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I was a "Professional Blogger" for a while.

- [11:00] Wake up, sit on desk, first thing on the morning, write until I get tired

- [14:00] Usually I get tired 3 hours after, then I stop working, cook food for the day and procrastinate lots of things that I was planning to do in my free time in previous day, and thinking about how I would do 3-5x more money if I spent more time working on my blog, but I'm lazy / I want to work as less as possible to earn money to live and spent my time doing whatever I wanted to (which turned out to be nothing relevant)

- [21:00] Gym

- [00:00] Watch funny videos until sleep

- [02:00] Sleep.
Not the OP, but having worked on the EMS side of a fire department, I can give some insight (though my department was much smaller than OP's):

1) Usually each fire engine is staffed with 3-5 firefighters. A minimum of four is really idea, but due to staffing/budget issues, many departments only have 3 people on each engine. The crew on each engine is usually one chauffeur/engineer/driver (who drives the fire engine and operates the water pumps), one officer (in-charge of the crew), and one or more general firefighters.

In most departments, each crew of 3-5 works for 24 hours and then has 48 hours off (or 24/72, or something similar), there are multiple groups of firefighters that all work on the same physical fire engine. Today, the "A shift" crew of Engine 1 might be staffing the fire engine numbered 1, but tomorrow, a different "B shift" crew will staff the same engine and operating under the name "Engine 1"

On a somewhat related note, the organizational/command structure of the fire department depends largely on size. My department/county had several on-duty battalion chiefs who each oversaw a handful of engines/trucks. FDNY, on the other hand, has ~50 battalion chiefs, each overseeing ~6-10 fire crews, and has higher organization into ~10 divisions and 5 borough commands.

2) It depends on the type of fire/call. If it's an automatic fire alarm or medical call that comes in 20 minutes before shift change, the out-going crew is expected to run the call to completion. However, if there's a large fire/major incident, the command staff usually coordinates shuttling of crews on and off scene to maintain adequate staff on scene, but get tired crews home and fresh crews there.

3) For any large fire, multiple fire engines/trucks from our department will be dispatched. There are standard protocols that determine how many and what types of units are dispatched for each incident. If the needs of the call overwhelm our department, or if the incident is close to our jurisdictional line, the command staff on the scene can call for mutual aid for neighboring departments. Most fire departments have automatic aid agreements with neighboring cities/counties so that the dispatch centers can talk to each other send the needed units
I didn't downvote you but I think the flaw in your reasoning here is that who gets to determine what is a "fictional character." Perverts are never satisfied so the train of 'fictional' porn goes from standard waifu/anime stuff which is fairly tasteless and inserts itself everywhere[1], then a character drawn just like the person's tween neighbor or celebrity but she has a sword and red hair so its totally not her (wink wink), to photoshops of real children playing and put into sexual or quasi-sexual situations, then video edited with transplanted heads and such, etc. The line is too blurry to be drawn so the common sense approach is to block all generated CP.

[1] This is the more common problem. You may have a good gaming or comics group on steam or reddit or tumblr then your activity feed is all tween looking girls drawn anime style in highly sexualized positions or literally having sex with a slight blur. Then arguments for 'free speech' happen which is incredibly polarizing and the non-perverts leave the community. Now that community is dead and you have yet another zombie community of lolita-style postings which are frankly wank material and nothing else. It really only takes one person or poor moderation to kill online communities like this.

If you want to be upset, be upset at the people who do this. Not the people who flee from it for rational reasons, which may or may not involve legal risk. I can't even check my steam activity feed at work because there's always a person or two who suddenly gets into overly-sexualized anime-style games and posts screenshots. None of those girls look remotely 18.
> Low grade process heat is surprisingly useless in practice, unfortunately.

For electricity generation, yeah. What it is that stops us from using it for residential heating? Eg, space heating and for hot water. Is it just the proximity to big power plants that makes it unfeasible?
My language could have been more clear. They state at the top of the page that you have to be "admitted for permanent residence" if you are not a citizen. However other visa situations also qualify [1]:

> Certain other individuals, such as some holders of study and/or work permits, or working permits on working holiday programs — which are issued under the federal Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and are valid for a period of six or more months — may be deemed residents. Tourists or visitors to B.C. do not qualify.

I was thinking especially of the university students I know who got MSP cards after being in BC for a few months on student visas--they are actually required to enrol [2]. Incidentally, there was a thing in the media about the number of owners of multi-million dollar homes in Vancouver who listed their profession as "student" [3]. Working holiday visas are typically only for 1 year, and they also qualify. You might think that a lot of young people who need elective surgery would take advantage of the working holiday visa programs, but the waiting times for most specialties would make it a gamble to get anything done in the 9 months they'd have coverage (I'm not entirely joking).

If you're curious what happens while waiting to become eligible, private insurance companies offer a standard insurance package called "Visitors to Canada" insurance ($200-$500 CAD for 3 months depending on deductible and whether you need coverage for a "stable" pre-existing condition).

Visitor to Canada insurance is also what you need to buy if you're a Canadian who has lived abroad and need to cover the gap before you can re-enroll, though it is not a mandate, and technically under the Canada Health Act they can't refuse to treat you if you are a citizen. I have heard that a citizen or lawful resident can refuse to pay a bill even if you are not enrolled and nothing will happen, but that may also be an urban legend.

One other point of clarification, since it confuses people to no end. Each province administers its own program. Three provinces (of ten) collect health care "premiums" on those who have income levels to support it: BC, Alberta, and Ontario. The premiums are not paying the cost of health insurance by any stretch, they are a poorly designed and administered poll tax that shares a name with the health care programs. This bothers me constantly when Americans who have moved to BC harp on about how "health insurance" only costs $75 a month in Canada, because the vast majority of the costs are paid through other revenues. Eliminating premiums is an issue in tomorrow's BC election.

[1] http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/health-drug-coverag...
[2] https://students.ubc.ca/health-wellness/health-insurance/hea...
[3] http://globalnews.ca/news/2968607/new-numbers-show-multi-mil...

EDIT: Added some more information about how health care premiums work for the sake of posterity.
You're not even making rational arguments, you're vilifying a procedure you happen to dislike. The fact is that the entire medical community agrees there are benefits to either approach, so letting parents decide is the more reasonable stance here.
True, the US by no means has the best system overall, and some stuff is outright bad no doubt about it.

I'm just trying to say it's more complicated than
Europe: free, good, public, fair for everyone
USA: private, capitalistic, bad, unfair

Also 'Europe' as always is a vague term, there's a difference between Zurich Switzerland and some town in Serbia, Greece or Romania, but it's all Europe.

The U.S. health services for starters could be made cheaper by letting more foreign doctors in, but that has been lobbied against for years by the medical lobby itself on the grounds foreign doctors aren't as good, keeping salaries artificially high for many types of medical staff etc.
Yet there are much "worse" articles posted here, or at least there have been. There was an article about Falkvinge arguing to legalise photographic child pornography, which was posted here. It got a large number of upvotes. This article inside it talks about the issue. The issue doesn't have to be discussed right now, it can be discussed when people at home. People don't have to even look at my comment, though in my judgment it seems as though you might find any sort of discussion when you go to a HN comments thread, some unsavory.

There's also a lot of people who aren't viewing from work. I'm not asking people to discuss my point, though just because you don't want to discuss, it doesn't mean the correct response is to downvote my comment.

It is tangentially related, and frequently we find even more 'off topic' posts getting upvoted, such as even those about the website's JS and CSS quirks. My point ties in well with why certain content can't be carried, which is in line or at least related to the article itself.

I'm really failing to see your point, and it doesn't justify the downvotes.
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> I don't see how removing anonymity is inherently by its very nature a bad thing. It seems likely it would be like everything else, you'd need to legislate the legality of certain things given that all activity is non-anonymous, etc.

I see a few issues with such massive violations of privacy:

1. Slippery slope: Knowledge of people's private lives is extremely valuable, and nobody with the power to collect or use it is going to relinquish it, if anything they're more likely to try to get more, until they have absolutely everything. This isn't inherently bad, as concentrated power is very easily abused. We have a wonderful case study of this with the NSA, their ever expanding powers, their willful breaking what few legal limits are imposed upon them, and their inability to prevent themselves from breaking their own policies about abusing access to their treasure trove.

2. Benevolent dictator: This privacy invasion will most certainly work it's way back to the government, which has severe implications for civil disobedience and political dissent in general. While it's all peaches when the government is "nice", you're never going to have all citizens agree with the government, and future politicians abusing previously allocated power/resources is extremely likely (not that there has ever been a government administration worthy of invading everyone's privacy to begin with).

3. Drawing a line here is not only a great place, it also lets everyone consolidate resources to fight for a known good state. There's a lot of information to be gleaned from the data, and it's unlikely that everyone can commit fully to understanding the ramifications of letting this information out, much less understand how it will be used, or how it can be used. And much like giving the legislation a pile of money with legislatively imposed spending limitations, they're going to be constantly fighting to tweak and remove those limits. And its so much harder to be constantly vigilant when there's dozens of laws governing what can or cannot be done with the data, before we even presume that we agree with those laws to begin with.

4. As noted above with the NSA, it's not possible to trust custodians of this treasure, they're only human, and they're bound to abuse their power at some point. But we don't just have to worry about people with legitimate access obtaining this data, we also have to worry about hackers grabbing it from poorly secured servers, which seems to be an inevitable computer event, even more so for such massively useful information.
Cisco Pre-sales working from home

[08:15] wake up, shower

[08:30] start working (reading/writing emails)

[09:00] breakfast

[09:15]-[1pm] writing design documents, puting quotes together, puting estimates for man-days for projects

[1pm] lunch

[2pm] - [5pm] Dreaming about launching a startup, then back to work calling sales guy and complaining about their promess to the customer

[5pm] go to the gym

[7pm] play some PS4

[9pm] watch better call saul with the wife

[11pm] reddit/HN/..etc

[12am] time for bed
startcom CA, i've noticed this seems broken more often. Maybe not included in all CA-Cert collections for some operating systems.
It's important to remember that these sources are still only advice/self-help books. The authors may have had limited practical experience, for all we know.
The mask didn't originate with V for Vendetta. It comes from a likeness of Guy Fawkes, whose 5th of November (Gunpowder) plot to blow up the British parliament and impose a Catholic theocracy was thwarted.

To celebrate that failure, Brits light fireworks and burn dummies wearing that mask every 11/5.
"You will never know if the benefits outweigh the risks... "

You're probably right. That's why it was a weighted decision based on the information available.

Your other points do not match the same model we used to make our decision. Flipping someone off or giving the middle finger is a choice that one can make, and later apologize for and move on. Penile cancer or many STDs do not fall into that category.

I'm surprised that this topic is even on HN, and even more so by the presumptive and emotional responses that clearly didn't read the post in its entirety. So, I don't think this is a conversation I will engage in any further.
Not for long: automation gets ever cheaper while compensation goes up.

I envision a fast food store, or even Walmart for that matter, as a large mostly meatless vending machine.
I've always wondered if the productivity metric chosen could adversely affect the code quality. I think this answers that well. The more LOC you have the higher technical debt you will have and thus to have LOC or scrum points as a metric is basically encouraging technical debt.
It is still ostatus. It won't go away. Mastodon is just a pretty GUI for it.
To put a finer point on it: Facebook isn't a common carrier, Comcast is.

I don't think Facebook yet has a monopoly on social networking. There are too many powerful competitors and "social networking" is kind of a broad term, anyway. Does LinkedIn qualify? Twitter? Reddit? Tinder? Anyway: If they do wind up with a monopoly, that's a whole other issue and has little to do with common carrier laws.

My understanding is that the FCC investigates complaints. Someone complained about Colbert. They're investigating. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they haven't taken any actions. And the FCC does have rules which they're allowed to apply to network broadcast television because it fits into a special case. (Cable doesn't have the same sorts of restrictions.)
Interestingly, when I heard about Mastodon it was via Metafilter, where the main thrust of conversation wasn't "finally, we get an unmoderated space"; it was more "finally, we can inhabit/create better-moderated spaces".
The real question here is how many men born to Orthodox Jewish parents, when asked in adulthood whether they would have preferred to have been curcumcized at 8 days old or not, would have regretted it.

And the answer is?

Obviously the same is not true of people losing a finger.
I love how instead of discussing the (important) topic of the OP we are debating whether CS is a science or art or humanities or not.
There are a couple reasons to do it manually and/or outsite GKE, notably:

1) Cost. In VPSs like Digital Ocean/Scaleway, there's usually a large network out transfer quota included in the price, which just isn't there with GCP, where you pay for network usage on a metered basis.

2) Learning. Although you can defer most of the heavy work to GKE, it's still good to understand the moving parts so you can make better choices as you grow.
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I very strongly considered it. Or just walking (3 miles). The two hold ups are that I don't want to turn up to work all sweaty (or wet, or frozen etc) and to a lesser extent carrying all my stuff (purse, wallet, coffee, lunch).

Also going home for lunch is highly convenient and I really like that nap.

I wouldn't have to bike/walk every day of course. I am still considering it (clearly).
I'm not sure putting the internet into the same class of service as a telephone made sense for all the unintended consequences. Everyone is fine until they wind up paying $50/month for their internet and then seeing another $15 in government fees added to their bill. From a pragmatic point of view, I'm sure the government will always have the option to regulate it later on.
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This is in fact not true: an HMAC-based design from 2007, even one that used SHA-1, would remain sound today. HMAC hasn't changed in something like 20 years, and works even with MD5 (we've had since the 90s to make the migration from MD5 and I obviously don't recommend anyone continue using it).

To non-cryptographers, this idea that protocols need to be constantly ready to accept new ciphers in case there's a break in one of the old ones is a very big deal, so much so that every amateur crypto protocol design includes cipher suite negotiation as the centerpiece of the protocol. In reality, it's a minor concern. Which the exception of RC4, pretty much every TLS ciphersuite flaw has been the product of flawed joinery and not problems with underlying ciphers --- which is why the major breaches have forced us to move people not from one ciphersuite to another, but instead from SSL3 to TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1.

For an expert design example, look at Trevor Perrin's Noise framework. An even simpler idea: simply specify a single set of coherent cryptographic constructions, and then version the whole protocol --- if there's a serious break in your protocol, you'll almost certainly have to make changes across the protocol anyways --- and upgrade the whole thing.
I also find that 2 days is a pretty good balance. I'm a very social person so more than that can start me down the path to depression. What I'm arguing for is the _option_ to work from home when I want/need. As far as how we brain storm, my team's developers are mostly introverts. So all this "synergy" that managers believe will happen, never really does. We do mob code from time to time, and I love the interaction. We're quite adept at communicating via Slack/Email/appear.in. Those tools have been sufficient in fostering our brainstorming.
This is a website where people can take tests and then employers can search for people with the skills verified in the tests.
"Good suggestions. Unfortunately, if you do this, the affected jobs will simply be moved overseas"

Jobs like that can be moved largely already have been - we're left with the jobs that can't be moved (like McDonalds fry chef and Walmart checkout assistants). Those companies will eat any pay rises and post lower profits.

This is partly why the fight for 15 has had some measure of success.
I couldn't operate at a high level with that amount of sleep. You must be one of those rare people who don't need 7+ hours of sleep to function.
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> does not mean that you have carte-blanche authority to do whatever crazy stuff your religion asks you to do

And how shall we decide what constitutes "crazy stuff"? In Daniel 6:4-9, it was decided that it was unlawful to make a petition to any god or man except the king. In fact, this was done explicitly to provide an excuse to persecute Daniel.

To help illuminate the issue, what if Hinduism required nose piercing at 8 days, instead of Jews with circumcision? Some in this thread find piercing babies to be wrong, while others find it acceptable. Who gets to decide? And what about the poor Hindu who is now jailed for the practice?

It's ironic to me how easy people find it to run merrily down this slippery slope, and yet complain so readily when their own freedoms are infringed.
VP Eng at a small fitness startup (< 10 people). I also work as a professional musician.

6:45 - wake up, walk dog, make coffee

7:10 - practice double bass technique for 30 minutes

7:45 - run 5 miles to work, stopping for breakfast + coffee

8:45 - arrive at work. check email, slack, etc.

9:15 - code until lunchtime

12ish - eat lunch (usually homemade)

12:30-3 code

3 - sometimes gym, Code until 6ish

6-7, run home 5 miles, walk dog

7-8:30 - practice double bass technique and sometimes drums

8:30 - dinner with wife

9-10:30 either practice more, or talk or watch a show with wife, or work.

10:30 bed

I have a few meetings throughout the week but definitely not a ton.
We wanted to switch long time ago to Let's Encrypt, unfortunately it isn't that simple when you have 10ths of domains and subdomains, distributed among 5-10 servers.
But the people making decisions at any one company can't go beyond that level for their decision-making. While it would be beneficial to the company if consumers in general had more spending power, each company's decisions can only make a negligible influence on that, and would in fact just be providing a tiny subsidy that the rest of the market would likely eat up without returning the favor. Most owners and shareholders and such wouldn't stand for that, and whatever few eccentrics who would, wouldn't reach the critical mass necessary for it to benefit anyone much. I don't know of any way to resolve that short of government intervention or massive employee unionization, which are both rather far-fetched in the current environment, but perhaps will become more plausible as more people get their jobs automated.
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Your work schedule speaks to mine on a spiritual level. I can't imagine working anywhere where strict hours (9-5 or similar) are required.
I remember a Windows tool that used to do this, like 15 years ago. I remember using it and getting quite fascinated.
> Ironically, the whole point of the 'fountain of eternal youth' stories is that people wasted their entire lives looking for it rather than enjoying life / what they were given.

On a meta level, perhaps those stories are an example of 'sour grapes'? :)
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