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I've always refused to sign any contract with a non-compete. In every case, the employer has removed or voided it. The only exceptions were jobs in Chicago, and I walked away from two different jobs because they couldn't change their contract.

I often don't even bring it up during the interview, until I get an offer. At that point if they're not willing to negotiate my basic rights as a worker, it's not a company I want to work for and I'm glad I've wasted their time.

Always demand to see the offer letter/agreement first before you accept, and don't be afraid to walk away if it contains a non-compete. They've screwed over at least two friends of mine and they're totally not worth it. I've written about my experiences with non-competes before:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/why-i-dont-sign-non-competes/
Nonsense. These are the prices they charge people who lack insurance. They're very real if you get a bill with them on it.
There is a section on Arxiv called "Physics and Society" [0]
that has papers with titles like, "Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology" [1], that would be a perfect place to explore the mathematical and empirical answer to the question, "what is the ratio and shape of the number of folks in an economy that have non-competes and what is the result".

My hunch is that it is relatively small. I couldn't find the paper on a very small ratio of folks can flip a population's opinions. I seem to recall it being 5-10% but could be mistaken.

[0] https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/recent

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02932
When housing is treated as an investment, naturally people don't want the value of their investment to decrease due to increased supply.

Of course the expectation that housing should be an investment has been a social disaster, but that's not something SF can solve.
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Wow - if you're Type 1 and have an A1C in the "high threes"...you're definitely one of those exceptional patients. Your A1C is probably better than some non-diabetics!

I could see why you have a pretty high threshold for the quality of advice you want. Not sure it's a typical experience, though.
Is that a problem? I routinely edit my own comments to clarify a thought or fix a typo, and I'm grateful when others take the trouble to do the same.
Not shocking at all when you understand "right-to-work" is an Orwellian term coined by business-friendly political operatives to erode labor rights and advance corporate/shareholder interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
Because "right to work" is doublespeak and does the exact opposite of what it implies.
Although it’s not like these people are homeowners. They are ALL renters! Suffering from the same incredibly high rent that we all do. That’s kind of my point, I would expect homeowners to have this attitude, but not my fellow renters who are getting reamed every month by exorbitant rents.
And where, exactly, is your proof? Why would people be on food stamps be considered bad for a neighborhood, and what do you mean by 'Those people'? What makes them 'undesirable'?

I've lived near people on food stamps before, either due to temporary circumstances or permanent ones. I'd like you to properly explain your reasoning here considering it's ringing 'White Flight' alarms in my head.
I would argue that the problem of ‘spam’ has not been solved, since that would mean an agreement on what constitutes spam—that spam has some inherent properties that subjects it to easy classification, and that spam is not evolving.

But that’s beyond the point that I originally wanted to make: spam and email have very similar parallels to security and the Internet. In another universe, it’s possible that the issue of spam and security could’ve been incorporated into the protocols themselves. But for some reason I’m sure is rational, those issues were moved outside, to the hosts — to be left to be solved with middleboxes as firewalls and Google’s spam filter.

I would argue that this was the smarter choice and that both of these involve the same problem: spam and security are ill-defined and constantly evolving.
I lived in Oregon when I signed a non-compete as a software engineer intern. I did not know what I was signing and thought it just applied to stealing trade secrets or source code.

So, I ended up working for that company after grad school, for about 6 years. Then,,, a customer of that company (one that I worked with, and grew a favorable reputation with) offered me a nice package (2x salary offering, plus a RSU bonus account worth about $125k). I was not making that much at the original company for the market (about $72k). So, I jumped....

I gave my previous employer about 6 weeks notice, and documented all of my work, and did my best to transfer project ownership to other employees. I really liked all of the engineers I worked with and was attempting to stay in good graces.

Then, on my last day of work my boss calls me on the phone and screams at me for leaving the company. He flashes the NDA on the computer screen and highlights the non-competitor part of the agreement. Then, he has the gall to demand that I sign another agreement, saying that I am knowingly taking trade secrets with me..... Bull-shit, I'm not signing that I say. Then, I had to hire a lawyer and burn through the sign on bonus and relocation at the new company to move on. I ended up signing a version of that agreement, since my lawyer said we would have to take them to court to get out of it, and that I will be out after 18 months anyways.
The truth of the matter is, I could have fought it and may have won, since I made less then the threshold, but I just wanted to move on....

Now, I am really happy. I am finally making a living (comfortable) wage for me and my family, and will be taking a family vacation for the first time in years.
I know this is a joke about the halting problem, but some kinds of infinite loop can be detected.
I’m specifically talking about renters having this attitude though, not just homeowners. I guess renters can be NIMBYS too? I suppose I always associated these views with homeowners not renters.
If you weren't intending to get into a flamewar, you wouldn't have effectively called the parent comment entitled. People use their struggles as a 'political weapon' because it turns out, when people are harmed by politics they want to share how politics harm them.
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Maybe the recent discoveries outlined in this article show that maybe there is no exclusive herbivore digestive system among most land based mammals.
I had a health issue and told them "no insurance", the prices dropped to nearly a third of what they would have been. So, it worked for me...
I live in San Francisco.

Every time I visit pretty much any other city in the world I'm reminded of how refreshing it is to be somewhere that people who aren't on insane software engineer salaries can afford to live.

The selfish perspective is this: I can afford it here. My quality of life is greatly reduced by the fact that hardly anyone else can.
It could be better because it seems hard to make low-pass solids at audio range and beyond: for example, while you can easily make a spring which has low pass behavior in the few Hz range, the spring itself is made of metal and conducts sound normally. I guess you have felt pads and foam (which have thin strands and large number of interfaces for sound to reflect). The magnetic force however should retain its springy behavior up to arbitrarily high frequencies.
I bet there are a lot of people who ended up working under a non-compete at some point, hopped to job number 5 or 6, and was at one point / is currently violating said non-compete, but nobody at the original company actually knows or cares where ex-employee #536 currently works and won't bother pursuing legal action.

I've worked at several companies where management didn't seem to have any idea what was actually in the documents they asked their employees to sign, it was all just cookie-cutter boilerplate that they either found online, or that some company lawyer put in there without actually planning anything further.
Or not, and techies and others can just move to more sanely-run cities instead of rushing the Bay area like lemmings.
If you're using Firefox, you can just use the Redirect AMP to HTML extension.
Because of money. I know dentists who can change the battery. It is possible, but requires the right tools.
I just downloaded the .iso and couldn't get WebPositive to return any web pages. I also ran a few web searches and couldn't figure out what the command is to install new packages. Just making some observations.

It seems like a very performant and simple OS (which is a welcome alternative compared to macOS) but these are pretty glaring problems for a user starting out. For a project that's been around for over a decade, that's a little bit of a red flag.
> links a unique human readable name to a public key

Easy: use DNS, store the PGP key ID a TXT records, and then look up the public key for that ID using a PGP key server.
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>Many of the men I know who have "found a female" are not particularly wealthy or successful, at least not noticeably more so than the general population.

It depends of the pool of available males for each female, i also believe that we as animals have become masters of faking our "alpha" status according to the situation. When you observe animal societies you realize that our basic instincts still there, just surrounded by a very complex machinery to reach our goals.
I have the opposite experience. I refused to sign non-competes for all past offers that included them, and in all cases the potential employer then walked away. That happened after lengthy interview processes that lasted multiple days and cost the employer many thousands of dollars.

Gives you an idea how important these non-competes are to them.

I should mention these were big, powerful employers. You might be able to negotiate them with small employers who suffer from lack of candidates.
Well what are your answers to these objections?

Find me real estate developers who really want to build mixed income or affordable housing. They don’t exist in my experience in the industry. The lenders want huge upsides, the developers want ever bigger upsides. Governments consist of by unsavvy or corrupt people and developers run circles around them, promising to build affordable units and then reneging on those promisies.
To me, these can be used to shame hospitals by using relative rates in comparison with other hospitals.

“Hospital x is the most expensive in the area by a 15% margin on average” hurts. Ideally these comparisons start forcing hospitals to compete by sheer embarrassment.
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Indeed the entire ledger should be made public, so we see how prices vary depending on circumstances, and also, where the money is going.
Better to say the fair price is 10-50% of the chargemaster. But if you’re not an insurance company and the hospital refuses to negotiate it down then that is the price you face.

(Source: we were billed $16,666.30 for 30g of IVIG after being told it would cost around $2,000 if insurance didn’t cover it. Actual insurance rate would be $2,850 but the hospital won’t negotiate.)
> Suffering from the same incredibly high rent that we all do

Are you certain about this last point? SF has rent stabilization, so someone who has been in the same unit for many years might well be paying rents substantially below market.

Naturally, this makes rents that much higher for those who arrived recently or decided to move, and often leaves those with rent control ‘trapped’ in a situation where they can only afford to stay put.

It’s a classic case of ameliorating a first-order effect while making second-order effects worse.
Go right ahead and note the edit. You see it frequently around here, people write

edit:
I'm adding this bit for further explanation.

I was being criticised rather heavily for responding to what was written as it didn't look "Charitable" in the light of subsequent expansion. It's right there still if you care to look.

edit: this conversation thread has been completely de-railed by it. Was that the point? Who knows...
Nope. Those are the prices that they start with that your insurance claims they negotiated down to 50% or whatever on your bill from insurance for your copay.

You can see the problem. Both the hospital and the insurance company are incentivized to keep that number artificially high.
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That would endanger the long term plan of Martian colonization, which is not the most financially responsible thing to do. Elon is keeping SpaceX private so as to have some control over who invests, to make sure they’re onboard.
All in an edit after I made the response. Charitable? The conversation is now well and truly de-railed. Cool huh?
> Reading the recipe, this doesn't seem to be in that vein, the recipe calls for "fat salt pork" I wonder if that's just pork fat, and its more for the fat content than anything else.

Pretty much. This is closer to frontier cooking; the only source of shortening and seasoning is from salt pork rendered (briefly) in boiling water. All the ingredients have long shelf lives without refrigeration, except the eggs, which would be available fresh.

Salt pork is generally belly fat - what's left when you take the bacon - low proportion of lean meat. This cake is going to be pretty porky, so it's cut with healthy doses of game-type spices... mace & cloves... all that cinammon sounds gross though. I'd probably swap it out for fennel or star anise, or just ditch the whole spice bill & go for Chinese five-spice powder instead. Looks like it would probably benefit from an extra egg yolk or two, as well.

> Why egg shells in coffee though??

That's an old cowboy trick. Boiled or percolated coffee is pretty nasty, and extracts a lot of extra acid from the grounds compared to drip. Egg shells (CaCO3) are alkaline, and help neutralize the gut churn.
It’s a shame this is downvoted. Allowing people to vote with their feet seems the better solution here.
It is an incredibly abnormal for a hospital to be unwilling to negotiate. It is quite normal to be given prices ahead of time that have no connection to reality.
The requirement did state "machine readable". Arguably Sutter's data is the easiest to read, this is further evident through the creation of PDFs to make the data human readable so quickly
> "I'm not a cryptographer, I cannot do this correctly... so fuck trying."

Whoever says this, whoever doesn't put in the hard yards to actually get good at cryptography, who is content with hugely flawed crypto — well, they shouldn't be in crypto in the first place.

And those unable to take constructive criticism, I don't know if they should be in real life.
Nobody's rent is going to go down because a new apartment moved in across the street. You know what will change though? The infrastructure, noise levels, and population density will all get worse.
Take a look at fetchPolicy:

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It was my understanding that the chargemaster prices are the ones defaulted to so that the insurers pay them, and that for individuals (e.g. uninsured) they'll be more willing to negotiate it down to 10-50%.

Or at least that's what I gleaned from the billing side during my stint in healthcare IT. Possible that we were an outlier, or (most likely) I just misunderstood.
In kjetilk's profile...

> about: Hacker, community guy and project release manager at Inrupt, working on Solid.

HTH
> I'd like you to properly explain your reasoning here considering it's ringing 'White Flight' alarms in my head.

This... sounds like you agree that the residents of good neighborhoods are trying to stay out of bad ones. What are you trying to dispute?
Too bad in the USA somebody will call the FAA and they call Homeland - - and then a thousand goons in black riot suits descend upon you with assault rifles and bazookas -- - shouting: arrest everyone !
They (hospitals, out of network specialists) are also under no obligation to negotiate with you. You are on the hook for whatever your insurance refuses to pay, which can be substantial regardless of what your deductible is.

They might negotiate with you, but they might not, in which case you are at the mercy of whatever your state's creditor laws are. Florida? Great laws protecting your primary residence and wages from garnishment if you're head of household. Missouri? Not so much.
I think the expectation in these situations is that the patient goes into the billing office and asks for a realistic price, and the hospitals mostly say yes. Kind of like how Verizon kept doubling my bill and then every 6 months I'd call them and ask them not to double it and they'd mostly say yes. I guess the outcome is that anyone sufficiently savvy or with savvy relatives gets out ok, and the un-savvy people get deeply, shamefully screwed.

Which is a horrible system, but it has an interesting property. The more likely someone is to complain, the more likely the system will actually work for them. To me it seems like some perverse evolved survivorship trait, for the system itself. But then I don't work in the industry, so I could be wrong about all of this.
Shopping this way doesn't make sense though since these are list prices. How much they knock off the price for your insurance company or for the uninsured customer is necessary to shop intelligently.

Edited to add: Plus, reality is you can't really know until you get all the bills. How are they going to code the million different things they have to choose between?

I took my son to prompt care once because he had split the webbing between two of his toes and it looked to me like it needed stitches. The doc swabbed it clean and said he couldn't stitch it. He put some superglue on it and sent us home. Paying on the way out they wanted like $450. I said no. They called the manager and told him I wanted a payment plan. I said, no I don't. I want a reasonable bill. He told them to recode it. They said they had looked for a different code and couldn't find one. They looked again. They had a coworker look again. Eventually they recoded from a laceration to a cut or something like that. Dropped the price to $120ish.

(The superglue came off in less than 24 hours.)
There are a number of molten salt solar concentrators in operation. I think materials science has overcome the hurdle.
We nailed it...

Also, as a workers rights issue, always ask yourself if the company would do the same for you.

If they ask you to sign a contract saying to give six weeks notice or something silly ask if they would give you six weeks notice of a layoff or termination.

In the case of non-competes you should ask if they don't hire from their competitors too... If they're going to reduce YOUR compensation because of competition from engineers working at other companies it's not a fair claim.
I had a traumatic experience as a child. My family went to visit some friends. They thought my brother and I would like to see their new baby rabbits. We were sent out to the backyard on our own. When we got to the cage all the babies were dead. The adult rabbits had chewed off their heads. I'm now 42 and I can still see the bloody baby rabbit carcasses.
This saves what!!??
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There is literally zero reasons to believe that. It is a bit tiring to hear Americans believe that all new medical process will be prohibitively expensive because they can't imagine a sane healthcare system.

Experimental treatments are always expensive. Once you industrialize them, they become cheap. And it turns out that aging is a pretty common disease that many people would be ready to treat.
Pythonista is fantastic, especially if you get StaSH — a shell and basic userland written in PyPy to replicate as many POSIX tools as possible.
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That means your device doesn't have the Face ID camera and therefore doesn't include the AvatarUI framework, responsible for making Memoji.
So why are you paying $25/hour to develop someone else's product for them?

I'm not trying to be facetious here. Imagine yourself a talent broker (even if that talent happens to be you). If the going rate is $60 and you're only collecting $35, you're paying the extra $25 to get the work done.

I get that you're in a tight spot. That sucks and I hope it gets better for you. But "I can't go higher than $35" should be firmly met with "I can't go lower than $60". If the product really isn't worth developing at that rate, it might be a product that shouldn't exist at all. At the very least, you should be bargaining to own about 29% of the completed work since you're subsidizing it.
Yes, the framework isn't installed on devices that don't have the Face ID camera — because there's no use making Memoji (what AvatarUI.framework is for) without it.
Calling a method and seeing what happens is not a substitute for reflection. You can do that in Java too btw.
You are eligible for hud housing and Medicaid it is worth looking into that.

Looks like you are pretty resourceful and smart about your situation.

I like to checkout goodwill every time I go grocery shopping to see what they have. I usually find a pretty nice shirt or pair of dress pants. If you go often you can be selective. Sometimes I find cloths that still have price tags on them. One time I found a dollar bill from a pair of pants I bought.

At restore I picked up 7 cds for twenty five cents each. New they must have been more than 8 bucks each.

Thrift is how I do most of my “retail therapy”

Then when I get tired of it I just donate it back if it is in good shape.

When I had money I blew a ton of it on online shopping. So many times I would order something forget about it and four days later say wtf is this package. I could not remember what I ordered. Proof I didn’t need it.
What does that mean? Are you saying that if I made $150k in 2010, I should expect to be making $400k or more today?
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Using a CDN isn't the problem on it's own; the problem is the (unfortunately common) shoddy programming practice of assuming error never happen. Good programming almost always involves checking for and properly handling errors. Using the returned value from fopen(3) without checking if it was NULL probably results in the program crashing when displaying a simple "file not found" error message would have been more appropriate.

This principle is also true when writing web pages; if you load an external resource, you need to check for and handle the case where that resource might not be available. Failing to load a resource can happen for many different reasons, not just someone blocking it with their client. Proper handling the error depends on what the resource is: display the content that is already available (perhaps in a less than ideal state), or if that isn't possible displaying an appropriate error message. This includes cases where the Javascript itself isn't available (for any reason).

Networks are not reliable or universally available. Quality programming understand that and does the best it can when failures happen.
This captures my feeling exactly. I used to view SF as the ideal place to live, but economic forces that push SF towards an engineer-only tech monoculture make those who can afford to live there worse off as well.
Not a microbiologist, but I am merely paraphrasing the book by Aubert de Grey explaining the SENS focus to combat aging.