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Bill Joy's complete quote: The Smartest People in the World Don’t All Work for Us. Most of Them Work for Someone Else
It’s too small to be valuable, it’s actually more useful in the larger diplomatic game as a proof of goodwill on both sides. If it went to one country, inevitably someone wouldn’t agree with the decision and it could become a divisive symbol. I think both governments are actually happy that they get to share costs to maintain a slip of land nobody cares about anymore.
That is interesting - I guess by using scrypt for passwords you're encouraging crackers not to bother brute forcing (it isn't worth your time), wheras in a cryptocurrency you're actively encouraging that behaviour? Well spotted.
former Glassdoor employee here.

I see lot of people complaining about their reviews being removed from Glassdoor (GD) site and the occasional allegation that GD take money to remove negative reviews.

AFAIK glassdoor doesn't take money from any company to remove negative reviews. I left GD a year ago so things could've changed since then but I doubt it. People complain because their reviews were removed but have you read it objectively ? Do you single out a particular person because that's against GD rules.

I know a former coworker of mine (@GD) who left a 1 star review. His review was promptly removed from GD page because he was bashing his manager. For a small company like GD it's easy to figure out who that manager is based on the employer title. After removing his review, he was given an opportunity to edit it but he refused to edit it. I wrote an OK review for GD after I left and it's still up there on GD site.

As for fake reviews it's hard to remove them automatically. A good number of people uses those temporary email addresses to leave a review (10min emails) so you can't really compare the email addresses. I guess they could compare the IP addresses and remove duplicate submissions from the same IP ? But sometimes multiple users share same IP (correct me if I'm wrong) so that would result in more confusion and allegations.

When I joined GD any engineer could access the reviews table on production/admin page but they have tightened it up since then. only selected engineers have access to production table and they started implementing granular controls on the admin page. I remember seeing fake reviews on my previous employer's page but I chose not to flag them. My former employer's CEO himself left more than three 5 star reviews to bump up his ratings.

Nowadays I use GD for job search, reviews, interviews and benefits research. Salary data is very unreliable especially for engineers in the Bay Area. I know they keep talking about archiving old salary data or making adjustments but I don't know if they ever implemented it.

The thing about reviews is that you have to read it between the lines. If it's a 5 star review and the only con says something like the commute sucks there's a good chance that it's a fake review.

About Salary: they did release a Know Your Worth tool sometime in 2016 which is pretty accurate in my case (Bay Area + Sr. Software Engineer). Ironically I know a few people who left GD because of this tool :)
Is that provably inevitable for all online forms, or is “nobody knows how to yet”?

Governments act like all tech problems are the latter, but I would like to know if this is like encryption that only friends can break (never), or like self driving cars (most people call it impossible until five years after it’s been demonstrated).
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You're welcome to have your teeth drilled as you like. However, if you have a younger family member with more sensitive teeth you may understand that it's not for everyone. Imagine if your child jerked away for just and instant that caused the drill to cause more harm than good. The modern novacaine derivative my dentist uses lasts only about 30-60min after the appointment.

Because I was under the age of 18 and he was my parents dentist I didn't really have a choice. I didn't have any cavities as a child so my first negative dental experience was at 17 when he filled 4 molars "preventatively" (because he didn't know that epoxy capping was a thing). It didn't kill me, but it was an excruciating 30 min and an absolutely miserable day. The muscle tension pain from not moving took days to subside. Not a reasonable trade-off for me.
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> People here might be more willing to respond to your question if you didn't refer to a highly researched Washington Post article as a conspiracy theory.

People don't have to respond, trying to dodge the question with an appeal to authority proves my point just fine.

Your "highly researched" article doesn't deal with responsibility and seniority(mainly because there is no data for that) and makes funny claims such as "two very similar occupations, janitors (mostly men) and housekeepers (mostly women).", that's the equivalent of me saying "Worpdress development is similar to Enterprise Java Development" and for some reason one pays an order of magnitude more.
Short and long term disability insurance is common with professionals jobs in the US. After that social security kicks in.

The only think I can think of is the abuse must be rife in the Netherlands? Shit, at full salary I certainly wouldn't be in a rush to get back to work.
You are about 5 years too late. Skin trading is already actual gambling, there are many sites that allow you to buy skins then gamble with them and cash out money. This isn't a hypothetical, it is a business model and I would be amazed if publishers were not aware of it.

Steam's market is also regularly used for actual money laundering through trades and inflated buy orders.
Thank you for providing useful, concise, and well-formatted study citations. I'm not in academia as of this year, and it pains me to see this information omitted from posts that would greatly benifit from this. I'll do a better job at including relevant cites in my own submissions.
I've been thinking that possibly that is part of the problem. Kids don't experience being bored anymore, and working out ways to deal with a lack of constant entertainment/stimulation.

When I was a teenager I was frequently bored. Nothing on TV (we only had a few channels), no mobile phones, SMS, or online social media. You could call a friend on the telephone, maybe, if they were home and their phone wasn't busy. Once you were old enough to drive, and assuming you had access to a car, your options opened up a bit but meeting friends still took some planning.

I have teens now, and I can literally not remember the last time I heard the "I'm bored" whinging that my parents heard so often. They are never bored. They always have their phones, with games and connections to friends. I don't know if that's good or bad.
1) Because you don’t know who the offenders are until you show their content to a moderator.

2) Because zero-tolerance tends to result in over-blocking, and they already have a problem with banning content that shouldn’t be banned.
It doesn't matter if anybody's watching. It's just that to get any information out of the system you need to interact with it somehow. This interaction is what's causing the wave function collapse.
I don't know exactly why I do that. But every few weeks I login and browse through 100s of profiles starting with people I know, to suggestions I may know and then acquaintances of acquaintance and so on. I guess it is a mix of gossip and research for my personal consumption.
This is more complicated than you suggest. One toxic element of social media is that it's difficult to really notice these subtle effects. It's only in aggregate that the "bad" is really recognizable. E.g., on a surface level, it may feel enjoyable to view happy people living the good life, while subtle jealousy and a sense of inferiority may develop over longer lengths of time.
It's almost impossible to answer that question. Which is one motivation behind hidden variables theories of Quantum Theory that don't elevate observation to having a role in quantum phenomena.
Property based testing, e.g. http://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for Python, can help get lots of coverage with less effort. Works better in some domains than others.

I can't say percentage because sometimes I spend days on tests, sometimes I write no tests. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaq_e7qUA-4&feature=youtu.be... is my attempt to explain how I decide.)
Observation means interaction in any form with the observer (edited as per Koshkin's comment). Most things in the universe in practice have interacted or will interact. Interaction could be as subtle as a single photon reflecting off it and hitting your eye, or it could be you smashing your face into the object.

When they present the hypothetical Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, it's a thought experiment assuming somehow the box prevents all interaction between the cat inside and the outside world. In the real world however things like sound waves, light, x-rays, etc, will inevitably penetrate such a box. And even if the cat moves, it will cause some amount of detectable vibrations on the outside of the box. It would be impossible to theoretically prevent any energy from the cat inside the box to emanate outside as that would violate the law of preservation of information (even a black hole—the closest thing to an absolutely sealed box—releases information about its contents and expels energy).

There is no explanation for why the wave function collapses due to interaction other than "god rolling dice" and picking a collapsed outcome once such an outcome becomes relevant (through interaction/observation). Other interpretations of wave function collapse don't even suppose the collapse happens. For example in the many worlds interpretation, instead of having a single observer (the universe and its participants), there are multiple universes and multiple observers. In this interpretation there is no collapse of the wave function. Instead of many possibilities and one getting picked, there are many observers each independently observing one of the possible outcomes. Here the dice rolling still happens, but happens for every observer constantly (when deciding what outcome is observed next).
I always forget the "typical" web experience until I use one of my kid's android tablets, but uBlock Origin is truly your friend for sites like this. It makes the web sane again!
If a client are hell bent on cost savings from non-redundant disks sell them netboot (call it 'cloud') with a possible use of smaller local SSD for cache purposes and proper ZFS+RAID on the servers.
Your thoughts and emotions are things that you perceive, not things that you are. They can be ignored if they aren’t helpful, or changed for the better through practice.
Because they aren't omniscient, and the signal to noise ratio is very low when considering the total amount of data they can montor.
Anecdotally, I had a very intricate horizontal impacted wisdom tooth removal surgery done on barely any anesthesia because the thing was dangerously close to a nerve and I needed to be able to inform the dentist when he was getting too close to it (AR people: there is a market here for in-surgery diagnostic image overlays). It wasn't that bad (the healing process was more annoying), I was more focused on the ongoing procedure (but then again I was in med school before I decided to switch to computer science).

Slightly less anecdotally, I have a lot of doctor friends and while they may indulge in overwrought "look at how clever I am" medication schemes for ailments that do not really warrant it, I think that it's mostly because they feel that they don't have the time to rest like the author of the article (and this doesn't involve routine painkiller use either).

Some people argue that in my country (Italy) there is a cultural aversion to painkillers due to the historical influence of the Catholic Church, but it's hard to measure the effect.
> "You can fire a customer, but you can't fire your product."

On some level, money is morally neutral, but it's not like Facebook won't have enough "products" to sell if they dealt with those that violated their TOS more decisively.
General question - I don't understand why so many static site generates, github, many others, all use templates that won't fill the width of the page. Is using the full width of the page particularly difficult to design for? Or is it an aesthetic decision that template authors feel like having a 20 inch wide monitor with 8 inches of text in the middle flanked by 12 inches of white space is a nice layout? Particularly for code examples it's very frustrating seeing lines wrapped around unnecessarily on a large, wide monitor.

(sorry if this sounds like a rant, actually just genuinely curious).
> It's hard to believe nonsense like this still exists in the world.

What's even worse is that nonsense like this is becoming more popular and people are now actively supporting, not just in china but around the world.

Look at how censored social media is in the US. Look at HN with its censorship, banning and shadowbanning.

The promise of an open and free internet is dying very quickly. If censorship is supported in a "hacker" forum, what hope is it in the rest of the internet and world.
>At Facebook's scale, there is not a good way to do it. Even if they were able to scale it, it would not be good enough anyway.

Then maybe we need to place limits on their scale if they can't handle the problems their scale has created.
I like the point of looking at Europe, that's a good idea. Anyone have any stats for Europe?
> Bullying and mobbing are just so much more efficient.

That's a deeply insightful observation that should be centerpiece in this conversation. As others have pointed out it's clearly not "screen time", and if the effect is real, it's related to social media, not screens. My happiest days were spending 10+ hours on my Sinclair Spectrum clone, the screen certainly made me feel more capable and confident in my abilities than school work or social interaction.

Yet, my social interactions were moderated by the constraints of real life, that strongly dampen agresive tendencies. I can imagine in terror what it means to be a withdrawn teenager now: technology permits cutthroat exclusion of the undesirables while ridicule is instantaneous and viral.
Large amounts of sensory input with a certain rhythm affecting brain firing is known to happen; see seizures. And the idea has a pretty obvious mechanism. So your comparison is not fair at all.
> the lethal dosage is equivalent to about 20 pills.

It's really hard to accidentally eat 20 pills, especially when the usual does is about 4 per day...
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Only if you think there is some sort of moral equivalence between the governments.
> I strongly prefer 5 to 10 somewhat inconvenient minutes over having a numb jaw for a whole day.

Is it possible only a minority would consider the pain of a drill into the core of their tooth an inconvenience?
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Was considering this model... then I bought a GalliumOS-capable Chromebook for $180 bucks. It's not for everyone, but I think it's going to replace my RevA Retina MBP. ~20 hours of battery life, more than enough power to run Alacritty tmux'd SSH sessions to cloud infrastructure. Did I mention that it was $180?
My thought is that unless proved otherwise, the default assumption should not be "signal", it should be "noise".

There is little evidence that modern finance is a free market, or that (macro)-economic theory is all that good at making predictions.

Finally, this may be something we have to agree to disagree on. I look at financial markets and see too much irrational behavior and impossibly complex systems to make accurate predictions on. Without predictions we can test and verify, I don't place much faith in untested assertions, especially since the loudest voices tend to monetize giving advice like this.

Markets are predictable until they aren't. Economics has some interesting things to say about the behavior of people's rationality, but I have yet to be convinced that faith in the free market is anything more than seeing imaginary patterns in a complex system combined with survivorship bias.
Of course, but my real concern is the possibility that this happens and is not in a NOTAM.
I guess you could call it a hobby as much as anything. It feels more serious than that to me, based on the amount of time and effort I put into it. In addition to developing os-level projects for Plan 9 itself, I write interactive fiction games, which feels to me like a serious artistic pursuit, but most people would put interactive fiction text adventures in the "hobby" category. My brain doesn't really follow the dichotomy of using whether or not something is profit-making for how "important" it is. I understand that is an attitude that is somewhat a measure of personal privilege to not focus that hard on economic issues.
The article abruptly ended without its appropriate summation commentary on the cultural dependence on drugs inherent, normalised, and seemingly encouraged, in the US.

Admitting taking ibuprofen like candy? Even as a joke, it would only be funny where such behaviour isn't too far from normal. No wonder your pain threshold is low.
Opioids for wisdom teeth removal is insane to me (and 100% of the medical doctors that I know, and it's a lot of them). This is utterly disfunctional.
That's interesting. My dad (half German) is the same way. After having gone to the dentist and seeing that, I though to myself, if he can do it, so can I. I now prefer it over having a numb mouth the whole day.

I've never had to to anything beyond simple fillings so I'd like to think that's the limit for me.
“And nihilism isn't a bad thing.“

Becoming unwilling to manifest any faith in anything at all is absolutely a bad thing.
Rule of thumb says that it's ok to have 20 windows servers per 1 admin, or 2000 Linux servers per 1 admin. Linux is cheaper.
I think Facebook knows enough about its users to precisely identify the accounts that are likely to be offenders.
Worth pointing out here is harvey (http://harvey-os.org). Which is a descendent of Plan 9 but with updates for toolchains & architecture.
Thank you for sharing your story.
True and false. At the moment, they are inexorably linked if tracking how much and how well you move is part of your fitness plan. GPS tends to be part of a common and usually pretty smart way to do that. For people who are deployed, it's important to have metrics of personal performance and keep track of any progress or decline in physical capabilities. Using that data wisely makes them better at whatever they do.

The problem isn't just the soldiers and it's not just Strava, it's the culture around data itself. Tech companies that produce quantified-self devices or services need to realize the ENORMOUS responsibility they're taking on by collecting and using this data. Users need to realize just what it is they are sharing and how their data gets from point A to point D. Burying it in the fine print is not enough. Maybe people should get into the habit of looking at the data profiles each company has on them or at least being aware of the totality of what's collected so they can make better decisions. It is kind of ironic that the point of collecting this data is to help people make better decisions while this particular case is actually a collection of really bad decisions. Fire is both a useful tool and a dangerous chemical reaction, this is no different.

Perhaps there needs to ALWAYS be an option to route the data to a private server of the user's choosing instead. If that were standard practice, it probably could have prevented this problem.
Absolutely. Pain needs to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. I have experienced cluster headaches for decades. Then, a few years ago I had a small stroke which left me with central pain syndrome. After working with my local pain clinic, and based on my types of pain and inability to take some alternative medications, opiates were my best bet. With small, regular doses, I can function and work with minimal pain. I am not pain-free but these medications allow me to go about my daily activities with relatively few problems. So, in my case, the key was finding the right opiate mix and dose, ongoing medical monitoring, and long-term physical therapy. Opiates have a place in modern medicine and their use is not black and white. Lumping all types of pain, plus chronic vs temporary pain, is bad medicine.
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Powerpoint is not useful for engineering presentations. The problem is that most engineers SUCK at presentations. Consequently, Powerpoint looks useful because it forces an absolute minimum of organization onto shitty presenters.

To me, having a flip chart and/or whiteboard (preferably with ruled squares) is a necessity for a useful engineering presentation. I can operate in Powerpoint, but it requires a lot more effort. If I have to use Powerpoint for an engineering presentation, I'm either A) being forced by somebody in management or B) plan to give the presentation multiple times. In case B), I can amortize the time I have to waste putting the presentation into "Powerpoint Normal Form" over several iterations.
I spend 3 hours a day in traffic. That comes up to a 8 hour vs 11 hour work day. Transportation cost is about 5% of the salary. The 3 hours is completely lost too - it's not hours I can spend in contemplation. The biggest thing I cut from those hours is exercise, cooking, and grocery shopping. So this would cost me some more in health later.

So remote work is definitely a perk/benefit.

But I think the question here is that it's also a perk to the company; they don't need to pay for office space and all those other things. And there are less people who can fit the remote worker requirements.

So I would say that remote work should pay roughly the same.

Personally, I would take a big hit to pay to work remote, but this is only because on site benefits here don't include computers and comfortable seating.
> Observation means interaction in any form

Strictly speaking, this is incorrect. The interaction between a photon and an electron, for instance, or an electron in an atom with the atom's nucleus are not "observations" and do not lead to the collapse of the wavefunction.

Observation (a.k.a. measurement) in QM implies interaction with "classical", i.e. non-quantum mechanical object.