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> Any colleague can accuse you of anything that happens in private.

Right, exactly. That can be a problem in addition to the larger problem of the actual harassment.

And, the harassment has been such a problem for so long (pretty much forever) that it makes sense to me that a) people are trying different ways of working in order to address it, and b) that those ways have unintended consequences.
I'm bipolar 1. I'm not sure how my wife does it. She's amazeballs.
The key to higher income is combining a useful skill (coding, carpentry, etc) with valuable knowledge and execution (finance, sales, etc).
> learnt i could send SMS messages from payphones

How did you manage this?
What count as "online"? Using the app? Does the web app also track that? I don't think this is disclosed by facebook, it would be nice to experiment to check it.
> What is exactly the "unique device identifier"?

It probably doesn't matter, given how easy it is to correlate/deanonymize substitute keys.

"Hashing is magic crypto pixie dust which takes personally identifiable information and makes it incomprehensible to the marketing department."[1] -Daniel J. Bernstein

[1] https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html...
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Same. Ping, wget, and curl all resolve localhost now so I'm assuming this worked.
“Our ML system has detected wrong think. Did you know you are being racist? Bad serf!”
Malls and (high cash flow) retail spaces will often provide tenants with money for renovations upon lease signing. For a 10 year lease on a proven business, it's not uncommon to have $20,000 - $100,000 build out on the space. This is, of course, priced into the lease.
The cliche about McDonald's is true- Use the restaurant as a mechanism to pay for the real estate it's on. My brother did that with a burrito place and now a bbq place. He learned it from the father of a friend, who had done with with several Dairy Queens. Instead of rent, you're building wealth with your lease payments (to yourself).

Of course, now you have to qualify for the mortgage too, which is hard starting out, but once the machine gets running for you, it's not too bad to expand it to other locations.
I think at least part of this is age and habit. In college my best period of concentration and work was roughly 11-3 or so. I was also ~20 years old and had trouble going to bed before midnight or waking up before 9.

A decade later and after military service the lion's share of my day job work is done between 7 and 10 in the morning, and it's rare that I'm not up, dressed and showered by 6:30am or asleep by 10pm.
What are the worst examples of money driven tags?
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But human life is dynamic. The most productive and innovative contributors start out as drooling infants and up as feeble elders. Society has to support more than high earners and their favorites.
Even if they were "cheating", it's still better than driving a car for their commute.
Given that "electric bikes" is a major section on this website, I wouldn't be surprised if this were a carefully placed advertisement. They even dropped the names of a couple of local [electric] bike shops that donated funding to the study.
“But... but... my delicate fee-fees”
> But, I have 2-factor enabled, I'm safe, right?

Apple really pushes you to do this in iCloud. For the better.
> Sometimes it's comma separated, sometimes it's semicolon separated (depending on the user's locale), sometimes it's separated by tabs

CSV is comma separated. [1]

Valid YAML

foo: bar baz

Invalid YAML

foo: "bar" baz

Valid YAML

foo: "bar baz"

Invalid YAML

foo: "bar baz

Valid YAML

foo: bar baz"

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
Depending on the area, finance has many opportunities for "consultant" like work where a significant portion of your income can be commissions or performance based. This is where the real money is and the people I know that are successful in this make multiples more than me and my "big 4" programming job--even at their relatively small firms.

When I ask them, their passion tends not to be "finance" so much as "helping people" in various forms. Whether that passion is sincere or not is a separate argument.

Personally, that sort of incentive one of the major motivators that's missing from the pure software industry imo. When I worked in derivatives trading as a programmer, I made a good chunk of change finishing projects early, with high quality, etc. At my current position, there's no such obvious incentive. Promotions and solid bonuses could require years of this type of work as a prerequisite and may not even be recognized at all.
Do you have a better pointer to that study about air conditioning? I'd like to read more.
> because ML and software engineers generally do non-overlapping work

not in the mainstream right now. Check back in 10 years.
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Well, their job is to interpret the law and weigh in on it's validity. They have a lot of leeway in that task honestly. Unfortunately, they are not immune from politics.
I saw an older couple riding fat bike ebikes on the Point Reyes seashore, a couple of miles down limantour beach in the wilderness. It would definitely ruin the experience if there were a couple dozen bikers screwing around on the sand dunes there. But it was nice the older couple was able to get to that part of the wilderness, there's no way my mom could ever get to that spot.
So which way is it? Non-workers will be disenfranchised politically, or tyrannously use democracy to assert their power over people who do work?

The fact that even in this article both sides are argued points to the fact that there will be some counteracting forces that will stabilize things for at least a while if basic income is implemented. I think that getting concerned about what will happen 10 steps down the line when things could really go either way is a type of premature optimization.

I believe it's pretty clear that people _with_ money will have that power, but at some point that money will have to make its way into the hands of more citizens in order to avoid societal collapse. Then when political power needs rebalancing, there will still be a massive amount of people fighting for political power if things go too far one way, and people with a massive amount of wealth to counterbalance them.
Show the app switcher is a good idea. It could make sense visually and would have information that the phishing app couldn't get (the surfaces of other apps).
I disagree, it did talk about ways of fixing it. One idea was to have a designated place for mentors and mentees to meet, so that it's normal for people to be seen meeting at that place one-on-one.
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The 90% figure refers to 'gross margins' and really means 'income minus cost of goods sold'.

In software, usually 'gross margins' are meaningless - it's a term used in most other industries and from classical economics wherein most of costs were actually COGS.

"Yes, you can arbitrarily drop that number by having the business pay you a "salary"."

No, it's not 'arbitrary' at all salaries and operating costs are the relevant costs to the business.

Software (and books) are IP businesses - the 'cost to make the book' or to 'run a website' are not useful in terms of understanding the business or profitability.

FYI - for most 'software businesses', net margins (i.e. after 'salaries and operating costs') are negative.
No control group, or even a second group that also rode man-powered bikes? 1 month with 20 participants? Not to mention that people who own electric bikes are already predisposed to a healthy lifestyle. This isn't a very well done study.
Well, I didn't know about the project, and now I do. Looks really promising, too.

EDIT: except, looks like they don't support python 3 yet. That's a dealbreaker, unfortunately. All my code is in python 3.6.
It's not a popular opinion around here, but it's coming whether we like it or not. Better be ready...
Dude, you don't really want to try to do "scorched-earth" annihilation of all mouth bacteria-- or bacteria anywhere else for that matter. First, it won't work, you'll never get rid of all bacteria. Second, that's like taking the surviving bacteria "to the gym", clearing out the normal flora of bacteria, and replacing it with whatever nasties can survive your treatments.

Flossing and brushing (and some tongue scraping) is all that is necessary. Alcohol based mouthwash dehydrates the mouth a bit-- which might precipitate bad breath.
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Not having a formal education doesn't mean not having the knowledge or not the ability to, though? People obviously need to be "of ability". But I've talked to plenty of people with degrees who are dumb as a rock, and others without who are sharp and have many relevant achievements. Of course the same applies in reverse: there are plenty without a degree that aren't worth talking to.

Say you found someone who ticked all the boxes, was absolutely great across the board, yet just said: "I didn't bother finishing the degree, because I didn't feel it would teach me any new skills". Would you pass on that person, and if so, why?

I personally don't see any reasons why I would, but I'm curious to know why others would.
To understand a codebase?
There's little reason to actually impersonate sudo, IMO. Just add a malicious PAM module[1] and log the credentials entered for the real sudo (as well as password-based logon, etc.).

[1] e.g. https://github.com/ONsec-Lab/scripts/tree/master/pam_steal
You can also use the file import wizard in Excel to make similar choices. But that's not the default behavior for files with a .csv extension.
If you are opening up the resulting file in excel, yes. If you are writing your own minimal XLSX parser like geocar say he has, probably not. It's unlikely that your own parser is going to implement the functionality to go send an arbitrary AJAX request.
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> Contrast that to software engineering, where beginning before you have requirements is seen as a requirement of being agile.

Not that I agree with all the agile ideas, but if I remember correctly we had a process already which was supposed to start with "gather all requirements" and then the rest follows. It was called waterfall development and didn't work so great either, mostly due to the 'all' part in requirements being violated all the time in practice.
When I loaded it, I was like wow, this looks like some free energy non-sense. Then it was!

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I accept that dogma can allow wrong thoughts to persist, to drive criticism underground.

I accept that prevailing scientific/expert opinions can also be right.

I accept that the claim of climate change, if true, would have disastrous consequences on a huge number of human lives, and of course business.

I also accept that I'm not seeing people studying this field denying human caused climate change.

I am not seeing countries other that the U.S, where it has become political, denying climate change.

In fact, I see a larger number of nations in the world agree on something than ANYTHING in human history. These countries have their own scientists.

I can certainly entertain that a few countries might make false claims to push other countries to make bad investments. But you're claiming that a global conspiracy on a literally unprecedented scale is happening and that we should ignore a high consequence concept because a relatively small number of people that happen to come from the single country where it is a political issue and to a dizzying degree come from outside the field say everyone else is wrong?

I'm not a climate scientist. I've done a little digging and have my own guess as to what is likely correct, but frankly my opinion of this is low confidence because I'm so ignorant on the topic. When one side says volcanoes are orders of magnitude less greenhouse gas contributers than humanity, and the other side says the reverse, any decision I make is based other than evidence.

Using the same criteria I use to decide what OTHER scientific advice I follow, I conclude that there is a chance that counter positions to climate change are correct...but is more likely that they are wrong.

High chance of occurrence x high consequence if it happens = you need a lot more evidence than I've seen.

If the history books in 500 years talk about how humanity put forth a lot of effort to stop a calamity at a global scale that turned out to be snake oil, that is still a result preferable than about how people followed dogma that lead them to discount repeated evidence and the millions or billions of people suffered for generations. That might sound like a straw man - i could say that failing to rub my head daily would have disastrous consequences - but when paired with the likelihood that someone on the internet saw through this global hoax, it is part of my reasoning.

May I ask your profession and country of residence?
I worked in finance for 6 years before switching to software. I worked almost 80 hours a week as a discretionary equities trader. I realized that it was starting to be eaten by the tech/data-driven styles, So I took up software so that I could get a more competitive edge. Now I work webdev at 50 hours a week. Those 30 hours a week is a lot more significant to me than the pay cut I took by not going back into finance. The great part about it is if I REALLY want to go back into finance, I have both sets of skills. It never hurts to gain skills in areas where you don't have a formal education.
I know a lot of people who feel the same as you. That said, I can't really think until around 2 in the afternoon.
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Creative workers as a group would definitely do something about this if they were concerned so much.

Software developers mostly work noon to 8PM where I live. Go figure.
No idea what those scare quotes are for
Seems like such a strange way to define stupidity to me, and why I wasn't a fan of how the paper defined things. Why does it depend on causing grief to others?

I think the CPU analogy is more apt. Some people have faster processors, some have slower ones, but what actually matters is what you do with it.

I know "smart" people who are living at home with their parents doing nothing with their lives, and I know "stupid" people who own successful businesses. That's my problem with the terms, and why I think it depends way more on what you do with your circumstances, rather than the circumstances you were born into.
Coates is unabashedly biased and not a great source.

Racism and, more importantly, white supremacy is an all-American concept

This is ridiculously narrow conception of slavery and racism. Slavery is neither "American" nor "white" - it's an insidious and evil institution that has been imposed on a wide number of people and races, even during the American/European slave period.

An even larger African slave trade existed in the Middle East and North Africa. Even the word "Slave" is derived from "Slav" - my people - who were enslaved by Spanish Muslims. In fact, slavery still exists and thrives in parts of Sudan and Benin today. Not the mention the massive amounts of slaves that existed in South East Asia or the fact that slavery was an established institution in the Americas much before Europeans came here.

There were more slaves in India than there were in the entire western-hemisphere. China had slavery as recently as 1949 (they didn't outlaw it until 1910) and was recently embroiled in a slave controversy in 2007! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_slave_scandal)

In fact, it's Western-European society that has largely been critical of slavery, as they were the first nations to outlaw it (Denmark and Britain), and have organized against Slavery while many countries around the world were still practicing slavery (see the 1926 Slavery Convention held by the League of Nations)
I think it takes an encounter or two with dangerous people to be reminded of that. My luck with real sociopaths and whack jobs has been poor over the past few years and it’s really put things into perspective. Not everyone abides by the moral or ethical codes we take for granted in society.
As someone with a background in transportation planning, I'm over the moon for increased adoption of electric assist bikes.

One of the best correlates for bicyclist safety is... how many other bikes there are around. The most plausible explanation for this is the habituation of drivers to the presence of bicyclists. If electric assist bikes add to the numbers of bicyclists on the road, then this is a win.

Bicyclists also tend to feel safer and thus ride more when there is dedicated bicycle infrastructure. This is particularly true for certain classes of rider (moms on bikes with kids in tow are considered the indicator species for a healthy transportation system). If electric assist bikes increase rates of bicycling, then it also helps generate the political will to create dedicated infrastructure.

This all leads to a virtuous cycle (no pun intended) of more bikes, more safety, more infrastructure, more bikes, greater mobility, more health.

Living in Seattle, I can very much understand why the hills might be an impediment for bicycling. We have the technology to flatten out the hills via power assist. Shaming power assist users just hurts the overall bicycling ecosystem. By all means, power up the hill under your own steam, but don't begrudge the person who needs a little help or who just doesn't want to arrive sweaty.
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> IMO, the iTunes password should be eliminated entirely.

Whoa whoa whoa - hold on there. Your ‘iTunes password’ protects purchases in the App Store and iTunes media stores, access to the iCloud website, your iCloud email, iMessages, app data such as notes and contacts, third party app data, and freaking backups of your entire device.

What exactly would you suggest Apple do to eliminate that account? You might as well say that google should eliminate their gmail passwords, or that Dropbox should eliminate the account password.
> iOS should just use fingerprint always ...

Some of us don't want to use TouchID so, no, it shouldn't.
I don't think the month is a problem. If you're sedentary and you switch to any kind of regular daily exercise, you will see significant improvements in about a month.

Riding a pedelec 5 miles feels to me about the same as walking 2 miles. It's less exercise than riding a normal bike, but it's far more than sitting on your ass. I'm not at all surprised that someone replacing a 10 mile round-trip commute experienced health improvements. It's the equivalent of walking ~4 miles a day.
Interesting observation. Societies where large numbers of people participate economically in the structure of government have lots of freedoms. Societies in which small numbers of people participate economically in the structure of government have fewer freedoms. UBI, by definition, takes more and more people out of active participation and makes them just consumers of the economic "product" of government.

...And this is the real danger of a universal basic income – it makes the citizens unnecessary to the government....

The conclusion, if I understand the author, is that UBI postulates that a few really rich and successful people need to worry about the money and how to get it to the masses. The masses are there for consumption, to find their true meaning in life, and so on. Not to create economic value for others, which is a critical part of a healthy state.

Beats me. I'm looking forward to more data from the experiments YC and others have going. I'm also looking to narrow down exactly what UBI is. So far it looks far more like a slogan to me than an actual policy. The experiments should help with that.
Instead of basic income, which has the danger of creating a tribal, polarizing division between working and non-working people, economist richard d wolff suggested (since he is an avowed socalist, amusingly, appearing in a Fox Business interview) that instead of basic income, we put everyone to work, while at the same time reducing everyone's hours. Work, but work less (adjust according to demand as needed, adjust compensation as necessary).
I don't think that's common knowledge, although I have unzipped a .xlsx file in the past to inspect the contents. Works on .docx files too.

P.S. Aren't .xlsx files subject to the same problem as the .csv?
They mention magnets in the article. Presumably you get a custom keyboard and mouse?
If you are confused, why not just read the source?
Constraints like time are a forcing function. They aren't necessarily good or bad. You could argue many creations wouldn't have happened had someone not been stuck in a job they created something to liberate themselves from.
On top of that about the sleeping issue that the guy above is having: I grew up out of a town.

The fresh air and the much less polluted environment will allow you to sleep like a baby.

In reality while I was living at the middle of nowhere, I never had any issues sleeping. And i think the too worm/ too cold thing is just an excuse to yourself. There are other things in your mind, like stress etc that won't allow you to sleep well.

When I moved to London, I had quite a lot of trouble sleeping here and there, as I am having more stress etc.

Hopefully everything will be over in less than a month when I am moving back to the middle of nowhere and the new job I got is much less stressful etc.
Aah. I'd say real programmers use debugger when they make sense -- but lots of programmers use them to jump around checking this and that without any reasoning what is going on, and thus taking 5x the time of a simple printf.
I love my ebike. I can get to work relatively quickly with full assist and then pedal on the way home (with some help on the hills) to get my cardio exercise out of the way by the time I get home. I'm no longer stressed out by traffic during the week, either.

I highly recommend it to anyone who lives close enough and can find a safe route.
On a consulting project a few years ago, I was brought in to help a Fortune 500 energy company make sense of the value at risk model that one guy had built over 20 years in VBA. Most of it was pulling from excel spreadsheets brokers would send daily with prices. What. A. Nightmare.

It was hard to decide what I hated most about the project. The mind numbing stupidity of it. That fact that managers had allowed this single point of failure, and then let the guy leave. Or... that it was all a fictitious dance, pursued because spinning off their trading operations, would get them millions in tax subsidies.
Selling for a loss in a retail as a lot of benefits that don't really translate well to restaurants though. One of the biggest I'd think is the 'shelf life' of products. In retail items move in and out throughout the year but an item in stock doesn't really go bad so the main reasons to sell at a loss are just to clear out space for other newer items that might sell better. (Also even fairly deep sales aren't even necessarily actually losses for the business because wholesale prices are much cheaper)

In the restaurant business there's not really a good analogue on a regular menu, a loss leader isn't clearing out any stock because the items are constantly just degrading naturally so you'd be better off just pulling the item if it costs more to make and not constantly making it.

It'd be like if JiT manufacturing was a thing and stores made shirts for a loss in the store from raw materials, it just doesn't make sense unless that item has consistent accessories (your drinks and apps) that sell for much larger margins. It's a dangerous game because you're counting a lot on consistent consumer behavior.
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