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> I have not heard of extensive controlled burns in any western state. It is just too large and the forests here burn too hot and fast

...Because of the lack of controlled burns combined with weather conditions.

California is not larger than the eastern US. We do very large controlled burns here in rugged terrain. As far as I can see, it's a lack of political will and funding, combined with the reality that it's gone so long that its much more difficult than it should be. There are a few prescribed burns done in California, they're just not anywhere near the necessary scale.

California can either bite the bullet now and dramatically increase the number and area of controlled burns, or watch as things get worse and worse. There is no alternative. I'll repeat again: fires are a natural part of the ecology, with or without human intervention. You can either do it yourself and lessen the impact, or wait for nature to do it and have regular disasters.

EDIT: Just to get a sense of scale, the southeast burns eight million acres in prescribed burns annually. The west burns about three million. California looks to be only in the tens of thousands. The Camp fire has burned approximately 138,000 acres at the last report I can find.

http://www.stateforesters.org/sites/default/files/publicatio...
In a fight between logic and "surf and ski in the same day, brah" logic is not what wins.
Don't train and people will have to leave, because they would stagnate otherwise. Train and they will want to stay, because it is huge perk.
Right, a container is about isolation.

I didn't mention anything about docker, seeing that containers are a linux kernel feature, but if you know of container escape vulnerabilities in the kernel you should publish them.
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I can echo this comment. Protecting websites with lua-resty-openidc was very easy and required no changes to the actual application code.
You could unfollow your classmate and won't see the crap he posts. What you say you want is for Facebook to read your mind and detect who you like and who not. And if they actually will do that, "omg that's creppy, bad Facebook"...
The install docs are on the wiki: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/wikis/Installing%...
Once upon a time, I had a boss who cut a lake house vacation short because she was bored and wanted to come back to work. She spent the rest of the week in a frightening turbo mode, almost as if she were trying to cram all the work she didn't do the first three days of the week into the last two days.

I gather that people who are addicted to stimulants also become anxious if they start to sober up.
3 B+ has both.
Nope it costs pretty much peanuts to setup especially if they go through local partner in Ukraine or Belarus the overhead for local company handling everything for you is 30% +/-
at least books require one to read and maybe lets information hit the frontal cortex. memes are so basal, they can completely defame someone or prove a certain point by completely by passing rationality, they really are far more dangerous in modern society.
Ask HN: How do I improve my design teamwork skills?
I'm trying to improve my design teamwork skills.

I struggle to design in collaboration with other developers, and I am aware that it is likely to be me that is the problem. I have no trouble talking to other people, nor any trouble designing on my own, but somehow I cannot ever design in collaboration with other people.

Do you have any advice/books I could read/websites I should visit to improve this skill?
>Workers do decide on things such as the minimum wage, through voting.

That's a much weaker form of decide. A vote only means at least 50% of voters wanted it, so you can only say with certainty that there's a 50%+ chance that any given voter wants it. Whereas if a worker has chosen to work for a particular salary, there's a 100% chance he's chosen that as nobody else can make that decision for him.
It's far more often lines sparking/arcing during high winds when striking nearby vegetation which was not properly trimmed.
> This is a feature, not a bug

¿Por qué no los dos? It's a feature to people with insane business requirements, and a bug for the average user.
Agreed, hands-on experience does not equate to understanding.
Should architects necessarily be skilled bricklayers, etc? Let alone housing-policy advisors.

And as others have pointed out, politicians are not known to be the most careful users of computers, so perhaps he is rather wise to abstain.
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I think Putin is very competent and qualified. What are you talking about?
Does sabotaging my own success mean I'm smart?
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Correct, I meant rate. My strategy isn't about strategic voting, it's how to represent the actual preferences of voters when all you have is approve/not approve.
There’s always the possibility to add a USB Ethernet stick to be fair.
Can't get more secure than that.
> I would assume that to be due to a smaller selection pool.

And one "solution" to this is to make a women only tournament.

But as your comment shows, even this is viewed in a negative light.
I don't think it matters because ministers are so very rarely subject experts on the department they run.

What annoys me more is when specialists give governments expert advice and then the government still goes off and does the complete opposite because of some predefined agenda they had. Or worse still, because of coercion from lobbyists.
Whether or not a fire is inevitable has nothing to do with liability for starting a fire.

If a poorly maintained utility truck didn’t start the fire...maybe eventually there would have been controlled burns/fires that ultimately prevented the damages that resulted from this fire. Or maybe, as you say the forest inevitably catches on fire from a natural act (act of god - a legal term of art) and forest fire burns in a less populated area and no damage is caused to people/homes...or maybe lightning starts the same fire in the same location and causes the same damages, well even then insurance exists to cover that, but otherwise there wouldn’t be liability the same as someone negligently/intentionally setting the fire.

Fires can legally be acts of god, same as the law might treat a hurricane or tornado...but unlike the later humans can’t (at least not yet) cause them intentionally or negligently, obviously fires are different as they canso liability (criminal and/or civil) is appropriate for fires started intentionally or negligently.
Thank you for making ZircleUI!! It's been insanely fun to make interfaces with and I use it for a smattering of apps on my desktop.
> I do disagree with you on Hydrogen fuel cells replacing electric cars though.

Not what I meant to imply. You’d just use old-fashioned hydrocarbons, except reconstructed from atmospheric CO2 and water.
Wow. Much skill. Such boss.
Amazon's Queens HQ Meets Resistance: 'We Will Make It Impossible for Them'
I find that rule nowhere in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
Appreciate this is to a pretty ridiculous degree, but isn't this pretty much the story across the board?

Anecdotally I heard about some of the conversations with the government and adult industry regarding the UK porn filter. It was something along the lines of:
Industry: "OK, we get you want to put a block in front of adult sites. But what about all the porn Twitter?"
Govt: "There's porn on Twitter?"

When we're all getting angry about encryption and privacy and backdoors (and whatever else), it's probably prudent to remember these are the kind of people we're dealing with.
> I wouldn’t call that “completely broken”.

The intent of customer services is to retain a customer in the event of problems. "You should close your account" is therefore broken customer service.
If an individual house can fireproof itself, than it should fall out of insurance rather easily -- if you want to save $1000/yr or something on home insurance, build to the insurance code, or declare that you are happy paying a higher insurance rate.
Awesome! I'll give you a follow. Always love seeing the greats come by in my feed to remind me what I'm trying to achieve and strive for in my work.
there is in general not shortages of anything, but you can of course envision situations in which shortages would be real.
The common usage of the term “toxic person” these days is they post things on Facebook I disagree with. Not that they physically assault someone. Going straight to abuse is pure hyperbole.

Consider the origin of this thread - an idea was toxic not an action.
Title should be: How people who think they are smart sabotage their success.
The woman who NTT hired to create DoCoMo had never used a computer, and that was one of the most successful tech products of all time.
That's how you would do it if course, but not everyone knows or understand IMAP. Everyone knows how to send an email
> You make good points, but if I read that correctly California also limits how much they are allowed to charge customers

All (most?) states do this, it's the entire role of the public utilities commission to review tariffs proposals by utility companies to ensure they aren't price gouging. This is the tradeoff for having a state-granted monopoly over a region.
You perfectly make the point that the true minimum wage is $0/hour. Raising minimum wage has often reduced the number of jobs, often creating black markets of cash workers who often compete directly against people not allowed to legally work in US, further depressing wages.

The real question is if a worker and an employer agree to a pay rate, why do you get to call it "underpaying"? Are they not adults, ostensibly free to live their lives how they see fit?
Regardless of the law, they are certainly morally responsible for loss of life every year, and have been for decades.
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I agree, have an upvote.
But I got downvoted for making the same argument.
This is the crux of the issue. Let's take a staff of 100, at salary level 100. Total wage cost is 10000.

The owner wants a 10% increase in labour. How much will it cost? Let's assume they can only find new labour at 110, but if they pay this they must pay existing labour 110 as well.

110 * 110 = 12100. A 21% salary increase for a 10% labour increase.

Also it probably won't be a straight 10% labour increase, as some % will have to go to admin and the organizational costs associated with size.

So, that's why. It's also potentially zero sum, as if one employer raises wages, then others will follow, and there may not be a 10% gain in employees. Just increased costs all around. (There will be some gain in employees of course, as workers are pulled in from less efficient sectors)
I'm not saying I think the random jerk on Twitter is a Russian troll. Though random jerks on Twitter don't hesitate to label me as one. The reason I put "troll" in quotes is because in this sense it is a generic term for these professional spreaders of disinformation. They may be very pleasant, they may act like jerks, doesn't matter.

I'm not going to get into how I think they operate, but clearly they seem to be getting the results they want as they continue to spend their limited resources funding it.
Well, that's one argument for the double down burger.
I looked it up. See table 3 in https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2678018

Hawaii has the highest life expectancy of any US State, over 81 years vs some other states that are over 5 years less!
Seems obvious that if you expose a system to stress, whatever survives will be stress-proof; while if you hide stress from a system, it's a disaster waiting to happen. Same story with allergy immunities and used cars.
How to write code which others will understand?
People are discussing this event as if it were a “pole” servicing some house. The downed line that is suspected here is a high voltage transmission line serving a hydroelectric power station. It’s major infrastructure and there are only a handful of such lines in the state.
Google is shutting down its SCHAFT robotics unit
I think that this a question of basic computer literacy, and not expertise in technology.
Does this mean the interest in Go/Weiqi is going down?
It's a bug that this can be forged by an outside attacker, even if it is a consequence of the implementation of a feature.

(In fact, it's a bug that defeats the central purpose of the “system of record” feature it’s been suggested that the underlying functionality exists to support, as trustworthiness is the essential point of a system of record.)
I really appreciate the simple explanation of how raster effects worked in your original article.

It's something I always feel like I understood, but couldn't necessarily explain to someone else if I had to.
Isn’t the prevailing theory is that Atlantis was in east Africa specifically in modern day Mauritania?

King Atlas who was the king of the Mauri people shares a name with the King of Atlantis the Atlas Mountains are also in Africa and the Eye of the Sahara seems to match the ring structure of Atlantis as described by Plato.
> 4. Smart people get bored easily. Being smart is not exactly the same as being curious, but if you have both these qualities you might find yourself becoming easily bored with executing the same behaviors over and over. Some types of success stem from creativity, but other types come from becoming an expert in a niche and performing a set of behaviors repeatedly. If you’re smart, curious, and have a love of learning, you might find you quickly lose interest in anything once you’ve figured it out. The execution side of performance might bore you, and you’d rather constantly be learning new things. This can end up being less lucrative than finding a niche and repeating the same formula, but that might seem too boring or unchallenging to you.

I've been wrestling with this for most of my career so far. I think it's all about striking the right balance. If you're not constantly learning you will stagnate. At the same time, jumping continuously from learning one new thing to another (esp. if the things are not very inter-related) can spread yourself too thin: you need to "go deep" on some things to become an effective/valuable contributor.

I sometimes feel resentful of the amount of time I've spent as a software engineer dealing with what I often feel is boring or pure B.S. (e.g. almost everything other than designing/building some novel complex system from scratch). But in reality looking back I see that a lot of that sh*t-shoveling has actually made me much better and wiser at my profession, despite how mind-numbing and boring it often was. So I'm trying to keep that perspective to get me through those really dull days when I want to just rage-quit and move to a rural commune :)
Can you link to a container breakout exploit from the past 6 months?
>I ensured, that whereever I went, I would stick one of them to anything I touched, so I'd have it ready just in case.

Indeed, sticky notes with a password printed on them stuck around where they'd be needed is exactly what my very intelligent grandmother, doctor, and likely tens if not hundreds of millions of other people do worldwide. Often to comply with "good password policies" passed down from on high by thoughtless "security" technical people with zero appreciation or empathy for the actual humans they exist to serve and thus with minimal understanding of what "good security" actually means. Said sticky notes are quite trivial for any random passerby who possesses mildly functioning Mark 1 Eyeball(s) (only a single one is required!) to note. Turns out it's even easier then pulling a fingerprint or face/retina scan and turning it into something workable that can beat a good PAD and then stealing the device it's used with. Who'd have thought?

Oh wait, maybe you were trying to be sarcastic there and make some point? I think you might in fact have made a point, but perhaps not quite the one you intended.
Really? I just see tribalism with a lot more bloviating here. The subject matter experts can occasionally be baited into posting, but I'm more accustomed to seeing the kinda-clued-in authoritatively misexplain the convenient narratives to the even-less-aware. Any attempt to tell someone obviously out of their depth to stuff it is against the rules here, so unless you already know a topic it's hard to tell when a conversation is arguing in circles.
The latest Pi versions are fast enough to serve as a Linux desktop. I use one every day and have no complaints so far.
"motivating employees"

I don't think it's possible to motivate somebody in a discipline that you have never tried. If anything, it is hugely demotivational.

It reminds me of a dialogue I had once with a manager of technical writers. She said that she wanted to be a manager because she was bored as a technical writer, in order to motivate people. Really? She couldn't even motivate herself to stay!

So, feel free to claim that managers need different skills. But to motivate people, who can do something you don't know or don't like? Don't kid yourself, please.
The only thing which I find slightly odd with that sentence is beginning it with a conjunction. Removing this could improve the sentence. Otherwise, I think it's perfectly fine.
Did you search for anything budget related?
No, people are being silly. Often people are kept away from their 'home turf' in an effort to make sure that when they absorb the brief (which they're usually given by political and civil advisors) it is in a way which is appropriate to the level they're working at. They're executives, not (eg) healthcare workers or train drivers etc. Their job is not to have a technical grasp of how to perform operations or drive trains, their job is to understand how to measure and influence the system they inherit.

In principle, this might not actually require that much pre-existing domain knowledge.
this piques my interest. i've been looking for a set of project hosting and management tools which are deeply integrated with each other and with very minimal UIs designed as an extension of the tool's inherent abstractions, rather than obscuring the tool behind "simple" UI abstractions which ultimately force opinionated workflows.

the only thing that's missing for this to be useful to me is code review. re: the UI, gerrit has always been my favorite code review platform because it embraces git's abstractions.

drew: do you have any plans for adding a code review service?
If an industry requires illegal subsidies to thrive, there is no industry. They should naturally go bankrupt. If a nation decides it is important enough to subsidize (i.e. strategic food stock to feed a populace), then they should do so through funding bills instead of hiding the true cost through the lack of immigration enforcement.

But the farming lobby is powerful.
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that's kinda the approach that intelligence agencies take nowadays, they are back to paper for the important stuff
If there were only friends and family on Facebook, there would be far fewer news articles shared. Get rid of Pages, and Facebook would be pleasant again. Of course, Facebook would also be broke.
Product Managers Need to Know Things No One Else Knows. How??
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41220948

Two firms said they were willing to build offshore wind farms for a guaranteed price of £57.50 per megawatt hour for 2022-23.

This compares with the new Hinkley Point C nuclear plant securing subsidies of £92.50 per megawatt hour.
I wonder if this commitment is reflected in any official terms or pledges?
>..a percentage of those in poverty to be considered criminals. Specifically, the drug war.

I knew tons of people that did drugs on the streets (most of them) and none of them went to jail accept those that committed crimes while doing drugs.

Is there statistics somewhere that shows "x number of people are in jail for inhaling while minding their own business"?

The police are always around on the streets, they don't have time to arrest people for just "drugs". I am amazed this is the refrain still going around. Consider how many states have made weed legal now, those same states decriminalized weed decades ago. No jail for weed in a lot of places for a very long time.

If you want to talk about other drugs, and pretend like they don't lead to crimes, bring up the stats, I'd be curious to know.
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It's very rewarding for me to know you like zircleUI and you are doing things with it.
Thank you!
Not surprising at all.

I love the idea of Tesla and what they're doing, but I still get a feeling that a lot of what they're developing is designed to work in CA, be damned anywhere else.

Though, in their defense, frozen door handles don't work very well pretty much anywhere ice has had an opportunity to seize up joints.
Chrome Android mobile...I want to hold down a circle and be presented a link to bookmark, open in a new tab, go back from when I click it, etc. instead it just does local animation to another circle which is probably what GP was disappointed about (i.e. your nav should work with browser nav instead of against it).
There are certain areas which are known to be very high risk with population centers in the expected path of travel of a fire. It is criminally negligent to not bury lines or provide other extremely robust fire risk reduction measures in these areas. Although not exclusively, the conversation needs to focus on the smaller areas of highest risk.
Society decides the moral boundry, and currently stealing is immoral.
Not necessarily. I've seen people ace whiteboard interviews and then not be able to use a computer.
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No it doesn't. And you've made my point perfectly.
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> We have consensus on basic ethical norms

On some, but morality has not been resolved, not even close.

> isnt it possible to identify which courses of action/inaction (regardless of bent) lead to ethical outcomes

No, figuring out all the consequences of a given action quickly gets intractable the bigger the action is. You can make predictions as to the effect of a law or policy, but you usually can't make guarantees as to their effects. nth order effects keep piling up.
Isn’t that addressed in the article that multi microphone works when there is physical distance between the mics — on a phone that’s around 4 inches.

What is that on a watch? An inch? Maybe one can be put on the band. Also on a phone the other mic is on the opposite side of the phone so it isn’t directly in the line of fire from your voice.
Repayable bonuses are legal in basically every state
California sets all the rules for utilities, including rates. There isn’t much wiggle room for PG&E, holding them liable for this is silly. It’s just a political shell game, assigning blame to PG&E and avoid responsibility for legislative failure.
Ministers are all about government functions. As long as he has the right people below him and is able to listen to them and exercise judgment, that's what really counts.

What's weird though is "never" having used a computer. I mean, doesn't everyone write/edit with a computer these days? Do people at that level just verbally stream-of-consciousness dictate their memos and secretaries enter them? THAT is weird.
"Except for the dates when it knew of the Russian attacks, Facebook doesn't appear to be attacking the facts of the reports, but the interpretation. For instance, the NYT never said that what Facebook did was anti-Semitic, but rather that it was using Definers to depict attacks against it as anti-Semitic. 'It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic,' the report stated. Many of its other responses, including the Stamos investigation, fall along the same lines -- rebutting points that the NYT never made."

https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/15/facebook-response-nyt-ex...
Who said anything about climate change?
Consistently describing things imprecisely or in a hand-wavey manner.
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