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> that will definitely limit the amount of expertise that comes with a Congressman/Congresswoman.

The expertise they have is in glad-handing, personally enriching themselves, and playing political games. They're certainly not subject matter experts in anything outside that realm. Term limits don't have to mean that we're losing out on this valuable "expertise", it could be something as simple as "retire at 65", you know, like everyone else in every other industry aspires to do.
I disliked when the reviewer starts complaining about the thickness of the device.

It has great battery life, much better than most other phones. That battery needs to be somewhere. You can't have it both ways.
No, because the law doesn't work on the principle of mathematical technicalities and possibilities, it attempts to work on the principle of reason. The question you should really be asking is whether a judge would deem that to be illegal and the answer is almost certainly "no".
Much, much higher. They are the ones which will most likely be replaced due to actual LED failures, and not other components.

The problem... they got copycated within months, even though copycats did not understand the importance of a fine tuned, custom made phosphor.
One possible alternative, with its own drawbacks, is no censorship at all.
A side note: if you think as a programmer you've burned bad, the worst ever case of burnout I saw was with a grad student in a high pressure chemistry lab. The student kept repeatedly failing to build catalytic antibodies. It was a very high pressure project because it was supposed to be the ultimate validation of his professor's seminal work (but at the same time the professor had moved on to sexier ideas - unnatural amino acids in proteins). The project kept failing in the big picture due to factors out of his control - it was a flawed idea because chemistry needs to bury the active sites of enzymes and antibodies have surface active sites - and it got way worse when his boss forced him to keep trying using an idea that it turned out was fraudulent (see homme hellinga misconduct)... But there were always enough small experimental reasons to justify continuing.

Anyways the student wound up so burnt out that his sleep cycle totally flipped three times (don't want to wake up and face the world but have to show face for 100h in the lab). Biochemistry has a lot of waiting, so he got into playing flash emulated ganeboy Tetris but of course it's so addictive that he often ruined experiments by missing critical steps. Some days he would give up and go to the casino and play poker instead.
His health suffered so he started going on 4am runs, then busted his back with a herniated disc. When he was in the lab, he would obsess about things like getting perfectly metal-free water and he made centrosymmetric designs in the pipette tip dispenser box (it's kind of common but I now recognize this as not ocd but a warning that a scientist is in the burnout phase).

Many of his behaviors were consistent with reward seeking behavior.
Regulators don't care about stopping it, they only care about lining up their pockets. You have a corrupt agent and then you expect another corrupt agent to do you justice.
When Google inevitably shuts this down can you opensource the link clicking program?
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To convert from AC to DC you need a transformer and a rectifier and there will be energy loss during the conversion.
I've thought about the idea of wiring my entire house with DC for the lighting parts, for exactly this reason. But the fact that I'd have to sell my house one day stops me.
I don't know about you, but I had long switched to CFL's before LED bulbs came around. CFLs are definitely not as efficient as LEDs, but at least they're still a fraction of the power that incandescent bulbs use.
Can someone explain to me why businesses pay any tax at all. It makes no sense to me that we want to restrict the flow of money through a business. Maybe we could tax cash holdings of a company, but why would you tax any income that ultimately goes to expansion, shareholders, employees?

People see these "tax evading" corporations as so evil, but why? Do they really even remotely understand what is going on? I suspect they don't. Or maybe I don't get it.

Edit: Maybe what I fail to realize is that income for a company is essentially what I'm thinking of as cash holdings, anything else would be an expense that would be deductible?
As counter points, here’s some companies I’ve dealt with recently that had excellent customer service: Home Depot, Lowe’s, Moen, REI, Garmin, Prana.

With all of them I either had a customer service rep on the phone within minutes and a replacement shipped to me free of charge without argument, or was able to easily return/exchange an item well past any reasonable return period, in some cases without receipt. On products that were years to over a decade old. Heck, Prana is shipping me a new pair of pants when all I requested was a replacement button to sew on myself.

There are companies that provide good customer service and we should reward them with our business. But this service costs those companies money and your average consumer, I reckon, looks only at price.
Lobbyist being experts is something I've never heard before. They are salesmen, do you want to get your nutrient information from a McDonald's commercial? It may save you time but isn't really helpful.
They are deep in Uranus.
I believe the number of users affected is one of the factors considered at the time the fines are levied. The EU seems to be happy to substitute fines for taxes, so companies treating them the same way isn't too surprising. Structure your activities to avoid {fines, taxes} as much as possible, but at some level they are unavoidable.
I don't think that anyone believes that it's an easy problem to solve, but it IS a problem.

I've been Clojuring since 1.0, contributed 100s of examples to Clojure docs websites, and I still don't understand some of the .core docstrings even when I know exactly how to use the function.

It may not be easy to solve, but it does need to be solved.
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> Can a 16x16 image be illegal?

In theory yes, in practice probably not.

> What about a 64x64 image?

In theory yes, in practice probably not.

> What's the situation like if you have two chunks of data ...

Almost definitely illegal.
Two of my Cree bulbs failed a couple months from each other about five years into a 22-year advertised life. I realized it wasn't worth it to pay to ship them the bulbs for replacement, so I just decided not to buy more Cree bulbs.
I toured a house looking to buy, 20 years ago. The old lady owner said "The light bulb over the door is going with me! I've had it 20 years and counting." It was a weird antique-looking thing with lots of wires and stuff in the clear glass bulb. Dim as hell. But 20 years! They don't make them like they used to.
> This is wrong, you should not expect political dissidents, whistleblowers, and other people in the same category to use similar techniques to protect themselves.

I don't know how you can say I'm wrong when I was making the general conjecture that people in these categories use privacy-enhancing systems. I don't think you understood me well. I was not specifically referring to any particular set of techniques or systems.

> You're describing a different system. The system described by kingo555 is just for home.

This system is not meant to be used when roaming? Or is this a use case?

> The term "timing attack" refers to something else.

Which is why I specifically listed both timing attacks and traffic analysis separately. They can be interrelated at times but that's not something I feel like discussing.

> If you're a political dissident, whistleblower, or someone else with law enforcement / state-level actors in your threat model, everything changes. Presumably if you are worried about law enforcement, you put the VPN endpoint outside their jurisdiction. This can make it extremely difficult to do traffic analysis, depending on who your adversary is.

I appreciate the lesson in OPSEC but I only asked a simple question and you've devolved into trying to tear apart my comment for errors and lecturing me about things I already know about instead of simply answering the question. In this case, the answer is apparently "Well, your question isn't really relevant because this system is just meant for home use." One helpful sentence, no assumptions and no negativity.

> I think it makes sense that not everyone has law enforcement and state-level actors in their threat model.

Cool. No one was saying anything to the contrary.
Author here, there's lots of interesting innovations happening in this space. If anyone knows of anything interesting I've missed, please let me know!
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Do you seriously think that will be effective? Have you never heard of marijuana?
> Or we could elect people who can't be bought by lobbyists because they have principles.

Yeah except they all say they can't be bought and paid for. And they probably believe it for a while. Decades in an environment where graft runs rampant will change a person though.
We have term limits in my state.

One unintended consequence in my district is that we have two guys who trade seats back and forth between state senate and state house. They're totally interchangeable and neither one ever talks to their constituents (well, the ones who don't write big checks anyhow)
well either it uses DNS for failover or you have ipvs (lvs, keepalived) enabled or worse if the machine with haproxy crashes your basically dead.
Of course there is also bgp and anycast, but this is not "cheap"
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I just learned about modin as well.
Based on this blog post [1], it seems to be a bit slower for small datasets. But this was 6 months ago. Now the documentation claims that it is suitable for datasets from 1kB to 1TB.

[1] https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/pandas-on-ray-early-lesson...
This is an important and little-known event that relates to space travel (or the lack of it) today. It's possible that the government was trying to blow a hole through the Van Allen Belts, rings of deadly radiation that surround our planet. A hole would let rockets with men aboard travel through the belts without irradiating them to death.

Instead, Starfish Prime made the Van Allen Belts bigger and more radioactive. In hindsight, releasing a nuclear weapon in space seems like a terrible idea.

When NASA talks today about taking men to the moon or to Mars, they sometimes mention the problem of the Van Allen Belts. NASA has never explained how the Apollo astronauts were to have traveled through these regions without being fried to death.
Any suggestions for sources on what was obvious prior to 1980? Happy to spend hours reading... but hours searching + reading adds up rapidly in a time-scarce environment.
If you have a PIE binary, then yes.
The core point of the book, that 40% of jobs are bullshit, is pure bullshit, and Graeber is a know bullshitter.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/-er-is-een-ongeloof...

He based his assertion "on the basis of a YouGov survey among 843 Britons, in which 37 percent of the respondents said that their job 'did not make a meaningful contribution to the world', and one from HR and organizational consultant Schouten & Nelissen among 1,900 Dutch citizens, who 40 percent came out."

Both surveys are very low-quality, and are contradicted by other massive surveys, which he decides to ignore because "Since then, there has been a poll that came out at 10 percent. But I'm a bit skeptical about that, because the other two polls matched."
An infinite loop of software trends :-)

To answer parent, I actually think better understanding of personality types and how manage people better will come with far better productivity.

The jungle of technology alternatives of how to solve business problems, causes a lot of unnecessary fights. It doesn't matter if you choose React, Angular or Vanilla JS. If your team is fighting each other, your team is not productive.

With this in mind, don't hire people that always agree with you, you always need someone to challenge you.
Proceed with caution but what worked for me is give notice and went on to find a new, better workplace.
>Companies follow the law. If you don't like the law elect different politicians. Don't get mad at companies that follow the law.

If a company is dumping waste into a lake and it is not against the law to do so, it is then wrong to get mad at the company? What if this is the behavior of all companies in the area? They all need to dump waste in the lake in order to remain competitive.

Is it wrong to become outraged at the companies for their behavior? They should not be held accountable?
It's also heating the ceiling, which will reduce the efficiency further.

It's a straightforward issue of separation of concerns, there are some occasions where you want heating and lighting always tied together, but they are niche. Almost everywhere in the world you have large periods of the day or year when you want lighting without heat.
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I think this is just a simple case of Bluetooth being terrible on PCs and hard to develop for.

FWIW, I've been using a BlueParrott B350-XT for years. It's worked on MacOS, Ubuntu, and IOS, although multi-pairing gets kind of weird sometimes so I keep it single-paired to my iphone.

I chose it because I often do calls in noisy environments and it has both great volume and the best noise canceling of any other headset on the market that I could find. From what I can tell, the company got its start selling to OTR truck drivers and gained market share against Plantronics and Jabra because their products suck so much.

Not shilling, no relationship to the company, have bought a couple of these with my own money and will immediately pay to replace the one I currently have if it ever gets lost or is broken. If anyone is considering their products, the ones listed as "blocking 96% of background noise" have their in-house developed noise canceling that everyone raves about.
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Even if you do a good job closing the 'loopholes' they can just operate with bitcoin. Stop charging taxes on profit/income and the problem will be solved.
I'm sure Netflix paid tons in employer contributions to employee income taxes, social security taxes, etc.

This situation should not be viewed as Netflix paying tax. An employee's benefits, pay, time off, etc. are all part of the compensation of an employee. If Netflix did not pay this on behalf of the employee then the employee would have to pay it. For instance, for contractors they (the contractor) pay the full FICA and not half. This is partly why contractors generally get paid more in terms of hourly rate.

The FICA that Netflix pays on behalf of employees is an expense. Corporations don't pay tax on expenses. They pay tax on profits. It is a bit unseemly for some corporations to have large profits but pay no income tax.
What about your Amazon and Google contracts? (If your company doesn’t use them, then consider this a general, hypothetical question.)
Local MSP got hacked and all clients cryptolocked
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Yep, so it is OP_RETURN and therefore can and will be pruned.
Seconded and I'd even like to extend it to say that we'll be moving closer to automatically written code via machine learning.

So we'll see a shift away from "developer specific boilerplate" in the same way libraries have abstracted a lot of basic setup boilerplate.

You'll say "initialize a web service with these models" and the IDE will build out the majority of the project.
Why on earth would I "suck it up" when I can just never make any children?
Well, it might make more sense in context. You can't litterally read a random sentence on a random page of a book and expect to have a reasonable opinion on its quality.
> I thought it updates the state and the re-render is what is included in a scheduled function?

See here: https://reactjs.org/docs/react-component.html#setstate

> setState() enqueues changes to the component state and tells React that this component and its children need to be re-rendered with the updated state.

(Emphasis mine.)

> I'm guessing you mean for a global store with shared state? Local components aren't singletons.

No, local state, the one you set using `setState`. The offical docs don't actually recommend always using an updater function, but it's the primary method they explain, and my inclination is to better be safe than sorry:

> If the next state depends on the current state, we recommend using the updater function form, instead
> What's the situation like if you have two chunks of data (perhaps at two separate locations on the blockchain) and only if you XOR them you get the illegal image?

That's an interesting legal question and there's also already a content publishing system (Publius) that afaik uses a similar approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_(publishing_system)

Let's assume person A publishes 1 MiB of random data on their web server. Afterwards person B XORs illegal content against that data and publishes the result on their own web server (which to an outsider looks like random data). A's file XORed to B's file re-creates that illegal content.

Let's assume that ￼at a later point it's not possible anymore to determine who published their file first. Who is liable for the illegal content? And who needs to remove that data from their server? Neither of them? Both of them? The first variant definitely sounds wrong, but the second variant implies that you can get in trouble for publishing perfectly random data.
At the end of the day, Google probably doesn't differentiate the two very much as they're both costs of doing business. I would expect Google to work in its interest to reduce these impositions (taxes, laws+fines, etc) where they can, but we shouldn't pretend the punitive value of fines is more than a cost calculation to them.

We also shouldn't pretend that the EU justification for fines is purely about citizen protection, they see this as a "tax" as well (though that is of course not their primary motivation). Otherwise, they would work harder on non-punitive approaches towards combating the ills of Google and the like. One would hope education and encouragement of alternatives and other positive-leaning approaches might be prioritized over a gavel.
You might be thinking of the female cable tech: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-...
40 hour max work weeks enforced and 4 day work weeks. Shifts for people that need to monitor ops.

Offices for everyone on staff that like to work in a quiet place and pubic areas for people who like to work in those places .

Also, the minimization of time spent in meetings .
ya, this doesn't install anything in the cluster, you run the command on your cluster, sanitize the private image info out of it, then paste in the public image names & SHAs
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Images can be split into 10kb blobs...
Which is why we have the problem at hand.
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It's almost as if we are in Omelas, our worldwide festival of novelty and technology relying on a hidden destruction of the environment we do not pay attention to except once in a while (not to mention the countries.)

I don't believe space travel is worth it if we get there through war, interpersonal alienation and violence required by the only current system poised to do it. Sometimes we have to entertain the idea of letting go of preventing every possible bad outcome and focus on what is needed in the current moment. Regrettably I'm not the most persuasive philosopher; Gil Scott-Heron has a song called "Whitey on the Moon" if one wants to think more poetically about it.
Given the starting "plus" of that sentence, it's obvious that the author's concern isn't so much the energy savings of the newer bulbs over the older ones, but the improved quality of light over the now aged bulbs. With that much yellowing on the older bulbs and a per-bulb price only 1/9th of what it used to be, I'd replace them too without a damn about the electricity savings -- that they would lead to any savings at all would be a bonus.
Right, but my question is would it be better to do the conversion once for the entire house or to make every single device bundle in its own transformer and rectifier as we are currently doing?
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The cycle repeats over and over. Monolith becomes unmanageable and get chopped into loosely coupled, functionally independent replaceables: mainframes to containers, application servers to micro services, etc. Drag and drop coding hits the wall and gets overrun by old languages: 4GL to C++/Java, HyperCard to Objective C, etc. The monoliths are currently numerous in the single page application realm, choose your framework. Eventually these will succumb to smaller more flexible and purposeful components.
In practice, it's far less effective than what most Americans enjoy. Return policies are usually abysmal in most of Europe, to begin with, and long term support is only technically better because of more regulations on warranties. In practice, American firms are far more lenient with their policies and credit cards alone provide more protections than most all of the EU regulations seek to implement.
Slight tangent but "in-building DC" exists, and is rapidly gaining popularity but not via the medium many assumed: Power Over Ethernet.

You can buy PoE LED light fixtures now, which are both powered and controlled over ethernet. You buy a single PoE switch, run some low voltage Cat6, and you can power an entire floor's worth of lighting.

EEPoE (Energy Efficient PoE) offers more efficient PoE too which claims up to 94% efficiency.

Definitely a space to watch. Particularly as the cost savings of running low voltage Ethernet cable compared to high voltage electrical cable (110v) are substantial.
I did see that thread, but I wanted to post this here too. If you are worried about incumbents while starting a company, just remember your customers are used to being treated like how Jabra treats its customers, and if you treat your customers like Joel does, you shouldn't need to worry too much about customer retention and growth (other aspects nonwithstanding).
not very convincing. If the differentiator was the correlation of data in a more meaningful way - It doesn't matter if you display the correlating data in a list or a graph...
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying lobbying is great. I'm merely trying to keep some perspective that lobbying, while not ideal, is still much better than actual bribery.
"Kite" seemed to be a really cool tech, but I read about the dark patterns[1] used by them here on HackerNews and never gave them a try and most likely will not do it anytime soon.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836653
The hidden secret to Eve is there is a test server which lets you buy almost anything for 100 ISK. At one time you could also set all skills to V, letting you fly any ship but I think that feature is gone. Regardless you can fly around and experience much of the content alone.
Exactly. Whenever people here talk about the “typical software developer’s” career or salary or working environment, they point to top outlier employees at top outlier companies and pretend that’s how the average tech worker lives. For every level 7 Facebook or Google engineer diving into a swimming pool full of RSUs, there are probably 100 mid level programmers at HugeConsultancy body shops and medium sized zombie Enterprise Java companies working shoulder to shoulder and sharing apartments. Helps to keep that perspective.