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>What are the chances of three people trying to unionize in a company being fired in a very short span of time for 'performance' reasons

Pretty good. The type of person looking to form a union in software dev where there isn't one is usually someone very unhappy at the company which as a very high correlation with not performing well (at least in the eyes of their manager).
Of course they didn't go on Twitter and declare "we broke the law". I flagged this comment.
Wow, Descent, man that one just took me way back. I remember one thing: PC struggled as much as I did to go through the game, haha. I can't believe that engine eventually made it to WC3, such a small (and wonderful) world. Thank you so much for the memories, and for sharing!
Does it really matter if it was done by the (Iranian proxy) Houthi rebels with assistance from sympathizers in SA, by Iran with assistance from sympathizers in SA, or by Iran from Iran?
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So... What happens when it snows?
That's because it is a military operation. Naturally opponents of the Houthis will call them terrorists because that's what nations do these days to delegitimize their adversaries.
I could definitely a envision a theoretical situation where three poorly performing employees decide to unionize to protect themselves, then eventually get fired for poor performance.

Is that what happened? I don't know, but I'm not going to trust two tweets from two parties whose interests are against one another.
> If I am understanding the article right, this would have led to fewer pods per node and a higher overall cost, wouldn’t it have?

To be clear I don't know exactly how the k8s scheduler weighs CPU requests vs. limits in fitting pods to nodes. It's something I've wanted to dig further into. I do know basically how the two underlying control systems function. The cpushares system (K8S CPU requests) cannot prevent a process from taking more shares. The CPU bandwidth control system (K8S CPU limits) will throttle a process at the upper limit, but processes will not be evicted by the kubelet for hitting this limit. So if you have a pod with requests set to 20m and limits set to 200m, those pods are able to take 200m. If the scheduler is using limits to fit pods then maybe you can get 3-4 of these on a 1 core node and leave enough CPU for the other system components. If it's using some weighted combination of limits and requests then it might place more than 3-4 pods on that node, each of which is then permitted to take up to 200m. Just a theory, and I am sure there are some folks here who know exactly how it works. Maybe we'll hear from someone.
Do this again, but this time with a better selection of genes? The outcome isn't a refutation of the approach, only of the particular gene drive. No reason why we can't do better next time.
> Inflation, […] has come to be viewed as inherent to the sovereignty of nations

This comment, talking about Germany, the one of the country that has had such a fear of inflation for almost a century, is highly ironic.
Of course I don't want people to have their families starve...but if you have a $150k job you're really very well off notwithstanding the financial obligations you may have taken on that would make it hard to quit. If it's really a problem, then start looking for ways to delay the project or leak the truth. It's important to protect your family, but also to be able to look them in the eye later on.
40K is just a soft limit. You can contact support to increase the limit to any number you like.

In OnDemand mode tables have practically no limits on throughput or storage (just like provisioned mode).

Disclaimer: I work for DynamoDB but comment is my own.
What would the alternative of content control be? I'd rather swap euros for libra than allow the Germans to decide what's in my news feed
> a desktop browser and Unix terminal would be enough, and these apps are not that demanding for the CPU.

That's called a tablet. You cal already browse, edit, and ssh from those. When I want a laptop I usually want something way more powerful that can build, run large software apps, run VMs, etc. I regularly max out all eight cores of mine for hours at a time.
Arcade. As the godfather of all RTS, Herzog Zwei, used.

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYfYrhT82RM
This is incredible news. So many genres of games came from these.
> Pretty likely that the kind of person trying to unionize at a company isn't fully focused on doing their work for the company.

Right. So anybody trying to unionize should be fired for non-performance, got it. /s
> Why don't American's like unions?

Unions are a layer of bureaucracy, red tape and an entity that cares more about the Union than anything else.

Add to that, as a conservative and right leaning individual, the last thing I want is be forced to donate to left leaning organizations that go against my best interests.

Color it for what you will... I think there are cases where Unions do important things. But most of those cases are long in the past and most unions today are Yet Another Bureaucratic Mess that is useless and leaches off of society as a whole.
-> deflation
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My life was destroyed due to age discrimination. Even with a masters degree and a CS degree I was pushed into homelessness and had to beg for food for nearly a year.

In order to escape my situation, I removed 19 years of work experience and joined a boot camp where 90% of the things that were explained were already known to me.

Last year a fresh hire (white male graduated from a second-tier US college) was making 50% more than all of us (mostly brown men in their 30s and 40s), not in the same position but at a lower one. Most of my co-workers are on H1b visas so they get underpaid that way. The other trick they use is to hire you as a contractor. All of this is happening at an Indian/American outsourcing firm which is where most of this stuff happens on a regular basis - at the bottom of the industry.

After 1000 applications I gave up trying to find a managerial role (with 10 years of managerial experience abroad, plus a top 10 MBA). I was passed on by companies who hired the younger mba candidates (I was 35 at the time). I went back to my country, got a green card, moved back to America and spent months trying to find a position. I settled for a position doing something that I used in my 20s.

For a lot of people, age discrimination is just a fairy tale. But the reality is very clear: millions of Americans are overqualified for their jobs (See this article by USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/27/study-...), millions more have left the IT industry, and millions more have lost their jobs due to outsourcing or younger hires. A large percentage of people in hiring positions see employees as cattle - hence they go for the younger ones. Experience is not quantifiable, and especially not by the laughable tests that companies use nowadays for recruitment.

My life was hard, I lived in the trains of Manhattan. I lined of for food in soup kitchens for nearly two years. To get out of my situation, I worked four odd jobs simultaneously. After the biggest suffering of my life only one thing pulled me out: I took 20 years out of my resume. I deleted awards, titles, certifications, international experience, newspaper articles, publications, you name it.

Today, the job market is very clear to me. Companies are trying to compete and will hire the best candidate they can find. But, as you age life gets more and more complicated and you might fail to land a good job. Maybe you are an immigrant and your English pronunciation is lacking, maybe you are not willing to pull all nighters, or maybe you are not as good with newer technologies. Maybe one of those things is at play, but what happens when you are hired, get the highest performance review (above all your coworkers), see the young college grad fired after only two months and reflect back on your situation?

At that point, like I did, you start to think about whether age discrimination is real. For me, it is.
I don't know. Are you saying the odds can be calculated? Presumably it's not impossible, and so it's fair to object to the post on the grounds that it's one-sided and doesn't fairly expose other viewpoints on what happened.
It's sad to see this approach being pushed so hard these days. I believe AWS recommends these things so your app becomes so deeply entrenched in all of their services that you've locked yourself into them forever.

Unfortunately I see a lot of mid and senior devs try to propose these architectures during interviews and when asked questions on integration testing, local environment testing, enforcing contracts, breaking changes, logical refactoring a lot of it falls apart.

There's a lot of pressure for those guys to deliver these sort of highly complex systems and all the DevOps that surround it when they enter a new company or project. Rarely is the project scope or team size considered and huge amounts of time are wasted implementing the bones since they skip the whole monolith stage.

Precious few companies are at the size where they can keep an entire Dev team working on a shopping cart component in perpetuity. For most it's just something that gets worked on for a sprint or two.

AWS made a fundamental assumption in this that monoliths and big balls of mud are the same thing. Monoliths can and should be architected with internal logical separation of concerns and loose coupling. Domain driven design helps achieve that. The other assumption that microservices is a fix to this isn't, because the same poor design can be written but now with a network in between everything.

I think this advice is worth a read, but it's not law. The most pragmatic approach to microservices is to start with a monolith and shave off the intensive parts to separate services as you need to.
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In the business world, an untested idea is a bad idea. Before spending millions of dollars designing, manufacturing and marketing a product, companies first have to figure out whether anyone even wants to buy it. That process is called market research.
Market research is big business. American companies spend billions of dollars each year on focus groups, product testing, interviews and surveys -- all in an effort to determine which logo is the catchiest, which flavor of potato chip is the most addictive and which pop song will be the next big hit.

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What a dysrationalist comment. I'm the last person anybody would call pro-union and I think this has all the smell of union busting.
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ISPs in Sweden have been working hard at "dis-earning" my trust. Telia shared user data to torrening blackmail companies and some other ISP apparently had many of their clients get blackmails concerning their porn surfing.

Cloudflare discloses what data it logs and with whom they share it (APNIC gets properly anonymised data that can only be used for limited purposes iirc).

My ISP has a blanket "we share your data with selected partners as a way to better provide you with our services" (as has all my previous ISPs). When I have time I am hitting them and my bank with GDPR requests.
> If you rob a bank you can't just give the money back if you get caught, and you certainly can't just give half of it back.

How much less oxycontin do you think they'd have sold if their advertising was less reprehensible?

Notably, Purdue produced some of the first extended-release opioid formulations on the market, which does have some real value even without exaggerated sales. It developed MS Contin (XR morphine) in 1984 and OxyContin (XR Oxycodone) in 1996. (CONTIN™ is Purdue's extended-release drug delivery system developed in the 70s.)

OxyContin was also the first "Abuse-deterrent Formulation" (ADF) approved by the FDA, for whatever value that has[1]. Today, ten such formulations are approved and of those, five are actually available.

So tl;dr, I don't think your metaphor is especially apt. They should be punished for their sales tactics, which were outrageous, but there seems to be this mentality that all opioid manufacture is evil, and I don't believe that.

[1]: https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid...
[Citation needed]

I think you are crossing a sea of assumptions to get to "pretty good".
Ok, fair enough. Then maybe do a google on this and read some more, see if stuff over and beyond the 'two tweets' is going to sway you that this is retaliation pure and simple.
Same.

FWIW, I've always treated the "vouch" feature as something to be used fairly infrequently, for somewhat exceptional cases. I don't know if that's actually the intent or not, but it "feels" like the kind of thing one shouldn't be doing all the time. shrug
So we go back to Iran either way. Except it's much easier for Iran to launch the attack from other parts of the world, and let the Houthis claim responsibility.

Note that it isn't even clear Iran has this range, the foiled attack on Israel suggested they don't, otherwise they'd have launched from further away.
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Traditional wipers show up even in shallow-focus closeups of people in the car, and they're immediately recognizable without explanation. It's like the ridiculously big UI elements in movie computer interfaces: for the benefit of the viewers, not the characters.
If you don't care about anything beyond your convenience then why should I care about what happens to you?
I think I see what you mean. I'm personally interested in generally applicable rules, so the fact that it could have worked in this case doesn't help me decide what to so when designing another system.

In the general case, the Ada behavior of detecting and signaling numeric errors seems to be the only robust choice to me. The alternative could only be acceptable if it's proven that the algorithms fail safe in the presence of tainted data.
First thing I thought of. Sliding tracks in a dirty environment are usually a headache, because of the big exposed bearing surface. There are solutions, involving bellows, seals, and such, but they're kind of overkill for a windshield wiper. Rotational bearings can easily be fully enclosed and lubricated.

Linear motors have been around for many decades, but are still a niche product.
The first commercial linear motor application was as banal as a windshield wiper. It was the 1962 "Electrac by Kirsch®"[1], a linear motor for draw drapes. Back then, large commercial buildings like air terminals were first getting big curved glass areas, and people expected them to have drapes. The string and pulley systems were not good with curves. So Kirsch came out with a linear motor unit that traveled along the drape track and pulled the drape. Multiple motors could run on the same track, for very wide drapes, so it scaled up well. Worked fine, cost too much, had 120VAC in the track.

I once expected linear motors to be a big thing in robotics, but that didn't happen.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=bdgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA164&...
The alternative is that all matters of security become political.

We've seen plenty of examples where politically controlled security forces have done terrible things to significant portions of the citizenry they are presumably there to "protect & serve."
The Lotus Exige (and the Elise I believe) has a single blade. It might have to do with the unusual curvature of the windshield.
Yes, it's likely that the kind of people unhappy with cushy jobs like this are just perpetually sour. It's not surprising they were fired; they are probably a constant drag on company morale.
Why would you expect them not to be? It's a big power shift no matter how you stand on it philosophically. They're probably not reacting much differently from any other entity in history that has had a certain amount of power, and has been forced by some entity with even more heft to give a chunk of it up.
"The drone, with a wingspan of 4.5 meters (14.7 feet), has a V-shaped tail fin. It’s powered by a rear-mounted engine and has been found with what appears to be extra fuel tanks welded it to, a U.N. panel of experts found. It carries a 18-kilogram (40-pound) warhead."
Ok, one story you'll only hear on HN. There was one notoriously very high payed engineer behind Battle.net. (I think they payed him $500k per year) Anyways, he loathed coming down to QA and intermingling with us minions. But one day he needed to come down and check out a bug in person. He pointed his arms like he needed to take a seat and look at the computer screen. He then pointed at me and without thinking I scurried to find him the nearest chair I could. But there was no such thing as a working chair on the QA floor. And as he sat down the entire chair collapsed and he fell back first on the floor. The QA manager gasped like I dropped the most expensive decorated egg in the world. But it was the most hilarious thing we've ever witnessed down there. After the incident he even stayed and played a round of X-Men vs StreetFighter so it was cool.
Isn't "inventor" just a meatspace word for "hacker"?
and fighting climate change. Earth worms release more green house gasses than cows that politicians seem to like going on about.
Really? I'd never dream of trying something like that except from a position of strength.
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On the surface, it looks similar to Telegram groups. What are the differences?
Tower defense maps were a thing back in the Starcraft days too, but the game engine was a big limiting factor. WC3 opened things up a ton.
'what are the chances' is a statement of incredulity indicating that the chances are likely to be on the low side which means the writer believes that something else is afoot.

The odds can't be calculated but I see no need for that, on a company the size of Kickstarter the chances of the three people who just happen to be busy trying to get a union organized after many years of otherwise uneventful employment are nil.

In theory pigs can fly, in practice, if you see a pig flying it is usually good practice to check which airborne vehicle they were tossed out of.
Even if it is sarcasm, it’s still illegal
So at a project that I was working on one of the compilation units got so unwieldy that the last part of the build process was basically waiting for it alone to compile (it contained a lot of template instantiations). The solution was of course to manually "shard" it into several files even if semantically it didn't make much sense. Now, you might argue that it was our shitty code that caused this but surely this is a fairly simple thing for a compiler to do automatically and not require the user do it.
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Not op but will take a stab. The comment was in response to:

“This is hyperbole at best. Facebook does not have an army”

Op was pointing out that power != war with guns

“Facebook is the most powerful private entity on the earth right now”

The comment was how power could be achieved via other methods of warfare-including the ability to shape conversations.

Another word for this would be competition. He has a point.
leaves out the commonly overlooked universe + phoenix combo
No sure why people are downvoting me for this.

But let me just say that, when I was at Square this was common knowledge and why that wasn't the first market we looked at.
Libra is not a cryptocurrency. It's a private payment system integrated into a global tech monopoly ecosystem masquerading as a cryptocurrency.
Much better link, suggest replacing mine with this article.
Blizzard knows their audience. I fully expect that the DotA maps are among their test cases. :)
Haven’t they seen the movie Mimic?! Shudders
I'm going to guess its because they're giving us what we expect, and can make sense of. Most spaceships have big hot engines of the type you'd probably unlikely to see on an actual spaceship, but we've been conditioned to expect big engines, so that's what we get.

Also there isn't really time in a film to explain away not needing wipers, so rather than risk having audiences thinking theres bad special effects because the rain that's falling isnt also falling on the windscreen, they just put wipers on and be done with it.

It could also be that that futuristic car you saw flying in, and can still see partially in shot is just a bog standard car that they've dressed to look like a flying car.
There isn't a single software engineer alive that hasn't made a negligible error. It's like penalizing doctors if their patient dies. The halting problem specifically prohibits a programmer from ever even knowing if they are without negligence or simply one iteration away from complete negligence. (ie integer overflow that occurred because the system was used longer than the original developer intended).

Also, I would wager that about 75% of bugs come from the seems of integrations where two peoples duties overlap. In that case who's fault is it if they both built half a bridge that doesn't line up?
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Visuals looks awful compared to what Valve achieved with source2 and dota2, but not sure if this fair comparison.
> You don't need to use it to suffer negative consequences due to a private foreign for-profit business controlling monetary policy.

And the track record of public, non-profit entities controlling monetary policy is ... great?
It's not questionable at all. It's undesirable.
To your above point about Vitamin A, some people can't convert vegetable forms of caratanoids to a useable AT ALL. It is entirely genetic in the same way that roughly half the world is lactose intolerant.

Natto does have K2, but that is not the common form that Westerners consume at all. Meanwhile soy has quite a lot of lectins and phytic acid that inhibits uptake of nutrients.

The thing is with a vegan diet it requires this carefully balanced cocktail of complex foods that require fermentation, sprouting, etc to get around the many trade offs in the diet. And people just pitch it as some cure all approach to human health.

Hong Kong eats 50% more beef per capita on average than Americans do and they're the 3rd longest living population in the world. The Sami (an indigenous group of carnivore reindeer herders in Northern Scandinavia) and Swedish people (mostly omnivorous) have comparable life expectancies, but the Sami suffer from lower rates of heart disease.

India has a very large population of vegetarians, and their life expectancy is less than 69 years.
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Maybe not "imposes" , it's voluntary participation. But there is no easy , not even intermediate route out of the Euro. And as money, it's not much different from a hard currency you can't control for countries that can't catch up with the developed economies of the north.
One could argue they have a higher GDP and population than most countries right now (all depends how you measure “power”) but I’m with you: if it went down tomorrow, I’m not sure what the world would actually be losing, nobody would die, and the world would keep spinning.