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> There are limits to what individual donors can give, but politicians in New York can still receive unlimited campaign contributions in total.[1] This means that large companies and unions can pool their resources to buy influence, exactly as anywhere else.

No, they can't, because corporations (including unions) can't contribute to political campaigns.

If you know of a corporation (including a union) that's actually pooling their resources and giving them to campaigns or politicians, you should report it, because that is illegal. You can't keep asserting that that is legal - it's not.

> So you're saying that the politicians in New York are not receiving substantial campaign contributions from the unions, consultancies, and contractors that are profiting from the 2nd Avenue Subway

People who work at those companies might decide to donate their own money to politicians, yes. That doesn't mean they're buying special influence with them on behalf of their employers.

I'm getting rather tired of this discussion, because you seem to be mostly interested in hammering away at the same (misguided) point about bribery, despite the fact that this very article outlines the evidence that unions don't need to bribe or buy politicians with money; they already hold that influence over elected officials, without needing to pay anything for it.

If you'd like to keep pounding the same drum, there are plenty of other articles on which to do it, but it's a real distraction from the point at hand here, and I'm getting tired of carrying on a conversation about a point that's contradicted by the article were commenting on.
We were on floor 3, and the long L shaped hall to get to the restrooms had a decent amount of traffic.

Our company eventually left, in part because we employees made it clear we were very unhappy inside wework.
> Additionally this CVE relies on the getuid syscall being available, there is no reason to give a container this syscall, you should block it,

Huh? Lots of legitimate things will break without working getuid().

> you should block it, ala this guide

getuid() doesn't require any capabilities, so it can't be blocked by taking them away.
How? A Bolshevik could have died at 80 or 90, and the OP could have met them at age 20, making them 60ish now. There is plenty of wriggle room for the OP to be younger.
Yeah, it's irresponsible to tell the truth in your WHOIS. That information is a perfect start for launching a social engineering attack as well.
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The exception may be a artist, but I don’t want to see a portfolio of proprietary software or documents from a previous employer.
It doesn't take more than a few minutes after the man was shot dead to know whether he had a weapon. Frankly, it doesn't matter why the officer shot the man so long as he hadn't threatened the officer. In the time it took me to write this comment, a clear determination of whether the officer abused his power could have been made. If he did in fact have a weapon, you could bet your ass the police chief would have confirmed that.

What exactly do you think this investigation is going to yield? "It looked like he may have had a weapon" or "He made a threatening comment"? Neither are reasons why the officer should have shot the man.
It's probably possible, somehow, to quantify how many americans perish every year because of this.
Definitely let them know immediately. You not being happy in your job (because of a better offer), or you quitting within first 3 months, is much worse than saying even a day in advance that you had other offer and this is how things are. Really tell them your position, there is nothing wrong with this.
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From what I can tell, looking at Wikipedia:

Five states with lowest rates of gun death: Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...)

States with constitutional carry: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho (residents only), Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota (residents only; concealed carry only), Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry#U.S._juri...)
Because there may be another strategy that you are missing out on because you are incorrectly measuring this one.

If there are fake impressions then your actual ROI is higher than stated, so it's likely there is another strategy that is less effective that you may switch to without realizing it.
The problem can be more easily solved by helping those who are local and sending those who aren’t back to where they are from (or a system to charge the originating towns).

Really? How would sending them back work? Establish an "internal passport" system for the US so immigration from Iowa to California would perhaps require someone to provide address to the proper authorities? They have a system like that in China.

And yeah, there is a reason people don't want to be homeless in Iowa in the winter.

Edit: and yeah, what you describe is so much "tolerance" as what happens when the legal system can't afford to jail every single homeless person. So really, you sort of need to actually solve the problem which indeed can't be just put on local governments.
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And to comment more on my own post, and make the Amazon link even more ironic(?), there's the whole Amazon "Camper Force"[1] thing, which Wired[2] did an article about a couple of months ago. It seems Camperforce is a combination of retirees just wanting to pick up some spending money in exchange for a (seasonal) job, and near-desperate retirees who live in an RV/camper because it's the only thing they can afford.

[1] http://rvlife.com/camperforce-at-amazon/
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/meet-camperforce-amazons-nomadic...
I haven't read all the comments here, but I am rather disturbed by the high focus I have seen so far on the police violence angle which largely glosses over the horror of an individual abusively and maliciously dispatching enormous power with a single prank call. That power is supposed to be available as protection, not as your personal means to settle an incredibly minor vendetta or whatever.
The vast majority are. Producing high quality content -- a good camera, good lighting, clear views into the disassembled appliances -- is a lot of work.
Yes please! I understand you can disable the notifications in Maps settings, but that likely doesn't disable the constant location tracking.

Does anyone know how to disable this?
is it completely de-googled though (even when play services are not installed)? Honest question. To me it seems as if that's not one of the main interests of the lineage community.

I do use lineageOS myself and am generally very content with it but I am always a bit concerned when I see that the data usage of OS components (which are thrown together as one "app" in the settings) is more than a few MB. The system must do more than just checking for updates. Unfortunately, you can't prevent system components from accessing the internet if you don't intend rooting your phone.
> There are plenty of people still coding in C.

Of course, as there is no real-world alternative to C for some applications. The famous Linus Torvalds rant on C++ still rings true today.
Prepare for your end of life costs as well as what will happen to the remainder of your assets and debts. Write a will. Talk with an estate attorney. Consider adding names of your loved ones to your bank accounts and assets in order to avoid probate. I'm not a lawyer or accountant, but I had to deal with the financial aspects of an unexpected death in my family. Had there been any kind of planning, it would have made everything much easier for those who were survived, and saved a large amount of money that the estate had to pay out during the probate process.
I love Copperhead OS on my Nexus 5X. Amazing battery life, great trustworthy apps and strong security.
Frankly I think the project would be a lot more successful with lower prices. I'm willing to pay $50 per year for the OS, right now the price to get Copperhead OS installed on a Pixel phone is $400. That's just out of whack when taking into consideration the phone price (I paid around $180 for a used Nexus 5X a year ago) and the usual software prices. I guess I'm not the only one not buying a Pixel with Copperhead OS for that reason.

The Copperhead guys should get a copy of http://www.dummies.com/education/economics/how-to-determine-...
Yup, even when I've seen them play at clubs with proper stages they set up their kit in the middle of the floor.
So I love CSS Grid very much, but have found myself still wanting/needing masonry-style "Pinterest" layouts, which I haven't been able to do without JavaScript. I've seen many of the CSS column and flexbox hacks, but nothing quite nails it.

Anyone have any good ideas here?
And that's how entanglement arises, presumably.
How exactly are you going to find an algorithm?
Fair enough, but I read the previous post as saying that simply knowing that your action could lead to someone else committing a crime made you guilty.
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Alarmingly, Putin has praised Stalin’s management of the USSR and has spoken out about how Stalin is perceived. He seems disturbingly fond of the guy.

Interesting connection - Putins father was a cook for both Lenin and Stalin.
goto is kind of a necessity in any complex C codebase unless you want to duplicate tons of code. Sometimes you need to jump way out of the context, especially to handle errors, and C does not have "exceptions" (although you could do them with setjmp/longjmp)
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It does seem clear to me that if hospitals & medical practices were run with the same culture as the airlines (ie, a high-integrity approach to risk) the results would be measurably better.

However the political processes surrounding hospitals will block this. For example, there are lobby groups in the community that literally scream blue murder if decisions like "it isn't rational to live" are made in public. In Australia, we've been fighting the good fight to get euthanasia legalised for as long as I can remember. It is slow, hard going.

A system that can't let people go is simply never going to allow public investigations - it hasn't accepted that quality of life takes primacy or that death is sometimes inevitable. Medical care is very political and they cannot support the results-oriented culture of the airlines.
I started answering your examples, but why bother? They are clearly not representative of the case.

I'll just highlight: "There are plenty of other ways to fix this, including body cams and proper prosecution"

So you're saying that if cops were more afraid of being prosecuted and punished after using their guns they would be more careful before killing a citizen. As in "well, now they're almost never punished, so yeah, they can just shoot first and ask questions later, otherwise they would first make sure the guy is actually armed and hostile". This is mind-blowing to me either it is the actual state of mind of police officers or if you believe it is and think it's ok.
Why doesn't Python have a switch/case statement? (2015)
As one of the authors referenced in the 'myths' section of the talk (the ME can do anything...), I have to disagree with the actual danger of the ME. It is connected directly to system memory, and from there you can actually do anything.

It's like saying "I have a car and can drive 20 miles, but being able to drive 2000 miles is impossible." Saying everything in impossible when you own the system memory is just a failure of imagination.
There's a lot here I agree with. For more than a decade, after "growing up" in what was essentially the computer underground, I've been grappling with discomfort about the way technology blunts and abstracts consequences.

A couple years back, some vulnerability researcher friends found a series of horrible security flaws in a very popular pacemaker brand. Does anyone here really doubt whether, if fully weaponized exploit scripts for those flaws made it to the wrong IRC channel, some depraved asshole would kill a stranger for "lulz"? I don't. Technology is amplifying something truly bad inside of us. Maybe it's worse than we think; see: the Fermi Paradox.

I think you probably underestimate how common SWAT-ing is. I have relatives with no unusual connections to the grimier communities on the Internet who have been SWAT-ed after disputes in video games.
I recently saw a comic/meme that portraits the situation in the US like this: Waste your life inside playing computer games or go outside and get shot.

There is some sad truth in this comic as this case shows. Here, just opening the door got him shot.
I would hazard a guess that the overall proportion of business procedures unsupported by evidence is nearly half as well.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your life?
New Year's resolution: I want to keep track of my expenses, the water I drink, the sideprojects I'm working on, etc...

A Todo list is not enough, there's no app for what I'm looking for... I'm looking into Bullet Journal: http://bulletjournal.com/ but I don't know if it's the right tool for me.

How do you keep track of your life? Any tip to share?
It's interesting to now have this, flexbox, and the multi-column module (that I never see anyone talking about).

Does anyone know if this can be used for dynamically wrapping columns? Ostensibly flexbox should be able to handle that, but without an explicit height your column will never wrap.

I recently needed to implement dynamically wrapping columns and I was able to get 90% of what I needed from the multi column module. However it seems to be really buggy at this point, it often ended up with elements sliced in half or missing. Also, the biggest issue for me was no way to target the columns and prevent reordering. I had sections of text that could be expanded or collapsed, and that would trigger a complete rearrangement of columns. Nasty.

I ended up coding my own column system for vertical wrapping, and it was so helpful I was thinking about open-sourcing it, but I'm not sure if CSS grid obviates the need.
As opposed to glossy displays? In 2017?
With mobile banking and check depositing I agree, but ten years ago the availability of physical branches and my frequent travel as an out of state college student led me to choose BoA over local options. Today Im local only because the big banks have such terrible fees and policies.
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On Linux, you could set systemd to go right into 'octave' (matlab) or even rip out systemd and set `init=/usr/bin/octave` in grub, and have very little overhead.

What would you do on the system as soon as you need to look something up though? Even though it's easy to look something up via smartphone, if the code snippet is more than a sentence, do you really want to retype the whole thing rather than just copy and paste?

It's a very romantic notion though, and there's even a kickstarter for the writer's version [1], and I recommend setting up a system like that as a fun weekend project, but (at least for me) it turns out, through years of (mis)training, those 30 browser tabs I have open are an important part of my workflow, so I need an operating system that allows for that, in order to be productive (and unproductive) on a day-to-day basis.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/astrohaus/hemingwrite-a...
So do you consider UBports stable on your phone
>Better to see 10 cops dead than 1 single innocent killed by the police in my book.

Those 10 cops were also innocent, and are still people with families and people who love them. I'm not saying the way things are right now is the way they should be forever and that it's all rainbows and butterflies, but it seems callous to say one innocent life is worth more than another.
Moving a feature into the next release cycle is equivalent to extending the deadline for that feature. You're right, though -- management does seem to have a strong preference for one terminology over the other.
I'd definitely be interested in reading about how NLP for Spanish compares to NLP for English, particularly since I don't speak Spanish :)
> Why does this myth keep getting pushed

Same reason plenty of people still believe in the Loch Ness Monster or that Crop Circles were made by aliens.

Some people are hopelessly refractory to critical thinking and will never change their mind, no matter the evidence presented to them.
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It says a lot that a supposedly professional's feelings doing his job are more important than some uninvolved random persons life. Any warzone's ROE are stricter than what US-cops are allowed to get away with.
First: smoking and nicotine usage is harmful to you, full stop.

That disclaimer out of the way, nicotine's prevalence is mostly due to it's addictive qualities. However, the usage of nicotine in WW2 and the industrialization of it's manufacture shortly before the war cannot be missed when talking about nicotine's prevalence mid-century.

Nicotine, like any drug, has a multitude of effects. In certain situations, these effects can be beneficial. The only reason I can think of is: if you have a reasonable suspicion of major bodily trauma occurring before the side effects of nicotine wear off (you are about to die). Nicotine promotes alertness, calmness, and an adrenal response, lowering the flow of blood to the periphery and increasing blood pressure. At high concentrations, it also causes sedation.[0] Also, there is interesting research about those sedative properties in connection with schizophrenia.[1]

Smoking a cigarette while on/near a battlefield is not a terrible decision. You may be more alert, calm and less panicked, already primed with adrenaline, and may experience less blood loss to limb wounds. Back at camp when you can smoke to your heart's (mal)content, you can sedate yourself as well. I'm not certain on the effects with PTSD, but as a sedatory drug, I would imagine it would lessen PTSD (no evidence here, just speculation).

So, if you sling crack and have been sought after by your creditors, you may want to pick up a pack. If you are a SWAT team member about to go into a building, you may want to chew some gum. If you are in Aleppo currently, you may want to light up.

Other than that, stay away from the stuff like the life killing poison it is meant to be.

That said, when it comes to these types of sports, benefits may exist as well. For some people, those HS/Pop-Warner football years may be the best they have. The concept of 'hoop-dreams' is alive and well 30 years later [2] and is not just limited to basketball.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Psychoactive_effects

[1] http://www.schizophrenia.com/nicotine.benefits.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_Dreams#Aftermath
They probably got sued by a hapless white collar lawyer that spilled his Starbucks and got shocked when he tripped over a power cable laid by someone that didn't care that the cord was over the main walking path.
And more cars = more car accidents and more multi-story homes = more people falling down the stairs. As a society, we're concerned with overall safety and reducing overall violence and crime metrics.
A long-gun stored in a locked cabinet in the attic with a trigger guard and ammo in a separate locked compartment is very different than carrying a loaded pistol on your hip in public. In Canada it is essentially impossible for normal citizens to carry a gun in public, let alone a loaded handgun. IIRC you need a separate license to transport your weapon (in a locked case, unloaded, and carried securely in your trunk). The idea of adult citizens carrying loaded pistols around in public is completely foreign in Canada.
You seem intelligent and I don’t mean this as an insult, but I think you’re missing the point.

To use an inexact metaphor, if I am selling gas no one is obligated to fill up at my station. Fuel efficient cars are not “robbing” me. People who take public transit are not ripping me off. My job as a businessman is to make money. Consumers owe nothing to me. If the gas I sell is leaded and no one wants to buy it, I have no right to complain.

If I cut out every ad from my copy of the yellow pages no one has a right to complain. Adblocking is no different.

Advertising has to wake up.
What happens when someone steals your identity/credentials and gets to see all of that information Google, FB, etc have about you?
In case the article author is here: The code snippets given aren't escaped, so &, <, > show up as HTML entities instead.
I read that Finland managed to "solve" homelessness,by unconditionally giving to every homeless a place to live and more support, if needed.

Is it true? And if so, why isn't this model being copied, at all?
Was wondering the same thing. I wonder if postcss and autoprefixer supports it? https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer/issues/603

This comment is from two years ago:

But I think I found a solution for everyone:

We support Grid by default.
If Autoprefixer see that your CSS is too complicated for IE, it will warn you to disable Grid support and use some JS polyfill.
It took 6 months for a grand jury to exonerate another Wichita officer. http://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/wichita-falls... The appeals etc took years after that. My point is, you don't let the cops make the determination about whether a cop is guilty. There are whole other layers of accountability.

Edit: and yeah I agree cops don't get convicted often enough. Either way a real investigation is going to take time.
The case in front of us wasn't the topic I was discussing. The topic was the GP's absolutist view in response to that topic.

Just because these scenarios are fictitious does not make them strawmen arguments. In the first scenario, I was pointing out that even unarmed people can be dangerous. In the second, I was pointing out that often innocent lives are in danger. In the third, I was pointing out just how absurd it is to expect police to shoot "only after at least one shot has been fired by the suspect, period."

Obviously these scenarios fall apart in the real world and that's the point.

It was your decision to bring race into the discussion. I chose Ving Rhames because he's big and I had recently seen him in a movie. Apparently to have a valid point I need to pretend he doesn't exist and go with John Cena instead (as if specifically excluding a black actor would somehow not be racist). I didn't specify the race of the female officer at all.
> (he's done lots of very carefully managed AMAs)

You seem to have a pretty prominent chip on your shoulder regarding Bill Gates.

Gates has donated billions of dollars of his fortune to charity and he's largely credited for having eradicated malaria through these efforts in multiple countries.

It's hard to find a good reason to dislike someone like that.
Did you miss the part where I pointed out that cops knew what they were signing for? I know it sucks, don't pretend I would be happy to see 10 dead cops, this is insulting. But between 10 persons, employed to protect and serve, and 1 completely random person who just walked out of their front door there is real difference to me.
Top performers have usually crept towards the high end of the salary available to them, and they're aware that grunt work isn't necessarily a good cost / value tradeoff for the company they're working for, nor a good tradeoff for their human capital vs income earned.

If you're not being challenged in your job (i.e. doing grunt work), you either need to find a harder job within the company (it might be automating away grunt work), or failing that, a different company.