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>It is an extreme claim that legalising something causes crime rates to increase.

Not least because any increase also has to make up for all the crime that went away overnight when $thing became legal.
The location in Crystal City where they are putting the HQ is adjacent to Jefferson Davis highway. I guess Crystal City is also filled with white nationalists....

I'm sure you derive immense satisfaction from your moral superiority, but your view of history lacks nuance and is self righteous beyond belief.

You work at Google, right? If so, you are complicit in a monopoly helping the authoritarian Chinese government spy on it's citizens. In typical Google fashion, they protest an executive harassment scandal while ignoring the aid of a human rights violating government. Cuz that would cost money. Quit your job and then feel free to preach morality.
Exactly. I'm a "car guy" and didn't connect "A column" to a car part. "A pillar" I'd have understood immediately.
I think it was Robin Williams who said "Cocaine is god's way of telling you that you make too much money."
The standard doesn't defined well-formedness, nor does it consider undefined behaviour illegal necessarily. It simply has nothing to say about what happens when undefined behaviour is invoked.

And it is OK to invoke it if you know what your implementation will do. The standard even gives documenting the behaviour as an option.

(I wonder how many people worry about supplying clang a file that doesn't end in a new line? That is undefined behaviour, and yet you know exactly what's going to happen: you'll get a warning, if compilation continues the code will build as if the new line were there, and clang won't delete your source file, even though it would be perfectly within its rights to.)
The spam and data collection they do are absolutely criminal.

Also unusable without an account.
First: I had missed the part of your previous reply where you wrote that you too had downvoted my comment because of "my hubris". Unfortunately I read and replied too quickly because I had to leave. Now it is too late to correct my reply.

Second: Fortunately only few people need to introduce or enforce change to make big changes for all. Modern societies would have never happened if change was not imposed by a few on all.

Unfortunately climate change is a bad problem because it is also a political problem because appropriate technology might not be available and imposed soon enough. Politics are determined by the stupid ignorant democratic majority. Even in dictatorships like China because a dictatorship must be tolerated by the democratic majority.

Fortunately, the stupid ignorant democratic majority could die and leave the surviving elite (not a money based elite of billionaires) with a better society. Natural evolution.

IMO, relatively few humans will die because of climate change but many more other species will die out.

https://theconversation.com/capitalism-is-killing-the-worlds...

> One tweet, posted in response to the WWF publication, retorted that “we are a virus with shoes”, an attitude that hints at growing public apathy.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-deepmind-founder...

> "Either we need an exponential improvement in human behavior — less selfishness, less short-termism, more collaboration, more generosity — or we need an exponential improvement in technology."

> "If you look at current geopolitics, I don't think we're going to be getting an exponential improvement in human behavior any time soon."

> "That's why we need a quantum leap in technology like AI."
This ISPs have, or will become the true monopolies that will be the gatekeepers of all access to the internet.

They are entrenched and are not expanding their services, instead, they are digging in and keeping their foothold within their regions, limiting/eliminating competition, both from a rules/laws (like preventing municipal ISPs from forming) and limiting their service footprint to maximize their "profits" within their regions. Next expanding, but always increasing the amount they charge to poor service and access to the "internet."

If anything, it appears that ISP behavior is similar to the original Ma-Bell (USA) telephone Corp. It looks like somebody needs to break them up. But that's wishful thinking this day & age, just like having a nation wide (USA) fiber deploy to all states, cities and towns. Imagine, a Renaissance would develop.

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Yeah, that crashed mobile safari for me when I tried it earlier. I imagine kubernetes would be tough as well.
the practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.

All the great chefs know each other. Do right by one and they tend to hook you up with the others.

You might be right. I'm not a native speaker, but it reads a lot like nepotism to me.
Because building isn't the core problem. It is that a large part of the population have a large part of the life savings in the housing market and therefor would take a loss if housing became affordable. It is like asking why the government can't make stocks fall.

If you could just do something there are a number of solutions to housing affordability. Building, zoning, public transport, taxes or mortgage regulation. None of these by themselves solve the actual problem.
Would have been way better off with a bunch of car batteries, the internal resistance and cold cranking amps would have pissed on any utility supply regulation and power supply regardless of the capacitors he had.
Some types of coding/engineering anyway. Game development is probably closer to acting/music/cooking/art in this sense, since the number of people wanting to work in that industry drastically outweighs the demand, and it causes conditions to end up being something akin to a meat grinder.
I passed the phone screen at Mozilla but the interviewer didn't show for the first actual interview.

I emailed the recruiter and the interviewer to ask what's up and eventually they apologized and they said they'd reschedule. Except they didn't.

I sent a few followup emails where I suggested some times that might work, asked if there was an alternate time that might work better, etc. Never heard another word from them.

I think our entire industry is terrible at recruiting.
Turns out, preserving backwards compatibility over sane behavior has downsides, such as not-sane behavior.
The "as-a-service" was meant to be funny, but I have found that it is often difficult to find special-purpose scientific software (with adequate build system) mentioned in papers online, without sneakernet/emailing the authors directly. Hosting analysis-runners on the web would make doing a test much easier. (It's getting better; the ALICE collaboration (of which I'm a member) for instance uses github for the analysis code and dependencies https://www.github.com/alisw, but each scientist doesn't need to upload their fitting & plotting code.)

Writing a REST API in front of their software would help with "service-discovery", usability, and of course reproducibility; but there's the issue of sending back many-GB of data per run, questionable amount of customization (but if you allow uploading an ini config file, that should be ok), no institutional history of doing tasks this way, and the fact that this is not what I'm paid to do.

For more on scientific computation differs from a more typical setup, I highly recommend this StrangeLoop talk by Jim Privars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvt4v2LTGK0
Maybe it's due to my lack of interest in "devops", but I got nothing useful from browsing these slides whatsoever. It's just an advertisement for the company's tech, the "lessons learned" amount to soundbites like "implement infrastructure in modules" and "build complex modules from smaller modules". No kidding?
China passes US in number of startup unicorns:  China 181 vs. US 138
And you can understand why startups practice age discrimination in their hiring policies. Why hire the guy or gal in their 30s who has a family life and won't be willing to put in 70 hour weeks regularly when we can hire some dude-bro in his 20s with no baggage who won't mind sleeping in his office as long as we feed him breakfast and energy drinks.
Lint is not a whole program static analyzer and being free is a big deal.

Your -second- third paragraph is, unfortunately, still correct though.
Rings true to me. It also describes my experience as an attorney. What is most disturbing is it is a sign of a broken system. Chef, attorney, journalist, musician, professor, real estate, entrepreneur, etc. The issue is that the system has broken when half the jobs are untenable for anyone lacking a trust fund or ivy education.
I wish there was a way to make pregnancies less taxing or damaging to womens’ bodies.
Original post title: China passes US in number of startup unicorns: China 181 vs US 138
Two things: raising the min wage puts upward pressure on wages above the min also, so your estimate is not correct. Someone making min+1 will still expect to make min+~1 after the hike. Also, inflation need not be national to be inflation.

This is why places with higher min wages tend to have higher overall wages and higher overall prices. These things do not operate in a vacuum.

Look at prices where wages are low compared to process where wages are high, e.g., SF versus smalltown Alabama.

So there is ample evidence that these things are related. By taking national averages you necessarily miss the local variation which clearly shows a price/wage correlation.
Keyboard and screen size are both showstoppers. Also why a developer would want to lock themselves in android/iOS is a mystery to me.

But having an external monitor/tv and a real keyboard then you could do some real work in either a terminal like termux or ssh to a real machine. But you loose a lot of the portability in most scenarios and that is also the only thing a phone is better at.
8 bit development was exactly like that.

Sure most bought C64, Spectrum and so forth.

However if you actually wanted to be productive, you would be buying a bigger computer running CP/M, VMS or UNIX variant, cross compile Assembly code and use a transfer cable.
Right. You can quit your third job if you're making more from the first two. This is a plus, not a minus.
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Partially, those frameworks don't expose OS specific features.
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It is not clear cut with the Ford story, Ford treated his workers nicely and then he got that chap in to treat them nastily.

Ford wanted to produce just the Model T and keep it at that, his competitors wanted to go with the built in obsolescence model, get the customers buying new cars every year. Ford also wasn't into creating profit for the sake of investors, he wanted to keep all the money in the company. He didn't 'get' American capitalism, but he did want to enable people to be mobile and to build a wider economy based on that.

Despite the contradictions of Ford he did prove that 'trickle down economics' was a load of rubbish and that it was far better to pay a decent wage, for the workers, for wider society and his own self-interest.
| It's effectively impossible to write bug free code.

What does that even mean? It's impossible to have bug free code in any language. Bug in the libraries, the compiler, in the OS, in the hardware...
Yeah like paying for our tools like other professionals do. /s
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Though I don't doubt your specific claim, demanding others cite sources to rebut your own anecdata in a thread which includes complaints about double standards is...interesting.
The point that most people miss is it is not the cable, it is the connection, copper oxide is a rectifier (diode) and if you put it in the circuit it erodes the quality pretty quickly.
Well it certainly is now; I suspect the more places cannabis becomes legal, the less money those in organised crime have to gain from selling it.
PoS is closer to fiat than PoW. PoS is more complex and relies on trust. There is nothing “baroque” about PoW, it’s simplest, cheapest and most reliable of them all.
The IBM PC was successful because IBM did a couple of mistakes, which have been fixed in the world of laptops, 2-1 convertibles, mobile, tablets without expansion slots, with UEFI and blocked boot loaders.
> So instead of funneling money up the corporate hierarchy towards off shore accounts, a second house for the CEO, or whatever, funneling money back into the economy

I assume the CEO isn’t willing to generously give up their second house and will find a way to push this cost onto all consumers including those happily earning higher wages.

Is there a mechanism in place to prevent this?
But do not all major social networks collect data in some ways?
Another way for source code to be not portable is to include two files with different casing in the same directory, for example "bin" and "BIN".

You can't work properly with that on the case-insensitive file systems on Windows and Mac.
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Irony is that if Cali curtailed its absurd zoning laws and codes those single family houses would be worth 100x more overnight once developers can replace them with 50 stories of condos. If most of Cali rezoned a hundred billion dollars of development capital would flood the state and leave all the NIMBYs incredibly rich.

The only case where property values would drop is if you were in an area that exists unnaturally due to how low density the city core is. The trick is though if California ever fixed this problem the immense influx of capital investment, job creation, and migration pressure since the economy would be kicked into overdrive would drive those property values back up and way higher than the currently crippled density environment can allow. It might take longer than some owners are comfortable with (ie, decades) but considering how much growth Cali sees while stabbing itself in its own foot I'd imagine almost any currently developed and commutable single family home in any major metro area of the state would be worth twice what it is now in 30 years (adjusted for inflation) if they allowed unlimited building because the manic development you would see would drive density up in all directions of city cores for miles around each year.
Perhaps those global numbers are relevant, I don't know. I don't see them (Lenovo) deployed that widely in my work environments (four companies, employed by one, servicing three others) I mostly see Apple, HP and Dell, and the odd Lenovo on-demand. Keep in mind that this is also in environments where docking stations are on the way out, which seems to correlate to certain device choices (I've read a few blogs about that, not sure which ones as it was a few months ago).

Maybe the market share assumes consumer and low-end models?
I have a friend who is a vet in Germany, and he seems to do quite well, with a salary that is (I believe) at least double the median. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that he was able to take over the clinic from the previous owner, and he now employs a small number of other vets.
The cameras and WiFi are probably no UVC or USB in the case mentioned.
You might want to be aware of the Rest-of-US locality rate, which is around 14~15%.

A base pay of 72k would be ~82k w/ locality (Rest of US) vs ~92k (DC).
But there are headwinds:

Winter is coming for China’s private equity as market rout slashes start-up firms’ valuations

https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2171182/wint...
Saving for retirement is a wise move whoever you are. I live in Finland where we have mandatory retirement saving system, but more and more people have started to find out that it's not really that good for everyone. Just now there was a story in a major newspaper that an university researcher didn't have that much retirement savings because research grants don't add to your retirement savings (tho this has changed recently) so she will be seeing near minimum retirement which isn't that much in a very expensive country. I'm in my mid 30s and I save for retirement and most of my friends do also, it's just that it ain't easy because after taxes and mandatory retirement payments and social security payments, money left usually goes to daily living, so you have to downscale and minimize expenses now that you have enough when you have to retire. The system is not optimal, and we do have mandatory minimum retirement after all if you can't afford to save, but you don't want to be that person who finds out couple of years before retirement that you are going to live near poverty line when retiring, it's harsh.

so saving for retirement is a good move who ever you are and where ever you live.
That doesn't make it any more acceptable.

And this is not simply a social network, but a work-oriented one.
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I suppose it depends on your environment. In coffee shops and non-business-enterprise-y-buildings I mostly see cheap ass Acer, HP and Toshiba models for about 70% of the time, the remainder are Apple, Dell and the odd Surface.
I wonder what the smart way to refuse to reply would be. Is there any way you could and not negatively impact your chances?
Gutenberg is designed to avoid this sort of thing, although some slip through: originally, they didn't use OCR and now they use the distributed proofreader thing.

Archive.org is kind of a mess, though.
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would love to know what is your model development iteration. especially how you do testing, etc
>And women hold special legal status to take leave to have children (there is no Federal paternity leave in the US, however some states offer it).

Are you talking about the FMLA? It covers fathers and mothers. It's also unpaid and only lasts 12 weeks.
By the way (as someone who thinks PoS has serious problems) even if Proof of Stake had the same dollar cost, it wouldn’t have the same energy cost. That matters significantly, now.
'Ectopic Pregnancy' is the more general term for pregnancy outside the uterus.

Found this, hope it helps.
'Typically an abdominal pregnancy is a secondary implantation which means that it originated from a tubal (less common an ovarian) pregnancy and re-implanted.'
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Insi...

"An ectopic pregnancy occasionally aborts backwards down a tube, or bursts out of it without killing the patient, and embeds itself elsewhere in her abdominal cavity. Sometimes, an ovum is fertilized outside a tube on the surface of an ovary, and then implants itself in the abdominal cavity. ... An abdominal pregnancy is thus a rare complication of an ordinary ectopic pregnancy"

https://web.archive.org/web/20170814131930/https://www.meb.u...
I think most of the enterprises/medium businesses I deal with don't even have contracts with Lenovo at all. Mostly just Dell and HP, and depending on the type of work a lot of Apple too.
Why is this an allowed form of propaganda but other things aren't? If you take a step back out of the US "two" party system, it's just Facebook propping up the status quo. Why are Republicans and Democrats allowed to advertise their shitty ideas but others can't?
Girl at work has 20k camera with 100k megapixels, but then again Huawei just asked to use her pics for their phone screen savers, so...
>USSR failed because of human factor and probably because computers were not good enough to produce proper plan on a USSR-scale

I think this too. There has been recent work by Paul Cockshott (a computer scientist) on new models of central planning with modern computers. I'd urge anyone interested to check it out.
There's a saying, I don't remember from whom, that goes like "a degree is just a piece of paper ... but you have to have one in order to be able to say that".
> Gates (as quoted below): "There will be no content club in my life time with $4 billion revenue...you are on drugs if you think that".

> Meanwhile there are like 5 "content clubs" with much higher revenue...

Good CEOs and Chairpersons don't blather about things that can adversely affect their company. Do you recall what happened after Musk tweeted that funding was secured?
Well, you are pretty much stating the same thing in the inverse way: yes, it works on ThinkPad, but not everyone uses a ThinkPad or wants one.
My experience with Facebook. I've been referred by a friend and got a fast response from US. Since I am not in US they told me they are going to switch to EMEA dept. for the rest of interview. Then guy emails me from EMEA saying that he got my case and if he's not in touch soon I should remind myself to him... Actually the first one said that too.

WHAT? I should send him an email in case he forgot about me?

Anyway, he forgot. Obviously. After some time (2 weeks or so) I send him an email. Auto-response comes back "I am on vacation, contact Alice instead." Well, so I'm emailing Alice and asking what's going on, etc. Another auto-response "I am on vacation, contact Bob instead." I got really irritated by that point. So I contact Bob, and auto-response comes back "I have too many meetings today, I can't respond today." And that was it.

Now, the funny part. After couple of weeks I got an automated email asking me to participate in interview survey to share my experience. Oh, boy! I'm glad you've asked, guys! So I describe the situation, ask them did they got a bad day or they treat all their candidates like that, and was it a joke or they just disregard people on a daily basis? After I submitted, the next day email comes. "Sorry, we've already have someone else for the job, bla bla bla."

Really?
Around my branch of the University of California it was Marathon. When the lab got Power Mac 7100s, it was full at all hours with people playing, which made it impossible to get any actual coursework done.
Obligatory plug for https://heterodoxacademy.org/

However, lately I've come to wonder if the solution isn't simply to defund all non-STEM academic subjects. It seems likely that subjects that aren't strongly tied down to some sort of objective utility function will always drift towards some sort of strange and extreme agendas.
The interesting part here is the overt message that they simply want a larger hiring pool in order to drive down wages.

Also interesting is that the super secure "Swiss location" is not really Swiss then.
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I don’t see anywhere where they explain how Trump can actually repel the law using an executive order.

Would you kindly point me towards it?
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But then you would be following their principles and not leading! Oh the paradox!
If you are a salaried (paid per unit of time other than hourly) employee but not exempt (from overtime) then you still need to record your hours. For example, inside retails sales positions allow for overtime exemption, however in order to determine if they are exempt you need to determine their hourly wage. The only way to determine thier hourly wage is to know how many hours they work. So these salaried employees need to record their hours.
I was merely stating the general work-machine distribution in my direct and indirect environment. Perhaps they are special cases from the OS standpoint, but from the people point of view, those are the devices they have.
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The common theme with pre-civil war settlement in the US is that people would rather risk financial ruin and/or starvation than live their life (and raise their kids) according to the whims of a city/town ruled by people they do not agree with.

For example, basically all of New England that isn't on the coast was settled by people who got so fed up with the puritanical authoritarians in Boston that upending their lives and moving a few days ride west (and risking starvation/financial run in the first few years) was the better option.