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IIRC, Jan didn’t threaten to fire them. She simply asserted that unionization would cause them they would lose their jobs because Dunder Mifflin would close down the branch if the workers unionized, as apparently had happened at another branch.

So not advocating that we use The Office (a sitcom) as a reference for American labor law, but I think Jan’s statements might be permissible. As long as her reasoning is that the increased cost of the workers being in a union will lead to the branch closing, not that the branch would be closed in retaliation, it would be fine.

Companies can and often do complain that if workers are in a union, the company’s operating costs will increase, which will consequently have adverse effects on the workers like layoffs, plant closings and so on.

To be clear, this is my understanding of legal issues in a sitcom. I am not necessarily advocating Jan’s point of view, our labor laws as they stand, or anything else.
Companies that import drugs or precursors from China should independently test the product. Use a block chain to enforce trust.
Did you intend to equate a unionbusting corporation with MLK? He is spinning in his grave at the thought.
Wolfram has a GPT-2 interface that can be beckoned with two lines of code: https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/user-900a994f-78ab-4931-b18...
It's a pity this submission was flagged very quickly. Agree or disagree, the main idea underlined by the article is something that needs to be very much discussed in the US. Sadly, platforms for this discussion have decreased greatly to near nil. It also seems to be too much for HN.
What do you think was the cause of the underperformance of your Stan model?
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Add to that, in real world conditions very few battery packs can reach 160-170Wh/kg (and hold it after years of use,) while 140Wh/kg LFP been a reality for the last 5 years.

They can be more fully charged and discharged, while other lithium cells have to overprovision massively to extend the battery life. This alone makes it so that energy density advantage of NCA cells is thrown out of the window if you count the effective battery pack capacity with BMS sparing cell life.

And in comparison to NCA cells, LFPs are much, much cheaper, exactly because of the aforementioned cobalt and nickel use. Phosphates are, after all, spent by tonnes as a fertiliser.

Add to that that have a very, very rare trait among chemical batteries — they are stable at high temperatures.

This allows for making them work in very hot climates without liquid cooling which would've added a lot to cost and weight.

It also allows them to take more regen current, and therefore they don't suffer from as big range reduction from "regen choke" in hot climates. From the above, we also get their higher charge current tolerance, meaning that they can be charged faster.

Another very useful trait is their resistance to swell, offgassing and high dimensional stability. This allows for bigger, higher volume fill ratio cells, reducing the battery pack size, and thus its housing mass. Near all "brick" cells are LFP for this exact reason.

They age more evenly, unlike other chemistries, and that too contributes to ease of making bigger cells, and lessen the need for battery balancing, reducing charging times.

EV makers are stuck with small 18650s because it is very hard to increase cell sizes without not worrying about swelling. And the lower volume to area ratio of 18650s also lead to noticeable mass disadvantage.
I find how Facebook continues to actually push for Libra astounding.

I was at Best Buy the other day, and as I was browsing through the home automation shelves, my eyes were quickly attracted by an ugly logo, blue over white with an atrocious font -> "Facebook Portal".

While I did remember hearing about Facebook plans to just, build this home camera+microphone connected thing, never would I imagine a remote universe where this product would actually hit the shelves. In fact, I naively always thought there are these teams called product and marketing that among other things are supposed to analyse the market and predict consumer reactions. I might be entirely wrong of course but I never ever imagined a world where such a product could be sold to a customer while being branded Facebook at the same time.

I have exactly the same feelings about Libra. A currency controlled by a corporation is a "no thanks" to begin with, but in the case of Libra we are talking about the last corporation anyone with a sane mind would ever consider (a bit of exageration here but let's say, one of the worst). I seriously have a hard time understanding how those evidences are not determined internally before communicating such plans publicly. It is either trolling, or there is a serious problem of isolation and there might be a yes men plague in this company.
There is actually historical precedent for this. From "Rewilding the world" (a great book I highly recommend) we find this about the Terai region of Nepal:

>But in the mid-1950s, His Majesty’s Government of Nepal launched a massive mosquito-eradication program, and malaria) was vanquished. Subsequently, the population of the valleys tripled, with a flood of humanity moving down from the hills, where life was harder and agriculture poorer. The influx caused a rapid carving up of the entire Terai, from east to west, and turned it into the rice bowl of Nepal. Until the 1960s, the Terai was _ thickly populated with elephants, most of which were wiped out when the area was converted to agriculture, leaving a tiny remnant group in the west. Indeed, due to such habitat loss, the Asian species is far more endangered than the African, with only forty to fifty thousand left in the wild. Athough heavily logged and converted to agriculture, the Terai still contained forested pockets that held untold riches in endemic plants, bird species, and three of the most endangered large mammals on earth: Asian elephant, Bengal tiger, and the greater one-horned rhino. In addition, there were two perilously endangered freshwater species, the gharial crocodile and the Gangetic dolphin.
This is the first time I've heard of something like this. I grew up in Greece during the mass deflation of the currency and people wouldn't accept anything but cash. Interesting to learn that it works both ways.
But if Hitler’s rise teaches us anything, it’s that the establishment trivialises demagogues at its peril. One disturbing aspect of the present crisis is the extent to which mainstream parties, including US Republicans and British Conservatives, tolerate leaders with tawdry rhetoric and simplistic ideas, just as Papen, Hindenburg, Schleicher and the rest of the later Weimar establishment tolerated first Hitler and then his dismantling of the German constitution. He could not have done it in the way he did without their acquiescence. Republicans know Trump is a charlatan, just as Conservatives know Johnson is lazy, chaotic and superficial, but if these men can get them votes, they’ll lend them support.
What are the hopeful uses for making ever more absorbing black materials?
Kindly re-read the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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So what is the reason of Germanys success? Or Israels or the UK? Oppression of black people?
this highly depends on what kind of ethics and culture your goverment has compared to what facebook has.
Avoiding being a hypocrite is not ignoring anything. It's if you think carbon emissions are bad, maybe you shouldn't hop on a private plane every week to tell people about it on another continent. Maybe you could do it using such modern marvels as video and internet, or at least use commercial air travel which would spend almost the same amount of energy to carry 300 people as was previously spent carrying just you and your personal chef (you can't propose one could travel without personal chef, right?!).

I get when some TV talking head is worried about environment. Good for them. But before lecturing my on my carbon footprint, maybe they could take at least some effort to deal with theirs, which is probably like 100x bigger than mine, and unlike me giving up my car (which would make me almost unemployable and unable to get food or basic goods in many places in US) reducing it to 50x would not cost them anything but a slight inconvenience. After they do that, maybe I will believe they are serious and not just fashionably posturing.
Web developpers had a similar habit. It eventually got a name: "the javascript fatigue".
But can the human eye tell the difference?
That's a pretty fine line to draw:

"Due to increased costs (read: unions), we're reducing/eliminating employment."

"Due to decreased productivity (read: FMLA), we're reducing/eliminating employment."

I guess it works. I don't really understand this stuff.
Only in cases when it's very clear satire, I think. Things get tricky when the title of your book is easily interpretable as a call for action to assault people, especially when Richard Spencer has been sucker-punched in public before. If a book named "Always Punch Hillary Clinton" was posted on Kickstarter a month after someone sucker-punched Hillary Clinton in the face as she was walking down the street, I bet the listing wouldn't be up for long. Of course those two people aren't anywhere near the same level, and I have no sympathy for Spencer in general, but battery is battery.
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In my opinion, if you could afford $35,000 for a Vantablack wrist watch, you can afford another $35,000 for this one too haha. I doubt many of those purchasers were on the bubble.
Kickstarter is not a damned tech company. This whole stinking “tech” economy can’t crash fast enough. A 2000’ish reset is needed to get rid of the dogfood.coms.
Again, this is an application bug. It's well known that you need to chdir after chroot and be careful with file pointers acquired before chroot. This behaviour could, arguable, be considered a feature of chroot, albeit a footshoot-y one. Either way, a program behaving in that way is flawed and should be fixed (which is usually not that hard).
I find a lot of parallels with the French Enlightenment and HK.

It caught my attention because I'm listening to Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon by Suzanne M. Desan on Audible.

Soon the course will cover the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille. Apparently it's common in history for societies facing extreme tension to have groups rise up and loot military garrisons (lest they starve). Thankfully, this doesn't happen as often because societies let their people participate in the future of their country by voting.

Backing up though, in last weeks audible lesson, I learned coffee shops were popular in pre-Enlightenment France for people to discuss their disapproval of the rulers and ideas for a new system (Voltaire loved coffee). During this time, plain clothes police would write dossiers on the speakers. The French had a name for them, "flies". This reminded me of claims on /r/hongkong spotting infiltrators blending in with protesters.

I hope HK protesters don't suffer unnecessarily for being targeted for political disagreements. From the news, protesters are interpreted as a national security / subversion concern, if this is true, doesn't that sort of contradict the 2 systems concept?

If HK can have their system, how can the law be improved if citizens can't communicate their feelings without harassment / surveillance? Wouldn't chilling of expression / speech spoil a system where the people rule?

The French Revolution had many differences, but the core of it is people were allowed to think, have self-rule, and wouldn't be bullied when they communicated displeasure it sucked they starved while aristocrats ate well (among a trove of other things).

In HK, wouldn't having more direct rule by the people result in new laws to ease the housing costs and make people feel pride, inclusion in their own region?

With this enthusiasm for liberty and democracy surging through HK, it's only a matter of time until they are granted universal suffrage forever, since PRC agreed that they are a separate system and always intended this level of freedom and flexibility for them.
Right. Ads don't generate substantial income for the book authors. And TFA actually complains about that, as the context for bringing up the supposed flow from "information wants to be free" to ads.

But now that I think of it, ads do reflect the fact that "information wants to be free". But in this case, it's information about users, which gets monetized through behavioral advertising markets.
If we were to shine a light into vantablack in a dark room ~0.04% would be reflected but it would be enough make the object visible. So, it is possible to differentiate both paints in those conditions.

https://petapixel.com/2016/07/25/human-eye-sensitive-can-det...
Whoa loved this reference to Jurassic park, watched the movie for the 100th time yesterday, "life finds a way" I believe is the quote.
Most HKers would not see that as a problem. The city thrived under British rule.
Contained single-engine failure / blade failure and explosive charge inside engine are two different cases.

Modern turbofan engines are designed to contain a total blade failure. I'm not aware that they're designed to mitigate a charge detonated within compressor or turbine stages.
Yup, someone clearly doesn't know much about the history of Florida, which was swampy and mosquito invested and only really became inhabitable after the invention of air conditioning and when terraforming become advanced enough to drain swampy areas. It was basically continental America's last frontier.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/08/hurricane...
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You can't fire 2 million+ people in a city with a population of 7 million
Haha. Funny how one little trick can really make a product.
Holy crow I'm excited. These are high quality and very accessible.
How is cancer related to gmo? You know what is also bad? Traffic jam and rain. And flu. And clowns, I hate them.
could it be because of you all's browsers? i am using Chrome on a Mac and i just played both games. no problem at all on my side with the animations.
Brain-inspired computing could tackle big problems in a small way
"capital controls" generally includes foreign exchange controls, i.e. restrictions on conversion to foreign currency and local use of foreign currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_controls
I'm quite fond of the idea of a decentralized currency that nobody has the ability to actively control becoming popular. That would act as a hedge against abuse of power by both governments and corporations.

A currency used worldwide, controlled by a corporation, and under the influence of the US government would be the exact opposite, and is not a thing I want to see succeed.
Terrific. Excellent. Thx.
I'm absolutely NOT an expert. I'm a hobbyist-citizen-scientist-whatever-its-called trying to build out a better mosquito catcher that keeps them intact so they can be studied in a lab to count local species populations and hopefully disease rate. I'm trying to build an dirt cheap one that can easily be made by anyone in the world. Current issue is really the attractant to get the biggest "net" of species. Different species are attracted in different ways. CO2 producers are the main go to currently. I'm trying to find a better alternative.
Not the OP, but... Strictly in phones I can buy today? Not really. Plausibly in phones (or something in a normal household) in the next 3-6 months, sure.

I'm just tired of hearing about battery advances in labs that never make it out to me. Just let me know when I should be prepared to change my purchasing decisions.
The ncaa is just legal slavery. That includes college baseball.
Very strange claims. Citation please?
https://github.com/LanikSJ/slack-dark-mode

That is a much better dark mode for Slack but it's still not good enough. The channel list is still very offensive.
I worked remotely for years, then went back to an office environment, now am fully remote again.

If it's up to me, I'm going to be a remove senior dev for the rest of my life. No more offices.

There is absolutely no need. I work on very complex projects and am disciplined, but outside of that there is nothing special required. I discuss issues via Slack, we have occasional team video/voice chats when discussing issues that involve the whole team, and then carefully track issues in JIRA.

Can I play video games all day? Yes, and if the work doesn't get done I'll be fired. It's the same as being in an office. You get assigned work, you either do it or you don't do it, and if it's good and ready when it's due you either do more work or you're fired.

Zero issues with any of it ... and I'm not going back.
Those women were all nursing the children they had with the men, so the men had a strong motivation to keep them well fed.

Besides that, the gathering side of the equation, which the women were in charge with, is generally a lot more reliable on a daily basis than hunting.
It seems like React without the JSX. Why would I want to use it?
Don't know why it's loading the counter sample. But if you click composition on the right output pane, it will load the composition sample.
It's possible they have too much opinion in the "above the fold" section you're talking about, but counting them by link seems misleading. I'm seeing about 2/3 of the space being news and 1/3 as opinion. The opinion pieces are more numerous because they are individually given less space.
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They've also been associated with places like Finland, Israel, France, and the UK. Capital controls are just a necessary enforcement mechanism for attempts to control the exchange rate of a currency.
> A similar punitive conservatism can be seen in our own time.

Puritans, Calvinists, etc., were also punitively conservative, yet founded many of today's extant democracies.
>So what is the reason of Germanys success? Or Israels or the UK? Oppression of black people?

You're pretending that my comment was arguing that oppression of black people is the only reason for any success by any population, which would of course be an absurd and easily refuted claim, when it explicitly argues otherwise, as would be obvious from even a cursory reading of it in good faith.

You need to put a bit more effort into constructing your strawmen, this one was mostly hollow.
4000^3 cells is extremely large for a PiC simulation and the dispersion free Maxwell solvers are indeed state of the art (without them this simulation would be impossible and scaling those solvers is quite hard), but the 2 particles per cell is worryingly low, even for a 3d simulation with high order particles. Right now I can not read the supplemental material so I am not sure to which degree this was validate with more particles in2d, but if nature does not behave like this simulation, that is going to be the reason.

Source: I write PiC codes for a living.
>everything from Chinese origin or everything manufactured in China?

Not sure what the difference is between these two.

It's not that every item from China is tainted, it's that the supply chain isn't as trusted and that leads to a higher rate of contaminated products.

>Because in the case of the latter it seems that pretty much everything these days is manufactured there.

Yes, it's a real pain to source alternative products. I used to love the convenience and price of Alibaba, Amazon, and the other front ends for the modern miracle that is Shenzhen. But once I started to read up more on the science of toxic chemicals behind it, it radically changed my view and it's hard to go back.
In the limit: "smart dust" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust

I think, if we can ensure that the panopticon is self-reflexive, we may force ourselves into a kind of Golden Age (or Gilded Cage depending on one's attitude, eh?)

Mrs. Grundy as omniscient tyrant.
reducing stray photons in instruments, you only want those that go through your lens array, not those bouncing off the housing.
I'll lay down a guess that having a better understanding of EM spectrum absorption -- in any wavelength -- likely has all kinds of applications. Better stealth technology, improved shielding for EM emitters, and possibly improved reflectors as well.
From your link "A court may decide that you breached a contract with the parking operator and that you must pay the charges."

I don't understand how free parking satisfies the elements of a contract. There is no consideration. This would make sense if you paid for parking (thereby forming a contract) and overstayed (breach of contract).

Can you explain that for me?
Wipers work well, with minimal complexity.

Many airliners already use heated window panes for de-icing. Heated windows don't work all that great in a downpour, and wiping is a simple and faster acting alternative.

Blasted air is used minimally for windscreens, but it's a common plane de-icing method for the rest of the vehicle.

The complexity and weight of using spinning windows on planes makes that idea a non-starter.

hydrophobic coatings are also in use, but are generally avoided for the duty of primary windscreens due to most hydrophobic coatings lacking durability to physical stress and contact.
I have been thinking about getting a washing bag like the guppyfriend. Anyone knows if they actually work?
The concern should be another angle as I tried to post another thread. More about the importance of people and media. Whilst anarchies is not useful, all gov cannot be trusted totally.
FWIW:

“All of us organizing with KSRU are committed to the mission of Kickstarter, and will continue to support creators currently on the platform and in our alumni network. We are not calling on creators who rely on Kickstarter to abandon live or planned projects.”

“That said, we deeply appreciate the support from our community. The work we are doing is not only in service of employees, but the artists, makers, and backers throughout the Kickstarter ecosystem. We’re all in this together.”

-https://mobile.twitter.com/ksr_united/status/117251195128248...
Yes, just the general about page for the Google Open-Sourced Plus codes makes clear that they have thought of and solved at least a half dozen major issues ignored by the What3 group.

Just check the topics: Free, Accessible Offline, Easy to Use, Non-Exclusive, Independent of Borders, Identifiable, Works in Unmapped Places, Variable Precision, Useful of Navigation (e.g.,nearby places have similar codes). . .
Your point is taken. Looks like I wasn't much clear, but 1 atm is a sure huge amount of pressure, it's not likely that an animal would have this blood pressure, it could at most get some small partial savings from high pressure.
Who said it should be a tutorial? I agree on that point it's not a how to, and a tutorial is probably a contradiction for the topic.

That doesn't mean it can't discuss practicalities. Plenty of advanced papers, blog posts, documentation, experiments, whatever, discuss engineering realities because they feel like it.

The reality is some things are less intuitive and require more outside the problem thinking than others.

If someone is writing about how binary trees work alone, not concurrent programming as well as is done here, there's little point to considering applications because it's simply useful to know and apply the concept so often.

However this one is an edge case, and even when you need it I would doubt many seasoned engineers wouldn't still benefit from contextual considerations from the author.
> How easy would it be maintain or enhance this kind of code? Would you get emails like "...we have a few bugs in the 16-way interleaved multithreaded binary search code, who wants quickly get those cleaned up...".

Harder than the naive binary search, but that's a good thing, because the guy who maintains the library code to do these parallel searches likes hard problems in low level programming.