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Never understood why people point at a single company reshuffling as a failure of the tax cuts when job availability & wages are up significantly. It's like the GM thing where somebody makes a terrible decision and we're meant to believe it's the fault of the govt and that they need to be bailed out. At this point in time, people have more choice in where to work and for what price than ever before, it's likely that ATT would've faced an increase in costs long-term to keep people.
>It is well established in mainstream nutrition the health effects of high calorie diets.

Health effects.. like heart disease, obesity, and diabetes?
Is this a “let them eat cake” moment?
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Sorry, I was being silly and I really meant Cast speaker, which is what a stripped down smart speaker is. AFAIK you still need a license or at least some help from Google to get that working, since the protocols are proprietary.
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Since I'm not a useful med partner but I do know English, the adjective non-mydriatic would ordinarily fit into the sentence like this:

"a portable auto-focus non-mydriatic fundus camera."
I think this is a very good example of PRIVATE vs. GOVERNMENT.

Google has set up a service that is usable/payable by their own rules.

This is something we (U.S.) take as verboten as a private business. They can discriminate on any reason except as dictated as against governance(race/age/religion/etc).

If you've been detected by google as "fraudulent" by google, then there is zero recourse for you. Goodbye to your google account.

If the U.S. government is not going to do anything about this (it has not shown any interest in this type of problem) then YOU need to be proactive. Be ready to change services to the private businesses that you interact with AND/OR speak with your representatives of your government.
Apparently people don't like the cars argument, so let's try bikes instead. If I leave my bike locked up outside somewhere, and you cut my lock and take it home, that's theft. You can't just steal bikes because they've been left on public land.

My property doesn't cease to be my property just because it isn't on my land. Registration or licencing doesn't come into it. "Finders keepers" is not a law.
Likely they would rather send people home and pay them than risk theft or sabotage.
That would help, but even so, stack ranking is social and cultural poison. You can do it one random year, but do it every year and watch cooperation within and between teams die out because it's a dog eat dog world you've built.

At what point will business schools please start teaching that stack ranking is a bad idea?
It means the ordering remains monotonic. It means if you’re on top of the world, you remain so with all the psychological trappings, just on a slightly lower mound. The scraps that come from slightly lowering your absolute position (but keeping relative position the same) will go to addressing externalities and common goods.
I feel you. ~260 to 164, back to 215, but on it again! Stay strong!
AFAIK Musk can do everything a born US citizen can do except for running for presidency, right?
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The former, for several reasons, among them the fact that those actually aren’t the options (it’s actually 1, or 1 AND 2), and the fact that Google can’t end .com they way they did Verisign.

But feel free to ask the relevant team at Google, who will give you the same answer.
If they had released this a year or two ago we would have used it. We use Mongo... barely (as in the volume of data barely registers). That's a great example of something better off being handed to a hosting company.

Self hosting MongoDB has always been a pain if you only have a small amount of data in it. The scaling goes one host, master/slave (which existed, though people would argue with you that it didn't), to 7+ separate hosts if you're going to build it properly (2x mongoose with DNS across them, 3x config cluster, 3x data cluster).

That's a hell of a jump for someone only using Mongo incidentally. You can cheat and combine multiple pieces of the cluster on single hosts but if that fails you can then get into weird multi-component failure issues.
> I've reached out to my former colleagues who left to join Space X.

Good on ya.
You suggest "more growth" and "lower taxes" as a solution. The former is more of an objective rather than a solution; every single government wants "more growth" but how to achieve that is a completely different story. About "lower taxes", South Korea already tried that option for 9 years and it had spectacularly failed. (BTW, income and corporation tax in SK is generally much lower than the US, so apparently "even lower tax" that you might suggest won't likely work.)
A musician, of all people, against censorship? I don't follow. Leaving aside the false-dichotomy implication about all-or-nothing / black-or-white / for-censorship-or-against-it, there's nothing about being a musician that would particularly predict someone's political views.
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Truly reminds me of ‘99. Dom Perignon, expensive cocktails, weed, private jet flights, pointless travels to warm beach retreats for meetings, yacht parties etc. I am a cynic but our CFO at the time was even more. We demanded upfront payments for projects and enjoyed the lifestyle as long as we did not pay for it as it made no sense (most of these companies had nothing; not even a mildly viable idea). The companies that remained standing after the bubble (because mainly they were bought or incubated by big banks like ING during) remained our clients for a long time. The rest all died a very quick death in 2001.
It's generally only at the expense of the population when you have massively overblown govt spending, for which the population has to then foot the bill.
Don’t sleep on space solar power.
Tesla also had one last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17295725
So, they have a team of people who is skilled at ramping up production of a (relatively) traditional rocket to volume.

So you've got, say, 3000 people on that team.

That project basically ends, and now you have A) a satellite design and production project, and B) a green field rocket design project.

What you're saying is that you know for sure that all 3000 of those people could have an immediate role on one of those two projects?
Its kinda the same thing, what you put on your online profile at dating site work like a resume.
Was not talking about legal rights.
Myself, I would probably use a virtual machine in the cloud somewhere — maybe AWS, maybe some other provider. I’d want to make sure the instance storage is SSD, and you always clean up your temporary disk space usage once you’re done.

Pick an instance size that has enough RAM and CPU for your requirements, and then configure it to boot at specific times, run and do its thing, then shutdown again.

So long as its not running except when you need it to run, even fairly beefy hardware configurations can still be pretty cheap for you.

If you can’t do that, then I’d run a separate machine at my home, and not try to do it on my laptop.
People who are earning minimum wages generally don't pay tax. In order for them to keep more of their income, yes, they will actually need lower tax, i.e., minus tax, i.e., welfare.

And guess how we fund welfare?
Rockstars don't like moving the amps.

No cooperation within teams (one of you has to go, one of you gets a good bonus, the rest get nothing).

No cooperation between teams either (for similar reasons, and besides, you're busy enough trying to shine within your team).

Any innovation that requires a solid team and cooperation just doesn't happen. Lots of innovation that can be done by just one or two people doesn't get approval from mgmt because they don't get it and are busy measuring the wrong things.

So you're forgoing all the best innovations while building a toxic work environment. Your best and brightest will either stay and game the system, or go elsewhere and be happier.

Stack ranking is a highly destructive tool of management. I would recommend it to my competitors, and only to my competitors.
In comparison, if you consider CES as a modern day world’s fair, imagine the dangers of experiencing a Tesla electricity exhibit or some of the earlier X-ray tech with hour long exposure to high radiation.

https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Health/Wellness/...
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You don’t solve the prisoners dilemma by saying “fuck it let’s just all stab each other’s backs”. I’m arguing humanity should cooperate to achieve the better state, and punish defectors if needed to balance the incentives. This at least should be our aim.
I strongly dispute the claim that 1550nm is eye safe. 1550nm is also the band used for long distance, high powered DWDM transport systems for internet backbone purposes. And is common in "long reach" SFP+ modules for use 80 to 120km on dark fiber without amplification. There are common eye safety precautions, one of which is you NEVER aim the ferrule from a optic or patch cable at your face with a live 1550nm signal on it. This is known by everyone who lights long distance dark fiber.

This company claims they have a 1550 band laser operating in free space air, spraying all over the place, with a 1000 meter range? Oh, great.

It's not in the visible spectrum so you can't tell if it's damaging your eyeballs, either.
> I'd argue that it's the practice and not the principle of auto-updates which is unsound.

I disagree. I've yet to encounter a system where automatic updates didn't sometimes break things. It's a nice theory, but in practice things break when you change things they depend on even when you're trying not to, and a lot of developers don't try that hard. Not to mention, sometimes you're dealing with design flaws that cause API changes, or programs relying on behavior that wasn't officially part of the stable interface. Auto-updating causes more problems than it solves.
It's new enough to be a second tier AWS service (they tend to have odd performance issues or less than ideal pricing models). My understanding is that they also block off portions of the management API that you'd typically use to maintain your own cluster and that they've had some reliability problems.
This article points out a real problem. The free world needs to be able to withstand hacking from despotic, authoritarian controlled regimes. But it also needs to help commercial companies not fall under their sway because of economic pressures (like punishing companies that dare to list Taiwan as a separate country).

I thought this article would be about when China at some point really attacks the cyber infrastructure of the us, not just github. That would make for a good science fiction story.
That’s rough. Have you launched?
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This URL seems to be in a never-ending redirect loop.
*Being elected. He could run and get write-in votes, he just couldn't be sworn in.
When did they start that? I was paying $10/GB plus $20/mo.
Also Google Fi slows data after 15GB...
https://fi.google.com/about/plan/

My Verizon plan is under $70 w/ the taxes/fees.
We wrote our own thing because at the time people were not all doing that with Ansible.
>Then how is it that someone did a search of Patreon's site and turned up tons of n-word occurrences?

Because these people don't matter to Patreon.

>How is it that Patreon continues to fund groups that seem to encourage violence?

Because these people don't matter to Patreon.

>If Patreon is reaching that far in Sargon's case to "protect their brand" yet have so many skeletons like that, so easily found, I highly doubt that "protecting their brand" is their actual underlying motivation.

It likely IS their motivation (or the more general motivation of making money anyway).

Someone did some math and realized that continuing to give this person money will, on balance, be more harmful than not giving this person money. That really is the extent of it all. No one at Patreon likely gives a shit about the guy except that he is too controversial compared to the amount of money he makes them.

Let's say Patreon makes 10% of the revenue this guy brings in. $15,000 is such an irrelevant amount compared to the amount of harm that continuing to support this guy monetarily could potentially cause that it would be insane to continue to bother sending him any money.
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I mean it doesn’t really matter what their reputation is when they are the type of company that abandons products with little concern for users.
It won't be over until Harvard, Wharton, and all the other top business schools teach that stack ranking is destructive. Jack Welch is a blithering idiot if he still believes in stack ranking. I've a feeling that the reason a CEO of a company like GE would like stack ranking is the false sensation of control it must give them. In reality, one of the key reasons you have managers in the first place is that management is a people problem, so you need people to manage people, and managers need to get to know the people they manage.
The pre-natal tests are routine even here in India - I'm quite surprised they're not in the US.
Checking in. I'll be back with a refreshed resume in the morning.
why is that a problem? a well oiled practice for revocation in case of compromise sounds like a good thing to me.
The same way regular vision works under snow. Snowflakes are opaque to visible light too, so it'd work the same way human eyesight works for drivers currently.
And yet, we continue to exist.
That's interesting ideas. Only caveat is after awhile brain will learn the pattern and you might solve on autopilot.
Two things I always want, which I'm amazed aren't commonplace yet:

1. One of the fundamental operations, for all of software development, is taking a big task and dividing it into smaller tasks. The smaller tasks should inherit the relevant fields (e.g., assignee, and target milestone) from the original one, and the original issue should aggregate the relevant fields (e.g., sum the time estimates, and let me see one mega-diff of all the constituent changesets) of all of its sub-issues. Of course, sub-issues in turn need to be able to be broken down further.

Most bug trackers are able to create dependencies between issues, so it's possible to create such a thing out of a dependency tree, but I've never used a system that made it easy.

2. It should be Git-based. The state of the issue tracker is just data, and I should be able to work on that without a special web-only interface that requires me to be online (though it should still have a web UI). I want to use my own tools -- I would have saved a ton of time over the years if I could have just grepped the whole issue database for what I was looking for. This would also make it easy to write programs to operate on the issue data -- I don't want to learn your issue tracker's special API. Or do the same thing to 20 issues by having to click 200 times.

On GitHub, everything is a repo (source code, project wikis) except the issue tracker. So close! It's almost like they were intentionally trying to make this one type of data difficult to work with.
Roads are paid for, in large majority, by property taxes. Gas taxes and registration fees don’t even come close to half.
hmmm... I don't see the error on my end. What browser do you use? Can you try in "incognito" mode? Are there any extensions that might be blocking this?
You just made a very persuasive argument that increasing minimum wage will spike inflation. But I don't think this is true when you look at the data. We've recently increased minimum wage a lot over the last 8 years, but inflation hasn't really moved at all.

And from a theory standpoint minimum wage increases should have very little effect on inflation. Standard inflation theory is too much money in the economy. And too much demand for goods, causes too much demand for workers. This causes a tight labor market which drives wage rates which get passed onto consumers through increased prices. But minimum wage workers have the least amount of negotiating power, and since the minimum wage is higher than their market wage they by definition can't negotiate. Which makes it impossible for them to drive inflation.

> One, a higher cost of labor due to inflation, and two, from higher costs of borrowing money. As a result, companies increase prices even further, which starts an upward spiral where wages can't keep up.

Inflation does have some serious problems, but the idea that wages can't keep up with inflation doesn't make any sense. How can wage driven inflation drive inflation higher than wages?

I'm also not sure borrowing money is any more expensive. The nominal interest rate increases, but the real interest rate decreases. There is a large boon to current borrowers when inflation unexpectedly increases, and a boon to loaners when inflation unexpected decreases.
If it were correct. The overwhelming majority of road costs are paid through property taxes.
"Normal" people don't know because they don't use niche software products like an rss reader or Google's latest messaging app.

If something is not an instant mainstream hit, Google might can it. That's a risk if you plan on trying out something new from Google before your uncle is asking you how to set it up.
It's the payment providers who are the problem, and you can't really skip a single one. Want to exclude a PayPal option? your content creators will get say %20 less, want to exclusively use crypto with current adoption rates? i'd assume you'd see only a fraction of the money you'd get on regular patreon. There's a reason Patreon has ex-paypal insiders working for them.
I didn't use pushshift, sorry. The data was collected from bigquery, stored locally into CSV files, and then I just wrote a node.js script to compute similarities.
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Checking in. Spent 6 years at X and this sounds interesting.
IANAL but I assume so. It’s just the enforcement that would wait.
Good call. I was worried that I'd "spam" the browser history and people who are coming from reddit or HN would never go back to where they came from :)
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How can he call them 28 times a second? Also, my scam calls have fake caller ids. So how does he get their number? Of course we need to phone companies to block incorrect caller id.
Google Fi's international data service used to be great. Now it's completely dysfunctional in countries such as Croatia, China, etc, and very spotty in Austria, Iceland, Philippines, Ecuador, northern Japan etc. I can no longer rely on Fi when I travel abroad.
Did it look like one of these?
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Worse, the phone numbers could belong to people unrelated to the scam.

Replying to spam, whether e-mail, text message or voice call, risks "backscatter".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)
There are federal, state and local taxes on transportation fuels. So sure, if you drive through the city without filling up your car there then you got a free ride on that city's roads, but not the state and interstate highways leading to it. But that's one of those things that averages out due to large numbers, and where it doesn't there is usually some rebalancing of revenues by government entities.
"certain forms of human diversity are stigmatized as undesirable or perceived as burdensome."

I understand the why, but it doesn't make him any less dead wrong. If you told people they were going to wake up the next morning with Down syndrome most of them would put a gun in their mouth. I certainly would, and not because I feared how society would treat me.

This article is just the latest incarnation of the "noble savage" myth; the worship of anything deemed "natural". Well guess what, worms that eat the eyes out of little children are natural too. So is malaria, and cancer, and blindness, and fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.

The "diversity of human existence" as he calls it has a greater variety of horror than ever imagined by the most bloodthirsty tyrant or tortured writer. We've spent centuries in a war to the knife against that horror and for someone to declare they're on the other side is a stupefying act of denial.
It seems unlikely that we’ll invent that before it’s too late. Nuclear is feasible today.
Building nuclear reactors takes a long time. At this point it's probably too late to start without pursuing many different strategies to reduce our carbon output. I don't think we have enough time left for a painless transition to carbon neutrality. If we had started in earnest when it was first clear that global heating is happening, so forty years ago, we would have been able to switch to alternative power sources with a lot less economic impact. But by now only radical changes to our way of life can limit (not prevent!) global heating. The longer we wait, the larger the risk that we hit some nonlinearities that our climate models have failed to take into account.
What are some infertility treatment and alternative options in 2019?
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and gestational surrogacy(infertility treatment alternative) are common conventional infertility treatments. But these procedures are quite expensive and the expenses are generally not covered under medical insurances.

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Definition and causes of Infertility

Difficulty to become pregnant after conducting unrestricted, frequent intercourse for a certain period of time or complications related to completion of gestation period is considered as infertility. Usually, 15-20% of couples are experiencing conceiving difficulty even after regular intercourse without using birth control for almost one year. But this does not indicate that a couple is infertile, as within two years of period almost 90% of couples conceive without treatment. Therefore, reproductive experts consider that two years without conception require infertility treatments.

Either male and female or both can be responsible for infertility problem. Research data found 40% of infertility involves a female reproductive problem, whereas, another 40% of involves male infertility issues. Both female and male fertility problem involves 10% infertility cases and remaining 10% of infertility cases are medically unexplainable.
https://www.surrogacycentregeorgia.com/reproductive-health/infertility-treatments-and-alternative-options-in-2019
I recently moved abroad and tried to change my phone number in my Uber account. Uber wouldn't let me because it said there was a driver account associated (there wasn't). Their support told me to delete the driver account, but since there wasn't one I was greeted with the driver sign-up that I couldn't complete.

After talking to their support again they deleted my account so I could recreate it.

And then my email, new phone number and old phone number were all marked as in use, yet I could not log in. Over the course of a month it took FIVE emails from my end explaining the situation, with screenshots, each of which was responded to with an "it should be ok now, try again". Only the very last time when I stressed in the email that they really had to escalate it because I had to ask the same question repeatedly without it ever being fixed, they took their time and actually fixed it after a bit over a week.

I know support is hard, especially at scale, but damn Uber that was just baaaaaad.