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You can afford kids at 31 these days?? Sign me up for one of those paycheques!

Kidding aside, for a 31-year old without children my time is consumed differently, but consumed mostly the same.

6 AM wake, workout 7:30 AM Make/eat breakfast, clean, get dressed 9 AM - 6/7 PM commute and work 67PM make/eat dinner 7/8PM - 10/11PM chores and home prod and/or more workout 11PM/12AM bed

and I'm usually behind on chores because I commit to other work/learning so as not to stagnate

Most days, anyway. We certainly have a little more flexibility without kids... but every year that passes before one could responsibly take that on...
> Doesn't the first amendment apply to citizens of the United States and not to hostile foreign agents?

It was supposed to apply to every US person, regardless of citizenship. For non-US persons it's a bit theoretical since there's no real way to prosecute anybody outside the US, but activities protected by 1st amendment for a citizen still shouldn't be a base for prosecution by the US government, even against non-citizen. But it turns out that if you declare someone "hostile foreign agent" - on basis as strong as "criticizing Hillary Clinton" - it no longer applies. I am, frankly, extremely scared of the power of the state security to prosecute any non-citizen for as little as publishing an opinion about US political matters.

And if you remember what happened to surveillance - which was sold as applying only to non-citizens with extraordinary safeguards applied if a citizen happens to be involved, and turned out being routinely applied to citizens as a course of matters, with very little resistance or oversight - I don't see how this could not be extended to citizens too.

But even if it's not - does it mean any non-citizen immigrant which speaks for immigrant rights, or supports DREAM Act, or opposes Trump on immigration policy, or does any other political activity, can be declared a criminal now? Have you thought through which exactly powers you are supporting giving the state and how these powers can be abused?
As a Redmond resident who,has investigated getting out, I sincerely wish you luck. I’ve kept an eye out in Idaho and Montana, and though the jobs are there, the pickin’s are slim. Denver or SLC might be a better shot for the first job, and more importantly, the second job when the first doesn’t work out.

Thankfully I’ve recently landed work in Bellevue (as opposed to Yet Another Pioneer Square Startup), so maybe I can hold off for a while longer. Love Redmond, but a lot of the work is across the lake. And, no, I’m not moving to Seattle.
he didn't claim that though,he said that that sexuality feels more natural to them.
We already have one can of worms open, I have no interest in opening another can by relitigating the entirety of the Bush/Iraq years; they were exhausting enough to live through the first time around. I'll happily concede that the US engages in propaganda, and leave it at that. (Well, not "happily", but you know what I mean.)
I get that Google made this change to settle with Getty Images - and I have some gripes about the PR-speak and implementation on Google's behalf - but I keep coming back to the same question. What grounds does Getty even have in a case like that?

Getty offered the images up on the public domain. Why does Google have any obligation to direct them to a webpage instead of the image itself? Isn't that Getty's problem? The "view image" button sent users to Getty's own servers, so why should Google take any heat over a feature Getty supports?

I think it's much shadier that Google is hosting copies of those copyrighted images for use in their own search tool, but this settlement does nothing to resolve that. That Verge article even posited a workaround which just uses the Goolge-hosted copy of the image! Isn't this the kind of stuff Google has invested millions of dollars into copyright-detection AI to avoid? And wouldn't images like that be covered by the DMCA anyways?

I obviously don't have any legal experience and copyright law is a nightmare, but I don't understand why Google would have make any compromises here aside from complying with DMCA requests.
You are not alone. I drive a car that is relatively old now, but well maintained and in good working order. I have no interest in buying anything in the current generation of half-baked "connected cars", where critical systems are now connected to systems that are remotely accessible, but assumptions from another time underlie the architecture and security is bolted on as an afterthought if you're lucky.

It's not as if the danger here is hypothetical. Leaving aside the immaturity of technologies like autonomous vehicles, I've seen way too many cars being compromised in more mundane ways, from theft because the remote unlocking mechanism was laughably easy to crack, right up to literally stranding a vehicle in the middle of a high speed road using a laptop that is somewhere else entirely. The consequences the first time someone compromises one of these remote systems and decides that every <some popular model> in the city should turn hard left or accelerate to 100mph or slam on the brakes are horrifying.

Get back to me when we have the same level of scrutiny of these modern vehicles as we see in air travel, and when not getting security right poses an existential threat to the manufacturer's business, and then we can talk...
Aw, thanks - he's definitely one of my favorite authors.

I think that when you're deeply cynical about people and are never given any reasons to think otherwise, it's easy to start acting like a jerk and generally lose sight of the fact that other people still share the same foibles and flaws and fears and insecurities as yourself.

Terry Pratchett writes the sort of books which remind you that even though you might completely despair of them, there is still something in everyone that is inherently worthy of compassion.

Too bad that human compassion and judgement tend to be the first casualties of all this convenience, huh?
The climate has impact everywhere. Here's the US Intelligence Community's point-of-view even thought "climate change" has, by decree, been made not to exist. To see how ridiculous this is, imagine what would happen if the Administration were to eliminate, by decree, the law of gravity.
I've gotten used to typing CTRL-[ instead of reaching for the Escape key because of the inconsistencies in its size and placement on various keyboards I use. Yes it's two fingers but you have to use CTRL in vim to get any benefit anyway.
Glad to hear you found a company you liked in the end.
I seem to be in a minority, but rarely do I want to use the `new Promise()` mechanism for creating a promise, and I get the distinct impression that having it be the 'default' is a bad idea -- the amount of times I've seen people wrapping up all their promise-related code inside the constructor, finishing off with `.then(function (x) {resolve(x)})` is disappointing :(.

async/await solves much of this, of course, but where that's not available I much prefer to keep all my async functionality actually async, and start off by using `Promise.resolve()`. Save the constructor for when you need to encapsulate some non-promise async code.
The comment I answered to specifically said "The indictments are for pretending to be Americans".
It's comfortable to blame poaching because it makes westerners feel less complicit.

But that's not at all what the article states:

>“The decline in population density was most severe in areas that were deforested or transformed for industrial agriculture, as orangutans struggle to live outside forest areas,” said a lead researcher for the study, Maria Voigt of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.
Node.js/GraphQL/Next.js/PostgreSQL/AWS Lambada (via up). Entirely serverless stack with the application state residing in the DB and a JWT to identify the user. No OS, containers, kubernetes, instances, etc to deal with other than a single RDS instance.
Why didn't you just buy the Commodore Programmers Reference Guide[0]? It had an entire guide to C64 machine language, and circuit schematics. The book even tells you to buy the 64MON cartridge if you're serious about programming in assembly. This book wasn't rare. A friend of mine had it, we lived in the middle of nowhere. These programs and cartridges were not rare. I had multiple catalogs for buying these things as kid. The best programming books had code listings on page, and line by line explanations on the facing page.

[0] https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commodore_64_Programmer%27s_Re...
You've managed to choose an arbitrary route that is an extremely uncommon commute and one of the worst possible commutes into the city. You're also neglecting time to find parking and the cost to park (and as long as we're mentioning costs, gas, insurance, and wear and tear on the car).
FYI: I have had very good experience using Centurylink (previously Qwest) for serving email from home. It is only $6/month extra to get a static IP with reverse DNS. In the 10+ years I have used them, the addresses blocks they allocate static IPs from have never shown up on a blacklist.

I know that for many people here DSL does not provide sufficient bandwidth to suffice as the primary home internet connection, and $60/month is pricey if you only plan on using the connection for email, especially compared to a VPS. It is much less expensive than paying for a business account with any of the other ISPs, though.
Forget public healthcare, I'd gladly live in Canada for this protection!
> Auto Updates without user interaction

Yes, but let's be clear about "without user interaction". That had better include "without user disruption".

Windows 10 is one of the worst abusers here: Updates are forced, and during updates, the computer is suddenly unusable. That is not okay.

Debian (derivatives, similar distros, etc.) has done it right for decades. Updates never block the user. Updates are consolidated, since every piece of software is a tracked package.

The reason your parents don't want to update Java is because they remember how much of a pain it was 10 years ago, and it doesn't really feel different.
The research for depression used much lower doses of ketamine than recreational use. One UK clinic was using about 80 mg as a max dose. https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/news/first-uk-study-of-ketam...

A large recreational dose may be 250 mg.

This is partly because the recreational dose is looking for different effects, so they use more. And because people build up a tolerance.
I bound caps lock to ctrl. I use it with ctrl-[ to escape in vim. Does everything I need.
Those OS X keybindings come from Emacs! I bet some vimmers would refuse to use them just on principle. :)
Its definitely sad to see in person where bordering on pristine primary rainforest are miles of palm plantations encroaching closer every day. Of course, don't forget all the problems caused by the farmers slash & burn tactics too.

Need to boycott companies and products that use palm oil! Make sure you read labels when you buy foods and choose more sustainable options.
Right, you speak for yourself (and probably the overwhelming majority). That is my point.
To be fair, Go never promised you the future. The documentation and community is pretty oblique about their values.
Sure I am, but they're a VPN service with a long history of protecting users from snooping. And they don't do business from the jurisdiction that I'm subject to. So targeted surveillance would be harder. Not impossible, of course, by major national intelligence organizations. But hey.

Also, I dont rely on just the one VPN service. I use nested chains of VPNs, and so distribute trust among multiple providers. Doing business from different jurisdictions. Just as Tor does with three-relay circuits. Sometimes I use private VPNs running on anonymously leased VPS.

Finally, each of my personas uses a different nested VPN chain, or Tor (Whonix) through other nested VPN chains. So linking my various personas would be nontrivial.
I'm not trolling here.
The people I know who have been successful athletes developed as a result of discipline and hard work, not because of risk-taking, and certainly not to their own detriment.
In some sense there is a layer, features related to railways will all have a railway tag (or be listed as a member of one of those features). There's some description here:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railways

In the sense of being easy to retrieve I guess it isn't a layer. Global railway data will be pretty huge, so Overpass-API may not work out if that is what you want. In that case, the strategy is to grab a planet file (a snapshot of the db) and filter it locally:

http://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/manual.html#filtering-by-tags

And then you probably have to translate the resulting data into a format that you would use for your map.

As to why you have to do that work instead of just pulling layers, it comes down to the core data model being focused on editing and there being many different end use cases (making it difficult to anticipate and serve each one).
I don't know...if you can't figure out how to install python on a local machine...maybe you don't have any business being a coder to begin with. I mean, come on...

edit: the downvotes from the delicate snowflakes crack me up...
i've played around a bit and with haskell and ocaml, very interesting languages. i've seen people do stuff with haskell that's amazing, though more in the realm of almost mathematical exploration than large, end-user software. (maybe there is some, i just haven't run across it.) rust also looks extremely promising (shame about the slow compile times, though that's getting better)).

but i wouldn't feel "duped".

those are much more ambitious languages than go; they're in a different space. go is simple, easy to learn, small...

(a lot what's nice about go is beyond the language too -- the whole ecosystem is just very pleasant to work with.)
No, that is the opposite of what the NLRB found. It's not quite as simple as political affiliation being protected (although in California it might be), but rather that under the NLRA, you can't be fired for the act of organizing to improve workplace conditions. The Advice Memo explicitly states in several places that had the Damore memo not advocated in favor of stereotypes against women --- something that is itself covered by federal and state employment law, requiring the NLRB to give deference to employers working to comply with those laws --- he would have enjoyed substantial protections. Much of the memo, according to the Advice Division, was protected.
Fun read. Though, I suspect this is what it feels like to be in a choir. :D

Small critique on presentation. The title clearly indicates there are two parts to this, a brief exploration on "code is data", followed by a dip into what makes lisp cool. Having some visual indicator saying "we are now at the cool part" would be good.
That’s sounds like a pretty serious issue for your quality of life. I would ask your workplace to fix it, pursue a legal remedy, or find a new job.

In the US, you might be protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act, which has some teeth. https://www.laborlawcenter.com/education-center/new-ada-guid...
>>> The assumed model in a lot of these discussions is that there is a pie of goodies that is divided, zero-sum, between sexes. But this assumes (or at least implies) identical utility functions.

I agree that this is a faulty premise. However, there's a difference between the pressure of social norms and whether this particular "zero-sum sentiment" is actually reflected in, say, US law or policy. I personally believe it's not, and I can't think of any policy or law that refutes that.
> Commuter buses … pay for the city buses that serve the disadvantaged

This is actually the opposite of the truth. Commuter buses are far more expensive routes to run due to both the distance (wear and tear, fuel) and the deadhead (empty) return trips. City routes cost far less to run per head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_Metro#Operating_co...

> Metro's higher-than-average cost per boarding can be at least partially attributed to its high percentage of commuter routes, which run at peak hours only, and often only in one direction at a time. As of 2011, 100 of Metro's 223 routes are peak-only. These routes require significant deadheading (particularly on the one-way routes), as well as a very large part-time labor force, both of which drive up costs.[29]

> Metro's lowest-cost route overall, route 4 (East Queen Anne to Judkins Park), had a cost per boarding of only $0.46 during peak hours in 2009. By way of contrast, Metro's peak-only route with the lowest cost per boarding was route 206 (Newport Hills to International School), at $2.04. Metro's highest cost route by this measure, route 149 (Renton Transit Center to Black Diamond), had a peak time cost of $34.47 per boarding. Route 149 serves the rural southeastern corner of King County.[30]

For the direct source, check out this PDF: http://metro.kingcounty.gov/am/reports/2009/2009-RtPerf.pdf

Starting on page 24 (20 in the document), you can see look at "Fare Rev. / Op. Exp. Ratio." The "West Subarea" is the city of Seattle; the East and South subareas are suburbs. You can see that the aggregate fare recovery per operating expenses is much higher in Seattle than in routes serving the suburbs.
Well, to be honest with you, I don't really know how to tell him. Perhaps it would be easier if we came from the same culture, but we don't and I don't want to sound patronizing or anything.
Nutella is also palm oil based.
Also highly on what you eat. If you travel and stay for a while you find to not being able to smell yourself quite often.
I work at JetBrains on https://datalore.io/ It's an interactive computational notebook for data science, which automatically recalculates code as you change it. We believe that such an interface lowers the barrier for entry into data science (and programming).
The 1517 Anti-Pitch Playbook
Noone really knows but i guess they are slowly doing this: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/venezue...
The best time with a car was 15-20 minutes. I haven't had that commute in 3 years so I'm not sure how it is today. Seattle is at maximum capacity, and it's spilling out into the larger region. I don't forsee commutes getting much worse, as if commute times get any longer, fewer people will commute, balancing out travel times over weeks to months.

A call to the absurd is a way to illustrate my frustration with the relative lack of return on the investment.
I seem to spend a lot of my time attacking this problem from one direction or another.

I'm currently writing a browser based editor/assembler/emulator for 8-bit AVR. I've made code-running MediaWiki plugins. I even got to the point where I made an entire client-side browser desktop environment.

At the same time as making tools to ease the entry cost, I'm also wary of making tools to conceal the complexity. Helper tools are beneficial, but once complexity is hidden it can grow unchecked. Being able to get a project set-up with ./configure or npm is great, but you have black-box that over time becomes more and more onerous to open up and have a peek.
It would be helpful to have this mentioned.
> From a developer perspective though, it sounds pretty boring. I’d not want to work in this type of environments.

Completely understandable. You should find a company whose
goals and practices align with your own.

Now obviously WhatsApp does get new features, I am sure it didn't stay the same since day one. But I think there is way to break up new features into small bits and then deploy it very gradually and carefully.

I guess that's the bottom line with their approach "be careful". It's mentioned right in the talk. If you're careful (and everyone else is) there is less need for complicated processes.
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> In one short paragraph you've changed the subject from Russian election interference to the separate issue of Trump's collusion

I am glad you are able to see it as two issues. 99% of the press isn't.

> you've characterized that collusion as a "conspiracy theory"

Which it most definitely is, by definition - it's a theory (with no factual basis after two years of investigation) and it's about a conspiracy. What is it if not conspiracy theory?

> somehow you've decided it's to blame for the rigged voting process within the Russian not-a-democracy

I decided nothing of the sort. Of course US craziness is not to blame for Russian fake elections. But US craziness makes it harder for US to point to Russians that they just had fake elections, because Russians would say "didn't you just said telling other people about their elections is criminal? So please do shut up". US just shot itself in the foot on this one, and for no good reason whatsoever.

> I have no idea what the bizarre "declaring anybody from foreign country speaking about anything happening in another country to be a crime" is in reference to

Oh, you do have an idea, drop the pretense. You are perfectly aware what I am referring to, you just like to pretend it's not what it is saying. But, unfortunately, it is.
They fixed compilation caching not to install in $GOPATH/pkg anymore which feels like a good step toward getting rid of it all together, eventually.
In case you are wondering: "generics" is mentioned 5 times (now 6) in the comments right now.
> Would Go programs just not compile on those OS versions, or not run entirely?

It means we are not going to test on those old systems anymore, so we make no promises about either.
Indeed, the study mentions soap by word only once (my second quote), in what I took as a counter-example to the products you listed.
Yeah, I realize how it sounds. Angry old man yells at cloud.
I used to work on user generated content in maps. Business vandalism is a big problem once you reach a certain scale. It's possible that OSM doesn't have this problem yet because it's not as valuable a target as Google/Apple/Bing. I'm not super familiar with what's available on OSM these days, but an unscrupulous locksmith might try to make competing locksmiths unreachable by moving their address to a distant location (locksmiths and taxi companies were notorious for attempted vandalism in the past).

Map additions are probably generally safe, although there are some spammy ones for various reasons. Map edits are basically all suspect because you never know when someone is trying to sabotage something.
> F# might be my favorite if it had fast compile times and native compilation.

i am sure you must have heard of ocaml and reasonml .. why didn't you consider them
I've had good luck with pfSense as a VPN client. Either as VMs, or on dedicated hardware with a decent CPU. If you're wanting more than 100 mbps, however, you probably also want a cryptoprocessor chip.
I think the intent of the second amendment was also very much about a man being able to defend himself when police forces were not around.

That being said, it's wrong to assume that a popular revolt would automatically lose an asymmetric war against the US military. History is full of examples of local rebellions winning against greater numbers of professionally equipped soldiers. See: American Revolutionary forces vs the British Empire.
Researchers create first superatomic 2-D semiconductor
My situation might be different because I live in a major US city, but I can think of a handful of independent bookstores near where I live. If they didn't have what I was looking for they could probably order it for me.
Yes... like I said almost exclusively affects Intel CPUs. Just because 0.001% of non-Intel CPUs are affected while 100% of intel CPUs are, doesn't make Intel's strategy forgivable. I'm tired of seeing it echoed everywhere.