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I worked as a fully remote software engineer for a very large company for several years and it worked great. Engineering is something that can be done well remotely. It was on me to build and maintain important relationships via Slack or occasional travel, but I made it work very well.

So well that they decided to promote me to manager of my team, which is arguably more risky than working as a remote engineer. They took a bet on me, and I think it has worked out well. I encourage my team to work at home as much as they would like to, and have even started hiring remotely.

I stand by remote work. Work is about more than enslaving code monkeys to do your bidding. It is a partnership that works well when you trust your engineers to get their work done, regardless of where they are located.
Infrastructure costs far far outweigh tax increases. Portland's East Side Big Pipe built to reduce the amount of sewage going into the river cost $1.4 billion paid by real-estate taxes.
If you read my comment as being "enthralled with giving real time location data to the government", I would encourage you to read it again.

I was merely pointing out the irony and hypocrisy of a company like Uber, for god's sake, trying to dodge regulation by crying privacy.
I'm not sure we can solve this as it relates to AI/ML if we can't even solve it as it exists in human society today. Various heuristics are used, knowingly or not, to gate access to employment, education, healthcare, etc.

As an example I had to drop out of education (in the US) due to mental health issues. 6-7 years later, I'm still having problems getting back in as I wasn't able to get the problems documented in time. I also am unable to get any money as most of my classmates were despite my far above average performance pre-uni.
> And then there is Saudi Arabia itself. Aramco’s pitch to investors will boast of its abundant, cheap and relatively clean oil. That much is true.

Beautiful clean oil.
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I got early access to GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/feross

I'm the author and maintainer of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and other packages. I joined GitHub Sponsors so I could spend more time maintaining the 100s of projects that I've written over the years and continue developing new projects.

I'm optimistic that the direct call-to-action on GitHub itself will yield much better results than fundraising methods that take place off of GitHub, such as Patreon.

I feel that open source funding should primarily come from companies and not individuals, though of course I'm very grateful to the individuals who support me. The biggest limitation of the current Sponsors implementation is that only individuals can become sponsors. Once there's support for organization sponsors, I expect to see lots more money flowing through the system.
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Right, the predicted cliff edge we've been hypothesizing is imminent for decades vs. the near-immediate loss of life caused by rejection of fossil fuels
> Everyone throws some sandbags and rock salt in the bed, next to the shovel and tinfoil blanky. Sure gonna need it when you're stuck in the ditch :)

At least you can remove that weight when you need to. I bet it's a lot easier to tow a 4,000 pound truck out of a ditch than a 6,000 pound truck.
> Where does Tether admit this?

A New York State court filing [1]. (They’re under criminal investigation by the U.S. and New York.)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/tether-sa...
The CONCEPT of stablecoin is fraudulent/fantasy because you can't take a stablecoin and look at it and see exactly where the fiat that is backing it is. You can't prove that it's fiat backing exists in any way.
The only reason it exists is because there are a ton of fanboys for anything crypto and they don't have a clue how it works. TONS of people were freaking out about tether very shortly after it became well known.
> it's also not surprising at all that a transit service provider would have to guarantee to a locality that they can locate their assets.

That requirement can easily be met by occasional random spot checks a few times a month. There's no need for realtime reporting.
This is sad. I feel like this occurs with ADHD as well. I wonder how many other "mental" disabilities this happens with
I feel the irony is that a lot of the text arrangements in the examples do not have enough contrast to be universally accessible. So, I feel like even the designers are missing the point on empathy.
As an EM, these points are quite helpful. Regarding your fourth point, how do you filter out or deal with bad apples?
My thought was, that the extension is very easy to switch on/off. However since installing, I have never wanted WebRTC to be on...
how was it solved in 18th century Paris? was it solved?

I think that culture just sort of "evolves" out of the problem?
Reminds me of when my friend took me to a MLM get together (aka Sales Pitch)
Public transit exposes everyone's full routes, anyway.

Metrocards can lead back to the payment card used for the purchase, and buses (which also record passenger ingress/egress) can remember all swiped Metrocards.
Will these systems ever forgive or forget, like humans?
> This demand whimper thing is inflaming politics very poorly in Canada. There is a very vocal and strong wing of right wing politics centred out of Alberta that blames central Canadian liberalism for its economic woes (for not building pipeline capacity and enacting carbon taxes).

This seems factual.

> Or at least that's their public line to inflame the masses while they know full well that their oil is expensive low quality oil and the world wide price of oil has been sagging for a half decade because of global macroeconomic forces that the rest of Canada has no control over.

This seems more like a heuristically constructed perception of reality, presented as if it is fact.

> It's becoming quite toxic, and is an example (along with Trump's nonsense coal jobs rhetoric) of the kind of thing that we are going to have to deal with as the economic and political realities of climate change become more visible.

This seems to equate the economic feasibility of coal jobs with that of oil in Canada (if a pipeline to transport the oil existed). Again, this doesn't seem consistent with a factual evaluation of reality.

> (That, and xenophobic hostility to refugees which will inevitably increase as climate change further damages the global south.)

xenophobic having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

This seems to presume a specific line of reasoning behind a presumed level of disapproval of refugees (and I would presume this judgement would also extend to immigrants in general?), when the reality is there is actually no way to know with a high level of certainty precisely what and how (or if) large groups of people think on complicated multi-dimensional topics.

The mind is a very tricky thing, it seems prudent to learn the sorts of powerful but error-prone things it does without our conscious knowledge, such that we can improve the quality of discourse on these and other topics, before time runs out.
You may have meant this, but in case a newbie reads: Tabs are not a requirement, pep8 recommends 4 spaces per indent level.
Why re-invent the wheel when MakerDAO DAI exists, which is a much better solution to the problem of a decentralized stablecoin.
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Realistically with something well-defined like TLS you use a library that supports pure software or hardware acceleration. Then you can use acceleration without any lock-in.
haha! This is exactly what my EDIT addresses, I found your comment after updating. I completely agree.
But this is precisely the sort of analysis that writes over racial minorities, women, the incarcerated, and gay people.

Yes, economic inequality is greater now. But "let's just ignore the other kinds" while lamenting the loss of shared experiences snacks of blinders.
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Do your DNS records have a short TTL to enable such a quick switch from one provider to another?
GP comment is being deadly serious and not at all cynical or sarcastic.

HIPAA is a fig leaf. Cardboard covers on clipboards to inconvenience the nurses and receptionists, but a unencumbered infobahn for anyone who touches the money to drive straight through.

For decades, every visit, test, procedure, and medication you've ever had paid for by a health insurer in the US got dumped straight into MIB, where any insurer could look at it. HIPAA functionally changed this not a whit.
How could there possibly be $1.4t in damages when the market cap of BTC maxed out at around $400b? Also, while I don't deny that there was probably fraud here, just because a security is lightly traded and illiquid that doesn't make its price "fake".
I don't understand. They offer: Stripe Connect, ACH transfer, or wire transfer.

Only Stripe Connect (whatever that is) seems to have a list of countries.

Wire transfer should work all over the place.
I'm sure most Saudis don't have any problem with Khashoggi's killing either, for reasons that aren't too dissimilar to yours.
Bitcoin isn't programmable money. That's Ethereum
Which doesn't in any way alter the supply of Bitcoin.

It's like saying I would dilute the value of the US dollar by printing billions of my own "fork dollar".
One neat solution is to have a variable gas tax which rises and falls in near opposite to the price swings, but also slowly grows over time to account for carbon and pollution costs. This gives businesses and consumers an easy way to plan future costs.
I just want a AMD GPU in one of those...
Is this not still a thing for Instagram “influencers”?
Can someone downvoting this person's post explain why?
a trend right now is a lot of wealthy/upper middle class buy brand new pick up trucks, SUVs have replaced sedans/minivans are too washed dadcore
> there's absolutely no reason to ever consider a stablecoin

Although Tether's purpose has largely been to avoid regulation, and participate in cryptocurrency speculation, a stablecoin would be superior for actual commerce. Bitcoin has failed for commerce, to some extent because of instability and speculation.

Being able to use something equivalent to cash to transact digitally, with client-side security seems like a desirable technology to me.
It's rather kind of funny when chinese,russian,polish,eastern european,etc. are being called "troll farms" but when they're american they're either not mentioned or called something very insignificant.

I guess the "troll farms" of US are homegrown and rather natural,since the bullshit goes deep enough that the population sings the propaganda on it's own.

As much as I still prefer the US to be still the leader of the "free" world, you can't be seriously this biased. Every country has it's own mechanisms(more ethical or not, it's besides the point,you could argue they're not ethical since they're pushed by the gov.) that will make certain people resonate some point of views.Since Europeans/Asians are rather poor on average by comparison,I'd imagine they don't have to do it "for free".

There's rather very little difference between a person who has been de facto brainwashed to push a certain agenda (that he truly believes, nonetheless) online and a person who ruins his hands by doing it for money.

Not to mention you can easily spot "trolls" or "shills" online.They're rather repetitive and obvious, since money is the incentive and not their own belief/"passion".
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"libertarian rants about regulations put in place after people died to keep more people from dying"

then engages in semantic debate to attempt to give his viewpoint validity

(And not like, a specific overbearing regulation that you dislike... just any hypothetical regulation at all. Just the whole idea of ever improving occupational safety.)
> I really worry about a world where all the servers run Linux.

As long as BSD stays with BSD license, it won't happen.
There was not a time in the past when switching languages was less common. The tools of the past assumed one would switch between any number of languages; each tool would have its own, often maximally powerful, language. This has become less pervasive as communication and code sharing has become easier, allowing conventions and standards to unify.
Author specifically says the damages would be treble the underlying loss, as per RICO and antitrust law.

I've no idea if this is true. But interesting nonetheless.

Hard time seeing a court awarding the loss to the entire peak to trough market to market, especially if the fraud was part of the money that inflated the bubble, but who knows.
BTW, there's much more assembly code in OpenJDK than you'd find by looking for assembly files. There's a lot of code (all of the interpreter, for example) that's generated at startup time, and written in assmebly as a C++ DSL. E.g. https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/cpu/x... and https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/cpu/x...
8GB isn't really enough when you're running a few docker containers like Elastic Search and the like.
As long as the delivery companies are paying enough into public transit that it benefits everyone, I think this is a win-win.
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> I would be extremely reluctant to determine this guy can't deliver good code

See, I’d be extremely reluctant to assume the opposite - that he can, even though he doesn’t remember “len”. Given this one bit of information, all I know is that he has exactly one thing in common with everybody who doesn’t know how to program in Python: he doesn’t know the function for determining the length of a string. Now, he may (somehow?) know everything else about Python except for that one thing: I’m assuming the interviewer was a bit surprised (as I would be) that somebody presenting themselves as a Python programmer didn’t know len, but went ahead and asked him a few more questions which he may well have nailed. If the answer to every question was “I don’t know, I have to look it up”, you’d pass on him, too. I just can’t picture how anybody who didn’t remember that could remember much else, but I guess that’s why job interviews last an hour or so.
Im surprised ppl dont use ORM libs for this instead..
I'm sure you can have an equally controversial discussion on process-driven vs. non-process-driven companies.
I could characterize this entire argument of yours as "drive-by comment bombing", thus backing my (facetious, rhetorical) claim that you are a shill for the photovoltaic industry.
> Some sides simply have no money or resources to hire professional trolls.

This is crucial. I think it makes sense to recognize how, since the invention of speech, there have been those who accrue power by hiring professional trolls.
That depends on definition. Yes, people were playing around with those things. But the idea that from the 70s to 2000s you could have systematically used wind and solar to replace fossil fuels is nonsense.

Even today no industrial country is even close to having even all its energy from solar and wind. And were not even talking about transportation.

For an alternative level you can look at France. France basically removed fossil fuels from its electricity production in less then 20 years of producing nuclear. And we know that CO2 saved earlier is more valuable.

Now they never went to the step of trying to introduce alcohol fuels, as of course their goal was to limit import of oil to make the French economy resilient and not to save CO2.
> The first version of WSL is marred with terrible file-system performance...

Does anyone know why this is and how it can be fixed? (Either by the Windows team or by end users)
Having a bit of experience with OCaml, I hoped to see what production-ready Haskell code looked like with this library. I tried to read some files of the project and... IMHO "production-ready" Haskell code is still not easily readable, for example, the main file for the tests :

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/blob/master/test/Main...

and

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/blob/master/test/Quer...

I don't know, maybe it lacks comments ? The code is really not easy to follow if you are not using Haskell 100% of your coding time.

While the library may work well in practice, it's a maintainability red flag and, by using this library, you rely on rare Haskell programmers for the future.
Within a region, Anycast is how many big companies move things around mostly seamlessly. Why inside a region? If RIPE or ARIN catch you advertising their IP in the other's territory, they will send nasty emails and threaten to take back your CIDR blocks. I have no idea if they will follow through as we always stopped violating their rules when told to.

Outside of a region, they use DNS and sometimes a combination of WAN accelerators and VPN's, dark fiber.
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You posted an extremely out of date article.

This is actually incorrect since the reversal of Line 9, 90% of Ontario's oil consumption comes from Alberta. 44% of Quebec's comes from Alberta, with the remainder being other North American sources from the U.S.

Here's my source: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/11/13/news/guess-where...

Suncor's refinery in Quebec now processes 25k barrels of Alberta bitumen a day.

There's links in the article to primary sources, including industry documents.

I know many Albertans think we're burning Saudi oil here, but we're not. Strangely enough, Kenney doesn't seem to advertise this fact, and keeps going on about oil tankers going up the St Lawrence.

P.S. I'm born and raised in Alberta. Moved to Ontario in my 20s. Line 9 runs 2km north of my house.
It's even worse for Firefox, although hopefully improving soon. You can definitely get away with an Intel GPU for general usage. We're talking about developer laptops though and there's definitely space for more GPU performance even if you're not doing gaming or ML. I've switched to a tiling WM in large part to reduce the GPU workload for example.
If that were the case:

> enthralled with giving real time location data to the government

Then I would completely agree with you, but as I point out in the first except of my original comment, this IS NOT the case. Maybe the reporting is wrong, and therefore I'm wrong, but I'm frustrated by the general consensus in this thread being what you just wrote. That is not the situation. And similarly, I'm frustrated by the implicit defense of ride share companies here. As I end my original comment, I distrust both municipalities and these ride share companies. I'm not enthralled by anything here.
You need to work on improving your social relationship. Seriously. What you're saying is not even close to common.

And if you see it every day among the people you know, you really need to find better associations.

Those people are losers, they are not the norm, and you should close contact with them.
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I think you're absolutely right. It's frightening that there are so many wrongs happening in society today yet nobody seems to be able to stop them from happening. I'm not sure what has gone wrong here but I suspect it all stems from deep-rooted corruption in our leaders and institutions.
Awesome. I was approved 5 days ago: https://github.com/sponsors/mholt

It's been a smooth experience so far. It "just worked" and the direct connection to my open source work is convenient and just feels right.

Ever since we removed all proprietary licensing around the Caddy web server a few weeks ago [1], I'll be relying more and more on sponsorships to continue its development full-time.

So, this feature came at a great time.

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In practice, you can.
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Yeah, it's easy to profess that it's "just a job," but one carries one's work into one's private life, and ideological discourse.

It's well-understood by Marxists how the mode of production determines the cultural superstructure[1] (and vice-versa).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure
It's not trivial to just support all countries from day one. GitHub has never done marketplace-style payments (individual to individual) before. When you're dealing with money, it's best to take a measured approach. I'm actually super impressed with how fast the team has been rolling out support for new countries.
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Won’t the net effect of this be an increase in housing prices, making housing prices even more inaccessible? Anytime I see affordable housing programs that don’t increase the supply of housing, but inject more dollars into the market, it makes the problem worse.
I have a hard time understanding how a stablecoin could be backed by crypto.

Traditional currencies are mostly backed by things that are very unlikely to crash like real estate, profit share in companies and other ressources with value besides speculation.

What would happen if BTC crashed to 1/10 of its price, and all other coins followed?
It's not about what level of optimization is used, so much as what particular CPU generation the target is being optimized toward.

The public binary distributions have to limit themselves to what X86-64 looked like when it first came out in 2003, which means they can't take advantage of any new instructions that were introduced in the past 16 years.
I was about to reply the same. It's 2019 and many applications still take forever to start and are unresponsive as hell. How did we take orders of magnitude improvement in every metric and make it just as bad? The magic of Software Engineering I guess.
For something like this a metric known as enterprise value is used. Assets - cash + debt AKA the takeover price. You can find these numbers on the company's balance sheet. The average company is traded at something like 3.5x their book value (Assets - debt). The market value of a company is likewise some multiple of their EV.
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Does Dell gets paid from Canonical to install Ubuntu?

Why not OpenBSD, Debian, FreeBSD or Arch?

In my opinion we have to do more to free driver source code. To use Ubuntu does not support this I think.
It's your job as a manager to inspire your team.

Cultivate their professional growth, give them opportunities to learn and grow and expand their skillset. Allow them to work across realms, for example let a backend develop fix something on the mobile codebase. Novelty works as a quick fix and as a pick me up.

I manage a team of 8 engineers and recently we've started doing friday potlucks where each person after lunch picks a ticket from the backlog. Tiny things that need to get done and we just never do kind of stuff. The idea is they get a breather from a large, mentally taxing ticket and head off into the weekend with a win under their belt and their load off their mind. It's not like going home on friday with your huge ticket weighing you down.

Try it out, everybody on my team loves it.
Since November 18, just saying that is a far cry from "no demand" as stated by the top comment.