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Does walmart pay overtime pay in every state? I doubt it. We can throw a lot of stones at Wal-Mart because the truth is their business model is hurting this economy. But who is to blame? Capitalism is. When you can come into a market and sell at lower than market prices and drive more people to shop at your outlet because they can spend more there. That's just normal

You cannot blame a consumer for wanting cheap products; they are just trying to make the most of what they have. But you should blame a consumer who buys meat 1-2$ less than market

But we also eat too much red meat in america; that's another topic though.
Lets not forget that man-made smaller earth quakes shake loose bigger earthquakes - basically a chain reaction.

I sometimes wonder if it would not be wiser to milk fault lines this way, basically preventing the buildup of lethal stresses..
I've seen these around Europe. Also, a larger version where the filter is under the counter.

America != The west.
That's not a fair description of HN's audience. The community is divided on divisive issues, just like any sufficiently large population sample would be. It only seems to be stacked against your view because provocative comments stand out more. We can point to countless generalizations about HN's audience that characterize it just the opposite way, and for the same reason.

Edit: as one illustrative example, the top two comments on this submission are currently both by women substantively critiquing the article, one of whom happens to be using a breast pump these days (and has amazingly detailed things to say about it, very much in the spirit of this site). Surprising? Not really. HN is just more diverse than many people say it is.

(I imagine users flagged your comment because it failed to be civil and substantive as the site guidelines ask.)
For context on "far-left" - it's nothing like the far left in the US. France has an extremely well-developed set of leftists. It's the only country I ever visited where people had deep discussions about the difference between Trotskyism and Leninism when debating actual political events.

The US far left would maybe, possibly, pass as moderate left in France. Obama would be considered... center right? OK, centrist.

These ideas will not easily translate into a US political context :)

For those curious, his movement, FI, proposes also a rewriting of the constitution, Frexit, withdrawal from TTIP, sustainability as law. It's... interesting. It's a very uniquely French party.
How do these folks do the math? Do they understand general relativity? Or do they just pull the equations from somewhere?
Fully agree.

Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1227/
Consultant <> Contractors <> Freelancers..

Consultants are there to provide advice, guidance, strategy, and oversee/implement.

Contractors are there to be implement something that's already laid out for them.

Freelancers have a tiny portion of the work to do with little to no say.

Often, freelancers are upset that their customers don't want them to be a consultant and care about their opinions.

There appear to be 2 key failures of the vendor:

1) There's a big difference between being a consultant, contractor, or a freelancer. IBM is there to provide expertise to have a successful project.

2) Disfunction and inefficiency is profitable. It's good such behaviour is coming to light, because future up and companies will eat IBM's lunch in time.
I'm not in the oil industry. But I imagine this is a great improvement for un-anchored / thrusters positioned platforms.
Would there be a point to a national ID outside taxation? Is that the only reason a State would need to have identifiers for its citizens? Credit can be managed without centralized identities so what is the nessecity of a State ID?
Because the science is questionable, in the case of GMOs. There really are highly unknowable dangers inherent in GMOs and generally in non-organic food production. For instance, they MIGHT be inherently dangerous on both a health and economic level because:

1. Inducing rapid genetic change (i.e. making GMOs) could alter the nutritional profile of foods in ways that are difficult to test.
2. Similarly, it could reduce the ability of the plants to fight diseases.
3. Combined with 2., producing crops with less and less biodiversity could very conceivably lead to massive crop death due to disease. This is very much a "black swan" scenario and just because it hasn't happened (much) already, doesn't mean it won't. In fact, you need only to look at bananas to see this in action.
4. The benefits of GMOs often require externalities to realise i.e. fertalisers, pesticides, mechanised agriculture.
5. Largely related to 4., the true (mid to long term) economic benefits of GMOs are hard to quantify. In my opinion, this comes down to the production process fundamentally requiring a bunch of energy and oil-derived products to work. These costs are massively subsidised and are largely hidden and unknown.

There are some articles that address these issues. I've read some of them. All the articles I've read, like many scientific articles (outside the likes of maths/physics/chemistry etc.), were unconvincing because they had insufficient data and failed to account for obvious confounding factors in any way. It is also entirely obvious at this point that scientific articles are frequently produced with data that has been heavily manipulated or even fabricated.

I use the term "scientific" here to refer to the style and place of publication, rather than any abstract principle of quality.
Mapping the boundaries of a property is usually desired to much higher precision than 5 meters!
Please don't take HN into ideological flamewar. It never improves things, and is always the same.

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Don't you mean... M-code? (meaning "military" code)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Military_.28M-code...

Though I'm honestly surprised I've "known" of GPS for this long and never realized there were a variety of codes. Legacy--some still operating, modern, military, and more. I'm going to enjoy binge reading this wiki/math stuff tomorrow.
I second that - flying across Europe almost every week I can recommend that economy class is decent and comfortable in all LH Group airlines (Austrian, Eurowings, Brussels Airlines etc); if you're regularly getting up at 6am to travel to a business meeting in another country, having someone bring coffee and a sandwich to your seat actually makes it slightly more bearable. Even some of the budget carriers (Vueling, EasyJet, Norwegian) can be bearable over short distances but avoid Ryanair unless you're absolutely desperate to save every last penny and personally I find BA to be almost as bad these days for short haul.
Note: I have checked "How It Works" section on site, I just want to know that Is it just another web crawler powered by AI or something else.
Thanks
I buy a bottle every few months, but I've found its's really quite easy to refill the bottle once it's empty.
It also has the potential to greatly increase the accuracy of the instant pace, which is a lot more volatile than the total distance
>I understand that convenience has value, and I wouldn't personally even care about this if we had a working, efficient recycling infrastructure. As we don't, I do care.

It's practically impossible to recycle plastics economically. The best we can manage at the moment is down-cycling them into low-grade, low-value plastic products. There's an argument to be made for standardised and washable glass bottles with a deposit scheme, although that's unlikely to be popular. If we're stuck with disposable containers, Tetra-pak cartons are probably better over the whole lifecycle, although the calculations are extremely complex and we don't fully understand the environmental cost of a plastic bottle.
All of

http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/gell-mann-amnesia-effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

represent criticisms of the seriousness or competence of journalism, in various cases going back somewhere between decades and centuries. We should probably not think that there was ever a golden age in which all journalism was sober, cautious, and informed. But it also seems like the pressures facing journalism that Maciej points to are quite real.

How can we get a better historical perspective on how well different kinds of journalism have worked over time? (I guess a similar problem confronts anyone who wants to criticize -- or try to redeem -- institutions that seem to be in decline.)
With you on this one -- I've got all of his major works in first editions -- Seveneves is the only one I actively disliked. It's probably the only one I'll never read again. Beyond being intensely depressing (near future enough that everyone you know and love dies on the page... horribly), the plot felt about as strongly held together as an average episode of network television, and the characters managed to be both boring and unlikable.
In a world where copying music is essentially free (not 0.99$ as you say), you are free to sell copies for whatever amount. Good luck with that. Perhaps by adding side value it'll work.

Video games are a good example of something that works: the marginal cost, and actual copy-proof value of many games are updates and content. See World of Warcraft. Pay to play.

At least you are paying for something that actually costs money (again: a download is essentially free to the seller).
I'm not familiar with the system but centralizing critical data is strictly less ideal than decentralizing it. If your key seed or the central server are compromised everything is compromised.

Revoking keys is great but doesn't help after they've given full access.
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Yes I would.
>>> For wages to grow, people have to be paid more than they're worth as an economic unit. That's what unions are about.

Did it come to your mind that wages might be also seen as a way to share the value added by a company between the company itself and the workers ?
> Seat belts were also avoided for a long time but eventually people have realized they're a good idea.

I take it, then, you were not around in the 80s :) People did not "realize" seatbelts are a good idea. We made people wear seatbelts, using quite draconian laws and relentless PR.

> Who said we won't? [... wrap security habits into a handy device]

You'll have to explain to me how that jives with your idea of decentralizing data and access control. A key/security device will need to be manufactured - and there are only a few commercial entitites that can and/or will do that. And if you think they won't centralize key management, I admire your optimism.
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There are probably assumptions/invariants built into how rustc generates LLVM IR that you will have to guarantee are met if borrowck is disabled.

Do you really want that?
It's unfortunate that asymmetric cryptography wasn't around when the SSN system was built.
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"Art will not vanish, but it will change the arts, probably in a major way. But what it will be like is up for discussion."

I believe that current situation favors indie artists as anybody can form a band, record an album in their basement, upload it to Basecamp, Youtube etc. and if they are really good, expect a success. That's how an open system should work imho. In an old system, you would have to pass that middleman (and agree to pay huge part of money made from your music) before somebody even hears you. The difference is that it is hard/impossible to strike super-rich now as a musician, "success" often means taking donations for song/albums downloads and getting paid for live concerts to make a living. That makes musicians much like any other profession, and that's how it should be; we had super-rich musicians only because there were bubble in music industry in the past century (other comments have written more detailed on this topic). If all pop-stars would disappears overnight, I wouldn't mind either as there's probably enough indie music to discover than I have enough time in my whole life.
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If you directly access the "Find My" service in iCloud.com even if you have 2FA enabled and you even deny the access from another device where you are signed in, it just asks you to change you password but the session remain active...
> The biggest case almost completely unhandled by PostgreSQL is if you need a clustered index like in MySQL.

Heh. It's funny how "the biggest thing" is different for a lot of users. I can't count the number of times I heard "if you only had XXX, I'd migrate / be happy / ..." for vastly different features. If you then tell them what other people think the most critical bit is they look at you with some surprise.

That's not to say these people, including you, are wrong, just that it's not always that clear what the highest priority items are.

It doesn't get easier, although it has a lot of advantages too, if there's no coherent direction for the entire project, due to all the different directions various companies and people want to go.

WRT clustered tables: I personally think it's a good feature, but there's other more pressing concerns. Since my employer thinks that as well, I'm for now working on other things...
The iTunes store shows ads, and they can be demographically and geographically targeted.

I don't know if they're ads or not but there's also location based app suggestions too.

disclaimer: i'm a googler so glass house throwing stones etc, and of course the scale is way different
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Again, if people were really interested in this then protectionist economic policy would be a major topic in every election.

It's worth noting that Barak Obama, in the primaries, campaigned on a platform of renegotiating NAFTA to not fuck over American workers so hard. Then, after the primaries, that topic vanished and once elected he tried to pass TPP which would've been just as bad for American workers as NAFTA. Then of course Trump campaigned on the same issue, but he's Trump and there's not really anything more to say about that.
So to recap, a Swedish telco bribed officials in Uzbekistan and the settlement goes to US and Dutch authorities, because the money was wired through New York bank(s)?

Granted, $1B is not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things, but shouldn't the money go to the Uzbeki people, who were the ones getting 'screwed'?
> That means wages haven’t kept pace with gains in productivity, as economics says they should,

This is a misreading of economics. Total cost to hire for a job should match the productivity of that job.

Long ago when I worked for Boeing, the benefits package cost the company an additional 40% over one's pay. Add into that the cost of the so-called "employer's contribution" to social security, etc. I recently read that the benefits package these days can approach 100% of the salary. This likely reflects increasing health care costs, increased maternity leave, and all sorts of new benefits mandated by law, and the cost of the HR department needed to monitor compliance with the ever-changing employment laws.

Economically, these all ultimately come out of the workers' paychecks, one way or another. There isn't any free lunch (and if the company does offer a free lunch, it's accounted for as part of your compensation package and ultimately is reflected in a lower paycheck).
The need for the borrow checker is driven by Rust's chosen resource management model. It sounds like what you really want is an optional mode with garbage collection, in which case I recommend you check out F#.
That's hardly true. People criticise soft drinks all the time.

In any case, the difference between a cake with arsenic and a cake without arsenic is going to be significantly less than 1%, but I'm going to make my decision based on that less-than-one-percent.
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It's pretty much raw GPS if you're in walking or biking mode. Driving mode uses sophisticated filtering algorithms, and doesn't actually make any assumptions about your speed, though it does assume you're on a road.
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And that disaster situation is going to happen regardless of what language they happen to be working in.
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Firstly, thanks for the discussion. I enjoy it.

I was not around in the 80s, but I know that campaigns to support seat belts and the potential outcomes of not doing so had eventually gotten people to be much more careful.

Regarding devices, things like the Ledger or Trezor Bitcoin wallets could easily be adapted to allow users to control their own data securely and simply. There's no reason end users need to understand what's going on in the background. They just know you have a secure usb device you use to authenticate yourself.
Interesting. Yet another "Mac" time tracker and todo management app. Do all these apps make some ramen income (at least)? An article on this would've been more useful ;)
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No, I'm talking about the P code or precise code. It's modulated with the encrypted W code to create the encrypted Y code.
Some of the dumber but more popular solutions here are just older ones. And please refrain from starting unsubstantiated flamewars. What's next, editors: emacs over vi ? Colors: black over white ?
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You can likely find info online. In San Francisco we get information in the mail once a year. Probably because they want to brag about how good it is :)
Samuel Gompers also said: "The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit."
> Do people really believe that individuals such as Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Brian Kernighan are just trying to propagate Blub, the language, so that all devs are lowest common denominator morons?

It was Pike himself that stated that as a goal for Go at one of the early Goconfs, because new Googlers aren't skilled enough to pick up C++, Java or Python.

If you wish I can track it down for you.
Do you plan to write more about the migration, like a blog post? That would be very interesting to read.
It'd be way more expensive, they might as well just fuzz with WebKitGTK+ since it produces the results they desire; then validate the crashes on Safari.
Would anyone pay a monthly fee for some dev to maintain some chrome/ff/safari ext that simply cleans up booking.com?
Why do you think nothing would change on the supply side? There are plenty of low income workers that would quit their jobs, driving their wages up - thereby either driving up the cost of goods or reducing supply. Unless of course the goods are shipped from nonUBI countries
I'm pretty sure they pay overtime where required, yes? Many of their employees are only part-time and many of them are disabled in some capacity.

There is some legitimacy to the complaints of so many employees getting fewer than 31 (?) hours. They keep many employees below a certain hour threshold to avoid certain obligations that they'd have for full-time employees. Well, I guess I can't say that is why they do it, but that is the result.

But, yeah, they hire people who have work restrictions and people who are otherwise impoverished, such as single mothers or people who can only work a limited number of hours so that they can maintain their disability status. This has obvious effects on the numbers people cite when the reality is that Walmart is exceeding their legal responsibilities.

Don't get me wrong, I pretty much boycott Walmart and haven't set foot in one for many years. I dislike them and their business practices. I just figure we should work with accurate complaints.

I'd love to see them behave better but they already exceed their legal obligations. I am not aware of there being any means for them to bypass overtime regulations and I have no reason to expect they don't pay the appropriate amounts fain compensation.

They are predatory capitalists that damage small towns and are a blight on the environment as well as horrible to their suppliers. I've ample reasons to dislike them, but their employee compensation isn't one of those reasons - yet.
I'm pretty sure this is it. They have a drill that is essentially an anchor and the rest of the platform is essentially a floating quadcopter maintaining position.
I am actually thinking of having an online directory of specific website cleanup extensions which power users of said websites should be more than happy to pay for :)
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Significance in the job market has never correlated well with how excited people get about things.

Hacker News is about stuff we're interested in, which is not necessarily stuff we get employed to do.
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A small correction, G&A is everything which cannot be directly tied to per unit of sale. So if they have say employee(s) who work on installing and maintaining an active directory software - used by everyone in the company, those salaries will also be part of G&A.
My ideal system is: clone a repo, run `go restore` to fetch dependencies and then `go build` to spit out a binary or `go run` to quickly start the main function.

Nothing from outside the repo can effect that build. Likewise anything inside the repo can’t effect the outside.

Compartmentalizing each project makes builds more reproducible and more obvious. If anyone else clones the same repo and runs the same commands, they should get the same result.
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Contemporary journalism indeed doesn't have a monopoly on terribleness, as you've mentioned. But this is actually the point. Because if I'm really going after the heart of this criticism, it really doesn't matter if I understand the selection function over all stories in the newsroom as an actual algorithm meant to maximize clicks or as some hazy set or rules of thumb and prejudices meant to maximize advertisement revenue. The point is that neither maximizes either the informativeness of a story nor the likelihood of it being true.

Also, I don't actually "remember" the Spanish-American war. I understand what you mean, but this is an awkward way to put it.
Don't they? I tried to transfer an old account and got a hard No from them.
In seismic acquisition (when you acquire "pictures" of the subsurface, much before the drilling part) you need accurate positioning of your sources & sensors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_seismology