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From your profile I see that you are interested in embedded systems, so that probably explains why you are upset. After almost two decades of virtualization I think "bare metal" has become a common term for server computing without VM. I am old but had no problems understanding the term as it was meant. Meanings of words vary with context and change over time.
I thought the main complaint is that Amazon regards it's warehouse staff categorized as logistics, while the unions want them categorized as (higher paid) retail.
Yes, sorry for the harsh generalization.
unions should be for labor what HR is for the company - a single force with a comparatively large negotiating power instead of a thousand individual non-professional negotiators. it doesn't always look like this and this is a problem that unions have.
Americans love bringing up Switzerland, but the US has way more guns than everywhere else. Way more (per person). Nobody in Switzerland would say "OK, Fred does seem to be a violent nutjob who beats his wife, but we can't very well stop Fred having a gun" but in the US taking away Fred's gun is genuinely considered a contentious idea.

Also, as you'd expect given it has all these guns, Switzerland sees a higher rate of gun deaths than most European countries. If your goal is "lets have fewer gun deaths" the lesson is still "have fewer guns" not "copy Swiss culture".
I do this too and at first I needed to rewrite quite a few emails. Over time it's completely changed the way I write emails.
This is quite enlightening in that I'm very excited by the prospect of using C# in the browser without the downsides that came with Silverlight, but especially 1) seems to be a big negative! (I'm not sure I completely understand 2) and 3), does 2) only apply to server-side Blazor? Is 3) not inherent to all web development in that authentication on the client is 'disconnected' from users/ permissions on the server anyway?).

As someone who is trying to wrap his head around all this, did they go with server side Blazor because browsers do not support all required WASM features yet? What is even the point of server side rendering?
The Guardian and Washington Post databases do list per million statistics by State.

It's also very easy to calculate the number yourself: 3 to 6+ per million in the US (depends on source) and you'll have a hard time finding a Western European country with even 1 per million.

Stats from Belgium would be interesting but I couldn't find any.

Also consider that England and Wales has a higher number of police per capita (~302) than the US (~284).

"In the first 24 days of 2015, police in the US [population 316 million] fatally shot more people than police did in England and Wales [population 56.9 million], combined, over the past 24 years."

The whole US justice and law enforcement system has serious issues. Look at the incarceration rate compared to the rest of the world, it's absurd.
I guess "explaining" art is cheating, although I agree that it would be interesting to get to know more about the ideas behind the piece.

I guess (I tried some quick calculations but it's far from my field) that a bolt of lightning would happily vaporize the steel if it hit directly? On the other hand they're more massive than typical lightning rod cables seem to be, so perhaps they're able to safely conduct the current to ground without vaporizing. Anyone?
They said I didn't look at a meeting so they were mad when I'd show up a minute or two late. Of course no one cares when other managers showed up a minute or two late. This was at Charles Schwab. I'd never work or invest there.
The great divergence, IMO, is called Robert Peel, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

Police forces existed before the emergence of the peelian principles, and they aren't universally accepted. For example, one of the peelian principles is to refrain from the use of physical force as much as possible, and some police forces appear to flaunt physical force, for example by publishing PR blahblah about new water cannon and other military-style gear instead of downplaying such equipment.
I think the tl;dr is “stacked diffs require running different commands than git pull --rebase”

The author complains about wasting time branching and merging, but other examples at the end still have the same number of operations and still hit the same merge conflicts.

They make the point of how dependant work requires multiple branches but I feel it’s a workflow constraint, or a technical one. It can be easily avoided by creating branches as late as possible! Usually, when I’m working on a problem that requires multiple merges, I

1. Create a branch to fix the problem

2. Work on it

3. Rebase it so I can merge the first few commits

4. Push just those commits with a different branch name

5. Get it reviewed

6. a. Merge the reviewed branch into master and rebase the problem branch on top of master

6. b. Update the branch under review with feedback fixes, push it & update the review & rebase the problem branch onto the updated branch under review & go back to 5

7. Go back to 2

Just don’t do what I end up doing on personal projects and let 6 months go past between 2 and 3
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I think there is an interesting parallel between the actions of Facebook and the other tech giants in developing countries, and the actions of European companies / governments in the Colonial Era. It's certainly interesting to watch the outcomes of an entity motivated by a mix of a misguided desire to "help" and profit.
I guess what I was trying to get at was that you need to also consider the likelihood of collision in the first place. I'd assume that's also higher in residential areas -- not sure if it's just me, but I think that would sound like a far more compelling argument than just considering the chance of death assuming a collision.
My comment is merely anecdotal, I guess, but I believe if I were part of this study my data point would have been considered a 'statistical anomaly'.

I am a career changer who moved from admin roles to software development. This part of my life started in 2014, when I decided to make the change. My first instinct was to get a degree, since I had never got one before, so I started an evening presential course with a local university.
During the course, I often noticed that I wasn't taking much in from the lectures, so I'd come in on weekends and do my study then. I'd still attend classes, as I was always afraid I'd miss something important for the exams, but this turned out to be rarely the case. In my last year, I was already so frustrated with spending 3 hours in class each night after a day at my full time job, that I decided to completely skip my lectures altogether. Surprisingly, these were the modules where I had the best performance.

There's a lot of correlation here, but in my case I'd say that what motivated me were not the classes themselves, but the deadlines. I tried online at-your-own-pace classes before in my previous career (accounting), and they did not work at all. It was very hard to keep myself motivated. Again, the correlation here does not necessarily indicate causality -- it could be argued that the lack of motivation came from the fact that I didn't like the subject. But I still believe that what works best for my case is to have a deadline, and learning resources other than presential lectures.

TL;DR: career changer who tried learn-at-your-own-pace resources for previous career path and wasn't successful. Then tried presential lectures + self study for CS career, was moderately successful. Best results were obtained with self study + externally imposed deadlines.
Umm, the special-case LINQ syntax actually it is nothing special on itself, it just calls those methods anyway. You can actually extend LINQ by providing your own Extension methods for IEnumerable or IQueryable
EBay accuses Amazon of trying to 'illegally poach' its sellers
It is critical to minimize the risk. Remember, you are taking somebody's money. Their main concern will be the payout and this is the likelihood of future income minus risk of losses. You probably spent some time thinking of future income (everybody does), now do your homework and work hard how to mitigate risks. With lower risks you can ask for more money for less stake in your budding enterprise.

With large amounts of money involved there will be more focus on risks involved and so it gets critical.
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Presumably if the Swedish tax authority called you, they'd speak to you in Swedish, and you'd be suspicious if they couldn't. So if you wanted to run this scam on Swedish targets, you'd need to find a bunch of Swedish speakers willing to work for low wages doing something unethical and illegal. AFAIK, the only country with significant number of Swedish speakers is Sweden, a fairly wealthy country, and also the country where you'd be running the scam, vastly increasing the legal risk.

On the other hand, there are countries which are poor, not the US, and have lots of English speakers, and these scams tend to be run from those countries, at least according to the callers' accents.
> And labour is our biggest cost

> But outside, we got sunshine. And it’s free. Nothing is cheaper than free!

Would simulated and/or pumped-in sunshine cost more than (or even a significan fraction of) the labor?

If not, that seems similar to the sunk-cost fallacy, substituting "free" for "already paid for".
Have you ever been arrested?

I used to trust the police. Then I got arrested. Nothing came of it, but I was shocked at how much the police liad to me to try and catch me out and then how I spent 6 hours incarcerated for simply driving a red car.

Do not trust the police after the age of 18. They are not your friends and trusting them is extremely dangerous if they've decided you're guilty of something.

Always ask for a lawyer, never co-operate.
The only union experience I have was that the whole concept of performance based compensation was something to fight to the teeth (in France, 12y ago). The pay structure was almost exclusively seniority-based.
1. Some people dislike languages with a large instruction set

2. I will propose that programming languages are like anything else created by humans - some parts great, some parts not that great. Furthermore some parts of a language are used more than other parts, it should be hoped that the parts least used in any particular language are parts of that language that are not that great. Given these things it might be reasonable that some time you saw a new version of a language in which they said Feature X really sort of didn't make sense and anyway hardly anyone ever used it so we are removing Feature X. Adjust code accordingly. (probably there should be deprecation stage of a year or so with warnings)
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I think the difference is that in the US the police is trained for 30 weeks (I think) in escalating situations and using violence to solve their problems while here in Norway the police education is a full three year bachelors degree with emphasis on de-escalation of situations and how violence is only a very last resort.

There is also an independent "police" that will investigate cases brought against police officers that overstep their authority.
You work with an existing bank. Many examples of fintech startups that started like only getting a banking license much later.
Hi, I work at an Amazon warehouse in Pennsylvania. I agree with one of Amazon's sentiments regarding these changes - that it's better to get more direct pay than to "hope" for a bonus" However, the nature of our VCP (variable compensation pay) bonus is such that half of it is actually completely and fully within an individual's control. Half of the VCP bonus is given based on our own personal attendance. If we use personal time or approved vacation time that's all fine and dandy, but using something called "Unapproved Time Off" (UPT) is what will end up lowering or negating our monthly VCP bonus for attendance. The other half of VCP is granted based on building productivity. So yes, that's largely out of control by the individual. But it also provided actual incentive for us to do well. Now we don't really have any incentive to do anything more than the bare minimum. In any case, the personal attendance thing is completely within an individual's control and is not just mere "hope" for a bonus.

VCP is up to 4% for attendance and 4% for building productivity normally. But during Oct-Dec (peak season) these figures double to 8% each. If you average together the 4% attendance VCP (totally within our control) for 9 months and 8% for 3 months, you get a yearly average of 5% bonus, totally within our control.

I was earning $15/hr prior to this "wage boost". A 5% bonus on top of that would make my effective wage $15.75. This is without receiving any VCP bonus in regard to building productivity. This is also before you consider any "income" we were receiving through stocks. After the wage boost, my hourly wage is becoming $16hr. But I will never be able to increase that through VCP and I will never receive company stock again.

I am glad that employees across the country who were previously at $11/hr and that new starts at my warehouse are jumping from the starting $12-$13 immediately to $15, but it's hard for existing employees such as myself to see these changes as anything but a pay cut.
Consider politics. We, citizens, elect other citizens to represent us in office. Is it nonsensical to then suggest that these citizens we voluntarily choose to elect are not acting in the best interests of those that put them into office? The problem is a typical one. The vast majority of people are motivated by their own intimate interests. Elevate them to power and that not only becomes even more true, but their interests also change.
The easy solution would be the simply disallow card transactions for Gab but allow other stuff.

There is more to the financial industry than credit cards. In the EU you have SEPA which basically allows you to charge a bank account like a credit card (though if you're high risk you'll need written consent from the owner).
Talk to people.
Be careful what you wish for.

Red-light cameras in the US opened up all sorts of issues nobody thought about when they were just "totally for" ticketing people who ran red lights. We got issues like local governments tinkering with timing of traffic lights in order to increase the number of violations, because violations are lucrative and who wants to defend red-light runners? People who run red lights are bad people who do dangerous things, and they should be punished!

There are also the ongoing studies into whether red-light cameras actually increase collisions, by incentivizing people to stop unsafely.

And that's without getting into the due-process issues, or the way offenses start creeping into more expensive categories (see California cities which have been "upcoding" various other offenses, like rolling turns, into full-on red-light violations in order to collect larger fines).

Speed limits have a number of notorious issues; they tend to be set for political, rather than safety, reasons, and very few US jurisdictions actually follow the general best practice of setting limits based on 85th-percentile speeds. Some smaller towns infamously derive almost all of their municipal budget from running speed traps (i.e., a 55mph highway passes by, the town annexes a tiny strip of it and sets a far lower temporary limit, then tickets as many unsuspecting drivers as possible). What you're asking for is to industrialize all of those issues.
I work even if I don't have to. It's about using one's potential, if nothing else. In the grand scheme of things, I'm grateful for all the progress other people worked on to achieve before me and which I'm benefiting from, and I wish to do my part and leave the world a bit better for others too.
do things that don't scale = do sales.
This is completely dependent on your location and the size of the company. E.g., when I recently looked into the stats for Germany, the average annual income for a developer in a small to medium-sized company is ~48k€ (~55k$), which is a long way from the 80k figure.
There are other organisms that do this, so there is no physical limit in this. It's just an engineering problem.

For example, telomere shortening is already being worked on. Look up Bioviva science, they have made first human experiments and results look very promising.

I think people just got used to being fatalist in this regard, because it is psychologically easier than to tackle this problem.
https://www.howtoforge.com/filtering-https-traffic-with-squi...

http://www.watchguard.com/help/docs/wsm/xtm_11/en-us/content...
For some context, the Fletcher checksum algorithm is used by bother ZFS and APFS (the new Apple filesystem for iOS and macOS). So it is a fairly wildly used checksum algorithm.
Yeah.. from them I don't expect adherance to GDPR. You however are commercial, have no Privacy Policy, and collect, analyse and publish to the public user data (which in many cases is not anonymous, or can be easily de-anonymized) without their consent.

The fact it is not particularly accurate makes this even worse.
In civilized countries stealing is against the law...
> the public is viewed as the enemy.

Is that really true? Sure we see the extreme examples here in the UK media of some shooting, or extreme overreaction with a dozen cars for just one guy, but are they really representative of day to day policing?

UK police are unarmed and a traffic stop normally little more than pretending to be polite with a polite but overly sarcastic guy in a hat, then maybe getting a ticket. If you decide to drive off the game changes a bit.

Does an average Joe really think an innocent US traffic stop may turn out so bad?
No, you aren’t arguing the union has a different idea who has higher performance. You are arguing the case that everyone should be paid more regardless of performance.
I don't know, it seems like Norway at least has its problems:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_misconduct#Norway
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I wouldn't chance it. Rather be near something less conductive when lightning strikes..
> According to a 2012 official report, 18 police officers have lost their jobs as result of misconduct since 2005

No country is perfect, and I'm not Norwegian, but the number of incidents is quite low.
I’ve heard it claimed of a cop pulls over a colleague’s family member for speeding and doesn’t let them off after seeing who it is, he can expect social sanctions like his locker being messed with.

If the culture allows that over a mere speeding fine, imagine the sanction for getting a colleague jail time.

OTOH if you play along, you get special treatment for your loved ones. And everyone is doing it...
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You also get unreliable age reporting. At least in some of the supposedly long-lived villages outside of civilization (lika Hunza), it has been shown that when westerners come their and try to study people's age - what they get in response is not the calendar age, but something akin to "social status". If you have a big family and many achievements, they say they are 80. If you haven't achieved that much yet - they call them 60.
Amazing presentation, and just the right difficulty. Thanks for posting this!
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I’ve also read somewhere that US firearms training focuses a lot on conditioning users to actually use the weapon. Apparently, someone in the US Army found that soldiers rarely fired in the general direction of the enemy, so they developed programs to train away the taboo around shooting at other humans. I guess this percolated out of the military and now you have lots of police officers that are very skilled at killing, but not so as de-escalating and so on...
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i have used this on couple projects most notably:

- wireless network packet checksum
- filesystem checksum

good thing is that comes in variations, 16, 32 and 64 bits wide
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We raise our kids in a YT and TV free environment.

Oddly enough, they seem to be doing fine.
Cubesats are disposable; they're launched in a way that their orbit decays towards the end of their usable life, at which point they re-enter the atmosphere.
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Depends on what you call a personal project, it might even be an overkill for some. My problem with it is that it does not seem to be as actively developed and gaining traction as other alternatives and support for it might get removed in the future. That is only an assumption though, I've used it before and it is much easier to start with than k8s.

For really simple cases what worked well was to use docker-machine to provision a remote host. When developing I'd use the local docker, for production I'd switch the active docker to the remote host via docker-machine and just use docker-compose to bring a container up and down.
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Needs a parody made called Ruining Your Company by (you know who.)

The current Sears CEO could make a guest appearance.
It was one of my welcome-to-the-real-world moments growing up when I learned that the Transformers were initally toys and that the animation series was created later to increase sales.
Links would be great here, but thank you for the eye-opening comment.
EFS performance was tied to how much storage you were using (at the rate of 50KiB/s per GB stored… with the ability to burst to 100MiB/s based on a credit system. A file system storing 256GiB can sustain 12.5MiB/s and burst to 100MiB/s for up to 180 minutes per day.

If you like, you can now specifically provision throughput for EFS at the rate of about $6 per MiB/s (8Mbps) per month.
> some vcs are structured to write 30m series a, 50m total to build product, and then 50 to scale

Could you please give examples of a few such funds?
If you, knock on wood, end up accidentally hitting a pedestrian hen you suddently care A LOT.
> Gas in CA is also expensive -- $3.64/gallon in San Jose.

Tangential: I'm always baffled that Americans consider prices like this expensive. In Germany, gas goes for €1.20-€1.50 per liter (which is $5.22-$6.52 per gallon).
What happend to Lumosity? then have some issues?
Because speed limits are mostly arbitrary, your speedometer might be not as accurate as you expect and it's very easy to set a "speed trap"

Driving 50% over the limit is dangerous, fining people for going 2mph over is just "creating revenue".
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While I agree that Tesla is in a good spot, I think you underestimate just how huge the car market is. Tesla would have to scale exponentially for a long time to even have chance to capture so much of the market.

And outside of Tesla there is not much, there is no electric car Android, specially outside of China.