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Meh, as a freelance software engineer who sometimes works for California employers, I'll be happy to classify myself as an employee and decline health insurance in exchange for higher pay.

While the law could have been written more simply, I think your concern for my well-being is misplaced.
You can't downvote direct responses to comments, so it wasn't me.

But yes, they absolutely do sweep it under the rug. Anytime someone calls out bad behavior, the comment threads are locked. People who consistently call out bad behavior are banned ("put on the scat list"), and it's expected that you just "scroll on".

Ann was, as far as I could tell, the only one who would create campaigns on awareness.

It has to be one of the worst run Facebook groups on, well, Facebook. There's another group called "You run a Facebook group, not a country, but OK," which pretty much targets the overbearing moderation practices exemplified by that group.

And no, I've never been banned, so you can save that assumption :)
Did you know that Iran of all places was able to drastically lower their birth rate by providing free birth control and education? No forced abortion/sterilizations like China, just providing options to people.
I don't think it was concise. It could be shortened to "timers in js are extremely imprecise and not useful for real-time audio. use the audio API, which has real-time scheduling for audio." and then maybe go deeper and show examples of that.
No, but you can either spend a ton of effort trying to convince meat eaters that "this other thing is also delicious", but they'll just ignore it. Instead, just replace their burgers/nuggets with something else that also looks like burgers/nuggets yet pretty much tastes the same, and you don't need to convince them.
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Here is an NPR article [1] summarizing US-Russia relations during the GWB era, and describing GWB's attacks during his first campaign, on Bill Clinton for being too chummy with Russia... I think it would be fair to say this represented a general feeling on the right (around the early 2000s), that Democrats under Clinton had been too friendly with Russia (since GWB was able to make this into a campaign issue):

> At the time, George W. Bush was campaigning for the presidency, lambasting President Clinton's chummy relationship with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Bush promised to end personal favoritism and protect American national security. Taking office the following year, he began by expelling 50 Russian diplomats from Washington for alleged spying. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld snubbed the Russian defense minister soon after by refusing to meet him on the sidelines of a NATO conference.

[1] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114736...
Amtrak is already privatized (in the USPS model). If it were any more privatized it would be bankrupt and nobody would be providing the service. If someone were trying to compete with Amtrak, the country is ripe with old, falling apart cargo-only rails that haven't seen passengers in a century or longer.

(It would also probably cost a fraction of what Musk, et al have thrown into silly pie-in-the-sky fantasies like the "hyper-loop" to old fashioned public transport planning with existing, proven modern technologies such as Japanese "bullet" train tech.)

I think I agree with upthread. Probably more than anything what America needs in public transport is good propaganda again. There was a time that civic responsibility saw public transport as a public good to connect cities and Americans and make dreams happen. (Old 19th Century train ads were things of beauty.) The "American Dream" probably needs to shake its collective love affair with the automobile before anything real could be done for good, trustworthy public transport.
I guess my next question then is... what are you doing in javascript that you need this level of precision? If you need this level of precision, there are so many other things that are going to mess with you, other than timing problems.
The type of trading that is consistently profitable at banks is mostly market-making, which is not a strategy available to a day-trader.
Speak for yourself. I am no less qualified than my elected reps. You don’t know what’s best for me.

Don’t like voting on the laws that govern you? Then don’t vote.
ah I see, yeah that annoys me too

it just seems to be the way the bbc do things, the "Rare ingredient..." title is on the main page http://www.bbc.com/travel/columns/food-hospitality, in fact that whole page is massively click-baity compared to the actual article titles
> They all leaked information that wasn't supposed to be leaked.

What did Thomas Drake leak that wasn't supposed to be leaked?

> If they had stepped forward during any other presidency would the outcome have been the same? Yes.

Kiriakou in fact stepped forward in December 2007. The Justice Department under Bush did not pursue him, and it was explicitly the Justice Department under the Obama administration that did so.

Similarly, Jeffrey Alexander Sterling was in contact with a journalist during the period 2002--2004 (for a book published in January 2006), but his prosecution was also led by the Obama administration.
I'm not quite sure how the terms / licensing for this works, but anecdotally OSE, SGX, TOCOM, BrokerTec and at least the derivatives business in Hong Kong all run on some variant of Nasdaq technology.
A better analogy would be the company owner's son who "started at the bottom" explaining why a union is unnecessary.
Your kid should be in a booster by 5 or 6, and then they transition out of that between 8 and 12 (4’9”). Once they are in a booster, you can conceivably carry it around and use a ride share. See https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/on...

Buses and trains/trams don’t require child seats, so they can always be used. Some states also exempt taxis and passenger van services.

Uber offered car seats in a few markets once upon a time. Not sure if they still do, or how it would really work considering different kids require different seats.
Isn't financial services like the posterboy of the British economy? Why would you even think of allowing the central feature of a major portion of your economy to be sold outside the country?
Modern capitalism puts itself at the center of society and greatly punishes anything that attempts to draw people away from holding capital gain as being the epitome of self-interest. Yes, Russia and the KSA do indeed bend to the will of capitalism, with varying degrees of resistance. If people were not rewarded for this behavior it would not continue.
> To improve this, the broker can throw out the best performing clients, since they might genuinely know what they’re doing.

In a parallel space this is happening in the UK with bookmakers. Winning punters either have their accounts heavily restricted, i.e. only able to place small value bets, or their accounts closed entirely.

Certain states in Australia had to introduce legislation to guarantee a bet size the bookmakers must stand. From memory it was $500 on country race meetings and $1000 on metropolitan meetings.
GAF has gotten pretty good now that all the groupthink has moved over to resetera.
> It wont be possible for any taxi company to provide minimum hourly wages without enforcing peoples schedules.

Sure, they have to control how many people are on-pay at any given time. That doesn't require preset schedule; you can have a combination of:

(1) Minimum hourly wage,

(2) Dynamic, demand-based minimum targets and maximum on-payroll quota, where additional drivers aren't permitted to come on-shift of the current quota is reached.

(3) Dynamic, automatic, first-come first-served offers of above-minimum pay if current local staffing is below the minimum target.

No set shifts are required.
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> What are the motives for leaking information regarding our actions on foreign soil against foreign citizens?

Because many of the spying actions were against Americans. Did you not read the leaks?
But perhaps those are valid constraints. Given that all of science is built from fundamental subjective perceptions, it seems inconsistent to extrapolate scientific theories that deny fundamental subjective perceptions.
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No. The solution to the problem you are proposing is well known and is part of any (advanced?) QM course, and it doesn't involve dark matter or dark energy.

In an harmonic oscillator (an ideal perfect spring with an ideal punctual mass) the energies are (2n+1)ħ/2*ω. They are all multiples of the minimal value for this oscillator. Note that it is a different set of values for each oscillator.

Each of these energies is associated with a wavefunction with a well defined energy. Combining all these wavefunctions you can represent any wavefunction. (The technical term is "orthonormal base", or simply "base".) This is easy to prove. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_harmonic_oscillator

So if you try to put the oscillator in a state that is not a wavefunction with a well defined energy, the state can be represented as a linear combination of the wavefunction with a well defined energy, and it will evolve following the laws of QM. It will not get transformed to dark energy or dark matter or get lost by damping.

If you later make measure the energy of the harmonic oscillator, the arbitrary wavefunction will colapse to a wavefunction with a well defined energy, and the probabilities are easy to calculate knowing how the initial state was decomposed in wavefunction with a well defined energy. If you measure the position or speed, the calculation is similar but there are a few more technical details.

In a more realistic system like an Hydrogen atoms, the energies are not multiples of a minimal value, the energies are like -E0/n^2. The corresponding wavefunctions are a base anyway, so any initial state can be decomposed in wavefunction with a well defined energy (that sometimes are calles "orbitals", but sometimes more general states are called "orbitals"). So there is no a fundamental frequency, there is no a minimal energy that is the divisor of all the energies, there is no dark energy.

In atoms with more electrons the calculations are more complicated, there is no nice formula for the energies, but is anyway possible to decompose any initial state without using dark energy.
Yeh this has happened in a lot of other countries. It's why this won't affect google. Cause they hire companies that hire contractors.
> Your comment only will serve to discourage this person, who is just getting started and not sure if they should continue down this path.

I don't know about that, if nobody told me that my kid projects sucked I may not have tried to make them better and would have stayed content with their sorry state and would just have doubled down on them without ever seeing what's wrong... and then I would make everyone cringe around me like 30 years-old spouting cringy RPG Maker games :-)
All of the (objectively) stupid people I know who successfully own and run businesses with employees, and the people on this site clutching their pearls at the thought of having to fill out ~5 forms.

If you're unable to grow your business because you are scared about a step required to grow your business you aren't going to grow your business. Nobody owes you this. Risk aversion isn't anyone else's fault.
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Not to be prescriptive, but that is why I don't do the "hip" thing of numbering from 0.

The question of whether 0 is a natural number or not, is from a category theorist's point of view, rather quixotic. The category theorist in question would either say: "of course it is a natural number" or "of course it is immaterial".

The only situation in which one should panic, I think, is if the answer is "of course it is not a natural number". In this latter instance I think that you have a problem and that the ring theorist from the office next door has taken polyjuice potion and tied your professor up in the magical trunk, frow which you can probably by now hear feint moaning.
How is writing this comment helpful to your pursuit of finding something novel or unique? Next time simply click the link above or below it, or better yet make something novel/unique yourself.
It's also very similar to 'spread betting', explicitly legal in the UK and a large industry.
Very similar to Ethereum Name System, down to Vickrey auction method.
> What are the motives for leaking information regarding our actions on foreign soil against foreign [human beings]?

Which side of an imaginary line you were born on should not determine your rights. If he leaked documents about operations against Americans, and then also about operations against foreigners, in my mind he did the same thing twice.

If there was another difference, like spilling the location or identity of a person likely to be at risk, please spell that out. I have yet to see an example.
What is doing the culling?
I don't see how this is flamebait.
I don't know about friendly. If you're wanted at home, and living in a foreign country at the pleasure of the local regime, there's going to be hard limits on what you're allowed to do without consequence.
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I am a former software engineer, current high school principal in Central Harlem, NY. I have stumbled upon a way to disrupt public high school: #DigitalNativeAcademicCredits
These are a blockchain ledger of high school credits. The idea is to empower a distributed network of master teachers to take control of high school credits from government who inflate credits (water down standards) to show year-over-year gains.
I am looking to build a community to launch this open source project. Check it out and get in touch if you want to learn more. This is not a profit-driven project, but if you own Bitcoin this could lead to adoption. The idea there is to convert Bitcoin from a network to a platform by creating a side-chain of digital cash... adoption of the digital cash would drive settlement on Bitcoin. The link to high school credits is that this side-chain would issue new coins into the wallets of high school grads who earn the most #DigitalNativeAcademicCredits as a form of basic income guarantee (BIG). We don’t have much time before digital cash is established to ensure it is designed as open source. I would love your support to build this digital cash side chain as well as a “Github for teachers” which would be used to define open source “digital native” standards.
If you use vimium or similar browser extensions for mouse-free access, they have keybinding for paging. It's not perfect, but it's still better than nothing.
Wouldn't the entities you're describing be Health Clearinghouses?

"""Health Care Clearinghouse – A public or private entity, including a billing service, repricing company, community health management information system or community health information system, and “valueadded” networks and switches that either process or facilitate the processing of health information received from another entity in a nonstandard format or containing nonstandard data content into standard data elements or a standard transaction, or receive a standard transaction from another entity and process or facilitate the processing of health information into a nonstandard format or nonstandard data content for the receiving entity."""

My read is that the entities I'm describing would fall under this. If you can point to a specific example which you believes violates this (not an anecdote, I'm talking about investigative journalism or a court case or an academic with credentials in this area), I'd love to hear about it.
Other answers are either overcomplicated or imprecise: the proton's radius is defined as the RMS radius of its charge distribution. It's the same idea as describing the size of a probability distribution by its standard deviation.
Any other bank can debit your checking account, but they become responsible for refunding in the case fraud/error. Since no access card (atm card, pin, etc) was used, customers have $0 liability for the same 60 days as you do.

This is partly why banks are strict with merchant processing, holding back variable reserves to cover refunds/fraud based on your history and business type.
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Whats with the obsession with jobs. Like healthcare you can easily figure out ways that more than basic necessity are taken care of. Is it really important that we give drivers arbitrary work?
Do you remember Craig Federighi imitating a chicken and a unicorn in 2017? I felt so stupid watching this event. The parody resumed everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Xl4hPEV80
* Accounts may have different password, lockout, and expiration policies.

I've had to do that with Devise. It was easy enough to fork the `devise-security` plugin and modify the configuration settings to handle lambdas. The lambdas were then set to pull the config values from the user's account configuration.

* There's a generic "login" button on the marketing site that 50%+ of our users use. This generic login page must implement all account specific constraints (probably via a 2-step login form)

That's super easy.

* Some customers have SSO. For some customers, using SSO is optional. For others, it is required.

I'm in the process of adding exactly this to my project's Devise configuration right now. It's a little tricky, but only because our previous attempt at SSO was very strangely done (and I now understand why so many users complained about not being able to log in).

* Owners of accounts have a limited impersonation feature that allows them to see only certain parts of information in eyes of one of their account members

User permissions are outside the scope of Devise, since it just handles authentication. But the Pretender plugin makes user impersonation dead simple.
> But friendly towards those friendly to him? Who in the world doesn't do that?

I feel you underestimate people's intelligence — assuming that everyone can be played with a simple overture of friendliness.
> we know someone is not following the spirit of the law and we have evidence to that effect and that should still be punishable

Uh, that's pretty much how Common Law works already.

The problem is typically not the law, but finding someone who really wants to enforce it. Aka, political will.
Yes that is what this thread is about
That seems a bit ad homenim. A Carrington-scale event would likely cripple any modern society. Your disliking part of their messaging doesn't mean they have no credibility.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoz_NuIvP0

I just came out watching the solution to how he actually solved it.
I never understood this. Tinder is the same way. It makes no sense to me because of how relatively easy is to hijack someones number.
This is kind of a tail wagging the dog argument. If only everybody was rich then there wouldn't be any resource scarcity!
A big part of it is that on average the stock market goes up, so even if you are randomly buying stocks you'll come out ahead over the long run as long as fees don't eat it up.
Another significant portion is that they have access to a lot of information you don't, and are able to buy stocks and derivatives that you cannot. This comes as a benefit of their size.
No, that pretty much falls under "None of your business".
What predictions? If you believe in scientific modeling at ALL. AKA you think global climate change is scientifically sound, then you should probably look at the population growth predictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
There are lots of confounding factors, so predicting outcomes is a dodgy business.

One thing that is easier to evaluate is the cost of delivering equivalent care - the US system turns out to be quite inefficient that way, which implies the potential for significant cost savings at least.
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I would argue it is an island of stability in that it only requires a small perturbation to become unstable.
https://what.thedailywtf.com is a place for IT / software people to rant. If you're into rants. I find it fun.

https://forums.musicplayer.com is a place for musicians, songwriters, mixing, mastering etc. I only visit the keyboardist section, Keyboard Corner. It is an exceptionally civil place, the people are cool, helpful and professional. Some outstanding experts frequent the forum.
There is a certain philosophical dissatisfaction with the standard model and it just keeps getting confirmed over and over, nobody can seem to find any significant new physics because possible discrepancies keep getting eliminated one by one. Hope dies is maybe a bit florid, but it's a bit real if you don't take it too seriously.
forgive my ignorance, but don't you have to assume uniform density in both cases? It seems to me the person in the earth elevator halfway down would feel more gravity toward the center of the earth because there's actually more mass due to the higher density. In a similar way, the proton would have higher mass toward the center because of the higher wave amplitude.
I think my point suggests the opposite conclusion: arbitrary electronics bans are counterproductive. if your kid chooses the device over interacting with you, that is a strong sign that something is wrong; this is the signal you are looking for! if you remove the choice by prohibiting the device during "family time", you are just removing a source of information.

my parents never told us we couldn't use our phones at dinner, but they did explain that when we did it, we were signaling that what we were doing with the phone was more interesting/important than family dinner. I decided that wasn't the message I wanted to give my parents, so I would only pull out the phone for time-sensitive communications. a little bit of respect can go a long way.
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Depends who you ask, I'd say God, others might say the computer we exist in and others might say The Universe
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That’s not their current list of projects, but a tiny subset you picked. I don’t disagree that many of the projects are silly or unworkable (and some listed there are just class projects of a couple weeks’ work), but it’s reflective of the Lab’s proximity to startup philosophy compared to harder science labs — crazier ideas, odds, and rewards.

It’s also true that the Media Lab’s advantages aren’t the same as they were before multiple tech industry booms, but they retain a fairly unique position where disciplines interact with corporate resources, and without a direct corporate motive. That’s where my favorite of the Lab’s output came from — Lifelong Kindergarten, Computing Culture, Center for Civic Media, Center for Bits and Atoms, Biomechatronics, etc. Hopefully the next director has the vision to focus it in directions where neither big tech nor startups aren’t going.

Disclaimer: Media Lab alum.
>It's quite obvious that the author has not spent much time in the types of communities where most people actually live, nor does he seem to have much familiarity with the concept of child rearing.

Urbanisation around the world is rapidly increasing with the formation of urban areas in China or India that might include more than a hundred million people.

It's very ironic that you're accusing the author of not getting out of the city when the rest of the entire world is getting into the city, I'm sorry to say that the American suburbs are not the fulcrum of the world any more. By talking about the future of the American city the author is at least approaching what is going to be the most relevant living arrangement of the future.

And when we're talking about children the Dutch may be of some advice who manage to carry them around just fine. Even in Western Europe which is more comparable to the US, children do not automatically imply the need for a car.