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It was overturned in court because the current administration refused to defend it.

It’s possible that even if they had genuinely defended the rule in court it would have been overturned, but that’s not what happened and while technically you are right, in reality, the decision was a political and not a judicial decision.
Imagine the alternative...Wendy's employees having lunch at McD's, in Wendy's uniform during their lunch break. (leaving aside the logistics of having your emps take an 1 hour break for lunch during the busiest period.)
I have mentioned multiple times in other threads, ODP.NET, WCF, EF6 designers, Blend, C++/CLI, CMS like Sitecore and other commercial components.
CFPB was also part of the handiwork of a true "enemy" of decent people-who-for-a-living in the United States, namely Mr. Mick Mulvaney.

The current "interim" (wink wink) chief of staff at the White House which on its face is absolutely horrifying for a superpower but that's another issue for another day

Pardon the businessinsider, this article summarizes pretty well Mr. Mulvaney's extracurricular activities there : https://static1.businessinsider.com/mick-mulvaney-turned-the...

To be clear, you can have a good faith disagreement about how responsible people should be or how much government regulation you like but in this case specifically, this isn't a gee-golly difference of opinion on the scope/reach of government. Just speaking personally, I don't much want any gov regulation or intervention anywhere-- especially these days with who is charge-- but it was sure nice for about 15 minutes for there to be a public institution that provided some assurance that scumbag financial institutions who provably & very much regularly screwed over "little people" in little ways could be held to account in some measure.

For the guv'mint is too big crowd, the CFPB was the agency which help expose Wells Fargo bank’s fake account scams. (If unfamiliar, these are some of the gory details: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/09/08/w...)

Another meat-and-potatoes example: pre-paid credit cards (a $65 billion industry in 2012 according to Pew.)

Before the CFPB, prepaid credit card offers were dense and confusing legal documents , but this is what those offers must look like now: https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/wp-content/uplo...

They've even has a catchy line: “know before you owe!”

Regular are getting hurt and when the next crisis comes we're going in a worse position to the efforts of these ridiculous characters like Mr. Mulvaney
Getting straight A's in high school is just about doing your homework. The SAT is I guess better, but still. I mean come on, the verbal section is just vocab memorization in the form of analogies.

Extracurriculars, private schools, math tutors, legacy admissions... This all mostly comes from parents.

If they want education and competition they'd open up their program to everyone. Instead, the competition is at the barrier to entry into the program.
Google has actually already has an internal cloud-based IDE.
> They’re chipping away at each little thing that holds devs away and making sure the world knows it.

It's worth keeping in mind why, it's to get developers interested in their proprietary platforms. These are the embrace and extend steps.

Let me know when they switch to GPL licenses and can't pull the extinguish step.
Ok then, tell me the last time you saw someone flirt with a stranger.
These games tend to be about 30 minutes in length and can be quite tedious. It's not exactly like firing up another game and getting through a few games in about 20 minutes.

It's extremely involved.
Or, head to one of the poles, and amble slowly about for the same effect. No need to go supersonic at the equator.
Yep, two sides of the same coin. If you can find the reference I'd like to read it.
A bunch of early Microsoft folks were also Unix users and preferred using / as a directory separator but IBM insisted on using / for command-line switches, forcing use of \ as the separator.

This was a late-breaking change and for a few versions of DOS you could set SWITCHAR=- in CONFIG.SYS to get the Unix behavior. When set "dir /s C:\whatever" becomes "dir -s c:/whatever".

You can literally blame IBM for this divergence. Without them pitching a fit about it DOS/Windows would have had the same switch syntax and path separators as Unix.
How do you talk about Silicon Valley without mentioning Stanford and Berkeley, without mentioning the defense industry which preceded it? The writer doesn't even get the Gertrude Stein quote right. She was writing about her childhood home, the house she had grown up in, that it had been torn down. [1] Traffic. We have traffic. Who doesn't?

What drivel.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there_is_no_there_there
You can start today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Those customers want the existing apps to just run. Some of them, as sometimes happens, don't want to rewrite them.
I've noticed that after reading my post, you've changed the following sentence:

>That's not at all what systemic injustice means. You're just throwing out assertions that kind of sound like they might be right.

to

>Your definition of systemic injustice is obtusely literal. Systemic injustice doesn't only come from the top down. A series of individual acts can create systemic injustice despite no official group policy.

The complaint has now shifted to the fact that I'm using a literal definition. If we aren't to use the literal definition of systemic injustice, then what are we to use? Your own personal definition?

> In fact most of what is referred to as systemic injustice is just that, a collection of individual acts that create an injustice despite there being no official political intent to do so.

This is false. No one refers to systemic injustice as just groups of individuals doing bad things that results in injustice.
All I wanted since Snow Leopard is improved stability and updated unix tools. Perhaps window snapping.
Tough? Discerning, perhaps, mate.
Its full copyleft AGPL which could be an issue for someone trying to use it in a commercial application.

But for other uses, it looks absolutely incredible.

https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad
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I built this thinking combining Google Places and Instagram would be an interesting way of discovering cool places, but now I'm not sure if its any better than what was already there... Anyway, this was also an exercise for me to try building something "dynamic" as a minimal and quick static site that could be hosted for free...
This probably reveals how out of touch I am... but I always assumed people in the back could just get free food. Is the manager watching? Would fellow employees narc on you?
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I appreciate that you mentioned a competitor without shamelessly plugging your own product, but out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, what editor do you work on?
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What you have quoted is just talking.

Sure, but it's a very unambiguous example of her communicating lack of consent. One of many, yes. The Pixar debacle is even more clear cut IMO — don't insist on touching your subordinates.
Seemingly unending streams of rejection is what dating looks like for everyone. Bars are as boring as cafés. The people you’re with are what they’re for. They make it exciting. If someone prefers to stay home, watch porn and play video games that’s a choice, not a problem.
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> The point is, growth sacraficed now will have tremendous impacts on the future, as the law of compounding returns rings true here.

We are talking about compounding loses if no substantial environmental action will be taken.
While I don't normally make too big of an issue when games lack Linux support, Epic games seems openly hostile to the platform as seen by removing support where it already exists.

I have invested the time in setting up a Windows VM w/ PCI passthrough in order to play some games with friends. So I am not a hardline free software user or unwilling to use Windows for playing games.

But when a distributor and developer is openly hostile to the platform even as it's gaining traction among other developers (Valve, Google, etc), I am certainly willing to not buy their games anymore as a somewhat political stance. There are plenty of games that run on Linux for me to spend my time and money on.
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How is this "punk" it's just weird.

Punk is weird, but not all weird things are punk.
Had Microsoft improved their POSIX support on NT, instead of having it as nuisance to win contracts, and GNU/Linux would had never taken off.
We need scientific clinical trials conducted without any therapist intervention in order to understand what good these drugs do on their own. All the BS about talk-therapy being necessary for them to work is going to keep them out of the reach of most people. The reality is that psychedelics will quickly put psychiatrists out of business unless the public is convinced they can't take psychedelics safely without a shrink watching over them.
The reference on Wikipedia is from a report[1] by the "UNITED NATIONS INTERREGIONAL CRIME AND JUSTICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE", which is a "desk review" that cites and reviews other research. The quote Wikipedia uses is from a paragraph on page 18:

> Thailand’s Health System Research Institute reports that children in prostitution make up 40 percent of sex workers in Thailand.

I can't find this report even though I've been using the HSRI's own searchable database[2] and search engines (you'll need Google Translate unless you can read Thai). I did, however, see see numerous other reports reusing the same quote in the searches returned by an engine, so it's well used.

If we continue the same paragraph:

> At the other end of this debate many NGOs estimate the number of CSEC victims to be in the hundreds of thousands. Other reports estimate the number of child victims of prostitution to be at least 80,000 but likely to be in the hundreds of thousands (ECPAT International; The Protection Project, 2002: 539).

I can't find any Protection Project report about Thailand in their publications[3], nor do they include Thailand in their list of country reports[4]. I also cannot be sure that either of the reports[5][6] I found on ECPAT's site are the one cited. The larger one, which was published in 2011 (but is the 2nd edition so perhaps it is from 2002) does not include the figure. It does however have this:

> Prostitution is technically illegal in Thailand, but sexual services are sold openly with an estimated 60,000 children under age 18 involved in prostitution.15

This is note 15:
> U.S. Department of State, 2009 Country Report on Human Rights Practice, Thailand. Accessed on 13 July 2010 from: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/ hrrpt/2009/index.htm

This is the statement in the report[7]:

> In 2007 the government, university researchers, and NGOs estimated that there were as many as 60,000 prostitutes under age 18.

No note for that one, it's a dead end.

This doesn't mean the figure is wrong, of course, but it does support the idea that people should be able to question figures, and when challenged, claims should be backed up by something better that circular references, missing reports, and dead ends.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070712223227if_/http://www.uni...

[2] http://kb.hsri.or.th/dspace/

[3] http://www.protectionproject.org/publications/

[4] http://www.protectionproject.org/country-reports/

[5] https://www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/Factsheet_Th...

[6] https://www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/a4a_v2_eap_t...

[7] http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/index.htm

Edit: formatting, a little bit of javascript wouldn't go amiss for the comment boxes!
To deduce whether your Australian uncle is likely at work, as an example, you need to know A) his work schedule and B) the difference in time between his and your locations.

If you’re both in the time zone, you need to know A) his work schedule. The idea that a person’s workday might be 1 AM - 9 AM might be difficult to comprehend, but only relative to our current understanding.
I actually generally stay away from using aliases, since I like the verb-noun format and keeps it consistent with all the other commands.

But if you are ever curious, you can use Get-Verb[1] which will tell you what is going on.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
>Again with the arguing against straw-men. Show me the part where I say Amnesty International is biased towards the US. I simply state that there is precedence of bias, and my source [2] clearly demonstrates this. The purpose of that reference was that these are not organizations which are 100%, indisputably neutral and without bias. It's unproductive to put words in my mouth only to argue against them.

What I'm going to say is going to sound like hyperbole, but I'm 100% serious.

I've been on HN since 2011. This is without a doubt the single worst argument I have ever seen.

We can't trust Amnesty international not to toe the US party line on China...because the US government thinks they're biased against the US government.
It's a pity the author misses on the nice language features of Rust. Compared to Go or C++ that can be more appealing to some engineers. I mean for example traits, pattern matching, immutability and the functional features.
Yeah. Except that impacts of global climate change will likely be huge before that. So the US is very likely screwed. Irrevocably, at this point.
It’s even nicer in Haskell because not only does do-notation make code look clean, await is a function, not an operator.

Want prefix await? Go for it!

res <- await $ foo bar

Want postfix? You can have that too!

res <- foo bar & await

Being “just a function” means it composes with everything else in the language, something the Rust languages designers have held in high regard when designing this.

(But I also fully appreciate the design constraints that prevent Rust from using “just a method” or ”just a macro”)
Why do we even have time zones? DST is a seriously broken concept but timezones on their own are almost as bad. The worst part is that people don't really understand how much simpler the world would be without timezones altogether. Just use UTC or anything consistent across the board.

The disjointness of the proposed zones on this map proves the point that the offsets are arbitrary. Why not lead internationally by example by uniformly adopting a modern clock everywhere. Let's standardize time for the whole country.
Try to get a pure GNU/Linux phone, that the market actually cares about.
Put some respect when talking about Skip To My Lou ;-)

Agreed with your commentary - Steph is one of the greatest NBA players ever, and a variety of regular stats and advanced stats (i.e. gravity measurement) reflect that. It's why guys like him, Harden, and Dame make 1st team all NBA - the pressure they exert on defenses is insane.
Expected to play the game daily on your personal time? Or as part of your regular work day?

If the latter, then that's a good, and perfectly reasonable expectation. If the former, nope.
Well, I'm about to make a lot of people happy with this info. I was researching this today as I'm using FF 56.0.2 and found the solution on this discussion thread. Leave it to an end user to do the job the professionals either failed or refused to due. It worked for me on 3 different machines. Go to this link and follow the instructions detailed:

http://bit.ly/2DUiOLN
So, UTF-8 support?
The descriptions in this article can be generalized to describe almost any American city that grew in the automobile age. Wide streets, large highways, strip malls with parking lots, a landscape truly designed with the car as the first-class citizen. I frequent the Bay Area, and in fact, it feels quite dense compared to where I live (a major Texas city).
Wow thank you for this. What’s Expected of Us was incredible.
Some states had the age of consent at 14 until as recently at 2001. It doesn't mean that the old rules were that pedophilia was accepted before the change.
My point is that Houston and Golden State have identified and capitalized on arbitrage opportunities. I don’t think NBA fans are thrilled about either team at this point, since - despite concerns about Harden’s foul-baiting - Golden State has dominated the NBA for almost 3 years now.

As for cap smoothing - my bad, you’re right! https://www.si.com/nba/2015/03/11/nbpa-rejects-salary-cap-sm...

And GS in 2016-17, also right and I’m kind of shocked! That Curry contract was a steal in retrospect (although justified given his early career injury troubles). http://www.basketballinsiders.com/golden-state-warriors-team...

(The CP3 thing I won’t discuss except to say that he’s a prodigious talent who also takes shots, although they are sometimes of a cheaper, dirtier kind.)
You can save it, because it's clear you didn't watch any of them play. It's also clear that you took the parts you wanted to talk about from my post and ignored the point.

Reggie Miller? Shooting guard. Ray Allen? Shooting guard. So was Jordan, Kobe, Wade, etc. Scoring point guards didn't exist with the exception of Iverson, who is a completely different animal than the step-back 3 point shooters of today.

How much of a threat do you think Curry would be if he were asked to take 7 or 8 20-24 foot shots all game long like the PGs of that era? It erases him offensively.

Now, you didn't watch Rauf play, so all you have to go on are the stats. I did. I was a huge fan of him in college. He averaged over 30ppg as a freshman (his scoring dipped in year 2 because he had to share the court with Shaq) and had the prettiest stroke I've ever seen. He had some of the best ball handling skills since Maravich. He was a basketball savant.

So what happened?

He went to the league and was asked to do what point guards did back then: move the ball down the court and pass it away. He was the 3rd overall pick in the draft and was asked to pass the ball to Mutumbo and Antonio McDyess in an offense predicated on scoring a lot of points quickly with a ridiculous pace for the era. He also caught a ton of heat for not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance, which ultimately caused him to get blackballed from the association.

But don't take my word for it.

Go look up abdul-rauf curry on google.

Oh, look, there's a tweet by Phil Jackson:

"Never seen anything like SCurry? Remind you of Chris Jackson/ Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who had a short but brilliant run in NBA?"

Yeah, Phil only coached against him. He totally doesn't remember the time that the 72 win Bulls lost to the Nuggets because of Rauf's performance, or the time that Rauf torched Stockton for 51.
Also, it might have been more challenging to schedule the trains and keep them from smashing into one another without some kind of a common timetable.
Dawn here in my city is 6 AM, and the sunset is 6PM. It's much better, doesn't it?
In that case it would be good if "labor" had some skin in the game. Company goes bust - loose a portion of savings/house.
> Both Rust and C++ can be substantially faster than C, for different reasons. C++ is better at capturing semantics in libraries. Rust knows more about what code is allowed to do, and can optimize accordingly.

People have been saying this for decades about various languages and C is still the standard for performance except for a few specific cases. How many more decades until we can consider this "sufficiently smart compiler" a myth?
Seriously, leap seconds serve no use.

The few applications that need accurate astronomical/solar time that can't just use a fixed function correction are already not happy with a half second of error and use more accurate alternatives.

It will take about 4000 years for the lack of leapseconds to move solar noon by an hour. At that point, if anyone cares at all, timezone offsets can be adjusted for another 4000 years of no trouble. Timezones are a regular thing that everyone is already forced to handle.

Leap seconds have caused untold amount of damage due to issues correctly handling them and spurious triggering. They severely inhibit the potential for stable secure autonomous time-- which is becoming increasingly realistic with the lowering cost of highly stable clocks.

Leap seconds sound like a barely good idea even when you ignore their costs but with their costs in mind they are insanity.
The evolution of the game is based on hacking the rules. The step back 3-pointer is based on the fact that you can take two steps and glide to the rim (layup or floater) or one step sideways, then back and jump shoot (fadeaway) so why not take two steps back then jump forward (step back 3) which you have to do anyway to create enough forward momentum on your shot to avoid muscling the shot (Lebron-style step back 3) and getting tired eventually (if you're not Lebron).

It's innovation at its finest, or better yet, iteration. Because anyone watching the game knows that Steph Curry made the step back 3 a game changer in today's NBA. Harden just perfected it.
> With dating apps it's only as soul crushing as you let it be.

This is how people who go on lots of dates treat dating in general. If you don’t treat a momentary social action as a big deal most people won’t either. Propose a date or make romantic interest clear. Be declined. Move on.

“He/She/It doesn’t like me? Oh well.”
What would be the longevity and manufacturing costs of this carbon nanotube membrane?

I assume it wouldn't impact the energy accounting itself by much, but I heard nanotubes' main flaw is the inability to manufacture them at scale.
I wouldn't even really say that PowerShell supports any Unix commands, they are just aliases. It breaks down pretty quick if you were to try to use any parameters.

They can still be useful, but just mostly while navigating in a command window.
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I was able to get real-time collaborative text editing to work on one of my side projects by combining quill.js[1], ot.js[2], and firebase[3]. This was a few years ago when there weren't any fully open-source options. I'm in the process of switching out firebase for an elixir/phoenix backend[4]. I'm really glad for this article because it captures the exact feelings that I have.

[1] https://quilljs.com/
[2] https://github.com/Operational-Transformation/ot.js/
[3] https://firebase.google.com/
[4] https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix
Is there a way to use one of them without hosting it yourself?
Perhaps a blockchain?
Using the company's product is a perfectly reasonable request, either "on the clock" for exempt employees or contractors or as part of the job description for non-exempt.
Not sure about ADHD but there have been several anecdotal evidence of magic mushrooms helping reduce or in some cases eliminate Autism symptoms. Bear in mind that Autism is a spectrum and not everyone will react the same way
It doesn't - like ungoogled-chromium, Brave have replaced references to any Google endpoints with placeholders that don't resolve to anything.
I bet game developers would be the best positioned of all developers to unionize because the wages are so low already that it's hard for management to bring in scabs.
It should be possible in most practical situations. This is assuming you are storing the timezone correctly. You can always look at the date component of the timezone, look it up in a DB like the Olson DB to see what the UTC offset was on that date, and then apply that offset to get the datetime in UTC.

There are a few relatively small periods in time when that mapping is not one-to-one. Then it is not possible without additional information.

That being said, do everyone a solid and store your date times in the DB in UTC, in a field type that explicitly supports date times with timezones.