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And its financial system cut off. Like US disconnected Iranian banks from SWIFT, and there is no way today to bypass US financial system for international payments.
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Anti hypersonic missile satelittes in low earth orbit will soon tho
"Bad" accurately describes Theranos's effect on society, but the comment you are replying to is probably asking about the effect of deciding to take a job at Theranos on the personal well-being of the individual making the decision.

After all, nobody is claiming that the Amazon dirt scam had a positive effect on society. The question in this thread was whether the dirt scammer's decisions were individually personally rational.

Your bringing up Theranos does not seem to me (and probably does not seem to grandparent) to shed any light on this question because it might have been individually personally rational for someone to take a job at Theranos: none of Theranos's non-management employees were required to give back their salary after Theranos was discovered to have been a fraud.
How do you know that? I'm looking online and can't find any mention whatsoever. What's the contract term for it? And what percentage of health plans in the US does that apply to? And how often do doctors actually follow that?

In my case, the doctors in this office are certainly unaware of anything like that. Like I said, the doctor quotes the cash price, which is standard for the office, not having the slightest idea of which insurance I have.

You keep insisting there's this separate higher cash price, but I'm explaining to you the fact that in this case, there obviously isn't, in practice.
5G is deployed in a lot of cities already, and nearly every android manufacturer has at least one 5g model.

Being 18 months late to the party will really hurt Apple.
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'That’s why new groups are emerging to promote heterodox economics, which draws on the insights of the study of complexity, neuro and behavioural science, ecology, feminism and the core economy of family, mutualism and community.'

I guess he's saying this is a form of intersectionalism, using it as a pejorative.
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They social engineered people to do what they wanted them to do.

That is exactly what has happened in the car centric parts of the world. It took a lot of work by the car and road lobby to get us where we are now.
> The thing that really kills the "sincerity mark" is that there's no reason why it can't be abused and lose its meaning, as has happened with the word "literally".

Yeah, I was thinking that too. I forgot to mention.
Watch La Jetee (Chris Marker). A "film" comprised mostly of stills with just a few actual scenes with movement.
I feel like people who are opposed to agile and scrum often make out things of it that are in no way prescribed by these methodologies. For example, I see people mentioning the idea that with scrum, you should release working software every sprint. This is not the case. The idea is to deliver a _potentially_ shippable product increment - a.k.a. not building 10 bridges in parallel if there's no need for it. Some might even call this common sense.

Most people who are pessimistic about the agile development who I have spoken to are usually pessimistic because of poor implementations they've encountered. Any methodology is awful when misused or when hidden agendas are at play. No methodology will ever solve that.

That being said (probably onpopular opinion), I often also see engineers use agile to blame everything that is going wrong onto "management" and use it as way of avoiding responsibility. Complaining and arguing as if there are only absolutes is an immature and unproductive attitude. Calling agile "nonsense" is a prime example of that.
also they don't seem to grasp the meaning of "customer" in the context of agile. if nobody ordered the software from you, the customer is you. so the project owner must be someone from the company. it can even be the scrum master assuming both roles
What I have heard of is some entrepreneurs who try to fine people if they inadvertently park in a private space. Not sure if it got off the ground.
> Plenty of them are working on normal consumer-facing products, the "software with a simple core and lots of customer visible features that are incrementally useful", although maybe that's not the hype people want to believe.

Honestly, it seems a bit elitist to me.

I work at a company that pioneered SOA for both technical and organizational flexibility reasons and I'd say it's worked out pretty well for us!
How do you know that (not in the article) and are European citizens on the list ?
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This is true. I'm a swe at Google. My team uses scrum methodology, and is responsible for a customer facing but thoroughly "normal" product. My work doesn't involve building heretofore unknown planet scale computational resources. It's just a normal product where I'm a full stack dev.

I'm sure there's ways we can improve our canonical agile-ness, but it's not lip service. We set quarterly goals sure, but they can change if situations change and the goals themselves are usually data-driven (based on prior quarters a/b testing and other research done by our UX team). We also have strong product and project managers, who own a lot of the scrum meta-work.

So, I guess #notallgooglers (which for context is an ironic, kind of self deprecating response here). There's tens of thousands of engineers at G. Some teams are agile, some aren't.
If the URL is the same, no new submission is created, but you're redirected to the former submission (and that gets an upvote, I think).

Every now and then you also get "This story has been previously submitted". No idea when exactly, but it seems to be a newer development.

This is not foolproof, of course, many articles are reachable from many URLs, especially if some social media tracking thing is embedded.
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Thats not really a Linux assumption. It is a gcc one, but you can use 16 bit wchar with as flag too. Almost no one uses wchar on Unix anyway.
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What's worse is that there was basically no reason for this leak to be possible. I mean, it was apparently a list of all people who'd successfully received a press pass for E3 2019. The leak was in the form of an Excel spreadsheet with that info hosted on their server.

So why was it even there? It's not the database they're using on the site; from what I've read that's a standard WordPress install. And the spreadsheet was unlikely to be needed outside the organisation itself.

Hence the ideal thing to do would have to be to somehow tie the WordPress DB into whatever system they were using. If that'd been done, the leak could never have happened in this way.

Alas they didn't, and by going with the old 'intern takes database details, puts them in a spreadsheet and shares around a link' method, exposed thousands of people's details online. It's basically a perfect case study for the dangers of ad hoc spreadsheet solutions and sharing 'private' links around to distribute customer info.

Either way, I wouldn't be surprised if someone did sue them under GDPR or what not at this point.
iPhones can limit between 4G, 3G, 2G for quite a while now, I'd assume this option would continue on.

60 GHz (802.11ad/802.11ay) is better suites for AR/VR, is already out, and doesn't have interference issues due to physics.

6 GHz should be focusing on devices that need to work at range not ones that can already be served via in-room frequencies.
How on earth would increasing the frame rate increase costs? It's all (mostly) shot on digital media, so there's no extra film costs like in the pre-digital era. Storage costs are trivial for digital media. It wouldn't increase the time for setting up shots, and probably wouldn't cost extra in postprod.
This is the same problem that Archimedes was trying to solve.

Except now we have radar and 3D imaging.

Is Amazon actually involved in technology?
It is indeed in the Haskell family of languages, just like Elm and PureScript.

TopShell is all about the out-of-box experience - not just a language, but an environment that emphasizes an interactive scripting experience, where you can see data as you fetch and manipulate it.
> it’s a might fine standard for achieving the desired motion blur.

Why? You can have nice motion blur in 60fps, what’s special about 24? Why would 24 be more desirable than, say, 36fps? And maybe more specifically: your own example demonstrates that it’s your eyes that are blurring, not the image. When you wave your hand around, it’s not blurry, you only see it that way. That suggests that 1000 FPS with no blur should be better than 24fps with a lot of blur, and that you will still perceive 1000fps as motion blurred.

> We don’t want ultra sharp movies, and we don’t want a blurry mess either

Pans in 24fps are an absolute blurry mess no matter what you do. I can’t stand pans in movies anymore. I do want ultra sharp movies with higher frame rates.

> It’s not about what one is “used to” in seeing in cinema either.

I’ve noticed that kids tend to like higher frame rates and don’t find them weird. This seems to indicate it really is about what one is “used to”.

> Higher != better always. Also a reason we don’t get speakers that can push 200 dB (surely better than a puny 100-120 dB right?)

Hahaha! Like I totally agree with the blanket statement that higher is not always better. But 200dB is physically impossible (max air pressure on earth is ~194dB), and if it were would actually make the listener deaf or maybe kill them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure#Examples

It’s a bad analogy. In audio, sampling rates and resolution do go higher, and it is considered better. People master audio tracks at 200kHz rather than 20kHz, and they use 24 or 32 bits of resolution rather than 16.
No bottles is a minor inconvenience, at worst. I have taken to loading up my carryon bag with thousands of free syringes that I charge with Gatorade, so I can directly inject electrolytes whenever I feel feint. Disposal of used syringes is a no-brainer: I just carelessly fling them in any random direction. As a hydration addict, I’m a marginalized person, so my needs come first.
String-keyed hash maps are really common, and the keys tend to be ASCII. This would increase their size by a factor of 4, resulting in substantially increased memory usage and decreased performance.
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Meanwhile America made and sold a lot of guns into the middle east that are now used to kill Americans (among other people).
I was developing a "data as a science" Master's-level degree syllabus, but the funding dried up. This was an early internal briefing I prepared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRL3OabbsY&list=PLOtSL0-B2R...

So, yes, I'm in agreement.

A data scientist is a researcher who answers a research question using data, and can lead the development of the research process. They may design the methods to acquire primary or secondary sources of data that inform the research process, monitor and ensure ethical responsibilities, curate the research data and results, or communicate the process and results to stakeholders. Coding is incidental to that process, and it is possible to be a data scientist without programming at all.

The openness to the truth of a research answer is what is often lacking in much of tech-driven data science. Mostly, it sounds more like a statistician who codes, than a researcher who focuses on data-as-source.

Anyhow, the first module is complete, and I still have the rest of the 20-module course outline - which was aimed at public health professionals - and was thinking of crowd-funding each module, if anyone is interested? It's based on the Sloyd model of teaching, so each module is discrete, building on the previous module, and provides a functional and holistic understanding of the scientific method as it applies to data.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/realestate/parking-spaces...
Please consider updating the title to something less click-baity, such as “Everyone hates customer service. AI breakpoint analysis is why.”
Was giving each job its own UID not an option? users are the original privilege separation after all and kill -1 respects that.
One problem is that TVs run at 60fps and don't support adaptive sync. 60 is not evenly divisible by 24. Without some kind of trick you're padding to 30fps by duplicating every 4th frame, or trimming to 20fps by dropping every 6th frame.

Padding is usually what's done. You can see it in NTSC (30fps) DVDs which come from something originally produced for PAL (25fps). Every 5th frame is duplicated.

It makes me curious what framerate movie projectors run at. Maybe the "cinema experience" includes goofy frame duplication and nobody realizes it.
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People don't use dirt for that - they use compost, soil, earth, sand, gravel, things like that.
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This is a great idea to do with friends. I go to many of these venues when I’m in Tokyo. Little things like this are actually popping up all over too. In SF there is https://www.envelop.us/sf-events a very thoughtful and intentional audio experience. Also, https://secular-sabbath.com/about (put on by Mike Milosh and some friends) is great.

I haven’t drank or done drugs in a long time, listening to and making music is my drug. That said, I did do a couple very small micro doses while in Tokyo with the intention of walking through from one listening bar to another. That was quite a trip.

Thanks for posting your playlist, long time DJ here and we have similar taste. ;)
> Chelsea Russell: not convicted.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

Yes she was. It was only overturned later because she has (I believe) autism.

The whole point I was making is that it should not happen in the first place.

Do you think we should be dragging autistic teenage girls through court because of rap lyric posted on facebook? I think it is ridiculous.

> Count Dankula: broadcast the phrase "gas the jews", then did not use a freedom of speech argument in court, instead saying "it was just a joke". His "I am using this to annoy my girlfriend" defence failed because there's no evidence she even saw the video, and if he was just doing it to annoy her there was no need to broadcast it to his youtube channel.

The video was obviously a joke and if you just repeat the phrases said on their own without context they don't sound funny. The whole joke is that he is getting his dog which has no idea what those phrases mean to react to them. It is a really old gag that you do something stupid in front of an animal because they are the ultimate dead-pan actor.

As to why his girlfriend didn't see it, it went viral (via reddit) before he had the chance to show her. The reason why it was on Youtube is because they have a night where they just watch Youtube video together and he wanted it to be like a surprise prank. At the time (I know because I followed the case since he got arrested) he had 8 subscribers on his account. His story has been consistent from day one before he lawyered up.

Again he should have never been arrested over what was clearly intended as a joke.

MPs in the House of Commons admitted that the law should be under review because of his case.

The way you tell the situation doesn't give full picture. Almost every-time someone just cherry picks phrases from the video like you did I know they are being disingenuous.

> It's pretty hard to have this conversation with someone who admits they don't know what they're talking about.

The point is that you shouldn't have any legal proceeding against you because of a song. London Grime much like heavy metal (70s) and gangsta rap (80s and 90s) before them is being demonised by the moral puritans. I suspect they will take another run at violent video games once Doom Eternal comes out or GTA6.

This again is disingenuous of you. This makes it pretty obvious you aren't speaking in good faith. Bye.
Lots of potential to undermine this. Start every customer service interaction with “I’m going to cancel my service”. Make yourself sound angry but don’t attack the representative directly of course (don’t be an asshole). Say you’re angry, definitely. Sense of urgency, and other social engineering techniques.

Companies can’t stop this that easily. If they do, they basically have to try to call bullshit and confront them. Any system that counters this will end up harming normal customers who are generally angry.
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So as much as it angers and creates a horrible atmosphere for all involved, screaming and cursing at a customer rep does indeed work. The faster you escalate, the quicker you will get what you want.
Source? For either of those two claims
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The Effortless Experience says the opposite, and all kinds of industries are working very hard to make issue resolution as effortless as possible. That said, those are definitely not long term contract type situations, where resolving the issue often means losing long term money.

When you look at the industries with the best and worst customer service, it’s mostly just a difference between low and high switching costs.
Speaking as someone who has been at Google for about 10 years, I would caution against trying to paint "developers at Google" using broad strokes. Google is a multifaceted megacorporation housing a plethora software project categories. Through the years I've been deeply involved in a wide spectrum of them, ranging from "disconnect for 6 solid months and deliver a leapfrog for the masses" to "form an umbilical cord with a handful of enterprise customers." The techniques necessary to drive results in each case vary in accordance with the nature of the problem. This is where broad perspective and good judgement come into play, and dogmatic adherence to -- or dogmatic rejection of -- any particular development process presents a risk.
Sorry, I wasn't clear — it's not about what the right purchase is, it's about the perception that AMD is doing phenomenally in the marketplace.

The enthusiast market is clearly in a place where it favours AMD (I'm personally likely getting myself a new build based on their CPUs in the coming months), but this isn't necessarily representative of the CPU market as a whole.
The technology isn’t why. Idiot businesspeople focused on the short term who think it’s good business to piss off their customers as long as they don’t switch to a competitor is why.
Canada Computers has them in stock frequently. I’ve been able to get two from them.
Potentially more wellbeing causes more independence causes the ability to live in less dense spaces with less support systems.
When I started traveling more frequently for business I learned from a veteran traveler, “always fill out the surveys they email you and nit pick anything and everything they did wrong”. This, she said, would result in more upgrades, shorter hold times, etc. From what I’ve been able to gather it’s true. I’m upgraded almost every time after I complain. I do this for hotels too. I’m regularly gifted extra points and meals.

Being a sophisticated programmer I thought complaining too much might weight my feedback. Seems the airlines and hotels aren’t that sophisticated.
> I'll be upfront: I don't know Rust, and don't feel compelled to do my day-to-day programming in it.

I wonder if this changed. A quick glance over the blog hints me towards a no.
Well of course it's within the government's purview, but we have to draw a line between law enforcement and military-run surveillance somewhere, and it seems to me drug enforcement (violent or not) falls staunchly within the former's purview. The blurring of that line or its movement altogether strikes me as dangerous (cf. the mosaic theory of the 4th amendment [1]).

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2032821
I assumed these kind of attacks are done through layers of middlemen (who don't really know what they're doing) for both the money handling and the actual phishing.

Am I wrong?
I entirely disagree.

Things a dasher is responsible for:

1. The correctness of the order. Yes, it's fair to hold them responsible for this, because they have the order and they are at the restaurant. If the order is wrong, they can easily correct it then. If it's wrong at my house, now what? Probably I'm unhappy, even after Door Dash offers me credits

2. Keeping the food in good shape. That includes heat (some dashers use a heat bag), but it also includes keeping soup, chili cheese fries, and other things upright. (All things some dashers have screwed up for me.)

3. Paying attention to notes. I eat my Taco Bell with diablo sauce. Did he include the sauce I asked for in the notes? (Bonus points for including things like napkins and sporks without being asked.)

4. Polite behavior. Most are polite, but some practically throw the food at you and run away.
Question: the article cites a lady who was frustrated with AT&T customer service - she’s from Illinois.

How do newspapers find anecdotal stories like this? I mean this could have been anyone, anywhere - we all have these sorts of frustrating stories.

Is there a sort of marketplace or broker who has a list of on-demand anecdotes?

I just can’t imagine it’s worth it for WSJ to fly a reporter halfway across the country to get a head shot and a one paragraph statement.
The most practical real-world solution across all operating systems is to use "UTF-8 everywhere", and only convert from and to UTF-16 or UTF-32 "at the last minute" when the string data is coming from or going into APIs that don't (yet) accept UTF-8 directly.

Also see: http://utf8everywhere.org/
It sounds like you had low (or likely negative) cashflow and no liquid assets. That's a very high-risk loan, and it's good that banks are averse to those.

It sounds like you were in a perfect position to raise a round without losing your control of the company. If you want a risky loan, you go to investors.
So this is what the new scrip for the company store looks like? Facebook is having a hard time getting Libra started, but it will be trivial for Walmart. All they have to do is give employees a bonus to get paid in Walbucks over USD/Euro/Other, and maybe a slight discount when using it. Walmart already employs thousands or even millions that are economically vulnerable, in part because Walmart destroyed their local retail economy. This would only lock those people in further.

How long before Amazon announces their coin? Free Prime delivery if using A-Coin!
'It was only when Ms. Robey was in the act of switching phone numbers to Verizon from AT&T that the wireless carrier buckled, she said.'

Often the only people empowered to help are those in the customer retention department.

The standard response of 'before I can help you I need to ask you a few questions...' is another way of saying 'I am going to offer you no help whatsoever but keep you on the line anyway...'
Startups serving other startups sounds exactly like the dot com boom/bust. When the bust started, it spread across the entire Valley because exactly this.
ahhhh nostalgia, brings me back to my courier days in college. Getting access to a "pre" was so addicting. Great documentary!