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Of course, there are a vast array of subsidies across employment in most every system. The issue is duration and reasonability of a given approach, which is open to a fair debate.

Workers that are frequently sick are likely to be subsidized by other workers that are rarely sick. I'm not referring to pay, rather, to output. That's a form of subsidy. Does that mean there should be no sick pay and workers should come in sick? Of course not.

What is the alternative to vacation being a subsidy? A god given right? That's absurd. It's plainly a subsidy and one that is widely supported and liked.

Universal healthcare is a subsidy as well. Overwhelmingly the healthy subsidize the sick. The poor are subsidized by everyone else. It's nearly universally accepted as an approach to healthcare and yet it's definitely a system of subsidy.

Subsidy is not inherently evil. Civil society is filled with all sorts of contracts between peoples, including subsidies between classes and people in different situations.
>It's not sustainable for a company that doesn't intend to stay in business for more than a generation

So 95% of corporations?
Semi-related: Because of a defective transformer some tram services had their frequency reduced in the morning. [1] This has been going on for the entire week and might explain why your wife couldn't get her tram.

[1] https://twitter.com/GVBnieuws/status/1087946558677635073
> “It doesn’t necessarily look like ‘real’ money to a minor,”

This is intentional.

In many games, some things cost "gold" earned by playing the game, and others cost "gems" bought with real money. Or maybe "gold" is the one that costs real money. It's designed to be confusing and hide the distinction between in-game points and real money.

At some point the game companies should bear some of the responsibility for deceiving children.
I believe most email clients will default to using the Reply-To: header to determine the value of the To: header in the reply, so if both headers are specified and even if the email client displays both of them, then the recipient would have a chance to determine whether the email is authentic or not.
I think that "nationalizing" the rail lines would be in the best interest of the country. Passenger rail will otherwise always take a back seat to freight.

Imagine taking, say, $50B that gets dumped into the quagmire that is Afghanistan and using that instead to modernize and expand the current rail system so that it can handle even more freight as well as performant passenger service.
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Why we don't call it as it should be called ? Fraud as it is. Friendly fraud is also Facebook's fake acccounts
I agree that any form of paid parental leave is in part a form of social engineering. But I clearly see the benefit of it: to encourage people to have children. This is beneficial because developed countries face the demographic challenge of an ageing population.

But the question I am asking is, between a couple taking a year of leave and one (usually the woman) decides to become a full time parent vs. a couple takes 6 months leave to have a kid and both stay in the workforce. Why is the latter better than the former?

My first thought was that it would improve gender imbalance, but the article states that Gates Foundation employees are two thirds women. So that's out the window.

So the only other justifications require subscription to the belief that a woman who chooses to become a full time parent isn't as good a thing one that stays in the workforce. Sure, the latter improves a country's labor pool. But there's a lot of intangible benefits of having a full time parent. It seems kind of manipulative to cut workers' benefits and try and justify it because it makes more women keep working, when the evidence seems to be that many would have chosen differently if the benefits weren't cut.
If the company is forced to provide it, it's a subsidy. If they provide it contractually, it's an employment benefit.
You're spot on. Most companies won't care about saving a few thousand. They want that money deployed and potentially multiplying in the form of getting something built or selling something.
It's pretty common for Sysad types.

Sure, the damage could already have been done, but it makes management feel better that they can eject you right then and there.
As you probably know, the Steele dossier is actually a piece of opposition research created by the PR firm CrowdStrike and paid for by the HRC campaign and the DNC. Containing information sourced from foreign intelligence agents, it is itself, at least in part, a product of Russian Intelligence.

By the time Buzzfeed published the contents of the , it was already in the hands of the FBI. In fact, the FBI had already used the Steele Dossier as evidence to get a FISA warrant to spy on members of the Trump campaign and transition team.

Buzzfeed wasn't responsible for any of that. They simply jumped on the scoop ahead of every other media outlet that had it. Buzzfeed simply didn't bother to verify its authenticity or even its source, nor did they corroborate any of the claims.

Btw, if you want to give a journalist credit for "breaking" the (planted) story, Michael Isikoff is the journalist who wrote the Sept. 23, 2016 article at Yahoo! News laying out Steele’s allegations that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page met secretly in Moscow with two Kremlin insiders. That is the actual article that was used by the FBI to "corroborate" the Steele Dossier and get their FISA warrant on Carter Page. Isikoff’s co-author, David Corn, is the only other reporter to have written about Steele’s claims prior to the 2016 election.

FYI, when Mediaite's columnist John Ziegler [asked Isikoff in an interview this past December](https://www.mediaite.com/columnists/extensive-interview-with...), “Would you agree that a lot of what’s in the Steele dossier has been somewhat vindicated?”

Isikoff responded: “No.”

“You would not?” asked Ziegler.

“No,” Isikoff repeated.
So, I just ssh to whatever machine I need to work on, but occasionally need to rsync or scp files to/from that server.

Sure, I could have puppet push a ~/.ssh/config file everywhere, just seems more effort than it's worth. After all if a hacker wants to know if you are running ssh, it's not hard to scan all ports for ssh.

Why inconvenience yourself more than the attacker?
Would it be possible to build public transit, i.e. light rail and regular train, on top of concrete? This could leverage the current state of American infrastructure, and eliminate the need to demolish road, to replace with rail lines.
> Indigo945 isn't making excuses for them or himself; he's telling you that for them to make that 10 hours would cost them far more than the new job might give.

Thats not a "people cant do 10 hours" its a "they dont want to" which is perfectly reasonable. The company that gives 10 horsu of work better be appealing.

But saying that take home assignments are bad because they take time people cant afford to give is complete bs.
If a company is not profiting from their work more than their absence, that says little for the empolyee. Training is often estimated to be nearly a year of pay in functional terms. I think you underestimate the impact of a lost employee.
For any JS that is over 100 lines, I will use Typescript without thinking.

This is 20% for bugs, and 80% for sanity in long term maintenance. Refactoring is so much better / safer when you have a compilation process and at a minimum, types.

I just wish I could use Typescript without npm.
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But the rail lines are private in Japan...
I wonder how many passengers on that route are on connecting flights. HSR is likely to be an alternative for those who have LA or SF as destinations, but not for people traveling onward.
> We now pull in recommendations from a wider set of topics—on any given day, more than 200 million videos are recommended on the homepage alone.

What does the first part (wider set of topics) have to do with the second part (number of videos recommended)?

Anyway, YouTube recommendations are generally quite poor I find, though sometimes a few gems come along. I also made the mistake of watching YouTube on my Android TV box. Holy cow, an ad _every single minute_. And the same 4 ads, rotating.
So, to make it clear - since that's a question that was unanswered in the linked discussion.

If someone makes a from-scratch implementation of Swift, or any other language with similar features, can Apple then sue them over these patents? Or does AL prevent this?
> (just read the correct version)

Famous last words!
Or just don't change your name. Keep your maiden name but casually use your married name when you want (except where you legally cannot).
> Imagine the entire area around Times Square becoming pedestrianized.

We have those. That's called a Shopping Mall.
If you are just giving a name to whatever currently exists beyond scientific understanding then what use is that?

If you are implying that there was an entity with some form of conscious thought which designed the universe we currently experience then no, I don't believe that. There are plenty of examples of amazingly complex systems which were built from independent actions not requiring a creator to design them.
> the gains in income vs childcare expenses becomes marginal after 2-4 children

That's also a good point to make in a parent's calculation as to whether or not going back to work makes sense. A member of my extended family decided she wouldn't go back to work for a while after giving birth (going on 3 years now), because a public school teacher's salary, minus childcare costs (while still a positive number), wasn't worth the extra hassle of dealing with work+childcare logistics. And that's just with one kid.
The second case can be extremely profitable to insiders who get to see their land or business profit from vast amounts of public spending.
A motorcycle isn't much more cost-effective to run than an economy car but a motorcycle has huge performance advantages and radically better / cheaper parking options.

The emissions are worse, but not worse than older cars that are still legal to drive.
>It's dropping like a rock because having a child is either unaffordable or too much pain in the ass to deal with

Why is it that everyone leaves the invention of the birth control pill out of this conversation? It is likely more significant (in its effects on the world) than the invention of nuclear weapons.
This is exactly my experience. I've watched many videos from conservative content creators on YouTube to understand their perspectives, and by and large I found them to be reasonable and not dissimilar in their balance to the content I usually watch. I did not find conspiracy theories, flat out lies, or other extremist content either nestled within those videos or recommended to me in other videos. They may exist out there, but I haven't been exposed to them.

The Buzzfeed article (and others like it) is ultimately just a collection of anecdotes. It is not data that reflects my reality and I expect it does not reflect reality for many of YouTube's users. However, it provides a lot of confirmation bias for those who look at the existence of content/perspectives they disagree with and have an urge to want to erase that content wholesale. It feeds into what seems to be a crisis manufactured by some activists on Twitter and some news outlets (like Buzzfeed).

And of course, it dehumanizes the right and their experiences/perspectives by associating them with terms like 'radicalization', or 'conspiracy theory', or 'fake news', which are probably not only exceedingly rare but also present on the left.
Google and Amazon are already more than 20-years old, Facebook is approaching 15, I guess, while Apple and MS are 40-ish. And these are technology corporations that are supposed to have a shorter shelf-life compared to big companies active in other areas of the economy. So corporations/big companies are here mostly to stay, and as such they have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders that their consumer base doesn't physically disappear from under them in another 20 years.
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Autopilot descent triggered by hypoxia alarm has been available for quite a while. It uses responsiveness heuristics rather than oximeter input.

https://www.aviationpros.com/press_release/10393999/cirrus-a...
Haha! “Soylent..it’s made out of people!!!”

I was so tickled when the beverage people picked the name Soylent for their product.
The hand-wavy allusion to "research" seems to be ending at: https://www.nber.org/papers/w18702

Which shows at least for Norway and Sweden women participation was on the increase for the study.

So maybe it's not the leave of 9+ months that's the problem, but that in combination with other factors?

A blanket statement that one year is too long, sounds like bullshit - when the listener is in one of the Scandinavian countries, anyway.
There is no bending, there is an ask, and a response of "the ask is impossible to fulfill", which isn't. Its dishonest, but worse, its dumb because its obviously false and couterproductive.

Not spending 10 hours to decide where you might spend the next 20 thousand is plain penny wise, pound foolish. If a job ceteris paribus pays 5% more on a 100,000 income, and doing the work assignment gives you 50% changes of getting that 5%, its like getting 2,500 U$S per year for 10 hours. It pays for itself.
A problem not compared here is that in most of the rest of the world public transit is actually predominately used by those with money, not those who "can't afford a car". In the US public transit is where someone is more likely to find homeless, drunk, unwashed, or otherwise uncouthly scented (smoking, perfumes, body-spray, etc) individuals and tight seating that forces undesired social interactions.

Public infrastructure of all sorts, quality, quantity, and affordability of housing, healthcare, and handling the social issues of the less fortunate are all different facets of larger issues in the US. Addressing them properly requires a comprehensive, national-scope of effort (but with local tweaks), approach that would eliminate or consolidate the right parts of red tape, incentivize desired results across large geographic regions. It would need to steamroller over entrenched local politicians, NIMBY housing owners who want a magic wand to freeze time at the highlight of their lives (cost to anyone else be ignored), and transcend both gerrymandered political areas and voters with too little time, education, and wisdom to start on the enlightened path.

However, it is also about culture. The American Dream, one of prosperity for all, is at odds with the other american dream, "making it big". A pipedream usually enabled mostly by having the right social connections thanks to rich parents and a private safety net that allows taking big risks until one pays off.
C# Nullable<T> is optional for all purposes (a struct with .Value and .HasValue), it's just restricted to value types.
>"take the selfishness out of a corporation"

You literally did not read my comment. Please read it again.

...

I said I prefer a selfish corporation managing this instead of the incompetent US government.
> At some point the game companies should bear some of the responsibility for deceiving children.

I hope a reckoning is coming in this regard. Many games include mechanics that are hard to distinguish from video slot machines and should be regulated the same way gambling is (rated 18+, audited for "fairness").
The high speed train in California has always been based on connecting the Bay Area and the Los Angeles.

They are both the largest population centers in California by any metric. This is not "decide in committee where people ought to go".

The particular station locations is much more complicated but still based on population centers but a whole host of NIMBY action pushed a lot of those into less favorable locations.
You don't need anything near as complex. You just need to give visa-holders (A) job mobility, (B) the right to stay in the country for some amount of time when not employed (this doesn't have to be unlimited...), and ideally (C) not lock the Visa to the employer beyond a year or two.

Some countries implement the above, some don't.
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If your compiled code is thread safe, you can releae the GIL in your library and achieve parallelism with current CPython. If your compiled libraries are not thread safe, you can't get parallelism anyway.

Maybe, if your heavy lifting functions are very short lived, releasing and acquiring the GIL is holding you back...

Btw, I'm not defending the GIL. Python has enough visibility and significance to deserve a good implementation. It's just that most people don't realize the slowness of CPython itself is a bigger impediment to performance than the GIL. Python should be in the same speed league as JavaScript, but there are too many things hindering progress.
So, FB not only did this scummy act once, they did it many many times, never tried to remedy it, and never tried to alter the 'pathway' for this to occur, but they had this happen so often that they came up with a nick-name for it?

Like, I knew they were evil, but I didn't think they were stupid too [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringer_Bell#Season_three
I used a blackberry as my first smartphone.

It did a lot of things amazingly well that I still crave today.

However the lackluster and slow web browser kept it from being "Smart" - especially with poor app support.
"Obviously this increases UI complexity"

It always annoys me that giving users options they can control is viewed as complex but search engines that return whatever they deem as important aren't viewed as complex.
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What's so great about those two countries that makes the border control to be overly diligent?
>Google and Amazon ..., Apple and Amazon

Those are outliers and are not useful to talk about when discussing the economy as a whole.
> "But should you use it for your large scale app development project?"

This seems to imply that for whatever reason, TS may not be suitable in larger projects, but both Vue.js and Visual Studio Code are full TypeScript projects.
That just makes it seem like their algorithm is powered by bad code or bad management, or both. They know what I've watched. They should know if a video is likely to be watched repeatedly (ie. classifying songs/music videos differently from other content).
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Nobody talks about how it's an explicit fed policy to prevent wage growth, because of worries of "inflation". While other kinds of inflation are ok, such as the asset price inflation we are seeing today. The asset price inflation comes from the 2007 era quantative easing money given to banks instead.

That is a major reason why wages are kept low. The policy started around the 1970s, and surprise surprise, real wage growth has been flat since then.

The fed & US government is the biggest firm out there.
One thing I really like about Typescript in strict mode is enforcement of handling null and undefined properly. Handling the stuff that usually isn't null is quite error prone as it typically works fine with well-formed data and only breaks once it encounters the real world with unexpected data.

Another very useful part is that refactoring becomes much easier, as you can simply follow the errors when you break an interface other parts of your code are relying on.

Typescript forces me to be more disciplined when coding, and that is clearly a good thing in my opinion. There are probably cases where you don't want that, e.g. rapid prototyping, but otherwise it's very useful.
Typescript is the best thing happened in my developer life. I can clearly say that Ive observed 99% undefined type errors reduction in js runtime comparing to vanilla js.
Assuming 2 years paid leave only works if your workers are non-essential and additionally more-or-less interchangeable. What happens if a person is hired for an essential role, then leaves for 2 years expecting their job back?

Imagine like, a CFO or specialist mechanic takes 2 years paid leave. What do you do? You hire a new CFO/mechanic. You can't function well without one, certainly not for 2 years.

Then when the paid-leaver returns, what do you do? Fire the person you hired to fill the gap? Have 2 CFOs or redundant mechanics on staff?
The article doesn't mention the common Japanese practice where employers pay the cost of their employee's rail passes. This subsidizes expensive, long-distance commutes, and at least some employees would likely choose a cheaper commute if they had to bear the cost directly.

Intercity trains will come with an intercity price tag, which is more than most people are willing to pay for without a subsidy. There's a reason very few people in Europe use ICE trains for their daily commute.
Though this end-to-end nature also makes it harder to spot biases and errors. There is some work that first trains with deep learning and then tries to infer a simpler model that is understandable for humans.
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> This will cater to a reaaaaaally small portions of sneakerheads.

There's probably a bigger market in Germany than in America:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie
How does it handle IDs if the same SVG is included multiple times or if different SVGs use the same IDs? With SVG, if you want to use gradients, filters, patterns, symbols, etc. there is no other way than using IDs. And if they are not handled properly, and webpack certainly does not do it properly, you may run into trouble with more complex SVGs, dynamic adding of SVGs, etc.
I think this is the best you can do https://www.howtogeek.com/133405/how-to-get-classic-style-th...
Ok, but why? If there is one thing the algorithm should know it's which videos you've already watched!
> I think that "nationalizing" the rail lines would be in the best interest of the country. Passenger rail will otherwise always take a back seat to freight.

Yes, it takes a back seat to freight and it should. Freight is very important to the US and a disruption of our freight system will have some seriously nasty effects. The current rail system serves this country quite well. It might go unnoticed by most people, but its important. Frankly, the under appreciation of how good the US logistic system (rail, truck, air, vessel, and barge) is a real shame.
Could you possibly tell me how far does a wireless remote have to be to hit my phone cause I can’t take anymore of controlling github taking over my phones and computers fully if I can do it on my phone so can they
Remember that each claim stands by itself, unless it explicitly evokes another claim.
a lot of people taking the low hanging free-market attitude: if public trans was better, then uber/lyft wouldn't win. don't blame uber/lyft for filling a need. now I agree it doesnt make sense to hold uber/lyft responsible for this, because they're just a business. but I do agree it shows something wrong with society.

what people in this thread seem to be forgetting is that a lot of people don't actually have money to choose the service according to which is better - they take what they can afford, which is public trans. when rich people don't need to take the same forms of transit, then theres less pressure by the powerful people in society to create change, to improve the system. in the long run, we would all benefit directly, and indirectly (the positive effects it has on society), from a robust, affordable, pleasant, clean, etc public transit system. but because of this stratification, which uber/lyft contribute to (but of course cant be held entirely responsible for), it never gathers the clout and momentum to actually happen.