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I don’t have any hard numbers or studies. I am inferring this from the fact that the ATA and trucking lobby hasn’t made a hard push to relax FMCSA safety regulations. Large motor carriers were the first to adopt ELD. They know what regulations to fight and which ones to accept, in terms of what will help their bottom line (and maximize value to their shareholders as many motor carriers are public companies).
There were pilot crews that were able to successfully fend off MCAS's murderous tendencies, and there were pilot crews that were not.

Ignoring this learning opportunity for better general pilot education would be a mistake. Pilots being better trained is always a good thing.
FedEx is still cheaper in terms of market cap than Uber, if Amazon was going to make any major acquisition to deliver parcels it surely would not be Uber.
So I could now sue Microsoft because I can only buy XBox games from their store?

Or Sony, because they are the only vendor of Playstation games?
If it meant the difference between me possibly not getting off the burning plane, yes I would. You don't need to have experience with asthma to know that getting off of a burning plane is better than dying and getting other innocent people killed while reaching for a bag.
Here's a vid of the actual packing machine noted in the article:
https://youtu.be/0eqtqKDbV1Q

It is pretty slick, and an obvious improvement to packing things in over-sized/generic boxes.
Looking at these huge open spaces, I can't help but wonder what would happen after a single crack from oncoming debris.

Some more modern rotating habitat designs have a solid, stationary radiation shield with no breaks or holes. Light is instead provided by LEDs and solar panels. Many of these designs are modular, so have sub compartments.
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Is that really true? Hard to believe since they are facing potentially millions in taxes!
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Anyone who spends more on escaping Earth than on saving it is saying f*ck you to most of our 7.7 bio. people.
Going even further: if you want to support small businesses, let's establish UBI.
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Get a different job or start paying for COBRA insurance.

COBRA coverage is 18-36 months, depending on circumstances.
Only long-term unemployment (or having no savings, which is of course a bug deal) prevents health insurance coverage after employment.
Brucellosis a zoonotic bacterial disease, meaning an infected animal can transmit it to humans and other animals through contaminated reproductive fluids.
>O’Neill cylinders are potentially feasible within a century or two

Is there anything fundamentally holding us back from building one right now? I mean there's the obvious problem that nobody has a good reason to build one, and only a hand full of entities have the funding to do so. But the engineering challenges seem to be on the level of building LHC or ITER: not nessesarily easy, but very doable.
Or if that's too hard to pass in congress, how about just insuring people who are out of work?
Yes, I am saying precisely that. The key word here is "systemic". It doesn't mean that "Amazon is systemically oppressing the working class", as you put it in your second question. It means that Amazon participates in a larger system that oppresses the working class. It follows that Amazon cannot, on its own, completely eliminate that oppression. That, however, does not mean that there's nothing Amazon can do to make things better.

Others in this thread have already given a few examples and explanations of what is wrong with those jobs, as they are now. Much has also been written and reported about it. All in all, there's not much I feel the need to add to that.

Instead, I would like to point out that systemic oppression that is tightly entangled with economy is not a new thing that Amazon invented and that humanity is facing all of a sudden. A few examples would be child labor, sex tourism and drug cultivation. We all want to get rid of those, but history has shown that trying to do so in the most direct way possible only makes things worse. Nobody's arguing that we should stop trying, just that the solution is not as straightforward as most people imagine.
That's pretty much the opposite, right? That the pilots would need to know an extreme emergency procedure. In other words you'd need a Sully level pilot to survive (and unsurvivable below a certain speed and height). If you ask me that's a damning indictment when a flawed autopilot results in a state like that.
I had no idea it was a thing. I thought I had ADHD-PI with a side of anxiety, but I’m blown away to find that RSD has a super strong link to ADHD.

I think it’s treatable. Anecdote: I knocked doors for the Hillary campaign in Denver in 2016 at the request of a friend. While this initially terrified me, something changed over the week I was there.

I found that when I went home, my social anxiety was damn near nonexistent. I’d inadvertently done exposure therapy for rejection, and goddamn it felt great. It wore off eventually, but I’m still trying to get back there, now that I know where “there” is.
"The new machines, known as the CartonWrap from Italian firm CMC Srl, pack much faster than humans."

Here is the product link:
https://www.cmcmachinery.com/portfolio-item/ecommerce1-cmc-c...
Blaming individuals is just as much a cop-out. Most people just follow the path of least resistance in their lives that was hewn into place for them. For instance cities where bicycling is the most comfortable way of traveling also have high rates of cycling. Companies and politics play a huge role in shaping most of our daily lives.
Amazon's warehouses and logistics network provides scale effects that create a moat.
Exactly.
Birthrates were high in the past largely because women had no power, no choices about their future, and birth control didn't really exist. Their entire value in society was as an incubator and sex toy. Now that's changed, and surprise surprise, they don't want to have a bunch of kids, because kids are a lot of work.

Add into this that families have changed. It used to be that people lived with their extended families, so parents had help raising kids, from the grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, etc. Now no one lives with their extended families, and have gone to the "nuclear family" model, and raising a bunch of kids with only 2 parents is just too much work, so parents stop at 1 or 2, if they have any at all.

Paying women to have kids isn't going to work unless you're going to pay them enough to hire a full-time nanny.
It's fascinating how neatly being politically conservative or progressive lines up with the corresponding architectural view. I like brutalism, but I disagree with the removal of Scruton from that position, it seems political. What annoys me about articles like the above is that they seem to ignore the possibility that aesthetics involves a lot of subjectivity. The argument seems to boil down to, "of course it's ugly, just look at it". But you look at what young travellers and photographers actually spend time appreciating and sharing images of, the modernist parts of Chicago, London and New York seem be appreciated at least as much as other cities and districts with well-regarded pre-20thC buildings.
Is the army not a necessary item? How about fire protection? How about police protection? How about criminal courts? This is a strange place to draw the line.
This is like asking if employment base matching 401k retirement accounts make retirement unfair to those managing their own 401k. Of course it is unfair, because life is not fair in nature.

Let's be clear on one thing before starting, it's just a benefit for employees, just like any other kind of benefit offered, for example the aforementioned matching 401k retirement fund. Some employers have fabulous benefit packages, and that is fine. Another related topic here is how medical insurance used to be mostly about avoiding costly emergency room visits, which back in the old days would sometimes result in bankruptcy. And, that is fine, because bankruptcy has replaced debtors prison, and we maintain a civilized society, but I digress. Insurance used to be a safety net to avoid financial ruin in the event of an emergency, but somewhere along the way it morphed into an all-invasive pervasive part of medical maintenance care, I.E. yearly dental cleanings, or primary care physical exams, etc.. Consider this, Medical insurance used to be just like automotive liability insurance, it paid out when there was an expensive accident, but auto insurance does not pay for oil changes and windshield wiper fluid. Well that is kidna what happened to medical insurance, it's morphed into a pervasive maintenance plan, and at this point the maintenance aspect is what is most defining about medical insurance. Paying that small sum of money every month is super worth it when that ultra rare accident happens requiring an emergency room visit, but this same model does not apply well when it comes to maintenance, because then you get people with pre-existing conditions who are effectively uninsurable, because this is not a Hippocratic oath, it's insurance (I.E. business) for avoiding bankruptcy by way of emergency room visit.

Still, it was an interesting perspective on insurance as an employee benefit. Not sure about the foundations, but the analogies with grocery stores was amusing.
On Nook, I also installed an old version of Pocket (from when it was ‘Read It Later’), which still synchronized with the service quite alright. So in addition to books, I also had my hoarding nest of Wikipedia and blog articles whenever I was waiting in a line.

With the 6" screen, it was pretty much the web in a paperback format.
> But Canada lets business owners do a lot of income splitting with family members across different share classes. Particularly if you have children >18.

Thankfully, they're finally closing the loophole. Many doctors with private practices were reducing their tax burdens significantly by stating that their 14 year children were "medical receptionists". It's ridiculous to grant further tax avoidance loopholes to the already wealthy.
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I was hoping was this about removing the toxic chemicals from thermal printer paper used for receipts. I refuse to touch that stuff and I warn cashiers that they should wash their hands often.
Truckers will absolutely become more careless, because when their money (and their employer’s money) depends on how many miles you can push in a set time period, there will be the ultimate incentive to be careless and push the limits.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19818946
I'm really surprised to see this downvoted instead of rationally argued with. What is the disagreement here? We don't have universal single payer food, clothing, housing, etc. all because we know how inefficient and disastrous those things have turned out every time they've been attempted. Why do we expect medicine, especially in a country as large and varied as the United States to be any different?

Employer sponsored health care is just one example of a government sponsored incentive, one that was supposed to help, that turned out to be a terrible idea. In fact, most of the problems we have with healthcare in the US are the result of well intentioned government interventions. Is the solution really to have more government involvement? No, not just that, an entire government takeover? Is there really confusion as to why people are nervous about this idea? Other countries that have succeeded with single payer have populations smaller than some of our cities, and near zero diversity with regard to race, religion, individual cultural upbringing, etc. How do we know it will scale up to over 300 million people with widely differing politics, religion, culture, geography, population density, etc.?
I run a small business and it costs about $2000/Month group premium for a family of 4 and mind you this is the discounted group rate. If you buy similar insurance individually, you will pay over $2500/Month. So give or take, $25K per year per family/employee. Yes the employer gets a tax deduction but if you really think about it, i would rather offer the employee say $35K extra and take a hit in Payroll taxes while the employee gets so much more money for themselves. If only, health insurance was not a scam in this country.
The "left" and "right" political descriptors are often problematic in this sense, since they are relative terms. If you ask my conservative parents where CNN is, they'll describe it relative to their own placement on the spectrum. But an eye-of-the-beholder center is problematic for communication, so how should one determine the middle? A mean? Median? Something else?

But that doesn't even address a dependent problem of the quantifiablilty of a political ideology. You can't boil a belief into a number; why do we pretend that polotical ideologies fall on a soft numberline? A libertarian may "lean left" on marijuana legalization, but "lean right" on gun control.

Indeed, the left-right dichonomy's inability to house non-linear opinions or ideas leads to a lot of confusion, especially so in journalism. Where does a factual, source based news outlet lie on the spectrum?
How efficient of us to be already bored of something that can't exist any sooner than 50 years from now.
No pictures when writing about architecture?
Very true. It makes me regret going with them for my desktop PC. The Intel graphics on my laptop never have issues with Mint.
Excepting the fact that technology developed for space (1957-present) has made huge improvements in ground based life.

At its absolute peak the Apollo program consumed 4.4% of the US federal government budget.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
This is essentially just a fancy QR code.

The tag contains the data who the payment is for and how much the payment is. You could do the exact same thing with QR, but with more fussing and aiming and worrying about the amount of light and whether the image is dirty or not.
This may come across as a total joke, so I should clarify.

Do I really think Bezos will do this? No.

Would I be surprised if he did? Also no.
Whether a generation takes Smith's or Marx's line, lessons learned will be forgotten within a generation or two and the arguments start over again. Tragically, this is a part of the human condition and it is not just limited to politics and the economy but also applies to many other fields of human endeavour.
No need for that.

30 bits to represent the 13 digit IAN.

3 bytes for prices up to 167772.16. If you frequently buy things more expensive than that, just have one of your servants transcribe the recipe to your favorite format.

1 byte for the number of items. If you buy more than 255 of one thing, we'll just add another line to the recipe.

That's 60 bits per line item. A QR code holds up to 23,648 bits. That makes up to 394 line items per QR code, without compression, which ought to be enough for anyone.

If you do buy more than that, the POS crashes^H prints another QR code.
I disagree. Murder is a crime; a legal idea. If that same legal system allows killing under various circumstances, it's not murder. State sanctioned legal killing is explicitly not murder.

If you choose to define it as murder, that's up to you, knock yourself out, but the state has power and authority - you don't.
Not quite relevant, but always had the question - why fantasy-world game is called NetHack?
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I've got some family that run a dairy farm, similar scale to yours. I don't speak for them, but: They're getting older, and have trouble finding help with the labour: it's (obviously) in a rural area, which has been depopulating for decades. They can't get the high schoolers out during haying season nearly as easily as they used to do. They rely on 40 year old cousins come up for a weekend here and there to help load some bales/wrap some silage. Their farm will likely go one of two ways:

- Shut when they retire (the land is too marginal for a big dairy to want it)

- Be taken over by the one cousin with interest.

If the latter, the labor pool is still an issue. The only way it would work out is if advanced tech comes in like what you've described. So the issue will affect farms your size/type, just not for another decade or two. Ignoring it as "nope, doesn't affect me!" seems just a little... short sighted to me. Thoughts?
I'll disagree with you on safety in ubers/lyfts. But even so, the rest of the list is pretty terrible.

This was the number of reported assaults in 2017 in NYC subway systems:

https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/new-york/nyc-subway-sta...

"Assault and related offenses were also frequent, with 1,243 reports within the subway in 2017, as was harassment, which accounted for 1,003 crimes."

Data for assaults against passengers in ride hailing (taxi/uber/lyft) services seems hard to come by, but there were 103 reported incidents of rape nationwide in ubers from the years 2014-2018.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/30/technology/uber-driver-sexu...

It's worth noting that Buzzfeed said there were was a much higher number, but that was disputed by Uber directly.
Yes, it does not work if it is not coordinated but if significant number of users stops the service at the same time then it will leave sizable tent in the revenue.
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Personally I feel it's best to just accept that we're burning this bitch and that only a major technological advancement in energy will do the job at this point. Thinking that you personally are highly responsible for it or that a single government can magically fix it is just futile and unless you're a specific kind of person who can handle that futility well, I'd even say harmful to your mental health. Knowing when to give up is important.

Operations like Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Breakthrough Energy Ventures are doing far more to realistically put a stop to climate change than anyone else is at this point.
Or at least some indication that this article is somehow different from every other article about clickbait. Though I'll admit, having read it, that I'm unclear on just what that is.
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Who precisely is getting what they deserve? Can't the employees cash out their stocks? They may be worth less than projected, but they can still get a pay-off now?
If left on the open internet and not an intranet.
Yeah, you should look up how many billionaires there are and how much money they have, not just in the US, but in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire

The answer? 2,754 people with a combined $9.2 trillion to their name.

In other words, half of US GDP, or one and a half years of UBI as proposed here. That assumes of course all the billionaires in the world can be "convinced" to give up all of their wealth for UBI in the US.
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Hi,

Thanks for taking an interest in my question. It’s truly appreciated.

I had to laugh at your comment about being down on myself as I’ve heard the same thing from several people, including colleagues. I was trying to steer away from from that self-pitying tone but I guess it still came through!

So yes, confidence has been a huge problem for me, and probably the biggest barrier to overcome if I’m ever going to get a more “business facing” role.

I’m seeing a therapist and trying to do something about it, but changing an entire personality seems to be pretty tough.

Thanks again for taking the time to reply.
I've been looking for something like THREE.js for C++ for years now, to the point where I actually started developing my own. But due to my inexperience with large codebases I have a hard time doing something like it that looks good and works well.

(I am a security analyst, not an engineer, but I'm transitioning to engineering roles now, so this might change in future, who knows :) )
This is why it is important to adapt environmental policies to local circumstances: if you are living in a country where your plastic bag ends in a landfill, you will have a very different definition of what is better for the environment than if you are living in a country where the plastic bag is safely burned in a trash incinerator.

(Which is where Denmark is coming from: http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/wtert/sofos/Denmark_Waste...)
Static types are very useful, but they do not catch all problems.
Same. Not everything fits into a single category. Is dried fruit "fruit" or "snacks"?

Also, I don't find the bubbles easy to scan or read.

If I was going to redesign the receipt, it would have everything I bought in descending order by price. The biggest pain point is how did my bill get so high? Your high value items will explain that much faster than these arbitrary categories.

[Item 1]: $56.78

[Item 2]: $28.48

[Item 3]: $10.65

Etc.

If that wasn't enough, then maybe a small table at the bottom of items in price categories:

$0-$5: 15 items, $38.94

$5-$10: 1 item, $7.52

Etc.
When there are 250M adults in the US, and 130M of them have had financial strain due to health costs, it's blatantly obvious that our highly privatized care system is falling down.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Ameri...

On the other hand, other first world governments adds strong government involvement in healthcare markets and average half the cost we do in the US. If you look at say the NHS in UK, it's pretty clear that government involvement results in a much smaller amount of bureaucracy from healthcare compared to the US.
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The way I see it, either side's solution would be better than this mash-up of private insurance heavily encumbered by government regulations and subsidies. Single-payer would be much more efficient and cost-effective, while on the other hand, massively de-regulating the market would open it up to cost and treatment innovations.

The biggest downside to socialized care is stagnant innovation and a slow-moving bureacracy, and the major drawback to private care is unlimited catastrophic consequences for major health issues, and the fact that cost-comparison isn't possible for emergency care.

If I were decider for a day, I'd flip a coin for either option over what we have currently.
I mean, that's also fantastical. Let's plan for 100+ years of linear growth, while side stepping the 50-100 year looming crisis.

Like I admire the longterm vision. I'm also a giant space nerd and think this is soooo coool. I just feel... bleh about it.

I mean, I guess if we get better space launch and space fabrication, we might able to get some sun shields in place at a reasonable time.
Many linux problems seem to come down to problems with support by manufacturers. Wifi cards, printers, trackpads, video cards, and so forth. Not really fair to blame this on linux when linux works as well as it does because people have taken the time to write drivers that work as best as they can given that they don't have all the documentation for the devices in question. The same thing goes for blaming programs trying to export to closed proprietary formats because the original software provider isn't interested in a linux version.

I've been on linux on my home systems since circa early 2000's, so I can say that I have run into many disparate problems that can be attributed to linux so it's not perfect, but it's pretty damn good in my humble opinion.

I really don't care if it ever becomes a thing for Joe Sixpack to use as long as it's available for people who are interested in it.