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If the moral system which you currently subscribe to is such that it is morally okay and perhaps even virtuous to demand that people who have voluntarily chosen to work together at higher level of work ethic should all be forced to lower their standards to be in accordance with your personal beliefs, then this moral judgement is valid. But you should seriously consider questioning that belief. People who voluntarily choose to work insane hours in Elon's companies are contributing an insane amount of value to this world and I for one am grateful for their sacrifices and contributions.
Unemployment is really low right now, and burger flipping is just about the least desirable type of work available. This has been said countless times, but it's worth noting that although there are very few blacksmiths or peat cutters today, somehow we are still pretty close to full employment.
People love to say that they shouldn't be prevented from owning these toys just because some other person's child might get injured, and I sympathise with that point of view. But at their peak, three thousand children a year were visiting emergency departments for suspected magnet ingestion (a number which declined after the CPSC ban).[1]

Lawn darts were banned on a mere 750 ED visits annually.[2] The fact is, we live in a society and (as with fireworks and other dangerous toys that could be labelled 'adults only') the cost of being able to have these magnets on your desk is probably dozens or hundreds of kids getting very sick.

[1]https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29135818
[2]http://mentalfloss.com/article/31176/how-one-dad-got-lawn-da...
uninformed and impulsive children

Those are usually just called 'children'.
freedom.to costs money but works across multiple browsers and your mobile devices. not free but I've found it's worth the cost.
FWIW, a more approachable, more concrete conceptual model that explains how much of "reality" is a shared fiction is Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_Communities).

I've never read Baudrillard's works directly, perhaps because having read Anderson's famous book all that would be left of something like Simulacra and Simulation is a tedious, overwrought philosophy, without any of the "ah ha!" moments. I think that could be said for much of mid-century French philosophy (e.g. Structuralism), but maybe I'm just excusing my laziness....
There are other things that can happen besides death though. And you know all those things you do with your hands? Well, those people do that also.

Seriously, removing the dirty hairless ape element as much as possible from food prep is great all around!

I'm really really surprised everyone doesn't feel this way but apparently not. I do though. Can't wait for these machines to get rolled out.
“Sorry, we can't seem to find what the problem is.”

I know what the problem is: it’s a hobby project and 1) employer work takes priority and 2) I’m so stinking tired at the end of a day and 3) adult chores take priority on the weekend.
You can do what Ontario used to do for beer and make everyone use the same bottle. Can't see that happening with branding being so important.

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/beer-a-sad-farewell-to-stub...
That is a substantial claim which runs counter to all public communication from Microsoft and GitHub on the matter so far.

Can you provide anything to substantiate your claim?
I think you are confusing the CFPB and the CPSC
Link should be: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/facebook-...
Their kids might be too young.
Very good news. My dad died from cancer in 1990, and a good friend’s mother just got cleared after a pretty long set of radiation treatments. Anything that improves survival rates and decreases the effects on the body that are experienced through radiation and chemotherapy are very welcome.
Did you look for a car or house that best suited your needs and budget?
I'm a C# web dev mostly - I have the opposite concern to you. I ended up using the module pattern a lot to get the same kind of structure in my JavaScript as I have in my C# code. If I'm hitting a WebAPI backend, I want the "frontend" boilerplate to match pretty closely.
He's automating the wrong part. Making the burger is cheaper made by humans. He needs to read this: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Is the opinion pdf formatted with LaTeX? Couldn't help noticing the margins etc.
If the EU can manage instant bank transfers that cost less than a penny, the US can manage it too.
No, this is backwards. The company didn’t want to cut corners, and full compliance with state laws is expensive. It’s a good sign that a company would carefully consider subjecting their legal and HR resources to this additional complexity. The additional tax burden is just a straightforward addition to per-employee overhead and there is a number of in-state employees above which that overhead is worth paying.

Cutting corners would be hiring an employee as a contractor in order to avoid dealing with the new state’s laws, or simply punting on acquiring any research or consultation, which would actually endanger the OP’s employment status. Perhaps you are used to companies operating this way, but it’s not a sign of a good employer.
I think you're very lucky if you can learn a new programming language in two weeks.

I've been writing Python for longer than I've been writing C#, but I'm nowhere near as productive in Python.
I like Electron, but there are alternatives.

I’ve been keeping a list of Desktop JS frameworks[0] that might interest web devs wanting to make desktop apps.

[0]: https://github.com/styfle/awesome-desktop-js
This kind of change is the kind an edition can make, though I’m not 100% sure if the plan for 2018 is to warn or error on the older syntax.
>"In general, the prediction "future generations will laugh at X" rarely comes to pass. Better laugh while you can."

Really? I'd say mocking the styles/beliefs/misconceptions of previous generations is the topic of at least 20% of all snarky comments on the internet.

It's not like it's hard to find widesread mockery and condemnation of even "high" art forms either. Even the architecturally illiterate
can deride Brutalist architecture on merit despite not knowing the name of the style.
The wood appears largely limited to non-food-contact surfaces.

Wood is often used in food prep; cutting boards, butcher blocks, stirrers, rollers and scoops/paddles are often made of wood. Wood surfaces have been shown to have anti-microbial properties that make them well suited for the use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_board#Wood
some forms of breaking changes. This is of that kind, though we cannot make arbitrary ones.
Imprisoning US Citizens at random and trying their hardest to deport them seems to be a critical job of ICE.

https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deport...
That sounds like a pretty fragile test - could you see it failing if I plug my laptop into AC power while the test is running? (Intel SpeedStep or whatever it's called will take my laptop from 2ghz to 3ghz when I do that).
The FDA banned pure caffeine powder but as far as I can tell caffeine pills are still legal and widely available. I go easy on the stuff these days, but when I was younger I once took way too many (10 pills equivalent to 20 cups of coffee IIRC) and was sure I was going to die.

I understand the problem with loose powder is it makes it more difficult to get a precise dosage, but easy dosage pills won't help much if you're a dumbass who doesn't respect caffeine. Ultimately personal responsibility needs to be emphasized.
Consider if I'm storing a user's (local) birthday on my server:

{..., "birthday": "2018-03-25"}

If my server is located in New York City, and the user is in Sydney, then my server isn't going to wish them happy birthday in time.

So maybe we could do:

{..., "birthday": "2018-03-25", "location": "Sydney/AU"}

But at this point we might as well use a standardized time format (UTC) with a timezone offset. Maybe I'm thinking too far into it?
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> Languages do not need a 1 to 1 relationship between the storage medium of a value and the interface it exposes to a programmer. ... I suspect the reason Java did it was to not surprise C++ programmers. Solely dictated by marketing, not by technical reasons.

The situation is almost the opposite of what you described it. If anything one of the major design points was to solve the surprises inherent to C/C++.

Take integers for example. In java they're defined to be 2s compliment; the processor architecture doesn't matter. C/C++ left the spec open to let the language be 1 to 1 with the medium, Java did not.

You can see the proposals to close this headache:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p090...
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2218.htm

This is similar to all the issues with how threads interact with memory. Java lend the way in making the memory model a part of the language specification rather than allow it to be implementation (and architecture) defined.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/11/herb_sutter_next_c_p...
But there hasn't been a race to the bottom in food. There are restaurants at huge ranges of price points.
They are there to reduce risk and to reduce unnecessary drama.
All this would do is create an opportunity for a SaaS startup or existing payments provider to offer collecting the correct amount of tax for you.

I personally worked on this sort of problem for a large company; most of the work is in figuring out what the business logic ought to be; turning it into code is (largely) trivial.

Figuring out the logic only needs to be done once, and the payments provider is the natural place for it to live.
>full employment

We have folks living in tent cities.

12.8% is "on disability"

Yeah we're at full employment as long as you consider U6 rather than the old standard of U5.
They're not that easy to lose, on account of being incredibly magnetic. Even if you throw a handful across the room, they'll stay stuck to each other. If you pick them off one by one and throw them then you'll lose them, but sweep around the room with a piece of metal or more magnets and you'll find them again pretty quick.

Characterizing them as "magnetic balls of death" is very unfair considering that not many people have actually been killed or maimed by them. Driving your kids around town in a convertible is probably more dangerous than owning these magnets. Owning a swimming pool certainly is.
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One has to wonder why only numbers for suspected, rather than confirmed, magnet ingestion are reported.
> {'Clemenza': True},

That actually made me laugh out loud.
The goal is to make the same product for cheaper.
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”Because if Compnay XYZ disagrees with your politics, you should punish them?”

If a company implicitly assists in putting little children in camps, then yes, it’s ok to “punish” them by not giving them your business.

“Just like one may dislike in-laws while loving a spouse. You don't have to divorce your spouse to prove your dislike of the inlaws”

Similarly, if my in-laws were racists and my wife didn’t think that there were anything wrong with that, then yes, divorce would be an option.
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It doesn't have to be the only strategy, but sales tax isn't the only tax either, and LVT doesn't depend on appreciation.
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Survivorship bias might apply to construction quality but I doubt it applies to architectural aesthetic appeal.

Just look at New York City, or Philadelphia, or Rochester, NY, or any city with old housing stock. It so happens that everything was made out of brick, so none of those buildings are going anywhere anytime soon, except for the ones that were torn down to build condos, or the ones that caught on fire, were left to rot by slumlords, etc. It just so happens that the majority of those old buildings are (or were) handsome and tastefully designed.

Nobody in the USA is tearing down perfectly good buildings solely because they are ugly or because their style is outdated.
UX testing on architecture - could be a pretty good VR startup.
> The idea is that when you bite into the burger, your teeth align with the vertical strands so instead of requiring harsh chewing it almost melts in your mouth.

Is this for real? I don't think I've ever had a burger that required "harsh chewing".
When companies like AT&T are big enough to override very publicly supported law, we need to get back to breaking them up.

83% support equal access to content with net neutrality. [1]

AT&T == Anti-trust time.

[1] http://www.publicconsultation.org/united-states/overwhelming...
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It works great in dense cities, obviously. Even dense US cities like New York, Chicago, etc...
I liked the gamification hints:

- give yourself a clock, and race against the clock

- it may be boring, so add some difficulty to it, extra challenges, stretch goal.

neither may apply to all task though.
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Framing this as though employees have total freedom and choice wrt employer and working hours is plain incorrect. Those engineers at SpaceX aren't organized, thus they get screwed out of overtime and can't talk about the houra and working conditions they are pressured to labor under.
When I ordered a set of magnets, it did come with a bright warning
(https://images1.westword.com/imager/one-of-the-warning-label...)
Huh, maybe you just suck at hiring people with CS degrees.
Yea, except it's not a permanent solution to the problem. Ma Bell was shattered into pieces, but those pieces have reformed and are, arguably, more powerful now due to bonehead SCOTUS rulings like Citizens United.
I think that kind of test would be more useful on CI hardware that’s usually pretty consistent but it’s a good point to raise.
> In some cases, I have some sympathy for the guy who may well have not really fully understood the intimidation factor in the situation. In other cases, they clearly are happy to use their power to bully others into getting their way and, no, I'm not sympathetic to their bullshit claims.

How would a neutral third-party observer legitimately be able to tell the difference (assuming the latter is a sociopath or just a really good actor pretending to be the former)?

To me, that seems to be the real benefit to the strictness of some of these rules. It removes an avenue of the unintended intimidation that you mention.

I do think it helps to discuss it and call out these issues so that people understand that they're not just arbitrary or some kind of over-reaction or extreme bureacracy.
Ah yes, because nothing says “data structure consisting of a contiguous block of memory broken into uniformly sized chunks so elements can be cheaply accessed by index” like a little picture of rice dumplings on a stick. Much better than just using the accepted technical term “array”.

Personally I prefer the abbreviation arrr, or sometimes yarr. Lets anyone reading the code feel like they just downed a pitcher of grog.
A lot of things in orgs usually boiling down to someone championing things and just getting it done.

Managers are very wary of comming any resources to ground breaking things since they are unproven. I’ve experienced this multiple times. If you feel strongly about something, just go do it!
Absolutely, most groovy code is written in the dynamic style. But it's still way better off than Python where that is true AND its true for all the libraries it uses. With Python you can add as many type hints as you want, you are still going to get stuck at the first call that reaches outside your own code where nobody cared about types. With Groovy that call is going into Java or typed GDK code 95% of the time (unless you are talking about Grails which I'm not a big fan of for that reason), and hence you have the benefit of 95% of code already being typed by default.
I can recommend Wunderlist, it's quite good for having shared lists etc.

Of course, there's the usual issue of managing the 'chattiness' of the app, but I use it instead of a calendar.
Solutions don’t need to be permanent if they can be repeated. A truly permanent solution would be to add them to the proverbial list of “they’ll be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes,” but I’d rather see less permanent, less drastic solutions that still yield the desired results.
Plus, it's open source, MIT licensed, so it would be difficult at best to make it just ¡poof! disappear.
> I can get a really good burger at dozens of places for less

This place is in San Francisco. Where are these "dozens of places" for a really good burger <$6?
Elon Musk has always been at war with the media
More than 37% of the country does not have a job according to labor participation rate. The unemployment rate has been massaged and manipulated to the point where you need to stop citing it as a serious measurement of anything other than the scope to which otherwise intelligent people can be deluded.
Surely that whole center compartment with the veggies and condiments is refrigerated.
So... just to be clear... you're serious...? I smell a clever troll.
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Given that computer scientists use the word "efficiently" to mean "in polynomial time", I'm not too upset at using "quickly" to mean the same.
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So I know that I'm going to be significantly more unhappy in Dubai than I will be here in the Midwest - I don't spend 50% of what I make already - I certainly don't need anymore money, and neither am I likely to spend it. In fact, I'm going to be miserable, but, "Everyone has a price" - means that, offer me enough money, (and $50K/year is about in the right space), and I'll trade misery for money.
It was a fertile field they found there following the temporary dissolution of Ma. GOP on the left of me, Neo-Liberal Democrats to the right, stuck in the middle with you!
Speaking from the point of view of a professional brewer, cleaning and sanitizing that mechanized butcher/line cook would be a nightmare.
Can VSCode edit itself yet? Atom was great for adjusting CSS of the editor on the fly.
Consulting is not a start up.
> My usual answer for this is that if you have to ask how you're going to make money, you're the wrong person to make Open Source. Nowhere in the mission of OSI is any mandate to provide authors with a viable business method.

Indeed, it is a principle of open source that people can freeload off your work. As soon as an author restricts their work to non-commercial use or commercial-with-a-fee (which is entirely reasonable), it is no longer considered "open source".

> We are asking of you only one thing. Go forth and use your license. We are not stopping you. Just don't call it Open Source.

Go ahead, call it open source. The OSI has no trademark over the term, and the idea that their narrow definition is the only "official" one is a load of crap. There is plenty of room for what constitutes open source that doesn't fall underneath their umbrella.

Edit: I understand this opinion is controversial. If you disagree, please comment and explain why.
I think the trend these days is to use People-first language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-first_language (that is, saying "person with autism" - because it puts the person first)
Also, and this is only anecdata, drinks in glass bottles seem to taste so much better for some reason.
> For example, washing and steam cleaning glass to sterilize it uses more energy than just making a plastic bottle.

OK but washing and cleaning is the whole consumer life cycle of glass. How does it compare to both making and "recycling" the plastic bottle?
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Maybe not emoji, but particularly when doing stats-heavy code, I've actually found it helpful to be able to use unicode lambda/delta
Oh, and for good measure every should read Dawkin's The Selfish Gene. In one of the last chapters he introduces the concept of a meme. It's doesn't take much effort to see how a meme would relate to a sea of self-reinforcing, self-perpetuating ideas to which humans and human society are but a substrate. Except The Selfish Gene explains the rules by which these reified ideas would operate.

My point being, the conceit of The Matrix is less far fetched when you explore these less abstract concepts more firmly grounded in scientific thinking. In many ways they're far more fascinating because the reality is both more intricate and relatable.
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Yeah I'm actually really surprised Subway hasn't at least tested an automated restaurant. Seems like they would be perfectly positioned to do it. They even pre-portion many of their meats to make it even easier.
Spent six months living there. Everything you just said/read is true. A bigger issues for contract laborers than expats, but still an issue.

As long as you are a straight, white, non-jewish, male that has no interest in being in the private company of women, and no interest in politics, freedom, or human rights issues, and are comfortable waking up, doing your work, and going home again - you'll probably be fine in the UAE.
"Free" them? They need that work in order to survive, mostly. They were "free" before having that menial job and that freedom didn't seem to help turn them into software engineers or nurses before...
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So were they all. Nobody has clean hands. Kvetching and raising a stink about it is so, so, so very effective.

If morality is of ultimate importance, we're going to have to go back to the days of projects hosting their own infrastructure. I'm not sure that's a bad thing, in the long run.
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Proper warnings or even age restrictions on sales are the correct solution, not a total ban. The knee-jerk reaction of "children can hurt themselves with it, let's ban it" is completely wrong. There are countless items in any household that could potentially be lethal to a child.
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>The actual best way to distinguish between complexity classes like BQP and PH is to measure the computational time required to solve a problem in each. But computer scientists “don’t have a very sophisticated understanding of, or ability to measure, actual computation time,” said Henry Yuen, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto.

>So instead, computer scientists measure something else that they hope will provide insight into the computation times they can’t measure: They work out the number of times a computer needs to consult an “oracle” in order to come back with an answer. An oracle is like a hint-giver. You don’t know how it comes up with its hints, but you do know they’re reliable.

This is not how it works, at all.