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I'm well aware this is a completely public forum, yet I can't help but feel a bit as though the boss showed up to the water cooler while we were talking about him. I'd like to clarify that my comment wasn't intended to draw things off topic and towards your case specifically, but rather to express my general frustration with what I felt was being implied. I find the idea of presenting something as a counterexample without any consideration of the context to be rather objectionable, particularly when it comes to political topics.

To respond to the content of your post, while your list does cover the legal aspect, it doesn't address the broader topic of whether or not someone can be effectively fired for political activity (though I do appreciate that you in particular might not be legally permitted to address that topic given the current context). Unfortunately, when it comes to contentious topics the appearance at least is that people can often be forced out in one way or another regardless of what the law might say.

Regarding your item 3, and in relation to the broader topic of this thread, in the general case (not you specifically) it would not surprise me at all if someone failed to pursue legal action after being fired (or effectively fired) for political activity. Reasons that immediately come to mind include:

1. Legal action is generally quite expensive in this country.

2. Cases involving intent (hiring, firing, racism, sexism, etc) are notoriously difficult.

3. If the political view is even remotely unpopular, the risk of being run through the media may be unacceptable. Consider not just the general aversion most people have to public exposure, but also the impact on future job searches and other similar things.

As a practical example of your average person not wanting to deal with public exposure and controversy, consider the proportion of people who post to this very website under pseudonyms (myself included). Even if you only tally those who keep their posts professional 100% of the time, it's still most of them.
I was just reading Phillip P. Peterson's Paradox - On the Brink of Eternity, which starts (mini spoiler alert) with an adventure with a Soyuz module, so when I read this news for a moment I though I was still dreaming after having fell asleep on the book.
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> Clearly deforestation scaled.

Yes, exactly my point. How do you want to fight something that clearly scales with something that doesn't scale?

> We need people to realize they are part of this and it is not some videogame.

Clearly that doesn't happen. Thinking it somehow magically will happen now is IMO foolish. Instead of hoping and arguing for emotional attachment with planting trees, we should be thinking of real solutions, like drones.

Standing in the way of technology is exactly what will kill us, relying on humans has never worked out. Just like with German nuclear power plants (or their lack of, which caused another deforestation in pursuit of coal).
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IMO, the Australian government policy on coal is a clear example of crony capitalism and does not represent the wishes of a substantial majority of the population.
> I'm the leading industry and open source expert on CRDTs

And so humble too!
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What if every single scientific discovery in history was forwarded to a bunch of public-facing guys who said, "Nope, this isn't true." Where would we be then? Remember Galileo? Every single person technical person worth their salt owes themselves the favor of doing their own research, and forming their own opinions. I don't know if BadBIOS is real or not, but until I've done my own research and reached my own conclusions, I (politely!) refuse to take other people's opinion on the matter. Unverified claims? By who? I refuse to believe what amounts to speculation, conjecture and hearsay by any party! Also, please think about "The Streisand Effect" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect) when you make posts deferring to debunking by a supposed authority. All I know is that before you posted, I was not interested in BadBIOS... now I am... and I'm going to do my own research on the matter.
The boom becomes real fun when you realize you can't have nested pages.

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We (we is inbot.io if you are interested) are not doing an ICO, which is what well over 95$ of the Ethereum tokens are. Most of those are little more than a whitepaper and a pretty website. Most of those will never translate into anything tangible with actual economic value. Ethereum is great for that and not much else. It's a funding vehicle and most of the real liquidity at this point comes from equity investors taking chunks of your shares in exchange for token purchases. This changed over the last year. Most early ICO investors got ripped off. People are a lot more careful now and want something more tangible than a token that will depreciate 99% on the first day. ICOs as a crowdfunding type vehicle are completely dead at this point.

We're actually building a business based on our customers paying us cash for services we deliver to them. Not even future tense; we have been doing that for some time and we have actual paying customers. We want to pay our users to help us deliver value to our customers using our utility token. So, they earn tokens for stuff they do. They can then trade on stellar. A pump and dump would alienate both our customers and user base. This makes it easy for us to let our international customer base and international user base help each other without getting bogged down in admin work, invoices, payroll, etc. You'd be surprised how hard this stuff is to do in the traditional financial ecosystem (we tried).

The volume at which we do these things requires a side chain in any case: it's not technically feasible to run this on a platform that has global throughput of only 4-5 transactions per second (on a good day), high and variable transaction cost, and high degrees of uncertainty around transactions actually clearing in a few minutes (or worse). IMHO Ethereum is years away from being of practical use for anything other than acting as an investment vehicle for speculators. It only makes sense for very low volume and relatively high value transactions.

We picked stellar as our side chain and then concluded we don't need another chain on top of it. It does what we need it to do and we get trading for free through stellarx. Transactions are close enough to free that we don't care about the cost.

I'll look at Ethereum again after miners go away, proof of stake has happened, and Sharding is the norm.
Does this mean we're out of options to get humans to the ISS?

SLS is nowhere near, Dragon is coming next year. Soyuz has been extremely reliable but with two incidents they'll surely ground flights for a while.

Is there any other option?
That tool already exists: https://ballercat.github.io/walt/ - though you have to switch 'tabs' to see the WASM code.
And with that about page comes a bundle of several kb of Javascript...

(At least, that how it used to be last time I used it)
Similar thing to me.

I think a lot of people did not really know what they were signing up for - I dont have any data or evidence but from half-remembered chats and gossiping I think a lot of those that simply disappeared/switched courses/dropped-out did not really understand what they were getting in to and thought that computer science was more about using computers rather than proper computer science. Like how to write wicked-complex spreadsheets or something, or make a webpage maybe (it was the early-mid 2000s afterall).

Even a year or two in I remember some people complaining bitterly about having to learn databases/normalisation and SQL "When are we ever going to use this? Why are we wasting our time learning all this SQL nonsense?!"

Amazing really.

...but then these were the exact same people who blamed the teaching when they dont get good grades in the exams. YMMV.
Have you tried Instax Wide ? The camera is more expensive than the mini but the film price is quite similar to the mini, and of course, way cheaper than Polaroid.

Polaroid runs about 2USD a picture (being 8 pictures by cartridge).

Instax Wide, by its B&H price, is around 0.9USD a picture.

I think Polaroid image size is 3.1 by 3.1 inches

Instax wide is 3.9 by 2.4 inches
What if an algorithm decided whether you could stay in Canada or not?
I once increased coin-cell run-time of a client’s hardware (ARM) platform from 1 month to 1.5 years simply by replacing almost all sleep() functions with low-power-mode-enter.
I don’t see how that’s self defeating. But I understood the comment to be “if electricity cost more, people and companies would be more diligent in turning off lights when they aren’t needed, setting the thermostat to use less electricity, and doing other simple things to save electricity and money.” It wasn’t a question of whether the kernel can do a good job automatically, but whether there is low hanging fruit that we’re currently ignoring.
Why not just make the seal ribbed, with complimentary ribbing on the other side? ~~~
It might; at least part of them. I presume they have contingency plans for exactly this situation. Probably leave a skeleton crew up there until either a new crew can be launched or the station has to be abandoned (supply missions are probably not a problem, but the Soyuz return capsules have a limited ”shelf life”).
Re-imagine this with USB ports instead of a floppy drive and internet instead of dial up, and you've got quite a cute data transfer device for very non technical people.
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While I agree personal attacks do not help, he gives many reasons why he thinks Protocol Buffers are wrong. You may either respond to the issues he raises or explain what are those constraints and compromises you mention, but your comment basically just is "I'm an author, he does not know what he's talking about", which is not very productive neither.
Static typing doesn't have to mean overhead and ceremony. Do you think you would, theoretically, enjoy writing scripts in a language like Crystal [1], which provides both the benefits of static typing and a scripting-language-like syntax?

[1] https://crystal-lang.org
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Replicate? It’s a thought experiment.
What about the Chinese? They've launched people into space.
Either everyone is wrong, or you are wrong. There is only 1 absolute truth.

Source: All your comments are downvoted to hell. Either you idiot or you next Galileo.
More egalitarianism should be favorable to women /if/ you assume a priori that they are mostly disadvantaged through lack of access to education/resources, and the real expected outcome distribution is 50-50.

If you assume that there are underlying differences in interests and aptitude, more egalitarianism allows these differences to be expressed more since women are more free to eg. choose a career working with people, like medicine or law.
http://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-girl...
It also raises the bar for inherent aptitude to get into/(the top of) a career, since you're competing against a much wider pool of talent.

The point I was making to the parent was that his point "cross-generation drop in ratio proves it's cultural" doesn't hold up, because there have been many changes across those generations, you're comparing apples to oranges.
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Yes unfortunately that's about it.

At this point, for me the best option is charge more and put up with windows being a dick periodically.
You can get a 20pack of Instax Wide for 17USD, and it's almost the same area than a Polaroid. A B&W 10pack (I haven't tested, so I don't know the quality) is around 14USD. I think it's pretty good value.

I still haven't bought a Wide camera, but even with all the Polaroid 600 cameras I have around, I think I'll buy one...
> then your data necessarily isn't cyclic or self-referential, in which case you likely won't have any problem using references.

Because caches hierarchy, I usually want tree nodes to be located in nearby areas of RAM, i.e. a small arena allocator per tree/graph. This creates cycles, nodes are owned by arena and yet they need to have pointers between them.

I know about custom allocators in rust, but still, such data structure is much simpler to express in C++ with unsafe pointers. Games often know maximum sizes at compile time (e.g. in GTA5 there’s a hard limit of 255 skeletal bones) so that thing becomes a trivially simple wrapper around std::array.

Another problem with rust references for trees, sometimes nodes need to have pointers to parents. That again creates cycles.
What are your thoughts on Crystal [1], Nim [2] or even Go [3]?

[1] https://crystal-lang.org

[2] https://nim-lang.org

[3] https://golang.org
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Me too, I'd treat them as unique, even those some big companies aren't, most do, so I'd just go with the flow.
The more I know about biology the less I enjoy (applied and commercial) science because .. well biology does much of it right now.
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Superb! I would love to see native programs being ported using traditional JS to the browser, perhaps this is a step closer for a clone of Photoshop in the open web!

I like the progress of where webassembly is heading! :)
No, that's first stage separation.
Humans have survived fine these extremes only because there is normal ecosystem outside from it. Now imagine that after climate collapse the vacuum of space, top of the peak or bottom of the ocean is the only environment we have. You don't even have a single remote island with reasonable nature. No, humans will not survive it for long.
>Exactly. And it's not the only finite resource we depend on. And the "steady growth", expected by effectively all of the economists and politicians, speeds up the exhaustion of the resources (the amount of the resources thus used is an "exponential function").

I'm also not sure our "renewable" sources will help us. Their production, transportation, installation, maintenance extraction of necessary materials, etc, for them and their supporting infrastructure, is largely dependent on oil energy as well. And with everything factored in, it's more than they currently give back.
That's the exact opposite of what you want to do.

The starting point is that there is stale, useless data in ram. Then a usermode program requests an empty page, and usually when they do this they want to immediately use it.(1) Using non-polluting writes, you have to use main memory bandwidth both for clearing the page, and also for bringing the page back to cache immediately afterwards when the program uses it.

Using writes that just allocate new, cleared dirty lines in cache (like the AMD CLZERO), it avoids both the write (which will happen later, when the lines are evicted from cache, probably after the lines have been used by the program), and the read because the lines are now all in the cache.

(1) And on Linux this is trivially true, because Linux only allocates and clears the page when it is first accessed.
Talking about that, how can a small group plant trees (with seeds) ? Is it subtle and complex ? or is it possible to do on a hike ?
Or just eat chicken
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The problem with 60" CRTs wasn't the heat it produced (or at least that was only a small part of the problem), it was the depth of the box. The depth of CRTs was related the width of the screen. This meant larger CRTs was often too deep to be practical (unlike Plasma and LCD which even in the earlier days could fit more flush against the side of the room or tighter into a corner). Schools, youth clubs, etc did have larger CRT TVs on a trolley but even those weren't 60" because storing that simply wasn't practical - it simply wouldn't have fit into many storage rooms. Even TV studios used a wall of monitors (which surely would have ran hotter) rather than one big monitor because of the space requirements.

Also lets not forget that back in the days of CRT everyone was still watching standard definition - which looks terrible on 60" displays (which possibly was also a deciding factor for TV studios using a wall of monitors rather than one big screen?). So there was a lot to be said for having the right sized screen to fit the output resolution. These days we have 4k and that will easily scale to 60 inches.
Does Tesla Autopilot navigate controlled intersections on it's own?

If not, it's kind of a silly comparison.
Nope stockholders need return on investment. Sorry. You can't skip that.

The problem if you kill this is that it breaks the asset allocation "algorithm" that is capitalism. If we don't have return on investment why wouldn't we spend all our money on, say, gold toilet seats ?

Or to put it a bit glib: Why do we need factories to "feed starving children" more than we need gold toilet seats ? Return on investment.
Even better, the result is based on pure math.

It doesn't need experimental replication, it's provably so.

(It doesn't even need any special proof, anymore than 10+34 = 44 needs a proof of its own. It's basic calculus).
It seems to be a trendy Twitter thing to shit on the legacy of Churchill after Scott Kelly’s tweet quoting him. Churchill was probably just as bad or even worse than Hitler and to put even the faintest of a positive light on any of his achievements and fruits of his leadership at the time just shows how racist you are.

I’m being hyperbolic, but I’m also fucking frustrated that we tear down figures of history whith honrible qualities into the ruins of racists and despots. Would the world have been a better place without Churchill?
Perhaps this means the priority of SpaceX manned flights will be pushed up. We could end up seeing this much sooner.
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With the holed one docked to the ISS that no one is keen to de-orbit with and this flight having one crew less they are getting into some situation now.

I guess they could send Soyuz MS-11 without crew so the current ISS crew has a more reliable craft for their own return.
So you're in the EU, and Apple isn't helping you, nor is the EU bothering to enforce it's own laws.

I must say, I'm still wondering why Apple gets a pass on the "usb charging for all phones" laws.
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have an initSomething() that returns an initialized struct.
It happens just like it happens in any other office environment. Obviously, if you're the kind of person who studiously avoids talking to people at work, coworking is not going to somehow increase your socialization through other means. Generally the people who choose coworking are of the belief that they can spend some time talking to people and still get shit done (in fact if you do place value on socialization then you realize it constitutes "getting shit done" on some level).
On macOS: Safari app -> Preferences (Cmd-,) -> Passwords

Alternatively: /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app

On iOS: Settings app -> Passwords and accounts -> Touch ID/Face ID
Worse still, the OneDrive client apparently left documents in the original locations which the Windows update would then delete:

> The current OneDrive client will set up KFR and then move any files from their original location to the new OneDrive location. Older versions of the OneDrive client, however, would set up KFR but leave existing files in the old location. The October 2018 Update would then destroy those files.

Microsoft's own software which they bundled with Windows 10 and nagged Windows 10 users to set up and use triggered a data loss bug which caused Windows 10 to delete those users' documents - all because Microsoft didn't think it through, didn't test properly, and didn't take any notice of data loss reports from external beta testers.
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Middle Name.
Address Line 2.
Date Of Death.
presenting themselves at a port of entry and requesting asylum

Asylum claims are governed by international agreements and require that the applicant present themselves at the first international border they encounter. People crossing multiple borders, or evading border controls, are automatically disqualified. See the UNHCR website.
The main problem for the success of the project is avoiding the propagation of new oyster diseases in the shells taken at restaurants. As oysters aren't cooked normally, this could be hypothetically a problem.

It is expected that climatic change will spread also Dermo disease (Perkinsus marinus) towards the North. MSX and SSO should also be watched. Parasites will normally proliferate in monocultures like an "all oysters" reef.
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This is a problem I would like to fix, if enough liberal minded folk get elected to the Liberal party then they would bring it back from the conservatives.

Or maybe it is time for a third party like the Democrats to come back and eat up the middle vacated by Liberals going right and Labor going left. Though the Greens are pushing Labor towards the centre.
Given how legal filings work, unless they have good evidence that the expert wasn't deceived they should not say that.

Besides, the filing only says that this Chinese person allegedly tried to convince the expert to commit a crime, hell it even seems likely that this expert is the one that called the FBI to intervene.

Frankly, I think they should not even publicly imply this person did anything until they have a conviction, and after that only of the things that the person was actually convicted of.
> All you've managed to do is decentralize sanity-checking logic from a well-defined boundary and push the responsibility of doing it throughout your entire codebase.

One wonders if the author has practical experience with evolving a complex system composed of multiple independent services without downtime. Centralized sanity checking conflicts with transitioning services stepwise from e.g. foo.a foo.new_a by first deploying producers that create send both foo.a and foo.new_a and then phasing out foo.a after all consumers are updated.

Services which communicate via some general purpose, strongly typed schema language that's still lax enough to evolve backwards-compatibly are far easier to understand, maintain and evolve in my experience than alternatives such as json rest apis, overly tied down static or completely ad hoc protocols.
Some Gell-Mann amnesia urgently required. A local paper headlines that "*a rocket with two astronauts has made emergency landing".

Same media house which some years ago told me that the Voyager spacecraft was provided with "a radioactive fuel ensuring continual thrust".
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