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yeah you can take vitamin d like that. 1 unit a day, or 7 units once a week, doesn't matter.
I mean sure, but I'd personally assume people who didn't vote are happy with the status quo. Huge constitutional changes should be difficult.
It is 100% legal to open any first class or lower mail with your street address on it that the USPS puts in your mail box.

Source: asked my attorney because for the past three years running we've received the previous owner's W2 in the mail. First year I called the company and sent it back. We just shred it all now.
> If we don't want the government arbitrarily censoring people, why are we OK with corporations doing it?

Because the "opt-out" process is orders of magnitude easier. You don't have to use Google. Microsoft has online document creation applications, as does Apple, assuming iWork still exists. Or you can just write documents offline using any of several thousand tools.

Corporate censorship is entirely under your control. You can always stop the censorship by simply not saying it using that corporation's tools. Corporations can control how you say something, but not what you say. Governments can control the act of saying it. One is far worse than the other.
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Yup, I was on that temporarily too. It came in little blue-and-white capsules. I think you have to get a prescription for those since, as the article mentions, large doses can cause problems over time.
Firefox 56 is actually pretty good. It's now fast again. I am using a fresh new profile.

Please let me increase "content process count" higher than 7. Chrome opens hundreds of child-processes (no problem at all on my PC).

And I am still keeping an older Firefox 48 around, as it's the last version that runs Firebug and other good but now unsupported addons. Firebug had this "DOM" panel which showed the non-default DOM attributes in a different color and showed them as first few entries, and the rest below. The DevTools in new Firefox has a less useful DOM panel (it shows all attributes not grouped or colored differently, makes the DOM panel useless and chaotic) - please improve the DOM panel to be feature-equalent to the old Firebug DOM panel!!
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Right, including flying cars for commuting damages credibility for me. For having fun, sure. For mass use, maybe if they were all under coordinated AI control. But otherwise, there's too much chance of horrific accidents. I mean, I don't even like driving undivided highways. And that's barely over 1D. 3D traffic? That's insane.
Uh... Yes? fMRI isn't telepathy.
The fundamental issue with a basic income, as I see it, is that it's impossible to guarantee, since the revenue, out of which basic income is paid, comes from taxes. This makes it impossible to know how much money the government will have to pay out a basic income next year. So a family that has gotten used to, say, $15,000 in basic income one year, may only get half of that the next year, because government can't predict its tax income for the next year.

Add to this the fact that basic income takes away, at least some of, the reason to work in the first place, which means that the very foundation of governments paying out basic incomes -- income from taxation -- is affected by paying out basic income. The result is an unstable system with feedback loops, where paying out a lot of basic income one year results in fewer taxes the next year, which means the government has less money to pay out in basic income that year, causing people to need to a job, which increases taxes the next year, after which the government can pay out more in basic income. Predicting this oscillation is essential to making basic income work, and I'm not confident it's possible at all, at least not when we need to be as sure about it as we do when we're talking about money that people need to buy food.
I don't think it's an unintended consequence. I think it was meant to punish Big Tech for their resistance to the Republican party in the 2016 election.
Maybe jitsi?
Letting brilliant jerks ruin it for others is a management problem, not a brilliant jerk problem.

Great comment of an instance.

The class:

"Letting <anything> ruin it for others is a management problem, not an <anything> problem."

I have rarely run into the "brilliant jerk" problem.

I have almost always run into the "incompetent manager" problem.

"Incompetent Managers in Engineering". Now there's an article I'd really like to read.
Just two things: Profiles and Multi-Account Containers. The original poster was referring to Containers when saying "persona tabs."
Long live Rust.
We need to draw a distinction between "startups" and "small businesses." Options and RSUs, as a vehicle for engineering talent, is largely a VC/SV thing. I work on the east coast in a non-NYC city, and options/RSUs simply do not exist, even at what most people would consider tech/software companies, even the ones with venture investment. Certainly, Bill's Hardware down the street does not offer stock options.

By and large, taxation of options and RSU at any point will have negligible impact on the SMB sector of the US economy. It's probably very, very damaging for startups if your definition of startup matches Paul Graham's, but if your definition of startup is "new business that happens to use JavaScript for something" this is unlikely to change anything about your day to day competitiveness.
Find them for me, and I'll hire them and pay you a referral bonus.
Trello is great. Lightweight (compared to Jira + Addon), super fast (also via keyboard shortcuts) and fun to use
I was referring to all state and local deductions. At the end of the day, the same income should pay the same federal tax. What states choose to do is their business. My point is that states ought not benefit or be discriminated against based on their tax policy. My federal tax bill ought not be different because of the state I live in.

I actually live outside the United States, yet I get to file and pay taxes subsidizing a country in which I don’t even live. Aside from Eritrea, the US is the only country that does that.
What point or argument are you making here? Old and terminally ill people shouldn't have a vote?
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I strongly disagree with the idea that revealing ways in which pervasive surveillance provides us all with greater safety will somehow nullify that very benefit. This is clearly a simple and straightforward way for those who are performing the surveillance to excuse the fact that they are not, in fact, saving us from anything at all.

To be honest, the only way I might even consider that this kind of surveillance is helping would be to see some concrete examples of them literally saving lives.

I do not believe that those performing the surveillance do nothing, on the contrary, I believe they may be responsible for any number of harms (leaking private information, having that information stolen, becoming a party to blackmail, etc.) But I certainly do not believe that they are making any of us safer.
I'm not sure what the median is, but my wife is a stay at home mom (no income), and I make around $100k. In a typical 2 income household that would average out to the two of us making $50k each.
>Lastly, if something might require action someday, but not now, it is added to the someday list. These are things that you want to remember, but shouldn’t be cluttering up your ‘next actions’ list. Things like ‘Learn Japanese’ or ‘write a book’ go here.

So let's take "learn Japanese" as the example, because that is a goal of mine and I already am engaged in achieving this goal.

Before having any awareness of this GTD concept, I simply have been studying flashcards daily (anki, 5 new words a day), and when I get a chance read and do exercises from a Japanese grammar book I bought. Down the road, I know I need to at some point engage in watching Japanese TV, listening to radio, and finding Japanese speakers to engage with in conversations to improve my reading ability.

I know these things because I already learned Chinese and I figured out the smaller steps to break down, but how on earth would I break these into "actions" (from the article - "Every project should have an "next action") if I had no concept of how to learn a language?

For example, another goal I have is "become a dank ass motorcyclist - drag knee!" Right now I just putt around in the Santa Cruz mountains and do what I can, but what would I put for "next action" for this project? I guess schedule a track day?

Basically, how do I learn to break large tasks I know nothing about into "actionable items?"
I will be doing the same. The enhancements in 57 don't out-weight the productivity loss from my critical extensions. I'll be waiting until more of them are ported forward. For the record I don't actually find Firefox 56 slow at the moment either.
I know it's not exactly the place to discuss this in detail, but could you elaborate?
> My rule of thumb is this: If the average Joe would have more luck finding their way around if it was just a HTML list of links to the right activity, then your UX is crap.

These are the objective metrics that designers should rely on. A UI needs to be simplest and most obvious. It should draw from what Joe already knows. So if your UI is less simple or less obvious than a clear design option such as the above, you're doing it wrong.

But the distinction between UI and UX is a hard one. It's muddled, and different parties have different stakes in the meaning itself (their jobs depend on it), so they need to be left alone. You just need to predicate your definition with "the definition I go by".

The definition I go by is this:

UI: The interface. This can be observed and designed without the user, and just by looking at the app and applying best practices from expertise on UI.

UX: The experience. This can only be observed and designed with the user, and them using the app. This will include feedback on the UI, but also on the product/service, on performance of the app/site, and on the user themselves.

UI's that have been designed without any user feedback are often the technical, developer-centric interfaces. They may simulate the user, but they prioritize what they believe is right, as a developer. Worst case, the developer goes with their gut on aesthetics as well.

UI's that have been designed only with user feedback tend to become generic, arbitrary, and often user-unfriendly. The unfriendliness stems from the designers adamant on the data. They insist on user behavior that fits their models. The problem with this is that no user exactly matches any statistic. So you've tailored the entire product to someone who does not exist.

The solution is in communication. The app/site needs to communicate exactly what it is you're offering. And the user needs to be able to communicate exactly what it is they want. Users should be able to tailor their experience. By this, we don't mean UI, but UX, and this is often where many apps go wrong. And this conversation about the experience is exactly what you want. At the end of the day, you are there to serve the user, and by user, we mean their experience.
Which is a great idea for more than just the sun exposure, but unfortunately at Los Angeles's latitude, there isn't sufficient UVB to trigger vitamin D production in the skin from around the beginning of October through the beginning of March. During these months vitamin D supplementation is pretty much a necessity for anyone who's ordinarily vitamin D deficient.
Maybe an employee believes in the company and wants to take part, deeming the risk is worth it for them? Clearly that's what's happening.

It's certainly rational in some cases to take the risk of owning a portion of a company instead of taking the same amount of cash and putting it in the S&P 500. You're always investing your time and money, it's just a matter of where.

And for what it's worth, if you're getting paid $250k at Apple, you can probably go back at almost any time.
I am an EU citizen living in the UK for 11 years (my whole adult life) so this is from my perspective. The campaign and reasons given for leaving were extremely xenophobic. There was a lot of talk of EU citizens "clogging up" the healthcare system and emigrating to the UK to claim benefits instead of working. Almost none of this was based on fact but it almost certainly swung the vote.

Other reasons such as sovereignty were also given but most polls indicate that unhappiness with immigration was the main reason people voted to leave the EU. This in itself isn't necessarily xenophobic, but given the enormous economic benefits of immigration into the UK it's difficult to conclude otherwise.
It's good to know that Amazon are right behind creative, contemporary ideas and not simply cynically retreading ground that has been covered already.
Oh, come off it.

Not every team gets to be made of 100% 10x supergenius ninja rock gods. And no one gets to be at their absolute best for every line of code they're ever going to write. Everyone, no matter how gifted, does a better job on average if the boring, obvious thing also tends to be the correct thing. Having some structure makes doing real work with real humans better, not worse.

SOLID isn't an iron law, it's a heuristic. And a damn good one. "Open-minded smart people" can and will find reasons to bend and break the rule sometimes, and the more experienced one becomes the more readily they'll be able to see when the rules doesn't apply. That doesn't mean they're bad rules.

Maybe I'm not open minded or smart enough, but I've seen plenty of codebases that adhered to some set of coherent architectural guidelines and codebases that didn't, and I know which subset I prefer to work on.
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I experienced two nearly-brilliant thorough-going jerks at once in one role, who induced me and most of my peers to leave also.

There have been a couple of others in another role, in banking, and they know exactly what I think of them! B^>

These people do exist, and can be successful, and the description given in TFA pretty closely matches many aspects of psychopathy, such as the charming-when-necessary and no empathy.

Psychopaths are 5x more common in the C-suite than the general population. I don't know about the engineering ratio.
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Actually, the UK government has a very good solution to the Irish border issue, which the Irish are in favour of. It is the EU that will not allow it.
Now I'm curious: Who would be in your top ten?

For my money, it would include Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Isaac Asimov.
Of all things you can do to a person, I think mis-pricing something in a video game and a subsequent PR blunder is very small potatoes. Even if we restrict to your phrase "unbridled greed" and exclude more serious topics like physical harm and abuse, there is a lot more of that going on that is worse than this.
You've been posting a lot of uncivil and unsubstantive comments. Could you please take a look at the guidelines and start following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Machine learning is already in use to aid radiologists and the flying car will still be a stupid idea in 20 years (barring low cost antigravity technology...), so the article is pretty uneven.
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When do you stop raising it?

If people could vote themselves more money the voter turnout would be insane. How would anyone control something like that? Anyone who ran against the increases would be easily defeated with something like this: "My opponent wants to take the money you deserve!".

At some point you would be giving people more money than you produce as a country and then it's only a matter of time until the money runs out. Once the money runs out then your government will evaporate as the enraged populace tries to pin the blame on one group.

This of course is on of the central issues with government run wealth redistribution programs, nobody wants less money and they will go to the polls to protect it. Whatever you think of the ACA/Obamacare in the US, once it got established and started paying out there is almost no way to repeal it as no one wants to lose their benefits. Even establishment Republicans learned their lesson and are now leaving it alone after seeing that they angered many Americans who enjoyed those benefits and threatened their chances of being re-elected.
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This is certainly a problem I’ve seen. One employee was hated by almost all the technical people because he was a jackass and couldn’t work with others. He wanted everything done his way and wasn’t interested in the opinions of others (except as they may bolster how great his ideas were).

The truth is he wasn’t very good, at least not to the degree he tried to present.

Some of management loved him because he worked so hard. He was always there, always the one holding things together.

The truth was he was doing that because his methods were shoddy enough that things were always falling apart. He didn’t want others working on stuff because that would either lose his control/power or people would see how bad things really were.

In the end it became too much. As the company grew and things were done without him it became clear just how little he actually accomplished. New employee worked as well and were easy to get along with, not hostile to help.

But we had to suffer with him sabotaging things and dealing with his outbursts for YEARS.
That would be an extremely bad idea. In that scenario, imagine FaceID fails to recognize you, now you can't get into your device. Currently if FaceID fails, you have passcode as an alternative way into the device.
JetBlue immediately comes to mind as offering large number of DirecTV channels and Southwest heavily advertises two free bags, so it seems like marketing campaigns based on things other than price work, just take a while to instill.
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"The economic output of an entire nation can be useful for such comparisons when you're attempting to relate to very large financial figures."

I repeat: It's comparing a stock and a flow. You cannot compare a stock and a flow because they are different units. 103bn per year vs. 103bn as a volume of wealth. You could compare 103bn to the wealth of a country. Or you could say that it is equal to N empire state buildings, or a number of dollars that goes around the world X times. But if you compare it to GDP, then you're not comparing apples to apples.
When practical, I prefer to buy from specialized retailers (or manufacturers) for stuff I care about, so Amazon is a last resort for me.

The convenience, though, means I buy a lot of stuff I don't care about (or otherwise can't readily find) from them.
>2. Does the person target people who are less powerful than him/her?

YMMV but there is a problem in that leaders and brilliant-but-non-expendable (for w/e reason) engineers can often be jerks themselves. So much so that they use their power to write the narrative that the less-powerful was the jerk.

I know it is politically incorrect to say this kind of thing, but it certainly does happen. This happened at NASA when engineeres voiced concerns of the dangers of a foam strike. Management bullied them and the groupthink culture there made people side with authority. Then this caused the Challenger disaster.

And let's be honest: get out of STEM and into something like politics, and it's very sadly a significant part of the game.
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You literally described property taxes just now.
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I am an Alice and I need some feedback as why is it a bad thing! I work in an environment when very small percentage of people know what are they doing. and people that know what is going on do not speak up because they are frustrated and know probably nothing will change.
in this environment I do speak up whenever I get a chance and I've been in arguments with managers 3 4 level above me.
everybody else wants to be politicians and please everybody! but I believe because no one wants to hurt other people's feelings we are in a shit situation we are in.

why am I wrong ? should I care less like everybody else?

PS: where I currently work is wasting public money and I feel obligated to do something as a Libertarian!
That something else is your device. Biometrics should never be used on remote systems.
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Hah, until you cave and get back in the queue ;)

Sorry, projecting a bit. I have absolutely zero discipline when it comes to cake.
Not by the definition of this bill, though, which is what matters.

The majority of HN readers are going to see a net increase in taxation, to fund giveaways to the GOP's donor class.
>What's really needed is a way some group of insiders in a company can transfer shares among themselves or outsiders. This would probably take a big change in securities laws to create rules around how unaudited equities could be traded.

Most option/stock agreements give the company right of refusal and they can block sales

>They don't grant stock, they simply pay cash (bonuses) and if employees want to buy in, it's their money

Doesnt work for private companies, there's no market to buy them in

> Maybe the solution is for companies to become public earlier and have investors operate

I've recently been thinking about the ramifications of more and more of our economy being privately traded. It means that many groups of people are unable to use that slice of the economy to back things like retirement funds. Also can technically lead to a run on equity where folks are trying to save but are just competing over the same limited pool of assets. Articles like [1] are indicating that the number of IPOs per year are dwindling. Maybe a law that says companies valued over $THRESHOLD must be public?

[1]: http://fortune.com/2017/01/20/public-companies-ipo-financial...
I used to walk when I lived in a different neighborhood of a southern city. We get lots of sun, but way more heat & pollution. My neighborhood's simply not great for walking.
Federal grants and aid is a seaparate issue. I’m Ron Swanson when it comes to that. I want a smaller federal government period. State and local governments should have the power.
I'm sure the U. S. Postal Inspectors will get right on that. Perhaps they make it an episode of their television show: https://www.21cpw.com/usps-the-inspectors-postal-themed-tv-d...
It does - so much so that fair skinned people are suggested to avoid sun exposure and get vitamin d from supplements.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643856
One of the keys to GTD is capturing tasks, which is precisely what you describe. After they're captured, you can plan them. This is the second thing you describe (putting something on a calendar, or into a work queue like your trello card).

If you do that, you're already getting most of the benefits of GTD. Getting everything out of your head so you can remain focused on the immediate task at hand.
The debates before the referendum were imprecise and overloaded (politically) with other items (i.e. whether David Cameron can convince the people and lead the party) a debate on a Brexit law is on a precise working law.
Do you regularly test your vitamin D levels?
Yeah I'll always be an Alice at heart. And around people I trust. But as you said, it's no longer an Alice world. I was involved in Drupal and they kicked out their own Alice, chx, who was a major contributor.