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Thing is: they do not cater for the natives, but for the locals.

Prime example (for me) is "Chinese food". Found all over the world, yet nowhere it is the same, let alone something a Chinese would call Chinese.

Better even, there is one particular Chinese dish that inspired a documentary about all its different implementations. The Search For General Tso. Check it out if you like.
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WOW. I did not know this. And now NVidia is far more than a "gaming" company.
Hmm... toasters that are hotter than the Sun.
I agree that to make remote teams work the company (leads, actually) have to work differently. It can pay off or not, but assuming one can manage remote team just as you do a local one is a almost always a recipe for failure.

> Resolving even little issues takes too long because round trip time between question and answer is often several days.

This is the crux of the issue. You can expect question and answer round trip to be up to 24 hours, but the work flow must not depend on this being being minutes or hours. This means structuring work flow in larger chunks, writing tasks for remote teams clearly and having robust success criteria that remote team can check against, locally, before claiming they are done. And remote team must be able to understand what the request is before signing off on it -- at the very least they should have crystal clear understanding on those written success criteria.

Done this way, little issues that require a 24-hour turnaround are few and far between. It never works perfectly, so the company should also bring key tech leads together a few times per year. It is a different setup, requiring more careful planning at headquarters and competent leads, but it can be done.

But companies that manage remote teams as if they sit in the same building will get some serious disappointment. My 2c.
Copied from another sub-thread. So the full backstory is that I injured my back when I was 20, playing tennis barefoot of all things. My doctor just gave me muscle relaxers and told me to stretch more, which I of course did not do. Since then, I have re-injured my lower back three or four times, doing deadlifts and squats (incorrectly, I guess, not through lack of trying though.) Since my last injury, I have lowered weight, focused on form even more, and started doing Yoga for better core strength and flexibility. It is slowly helping and I haven't re-injured myself for over a year. I think I have just severely damaged my spine and I should probably go see a good doctor, chiropractor, or licensed massage therapist like some other comments have suggested. To quote episode 7 of HBO's hit limited series, "Sharp Objects", "Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects."
Why is it programming alone where we have to have a burning desire to do it, regardless of the pay check? Yeah, programming can be enjoyable, and it's the way I prefer to earn a living. But it's a job all the same and I keep myself happy by enjoying my time away from work doing other things, not by expecting fulfillment from my job. Nobody would find it remarkable to hear that an accountant got into the career because he thought it would be steady and well-paying, rather than because of his love of accountancy.
I wonder, what's the introversion level of the average programmer. Because solitude during the work hours is a blessing for me. I had a chance to work remotely for a couple of years and I will take that over having "social life" in open space office.
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> The political faction which opposed and supports the policy you point to does so for precisely the same reason it is opposed to the faction proposing single payer; people voting for the faction that supports single payer would also vote out the faction supporting that policy. So, you are literally conflating two opposing things as the same thing.

I disagree, but regardless of that appreciation the problem exists today when its smaller, if you had single-payer it will be a harder problem to fix.

> Yes, and if you also have the government provide a default fully-public-funded option just like with school vouchers, you will have almost exactly recreated what Medicare already does for it's covered population

It was an example to show how high government participation can lead to low regulatory burden, not an actual intended recipe for the US and its current or proposed system.
ah- i dont follow the writer so that makes a bit more sense
People don't need single-family homes. People in other countries do just fine with multi-family dwellings: high-rise condos, apartments, etc. In cities which are steadily increasing in density, single-family homes are utterly wasteful, and completely unnecessary. You can only fit so many of them in a given area, whereas with a high-rise, you can fit hundreds of people into the area used by a small handful of single-family homes.
For cp you can use -nv. I discovered it two days ago. It displays what will happen without doing it.
I use and develop Standard Notes. It’s an open source encrypted note taking app available on all platforms:

https://github.com/standardnotes/web
To be fair, there's been a sharp decline since Maduro took power. Maybe the current government is simply too corrupt and incompetent. And let's not forget that any other plausible government in Venezuela wouldn't be any better. Venezuela doesn't have a single "government success" story. That makes it even more sad, Venezuela should be a much better, richer country on paper, but they are cursed with natural resources.
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I decided to move to a quite rural area that's still maybe 1.5 hrs away from a major city and airport. My car costs me maybe $200 a month in total and the commute is 25 mins of easy highway miles. Not the best, but not worst. Transport in so many American cities is truly torture
Re: autonomous cars

Your narrative is a thing which could happen, not the current truth on the ground. The truth is every time a Tesla rams into a stationary object at speed, or an Uber runs down someone crossing the road, the public’s faith in the tech erodes. Every time that happens we edge closer to overburdensome regulation in the “Thanks to 3 mile island & Chernobyl it’s basically impossible to build a new nuclear plant in the US” sense, and farther away from your utopian dream.
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I had it for C64 and it took me quite a while to finally get to the princess. I think I cried a little when she killed me.
This will link directly to the web app. For more info about Standard Notes, feel free to check out https://standardnotes.org
The problem comes when we've normalized the idea of exploring buildings with unlicked doors as "yeah, this is probably exceeding authorized access".

People on here talk all the time about how their digital possessions are just as important as their physical possessions (if not more-so). Given that it seems perfectly reasonable to have the same cultural norms about exploring digital spaces as physical ones.
Great film.

I wanted to get a sense of the economics of the entire thing.

They said mining for sand could be more profitable than mining for gold.

I presume that means extracting a truckload of sand will yield more profit than a truck of ore containing rock?

I’m also now curious about sand alternatives.
Does your company pay for your commute? If they don't, why have you to be the one to pay extra?
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All growth has to stop at some point, not just population. But if we want population to grow as much as possible, we can add a few more digits before we hit the planetary limits of anything other than stupidity and political short-term-ism.

(On the other hand, stupidity and political short-term-ism are exactly why we now have problems with loss of biodiversity, antibiotic resistance, a disrupted nitrogen cycle, phosphorus waste, a quarter of the CO2 in our air being artificial, boom-and-bust economic cycles, etc.)
The stock markets are basically prediction markets. Over the short term they are wildly inaccurate and are determined mostly by fear, greed, and crowd psychology. But averaged over the long term they are very accurate.
What's a brand of printer that doesn't sell the printer at a loss

Brother B&W laser printer. You want color? Go to Kinkos. That's what we do at our house, at least. It is rare that the printout really needs to be in color, so rare that I can't remember the last time we actually went to Kinkos to print something. And Brother makes a solid printer. Consumables prices? Dunno, I change the toner so rarely. I do remember that the last time I bought one, they were so cheap that I bought two instead of the one I planned.
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>this article gives me pause as to whether things have actually changed in shining New India or if it's just a facade with air conditioning.

In the "old" India things like this would have gone on as a matter of course. The fact that such financial crimes are publicized and prosecuted, and that large industries are being subjected to professional management instead of capricious rule by the rich scions is definitely forward progress.

If anything is incentive not to move back at this point, it's the traffic, poor urban planning, and air quality. In that one respect, everything seems to be getting worse.

(Communalism seems to be rearing its head in nasty ways too)
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No, it really isn't.

When you drag-and-drop a file from e.g. a file manager into some application, then the DnD events do not contain the file. Instead, they contain something like `text/uri-list` enumerating the file paths. If you sandbox some app, then you need a bit of software to map and translate these paths. If you do not provide such software, then your sandbox does not support DnD.
> "because I like the process"

This! Awesomely inspirational answer by the way..
It's not that simple. Indian societies are ancient and have deep flaws. Usually involving social division, superstition, oppression of some kind or the other. In such situations Spiritual gurus saying the right thing in a sincere manner manage to build a large following over a period of years. The need for such "therapists" is real and cuts across income levels.

Eventually though as the guru's following explodes, big money comes into play, and money corrupts so you end up with the gurus or their followers exploiting their situations for profit or worse.
> If a founder is selling you on anything but a very sober view of the stock that's a great signal to not join the company.

Have you interviewed in many startups? "Sober view" is not what you'd get from a founder hard-selling you on any role. Try "wildly optimistic, unrealistically so".

> Even so, it is not too difficult to model a few reasonable dilution, acquisition etc. scenarios and get a feel for how you'd do in each.

Eh. Unless it's a late-stage startups (which is not the typical scenario), it's very hard to know what will happen. You can model some events, but the key question remains unanswered: how successful is this going to be?

Absent this crucial detail, any talk of future outcomes represents, at best, some good intentions. Even the most generous founder can't do much for you when his startup fails to make any money and runs out of funding.

> Most companies that are succeeding don't tend to screw employees, it's only when they've entered the "squeezing blood from a stone" phase that these things start happening, and at that point the stock's not worth much anyway.

It's true that companies tend to be more generous when they are successful, and most of the nastiness and screwing people over happens when things are going south.

Still, you overestimate how much damage screwing people will do, and underestimate how greedy various decision makers can get.

There are unfortunately many cases in which the startup had a good exit, yet everyone below the top saw little or no money. There are even cases where the startup had an incredible exit, and still went out of its way to suck all potential earnings out of its employees pockets. For example, Skype exited for $8.5bn, yet made sure to claw-back any potential gains from multiple employees, using an obscure small-print clause that essentially made even vested stock worthless:

https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/26/skypes-worthless-employee-...

Apparently, they weren't too concerned about "poisoning the talent pool", which seems like good judgment, given how nobody seems to even remember this incident anymore.
Great point and I concur: The people I know who struggle with this are not CBD users - so yes let's keep those two things separate in this discussion for sure.
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Petrodollar's importance for US economy is not that important.

The net financial benefit from petrodollar to the United States in a good year is something between 0.3 to 0.5 percent of US GDP. On crisis years it's fraction of that.

The main cost from petrodollar is that that the dollar exchange rate is an estimated 5 to 10 percent higher than it would otherwise. This hurts exports.
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"If you haven't made it big at 40+..." What, exactly, do you mean by "made it big"? Rock star giving TED talks? Keynote speaker at major industry conferences? Cashed out your fully-vested options for a startup that did well?

I'm 45, I manage a small team of bright, motivated people at a Fortune 500 retailer. Team ranges from late 20s to one of our Oracle DBAs who's in his 60s; most of our colleagues are late 20s-late 30s. It's a good team, at a chill place to work, and we put in a lot of blood, sweat, and tears over the last few years to deal with a lot of the technical debt that was making things like on-call such a miserable experience. Making that experience better has been a huge motivator for me. It helps our team, and it helps our business partners help themselves. One thing about being older is that a lot of younger developers have a different set of skills they consider "table stakes", and they may be overlooking older skillsets that could really help them out, like tuning SQL queries.

The other thing that helps me keep the fire is learning new stuff. For an old-school Enterprise guy like me, things like AWS, DevOps, Docker / K8s, seemed scary. But technologically, they are fascinating, awesome things that are allowing people to do things we couldn't have imagined before. I want to learn about them because maybe we, too, can do awesome tech things, if we got experienced people who at least understand the value proposition of these newer technologies and can make the case for them. It is a very cool time to be in IT. I'm learning C# by writing a crappy 4X Civilization knock-off, I'm going to try setting up a kubernetes lab on my linux box, and I've got O'Reilly and Pluralsight on speed-dial.
If only London airports could print the gates on the tickets. But I guess they would miss out on that sweet revenue from consumption.
How would you hedge the value of ETH? I'm not aware of a way to short it.
Presumably that most modern programming is about hooking one API up to another. It seems like modern programming work is AI, graph theory, or fairly simple plumbing.

Look at the other post about hooking up the 'smart' doorbell to Slack. That's about as interesting and 'hackerish' to me as using the switch on your surge protector to turn on two lights at once.
Sounds like this has a lot of overlap with a federal job guarentee
Honestly not sure what that has to do with the discussion here.
>> For a 0-day no click exploit, $500k .

Which company is that again? You hang around with them cybersec folks too long and you keep hearing about these 6 or 7-figure payouts for expl0its by some mysterious companies.

But it's always someones friend or friend of friend or some other 'reliable' source.

Can someone here actually say that they have received, or more importantly, are on a consistent basis getting 6-figure payouts for their exploits?

For reference, Microsoft offers bug bounties up-to $250k[0]. I can see that in light of this, it's not entirely unreasonable that some tax payer money has been wasted on buying an exploit or two for large amounts of $$$. But what I am calling into question is the myth of consistent 6/7-figure payouts for 'exploits' when sold to 'shady' companies or that such payments would be common place or such markets being generally available to security 'researchers' (read exploit developers).

Intrigued to be proven wrong here! :)

[0] URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty
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The word you're looking for is "regulated." Not illegal.
The term "intellectual property" was used in 1845 in Davoll et al. v. Brown, 173 years ago.
The WIPO was created in 1967: 51 years ago.

Whatever your personal objections are to a collective term for intangible human creations, claiming that "there is no such thing as intellectual property" is unhelpful to your cause, as that contention is simply absurd.

It is beyond belief that a cabal of lobbyists has convinced practically every nation on earth [1] to collectively supervise a nonexistence.

No, copyright/patent/trademark/trade secret/trade dress/design rights/moral rights/publicity rights/mask work rights/database rights/plant variety rights/geographical indications/etc(^) are not always detailed in separate laws. As early as 1916 the big three were grouped alike: see the Pan-American Convention's "Patents Trade Marks Copyright Status Report" and South Africa's "Patents, Designs, Trade Marks and Copyright Act" both in that year.

Yes, some separation exists for some of these ideas in some jurisdictions - US law separates copyright from trademark, for example, but not from moral rights, which are directly incorporated into copyright law in Title 17 USC. And no, you can't argue that copyright and moral rights are indistinguishable: even after assigning away copyright, an author retains the moral rights (e.g. right to attribution). And of course, the US also groups trade marks and patents together under the purview of the USPTO, and collectively joins invention rights (utility patents), plant variety rights, and design rights (design patents) all under the umbrella of 'patent law'.

Even where there is separation, that separation does not preclude the existence of a collective noun for the set. Nor does assignment into a collective set does imply a "rewrite of history". In fact, nearly all sets must be predated by at least one of their members; it would generally be nonsensical to create and name empty sets before any of their eventual members even exist.

In any case, arguing the merit of individual discussion is nonsequitous -- the existence of a collective name in no way precludes it.

Using your reasoning: "There simply is no such thing as the 'United States of America', nor are there any 'federal laws'. The term is perpetuated by proponents of the 'federal government'. It is a rewrite of history to pretend that that Virginia is somehow a subset of the USA -- the closest thing to what we would consider a state has existed since 1606 with the First Charter of Virginia in England. Native settlers of a similar area existed even further back than that.'

(^) Man, that's awkward. If only there was a term to denote that set that I just needed to name.

1: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/WIPO_members_...
Kevin from https://fossa.io/ here.

We have an open source project just for this: https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli. It currently supports roughly 20+ build systems and languages, and pairs with our web service for license and vulnerability discovery.

Would love your feedback.
I think gates change when planes need to be re-routed.
From what I read the 1 hour begins counting once something is reported and they also plan to make reviews/counter claims and such mandatory as they already exist on youtube (although youtube seems to have forgot the part where it needs to work)
That's called the "lookers fallacy" I believe.
Or to save the crown jewels from going under with HP the IT conglomerate. I guess a mature IT and consumer mass market requires different corporate structure, scale, and growth compared to ee and chem lab equipment.
What was the tweet that Twitter labeled as ‘sensitive’?
The main advantage that this overengineered solution has over a doorstop is that no one will upvote an article on HN about a doorstop, and then your company loses out on the publicly.
For my k8s secrets I've been using sops: https://github.com/mozilla/sops

It supports GCP/AWS KMS, so as long as my GCP user account can read the keychain, I can decrypt the secret. Very simple and does the job.
That page is specific to man pages, not to documentation in general.

See https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.htm...
I just hacked my shoelaces.
>But in practice, 1/10^9 is the same as zero

Sadly, it's not even that - we don't have a popular vote, so not all votes have the same weight :(
I've worked for successful software start ups, and I've worked for Hewlett Packard.

Here's what I noticed:

In the startup that I worked for (BladeLogic), we started small and we grew organically. Many of our early customers were very small, but eventually we grew big enough to sell thousands of licenses to companies like Target and Bank of America.

By growing organically, it gave us an opportunity to improve the software without 'sinking the ship.'

IE, if you sell fifty thousand licenses to a company like Target, you better have your software sorted out before they sign the contract.

At Hewlett Packard, we didn't start small at all. From day one, we were doing huge deals, and selling software that was just months old. If I had it my way, I would've started off slowly, worked out the bugs, and then followed with a wide release to the big customers.
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That's a weird metric to measure a city by. NYC is a vibrant city whose interestingness is intrinsically tied to the unique, sometimes weird blend of people inhabiting it. But tying this colourfulness to the amount of grime in the subway seems like a strawman to me. NYC isn't what it is because of smelly bums in subway cars, leaking ceilings, "showtime" kids or schizophrenic maniacs wielding knives, all of which feature heavily in the subway.

Secondly, there are plenty of cities with clean, "quality" civic spaces that are also have plenty of weirdness and colourful culture, including Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Moscow.
It is nice to have some parts of a protocol be optional.. Currently you'd have to use a set of protocols for this, but maybe that's fine.
Seems like a pretty big success to me. They had a contingency plan and it was implemented successfully. No cancelled flights and minimal delays - good job.
Do you have a link for clocker? The only thing I can find is a world clock.
To be fair, they had to both point and click.
If it legitimately uses end to end encryption, then them hosting a webapp which presumably allows you to view and edit your notes seems odd.

Even if it asks for your vault key each time, since they control the JavaScript delivered to the webapp, it largely negates the benefit of E2E encryption.
What’s your Uber/Lyft rating these days? I imagine it’s not good if you don’t tip.
This related blog post is an interesting read:

Building Affordable Housing: Where Has the Entry Level House Gone?

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2016/08/building-affordable-...
The G7 share of world GDP has been steadily falling: http://www.economywatch.com/economic-statistics/Major-advanc...
>And I mean, it's not very surprising, if you haven't made it big at 40+, that means you worked on a lot of failed projects, that makes it harder to believe you can change that.

Not even 5% of the population "makes it big at 40+" (or ever) so there's that.