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Yeah, I have a similar employee. Pretty much no matter what task I assign him, unless I spell out down to precise detail how to implement it, he will go off-stack to do it. Or if he stays on-stack he will insist on completely refactoring the code, creating his own library (which several times he has done and then asked to open source) or in some other way dramatically upending whatever code he is working with. At this point I'm not sure what to do because he is the most productive employee in terms of simply "getting things done", but I consider him almost dead weight in the sense that he creates almost as much technical debt (in an odd sense because its often forward looking - using tech newer and more fancy that what we are running, or just disrupting code everybody already understood so everybody has to relearn it) as he contributes usable code with everything he does. A couple of times I've forced him to go back and rewrite using our stack but it doesn't seem to be changing his behavior.
Does not seem recently updated: "Updated: 13:29 EDT, 16 January 2019"
This is a big stretch.

A radar manufacturer claims they can detect an F-35 which was equipped to be detectable but the radar maker claims that the devices uses to make the plane visible to radar didn't matter because they were tuned to a different frequency.

They're just selling radars.

The thing about stealth is that a tiny aberration can turn an invisible plane into a flying barn. It doesn't matter if the devices used to make the plane visible were for different bands, it's radio, nothing is exact. They obviously made the plane visible to more than just the target design.

On another level, there are various maintenance things that are done to make the plane stealthy when in operation that wouldn't be done going to an airshow.

And finally, no one says the F35 is totally invisible to radar in all circumstances. It is especially detectable after it has passed your current position. The value of the stealth is that you don't detect it until it's on top of you or has already fired on you.

In a real air-superiority fight, F-22 and whatever other classified drones and planes would be the first wave and clear out a path for the less stealthy but more versatile F-35.
It definitely indicates a brigade when multiple reviews have the same improbable misspelling though...
Re: Historically, following a war, there are too few husbands to go around.

While perhaps true, if the present condition is a roughly even mix, then tension builds.
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I'm glad he wrote his opinion and didn't self censor. Hopefully he has good friends who support him, must be awkward to read all these misappropriations and the many personal details.
> Tax.

You know what happens when you tax people too much and they don't like it, right?

Otherwise, I'm with you on that one.
His crime is sufficiently distateful that I dont want to defend him specifically. But the overall subject raises interesting questions about enforcement of laws and their applicability as enforcement approaches perfect. (ie 100%)

For example consider speeding laws we can actually approach perfect enforcement using GPS data and engine management. But then the question becomes how does the archaic law morph when perfectly applied? Should _every_ driver who _ever_ speeds be charged the fine? That is roughly every driver every time they drive whom uses the highways near me. And how often should they be charged? Each time they exceed the speed limit (for example if speedlimit is 65 and I brake to 64, then speed to 66 several times, is that several tickets?) ...

I suspect that most of our laws have been written without grace/forgiveness knowing that we used to only catch a small percentage of perpetrators, and likely the most egregious of them (assuming frequency & magnitude would increase probability of being caught). What ought do if that percent sky rockets, but the laws were designed for the former value?
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What a fragile free market.

You're telling me that the free market requires willing selflessness of players to function? That sounds more like the ghost of Christmas than the invisible hand to me..
That already exists, housing will cost less near airports, which in turn reduces property taxes or rents for people living near the airport.
The graph makes me suspicious about the PPP component (it looks like normalized to US dollars?). I mean if it is completely adjusted for cost of living and everything (rent, food, etc) this seems off. Half the world is at $2k equiv?

I don't know how you could live in the US if you just made $2k/yr. Even if rent was entirely free. I'm a grad student and eat a lot of lentils, rice, eggs, and beans. $2k a year is pretty easy to blow through on just food (That's $167/mo, which is doable but not reasonable). What am I missing that is being captured here? I literally don't know anywhere in the US (I've lived in some pretty cheap and desolate areas) that you could do $2k for just rent in a year. I mean the poverty level is like $12k and you have to find really really cheap housing and eat a lot of lentils and rice to survive on that.

What am I missing? Is 50% of the world that malnourished? Are things like food and rent not being explicitly bought and thus not included? Combinations?
God, Kara Swisher is perhaps the most annoying tech journalist on the planet. Her "analysis" consists of inserting random name-drops that are completely unrelated to the topic at hand and then regurgitating the analysis of smarter people without any additional value add.

It seems Kara Swisher's entire reason for existing is for expressing disdain. In any organization she'd be that political person who adds no value to projects but rises due to her expertise at networking and name dropping.

I much prefer the journalists on the Economist podcast and the people on The Weeds (Vox) and FiveThirtyEight.
Its absolutely ridiculous that people are down voting you. I'm not eating bugs.
Actually the opposite is true: https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/90556/eib-200..... There was a significant rural to urban net migration during boom economies which slowed to zero during both the early 2000s recession and the 2008 recession. And in fact there was a small migration from urban back to rural during the last recession.

The unemployment rate in Iowa peaked at a little more than half the national unemployment rate in 2009-2010.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21119949
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"climate change and environmental degradation have serious effects on human health"

This is not how science works.
That's an unfortunate alignment, because those foods that are packaged and marked with calorie counts are the very ones that are more likely to leave you wanting to eat more calories than you need.

Whole foods are harder to get an accurate count for, but seem to leave me feeling full after consuming a more reasonable number of calories.
Everything I'd read suggests that Avid Media Composer gets along just fine with 4K video on a (non-Pro) iMac, if you bump up to a Core i9, Radeon 580, and 32G of RAM or so. The eGPU or the iMac Pro would be nicer, but the base iMac is still powerful enough it's not going to make you hate life. There were 4K movies being edited on less powerful machines just a few years ago, after all. :)
"Most" is probably not the case at all.

I have several friends who talk about moving somewhere cheaper, but way more of them are perfectly happy to live in an awesome city with lots of stuff to do.
Well I'm not an American or native speaker, it's rude to think we all live in the same culture and moral code too.

The other threads show that there has never been a complaint about misgendering anyone on purpose but the new CoC lays out bunch of very difficult to characterize commandments.

The biology has to do with it that no matter what we decide how to speak in society, it doesn't inherently change the fact sex has very much biological meaning and words don't change that. That is the belief consideration we give a lot of power even though we should not.
>> without addressing the obvious point that an iPad can be a million things other than a piano.

I think you're missing the point. He's saying we should work toward creating a new kind of technology where the ipad would really feel like a piano when you're on the "piano app", but feel very differently for other apps.

What you're saying is that you don't think that such technology could ever exist; BV thinks otherwise and he's working toward that vision. He's also saying that we shouldn't take the future for granted as if a technology will just suddenly appear. It takes hard work, funding and a clear vision.

I can think of a few ways about how we could add tactile touch to a dynamic interface (I.e. turning a piano 2D screen to a real experience). VR is going in that direction (to see 3D from a 2D screen) and you can imagine some sensors at the tip of your fingers where depending where you touch you'd feel something different. Again, that's just an idea, there are many ways it could be achieved.
Because there are many less expensive ways to defend against drones than using drones. It has been considered and rejected. The cost is even more asymmetrical in favor of defense than implied by using defensive drones.
Or consider that the Nordic countries are confused when US politicians call their countries Socialist. I think the problem is that the word "Capitalism" (and "Socialism") are very high level terms but people use them to represent very specific ideas. So there is a huge breakdown in communication and everyone is just talking past one another (we could probably say this about quite a few hot topics).
Worth thinking about when this law came into effect and limitations of technology at that time. Given GPS data, it's possible to ensure the car never exceeds the speed limit and hence, perfect enforcement of the law may result in no more fines (or even less) as it does now. There is of course safety implications of forcing cars under a speed limit which the law would be taking into effect, which is yet another twist making the perfect enforcement unlikely.
> The mandatory 3 year "derisking" period sounds asinine

I don't have too much sympathy for the OP on stackoverflow, but I do think 3 years in a company of 5000+ people is not that long to wait to reach a senior position. It's not just about tech skills, at that level it is personality too. It's pretty important at senior levels that people are not just going to up and leave on a whim, so to my mind a 3 year type period is quite a reasonable test of whether they are long term suitable in the company.
We should go through the process of training more physicians, because every day in the USA many people are harmed, up to death, due to there not being enough physicians.

We need more midlevels too, I agree, though midlevels are not allowed to do everything doctors can do and are required to have many things approved by a doctor as well. So to increase midlevels would naturally require an increase in physicians.

I come to this from the perspective of someone being harmed by the way it is right now and I don't like being harmed.
I haven't watched it in a few months, but salmon farming happens in net-enclosed partitions of natural bodies of water that are polluted with industrial waste. Pesticides are sprayed directly into the farms in order to combat disease. The pollution from the farms themselves makes the situation even worse as time goes on.

Here's a resource[1] for anyone who is curious but doesn't want to sit through a YouTube video.

[1] https://livingoceans.org/initiatives/salmon-farming
That’s hugely misleading. Allison was not part of the research team and didn’t have anything to do with this work, he was just quoted in the article. The article says:

“ The investigators reported no conflicts of interest and did the studies without outside funding.”
Agreed, MxNet is faster and considerably easier to use than TF.
That's an interesting point, but I'm not sure research on apes can be directly applied to humans. In general for human populations, if a group feels like they've gotten a raw deal on the basics like food, shelter, and sex; they riot or war. Anger over disappearing factories is partly why you-know-who got elected, who promised to shake things up and rattle the establishment. They felt slighted. Normally somebody that controversial and undiplomatic wouldn't get elected.
See I don't like this attitude towards tax incentives because you're missing the tree for the woods.

This solution pays me for my inconvenience. It doesn't prevent the inconvenience in the first place or from happening again.
He hypothesizes about it briefly. You're lead to believe that consciousness is an rare but possible emergent behavior of a system, given sufficient capacity. For example, from chapter 1 -- "Human brain has around ten-to-the-tenth neurons. By third year Mike had better than one and a half times that number of neuristors. And woke up."

But yes, I agree that generally the story is not about computer technology. Science in general is very important to the plot, but not computer science.
Time to work on the unerasability!
International podcast day: Podcasts for entrepreneurs
Inaccurate headline. Recipients of H1B work visas are not legal immigrants. H1B is a temporary non-immigrant work permit.
All the fad diets, trendy diet suggestions, are bullshit. Cogent science has delineated what we should be eating: lots of vegetables(3-5 cups of carrots, peas, green beans, spinach), complex carbohydrates(think fiber, whole wheat), lean meats(fish and chicken), and unsaturated oils (olive oil). It doesn't matter if you eat them all at once, what matters is that you go after vegetables first then go after the rest. Sugar is the worst thing in the world and I'm waiting for the water shed moment where we realize that strong insulin responses are terrible for the body.

I could go on and on, but Hardvard my plate is the definite guide for what you should be eating. This is the non lobbyist, highly educated PhD take on what current science says we should eat.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/
...if...

You appear to be doing a great deal of speculating without gathering much in the way of data to support your conclusions. This isn't exactly a best practice.
That’s a very good idea. Thanks!
The only standard that’s going to survive, I think, is email.

Anything accepts email - almost anything can send email. So for example in Aether Pro we’re building email pipelines so you can tie your CI to a ‘subreddit’ and all messages coming from that CI would appear under, without polluting everyone’s inboxes. It can also trigger further actions based on parsing those emails as well. It’s messy, but it’s the only thing that kind of works with anything.

We’d love to be able to rely on APIs of other tools, but those are just never there, or too fragile, or the API owners think the data they are ‘leaking’ is too valuable to let go, so email it is.
No, beef isn't bad for you: Scientists say there is no need to eat less red meat
Your comment illustrates the vast range of reading experiences available now unlike any time before. The important part is the reading, regardless of the medium. No apologies needed for those who would question the form. Leah Price alludes to this in the interview: “Personally, I’m not concerned about the survival of the object; I am very concerned about the survival of those human practices or activities.” I try to do as much as possible across all available reading formats. My requirements are to read, enjoy, and learn.
Perhaps, but it's true. AOC is a proponent of MMT[1] and has made that "five dollars for every one dollar spent" argument[2].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/modern-monetary-theory-mmt-e...

[2] I can't find the source for this one right now, but it was in a video interview regarding the green new deal, right around when it was announced.
This does seem to indicate a notable lack of isolation for the blast radius between DO datacenters. Would be interesting to see the post mortem.
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The founders also created Solidworks ;)
"What’s more, Florida Power and Light has also applied to build two new reactors at the Turkey Point site—and the documents supporting that application rely on a projection of one foot by 2100. The NRC accepted that estimate after a year and a half of reviews that included hundreds of pages of scientific analysis, but there’s scant reason to believe the projection will hold. Over that same period, cities and counties in South Florida use a projection of between 2.6 to almost seven feet, based on the best available projections from climate authorities including NOAA and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."
When the system becomes so unworkable that the govt steps in and starts creating unfavorable rules for doctors, they were actually working against their own best interests.
>That's a rather weird characterization in my opinion... H&M stores in roughly their current form have been around a lot longer than Forever 21. H&M is also 4-5 times the size of Forever 21 by revenue.

My apologies. Faulty assumption on my part.
The challenge is that diets that rely on how your body metabolizes certain foods inherently depend on a lot of details about your digestive and metabolic processes. Some of those things probably are very generalizable, but many of them will vary widely in how well they work depending on genetic factors, gut flora, and lifestyle.

By contrast, calorie counting requires only that you obey the laws of thermodynamics. At some level of reduced intake it will produce weight loss for literally anyone.

Having said that, if not eating carbs gets you there that's great-- I don't want to diminish anyone else's experience with weight loss. I just think more people should be up-front when talking about their new diet that any surprisingly easy way to lose weight is surprising because things don't normally work that way.
Could also go strategic exit or PE route, though former tricky to put together and latter tough on valuation
I might live through the biggest upheaval in mankind's history since the invention of agriculture. We're in for some interesting times!
I had also thought that they had set up some leases through their own legal structures so they could limit some of WeWork's financial liability from the lease.
I’ve used Amazon for years, probably spend between $5k to $8k a year and have never encountered any of the problems you describe. The primary value of Amazon is that they have a superb return process - if you’re a legit customer who does a lot of business on their platform you never have to sweat the return process, they just make it right for you. I think their customer service is why I keep going back to them - it’s way above most other vendors. If I have a problem with something, I just want it fixed - and Amazon has no problem with that, so I keep using them.
H&M is very European (Swedish), I think they’ve only been in the states for less than a decade. I’m more of a C&A person myself, H&M always struck me as too urban (in Switzerland at least).
There are 3 orders of living things: plants, funghi, and animals. Animal rights is concerned with all animals, not with all living things.

Every major dietician association says the same thing about veg diets, that they are healthy for all stages of life, including pregnancy, infancy (excepting breastmilk of course), and early childhood.

There's no burden on me to change your behavior, you can do whatever you want.
Umm.... absolutely not. These quotes (directly from his site) beg to differ:

> “I am sceptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.”

> “There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children. Granted, children may not dare say no to an older relative, or may not realise they could say no; in that case, even if they do not overtly object, the relationship may still feel imposed to them. That’s not willing participation, it’s imposed participation, a different issue.”

RMS isn't being "vilified," he's facing proper judgment for the stupid, ignorant, and disgusting things he's said.
The thing is though, the outrage mob usually doesn't care about facts. Their outrage is always based on the heat of the moment. It even seems this mode has been spilling over into our justice system lately, which is a very unfortunate and a sad state of affairs.
I am sure others know more than I do on details, but I have seen into the belly of the beast a few times during consulting projects for Fortune 500 firms, a few Top 10 even. I've consulted in everything from the startup down to their last $100 in the bank to GE, Fidelity, Phillips, Ford, Toyota etc.

Yes, they generally spread across many banks, many accounts and even nations. Generally after $50M in revenue and for sure after $100M they cease having "standard" accounts like SMB's have. Honestly, most banks once you cross even the 10-20M annually will customize accounts for you almost anyway you want. Smaller the bank you use the smaller the revenue before they customize. Also insurance gets interesting insuring large sums of money too.

Allocations are handled via discussions with the banks, outside advisor groups and electronic systems. Usually the CFO of large organizations will employ a staff that literally manages investments and they will differ from the people managing daily/monthly/quarterly cash flow. There are literally teams of people that work internally and with banks, accounting firms, attorneys and other consultants to figure out the right allocation and distribution. It also gets super complex because of tax laws, international transactions, international revenue etc. So there are teams of people usually managing this not just one or two people. In one of the largest public firms I was at they had about 100 people that did nothing but manage investments and allocation, that team worked with the cash flow team on a quarterly basis and with the M&A team as necessary.

Signatory is not handled the same way as you would see in a SMB either, where you can say two people have to sign every check etc. In most large organizations everything is managed via the back office finance systems which will digitally sign everything, handle ACH/wire transfers etc. And those systems have built in purchase limits for different levels of approvals etc. I have seen where an ESVP could spend $5M in one transaction basically unquestioned, but the reality is they'd never really do that without discussions. But it is there so they could make emergency purchases of equipment, supplies etc without need to have delays in the system. I even saw where the Admin Assistant for one of the CEOs I worked for had purchase approval of up to $50k a month, just to handle incidentals, travel, meetings, food etc without having unnecessary headaches put in her way.
Major fast food chains are rolling out plant based burgers, backed by massive marketing campaigns. You bet the meat industry is threatened by this. If you’re really interested in learning more about this read the book Meatanomics:

https://meatonomics.com/

The typical keto diet is an improvement over the standard American diet loaded with junk but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other dietary options with better long term results and much smaller environmental impact.