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> Why would “gig economy jobs” get worse?

Because...

> If anything, during a recession, more people will want(need?) to become gig workers.

At the same time, the demand for gig services will drop.

So, to the extent possible, things will get worse for the less-scarce workers, but they’ll also get worse for the firms, because they are already often squeezing gig workers as much (or, in some cases, more) than they can legally get away with, so they don't have a cushion to pass on the demand drop to gig workers and see no net harm.
People exchange real labour, houses and cars mostly using those "technical indicators". (Few people buy a house or car with notes and coins or with their central bank line.)
>If I have an old player that is perfectly technically capable of playing new media, will it fail to play requires new keys?

Yes. It will require a soft/firmware update, which won't be available if the device has widely known vulnerabilities which cannot be software patched that would allow for key extraction. HDPC is not limited to physical sources.
Pretty soon web traffic will be decrypted and rendered via site specific web assembly blobs that will do everything in their power to defeat custom rendering. The modern web has just begun, and the powers that be are still grappling with its control. So we're still living in a comparative wild-west, but you can see the writing on the wall in every direction you look online right now.
Cool article, read the mercedes example. That stuff is super basic, why would they ship such a terrible product?
Related. I thought to myself “I used to read SA all the time, maybe I’ll subscribe, I wonder how much it is...” The price is $49.99 but the site refuses to tell you how often it’s billed. I can only guess that must be per year because, damn, that would be steep for a month. But really? You expect people to buy without knowing how often something is billed?
Maybe keep the card of Apple's lawyers on your person. If you're in a situation like this, have them call the number. Or clarify Apple's policy on this before traveling.
Totally agree. In fact, they even used HTML inside the "text" property so, in fact, they mix JSON with HTML which doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

You can have a nice structured HTML and it will be as portable, as interoperable (if not more) as that JSON.

Another take on this (by my colleague from CKEditor team): https://medium.com/content-uneditable/a-standard-for-rich-te...
And some of the investors are landlords, so part of the transfer goes from landlord-investor to landlord-investor. Your landlord doesn't even have to directly be an investor at the precise company you are working at, already the silent agreement of all landlord-investors to use SV is enough.
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Every time an article like this pops up I am validated in my decision to no longer travel to the United States.
I think that's a bit of an unfair way to characterize what's going on here. In fact, it's Google's values (as expressed through internal incentives) that govern this process. If the company wanted people to, say, make X better rather than killing it and launching a completely new X, all it would have to do is reward that rather than setting up a system that punishes it through reduced career growth.
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So what you're saying is that when an organization is considering using a Google product, it needs to track down some Google employees and speak with them privately, to see if the company is really serious about supporting it?
How many terabytes is Sci-Hub today?
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That's 208 cores which is 8 sockets with 28-core processors. Each processor has 12 DIMM slots so 96 DIMMs x 128 GB is 12 TB. Physically it looks something like:

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7089/SYS-7089P...

https://www.oracle.com/servers/x86/x7-8/
On your opinion, Jeff Bezos and his security consultant Gavin de Becker would significantly differ.

Just because a country is apparently remote, does not mean that they have no agency here, and vice versa.

Globalization extends far beyond mere transnational corporations & supply chains. Even when there is not reason for specific revenge as in Saudi & Trump vs Bezos, govt/corporate espionage has a very broad array of useful targets, going well beyond military contractors & subcontractors.

With a casual attitude like that, it'll be far too late by the time you realize that it has gone too far.
It's not sustainable for the employees but it probably would be good for the business. Looking at Lyft's careers page, I see 7 UX, 11 product, 14 data science, and 40 engineering positions open. That just seems like an absurd amount.
Hopefully, but I'm not sure I share your confidence. These are irrational actors, and irrationality is difficult to model. It's also difficult to reason your way out of a position you did not reason into. There's definitely numerous documented cases where children are very much suffering and the parents will not give them emergency treatment. I'd go so far as to say in that irrational world, not vaccinating your kids may be a necessity and not a luxury.

I very much hope I am wrong, but I don't think these parents will change their position regardless of the facts, and the only short-term solution may be external intervention. Again, I will be very glad if proven incorrect.
It's effectively a greedy algorithm where the first occurrence takes the most time, and there are no passengers left for the second bus, so it's load time is lower, and it will catch up.
It's a pretty visualization though :)
Is it bad though? I would think new innovative services would be a better place for money to go compared to sticking into some long term bond. At least this way a bunch of people get jobs and servers/compute/CPU/whatever get bought. For every Uber there are dozens if not hundreds of Slack/Splunk/Softlayer type companies that end up with some of that money and employ people.

This is somewhat related to how I perceive the economy of China working. Whenever I visit there I marvel at all the infrastructure projects and you realize it doesn't need to "make money" over there. The government just decides what to build and loans itself money to get it done.
That still wouldn’t be terrorism. It would be something else, potentially harassment or general authoritarianism.
I understand the mechanics, but from a usability perspective it makes no sense that you can uninstall the interface of the OS you are using just by uninstalling a language dependency.
His request to call his employer or an attorney was denied:

> I asked the agents if I could speak to my employer or an attorney before unlocking my devices. This request seemed to aggravate the customs officers. They informed me that I had no right to speak to an attorney at the border despite being a U.S. citizen, and threatened me that failure to immediately comply with their demand is a violation of federal criminal code 18 USC 111.
You don't have to pay to bypass the lines. The free "Mobile Passport" app allows you to go into a line is almost as quick as Global Entry.
I have actually done exactly that (because we were working on multiple repos at once but sharing a new repo on LiveShare while a session is on disconnects everyone..)
>The impression I've gotten from China is that regulation is often worked around

Sounds a lot like America these days...
Worse, regulation is seen as bad here, and Trump has directed everyone under him to eliminate as much regulation as possible, and then some. Why would you trust regulation from a country that explicitly doesn't believe in regulating?
And therefore for those attributes which make one more likely to survive and reproduce in a given environment.

On it's own, being stronger could be expected to make one more likely to have surviving offspring, but if it's at the cost of other detrimental effects like paranoia, excessive resource usage, shorter life span, etc then it might not be worth it. Similarly higher intelligence would be an advantage to survival and reproduction, but only if it doesn't come with excessive mitigating costs.
Yeah hmm I hadn't considered the other side. What if the business had to have had a good year at some point?
I don't disagree substantively with your sentiments, but you're conflating TSA and CBP.

TSA is ostensibly about security on airplanes (or more realistically "security theatre"), and are not law enforcement. You primarily deal with them before getting on an airplane in the US, for nearly all commercial flights (both international and domestic).

CBP are law enforcement officers in the customs (contraband, taxes, etc) and immigration (passport control, visas) domains operating at the border. If you're traveling by plane, you primarily deal with them after you disembark from an international flight.
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As an American with little access to trains, I was excited to try a sleeper train from Vienna to Poland. But I was disappointed to find that it was pretty uncomfortable -- lots of stopping and ringing bells throughout the night.
if his employer is apple then he is fine to unlock. all such employers require you to follow border agent instructions. that said he may be in violation of a policy not to travel with proprietary info
It's also the the exact model that's failed for countless companies you've never heard of, because they failed.

Amazon was (at least for a long time, maybe this has been forgotten) been noted for being unusually, perhaps uniquely, successfully at both the customer side and investor side when it came to executing on this.
Send my thanks to whoever was responsible for making CodeLens gradually available in more SKUs. I think in 2015 it was Enterprise only, then Pro and above only in 2017 and in 2019 it's in the Community edition. Super useful feature that I notice VS Code has been inspired by also.
Did you try CKEditor 5? It's a modern rich-text editing framework with a rich API. However, it also comes with a lot of polished and ready-to-use features. You can read more on: https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/.
Can you say where that happened?
Most of those trains consumes nuclear energy. Nuclear vs Gas? :)
> That delay would be in order to wait for the construction of an 11-mile-long rail tunnel between Denmark and Copenhagen called the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link, which would reduce the journey time by train from Copenhagen to Hamburg from five hours to just two.

The author meant to say "11-mile-long rail tunnel between Denmark and Germany" as Denmark and Copenhagen do not need to be connected with a tunnel since they are already quite closely connected.
Eugenics was actually part of the scientific mainstream in the early 20th Century. It took the horrors of Nazism and WWII to drive it out of the mainstream.
Eh, buy the ticket, take the ride.

Don't type anything on a keyboard today that you don't want to see on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow. I learned that lesson at 300 baud, long before I had ever heard of CompuServe, but that didn't stop me from forgetting it a time or two when I got my CS account. So if there's anything in this archive that would embarrass you, well, at least you're in good company.
Curiously, what governance system do you believe in. Philosopher Kings like Plato suggested? Doesn't history show us that all government systems are flawed. Do you think there is any hope for humanity in some alternative system?
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CBP is a waste of oxygen too. They're so incompetent the TSA could do their job and we wouldn't notice the difference.
That's consistent with my own experience at Google. It's not that working on improving a thing isn't rewarded, but it's just much easier to demonstrate impact when you can use the word "launched" in your self-assessment Launching is in itself an accomplishment, while optimizing requires you to also collect data, do analysis on the data, and show a positive impact. "Impact" here is one of the buzzword categories that goes into an assessment of your performance as an employee.
I agree. Always found it clunky. Now I use Bookmark OS for notes and bookmarks and am happy https://bookmarkos.com
It seems more likely a public perception problem - not enough people know the TSA is a waste of their money, so politicians keep the job subsidy rolling because the alternative is having to explain why they cut "security" funding.
This is what pisses me off aboit ads and data consumption pay rates: if i am paying for “1GB” of data, then i should have full control over how that data gets consumed by the content i am accessing over that paid pipe. Period.
I wonder how much money he saves by eating for free. I guess you could check his page, see how many restaurants he's "endorsed," and multiply by 15 bucks. I can't imagine it's more than $1000 total.

This would be a great personal advertisement to show off his skills to employers if not for all of the ethically murky rule breaking. I'm sure he could bring this up in an interview to score some points.

In other words, the amount of potential upside is far higher if he just doesn't take the next step of breaking the rules and getting the discount. Instead, just focus on building the account. After all, that's the impressive data-sciency part of this.
Most of the cost of the poke bowl is fixed, not marginal.

The full cost of the poke bowl is a function mostly of rent and wages (which are largely a function of interest rates and rents). If a recession hits, wages and rents will fall, and with them the cost of the poke bowl as well.

The marginal cost of poke bowl is like $3 of fish and $0.10 of rice and veggies.
I am quite happy to get out of the house and into an office, even though am not enamored with offices per see. I would probably go crazy being with my partner all the time. I feel that at work, while I don't have much privacy, I have some kind of privacy from my partner. Does that ring a bell?

Also the daycare.. I probably couldn't do remote work with my kid crawling and giggling all day long.
I was wondering about that as I read this post. Under US copyright law, this would be no different to MegaUpload.
Maybe, but I think not. If there’s a recession, it becomes harder to get cash. If it is hard to get cash, you probably can’t afford to keep burning it in hope of building your competitive moat, especially if people are more conservative to the idea that the moat will never happen. So what does Meituan do about its annual $18B deficit? It can try to raise prices and lower wages (maybe you’re right and supply of labor increases), but that’s a fundamental change to its entire business and a huge gap to fill; plus the wages are already near the bottom. If it doesn’t click with consumers quickly... the business just dies- and for a lot of these services the enticement is just the low price right now. A lot of gig economy jobs are premised on bad businesses that only work now because there is a lot of capital to go around. It might be true that at a certain scale it would work, but that doesn’t mean they’re able to get there.

Can Uber and Lyft do better? Maybe. They can’t drop wages much lower either because these people need not only to eat but to pay off vehicle leases. And the more people driving for Uber, the less each person makes due to limited demand for rides (also likely reduced in a recession), so I think there will be a limited surge of new drivers.

It could be that Uber could just drop all of its scale except where profitable, but that throws billions of sunk cost down the drain too and throws a horrible signal to the market about its prospects for the future.

Tl;dr: I believe that companies with deeply red income statements will suffer the most when a recession hits, and it follows that disposable contract workers for these companies will be the most vulnerable.
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> This seems to be on the agenda of the Silicon Valley elites as they have seemingly adopted him as their pet historian/philosopher. May you live in interesting times.

not sure it’s explicitly an “agenda”, but does seem like a likely outcome if current trends continue i suppose...

as an aside, the whole “think for you” is quite different than the “original” ideal of what got the whole thing started, that is: the augmentation of human intellect [1], not the replacement of...

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html
Cutting down trees can cause a release of stored carbon dioxide.

Structures composed of wood do not remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

When old trees are cu down they should be replaced with new ones
>His employer is Apple. I was always worried about this same scenario when traveling with an Apple-owned laptop..

Does Apple not have a policy for this? I would suggest asking them.

I asked my employer when I joined (even though my job had absolutely zero international travel). They had a simple policy: Always comply with law enforcement in whatever country you're in: If they want me to enter my laptop password, my company directs me to cooperate.

It would be scary if Apple does not have a policy on this.
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I had a similar experience on a sleeper in Sweden. No bells, but stopping and rocking.
Are the drivers getting paid more than they are worth, or are you getting a service for less than it should cost?

Either is possible; or other options - like Uber is making money per ride in some regions and losing in others.
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Yah, peeps r going to the gulag 4 sure...
Transfer times are a bit too much. Rail doesn't seem prepared to international travel.
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I'm not blaming no one else. The MCAS implementation was clearly flawed, being vulnerable to a single point of failure in the AoA data (and by the way, that's where the real problem lies. Why is the MAX AoA system failing more than the prior generation of 737 where it's normally totally reliable?)

But here's the thing. It's impossible to train or have a checklist for every eventuality or combination of failures. In the end, it's up to the pilots to use good airmanship and fly the plane. If systems are interfering with that, disable them and fly the plane. Trim system doing something you don't want? Disable it and fly the plane. Instruments disagree? Set known good pitch and power and fly the plane. It was daylight in good weather. Look out the window. Fly the plane. Diagnostics can wait until the plane is flying again.

Those two aircraft were flyable. All they needed to do was flip a switch. And fly the plane.

I'm not in any way suggesting that the problems with MCAS or AoA data on the 737 MAX should not be fixed.
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There's 2 ways. First is the reading other people's code method. You find something that's open source, like an existing app and read through the code to figure out how to make changes yourself, usually through trial and error. In the process of this you refer to documentation and books/tutorials.

The other is you work through a text or course before hacking stuff together. Most people don't have the will to do this, they lose interest after one or two chapters unless they are either paying for it (school) or they already have been hacking some program and want to know more, which keeps them interested in the book. There are endless book and course suggestions, pick something with a lot of exercises (most edx/moocs have too few) like PAPL https://papl.cs.brown.edu/2018/index.html only because programming is often learn by doing. No local installation is needed at first either https://code.pyret.org/
Elbakyan is a hero, but it seems like if anything happens to her sci-hub will die. Her writings in the past appear to make her seem she is at least a little anti-social, so I don't hold out much hope of her creating a team.

As others have said, she has truly built a Library of Alexandria.
Global Entry gets you two things: a faster line when you re-enter the US, and membership in TSA Pre-Check. For me, Pre-Check is far more useful, because most of my travel is domestic (and it also helps you on the outbound portion of international travel).
Are you saying that punishments should be lighter because some criminals don't think things through?

In some cases they already are, e.g., killing someone by accident or in a fit of passion vs a premeditated murder are usually charged differently.

Beyond that, it seems not unreasonable to apply the maxim that "maybe you should stay in jail here as if you'd thought it through, so you might actually think it through next time...".
> Partner and I are considering abandoning the USA.

Any thoughts about where you'd move? Some places in the world are better, but it feels like our whole civilization is trending in this bad direction.
Whats the cost comparison for the SJ vs SAS to Luleå?
Been using the RCs for a few weeks. It's definitely an incremental rather than revolutionary release but there's some nice changes.

MS's faster release cadence with 2017 let them push quite a number of pretty big fixes and updates too, so no doubt 2019 will become essential in the next year or so.
Here's my take on this from playing with it a bit:

- Works on mobile (like Quill, Prosemirror)

- Does not support collaborative editing (unlike Quill, Prosemirror)

- Has somewhat unique block-based editing UI - think Notion (the data models of most editors support this, but the default UI of editorjs is much more explicit about this)

- Not built on React (like Quill, Prosemirror, but unlike Slate and Draft)

The mobile support looks quite mature, and I think this could be a good competitor to Quill and Prosemirror for single-user editing.

Per my previous comments (1), I think for new projects, going with Prosemirror or Quill are still great choices. I've tried Draft and Slate and both of them have lacked good mobile support and collaborative editing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18998042#19000425
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