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A properly designed concrete structure will include enough clear cover (that is the distance between the surface and the reinforcement) to avoid water reaching the reinforcement. It should also take precautions such as roofing to avoid water interacting with the concrete in the first place.

LEED certification includes a credit called "good bones" which recognizes that although exterior trends change, the concrete bulk of a building can be reused if kept in good condition. A new facade can completely rejuvinate an otherwise dated structure. Most concrete building construction focuses on creating large open floors with columns to provide the largest flexibility in floor plan.

An additional interesting trend I've been seeing in Chinese construction is the construction of structures with double the standard height between floors. These buildings can be finished with units with features such as high ceilings and loft spaces that most high-rise units cannot accommodate.
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no, I'd be pretty impressed.
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Is it really "trying to explain everything from a moral side", or just that main non-moral reason for leaving -- better pay -- is not in play?
I would be extremely wary about trusting robinhood now. I have a stock account with them and back in October I used their new feature to transfer stocks from other brokerages. However, there was never any selection for _which_ stocks you wanted to transfer so it transferred all of them without confirmation. After 4 back and forth support emails each taking multiple days to hear back on I finally gave up with them and got Vanguard to transfer some of the stocks back. Robinhood responded by deactivating my account until the transfer was complete, which it did a week later. Here I am mid January still waiting for my account to be reopened after creating a new support ticket for them to respond to.
...and taxpayer funded Grants are the selling of "religious indulgences". Each $10M we provide, they agree to move the clock back 30 seconds.
Remote work was a medical requirement for me and even in those circumstances Google refused to consider it. They also insisted part-time work wasn't an option (there were official policies for it that were kept secret!). So likewise, that was really all it took. It baffles me that companies can't be remotely flexible on these things - over 50% of the Google employees I interacted with daily were in other offices (or overseas, for that matter), so the cost of remote workers was already being paid.
Interesting. Is it just me or shouldn't that be the default functionality? An added benefit is that DDG can then see what result the user picks, compare than to how well (if at all) DDG ranked that link.
The best part of this submission is definitely the pithy comments.
Great article and insight into a somewhat opaque process.

I sold my company in 2014 and the biggest surprise to me was how long and time consuming the process was. It really impaired my ability to run the company as efficiently as I would have liked during the transition process. And the stress of having to meet with buyers, but not being able to fully communicate the scope of the meetings to the team until the appropriate time was significant.
Yeah I've been at Google a decade and I strongly don't agree with the notion that it's hyper evangelized as the best place to work. In official communications, yes, but I think most people here are aware of the drawbacks and problems. Maybe even a little too aware. Internal lists are rife with the discussions of even the slightest deviation from perfect execution on the part of management, product teams, the culture, etc. That's not to say there's no one here with rose tinted goggles, but I think most people have their eyes open.
Talking about Linus Torvalds personality when we should be really talking about Intel and one of the greatest computering cluster F*s of all time.. great thread hijack.
I'm a Spaniard and I could never do that.

In order to be able to work like that you need a very specific set of circumstances, probably first of all being self-employed.

Since I work by contract for a company, and they force me to put 8 hours a day, I can't do that. However, it is true that I am the most productive in the afternoon. That is why I try to enter and leave work as early as possible, so that I can spend those sweet afternoon hours being productive.
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> but Netflix would

Hmm, where can I find out more about remote roles there? Is it worldwide or US-only?
Remember when they spent a million dollars to get data off a phone that provided them with no evidence?

Yeah, I'm going to say we don't even need the list.
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Or that the opening act starts at 22:40.
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I agree that the ideas aren't necessarily generalizable, but what if we shifted to an idea that people's individual schedules reflect when they specifically are most productive. Someone else who replied said they were most productive in the morning. Great! Let them have and earlier start time. For me, I'm completely useless in the morning. Sure, I can be in the office at 8:00am, but you're not getting any meaningful work out of me until late morning or noon-ish. So let me come in at noon and work until 6:00. And for someone else who is super productive in the evening hours, if they want to come in a 8:00pm and work until 2:00am, why not?

I get that there are issues of collaboration or interaction that may be necessary. But in general, it seems like, as long as your job doesn't depend on customer interaction or some other constraint, why not let people work a schedule that suits their lifestyle, and lets them work when they are most productive?
Bitcoin is backed by an asset with a tangible value that may or may not increase over time. What exactly is Blackjack backed by?
I'd say Google has the opposite problem than what Yegge posed, and that's not enough focus on excellence in maintaining what people are already using.

Given the history of YouTube UI and algorithm bugs, I think that's got some evidence.

The thing is, if you want to work on disruptive stuff, with maximum risk taking, and no politics, you go found a small startup and get seed capital.

Amazon should make it so that another option is, "start a new business group at Amazon." That would give Amazon another qualitative advantage Google couldn't easily match.
Actually, using props instead of state is a pretty common thing to do - it's how redux integrates with React [1]

[1] https://redux.js.org/docs/basics/UsageWithReact.html
At a guess, it will increase until the necessary-but-not-currently-handled constructs are dealt with (arena-based memory management, I'm looking at you) and then decrease asymptotically. Already in Rust, if you adopt C++ STL idioms (and don't want to squeeze more performance out) and don't need to visit currently-unwrapped interfaces, you won't need unsafe at all.

Rust is a very good C++ replacement.
Medals - I think linkedin approached this?
No. It really isn't. This is a luxury service. If you use it to redistribute uneaten food in-masse, sure. But let's be honest, these services are for those who can afford laziness when it comes to walking outside their door (in a city might I add, where huge amounts of food options are available in a small radius) and getting food.
It would make for an interesting fashion accessory.

Best available alternative: wear tshirt from company A with jacket from company B and backpack from company C
If it were not for nukes, the people moving the clock would be drafted and clock materials used to build a cannon in world war 5.

So much for percived danger and actuall danger.
That's good context, thanks. We're quite near a salt water estuary here, I imagine the humidity and salt in the air also makes a difference...

Another thing you can do relatively cheaply (I think) is powered cathodic protection. I don't know if they bothered to do that on this building.
Gotcha. I don't even know where to start though. There's so much info to sift through. lol.
The vast majority of mainstream stocks PAY dividends-- in fact about 420 of the S&P 500.
I blame Apple. No, really. When Robinhood first launched it was intentionally targeted at iOS users, hence the almost automatic focus of building an app vice a mobile friendly progressive web app. Then the push to target Android users - but since "we do apps" is already the corporate mindset, the next thing is not a web page, but yet another app. Eventually they get around to the web.

A company I left a few years ago went down the same path.
In a nutshell: They tried to build a Vice News, but they ended up with a BuzzFeed.
> When Steve Yegge just moved to Google, his final posts were about encouraging his readers to work on Big Things like the cure for cancer instead of cat videos. And now his Big Thing is food delivery?

It's where the money is. Online food delivery is growing ridiculously and still have tons of room for growth since it is following the growth of smartphones and the rise of "online taxis". It isn't just food delivery. Grocery delivery, liquor delivery and all other delivery services haven't caught up to smartphone/online taxi service yet.

It's similar to what amazon did with their AWS. Most of their servers were idle. So why not turn that unused capacity for productive use. If you think about it, most taxis ( even online taxis ) are in idle state. So why not use that idle time for delivery.

Also slogans from large corporations or people working for multinationals are just PR nonsense. "Do no evil", "fair and balanced", "just do it", etc are marketing PR rubbish. Steve Yegge, like alphabet, is in the business of making money.

Cancer research is high risk/high reward. Food delivery is low risk/high reward.
Somebody in the Senate with a brain?! This is awesome.

I'm working to try and help get rid of Ted Cruz, we need good people running the company - we need more like Wyden - asking these kinds of questions!
> We need a new etiquette and I'm not sure our culture can support one right now.

Given the improbability of anyone learning etiquette for anything, maybe what we need is something like the Total Perspective Vortex from HHGTTG: show these people their place in the crow, the impact on their fellow man, topped with a hefty dash of reality on how 'aint nobody got time' for your blurry concert photos.
No need for a bookmarklet. It can be easily done with CSS.
Man, I wish they actually offered departing staff severance and an NDA. Maybe if you're a VP. I know VPs who get booted out for sexual harassment get to keep their stock.
Microsoft in the 90's was actually a pretty cool place to work.
These ideas are interesting but it seems to suggest that if you work less you don't need as many breaks. Motivation for me comes in waves. When I'm inspired I can easily work 12-16 hours with just bathroom breaks. But, I can't induce those experiences, they just come.

My fear of a 5 hour day would be that I'd be running at 80% for 5 hours instead of 80% for 8 hours.
That would be the drake equation. The fermi paradox is just a philosophical question.
This is a narrow and problematic view.

While it's true that non-opinion parts of dockets aren't "the law" in the sense of issuing precedent that courts will be expected to follow in other cases, it's also true that these other parts of dockets contribute to important kinds of legal knowledge that we ought to care about in a democracy governed by law.

They include, for example, information about the actions of immensely powerful corporations and individuals. The fact that court dockets are public records allows us to know who has sued Donald Trump, or Google. They also provide information about the actions of the government, including courts, police, prosecutors, again in cases of extreme public concern.

Sorry to get on my high horse, but I literally wrote a book about the notion of the rule of law[1] --- and one of the key ideas of the rule of law is that the people need to have access to information about what the powerful do in order to collectively hold them accountable for their behavior.

For comparison: there's a Federal Register and a Code of Federal Regulations. The latter just contains the stuff that would be "the law" in rayiner's sense---the generally applicable results of rulemaking. The former also contains public notices, proposed rules, executive orders, and other executive branch actions. A world in which we had access to the CFR but not the Federal Register would be worse, from the standpoint of the freedom of law, than a world in which we have access to both (thankfully, the actual world).

[1] http://rulelaw.net
Huh. That's incredibly simple and seems pretty effective. Of course, the sponsored sites could try to track user preferences themselves by fingerprinting Firefox visitors across distinct sites, but at least Firefox does have some anti-tracking features enabled by default.
While I understand that all investment markets are buyer beware, promoting crypto-currencies to investment beginners feels exploitative and a risky move in terms of public perception for a service.

The old adage "only invest what you are comfortable losing" has not traditionally been followed by people with little cash reserves, and large ambitions, especially when fueled by frothy hype cycles surrounding new crypto investment opportunities.

It seems unlikely that beginner investors will do their due diligence before deciding that the 1000% returns on crypto-coins is more attractive than the 10-20% returns in more traditional stock markets and will over specialize their investments. Let's wait and see how that plays out after the next up/down cycle that will undoubtedly arrive.
Do you not see how you are contradicting yourself?

"Chances are" alone, is an assumption. How is that any different from your speculation on Bitcoin. The only difference is longevity of the window period, otherwise it's the same principle.
No wonders education is getting expensive every year
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Apple doesn't make money by selling your data. Good enough for me.
You mean like those metallic pouches sold by Amazon? I got one to keep my car keys at night in, since it completely stops the keyless go system from working and protects them from a relay attack and car theft.
Agreed. And seven times out of ten (made up statistic, ymmv) that event is precipitated by one's management chain. Just yesterday someone reposted the article "People don't leave jobs, they leave managers."
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How is me having my phone in my pocket and in my possession at all times and leaving promptly after the event is over detracting from the experience of those around me?
I despise the fact that people think they need to have their phones in front of them the entire time, taking shitty pics and videos that they'll never look at again.

However, I would never support an artist/performer who tries to prevent me from using my own things. It's not their right to tell me that I can't pull out my phone if I choose to do so. It belongs to me. So while I would never actually have my phone out during a show like it, I would never actually go to a show that would prevent me from doing so.
https://jobs.netflix.com/search?q=remote
Perhaps you can identify individuals who are "usually right". And from there do the filtering.
Several different points and comparisons here.

Providing capital to someone does not only occur in the IPO stage. I'm not even sure how to go about refuting that statement; that's... not how finance works anywhere on the planet.

People do trade stocks with the expectation of stocks rising or falling in varying periods. People also hold stocks for long terms and then sell them afterwards. Just like cryptocurrencies!

However - it's just not the same. A share in a company has evolved and subjected to regulation for hundreds of years. An IPO is a highly regulated legal process involving investment banks and many lawyers (and that is how it should be - so that we don't have con artists running ICOs). It is sold by a company that generally provides jobs and services to society. It represents an actual piece of ownership in that company - if you have enough shares, you impact how that company is run. There are many other points I could make differentiating the two comparisons entirely.
I think you missed the part where those other, less-productive hours in my workday are spent in meetings with others. As in, that's part of my normal workday. And yeah, it may not be productive in the way I like, but it's necessary time to effectively collaborate.

This idealized notion of "when I feel like it" workdays is particularly unrealistic in a workplace where you collaborate across timezones. I work best in the morning Eastern time, and I have teammates on the US west coast. If there's any chance of working with them instead of around them, I can't just say "eh, I'm less productive after 11am Eastern, so I'm just gonna call it quits."
Sure nukes aren't generally used for heating, but in places like Russia and more frequently China, district heating directly from nuclear is very much on the table. And electric heating isn't exactly far-fetched of a proposal either. If we ramped up carbon-free electricity sources like nuclear, hydro, and intermittent renewables we could couple that with more electric heating pretty reasonably.

Damn, you're right that it's US only. Ok [1], page 11. Still only through 2016 though. IRs are the fastest growing but they're still very tiny. We have a lot of work to do to decarbonize.

https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/en/corporate/pdf/energy-ec...
PostgreSQL with jsonb columns can be quite powerful, best of both worlds; but yes the syntax for querying within json is a bit arcane.
Imagine one human probe, with one little algea splash landing in a ocean there. We would be the re-creators of the green goo scenario.
!g redirects to google.com, so the results are not displayed or anonymized by DDG. If you want Google results without Google tracking, check out startpage.com. (!sp in DDG)
I'm not entirely confident that's all that much different than a large segment of the people trading stock on robinhood, too.
I most productive in the morning too, I get into the office around 8:20am and leave at 4:20ish.

I can get the most work done between 8:20 - 13:00 or so, then lunch, then the productivity tails off after that
Agreed. This should be a policy and etiquette issue not a forcible restriction of human communication.

Imagine your teenage child attends a concert and needs to call you to escape a dangerous situation. There are so many situations of nuance that a blanket ban disrupts in a negative way.

This is a very shallow way to deal with a complicated issue.
> No. An appeal to authority is always fallacious.

Says who? ;)

> Your heuristic may be useful, but it is just that - a heuristic, not an argument.

Indeed, but in many but the most trivial cases (stuff like newtonian physics, or computer science, where most arguments are easily falsifiable) heuristics is all we have. Just look at the set of comments we are currently part of, e.g. many of the p-value posts, or the criticism of the small sample size. Those are valid arguments, but also wrong. But how can someone not trained in empirical science find out? Relying on an authority (relevant to the topic at hand) is a valid way to be wrong less often.

To put it pointedly: How do you know its always fallacious? Have you actually proved it yourself, or is this from a textbook/the internet, e.g. - from an authority? ;)
They want to become a mainstream browser again. A less evil Chrome.

Commendable I guess but I have no interest in supporting the internet economy.
I think it's in the hips and pelvic bones, mainly.

Reptiles and some dinosaurs have a sprawling, splayed-out posture. Other dinosaurs, birds, and mammals have independently-evolved upright postures. The birds apparently evolved from the splayed-hip dinosaurs rather than from the upright-hip dinosaurs, so a change in hip structure could be a decent dividing line.

But strictly speaking, birds (Aves) have wings as their forelimbs, rather than arms. The (extinct) moa is an exception in that it had no wings, but that is because it had no forelimbs at all.

It is very likely that other theropods besides the birds also had feathers, but it is rare for soft tissues to fossilize, so it can be hard to say what the scale and feather coverage was like for a given species when all you have is a partial skeleton. Determining coloration is almost impossible, though it has been estimated from especially well-preserved fossilized impressions of feathers that showed different spacing between the microstructures on the feather.
"If you're interested in something not shown on the benchmarks game website then please take the program source code and the measurement scripts and publish your own measurements."

https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex

Like this guy does -- https://pybenchmarks.org/
I still use rel="noopener noreferrer" on _blank links, but it's less of an issue than it was when first reported.
How are they transferring the BTC to your wallet without paying the network/mining/transaction fees?
Downvoted by those who must have fantasized that I abhor poetic repetition and therefore don't like Lovecraft's writing. I adore poetry, and only the most admirable poetry can leverage and benefit from repetition. It's a terrific passage. However, perhaps it's understandable that Lovecraft fans would reflexively indulge in a fantasy about what I wrote and why, however...
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It's depressing to see adults participate in such a stupid publicity stunt. Their silly clock was at 7 minutes to midnight during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Does anyone think we're in a more dangerous moment now than we were then?
I'm the opposite. I try and get every meeting possible in before lunch time, then I eat, and then I work until I have to go home. If I were a manager, I'd probably have less control over this... but if someone asks to meet with me after 2p, I always make an attempt to just have that same meeting the next day at 9a or 10a.
> I mean does amazon allow you to return movies after watching them for 2 hours?

I don't know what Amazon's return policy is, but most games are longer than 2 hours.

Looking at https://howlongtobeat.com/stats_more.php?s=Most_Submissions and the top 10 games, all of them are much longer than 2 hours. Some are on the shorter end of the scale, but in general a 2 hour playtime return policy seems to be about right.

I would also bet that if your game is only 2 hours long, you would have coffee-level pricing, and users probably wouldn't bother refunding if it's that cheap. Maybe I'm wrong about that though.
I think this is accentuated because for a lot of people, when you move across the country right after college to work at a big company like Google, it becomes your life. Early on, you don't know anyone and you spend way too much time working because that's what you do when you're fresh out of college new hire in a new town. As time goes on, most of the friends you make are friends from work and even if you get a pretty healthy work-life balance, a lot of your free time is spent hanging out with your friends from work.

So when the time comes for you to leave the company, you aren't just leaving the company, you're leaving your entire life. It's the life change of leaving your job, getting divorced, and moving to a new town all rolled into one: it is one of the most significant events in your life, and you can't not think about it and try to understand it and explain it to other people.