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Of course Google doesn't want staff debating politics at work.

It can lead to this:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114285/google-employee...

or this:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-pentagon/...

How is a company expected to make a buck if they have to suffer ethical considerations? The salaried workthings should just do what they're told...
> The NY Vehicle and Traffic law imposes no requirements on the behavior of drivers who engage in cannibalism.

Are you trying to argue that the standard quote is unclear? That you think it can be read "imposes no additional/special requirements" (because that's the interpretation that your traffic law argument assumes)? Because if you ignore the nonsensical meaning, I would read your traffic law sentence as "imposes no requirements whatsoever".

Regardless of what your stance is regarding possible ambiguity in the way that sentence is worded, both the intent and the practical consequences of that statement are abundantly clear: If your program has UB (per what the C++ standard considers UB), then the C++ standard makes absolutely no guarantees what will happen when you run it.

> There are clearly two kinds of "undefined" behavior - the kind that is defined as undefined, and the kind that is not. To understand either, you have to understand both.

I don't understand what you are trying to say. There is only one kind of undefined behavior. If you follow the rules of the C++ standard you get to live in a nice and predictable world. If you don't, anything can happen and you're on your own.
I've had a review I wrote for one product entirely switched to another product. I've seen some products for USB cables with reviews for books made for infants. Amazon is so untrustworthy now I'll either go to Alibaba or buy direct. It's dangerous to buy from Amazon. I wish you the best in this, I've reported ads like this for fraud before.
What's wrong with that? Work is for working, is it not?
GitHub can see what you send it. If you're concerned about leaking IP data, use a VPN and a remote box for git operations.
> In the context of work "silencing" could mean preventing workers from raising (valuable) concerns about the ethics of their work.

And again, the only people I've seen making this argument have ethics and hold values that are in line with the company's values. I've never seen a liberal at a conservative company call for more political discussion, or vice versa. It's always been conservatives in conservative companies or liberal in liberal companies making this argument. People who hold views contrary to the company mostly stay quiet, because making their views known results in ostracism and other negative consequences.

I think the primary motivation is that people whose views are in line with the company enjoy the situation of voicing their positions while being immune to challenge because people who disagree with them are pressured into silence. It produces a gratifying sense for the people in th majority, but comes at the expense of people in the minority. For that reason, there's good cause to not allow political discussion in the workplace.
Past tense.

I still have an extremely conservative outlook, and I have no ideological opposition to the private sector, but when "conservatives" are the ones running around upsetting apple carts and setting fires, it becomes hard to be an engineer and a conservative.
Your cellphone. Iphone has the best 3d scanner apps, android has some good ones.

They use photogrammatry and do a fine job.
Who is to say that the status quo isn't alarming, "things aren't worse than last year" isn't a valid argument that things are fine in any logical setting.

And the internet has helped spread information, some of these issues may have been captured by Nat Geo in the 40s but others will have been missed. A status quo progression may be championed as an issue not because everyone previously accepted it but because no one was previously aware of it.
Why not have solar panels on the roof absorb all the sunlight and keep the house cooler via an air gap?

Furthermore, I would love to have water heating this way. Solar panels heating a water container in the winter, that is mixed into showers and even small pools on demand.

Any observant Jews here who don’t want to use water heating on Shabbat? This may be a great idea.

PS: Heating a house is the only application of Proof of Work Mining that I approve of. But even then, I would rather it be useful work like SETI or protein folding:

http://www.cleantechconcepts.com/2018/06/home-heating-with-c...
CFO of Huawei arrested in Vancouver, sought by U.S. for extradition (2018)
> Seattle's crime rate, like most American cities, has been steadily declining since the 1980s.

And most cities are worlds better to live in than they were in the 1980s. Why would you want to go back?
or adults who sadly drink a bit more than they should.
I think an article like this would benefit by including the specs for each of the coils, such as weight, winding material, number of turns, effective area, resistance, and inductance, as well as covering the differences between air cores and ferromagnetic cores. One of the biggest time sinks in selecting components like these is getting suppliers to give you data sheets and converting their specs into a comparable format.
Correct. Marina Silva continuously warned about these issues since she left the government: https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,marina-marca-...
Much like the 3D printer market of fifteen years ago, the problem isn't so much a lack of selection as the price. When out of the box 3D scanners get below $300 I'll get excited.
No need for propaganda when one can reference history books and current affairs.

No doubt there will be a day when China could become more democratic but initiating this too early in development opens many attack vectors.

Anybody who truly cares about China doesn't want to introduce the risk of Chinese leaders being picked from outside its borders.
Yeah, this minimizing comment and ones like it are one of the reasons I left Seattle to live in Cape Town, a city with one of the highest percentage of homeless people in the world. Guess what? I feel safer in parks here.

Volunteer park is fine, and some of the parks up the hill are fine, but I've seen multiple children get pricked with used needless and I've been threatened by people in the park. I've been on the bus with my son with people openly smoking meth. I've been on the bus with my son where a man was punched in the throat for being Indian.

I don't know how you can live in that city and do anything without being exposed to this.
> “You’ve got a guy shooting heroin on the street, and the cop is supposed to say, ‘You O.K.?’” grumbled one law enforcement officer in Seattle.

As progressive as some are here, the NIMBYism (see other locals that this opinion piece has riled up in the thread) and bad apples on the police force spoiling the whole bunch are just as bad as anywhere else.

Another anecdote to add to the quote: walking up 12th Ave (Cap Hill) midday on a Sunday, some friends and I passed by a dude sleeping or passed out on the sidewalk and two oncoming walking cops simultaneously. One looked down and asked, "rough night?" and laughed with his partner.

In case it's not clear, this wasn't a friendly offer of assistance, this was a drive by insult (they didn't break stride at all) that made it clear that if it weren't for progressive laws about occupying public space they'd be violently removing the guy from the sidewalk.
curious why can't you run it if there's smoke?
.. and so further, the pre-determined dualism argues, if you aren't up to being 'perfect', you obvously must be a 'bad person', creating an internal self-shame which can't easily be dealt with, other than conforming to the 'bad' archetype..
> I saw the CARs and CDRs and CADDADDRs and thought it was all just academic baloney; interesting but not truly useful.

car and cdr are accessors for the fields of a basic data-structure; nothing academic about that. The very origin of the names is rooted in systems work, not academics.

(caddr x) provides a shorthand for (car (cdr (cdr x))), which is a pragmatic thing.

You know, like #(* % %) instead of (lambda (x) (* x x)).
When people write responses like this I wonder if they’ve ever been to New York City. We don’t really have comparable problems.

For me visiting LA, SF or Seattle is jaw dropping. I totally reject this idea that these situations are just inevitable.
Nothing concrete, but often calls to complain make it into a tally or database that can be cited by a politician looking to change things.
AR and spatial audio with scanned objects, very impressive!
how did they get from this to quantum internet in once sentence?
Is the Getty Villa built at a 1:1 scale with the original? Because it's impressively big.
(December 2018)
I try to keep the latter out of work-related mail, slack, etc, but I've had plenty of political discussions over coffee and lunch, and nobody ever seemed any the worse off for it.

I suspect an important factor is that these happen in smaller groups that know each other better, beyond individual views.

I was appalled that one of my foreign born, non-Christian, non-Caucasian co-workers voted for Bush 43 and listened to Rush Limbaugh, but having known him for years, I did not reduce him to that single aspect of his life.
From that link: "A 2014 meta-analysis covering 147 original studies of farm surveys and field trials, and 15 studies from the researchers conducting the study, concluded that adoption of GM technology had reduced chemical pesticide use by 37%". Scrolling further down shows more citations showing lower use of pesticides, insecticides and herbicides.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_co...
Since the author mentioned Yakamein, it's also worth noting that Bourbon Chicken is named after Bourbon Street in New Orleans and is also another American Chinese dish that is native to the South.

Another interesting tidbit, from watching the General Tso's documentary, is that the Missouri family that invented Cashew Chicken still adamantly claims that McDonald's took their fried chicken chunks recipe to make their now famous McNuggets.
The problem is that they're currently in the process of dying, but they're bringing (quite literally) the entire planet down with them. That is not an acceptable outcome. The market cannot regulate itself.
I enjoy discussing politics, at work too, however, you have to do it in a respectful way. Politics is like religion, you will never directly convince anyone of anything, but if you can expose them to new ideas, and watch them either incorporate or challenge these ideas, it's a really rewarding discussion. You also have to limit these discussions to willing participants.

In my time at Google, there were tons of people who felt they had the right answer, and had to convince everyone else who was wrong to come around to their views.
That got a laugh.

Once I'm dead, I'm done with it. I have no remnant of silly medieval ideas like the saintly sanctity of a corpse or any need of special religious consideration or ceremony. The most fitting use to my mind is, as ChrisRR suggests, returning to the natural cycle of the earth adding as little pollution as possible. Composting, repurposed as dog food, feed worms, fish or even birds via sky burial, I don't much care.

Epoxy filled as a display piece is rather high impact for my taste, I'd prefer to feed the soil with a forest burial thanks. If the "artist" were to offer my descendents a large enough royalty for my use as inside out epoxied exhibit, along with appropriate carbon offset I would gladly reconsider... :)
> Potentially because people have different understanding of what a free and fair society is.

Simple.

Give people a choice which society they're allowed to live in. China currently does not do that.
You get to vote with your thoughts, actions, and words on the daily.

I don't support unjust laws. If you do, cool. It's still authoritarianism.

And nobody's forcing you to put up with it, as evidenced by you holding a mindset of not putting up with it. Acceptance is a choice and you are allowed to not choose it, as you currently demonstrate.

Just because the law makers haven't yet criminalized your lack of compassion doesn't mean it'll be justice if they do and then come for you. So why support unjust laws pointed toward others?
but then how would we back-channel support our preferred political factions in the drug producing countries??
Github is, pretty clearly, wrong about this.
Has anyone ever considered just giving 3rd party javascript less access to things? That may fix the fingerprinting problem too.

I do have some appreciation for how badly it would break a lot of the web applications though, but it seems like it might work.
Of course I don't want total mayhem to happen but workers should have the ability to talk about issues at their workplace or raise concerns about the work they're doing and the resulting discussion will probably be political. Shutting down political discussion entirely (100%) will prevent employees from raising concerns.
Valid point. For the same generating capacity, water consumption should be similar assuming same location. But a nuclear power plant has different site selection criteria than other plants.
I guess voice control could do the trick with respect to letting you keep your eyes on the road. Personally I still prefer having a critical subset of controls firmly into the physical buttons camp. If current experience with voice assistants is any indication between making yourself understood in the surrounding noise and having to repeat the hotword for any command it can get pretty annoying. Still much better than fiddling with a touchscreen while driving.
> To appreciate the absurdity of this argument [about encouraging fingerprinting], imagine the local police saying, “We see that our town has a pickpocketing problem. But if we crack down on pickpocketing, the pickpocketers will just switch to muggings. That would be even worse. Surely you don’t want that, do you?”

Calling arguments "absurd" or "disingenuous" is itself arguing in bad faith, and respectable publications can do better.

This sort of thing happens in real life all the time. In the debate over drug policy, one of the major arguments for legalization is that drug prohibition leads to different types of crime. On the one hand, this is a "defeatist" attitude to have about drug policy. On the other hand, the world is complicated, and sometimes we have to make compromises.

The author continues:

> Based on peer-reviewed research, including our own, we’re confident that fingerprinting continues to represent a small proportion of overall web tracking. And there’s no evidence of an increase in the use of fingerprinting in response to other browsers deploying cookie blocking.

That's an excellent, concrete point to make about the question. But it's not "absurd" for others to have less confidence in that conclusion. It sounds like a tricky open question.
I don't the problem was the maturity of the technology (much of it very quickly migrated over to Google Docs soon after the Wave shutdown). Wave was built in the original Google model of an open garden; parts of it were based on XMPP (like Talk was) and all of it was designed to support multi-instancing and federation between instances similar to both XMPP and email. It launched just in time for the Google+ efforts to decide the future of Google was only in an entirely proprietary walled garden.
If you buy into the mainlands propaganda, no, you probably won't be comfortable.

But the protests have been nothing but peaceful, so there really isn't any reason to have fear.
I gotta admit I'd take a peek too to watch the fireworks.

But also a bit shocked how many people feel that participating is a good idea.
The Info War of All Against All
Seattle is a poster child city for what NOT to do. Your politicians need to take their experiments someplace else. I was horrified at how terrible that city has become since I last was there.

Now, if i go there, you are allowing these drugged out zombies to steal from me and harass me? I don’t understand, I really do not.
Why don't you offer an alternative solution then? Throwing the homeless people in jail is ineffective and immoral.

If your solution is drug treatment programs, great, but then don't argue against raising taxes to pay for them.
Aye, but they stuck with canvas long after ships switched to bunks not hammocks, and on the ocean liners etc.

Happily there are better ways to be sure of death than the last stitch of Nelson's day. :)
What did I say that was self-righteous? Why do you think that I think that I am more special than you?

I simply gave my perception of the narrative of this book and contrasted it with Kegan's theory, after seeing similarity. What is there possibly to be angry at me for?
Windows 95 Web UI Kit
Agreed, we should have a more pragmatic approach while staying invested in Thorium reactor research.
Housing first is effective for people who want our idea of a 'normal lifestyle'

I think people in this thread are asking you to question your assumption- do you think every drug addict on the west coast wants to hold down a job and live our normal life?
I cannot wait to read this. I have no formal education or experience with pigeons, but they are the most fascinating thing to me on most city streets.

Their tireless and perfect vision systems are astounding (cue the typical stories of pigeons being used for pharmaceutical QA and research into using them for missile guidance).

I'm honestly surprised Scale.ai doesn't just train pigeons for their labeling problems.

There is a fenced off parking lot in the Tenderloin where some kind soul has placed a few rudimentary waterbaths and will occasionally dump grains of some kind. Because it's walled off, it's a perfect pigeon sanctuary. Locals may know what I'm speaking about, but if you haven't taken at least 30 mins on a sunny indian summer sunday to just watch them, i'd highly recommend it. even just watching the males endlessly court the females as they eat. tail down, chest up, chasing for 10 mins at a time with no end in sight.
On one hand, I am grateful for this comment. But on the other hand, I know that it is a low effort comment that you are likely able to use on many a WaPo article.
Unfortunately, it seems either my own joke was insufficiently witty or Hacker News is even more humorless than depicted by the memes of it.

Oh well.
No one pro-gun is refusing a discussion: they’re refusing emotional manipulation, whereby you use dead children as totems for emotional impact, but fail to discuss the actual costs and facts.

As you’ve done here.

“I’m emotional about something that might happen to my child, look at these dead kids!” while refusing to address their point — guns used for self defense and civil freedom — isn’t having a discussion, and isn’t a way to reason about a complex trade off in society. It’s using dead children as a grotesque banner for your emotional manipulation.

Maybe if you want a discussion, try having one?
I agree that some things are similar, but I think the differences between jobs matter, even if they aren't unique to one company.
This isn’t a bottleneck style problem where removing the worst thing reorders the thing underneath it. We need to start targeting all of the inefficiencies and carbon emitters. The suburbs are worse for the environment plain & simple so we need to improve on that.
> should also be the ones to quit it first.

I disagree, that's of the same vein of reductive arguments that try to shame rich people who want higher taxes into paying higher taxes voluntarily - for these big problems we actually need to act together or there will always be a more efficient way to pursue wealth by over-exploiting the resources other people are leaving on the table to preserve.
They all suck. I've tried so many from cellphones to $5k devices. Until you get into $20k systems, don't expect a workable scan that doesn't required many hours of CAD work for cleanup.

Photogrammetry will be your best bet. Also not cheap.
https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/photogrammetry-software

I would really suggest learning Fusion 360 for mechanical or blender for organic modeling and build from scratch. It's a great toolset to know and can be very rewarding. It will teach your core skills that you can apply all the time with your 3d printer. If you have never done any 3d work before, start with tinkercad.com until you feel comfortable.
I'm very happy to take this general approach, but someone else needs to figure out exactly what needs to be done to get a package that way. Discussion is welcomed on python-sqlite mailing list.
It is particularly funny to see Europe trying to scold Brazil's actions, given that many of the social and economical issues that the country faces are direct consequences of European colonialism exploitation.
The point of life is to increase our level of consciousness to the point that we become infinitely, universally loving and utterly, absolutely selfless. This state of consciousness is God.
I'm not 100% its being done for tracking, the canvas usage is being used to insert emoji into the page from WordPress Servers. It being a WordPress based blog kinda explains that.

Now are WordPress using that ability to track users which the owner of this site isn't aware of? That's another question.

Edit: This page doesn't contain any emoji, But it prob just a WP Plugin that replaces any into broswer/os emoji.
There's a lot of ways to try and solve this, good and bad, and if Brazil was a super rich country, just strong arming them or shaming them into fixing their shit would probably be morally justifiable but...they're not. By far the easiest way is to give them positive incentive to care about the amazon as much as the rest of the world cares for it. It would be a heck of a lot easier to toss a ton of cash their way, and tell them "if you fuck it up, all of this money is going away". It's not a perfect solution, but logistically speaking, it's by far the easiest that may work.
You seem to be asking about an unlikely hypothetical for the sole purpose of legitimizing the actions taken, making the risk seem plausible.
Thanks for the advice.

PS2: Haven't used C/C++ in our tech stack for quite a while now but from what I see it should work if you provide the relevant switch '-fsanitize=undefined' plus a gcc version that supports Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (gcc 4.9 and later).
That sounds like a fine approach, but unfortunately politics creeps into more and more aspects of life.

Do a historical survey of people who tried to suffuse politics completely through the lives of their followers. For completeness, look also at the actions of religions in the same way.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Politics, movements of any kind which demand the entirety of the lives of their followers are often perpetrators of the worst things.

As a counterpoint, look to times and places where people are free to be open, to be themselves, and to choose how they live. There is also a power in the dispersal of power. Many call this freedom.

Like that quote "you may not be interested in war, but ..."

The way Robert Heinlein put it was something like this: "The end product of politics is like the result of peristalsis. It's not very pleasant, but it's no less vital to your health and well being." I think this is a good analogy. Imagine having a cocktail party conversation with someone singularly obsessed with their digestive tract.
My will specifies above-ground consumption by insects, followed by a clear urethane casting resin ossuary.

It also specifies cats-eye cubic zirconium retroreflectors in the eye sockets of the skull. It gives me a little thrill to imagine being discovered in a storage unit 200 years from now and creeping someone out because they saw the eyes glow from their flashlight.

Having a little trouble finding 25 mm diameter spheres of cubic zirconium, though, so I can't die yet. I can get a big chunk of it and maybe cut that down in a lathe, but I'd almost rather buy 5mm beads and make an array.