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You don't have remote employees, you have remote contractors who send you a bill for their services which you pay. They deal with their countries tax and other issues.

Of course you have to treat them as real contractors and not employees. This means they chose where and when to work.
Probably using a trick to go there via Facebook, there was a trick like that somewhere. Or imitate a search engine, because the news outlet also wants a high Google ranking. Or use a copy from archive.is.
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Nobody is going to be compensated less. The "extra" compensation they received before was simply a consequence of the fact that Amazon stock quadrupled in the last three years.

So if previously they got $14 + 0.50 in shares their total comp ended up being $16. But they still got paid less than somebody who was paid $15 in cash straight up (who could have then purchased AMZN on the market).
I think OP meant that it will hopefully cause other employers to follow lead and raise wages (e.g. fast food, other retailers, etc).
There are some options. For example, if the indexes are known to be within a certain range, a plain array will do better. For tables below a certain size, an array of key/value tuples might also perform better. An implementation could even switch between the underlying approaches depending on the data at hand, choosing between hash tables and something else depending on what should perform better.

Yes, the "hash" part is an implementation detail. The performance is also an implementation detail by the way. Often, tables will optimize for a different criterion such as memory efficiency. Lookup will be less efficient then. And, as another person noted, you cannot really expect O(1) from a hash table anyway.
It seems author is making a point that modern C++ programming is degrading towards the same illness JS packages are: we're now going to be using libraries which are literally 60 lines of code in order to accomplish something that could be done by the standard library.
> one mole of atoms with atomic mass number X will weigh approximately X grams

Speaking as someone who has had to deal with rounding errors in floating-point graphics, data structure layouts, and real estate cartography, that sounds horrifying and insane.
And is Tor an example of a solution to the problem that has become widely adopted in society causing the problem to go away?
Because if not then maybe a political solution to the problem is in order.
The aggravating thing to me is it wasn't even an attack, it was part of a talk about "assholes, idiots, whiners and trolls" that basically said "none of these people are necessarily that, here's how to look at things differently and maybe end up getting on with them instead".

Every other german who rendered a comment on said talk thought it was hilarious and clearly got that I sympathised due to being pretty blunt myself (oh gods east coast american middle managers, how easy they are to offend ...)

My commiserations on the unplanned demise of your quinces.
A link to your app's apk is the fourth search result for your user name. Are you going to target duckduckgo too, as they're doing basically the same thing.
In perl (almost) everything is a dictionary too. Except when you need it not to be. Great source of getting things done, or footguns. Here's an implementation of something vaguely useful in perl that is mostly not a dictionary (except where it is for state management purposes) - https://metacpan.org/source/ZARQUON/Array-Circular-0.002/lib...
> Many programmers work to solve political problems through technological means.

The real-world effectiveness of any technical solution depends on the political will to enforce it. Without no political will, technical solutions are not effective or enforceable, or even deployable. A political solution on the other hands eliminates the need to even consider a tech solution.
Nice work. Most of us, even those in technical fields, usually graduate financially illiterate and 30 seems 1000 years away. We usually catch up, just later.
I hope not. That would be like going back 40+ years: dumb terminals nobody can write software for and 100% dependency on centralized services. Just no, it would be bad in multiple ways, not just technically.

What I fear instead is Windows becoming in a few years a proprietary layer+GUI built on top of the Linux kernel+base environment (not unlike what Android Inc. and Apple did using respectively Linux and BSD), a move that could help MS reduce development costs but also take away from Linux most of its struggling desktop users and push soft houses to support it instead of the real thing.
What if they were already working on it and MS WSL is a subtle move in that direction?
That's implying you somehow have a right to that content - it's a similar argument that e.g. movie and music pirates use, but which they're not aware of themselves. It's feeling entitled to the content, and/or fear of missing out.

But news flash: you are not entitled to something if you don't want to pay for it.
I can see it now,
Dumb terminals for everybody, and administered by the free country of the US of A
There's an /s in there right?
how can this be applied to other languages?
No. Under the GDPR they will tell you that they stored your name and surname (as in sentence "John Smith is bad at math and he hates pencils"). They will not send you the sentence they will just inform you that they used your name in it. If you ask them to remove your personal data then they are obligated to remove your name from that sentence but that's it, the sentence can stay because it doesn't says who hates pencils, it's just says that there is a person that is bad at math and hates pencils. It's like me saying "A white, old guy who was US president sent me a letter", it describes quite a bit but it doesn't identify anybody even thought it narrows the list quite a bit.
Yes, that's why I've added the second link. Someone posted a tutorial on how to bypass the BILD Anti-Adblock. He argued that this is not an "effective" protection, but a court ruled an "Anti-Adblock" script as "effective".
We decided on the name because in Switzerland there are 4 official languages spoken and written; but all the infrastructure is shared (the promise of the tool). Helvetia is an alternate name for Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Switzerland#Helvetia.
How much do you think your troubles come from bad cultural influence from family, and how much due to genetic legacy ? Open and serious question. Had you been raised somewhere else, do you think you'd still be attracted to bad/illegal/criminal acts (in the general sense) ?

It's funny someone with a long legal history still sweat near authority. Personal anecdote, I lifted some school furnitures (laughably sad project) with a friend and got busted. Couldn't get into any store that had detectors without going full paranoia (what if someone drops an item in my pocket before I leave..). Lasted 3 years.
Yeah, "Open borders" is a pretty extreme example of "weasel words" that we would spot if it came in a set of product requirements. Does it refer to residency or just to visiting? What's the opposite of an open border, a closed border? Would a closed border with Mexico really mean no travel across it at all, like the Berlin wall?

People argue about "health tourism" in the UK system of near-universal healthcare(+), and the actual hospitals point out that it would cost them far more to check everyone's immigration status than they would recover from visitors who technically aren't entitled to care. There's nothing to say you can't have a "universal" healthcare system which imposes a residency requirement for non-acute care.

(+) except dental and optician services, $10 prescription co-pay applies outside Scotland
I don't think so, but you can download a working one-click image from http://source.lukas-renggli.ch/.
> I've personally experienced a glaring cultural and technical difference between work environments in the SF/Seattle areas and ones in other technology hotspots

I'd be interested to hear about these if you had the time.
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Slap everything on a 5$/10$ DigitalOcean instance running Ubuntu and use Let's Encrypt for free ssl certificate. Quick, easy and cheap.
Things are the way they are because American laws are made by American lawmakers, elected by the American electorate.

If the rules could being set independently of the interests of the electorate, our rules could become more moral - but it seems to me more likely they would become a lot less moral.
Me too. I guess he thinks that anyone can have the interests/luck/opportunities he can? Who knows.
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Then you'd have a competitor stepping in that bought Chinese hardware. A company's ethics stretch only as far as it's survival is guaranteed.

Corporations are black boxes that optimise for profit, not ethics or integrity.
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In Greece we call Switzerland Helvetia!
>He literally said that we as a society should be grateful for having Apple.

Which is utterly cringeworthy.

iPhone user thinks iPhone is best thing since sliced bread. News at 11.
Only if you and your spouse are not very smart. We need more very smart people to solve all the problems of the world and the best way we know how to make more very smart people is to get very smart people to have lots of children.
A neutral observer would never pick sides, that's for sure.
I would see black widows around when I was living in Sacramento 7 or 8 years ago. One set up shop in our laundry room window, another in the car port. No real bother.

However one time I found one in the bathtub and had to get rid of it -- not only because it had decided the bathtub was a good stop to hang out but because if my cat had found it first it wouldn't have ended well.
In the same way you cannot just sign a contract that is against the law, a company shouldn't be allowed to do whatever they want with your data, just because they made you click on an "Accept" button.
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I remember that there is such a thing, and the relation between the number of molecules and a gram. But the exact number? No way - that's just not useful information to keep in my head post junior year chemistry. I've never had cause to need that information, especially when it is a google away.
Are you by any chance one of those people that still believe seat belts are for sissies?

Because you can just hold tight to the steering wheel?

And yes the kinetic energy per se does not kill you. It's when the kinetic energy gets converted to elastic/inelastic transformation of your head that you die. There is a clear correlation of speed and survivability.

See: http://www.humantransport.org/sidewalks/SpeedKills.htm

5% chance of dying @ 20mph

85% chance of dying @ 40mph
I'm curious what would apple use if google was not paying, or if google charged apple? This seems backwards to me.
And yes i know that for example a software dev or similar IT role may get real value out of securing their system as:

Your system may provide access to other systems and it is is not to hard to make sure you are not low hanging fruit for an automated hack.. so its totally worth investing the time and effort.. plus your online persona etc. is statistically probably more important to you for all kinds of reason..

but really that type of user accounts for a very low percentage.

Also note that corporate PCs (which are a much more valuable target for general hacks) often have lots more security including hardware 2 factor etc.

Also note i am no security expert, i am just talking about what its like trying to get people i talk to to care about security / privacy.
No real evidence it's dangerous anyway, other than it scratches you?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-recluse/
1. Individual service companies / Sole proprietorship

One thing to be aware of is that in many European companies a person who works for you full-time is considered to be an 'employee' even if they come in through an individual service company. In particular if they have no other active 'customers'.

The more you treat people as 'employees' the more at risk you are: if you give them holidays, if you monitor their work closely etc, if they don't invoice you, etc.

The risk is that you will have to pay employment taxes and benefits and you may be fined.

Pragmatically, you are unlikely to be at risk at a low number of team members within a jurisdiction: say up to 10-15. But, at some point you will be considered to have created a permanent establishment from a tax position.

2. PE vs Limited Company

Many people talk about establishing a company in a jurisdiction and then employing people etc. There's actually a state before this where you have a 'permanent establishment' from a tax position even if you don't have a limited company in the jurisdiction. You can be considered to have employees at this point and you are responsible for payroll taxes, but don't yet incur the business taxes (e.g. corporation tax). Unfortunately, it varies by European jurisdiction how likely this is.

This state is essentially supposed to handle the idea of someone having an employment contract in one jurisdiction (say France), while living in another (say Germany). Practically, it doesn't work yet because the rest of the employment rights assume that you have a company in each jurisdiction. You can sort of hack it for an intermediate step.

3. Pragmatically expanding in Europe

How you handle this is up to you in terms of how comfortable you are with the risk profile. The elements are too long (and boring) to go into here.

In my personal opinion it makes sense to:

1. Hire team members in a limited number of jurisdictions.
Basically where you believe you will eventually establish a full company: you might pick three jurisdictions you're comfortable with.

2. Handle team members as employees: this is a basic decision about how you want to handle your remote team but it has big impacts. If you treat them as 'employees' then make it clear to them that they are responsible for their employment tax, pensions, etc.

3. Risk the permanent establishment tax problem

4. When a jurisdiction gets to 10 or so people form a company. In many European countries this is around the stage where employment rights also kick in.

5. Reverse the people into the company and pay the employment taxes/benefits etc.
This will cause problems because you will have to adjust pay since you will now be incurring payroll taxes and public pensions etc.
But that means the implant has to be active on every server, actively patching the kernel (and how long would that patch work with kernel changes). It would cause bugs, and be likely to be discovered. Maybe an option on a specific machine that you knew was being used by the target.
This extension proves nothing; it's perfectly sensible that someone worried about the privacy of their reading doesn't want to make it worse by tying a payment ID to their profile. Subscriptions are in that sense worse than ads.
It is amazing to see my school here :) Horraaaayyyyyy
pay for everything you want to save, poor people screwed in yet another way by software.
Having to go to an Apple certified retailer prevents one from privately modifying or repairing ones device.

Apple gets to know about every repair / modification done to your device.
> Why don't you just stop eating meat, stop driving, stop whatever else that you do and have a smaller carbon footprint naturally, instead of living a carbon lavish life and paying some money to be called carbon neutral.

Why? Because I want to keep my standard of living, just like almost everyone else. What a silly question to even ask.
Any solution that asks people to practice austerity is obviously doomed to fail. Any solution that leverages a human's self-interested (even if it's just vanity) at least has a chance.

> Its like bribing your way out of jail after you have done the crime.

It's more like when faced between the choice of paying a fine or going to jail, you pay the fine. That money can be put to work and that time can be put to use, but if you just sit in jail nobody benefits, it just costs the public money to keep you there.

Except of course in reality there is no crime here that anybody could get prosecuted for, and the real victims haven't even been born yet.
You're not entitled to decide what I'm entitled to.
Link to journal article: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(18)31106-1.pdf
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>Sure, please paste here your email and other accounts logins.

That is not privacy, it's security. Are you implying that Facebook and Google don't take security seriously?
You are definitely right for most hash tables. Determining the right bucket is O(1) but there will be collisions. Open hashing solves it by creating a linked list within buckets which you will need to traverse. Closed hashing solves it by probing, you might test several buckets before finding the right entry. In both cases, you get O(log(n)) as the average lookup performance.

You actually get O(1) with perfect hash functions, but doing so requires choosing a hash function by the data set. This is normally only feasible for precalculated hash tables, not those that are being filled dynamically.
As a native-born Californian, I’m glad to hear it.

As a long-term, transplanted resident of Virginia, however, I’m keenly aware of the statistically small, but non-zero chance of running afoul with a (suspected) brown recluse. In 2014 I spent six days in the hospital after being being bitten on the ankle.

Extensive courses of I.V. antibiotics were used to combat the necrotizing aspects of the venom. Along with a number of different topical anti-bactrials.

Unfortunately, because I did not capture the spider which bit me, it was impossible to definitively point to Loxosceles as the culprit, thus complicating treatment.

Recluse spider bites can be (relatively) painless, initially, and it could have happened while I was out hiking in the woods and stopped for a rest, or earlier, while at my home.
Metropolis. Oh look.. she's c3po

There is a fantastic two second clip of a hollerith card sorter in 'the ipcress file' and 'the billion dollar brain' is a giant scam via a computer. (Both Len deighton spy thrillers)

The Italian job (then original) depends on a pre 1900 BPI tape reel. Another James Bond movie or three has similar tape subthemes (I think Roger Moore uses a Philips audio cassette as a tape in one)

It's a stretch but the taking of Pelham 123?

The andromeda strain (giant computer security system has to be defeated to avoid dying in a locked down biolab)
Apple makes their money by selling expensive premium devices. They don't earn anything from selling your personal information or data about your usage patterns.

Google on the other hand, is an advertising company that also makes software and a smartphone OS among others.
That shouldn't matter. The OS should let you create a fake photo collection which gets shown instead of the real one to apps you don't trust. This idea is obvious and very old. At least in the case of Android contact lists people have been asking for this for as long as I can remember. Why has it still not been implemented on iOS at least? Or has it now been implemented? I've been avoiding both Android and iOS because of stuff like this.

Does anyone want to sell me a phone that runs Debian with the option of running Android or iOS in a VM with appropriate management functions that would make it very hard for an app to misbehave?
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I think publishers are trying to have the cake and eat it too. They want their content to be discoverable in search engines. They also want readers to pay for it. Given how search engines currently work this is a self-contradictory model.

I imagine search engine could offer publishers an API to send content for indexing without having to publish it. Google and others could even charge publishers for that and then published could ask readers for subscriptions.
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> wood louse spiders (Dysdera crocota)

Small typo. Is Dysdera crocata, not crocota. I used to play with those things annoying it with a little stick in a mix of fear and admiration. Children love predators so It was like finding a lion under a rock. A terrific brick-red and cream animal with impressive extra big fangs. Very "pokemonesque".
I'd love to see a citation for that, including fees siphoned off.
Yeah but this isn't news. Almost anyone who looked up the snowden leaks for ethernet bugs already knows this.

This isn't about replacing components. It's about dumping a chip somewhere and magically adding traces to the mainboard to connect it to critical components. Except this is impossible unless the motherboard was specifically designed for the purpose of being bugged.
Sure, but also keep in mind that Apple has literally no way of knowing what a third-party repair shop might do. Apple does not want to end up on the hook if a third party shop uses a fake exploding battery, the wrong adhesive (causing e.g. antenna issues, excess heat, or flaky phone), a fraudulent or fake part, etc. If that phone blows up/dies/erases everything afterwards, an irate customer or the media might well pin the blame on Apple.

I don't blame them for not wanting random third parties doing repairs.
> We are too fresh and young for a warrant canary.

Turkey doesn't have the best track record on this, if you don't have a canary might as well assume you are already cooperating
That's kind of a self-fulling prophesy or something. Not having knowledge about something means, we work around it, fake it or just ignore it.

For instance you might have wondered how much weight you lose with each breath. Converting O2 to CO2 means you're losing some mass of carbon each exhalation and that's a major channel for weight loss.

But not remembering much about chemistry, nothing comes of this. Another part of our lives remains shut off because its easier to ignore it.

Not terribly important I guess. But add up the thousands of times we move ahead without real information or curiosity, and our lives are diminished.

No, I'm not ready to be proud of how I lost most of my technical knowledge about the world, and how I blunder on in ignorance because its easier.
Ideally, the user would be able to force any app that asks for photo access to use the photo picker. Otherwise app developers are gonna ask for full access, because they can.
Depends on the website usually, one that I managed to "hack" is a newspaper in my country (the biggest one actually) that only hides the article text through a CSS class; You just remove that from the HTML through dev tools and have access to the whole thing.
I hope in most cases it is more complicated than that
> I’m tempted to call hypocrisy here..

You can call it hypocrisy but it doesn't affect the validity of Tim Cook's argument [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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Much more sensible to attribute it to a stuff up by Bloomberg. Also, if they had this proof, much more likely this admin would use it as bluster against China. I'd be more inclined to believe the whole story is IO (i.e. lies) from the current administration.
How do you know that that's actually all data Google holds on you? Facebook has a shadow profile for every one of its users, one whose contents you cannot access. There's no technical reason Google can't build one, and they have been deceptive in how they collect your information in the past https://apnews.com/ef95c6a91eeb4d8e9dda9cad887bf211
It's either that, or Apple's users use Google for free. I'd take the $12bn as well, thank you.
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