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Bell’s all for cheaper networking gear though.

Their nationwide 3G network (which they split the build cost with one of their “competitors”) was built by Huawei and Nokia.

Even if they’re not currently buying Huawei gear, they still benefit from a formidable competitor for a supplier..

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/bell-teams-up-wit...
Firefox will soon warn users of software that performs MitM attacks
Honestly I don't see it as a problem, because the cars will drive a little further away to avoid having to run all the time, and I can just request my car to drive back to me when I am about to pay. In the places where I live, 5 minutes of driving means no-cost parking, as opposed to expensive parking; most likely it will be more effective to be able to use the parking that is a bit further away more effectively.

And should I go somewhere to e.g see a movie or eat at a restaurant, the car can park so far away that there will be plenty of space for manual cars.
You are underpaid.
What about CMake?
Thanks for the detailed answer. Can you recommend any good publications, books or blogs that relate to this subject?
My parents have the same issue in Northern BC. When I was growing up we had two channels. They now have no channels.
cget appears to be structured around CMake, looks like a pretty simple, minimalistic effort that would afford some convenience https://cget.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/intro.html
Does it?

It's been almost a decade since I last looked at HuffPost, but what original reporting do they do? Back in those days, it was all opinion pieces, or piggybacking on other's original reporting.

If they don't do any original reporting, then dropping the opinion section doesn't contradict anything.
Sure, except that reviving the competition costs money in its own right many times - it's usually not a Bitcoin miner that can be turned off when it's unprofitable and turned on again with the flick of a switch when it becomes profitable to run.

So your price ends up at fair market price... when averaged over many decades, maybe, but likely not for long at any particular point in time. And in the meantime workers get screwed over as industries and skillsets lose economic value.
$0.50 per mile is pretty reasonable, the IRS reimbursement rate for distance drive in a business context is $0.58 (https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-issues-standard-mileage-rat...)
I think it's good that they are doing some more managerial skills fit, although I think even a good manager for one team at a company might be a bad manager for a different team at the same company.

One of the companies I worked at hired a manager for a different team, and then somehow my team got stuck with the new manager. I don't feel like they were a great fit for our team, our people, and our way of doing things, despite how the other team thought the person would be great. People on the team started jumping ship and transferring to other teams, and I think it basically destroyed the couple of years of work we had put into building that new team. If you're hiring a manager for an existing team, I think it's important to have the direct reports really involved in the hiring process. It not only gives a sense of agency and involvement that helps bring a new person on above you, but also checks the culture fit of the people being managed (on both sides).

If managing is a people skills game, as this article seems to conclude, then it inevitably has to be about the people being managed. For example, is it a team of younger devs who need more mentoring and building up of skills? Or is it a more senior team who needs someone to push for them in the org and stay out of their way technically? These are two completely different managers in my book, and not because they are of two different levels of skill necessarily. While one person could probably do either, I think more realistically a manager is probably more on one side or the other.
Sneaky Mistborn reference!
Sushi goes very well with cream cheese added as part of the filling, e.g. Philadelphia roll. Pork Donburi with grated cheese on top, maybe Gauda, would be a great fit. Also possible for a Yakiniku bento.
You could also use a cheese dip for Yakitori.
That's basically also the dishes I eat most of the time.

God, I'm getting homesick again. Food is such an essential part of feeling home and you only realize this once it's missing for long enough. Eating good European cousine in Japan is complicated and pretty expensive.
It's a thing in the prepping community. The "package up a bunch of literature" (in electronic form) predates e-readers even, and there are many multi-gigabyte bundles of books and technical manuals floating around, just copied from person to person. When readers appeared, they were quickly incorporated.

Finding a e-ink reader like that is very easy: just go to eBay, and grab any of the used Nook Simple Touch on sale. Can be had for less than $20 if you look around, and it has an SD card slot.
I wonder if there's an alternate universe where people are PAID to use this service. Where the company is upfront about buying your data from you because they intend on making a ton of money from it later on, maybe for nefarious means, maybe to try and cure some disease, I don't know if that part of it matters.

Anyway, I wonder if people would be skeptical of the company's motives to the point where they don't want to give up their data or if they'd still just really want that cool DNA sequence art and to have a laugh about having 7% unexpected DNA.
The problem I have is assigning monetary value to it. Or how much is it worth to another person. For one of my ideas, I shared a prototype at local group events. A lot of people liked it, but again not sure the valuation.

I've learned the hardest part of a project. Is the one you've not been exposed too. While working on a startup idea. I'm hitting a lot of roadblocks on sales / marketing etc.

When I did consulting/freelancing, that was easier. I know how much a project is worth, the value provided etc.
I'm getting flashbacks (and yes, I know this shouldn't be important, and I should let it go) - but I can't.
That -3 rating is causing flashbacks...
I did not say "as hard as you can" - my approach is similar to a finger-flick you might have inflicted on a fellow child in your youth. Speed not force.

Backing up a bit. I think most people who come across this topic want to know "I've got a shaken can - and I don't want to open it as it'll go everywhere. Is there anything I can do?"

My take is that "Yes there is" - and whilst that snopes article is out there, a lot of people think there isn't.
Snopes is a little opaque and whilst there are many issues with peer-reviewed articles - their complete lack of desire to engage really annoys me.
I don't expect them to be faultless - but maybe just having somewhere you could submit a comment, a video, something would be a move in the right direction.
With Cash Handouts, India Takes Step Toward Universal Basic Income
I think this is what Uber/Lyft surge pricing does -- I've never been unable to find an Uber when I want one, but sometimes it costs more than I want to pay.

Many rides aren't so time sensitive that they can't be shifted to another time if the price is right (or wrong).

Car sharing companies will likely come up with a subscription service where you pay $X/month for your normal commute, then they can make sure they have enough base capacity for the regular rides and the on-demand rides can use demand pricing to ensure that everyone can get a car when they need it.
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Pissing off someone with considerable discretionary power to make your life miserable has no disadvantages, ever?
I entered "married" in the same calculator and it gives me a 29.75% effective rate and 210k take home. If your math above is for a single person, I haven't met anyone who is paying more than $2500 in rent. $6k for a single person is way out of range.
Is this the same technology that was used by Yipit to aggregate daily deals back in the Groupon/Living Social days? What languages do you support and how are you different from scrapinghub.com ?
I'll have to insist on nominating the grilled cheese sandwich. We are big on our comfort food.

But I think we might have also inflicted 'cheese food' (cheese 'flavored', processed food) on the world and I do apologize for that.
This is excellent :)
There's a rough Unity engine port: https://github.com/hankmorgan/UnderworldExporter
or just rely on the /usr/bin/cc symbolic link
I really don't know the first thing about C or makefiles o anything related, but I was browsing the code out of general curiosity and I have a question.

Would this code benefit from better variable names or is it just that I don't know the domain and this is good understandable code? I'm honestly curious.

This happens a lot with C code examples here.
I'm not saying you should say yes to be agreeable. Just be polite but firm. I would say something along the lines of "I don't want to give out my phone number sorry." or even just shaking your head back and forth works.

"Do you have a phone number" "No" comes off as you being irritated and will make the staff member feel like a dick for just doing their job.

I'm not saying you must always be polite. If somebody is being a pushy asshole push back. However if you can take a few seconds to make a minimum wage drone not feel as bad about their job its well worth it.
You can also vary your pricing. Planes and trains charge more at peak times when services are in the most demand. Uber has "surge pricing" when there are unusual demand spikes.

By offering discounted fares at off-peak times, and charging premium fares at the busiest times, you can smooth out the peaks while optimising profitability.
Why would you seal your electronics in a Faraday cage to protect them against solar flares? Solar flares won't affect them.
I would gladly pay $2k to keep my data at home. To me, that is much cheaper than what it would cost to remove genetic data from multiple corporations and governments, if that is even feasible.
It's a shame, that would probably solve a lot of their problems with the ratting system.
If (and that's a big IF) you can get a self driving car to your house within, say, 5 minutes anytime then there won't be much reason to own a car.

Only we don't know if everyone wants to go by self driving cars everywhere, even those who can't drive (kids, old people, etc.) then will the future car and road infrastructure be able to handle this?
What about accidental harm because your DNA or a relative’s DNA managed to end up at a crime scene, or bad lab procedures produce a false match?
Total surveillance or global DNA law enforcement database would solve many murders and prevent wrongful convictions. However, it would also give many opportunities for framing convenient suspects and "encouraging" confessions.

I am sure your case was above board but, being born in a totalitarian state, I do not trust law enforcement too much and prefer to err on the side of not solving some crimes. My 2c.
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It's been about 5 years since I last read McClatchy, but assuming they haven't changed much, your statement is ridiculous. They were one of the few major newspapers in the US to still do investigations. It was the only US based newspaper I would read because it was the only major paper out there to provide different perspectives on many events at the time (e.g. Guantanamo Bay). They weren't opinion pieces, but actual journalists going out and publishing things no one else was looking into.
The nice part about that problem is that it can be solved by some startup, which means that we don't have to be alarmist about it.

As for the uniform thing, you are right, but it can be restated in economic terms as the car being more expensive to use during certain times of the day -- so people will have an incentive to go to work in off-peak hours (which will be an option not available to everybody, but the more that do so, the less the premium cost will be) thus smoothing demand.
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I don't know, that low of a cruising speed suggest a lot of stop and go driving. Even if true, the analysis was meant to be a simple refutation of the $.50 per hour claim, and I really doubt you can increase durability enough to tip the balance. And that doesn't even include regular maintenance- lubrication, tires, brakes. It doesn't include electricity. It doesn't include damage, insurance costs, etc.
Nope, you've linked to a media piece and a law journal article.

The economists did all the math, they actually thought of your 1) and 2) and other things besides. (Both the middle and high wage H1-B immigrants helped.)

They usually (not every single time) find that immigrants benefit native workers, that's low, medium, and high skill immigrants. They both increase the number of jobs AND the average wage.

The "abuse" of the H1-B program you mention is also helping even though you are correct that it is against the intent of the program. You almost certainly owe several of your gigs to H1-B immigrants, time when you would have otherwise been on the beach or working at a lower wage.

I know this goes against almost everything you've ever heard. It's counterintuitive. Like treating cancer with radiation, using a back fire to stop a wildfire, or that adding more software devs to a late project will make it later.

You want to look for something like "this poll of economists says that more immigration is bad for the US". "This poll of economics nobel prize winners say that while high skill immigration is good, medium skill immigration is bad". "This survey article of economics immigration articles finds that 70% of papers agree: middle skill immigration lowers wages". You will not find much.

For example these polls of economists say that high skill immigration is super good, but low skill immigration is only pretty good.

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/high-skilled-immigrants

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/low-skilled-immigrants

As patriotic American who cares for their fellow citizens and also out of self interest you should say "we should really crank up the H1-B program and let a lot more skilled immigrants in".
No, we just need to stop buying from companies whose business model is anything other than you give them money and they give you stuff.
"Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Mandatory viewing IMHO.
Not every system that can use Makefiles has a C compiler at /usr/bin/cc
Yeah, those products don't pan out, but ya have to believe they're learning something of value in the process.
It’s not, however, a problem that can affect you if your DNA isn’t in any database in the first place.
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Air Force Presses Lockheed on F-35 Readiness
Isn't this an argument against doing anything except living the life of a hermit deep in the woods?

Have a drivers license? Murderous regime will know where you live and come kill you.

Use the internet via an ISP? Murderous regime will know what you look at and come kill you.
A day or so after this story was here - another similar article published by Violet Blue on Engadget:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/31/sex-censorship-killed-in...

Titled: How sex censorship killed the internet we love

I enjoyed here headings including:
When was the last time the internet made you feel good?
When was the last time the internet gave you hope?
When was the last time you felt free on the internet?
When was the last time you thought of the internet as a weird and wonderful place?

Glad to see others thinking of these issues. I worry that most people who connect online don't even realize the homogenized over pasteurized censored endless scroll publication is hiding stuff that multiple groups don't want to show - making so much basically not exist.
That’s very reasonable. I doubt humans caused the last ice age. Maybe Mother Earth is up to some stuff herself. I rarely hear that discussed and instead hear news people pushing for aggressive measures.
There isn't really much services market in the EU, the "common market" only ever really worked properly for goods. This is one reason the UK doesn't like it much - it's got a more services oriented economy than the other countries, but the EU doesn't care much to open up e.g. German service industries to British competition.

Meanwhile the EU only requires free movement of people for trade deals for geographically European countries, because those are the ones it feels it should be able to fully absorb, whereas it has no interest in trying to take over Canada or Japan. So whilst the UK is told to pay billions, accept unlimited immigration and obey the ECJ if it wants a trade deal of any sort whatsoever, Japan is required to do none of those things.

Ultimately this makes the EU a much worse deal if you happen to live near it than further away.

Also the Commission has made clear that the financial services market in the EU will be entirely closed to the EU no matter what happens, even if some deal is reached. Not tariffs, outright bans. There's no "sticking point" about it - the EU sees loss of access to financial markets as the penalty for any attempt to leave at all, or even just not join. See how Switzerland is also being banned from EU financial markets it previously had access to because of unrelated trade disputes.
> The literal translation is "drawn strip", which doesn't have the continued implication that everything in the media must be comedy that "comic book" does.

There is no implication that "comic books" are comedic in modern American culture. You're over-focusing on the etymology of a term that has since come to mean something quite different.

> Americans seem to have mostly settled into accepting this contradiction, with some incredibly unfunny and serious stuff being published as "comics"

This is merely how language evolves. We park on driveways. "Fat chance" indicates, in fact, a very slim one. Suitcases are a thoroughly incorrect way to store or transport suits, unless you like creasing them. Civil wars, aren't. Comic books are rarely comedic.

We speak in customary meaning, not based on overly literal analysis of component words.