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>Blizzards decision is completely in line with other international sporting events, football body FIFA also disallow political statements and I'm sure the Olympics are the same.

Blizzard has had plenty of people make political statements about, say, LGBT issues and has NEVER invoked this "rule" before. They even had a US-based team do exactly the same thing and failed to issue any ban until the hypocrisy was repeatedly pointed out to them.

It is the selective enforcement that is the issue, as well as the heavy-handed punishment.
No, you need a blinking green that indicates it's about to turn yellow! And this already exists in some countries.
ITT: people who didn't read the article and believed the false headline that Business Insider made up.

The 3rd sentence of the article, in bold, explains that the savings were from consolidating on-prem hardware, not from eschewing external cloud.

The article cites BofA itself at sayignthat savigns vs external cloud is tenuous at best:

> Right now, the bank estimates its private cloud is 25 to 30% cheaper than public providers, though it also recognizes that probably won't last forever. Still, the company believes the architecture it has built will give it leverage in negotiating contracts with these companies
Sadly that law will be the lowest least permissable set of laws - they will apply some dictators rules to you so they can sell video games to the people he oppresses.
In my team (also non-programmers) we're going for Google Docs in a folder structure. It's straightforward enough for most people and has all essential features. And my company went for G Suite so that fits well.

I just wished Google had a tool (or view in Docs) to make a note rather than a letter-type document. More like Dropbox Paper, less like Word. At least to get rid of the paper width and page separation.

For companies going for Office 365, Onenote is probably the best choice.
Paying less than minimum wage and relying on tips doesn’t apply to Lyft drivers.

And in addition, most employers need to pay minimum wage if the tips don’t bring it up to that.
I was being more subtle.
We have these in places in Florida. I still slow down (but not slower than the posted min) through these intersections. I've seen way too many accidents on these types of intersections to trust anybody.
Genuine question from an ignorance of macroeconomics:

Wouldn't the money going to clothing just go to something else? It's not like the workers or company owners would sit on their hands when fashion stops being profitable.
I literally got asked what I will tip by my Lyft driver, and was reminded multiple times during the trip about the tip. Now, I understand, and I did tip, but I did not enjoy the experience. This is after I got stringed along by a no show for almost 30 min (at 11:30 PM), someone who had no intention to show. The aggressive tip dude that took me basically told me that my fare was "too short" and nobody wants to take it, but how he's such a good guy and doesn't play that game and that's why I should tip him well. He also gave me some insight into how they game it -- they adapt (as they should) to whatever changes Lyft makes and find a way to game it; my first driver, the no show guy, used me and my time as part of his gaming the system to get a better fare. I ended up wasting 30 minutes of my life waiting for somebody that was never going to show; I was tired and 30 minutes of extra sleep that night would have been great.

This was a few months ago from LAX to Venice. Last year ('18) was the last good year of ride sharing from LAX, 2-3 years ago it was actually great, I literally remember thinking how well the services work, how useful and pleasant they are for the customer, from the timeliness, to the cars, to the drivers and convos. Then in all went downhill, quick. Right now I loathe using UberLyft.
I used to think the same thing, but after my divorce I found a new love.

Nobody is perfect, and there are so many women out there. The chance that you had the most "optimal" one is very small.

You have what my wife would call a "limiting belief". Believe that you can find an even better match than before, and maybe you will. I'm sure the chance of that happening is higher than you think.
TASO: Auto-optimize DNN model graphs
Indiana has some silly law about signaling 200ft before a turn on rural roads rather than the normal 100ft. The local cops around IN highway 55 camp out, dinging people for this because the state highway signs are hard to distinguish from a 55MPH speed limit sign at that distance. Never mind if there's nobody else there to see you make your ridiculously unsafe turn.
I've really loathed my time driving in socal coming from the midwest. The idea that I cannot turn left on green is one of the more appalling "features" of traffic management here (the way the lights work, in general is abhorrent). But slowly, throughout socal, I've seen the flashing yellow left-turn arrow; a subtle change to the UX that I think is brilliant and should be adopted everywhere.
It's not always possible to stop safely for a yellow light, especially if one is close to the intersection. Yellow lights should last long enough for a typical vehicle traveling at the speed limit and within some distance of the intersection to proceed into the intersection and make a complete (legal) turn.
Cupertino, CA has that beat at 66%

https://statisticalatlas.com/place/California/Cupertino/Race...
Tipping is 100% charity. In today's environment of 3% unemployment, if someone doesn't like their job, they can find another one pretty quickly. If they don't like the fact that restaurants can pay them less than minimum wage, they should find a new job.
TASO generates graph optimizations for DNNs automatically, and outperforms the manually written graph optimizers in current DNN frameworks.
How long would it take you to install a traffic light camera system? Would you do that for $100?
That's a good idea ;-P I've been working on it but it's only for our internal use at this time. Chinese names are also required in some counties in California. I shared the following in our blog: The California State Legislature passed a bill this year (and it was approved by the Governor on July 12) that requires phonetic transliterations of candidates’ alphabet-based names to appear on ballots and ballot materials in jurisdiction required to translate ballot materials into character-based languages. https://service.goodcharacters.com/daily/20190701-ab-57-cand...
Equifax Used 'Admin' as Username and Password for Sensitive Data: Lawsuit
They were higher margins for drivers for a while (2012ish) but the market has equalized that all out to the point where I've been told drivers make the same regardless of app these days (by drivers).
- Makes development/deployment simpler

- Tested in production

- Activity that gives the impression that it will be maintained
Going by the expiration and sell by dates on my goods from Amazon I am not.
You have a fact:

> vendors exploit the extreme information and understanding asymmetry on the market to sell insecure, low quality and abusive offerings

This is true.

Now, please tell me how this applies to the FA we are talking about? The FA is about a nest customer using an insecure and exposed password and then complaining about his nest being taken over by a hacker.

And this isn't some joe shmoe. This is a CEO. He is complaining. RTFA and you will see.

My point: he has not right to complain, his complaint is based on the authoritarian perspective that people need to be protected against themselves.

He has no giant information asymmetry which Nest exploited to hurt him. He messed up. Simple. If he can't understand how to keep passwords, he really shouldn't be a CEO, ESPECIALLY of a tech company. And here's a bigger idea, if you can't keep passwords, maybe don't use systems that need them. Just as if you can't drive drunk... maybe not drive or maybe not drink? Blaming beer companies for being abusive (which they can be) is in no way relevant to the RESPONSIBILITY people have to not drink and drive.

IF a company sells a defective and bad product, they should and will be sued. If they imply you can drink and drive. Sue. If they imply or say their product doesn't need safe passwords, sue. INAL, but this probably doesn't apply here. Which is why the guy who penned the FA is writing it. He wants to shame nest. And those who are authoritarian inclined seem to me to be backing him up. Instead of seeing the article for what I see it: A captain of industry wanting all the rights and rewards of being a captain of industry, but not having to keep the responsibility of maintaining proper passwords.
If Walmart sells something tainted with lead, heads will roll. Walmart bears liability for the things they sell on their shelves.

If Amazon sells something tainted with lead, we get a bunch of corporate apologia about co-mingling and nothing changes.
EV fires are common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle_fire_...
No not necessarily. Most of the housing stock in SF are houses, and people rent rooms and have roommates. On top of that, 70% (now more with the new statewide rent control law) of homes/apartments are rent-controlled.

I know very few people who rent a 1-bedroom by themselves. If you're renting a room you might be paying $1500-$2000.
Not all textiles are made to be worn -- and plenty of those that are are children's clothes that are outgrown.
I'm not paying full retail price for the "just isn't as good", "should be fine" variant.
It's a deterministic viewpoint. I don't think it's insulting, or at least I prescribe no morality it. It's just stuff that happened.
Thredup/Grailed/TheRealReal/Etsy/Rent the Runway are bigger companies in that business.

Amazon also sells 'Warehouse deals' of returned product at a discount.

There are also chains of 'buy/sell/trade' stores like Buffalo Exchange, and many local vintage and consignment stores.

But there are significant challenges when you introduce all the ways that used products can deteriorate, plus the challenge of discovery and managing a stock that can potentially include 'everything ever produced in history' rather than 'this season's SKUs'. Plus the 'Market for Lemons' issue that many people generally get rid of things when they've failed somehow, and only sometimes is the issue 'I don't like this thing's style anymore'.

I generally thrift & vintage stores more interesting than new clothing stores, and enjoy the thrill you get when you find something you could never find new for a very good price, but the tradeoff is that it takes significant effort to find clean reliable basics in your size in the used market, as people generally keep those things until they wear out, and it's basically impossible to keep a full size run of anything used in stock.
Why would they notice their server rebooting? And why would they not just assume it was a glitch or power failure?
Generally, it's a good article, but it lands on a sore point for me with many environmentalist articles - treating "water use" as if water disappears when used. Generally, water doesn't cease to exist - it just gets temporarily stored.
A better analogy would be buying a door that might unlock at a random time during the night, if you didn't use the right motion when you locked it.
Saw this, relevant to the most people don't tip: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/21/20925109/uber-tipping-ri...
> In today's environment of 3% unemployment, if someone doesn't like their job, they can find another one pretty quickly.

Have you ever talked to a real person about that theory? Do you really think that a nationwide unemployment level applies equally to people in all parts of the country, with all levels of education? Do you really, really think that people dissatisfied with their jobs just need to be less lazy and apply for more jobs? How many people do you actually know in this situation?
This article reads like a twitter thread. I wasn't sure if I was reading one article or multiple. I wasn't sure what was a image and what was an ad.
It is, but as a continued Uber customer, I see it as a good thing. Uber needed a scary competitor in the US to force them to change quickly. They had playbooks to deal with regulatory threats that would have maintained status quo. Their playbook to deal with competitors was to quickly deploy changes that would erase Uber’s comparative deficiencies. Against Lyft, that deficiency was a lack of moral behavior signaling and the most straightforward way to achieve parity in that area was to uproot and out bad internal actors. :)
It's definitely something that we should research more. It worked for Alaska, in a smaller scope.
That, and selection from among the ideas, and then implementing like mad on a few of those, are my key takeaways (submitter).
Could have to do with the fact that Google implemented new SELinux policies preventing the running of binaries from an app's data directory. Any binaries you run on Android 10 or later must be bundled in the apk and are read only on the device.

I think Termux uses proot to get around this, so it still works (for now). If this is indeed the reason, Samsung probably just said "fuck this shit".

Expect Google to push out a Fuchsia-based Android whose kernel won't allow the proot hack sometime in the next few years. Like it or not, the closed ecosystem of iOS provides more value to end users, and Google wants to bring those benefits to Android.
One thing to notice is that models and measurements are a lot more exact than they were only 20 years ago (when most of the modern controversies surroundies these issues started).

As those error bars have shrunk it is clear that early models were in fact too cautious. That's important to keep in mind as some pundits drop the word hysteria. So far, anything from the IPCC has been shown to be the opposite.
> What's easier to use than holding your hand up while on the street?

You won't find a taxi that way in a city like Orlando with the exception of a few hotels.
I think they deserve better. I also think they need to be better. However, my idea of better isn't the same as yours. My idea of better involves taking tech that worked in 2000 (the open web, IRC, plain-text email with mailing lists) and improving upon it. My ideal internet is one where everybody who wants to can run their own web, gopher, IRC, XMPP, SMTP, IMAP, etc. daemons out of their own homes without fear of getting pwned and having their computers made part of some channer's botnet.

By all means work out the bugs and make it more accessible to people who aren't sysadmins and have no interest in becoming sysadmins. But we shouldn't throw power users under the bus just to cater to the ignorant. Instead, we should be gently encouraging the ignorant to learn how their tools work and become power users, if not developers/admins. If we aren't willing to help people run their own computers, we might as well just centralize everything, break out the cannabis, and become priests of the Temples of Syrinx.
Humans are not rational, and it's naive to believe that they ever possibly could be.

Governments need to be at least as big as the corporations and the other governments they seek to regulate and defend against, otherwise things get squirrelly and dangerous.
I think most participants in the Internet circa 1996 and personal computers in the early 1980s would understand this idea.

The Internet was being widely written off as a toy that many couldn't ever imagine having practical applications.

Case in point, this widely-cited piece from 1998:

> The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law"--which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants--becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

http://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/www.redherring.com...

Here are some fun things about this concept of toys turning into big things:

1. toys start out looking like toys, too

2. it's extremely difficult to distinguish the toys that will remain toys forever from those that will become "the next big thing."

A useful approach to the problem posed by (2) is to look at things that appear to be toys but refuse to die despite every indication that they should have done so long ago.

Toys that remain toys often have a trendiness and inelasticity to them that gives them naturally short lives. If you see a toy lingering long beyond the time it should have given up the ghost, you may be looking at the next big thing.

The next problem is that it can take a very long time for a toy to turn into the next big thing.
> While we're at it, any corporation that wishes to operate in multiple states should be forced to incorporate at the Federal level. Congress has the authority to make this happen under the Commerce Clause.

Correct, Congress has never made incorporation statutes for private citizens and instead opts for one-off charters for sovereign agencies and corporations

I only know of a couple countries with different incorporation statutes at different administrative levels

and so far I'm only aware of one country that has state level and federal incorporation statutes
Blinking yellow already indicates proceed with caution in the US, so this would lead to ambiguity, which isn't something you want on the road.
Yeah, as far as I understand that's pretty much the purpose of the Utah datacenter.
Have you tried Fortnite Creative mode? It can be as much of a virtual world as a FPS game engine. People are building islands for other types of games, for socializing, and just as art for art's sake.
Yep - not sure why it's so controversial to suggest the media narrative is different than the opinion of actual drivers. Ask your driver next time which app they prefer.
Do you use that name with actual Chinese people, or is it more of a during-Chinese-class thing?

I would feel weird about giving myself a rare and ultra-high-prestige name. But, I have no idea how the Chinese would perceive it.
Google has become such a garbage company to be honest. Is anything they do nowadays good and honest?

I think Google heavily needs to be split up.
>and it's more trouble that it's worth to try and re-use the same thrust units for hover and for forward flight (the design points are completely different).

Do you know why the Osprey designers went for tilt-rotor? Would it be easier or harder to do something like that at drone delivery scale with electric motors?
With respect to the current US political situation, a good deal of it can be traced back to the last major upheavals of the late 1960's to early 1970's. The preordained approach to and discourse around economics, race/ethnicity, and feminism(and likewise many sacred cows of the computing culture) all have some birthing around these dates, and their post-hoc developments have tended towards intensification rather than realignment, a thing which has become more jarring and explosive over time and is likely to precipitate our next political era(or perhaps the current one depending on how you see it).

And this goes for how we talk about and express "free speech" as well, since the era prior had just seen the Red Scare, various forms of media censorship, military drafts, and a "government man" approach to solving all sorts of problems. Everything moved in the direction of libertarian, market-driven ideology, and Facebook is an ultimate result of that.

My suspicion is that the "compete with China" narrative is actually the most powerful thing shaping this discourse. The authoritarian end of US politics will seize upon it as a way to take power, but will always suffer the handicap of their solutions being "too much like China". When combined with the free speech principle it animates arguments for allowing free speech on Facebook and throughout the Internet, while simultaneously also fueling arguments for breaking up the company and decentralizing its functionality in the "users have a right to privacy and should own their data" sense. In that sense it's like the motives that produced the Apollo missions, and a politican who approached it that way, as a "defense of our digital property rights requires the investment of our brightest minds" kind of issue would probably be very successful.
No I understood, but at that point it doesn't matter if it is ice or not. You could drop rocks into a full cup and it would overflow
I'm not sure if I misunderstand you, but that seems dangerous What if it changes to yellow just before you get to the line, are you supposed to slam on the breaks or risk getting a fine for going through on amber?

In the UK the amber means "prepare to stop" but only if you can do so safely. If you are too close to stop then you should carry on through (which should be safe as all other lights should be red at this point).
I don't think any sane person is proposing the future of humanity lies in nudity. But you'd have a tough job persuading me that having 60% more clothes than 20 years ago and landfilling 85% of textiles bought a year is necessary, or that extensive wardrobes replaced every season are less frivolous than transport.
Not hard to see it as a twisted incentive to stay. The one time hit of moving could be too much to cram into tight budgets.

Even though it’s costlier in the long run, I have encountered a lot of management types that shy away from having a big spike pop up on their monthly spend.

Politics win over math every time. Gotta keep the boss mans feels normalized.
It depends on how much you are willing to spend. You can hire a personal shopper/designer who can make recommendations based on your personal style and needs. Or,check out stitchfix.com, try out a few styles and brands ( they carry good, high-quality brands). Once you know what brands look good, just stick to them. For example - Patagonia is big on the socially -conscious front.
Yes, Quora pretty much exists to validate the strict moderation policies used by other sites. There are occasional good answers, but they are buried under a mountain of idiocy:

Questions that could have been answered with 5 minutes' worth of googling.

Completely opinion based questions: https://www.quora.com/Who-sang-My-Way-better-Elvis-or-Sinatr...

Endless duplicates of stupid questions: https://www.quora.com/search?q=lyrics+prank

People who serially produce horrible translations of answers, probably using software, presumably for clout chasing.

And long, detailed, stories that most likely were made up (That's the genre that made me give up reading notalwaysright.com: Too many stories of people who behave horribly until a 7'5" Marine shows up to save the day).
>I literally got asked what I will tip by my Lyft driver, and was reminded multiple times during the trip about the tip. Now, I understand, and I did tip, but I did not enjoy the experience.

This reads to me that you were pretty much harassed to tip.
>Blizzard says "don't talk about divisive things using our tournaments and communication channels." Why can't they be allowed to do so?

Obviously they ARE allowed to ban people if they want to, but I assume you wonder why people are so upset about it?

The issue is simple: Blizzard has repeatedly allowed (and even endorsed) political statements in similar situations in the past yet decided to ban a player and strip their winnings instead of simply telling them "don't do that again or we will need to ban you".

Their enforcement was extremely selective and, importantly, they were allowing China to dictate what could or could not be said in a game interview that took place OUTSIDE of China.
You shouldn't have tipped. Don't let people push you around because you feel uncomfortable.
The latest variant of WSL uses a VM. So that will work, but you won't be seeing that mount inside Windows.
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