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What a profoundly insightful comment thread that is. Thanks for linking.
My brother-in-law is the director of sustainability at the company which operates Bright Angel[1] and El Tovar[2] at the Grand Canyon.

It so happens they're there this week for the company's annual meeting. Timely article.

They may not have exactly the same employment policy today, but working at the National Park concessions is still an interesting opportunity for young people (from around the world). Fresh out of college, my sister worked at Yellow Stone. There were other young people from all over. As a naturalist and photographer, she really enjoyed living 200 yards from Old Faithful for a summer.

[1] http://www.grandcanyonlodges.com/lodging/bright-angel/
[2] http://www.grandcanyonlodges.com/lodging/el-tovar/
I think it’s worth asking what impact they’ve really had on this basic facet of life

Absolutely zero, and have arguably made it worse.
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Amazon is not the only large company that objects to apparently discriminatory legislation. Just look at Indiana or North Carolina for examples.

It's the market that is influencing social policies, politicians are just responding to that.
Religion, like schools of philosophy, grow overtime as more theologians add to the thought.

Here is a theologian's thought on modern secularism, it is essentially a philosophical essay: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/02/the-metaphysics-...
I use an extension called Canvas Defender that does this. You can have it create a new "fingerprint" every so often. It also pops up an alert when a site requests a fingerprint. I believe Facebook uses the fingerprint as part of the browser profile to help combat fraudulent logins, as I get many more "new browser" emails from them with this extension than I did prior to installing it.
Development Manager here. I will tell you exactly why. It is a LOT of work to find people. I'm not shy in the community either. I go to user groups and job fairs. I have always been the "You find people by pounding the pavement" sort of person, but it takes an immense amount of time. Between all my other responsibilities, it just becomes too difficult to manage at times. I try to get people without using them, because they are extremely expensive, but it probably frees up another 10 hours a week of my time that I can spend on other things that are as equally (or more) important.

This is on top of the fact that it is emotionally draining. Every person you talk to as a manager that you try and get to work for you is a sales pitch. To get people that you really want, you need to be engaged and energetic and positive about the workplace, even if you feel down. On top of this, reading resume after resume is actually draining. There are many, many that are poorly written, and you have to slog through them, because 1. you want to see if that person really is any good, 2. sometimes you don't have a large enough pool that you can just immediately discount someone. Having someone clear out the first round of all of that saves quite a bit energy.
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Love what Bilal and the team at ClearBrain is working on. There's really no integration work if you already use Segment for analytics.
2016 had $90B revenues and 1.5B 30d active users (for YouTube) so $60 per year would be a good guess.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Googler but I just got these numbers from public statements. No way I'm well paid enough to be able to see more detailed numbers. :-D )
i have the same problem. i called my primary care to say i hurt my neck in the shower, they said the earliest they could see me was 2 months into the future.

i had step throat, they refused me antibiotics because although i had all the classic symptoms, the strep test was negative. a bottle of penicillin i had at home cured me pretty quickly.

i had pnemonia, i told them this was the sickest i have ever been in my life. my whole body was in pain and i had trouble breathing, especially at night. they told me to drink water and rest. after 2 weeks i got another appointment, i was in really bad shape. they told drink water and rest. 3rd week same, but i refused to leave. i reminded them i lost 40lbs, only then did they take a real look at me.

> "Not necessarily their fault"
I do put the fault on them. i think there is something around 'white male, send them home' mentality.
don't forget though that intel owns a sizeable chunk of amd (iirc)
Reminds me of this post to r/writingprompts somewhat recently:

> [WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG!

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7pf9gr/wp_a...
Speculation and access to market services aren't the only two reasons. They could also buy them to diversify a portfolio of assets.
Nice to hear, I have a pascal lisp project I need to revive, having gdb on my side would help
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I didn't say "has no valid alternatives". I just said it's hard. Gold is a specific element with specific characteristics that make it uniquely valuable for jewelry, electronics, and other industrial uses.

Gold has been out of fashion for currencies for many decades, especially since Bretton Woods; despite that gold had continued to be valuable because it has practical use, which is what people generally mean by intrinsic value, and definitely what dr_win meant.

It's not impossible that tomorrow you will invent some aluminum alloy that is way better than gold for jewelry, although it's certainly unlikely. But it would be very easy for someone to start offering yet another pseudocurrency that allows for "interesting digital infrastructure", which is what dr_win claimed was Bitcoin's intrinsic value.

Gold's demand is large and stable and it's supply is constrained. Bitcoin's demand as digital infrastructure is both small and unproven, and the supply appears bounded only by the number of hucksters in the world and the bytes of storage that they hucksters can command. That means that for dr_win's theory of intrinsic value, Bitcoin's should tend toward zero.
Do you concede philosophers never back up their statements with empirical evidence?
Bilal nice to meet you - have a high growth SAAS startup that this looks perfect for, what's the best way to get onboarded and give this a material try?
Why would you only include some of the overall time? All of our companies get clients based on our overall ability to help clients be more productive. Looking at just one part f the pipeline isn't likely to produce the best results for our customers.
Yeah that’s probably accounts managed by some random shaddy tool that follows tons of people in the hope of getting follow-back then massively unfollow everyone.
You can read pretty much any historical account describing the peoples of those regions, see frescoes and mosaics, and so on.

Besides, this couldn't be more racist towards Mediterranean people - perhaps they all look black to some. It wouldn't be the first time, mediterranean people (from Lebanese and Egyptians, to Italians, Greeks and Spanish) were also classified as "non-white" when immigrating into the US by racist WASP populations.
"Ultimately the problem is that their incentives aren't really aligned with yours. They're only incentivized to do the absolute minimum it takes to keep you around. As they control more and more of your world, they've increased your cost to leave and they can do even less to benefit you explcitly."

Are you criticizing Google or companies in general? Because your criticism applies to any company in the world.

> I like google's services. What I want is the ability to pay for them and not be a part of the product they sell in ads. Basically a freemium model.

Get a corporate gSuite account, they have been around for quite a while.
I guess external GPU as well as pro-audio equipment. NUC is super small and handy (I have 3 of them) and powerful enough CPU-wise to do almost anything.
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So, I have a relative who worked Microsoft UI, and know a lot about it from that. I understand all the design and user testing that was involved.

This is what I see:

With the ribbon, MS came up with something that was nice and innovative. But it was also incomplete. Unlike the menu, which was consistent across all the functions you might want to apply, the ribbon exists for some things, and then you break into this totally different UI for other things.

Is this ok? My concern is that with Microsoft's monopoly (still) we could argue until we were blue in the face about whether or not the ribbon as implemented was worth it or not, and will never know because there were not really any other options other than "ribbon or not." We can't tell if people just habituated to the ribbon's flaws, or decided that the pros of upgrading outweighed the cons, or were forced to upgrade, directly or indirectly, by the legions of corporate decision makers who were afraid to be lagging behind, or what.

Office has improved a lot since LibreOffice's predecessor, OO, emerged. In some ways I think MS Office is superior. But I still have this nagging feeling that we never know what we could have had if there were more competition, in terms of pricing, options, formats, etc. I also resent being forced to use MS Office for things that absolutely do not require it at all (e.g., by certain publishers, etc.). Because then I have to choose an OS that MS Office is on, and then certain hardware, etc. It's not the cost of MS Cloud or whatever anymore, it's that cost, plus the hardware infrastructure that's required to run it.

At the moment LO, for me, is competitive with MS Office, and meets my needs, and to me that's important.

I don't think there's anything wrong with MS charging for a product. What I do think is wrong is everyone requiring it, explicitly or implicitly, and there being lack of choice. At the moment I'm not even sure that's MS's fault--most of the time I encounter it I attribute it to laziness or inconsiderateness.
That's the problem. Anyone can apply for a job from anywhere. I find recruiters extremely valuable and I have about 10 companies that I work with regularly.

For context, I keep a spreadsheet everytime I look for a job, so any stats below are accurate.

1. My resume never goes into a black hole. I always know the status of my resume.

2. I always know the salary they are willing to pay before I start the process.

3. Recruiters generally get me to the top of the pile because I have a a track record of doing well in interviews with them.

4. I know more about the interviewing process because they debrief candidates after their interviews so they can warn me what to look out for.

5. I know what technologies are a must have and what technologies are a nice to have.

Recently, I've seen both sides of the coin from the same recruiter. I got my current job from going through him. Now I work with him to hire developers.

So the stats from my last job search in 2016 using recruiters. All of this was in a two week span.

jobs applied for: 16

recruiting agencies: 8

phone screens: 11

Hiring suspended/Req Closed: 4

offers: 2

in person interviews: 3

rejections: 1 (I took myself out of the running for all the others)

I would have never had that success rate randomly applying for jobs on a job board.

I had 6 phone screens in one day all with different companies.
Sure, that sounds nice in theory, but probably isn't practical.

Short of serious corruption, most cities are about as nice as their current tax base allows. Giving a company a tax break to incentivize that company to move into their city allows them to grow their tax base and improve their city for everybody. But it's not like cities are just sitting on potential attractors for employers to move in.
gSuite is exactly that: $5/month/user for the basic package, and does exactly what the grandparent wants.
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Yea the whole zen lineup seems to have been huge for the company. I switched from an older intel platform (i5 4690k) that i was using to host a bunch of virtual machines for development and play to a threadripper. the difference is night and day, and it's an affordable way for me to go to ECC ram since I've got the need for a lot of it with my use case. Very happy to see AMD making great strides again.
They started encrypting before the leaks happened.
Why are elephants higher on the hierarchy than eg pigs?
> I don't see how that would benefit anyone more than the current situation, where a degree program will typically require one or two philosophy classes.

From the point of view of students, it might be the same. From the point of view of the administration, not having to maintain a separate degree program and all the bureaucracy that comes with it frees up a lot of resources that could be better spent on other things. From the point of view of the importance of philosophy, I think it sends a better message to everyone when philosophy is officially "everywhere" than when it's confined to a tiny, chronically underfunded department known only to a select few who care about it.

> Did it seem to you that philosophy drew the kind of students (other than you, of course) who had no "force" to multiply, such that the philosophy degree program was a waste of time for them?

Fortunately, most people naturally have a range of interests.

But even if all you want to do is analyze a certain passage from Plato for the rest of your life, I wouldn't say that it's a total waste of time. That passage from Plato then becomes the force that you multiply, no matter how close to zero everyone else thinks its value is. There's a place for that kind of dedication in academia, and the true value of their work might not be apparent until centuries later. Humanity needs people like them. Our civilization can afford to subsidize them. Just not too many of them.

For 99.9% of people who have ever studied philosophy, I think the goal should be to use that knowledge to live a good life, make a difference in the world, and teach others to do the same. Focusing too much on an academic career distorts the picture.
>should I accept what anyone has to say about random things without asking themselves to explain themselves, including allegations about why it's not good for the wrist, and how it puts the spine in an improper position?

No, but a trainer's advice is better to accept than random internet suggestions.

If you want to question those, by all means, go to the medical literature and papers and see if those give more exact reasons or even disagree with said advice. Do you ask for those from your trainer or doctor too though, or usually just follow their advice?
> It doesn't have to be better, it just has to be the same.

I think you underestimate just how powerful good enough is in terms of inertia.
I sometimes like to dabble in C++, late at night, while sipping some whisky. For short periods of time.

Last night, I decided to "practice" writing iterators. Specifically, I wanted to write a class that i could use in a new-style C++ range loop that would give me all files in a directory. Useless but fun practice, I thought.

I had Bjarne's latest book by my side, and the final draft of the C++17 spec in open in a PDF, and it took me a good 2-3 hours of trying before I "got" it.

I'm still not sure I'm doing it correctly, btw. It does compile without warnings, and it works, but I can tweak the iterator function signatures in seemingly incompatible ways and it still doesn't complain and still works, even when I swear it shouldn't. "Ok, surely by doing this I'll break it!" - nope, still works.

I don't love everything about Go, and once in a while I'll wish for more expressiveness, but I was never, ever, as 10% confused with it as I am with whenever I attempt to do something seemingly trivial in C++.
I've always had a sort by price option on Amazon search results, are you talking about somewhere else on the site?
When someone else runs the server you use, and your account is tied to their server, you are at the whims of the server owner, and are not able to migrate your identity.
No-one is suggesting that everyone or even the majority of people in North Africa have "black" skin, but I'm awaiting references showing that North Africa was majority white at the time of the Roman empire. The guy in the cartoon has brown skin.
The import tells you that some of the expressions in a file might be functions, but not which ones. For each definition, you have to read the entire expression to tell whether it's a function or evaluated immediately, and what its arity is. No thanks! Reading the entire file just to find out its API is no fun.

I like the direction typescript is going, where you can easily see not only the arity but the type of each parameter, without reading the function body. This is more skimmable.
1. desktop or laptop?
2. does it get hot under load?
It's an organic mess that mostly works.

Lots and lots of art and comic strips through RSS (inherited from Google Reader <sadface.jpg> and read through Newsblur) and instagram, a few google alerts that are more often false-positives (which is fine, my search terms can't be any more precise), some IFTT recipes pulling from HN and twitter, personal blogs from authors I like.
Companies that grow beyond a certain size become laden with inertia and overhead. Smaller companies can come along and disrupt them. Facebook did this to MySpace. Someone will do it to Facebook, eventually.
The UN considers access to justice a human right. Depriving people of the ability to access the legal system through your overwhelming negotiating position is a pretty easy argument that it's unconscionable.

Realistically, it's enough to likely get past motions to dismiss, which means that the company will negotiate against a BATNA of a lawsuit instead of binding arbitration, which means you get much more money.
Yes, I am asking what those arguments are. Keeping in mind that “worse” is a relative term, i.e. it needs to be demonstrated how it was better at some other time, which the article seems to assume a priori.
The articles of confederation failed because they couldn’t ensure adequate funding for the federal government to guarantee internal and external security. Reading more into it than that is ahistorical. The Constitution sought to remedy that, but decidedly did not intend to grant the federal government power to carry out “any function necessary to the success of the country.” Education for example is necessary to the success of the country, but was then and still is now a state issue.

Complete economic integration is not necessary to provision a common defense (e.g. NATO). Inclusion of the Commerce Clause was instead a bit of a submarine trap. While the Constitution was sold to States on the theory that they would continue to be mostly sovereign, having ceded only narrow powers to the federal government, taking away states’ power to control cross-border trade left them castrated. Today, they’re mostly irrelevant except for the layer of inefficiency they add to the whole system.

Economic success isn’t the only concern (and there is no evidence that less economic integration wouldn’t have led to just as much success, and European countries are plenty prosperous with historically far less economic integration). At bottom, people were promised that they wouldn’t become one completely integrated country, but the Constitutional design made that promise a dead letter from the beginning.
Nobody here can tell you that officially, at least without breaking an NDA, but the answer is very obviously "yes".

Comparing apples to apples, AMD sells their Vega 64 flagship at a MSRP of $499, NVIDIA sells a product with an equivalent die size at $1200. AMD sells their cutdown at $399, NVIDIA sells theirs at $799. And that's before you figure that NVIDIA is using commodity GDDR5/5X while AMD is using expensive HBM2 on consumer products - NVIDIA charges between $3k and $15k for their HBM2 products. So half the MSRP, with a more expensive BOM.

AMD's margins on Vega are trainwreck bad. Some experts actually think they are losing money on every unit sold at MSRP, hence the "$100 free games bundle" on launch, and the de-facto price increases above MSRP during the fall. They're banking heavily on HBM2 costs coming down, and probably also on NVIDIA not being aggressive with the launch of gaming Volta (aka Ampere). Apart from Vega FE, they really don't see any of the extra revenue from the inflated prices during the mining boom either. That's all going to AIB partners and retailers. All AMD gets out of it is volume, and up until now they've been reluctant to increase production.

In contrast Ryzen is actually dirt cheap to manufacture due to its MCM layout. Their margins there are probably better than Intel, even with prices significantly below the launch prices.
So is md5
It is almost as if something is lost when communities become mainstream and lose their personality.
You honestly think that most horse meat steaks are from animals that were put down due to a leg injury?
> Religion is a oversimplification of philosophy doctrines.

No, it's not, though what most people are exposed to is, just as what most people exposed to philosophy by other means get is oversimplified. If you go beyond the surface, theology is no less deep than other philosophy.
On a lighter note, @marklemley says: "If the orca says 'thanks for all the fish' I'm going into full apocalypse survival mode."

https://twitter.com/marklemley/status/958756421952155648
It doesn't apply to all companies.

Apple, for example, has very strong incentives to maintain your privacy, to the point that they have made it a selling point for their devices and are also suffering in the realms of machine learning because they are not leveraging your data the way Google or FB would.
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Right, they're buying those from 3rd party data brokers I believe. This is the place where legislation is needed so people can own their own data. I would love to see some clearing house that sends out requests to people saying "Facebook or whomever is interested in acquiring your day" and you are given the option of approving or denying.
Sure. The voting aspect is my big gripe though. Without the voting they don't need the limiter. If the dumped the voting and allowed teams to innovate battery I'd be ALL OVER IT but they need dump the voting aspect like-right-now.
The "Founders" can go fuck themselves. Most of them believed in using state violence to enslave, rape, and murder non-whites, among countless other atrocities.

I actually agree with you on that. My point was just that the US stance with regards to tax-payer subsidization isn't some accident. And, again, one can choose to disagree with those Americans who want an extremely limited government, but one has to acknowledge that this is a position that is held by many people, for very rational reasons.
I've yet to figure out why anyone would consume any kind of content on Twitter.

I've used it for a while, and what I got is that it's goos for (and people use it) to spam others about your projects or show off. However, if you try to use it to get news or updates on anything it is the least efficient, most stressful thing I've ever used.

I see Twitter as a good tool for outages, natural disasters, and protests. That's pretty much it.