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The contracts that pilots unions have negotiated with their airlines are pretty fucked up. Newbies (after several years of education, and a few more years of doing flight instruction to get enough hours) are basically stuck working as a first officer (i.e. copilot) for either UPS/FedEx or a regional airline, with salaries around $30,000/year. Your career progression depends on being promoted to captain, which is entirely based on seniority. If you're lucky enough to have enough spots open up via retirement or expansion, you then have a hope of being accepted by a major/legacy airline, and make $50-70k/year, scaling up to 150-300k, depending on the airline. Once you join, due to the seniority-based payscale/captain waitlist, you're pretty much locked in, except for maybe a one time upgrade from a major airline to a legacy one.

Example payscales:

Envoy Air, a regional airline that's a feeder for American Airlines: http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/regional/envoy_a...

JetBlue, a major airline: http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/major-national-l...

American Airlines, a legacy airline: http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/legacy/american_...
A better metric I like to use: how many extra years of work before retiring will this large expense cost me? (Admittedly: this does not work the same for housing for lots of obvious reasons).

An example: a friend of mine is renovating the exterior of his house for $100,000. He plans to live there until he dies (it's a lovely house), so he'll never see that money again. He'll just have a nicer house. My alternative option for him: retire 4 years early instead.

If you invest $1 now, you can expect it to double in about 14 years, give or take. So since he has more than 14 years left until retirement, that $100,000 would be $200,000. If he plans to live off $50,000/year, then he's giving up 4 years of retirement for the sake of his house looking nicer. If he plans on living off $30,000, then it's nearly 7 years early retirement.

It's not exact math, but it's a good metric to put things in perspective.
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First, JSON is not just used for config, and I've yet to find the an API to parse YAML in the browser natively.

Secondly, JSON is here and you have to deal with it everyday, so smoothing the work wouldn't hurt.

Finally, if you have to pick a format, take TOML. Less error prone than YAML, faster, and injecting executable code and shooting your in the foot is not part of the standard. The fact that a lot of ini files are valid toml is a nice bonus.
It is my understanding that in German civil suits it's customary for the loser to pay the cost of the law suit, including lawyer's fees (which are usually coupled to the monetary value of the lawsuit, so frivolously racking up the fees is difficult).
I won't even get started. I see no reason why a modern language would use it in preference to "not" (like Python).
How much is this due to people really needing these prescriptions, and then aren't informed or helped quit, and how much is this due to plain overprescription?

It should be pretty easy to compare with any comparable country to see what the difference in opioid prescription is.
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but "All I know is a hammer and it won't let me work this screw!"
Look at figure 2. There is a 'measurable' increase in hurricane activity that gets very severe in recent years. The problem is that the time series is very noisy because records were patchy going back to 1880. Therefore statistical tests cannot robustly distinguish signal from noise (if any).

The authors do cite a paper that analysed more recent records (from 1950 onwards) [1]. This paper (see figure 1a) demonstrates a very strong statistical correlation between sea surface temperature and hurricane activity. This supports a causal link between climate change and hurricane activity.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1029/2007GC001844...
I like to keep things modular, if you're looking for API development Falcon is a lightweight DIY solution (https://falconframework.org/).
It sounds dumb, but this was actually one of the things that turned me off Erlang despite my interest.
no, we downvote things that state an opinion as fact without even an attempt at explaining why, especially when done in a tone that is aggressive and disrespectful.
My understanding is there are likely to be fewer hurricanes, but more powerful (and with more rain).

Irma may be a preview of what to expect more of.
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It's a mater of scale. This number of magnitude can only mean 2 things:

- a lot of those people do not need to take those products. Then we have an substance abuse problem.

- a lot of those people DO need to take them. Then we have a public health problem.

In both cases, ouch.
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Isn't it an addiction problem?
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This is very common with those kind of experiments, nobody cares and nobody uses it.

If Berkshire County wanted BerkShares to be used they have a very 'easy' solution available: they should accept BerkShares and only BerkShares for the payment of taxes and others liabilities with the county.

Then, as the only BerkShares issuer, they would be able to mobilize any resource that they needed in the county.

Of course, that it's not without its problems, because in order to acquire resource from outside the county they would need 'foreign money'.
At a cursory read, this is similar to Demand-Revealing Referenda / Revealed Preferences, I think? http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli... https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/half-baked-ideas-deman...

I love that there are so many better ways to vote, and I hate that we still use FPTP.
It's not an opinion however. JSON is a standard. Kinda worries me professionals use it without having a clue.
> Is the AMP really a open project or is that just the HTML Framework and the goal is to lock people into Google's AMP Cache?

It's Google. Whenever you ask that question and fail to find proof about openness, it should be fairly safe to assume that it's a lock-in.
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Shouldn't be difficult to build a tool to randomly obfuscate writing you want to conceal. Swapping words/sentences with semantic equivalents should be a rather trivial exercise. If the tool allows the human to revise and tune it, it's even easier.
I like OCaml's terse syntax. You can write something like that as just "foo x (-y)" (the brackets are only needed because of the use of minus but can usually be omitted).
This title is whack. Here's the quote from the article:

"...In earlier research presented at the Boston Fed in 2016, Krueger found that nearly half of prime age men who are not in the labor force take pain medication on a daily basis, and that two-thirds of those men—or about 2 million—take prescription pain medication on a daily basis..."

I take a baby aspirin every morning, so I would qualify as somebody taking pain medication daily.

I believe the opiod problem in the U.S. is an extremely serious thing, therefore we need to be very careful about what kinds of information we stick in our heads regarding it.

There's a ton of correlation here, things like "Over the last 15 years, LFP fell more in counties where more opioids were prescribed"

Well, okay. If more people are being injured and are in pain, they would get medication, right? And therefore there would be less people in the workforce. Because people are on pain meds doesn't mean that's keeping them from work. It might mean that things that keep you from work significantly involve pain.

I have no intention of trashing the article. It's worth reading. I would simply advise caution in jumping to conclusions.

My opinion is that mankind is finally creating the perfect world (relatively speaking compared to all of history): plenty of food and shelter. The internet and gaming means you'll never be bored. Throw in a little pharmacological assistance for any pain, boredom, ennui, depression, or loneliness you're feeling, and what more could you want?

But that's rampant speculation, which I readily admit. I worry about articles that encourage reader speculation without explicitly calling it out.
An important point of clarity: according to the article, 2/3rds of those men taking opiods (and not in the labor force) are taking prescription pain medicine.

That seems consistent, since severe pain generally prevents or limits work.
It's unfortunate that Alphabet declined to present their data, that way we'd likely be able to correct for things like location and seniority along with having solid deviation rates.
So that's why I haven't understood what all this rage is about.

I'll keep sticking to Firefox and get the real web, then.
I don't know how they do their farming in practice, but I'm pretty confident that it involves more land use and lower yields.

They may also adapt their diet to whatever is the most edible among the weeds. This year a grape vine mysteriously sprouted in my garden and started taking over before I realized what it was and murdered it to save the zucchinis. A Jain would probably be happy enough with the grapes. I had even considered adopting it.
I'm convinced the most effective way to rally engineers under a common cause and a unified vision is not with individual tech specs, fuzzy PRDs and sprints of work, but with an RFC. Writing an RFC demonstrates that you have thought enough about a problem to devise a working solution that is not rash but also admittedly not perfect (unless it is). RFCs are so much more than technical prose. They're context and history and rationale and concensus all at once.

Unfortunately, many engineers and managers scoff at the idea of writing an RFC because of the traditionally poor UX instead preferring collaboration tools and diagrams. As a coworker once put it, "diagrams are weak sauce". Collaboration software is convenient for comments and visibility, but it fails to carry the same weight as an RFC and tends to produce more ephemeral artifacts. The best thing about writing an RFC is learning how people (mis)interpret your writing. If you want to win an engineer's heart, speak their language.
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Cancer or not, I really should stop drinking.
Would not surprise me if it was a Matrox card of some kind, i think they offered multi-monitor cards for desktops quite early.
"The funny money here is stilled pegged to the US dollar, so the Fed can still exercise monetary control over it."

It doesn't matter if it is pegged or not to the US dollar. Nothing is going to out-compete the US dollar in USA territory while the federal government taxes have to be pay in dollars. The federal government can create demand for dollars by the simple act of taxing.
> I tried once but adding g! every time I want to search Google

But you don't want to search Google. That's why you switched to another search engine, right?

For me DDG works out nicely without any need for !g 19 times out of 20, at least.
I think he wanted it to be something different than js, hence the focus on strictly data exchange.

Why not use js for config instead of json? It's your app and your config so if you want it to look like json + comments + trailing comma you can. With so many options for config files like yaml, xml, heck even sqlite it does seem a bit silly how much json is used. Herd mentality.
Oh definitely, implicit returns are awesome. I just commented on the fact that a semicolon supresses them.
Bash has horrific syntax but a huge amount of coding time is wasted because of unbalanced brackets/braces and forgotten end of line statements that result in unhelpful and confusing error messages so I like things that reduce this. Bash also has the quirk where variable assignments are of the form "var=1" but their usage is "$var" which always trips me up. I just like syntax that is easy to get right first time and is copy/paste friendly.
I never read any of his books, but I read, avidly, his Chaos Manor column on BYTE every month and back in time at the library.

On every frontier we need writers that can translate the wonder to others who don't experience it first hand. IT is no different: he went to live into the near future and always came back with great stories.
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The second one. I read this as the author making fun of people who act like not having trailing commas is a situation so dire we may have to eat children.
> Majority rule based on one-person-one-vote notoriously results in tyranny of the majority–a large number of people who care only a little about an outcome prevail over a minority that cares passionately, resulting in a reduction of aggregate welfare.

Calling the majority tyrannous and assuming fringe interests to be naturally benevolent reeks of an agenda.
Motorola (Canopy) used to make a bunch of 900 MHz (ISM) radios that were popular with WISPs. They weren't technically Wi-Fi but a proprietary protocol.

I can't recall if Ubiquiti ever had any 900 MHz radios or not but they have plenty in the 2.4/5 GHz (unlicensed) bands as well as the 3.65 GHz (licensed) bands that would probably serve your needs for cheap. Unfortunately, the 900 MHz band is getting quite crowded these days, leading to lots of interference and reduced "throughput".

Mimosa is another (younger) company making similar gear that's relatively cheap with good bang for the buck.

A place I do some work for has several 15-20 mile links (6/11 GHz) pushing ~500 Mbps although those are much more expensive.
You can also gain such passion and drive, by not going to school.
So is RSS and that's an actual standard.

But how many non-HTML formats should a browser really need to support?

And why should we accept that big companies can shove non-standards down our throats on public internet?
The US prescribes far more opioids than any other country.

http://www.painpolicy.wisc.edu/opioid-consumption-data

Here we see the comparison with the AMRO zone (the Americas) which shows the US and Canada prescribe a lot more opioids than any other country in the Americas.

And here we compare AMRO to EURO: http://imgur.com/a/bb4wD

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/15/ameri...

> And what it finds about the United States is jaw-dropping: Even when the list is restricted to the top 25 heaviest consuming countries, the United States outpaces them all in opioid use.

> For example, Americans are prescribed about six times as many opioids per capita as are citizens of Portugal and France, even though those countries offer far easier access to health care. The largest disparity noted in the U.N. report concerns hydrocodone: Americans consume more than 99 percent of the world’s supply of this opioid.
>> This is the absolute worst kind of unscientific nonsense. You have no argument against the paper whatsoever. You are just rejecting it because you don't like the conclusion.

I have no argument against the multitude of homeopathy papers published each month, either. Because I haven't read them. And I haven't read them because the premise is flawed. If I devoted any amount of time picking apart every two-bit charlatan's paper to formulate an "argument" I wouldn't have time to do anything else.

On the rest of your comment: there is ongoing debate regarding whether sexual orientation (or, indeed, any other behavioural trait) is determined by this or that factor, including biology.

Additionally, like I say elsewhere, a paper never "proves" anything, unless it's a paper on a formal proof for some theorem. Machine learning results in particular neither can, nor do, prove anything.

>> No this is how science works.

I appreciate that you want to fight the good fight and strike a blow for science, but you should know that no self-respecting scientist ever accepts a claim in a paper (or anywhere, really) at face value. Even formal proofs must be checked and verified before they are accepted.
I accept that this is a superior voting system to one-person-one-vote. However, for it to succeed, it should not merely be superior, it should also appear superior. The trust the voters put into the system is paramount. And for that to be true, the vast majority of the voters have to understand exactly how it works. Unfortunately, and, yes, I'm a cynic, I don't believe we are close to having a voter base that is capable of understanding, and hence accepting an outcome of such a voting system.

Disclaimer: I'm not a US citizen.
To be fair, this is only a problem if you use Google search.

Nobody is forcing that on you but yourself.
YAML can go off and die in a fire... especially because it cannot transfer the data type, which JSON can: you have either an integer, a float or a string. Also some libraries want the values escaped, some not, some barf on non-alphanumeric keys... JSON is pretty much standardized across the board.
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The article looks at the cost to buy which is
high in places like SF but not total cost of ownership including change in value over the time of ownership. I bought a place in London and the initial cost was >10 wages but then it's gone up by 1 or 2 wages per year so the TCO is negative - it pays me to own it. It can be a mistake not to take that stuff in to account.
Yes, and "Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men from Labor Force" would be a much more accurate title for this item.

> The increase in opioid prescriptions from 1999 to 2015 could account for about 20 percent of the observed decline in men’s labor force participation (LFP) during that same period.
Tiny tiny RSS allows you to do that... Although without subscriber count.
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Just finished a thought provoking book on my flight this afternoon titled Man's Search for Meaning which may shed light on potential underlying causes of this crisis. Interesting that decades ago psychologists observed broad differences in the psychological "health" of men living in the US versus Europe for example that potentially left them more susceptible to physiologically degenerative ailments like depression, suicide and drug addiction. I think that one of the defining challenges of our life time will be to figure out a way to broadly replace in society the sense of purpose and meaning one derives from religion and spirituality in an increasingly secularized world.
It's definitely weird, but it allows for neat stuff e.g. in Emacs' erlang-mode when you type a semicolon it automatically creates a new clause (function or case) for you.
Having tried on a couple occasions to get attention from Amazon Studios, seeing an Executive basically kicking the rudder out of frustration is pretty typical.
Rebuilding a teletype properly is going to probably take you more than one weekend.
The reason why something did or didn't make it into a standard are definitely opinions. All sneak had to do was to provide a link to the "damned good reason."
I also thought that it was ironic. He does mention a valid flaw in the one-to-one voting system. I wonder if quadratic voting, in practice, encourages extremism. It also offers more choices, so more time spent thinking, and less easy to make a choice. Perhaps it discourages voting for those who care just a little.
They were using what everybody else uses. But not everybody else has financial data on so many people behind this framework. If you're dealing with this kind of data there are some additional requirements. I've worked at a few banks and they all provide a lot of extra security on top of those frameworks. So no they're not just victims in this.

I read that top management sold a lot of stock prior to the news coming out about the breach. I hope they get sued for prior knowledge or whatever that is called.
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How does it work?

If there is say - Aerith and Bob running for president, say there are Charlie and Drako that want to buy two votes each for Aerith.

Do they each pay 4 or do they pay 16?
Over 250,000 leaf's have been sold which is still a drop in the bucket but a meaningful one as there are a lot of cars on the road. Further, the poster has solar power and pays "amortized cost is approximately $0.13Kwh" making a gas powered car a far worse option.
In the Japan I walk into my local school/community hall(on rare occasion, the church was used, no more than a 5-10 min walk away), present the voting announcement paper the govt send it to my physical address, and use a pencil to write a name of a candidates on a piece of paper I was exchanged it with my voting announcement paper.

In the Japanese writing system, candidate's name can be written in multiple ways. If writing doesn't match one of the exact registered candidates names, the human vote counter decides if it refer to the unambiguous candidate. If such candidate exists, it is counted to the voting for that candidate.

> There are multiple local party volunteers ...

Same.
We're not demonising people who use the meds, we're demonising the system that irresponsibly markets and prescribes those meds, which fails to properly treat long term pain, and removes people from the workforce and society, and creates addicts.
How is this a superior voting system? It just seems to be a way for those with more money to have more influence in the voting process. We've got enough problems with money in politics as it is, we don't need any more of them.
I don't understand that logic? The NSA's mission is not to find exploits, it's just a means to an end. If they released the problems they find, there is literally no business case to justify the NSA spending money on finding exploits to then have them closed.

Arguments like that would make more sense to suggest that a new agency is setup to find and fix faults in software. You're keeping the agency's mission focused.

Problem with an agency like that is that in effect it's government support for software companies. Microsoft, Google, Apple could cut back on security processes because they know the tax payer is picking up the tab.

Government shouldn't be in the market, they should hold the market to account for bad actors. We should make having security breaches a painful cost. The market would adjust to meet the macro economic environment.
You mean the lost world of FriendFeed/Google Buzz/PubSubHub.

It seemed like a great idea, but the social features really didn't work. People dumped their RSS feeds, but the decentralized nature meant that attempts at flowing comments between sites ended up losing context.
I don't take Tensorflow seriously anymore... PyTorch is the way to go (gotta try caffe2 at some point).
Substance abuse isn't inherently immoral or ungodlike or whatever. In some cases it can cause harm. Causing harm is a problem at individual and societal levels. Public policy should aim to reduce harm, but our drug policies almost all aim to inflict multiple forms of devastating harm to scare or crush addicts into sobriety. Worse, it doesn't even solve the faux "problem" of substance abuse.
That JSON has a "good reason" for disallowing comments is an opinion, it could be a popular, well-known and established opinion or it could be completely uninformed. To know the difference one must explain it.

Also standards change, and professionals use their tools in ways the original creators did not imagine a lot, that doesn't make them clueless. Heck, even JSON is a result of professionals misusing a programming language syntax for a serialization protocol.
How abou a database that uses behavioral pattern detection or behavior profiles to make data exfiltration through connected applications harder?
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