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I get why zipping vs. early merging causes shorter traffic jams, but I don't get why it would be more efficient in terms of speed. If 50 cars can pass the bottleneck per minute, 1000 cars will always take 20 minutes, no matter if they cue in one or two lanes? Wether a jam is 1 or 2km in length only matters if there is an exit blocked by it, right?
> Is the new generation reading news? I highly doubt it. I think the new generation is caught up in quizzes that stir up emotions, and psychological tests that determine whether a giraffe is your spirit animal.

I think that you would know more about the information habits of the new generation if you actually researched it, instead of relying on HN as your only news source...

This community definitely has a lot of biases of its own, no matter how much it tries to deny it, so really, I think that for anyone, getting news from multiple sources makes it easier to come up with a more holistic interpretation of current events.
Interesting, cause living in the South East I mostly find drivers that are quite polite on the roads (giving way, respecting crossings, stopping traffic to allow you to merge into the main road, etc).

I suppose it's a matter of expectations. Originally from Portugal so I'm used to seeing far worse people driving on the road.
You can run your Lambda function within the same network as your other servers. It just appears as a new IP address inside your network and can call whatever you permit it to.
> First, maybe I didn’t use because I didn’t know how to use.

Alas, I grew up having to code my own data structures and consequently got a thorough grounding in the theoretical and infernal details therein at University.

> Second, maybe there is more to the world than me

You seem to have taken my personal anecdata as some kind of global diktat. I assure you, it most certainly was nothing more than a personal anecdata.
News media does not inform, it purposefully misinforms. You are being shaped by the media. You are the malleable one.

The line between opinion and actual reporting is gone. It no longer exists. All reporting is activism.

Read books to be informed. Specifically the books that have stood the test of time and shaped history.

Our media is owned by the most powerful people in the world. You are conceding your most critical faculties, the power to think for yourself, to the most powerful people in the world.

And they've gaslit you into believing that the exact opposite is true.
Hence why spiral roundabouts exist. They effectively solve this problem. (And replace them with a bunch of others, but hey.)

http://r-m-t.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/06/spiri...
If you can prove a number is random then it can't be random... therefore since no numbers can be proven random then they are all random numbers.
Sorry that someone telling you, essentially, "Don't be shitty to people who are different from you" is a left vs right ideological issue for you.
I kinda think DoubleClick should count, although I don’t know how dominant they were:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleClick

Honestly I also think Bloomberg should count.

I also wouldn’t go so far as to call them “major” but Mongo is headquartered in NY.

Interesting list: https://www.builtinnyc.com/2017/11/07/nyc-top-100-tech-compa...
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It suits more for Developers; Designers; Writers VA; Customer Success/Support Managers:
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This was a first step in Washington with marijuana. Seattle voted to make prosecution "lowest priority," and it was a series of steps from that to complete legalization.
I don’t think the poster above suggested that everyone is entitled to the same portion of the pie, so I’m not sure why you made that leap
https://www.allsides.com is a good news site to get news concerning America from more than just one (presumably biased) side. It is interesting to see how various news sources spin news using catchy titles pandering to different types of folks.
That's a great article about how toxic media is. I skimmed but didn't see the part that helps me find good media, just a guide that will help me reject bad media (which is all the media I can find)
Hi Classy Jacket! Thanks for the thoughtful questions.

Our assistants get paid based on how long they've been with the service - after training period, they'd get paid anywhere from $2.50/hr - $5.00/hr (high end for some that work for our platform). Minimum wage in Philippines is ~$1.16 / hr which is typical for a lower paying job such as a personal assistant.

The average wage in Philippines is ~$2.50/hr. Keep in mind, this is including higher paying jobs such as engineers, doctors as well as higher wage areas (Manila) etc so we are paying VERY well, especially to the assistants in lower wage areas. We've heard that some government workers in the Philippines get paid less than $2 / hr, causing them to spend more than half of their wages on transportation.

Cost of living in Philippines ranges from ~$490 - $1060/month if you have to travel to work (main pain point we've heard from our assistants as many commutes are >4 hours a day) as transport costs ~$150/month due to inflation / gas prices. However, if they are able to work with us at home, their costs drastically are reduced (transport costs and decreased food costs) to ~$300 - $500.

We like to have dedicated assistants who are able to cater to our clients' preferences. Ideally, the assistant would assist one client for 40 hours / week. However, we offer 5 hours / week chunks for some professionals who do not require as many hour. On average, our assistants assist ~2 clients each.

Thanks and let us know if helpful :)
> But rejecting information from the media is a concession to power.

Mainstream news is not information, it's entertainment. The sooner your realize it the better.

Journalists have nor the time, nor the expertise or the means to write a purely accurate objective articles (that nobody wants to read because it's purely informational). I cannot count the times I read articles about my field of expertise, that are laughably inaccurate or pain false.

Journalists crunch out quick stories that are exaggerated or come from one angle, so that people would read it after seeing the headline, and get agitated enough to share it. Remark that this is not the fault of the journalists, but just how that whole system works.

You should read "Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator" by Ryan Holiday, and see how fragile that whole system is. And because of its fragility, can be easily manipulated on top of it.

If you want to get informed, either read books written by experts (like suggested), read the original scientific paper and draw your own conclusions, or stay ahead of your game by getting news from sources other than media. That last part will show you that by the time it's covered by main stream news, it's already old news (think bitcoin etc.)

When I read something, first thing I check is "who is this person?". If it's an expert on the subject, or has his own experience and tells the story, I'm happy to read it. If it's a journalist that is crunching out stories every week, I skip it.
This quote from Thomas Jefferson seems relevant:

"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus & Thucydides, for Newton & Euclid; & I find myself much the happier." [0]

[0] http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/280
And that’s not even scratching the surface of the unusual sexual entanglements his characters get into.

There’s a character in one short story who is his own mother _and_ father.
Innovation will never stop. Innovation existed long before Google and will continue long after.

Imagine the innovation we would see in copyright violation detection if there were an incentive to do so.
You're using false dichotomy in a kind of odd way, it normally means that you have to choose between one of two positions or arguments, not that someone has stereotyped two groups.

I don't think anyone is saying that these classifications are perfect, but are you saying that they're not true even on average?
My father had a co-worker who did this. 8 months in the DC office doing construction cost management consulting, 4 months in Montana hunting (he was into falconry, archery, and conservation of all the natural resources needed to sustain his hobbies).

He also used to raise his birds in the office (when they were newly hatched) - that was pretty darn cool as a 1st grader.
Sure. We can pretend it doesn't exist. Or we can shout loudly LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU...
> Though are you serious with meth and cocaine? No one is advocating legalizing those.

I am. Criminalization has proven to be a dead-end strategy, inflicting serious harm on people to people and society. Several studies have shown alcohol to be on par or worse with heroine and cocaine in terms of harm inflicted and it's still legal to sell to adults. The opiate epidemic has all but proven that OTC and prescription medication can have effects at least as bad as cocaine and meth. Criminalization fosters crime and leads to drugs that are worse in side effects, leading to increased harm.

Criminalization makes it substantially harder to reach affected people and get them into treatment since we treat the addicts as criminals- Portugal has proven that decriminalization is an effective harm reduction strategy. I'm all for it "make all recreational drugs available to adults" and at the same time invest in educating people and helping them to leave the circumstances that lead to the addiction.
"X is only available to you as a result of privilege" seems like a very weak argument not to do X. I cook most of my food at home, which is really only an option available to me because I have the privilege of being able to afford a flat with a kitchen and a short commute to work. It is still a good idea for me to do so. I go to the gym most days, which requires a monthly payment of money -- but it is still a good idea for my focus and mental health.
The Slack integration is a bit rough still, but: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
Now you’re being hyperbolic, although I can’t tell if it’s intentional. It’s not zero.

It’s true that none of the FAANG are headquartered in NY (although Google’s second biggest engineering office is here). Replied above with a much longer list.
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As someone whose done shrooms around 50x I don't think they should be illegal. But I also don't think you want the average Joe to have easy access either. Low doses of 1 gram or less are manageable by most but at high doses of around 3 or super high like 5 gram doses your connection to normal reality loosens.

When ever i consumed high doses I always marked the expected peak time and eta to near baseline so I could use that to calm myself if I became too high. I don't expect this approach from most people. And that worries me.

It's a amazingly calming feeling to be able to say to oneself "wow I am really fucking high only 1.5 hours to near baseline" while staring at a third eye on your best friends forhead.

I don't really use them any more as I am enjoying sobriety more and more as I get older.
That's a good list but don't mix being independent and being alone.

Beginners shouldn't be left alone for any sort of feature even if they are competent.The first couples of months you need a lot of feedback (more then a stand up every day). I'd say pair programming is the way to go.
> Average person with less intelligence is capable of doing the same thinking, just slower

Intelligence is not just about the speed of thought. It's also about the depth of memory, the number of associations one has in one's internal model, and numerous other factors.

Consider a computer's memory that's halved. Suddenly it can run significantly fewer programs despite the fact that it rjnd at exactly the same speed.
Does this guy have a family and kids? I worked with a guy who does a similar thing. In fact his contract just ended. The only reason he said he’s able to is because he’s older, single, and doesn’t have kids.
It has the capability of changing you mentally permanently. It can change it for the better, or for worse, and it doesn't take that many times. It takes longer for alcohol to change you.
Physically, you're absolutely right though.
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I think your wrong. You should switch to the faster lane, zipping should make both lanes the same when optimized.
The weirdest UX problem I've found with Mandrill is that you can't use the browser "CTRL-F" to search an email template unless the text is _currently_ visible. Not sure how they manged to mess up the search functionality for a text box that is intended to have massive amounts of text in it. It makes it harder to do a minor spot edit of a template than it should be. Things begin to make sense now...
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I vouched for your comment not because I agree with it, but I vehemently disagree. I also think your viewpoint is pervasive in more conservative circles.

We saw what happened in the Prohibition. When alcohol was criminalized, gang violence spiked, production was accidentally mixed with ethyl -and- methyl, tax revenues went down, and we as a populace was generally unsafer after than before. There were even cases where the US govt poisoned rumrunners' stocks to kill drinkers - they were doing something illegal, so US officials deemed it OK to kill people. It was bad enough that Congress and the president did another constitutional change to remove the ban.

With cannabis, it is mostly harmless and makes you feel weird. But as noted by Nixon and other republicans, banning and punishing cannabis users was being equated with targeting hippies and blacks.

And of course, cannabis usage completely ignores many health positive effects like prevention of nausea, glaucoma, and many others. It's not a cure-all, but the downsides are very very limited. Just compare this to say, the Sacklers' pushing of Oxycontin. I don't think "near harmless" can be used to discuss that.

When we look at harm minimization, making drugs illegal only pushes them underground, deprives tax dollars, increases violent groups to maintain illicit trade, and further reduces public safety. So yeah, you do have to look at the whole issue rather than "My uncle Jimbob sits around gettin' high". Whereas alcoholism and alcohol overdose is a significant issue which can kill people.. Yet we had that discussion a century ago, and we learned our lesson then.
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It's impossible to make money with a plant anybody can grow, so they just criminalize it because it won't ever become a tax base.
Fun, but: I can't unsee that it says "Press and hold COMPARE or SHIFT to compare, ENTER to continue.", but while there is a "Compare"-button, there is no "Enter" button, only a "Next" (yes, I know the RETURN-key works, but still)

X "Inconsistent labels"
Next step, make it so that the data can be seen on the website with another widget.
I work with some do it yourself web building tools and some of them do not support tabular data. This would fit perfectly if it let you show the data as well.

cool product.
Funnily; one of the ways to "make Mexico pay" for the wall would be by legalizing U.S. owned and grown marijuana, and using a tax to pay for the wall. It's only coming from Mexico in the sense of an untracked trade deficit, but a little pr could do it.

This also puts the stereotyped rural, underemployed, farmer back in a lucrative industry. Provides a solution for the Opioid epidemic. Lowers the cost of healthcare.
Are you suggesting that there is no middle ground between barbaric US-style capitalism and forced redistribution of wealth?
That's not my feeling, I live in SE London and it's not that bad. There's just a lot of traffic, which makes it difficult and people can be pushy, but when I'm coming off a side road into a queue of traffic I'm usually let in OK and see the same courtesy given to others.

Conversely my mother lives near Worcester, and up there some of the drivers are insane. Nipping the wrong way round a roundabout, dashing across junctions on red. It's like they don't understand the concept of other traffic or sometimes even have actual control over the vehicle. Not everyone obviously, but enough to make my hair stand on end more than just once or twice.
Surely you could make a more positive contribution than mindlessly bashing the topic and assume anyone has heard of the random drive-by name drop?
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If your goal is to move across different ISAs, then dynamic binary translation is always going to be better than static translation. The problem you're going to run into is that any imprecision in the static analysis is going to explode into problems.

If the two architectures have differently-sized pointers, you are clearly screwed before you start. Any value that contains a pointer now has to have its size adjusted, so if you misidentify a pointer as an integer (or vice versa), problems abound. Compilers have a hard time with that, and they get to have the programmer literally tell them what things are pointers.
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very interesting! what gave you the idea?
>So how's the reversal of the net neutrality decision working out in that democracy again?

What do you mean? Those laws were successfully rolled back in 2017.
You don't need to be a STEM graduate to grok tech. There's a difference between the science of technology, the engineering of technology and the implementation of technology. You can be productive without being able to pass calculus.

When I started working for a .gov years ago, about 40% of the technical staff where former administrative people (clerks, typists, etc) who were trained and transitioned into technology related jobs ranging from programmers to sysadmins to project managers. They were great.

On another thread, I help with a school club at my son's school where 8-year olds are building Raspberry Pi based gadgetry. They are average kids, and they do very well.
There was a hearing about torture (I think it was in the US Senate). An interrogator who was said to be highly effective was answering questions. A senator asked something like:

"Torture has been used since mankind has been around, it must be pretty effective."

His response was something like:

"No it is just EASIER to hit someone, not more effective."
I think the idea that free-market capitalism drives innovation is not something you can take for granted at all. How many companies making copycat apps that serve no purpose or complete bullshit like Juicero get millions in funding?
There general public has means of proposing legislation which requires the support of a 1 million EU citizens. But you have to search for it find it, and it seems the EU and MEPs have no desire to let the average EU citizen know about it.

I came across it some time ago and I will probably have to look for it again.
This will kill any form of free expression on the Internet in Europe. Join me in considering France, and soon the EU, as an enemy of human rights. The European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10, is dead.
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They do though. Not all the people skilled in the old technology will find a job in the new one, especially if they're older. Some people will fall through the gaps, even if the total amount of jobs is not affected.
Look at it a different way, why do they need to stay private? Do they have any strategic advantage to maintaining a tight market-counterintuitive initiative? What's the reason not to put a bow on it and push it out the door? Probably large part due to their early funding, but what's wrong with that?
What tasks do people usually use for them? What's hiring turnaround time / process?
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The fact that $thing has some negative qualities is not erased by pointing at $otherThing which scores lower on that particular dimension.
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It’s a standard technique to stop the discussion. As soon as someone mentions inequality just shout “socialism” and “incentives “. Never mind that nobody argues that everybody should get exactly the same but the question is how much more of the pie the top should get and whether their share should keep increasing.
I think one more thing is left: emotional work.
I just think people who come in late at the party because their kid was sick and they're mentally ill and they live way out in the middle of the country and there's no pie left should at least get a couple apples or something.
Historically people either don't vote or vote blindly for a national party that is part of some block in the EU parliament without any regard for the issues. Turn out rates are usually low in any case. So as a consequence, most of the EU parliament is made up of second rate politicians who spend most of their career not interacting with or being scrutinized by voters, press, media, etc. The EU parliament is not where most countries send their best politicians currently (to put it mildly).

Last time the populists barely managed to scrape together enough votes to even form a block (there are some esoteric rules for this). For the past few decades, the christian democrat block and socialist block have dominated decision making. Those two are of course dominated by the leading parties in France and Germany, supported by their smaller sisters in other EU countries. However, both SPD and CDU/CSU in Germany are a lot smaller in the last few years an barely managed a majority nationally. In France, the socialists were completely wiped out and the current president bootstrapped a new party. Across Europe, the parties that make up these two blocks have been in decline.

So, this time, things may end up a bit more chaotic. While I don't necessarily see the rise of populism as progress, I do think shaking up the powers that be a bit may end up being a good thing in the EU.

The key lies in actually campaigning on issues and putting the pressure a bit on EU parliament members that are likely to lose their seat. As far as I understand there are a lot of currently very comfy christian democrats and socialists that are possibly not going to keep their seats due to their national parties doing less well across Europe lately. As soon as they are forced to debate and campaign on these issues, they'll be a lot less likely to commit to voting for something that is fundamentally a hard sell.

So, just start calling out EU parliament members on their voting past and put them on the spot to defend their points of view. Name names. Get them nervous. Remove their ability to hide behind the blocks + national parties they represent and whose party line they blindly toe. Make them work for a living.
Thanks! Yeah, we pitch and expect another system to catch. I would probably think of something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/tableify for converting the output into a table
This article seems to focus on top 1% by income. Very few of the top 1% earners in any developed country are also in the top 1% of wealthy people. The truly wealthy tend to be so because of their capital/assets. Salary is an utterly tax inefficient way to convert your life's work into personal wealth, versus other forms of income/compensation.