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The tax on consumers is appropriate because cell users should pay for the opportunity cost of removing the spectrum from other possible uses.

As to government review of business plans—the market is better at deciding what business models bring “better value to end users” than the government. We used to have exactly the model you suggest—the FCC would grant spectrum licenses based on its view of “the public interest.” It was a disaster—resulting in our current situation where huge amounts of spectrum are locked up in low value uses like over-the-air TV.
Because it has portals at the knuckle and finding a way to put brakes on that without massive rims would result in some janky packaging compromise. Also with the vehicle weight, wheel and tire size they run having the brakes benefit from the portal reduction sure doesn't hurt.
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> The selling point of 3G/4G/5G has been that they will have more bandwidth, so people can watch videos or use self driving cars.

In the cellphone commercial sure but in technical reality it's about device density. There is only one set of airspace and only certain chunks are useful for where we want to communicate; getting the most devices able to communicate has been the leading driver of RF planning and design for quite some time now. Bandwidth usually materializes out of a combination of more "slots" to talk and simply not using restrictions needed for 20 year old consumer hardware.
It's so bad that the majority of people from deprived areas of the UK, places neglected by their own national government but do receive millions in EU funding still believed they would be better off leaving the EU. It's total madness.
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virtualenv still requires internet access. You'd have to create a venv on destination machine and pip install your packages in. You can't scp a local venv onto destination machine and have it work.
There were multiple Leave campaigns. You can find plenty of leave campaigners saying they were going to keep the UK in the Single Market, for example.
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Founder here - yes I can appreciate that. I'm a fan of deep work. I've found that most teams jump in-and-out of rooms during the day and the original idea of hanging out together while you work hasn't really materialised.
This is 100% what I was reading between the lines and it become more and more clear as the article went on. This WAS a low performer that the company was trying to manage out the door.
I learned yesterday that the Koala population is projected to go extinct in 15 years because a highly virulent strand of chlamydia has rendered them infertile. Scientist are researching a cure for them.

So yeah, I guess incomprehensibly advanced technological interjection isn't unprecedented.
Your argument will make less and less sense over time, as it s not globalisation but remote work that will equalise those wages of the IT sector. What you say sounds resonable today, but not in 2 years, as remote workers become more sought after, valuable and demanding
1. I should have said "impossible" rather than illegal (although the consequence is still that it would be, well, illegal under EU law). That's the implication of what was reported in the Netherlands. For those who read Dutch, see e.g. https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/brandweer-dreigt-vrijwilligers-... and https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/vrijwilligers-b....

2. I was mainly talking about about (the effect of) overregulation in general, I did not say there is a specific regulation re volunteer firefighters. But if the implied problems become reality, it would be because of interpretation of laws and regulations.

Yes, there was a lawsuit in Belgium. And no, that's not the main issue that was reported here. Lawyers conducted a study of the practice of Dutch firefighting on behalve of the Ministry of Justice and Security, and concluded that the way our system is set up contradicts EU law. The main issue is that volunteer firefighters do almost exactly the same work as paid firefighers.

3. That's point 1.

4. This is exactly my more general concern about the EU: unintended consequences are inevitable when you are centralizing laws and regulations to the most detailed levels for over two dozen countries with very different contexts. There are plenty of EU laws and regulations for which I think the intent is very sensible, but where implementation can be problematic, or problematic for specific subsets of the regulation, or specific countries/regions.

5. I never said they happened, I said "will". Perhaps I should have said "may" since the problem might still be addressed somehow. But even if it is adressed, in the case of the Netherlands a massive change would be necessary. According to lawyers and law professors who have studied the problem in the Dutch context.

So no, not misinformation. I just worded it somewhat imprecise.
Is the jump to pure functions needed? I mean, nginx will happily include a cache lookup, or a random content in that transformation - that's very much not pure, but often desired.
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It travels faster because it travels "as the crow flies" instead of snaking through all the conduit for a fiber connection.
There are many types of "John"s out there. I worked for a John who was a highly accomplished engineer. It doesn't make it any better to have someone constantly micromanage you knowing that they are technical, it only makes it worse because you have to think to yourself "he might be right". But the thing about micromanagement is that it doesn't matter if the micromanager is right or not, it simply kills employee motivation to know that any energy and thought they put into their work is likely to be overruled based on a whim.
He is remembered as a man of great intelligence and a political philosopher gifted with formidable insight into Poland's current and future situation. He used his job to criticize and warn his contemporaries by the use of satire. His witty jokes often pertained to current political or court matters.

So Jon Stewart, essentially?
Hello everyone,

My name is Mike. I’m building a SaaS company (CEO/Co-f).

We are small, fully bootstrapped, profitable, didn’t take VC money. Very often, during interviews and in discussions, people ask me “What’s my attitude to overtime?”

I think it's very important question. So I decided to share my thoughts on the topic, plus give simple but actionable tips.

I'm interested to discuss the topic further. Please share your piece of advice.
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I totally agree. I have noticed that the implicit skepticism for the faculties of animals that you're picking up on is not just present in this research, but seems to represent the attitudes of psychologists and philosophers generally--or at least it does in my university.

Every time it came up in one of my classes (I'm thinking of three: epistemology, learning and cognition, and philosophy of language) there was always somebody around ready to act authoritative on the matter and squash the idea that animals are more capable than we think they are.

On two separate occasions, elsewhere on campus, I found conversations among students in those classes but not majoring in either philosophy or psychology (like myself) where there was unanimous agreement that those disciplines have a stick up their ass about the subject.

Maybe I should accept that they're more familiar with the research in this area than I am, and therefore probably just correct, but I'm inclined to suspect a more particular bias. Like maybe certain influential folk in the recent past tried to make an academic stand for the specialness of humans (if there's a place for such a stand, it's in philosophy or psychology) and their work only travels in certain circles, which makes the cliques stand out to us muggles.

I've found academic discourse to be quirky like that.
>> Mostly it's a process and tool issue, but still humans will rather just turn around and ask the team than spend a minute describing their issue on Slack/whatever.

I actually find it harder to understand people who prefer to call/talk rather than describe the issue in text.

First, when you have an e-mail/wiki/Slack - you've got a proper paper trail on who's responsible for what. Second, you've got a conversation you can always return to - so that you wouldn't need to ask about the details again and again. And third - you can send this conversation to someone else and they can understand what's happening.

Basically - my point is that for the issues that are worthy of a long conversation, screen is always better. Especially if you can add things like diagrams (e.g. graphviz) into the equation.

I am mostly not happy about people who are currently older at the offices (40+) and who think that chats are made as a replacement for the phone (e.g. you are supposed to say "hello", wait, then "hello" again, then to communicate in real-time).

One of the best collaborations I had was with I was 15 ~15 years ago. We had an IRC chat with a wiki. The team was all over the globe - and we made things happen without speaking to each other in real-time. We used wiki for documentation and chat for most of the communication that didn't need history.
Probably because of the readership, a lot of the discussions tend to assume small companies and teams.

As you say, while companies take different approaches, most large companies (or even medium large companies) has offices all over the world, teams that have grown and morphed through acquisition and reorganization, etc.

I have a couple different offices I could go into--daily if I wanted to--but most of the people I interact with are elsewhere and many of the people I do work with in those offices spend most of their time traveling and in meetings.

The situation may be different for small development teams of focused projects, but I'd be working across timezones every day whether I was in an office or not.
And you're better off without learning those things? Man, if there's a problem, especially with me, I need to know it.
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Thanks for trying it out!

Yes - there are, or will be, other special fields, such as 'transpose' (so table headers would go in the first column instead of the first row). I was still figuring out which flags should be included, which is why it was under-documented.

Never expected sub-tables as a use case. Displaying nested cells would require a substantial re-write, but having logically nested tables may work... you'd just need to call the table making boilerplate function manually.
I remember that question being hotly debated even before Dookie came out. Hard to believe this is still something people quibble over. Let’s get back to tabs vs spaces ;)
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Ah it was already on the list, I didn't realise
Do people game that system? Start work in a high col area and then secretly move?
2G is horrible compared to 4G or 5G efficiency. Please do homework.
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You’re still paying for it. It’s part of your compensation. The last time I looked a couple of years ago, between what we were paying and the company it was $1000 a month.

as well as the fact that paying for insurance out of your own pocket entirely is unfeasible, when I was contracting I was paying like $400 - $600 for health insurance I barely used (I can't remember the exact number, but it was a hit),

If you assume you work 1800 hours a year and your insurance is $600 a month, it’s $4/hour you add to the amount you charge per hour. (Insurance is pretax).
Last time I've tried to use TypeScript was in a NativeScript project, but webpack was throwing out of memory errors during compilation of my small app.

(however, I'm not an experienced web developer, so it could be because I did something wrong)
Aside from the altruistic utility, this seems like a great way to get to know a new place in a certain kind of deep detail, in the same way i find that taking a photo of something makes me really look at it.
If this is accurate, it's not quite as simple as that: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-...
But small numbers are judged to be low risk, the main health problems have to do with concentrated commercial chicken farming.
People are both complex and can change though. Maybe we should give up our worst aspects as we grow and learn. Figure out your core essence and protect it; identify the accidental and be open to alternatives.

I know that as my experience has accumulated i care about a few things more and all things a lot less. O also better understand life is a spectrum of many different perspectives, versus the black or white zealot i was in my younger days...
Well, it would not be a proper rant if it wasn't as verbose.
I've added a couple of (non-clinical) buildings to my local hospital in London. I've also added some department locations. Tempted to say that counts as meaningful but the low-tech solution of good signage is, IMO, the best way to help people get around the place.
There's no future Jobs or Stallman who is going to change the status quo of technology, but be agreeable and not neurotic.
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I can relate to this! There's a slight misconception about this being 'always-on'. It's supposed to get across that the rooms are always available to use and that the URL doesn't change.

I need to work on the copy.
That is true that the best players are better than he was, but they did not play during his era so the comparison doesn't seem particularly important. He did not have access to the same information, the same solvers, the same top level players. If he had access to these things, then he would have played at an even higher level than he did.
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Also, the consumer usually thinks that $399 is closer to $300 than to $400, which is the exact reason why prices ending by 9 are used. The first step toward consumer friendly marketing should be abandoning such ignoble psychological tricks.
25/year used to be the norm, but is less so these days.

Now more and more are moving towards a heavier backloaded vesting schedule. Schedules that are 10/20/30/40 or 15/25/25/35 are more and more common at big tech co.

It can make sense as well, if it takes you a certain period of time to ramp up, once you've ramped up you contribute more value and they want to retain you more there. Yes it is a mechanism to lock you in, but it's not wrong to see why the employer would want to do it. Though yes, you can also get stuck in crap work because they know they can get away with it. Then it's up to you how much you want to deal with that.
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Well, it's written by the boss of the Babylon Bee so it's not likely to be impartial...
Some further info on Work Profiles from Google: https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949?hl=en
So what we've learned from this thread is:

* Chinese firms are hiring plenty of locals and not importing labor as commonly accused of from your own personal experience

* Chinese investments are investing plenty, even in AI, and not just extracting commodities

* By investing, Africans are building real skills and developing their own AI talent pool

Really makes you wonder why we here in America just ignore Africa.
The current system is absolutely prohibiting good science from being done, through incentive structures on the faculty tenure/review process weighing heavily towards frequency/quantity of published material. faculty review processes are mostly new to the last 10-20 years ("accountability" suddenly became a thing in academia), as the quantity of published material has gone up by orders of magnitude more than the number of researchers.
This effect has a name, The Simpsons paradox [0]

The graph in [1] explains it much better than any words could.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
[1] https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/understanding-simpsons-par...
In terms of making money, probably high up there. In terms of skill I highly doubt he would be in the top 100.
Still? No. Did they ever? Yes. I would never touch Nimrod, but I'm not at all embarrassed to still listen to Kerplunk.
I’m focusing on a few elements to get started (other than a few old paths and trails that were not mapped):

- street lighting (helpful for people trying to make global maps of safer streets for walking at night)

- small features: benches, trash bins, dog waste disposal bins

- stores and shops with as much information as possible (opening hours, contact information, etc.)

Once I’ve finished those (there’s a lot left to do, so I expect it to take a few months), I’m not sure what I’ll do next.
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People are all fine and dandy with the status quo until they fall on the wrong side of a dispute involving their money.

Perhaps those cryptocurrency wackos aren't so crazy after all. Perhaps.
Discord was certainly an inspiration here, as well as the now-defunct Sqwiggle. I'm seeing some teams using it like that, but most of them like to jump in-and-out of the room during the day as needed.
That's a fantastic idea! there's something like focusmate.com to do something similar, 1 hour blocks of being on video with another person, both of you share your goals in the first minute, and then mute microphones, work and then recap at the end of the 50 minutes session
>I think what they really want is a vim extension for VSCode, customised just for them?

Exactly. But they don't want to write it themselves.
That is not an option if they want to continue to operate in Canada. They are in plain violation of the law if they refuse to deal with entities that deal with Cuba.
There's nothing in this that requires pet keepers to register their animals. There's no specific mention of chickens (a few mention of "chicks or hatchlings of other species")

If for some reason you believe "obligation of operators to register establishments" would apply to individual pet owners (I don't believe it does, as earlier in the document "pet keepers" are separate from "operators") - there's a clause to allow exceptions: "Member States may exempt from the registration requirement certain categories of establishments posing an insignificant risk"

The only thing in the entire document that applies to "pet keepers" is ... [to] be responsible for:

(i) the health of kept animals;

(ii) prudent and responsible use of veterinary medicines, without prejudice to the role and responsibility of veterinarians,

(iii) minimising the risk of the spread of diseases;

(iv) good animal husbandry;

There are some further restrictions to do with moving pet animals between member states
I used to play online poker a lot in the early 2000s.

What's really interesting between Stu's era and today (or even the last 20 years) is technology.

Live poker is a pretty slow game. You might get 30 hands in per hour and play with 5-15 other people (rotating in / out) during a few hour time span. The bottleneck is mainly the physical action of moving cards around, counting chips and slow players due to the environment.

But online is a totally different game. You could pretty easily play 4 tables in parallel by tiling them on your monitor. Then there was software you could run that overlays stats about every player you encounter (collected automatically). You gathered tremendous amounts of data that you could then analyze in real time to help make decisions and then also look at a hand by hand audit with those stats to help evaluate your game after the fact.

Some people ended up playing 10+ tables at once (even at pretty high stakes), and an online game can easily get 90 hands per hour just on a single table. So if you do the math, you could be cranking through 900 hands an hour vs 30 in a live scenario. That's 30x more hands played per hour. If you factor in playing for tens of thousands of hours, the amount of experience you can gain online in such a short amount of time is crazy. You could put in many millions of hands online vs low hundreds of thousands live, and then have a ton of data to help figure out the game better.

1 year of playing online like that gives you 30 years worth of experience. Of course it's not as high quality of experience since 10 tabling is tough, but even if you dropped it to 5 tables, that's still condensing 15 years worth of live play in 1 real life year online. So it's no surprise that players now have a huge upper hand in being able to improve their game.
Eh. In some aspects, sure. But everything sent to your pager is trivial to intercept, as it is simply sent in clear text.
I take the parent comment to mean it's impressive that a community project outperforms one backed by a multi-billion dollar company - i.e. it's a compliment.
How does the US prevent the sale of dual-SIM phones? Most likely, it doesn't, they just don't sell them here because no one would buy them. I'm pretty sure you can get one off eBay and use it if you want.

There's a lot of things you can't easily buy in the US, but it's not because of some grand conspiracy, it's because American consumers wouldn't buy enough of those things to make it profitable to sell them. PC computers pre-loaded with Linux is one example (it's been tried, multiple times). Another example is "washlet" toilet seats, which almost every toilet in Japan is outfitted with. They were invented in the US, but good luck buying one here, though any appliance store in Japan will have them. They don't sell them in America because almost no one would buy them, because Americans just aren't as hygienic as Japanese.
It feels as if Japan decided one day to just stop progressing. Lots of little things like this along with flip phones still being popular seem to emphasize a sort of complacent stagnation. That’s probably a little to harsh, but there’s definitely a feeling of slowness to me.