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Free services and better terms from a union that you don't pay for because you know that you will most certainly get all the benefits of the collective bargaining, ugh!?
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You are underestimating the value of fun. Team sports are more fun that blowing glass.
As Facebook learned recently, people aren't willing to give much benefit of the doubt to solutions involving human review. Can you imagine a creator saying "I don’t think YouTube is doing this on purpose", as they did in this article, if some actual Youtube employee had clicked a button to demonetize?
I understand the problem with that, and agree with you.

While it can be very empowering to have a "sandbox" language, when it comes to shipping features and working in a team setting, it can require a lot of discipline to keep the codebase approachable for others. Languages like Go or even Python seem to help a lot in there by having strong conventions and an "obvious" way to do things.
I believe the law is that you cannot be forced to join a union but, in non "right to work" states, you can be required to pay the union dues depending upon the collective bargaining agreement.
Thermal pollution can cause significant ecological impact [1] when left unchecked; however, thermal discharge is regulated under the Clean Water Act [2], hence the usage of cooling ponds [3] and towers [4].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_pollution

[2] https://www3.epa.gov/region1/npdes/merrimackstation/pdfs/ar/...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_pond

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower
Collective action doesn't work when free-riders can benefit from the work of the collective.

Unfortunately, most US labour laws are set up in such a way that most gains made by a union are extended to non-union-members. The only viable response to that is a membership requirement.
Are you saying that inflation is unevenly distributed across the "quality" spectrum of products? Yes, this has been studied. Perhaps it deserves more research, but the results I remember demonstrated that price inflation rates are higher among more expensive products. One might hypothesize that greater wage inflation and other income gains among wealthier people is causing the corresponding higher inflation for the products they buy.

When home-values inflate, it's a wealth transfer from first-time buyers to retirees that are downsizing, selling a large home for a smaller one, putting the profits into stocks and bonds. To your point, that's not a net loss, just a wealth transfer. Note, it's not a net gain either. Building homes is a gain (usually), inflating asset prices are not.

As for the rising rent, that's part of inflation ... Anyway, you seem distressed that things are "really tough to represent in the statistics" but I assure you many of your concerns have been considered.
Yesterday I lost 3TB Toshiba TD01* series drive 23,75 months in (home) use. Only 4800 hours powered on. And it started to seek fail, even SMART showed it. It failed one week before warranty ended. Ha!
Even if the equipment is outdated and broken, the scrap might be worth something to someone.
> My mother is a labor relations specialist for NYSUT (New York State United Teachers) and she is very concerned about a coming SCOTUS ruling that would remove that legal obligation.

Or put another way, your mother is concerned that she will no longer receive money forcibly taken from others through the exercise of state power.
Employment is a rather weak term. The fact that you are working 10 hours a week makes you employed but doesn't say a word about the quality of the job (uber driver?) or if you can support / nourish a family
The reduced flexibility worries me far more than the cost. I've worked in union workplaces. There's always some instances of doing nothing (or doing busy work) because the nobody who's allowed to do whatever needs to be done is available and the other people who could do it won't because they're not allowed to do that job. When that happens regularly there's ripples through the workplace culture and work ethic and quality nose dive. I hope the union treads lightly and carefully. If they go full on public transit rail-workers union on day one it's gonna end badly.
Heterogenous computing is picking up the slack. More dedicated ASICs for things like vision processing and deep learning. Today's floating-point unit is tomorrow's on-board media processor.
I use 1Blocker through Safari and it works well. There are many others, some that may be cheaper or free
Maybe the 'bergs promised some sort of horrible countersuit, aimed at clawing back the billions? Some sort of breach of contract or duties to shareholders or something? Even if the claims were obvious bullshit, why take a 30% chance of losing one's ginormous fortune? In fact the whole thing could have been a way of extracting some further, more-recently-dated agreement that FB and the WA founders are square...
Membership is the power. If no one is a member, there is no power
>Seriously the down voting!

Anything even slight center-left on this site will immediately get inundated with broken, inordinary American right+ talking points. We're not hackers here, just American middle class programmers.

This thread is full of justifications completely ignoring the fact that we almost had a full blown financial meltdown just 8-9 years ago, at the expense of the middle class, and the only thing that stopped it was extreme government intervention and then lowering the absolutely hell out of interest rates. How did the middle class survive and maintain its perceived wealth? It's not because they had the purchasing power to do so, quite the opposite. It turns out that lowering interest rates across the board implicitly creates a credit bubble (because low interest money isn't used for assets, it's used for loans). A lot of middle class Americans have maintained their standard of living (or just survived in general) off credit and they're propping up other middle class workers with that debt (notably the service industry).

Here's a quick little stat to satiate anyone who wants to go "citation pls": http://www.businessinsider.com/american-credit-card-debt-nea...

>Why would Americans be struggling when unemployment is so low? Well, having a job and having a well-paying job are two different things. And wages have largely remained stagnant in the 21st century.

We're letting a time bomb tick and tock if wages do not significantly rise over the next decade.
From what I’ve been told C# is really great to work with and fixes a lot of issues people had with Java.

Can anyone who’s used both recently comment?
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I'm not sure what you or the author of that IWM page mean - today the British Army still has a county regimental system, with the specific idea that the soldiers in a unit will have come from the same areas, have the same friends, be part of the same families, and so on.
The problem here is not a lack of framework, but the overkill usage of elements.

I think even a game-like approach of using a single canvas and re-rendering the whole screen when something changes would be more efficient than manual DOM mutations.
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Eh, so by this calculation we should all be doing great?

How do you square that with the fact that most families couldn't spare $500 in an emergency? That is absolutely "poor" in my opinion.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/01/06/63-of-...
I'm sorry but this statement is full of FUD.

Printing money is what central banks do. It's what every Eurozone nation used to do with their own money as well before switching to the Euro. So unless you can explain what the ECB does differently that makes this worse than the central banks before it, you don't really have much of an argument.

Is it printing money faster than the central banks before it did? If so, give some numbers and sources please.

And in general, be explicit about your claims, because as written you're practically suggesting that the Eurozone is acting like the Weimar Republic.
Why is Mozilla investing in this study? It’s a good cause but should Mozilla be the one doing this? I feel bad when they are doing this but I still can’t use Firefox on macOS because they won’t implement support for keychain and then they go ahead and stretch themselves thin on these things.

I mean it’s all good and fine but please also focus on the one thing you are supposed to be doing primarily.

Disclaimer: I donate to Firefox.
This is definitely true. I think a couple things went wrong with Skype, the main problem is that it just didn't fit cleanly anywhere in their portfolio. They had some stuff that could consume it (Windows Phone needed a face to face video messenger to compete with Android/iPhone, Xbox Kinect had just came out and they could kinda put it in there, there was a need for it to maybe fit into business meeting use cases, and Live messenger usage was dwindling). These were all really different use cases and they kind of shoved it into all of them, and really broke Skype UX.

Github at (least for now) serves a clear purpose. Microsoft has been positioning itself in the developer productivity space. Right now they have Linux (some) and Windows code productivity tools (vscode and all of the Visual Studio stuff), and end services (Azure/SQL Server/Windows) but no source control or code deployment tools that anyone can speak to (TFVC and VSTS are used, not widely popular, and aren't free to use). I bet Microsoft will start integrating more of their services to use Github Enterprise, build out CI/CD features (or offering them in an online "app" store) in Github, and then continue building out their free developer toolset.
> PS, why do people stick their necks over the tracks to look if a train is coming?

You can often see further down the tunnel from an angle close to the tracks than you can standing behind the yellow strip. If someone ahead of you on the platform is already doing this, then they're probably blocking your view down the tunnel, so you have to lean to see past them. It seems pretty silly, but sometimes it's useful, for example, in determining whether the express or local will come first, and you can then switch platforms at the last minute if it makes sense for you.

If countdown timers were reliable and accurate, fewer people would feel compelled to lean out.
No, but there's one in Java, called "LogiSim" [1], and works offline.

[1]: http://www.cburch.com/logisim
It sounds very close to the Attic Greek (4th Century BC Athenian) pronunciation I learned at school. The version recorded on Wikipedia sounds more like Modern Greek.
You don't.

The simple consequence of globalization and economic integration is that what everyone does affects everyone else, and the networks of flow in information, energy, and physical commodities are so dense that it becomes very difficult to attribute cause and effect (and therefore moral responsibility) to any one actor.

If it wasn't Facebook, it would've been someone else. That's not to absolve Facebook of its behavior, just noting that there are strong incentives in place that encourage interoperability and therefore efficiency that resulted in its actions, and these incentives affect every organization worldwide.

The only way to prevent this is to build barriers to control the flow and pay the very high price of loss in efficiency. China is way ahead of things in that sense.
Strong modifications to inheritance laws.

Basic utilities/services being improved and increased such as education, healthcare, vocational training.

Investment in public resources such as public transit, roads, and public parks.

Increased low-income housing availability.

Higher (not absolute equality) taxation rates.

These aren't hard fixes and have relatively widespread support. They are just unpopular when it comes to those in power of our political system currently.

And before someone says it, making things closer to equality is not enforcing full equality. We already have basic services that would qualify under that and the only way you can be consistent under that argument is to go full libertarian, which hasn't seem to have worked out practically for populations at large.
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> I suggest the rise of populism is caused by increases in wealth going to the very richest while in real terms the majority of people are poorer than ever.

That's my working thesis as well. the increased in real poverty rate in the USA is causing the previously hidden tensions to be exposed and flexed. When the pie was large, it was easy to be easy. When the pie is small, ya gotta watch out for the neighbors taking your slice.

Note, I've lived in the poor(er) white areas of rural America, and I've lived & worked in the rich(er) urban America. It's very hard to have genuine communication. The difference verges on the incommensurable.... from both sides.
I may be talking out of my ass here, but aren't architects more equivalent to product designers, with the structural/civil engineers actually being most similar to software engineers in having to implement the design?
You can see the same sarcastic wit in this talk too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I

It's still my favorite tech talk, very fun to watch.
While they may make legitimate points in the article, it's hard to consider someone that makes money on HDD recovery like the authors of the article having an unbiased viewpoint here.
Aren't there like four different Chinas?

You have the modern mainland, which is where all these problems exist, the rural mainland which this probably doesn't affect as much, Hong Kong which is autonomous, and Chinese Taipei which might as well give up the ghost by this point.
> 08 Aug 2000

Any progress since?
> charge them as a monopoly? when you have google and apple?

Yes. Shocking as it may seem, being a monopoly isn't a problem per se. It's using monopoly power to do naughty things. That plus antitrust law is aching for extension into aggregator-like systems. (It also helps that Facebook neatly partitions into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp mandarin orange slices.)
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Am I right in thinking this arrangement maximally benefits the employer and tends towards a single union situation?

When a union fails to represent its members, they should form another union. If they do so, they will be forced to renegotiate their contracts - which allows the employer to influence a "best contract" thereby choosing a winning union; thus a union can't fall too far out with the employer for fear of being supplanted by a new union. Even though the employee remains the voting piece, they lose an awful lot of power.
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This seems like a political attack on Facebook. Willful ignorance of technical reality on HN... no wonder lawmakers are claiming Zuckerberg lies.

Facebook functionality ran on a phone using source code not written by Facebook. Anyone who equates that with Cambridge Analytica simply has an axe to grind with FB.

If a device manufacturer wants to betray the trust of their users and siphon data off the phone, they can surely do that in any case, and it’s not even hard to do seeing as how they own the network stack.

Can you think of any other codebase which is used to provide Facebook functionality on our devices using special APIs? Chrome. Mozilla. Safari.

If we can’t distinguish between a user agent and a 3rd party app having access to a Facebook API then I don’t see how this is debating in good faith.

We are taking about the device manufacturers embedding social functionality into the operating system. They also write the rest of the OS you know, if you don’t trust them to render your friend feed then I have bad news for you about your SMS, call history, location data, not to mention you’re carrying around a microphone they can access at any time...
And Milton was right about that just because he's Milton?

Can you come up with an argument against Austrian Economics in your own words, or are you content trying to discredit it with an appeal to Milton's authority?

I could argue against the quoted passage but I don't want to bother doing any more work than you have.
What uses of state power do you believe are permissible?
oh pretty cool. thanks for this!
I'm not a huge fan of bitcoin and have never owned more than 200 dollars worth, but that's a super weird argument to make.

Of course something only goes up in value if someone is willing to pay more for it, that's true of art, cars, houses, or whatever. You could argue that a house has more utilitarian value, as you could always live there, but that completely ignores the other persons goals. A house isn't going to be much value if jobs are scarce in that area, but bitcoin would still have value in that scenario.

All that energy is going to make sure you can send a large amount of value between two parties from almost anywhere in the globe with a minimum of transaction costs and a decent amount of anonymity.

This also ignores the fact of risk pricing. I live in Backwatermenistan and the political stability and the currency is looking unstable. I could buy a bitcoin from someone else who has one with local currency, I lower my risk of ruin from currency inflation by paying a price that I deem reasonable, the other guy gets cash which he could use to start a business or anything else that's inside his risk tolerance. No one lost in that scenario.
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DT has a problem in that they try to track the semver breaks of upstream in their npm packages, but don't have a good way to handle semver breaks caused by type refactors/cleanups/etc.

DT packages almost need _two_ version numbers that npm checks for semver breaks, but how to make that work is an open question and an interesting edge case in package management.

(I got some hate for one of my refactors, that I needed to get my own code to type correctly, that touched quite a few DT packages in the "middle" of an upstream major version, so I know this pain quite directly from both sides.)
For most goods, it's the opposite -- over the last decades, luxury goods have inflated faster than staples. Similarly, real incomes have increased faster for higher incomes. At least, that's what the last paper I read on the topic said, which was published about 8 years ago.
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Oh I was bein sarcastic
>Miguel and Nat both helped to make F/OSS and Linux what it is today—thank them if you like GNOME.

Mfw https://youtu.be/9UIiSz5WvRk
Basically, though Mill also is belt-based (think stack with size-limit) not registers and compilers nowadays are a bit better at VLIW than when IA-64 was introduced. They also have a shitload of security addons that would mitigate most modern exploits and other nice-to-haves.
Thanks. I've had a hard time understanding the documentation on virtual accounts, but I'll have another look at it.
Inequality is part of it, but it’s also our system of economics.

A good explanation of neo liberalism here: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/progressive-neoli...
> So too with the American tradition of supernatural punishment (ie "life plus twenty").

This isn't "supernatural punishment". It's sentencing for more than one crime. Life, probably for murder, plus 20 for (say) armed robbery. It's not meaningless to tack on those 20 years. If the murder conviction is overturned, so is the life sentence, but not those 20 years, unless those convictions are also overturned.
Entirely tangential, but the best album I've heard is Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings by Bo Hansson. Instrumental progressive rock that, at least for me, entirely evokes a fantasy-like feeling and might even be, dare I say, superior to Howard Shores' score for the films.

Now that I think about it, Tolkien and works related to him seem to have set the bars for a few things - worldbuilding, fantasy literature, epic films, etc.; not to mention more than a few things that have been directly inspired by his works.
So yes if antibiotics is indeed the problem, and farmers are required, by contract and livestock insurance to use them, for higher profit -- simply make the insurance company liable for the unintended consequence of over use of antibiotics. If a meat wholesaler knew that they could be sued by hospitals for overuse of antibiotics, they would move to protect their profits and forbid it or agree to guidelines. If it is true and factual, scientifically based, this should be no problem proving this in court. Because people don't want unknown unknown counter party risks.

On another note, my dogs, which are breed for livestock guardian, have a very special trait. If one of my livestock (chickens) show any sign of illness, they immediately kill it. Because the risk of a sick animal that dies and attracts predators, which is unacceptable to them. Also it eliminates a vector for the disease to spread. I don't interfere with it. So even nature has a way of dealing with this problem. What ends up happening is that the rest of the flock goes to pass their better genetics and they don't get sick. Another thing is that a few of my older chickens have caught on to this and appear to hide their sneezes. I might be anthroprojecting.
Is that based on other research you’ve done? The article says the language predates the books but doesn’t say specifically that the stories grew out of the language.

My sense is he did a lot of work in parallel and let the world find itself among many mediums.
Oddly enough, I stumbled on the fact that Ctrl-F works fine on these pages. All of the items below the expands are still visible to the search, and the expand automatically pops open when your cursor jumps to the matching text.
> Dammit, it is not safe. It hides bugs in programs. If a string is too long for an allocated memory block the copying must not simply silently stop.

This is spot on. There are very few cases when silently truncating a copy of a string is an OK thing to do.
All governments are callous. Can you give an example of a bureaucracy that isn't callous?
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"...a mechanism to dispute entries"

I seriously doubt that the Chinese government is interested in inviting dispute. Dispute is exactly what such a surveillance system is designed to suppress.
When they made that decision, multiple members of the court assumed there were proper disclosure regulations in place. There weren't.

"If the problem is that money can buy unlimited federal power, then you can limit the federal powers available for purchase without curtailing the freedom of the citizenry to engage in political speech as they choose."

And where do you think that power is going to go? It's not going to disapear into the ether.
The C11 Annex K functions, strcpy_s et al., have a better API than even strlcpy, and are (an optional) part of the C11 standard. They are what you should be using.
> it's unclear to me whether the chinese people want this sort of system for whatever reason or whether it's being forced onto them.

These become indistinguishable by "manufacturing consent".
Wouldn't it be much smarter to recycle that heat energy? "Our goal is to recover and reuse all the heat produced." - https://www.telia.fi/yrityksille/english/telia-helsinki-data...
PC bang/internet cafes in China are filled with computers preloaded with aimbots. Every new multiplayer game maker quickly learns to isolate this part of the world with separate server pool, or face sale decline as people leave your game and never come back.
I have to many github repositories that would need such a license !!