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Amazon's treatment of sick people is horrifying: https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home/harassing...

I have an online friend who used to work for an Amazon fulfillment center. I say "used to", because she got fired. For being sick. She got food poisoning one day and had to take a week off. When she got sick, she put in a request via MyLeave. Two or three months later, Amazon retroactively denied her request and fired her because she went negative on UPT. That's right, months. As far as she knew, everything was going well, and all of a sudden she was called into HR and unceremoniously dumped because Amazon decided months after the fact to deny her sick leave.
In India, there has been a debate going on for years that EVMs should be replaced with the old paper voting method. People against EVMs say that they can be tampered and results can be altered whereas the other side says it's very safe to use EVMs.
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They can do whatever they want. That said, there are certain classes of power users (creatives) that are very loyal users, and it seems like a good core demographic to cater to. Devs are probably much less loyal, but catering to creatives would likely cater to us as well.

The problem with catering directly to mass consumers is that the minute some other brand becomes more fashionable, they will jump to it. And if at that point creatives have been sufficiently fed up with the non-utility of Apple products, they might have already abandoned ship, and Apple will not have a code demographic to fall back to (or to keep it fashionable in the first place).
> Apple would had fix all the ongoing issues with the Java bridge

I really don't think they could have given the non-dynamic nature of Java. That part missing from Java's semantics and execution model is pretty critical and would only be added to the JVM much, much later. I have to agree with cmiles about the "hacky" nature of the bridge.
Congrats on the release! I've used mojolicious for several of my personal projects and it's been wonderful.

@kraih I applaud your work ethic as the frequency of your commits and releases show you are dedicated to the project and keeping it moving forward. Thank you!
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I don't really get this libertarian-like argument (no idea if you are libertarian or not, it just sounds like what I would hear from them). You are relying on the society for everything. Do you also make your own car? build your own roads? Go to harvest coffee beans to make your own coffee? Do you get water from the city or from your own means? And what about petrol and gas?

> Identifying a bug in a system isn't an argument for that bug to persist.

It's not a bug, concentration makes economy of scale possible, that's why everything is like this. Spread-out cities have traffic issues, small factories create more expensive products, small farms struggle to negotiate selling prices, small shops cannot afford to buy in bulk... Concentration is what makes everything cheaper.
What I think we're seeing here is that Google's bottom line was damaged by GDPR.
>You'll have to show me one inventive and useful "ninja" trick revolving around the use of '=='.

1. I was making a generalized statement around JS, not specifically '=='. That's a misinterpretation of my statement.

>"my programming language is perfect"

2. I did not say JavaScript is perfect. That's a misinterpretation of my statement.

>"if you don't like it you're just too dumb to get it"

3. I did not say "if you don't like you're just too dumb." That's a misinterpretation of my statement.
In design a "proof" is a preview of the final design. That's probably what he's referring to. A final-ish draft of the ballot for review by the stakeholders.
I think OP is making a distinction between a question like "what are the differences between DDG and Google" and the more subjective question that was actually posted. With a subjective question, the marketing team can come tout all the positive attributes as reasons why one should switch without giving equal time to discuss what might be lacking.
Then I'm still better informed than anyone who thinks he has "eaten the wisdom with a spoon", to use an old German proverb.

I said that I see no viable alternative (unless you have unlimited spare time and unlimited travel funds to interview witnesses and take photos yourself), not that traditional newspapers are perfect.

Besides, the problem of most people nowadays is that they are overinformed, leading to an overly negative world view. That problem worries me personally much more.
when i was working at an office, my avg commute was 1h each way (using uber). that's são paulo, brazil where 150+km of traffic jams is not unusual.
dash works for me. Maybe the issue is specific to "news"?

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return different results as expected.
Glad to see them continue to be phased out. At one point, a convenience store / gas station here in the US called Sheetz had baked goods with obscene levels of trans fats. Their cake donuts, as an example, had 14g each.
Can confirm. Uninstalled the app and its spyware friend, the messenger app, years ago. Feel like my phones spies just a little less on me every day, and saved about 750mb of space.

Pro Tip: if you need messenger on mobile, set your browser to "desktop site" to avoid facebooks insistence on installing its spyware pile of poo.
After unionising, why would Amazon listen to any of the union's demands? Would the union call a strike? Presumably there will be other employees waiting to take their place as these jobs do not require a lot of training and workers can be replaced quickly.

I would guess that Amazon would simply not even speak to any union representatives - there's no advantage to them in doing so.
https://www.google.com/advanced_search
User-initiated. Totally different.
What's the old argument? This article refers to a current legal case and testimony that happened last week, and a judge is expected to reach a decision today about whether Georgia must change its election system just weeks before voting in 2018 takes place.

The debate is more than just paper vs. digital. Georgia is interesting not just because it has gone completely paperless (4 other states have done so), but because it is also the only state in which the system is centralized. Delaware, one of the other states to have gone paperless, have systems too old to connect to the Internet: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/1...
The unfairness of it all. Years ago I was employee #1 at a small company, which grew quite large in terms of user base and profit. VC was attracted. More profit was made. New C-level executives were attracted. The founders and C-levels made very profitable deals for themselves. The engineers got nothing. No bonus, no stock options, nada. I left the company a lot more cynical than I joined it.
People want the news as quickly as possible.

> Elections are usually in November, winners take office in January. Plenty of time to sort it out if there's a question.

This is an issue as you reach larger offices in particular the presidency where there's an entire transition process that has to happen where the incoming president has to pull together the team to run the state and get read into all the various secret programs so that day 1 they're ready to run the country.
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It's not that they are interested in providing as much value possible - they are legally mandated. [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
> `==` is basically code smell that only really smart people should use.

And then cross your fingers that no one else ever has to look at or work on that code because they might not pick up on whatever "smart" reason the == operator was used.
It's a good example for the audience he is speaking to. Everyone thinks of Jobs as a "creative", cut from a different cloth compared to tech CEOs of the time. It's easy to see his success as stemming from his refusal to do things the normal way. His barefoot hippy days at Reed and HP are also recognizable touch points of his early history, and covered extensively in the official biography, which no doubt was used as a source for this passage (of Newport's book).

Of course the reality was more complicated; he was a deadbeat dad and needlessly perfectionist at times. But given the public image he created for himself, the Buddhism story is a good fit for the point the author is making.
That links "more than 400 sources" to https://duck.co/ia which in turn links to https://docs.duckduckhack.com/#improve-a-live-instant-answer saying "DuckDuckHack is in Maintenance Mode". But https://docs.duckduckhack.com/welcome/how-ias-work.html suggests that these sources are for things displayed at the top, which I see super rarely. So this is in fact a nice example of misleading DDG PR.
The first edition came out in 1990. I am talking about the CLRS book.
Fair enough :-) Would it be feasible to add something in the module that could optionally send a string to the user to say that some portion of a hash of their pw will be verified against that API?

I am thinking of the cases where a security org enables this on a jump box, but only sends an email that gets lost among the myriad of other emails that people do not read. It would be great if there was a banner that could be sent to make privacy and compliance teams happier.
"Fissioned" in any nuclear context means big atoms are split into small atoms.

Natural uranium is 0.7% U235, and the rest U238. Only the U235 is fissionable by the slow neutrons in conventional reactors. For a nuclear plant, we have to enrich the uranium until it's at least 2% U235 (or a little more, depending on reactor design...the top is about 5%).

The U238 in the reactor doesn't fission when hit by a neutron, but may absorb it and turn into plutonium, which is fissionable. About a third of a conventional reactor's energy output comes from fissioning plutonium.

Other transuranics (elements heavier than uranium) are also produced in a conventional reactor as nuclei absorb neutrons without fissioning. The end product is a mixture of U238, unfissioned U235 and plutonium, other transuranics, and fission products. There's some fissionable material left over because some fission products absorb neutrons, poisoning the reaction; some countries, like France, "reprocess" this mixture to pull out the remaining fissionables.

A fast reactor changes all this. In a conventional reactor, neutrons are purposely slowed down by materials like graphite and water. In a fast reactor, the neutrons from fission are left at the high energies they start with. These neutrons can fission U238 and all the transuranics.

So the fast reactor can use all of the uranium, instead of just 1% percent of it (U235 plus some U238 that gets converted to plutonium). That does mean it only needs about 1% as much uranium input.

A 1 GW coal plant uses a 100-car trainload of fuel every three days. A conventional nuclear plant uses an 18-wheeler load of fuel rods every 18 months. But a 1GW fast reactor uses just one ton of fuel per year, about the size of a beach ball. It can supply all the energy you need for your entire life, transportation included, from a piece of fuel the size of a golfball.
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It really worries me for US democracy that they don't seem capable of running an election in a way that voters feel confident that their votes are counted correctly. Bush v Gore in 2000 should have been a warning but nothing seems to have improved and now we even have a president who does everything he can to undermine trust in election results. Once people start losing trust in elections and other public institutions the door is wide open for a strongman who claims to clean up the mess by getting rid of the system. Trump is a start ("clean up the swamp") but things may get much worse.
American identity politics started long before Trump, and long before the GOP's modern assault on governance. I just finished reading; White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - it was illuminating.

The war against "cultural elites" started with the first "mountain men" that ran for office in contrast to the 'educated elites' from "the North". Sound familiar?

It's not liberals, leftists or elitists who started the war on manual labor - they used it to separate themselves a long time ago.

This of course was connected to slavery, which left the south under-educated and feeling personally attacked. Too much to cover here, just read the book!
The problem I have with this is that there clearly are fields of interest, knowledge that are harder than others. Both to understand and to explain to laymen.

Gell-Mann of course had a fundamental understandingf of modern physics including many counterintuitive effects. A journalist would not have that knownledge, and given the task to (in fairly short time) write an article for an audience that in general neither has that fundamental understanding. So, of course the journalist will make mistakes, misunderstand aspects of the field when writing an article. Physics is hard.

But, politics, road safety, sports are interests that one quite probably can claim are less hard to grasp. And areas a newspaper journalist quite probably also have more knowledge about. So, the amount of errors and mistakes when writing an article abpit something in these fields should be fewer. And Gell-Mann would probably be able to spot them.
People refusing to stay in the locality and socioeconomic conditions of their birth place, and instead exploring the world and learning about its people, is gentrification now?

The amount of NYC-born privilege being waved around in this thread is astounding.

I have paid, in many ways, for NYC my whole life. It's my city too, even though I wasn't born there. I identify with its culture. I know its geography and social norms. I play its open mics to enthusiastic audiences of a size that I simply can't reach upstate.

Why do you think that people who are born in NYC are entitled to these things to the exclusion of the rest of us?
Policy will is one obstacle, but high costs are the main factor. Compared to new gas plants, new nuclear plants are extremely expensive. Look at the debacle in South Carolina and you can clearly see: new nuclear is not working (outside China). Old nuclear is still a huge portion of the carbon-free electric grid in parts of the USA and Europe, especially in other countries like France. I do believe that if carbon were taxed based on its negative effects, nuclear would get the much-needed economic re-conception that allows it to proliferate. It can and should be a climate solution, alongside batteries and renewables.
I don't think people should be entitled to the freedom of having children no matter what, since having children forces significant externalities on society, especially if there's an agreement that everyone should have a good standard of living (as implied by this article) or even just that there's a right to healthcare; and even without those, since the children may become criminals and harm others.

The root causes of poverty and violent crime are people who have children but are not able or willing to properly educate them and support them financially, so the simplest fix is to prevent that from happening (by forcing them to have an abortion).

That said, an alternate solution is for the state to step in if parents can't or unconditionally, although some sort of population control might be required anyway.
UK discounted provision for decommission costs:
£100+ billion in 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/23/britain-...

£161 billion in 2017
https://web.archive.org/web/20170516093449/https://www.gov.u...

£234 billion in 2018
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nuclear-provision...

... and counting.
There's also the question of how the printed ballots get counted.

If you put them all into a black box machine (or set of machines) that spits out a total at the end, you've recreated all the same issues.
Discounted cash flow analysis isn't a useless mental model, assuming the market will (eventually) price stocks that way is. How would you disprove that claim? You can't -- it's unfalsifiable and hence meaningless.
I invoke Gell-Mann amnesia :-) - also worth noting that he got the boot before I attained full adulthood.
Cloudflare offering it might legitimize IPFS in ways that non-corporate entities championing it doesn't.

Not a huge Cloudflare fan, but I will admit this is cool of them to spend engineering time and money on.

EDIT: Thanks for the efforts to promote the Distributed Web. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
I really like watching educational entertainment

Evan&Katlyn -> Makerspace videos, running a small business manufacturing operation. https://www.youtube.com/user/EvanAndKatelyn

James Burteon -> Electrical + Mechanical engineer, doesn't deep dive like AvE, but gives you the big picture of projects from start to finish. Currently doing opendog, a replica of boston dynamics of the spot mini. https://www.youtube.com/user/jamesbruton

I have a full list on my blog site actually, don't feel like retyping it out http://vincentmtang.com/inspiration/.

For udemy, udacity, etc. I prefer udemy courses, as the video UX is the best of the lot. There are some really good authors on there, colt steele, andrew mead, among others. I find the best ones on freecodecamp's review forums / reddit
When I got my mortgage in 2001, I was offered 3x the debt I would take on. Three times the debt. I told the broker that was insane, and she just said it was very, very common. Nope, not going to do that, I said. She thought I was silly.

About 5 years later (not due to the 2008 crisis), I would have lost my home had I done the 3x. As it was, I was able to weather the storm.

In financial matters, be very conservative. That is my advice.
That's a good question - I'm not sure. It's about 10 feet from my door. Technically speaking I'm "responsible" for maintaining it under NY law, but I don't know if it's strictly private property. The city can (and does) ticket homeowners when something is blocking their curb if it's 1) a tortious danger to pedestrians (i.e. snow) or 2) interfering with municipal activity, like garbage pickup.

That being said I'm not really concerned about being ticketed because it happens so rarely. I'm more concerned about neighborhood appearance and being able to place my garbage in a consistent spot. For context, this is in an area which is more suburban than urban. Having a regular bike chained to a sign outside my door would be equally out of place.
See, the typical tactic of Kremlinbots is to deny all existing evidence as fake, and then ask for proofs. So, I have to ask you first: do you find the current evidence that MH-17 was shot down by a Russian Buk launcher, and that Skripals were poisoned by Russian GRU agents "solid" enough? If you don't think the evidence for these two events is "solid" (I think it is solid), then I will be unable to provide you "solid" evidence that Wikileaks cooperates with Kremlin.
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Nominally, yes, but you know, for $32K, you can rent a flat, eat healthy food as much as you want and maybe you can even save to travel and see different cultures once or twice a year. If you broke your leg, you don't have to worry about health insurance. I think that's fair. You won't go far earning almost just the national minimum wage in any country, but in the UK, you can have a very stressless life.
I really, sincerely doubt that even Apple with all its capital could fix all the issues with Java. At heart, it's just not a good language. You can get work done in it, slowly and painfully, paying a great deal of money to a great number of code monkeys. But it's an embarrassingly bad language.
Interesting to read this, because my subjective experience has been exactly the opposite - DDG tends to turn up a bunch of relevant SO posts at the top, while being a bit shaky for more general queries.
The quote that you citied is bizarre. When I search for my keys at home, I don't want a fair search pattern of the house -- I want the answer... the location of my keys. Bias isn't always bad.

Think about how annoying it would be as a non-tech person to google or acronyms, for example. Google is amazing at what it does in this space.
old, but gold: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EV_c1-YTk8M#
IMO, it is never proper for the legislature to target an individual or individual company. It's perfectly fine for enforcement agencies (OSHA, FDA, IRS, FAA, FTC, SEC, etc) to enforce policy/law on individuals/companies who have been found in violation, but to originally target individuals with the force of government lawmaking is a dramatic overreach of power, IMO.

If Senator Sanders et al want to target all companies who pay below a certain wage or offer/don't offer a certain benefit or whatever broad category of social/economic ill that the legislature wants to end, have at it. Just so long as you don't torture a combination of such factors that, low and behold, it happens to only apply to the individual / company that you have it in for.

When you come up with a bill with an acronym "STOP BEZOS", I am pretty certain you've left the path of light and reason.
Carlos Slim has a good 17% stake of The New York Times so...
They're not worthless if you mandate that they're kept around for verification.

You can automatically verify some random percentage of them and do a full recount if needed.
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Depending on your conventions for null/undefined (another annoying wart of JavaScript), I think it often makes sense to treat `== null` as a special allowed case. In the code I work in, `== null` is strongly encouraged (but not required) as the way of doing null checks, and all other uses of `==` are disallowed by lint. Just like our other patterns and conventions, it's something people pick up reasonably quickly as they're introduced to the code, nothing tricky, just a little pattern that acts as a concise replacement to the `?` operator from CoffeeScript.

The alternatives are writing `x === null || x === undefined` everywhere (which might lead to people just picking one out of laziness, leading to bugs), doing things like `if (x)` (which we still do sometimes, but can lead to subtle falsy-related bugs if you're not careful), or to do careful bookkeeping of when variables might be null vs undefined. In my opinion, the null/undefined distinction is more cognitive overhead than the benefit it provides, so it's best to just check for both at the same time and never intentionally treat them as different. Given that mindset, I think the `== null` pattern is slightly unfortunate, but better than the alternatives.
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You can recount paper ballots on different electronic counters to verify integrity. However, you cannot vote on multiple electronic machines to ensure consistency.
that is the only good and handy use of it, yes.
I am also very confused by this. Just a few months ago it showed as requiring 215MB on my iPhone. An update from this week shows 515MB (which is what the size is listed as in the app store as well).

How did their app balloon nearly 2.5x in size in such a short time- with no noticeable change in the app itself?
I use it for streaming movies, Google has managed to clean its results from a lot of these websites.