes calling.
"But if someone criticises a feminist or other "liberal" group, they are likely to get banned."

For you to say this, you have clearly never been on Twitter.
It's fantasy thinking based on the fallacious worldview that life isn't a competition.
The Surface family started with both ARM and x86 models. The x86-based Pro was the only one that met with any success. The non-Pro Surface used NVidia Tegra for the first two generations before switching to Intel Atom.
My limited understanding is that the pilot wave is more of a concept regarding embodied in the exact state of the universe. In other words, the pilot wave is the seed in the pseudorandom number generator of the universe.