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> But corporations cannot contribute to PACs. And PACs can only contribute $5,000 per candidate and $15,000 per party.

PACs can pay for ads, produce media campaigns and generally cover the most expensive items a candidate would want. Why would they donate to the candidate directly? They're working on their behalf, to get them elected.

Quoting directly from the FEC website:

"Generally, nonconnected PACs may make contributions to influence federal elections, subject to the Act’s limitations and reporting requirements.
As nonconnected committees that solicit and accept unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor organizations and other political committees.
Political committees that make only independent expenditures and the non-contribution accounts of Hybrid PACs may solicit and accept unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor organizations and other political committees. They may not accept contributions from foreign nationals, federal contractors, national banks or federally chartered corporations."

Looks like you have no idea what you're talking about. At all. 0. Nada.

> My wife was a lobbyist, and I have some insight into how lobbying actually works (as opposed to fictional assumptions). The fact that people keep repeating FUD like lobbying involves making campaign contributions

I knew it!
Except people don't generally make the claim that "lobbying involves making campaign contributions", they make the claim that if a company helped to put a candidate into office by donating money toward their run for office, they're much more likely to do what the lobbyist from said company is trying to make them do, once in office.

Looks like again, you don't know what you're talking about and thus am done wasting my time on this.
War Wednesday – The Fight for the Middle East and Technology
That was a fun mini CTF, but Yoli's is now permanently closed...
I just wanted to chime in here because while I don't have a wide head, I have a long distance between my ears and my nose (i.e., narrow but long from front to back). It literally took me 40 years to figure out that if the arms of the glasses are not long enough, the glasses will tilt down, because the curve of the arm will sit on your ears. This results in really poor vision (as you can imagine). It sounds stupid that I never realised it, but hopefully I can spare someone else in a similar situation -- make sure the arms of the glasses are long enough!
> meaningful distinction to draw between inclusive discrimination like affirmative action and exclusive discrimination of groups.

The only distinction I see is in the rethorical spin that people make. A preferential treatment of a set of people is exactly equal to a discriminatory treatment of the complement of that set of people (e.g. positive discrimination of black people equals negative discrimination of non-black people).
Play stupid games (40 years of anti-natalist policy, dilution of labor bargaining power) win stupid prizes.
Your comparison of Pharo/Smalltalk with Unix is pretty accurate and is the one much people misses, comparing Pharo with other computer language, without taking into account all the companion tooling to make such system work: debuggers, editors, DVCS, graphical toolkits and a long etc.
A more detailed explanation of how Smalltalk compares to the whole Unix environment can be found in "Tracing the Dyanbook"[1], but goes in the same route as you (with a pretty detailed philosophical, educational and historical view of the Smalltalk/Dynabook approach about what computing could be).

[1] https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831...

So Pharo/Smalltalk can be orders or magnitude less complex that a full OS and yes is running inside one, but for me that means that it gives you a unified way of dealing with environment/OS complexity (mostly incidental) by providing an interactive, live, supporting place to thing about your prototypes. I made Grafoscopio[2] using Pharo, after trying the Operative System approach and translating symbols to files and dealing with that mismatch and with a plethora of (incidental) complexity (See [3]). Despite of being a Unix/Linux user since 20+ years and a novice coder at that time, the feeling of empowerment provided by Pharo compared to the tools I was using in Linux before was pretty big.

[2] http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html
[3] http://mutabit.com/offray/static/blog/output/posts/grafoscop...

I'm glad you have decided to test the tool by yourself and I highly recommend reading [1] for a deeper understanding on how Unix and Pharo/Smalltalk compare to each other and how the last implodes complexity, even when living inside the first one.

Cheers,
> If someone feels underpaid, they can just jump ship.

Except if you're an immigrant, you can't just jump ship.

But you have friends who work at Oracle, so you must have a very informed view. Great insight.
How are they able to do ad insertion into a https page?

I'm sure Google would not be happy with content injection into gmail.
This is a sales piece for Okta. And I disagree with them.

OpenId Connect and OAuth work great and are reasonably designed. The documentation is dense but you'll do fine if you read some of the popular blogs about it summarizing the different flavors.

Their comparison to "rolling your own crypto" is jarring. Rolling != using. You're likely a moron if you write your own crypto library and that applies to not using pre-made OAuth/OIDC libraries as well.
Should be compared with the XPS 15, the 13 has a lot more compromises.
Expensive glasses are expensive. There are online retailers where you can get glasses for $20 (not sure about more complicated prescriptions).

I go to this place where I can get a $50 eye test before buying them online. Only issue is that the people who do the eye tests leave out the PD number which is kinda important. If you ask them for it, they'll tell you to do it yourself or buy glasses from them. You can measure it yourself instead.
This is what the future of work in the enterprise looks like
There is a company in Sydney, Australia called Dresden that make cheap recyclable plastic glasses. The prices range from AU$49-$99 (US$35-$70) depending on how thin you want your lenses.

They keep costs down by producing a single, neutral, yet attractive style. You can have just about any color you want and a choice between four sizes.

An engineering friend of mine was helping them improve the recycling process. Once you are done with the glasses, you take them back to Dresden, they grind them down and reuse the plastic in new frames. I'm not sure if they recycle lenses.

https://dresden.vision/
Right, I don't want to buy my tofu/falafel/soy/whatever product in sausage-shape with artificial bacon flavour marketed like a nicotine patch.
"socialism will never work!" He exclaimed, as the boundless growth of the current economic model pushed the Earth and all its inhabitants toward an entirely needless global extinction event.
These thing should be already provided by the government for all citizen, not just elderly.
Flips to a page with a formula using sigma notation

"This isn't rocket science bro. Obviously more lines = faster."
In my experience, this isn’t even close to an Oracle-specific practice. I thought it was widely-accepted wisdom that if you want to get a BIG raise, you have to shop around/move companies. We love to hope and pretend employers will act in our best interests, but at the end of the day the company only cares about its bottom line.

To be transparent, I am a white male American citizen. Considering how private most Americans treat salary information, I know almost nothing about how much my peers have been paid versus what I was paid at previous companies. I will say that I have heard of people making amounts of money that made me drool, and those people were across the whole range of color and gender. On the other hand, I have also known (very) junior developers who were grossly underpaid - multiple white males and I suspect their females and minority counterparts were underpaid as well.

It’s a problem, for sure. Racial income inequality is a problem and then there is the added problem that some of us just are not good at income negotiation and demanding fair or market pay. We trust the employer to give us what we deserve, when in reality, if the employer has a $120k upper limit on their hiring position, and you smile ear-to-ear at the first offer when they offer $90k; well, you just saved that company $30k per year.
If you want to be paid what you're worth, plan to interview regularly. That is the only sure way. The promotion game is by and large for suckers.
Open Source VR for Second Life Gets 100 FPS; Dev Seeking Vive and Oculus Testers
I see, thanks for the advice again I will read more about it. Yeah i wear daily contacts for beach / swimming days, but unfortunately never managed to get used to wearing contacts as primary everyday correction.
> Trader Joe's uses a single line (in every one I've ever been to)

Multiple lines in western Washington, FWIW.
Descent ! 1995 and there in nothing close to it today in 6 degrees of freedom 6DOF flying.
This is a bit odd but my wife is being tested for this now due to her frequent migraines - when it was wheat gluten only pure rye breads were working pretty well but she's been reacting to that as well... do you have advice on particular brands or offerings?
Gotcha, I'm guessing 300 range. That is quite a bit for Java actually - so still counts as pretty bad. Contextually here's a fairly complicated program in our current stack (which is all JS), the node_modules folder has 722 dependencies in it right now. Edit: I was replying to your first edition of the reply. If it's truly 3000 that's quite insane. That being said, the projects with a few hundred would have Glassfish, CXF, Spring, etc...
I wonder if this runs afoul of the GDPR in some way?
The problem is that digging a tunnel is expensive even when amortized over the 30,000 passengers per hour that a subway line can carry. When you amortize it over the 2,000 passengers per hour that a lane of single-occupancy vehicles maxes out at, the expense is completely outrageous.
Completely agree.

> After age 9 or so, they really can go off on their own without parents around.

I'd say more like age six, depending on the kid. Kids are much more independent and aware than adults give them credit for.

> I wish I could tell more parents to let fucking go.

It's ironic that just doing this -- letting go -- would probably do more good than any "educational" activity they schedule into their kids' lives.
Yes, that's why I package as much stuff as I can into a hermetic Bazel build, including Python modules (and yes, I build Python programs in Google PAR format using Subpar). They're all stored in my own cloud bucket, the entire transitive closure can be tracked down, and they don't change underneath me willy-nilly. For C++ cross-builds I also package toolchains in a similar fashion. You could also package a toolchain for the host if you'd like, I just don't bother. And I package test data likewise. The build isn't 100% hermetic, but I'd say about 90%. I feel pretty good about this set-up and recommend it to others. Grabbing random packages (and worse, their transitive closures) from the internet as a part of the build sounds insane to me.
Nothing that couldn't be addressed, if we turn out to be Sweden. Plenty that won't be successfully addressed, if we turn out to be Venezuela or Zimbabwe.

Given the current competence of our government - on both sides - I don't think we can count on being Sweden.
Before I got laser surgery I used to buy 5-6 pairs of glasses from them (half of them regular, half sunglasses), keep the pairs I liked, threw away the rest. Not optimal, but way cheaper than the alternative.
Bundling + dev servers are place a heavy load. I'm actually looking into a way I can avoid using bundling for production but still get some kind of "hot javascript file reload" in the browser.
I got a chance to ask the guy who invented the ZIP encryption scheme a couple of years back, and he basically said it was designed to be exportable under the US's encryption export restrictions at the time, which I understood to mean they made it intentionally weak.
You should give the Impossible Burger a try as well, it's even more meat-like and has a great taste. Both burgers recently announced 2.0 versions of their products so there's a lot of excitement in the field of plant-based meat.
Always better to purge your own population first. Less mouths to feed.
I mostly disagree with what “gdy” said but he might have a kind of a point. We, the society, choose to unfairly advantage disabled people, recognising that even with all their advantages, their lives are still pretty shitty. On the other hand, there’s plenty of black people who can, and do, raise to the top of whatever success hierarchy you want, so they don’t need to be treated better; they just need fo be treated the same. (As a thought experiment, would you rather be black like Obama or Kanye, or some disabled guy like Hawking or Roosevelt?)
> Apple uses OSM data in many parts of the world where their own mapping efforts will likely never reach.

And contributes nothing to those, instead opting to build their own maps in the important markets.
What "anti-natalist" policy are you referring to?
It's not about an AI in the sci-fi sense though. It is about an actual real world AI playing the game StarCraft II.
We are actually pretty satisfied and everything's been running smoothly!
Thankfully I've never counsidered the possibility that the financial Ponzi will be able to last long into the future.

Every government and pension fund is insolvent. We knew that 20 years ago.
Is English not your first language? Titles are supposed to be capitalized
> Votes are still cast on secret ballots, so I don't understand how that would even work.

It's quite easy: jail the respective candidates and remove them from the ballot.

> Really? A US-instigated military coup is the only way?

The position of the US government could be seen as an improvement from earlier calls for a direct military intervention. As long as they do not finance or advise the contenders, lending them international credibility is a standard foreign policy move that doesn't fall under "instigation". The political rift was there and the US should of course applaud any developments in line with their previous foreign policy position, strongly against the Chavez/Maduro regime.

Of course, given the history of the US-Venezuela relations, it's hard to believe US will limit itself to mere diplomatic actions.
Wait a bit, the new 15 should be announced shortly.
A policy that affects one group of people more than others by racial lines sounds like a racist policy, don't you think? Which was my entire point. You're in effect, arguing for a policy that is racist by your own prior argument.

We have affirmative action policies and the like because we admit that some groups of people are disadvantaged due to a multitude of circumstances and we attempt to do things in such a way as to ensure that they can mitigate those circumstances.
"Note how the fact that I wasn't at fault isn't factored in. This makes sense to you?"

Actually, yes. In Russia we have a principle called DDD which can be translated as Give Way to a Moron ("Дай дорогу дураку").

People who avoid dangerous drivers, even when it hurts their ego, are less likely to get involved in a collision.
Right, I realized I misread your comment. See my sibling reply just above. I'm not certain that the existence of human brains proves anything about what computers can do. While it seems logical, nobody has shown it, and nobody has established a definition for life or intelligence that proves it's computable, right?
I've been using Azure DevOps for around 2 years, and TFS for several. Most of what this article says, I simply don't see in (almost) every day usage.

The single issue I agree with is the lack of caching - installing NPM packages can take up to 15 minutes in the worst case. MS have known about this for years, so I honestly don't understand why they haven't done something about it.

I also think the hosted build machines are underpowered, despite their claims of Xeon CPUs - build on even an Azure B1ms VM (a low-powered, burstable SKU) are up to 3 times faster. In fact this is how we solve the NPM caching and performance issues - by running the VSTS Build Agent (it's OSS!) on relatively cheap Azure VMs.

Aside from these niggles though, I actually think the Azure DevOps product is fantastic.
> If H1B workers had the same rights and could demand similar salaries as their local counterparts (while also requiring additional effort and costs to hire) I suspect you would find that firms wouldn't hire very many H1B workers.

They they shouldn't hire them. The H1-B program isn't meant to allow firms hire foreign workers at low salaries, even though it's abused to do that. It's meant to help fill real skills shortages (and if there's a real shortage, firms should be more than willing to pay a premium to satisfy their unmet demand).
Social security, Medicare, general health, income security, and veterans benefits and services take up over 62% of the United States federal budget. How should socialism address this growing problem?

What a poignant comment, considering right this very moment, there's a socialist collapse in Venezuela being broadcast.
No, the argument is that it's insane to pay developers north of $100k per year + benefits and then don't invest $4k every 3 years to buy them marginally faster hardware.

And I don't think that argument is particularly convincing. Typing this from my 3.5 year old work MacBook Pro.
Correct, but to deny them an interest like that based on fear is a very narrow minded approach.

The fact that many parents are worried about their son or daughter playing video games but are fine with them playing contact sports speaks volumes about their priorities. As a society we need to focus on encouraging our kids to be comfortable with who they are and supporting their interests. Just because all you wanted to do was run outside and play from morning to sundown does not mean that's what your kid wants to do. I'm not saying giving your kid free reign to play xbox all day but plenty of games out there encourage problem solving and critical thinking (and teamwork) on a deeper level than a word problem about how many watermelons Janet can carry to her car ever will.

That being said, everything in moderation.
I agree, MX Brown are silent enough to not get notice.

I guess it's a positive side effect of open spaces: there is so much noise around from phone calls and co-workers discussing that it doesn't make any difference.

More seriously, I've a Ducky keyboard with MX Browns (and it's also a weird one with MX Blues (the noisier ones) for the arrows and page UP/DOWN), and I never got any remark for that.

The only story I've heard from colleagues complaining about keystroke noises was for a friend that has a really heavy typing (to the point of cracking the key caps), and even in this case, rubber O-rings did the trick to dampened the noise enough.
We desperately need people using packages to pay. Otherwise it's nothing but a bunch of companies issuing demands to often unpaid people who build / maintain our shared code in these packages.

I will personally cop to having received an email complaining about a broken test in code I shared with the world and writing a less than polite email back. The code is freely given; that does not come with any obligations on my behalf.
I guess, but why steal $500K a year, when you can steal millions? Certain insider deals from a certain very large unicorn are what I'm thinking about.
I love meat but I would not mind having a healthy and good tasting alternative hopefully available at a reasonable price (eventually).
great news
Interesting, we've always OVERPAID for their crap software and shitty outsourced support.
I think that parents who help their kids understand that their siblings have the potential to be their best, life-long friends are doing a wonderful thing for their kids. My sisters and I (2 years between each of us) spent a huge amount of time playing together even up through Jr. High school. We're still very close today.
Man, good to find you here! How's life? Let me ping you in private :)
I didn't have the experience of growing up in Germany (or the USA to compare), but I can draw parallels to growing up in Mexico. My mom sure was strict, but I had the freedom of hopping on my bike and just taking off in the streets. So many adventures. A bit too many times I got nagged for being home late, or too dirty, or soaked (we lived close to a river). Never actually "grounded" though for small stuff like that. My mom knew quite well that a long sermon and her anger were more effective in making me feel bad about worrying her.

In a way, in my case, the strictness at home made the freedom of the streets both more cherished and more meditated. I think this goes to the "basics" from two comments above-- I had the upbringing to make my own decisions and wasn't just told "no" blindly.

And perhaps in that strictness was also the motivation to get out of home and enjoy some freedom? If I were cozy and "free enough" at home, I wonder if I'd wanted to get out so much.
- React JS/Native on the front
- Python for general/glue code
- Redis for cache
- Some relation tier-2 storage (MySQL)
- Rust for the computationally/machine intensive stuff
- Airflow for scheduling
It isn't really socialism as such though. Doesn't even the US already have these type of programs at least for certain groups? (you would probably need to expand them of course).
A counterpoint: the system has already attracted scammers. see eg the bitcoin injection in npm. And now that someone smart has blazed the way and demonstrated the opportunity, others are sure to follow.
Oh thanks, that explains it!
>My main gripe is the "unlucky" factor where the shopper gets stuck behind a very slow person, which the global queue would fix.

Yeah, but that’s one important metric you should judge a queuing system by: standard deviation of wait time. It means entrants are less able to allocate their own time, since they have to anticipate higher variance.
Type Systems Suck
We are talking about large, diverse groups and their median or average.

That said, usually the correct approach is not discriminating based on race, but discriminating on the actual "disadvantegedness" of the path taken by the applicant.

Accidentally that's how it's done around here for university (you get points for being disabled, poor, living far from the campus, and so on).
The fix, for anyone who is interested: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e6623...
It seems to be a basic research program asking the question "what if we capture light properties in other ways than time-aggregated photon intensities on a pixel raster behind some color filter" and build both theory and lab experiments to find answers to that question.

So they're casting a wide net that could cover polarization, transit-time, hyperspectral imaging or phase information.
I'd agree to a point, but it might be even more difficult to make the shift once the supply chain and pricing settles into place, particularly for restaurants that are already taking a risk on this as a new category.
> Today, however, if I were to learn that my young kids had left the house in the early morning by themselves to rock climb, explore the forest and encounter heaven-knows-what out in the woods, I’d probably start hyperventilating.

Why? WHY? I don't understand this sentiment at all. What is the matter with people these days? Parents are suffocating their kids because they can't get over their own paranoia.

As another commenter wrote: parents, just let fucking go.
Anti-vaccination ‘hotspot’ by Portland declares emergency over measles outbreak
Is this really where software salaries have gone in the last few (2-4) years?? In the past month I have seen multiple comments or blog posts indicating compensation for senior engineers is nearly 500k.