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We should indeed just get rid of the minimum wage, and replace it with universal basic income guarantee.

Minimum wage + unemployment insurance is basically UBI anyway, except very poorly implemented - with ridiculous overhead, and, most crucially, subsidized through what is, essentially, a regressive tax.

Consider: when you raise minimum wage, the employer will try to put as much as they can into the price of the produced goods. They might be forced to eat some of it by shrinking their profit margin, but ultimately most of it will be passed to the consumer.

Now, who consumes goods and services produced by minimum-wage workers? Everyone, of course - but, generally speaking, the less you earn, the more you have to rely on that. So as the prices on such goods and services go up, poor are the ones that see the biggest increases as a proportion of their overall spending (and hence, their overall income). It's the ultimate con - you get one mark to pay for the other, and the best part is that they don't even notice.

UBI wouldn't have this problem, because the tax would be explicit, applied to income, and (ideally) progressive. So you actually redistribute from the top of the ladder all the way down to the bottom. Better yet if you also tax capital gains for this purpose.
> Why would facebook suffer any consequences from this whatsoever? When has a data breach actually affected the company?

Facebook is too big. It does not play against its customers or users, but against governments and legislation.

Sooner or later legislation is going to catch up with all the potential risks and abuses that Facebooks facilitates. Each misstep takes it closer to an stronger legislation.

For all the big tech companies it is better for themselves to slap on their own hand than to let the government do it.
If you find Kubernetes a headache at first, consider looking at OpenShift. It's Red Hat's wrapper for Kubernetes, and does make some things easier.
The bit in the article about extending children's attention spans:

> explains that Rogers deliberately lengthened scenes as the theme week progressed, so that the children would get used to an environment that extended their attention spans as they became more and more familiar with the story line.

I wish more content creators would do this. I'm amazed at how many jump-cuts there are in even the most innocent-looking children's programs (e.g. "Peppa Pig" here in the UK).
Very cool, thanks for creating this and sharing!

I've been interested in (U)GA and related subjects for a while. Looks really promising and its advocates make it seem like it solves all kinds of problems. But I hesitated to dive in because the learning curve looks rather steep, and it's not clear if the cost-benefit of ascending that curve ends one up in the black.

How useful is (U)GA, really? In other words, what are the concrete benefits relative to traditional vectors, matrices, quaternions? Are those benefits worth the additional complexity (or is GA actually a simplification)? Are there applications where GA is the clear win, or is it simply an alternative way of expressing what can already be expressed through the 3 primitives I mentioned?

On another tack, how would you characterize the power / utility of (U)GA? For instance, it _seems_ like (U)GA is a super-powerful tool that's just misunderstood and everyone would benefit from learning it (like Lisp in the early 2000s). On the other hand, papers often extol the virtues of (U)GA by showing how it can solve (seemingly) esoteric higher-order math problems.
Not to mention that we have two cities on this continent that have excellent cultural, geographic, and economic parallels to San Francisco, as well as Oakland, Seattle, Portland, Boston, Vancouver, and plenty of other coastal North American cities. Chicago and Montreal have both done excellent jobs of growing housing in response to economic growth, and their cities are remarkably affordable in comparison.
They make joining a startup seem like it's supposed to be a get rich quick scheme.

Focusing on how someone can buy shares at low price and sell high kind of only selects for one kind of company -- the VC funded company whose entire goal is either an IPO or an acquisition.

What about the startup that has no plans for acquisitions nor IPO's, and is not in the business of giving out shares to employees, yet can pay their employees great competitive wages with benefits?

Most startups fail. Opting for equity that might be worth more tomorrow at the expense of liquid cash today doesn't sound much different than buying a lottery ticket and hoping you picked the right numbers.

Why not look at the offer at face-value instead? Is there decent pay? How much BS will I have to deal with? Is there opportunity for career advancement (if I care about that)? If I have to leave, will I be more competitive in the marketplace? Will I have a life outside of work?
> Bill Gates programmed in BASIC in the 1970s and not in low-level C/C++/assembly

He didn't program in BASIC, he programmed a BASIC interpreter in 8080 assembly.
I don't think there are many hotels handling your personal data except for legal purposes, so they mostly don't need any data policy. So far I've encountered one that simply said that data might be shared with other branches of their company, which I'm happy about.
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Of course a minimum wage increase pushes all wages up.

If you were working at Amazon for $15/hr before this change and the other guy was working at $12/hr, but now makes $15/hr, wouldn't you want a raise?
One of the biggest Amazon distribution warehouses in the country happens to be in Lexington, KY. I’m sure this $15 / hour wage increase is going to go over very well there. I’m from Lexington, KY originally but live in Chicago now (since there aren’t local jobs for Linux Software Engineers)
maybe they are using memory as a temp store and sync issues are popping up?
No, it wasn't. I was interning there at the time and love to regularly check the current issues page.

Also, they probably did just learn about the breach day of from the person who was going to livestream deleting Zuckerburg's account.
You example was rather extreme so le met take an extreme example : put the minimum wage at 1 million USD / month. What happens ?

but somehow I don't feel sorry for them

Of course you don't. But do you for people who weren't able to work because of the minimum wage law and its enforcement ?
My point is that you can simply change the previous comment to read:

"And then, without your freely given consent, without even notifying you they sold this information to credit score companies, to advertising companies and to whoever the fuck will buy it."

And the point still applies.
Yep. Just fyi, for those devices that are managed with an MDM solution, they've recently added the ability to delay upgrading for 90 days: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/01/it-pros-will-be-a...
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There's a ZA company doing something similar: https://root.co.za/
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What's the wrong here?

Waiting tables is a hard job, and not everyone can do it well. It's physically and mentally taxing, and to make money at it you have to be charming which is harder to train than, say, packing boxes in a warehouse.

Good-paying waiter jobs tend to be in high-cost cities, so you'll spend more money on housing, transit, and food than a worker in a suburban warehouse. Waiters are also harder to substitute for - due to the small scale and personal nature of restaurant service, it's unlikely a restaurant could drastically improve waiter productivity without impacting the customer experience.

Also, to your point in comparing the hourly rate: warehouse and office jobs offer a different type of financial value to workers - relatively predictable schedules. If you're a student, working a few evenings a week and raking in tips is great. If you're trying to support a family, getting consistent full time hours may be more appealing than a higher hourly wage with lower/less consistent hours.
The stock is down a measly 1.5%. Nobody gives a fuck.

Compare with TSLA Musk SEC investigation which caused a 10% plunge.

A misleading tweet is considered much more dangerous by the market than a 50 mil account breach. Investors know there are no real world consequences to a massive breach.
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Or they spend their extra money at Amazon because prices are lower. Or you are right and it helps brick and mortar in the handful of cities with Amazon warehouses, but hurts everywhere else.

Worst case for Amazon is they maintain status quo by forcing competitors cost up. Best case for Amazon is that they drive some of their competition out of business, or take some of that business because super giant Amazon is better able to absorb the increased wage cost than smaller businesses.

It is very much like their state sales tax collection strategy. Oppose it for as long as possible, accept it, then lobby for everyone else to have to do it.
Yes. All of their warehouse workers are employees of Integrity Staffing, not Amazon. Presumably Amazon is directing Integrity to bump up its wage.
I'm confused, because it seems to me that your tone implies that it's something bad or unethical on their part.

If I'm mistaken - I'm sorry that I've misunderstand you. But I do think that I'm not alone in this, and that a clarification for tone-defa people like me would be welcome.

If I'm not mistaken, and you indeed imply this, can you elaborate further on why do you think so?
Not only in China.

In 2010, the US Securities and Exchange Commission restricted the ability to sell shares short if the share price has declined more than 10%.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-26.htm

Curious how there is no equivalent restriction on purchases if the share price has increased by 10%.
I got mine vs an infinitely sustainable long term stable system, is not really an economic problem its a cross cultural human problem for as far back as we have records (or archeology, it seems).

So, no, the economy not being on a survivable path is not really all that unusual of a situation for humanity in general. You'd be amazed what extracting and burning or otherwise disposing of an impossible to replace resource can do to boost a declining economy. "cheap oil" or "cheap fertilizer" masks a lot of problems... for awhile...
Slightly off-topic, but it's cool to see David Mikkelson posting in that Usenet group as "Snopes," as that's where he first used the name, even before launching the urban myth-busting site in the '90s.
It's one of their selling-points, so ye that's pretty obvious.
No, the original point doesn't apply. Your edits make it completely different, so of course my reaction would be nonsense. "Consent" is a well defined word, and its meaning was fulfilled in the examples the comment listed - of course that would be different today.
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Worth noting that both of those patents were re-examined and later rejected. Not excusing its larger flaws, but a system with throughput like the USPTO must make mistakes occasionally, and these were corrected.
https://opt-out.eu/ is a service run by AFAIR someone on HN (spotted it today, can't find the source comment). Select a company, fill out a form, and you're done[0].

This is the template they seem to be using for erasure requests: https://github.com/opt-out-eu/opt-out/blob/master/src/email-....

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[0] - Maybe. I'm not endorsing it, I just found it today. I wish someone (maybe the author) could say something more about the validity of such process, and whether this kind of e-mail is enough in practice.
Damn, yes I could see how my original comment would naturally be interpreted that way.

To be clear, what I meant to get across was that the wage increase was not going to be a no-op due to inflation or whatever; it will make those people's lives measurably better in the short-to-medium term because not everyone's wages will be doubled at the same time.

Yeah, technically, I will be slightly worse off in the short term because Amazon will cost a little more or my dollar will go slightly less far, but I'm perfectly fine with that if it means tens of thousands of families can now feed their kids or go to the hospital. In the long run, my hope is that those kids will be more productive/innovative, which is good for everyone.
Call me cynical, but they did this shortly after sending out anti-unionization propaganda videos to managers of Whole Foods. If it really is a reaction to union agitation, then it's not Amazon corporate that we should be praising for this increase.
"Better technology allows more efficient generation of resources with less impact on the environment."

I think I may want a source for that.
provably false

False because you take a "real world" example and twist it to fit your beliefs ?

A good amount of the cost of what is produced comes from work. Hence the cost of inputs is also dependent on the cost of work (does the company you refer to contracts with suppliers ?)

If you force work to be paid 1 million USD / month, what happens ?
I don't really care where is my annoyance aimed at, I just don't want to be annoyed. All websites use cookies to track users. In this context getting consent is noise.
How do you keep the economy running as purchase power goes down? Traditionally, I don't think you can.

Henry Ford was one of the people to point this out; in the general case, you need to pay your workers enough (and keep prices low enough) that they can afford your products; else who can? (other threads have quoted him as well )
I am not quite sure the market(s) got saner. I would argue that these laws impeded the recovery during the great depression. We had a mini depression in 1921 that recovered much faster without this overreach of the commerce clause.
What do you think about this https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1477672/46359595-6... ?

I mean, from employee perspective, capitalization is going down, lots of uncertainty, what's you selling point considering information above?
NANboxing isn't the only strategy for type tagging. We've been using tagged pointers in 32-bit land for decades. I doubt the perf hit here is going to be significant.
Seems to me this is more a metrology problem than economic.

They've decreased the sampling rate of the measuring instrument, and cut down on the resolution by cutting a necessary input, (operating funds).

So it is a fairly foregone conclusion that a task which is heavily throttled by manpower and outdated infrastructure will lose efficacy, thereby generating lower metrics.

I can see a couple different ways to handle it. Some incredibly controversial.

A) Increase budget until we start seeing the point of diminishing returns getting out of hand.

B) Say screw it, make returns public record, open access to everyone, and either crowd-source or deputize people on a voluntary basis to help sift through the data to root out the worst offenders for further scrutiny by the what few meager resources remain.

Something has to give, and it is fairly obvious to me at least that the non-institutional taxpayer is getting handed the short-end of the stick.

Plus, it'll give companies a taste of what having their "personal data" all agglomerated in one place in front of God and everyone is like for your piece of mind.

No matter what happens, however, I'm not expecting much political will to actually remedy the problem due to a reticence to bit the hand that feeds that is industry donors.
Well, to be fair, all of those developers probably found themselves filling a systems engineer role "because the product developers are best equipped to handle the running and support of their own applications".
That's pretty cool, but I confess I was hoping it was the secret to Eric Johnson's incredible tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUECcou-34A
> Humans have had to deal with climate change for all our existence…

Not like this: https://xkcd.com/1732/
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Employees are driven by their own self-interest, so we ought not praise their efforts either right?

There is no such thing as altruism: everyone has their agenda.
I don’t have a horse in this fight, but: In ordinary speech, the word “vacant” is generally synonymous with “empty”, and makes no implication about market status. You use the word the same way above, actually. So it’s lame to characterize that “we thought you were saying” vacancies in the politically defined sense of some not-yet-linked data.
> It's not easy
> may lose their car, their home, not be able to eat, etc.

That's unfortunate. But that's also not what compulsory is.
Ya know what, you are right. I should remove that part of my comment, because while it's possible to find situations that you could be a week away from losing your house or apartment, it's not as likely as the situations of:

* having to ration your food out, or just go hungry. After all, they say humans can go something like a week without food right? You can handle that.

* not being able to travel because you don't have money to pay for gas or any other kind of transportation. And it's not like you have the time to walk to the store between your 2 jobs since it's almost 30 minutes away walking, which is better than the bank which can be an hour away. And that's assuming the hours of operation let you go outside of your day or night job.

* losing your phone plan, which cuts you off from the internet and the world in a lot of ways, which in turn makes it much more expensive to apply for jobs (you have to go to a local library for internet, because all applications require online access now), manage what little money you have (no online banking, no paying bills online, no ability to cash checks from your phone, now you are going into the bank), and more.

* resorting to theft to get enough money to pay for the above things, which then does risk you getting caught and losing everything.

And every day you don't pay your rent or your bills brings you one day closer to being kicked out, and if you do get kicked out it's all over, because without a few thousand dollars and a lot of luck you aren't ever going to get another apartment, and will have to resort to living in shitty motels which is much more expensive.

So yeah, you most likely won't lose your house or apartment from one missed payment, but you can absolutely lose your ability to get to any job, which means that you then lose all of your income, which means that you are now not just missing one month's rent, but the next few as well, and you can't move at that point because nobody will rent out a place to someone that doesn't pay their bills. Meanwhile you are getting those fun yellow pieces of paper taped to your door telling you just how deep in the hole you are, and how long you have to fix everything before it's really over.
Is this person trying to dump FB stock for his own benefit? It makes me very skeptic that he had to tweet 11 times in a very alarmist tone. If his opinion is firm on transitioning from FB to a more private and secure alternative why not just say that in 1 or 2 tweets in a tone endorsing other platforms perhaps in a more positive manner?
Envoy Proxy is pretty complex. It is really designed for machine configuration. This is one reason projects like Ambassador API Gateway (https://www.getambassador.io) exist -- it translates decentralized declarative Kube config into Envoy configuration (non-trivial exercise).

That said, Envoy has some great features such as distributed tracing, a robust runtime API for dynamic configuration, gRPC load balancing, etc.

Disclosure: I work on Ambassador.
FLSA prohibits employees volunteering at their employer, to avoid that becoming "volunteering". Customers showing up to help other customers is not really contemplated by the law, and is probably just part of the "brand experience".
They had to limit this quite a bit because it was abused for tracking.

SFSafariViewController now has its own cookie store too unless you use a specific API for authentication purposes, but that will also open a modal dialog the user has to confirm.

This is why we can't have nice things.
They don't explain it in detail, but the reason it's consistent with Planet IX [1] is its orbit has specific properties that require a near pass with a large body in the outer solar system (basically the definition of Planet XI). That seems like it may be easy to do by other means, but if you've played Kerbal Space Program you know how difficult it can be to change all six orbital elements in the way you want to. For example, a close pass to Jupiter could launch something extremely far our, but it would not change it's perihelion or closest approach to the Sun. Like a Homann transfer, going to a larger orbit requires at least two "kicks": one to kick it into an ellipse and a second at the outer point. Planet XI would give the kick at a far distance to get many of these curious Trans-Neptunian Objects out to crazy perihelion distances like 65 au. There's also a specific effect to the inclination and argument of perihelion, but I don't understand how these work as well.

The amount of sky we have to look for Planet IX is enormous (and given how faint it is likely to be), and the evidence so consists of about ten of these TNOs with these orbits (not many, but it's very hard to make these orbits). But there are potentially hundreds of bodies with orbits like these waiting to be found by a the soon to be constructed LSST, which is an 8 meter telescope that will survey its entire sky every 3 days. With many more of these orbits to predict from, we may really narrow down the search space to look for it, and ultimately test its existence.

[1] Predicted by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, the latter of which played a big part in helping to disqualify Pluto as a planet by discovering Eris. I know from a lunch-talk that he greatly relishs the thought of both demoting the former Planet XI and predicting the new one.
What seems to be happening is that many intellectuals use dispassionate logic and reason to come up with good ideas, then refuse to use emotion in pitching these ideas. The ideas then get drowned out by the likes of Fox News and MSNBC peddling much less poorly thought out ideas.
"It's easier to birth a baby than to resurrect the dead."

There's the weight of an existing community that also might make "improvements" more difficult. It's the same reason people leave large companies to go start smaller companies. Could they have stayed and made that company better? Maybe. Maybe not.

There's often a lot invested in the status quo.