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People who need to do those things can't just leave a company because their politics don't align with it.
A lot of these investigations are settled out of court with no admissions of guilt.
You seem to have a supreme self confidence that most people do not. So you think that you 'hypnotized' the person to gradually stop smoking over a month from a sort session? You have some 'magical' powers. Sorry for the skepticism...
> My brain obsesses with ideas that you would put more in the category of philosophy. It's what you think about when you have nothing to do or start daydreaming that's probably where your brain is best at. I never asked people in tech what they think about in those moments. I'm really, really curious about the answer.

My experience with these is: I often think that I have some deep mathematical insight. The problem with these insights is that they "partly right" - they are often based on a good mathematical intuition of mine. But unluckily the mathematical research typically has come a lot farther than my insight - i.e. my insight is actually a really old hat in mathematical research.

So instead of daydreaming about some clever mathematical insight of yours, better cram advanced math textbooks - they will teach you a lot more than what you will ever come up with by daydreaming.
I'm aware that. I'm saying the article feels like a trope or playing to a stereotype. Maybe I should read the Buzzfeed article, which someone mentioned displayed more sensitivity.
>> You'll either buy something and ship it to yourself

You will?

Also, you have an infinite number of trivially easy to make BTC wallets that are not registered to anyone. That's how you can make it anonymous.
Hey, I work in nonprofit admin and have never encountered this issue. Your best bet is coming up with the $600 to file as a 501(c)3, because this issue with email is not going to be the last time you run into problems without it.

Have you ever done any fundraising campaigns or events? I think you would be surprised how much the people in your city, even people outside of your neighborhood, might be willing to donate some money to keep livable, walkable communities from being overrun by development.
And Slashdot looks like it's still going.

To me it's more of an very early reddit.
Yeah, America thinks that, because it's already developed, it can go ahead and impose ridiculous limitations on development -- because we have to be 'enlightened' about growing more.
One thing that might help with the "imagine what's possible" mentality here if you're convinced your phone will always be in your hand (which is a totally valid assumption, btw), is to start imagining what other devices this chip could be inserted into, and what you could do with them "remotely".
that's factually untrue, reservations are federal land held for the tribes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation

Your other claims are no more accurate than this one either.
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

- Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
For what it's worth, I'm a long-time C programmer, but have piss-poor C++ skills, and despise C++, and D clicked for me immediately. I'm loving it.

Whether D "clicks" for someone might be more a matter of subjective taste than what languages they're used to.

As for D templates, they puzzled me until I read Andrei's D Programming book, which made everything clear. They're less narrow than C++ templates, more like directives for a syntax/scope-aware C preprocessor.

You can use them for more than just polymorphic functions; they're a way to pass source code around the program at compile-time, for almost any purpose whatsoever.
It's interesting that it doesn't sound like they're using any sort of watchdog to detect for things locking up, and they're using SD cards for their "read only" filesystem. I suppose it's less of an issue for sounding rockets
Dyson Ring, here we come.
Is there a big enough cash market for it to be worth "criminal enterprise" level money?
You kind of get this "for free" with some forms of proportional representation. If any group (geographic, ethnic, religious, whatever) feels unrepresented, there is an opportunity for a party to win seats representing that group's interests.
Let's talk about how immoral it is to write headlines designed to spark controversy and outrage. Those who do so are disrupting our collective ability to discuss rationally about things- and they do it for profit- all the while posing as guardians of morality.
What if for example the People's Republic of China was hosting its code on Gitlab? This is a state that has "re-education camps" (interment camps) for a specific group of people and it reported to be engaging in organ harvesting.

I don't find it too hard to draw parallels between Nazi Germany and China at the moment.
It was obviously a joke.
Right, I know the example is somewhat hyperbolic - but one could argue that it's quite possible to build a micro service architecture around zeromq or rabbitmq - and those systems should (in theory) allow you to max out your modern hardware.

So in the sense that you might not really need micro service architecture for your regular "new thing" (ie you can run it on a modern server with 128 threads and it fits in half a terabyte of ram or some such "medium" size workload) - it's interesting to see how dapr affects you if you do need to scale.

If you struggle with N to M messaging, you might not want to multiply N and M with Y dapr nodes-because that might make your solution more difficult to scale.

That said I think there's a valid case to be made that it can be valuable to suffer a micro service architecture and the possibly massive signaling overhead - not to "scale", but to gain resiliency and stability. Failover, easier deployment of new code etc.

Basically anything that can give you "works like big iron" on whatever scraps of commodity hardware you're able to rent.
What do you find you self-censor the most on? Perhaps not going in-depth, but I'd be curious on what you notice you feel isn't a good fit for the site.
Projecting? Have you spent any time on 4chan?
Really? Because he was against the USSR and the PRC
I would suggest leaving, in that case. If not your employer, some other company will fulfill that contract anyway.

Millions of people work in the defense industry. I did too, in a different life. I left due to moral reasons (Not that i am doing anything moral today).
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Out of 84 economics Nobels, maybe 9 were about macroeconomics. Which of those 9 do you think serve only to legitimize "neoliberal" ideology?
I might agree with you that human rights are non-negotiable, but we're probably going to get into a fight when it comes time to list those human rights.
So how many genders do fungi have?
Individual microservices are definitely easier to maintain than a monolith. Ever experience a big ball of mud? Every monolith I've worked with, turned into one.

Sounds like you are arguing that for small teams a monolith is better. No one would argue that they are not. If you read my post, I talked about business that become a SUCCESS meaning that they grow beyond that initial small team. Once your team becomes large, if you started with a monolith, you will eventually need to either break it apart into microservices or try to manage the monolith across many teams.

IF microservices could be as easy to develop from day 1 as a monolith, why would you start with a monolith? Isn't that what technologies like Dapr are trying to do? Make developing microservices easier?
Wow, finally read the site guidelines. "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." I always wondered why even the world's most important news events barely register on HN!
Yeah, a lot of people locked out of traditional careers turn to running small businesses. I'm sure it helps though if everyone around you tends to run small businesses as well -- cultural expectations probably push you towards it, and you have a wide support network.
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I'm perfectly comfortable with the internet not agreeing with me 100% of the time.

Oh shit forgot to post this from my throwaway account
As a wealthy white male, I couldn't agree more. For people like me, politics is a choice. But as my female friends of color often remind me, politics is not a choice for them.
I don't know that it makes me cynical. For me it's more akin to a reminder to not sweat the small stuff too much (and it's pretty much all small stuff).
Fans like you are a major factor in why Apple won't change. They can do no wrong.
Leap killed itself by shutting itself in with proprietary drivers and staying away from any sort of modding.

I ordered one the week it came out, went through quite a bit to get it through customs (for whatever reason) and paid almost twice the retail price because of it, just to be disappointed after the initial hype. Years later I thought I could use it for some stuff with the Pi, just to be disappointed again, as nothing had changed.

Since then I have been looking for replacements and I am really hoping for Soli not to take the same route.
And none of that is affected by this policy either.

We're talking about a specific street banning a few types of vehicles in downtown SF, not accessibility design principles across the world. Perhaps context is more important than outrage?
> This begs the question how ticketing/arresting clears the streets [if there are no shelter beds available]? By shoving them elsewhere for another city to ticket?

Driving people elsewhere is one major mechanism.

That can mean to other cities - it's a zero-sum game, but so is buying homeless people bus tickets to leave, and cities do that too.[1] It can also mean pushing them outside city limits into the metro area, or into less-desirable areas with fewer officers and/or informal instructions not to ticket the homeless. (Similarly, arresting homeless people isn't meant to house them in jail, but to get them out of heavily-policed areas.)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/homeless-busing-seattl...
Yeah but then using a barter system is probably outlawed in those societies, which would have a chilling effect because you don't know if someone is safe to ask about the alternative method for fear of being reported.

A casual interaction between shopkeeper and customer would never be facilitated by barter in such a hostile environment.
The point stands, I'm aware that they're relatively decentralized, but I struggle to find that many ways to say "in the course of conducting their business" that are succinct while not inviting nitpicks like this.

Also, yes, GitLab has offices, to some minimal extent.
I seriously doubt it. Remember, "never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence or stupidity." Our law enforcement community isn't that bright or long-term thinking. Plus, once criminals get it through their thick skulls that BTC really is traceable after all, they won't use it any more.
700 person company, half of which are software engineers. Yes our CTO is extremely hands on, and one of the most insanely gifted developers I've ever met. He was the first hire at the company and has led engineering since.

This works as he is a strong, opinionated, intelligent, yet empathetic person who leads the charge on our engineering standards from the front line. He and the org have realised the problems that come with this approach, so have a head of engineering and the engineering leadership board (including the CTO) that fulfill the other functions of a CTO, such as the people management, resource planning, general process and procedure.

This leads to a great situation where we have a gun of a technical hands on CTO that rallies the troops, but the other typical CTO functions aren't neglected either
My daughter's school spent years in litigation to turn a failing golf course it had purchased into: 2/3 nature reserve and 1/3 athletic fields (for a small artsy school that hardly draws crowds to sporting events).
The questions that RT talking heads ask are so laced with Kremlin engineered bias that it makes Fox News look borderline academic.
US police forces kill unarmed people of colour all the time - and this is just the most visible symptom of a very blatantly racist law enforcement and legal system.

Is the NFL on the same level for repressing speech on a protest against this behaviour? Or, like, a little bit on the same level? They are quite clearly picking a side, by silencing speech on it.

> I and a republican can disagree on gay marriage while sharing contempt and horror or organleggers building concentration camps.

So, is it fine for the NFL to support this injustice or not? It sounds like you're predicating it on whether or not a Republican considers something to be unjust - but it's hard to tell (And it would not be a charitable interpretation of your post!)

What exactly is the principled bar here, that requires companies to take a stance for one injustice, but not another? Where do you draw this line?
Yeah, but that's part of the problem as well. Thermal stresses are very real and a big problem.

You want as constant a temp as possible, that that's much easier to do with a reflective exterior than a non-reflective one.
Are all the interview invites sent out on the same day or from now to December?
Have you seen problems with people in any of these groups unable to talk about these issues? I had a project owner once who had a manager not get along with her at all.

"Is it because you're a woman," I asked her. She said, "No, I don't think that's it." .. and he did get along with another woman; one of our Functional Analysis.

Sometimes person x doesn't like person y because .. they don't like person y. They don't think person y is effective or useful or good at his or her job, not because y is an Asian, or woman, or trans or Mexican. ... or it could be and the person is a victim of bigotry and doesn't know it.

I know it's anecdotal, but I've worked in a lot of different places, in 3 different countries, and in my experience, I think it's the opposite. I think people are afraid to say anything remotely non-left or criticize any minority employee or say anything that could remotely be inferred as problematic.
Thats weird because I have a Yahoo account that I manage through gmail... I am not sure how that works haha.
"recently changed its company handbook to declare it won't ban potential customers on "moral/value grounds," and that employees should not discuss politics at work."

I'm assuming that "should not" means it's discouraged as a culture and not enforced somehow, because otherwise I would think something different. If so the article seems to try and persuade you against this because politics is somehow important, but the whole point of the new rule is to precisely ignore that.
That would be amazing actually - I frequently run into situations where some combination of colors doesn’t have enough contrast in my editor.
The west destroyed motherhood and women in general, forcing them to be cogs in some enterprise back office. Japan get it right, that's why people there are more healthy and live longer. Women taking care of their children and children eating home cooked food which also looks good is superior to the new woman laziness championed in the west. I wish shaming will come back also here and keep the women fit and cooking like Japanese women.
I think the concerns are related. The likelihood of a company shutting down is greatly affected by its profitability.
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Software development is not actually a profession, it's just an occupation. That's not necessarily a bad thing but let's not pretend that it's something that it isn't. In order to be a profession on the level of law, civil engineering, medicine, arms, accounting, etc it would need — among other things — a clear code of ethics. Years ago the IEEE made some tentative steps toward turning software development into a profession but they didn't get much traction.
I am intrigued. Regarding pub/sub messaging, the docs are thin to say the least. It seems the user brings their own pub/sub broker. Is that correct?
The costs outweigh the benefits to you, probably because the status quo is pretty favorable to you. This may not hold for other people, except now they're gagged from doing anything about it.
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Still? IIRC North Dakota tried to make that the law but it was struck down.
Yes, let’s publicly shame and fire people over business decisions we disagree with. Cancel culture!
Absolutely right. Saying “don’t talk politics at work” seems to assume that politics is something that goes on on the outside. A stream of news on divisive topics.

In reality, politics happens everywhere and you can’t really avoid talking about it.

“Don’t talk about politics not relevant for the workplace” could be reasonable (most poltics is after all not related).
Amazon seller here. Amazon doesn't make funds available for disbursement until 7 days after delivery. At that point funds are available for disbursement, but they aren't necessarily disbursed. Seller accounts created before 2011 have what are called daily disbursements: the seller has a button they can click once every 24 hours that will disburse all available funds. Most sellers accounts opened since then have bi-weekly disbursements, though, so all available funds get disbursed every 14 days.
I suppose the viewpoint is best viewed from a system design perspective. Do we want each cog responsible for producing widgets to be making independent ethical evaluations of those up and down stream from them in the process? Or do we want to have our cogs be amoral, and have a "morality" module somewhere else that deals with those kinds of questions?

To be clear, i'm not sure if I subscribe to this perspective. But I can see its appeal.
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Laws are frequently different for cops.
> the negative impacts of heroin all arise from its criminalisation

This is a really, really simplistic view. Heroin will build up tolerance and withdrawals can kill you, or are at least extremely unpleasant. It's only safe as long as you have access to an ever increasing supply of heroin.

I think your example is kind of unfortunate because a lot of drugs are actually quite safe, but not the very addictive, tolerance-building, terrible withdrawal kind (opioids, benzos, alcohol). Magic mushrooms are, of course, none of those three things.
If you can buy bitcoin in untraceable cash, you can sell it for untraceable cash. Also, you can (could) convert traceable payments to your electric utility and computer hardware to mining efforts that couldn't be linked to your power bill.

The problem is that most people don't do either of those things, instead, they buy and sell it at exchanges with very traceable credit cards.
That's the problem with cities. Such high population density, so many people fighting for your attention. You have to ignore the people around you to some degree to get anything done. It's far too easy to just completely switch off after a while
So approximately 163 000 people in the US.
This is my attempt at organizing the kind of focused reading and discussion group I wish existed.

Truth is, I haven't found anyone in my own peer group who is reading, thinking, or talking about the effects of technology on society. Elull, Boorstin, Illich, Postman, McLuhan, de Tocqueville, Mumford, Baudrillard, Dewey, Debord...these are names you don't typically see on people's bookshelves. I'm eager to read alongside and talk to people who are equally curious about their works and ideas.

Anyway, I just wanted to get this out there, see if it resonates, and I'll update the page with questions and answers as needed. If you're interested, I'm happy to talk via email or over video if you just want to learn more.
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For those who are a little confused about the no politics at work thing...

If you read the policy we link to about politics, we mention people talking politics during coffee chats, 1-on-1s, etc, but as a general rule we don't lead with those topics.

We focus on inclusion, and we have been very successful at that by respecting others and making work a collaborative, judgment free place. As someone who sometimes has the minority opinion I have absolutely loved this policy, and I feel closer and more accepted by my colleagues as a result.

I'm very proud to work at GitLab.
I go to the Philadelphia Flower show every year and while I always enjoy the exhibits my favorite part is chatting with any orchid class entrant I can find. For some reason there is always drama in the orchid world.
If you read my post I never argued against starting out with a monolith. Of course they have lower overhead. I argued that if your successful like say Twitter, then you will eventually have a problem with your system all tied together in a monolith.
> I think you might be undervaluing psychoactive drugs in that context.

I can only assure you I'm not. Your brain can already make all the psychoactive drugs you need.

These chemicals (LSD, Psilcybin) are like electroshock therapy, just a little more subtle. There are more precise and/or delicate modalities that are effective. I don't think it's too controversial to believe that we should concentrate on the precise and delicate therapy, eh?
This is how my doctor explained psychedelic therapy to me - it triggers a massive release in BDNF that stimulates neuroplasticity, which allows for long term changes to occur. The trip itself can be a catalyst for reflective experiences that help with the growth of positive new neural circuitry but it is by no means the most important aspect of the treatment. In the case of ketamine, which is what I did, the release of BDNF continues for hours after the trip ends.
It was flamebait because it originally included "Oh is that not political either? It must be nice having the spinal rigidity of a mollusk." dvt was thoughtful enough to edit it above.
There is only a very limited number of hills that most people are willing to die on. So saying that they're condoning something doesn't actually tell us all that much, it means that they're tolerating something that they might find disagreeable, even deeply disagreeable. One can also say North Korean citizens are condoning their government, do we think badly of them for it?
If they don’t require an ID card from their cash receiver.