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>Sure the CEO might be too active on twitter and at times say or do things typically considered inappropriate CEO behavior.

The problem is he's saying or doing things that are typically considered crimes, like securities fraud.

>Musk often makes bold claims and sometimes misses his projected dates.

Or, to use normal language, he's a serial liar.

>Part of what makes a great innovator is being able to fail sometimes. Musk will continue to make bold claims, sometimes he will fail to fulfill it, but many times he will deliver.

Being willing to fail and being dishonest aren't the same thing. It's bizarre how the Musk Cult contorts itself to avoid any possibility of criticizing the Great Leader.
I am full time remote for past 6mo. Never been less productive in my career. I'm looking to switch back to onsite as soon as I can.

Edit: I'm not saying remote is bad - just that in my experience I'm definitely less productive.
How does writing Guix Lisp expressions compare to writing Nix? Is it pretty succinct and intuitive? Do patterns make a little bit better sense?

It took me a long time to get the hang of the Nix design patterns like the three different kinds of overrides and the module system. Curious if it plays better in Lisp.
Well, there already have been cases where overly sensitive testing kits resulted in false positives because people had eaten food with poppy seeds
Are they not in Austin? I don't see it on the jobs page. Austin is the perfect combination of low COL and available talent in my opinion.
COBOL is good for what it is.

I wouldn't use it to get the eigenvalues of a matrix though.
No one should expect the rent controlled part of the Stockholm housing market to work as it is essentially defunct.

1. Subsidies for building rent controlled units were removed.
2. Publicly owned apartments were sold at below market value. Meaning those who already owned apartments got a discount in the market.
3. The profits weren't used to build new apartments, but to lower taxes.
4. Co-ops were favored by keeping deductions for mortgages, creating new ones for renovations.
5. Property taxes were removed for co-ops.
6. Credit remained largely unregulated and was then regulated to a hundred years.
7. Interest rates are being kept low by the central bank.
8. Taxes were lowered in general.

Of course this new market will never be able to produce affordable housing, so the rent controlled market doesn't "work". The whole thing is set to implode though. Already if you bought an apartment ~"two years ago" you have now lost your down payment.
If you want just the personally important hyperlocal crime news, your local police department might have an alerts email list that they use judiciously. Cambridge, Massaschusetts, USA, does this well. The advisories seem to be prompted by exceptional events/situations that people should know about (e.g., rash of B&E following a pattern in a particular neighborhood, or a rare shooting). If your local PD doesn't do this, consider asking them. Email list is vastly better than pushing you to follow them on Twitter or Facebook.

A city-wide genuine news outlet that cherry-picks important things from the police crime log, and follows up with additional reporting, is also good. And some awareness of the gist of it is important as a voting citizen and community member (e.g., you should be aware that, in some neighborhoods of your city, people might have justifiable fears of being hit by stray bullets, or how close to home the opiod epidemic, and read some of the journalism that personalizes ordinary people who are killed).

However, following every little hyperlocal thing exhaustively, or reading/watching for sensationalism/entertainment doesn't sound like a good idea, or at least is a huge time sink. Also, the reader/community comments can be spirit-crushing.

Separately, journalism is best done without any potential conflicts of interest. Most outlets I can think of have ownership that appears questionable (e.g., a big company/person with an interest in influencing public perception, or with other business before the politicians on which it's supposed to be a Fourth Estate check), but that kind of ownership shouldn't be the norm, and we should try to move away from that.
"Although the FAA is responsible for the safety of any airplane manufactured in the United States, it delegates much of the certification to the manufacturers themselves.

It has to in order to get anything certified at all, says Jon Ostrower, editor-in-chief of The Air Current and a former aviation reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Boeing already has the people and the expertise, it pays better, and it isn’t susceptible to government shutdowns. The FAA, meanwhile, says it would need 10,000 more employees and an additional $1.8 billion of taxpayer money each year to bring certification entirely in-house."

I wonder if therein lies the solution. Allocation of some of the budget there instead of military perhaps? Not to mention the policy paralysis leading up to stupid government shutdowns putting people at risk.
You should read more on seller/owner financing to understand why one would use it in a transaction before dismissing it as a scam. To think only scammers would benefit is an ignorant position to hold if you don't understand why counterparties in a real estate transaction would elect this financing mechanism over conventional financing. Ownership interest is still recorded with the local jurisdiction, so nothing is hidden (although with a land trust, you can hide beneficial interest [it's treated as personal property and handled with trust docs; you could think of it as tracking real estate ownership "off ledger" since it's not recorded with a deed] so people don't know who own a parcel).
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It makes me crazy that the gas station has installed news shows on the pumps.
I think the teenage bit is unnecessary; they’re talking more about anyone trying to find entry-level work. Which happens to often be teenagers, but would presumably also include low-level career transitions, homeless, etc.

The restaurant part is particularly notable: “'We're going to be fine. Our members of this [Washington Restaurant] Association--the minimum wage, it's not going to break them.' And the reason why, he said, is because, 'there are so many strategies that we have to basically reduce our labor.'”

And then it goes on to basically list alternatives to having any entry-level jobs in the first place; buying cut fruits from offsite, self-order machines, etc.

That is, its a bit more dangerous than the simple job-hour reduction; its a more permanent transition to the total removal of low-level full-service work
I've been using the Guix system since early 2018. It's a lot of fun. I've put off some of the more complicated stuff (from a user's perspective) like packaging new things, but it's managed to stay my daily driver just fine.
I use Rutie[0] to handle passing complex ruby objects to Rust and it works well. You can also use Rutie-Serde[1] which handles even more of the heavy lifting for parsing Ruby objects into Rust structs.

[0] https://github.com/danielpclark/rutie
[1] https://github.com/deliveroo/rutie-serde
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NYC has some similar problems, albeit not as severe. IIRC much of the existing housing in NYC is 'illegal' in the sense that current zoning would prevent it from being built today due to density restrictions.

For a counter example, you can look at Tokyo as a place that's more of a free for all, and indeed while it's still fairly expensive, it's much less so than the bay area or NYC.
It’s not for everyone. I’ve been remote for the past 6 years and love it, but it definitely had a learning curve. Friends of mine have tried it and went back to the office.

One thing that has really helped me I’d having a non-work group of online friends who also all work remote. We can commiserate and trade tips.
Over a decade ago I had friends try to get me to play the original Star Wars Galaxies. I remember one of them saying, "Yea I bought some couches for my house, and I'm working on getting..." and it took me a second before I realized, "Wait ... are you talking about ....Galaxies?!"

The amount of work they put into stupid little shit was insane. I have never played an MMO (EverCrack came out when I was in Uni; watched people get sucked into it; never played WoW even once) and I feel at this point in my life, I just need to be religiously opposed to them.
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..."as productive"... lol
> I mean, lots of things are wrong with Windows but I can double-click a .exe from 1998 and in most cases it'll just run.

There are many old games that won't run properly on modern Windows.
Why from the military specifically? There are other budget items where we spend more.
You keep thinking people move places and then find jobs. This is not correct in the USA. Also, the quality of life is not higher in these expensive cities.
Yeah ultimately they should be made on site. There's a lot of materials that go into them though that may not be procurable on the moon until there's a much larger mining and refinery operation.
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I was positive on crowdfunding but cases like this show that giving teams money before they deliver is not good for consumers.

At no point on Kickstarter does it ever say you're buying the final product. Kickstarter is not a store. You're not paying someone to make the thing they're kickstarting. You're investing so they can give it a good shot.

Perhaps there's an argument that crowd-funding sites need to be even more upfront about how it works, but withholding the money until the team is finished would just mean 99% of projects never happen. That's far worse for the consumer.
When you use `rails new`, there are a bunch of `--skip-*` flags to turn off various features of the framework: https://gist.github.com/aklap/ee4bb619a77b80bf0c934a9948dc49...

Those carry through to the boot process and never even get loaded into memory: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rail...
A surprisingly high number of Nix and NixOS users are German speakers and there's an informal name of "NichtsOS" given to it.
You appear to be making a number of assumptions here which don't actually prove anything, you're just preaching to the choir of UFO believers.

First, that all UFO reports accurately describe craft that defy known physical laws (discarding the likelihood of hoaxes or misidentifications of conventional craft or other phenomena.) The significance of the fraction, in this case, is irrelevant.

Second, that people are able to accurately gauge the size of objects in the sky (they aren't, see phenomenon like the moon illusion as an example of how difficult it is, and how biased human perception can be.) Just because people see a roughly triangular formation of lights in the night sky, doesn't mean there's a vast, football-field sized black triangle hovering over the city.

And you should have said "A significant fraction of reported UFOs appear much, much larger," for your actual comment to be true, we would need examples of actual UFOs to test against the size of conventional jets.

Third, that the phenomenon on the video in the posted article shows a craft which uses the same or a similar form of technology as "much larger" UFOs, and that this somehow invalidates the premise that novel forms of propulsion exist which cannot arbitrarily scale.
Yeah I've seen this page.

I meant a policy which is a bit more specific, applying only to games rather than to all apps. Something akin to Steam's policy where you can get a refund no questions asked if you haven't played too much of a game.
South America, Mexico, and other North American countries exist in the same timezones as the US and Canada. Is it something to do with hiring regulations being too much of a pain to deal with in countries where Stripe doesn't feel like the best talent is?

Additionally, why not just offer remote positions that require you to work US hours? I manage just fine as someone self-employed and remote working with people in the UK. This wouldn't need to be a permanent solution, but I don't see why exclusion is necessary here.
I work at a company where everyone is expected to be in the office. But we have early birds and night owls employed by the same company to work together. We don't have a formalized solution as night owls do as you described and get on up if they have work due in the morning. Or the early birds will stay up late to help the night owls finish.

But a lot of companies take on "Core hours" and essentially solve the timezone problem even with a physical office. With core hours management is deciding that they don't want to solve the "timezone issues".

I wonder how well the opposite end of the spectrum would work. Our async communication tools are pretty good these days. You could keep someone solving the problem all day long with just 3 or 4 hires but instead people choose to work on the problem in scheduled bursts of 6 hours with their entire team.
Certain types of searches are assumed to be reasonable when passing through a border. It's not that the fourth amendment is suspended, but that "reasonableness" is context-dependent. Some types of stops are allowed near the border (CBP border checkpoints, that sort of thing). That's what the "100 mile" thing is about.

Even people held at Guantanamo Bay have some limited Constitutional rights, specifically habeas corpus rights[1]. You would have noticed if habeas corpus had been suspended 100 miles from the border (it hasn't) or if first amendment rights had (they haven't).

The argument the ACLU is making in this lawsuit is that the sorts of searches that are allowed at the border (checking for contraband, etc) do not cover the sort of searches actually being done (general law enforcement). The border search exception is intentionally narrow: it's to check if people are smuggling rare birds down their pants, not to trawl for general evidence of criminality. Hence the lawsuit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boumediene_v._Bush
"The Constitution grants Congress and the President the power to acquire, dispose of, and govern territory, not the power to decide when and where its terms apply. To hold that the political branches may switch the Constitution on or off at will would lead to a regime in which they, not this Court, say 'what the law is'."
Because every application doesn't need it and it's virtually effortless to add Devise, which is the defacto standard at this point.
Lol what else was melting if the chocolate in his pocket was melting?
Even the most diehard Star Citizen supporters will readily admit that there is no game right now. Tech demo is the best way to describe it, as ssully already said.
>And everyone downplays the innovation, as if it were just part of some natural evolution of things.

And everyone plays up the Single Great Genius Who Did Everything Himself (including the men themselves) and how they personally boldly innovated everything. N

ever mind the fact that Musk did not start Tesla and is not the person actually designing or implementing its technology. He is the Great and Glorious Musk, so he deserves all of the praise.

That story is indeed timeless.
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It's possible to keep a technology secret, but how easy it is to keep the underlying physics/science secret?
One interesting suggestion I saw for controlling costs was putting a cap on downforce. This would end the incredibly expensive race to the bottom aero war. Better low profile tyres would be great for performance (and looks), but it'd be at odds with how important tyre strategy has become.
It'd be very interesting to see the history of who was working minimum wage jobs over time and what kind of jobs were paid minimum wage. Anecdotally it seems more and more people are working a lot of minimum wage jobs that formerly wouldn't be minimum wage like retail or food service (a la fast food places) and there's more people working full time minimum wage.

No matter what the goal of raising it I think the fact that it's now a fraction of what it was in real dollars demands we either raise it or completely rethink how it's applied and what kinds of jobs can be min wage. People working full time should be able to live on their wages, anything else is just subsidizing the labor costs for huge profitable companies.
The production cost of a McBurger may only go up 4%, but the consumer price of goods is also significantly dependant on how much money is in consumer's hands. If you just hand everyone in the country $500/mo, rent is going up everywhere.
Many people would argue that "We're devoting most of our advanced educational resources to helping people who would already be successful reap even more rewards." is exactly the point of higher education, and serves the goal of sustaining the power structures that currently exist.

That's why "legacy admissions" even exist. If your dad or your mom went to Harvard, of course you'd want to sustain the family line and have an easy time to get admitted to Harvard too.
Two people can agree on a window manager if one of them is dead.
Investing doesn't have to mean "buying equity". An upfront cash sum with a defined return is a common form of investment. That's exactly what Kickstarter is.
Just curious - what elements of the game do you find pretty impressive and nice? There doesn't seem to be much of a game loop, or anything to do really other than some broken fetch quests. I've definitely seen a few impressive looking screenshots, but the graphics are starting to look a bit dated already. Based on some of the current bugs/issues, it seems to be missing quite a bit of core technology needed to make that promised detailed multiplayer a reality.
Depends, do you like the neighborhood in Detroit? This is a personal question, don't let anyone else's hate of Detroit tell you different.
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I’m a master’s student in Computer Science at Oxford (graduating in September). I am enthusiastic about data science and machine learning with an interdisciplinary education in industrial engineering and computer science. Interested in a full-time position where I can utilise my current skills and knowledge, and I can further develop these skills in a practical and fast-paced environment.
> clearly there must be some distance within the US where the CBP must be able to patrol and search.

An alternative is to not have a CBP that is part of the Homeland Security apparatus and which does not patrol at all, and only conducts searches at specified border crossings and only based on suspicion of smuggling.

This was the configuration of things from 1789 until 2003.
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Rhasspy is inspired by Jasper, but works by having you specify intents/voice commands via a grammar (rather than via Python). It then trains a speech and intent recognition system together to recognize those commands. Recognized commands are published over MQTT or POST-ed directly into Home Assistant.
Spending 100% of work time coding reminds me of the startup world. Eventually it leads to a culture where people get locked in the same patterns and don't try new things. If you work at a larger company, there's always down time for watching conference videos, side projects, etc. I've found encouraging people to spend some of their work time learning makes for better developers.
Most people don't have 1-1.5 hours to spend each day walking purely for health reasons. That's why supporting active transportation is so important and useful.
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I’m not sure this says anything about the wages being equal. The remote wages are anecdotally lower. Judging by the offers I’ve seen coming out of SF compared to some of their other hubs, it’s significantly lower. Not just in salary, but in equity as well.
Are you by chance just noticing all of the empty space that was previously filled with non-productive time in an office?

I've worked remotely for about 5 years now. Without the water cooler talk, chit chat, and misc distractions, I can easily fit a 8+ hour day into less than 6 hours when I work from home.
I think that it was criminally negligent by Boeing to not pull the plane after the Lion Air crash.

They were the only ones, who really knew the inside details and they were the only ones to know how to (possibly) fix it before a lot more people had to day.

Instead of being completely fortright and transparent they published an apparently completely worthless checklist. And all in the name of greed and corporate profit.

That they still smear the pilots and throw them under the bus despite all the facts that came to light leaves me speechless.
I think your comment is itself missing the point of the article: to the extent that housing is "affordable" in the sense that most necessities are affordable, it would not satisfy your points 3 and 4. That is, if it fell in price over time like food, and so were affordable in that sense, it would fail to be a hedge against inflation or market forces.

In fact, if you replace "housing" with "food", you see a natural response to your penultimate paragraph: "You're never out of the market for food. Therefore, it makes sense to buy a forward contract that pays out a [predefined] basket of groceries forever." The error in logic is that you expect food to fall in price, and or your tastes to change, so locking in such a contract would probably be a poor use of money, considering what they would charge.

It's less obvious, but the same logic applies to your points 1 and 2 as well. The very reason that a home provides security and stability is because you expect to get priced out of that neighborhood, or difficulty in moving to another nearby, similar home. That's also an artifact of housing being made "a good investment" by policies that make housing more expensive over time!

So, yes, housing does provide those things, but only because current policy picks one branch of the affordable/good investment dichotomy.
What about antibiotics resistence? That's what worries me the most.

Catching a couple of UFOs and getting a hold of some advanced tech might help with that.
I disagree — those issues are totally for the company to solve. Or at least, the company should be prepared to meet employees halfway. If a North American company is going to insist that I work North American hours whilst living in Europe, I'm just not going to work there. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that way.

I live in Europe and work for a very remote-friendly, NY-based company, and I work pretty normal European hours. I have 2-3 hours of overlap with the various members of my team, and that's all I need. (In fact, I'm more productive in the morning here because it's easier for me to focus when our group chat is mostly quiet.)

Of course, it's not as simple as saying that you can work from anywhere for anybody at any time, but I don't think it's fair to say that timezone issues are not for the company to solve.