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Great article, started very easy to read, then it got to the math section and it lost me.

Any developers like me that get lost at the math?

I really wish I could contribute and learn more about this field, but every time I try, there is a point where I hit a brick wall and turn away.
Rents will increase, your mortgage will not if you're locked in. The resale value of your house will be pushed down by reduced affordability, but pushed up by higher rents and cost of goods. Ultimately owning a hard asset in an inflationary period is a good idea.
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/71465

I couldn't find it for solar but it should be similar if I remember correctly. China has created almost TWICE the number of GW of capacity for wind than the United States but USA still gets almost the same renewable energy from wind as china because US is 93% more efficient at generating wind due to a whole lot of reasons, but primarily because of capitalism and market economy driving decisions rather than the State.
I would pay. I treat it as subsidising alternative to greedy, dated and crusty Hollywood. I don't mind that there is rarely something to watch. I am happy that couple of times a year can binge watch some new series. Works out cheaper than cinema.
Is Go a programing language that lands you a job the fastest these days ?
Correct. And I know for at least Canada there are circumstances where you can be denied a renewal if you don't meet income requirements.

Let's say you refinance from 2% to 6% and your mortgage payment exceed loan to income ratios, you might have to sell your home.
> they're putting some work into making it look cool

They might be trying to make it look cool, but what they have accomplished is to make it look corporate, which is pretty much diametrically opposite of cool.
Blind Reviews Experiment to remove code reviewer bias on Bugzilla and GitHub
I tried answer questions the best way I could and I had nice respond from asker mostly like it

BUT

there was almost everytime some smartass (with higher points than me and voted down my answer) who had some problem with that - bad words or word-order (i'm not kinding); too short answer etc.

So I left.

I wanted share my knowlidge but they didn't wanted them. Now admins/owners are crying. Just epic!
I probably have an unpopular view on this, but this isn't the point for me. I don't think people are evil for not working. In fact, if I could manage it, I'd skip it myself. Working is hard work, and I'd prefer to do less of it. The problem I have is that, in order to have productive output to give away, somebody has to work to produce it. If that somebody is me, and I'm producing enough for myself and another person+, then that means I have to work that much more to fund it. It chafes me to realize that I'm missing time with my family and friends in order to work for output that I don't even need.

I'm not an absolutist about it, and I'm happy to help people who need the help. However, I think it's reasonable to expect people who are able to pull their own weight.

+ just for the sake of simplicity, hopefully in a real system the fraction I'm supporting is less than one

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No they mentioned a price increase for monthly subscribers before, this price increase is for annual subscriptions and will come in effect in May for new users. Renewal subscription increases for existing members are effective June.
I actually pay more, so I can stream on more devices at once in 4k. It has entertainment value. I have no problem $15 a month for something that helps me relax after work or calms my child when she's upset that her mother and I are doing housework and I wouldn't have a problem paying that once a year as a lump sum. The Prime Video catalog provides none of those benefits as there's just not that much good content. Even the children's programming is mostly knock-off versions of popular shows/characters. The price isn't the problem, it's the value proposition.

The true value of Amazon Prime is shipping and as others have mentioned, the near instant-gratification aspect of same/next day delivery has been bad for our spending habits. Waiting a day or two extra isn't a bad thing and plenty of vendors offer expedited and/or free shipping without a yearly membership.
Oh, you know, that's interesting. I hadn't even thought about talk radio, but you're absolutely right.
At some point, you realize your family is more important than a few extra dollars and an org chart.
What a marvelous series of letter. I would sure love to have dinner with these people!
wow, lot of Flask haters here.

I personally love it and have used it for a ton of smaller projects. For example, I just deployed this a couple days ago: http://dadjoke.info
I got downvoted to oblivion the first few times I asked questions on Stack Overflow. It made me review the FAQ and rules and do my utmost to make it easy for the people donating their time and expertise to help me.

You know what I do when someone is mean to me on the internet? I roll my eyes, have a chuckle and get on with my day.

Stack Overflow has a huge problem in the last couple of years with the amount of unhelpful comment spam by karma junkies who know very little about the problem area. There is a problem of declining quality in answers, as answerers have abandoned the site because of frustrations with the low quality of questions.

SO was never designed for beginners. It was designed so that a good question can produce canonical, definitive answers that benefit thousands. Total beginners benefit more from a back-and-forth style to grasp concepts as traditional forums or chat communities cater for.

If they blame their declining utility on the conduct of the users waiting for the admins to do something about the ongoing Eternal September it will be their downfall.

Thankfully I am past the generation that has embraced the idea that having your ego bruised is the worst thing that can happen to you, so I'll just roll my eyes and move on.
Jordan Peterson – Why Jews Are So Successful [video]
I think there are plenty of teams of this caliber out there. They're just working on less impactful or more stubborn projects. If Bell Labs hadn't existed, I believe it wouldn't have been long before most of the breakthroughs that came from there came from other places instead.
Yes, but they are nosebleed expensive and are shrink-wrapped around a set of threat vectors common to all their customers.

The privacy concerns with commercial endpoint stuff are comparable (though not the same; with some endpoint tools, it would be difficult for a manager or a random IT person to snoop on what you're doing). The concern about operationalizing is mitigated somewhat, but only if all you're doing is malware/public-threat-feed stuff.
ps- Paying Amazon for Prime doesn't stop anyone from paying for Netflix because the Prime catalog is not an equivalent service. I currently pay for both. Now I'm only going to pay for one.
My WRX was just getting to the end of its life (in terms of rock-solid dependability) when I moved to Texas. And at that time I no longer needed the AWD. So I went shopping for something else fun without that requirement, and BRZ was high on that list. But I wanted rather more power. I even put the decision off for awhile when I saw rumors of a BRZ STi.

But in the end, I went for a Hyundai Genesis Coupe, which has all the power I could ever want. It seems like there's a sizable chunk of GenCoupe drivers who got there through a similar path.
if you don't see the point of people taking pictures and videos of a lot of things in general, then why post it in a thread discussing a device in a product category made specifically for that? It's like saying that you don't see a point of music in a thread with people discussing a new Yamaha piano, and then you attribute that as a disadvantage of that piano.
The surgeon chose to become a surgeon.

Are there places where enough people make the moral choice to support as high a standard of living as Norway?

Edit: I mean, it seems you're saying that there are enough good humans to support a nice enough society that we should all have that much free will. But is that what we find in real life?
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The article confuses me with its enumeration of multiple points of argument that appear to amount to the same thing (UBI isn't feasible "because of the cost"; UBI isn't feasible "because taxes have to be high enough"). Also, it features seemingly contradictory arguments such as those from Feldstein, who says that UBI would require impossible tax increases and also that NIT would be fine.

One argument that isn't contradicted by its proponent in the article is that of Smetters, who says the evidence is that automation replaces some particular jobs, but does not reduce the aggregate labor opportunities for the great majority of people. I don't share this optimism but I can see why those who do would be uninterested in even posing the question of feasibility for a sweeping change such as UBI.
Yeah, putting groups over the individual and dividing the world into oppressed vs oppressor is problematic to say the least.

Jordan Peterson is a good resource on this - he's studied it extensively and talks about it a lot. I'd recommend watching his lectures to anyone interested in learning about it.
There have not been a release announce yet, but they are updating docs.

Please, consider help seeding the torrents.
I agree, if someone (SO, your city, or anyone else) finally improves their community in a way that benefits everyone, that's a good thing.

And if, as is often the case, past complaints had little effect until a particularly favored interest group spoke up, it's also an opportunity to listen more effectively to people who may have been ignored.
Stack Overflow is a reflection of most internet communities, which show that many people are assholes.
That sounds like a flag, not an eFuse. I'd expect something called an eFuse to be some form of one-time programmable non-volatile memory.
> just say hello as if nothing was happening

I think the psychology here is that if you behave as if what you're doing is ok and not suspicious, most people will accept that. Same thing for instance when I've gone and picked up my wife's locked bike at her job and put in the car. Most people assume that if I'm doing it publicly, I'm not doing anything shady.
Apple Officially Discontinues Its AirPort Wireless Routers
Sure, why get a job that pays 54K if you can later get a job that pays 150k + equity?
I think the problem is the older generation of tech workers are not mercenaries.

I know a lot of older tech workers supporting important business systems while their skills slowly become out of date.

They are frequently adding $1 million+/year in value while being paid ~$100-$120k/year.

The businesses would pay $250-$350k/year if they had to.

If the older workers were demanding the premium and saving the $100-$150k/year extra after taxes then being out of the job market for a year or two to reskill wouldn't be a problem.

Luckily most of the younger generation are very mercenary and are in tech for the money. So it's a problem that hopefully will fix itself.
My brother owns a coffee roaster and cafe in suburban Chicago. Like a lot of new retail businesses, they use Square readers to take credit card payments. He's now selling beans over the Internet; the way he did that was to set up a store on Square (like most retail business owners, he has better things to do than optimize how he sells stuff online).

But Square's current online store offering _sucks_. It won't soon.
Unfortunately cops and their armories are not fitted by necessity, but by desire for the latest and greatest, and by vendors pushing product and offering personal incentives for purchasing from them.

a lot of the same stuff that happens with pharma companies happens in law enforcement, or any other industry in which corporations are asked to bid upon the right to fulfill a contract for pay.
Could they put the brain in a cyborg body...and extend life ad infinitum that way? Seems to me this might be the ticket to immortality.. Way better than downloading your brain, just move it to an indestructible vessel.
> have become two of the most valuable references in existence

Well I'm not sure about that. Wikipedia is the better of the two, but that's a low bar. Articles are poorly written, inconsistent, and targeted at wildly variable levels of existing knowledge. I rarely use it for anything other quick lookups of trivial facts (and even then only for unimportant purposes). It's much-visited, but that's an indicator only of ubiquitous availability. I remember long ago reading some study or other comparing its quality favourably to old-fashioned encyclopedias, but it was just a fairly risible surface fact-checking operation. Of course Wikipedia is huge so there may be vast areas of excellent quality unrelated to my interests.

SO is worse, but a little more useful because of its narrower scope.

So, no, IMO toxicity of community and quality of output aren't related (in either direction).
I saved 30k in three years while working at Target. I am world class at needing less than I make.

But being able to save money doesn't change the ability to see possibilities as actually possible which is the fundamental reason so many people are not going into "skilled labor" trade jobs.
Beset by Homelessness, Rising Rents,  SF Cracks Down on Dockless Scooters
Why? If anyone can print the cards and therefore play the deck that they want then the game comes down to a limited amount of luck (as decks are randomized before play) and skill in both play and construction of decks.

This has become a more pronounced issue as realistic counterfeits of Magic: The Gathering cards that are no longer in print and in some cases cost more than a car are starting to appear on the market. They can be detected by a trained eye, but to they look "close enough" to a casual or even sharp observer. While the people producing the cards and discussing their quality often say "these cards are intended for use in decks but not to trade or sale as if they were real cards", some in the wider Magic: The Gathering community feel very strongly that legal action should be taken against the producers, sellers, and in some cases, even the users of these cards.

On a practical side, using non-genuine, non-WotC produced cards is against sanctioned tournament rules - from Friday Night Magic up to the Pro Tour, but what right do others have to tell me what I can and cannot allow in non-sanctioned play or at Commander night with my friends?

That said, my friends and I often "cheapass draft" in our homes - we generate random boosters, print them on paper, cut and fit them atop bulk commons in sleeves, and then draft/battle for the cost of six sheets of color laser print. No money changes hands, we're never going to try and pass off these obvious printouts as anything other than playtesting.

Just figured I'd expound on the ethics - both societal and personal - around this topic since you questioned them.
Asking for a salary doesn't sound greedy.
Red Ponzi expands until it doesn’t
A Million-Dollar Cancer Treatment: Who Will Pay?
The headline is rather misleading — the SEC penalized Yahoo for not disclosing the breach to investors, not for the breach itself.
> The identity is so completely soulless, and the logo is the opposite of timeless

So true. When I look at the new logo, it reminds me of Adidas in the 1980s.
All programming languages have a limited scope of applicability that is a natural product of the design choices that went into them. The idea of a general purpose language that is exactly the right fit for every task at hand is a myth.

There's nothing wrong with designing a language that is particularly good at data analysis, and which emphasises those features at the expense of others.
> you usually don't even remember how much you paid last time.

Amazon doesn't inform users when the year is up and your card is being charged again (unless the card has expired or some other issue).

They've become pretty good, however, at tracking/surveilling their users to "improve services" and spam your inbox with product offerings but they can't manage to let you know when charging you for Prime.

In contrast, I use a prepaid cell service that I set up to charge monthly. The day before a CC charge, I get a SMS message informing me that my card will be charged. The next day, I get a confirmation SMS about the results.
I don't care so much about the way a sight looks so long as it works well. Both the go and python sites work well for me, thus they're models in my mind for well documented languages.
The proposal makes me sad as well.

As someone who uses Go everyday -- professionally and personally -- Go's branding was always simple and fun, which (to me) was reflected in the language itself. The new proposal is trendy, but Go was never about being trendy -- Go as a language explicitly rejects so many trendy features from other languages. Go to me is simple, fast, fun, and doesn't change a whole lot (a very good thing).

Most of the Gophers I know, myself included, are a little weird and different -- in a good way. So was the branding. I liked that... and I'm going to miss that.
Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibiotics
GitHub solved their "thank you"/"me too" comment problem elegantly with the heart and thumbs-up emoji reactions for comments.
Genealogy Websites Were Key to Big Break in Golden State Killer Case
The word undisclosed in the title is doing the work you're asking it to, as far as I can tell. How would you choose to word it differently?
I think the core problem is that they've focused too much on being like wikipedia (a single authoritative, comprehensive answer to each important question), and not enough on helping people to learn. Over time a site will grow a culture, and experts on the site will outweigh and overrule experts on the subject matter. In this case, we're also seeing answerers' needs outweigh askers'.

If you could only meet the needs of one constituency, I'd say they made the right choice to favor expert answerers, but I think there are other solutions.

Specifically, if I was trying to fix this I'd set up a two-tier system for questions and answers. There are lots of people who would be happy to answer questions, even if the question is a dupe, and even if it's not framed very well. Give people points for answering these in a kind way, and moderate around that.

For questions that are sufficiently well-asked, and not duplicates, elevate them to a wikipedia-like status: allow them to be indexed by search engines, make them easier to see by the expert answerers that dislike sifting through novice questions, and moderate them for quality. Give points for people that review and elevate high-quality, non-duplicate questions, or that edit questions to become high-quality.

If there are very different personas that you're trying to appease, sometimes a multi-tier system is appropriate.
until you work in a unionized shop that is over-serious about it. i made the mistake of moving the trashcan outside the door, and then had to sit through a union lecture about doing someone else's job. didn't work for that company any longer than it took to find a new job
This is great, it’s rare to hear poetry I can identify with. Thank you
You may find more joy in a game like Tropico.
Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps
Exactly, if you are more prone to sunburn, wear more sunscreen. Same as handling your own feelings.

And yes, feelings are completely in your head. Things happen in the world and your mind reacts a certain way. Nobody else knows how you will react nor do they have any control of your consciousness.
I'm sure if the aggregation of all gathered points in user-profiles will be abandoned or "toned down", some of the powerplay will cede, because it will be about good answers only and helping each other out, not personalities. I benefit from that community alot, thank you to everybody who is contributing.
Reason? I think it's because I was 41 when I started.

The implication of your post is that the hiring managers responsible for 3500 jobs are *all" discriminating on age. That seems unlikely, if only because there are people in the UK tech sector older than that who can still find roles, so evidently not all managers discriminate.
There are many in the pipeline. HP is going to launch a bunch in June.

AMD said they expect 25 Ryzen laptops to launch in Q2 and 60 by year end
I mean, the crime here isn’t against users, it’s against investors right? That’s why the SEC involved. I don’t even know who enforces the meager consumer privacy protections we have these days.
I'm not over 50 yet (47) but I'm done applying for programming jobs and I don't want to get back into management unless it is my own company.

Currently I'm working full time as a data engineer for a local government agency waiting for some side business to take off.

Just started a productized service business offering "an elite squad delivering a complete web application over a single one-week sprint" (the idea is to take some business process currently managed through spreadsheets+email and turn it into a web application - complete with reports, filters, search, permission control and etc in one week).
It's not classism, people don't want to do grunt work because it's tiring...
Does anyone have any more information on this? How do the police get access to DNA from genealogical databases? Do they need a warrant for a specific persons DNA? Do the police check for matches or does the company?
"I left my key in my room as well as my wallet, so I don't have ID" is so effective when they do ask for it. Social Engineering has always been an effective method for getting around security.
Ah yes, "PHP "security"". Yes, untrusted user input going to the shell is a bad idea, even when "sanitized".

Of course, unlike other saner languages, bypassing the shell isn't always an option. When running under Apache, pcntl_exec() isn't available, so you just gotta hope rely on escapeshellarg(), addbackslashes(), and prayer.
> Almost everyone on SO uses a variation of their real name. I suspect you are a smart enough person to know that that is far more than enough to engage in racial and sexual discrimination.

Note: A significant chunk of them, yes, but not almost everyone, as far as I know. Looking just at the front page right now, out of the 96 users, I see 7 users whose name begins with "user" (like "user2141351"), at least 13 who have names like "xyz" or "NRA" or "SSB" or "BmyGuest" or "saladi" etc... that's at least 20% of my sample.
Someone wrote this in the comment section of the article: "One of the most inspiring factoids for me is that a mere 10 years ago, 10 GW was the total accumulated installed capacity for the entire planet. And here we are with 1 single country installing that in 3 months."

If true, this is amazing !
As someone who has worked as a shipyard welder and a mechanic... Good lord, yes, working most trades are going to be much harder on your body than sitting around. It is not a close comparison.
I agree that government disincentives would reduce gas use, and also that people are selfish. You, for example, are using electricity, the manufacturing and commerce systems that produced your computer, and all the infrastructure of the internet to make a post on a little known website for hackers, that will ultimately have zero impact on the result of things.

Now, you could go live in a cave, and it would reduce your consumption footprint more than if I drove a Kia. Yet you don't. Nobody does. Either we will figure out how to control climate change with world-scale engineering, or we will cease to exist as a species. My Mustang, my neighbors 7000lb hybrid truck (lol), they aren't going to make the difference. So yeah, I'm having fun while Rome burns. Probably going to drive the V6 up to mammoth for the weekend too, and the ski lift will consume energy to lift my fat ass to the top just so that I can slide down a hill going "wooohoooo".