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Can you share a rough estimate housing & living expenses ?

My understanding that Scandinavian countries are very expensive for every day living expenses.

(As a single healthy educated adult male, its too late to enjoy the free child care, education, health care, etc)
As I understand it the majority of back pain cases have unknown/undiagnosable causes (and the only "treatment" is either more or less exercise and painkillers),so unless there is an actual physical deformity a psychiatrist is as qualified as anyone to diagnose it.
But I do agree the pay should rise about 20% . by "should" I mean a lot of companies in Germany or Netherlands(where I'm currently at) will lose employees to Dublin/London where salaries are much higher.
I resolve internal services as subdomains of a domain I own. I use a wildcard I get assigned on an EC2. I script an sftp upload of the a new cert every renewal to my main internal machine where it is shared via nfs. This is the simplest way I've found.
What does this offer over Yubi?
It's a joke, a reference to what Trump infamously said in a meeting, "Why do we want these people from all these shithole countries here? We should have more people from places like Norway."
Really happy to hear that ZenHub has an official relationship with GitHub. We use the combo in my company and think that they work remarkably well together
I think there is a simpler explanation, that has nothing to do with technology, productivity, or society: big companies are naturally inefficient internally (due to complexity) but as a whole are best optimized for capturing and retaining markets/regulators.
there's nothing in the document you linked to, or the guidance that it links to (http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_...) that says the DPO can't have any role in the organisation. There's no "conflict of interest" clause I can see... but I'd welcome any clarification.
I think weird cyclical state changes are a feature of your chosen framework. For instance I worked on an angular (1.x) project where we would routinely have these issues - in fact they were well documented. We ported the project to hyperdom and I've never seen an issue with state since.
From the definition given in another comment: 'a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence'

The 'Senior Manager Pizza deliver car inspector' might think his job is safety related and take that very serious. So then its not a BS job at all. Others might think his daily checkups (just making this up) are over the top and BS, but he himself thinks is neccessary.

Seems to me it comes down to the extend you think your job can be winged. For example a marketing research job. Because you feel your reports are not read by your superiors, you just make up stuff and think its BS. But you could also write very good reports, go up a higher level, ask your boss for better work, etc. The BS is mainly in your mind.

I am still not convinced there is a good definition for BSJ (BS jobs).
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Accountability is huge - don't have that for any of my projects so that's a great idea.

Early mornings are a great idea too, but my default body clock is night owl, not morning person so I find it very tough to get up and do anything intensive in the morning. I'm sure that can be changed with time/effort, but it's a tough one (especially with a kid that might get up at 5 or 6 any given day)
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I think they used a lot of training data from UN, EU etc
>> this sounds like a really terrible voice call at best

Do you believe this isn't an advertisement for Lyrebird?
>levels of direct influence

Um... isn't that exactly what a 'jobs program' is. The US government has a lot of programs with private industry along those lines.
Reminds me of a story I read here a while ago - about someone in military being overwhelmed with required reports, who eventually decided they'll stop submitting all reports for a while, and wait until complaints come, in order to determine which reports actually serve a purpose.
Thank you for the advice and encouragement!
The option to move to the U.S is given only to a selected few who somehow got relocated by their employer or won a visa lottery. And even if everything went fine, if you are married your spouse probably won't be able to work in the U.S. There's plenty of talent in Europe who wouldn't even consider the US simply because of the hellish bureaucracy. So I really doubt that the best and brightest all 100% flock to the U.S from Europe.
The countdown starts and runs until some 12 year old breaks it wide open.
No, I am not moving the goal posts.

Patents, while they were invented to promote it, end up being a major drag on innovation, which bears to my point: innovating in Europe is a major PITA.

>Also, do you think IP in the US software industry is any better

The way IP is managed in the US is terrible, granted.

But I would say that these days, and specifically for software, things are way better than they used to - say - in the 80's and 90's.

A number of tech. companies are starting to recognize that sharing IP is actually making them more money in the long run and are actually publishing a lot of what they invent.

For example, and while I am no fan of Google, they tend to open source a ton of non-obvious stuff (e.g. the recently discussed s2 library).

On the flipside, and as an experiment: if you work in a German tech. company, try and ask their legal dept how they'd feel about open-sourcing some of their stack. See what they say.
That's a reasonable point, but it's also reasonable to observe that businesses rely on other businesses all the time. As a small business, you usually have little meaningful oversight of the internal processes of outside services you use. You don't get to audit your bank's finances to make sure they're safe to trust with your money. You don't get to review your lawyer's office security arrangements to make sure no-one can break in and steal confidential data about your contracts. You don't get to review which products your office cleaning firm uses. At some point, you just have to trust that they do a decent job, and you change who you work with if you have reason to believe they aren't doing that.

If a privacy regime is going to have any value in practice, it has to work on the same basis. The emphasis has to be ensuring that each individual or organisation who actually knows about the way data is being processed and has the ability to influence that processing is behaving reasonably. Then you can have some sort of trust framework that can actually mean something, from the data subject to their direct contacts and right on through to the indirect service providers however far the chain goes. The rest is just CYA and box-ticking, no matter how many laws you write or what penalties you threaten.
I get blocking incoming messages. Why is there a feature for blocking publicly broadcast messages available even to annonymos users?
Governments do fall under the purview of GDPR. Do you have a source that states otherwise?
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You might like to read Red Plenty. The problem isn't the size of the companies as such, it's the notion of planning the economy.

If you allow multiple corporations but oblige them to follow the same plans, that does nothing to address the problem. If you allow the corporations to compete in a market economy then, well, you have a market economy.
The article's last paragraph and link to book review[1] discusses this.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/30/book-review-inadequate-...
Each key is unique. You add both of them to your account.
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How are you looking for jobs in the U.S ? I find the whole process daunting (especially not knowing if you win some visa lottery, and the fact my wife won't be able to work there).
I agree with the first loop. I think there are very few markets where the 2nd loop actually exists.

1. There is constant innovation, even in the most established areas people are always trying new things.
2. Advertisement is an education campaign. There are always new people that have a problem to solve and they may not be aware of what exists.
"replaced or plateaued anyway."

Agreed, or found out there is no market and never used. This is a constant battle I have with the more pure engineers in a startup. Speed to feature release to allow marketability to be proven is #1. Only after it is proven, can you start to add better design. I'm even a fan of doing some process manually until it's untenable. By then I have a proven process, and know what parts need to be automated and scaled.

Of course this is different in established companies or those projects beyond the typical CRUD app.
Hierarchies are great if you get to manage them and stay on top of it. The Windows Start Menu search is frustrating, since you're at the mercy of an algorithm. The other day I hit the Windows key, typed the first few letters of an application I regularly used, hit the enter key, and it launched the "Uninstall X" item. It just decided to sort that one higher on that day. Shrug
That won't resolve many of the negative reviews of the MultiPass key, since they're complaints over the physical design and usage.
If the advertising competition you mention didn't exist, for example competitors closing shop and not playing the zero sum game, then you'd have a monopoly company, which would also be bad.

So in that case, it's good to play the zero sum game since it's a redistribution of income.

Of course, it's wasted labour, and so what you really want is for the government to step in and extract more in taxes and simply hand over the money as welfare or invest in more fruitful pursuits such as scientific research, rather than redistribution of income coming from zero sum games.
It's that businesses go out of business -- see Nokia, Blackberry, etc.

Public organizations can't be easily replaced by a competitor -- I think being replaced by a competitor is more of an occurrence than fixing it from the inside.
Not to mention that while Slack still has a web interface, they can't really expect to control what extensions are installed in the user's browser and how they render/modify the data the website is sending them. That'd be like Reddit or Google sending uBlock Origin a C&D because it can block ads on their sites. Or SalesForce C&D'ing whoever did an extension that implemented XKCD's force/horse replacement (https://xkcd.com/1418/).

Slack can shut off their web interface and rely on their own apps if they want to control that stuff.
Those had many Europeans on their teams, specially German researchers, while Europe was busy recovering from WW II.
Interesting question, but I'm not sure how relevant that is. Try covering the parts of your view beyond the edges of your glasses, e.g. with your hands, and see if the experience is the same as with just your glasses. I bet there is a huge difference.

I think the issue is that the parts outside your glasses are blurry anyway (even for people with perfect vision), but even the blurry part is important for the experience.
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Feels different when "the world" is other people with their own lives, hopes, and dreams. In that case be ding it to your will called authoritarianism.
> If you believe that we operate in a market economy, then by definition bullshit jobs would be removed.

Nobody believes that perfect markets exist.
sure, but is the revolt prevented by keeping them busy or by giving them an (albeit bullshit) means of keeping food on their tables? i'm not a historian, but most of the revolts i've learned about were immediately preceded by severe scarcities of essential items.
We had all these debates ad nauseam in the time leading up to 25 May. The basic concerns haven't changed. There's still little clarity about the main ambiguities. Just linking from your privacy policy to each of your suppliers' is still as useful to data subjects as a clause saying "We can change our terms unilaterally at any time" in a contract, and in any sane world it would carry a similar amount of legal weight.
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> if my subordinate asks for a special chair, I will ask him to get a doctor's note, to see if he is serious or just bored

Sounds like a bullshit task then.

> 2/ "There is less and less actual work to be done due to technological progress." If this was true, there would be unemployment, not BS jobs.

What's the mechanism that would cause this to happen? A manager could notice that they don't need as many people on their team - but what incentive does that manager have to reduce the size of their own team?
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Which of those isn't present in the labor market?
I think it matters greatly whether we’re talking about the first programmer (like pg was), vs the tenth, vs the hundredth
You know, I spent last year subscribed to a bunch of these niche journals with the hope of broadening my intellectual intake. I tried to get a good variety - everything from Jacobin (socialist) to National Affairs (neocon). I'm not sure it was worthwhile. They're full of the same flood of opinions you get from the broader internet - in much more flowery prose.

N+1 is one of those journals and this article falls into that same category. It's an opinion piece about opinion pieces written in unnecessarily flowery and meandering prose. After reaching its conclusion my main thought was "It took you that long to say _that_?" Ironically, that very reaction is one of the things the author is railing against.

There is plenty to pick apart in our media landscape today. With perhaps the most challenging question to address being "When, if ever, is an opinion too dangerous to freedom to be given a platform?" Closely followed by "How can we improve the tenor and character of the national debate, given the constraints of media economics?"

But I really don't feel like this article succeeded in providing a coherent or cogent criticism of that landscape. Instead it just read like a flowery screed against opinions the author didn't like.
how can I install this? npm install -g madoko gave me a command line but nothing more, no installation instructions are found yet. would like to try it locally.
While both handle two factor authentication, Authy only assists with time based one time passwords (TOTP) which still leaves the end user open to phishing. These security keys are meant to be used with universal second factor (U2F) which prevents phishing entirely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor
I think 'fooled' might be the wrong word to describe the airport security staff. "Had to make a judgement call and decided to err on the side of lenience" is probably a fairer description.
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The news cycle of jobs getting taken over by AI/ML/DL keeps repeating, but can someone provide few concrete examples of which jobs have been already taken over or are in the process of getting taken over? Machine automation took over many industrial/manufacturing jobs but that happened many years ago already. I am looking for examples where specifically AI/ML/DL technology was reason for job vaporization.
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There are apps that also validate the source and can automatically sign you in (or require a button press), e.g. https://www.kryptco.com

Seems like it might be useful, but haven't had the time to try it out yet.
It’s crazy unbelievable how low-latency Tobii’s eye tracking is

Even their consumer grade 4c is extremely impressive. It has neat uses for simple desktop usage. For the handicapped folks it’s an absolute boon
That's another similarity, I guess.

"We struggle to deliver the features we promised and you say we should create test code as well?"
Interesting piece up until the COM rant tangent. COM was brilliant. It was complex because what it did was complex. It provided a binary contact for unrelated software packages to communicate. It was an absolute breeze to work with in VB, something I didn't appreciate in my C++ snob days.

The problem with COM wasn't COM, it was the dominant 'serious' programming language of the day.
Because the refactorings are generally impossible. At best the automated tool could tell you everywhere it thinks a change might be necessary, but has to ask you want you want to do there. And it would likely greatly over or underestimate the number of changes needed. It's rather akin to saying "why can't the system implement my functions for based on their signatures?"
The reason for its popularity is like with Java and C++ and C# - a combination of unfortunate feedback loops: companies are looking for cheap developers familiar with technology they already use.

Has nothing to do with JS’s or ecosystem’s sanity or (nonexistent) advantages over other languages.
If this was true, wouldn't everybody be programming in assembly? E.g. developing a website in assembly would keep more people occupied than HTML/JS/CSS.
That's a rather vague statement, it is the textbook answer directed at the users of discretes: given a fixed discrete photodiode part and a fixed load resistor one can change the capacitance by reverse biasing and thus improve the bandwidth of the resultant RC filter.

But this is not a full truth from the perspective of the photodiode designer: he can trivially increase or decrease the capacitance by designing a photodiode with a larger or smaller area. Suppose ratio of the incoming light power over photodiode area is unaffected by doubling the original photodiode area. If he doubles the area and hence capacitance, then he also doubles the injected photocurrent! Hence he can halve the load resistor, hence the bandwidth is unaffected by doubliing capacitance!

Consider the source illumination, what is the smallest area you can concentrate the light in? If it is smaller than your photodiode's active area, it pays off to select a smaller photodiode since the unused area is contributing dead weight capacitance. But if decreasing the area does not increase the optical power / photodiode area ratio, you need better optics or illumination.

EDIT: fixed poorly phrased sentence
To summarize: two proposals:
1. Once drugs have passed Phase I trials ... prescribe them
2. repeal ... a provision that requires drug developers to prove a medication's efficacy

How is this different from Right to Try act?
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Liquid hydrogen is really, really, bad as a fuel.

The energy density per mass is very high, but it's also the least dense gas, so the volumetric energy density is absolute crap, even at high pressure. A bucket of kerosene contains a lot more hydrogen atoms than a bucket of liquid hydrogen, and unlike the hydrogen, it's safe to keep at room temperature, at normal pressure, and it's neither corrosive, flammable, or explosive.
There is a joke along these lines. The punch line is that in the end the company is operating at a loss, so the worker is fired.
If it doesn’t make you better off, what’s the point?
It's crazy that they got money from the government towards this when their profits are so insanely high. James Dyson is very tight-fisted (I used to work there; that is part of the reason I left).
I doubt from your comment that you have read his book. The market is broken. We have entire professions that add zero value, such as much of banking and law. Graeber then goes further in saying that at these companies there are real jobs, which are really bullshit. Such as a cleaner working doing a real job at a bank.

The rentier economy, which itself is bourne of a surplus (the surplus creates slack for mass rentier exploitation which is tolerated as nobody starves), is massively inefficient. Bullshit abounds.
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> People who actually know how to do their job, having learned it well, or had previous skills, get frustrated that most of their workload is 'make-work' following all the extra procedures, and the people who have no skill, just follow the The Book, because they know no different, and it keeps them out of trouble.

That’s actually an intermediate step. The interesting side effect of “the book” is that any sufficiently advanced organization will and does recognize the codification or procedure as a chance for automation and increased efficiency. The dangerous thing that might occur here is that “the book” became “the system” in the late 90’s when IT invaded every organization. “The system” got an upgrade here or there - but more or less cargo-cult’d the manual process. More dangerously - “the system” works, and got extended to integrate with another “system.” Changing either one would require substantial work, and the individual that wrote the original “book” has long since left the organization, leaving behind a process frozen in time.
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>Those had many Europeans on their teams, specially German researchers

Thank you for proving my point.

I never said Europeans were bad engineers, far from it.

I'm saying they leave because it's just impossible to innovate in Europe, and that's a major problem.
Could be selection bias. People who use lisp today are people who refused to move on over the past decades when almost everyone moved on.
"If that is true, then your researchers are effectively managers here. The real workers are lab techs, programmers etc."

Well yeah. Professors are like business unit leaders/managers, acquiring funding for research and setting the main outline of what to do. Then the others (usually, although not always, designated 'administrative staff', or grad students/post docs) execute the work. I'm not sure I would call them 'real workers', that implies that others (i.e., managers) don't do 'real work'. I mean I understand what you say - you mean 'real work' as 'producing something', but 'creating the circumstances in which others can produce something' is also work.
It’s not about “who’s doing the real work” it’s a question of what type of work you are doing. A facilities administrator (fancy title for handyman) will have a much more hands-on part in bringing in new research equipment and setting it up. But it’s still the research staff who ordered it and will plan the experiments that get published in nature.
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Is it sort of a ubikey?
> As a manager, if my subordinate asks for a special chair, I will ask him to get a doctor's note, to see if he is serious or just bored, and to prevent all his colleagues from wanting a special chair the next day.

And I would wonder whether you think of your employees as little children, or are you just giving into the false economy of being cheap on equipment. The latter seems common, and I've personally been in companies that could easily double the productivity of their developers at the one-time per-developer cost of one developer salary, by buying a decent computer, extra monitor, a pair of headphones and a good chair.

Also note that in this article, the employee needed a note to bring their own chair to work, so it's essentially free for the employer anyway.

> 5/ I have not seen many - if any - BS jobs in my IT career. Sure, it would be great to reduce state regulation but the guy in my company responsible for compliance is not doing a BS job.

I guess we have strongly different perspectives, because to me, most of the jobs I've seen in this industry are bullshit, in the sense that the world would be a better place if those jobs (often: companies) didn't exist in the first place.