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Health care is an extremely regulated industry in the US. Possibly the most regulated one, though it's hard to come up with a way to measure that.

Obamacare alone added 20,000 pages of regulations.
Google still has the notion of release branches. They're point-in-time snapshots of the monorepo (copy on write), plus the occasional cherry-pick from HEAD.

Development happens at HEAD is the important part.
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I haven't seen Disqus in a long time but that might be because they are collateral damage from my tracker/ad blocker.

Sorry, but the web doesn't need another outlet for Outbrain, Taboolah and other scams.
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Isn't this at least the 3rd time he says these things?

Unless there is a complete engineering stop and development of privacy policies and tools, and review of all existing tools and processes the necessary cultural change will not occur.

Facebook would have the money to do that and possibly have positive change throughout the industry if they would do something like this. Like Microsoft made the Secure Development Cycle a thing in the early 2000s.

But I'm already reading news how now all Facebook messaging platforms will be able to send messages to each other - sure thing that that violates everything WhatsApp stood for in past. Also, tons of privacy questions that come up with such merges of technology and the data it connects.
The feudal era in Japan is considered to have ended with the shogunate, ie the Meiji restoration (1868).
And what conditions imposed by Mr. Balius' leadership contributed to this situation?

I'd like to see the federal debarment applied to all individuals within the company's executive team. There's nothing preventing them from perpetrating the same fraud tomorrow by forming a new corp or LLC. Having them named on a debarment will stop them from committing fraud against the American taxpayer in the future.
I guess waterboarding is just more fun than the 6 step Manchurian candidate afternoon seminar?
I learned a new one recently. zt redraw so that current line is at top, zb redraw so that current line is at bottom, zz redraw so that current line is at the center.

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I would echo similar experiences. Healthcare is extremely bureaucratic, and there is an art to navigating it. While I have more than a sample size of one throughout my extended family, I can share my own experience when I had appendicitis right before my sister's wedding in my early 20's.

My initial action after I started having symptoms was to go to the ER. I waited five hours in the waiting room, and then decided to go home due to my pain and fever condition being intolerable. I then learned that I could have my primary care doctor call the ER to fast pass me from having to wait in feverish pain. Then, once my diagnosis was official, the resident on call recommended that I elect him to perform the surgery overnight. Since it was during my sister's wedding, my parents were able to come by after the rehearsal dinner, and insist that I wait until the morning for the doctor to perform the surgery. The doctor, who had a national reputation, came in at 6 AM, and with the confidence of Steph Curry lining up for a three point shot, changed the operating procedure due to specific circumstances. As a naive 20 year old, I would have just elected to do what the resident was recommending, and it probably would have been ok. Yet, I think I ended up better off with having family present, pressing back on the recommendation, and waiting for the doctor to arrive.
Easiest would be to just link my twitter, but I will give you some suggestions:

@clairejlew ‏- founder of KnowYourTeam, community that teaches management - she shares a lot of management tips worth knowing

@heyitsnoah - founder of Percolate, has interesting blog whyit'sinteresting

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@spakhm ‏- Slava Akhmechet founder of RethingDB. A lot of contrarian views worth thinking about. I think he is currently starting a new company

@tylertringas ‏- founder of EarnestCapital alternative to VC (not sure if you only want founders or VC and related is fine) he has cool blogpost here https://tylertringas.com/business-ideas-meat-grinder/

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It may be that actually fully stressing the parts is avoided, as it may risk weakening the part.

I've heard of various non destructive testing methods being used to check the integrity of metals in aerospace, such as ultrasound and radiography. This may well be enough if the part is actually made of what it's supposed to be.
Cosmos, Quantum and Consciousness: Will Science Leave Some Questions Unanswered?
That belief has not been supported by facts, as the RM report stated, (obstruction is still in question, but collusion hasn't been proven). In facts there's more evidence of "collusion" with KSA and Israel, but because both parties have interest in protecting these, no discussion on that. In fact the Democratic leaders endorse moves by this administration that pander to Israeli right-wing.

It exposes this whole thing as a mask to avoid reflecting on what actually went wrong in 2016 and it certainly doesn't hurt that Cold War probing as Russia == evil is still there and honestly, as an outside observer, quite bigoted.

Now I am not saying there wasn't any 'meddling' by Russia, just that if 'meddling' is the concern, Russia was nowhere near the biggest player.

Speaking of meddling, the Democrats also largely endorse meddling in Venezuela, which is another major sign of this being a sham.
That's a fair point and I'd be more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt if he behavior had changed in the last 15 years. The recent app around VPN and teens shows that he doesn't care (and they renamed and republished that app multiple times).
This feels like "I can't define agile, but I know it when I see it"...or just a wonderful example of the No True Scotsman fallacy.

Agile is basically implemented to create an iterative feedback loop in the development process, but it seems totally rational that what works for startups won't work for very large distributed companies, and what works for an app developer won't work for an automotive supplier.

Standups can take different shapes, the 'V' in MVP differs wildly by industries, and the cycle time that a product needs to have can be determined by external market forces (e.g. the school year).

Agile is meant to adapt to the characteristics of the business it is used in, rather than to be specifically some universal way of everyone trying to everything in the same way.
And it could also bring an entirely new meaning to the term "thought crimes." I'm curious if law enforcement will seek to use such brain-signal reading and if courts will allow it.
Medical system vs medical professionals are very different. You can't solve systemic issues with individualized responsibility. It's not that doctors are bad, it's privatized healthcare that is causing the problem, and requires systemic solutions (since it's clear the same problems don't exist under other systems).

What's really happening here is that Facebook wants to push for blaming individuals, because it let's them keep doing whatever unethical things they want to, since they know that individual responsibility is toothless in the face of such a massive system like itself.
Just a badly written article. The way I interpreted it (just having followed along a bit on twitter, I don't know these people personally) this particular thing is not directly about real estate. It's about better uses of outdoor/street space, focused on people rather than cars.

This is extremely valuable space, and it's rented out, far below its market value, by a city that claims to value environmental issues, to be put towards one of the worst offenders of carbon emissions (personal vehicles). It also adds to congestion and makes a city less enjoyable when the roads are wider and everything that isn't a car is a second class citizen.

Some better uses might be - more protected bike lanes, dedicated bus lanes, trees to offset the sidewalk further from the road or make sidewalks wider for a more vibrant, walkable street life.
Just compare the 747's cockpit with 787:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_Air_Boeing_747-200_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner#/media/F...

Everything is analog! 747 looks like a nightmare to learn!
I don't come anywhere close to making enough money to attempt it. Sounds awesome though.
Tradeoffs in Google Spanner and CosmosDB via CAP and PACELC Theorems
I did call through 101. I was only roughly summarising what they said. I asked if they would come around to inspect the damage and I think the exact reply was something along the lines of "Unfortunately we can only do police call outs for emergencies now. The best we can do is file a report over the phone."
Going to throw out there that they've done the same in Sweden as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...
There isn't much motivation to release such data to public, those affected know this very well, rest shouldn't care (according to them). From living in Switzerland for 9 years and having fiancee as a doctor I can tell you it is at least somewhat true, nobody here bats an eye if some powerful person is treated in hospital across the street (or more likely private clinic in some nice place).

There are many reasons - high quality of medical staff, top notch equipment, just a good place to be. Also, Suisse is long term perceived as creme de la creme in many aspects of life, so this fits the overall picture, be it real or some wishful thinking (mostly real though).
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Excuse me but do you live in the US? That is such a preposterous claim. I don't understand why this idea is being so aggressively perpetuated. What makes you say that? There are not statistjcs to support this. Nor have I encountered any compelling anecdeotes. My personal experience (and I live in a pretty rural town in middle america) has been that people don't give a fuck about color. Ive expierienced 2 incidents of racism. Neither were violent, just someone dropping the n word. And if you're refering to police violence- gimme a break. Almost every incident you see in the media is a result of criminals refusing to cooperate with police officers.

Its disgusting to me to see this kind of sentiment thrown around. Ive encountered far more racism in the limited time Ive spent in Europe.
Subdirectories can belong to different repos. In modern IDEs like Intellij or Eclipse it's possible to work with multiple project roots in the same window (e.g. if you have a common library for microservices and want to redesign its API and make changes everywhere at once). The good thing here is that in most cases you work with just a fraction of your code and with a single project root, switching to multi-project view only in rare big reengineering tasks.
Sounds like a good old japanese zaibatsu.
The article mentions a 12-minute landing video, but naive Googling doesn't turn anything up except a bunch of much shorter videos (less than 3 minutes). Does anyone have a link to the full thing?
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One thing I always wished VIM had was the generalized ability to repeat the last navigation command with "," and ";". I mean if I use "[m" to go to the previous method, then I want to be able to repeat that with ",". Never understood why ",' and ";" are only for "f" and "F"
About ten years ago, my wife had to get her gallbladder removed; they had a bill of $75,000. Her family was very poor, didn't have insurance, and they similarly made an ultimatum of "you can either get nothing from us, or you can get $5000", which the hospital accepted. $5000 was of course still a struggle, but how absurd is it that they were effectively doing a 1500% markup for a life-saving procedure?

If they hadn't known about this trick, there's a good chance that her family would have had to declare bankruptcy to pay for this, which of course means that the taxpayers are stuck footing the full bill.
>>I don't see the problem. Extended detention and repeated interrogation is normal around the world.

Just because something is normalised doesn't mean it's ok, I think we can both agree on that?
Google Researchers Add Attention to Augment Convolutional Neural Networks
Most ridiculous click bait award of the year should go to you.
Just thinking about Cambridge shops made me sad about the terrible loss of Brian Jordan's music shop http://www.brianjordanmusic.co.uk/closure.asp
My constitutional knowledge on the German constitution is a bit rusty, but I guess you hit the nail on the head when you say: 'Naturally, the allies had to agree'.
The Allies were the ones that required these conferences and approved of the Germans that went there.
I guess the English and the French had some say, but really the big dog of the allies was the US. So I stand by my statement.
> Are we only talking about these Japanese cases because they involve rich people?

That would be my understanding, yes.
But you can send the executives who designed or oversaw a reward and evaluation schema that incentived this kind of behavior.

Instead, we seem pretty comfortable with passing off the responsibility to rank and file employees / middle managers while the majority of the benefits from the bad behavior accrue to the executives and shareholders.

Edit: I get that the criminal intent needed under our current laws means that those charges may not be feasible. That just means we need new laws that hold Executives and Managers criminally responsible for the criminal actions of their subordinates that are committed as part of their work duties.
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Having people work remote in a non-remote culture is a completely different experience than working with a fully remote culture.

If the entire team/division/org doesn't fully embrace it, it usually just doesn't work. That doesn't mean everyone had to be remote, either.