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> American merchant men are consummate professionals who uphold the best standards of seamanship

The facts presented in the report do not support your statement. The facts in the report are shameful: crew joking during training procedures, incomplete safety drills, the Master of the ship falling asleep on several occassions, misterpretations of critical weather data. And TOTE maritime, the ship's operating company, failed on many levels outlined in the report. Our American methods for inspecting ships, as outlined in the report, are broken.

Your perspective is anecdotal.

I am sure there are a lot of great men and women working in the Jones Act trade but the system is FAR from perfect.

> Keeping a semblance of an American merchant marine in place is still important, if for no other reason because the military often needs to rely on commercial shipping.

The military already leases foreign allies ships because there is not enough trained personel and Jones Act vessels to satisfy the Navy's needs. Why don't we require the same for other modes of transportation? Airplanes, trains, trucks - the fact that we only protect ship building and construction is a historic phenomenom.

> And Americans have the right to demand that the government protect nation's middle class and working class from being crushed by hyperglobalization

Or to keep the nation's middle and working class being crushed from expensive and corrupt protectionism?

This statement could be seen through a different lens - there are many people who are paying and subsidizing the costs of a protected merchant marine. Benefits are concentrated (~60,000 workers) but the costs are very high and diffuse.
I don't understand the haughty attitude with which many companies treat potential candidates. And there are some truly terrible ones out there. Its worked well for me since I wouldn't want to work in a place that treats potential future employees that way. But in most big orgs, HR and hiring is somewhat divorced from the actual day to day so I keep that in mind as well.
pretty cool concept. I'd like to see a game made with this
Working for Intel didn't stop Intel getting a conviction against Randal Schwartz (which was eventually quashed, but he ended up being " felon" for over 10 years...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz
To my shallow understanding of tracing compilers, eval is not a problem at all since they compile repeating traces (superblocks), not particular function sets nor modules. What you can run you can compile. Iirc, python has too many logic inside vm, so compiling opcodes makes the result no less than ‘efficiently’ calling python internal API, which cannot be optimized since it is written out of vm; compiler has no clue what it does and how to apply transformations on it. To my understanding again, from what I read on topic, if you write a dead simple vm and all higher logic goes to language libraries, i.e. is expressed in the same opcode set, then the runtime will be more explainable to the jit (since all magic will be in trace, explicitly) and optimizations may reduce such stdlibs to series of native instructions not calling any API at all.

This is the case with Lua, where the language has very small and strict opcode set, and probably javascript, which is slightly heavier, but still doesn’t involve too much magic. It is also dummier to my opinion (constant lexical scoping, no green threads, no function environments), so there is a balance between magic, simplicity and money thrown at.
You are oversimplifying the situation. Two sufficiently sophisticated parties having more or less balanced bargaining power, as was the case in this situation, should be free to contract according to their will and good/bad judgment.

Of course, if you are a retail consumer who had no bargaining power and agreed to a standard form contract without any legal counsel then different rules should apply to you and in such cases courts will apply the test of unconscionability before enforcing any clause.
That just means that a private mining company built the road to access a mining claim. Once the claim is abandoned, no one has the obligation to maintain it.

If you used it to access your land, you could start maintaining it.
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You can walk slow and not be in peoples way. Walk to the side not the middle of the damn footpath for instance. If there's two (or more) of you walk single file OR pay attention and move to single file when someone wants to walk faster. Have some awareness and not stop suddenly when someone is right behind you. Just have some awareness in general.
Sounds like a Gladwell story, probably not true -

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130709-asia...
I hate the necessity of having a politically charged conversation on hacker news -- sadly that is where we are.
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And yet, I know a half dozen people doing just that right now. :/
If you were a surgeon looking to hire another surgeon for your surgery team, I bet you would want to observe her performing a surgery.

If you were looking for a drummer for a band, you would want to hear him play.
> The real lesson here is that they should have pirated the SAS software instead of licensing it.

That's a perverse but probably accurate reading of the situation.

It reminds me of patent advice I've received: never look at a competitor's patents, or even speculate about them. Damages in a patent lawsuit go way up if the infringement was willful, which is automatically assumed if you know about the patent.
I currently play with a group on roll20. It's not perfect, but it's adequate. (We pair it with a discord server for voice and secondary/out-of-character chat and logistics.)
Also, keep in mind that some people can't share side projects or even work on them because their employers lay claim to all code they create, even on their free time.
Yeah - foreign ships are not the issue.

Only about a third of the trade comes from foreign ships. Most of the inbound cargo to PR comes directly from U.S. (and mostly U.S. products) thus requiring Jones Act ships. PR is also net exporter (about 50% value add to imported goods) and its largest market is the U.S. (again thus requiring Jones Act ships). So foreign imports/exports are NOT the crux of the issue here.
I don't know for sure, but i do know rad hardened electronics are a lot more expensive. Older gear with bigger gates, slower clocks, all that stuff is more tolerant of a stray cosmic ray. which you'll get all the time in space. in a microsatellite, not much room for shielding. so i'd bet they just have to be really stingy.
It kind of sounded as if they didn't like being movers once they got to know the business.
Your competition should read the EULA and if they were purchasing it with the intent of reverse engineering it then they should abort that purchase.
Hang on, 6-15 are not only not legally mandated, but also very rare, right? And my understanding is that 2-4 are smaller in the US than other first-world countries.

So we're left with FICA and healthcare. Healthcare being bizarrely expensive.
Is there any part of the entertainment industry that isn't like this?

It seems that trying to be a writer, actor, game maker or a musician is incredible amounts of hard work and a small number of people do well and everyone else does badly.
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This! And similarly, software developers should keep abreast of latest technical advances.

What makes software engineering different from surgery is that when a surgeon learns something new, he does not have a live patient at his home to practice the new thing he has learnt, but as software engineers, most of the times we can immediately fire up an editor and write a PoC or a toy project to practice the new thing we have learnt.

Its strange that such natural and obvious curiosity and desire to try something out outside of work deserves the kind of criticism that it is receiving in the original article and some of the comments here.
I don't think those extra privileges would be a very strong enticement - it would be too clear how fragile my freedoms are when no one else is experiencing them, and from what I've seen, academics tend to prize freedom.

That said, I'm sure the draw of the idea of living in their native culture is strong.
Isnt that a problem of people believing the press i.e. lacking a critical eye?
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>But it really needs, at minimum, to have an exemption for Puerto Rico and the USVI (and ..Hawaii as noted below)

Exactly!! PR, USVI, Hawaii, Alaska etc. are disproportionately impacted by the costs of the Jones Act trade. An exemption would yield economic benefits to these island states/territories.
> Note that there's a female only version of Code Jam

That proves that it isn't always zero-sum. They've opened up more spots by creating an additional event for women.
This is what entirely missing the point of sexual harassment policy looks like. Sexual harassment policy is a workplace equalizer. It's literally not about men acting like gentleman or having a higher standard.

If you're talking about harassment in general, umm... people are obnoxious to each other constantly and perpetually. Kumbaya let's make it all better? I don't think so!
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I'm happy to share, and happy for local decision makers to decide which users should get access to which trails. There are some that even hikers damage, let alone adding bikes and horses. Others are fine for everyone. Some places (not in Wilderness areas) should have some room for ATV people and so on.

I guess besides being a housing YIMBY, I'm a trail YIMBY too.
I don't think it makes sense to consider the arbitrary geographic landmasses as meaningful cultural units. Do you consider Canada, Mexico, and the US as meaningfully the same? France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Serbia, and Sweden? Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela? Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania? Not to mention Asia and Australia/Oceania. (And then again, how are you going to divide your continents? Wikipedia provides 5 different recommendations.) Even if you're only considering Europe and Africa, are you including Russia part of Europe (as opposed to Asia)? How about Turkey? I don't consider it gerrymandering to consider sovereign nation states differently. We're talking orders of magnitude difference in economies and all varieties of government types.
The video game industry is especially bad as it combines the bad aspects of the entertainment industry with the bad aspects of software development.

A good story of the combination of overwork and technical mismanagement is the Mass Effect: Andromeda debacle (written by the same author as the NYT article): https://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-t...
The rationale for blocking websites is pretty convoluted, what are they saying? I mean aside from the usual censorship justification
Dark matter disproven, wow this is amazing. This is literally one of the most important shake ups in modern astrophysics.
> yet Apple introduced the iPod Nano at the height of the Mini's popularity

So they introduced the X right at the iPhone8's peak? I can believe that.

Apple has certainly done that in the past, used to be the best at it but this is the new Apple, not a technology company anymore but a lifestyle company and the product has suffered as a result.
> At bus stops people now try to get on the bus without waiting for the people getting off to exit first. It doesn't make any sense but they do it

In Australia it's socially acceptable to barge into people doing this, same with people two abreast on the escalator. Not everyone has the build to do it, but there are enough to largely keep those people in check. The music thing doesn't seem to happen much, but sometimes the TV thing does with kids. There is a plague of people constantly having conversations on their phones though, I don't feel bad about any music leaking from my headphones because it's needed to drown out their conversations.

> I hate when drivers "play chicken" with me at intersections. I've had drivers wave me forward to cross in front of them while they were still rolling. No thank you. You stop and I'll go, or you go and I'll wait (and to hell with right-of-way.)

I see this more on my push bike, I'm not waiting for them to stop, just to slow down a bit as an indication that they've seen me (a lesson learned the hard way). They're failure to do this slows both of us down.
It unfortunately seems like video game development, and entertainment generally, are very deadline-motivated. You want to release your game at a particular time, so it doesn't coincide with another game's release, or to finish by a particular quarter or holiday / Christmas.
That would be about 2x the average of margins across all industries, but I also doubt it's accurate for the moving business.

http://www.aei.org/publication/the-public-thinks-the-average...
How does one limit bathroom breaks?
_design features which are included because we value them (apparently) but they serve little or no purpose_

well.. sure. I mean, once you have Helvetica and Times, all the other roman fonts are basically wasting my time.

I would argue the rivets still serve a purpose. Maybe its how I wear them, but I have torn the pockets off jeans.

The Iconography of Instagram and the resurgence of Polaroid style cameras..

The iconography of the floppy disk as 'save to disk' icon probably won't last much longer mind you.
This is awesome, it is all that I wanted from Google fonts but did not get. Definitely bookmarked. I can see this saving hours and hours of rummaging for fonts on Google and blog posts suggesting purportedly good font combinations.

Given this, here are a few things I would like that I find useful in google fonts

1. Info on how many weights are available (though the app gives the number of styles, it does not name them)

2. The ability to test with your own text. This is most useful when you are trying out fonts for headings. To be able to decide that in the app itself without having to iterate combinations by implementing in sites being developed will be a godsend.

3. This might be a bit too farfetched. The size of the font files for latin character sets. It can give you an idea of how much bloated your website is going to be. (This could be a filter maybe?) Typically now, I download each font file to inspect it's size.

Kudos!
You seem to have read the article backwards. It's saying that it falsifies certain modified gravity theories (including TeVeS and STVG), not that it falsifies dark matter.
In sparsely populated areas, taxis are sometimes even cheaper. In cities, though, it's not even a contest. Ride-sharing is 2x to 3x cheaper than a taxi in my limited dataset.
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The law stipulates what is and isn't subject to contract. Laws trump contracts every time, which is why contracts always have a clause "if any part of this contract is unenforceable..."
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Very interesting work. I'm thinking it would be nice to add measures like this to FontConfig so that open source font libraries and widgets (on systems which use FontConfig [Linux {including Android I think}, and GTK apps on Windows and Mac such as Inkscape]) can help users make more principled selections.

Also, since FontConfig does indexing a) in native code and b) only at install time, more robustness could be built into these measures without runtime cost, including having a detector for fiercely unconventional fonts (like Libre Barcode or Wingdings) which would present basically garbage results with these metrics.

I would make an adjustment to the measurement of weight, to make it the shaded proportion of the area within the outermost convex hull of the outline, rather than the shaded proportion of the bounding box. A way to accomplish this with o (without changing your technique completely) is to flood fill the outside with a third color, then measure the ratio of white to black.

Then the next enhancement would of course be to figure out the logical mapping of these metrics to other scripts. Cyrillic (with Kha height instead of x-height, and о instead of o) is straightforward, Hangeul is harder, communist and republican Chinese characters readily break rules for text color when juxtaposed, Japanese has three writing systems to assess.

As for the application, it would be nice to see the histograms update in relation to eachother (maybe with two toplines, one for the overall histogram, and one for the intersection of the other selected ranges), so I can see the clustering of the histogram when I select a certain weight range.

Also, there seems to be a bug in the range filtering, since all of the results are outside the selected range for me.
> I'd much rather have a well rounded individual who isn't moonlighting on other things but rather can bring his clear focused mind to the office.

What I do after the office hours is really none of your business. I should be able to do whatever I please (write code, play guitar, etc.) after office hours without you raising concerns about it.

If you believe I do not bring my clear focused mind to the office, then that is a separate issue to be discussed separately without bringing in what I do after office hours into the discussion. It is my prerogative, not yours, to decide if I need to give up what I am doing after office hours in order to focus better at office.
some 'update' since EA Spouse and corresponding lawsuits ~10 years ago

http://www.gameqol.org/igda-qol-survey/
Jack is my idol. man took two companies to IPO. And is CEO of both.
Politics. The HR Lead didn't like that she was technically competent and friendly with engineers. This was even cited - She was written up for taking up engineers time.

It's a sad story, but what can you do?
Development has slowed down over the past year unfortunately. One of the most notable contributions recently was the addition of GSS API support. Overall the API is pretty small and easy to learn. The biggest advantage is that it takes care of reconnect logic for you and buffer management. It's also async by default which is nice. It's also pretty fast and can easily process 1M msg/s if you need that. I would ignore the czmq API entirely and only use the core API and roll your own stuff around it
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.en.html

It looks like it includes some patent information.
Forget about being an absentee wealthy landowner. The dude chokeslammed a Guardian journalist for having the audacity to try to get him to answer some questions. Then he got elected to Congress!
Those “watch” pockets in jeans are great for holding rings.
Larger number of titles corresponds to growing demand. That's a natural dependency.

There were several articles with numbers from developers on GOL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com

Search for sales statistics or something of that sort there.
Conservative Christian right wingers might have trouble in diverse workplaces but pot smoking gays are in deep shit anywhere outside of some coastal strongholds which ran out of places for newcomers years ago, oddly enough in part because of pervasive acceptance of neoliberal economics.
Well, it's true. I've worked on both gaming and enterprise software companies."Crunch" is everywhere. The only difference Games (especially casual one) has very short lifetime and changes are frequent and sometimes targeting some event or season like Christmas. With this, the work load becomes very uneven throughout the year. There are months teams are waiting for a solid project (otherwise management keeps them busy with some "New IP" experimental work which is destined to fail crossing approval gates ) and there are spikes where they have to work 6 or 7 straight weekends. Some regions where labor laws are not strict (or in culture itself work-life balance is not expected) its for irratic. In one hand the crunch time is extreem where employees are asked to spend very long hours sometimes overnight at work on the other hands they may have to wait for months for a project to be outsourced from the studio that is holding the IP.
Haven’t we known for a long time that this kind of stuff is counter productive?
the -B flag in p2pvc allowed something similar!
https://github.com/mofarrell/p2pvc
Disclaimer: Also not an expert.

Photons have no magnetic moment. You know this because the propagation of light is unaffected by the presence of the strongest magnetic fields we generate here on earth (which is several tesla.)

The article you're linking is not discussing the anomalous magnetic moment of the photon, but the electron. (Also muon and tau, but didactic QED texts usually focus on the electron.) You would expect the electron magnetic moment to be 2 \mu_B, where \mu_B is the Bohr magneton, if you calculated the magnetic moment purely from Dirac's Equation. However, due to coupling with particles winking in and out from vacuum fluctuations, the magnetic moment is slightly different than 2 \mu_B.
I believe the answer is in your name.
I'm going to mention Jitsi Meet[1] since nobody has mentioned it. 6 months or so ago I started looking for a simple, reliable and cheap option to share a screen. I don't like GoToMeeting because it's too enterprise-y and there are a lot of steps involved—not too friendly for my tastes.
And there are a few like that.

I stumbled upon Screenhero, but it was already too late—Slack bought it and it's not possible to create a new account.

What we chose for a few weeks was Appear.in—a simple, painless and reliable tool. However I feel like it's not polished enough, and some of our clients had issues with it, so I kept looking.

Jitsi has been a blast: just install an extension (or no extension if you're on Firefox) and you're ready to go. It's uncluttered, it's reliable and too good to be free to be honest.

Only downside it's that all the URLs are public and since there are no registration involved, there's no admin on each channel.

1: https://meet.jit.si/
> I'd much rather have a well rounded individual who isn't moonlighting on other things but rather can bring his clear focused mind to the office.

I don't understand how you equate doing side code projects to not bringing clear focused mind to the office.

Would you also much rather bring a well rounded individual who does not take art classes after work? Do you think taking arts classes after work would affect one's ability to focus in the office?

Then why do you make similar assumptions about doing side code projects? For many of us, doing side code project is like taking art classes. It is art for us and it helps us learn new things about the art of software development that is not always easy to learn in the constraints of real world software business. Most importantly, it is a relaxing and enjoyable experience. It refreshes our soul and combined with a good night's sleep, it helps us to better focus next day at work, not the other way around.

Are you saying that you would much rather not hire people like us who care about the art of software development because from your high horse, we don't look like "well rounded" individuals? If you hold this kind of irrational conservative beliefs, I'd much rather not work for you.
That is some of the best documentation I’ve ever read. Clear, concise, and with just enough context and additional explanations to make the whole thing effortlessly readable.
But the fact that people routinely do create labels for cells, and have columns with headers is also a hint that the people are willing to name things.

So it does come down to a UI issue after all: the right UI for getting users to name things is one they want to use for labels/headers.
Make sure you have a strong team and an actual product or service to offer in the near future, and make sure that your token offers users the chance to prepay for that product or service and don't pitch your token as an investment vehicle, security, share in the company, etc.
> but also very rare, right?

See the last two links for statistics.