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This is ALL over so many shows on cable TV. It hit me one day when watching bones. Two characters had a conversation about the features of their "awesome" car.

I also recently saw this on "A million little things" there was an absolutely useless shot of a main character opening the trunk of the car with a foot wave. It was so over done and out of place.
You should also cite the reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Discussion

They apparently don't make economic sense since Uranium is cheap, and there is a risk of proliferation. It's not the case that the technology doesn't work.
I'm more concerned what they mean by diversity of ability. Is that just another term for physically disabled people, or are we seriously at the point where only having smart people in the sciences is offensive?
I believe it's because PG is opposed to the idea and HN has inherited that philosophy.

It's worth pointing out that Thomas Edison, Edwin Land (Polaroid), George Eastman (Kodak), Nicola Tesla (lots!), and Walt Disney were all single founders.
Having dealt with addiction, I can confirm that particular jobs are unusually likely to incline me to go back to those addictions, or be tempted to. The closest thing to a pattern I've found is that these jobs are either boring-but-require-attention, or they're complex and emotionally draining. The former often involved Amazon warehouse type jobs, and the latter were often dysfunctional IT departments.
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You feel you're paying X for 40 hours a week, when a lot of engineers are of the opinion you should only be getting 30 hours for X. Some companies will offer you X for 30 hours, and the rest of companies will have to compete against that (for now) or deal with it when regulation enforces it through labor law (eventually), similar to how unions brought us the weekend [1].

[1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep...
It doesn't really seem like that would work out well. Do I get a week in jail because some of my retirement is in VFINX?
Read this one and it is a compact, very well written book: Energiewende verstehen: Die Zukunft von Autoverkehr, Heizen und Strompreisen https://www.amazon.de/dp/3662577860

I gave it to many friends so they can educate themselves about the topic.
No, market cap is all shares, including ones held privately.
I should have been clearer about "abroad"; I didn't mean Europe. Trump is referencing the claim that Americans pay for drug development and Europe gets cheap products from it, which is dubious at best. And I don't think US-developed medicines are being sold at-cost there, even if they are cheaper.

What I'm talking about is medicines that are donated, sold with differential pricing, or assigned 'voluntary licenses' to increase medical access in underdeveloped countries. Voluntary license medicines are required to be produced with substantially different appearances from their developed-nation analogues, specifically so that they won't be exported back to undercut those products.

All of those programs are fundamentally good things which save lives, but they lead to some pretty strange outcomes and in turn strange reporting. It can be vastly cheaper to obtain a medicine in an underdeveloped country with supply shortages than in the first world, and that sometimes also prompts articles saying that such-and-such a medicine "only costs 10 cents in other countries!" As far as I know, this is mostly an issue in the US; most other high-differential-price countries have socialized healthcare or other functional solutions like Singapore's, but the US has a lot of extremely poor people who end up paying much higher prices than equally impoverished people abroad.

https://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/documents/s17815en/s17815e...
The main issue here is that AT&T employs a large workforce that is not relevant to the current (Fiber) and upcoming (5G Cellular/WISP) service technologies being rolled out en masse.

Which means as their legacy business units are retired or pulled back, they are letting go numerous employees while simultaneously hiring a slightly smaller number of more educated (up-to-date) workers to staff up their new business units.

What we are seeing here is the decline of a historically booming industry (linemen) as the overhead required to maintain these networks becomes more specialized in nature and involves fewer people than before.

Now, the ethical strategy to mitigate impacting their historically loyal workforce would be to re-train the copper linemen to work with the new technologies.

The problem with this is that its' expensive. Insanely expensive. The training is made available to many of their current workers, in as many areas as possible (where the skills will be relevant) however at the end of the day an individual 'first-line' manager will not advocate for 64 year old Joe Schmoe with average performance stats to get this expensive training if 24 year old Billy Bob with a 'young man's' performance record is also asking to get trained.
They bought a bunch of old movies, how is that anti-trust. THeres a limit to how many old movies you can own? Disney isnt stopping people from making movies by buying the old Fox catalog?
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nah, the question is did they create anywhere near 7000 jobs

-23,000 seems to suggest no
Not really? If I work in food service or retail (largest employment sectors), why is my job going to make me travel to Canada? Most people are only leaving the country for pleasure. That's not to say your scenario couldn't exist, it's just not common I would imagine.
I would be interested in that.
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I'm not really familiar with the web agency space, but from working at a few enterprises that have outsourced dev work & technical understanding for internal line-of-business applications:

* If you're paying someone to write or customise code for you, why wouldn't you want to own that code, and be able to read and/or patch it?

* If you've outsourced the dev talent, do you have enough in house technical capability to evaluate if the company you're outsourcing to is taking you for a ride and is producing a giant pile of tech debt that will become increasingly expensive and slow to make controlled changes to (i.e. changes that don't inject a high rate of new production defects and regressions)?
Even if just for my own sanity ... I like the lack of commercials and the resulting stable levels of volume.

My kids don't watch a lot of TV / screen time but when they do I want to be able to monitor it, and yet also maintain my own sanity.
There are plenty of consumer-oriented products if you count the average phone. iOS and Android have both made big plays around AR. While it's not "goggles AR", it's also seeing a slow but steady adoption by consumers in the boring, but still important to AR handheld way.

You'll see people randomly using the measurement tools and other "boring" AR utilities all the time now, and then there are games like Ingress, Pokémon Go, and the soon to be released Harry Potter AR game, which all have rather large consumer adoption.

AR is getting so prevalent it's already "boring" or just a part of the user experience for consumers. What that means for eventual adoption of "goggles AR" for consumers is an interesting question. It's probably going to come down to form factor preferences and how many people want their main computing device to be in their pocket versus worn on their head, or how easy it is for the device to "flex" between roles as interest/necessary.
Fortunately it's because the kind of people that want to thoughtlessly "ban plastic everywhere" are thankfully not making decisions about our water quality.

The entire shade-ball program was created to mitigate high levels of bromate which were forming when sunlight interacted with chlorinated water. Bromate is an _actual_ carcinogen; as opposed to the carbon black coating on the shade-balls which is only carcinogenic when inhaled as dust (otherwise the activated charcoal in all those drinking filters would be pretty bad news).
I know families who literally leave a tv on for the kids 24/7. It's on during meals, it's on during the day, it's there as they are getting ready for bed. Just constantly on and droning away.

I cannot understand that behavior. Even an hour or two a day seems like a lot for a kid to me.
This is a step in the right direction. Still, Netflix &c force a lot of content of their own choosing through suggestions and highlighted content, using ever invasive techniques, like auto play, to force that content on users. A service that only ever showed content that someone specifically requested would be an improvement.
3:30pm-7:00pm -- homework + tv (mostly tv) OR practice.

7:00pm-8:00pm -- dinner with the family (during tv, possibly)

8:00pm-11:00pm -- homework + tv (mostly tv)

11:00pm-1:00am -- tv

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Even including sports practice, we've cracked over five hours, and that's from when I was in grade school.
Which explains nicely why tax "loopholes" are much better at achieving the desired result than tax "breaks."

In the former, the tax burden is reduced in exchange for specific actions by the taxpayer. For example you give AT&T the option to file for a reduction in their taxes in proportion to their investment in new fiber, or in proportion to the number of "hard hat" jobs they create. In the latter, you simply cut their taxes and take their word for it that the result will achieve your policy goals because they said it might.

The over arching message, that cutting taxes as a way of putting more money into the working man's hands, is false on its face remains true. Even the folks who invented trickle down economics say that.[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/0...
If you travel to certain state department locations, you can get a next-day passport easily (and I’ve heard of people getting same day). I got one in 4 days and the employees there acted like that was on the long side of the spectrum of people who appeared in person.

I’d recommend planning ahead instead, but in my case I couldn’t give up my soon-to-expire passport as I was traveling and didn’t expect another international trip so soon after expiration (to use the alternate means of proving citizenship and identity rather than returning the old passport book).
It's easy to measure workers by how many hours their ass is in their seat per day, so that's what gets measured and that's how we're judged.

I'm tempted to say I'd rather be paid per bug/feature, with the pay rate increasing based on the complexity of the bug/feature, so that when I think I have enough money I can say no to additional work without repercussions -- but workers in other industries organized against [piece work](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work) for a reason.
According to [1] the average US adult watches 4 hours 10 minutes of live TV per day. Personally that comes as a surprise to me - but I would expect Nielsen to know a thing or two about surveying TV viewership.

[1] https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2018/time-flies-...
Yea, you're right. AT&T never promised those jobs. They just kept talking about all the jobs that would be made if the tax cut happened. That was the main argument when they tax cuts came up, all the job that would be created. But yea, no one made an actual promise.

The reason people are upset is the same reason no one likes talking to lawyer, and why no one wants to deal with corporate or political leaders who need to be talked to like a genie to make sure your wish doesn't get twisted around.

If the response to this event and to the fiber optic debacle is "wElL tEcHniCalLy We DiDnT pRoMiSe" then why should any tax breaks be considered in the future for any company? What is the reason to believe any statement about the benefits that will come through if we could just release these poor corporate giants from their terrible tax burden, if experience shows that they never come through?
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According to Stanford's sleep clinic something like 25% of people diagnosed with ADD/ADHD actually have narcolepsy. A real disease has an objective test of some kind while an ADD/ADHD diagnosis is entirely subjective.
Is not just social media. This is a problem in all aspects of human life. The drive for more more more! Nothing is ever enough.
I am not saying cable is better. I am saying that netflix has a lot of hidden marketing in their shows (for adults, I don't have kids and I don' watch kids shows) that praising them for being ad-free is kinda disgenious.

In the end of the day I 'd rather get a big blinking "this is an ad" banner on my ads, rather than the characters smirking on camera while drinking from a nescafe cup while waiting for an uber to arrive. Maybe those are not actual ads and the show writers just added uber and nescafe for narrative purposes, I don't know, because it doesn't tell us.
I renegotiated my job down to 4 days taking a 20% salary cut (a bit less because of progressive taxes). I’m a bit flexible, sometimes working 5 days a week and then 3. This is a win-win for me and my employer because in dire times I can sometimes work 125%.

On the downside it feels I do about the same amount of work as I was doing when I worked 100%. Just less slack. But then I’m well paid for my 80% (after some raises).
Sensationalist title; from article:

> “End-to-end encryption” sounds nice — but if anyone can get into your phone’s operating system, they will be able to read your messages without having to decrypt them.
I use Discord every day, and have for quite a while now. I'm going to be sad the day that years of my conversation history gets sold for several billion dollars when Amazon or Google acquires them.
I actually tried this at my last job, the idea was to start swapping raises for time since I value my time and life far more than the diminishing returns from more (fairly but) heavily taxed raises but the startup I was at was incredibly zealous about long hours so I left.

In this new job I'm hoping to build up a negotiating position where this will be possible again, this time I think the company culture might support it.

So it very much depends on the company and you need to cement your value before you can try it so it's a high risk strategy.
Thanks for posting this. There are so many nuclear accidents which have left permanent scars on our planet beyond the "Big 3" that everyone knows about.
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Do Conv-Nets Dream of Psychedelic Sheep?
You have a group of people in Washington tasked with doling out money for research. By its very nature this federal funding has politicized science for a long time. Ask anyone who has been through a scientific PhD program whether or not their field has been politicized because of grants received or not received.

The trick this article plays is to argue in part that science needs to be politicized the right way. Diversity initiatives. Massive spending programs without clearly-defined revenue streams. Protecting scientists from "political interference," a term which is impossible to define without eliminating the ability to filter junk science. Everyone needs to sign off on this or the bad things will happen.

I'm sure the author's intentions were good, but restoring public confidence in science means that scientists themselves need to take a good look in the mirror.
Hey everyone,

I created this newsletter and job board because I’ve noticed a trend in companies measuring employee output with results instead of hours worked.

I strongly believe that overwork is a problem in society right now. I’m hoping to bolster the community of people that share this belief and to help solve this problem.

I should also clarify that 30 Hour Jobs is the title here but I would like to capture companies of all sorts that support a flexible work week or simply embrace work/life balance and/or reduced hours in some way.
Music has everything to do with mathematics. It’s all waves just like y = sin(x). Digital music in particular has much in common with calculus in the piecewise manner that discrete samples approximate analog waves. I wrote a program in vanilla JS to demonstrate this idea. It converts XML-formatted music into mathematical terms, and then encodes it into pulse code modulation for playback. Feel free to peek at dietpumpkinmachine.com if you don't mind the sloppy code.
“The shade balls used in the Los Angeles project are made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) with carbon black additive to protect the plastic from ultraviolet radiation. Adding carbon black also prevents the formation of bromate, a suspected human carcinogen.

[...]

The black coating on the balls, called carbon black, is a petroleum derivative which is classified as a carcinogen if inhaled as dust. ”

So you have balls made with a known carcinogen (if inhaled as dust) to prevent formation of another carcinogen formed in water. I’m guessing they researched the risks already and it’s a net positive.
I'm pretty sure if the survival of human race is at stake, money is no object. If someone in a foreign country invented a machine that everyone can buy to make themselves carbon-positive, the logical move for any government would be subsidize the purchase, even if that means great debt: but as the planet continues surviving, the country will go on collecting tax revenue from productive citizens/businesses and will be able to pay its debt back.

Being afraid of government debt if you're a stable country is illogical: it's also why Germany can borrow money at negative interest rates, meaning people would actually rather lend money to Germany and get less back in a few years, rather than park it at a bank. Unlike a business or an individual, the lender has very little risk that the stable country will go bust/get hit by a car and can't earn money to repay the bank.
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Very cool! I like the logo a lot. I also have a web application that relies on spreadsheets but as an Excel file upload. Cool to see what is possible with Google Sheets.
Can't we just own our hardware AND have consumer protections?
There’s also just the ideological content of the shows.
I've been playing Cataclysm DDA on Android for last two years. It's clunky and awkward, but for me it's still the best game on platform. It's the only mobile game that managed to keep me hooked for months.

One thing that's even better than the desktop version is the amount of immersion. You play out this character's life in post-apocalyptic world. You get to make choices for him: what items to collect and leave, what to craft and cook, what to eat and drink to get necessary vitamins & minerals, how to dresses for each season, how to recover from injuries and sticky situations, how to maintain and upgrade a vehicle, how to learn skills necessary to survive... and it's a turn-based simulation. When you are interrupted by RL, you just put the app to background and forget about it for hours or days. Then you start the game again and your character is still where he was, waiting for your choice on what to do next. It's incredible to be able to have something like this in your pocket. A simplistic but still immersive simulation of reality where you can lead a second life.

As a bonus you get to pick up basic knowledge on wide range of topics, from item descriptions and craft recipes - chemistry, medicine, farming, ancient and modern weaponry, car mechanics, survival in the wild...

One word of advice - turn off all enemies when you are starting out, and focus on interacting with the game and its rich world.
Good riddance. The last time I watched TV with ads was for the superbowl, and even those nicely produced ads I found absolutely grating. There's no way I can go back to ads between tense moments in TV shows. It's like seeing the internet with an adblocker for the first time.
Luckily, everyone wants their personal freedoms and few people want to take others’ freedoms away [1]. So, it comes down to our personal duty (or will) to oversee our government. Unfortunately, that’s hard to do electronically.

I hope my down-voters are very active in organizations that scrutinize our government. Otherwise, I see some hypocrisy.

[1] Sure, there are plenty of bad actors online. But, in a country of several hundred million, they’re still a fringe minority. (And, how many are state actors attempting to sow discord?)
> You’ll need your U.S. passport with you — even if you’re flying domestically.

So the majority of US citizens who don't have a passport can't opt out? I've already reduced the number of times that I fly to the absolute minimum. It sounds like I'll need to find a way to reduce that to zero.
The only thing that baffled Einstein was his own popularity
That is for the "Clean Coal" with scrubbers and such that is used in the US and Europe. The coal numbers would look much worse if we were talking about plants in China.
The DRM subsystem where the graphics drivers live in Linux has a strict open source userland policy - every new kernel interface needs a corresponding real userland implementation that exercises it. So a graphics driver that is only used by a closed source userland blob has no chance of being upstreamed.

And of course just generally vendor kernel code tends to have superfluous middle layers or abuse kernel interfaces in unintended ways.
There's an idea for you. Create a static widget from a users uploaded .xlsx file..
Do not assume all people have a passport. In the US, there is not much reason to get a passport unless you plan to travel internationally. Due to the high cost of international travel, I would imagine only a small percentage of lower income individuals have a passport. Even getting a passport is expensive. When you think about it, requiring a passport to opt out of facial recognition screening essentially discriminates against lower income people, including the poor and the elderly on fixed incomes.
Concepts don't have to be new to be successful. Often it's the right combination of factors coming into the right environment that catches fire like Fortnite.
This is hopelessly narrow minded.

I won't defend all of academia but it is clear that sometimes there's a cache of 'useless knowledge' that suddenly gets cashed in when industry reaches a point where it is actually needed (most famous example being number theory and cryptography).

The whole point of academia is for it to be a space for the free exploration of unknown intellectual domains. This exploration will often be worthless but may occasionally bear fruit in completely civilization changing ways.

Meanwhile, industry is too busy manipulating the evaluation criteria to make problems magically go away to actually solve anything (this is the counter strawman to your strawman).

Seriously though, our econonic systems do not seem to be able to evaluate survival as an important concept. There is no evidence that industry will move by itself in a direction that sacrifices profits to avoid pollution, someone else will just say he did the same and offer a cheaper product.

What we want is for our political systems to be more robust and for the gradient between academia and industry to be more smooth. What we have is broken in too many ways to count.
I think advertisements and overstimulation is going to lead to serious mental health issues.

It’s already presenting with people who lose their social media accounts or followers, and that’s arguably short term effects. We’ll need more time to see long term effects.
I’m worried that it will be difficult for the majority of people to realize how domineering Disney is beginning to become due to it’s historic legacy. It’s easy for someone to immediately point fingers at a company blandly titled Comcast or Viacom.

It’s hard for someone not at least somewhat industry aware to see evil in the Mickey Mouse Mass Media Cruise Ship Marvel Starwars Conglomerate.