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Weird question, but why do you still do it if you feel they are second-class citizens? What's the general local attitude towards domestic helpers.

I've been to HK and I was personally shocked at my local acquaintance's attitude towards them (negative). At a philosophical level, this is a form of slavery/racism/caste system. At a pragmatic level, nobody in HK wants to do their work, people in the Philippines need the income, and most situations are mutually beneficial. So why not?
This worked really well in London, imo. Lots of really good transport infrastructure + city tolls make for a relatively nice driving experience.
Have you ever seen a car on a flatbed tow truck?
Yes it does. From google:

Vindication: "proof that someone or something is right, reasonable, or justified."

A whistleblower is not a whistleblower unless they reveal wrongdoing.

Edit:
For example: Snowden is by definition a whistleblower because the information he leaked revealed illegal and unconstitutional activity. The courts already ruled it illegal. So he is by definition already a whistleblower/vindicated of wrongdoing. Perhaps the OP intended (and rightfully so) some statement about public opinion/perception of the value of whistleblowers.

By contrast: someone who leaks information containing no wrongdoing or nothing illegal is not a whistleblower. In other words: perhaps in such cases some extenuating circumstances may mitigate or vindicate the offender of wrongdoing. Whistleblowers, however, are not in such situations.
Your claim is fine, except that it has no real relevance to the argument. It could be true in a kingdom or a fascist dictatorship. It's meaningless without something to compare it to.

You need to distinguish between "point in time" data such as your claim, and data collected over time or with comparisons.

Saying 'things are great!' is relatively meaningless to understanding the health of a democracy.
Maybe such quotes have an appeal with aspiring PMs who think it's a good idea to pay a small fortune to the Shake'N Bake school of product management.
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Alum here. Minnesota != Michigan. Boo.

Anecdotally, UMN has one of the best agriculture research programs in the world, and it's entirely based around figuring out how to grow really anything when first frost is early September (Minnesota).
Why trust this framework when it can't even get a simple iOS navigation bar right. At one point you need to at least write a "bridge" in Swift or Java because RN did not cover even over 50% of the SDK.
Along these lines, there was just an interesting latimes article a couple days ago about a subway tunnel currently being bored in downtown LA which provides some insight into the current process: http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-metro-tunneling/
But what to do with all the dirt?
Yeah this is all very odd and everyone is lapping it up. He claims to want to reduce tunneling costs by a factor of 10, but starts by quoting a very high benchmark of $1 billion per mile which is quite easy to beat. Then he reduces diameters to something much smaller than all the expensive mega projects, into the range of something where technology is well established and costs are already 1/10th of his quoted $1 billion per mile. But then for some reason the solution has to involve putting cars into these tunnels. If what he thinks he is on to is viable with cars in those tunnels, it's even more viable with trains carrying 1,000 passengers each coming every 3 minutes. So why aren't we building these subways with trains?

The largest part of the problem to solve here for the US is not the technology of tunneling. It's the process of engineering and building infrastructure like this that seems to become way more expensive in the US compared to places like Spain. I do believe he could reduce costs by vertically integrating the whole thing. But then we should ask why don't we do that anyway?
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Google for 'women control majority spending'. I'm not being snide- it is important to see how widely covered this is. You will find dozens of legitimate articles and papers discussing it. It isn't a controversial fact at all.
As you know, whistleblowers are punished everywhere, even in the U.S. "60 percent said they were fired after exposing organizational corruption." This is actually lower than the figure in the u.s. Where the rate was 70 - 80 % according to a Virginia tech research.

If I may rephrase your question to "Should your car buying decision take into factor the fact that SKorea does not have as strong whistle blower protection as the U.S.?"

Car market in the U.S. is so competitive, and consumer protection so strong, that personally it wouldn't influence my car buying decision in the U.S.

If I were buying a Hyundai in Korea, then yes, it would be a factor, though how much, it's hard to say. I don't believe Hyundai would consistently misbehave like this. It's entirely possible that had the fix been cheaper for this engine recall, Hyundai may not have dragged their feet.

As to your question on Japan, I'm not really qualified to speak about whistleblower protection legal frameworks about either country. Both countries have it, but they are relatively recent concept, where there still is strong sense of company loyalty, hierarchical chain of command, saving face, and slim chance of re-employment in the same industry after whistleblowing event. It probably still needs to time to mature.

Either way, if I were buying Korean or Japanese goods in the U.S., all I would care about is product quality and performance. They are both nations of people that take strong pride (some may say too much) in their outputs, and care too much about how their countries are perceived on oversea stage that to have meaningful impact on their product quality.
For most prominent, I'm going to nominate the "slapper" worm: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Conte...

For the most interesting, look for "cheese" worm: https://www.cnet.com/news/cheese-worm-a-linux-fixer-upper/

There are a largish number of worms that have affected Linux machines, it's not clear how much traction any of them got. The "slapper" worm had a slightly different offset for the writeable memory for each distro's version of Apache (1.3.x at the time). Even when distros had the same version of Apache source, they all compiled it differently, so the exploit had to be customized. This illustrates one way for a population of vulnerable computers to resist infection: have a fractured software version base.
Well that sure got ugly in a hurry.
First of all, public street parking, even in front of houses, is not "property."

Second, if urban planning is done properly, residential streets don't experience parking problems. That's the whole point of this thread.

And if urban planning is not done well, then it doesn't matter where businesses move--they'll still run into problems.

Oh, and if they all leave, then the neighbors will have a nice blighted block with empty buildings next door. Problem solved?

Parking meters do not magically create more parking spots. They create an incentive to use an alternative, but first there needs to be a good alternative.
> This is something I've never understood about including time as just another dimension.

There's actually a trilogy by Greg Egan based on the premise that time is just like a spacial dimension (i.e., where the Minkowski metric is instead xx+yy+zz+tt). It radically changes physics and chemistry, and the books are set in this different universe.

http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html
I think I did some back of the envelope math at one point, that a 50 basis point tax on all physical assets in the US could replace all taxation at the federal, state, and local level.
Graphcool is a really nice service.

I've had similar questions as you. When it comes to enterprise and data.. that's really the most valuable piece.

If organizations you work with are invested in PostgreSQL I'm working on a GraphQL solution similar to Graphcool with the exception that the storage layer is a plain managed PostgreSQL cluster.

https://postgra.ph
Figured I'd offer the legal perspective on this question:

For #1, how close to the "real word" is it? And how related is your app to the other one using the real word? Are you opening yourself up to a lawsuit from the company that offers the other app?

For #2, why are there a decent number of apps that use that name in the description? Is it because the word (with the "e") is descriptive of what the app does? Is it descriptive of what your app does? If so, you'll have difficulty protecting your brand name.

For #3, is what your app does related in any way to the generic product? Again, I'd be concerned about your ability to protect the name. Changing the first letter to another that sounds the same will do almost nothing from that point of view.

I know you're really looking for more marketing-related feedback. But figured this could be helpful as well :)
None, as that year range is less than 20 years.
Would you mind linking that article? It seems interesting but I can't find it!
You do value some citizenships more than others though, right? Or would you trade yours for any other? If not, I don't think it makes you a "nationalist", but neither would opposition to free movement from places you don't want to live at into where you do.

It does not follow from not valuing some people more than others that free movement would benefit any of these people; IMO part of a "moral" position involves trying to guess the likely consequences of things in the real world. An argument that people from different cultures don't get along very well, particularly when there's a large and sudden change in the numbers of one of the groups, is not antithetical to your position of valuing people equally; the only point of disagreement is wrt likely outcomes.
We still haven't figured out how to parallelize most software without unreasonable effort though. Servers happen to be the happy case for it beacuse they can just run many copies of the same single threaded code that we haven't figured out how to parallelize.
The idea of someone using a computer with no monitor seems to bizarre.

I know blind people wouldn't need one, but somehow the lack of it brings up the wow factor.
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Or how about trains underground...
Darn those socialist Wall Street bankers and their well functioning New York subway!
America suffers from one more blight: too much parking. Large chunks of LA have mandatory parking no-one needs. This spreads the city out further whilst not actually providing parking where it's needed.
The late came out too late to have an effect on the outcome of the election. And Macron's campaign handled the leak very professionally which led to little media fallout.
> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

Quoted from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - I think this is pretty clearly a case where it is preferred to not use the original title.
I feel like those of us from the Northeast or from Washington actually are apple snobs. It's just so easy to be one if you've ever actually lived close-enough to orchards that big picked bags and baskets became your main apple supply for the whole early fall.
Cheap public transit is an actual solution.

Parking meters are just one way to get people to use it, and not a very good one: by the time people find out there are meters (when trying to park), it's too late to take the transit!

The money it cost to install meters would have been better spent on a marketing campaign to raise awareness of the transit option, or subsidizing the transit prices.
#1 There's nothing wrong with TODO comments. Often you don't want implement feature B in full so that you can focus on feature A. Of course you've told your customers that you'll do both features, so you push feature B back to a future release. No problem in using TODO there - at least you have comments as to what's actually going on and what may need to be fleshed out in the future.
I would argue that the question you raise boils down whether or not the fundamental laws are deterministic or non-deterministic. If they're deterministic, the future and past are as fixed as the present, and therefore are equally as "real". If non-deterministic, then there is truly something unique about "now".

If/how non-determinism can be rectified with relativity without invoking uncountably infinite realities, which is ontologically hard to swallow, is unclear.
The ONLY solution to this is to impose a "social" tax on any corporation that wish to sell in the developed markets like USA UK Australia Europe or even China. Governments of all the major countries should cooperate to impose this social tax on corporations and this tax should fund the Basic Income for every resident of that country. Corporations need to pay human beings and as things become more automated this is going to be the only way.
thats not fair. you are comparing sae gross 1970 to sae net 1976.
sae gross is naked engine on a stand without any accessories.

in the same wiki link you can find this for 1971.

365 brake horsepower (272 kW), or 235 horsepower (175 kW) in the new SAE net ratings
Thanks for responding, however I'm still confused. That is--I have no formal training in physics, but to my hobbyist's mind: interactions between subatomic particles creating scenarios where energy is produced in perpetuity either sounds like (1) the equivalent to a perpetual motion machine--impossible, or (2) mass-energy exchanged back and forth without radiating energy (but I am not sure if that's basically what's happening).
I wish SoFi existed when I was still paying off my student loans. I was sending about $1200 a month towards my $40k student loan debt at a rate of 6% to 7%. SoFi seems to refinance for much lower than that. How much money I could have saved if they existed. I paid off my student loans in about 3 years.. but I was also working 2 jobs. Never reported the second job... IRS hit me with a nice tax bill at the end of that. So it was like paid off student loans.. and then I went on to have to pay off the IRS.

Welcome to the real world after college.
> On average and adjusting for inflation, retirees are entering their 80s richer than they were in their 60s and 70s.

This is a misleading interpretation of data. On average, yes, but at the median, no. The median retiree's net worth is less than $100k at 60 and continues to decline with age.

https://unitedincome.com/documents/papers/LivingTooFrugal.pd...
If NYC didn't have a third dimension for transportation (subway and trains), no amount of busses and bikes would fix the soul-destroying traffic. The listed alternatives are all nice, but none of them allow you to move at 125+ mph. We should be able to get to our destination faster, not just with a bit less soul-destruction. Remote work is of course not for every or even most professions, and I don't see why it would reduce the density of cities. Cities are still highly desired to live in outside of work
That's far from an instantaneous process. Would hold up traffic quite a while. And there are no people riding inside, and the speeds are far less than 125+ mph, so mishaps aren't nearly as risky.
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

Jordan Peterson talks about how one of the most important things you can do to become a well-formed person in terms of moral reasoning is to realize that you're a Nazi. You're a concentration camp guard. You'd do it, by choice. It takes a lot of discussion and examples and thought to get to the point where this is really understood, but it's true and it's important.

I'd say the main thing that convinced me is that I realized that there are people I'd like to see suffer. Not because it'd lead to some external outcome, but just because I want them to suffer. You can see this every day in politics too. People who want to hurt just for the joy of hurting. You can hear it in their voices when they knock people down at a protest and hurl dehumanizing snarl terms at them.

And this is present on every 'side'. The only possible difference is in how much each side embraces this impulse.

Once this is understood - that people aren't divided into good and evil groups, but rather that every person is both good and evil - a lot of questions and problems look quite different from the common "good people vs evil people" frame. A lot of policies and historical judgments start to look pretty dumb.

And, in fact, the idea that some people are evil is a foundation of evil acts. The false belief that someone is pure evil is what gives you the excuse to feel good about making them suffer.

It's ironic that wrong beliefs about the shape of evil in the world are themselves a foundation for evil.
why is one superior to the other in your opinion? If it solves the problem, it solves the problem
I mean, it's also art. I would want it in my city just for that pissing-contest factor of 'hey, look at this cool shit we've got'. We deserve to make our cities beautiful and to build monuments to be proud of.
I am going to leave Barbour aside here, because I don't fully understand what his stance is. But if Maudlin is simply arguing that there is a fundamental time asymmetry in physics, then he his hardly arguing about the reality of time.

But I understood him as disagreeing, not just with Barbour, but with a whole lot of physicists (including me) who are "B-theorists" which is a horrible term that means you consider the whole history of the universe as the fundamental reality and see change as a thing observed by beings within it.

But that doesn't mean I think physics, or the history of the universe are time symmetric. My own view is there is some fundamental (but not very well understood) time asymmetry in physics. Yet I am still a B-theorist.

But the alternative called "A-theory" (which I think Maudlin believes) is that time, and change are more fundamental than physics, so the fundamental reality is "the state of the universe _now_" and the laws of physics tell us how it has changed and will change.

A-theory is also perfectly cogent, but it is separate from time symmetry. The only link being: IF physics is time symmetric (which it isn't) THEN B-theory implies there is no fundamental difference between time directions, while A-theory still allows it.
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It's a great deal. Way more cheaper than some fly-by-night coding "academy" which charge 35K$ for 4 months. Also they offer a real degree, from a good US university accepted as a valid qualification by governments & corporations world-wide.

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Thanks to the 'heartbleed' mess I was passed several collections of design documents (for then-current and then-future production) from an european carmaker after some less than scrupulous colleagues got into their vpn.

Specification: Engine design lifetime = 2000 running hours.

CAD and FEA are great, but the above spec ruins it. You get parts made of light alloys and plastic, made of the minimum amount of material possible. They happen to be mostly fine when everything is perfect but any unintended load or crack in the plastic due to aging results in a catastrophe.
Fair enough. It's still a very depressing chart.
Independent of the tunnel, a network of sleds able to move vehicles at one sled per vehicle... is going to be ludicrously expensive and the maintenance costs will be huge. Current roads don't need sleds, sled tracks, elevators, switching and management, safety gear etc, and that's even before we get to the usual tunnel needs of ventilation, pumps, and lighting.

It seems a bit odd to be proposing very high maintenance infrastructure at a time when the US is famously facing a huge problem in not being able to afford maintenance for its existing infrastructure.
This approval was given by the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, not exactly the government official most beholden to the opinions or preferences of spy agencies.
It does have repository hosting, called Diffusion in Phabricator parlance.[1] You can also "observe" remote repositories.

I haven't looked into CI with Phabricator, and this could be a killer for a move away from GitLab if it's not available.

[1] https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/diff...
As others have mentioned, it actually is quite common. Part of the reason is that the going rate for hiring any sort of unskilled labor is much lower in Southeast Asia and South Asia, compared to North America. (Another way to say this is that income inequality is greater.) So if you're "middle class" in South/Southeast Asia, you're more likely to be able to afford a domestic helper than if you're "middle class" here (where you could only afford to hire your own domestic help, say a babysitter or a nanny or a maid or a food delivery guy, for only a small portion of your time) simply because of the wage differences.
yes, imagine that, subterranean.. rail.. ways.... a type of 'sub-way'. possibly even a private one.
>Great, so they can just pay the rent with emotional reward then.

Keeping with gender roles... should we pay men to mow their own lawn? Of course not, people cut the lawn themselves to save money when compared to hiring a lawn service. Every dollar a family doesn't spend on lawn service or daycare is a dollar that can be spent on food or shelter. We do put an economic value on the domestic work that women do and every family I've ever known has seen it exactly that way.

>Clearly these occupations have a larger percentage than average of female workers, they're associated with women, and probably not coincidentally, they also have low pay and low prestige.

I feel like you just have a complete lack of understanding of how market value for skills and labor is determined. Picking crops is a field of work that has a larger percentage than average of male workers, it's associated with men, and probably not coincidentally, it also has low pay and low prestige. See how silly that sounds? The only thing that matters is whether or not women are intentionally being kept out of fields they're qualified for. Find specific instances of sexism, let's go get them! If salaries of teachers are too low it's only because there are too many qualified people in the market willing to perform that labor.

>I don't know why it's the "enlightened" move to stick your fingers in your ears and pretend that's not the case.

The fact of the matter is that sexism has a real economic cost. If it's true that women are underpaid then hiring men comes at a premium. If it's true that women are being undervalued in the market then certainly there's at least ONE business owner who can hire up all these women and take over any given market because they can keep all that extra profit, right?

Look, I'm not saying there's no such thing as sexism. I'm not even saying that there aren't likely many cases of sexism in employment. But we know rather scientifically that after a relatively low income level more money doesn't increase your happiness. Maybe women are wiser than men and choose career paths which afford them a better work life balance so they can spend their time doing other things that matter to them. Maybe being a top tier lawyer where a client can call you a 3am on Christmas morning and expect you to work for the next 12 hours because they have $100 million on the line is a shit way to live, and maybe we shouldn't be all that concerned that women tend to choose a different path in life.