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> China isn't doing anything new that hasn't been done before.

If you drop sufficient detail from any comparison you can indeed come to such a conclusion, but it isn't an honest conclusion. In this case the detail that was dropped is the motive for engaging in the "same tactic", and in this case the motive is very different.

In my opinion, this style (discarding non-trivial details until two different scenarios can be declared ~identical) of reporting, in both formal mainstream print & media journalism as well as the more casual but still extremely influential late night talk shows, is what has caused such a large percentage of the public to hold opinions that do not line up very well with reality, and you can observe this in online discussions when people get very emotionally upset with those who disagree with them - they "know" something to be a fact, because they likely did in fact hear something very similar to what they believe reported in a serious news outlet. But if you ask them to provide any citations that include this extra detail (say, during a discussion over an instance of the story that does include the dropped details), unsurprisingly they are utterly incapable of finding any evidence. And rare is the case where the person in question be able to realize their mistake, and change their beliefs.

And if you fact check the media outlets on any of this, you'll almost always find that what they literally say is indeed factually true, it's just that they've dropped a whole bunch of context, resulting in their readers having a distorted understanding.
It's just mindboggling that pricing in medical is so opaque. Mandating transparent pricing should be the number one reform everybody should be able to agree with.
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It's justified because both sides are continuous and agree on a dense set (all x not equal to 0). You're right that this requires some clarification though.
Clearly you haven't been in the software developer job hunting market recently. You'd be shocked at how much your wrong.
I wrote a collection of Dockerfiles for images running Python 2.7 or Python 3.6 + Selenium with either Chrome or Firefox and using Xvfb for the X display (necessary for running Selenium headlessly).

https://github.com/seanpianka/docker-python-xvfb-selenium-ch...

Using this, in conjunction with AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and ECS, it became merely cents a month to run a headless scraper task in the cloud.
> You can add $5K to $10K to that range to give yourself some negotiating upside.

This probably makes more sense as a percentage. If you're making 80, adding 5-10k for negotiating makes sense. It you're making 120, adding 10-20k probably makes more sense. I always go with the top range of what I think is reasonable and add 10-20% or so.

Basically the very upper limit of reasonable. Yeah it's silly, but everyone's in on it and since I started doing that, I've been pleasantly surprised quite a lot.
Black Mirror... Social scoring.
One company I left tried that too. They established “bands”, made it hard to get out of the band, and 5 developers jumped ship within 6 months to jobs paying from $10K -$20K more....
HI there.
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What’s there to qualify? You think they’ll worry as much about civilian casualties or use precision weapons?
If Google cloud ain’t your jam then checkout browserless (https://browserless.io/). It can be considerably cheaper under certain situations, and we’ve been up and running for almost a year. Happy to answer questions if anyone has any.

EDIT: We’ve got stuff on GH: https://github.com/joelgriffith/browserless, and startup is under 100ms most of the time. Fonts and other things “just work” as well, plus there’s a slew of REST APIs for common stuff as well. Selenium webdriver support landing soon!
Someone needs to figure out a way to clone Facebook circa 2005 and just call the site something other than 'Facebook'. Back then it was an amazing resource for university students and only allowed people with .edu email addresses from more reputable schools to join. You could use Facebook to access your course schedule and see lists of everyone that was in each of your classes. Gradually they relaxed the rules and started allowing faculty to join, then junior college students, etc.
Eventually someone is going to invent wireheading and none of this will matter. Most people will hook themselves up and never return.
> why would the company’s range be that far outside of the range for the local market?

Because the "range", as a concept, only goes so far.

In reality, there are companies willing to pay above market for various reasons.

For example, they're highly selective, and you're the first candidate to pass their interviews in months. Congrats!

Or maybe you just successfully completed the exact same technology project they're looking to do themselves.

Or maybe they're just doing really well and willing to pay above-market.

> Every job I’ve gotten through recruiters, the employer was adding people not replacing them.

Trust me, there are companies out there with crazy-high turnover. They typically will not tell you that as an interviewee, for obvious reasons.

These companies are always recruiting, always in touch with multiple recruiters, and always pay them well - because they need them the most.
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They have gag clauses that prevent them from doing so

Why Your Pharmacist Can’t Tell You That $20 Prescription Could Cost Only $8: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/politics/pharmacy-bene...
There are articles such as this: https://www.pharmacytimes.com/contributor/douglas-jennings-p... , suggesting that some contracts forbid pharmacies from mentioning a cash option to patients. Which should be illegal.
That's fair. Maybe like.. cold war onwards.
Oh really? I was surprised that there was even jQuery, and after checking it does seem there's a bit of jQuery there. "$" matches 53 times here: https://github.com/pvorb/npm-stat.com/blob/develop/src/main/...
Tom Scott did a video on this border.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY
One of China's strategies for subverting Taiwanese democracy is to court Taiwan's elites: you are allowed to get very rich in China, as long as you agree with the one-China policy and increase ties with the mainland.

Rest assured that if Terry Gou were to promote Taiwanese independence, Foxconn would get into deep trouble quickly.
What I meant was, didn’t the “Chinese people” (deliberately put in quotes) think of Taiwan as part of China? Japan took over Taiwan from China, didn’t it? As far as I know the PRC has always thought of Taiwan as part of China and I don’t think that will change soon. Thank you for the links.
The difference between mainland France and overseas territories is administrative, not constitutional (with the exception of New Caledonia as you pointed out).
It has nothing to do with trust. They just vetted your abilities and decided you can make them money. Now you're fighting for your cut. This also has nothing to do with how much you "need". I need a cabin and an axe. I want half of what I'm bringing to the table, and that's what matters to both of us.
> but we are still important strategically to the western world's alliance against China. The island act as a unsinkable carrier.

Don't you see that would be same argument why China would want Taiwan back?
If you want an explanation in terms of continuity and limits then it works because both sides of the equation agree everywhere except possibly x=1 and so must have the same limit at x=1, and both are continuous at x=1 so they must have the same value at x=1.
I've yet to find any street art in Chicago that is beautiful. This is obviously subjective, but I just think it looks trashy.
All the money in the world is not going to help the immediate problem of finding developers on the high end if the pool is smaller than the demand. In the long run, the pool should increase if the salary is higher, but it will still take time to enlarge the pool.

It also doesn’t help that the US is becoming very unfriendly to immigration that would enlarge the pool.
Possibly because she didn’t know it was possible to break a bone in your freaking ear canal by doing that.
I have a doctor friend who's made it a habit to recommend that patients use GoodRx anytime they go to pick up prescriptions. Doctors can only be so involved in the pharmacy side of the transaction and a lot of pharmacists aren't able to intervene.

It's sad that it requires a 3rd party app to help people not get screwed over by the current US medical system.
Yep. I take blood pressure medication. Cost without insurance: $5.70/mo. Cost with insurance: $10 co/pay. I know this because my insurance lapsed once for a month. Same exact pills, same manufacturer even.
The world does not agree, but pretends to agree, so they can trade with China.

But the reality is Taiwan is an independent country, and is not part of China, no matter how much the PRC would wish it otherwise.
For startups or any companies who offer illiquid equity, the following is a good tactic I’ve been using that never fails.

Simply tell them (at the offer stage):

“Make me two offers, one with a higher cash compensation and the other with higher equity.”

Then, always take the position with higher cash to base your next negotiations. If it’s good enough, you might even take it outright.

This is a trick that exploits the fact that most startup founders and recruiters have an over-inflated “best case” view of how much their equity is actually worth, so it works in your favor when they use it as a benchmark against real money today. I’ve found they also fail to account how much it would be worth for you vs. them. Considering the risk is high you won’t make anything from those options even if you exercise them (& stay long enough), the cash position is nearly always better. If the company becomes some run-away success there will be opportunity to get more equity but getting a cash raise in 6 months is infinitely harder I’ve found. Promotions at startups often times have an additional equity award and by that time you’ll have more information as to the chance of success or not.

Generally, based on my experience, it’s a good way to immediately get an extra $10-20k, with little emotional effort and without the other side feeling as if they were strong-armed, or that they had to give up something, since they offered you the choice. (This is important because you don’t want to start your position there viewed as an “expensive new toy”). They still feel powerful and in control. They may even be happy you took the cash option and let them “keep more” of their precious company. When I started doing this I originally feared they would think I don’t have faith in them, but I’ve never had someone feel insulted I took the cash option.

As an engineer I actually enjoy the negotiation process, it’s the best type of problem: pure tactics.
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Our small instance ($30/month) is roughly similar to their $44.38 instance on App Engine. If you were to run a full 10 concurrent sessions constantly, which a small browserless instance can max-out at, this would cost roughly $427 a month in Functions. So depends on your use-case
"Bad" equipment can produce wonderful images. There's a unique charm to long-expired Kodachrome or T-MAX pushed to 3200 that can't be reproduced digitally. In the right hands, a DIY pinhole camera or a Kodak Brownie can be a fabulous photographic tool.
> It would be silly if the US cut off travel to Canada because they recognized the existence of the new government of Cuba.

The US is quite happy right now to punish countries trading with Iran.
I won’t say much but I’ve stopped taking any people management positions because just how hard it is to discipline not to mention fire people in the EU without being liable to be dragged in front of a tribunal.

I’ve met so many people that simply don’t care because they have zero fear of losing their job as anything other than redundancy which will include often a nice settlement is simply unlikely for anything short of criminal negligence.
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> Hypothetically speaking, if one is opposed to some or all aspects of the "One China" doctrine, what can one do locally/globally to effect change?

Voting with your wallet or voicing your concerns seem fairly futile to me.

What I believe could make a difference is trying to educate people on what the honest (non-partisan) reality of the situation is, to the best of your ability. When you encounter someone online stating something that is untrue (flat out wrong, generalized to the point of important detail being missed, mischaracterization of news or literature), speak up with a more accurate representation of the truth. The goal of this is not to change the mind of the person who has written something untrue (although that's a nice side benefit in the rare case it happens), it is for the hundreds/thousands of other readers who subconsciously form opinions based on the entirety of information they consume, so they they at least have a chance of hearing lesser-biased versions of reality.
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Static languages in general aren't good at catching impossible conditions.

If anything, you probably want something more like Erlang's supervision hierarchy where pattern-match failures (due to a cosmic ray, or anything else) kill the actor-process that was running, and then the actor's parent reinstanciates it and it tries again. Then you just need to draw fine-grained failure boundaries (i.e. what things end up in new actor-processes) to ensure that crashing out a process doesn't waste too much work unnecessarily.

Or the Mars-rover "six CPUs on separate NUMA nodes are each running a copy of the program, and quorum-consensus on the result of each function-call" strategy, but that's a bit expensive.
Great to see you here Tim, love that chrome extension! We should chat a bit more sometime. I’d love to back checkly’s infrastructure.
It would be massively politically unpopular as it would tear the mask off of Medicare and Medicaid.
Jordan Mechner published his journals from the period when he made Karateka and Prince of Persia. I found them to be very inspirational.

The Making of Karateka
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1480297232/

The Making of Prince of Persia
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1468093657/

I recommend reading them in order.
I had a dislodged neck vertebrae which caused tinnitus-like symptoms.
> they’re convinced their ex is a psychopath, when really their ex was just a toxic, awful person. There are millions of those, and they’re everywhere, and they come from every neurotype.

That's the most interesting quote I find. It poses a paradox. What makes a person awful and toxic? Are there common personality traits to this? Are there biological causes?

Do we need a new pathology for this? Toxipath?

She later mentions this:

> I think it’s important to hold people responsible for their actions, not brain formation. People make choices. Psychopathy is not an excuse, and it’s definitely not a reason why someone does bad things.

So what are those reasons then? And what are those bad things? And what mechanism governs one's choices?

It does seem to me like psychopaths, by definition, lack all natural controls which would allow them to know what the bad things are and that they shouldn't choose to do them.

Thus, they need social controls instead. Like, society has to make it easier to achieve her goals through good means, and make it very hard to do so through bad means. Otherwise she has no means of containment. She does not fear, she does not rejoice. She does not regret or feel guilt. She does not hope and dream.

That said, what are her goals? What drives a psychopath? Adrenaline rush alone? That's what she hints at.

Finally, I noticed the quoted doctor goes out of his way to mention a spectrum. And that he'd only classify of psychopath the more extreme cases, at the far end of it. For those, he says all four traits must be clearly demonstrated. And those by definition mention:

> take pleasure in hurting others

> are physically aggressive

Which are arguably at the top of the list for "bad things".

So purely from the quoted doctor, if she does not have those traits, she's probably not high enough on the spectrum to be labeled a psychopath. At least not based on the quoted doctor's diagnostic model.
I am on the same exact medication. I live in Italy.
My 90-day supply is 15 euro (5 euro per box), but the government covers most of it through the healthcare system, so I end up paying 3 euro (1 euro per box).
Do you really feel like having the authority to call the company's behaviour shitty when you deal with their behaviour in the way that you do?
Can you explain what turned you off about his negotiation, if he wasn't being a jerk? Just the fact that someone would have the audacity to do it, when you didn't feel he had the necessary leverage to pull it off?

Every company you'll ever interview at will negotiate, and most will do so whether or not they have leverage. They usually do this via a recruiter or in-house HR, to try to disassociate any negative vibes that the candidate may feel towards their potential new boss due to hardball tactics in the negotiation process.

Your stance seems designed to deter any candidate from negotiating at all, and you can probably do it because there are enough people out there that are hesitant to negotiate. Which is exactly what this article is trying to fix.
The problem here is that this is the exact opposite of what's going on - the competitive advantage of many smaller companies these days is that they are not even close to being compliant with regulations but platforms often tolerate them because they are not responsible for counterparty compliance.

If you do however put that onus on the platforms, then it's entirely predictable that platforms will cut ties with small businesses. This is more or less what happened with GDPR - lots of small ad-tech players became large liabilities for others in the value chain, leading to more consolidation in the industry. Outside of technology, it's common for certain types of services or tools not to be made aware to small-time customers. The technology industry at large and the large tech companies in particular have so far bucked this trend in a way that created a huge amount of value for the world at large, but this doesn't have to be this way.
Maybe this advice is good when applying to the big four, but otherwise it's a wonderful way to waste one's own time. From having conducted hundreds of in person interviews and probably thousands of calls with recruiters or phone interviews, I find that figuring out the band a company is willing to pay is fairly easy. Also, it's not a wide band even at senior levels. In fact, the acceptable range is usually quite narrow. I save a ton of time by not interviewing with companies who can't even pay the low end of the range I'm looking for. This is the situation most of the time, in fact. I've done interviews and take home assignments only to find out the company's range and my range don't overlap at all. That's just stupid and a waste of time. These days, I discuss salary first if it comes up and definitely before dedicating any major amount of time to an interview. Is there a chance that I'm leaving money on the table? Maybe a very tiny one. Usually, I'm just saving myself hours or days of interviewing for a job I will never take. For almost all jobs, I find this advice to be wrong and a waste of time.
Java packages (namespaces) can be split across Maven modules (packages).

That doesn't seem weird to me. Lots of languages can split their namespaces across packages.
>> everybody should be able to agree with

We’ll see about that in the next couple of years. This was one of the more prominent campaign promises by Trump, and the dude has a habit of actually following through on that, whether you like it or not.
If I ever heard "What salary do you need to maintain a comfortable cost of living and what do you consider a fair salary given your experience and the job requirements?" I'd be walking straight out of the interview. That just screams "cheap" and gives off the impression that you don't value your technical talent. If I wanted a "fair" salary that just covered my cost of living I'd be doing something other than software engineering
> Cuba's communist government nationalized property from people and corporations without any compensation.

That's not anyone else's business. Countries should be free to a certain extent to act as they wish. It's not for America to decide what political system another country should have.

>The communist Cuban government acceded to hosting Soviet nuclear missiles...

I think you skipped a key part of history usually referred to as "Bay of Pigs Invasion"...
> Particulary in the trendy JS world, where there might not be a good book for the stack you are using, and even when there is, you ask questions online and get responses that are roughly "It hasn't worked like that for 6 months, why are you trying to do it this way?"

http://boringtechnology.club
Or alternatively, if you're dead anyway.

Many of the worst - and most strategic - examples of moving fast and breaking things come from situations where the feature needs to be written or the product launched, or else the company goes out of business. You need to hit the milestone to close the next round of funding, or you're dead. You need to add a feature to sign a customer, or you're dead. You need to launch - at all - or you're dead.

It's rational for the milestone/feature/launch to be buggy if not doing it at all means there is no company. Remember that all startups start out "default dead", and getting to the point where they're "default alive" and killing the company is worse than the status quo requires a fair amount of effort and a lot of early decisions that may or may not be reversable.
they'll explore every possible alternative from outsourcing to "contract-to-hire" (spoiler: they'll never hire)

What’s wrong with contract to hire or straight contract? I’ve always made more on contract jobs - even taking into account unpaid time off - than I could have made with the same skillset as a fulltime employee. It helps that I don’t care about health benefits. I get those through my wife’s very stable government job.
Do you really think suggesting that selfish drive for selling insecure and underregulated software is really an argument against regulation?

I don't think anybody denied that capturing an unregulated space by selling shoddy and cheap products is actually a great way of making any ruthless actor a ton of money, I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make here
https://www.humanapi.co/company/join gives a -404 error.

https://www.humanapi.co/careers , perhaps?
Nice thinking. I'll give that a think, thanks!
I hadn't heard that Wallace quote before but that almost exactly nails how I feel. The emotional cost of maintaining friendships and relationships, and the pain of losing really close ones, is just too much and I've decided it's not worth it. I am honestly happier without all that.
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I guess the assumption is that anyone or at least an inexperienced engineer would be able to point out an experienced engineer, while only experienced engineers are any good at picking less experienced engineers.