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Do you consider nazism a political view?
Even then, that refers to employees specifically, and the person in question is probably not a Blizzard employees.
Politics ??
So who would you advise be read instead of Nietzsche?
Indeed. The "decoupling" phenomenon has their attention.
To be honest, for once the market seems to be doing a pretty good job.
I have seriously reconsidered giving my business to a bank that does do that: I'm not a fan of sending transaction amounts or account info via text. My bank does this (and over email!); their security posture is fairly decent otherwise, but why oh why send transaction amounts out into the world where they can be intercepted by anyone between here and there?

Think about the useful information for an attacker in messages like that: Recent transaction details can help an attacker auth on a call, account numbers can do the same. And large transactions are catnip, alerting attackers to worthwhile victims.
How does that work? What happens if you say "no" to them? And who fires who in such structure?
Tldr: we're not going to sever ties with ICE.
While I agree that Damore's termination was an attempt to punish him for the views he had, I wouldn't put it anywhere in the same class as we are seeing with Chinese censorship. This is an entire country, a state government, deciding what people of other countries should be allowed to say, it is on par with Muslim views on comedic interpretations of Mohammed, and is likely to entice violence in much the same way.
Northern California hit by mega power cuts over wildfire fears
I did the Automattic trial and have been a very very satisfied employee of the company for 4 years now so I may be a little biased. I understand it is not for everyone.

The trial is very very accommodating to whatever life situation you are in. I was young and obsessed with the startup I was working for so I was working 60-70 hour weeks (I do not do this at Automattic). I also had a pre-planned 3-week long vacation during this time when I couldn't go online or do the trial, so I had to start my trial later. And then I had an unexpected health issue. Automattic accommodated all of this.

I am from one of those countries where they have a 3-month long probation period. It is not something to aspire to. You need to quit your job to start a new job you don't know much about where you can be let go anytime.

For many of us, the fact that you get to see what your day-to-day would look like, what the company culture is really like, and what kind of people you'd be working with - without having to make a huge commitment - is invaluable. I am not sure I would've left my previous job where I was really happy if I wasn't 100% certain that Automattic was a good fit for me. And I wouldn't have been able to gauge that if I had not done a trial.
At least in my working life, I have realize nobody actually thinks they are a bad boss. Even when presented with evidence that they might be causing a project to steer off course, most bosses I have seen just continue to act the same way. And when things don't get done, its always the employees fault.. no wonder people leave.
A Smartphone Video-Based Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring
Diversification reduces the variance of the portfolio returns but does not necessarily increase returns.
Unconstitutional? Like, did you try to read first amendment? Here it is:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

So, did Congress of the USA have to do anything about it? No, "free speech" does not mean you can say anything you want without facing consequences from people who hired you or your friends. Blizzard hired player to play in tournament, and they can fire him if they want. There is nothing illegal in Blizzard's actions.

Morally, though...
Ugh. Please don't bring this redpill malarkey to hackernews
But they ejected fans that had HK posters?
What is NLP (natural language processing)
For 9 out of 10 articles like this - "We rewrote our old code in tired old language FOO with hot new language BAR and it's SO MUCH BETTER!" - I suspect they could have simply rewritten with the same language, engineered it better and applied all the lessons learned, and achieved basically the same result, probably faster. But that doesn't scratch the "new hotness" itch, does it?

That said, considering the requirements this thing sounds like it had to meet, perhaps golang was the right choice after all. Unlike certain other projects I know about where they HAD to write everything in golang/microservices/k8s/etc because it HAD TO SCALE, took 18 months instead of the 3 months it would have taken with rails but credit where credit is due - those 2 or 3 requests a minute (peak) are handled very, very quickly.
The CCP can move quickly and decisively to ban access to the world's 2nd largest market, and it uses that power to chill speech and force governments and companies to take actions it wants that are antithetical to a free society.

Small nations and individual companies cannot stand up to this coercion individually, and free, market economies lack the organization to respond in a cohesive way.

The optimistic belief that economic growth and market integration would liberalize authoritarian or totalitarian countries should by now be wholly debunked.

The CCP is responsible for some of the most horrific atrocities and violations of human rights today, and has largely managed to silence the world from even speaking out against its actions.

Individuals should do everything they can to express their opposition to this state of affairs, but the only viable response is for the governments of free peoples who care for and value these freedoms to jointly act in response.

If we value freedom over money, there must be economic consequences (including economic isolation) for China for its actions, and we should not be reluctant about promoting these freedoms globally, including within China.

The GATT and WTO rules in place today are not sufficient to counter the threat China represents. It's time to rewrite the rules of global trade to prevent the CCP from freely benefiting from trade while simultaneously using it as a hammer to blunt and distort the values that enabled the markets from which it benefits.
This prompted a thought: did Blizzard take the action they did because China threatened to withdraw its players from the Overwatch League? That would kill entire teams in that esport, and be much more visible than merely losing ordinary players.
Just noting Al Gore made a fortune on Ethanol subsidy investments.
Or if they start using Star Wars/Marvel symbols is China going to ban the next Star Wars/Marvel movie or maybe bleep out "Rebel Alliance" or "Avengers Assemble"?

Good strategy indeed.
It pushes innovators out, which is strategically problematic long-term. If you were an innovator, would that be the kind of environment you'd want to stay in?
Takimag audiences appreciate non politically correct jokes; a man writes for his audience.

Is your audience filled with intellectually non curious people? Your description of insulin is factually incorrect, leads to more ignorance. I knew there was a difference but many don’t.

Smart phones are a convenience, and a democratization of old technology; not a categorically new thing which insanely changes people's way of life.

Having a phone in everyone's pocket -- especially in developing countries has led to a completely new economy for the unbanked.

In cities, where you're most likely to use such services, you could also just wave at a taxi. I did it for 3 months earlier this year in Lisbon:

Unless you're a person of color and statiscally, cab drivers were less likely to stop for you....
Precisely. Don't want to be involved in international politics? Fine - don't involve yourself in international commerce, either.
People are allowed to have a past, I don't see that it's that relevant to IKEA today.
HK should just do the same with Xi and make him a symbol of HK resistance, just like they're doing with Mei.

Maybe Chinese censors will then ban Xi.
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If I recall correctly, Colin was never suspended or prevented from playing.

He suspects he was blacklisted by owners/NFL by not being signed in free agency, but that may be difficult to prove.
> So, what's the strawman?

It was RMS that wrote those GNU principles so I'm assuming he agrees with us as well. I see the straw man in saying that it's RMS fault if "many (most?) GNU developers [...] still consider RMS to be GNU's rightful leader". That's the opposite of GNU's, and therefore his, objectives.

> I believe that's what Stallman intended when he wrote "I am still the head of the GNU Project (the Chief GNUisance), and I intend to continue as such."

When we agree between us that he does not fire people that do not consider him the head of the GNU project, does not code, does not design software and therefore does not "run things", Stallman also agrees. He never said he does these things.

What RMS said instead is:

- he would like to be called GNU's "head", whatever that means

- the work he wants to do as GNU's "head" is to act as a guarantor for new projects to be included inside GNU and spend time advocating for free software

I think the reason is he wants to contribute too and considers himself the better candidate for these tasks. I don't know if that's true, but the fact he believes to be indispensable to GNU it's probably not.
Streisand effect imo is overrated. We want it to be true that censorship / silencing information doesn't work but it's shown time and time again that it does work by and large and that information is silenced for the vast majority of the population.
A quick google search suggests that in the US only California, New York, and D.C. protect against discrimination based on political views[1]. But can act if that view affects performance (at least in California)[2].

1: https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/political-aff...
2: https://californiaemploymentlaw.foxrothschild.com/2018/10/ar...
> carbs that are one of the pillars of nutrition

They're simply not, the body can manufacture all the glucose it needs.

The ketogenic diet is glucose sparing, that is your insulin levels are dramatically lowered since the very small amount of glucose you're eating should go to the tissues that require it, not into your fat cells.

So if you're on a ketogenic diet and then eat a lot of glucose, your body takes a little while to ramp back up insulin. That's not the same thing as insulin resistance or impaired insulin production in diabetics.
Okay? Interesting history, but this is like saying wearing Hugo Boss clothing is akin to operating a not-for-profit gas chamber.
Blizzard has shown their true colors: make money at all costs.
How does censorship reveal that our values were never freedom and democracy?

If anything, it shows just how well freedom and democracy works in America despite how many conflicting ideologies exist in our nation, compared to any other country.
Another incident: A fan at a 76ers game was escorted out after shouting "free Hong Kong" before a game against a CBA team in Philadelphia yesterday.

https://twitter.com/Christie_Ileto/status/118177972224357580...
New blockchain-based music streaming service Audius is a copyright nightmare
> but to go around claiming that it is a panacea for all things poorly planned is pure unadulterated stupidity.

The article never claimed this:

> "First, Python uses loose typing, which was great for a small team rapidly developing new ideas and putting them into production –but less great for an enterprise-scale application that some customers were paying millions of dollars for," he writes.

There are tradeoffs with both static and dynamic typing. Know the tradeoffs, know your business, then make the right decision for your use cases.
It will likely have some (small) impact just due to the scale of its use. However, the process is not too different from sea salt production... You're evaporating a brine, usually. And you're displacing fossil fuel use with a material that can be recycled, so instead of constantly mining for fossil fuels, we can just extract the material once.

Additionally, it can be extracted from seawater at a price that isn't insane, most affordably through desalination discharge brine. So in that sense, it could actually improve water usage by helping offset the cost of desalination.

So a huge net positive compared to our current system and with a pathway to eliminate the negative impact entirely.
If done well, it likely would be highly effective. Maybe we should not give them any ideas.
Indie game makers open up about the money they make
> This makes no sense. Perhaps you aren't aware that coal power plants universally generate electricity using steam turbines? Do you think they're using pistons like an old steam locomotive?

Steam turbines are subject to much less heat than gas turbines. Are you aware of the difference between how combined gas cycle turbines and steam turbines function? In a coal plant, coal is burned to heat water into steam which turns a steam turbine to rotate a dynamo. In a combined gas cycle plant, gas burns in a gas turbine to rotate a dynamo. Then the gas turbine exhaust is used to boil steam to turn a steam turbine to rotate a dynamo.

Gas turbines are subject to much greater heat than steam turbines. Without advanced metallurgy, the turbine blades would melt. There's a reason why the steam turbines were first used in earnest in the 1890s while gas turbines didn't get used extensively until the 1930s and 40s.
They could have gotten away with it had they not been so severe. They: Banned the player, fired the casters, and took back the player's winnings. They should have just banned the player for a year and left it at that.

(not agreeing with anything that they did, just looking at it from a PR perspective)
Being offensive is the privacy line?

I prefer the don't trust anything on your work machines or work equipment to be private, especially if it's synced with a server or directly from a server.

If it was his individual laptop or something it might be slightly different but the etc directory was remotely accessible and his password clearly matters to the company's security. Like a rented apartment a heads up beforehand might be a good courtesy not a requirement though.
The next question needs to be (assuming they feel it should be allowed) is do they feel there should be allowances for someone to be above this law? In our current climate we are seeing criminal looking behavior in the US by people within the Executive branch of the government. They have been citing Presidential Privilege but if mind reading became legal there would be multiple issues here.

This law would rid us of the last safe harbor, your own mind. At that point allowing some individuals the ability to skirt this law would create a class definition of ultimate scale. Those who are allowed to keep their own thoughts to themselves and those who aren't allowed to.
seriously? I get it, drivers in general are not cautious enough of pedestrians and cyclists. but if a 16-wheeler is following so closely that the other driver is at risk of getting rear-ended when they stop, the pedestrian is probably toast anyway. the semi is just going to push the car straight through the pedestrian. now instead of one person dead there's 10 tons of mass careening through the street out of control, putting a lot more lives at risk.
poorly titled Press Release, GitHub isn't making any friends by lumping all US Gov developers into the ICE bucket
> In June 2013, a copy of a top-secret warrant, issued by the court on April 25, 2013, was leaked to London's The Guardian newspaper by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. That warrant orders Verizon Business Network Services to provide a daily feed to the NSA containing "telephony metadata" – comprehensive call detail records, including location data – about all calls in its system, including those that occur "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls".
But I don’t know what “BT” does, either.
Are you comparing a work computer to a restroom used by dozens, if not hundreds of people everyday?

Do the sales guys and C-level execs get an expectation of privacy to snort coke in the bathroom?

"Reasonable explanation of privacy" doesn't necessarily apply to "at will" employment.

Every company, large or small has some form of acceptable usage policy for their systems. Anything you type in can and will be used against you if necessary.
It'd be really nice if the world pulled out of that market, which would decimate it and teach China that they don't own the world.

That would never happen, anyway. That's the real power of money.
And that's why FIFA bans all political displays or comments, and displays of any symbols in general...

I expect Blizzard to follow suit.
It sounds like you're conflating asset class (PE) with capital structure (how asset ownership is financed).

Private equity is just an investment of capital in a non-public company in exchange for equity. YC makes capital investments in non-public companies in exchange for equity.

The structure of PE deals can vary from the simple cash investment in exchange for company stock all the way up to incredibly complex leveraged buyouts and everything you could imagine in between.
The Chinese government isn't stupid. It knows people circumvent the GFoC. Damage control as usual. I think the US corollary is "all enemies foreign and domestic".
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Exactly. The problem here isn't that Blizzard is taking sides in international conflicts. The problem is that Blizzard, an American company, is taking China's side in an international conflict.
> Why go through all of that for an extra $250/wk?

People don't do these trials for the money. We do it because the payoff is getting a great job, and we want to know what the company is like to gauge if it would be a good fit for us and if it indeed is a great job.

I work at Automattic and the hourly rate was not at all a consideration for me when I did my trial. I understand it may be different for others, though!
I'm too paranoid to even connect the air monitor to the internet, so letting it talk to other appliances is out of the question for now. :) But it's good to know that HEPA filters are so effective against fine particles. I'll have to check that out. Thanks!
Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm
I thought many GPS apps show speed traps and police checkpoints in real time? Not a user and not identical but I assumed they did.
https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-deve...

> Like many Hubbers, I strongly disagree with many of the current administration’s immigration policies, including the practice of separating families at the border, the Muslim travel ban, and the efforts to dismantle the DACA program that protects people brought to the U.S. as children without documentation. The leadership team shares these views. These policies run counter to our values as a company, and to our ethics as people. We have spoken out as a company against these practices, and joined with other companies in protesting them. You can read our public statements in the Keep the Families Together Act letter, the Muslim travel ban amicus briefs, and the DACA business leaders letter of support. We also joined an amicus brief last year to protect Sanctuary Cities.

> Our parent company, Microsoft, has also publicly opposed these same policies. Microsoft is the sole business that is a direct plaintiff in the litigation that will be heard by the United States Supreme Court next month challenging the rescission of the DACA program. Microsoft has a long history of advocating for migrants and immigration law reform. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has spoken passionately about his own experience as an immigrant to the United States, and how Microsoft has consistently stood up for immigration policies that preserve every person’s dignity and human rights, and advocated for change.
or even outside the Overwatch property.

World of Warcraft is filled with characters that'd side with Hong Kong. Probably the most "symbol worthy" being Thrall from a lore standpoint.
Folks looking to incorporate should be aware that there are a lot of scams in the space. Aside from this one, there are a zillion companies that will try to sell you labor law posters for ~$100 (which you can print out for free from the Department of Labor's website), and there are companies that scan public records filings for approved incorporations and automatically squat on the domain name and try to sell it back to you for $1000. Make sure you register your domain before incorporating and then transfer it from your personal account to the corporate one.

You also actually do need a registered agent, but probably not that one. I incorporated through Clerky (which is reputable, YC uses them), but it costs much closer to $1000 than $50, and then Clerky has a partnership with CSC (Corporation Services Company) to act as the registered agent. CSC itself will try to upsell you on various services that you don't technically need.
I have definitely thought this at some jobs.
There was recently a brouhaha over a cosplayer being accused of blackface for cosplaying a league of legends character named Pyke.

This cosplayer was a finalist and the competition in question removed her over it.

When I first encountered it this morning my thought was that she ultimately wins because she's getting exposure that she never would have gotten before, and most people aren't ridiculous.
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I read this and, despite his parenthetical explanation of it being somehow normal at the time, rhetorically thought "what the hell is wrong with people and societies?".