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Uh, it's a way to lay off employees.

The rest of us should see this as an opportunity to pick up talent.
I agree that it's not a sufficiently precise term, but I think it's obtuse to suggest it's so ambiguous as to be deceptive or obstructive to discussion.

How's about: an act that is socially valuable has benefits, immediate or otherwise, realized by parties that aren't directly involved in the transaction.

Eg, a blackjack dealer's labor probably only matters to her players and her boss, but a cancer researcher impacts well beyond that. Both can be lucrative, but one is clearly more socially valuable.
Can you mention who the UK testers are? I'm curious.
>In my view, advertising and manipulation (call them "behavioral science" if you want a euphemism) will always imply a power hierarchy.

This is trivially true between any 2 people, but it doesn't satisfy the axioms of partial ordering.

Coworkers of mine may use some of these to get other teams to do some thing. And those teams do the same to my coworkers.

If you're talking to someone, you are manipulating them. This is just a bit further down that scale.
Certainly I think they're a real issue, but I've gone from seeing an article or two a year to 5-10 in the last month. What changed?
Op probably referred to the good kind most Western Europe is enjoying.
How do doctors, parents, anybody think this is a good idea? Hiding things from kids that are guaranteed to become a problem later in life is rather a guarantee that the person will be traumatized when they do find out, and have major trust problems from there on out.
I see the "I don't disagree" bit a lot on here. You mean you agree, then, correct? Then why not just say "I agree!" Is that so hard for you?

I'm not "super trolling" I really want an answer as to why my insurance doubled in the past few years while all I got was a bunch of bs shoved up my ass, which is all I ever get!

"the US is for all intents and purposes the only developed country in the world that fails achieve this"

I disagree with that statement--I don't think you get how bad healthcare is even in Europe. Yes, you can get "free" treatment there, but your taxes run 60%, unemployment is ridiculously high, and the outcomes are no better! Where is the magical answer that socialized medicine provides?

Here's an idea--let's outlaw insurance completely. I look at my monthly budget and between car insurance, homeowner's insurance, health insurance, and two life insurance policies, I'm seeing a pretty good bit of my take home going up in smoke here. It's bullshit--my biggest takeaway in all of this is that insurance is simply bullshit.
> If I, or anyone in my family, gets seriously ill one year, we can sign up for AHCA coverage at year end and they can't refuse us because it doesn't restrict pre-existing conditions.

The continuous care incentive mandates a 30% premiun surcharge if you didn't have continuous coverage, and the AHCA also allows states to obtain waivers, for insurance within their state, of the rule prohibiting medical underwriting (price discrimination based on pre-existing condition.)
> Bjørn is not the worst denier

Do you believe it's possible for intelligent, informed, people of good will to look at a set of facts and come to different policy proposals?

Public policy is informed by science, but it is grounded in values. It seems to me that you call Bjorn Lomborg intellectually dishonest simply because he disagrees with you on policy.
You can launch the VMs from the projet on Linux, or access VMs from any modern browser / system through the SAAS version.
250 software engineers is a massive business with ridiculous scale.

250 cleaning staff is just a company in some city cleaning a bunch of office space with 5% margins.
Almost certainly no. If they have a bug bounty program they will pay out through that, but attacking a company of any sort that does not have an open program is a good way to get prosecuted.
There is also MRAM [0] which ships from a company called Everspin [1][2] and is produced by Globalfoundries. Unlike Intels/Microns solution it seems to be as fast as normal RAM, but at much smaller densities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAM

[1] https://www.everspin.com/ddr3-dram-compatible-mram-spin-torq...

[2] https://www.everspin.com/ddr4-st-mram-products
No mention of any of the state laws that make noncompetes unenforceable (e.g. California, Florida) or place massive restrictions on them (Texas, Colorado, etc). Would be interesting to see how Krugman's "one in five" stat would hold up if state law were taken into account.
oh I read too much in your comment. I thought you meant it isn't a good idea to allow inmates to access advanced knowledge, lest they make - being irreducibly criminal mind - criminal use of it. Well, that's to morning caffeine abstinence syndrome.
I remember my first trip to the Philippines back in 2003. I saw these little children about the age of 5 wandering around at night trying to sell these little flowers. I ended up giving them some food instead of money as any money would be taken from them.

Again on a recent trip this year, I met two young children that were selling shells on an island near the food market. They should have been in school, but they were not. There has been an effort by the government to get all children in larger cities to attend school. The rural areas still have plenty of children who never see a classroom.

I think the US is very far from developing countries. Yes I have seen some extreme poverty in the mountains of West Virginia, but nothing like the Philippines.
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Anbox sure is an interesting project, although it doesn't provide multi-VM testing automation (afaik)
What we need more of is something like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679). Right now, Google, Facebook et al are luring their users deeper and deeper into their ecosystem by promising them a better future, which will never happen, the only thing that is happening are consumers handing over more of their personal data hoping tech will make good on that promise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
We (the US) imprison people indefinitely for not turning over encryption keys and passwords.

We search and copy laptops and phones at borders, with no kind of court order.

We put non-dangerous people in jail for weeks because they can't pay $500 bond, even though it costs us more to have them in jail than to just forgo the bond payment.

It was just on 60 Minutes last night that in Cook County IL, people are being held in prison so long before being convicted, that by the time they are convicted, they've already served their sentence, and often have served way more than their sentence.

I can forgive the Chinese for killing or imprisoning US spies. I'm sure we do the same thing or worse. As far as I'm concerned, the US has lost any moral high ground when it comes to imprisonment.
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Not only is hacking them illegal, but trying to sell them services after that could easily be seen as an attempt at blackmail. It's a profoundly bad idea.
TIL about pup(1) [1], what a fantastic tool to grab some data from an HTML page. Written in Go too, so easy to deploy. That one's going in my toolchest.

[1]: https://github.com/ericchiang/pup
The Dutch tulip bulb market also had great odds in 1635. How did that work out?
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I have to remember that one
> American conservatives love to talk about freedom [but here's why they are hypocrites]

> ... if the Freedom Caucus gets its way, [bad thing]

> ... few expect the Trump administration to [good thing]

> the Trump administration is [bad thing]

Even in an article about non-competes Krugman can't help but slather on the bias. It amazes me that people still take this man seriously and that his books are so widely used in economics classrooms. Krugman has long since abandoned any hint of objectivity, and thus his conclusions should be considered with a heaping scoop of skepticism.
This is far less funny than you make it out to be, and you'd probably be shocked at the state of 'security' in medical devices today.
Macros operate on the AST at compile and run time, without any support from the IDE.
As tempting as it is, you can't immediately ascribe the situation to racism per se, which is why I believe tribalism actually much better fits the data plot.
May I know about your startup?
Answering my own question (and yours), I guess I've seen a number attached to it recently, and the press does love numbers. Thirty million is the number being repeated, so maybe it's a case of copying and an unlikeable president to attach it to.

The articles seem to be split into two flavors of "sympathy for the worker" or "let's associate this with Trump".
Rather than setting up your own straw man, why not respond to some of the arguments made in the article?

> In the developing countries Lewis studied, people try to move from the low-wage sector to the affluent sector by transplanting from rural areas to the city to get a job. Occasionally it works; often it doesn’t. Temin says that today in the U.S., the ticket out is education, which is difficult for two reasons: you have to spend money over a long period of time, and the FTE sector is making those expenditures more and more costly by defunding public schools and making policies that increase student debt burdens.

The article focuses on education is a class divider that is becoming increasingly unobtainable or when obtained, burdened with debt. This is strike against social mobility. Do you buy that?
afaik, `shred` doesn't do anything useful on SSDs. Beneath the OS, there's intentional indeterminacy on sector access, so instructions to write over the same sectors multiple times with garbage aren't guaranteed to actually do that.
Yeh right no offence but face to face debate does not work very well over teleconferences you need to have everyone in the room.

Having a president having to do PMQ's and maintaining the confidence of the house and senate might be a good thing.
Kinda why I added it. I had people trying to convince me about it in 2000-ish. I do think we're getting closer and at some point we'll get an iPhone moment, where a silly idea becomes an obvious win.
64k + gigabytes of system libraries and GPU drivers.
You're arguing semantics.

If the cinemas all die out, because everyone's renting movies at Redbox or Amazon Prime or using Netflix and watching movies at home, are you going to argue with someone who says "Movies have died!"? If you do, then you're being pedantic and annoying, because they're right: the cinemas in that scenario have died. The format of a ~2-hour story in video hasn't died, but the tradition of going to a business, open to the public, to watch it on a large screen in a room full of strangers has.

Same goes here: when someone says "TV is dead", they mean watching ~50-minute video episodes through an antenna, or from a cable TV provider, with commercials interleaved. That format is dying out.
> I guess I'd take some issue with the claim that it has prospered; it's survived, but according to every report I've ever seen, it's never actually made money.

I don't think it was ever meant to make money. Lots of great (for various aspects of great) things exist for non-monetary reasons.
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When I see quotes like "Oh my God this is awesome" my sensors go to red flag mode full-time.

Devs are people like everybody else and can be hyped.

Let's give it time. Not sure what's the big fuss about. Yes I've read about GUI toolkits that reduce the development time. This still doesn't mean much IMO. The business owners will simply become more greedy and will demand more work for less money.

I really don't see how the devs will win.
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What if you beat up a person, lightly, to show them they are weak, and then offer your body building / fighting training, do they hire you? :)
All it takes is giving up a latte a day. Or cable. It's all about choices.
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>In general though, I use a hammer.

.30-06. >:)
I don't think you understand your "really qualified audience" very well if you thought a coordinated marketing campaign with all the other "chosen" launch partners was a good idea.
If you want to try that route, there's an ethical way: look for companies with vulnerability disclosure programs on HackerOne or Bugcrowd.

Being well-written in your interactions with companies on those platforms would go a long way in improving your credibility.
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A monopoly that is losing over $9M a month.
Many people are blind to his bias because they share it. :/
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This is correct. All the other people saying "Just make stuff, just publish, don't worry" are not helping at all.
This sounds so awesome. If I leave programming, it's going to be for something outdoors like this. Thanks for sharing.
Nix and Guix allow unprivileged package operations.

I regularly run "one-off" stuff in a `guix environment` that includes all the required packages for that command, without polluting my user (or system) profile.

For example, I recently wanted to transfer a file over HTTP from one machine to another, and did not have the "python" executable in PATH. So I started it in a `guix environment` and "containerized" it (using user namespaces) just for show:

guix environment --container --network --ad-hoc python -- python3 -m http.server

That starts the HTTP server from the current directory, but the process can not see anything else from the "real" system.
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> how amazing and utterly irreplaceable and amazing Google is

> It's very easy not to use Google services

Both can be true. Which is more true for you depends on how much of the ecosystem you (and your peers) use. For example, the previous startup I worked for used Google services quite extensively. Chat, hangouts, documents, spreadsheets, drive, email, calendar, even YouTube... the cost of moving off would have been quite significant, for very little benefit.

The company before that didn't use Google at all, and instead used IRC, NFS/SMB servers, and private MX servers. They functioned fine, though many of the non-tech users were beginning to grumbling about the benefits of moving to Google (because that was what they were familiar with).

There's a bit of a sunk cost fallacy which always comes up when talking about moving off Google, but that doesn't mean the cost of replacing everything Google provides is anywhere near zero - especially when it comes to convenience.

In a way, Google's offerings have become the new Microsoft Office suite - used not because they're the best at any one thing, but because of all the value provided by everything together, and the familiarity of incoming users with that suite.
> but never "let's manipulate the CEO into being happy with no revenue growth."

That kind of manipulation exists. People lie to their superiors and overlords to evade punishment for mistakes or fiddle their expenses or whatever.

It's just that they generally can't afford to have behavioural scientsts tell them how to manipulate people better, and need to resort to old-fashioned lying instead. I remember a power principle in the Illuminatus trilogy which states that the guys on top in hierarchical power relations never get an accurate picture of the world because their underlings always have incentives to lie to them...
Not exactly. I'm not a user of this, but

http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/group__mdb__env.html#ga492952277c48...

Ctrl+f through the doc for "MDB_FIXEDMAP" for more details.

So there is _some_ support, where you can expect to have the whole file at a fixed address. What is not handled is that your data may be moved within the file, and there's nothing you can do about it, short of keeping a long-lived read only transaction:

http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/todo.html
There's no such thing as a topic that is out of bounds for humor, but you do have to know your audience.
Nice to see the old "oops we didn't bother to check the if the 'subscribed' column was true when we imported the mailing list" trick isn't beneath GitHub either.
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That's great - what about everybody else? The problems he described apply to everyone in the office. Why leave them in that mess?
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Curiously, in my experience it's been senior management (including CEOs) who've fought for open plan offices in the first place. Cost benefits aside, they do wax lyrical about all the reason why open plan is great.
That's industrial analytical chemistry for ya.

20% to 30% of assigned tasks are based on superstition, holding steady for decades now.
Please don't. Issues are for bug reports and are not a support forum. If the repo maintainer asks in the README that usage questions should first be asked on Gitter, Slack, or Stack Overflow, please respect that request!
You can just look at UK and you can see that things can be done better. Or Canada...
He has since moved to a 5-by-8-foot pod in the company’s innovation center. He retreats to it when he needs to focus or switch mental gears between meetings. [...] “It’s not about status or privilege,” he says of the pod, a prototype with still-exposed two-by-fours. “This is a space where you do certain kinds of work.”

Yeah, sure. Ok.
I wonder how common GLSL is for demos, though; as far as I know you have to have the actual source text and send that to the driver at runtime for compilation. In contrast, shaders for DirectX are AOT-compiled, greatly minimising their size. An executable packer might mitigate that for the most part, although it probably depends.

In this particular case they noted that they weren't size-constrained anyway.
> Enemies killed by military reported as missing instead of deceased

Just another day in dystopia.
I don't disagree. It's an option to consider. There are also customer-facing roles that are more technical (systems engineers, solution architects, etc.) and various gradations between those and sales generalists.

With that said, a couple caveats.

1. There are definite personality and skill sets that fit well with sales--or at least the sort of outside sales job one would aspire to. Some of this can probably be learned but it comes more naturally to some people than others.

2. Sales tends to be very performance-oriented. On the one hand, it means it may be easier to land a sales role. On the other hand, you have to make your numbers or you won't be around long.
Have you considered taking some time off, like a sabbatical and going to travel and working some odd jobs?

I did that 3 times total and had plenty of odd jobs.

- fruit picking
- removals
- gardener
- handy man
- dive master

Out of those only dive mastering was something that considered taking further and becoming an instructor. I was half serious about it but in the end just didn't go for it.

If I was you I'd take some time off and think about the next direction. Good luck.
I'd consider also how you can pivot slightly rather than completely. Coming out of my undergrad degree I had absolutely zero interest in writing boiler plate style software suited-up in a large company. Instead I took on jnr research positions in other fields like earth sciences as a research assistant, working with satellite data and high throughput laser scanning. Essentially the computer/robotics guy for people not capable of that but with grand ideas. You can find these sorts of jobs on NewScientist or Nature jobs listings, academics are incredibly accepting of computer literate field swappers. Eventually I realised a PhD was essentially the only way to have freedom in the space of research. So I found the most general explorative course I could, which at the time was a new PhD centre training a large cohort (60+ students over 8 years) in complexity sciences. The experience of being around a load of smart people from various backgrounds all working on interesting problems cannot be under estimated as a morale boost. I now also have a wide network of friends doing cool stuff I can always rely on in a pinch for perhaps finding fun work. The course was super rapid switching between subjects with maths covered the whole time. It gave me exposure to most university departments and the sorts of big problems everyone had. Eventually I came across protein structures and molecular biology which was only something I only had a rough understanding of coming from computer science, self studying the biology behind genetic algorithms. The realities of that field have completely sucked me in forever, like nothing I've really found before. I had a misguided try at doing some robotics before settling on molecular biology. But now post PhD I get to work in companies that are doing really interesting stuff, and on software that's relatively creative and cutting edge to develop compared to what I could have been working on post undergrad. Not all software has to give you that trapped dead end feeling. I've recently switched jobs simply because what I was working on wasnt quite engaging enough and I felt trapped by the higher rents that tend to be common where techy jobs are aplenty. But you really dont have to accept this at all once you have some experience and a network of contacts developed.
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Thanks. People should just stop using WSJ as source now...
Why do CEO's think they're alone in the need for quiet spaces where they can focus? Sure some people can work in the noisy space where interruptions abound. The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU. I'd rather have a Cube farm, but better yet, a small tiny phone booth as an office.
That’s actually a default in the latest nightly. Pretty nice IMO.
I would love to be able to point to several specific examples of rent-seekers using government power to create competitive moats, but I like almost everyone , am not nearly well enough informed.
Lobbying is fine, when it is open, transparent and competitive (there are always stale laws that need to be corrected). The alternative (lobbying is officially prohibited and everything happens behind closed doors) is worse.

Direct democracy (like we have in Switzerland), where most of laws are initiated by the public and voted in (or rejected) on referendums also helps. But it only works with fast enough iterations, where poorly thought laws can be easily repented. However, representative democracy is worse in any way.
Yes. I had a similar realization as GP during the financial crisis. I realized how small a minority of people actually want free markets, themselves included.
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