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If you're curious - in the theology world, Stephen's answer is a reiteration (and a good one) of the Problem of Evil: If Good is good and all powerful, then why is there evil in the world?

The standard answer is that God may have other values than what we think of as Good. For example everything was 'good' then perhaps there wouldn't be a need for forgiveness, generosity or free will

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds
Well, to add a bit more context to it, the administration dismissed the issue, saying that people should just work with grocery stores and banks in order to survive.

Full text:

> Local people know who they are when they go for groceries and everything else. So I think what Wilbur was probably trying to say was that they will work along — I know banks are working along. If you have mortgages, the mortgagees, the folks collecting the interest and all of those things, they work along. And that's what happens in a time like this, they know the people, they've been dealing with them for years, and they work along. The grocery stores...and I think that's probably what Wilbur Ross meant.
Don't blame only the president, congress has just as much blame for not passing a budget the president would agree to.
Also, it's hard to structure that kind of loan, since you have no idea when repayment might take place. The only comparable thing would be a student loan, where you can defer payments until you have income.
This is just wrong. Commercial flights fly all the time without ATC. The majority of airports in the USA are uncontrolled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-towered_airport
> you actually have to trust Facebook

Do you mean "you have to trust Apple"? I don't see what Facebook has to do with iMessage.

[EDIT: Now corrected above. Thanks!]
I had to refresh my memory on how this works up here, but generally our parliamentary system is designed to refresh itself when it becomes dysfunctional:

https://globalnews.ca/news/3568037/vote-of-no-confidence-can...

I don't know how it might work in the American system with the "balance of powers" or if it might be abused but generally our unstable minority governments resolve to a more stable majority after a few election calls.
Let's get something big out of the way. Interviewing sucks. Interviewing after spending enough time in academia to get a PhD sucks even worse. I would equate it to devoting your entire adult life to learning how to think, then approaching graduation, needing a job and suddenly needing to learn how to think all over again. That's frustrating and you're pissed off for good reason.

An interview process is always hard, but I think you're in the midst of an exceptionally hard process. How are you caring for yourself? What do you do to relax?

My best advice, based on many frustrating interview processes is that when you're going through hell, keep going. That's been attributed to Winston Churchill, but I don't have time to research whether that attribution was correct.

If you keep going, you will get something. You're very, very smart. You can do this. You will do this.

Best of luck and if you need to vent, my email address is on my profile.
You already have to login with a username and password to access Facebook, unlike whatsapp where your phone is the sole key. Facebook could just construct the key at logon time based on the user's password.
LaGuardia Airport, one of the most challenging to land
That's not quite right. We won't know how pay works out until there's an appropriation ending the shutdown, but in past shutdowns both essential and non-essential employees have been paid what they're owed (I'm not quite sure how this works for hourly workers).

Which is to say we'll have forced some people to work for no pay, and paid others for doing no work. (Yes, the pay is in fact just delayed. But "no pay" is pithier.)
The US should seriously consider decoupling critical services like this from government. It is neither reliable nor necessarily to have the setup you are currently using.
I'm responding to this:

> the US has so successfully exported its patent system that patents filed in other countries will count too
I didn't say you don't need designers. The designers need to create the design language and help with the component library. It should be unique to your company, but once it is done once there is no reason to do it again unless you want to change branding or update the design for all your companies applications. However, having the designers code out prototypes is a waste of time IMO. They are not likely going to be proficient enough in a modern framework to ship the prototype like the author was saying they do. Design is a full time job and so is front end and at least at the companies I've worked at designing requires full attention of the designers and FE requires full attention of the FE developers.
Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment
Tom Stuart, the author of the post, also has written an interesting article called "Programming with Nothing" in which he demonstrates how to use first-class functions in Ruby to explain the Lambda Calculus.[0]

[0] https://codon.com/programming-with-nothing
Not everyone is directly a Federal employee, there are tons of contractors and people who work for contractors who won't get back pay and aren't guaranteed anything.
On one hand, I understand Ross’ reasoning. If my company were to go to a bank with a federal guarantee, we’d get a very cheap loan.

On the other hand, he thinks an average individual’s response to missing paychecks should be to seek a low interest loan against a government guarantee. That’s comically out of touch. I’ve been working in finance my entire life and I’d have a tough time working through the loan application process.

That’s the type of advice you’d hear a private wealth manager give to his wealthy client. Wealthy people are often asset rich but cash poor so they’ll take out bank loans to finance short term cash flow needs. No doubt Wilbur Ross has availed himself to these services and is shocked that government employees haven’t taken advantage of such conveniences.
Sadly I suspect the long term cost to get this far will be on the poorest folks...
> Whataboutism

Typically used by people who have nothing else to say.

I did not write anything to excuse China.

I wrote something that accuses the USA and our western democracies of being far worse than China for the world. Something very relevant regarding the fear mongering against Russia and China promoted by the message in the linked article that also promotes the worldview that the USA and the western democracies are beacons of goodness that must act against Russia and China.

Besides, Russia was invited by the official and elected Syrian president. The USA invaded Syria and promoted terrorism. You should read about what Syrian people think about Russia and the USA in their country.

Example: 'Thank you, Russia, Thank you, Putin' - BBC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNTgL82D4Xo
The members of the Coast Guard were not conscripted. I don't know if that changes anything for you. But the salient facts are the Coast Guardsmen are not being paid and are not legally allowed to quit. So, according to your previous statement you agree that slavery is an appropriate word in this case. Also, one must contend with the fact that while conscription is not illegal they were paid for their services.
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The issue is how can religious people "choose" to believe something. Atheism is not a movement, it's a surrender to logic and reason. What's baffling is, how can people suppress reason because it feels good?
SFO has private security. But getting it implemented in a week at the busiest airport in the world is probably not realistic.
"Antideficiency Act", apparently.

The practical politics of it is that there is one party that's become ideologically opposed to all non-military Federal spending. From their point of view the automatic shutdown is a feature.
Well, obviously this is, in the abstract, a sort of balance. Both sides have that power, and both sides fear being blamed for using it.

In any specific case, blame is more likely to fall on the side that demands anything out of the ordinary.
That's often true, but sometimes there is a cultural context. Knowing what kind of environment the author hails from casts light on interpretation more often than it does not, in fact. In this case, knowing that the author was not a Nigerian (for example) showed that the theory that "there are no light skin tones because the artist is not used to seeing them," is false.
>>> "If you mean the licensing and support from commercial distributions and vendors then, as you already recognize, these decisions will fall to which vendor they trust more."

Enterprises are more than just banks, and vendor relationships matter. They're not fungible and are rarely based on price.
I'm Irish. Our politics is usually boring, so we watch the east and west (UK & US) versions.

From an outside perspective, it sounds like the destructive stalemates currently causing havoc in parliament & Congress are quite similar.

Everything is political machinations. The issues at hand (brexits & border walls) are popular/opinionated with the public, but most politicians don't feel as strongly about these issues.

They are equally happy if things go well, and they get credit or they go bad, and the other side gets blamed. I know politics always has.. politics, but I don't remember it ever being so explicit.

A mental exercise I often go to is imagining a secret ballot. I suspect that the votes would be totally different, if the ballot was secret.
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> unstable minority governments resolve to a more stable majority after a few election calls.

And before that time you get parties that have to work together to keep things moving, forcing compromise, and giving the less represented groups more power for a time.
Not necessarily those who have been furloughed from working. Those who are currently working without pay will almost certainly be paid, the others expect to be but there are no guarantees.
On what level are they forced to work?

They have the freedom to go find another job no?

On some level we are all 'forced' to work, as we all need money.

To be clear, I don't disagree with you, it just detracts from your point, that's all.
No. In the short term, it hurt a lot because people had to be trained, etc. But in the long term, it sent a message. Maybe some federal employees would be on strike right now if Reagan hadn't done that.
I highly doubt that any president would ever dare do that again. It took years for the US to recover...
The narrative around government contract work is that it is more stable and the checks will never bounce.
I am bit thinking out loud, drive train becomes important if its a plug-in hybrid when you have to change from electric to gas (and vice-versa), but in electric it is meant to be simple, is drive train even an issue of innovation in Electric cars, after all there is only Drive and Reverse.
I stand corrected. My bad.
Banks don't loan people money for free. They're not a charity. Besides it is pretty absurd that banks have to solve government mess that they have no part in.
Not just the country, it’s the busiest airport in the world. I expect Beijing will overtake it soon, though.
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I like phonetic pangrams for language learning, ie:

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-text-that-covers-the-entire...

Now, I'll need to try autograms for ____ learning.

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Link in intro is broken. Could be https://web.archive.org/web/20060207093314/http://www.fatraz...

Can't find this one though, http://www.fatrazie.com/numgram.html

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Also, when do they count their zeros?
Can we get this please? I can think of a really great way to stop this shutdown by removal of one person in particular.
A. It says estimated for Q4.

B. Umm, sure--"software" will magically determine their exact liabilities, before adjusters complete their reviews; much less any litigation that may occur.

C. They've previously reported adverse loss development, making it more likely than not they under-reserve.
No this feature requites the data to already have been sent to Backblaze via the Backblaze computer backup application - so it's not quite a 1st party app for B2 (still requires the subscription to get the data uploaded). We vet all the integrations listed on our site and there's some really simple ones that do a good job of sending the data over to B2.
I like to pile up on Wilbur Ross as much as the next guy but I’m genuinely curious about that one. I understand that many people involved will be paid once the situation is resolved and that no one expects the US government to crumble in the near time.

Surely, an enterprising bank manager would love to offer (Federally?) guaranteed loans given the circumstances. There has been an explosion of peer-to-peer lending in the last decade, often supported by social bonds from professional relations; they could step up in theory. Charities give, but surely many Americans (less bleeding-heart) would love to make 1% over they spare savings the next weeks if it meant supporting deserving worker, and it came supported by a reassuring institution. Surely make-a-buck-when-you-can is more American than the American Dream itself.

I know very little about lending; I’ve never been in the US for longer than ten days at a time; I’ve never experienced financial hardship and I’ve never managed a bank, so I’m very willing to say that I’m not qualified to know.

What is preventing all those initiatives from unblocking the situation?
For anyone else wondering why Dems would seemingly vote against this, the news source seems to be purposefully misleading others in order to place blame on house democrats.

This vote was not a vote to pass the bill, it was a motion to recommit (amend) the bill and delay it further. If you follow the links (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll048.xml) to the source you can see it there.
> Every other country I can think of has a system where if the finance is not agreed, the previous budget just continues

That's called a continuing resolution. And in the USA, Trump defeated it December 2018.

They don't want a continuing resolution, so it doesn't happen. Its about that simple. Lawmakers can write the law however they want. Why would the Republicans decide to shoot down the CR this time? Politics.

To be fair: Democrats filibustered the CR in 2018 as well, which led to a short shutdown earlier in the year.
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The TSA is a facade, perhaps they'll disband and we'll all be better off for it (probably not but I can dream). It's ATC that's the actual necessity.
The US system is so archaic at this point, the founding fathers never anticipated the federal government budget being this important to the country. Provisions for dealing with something like a shutdown just aren’t in the constitution other than 2/3 supermajority requirements for veto override or impeachment, which is a recipe for gridlock.

Many US states have much more sane budgeting systems and manage to run even under divided government without issue.
Here is the one I was referring to, shutdown in 2013 during Obama period:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_g...
Lack of compassion/empathy is a much bigger problem than we can imagine, I realize it more and more as I grow older.

If we pause for a minute and watch the words and actions of people around us (or even our own) intentionally, we can see how little empathy a lot of us have.
This should force Trump to end it pretty soon.

The public clearly blames Trump for the shutdown, so Democrats have no reason to lift a finger to stop it while Trumps approval rating drops, and as more airports close, the situations surely becomes untenable fast.
In a little bit we should probably start considering inflation as well.
Better yet, change the rules so that funding automatically continues at previous levels for all agencies if Congress fails to pass a CR.
Its a bizarre thing to see people feel the temptation to lump themselves in with the 30 million actual slaves in this world today just because they work retail.
This facility does exist but it also requires a repayment schedule to be set up. Even this assumes the system and people behind tsp.gov are actively processing loans.

https://www.tsp.gov/PlanningTools/Calculators/loanPayments.h...
True but if you think the big bang and god and evolution are all true, then surely you must reject the Bible, right?
Sure, but it also means that your position is that our government should be shut down and people should be unable to feed their families to prevent giving the opposition a mostly meaningless amount of money to build a useless thing that pales in comparison to how much we've blown on the F-35 (literally like 1% of the cost), a largely useless airplane.

Which is to say, one party is certainly responsible for picking this fight, but both parties are responsible for not ending it.
Welp, that's a few hours I'm never getting back from that rabbit hole. I really should have seen the Admiral shouting about it being a trap.
> You don't have any inherent right to arbitration. You _do_ have a right to access to a court. Arbitration _is_ only there if both parties agree to it.

I know this is the case and I believe it is generally the way it should be (ecxept of course the fact that the agreements can be entered into prior to the disputes). I was responding to the devil’s post by basically pointing what you wrote here.

> Your perfect world is captured by current employment contracts. Both sides agree to arbitration and then both sides stick by that agreement.

I’m not sure what point you’re making here. I think that agreements by parties to restrict themselves to arbitration regarding disputes that have not yet arisen should be legally unenforceable. I think it would improve the arbitration system in every way. (This was essentially the argument of my first post.) Are you disagreeing with me?
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Switched to signal over a month ago and couldn't be happier. Only downside is slowness (might take up to 30 seconds) to sync conversations across devices if you haven't used a device in a while or you had a massive chat history with someone.
2read is using Readability.js from Mozilla with literally one line modification.
AFAIK - no other western country has these budget limits, if a budget doesn't pass then you continue to work from the old budget, no lack of pay etc
If this country was actually run like a business, the CEO would be fired by now.
Same thing could have been said for Java apps 15 years ago.
>Strange that Toyota were so early with the hybrid cars, the Prius came out over 20 years ago.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compliance_car
Which is easy to deal with by introducing a random factor into the backoff.
Holy hyperbole. Call me when layoffs start happening, back-pay isn't actually paid, the pension and generous vacation schedule goes away, etc. If these jobs were so terrible the employees would be clamoring to leave. Instead, the employees realize the benefits are worth it and are still trying to stay.

Why are these public jobs considered "god-given rights"? I work in the private sector. If I don't get paid, I have to find a new job. That apparently doesn't apply to public sector employees anymore. Is there some sort of immutable compact I've missed here?

Rhetorical question of course. This is just more fake political outrage because "our guy isn't the president". How many anti-TSA threads and comments has hackernews hosted over the years?
The problem is that one party wants the government to continue to run while the other doesn't really seem to care. So the strategy only really works for the other party.
Depends on the job. There are some jobs where refusal to do your job may carry significant legal penalties (imagine if airline traffic controllers walked out with planes in the air)
Its very possible that if such a program does exist, the people in charge of running a program like that are currently not working.
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> that would remove the shutdown process as a political cudgel

Which, IMHO, should absolutely be done.
In general a long-term contract with the government is an almost-guaranteed deal, except in very rare cases like these. It's completely reasonable for contractors to have arranged their finances expecting to be working.

(Obviously no job is guaranteed, but most Americans still only have enough cushion for a couple months.)
Doesn't matter if they're living paycheck to paycheck.
https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/18...
I believe (and I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong) but the Anti-Deficiency act [0] is what is causing most of the issues. It specifically forbades going over the budget allocated by congress and has ramifications if it does. In general, the shutdown affects mostly non-essential federal workers, but part of that is their pay, so the offices that pay the necessary workers are not issuing checks...

But, let's be clear, this isn't the government running out of money, it's the government not agreeing on how to spend the money it has.

It's actually all bureaucracy and generally the budget bills are mostly simple continuances of the former... however, in recent years, this has become a game of chicken with legislatures. They are using federal pay as a pawn in negotiations to get their pet projects passed.

In this particular case, instead of going the normal legislative route of passing a bill to allocate funds for the "wall" trump has both inflicted harm on federal workers and DACA recipients in order to coerce the legislative body to fund 5.7 billion in the wall. How did he do this? He first rescinded protections for a group of people and then vetoed a normal budget bill.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act
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You shouldn't be able to waive any right preemptively. If you choose to waive the right to trial for a current case or choose to waive the right to not work over 30 hours for now, that is fine. If you can waive the right to ever go to court or permanently waive the right to not work more than 30 hours, that is a problem.
The specific power being used here is the presidential veto, which is an important power of the president which is checked by the legislature being able to overrule a veto if they get enough votes.

In more calm times they could just pass legislation that would end the concept of government shut downs by funding at the previous rate in the event of a failure to agree to new funding levels.

Neither side wants that because it's a good political cudgel.
Arguably since the Lib Dems detached confidence votes from normal business the constitution has been broken; previously the "May Deal" would have been a confidence vote and its failure would have collapsed the government.

While I don't think we'll have budget issues we're very likely to go the other way: use of emergency powers to suspend Parliamentary democracy. I believe some of the Tory party are already calling for this.
If true that would be hilarious, but I don't see how we could ever know for sure. If the real reason were unsavory, there would be an overwhelming social bias not to reveal it; and as a result even a true, positive answer wouldn't help.
The government has effectively outlawed it. They could strike but then the strike would be illegal. It's never been tested in court but with the rush of federal appointments (all happening while we've been watching the circus) of conservative judges it doesn't bode well for worker rights.
Exactly. Atheism is nothing more then accepting an evidence based belief system.
We barely have a government now but things seem to carry on - ish.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
Don't erase them then, but present their flaws as well.
Wouldn't 13A guarantee (1) getting paid regardless of resolution?