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Has anyone worked at a company where Change Management was so good that there was no possible backdoor? Every system change would have to be approved by at least one other engineer and there is no ssh/sudo access on production systems?

So far my impression is that all that is required is to gain access to Jenkins one way or another and you have the keys of the whole infrastructure.
It's really funny how the claim of "identity politics" gets applied to pointing out inequality, but never to inequality itself. Was red-lining not identity politics? What about white flight? How about the gender pay gap (say in it's historical form if you choose to believe that it doesn't exist anymore), that's straight up identity politics, no? Oh! How about Japanese internment during WWII. That's obviously identity politics!

The US government has engaged in identity politics for pretty much all of its history (consider the rhetoric about the "migrant caravan" today, or the way that every elected official has to at least pretend to be Christian). You don't get to rail against identity politics as if it's something SJWs came up with in the last decade.
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>I feel like this article isn’t making good faith arguments. Every single sentence is trying to tear down Tumblr’s announcement word by word without attempting to understand their position, making the worst case assumption about their intent rather than assuming reason, and Tumblr’s position seems to be completely reasonable.

Good lawyers can't trust faith to be held accountable, they need everything to be written in explicit terms in order to ensure that if a gentleman's handshake isn't enough then a lawsuit is.

With that said, I believe it is up to Tumblr to prove that they are acting in good faith; so far they have failed to do so in the most basic sense by simply blanket flagging most content as NSFW and turning against a huge portion of their user base in the first place to appease advertisers.
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There are places for noncompetes. And that is only when you are dealing with very, very high compensation. If you are paying someone enough money that they could live on for the rest of their life comfortably, then you can reasonably expect them to sign a non-compete.

But don't have the gall to expect someone to sign a non-compete for a market wage.
Corporate espionage and military intelligence are not clearly separated in China, and this is due to the culture and values of the Chinese Communist Party. This is seen as the same thing, advancing towards the same goal.

This is arguable less of the case in other countries, which is why people in other countries don't understand what is going on right now (i.e. why Huawei is seen as a security threat). The concern is, if you in the future cross the will of the Chinese Communist Party, your national infrastructure may suddenly...behave differently.
How is it that WriteProcessMemory succeeds in writing to read-only memory?
There is only civil liability for noncompliance, in the form of massive fines. However there is 5-year imprisonment for people who disclose information about these notices though (unless it follows the aggregated statistics requirements).
This is interesting. I see it has an interpreter, but it's unclear at a glance whether "interpreted" is the default production mode of the language or if the interpreter is available to facilitate a repl or smething.

Skimming some of the .ko files, I like that it seems readable and familiar (even if there are some oddities). No matter how much time I spend with Haskell and OCaml, I always spend conscious effort trying to mentally parse the source code.
Nobody on serverfault could find a way either. Most of my stuff is Alpine Linux (non-systemd) so not a big issue. At work, we have a lot of CentOS and I just advise folks to keep their kickstart minimal to avoid pulling in polkit.
I had mostly the same experience as you, race was only really talked about during annual training sessions. I think the obsession with race in 'progressive' fields and communities comes from the current college atmosphere. My wife started teaching English 101 at a college this year, and the curriculum she got from the school is very focused on race. It's supposed to be an introductory English class, but all the assignments are about gentrification, racial identity, etc. The first day of class she was supposed to show them a video of a black girl doing free-form poetry where she talks about how white people are holding her down because of how she talks. The department head said they give them these "spicy" topics to write about so they'll be more interested in the class. It seems like professors and students look back on the individuals fighting for civil rights and decided that they want to fight for something, so they've become hyper focused on race.
I checked it out 17 hours later, yours is the third mention. Compa* is not much better.

What do we do nategri? Hard not to feel hopeless about it all.
Others have given good paraphrases, but a literal (and more grammatically correct) translation:
"Wireless services require radio spectrum: I'm shocked!
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Because platforms.

Web 2.0 spent the last 15 years taking over the internet. They made publishing easy enough for your mom. The web evolved from a niche many-to-many medium into a really global, many-to-many medium.

But... In exchange for these great, free publishing tools... most online content got concentrated and funnelled through a handful of companies. Being startups, they had reasonably diverse personas. Family friendly Facebook, anarcho-lunatic Reddit, neckbeard news.yc and pansexual tumblr...

As valuations grew, online advertising exploded and startups aged... they all end up with the same corporate persona.

I care about freedom too. But, I think a lot of liberals/libertarians (like me, this isn't shade) get too caught up in philosopmhical "blackboard freedom" and don't look at actual freedom.

An web where most content is reviewed by a taboo filter (this is what nsfw means, taboo) is not as free as one that isn't.

I'll throw out a reminder that many of the web's first communities existed to discuss taboo topics: drugs, sex, etc.

These were, for example, in my opinion, responsible for the cultural liberalisation that enabled "the great coming out" of gay and other marginalized culture.
Bottom-end WiFi iPads are in the $300 range now. You might find one cheaper on swappable, ebay, etc.
Looking at the facts from the article...

Shaun King, a race activist for BLM, posted a screenshot of an email someone sent him calling him a racial slur on Facebook, and got suspended. He complained and shortly after Facebook apologized and lifted the suspension.

The simple explanation is that Facebook censors were not paying close attention. They saw a racial slur posted and suspended the poster. They didn’t spend the time to understand the context.

Pointing to this particular incident as failing black people is laughable. This is a failure of the policy of censorship. It was collateral damage.

I can’t find the manager’s letter but I’d be willing to believe Facebook censored his post primarily because it was critical of Facebook, under the guise of removing “hate speech”.

Again, it was collateral damage, but this time due to malice instead of incompetence.

And this is precisely the argument against censorship.

In the one case, it’s unrealistic to expect a censorship bureaucracy to operate with surgical precision. Accepting censorship of offensive speech means accepting the collateral damage of censoring some ordinary speech, due to incompetence.

In the other worse case, the definition of “hate speech” will be abused to provide political cover to remove speech that censors simply don’t like.

Perhaps everyone, including black people, would be better off if we all stood behind the spirit and law of free speech.
A meme is basically a joke template that becomes popular. Then they get remixed, and the remix gets popular. Before you know it someone's asking "where did that cosmic brain meme image come from?" and you find out it's from a stock video.
I can do that or I can vote for someone who kicks them out. If they are really interested in staying, how about they, you know... behave and integrate in our Western society?
> No community is THIS defensive about something that's a non-issue.

Yes, surely protesting their innocence is strong evidence that they are, in fact, guilty as charged. /s
Here you go:

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Wasn't the situation in Nauru that the immigrants aren't considered detained as they are free to return home as soon as they agree to do so?
That's true and the reason that electric cars will work much better than most expected, with no need for a battery change during the life of the car. Here though part of the reason for the huge savings in one year is the market was in such dire need they've worked the battery hard. The return on investment is still stellar I'm sure, beating even the best initial estimates. But the battery will most likely not last as long as in the original estimates either.
But its not like battery technology is advancing so quickly, and prices dropping so fast, that this is only just becoming profitable.
Based on these figures this would have been profitable years ago.

The only plausible reason I can come up with is that the 'savings' are very hard to attribute correctly, but then I still cant explain why no one before today noticed the potential savings and took a chance.

Anyone with experience in the industry have any thoughts?
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You can speak to a lawyer about it, though I imagine that delaying might cause issues. There is a mandatory 28-day consultation period for TCNs but I imagine that you'd get very little useful protection from that system.

Also there is no criminal punishment for not obeying a notice. There is massive civil liability though, as well as a criminal punishment for disclosing information about the notice.
Socialist Populism seeks wealth redistribution for individuals by using force against people (in addition to organizations) via taxation.

Market Populism seeks wealth redistribution for organizations by using force against organizations exclusively to break up local maxima (monopolies, duopolies, etc.).

Both use force, but one operates on the individual level, the other at the organizational level.
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https://www.tesla.com/blog/teslas-closed-loop-battery-recycl...

Looks like 60-70% was being recycled in 2011. I imagine that's improved.

Edit: here's more recent (and more detailed) coverage of Tesla's recycling

https://medium.com/tradr/teslas-approach-to-recycling-is-the...
IIRC at least the cobalt and nickel from lithium ion batteries are currently very recyclable, and in at least some cases it's actually cheaper to "mine" those metals from old batteries than it is to mine it from the ground.

I think the bigger problem is getting people to actually recycle them, which shouldn't be a problem with these larger batteries in cars and buildings. Already the auto industry is really good at "recycling" parts by selling "cores" taken out of a car for replacement which get rebuilt and resold later, so the logistics and incentives are all there for it, and many are already buying hybrid batteries and doing the same process for them.
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"Skew liberal to progressive" here. I've heard friends of mine who are black talk about things like being followed around at a grocery store. I remember when Eric Garner was killed, a lot of my friends who are black didn't want to talk at all in school, and felt incredibly anxious. I also remember that shortly after those discussions where I learned of that anxiety, several of those people were in a class with me where the teacher brought up Eric Garner and put the 3 black people in the class on spotlight - she wasn't even trying to be malicious, she actually wanted to learn things, but I'm sure you can imagine how that made those 3 people feel. A lot of things are easy to just "not see" yet they happen quite often, and that is why the "unnatural obsession" exists for me at least. When you see the amount of racism that exists and can easily go unnoticed by you, you see the world in a different way. It's almost like finding out about the NSA and how little privacy we all have these days.

I vividly remember the time I went to In-N-Out with a group, and took a seat at a table after ordering, but the group ended up moving to a different table. I asked the person who wanted to move the group "Why do you want us to sit over there?" She said nothing, but lifted her hand up and pointed a finger, and I looked over and there wasn't anything wrong. But there was a group of black people there. This was a time when racism was clear as day and right in front of me. But hearing many stories of racism from my friends who are black is a different feeling - instead of feeling like there's an isolated incident, I see how common it is, and how easy it is to just not see it. And that's scary. Scarier than the NSA and Facebook, because instead of losing privacy, people are actively harmed and you can easily not even see or hear about it
Only the most expensive private universities would cost that much.
Too easy to enter the market, at least in a small area for price fixing to work.
Well whereas the SEC had taken the position that airdrops could violate the securities laws of the tokens were a security...

>According to the court, in the ICO context there must be a ‘risk of financial loss’. This supports the proposition that something like an airdrop, by itself, cannot be a securities offering...

So tokens even if securities may not violate securities laws by being distributed via airdrop.

I think ultimately the tokens here will be securities here, unless the transfer of the tokens are restricted (and they include no right to company profits).
That so many people were against it?
Firefox for mobile is an excellent browser, and the only one I use. It supports extensions, such as uBlock without rooting the phone. The user interface is good, the browser is responsive and reasonably fast. Honestly, I don't know why people aren't using it.

I think most people just don't care, and just use what the system provides. As Google gets more invasive and evil, I hope that people will start to care, and Firefox and other browsers start to flourish again.
> The larger subtext of the entire diversity conversation is learning to coexist. It's not about black people, women, the LGBTQ community, or any other single group. It's about a better working environment for everyone indefinitely. Being against that is literally pathological.

About this.... There's something I've noticed is that when one group has rights by default, and another doesnt, fighting for equality or equity feels like to the innate group that rights are taken away.

Its the perception of zero-sum game versus a positive-sum game. For the in-group, having others brought up to your status feels like its reducing yours... But it doesn't.

Whereas rights can be assessed for everyone. The more rights we all have is a positive sum. A rising tide raises all boats.
> IIRC most batteries contain a bunch of rare earth metals and aren’t great for land filling.

That's incorrect. Batteries don't have any rare earth metals. You're thinking of cadmium telluride thin film solar panels, which have been replaced by silicon solar. They were a contender for cheaper solar panels, but it didn't work out in the end. They were also so terrible for the environment that they tainted the reputation of completely unrelated technologies.

> When these are worn out in 10-15 years how much environmental impact is there to replace / refurbish / recycle them?

It seems likely that the battery will last a lot longer than 15 years, but Tesla gives 15 years expected and 10 warrantied. Disposing of li-ion batteries involves shredding and burning them, which leaves behind a ceramic clinker (sold for concrete filler) and several metals (nickel, cobalt, copper, aluminum and steel in order of importance). Cobalt and nickel are the only hazardous materials and are fully collected since they're also the most valuable. Lithium is not cost-effective to recover; it's sold with the clinker.

The incineration process only gives off CO2 and water. This comes from the electrolytes and plastics being burnt. It's obviously not great and the heat isn't captured for use (AFAIK) but there's no other pollution and the net CO2 savings are still great.
I tried this on multiple computers and Chrome is self updating, so latest. On the other hand iPad, Chrome and Safari works. Just a guess, but I think this has to do with login state.
I'd argue this reduces complexity by standardization. Having one system that is used among many sites allows easier verification of potential security pitfalls in that.
This is glossed upon in the article:

"AI researchers have typically tried to get around the issues posed by by Montezuma’s Revenge and Pitfall! by instructing reinforcement-learning algorithms to explore randomly at times, while adding rewards for exploration—what’s known as “intrinsic motivation.”

But the Uber researchers believe this fails to capture an important aspect of human curiosity. “We hypothesize that a major weakness of current intrinsic motivation algorithms is detachment,” they write. “Wherein the algorithms forget about promising areas they have visited, meaning they do not return to them to see if they lead to new states."
Another aviation rendering... Not going to take it seriously until there's a flying prototype video.
i want to use Firefox mobile but the scrolling experience is terrible. not sure if they use the os's compositor.
Huzzah, another talking point to convince the team to migrate off Bitbucket. Silver lining I guess!
Shoutout to my first CS teacher who pushed EMACS on my fellow students and me. It was a pain but I'm happy about it.
If 5G reduces the price of data I'll be happy. Otherwise it's pointless to get more speed if they are still charging $8 per GB
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Because hosting your own status page seems like a fine idea until your service goes down and 1 million people come to figure out what's wrong or even worse, just lose the entire status page along with your infrastructure.
> Why is this not more wide spread? These figures suggest this is a no brainer. Am I missing something?

Grid infrastructure isn't exactly agile. It's politics.
Honest question, is this a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy? You expect to be judged by the color of your skin, so you act constantly in fear of being judged, making your time in the industry "suck" as you put it?

Obviously it would be foolish to think that no one out there is prejudiced, or that there are no systematic problems in certain places, but based on what you said here it sounds like you have not so much encountered these situations personally, rather you have lived in fear of encountering them.
But if you look at the whole plane, the electric one will be about double the weight.

What about the landing gear? Brakes? Control surfaces? All double size.

The battery will likely be a somewhat complex system with active cooling and monitoring and will need maintenance. They are aiming for higher than car level energy to weight ratios.

If they use a battery with air as a component, that's also again somewhat more complicated.

There's probably a trade off point in flight hours per year, above which the electric plane is more affordable. Depends on finances, too since likely it's more expensive to acquire.
I am sorry to hear about your experience.

As far as the dialog, it is known that Facebook pays PR firms to improve their image by spreading misleading stories (see Definers Public Affairs), so I think there is reason to believe that some comments here may be disingenuous.
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Depends on your definition of "complete" -- ChromeOS now has Android and Linux container support, so you've got options for command-line apps. Ironically, you have to run Electron apps (based on Chromium) in a Linux VM.
Taxis are really a short term play. Long term is really transport as a service - who owns the market when people no longer own cars.
This could happen anywhere. If you know that dynamically created users are in range {x} and AD/LDAP users are in range {y}, then a good sysadmin would choose a very high range for batch creations of specific types of accounts. This is fairly common practice. Modern Linux and Windows can support millions of UID's, so it is perfectly reasonable to say, "We are going to use range {y} for this project then nuke that entire range when we are done".
Best practice is to host the status page on completely separate infrastructure. This adds a lot of operational overhead often seen as disproportionately low benefit relative to the ongoing effort to maintain, until rare events like this actually happen.
Unfortunately it cuts both ways. I’ve been in hiring meetings where people from underrepresented backgrounds applied but really didn’t have the required skills, they got hired anyway because the company wanted to feel good about hiring diversity, and then the people really struggled down the line - in one case the person got fired, in another case quit.

I don’t know how we get there but we eventually need to just get over skin color. When we interact with other people we generally don’t even notice or think about what color eyes or what their nose shape is. We should be able to get to that point regarding all aspects of physical appearance.
Ah yes, the old issue of demographics.
Kind of the same, but at least it gives parents options. Most kids arrive just before classes start, instead of forcing everybody to get there really early.
Actually, lithium is quite valuable and can be recycled into new batteries. I don't have the numbers, but AFIAK, disposal is cashflow positive.

Edit: see hwillis's comment down below, he/she is obviously more knowledgeable about the topic than I am. I was wrong.
I agree, but better late than never.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18379394
Not necessarily. They can be on two different servers behind a reverse proxy, or the attacker can only write to static files or anything else.
Sorry, edited my question to make more sense. I didn't really put enough effort in the first time.
I'm curious how well could Crystal language handles that huge amount of JSON since most of the Ruby code could be ported over to Crystal.

It has a JSON pull parser to minimize memory usage which is useful for memory constraint environment but at the expense of less performant. If that could be split up with fork Crystal processes, I believe it's feasible.
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Loaded eventually for me. Must be getting a huge surge in traffic.
Not remotely the same as race.
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No, I didn't. It was your problem you misinterpreted what I said.

Nobody else misunderstood me but you.
I think your maths is off.

$40m * 4 = $160m

$240m / $40m = 6 years

Edit: Mixed up cost and income?
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In Germany, unions routinely sit on the board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
OK, what is the news here? Options become worthless all the time (a quick search shows that over 90% of SP500 put options expire worthless) and their value exceeds 1M referenced here by several orders of magnitude. What am I missing?
You fight against visual stereotypes and hierarchies related to that, which are burned into peoples minds. I don‘t think that it‘s race specific, it happens to everybody in a way. When it comes to computers and tech, people expect nerds, and behaviors associated with that. If you don‘t look like a nerd, people will assume that you joined that profession from a different background, that you didn‘t program as a kid and therefor can‘t match their ideal, or stereotype.