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Low priced code jockies with "boot camp" or "self taught" level knowledge are working with industry to try to lower wages, and sure, there are plenty of menial coding tasks out there. Let them have em.

A 14-week training program is the "do you want fries with that" equivalent of coding, and will also get pushed down in wage. So once coding like that is at minimum wage, that's... Success, I guess? But good luck having that stay an easy path to the middle class.

"Anyone with no formal training and 14 weeks of time can make it to the middle class!" - boy is somebody over extrapolating how fast the labor market is going to correct for this. "Well paid" and "quickly trained" don't exist together for a reason (unless there is another component, like "very dangerous" added to the mix).
Not good because the population is consumers who indirectly pay those workers. In my country there's a relative shortage of builders. So house prices are higher so tenants pay more rent than before. The western world also has a chronic shortage of engineers so we have to pay more for engineering services than for, say, babysitting services.

But you're still right, the term is just framing. Like when the exchange rate or property prices go up or down, it's presented as either good or bad depending on their priorities.
The purpose of a union is to provide collective bargaining not make a profit.

However, people seem to be assuming what side I am on. I actually see it as OK for unions to negotiate for just their members. Pay dues if you want to enjoy the benefits of membership seems perfectly fine to me. I'm just listing that because that is one of the things Right to Work Laws try to do.

I was simply saying that the point of them is not to be able to force people to work 40 hours overtime or get fired. Like the law in this article seems to do and what the parent comment says is equivalent to right to work.

Though I will say that I do agree with the parts of Right to Work that makes it so the unions can't make membership a condition of employment or force you to go on strike.
So, what if the US Airforce.. or CIA.. have technology that can bugger around with the cockpits and instruments of US Navy fighters? Or arbitrary other aircraft cockpits.

Now, they don't want to say that they have this, but they want other people (like the Russians and Chinese and French) to know that they do have it.

Or at least to make them think that they would like them to think that they have it.

Would you see films like this?
Presumably the domain is (0,1).
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It's intended as marketing, not a serious proposal. It's like how graphic designers publish unsolicited redesigns of Facebook in their portfolio. It's not because they expect Facebook to use them, but because they're a good way of getting attention.

The agency in question here isn't even an architecture firm, it's just a company that produces renderings of the kind you see in marketing collateral when buying off-plan properties. Someone there realised this Notre Dame business was a good opportunity to get some publicity by publishing a deliberately radical idea, and it seems to have worked.
I think some parts of the job market ignore degrees.

I know many people who got very solid SWE jobs through the popular recruitment platforms. Those platforms essentially allow people to get an on-site with big tech and startups without ever sharing one's resume: they rely solely on the results of technical interviews to screen for promising candidates. The employer spends ~$5000 to bring the candidate on-site (fees to the recruitment platform, plus the flight/hotels, plus the full day of engineers' time spent on the interviews). So I highly doubt the employer auto-rejects candidates without a degree regardless of their on-site performance. If they wanted to do that, they would have simply asked the recruitment platform to screen people for degree in advance, to avoid wasting $5k on a hopeless candidate.

Of course, I'm describing only a specific slice (Silicon Valley, maybe NYC) of the specific industry (software engineering). I guess such disregard of degrees hasn't spread to other parts of the job market because most companies, in most industries, believe that the degree provides useful information above and beyond what can be learned in an interview. Are they wrong in that belief? Or do degrees, despite being such a horrible proxy for skill, still provide a valuable incremental statistical signal about the candidate's likely fit?
The raspberry pi is on spotty wifi and needs to sync the data to a data collection server now and then, but also have fairly low (5 min) latency.

CSV and rsync could do it.
True enough, but minimum wage increases can capture economic surplus to labour. So if there is an increase in economic surplus due to increased efficiency (say warehouse allocation improves to require 50 workers instead of a 100), then normally the warehouse owner gets all (well, presumably they could use that to lower prices or something as well) the surplus from that. A minimum wage increase can move some of that surplus to labour.

So if productivity rapidly rises over some period of time, it makes sense to increase minimum wage if you want some of that to go to labour. The idea being demand won't drop that much.

We do know that productivity has been rising quite a bit recently, but real wages are stagnant. This may mean that more of the surplus is going to capital. Given all that, minimum wage increases will probably not lead to diminished demand overall (it's possible some industries don't have the capacity) unless they eat up more than the surplus.
Energy renormalization for polymers having different segmental structures
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I thought the laws of economics told us that immigration and international trade increase prosperity.
> Hence, the solution to low wages is to stop importing poor foreigners who undercut American wages. Couple that with the elimination of corporate taxes, and there will be no incentive for offshoring or inverting.

You forgot to mention that we’ll also need to kill the minimum wage and a slew of laws regarding safe working conditions.
I was trying to speed up a log processing service running on PyPy by rewriting it in Java. I was surprised that the result was about twice slower (I know Java quite well and I didn't see obvious optimizations; most of the time was spent in GC). So it can be quite fast even in more absolute terms (VM languages), at least for some types of code.
Drop the steel and use timber frame arches. Glass optional. Maybe partially stained with topics of great thinkers, artists, scientists of the last 500 years. Those rising us higher.
Because it isn’t reasonable - it is confidently worded nonsense.
Yes, those ideas have been developed by Ruskin in the mid 19th century. He favored minimal restoration and letting buildings die when their time has come over a more continuous view of the life of buildings that can undergo deeper changes. That view was unsurprisingly espoused by none other than Viollet-le-Duc, one of many architects of Notre Dame (he was however very criticized even by the French, so it's a philosophical more than a nationalistic difference for sure).
Thanks for the snark. I read the abstract and found it uninformative, but I guess I should've mentioned that.
Route53 is the exception, compared to Google Cloud where the vast majority of api's are anycast through googleapis.com

It's a good choice for DNS because DNS i a single point of failure anyway, see yesterdays multi hour Azure/Microsoft outage!
Zfs needs a rewrite to be more SSD friendly.

Edit: anyone know how to try it out?
I was thinking about some of the things I did online in the late 80's and early 90's. One of my favorite things was late night chatting on Mars Hotel at mars.ee.msstate.edu.
No, they eat grass just fine. Along with everything else. They need to eqt a wide variety of things to stay healthy.
Right, those people are lazy, which is why almost all of the people who complete MOOCs have previous degrees, and much ink has been spilled about "boot camps" that have better success re-tooling someone with a 4 year degree than someone off the street.

"I already had a bachelor's degree in Biology, it turns out I could learn to code!" - Huge shocker...
With everyone glued to smart phones it is getting easier and easier to be "stealthy"
There are people who have spent considerable amount of time in both the West and the East and are fed up with propaganda from both sides.

I've been labelled as Chinese apologist, US spy, Russian troll, and Western separatists. How ironic is it?
I'm not sure that we can't say car ownership is a consequence of location. Plenty doesn't mean all, and transit access == zero vehicles is an argument no ones making.

Clearly if a household moves from several cars to one car, fixed costs will decrease, which seems like an argument to measure fixed costs.

I'd agree with your point about vehicles potentially being leisure expenses, you could perhaps go further and start dividing up those fixed costs between leisure use, and business use. I'd even accept the argument that if you need a car, your leisure transport should be free from the fixed costs, as they have to be borne anyway, but they do have to be accounted for somewhere.
Eliminating the minimum wage would increase the labor supply. I'm not sure how you think that would increase wages.
A physics analysis of every Jedi jump in all of “Star Wars”
My god, that's amazing. For anyone else searching, it's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ontario_Museum
What does optics mean in this context?
> But the cost for the base model

If you mean the model with the number but no other modifier except sometimes “S”, that's true up through the iPhone 8, but that “base model” isn't the same place in the lineup in different generations.

That model is the only (and thus flagship) model prior through the 5, but the bottom of the line for the 6 through 8 (well, middle of the road for the 7 generation, since that's when the SE came out as a bargain basement offering.) And for the X (same year as 8) and XS, it's just not even approximately true anymore.
You said:
[...] the Urumqi riots began because a false rumour about the rape of two Uighur women in a Han Chinese factory spread on WeChat [...]

First, according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaoguan_incident), the Shaoguan incident [...] was sparked by allegations of sexual assault on Han women by Uyghurs
and
[...] and rumours of an incident in which two female Han workers were sexually assaulted by six Uyghur co-workers [...]

Second, basic research makes me believe WeChat was released only in january 2011 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat). How could it be used in 2009 ?

I made this account just to reply to you, because as of now, I sincerely think you are either uninformed or lying.
The Roomba that screams when it bumps into stuff
So you can only be infinitely happy?
Also: it'd be nice if CloudFlare made a secondary DNS resolver (1.1.2.2?) that didn't pass along EDNS information, as a backup for websites like archive.is (and for anyone who cares about privacy).
The 'laws' of economics are based on supply and demand.

The effects of migration and trade are based on a slew of factors, including supply/demand for labour in both the host country and the home country, wages, benefits in both countries, etc... Trade effects depend a lot on tariffs, costs in countries on each side of the trade, and those in turn are largely the effect of supply/demand both for goods and labour in countries on both sides of the trade.
That was re: corporate incentives. The lack of/lower minimum wage abroad is a major incentive for moving labor out of the country.
That's a good analogy and probably a better mental model to judge it by, but I was thoroughly disappointed by the architects' rationale.

"We also wanted to mix traditional wood and new materials to find the right balance between history and future"

"What could be more natural than paying homage to this place through a real vegetated space?"

That kind of literalism sounds like it's right out of the mind of a first year architecture student.
I have this 0_o
Direct counterfactual communication via quantum Zeno effect (2017)
Of course not everyone can take their car to the city center every day. It's physically impossible. We agree that the vast majority of people won't, we agree that there are still enough people doing it (very few, but many nevertheless) to create congestion and other problems.

You can defend that charges, restrictions and other disuasory measures are a good solution to diminish the use of private vehicles and its impact. But it doesn't make sense to say that those people have no reason to drive in central London unless they are paid to do so.
>Where’s the disconnect?

I see a disconnect in the way you describe those people and the motivation I'd generally ascribe to persons with these traits. Smart and hard working folk often seek the path of higher ed because it has more to offer than a random job with X months of training that's unlikely to be challenging, why would they be interested in that?

Aside: does the US still not have IT apprenticeships?
Let's say that, before Einstein and Boltzman, physicists thought they understood how the world worked but not only did those two expand our understanding to a much deeper level, very few of their peers acknowledged the truth for decades.

I am convinced because I know the truth. Beyond that, it is the only explanation for happiness and unhappiness because it is the only truth of how this world works. As quantum physics underlies all of creation, there are some truths one must experience to understand; i.e. we must each 'open the box and see' ourselves.

We are the only creatures in this plane with free will and the price of that free will is learning how to use it in cooperation with our fellow human beings for the happiness of one and all. It is the design of the universe. If we had adopted this attitude as a human race we would not be mindlessly destroying our Earth's environment for immediate gratification.

Perhaps two trillion galaxies with a couple of hundred billion stars in each, our universe's point-source Big Bang origin has been confirmed by theory and the measurable remnants of that explosion, called the cosmic microwave background radiation. And yet there is no Creator? Not only is not scientific, the truth of our having a Creator is the only explanation that makes logical sense.

We are each made to directly interface with our Creator via the information system that underlies this universe in order that we can learn how to live happier lives, yet we are completely free to choose to ignore this fact, as our free will is absolutely freely given. There are many fools who deny this reality while failing basic science by having never made that inward journey; I tell you that this is possible and they would call me the fool, yet they can offer no understanding of this universe and our purpose of human life: to be happy by helping ALL others be happy, too.

"The Way goes in." --Rumi

Einstein proved Boltzman correct but it was years before Einstein was accepted. And so I am downvoted by the legions of closed-minded materialists present on this site. Alas, they don't know happiness and only increase their unhappiness by fighting this Sufi Message of Love. It is up to each individual to make that connection for themselves. We are each both the experiment and the performer of the experiment. To be consumed by love with our Creator's help is the goal and the purpose can be stated with one line: "On Earth as it is in Heaven." That purpose is the same across all forms of religion, though hypocritical liars are also present in all such forms. There are also those of us in each of them that are attempting to be consumed by love for ALL our fellow human beings, irrespective of their path. We are the Sufis.
In absolute terms immigration does increase prosperity. But lower income, domestic laborers would suffer in the near term. Its a matter of priorities I suppose.
I've never understood this. Why not just have the memory controller transparently encrypt/decrypt the data using a random key generated at boot (or hell - even a unique key programmed per-controller at the factory)? Then you get actual integrity validation against any kind of error/bit flip, not just Row Hammer. Then you'd also be using ECC for it's purpose of correcting errors rather than hoping it's also catching attacks (which it turns out it can't).
most nouns ending in -ma (but not all) are masculine. Basically the ones with Greek roots. I was taught -ma is masculine like your mom.
__using__ While Loops in Elixir
Would it not work to drive to the edge of the Oyster zone and get the train in? Somewhere around East Croydon or one of the tram stops, say? I agree that you wouldn't do it at the moment because it'd be more hassle, but if the cost went up it'd make sense right? (I'm not that familiar with the drive from Brighton but it feels like there must be a station somewhere you can use; there are tons of stations in SE London that have unrestricted parking 10 mins walk away).

I agree that National Rail pricing is absurd. We should fix that. There's this silly two-tier thing going on whereby getting a journey within the Oyster zone is trivial and getting one outside (i.e. most of the bloody country) is this escapade of finding advance tickets, finding the cheapest time, etc.

Ultimately though, things are going to get more expensive. A poster below commented something along the lines of "so only the rich should drive in London" - and that's what's going to end up happening, unless you ban driving entirely, which would be the nuclear option.

Not all problems, particularly those to do with pollution, have an easy "everyone wins" answer. It might just be the case that things we previously considered normal and standard just won't be possible if we want to preserve health and the climate.
It only took a bunch of billionaires to earn multi-billions for a few years and sabotage the debt situation to FINALLY trickle the wealth down.
That is not happiness, it is sadistic pleasure and it only increases their unhappiness.

[Editing because I can't make a new reply for a while]:

Happiness is an upwelling feeling in our being. Pleasure is a purely physical sensation. Sure, they may happen together but they may also happen in apparent contradiction. That is why the sadist who likes taking pleasure in creating misery in non-masochists is doing so to while increasing their eventual unhappiness, and also why people in difficult circumstances can still experience sublime happiness.

The key is that the Law of Karma has a cause-and-effect relationship in time ("you reap what you sow"). It's like getting drunk and then having a hangover for those who sow unhappiness in others, while creating happiness in others is like a drug with no negative after effects.

This is why you will never see Trump truly smile as he can only fake it: he has ripped off everyone he could, used his powerful lawyers to keep from being held accountable, cheated on all of his wives, skeeved on Miss Universe pageant contestants by walking though their dressing room, lied any time he thought he could gain from them, and belittled every person around him for his own narcisistic pleasure. When you see him in a relaxed, introspective moment, his life of creating misery for everyone around him shows as plain as the sun at high noon on his face.
Sorry, the stress someone on the Firefox team must be experiencing would easily be magnitudes beyond what we are.
Several civilian aircraft reported UFOs over Ireland a few months ago - here’s an ATC recording: https://youtu.be/pv7x4dRye3U?t=300
Having to struggle through a boredom of implementing the thing after all the interesting challenges are solved.

This doesn't necessarily apply to an entire product, could be a separate feature or even pieces of features.

With great product comes great boredom
This is not quite true. Sheep can eat grass more efficiently because they have wide mouths. Goats have narrow mouths. But both can eat grass just fine.

Sheep will not go out of their way to try new foods but if they are pastured with goats they will observe and learn from the goats, and end up eating a fairly wide variety of plants. They'll never be quite as broad-minded as the goats, but they will eat a wide variety of grasses, shrubs, and leaves. They are not as flexible as the goats and can't reach as high into trees as goats can, nor can they climb hard to reach cliffs and terraces as well as goats can, which is probably why goats are preferred for this but application. But they will definitely eat low-hanging leaves and shrubby plants they can get to.
The congestion charge is used to fund public transport, which has massively improved since.

Please just use the train.
I think restarting firefox after installing it should make it work with esr.
Except for mobile, most of those you would be better off just using C.
I don't use any of these alternative browsers because I don't want to increase the Blink/Webkit marketshare even further.
> I feel like this quote in particular is intended as a personal attack

In context, it's clearly meant to hint at a purported pattern of problematic behavior, the specific instances of which the author is unwilling to get into, for whatever reason. While gossip is always unsavory to some extent - anonymous gossip all the more so - I think we should be respectful of the author's choice here and not take what they wrote as being by definition a violation of civility norms (as a personal attack would be).
> The idea that people are hired based on skills is obviously laudable, but _how_ does one verify those skills without extensively testing them?

One answer to this is to work for your own self, solve problems that you have, go talk to people who have problems and make them what they want [0].

In an essence, become an indie-developer, a freelancer, or start a business, create/contribute to an open source project. This works very well for technology industry because, more often than not, the barrier to entry to make things is not that high at all.

The advantages are obvious:

1. If your execution gains traction, you make money or get acqui-hired.

2. Most companies will value your ability to build, even if you fail.

3. Being involved in the right communities might even help you find co-founders, or join other founders on their journey, or be found by prospective employers.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html
Types of financial freedom, have you reached first one?
Not everyone loves it, but it's certainly more liked than the Centre Pompidou. I personally don't mind either, they're both very interesting proposals, and they have a lot competition.
Universal Basic Income-India
No it wouldn't. Higher wages increase labour supply.
Have you been in touch with Amazon? When I worked at a company that used AWS, they had a couple support engineers come out to our office for a day or two to help us cut costs. They said their whole job was going around and helping people spend less on AWS. They might like a tool like this, and have some good ideas for you, too.
Why It's Easier to Love a Stepfather Than a Stepmother (2011)
I think this improperly assumes the possible and even probable level of sophistication of people without a degrees.

To reframe the question you initially posed: if you have two inexperienced but otherwise technically indistinguishable people in front of you, which is more impressive? The one that spent four years sitting in classes or the one that did it entirely by self-study? For the rest of your career, almost all of your future ability and value will be the product of ongoing self-study, not what you studied in class.
No mention whatsoever of the Snowden revelations? Non-US nations have a good reason to want cyber sovereignty. The US is spying on them and their people.