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> I'm surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium contaminated water into the ocean hasn't made more news.

Oh you mean the dump that had 4 grams of tritium in it?

Not drinking water for sure, but less worrying than it seems at first

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6nenrd/fukushima...
There's a difference between having A Decider and having your decider make all the important decisions.

Yes, there needs to be a captain of the ship, and when she tells you to do something, you fucking do it because that's what captain means and you can kvetch about it when you're back on land.

But if the captain is making all of the important decisions, something has gone terribly wrong and your boat will not function. The captain is there to

1) make small changes necessary to stay on a long term course

2) push decisions through in moments when speed is critical

3) break conflicts that can't be resolved

They are not the chief achitect or the chief strategist or the chief anything really.

And if you are both the captain and the chief strategist, you need to recognize that you're playing two roles in one body and you need to be very aware at all times of when you're wearing the captain hat and when you're not. You don't get to boss people around when you're doing strategy.
If you read Hayek, Mises ("Human Action", very hard to follow) or later Rothbart ("Man, Economy, State"; easier to read), they all derived the same conclusions entirely based on philosophy rather than the "neoclassical economists" who use mathematical models. And all this was researched and known before math creeped so deeply into economics.
Funny how some people stopped searching once you could no longer do it anonymously.
It looks like the state of California is bailing out Tesla
As Above, So Below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrocosm_and_microcosm
Not sure why this is getting downvoted... Seems relevant information to me.
It actually increases the incentive to work harder - http://www.businessinsider.com/why-companies-have-open-salar...
Why only compare it with fossils fuels?
trello/github projects/whatever hip new trello clone came out this month
Not for fish, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1RGwaCUjm0
1. Know what each other are working on? (progress/blockers)

The closest thing I've seen to a nice solution to this is to e-mail a brief report of what you've been up to to the manager at the end of the week, who collates into a summary at the start of the following week. Lightweight, avoids superfluous detail (because the coordinator can edit it out), and not so fine-grained that individuals can't sit on a problem for a day or two while thinking it over if that's their preferred style.

Obviously, this doesn't preclude talking about individual issues during the week! But daily check-ins force this too quickly in my view.
Super happy with the return of 1600 line displays even if they had to go ultrawide to get there.
IMO if the BBC has the most viewers it's "failing", if it has no viewers it's also failing. Talk of "unpopular" content misses the point, clearly content should be popular it just doesn't need to be mainstream or most popular (perhaps "popularist" was meant?).

BBC should provide high quality alternatives - if commercial stations show the football they show something else, if commercial stations are showing singing/dancing BBC should show something else, etc..

If a talk-show host wants a large six-figure sum they should go look in the commercial sector, if they can't get it the BBC should happily give them a reasonable wage (and not through some shell production company either), or give someone else a chance.

I imagine where the conflict arises is that BBC wants popularist shows to sell through BBC World.

For things like F1 BBC should only be stepping in if no commercial station will take it as FTA, the cost/benefit is very slim fit such things if ITV would show it and BBC prop up the price by bidding against them for UK rights.
UPDATE: finally got the valve and it works fine with the controller. The combo uses 8mA when closed, ~80mA while opening (for ~5secs) and ~40mA while open (half is the relay in the controller half is the valve). This makes it outside the range of a simple battery but should work fine if you have a solar setup with a 12V battery or an AC mains and a simple 12V power source. So far I'm happy with the domestic all-in-one I linked so I'll probably not pursue this more. If a simple NiMH pack worked I'd probably trial a full setup. But if I was going further I'd use a DIN 12V programmable relay like this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-DIN-Rail-Time-Relay-Swit...

and a DIN 12V power source like this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/DR-15-12-Hot-sales-China-mai...

all enclosed in an outdoor distribution box like this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-IP66-Waterproo...

That way everything gets properly packaged using DIN elements. If you have a 12V panel/battery you don't need the AC->12V power source of course.
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In that particular line I'm talking more about execution of incentives, then painting options with that brush. Have you ever won a contest or award at work and then they can't seem to deliver it? The check or the tickets never shows up and you have to keep working for something that was already promised you? It sours the whole experience.
Something Trelloesque is the obvious answer, but I'm curious if anyone's tried whiteboard+webcam.
Post-its are hard to beat because they function as a backdrop and everyone walks by a couple of times per day, whether they want to or not.

For remote teams that run on Slack, give http://www.slash-done.com/ a try - a good friend of mine had this built after missing a simple way of having everyone check in once their tasks were completed.
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We should stop referring to 'Nobel prize' winning economists, and instead say 'Sveriges Riksbank Prize,' just to take them down a notch.
Hololens' occlusion is pretty solid.
Expecting a device not otherwise noted to be waterproof to be waterproof is odd, regardless of the price. My TV isn't waterproof and cost way more than $200. Might I suggest not putting drinks so near your keyboard? I've never spilt anything on mine.
Have you tried using IBM watson? https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/visual-recognition...

The API allows you to upload and store a set of images tagged with a given classification under your own collection and later upload new images and the API will try to classify that based on your trained collection. But it's mostly based on object detection I guess, not sure if it works with emotions.. (Haven't played around and am new to AI).

But it's just an API only. If you are looking for a end-end service, let me know. We are trying to build a platform that makes it easy to bridge several APIs together (Like pull images from S3 and apply ML algorithms on it and store it to say dropbox etc)
>Considering the "muslim minorities" went on a wild random stabbing campaign and randomly injected people with some sort of syringes in public places[...]

What percentage of those "muslim minorities" actually took part in those acts? Does that percentage justify treating everyone who qualifies as "muslim minorities" like a criminal?

> The muslims have been on a non stop jihad since its inception and this is just a continuation of it.

That's not remotely true despite what extremists on both sides like to delude themselves into believing.
Well, it definitely takes all sorts, because I use 2 side by side in portrait mode and I'm quite happy with it ;)

You're right about the length of the longer axis, though... I've rarely found it all that useful to have one view fill the entire screen. So I generally either have two 1440x1280 windows/panels/etc. on a screen, or one 1440x~1700 and one 1440x~860. That works pretty well. Many window layout tools will let you quickly set up this sort of arrangement.
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Closed salaries would've helped me in a recent salary negotiation. The company's open salaries in combination with their tiered salary concept contributed to their refusal of a raise in starting base salary. "Everyone knows what a Tier 4 FTE starts at, so if I start you higher then I have to give everyone a raise". No problem if we could just keep my salary a secret.

On the other hand, I don't think it's my employer's business with whom I share my salary, though I could see this secrecy being part of an employment contract.
The incompetence of those responsible at PayPal is startling. This is such a basic exploit, my goodness. At least they acknowledged and fixed it in a timely manner.
> Why keep this stuff secret? Because none of it is fair and we all know it.

Revealing the secrets helps to make the system more fair. Without knowledge of the unfairness, there's much less pressure to increase fairness. Which is of course the point of keeping it secret.

It sounds like you're complaining about the pressure. But the pressure is the point.
There is no publicly-known "preimage" attack against MD5. One would need to craft an offensive file and a non-offensive file themselves so that the hashes would match, then somehow get the offensive file into the official database.
Bingo.. these 4 things are the crux of the Project Management ..

> In my experience, what matters most is good communication.

> Whatever tool you use, what matter most is making sure your team are diligent about updating it, and about responding to updates by others

> If you can get them doing that, then using a spreadsheet or a wall of post-it notes will give you 80% of the benefits of using the most advanced dashboard/kanban/IM tool.

> If you can't get them doing that, then even the most advanced tools won't save you.
Ugh, I bought the 34" a few months ago and replaced it with a 42" 16:9 yesterday. The ultra wide format is really awkward for everything except gaming and media, and those have tons of software issues with the aspect ratio.
Compare that number to the number who died in or were displaced by the tsunami.
I know this makes for good press and beauracy does suck. But bylaws and regulation result in safe and livable cities. If everyone just did as they pleased, it would be chaos. But it is a good reminder to always bring practicality into situations and try to minimize wasted money and time.
While I did a little bit of COBOL and Fortran (on digital minicomputers) in high school, USCD Pascal in grade 12 was the thing that really got me off BASIC on my personal computer (at that time, an Apple ][gs).

IIRC, the line my high school computer science teacher used about USCD Pascal without paying at the time (around 1988) was that it was out of copyright or something, but now that I think of it, I'm not so sure that was a legit reason.
Yeah, it falls into the problem conspiracy theories do. It's incredibly hard to keep a secret when it goes beyond one or two people, especially when what's being hidden is a major controversy or something a lot of people are interested in reading about. If it was a government project, it'd only take one leaker wanting some quick cash from the media to blow the whole thing.
Out of curiosity what font sizes do you use for your editor? I have a 27" 4K monitor around 20" from my face and find it too small without scaling, 1.5-1.75x is around perfect for me (although support for that under Windows and Linux is hit or miss).
way back link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170722175223/http://www.trustn...
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Did she own her own house?
I can't read the article because of this horrible ad that takes over the whole screen: https://imgur.com/gallery/tBeOG
I make that as Capita taking 2.5% gross revenue. Who know how much that costs them to administer over 15 years either.

The licensing website puts it at 5.5%. Either way, 40% is a silly number to throw around.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/wh...
One single thunderbolt 3 connection.

I love thunderbolt, now it's been opened up hopefully it'll be in a lot more chipsets.
360-degree hinges have the screen simply go all the way around the keyboard, from the front to the back. As that means the back of the screen then has the keyboard on it, they tend to disable the keyboard. The Thinkpad X1 Carbon even flattens and locks the keyboard so it doesn't feel weird.
It will be and most software on the other end likely isn't prepared to even read tags at that speed. Fun hack though.
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Yes, Pascal is a fun language to work in. I've always enjoyed working in it, whether in the form of Turbo Pascal, Delphi or Lazarus (did some commercial work in TP and a bit in Delphi, and Lazarus so far, for fun.) Probably many features (or non-features [1]) of the language contribute to it. This is just one point: the use of sets as built into the languages, is nice and reads naturally for expressing some kinds of relationships and tests (foo in bar, where bar is a set) - e.g. char in vowels, etc.

[1] "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/antoinedes103610...
Eh, I disagree. Power spectra are a pretty standard thing to use to compare e.g. different structure formation models in Cosmology and I still stand by the idea that the two are strikingly similar (and how interesting that is).
Incomplete problem statement. Project size plays a big role.

A lot of solutions posted so far (post-its, E-mail, whiteboard) work well for 2 person projects, with discipline scale to 20 person projects, are problematic for 200 person projects, and are totally inappropriate for 2000 person projects.

Specialized tools are recommended when projects scale beyond 10-20 people. Formal process helps. You also need to track risks as another poster pointed out. If your project is a part of a larger whole, you need to track dependencies and their schedules (other teams at your company, vendors/suppliers, 3rd party open source dependencies, etc.)
How is this different from Tree Tabs?
That's unusual.
To the parent's point, this is entirely untrue. The yakuza colluded with the energy companies to round to their debtors and homeless people to clean up contamination.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/ho...

https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSBRE9BT00520131230

The idea that they all escaped unscathed with no impact on their health or some weren't simply "offed" for being uncooperative is laughable on its face.

That there were no deaths associated with Fukushima is only possible if you accept a demonstrably false construction of the energy industry in Japan that ignores its intersection with organized crime and government corruption, which is something that goes back decades.
The premise is that everyone is already being surveilled in ways that Western three-letter agencies can only dream of, and that this Android app only makes this fact more obvious without making a significant contribution to the effectiveness of the surveillance regime as a whole.

It would be analogous to a big red icon on your home screen with Snowden's face on it. You already know everything he told the world about the American government's recent behavior. The icon is just a reminder that the country you live in does unethical things, and in the case of China, a helluva lot more unethical things.

Yes, it will have a chilling effect -- but only because the truth is chilling and this app reminds people of that truth. In America, a lot of what we say on these forums regarding our three-letter agencies is speculation. In China, pervasive surveillance and censorship is a reality, not just speculation. And I'm not sure whether it would be a good thing or a bad thing for the Chinese people to become more aware of this reality in their daily lives. I'm not saying this to pick an argument. I really don't know what to think of it.
It's not kid gloves so much as laziness. A good leader can listen to the problem, and just turn it back on the staff for a solution without wasting their brainpower, but many leaders can't... They hear the criticism and think they need to go into "formulate appropriate response" mode. That leads nowhere because there's no space left in their brain, and even if they come off sympathetic the net result is they're not really listening.

In those cases, as the underling, it's better to offer a suggestion because they can run with that.

Of course, it's easier said than done. Especially if you're busy, you know, doing your job, it can be hard to find the time to sit down and find solutions to what is probably a pernicious problem if it's being elevated to leadership.
So long as the reason why someone is paid more is also public then it's fine.

You're assuming perfectly rational behavior, which is... not human.

I'm not arguing against open salaries (I am in such condition), but assuming rational actors is not realistic.

In particular, an example justification along the lines of "X takes more because is a better programmer than you are" is very dangerous, not only in the obvious way.
I wouldn't be too hasty to blame the employees. A lot of times, bugs are a result of organizational structure. As they say, you ship your org chart. It can happen very easily that a feature relies on collaboration between many teams and more often than not there isn't a single person who has a good understanding of the whole pipeline. Bugs sneak in easily.
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I believe All the Macbook are still 16:10, but iMac switched to 16:9. So even Apple doesn't give a damn about it anymore.

What does it take for 16:10 to come back? Or is Desktop monitor as we know today are forever going to be stuck with 16:9?
Honest question: do you really think they haven't thought of this? You think that none of these engineers and scientists have yet thought of your shielded fiber optics idea? I'm not trying to be mean, I'm really curious.

Radiation shielding is a hard problem. For meaningful reduction of xray and gamma radiation in this environment, we're talking inches of lead cladding [0]. And even that won't ensure a useful lifespan for your fiber, exposed to at least tens of Sv/h along much of its length. And cladding doesn't even begin to address the problem posed by neutron radiation.

The environment in Reactor 2 isn't just hostile to life; it's hostile to organized matter.

http://www.eichrom.com/PDF/gamma-ray-attenuation-white-paper...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hko7c/viabtc_will...

^ Here is some information (mostly in the form of a fragment of a video, but also to a much much lesser extent some comments) on what seems to be earlier versions of this plan, which I found useful for context (though I haven't spent the time to work this all out in my head yet...).
The thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12143199
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That would be like saying cursive Latin alphabet produces constructed glyphs. Dotsies is just an alphabet - no letter or syllable acts as a modifier on any other.
I'm not crazy about the form of the blog post but it does have some content so I posted it.
Didn’t people do this to seem counterculture/edgy? I mean, it looked kind of cool the first time I read about it, but that was only because of the novelty factor. That sixth sense doesn’t really help us, and I’m pretty sure that more animals would have a magnetic sensor if beneficial. Some pigeons have magnetic sensors to determine their orientation to the earth.
But that is not how these models are constructed. They are from empirical data - they just tell you how many objects of a given size exist. The analogy is that the power spectra for the brain and the power spectra for the large scale structure are two different photographs (of actual things!) and look strikingly similar.
I would think the 10MB Sider HD was a bigger deal. A friend of mine used one to run a BBS in Toronto back in the day. Before that, he had a custom setup that had a pair of 8" floppies, which was pretty uncommon for the Apple ][ platform.
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And this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
This is the best 3-minute startup pitch you’ll ever see
Thinkpad P50?
he got in trouble for it. now how useful is it just putting him in jail and wasting tax money vs using his skills to make it impossible for the next guy to commit these crimes?

"Catch me if you can" story rings a bell here.
Not at all. While Masterpassword does not save any passwords but generates it based on some unique parameters live - pass stores passwords and notes encrypted with GPG in a git repository.

The list differences to LastPass is long.

Pass is OpenSource. Pass doesn't store your information on anybody else's computer by default. Pass has not first party browser plugin and is therefore not open to attack through browser plugin holes.

On the other hand you control everything by yourself including batch updating your passwords. And there's no online service.
Very nice example, and you can clearly see how market distorting the wealth tax is. In a post below you wrote it triggers from $175k, but the value of a property is only counted at 25%.

Purchasing property is essentially a tax avoidance mechanism to avoid the wealth tax on cash, and in turn leads to a massive property bubble (probably because the wealth tax cap is relatively low, and it hits a lot of people / families).

Even if you don't really want to invest in property, it makes sense to do so, because otherwise you'd just be paying wealth tax. Add to that that you can probably lever it up easily (e.g. buy something with 20% down) and.. you get a recipe for disaster at some point.
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I see what you mean, except mental illnesses can't be treated like a broken leg can be.

Mental health is a difficult subject.

Imagine the problem it can be to treat homosexual as equals in the political scene, it will be another story to have consideration for the mentally ill.

The more we become a society of people with knowledge rather than social norms and morals, the more we will be able to progress.

I also really believe that group therapy should be the future of therapy...

Maybe you should have a conversation with a psychologist or a therapist and talk about those things. A possibility is also that patients need to be told that nothing is their fault. It can take a lot of time to defuse the person's belief that a he/she is not "defective". There is no shame in going to therapy, it's all about talking, because that the most concrete thing you can do with a brain.
I don't see how that would allow you to do both

import list "container/list" {Value: int}
import list "container/list" {Value: string}

in a single source file. At the least, you would need the ability to give the type(s) that those import statements import distinctive names.

Even that would, IMO, not be enough, as this seems (from what I infer the semantics to be) to make it impossible for writers of such a generic library to build on another generic library.

That can be fixed by allowing such a programmer to write:

package foo {MyValue: interface{}}
...
import list "container/list" {Value: MyValue}

but that, IMO, would be way too cumbersome. That package declaration would have to mention all types in all generic packages that get imported.
It isn't unreasonable at all to think that keyboards will continue to be one of, if not the most, efficient ways to use a computer.
But in this case, they lead to a less safe situation. I'm all for regulations and bylaws that actually make cities safer and more liveable, but here the city put extra effort into making the city less safe because the safety wasn't done according to their regulations. And it sounds like they're still not doing it the way it should be done.

That is of course assuming that this is a place where people walk, but it sounds like it is, and people did apparently get hurt in the stairless situation.