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We have that. It's called Social Security. There's nothing to say I will live long enough (under your plan) to collect my just deserves. In other words, I have been taxed under my whole life, and never saw a benefit.

Just replace the word "annuity" in your plan, with "public trust" and you have social security.
Implication: People who cannot create things that the world needs or values, should not have as much money. However, our society requires a modicum of money for survival. How do you square our failure to give people a modicum with the moral implications of being unable to produce value?
One of these spills happened near where I live they always do a great job of cleaning up the EPA sees to it.I know it's probably not the normal and probably rare but they actually revitalize the area that got the leak here it was a garbage mess with trash and junk and they had to clean it up and make it a wetland so it's actually better off now.
Time to do away with the UX discipline?
Actually, here's the real story behind how the ban came about. The guidelines were manipulated so that all the realistic field studies had to be discounted. The lab studies basically amounted to "We fed insecticide to bees and it killed them."

https://risk-monger.com/issues/agriculture/beegate/

As for that Plos One study, take a look at who the authors are and where they work. They're all members of the pesticides action network and the last author on the paper is also a staff scientist for Friends of the Earth, another environmental NGO. Unsurprisingly, she had an article all lined up with The Guardian on the day the paper was released. The paper itself is nothing but a cludge of unrealistic assumptions and bad math.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/07/americ...
There's also the issue that Japan is quite notorious for a work culture that prohibits people from leaving to early and staying at office for a long time sometimes doing very little work. So the opportunity to increase productivity (or just not getting less work done) is probably bigger because there's a lot of slack to cut out.

In Germany we have a very different culture. You come at eight or nine and leave at four or five, you have your break but otherwise you're basically supposed to work. I have a hard time believing that cutting an entire day out is going to increase productivity a lot.
I’m curious why they working so much? Is it because there isn’t much of a talent pool for the jobs?

Also curious, what if they weren’t paid salary but paid hourly in this study? Would they be okay with more time off and less money?

Digital stuff is weird because the traditional paradigm of work is: someone goes in coal mine and mines C clumps of coal then gets paid for that because the coal had some tangible value.

Technology is hard to conceptualise because a lot of it is not tangible or perhaps even wasteful.
The poster can use whatever language they want. I just wonder, how does that apply.
Thank you so much for the explanation. What was the rationale behind this?
First people wanted 72 hour work weeks, then 60 hours, then 50, then 40, now they want just 32 hours? Outrageous /s

Seriously though, while we can run for 12 hours a day it turned out to be detrimental to do repetitive factory work for that long. That's how we eventually settled on a 40 hour week. But for mentally demanding work this doesn't seem to work, we just can't concentrate that long. People distracting each other when one of them reaches their limit, or people doing various unproductive things (including browsing various websites) seems more harmful to productivity than just leaving earlier. Having more time for creative hobbies and creative exploration also seems obviously useful for knowledge workers
Few people stay at the same job forever.

That's the other problem that no one is talking about, everyone changing their job every three years. You can't live close to your job, instead you have your hour-long commute. It's exhausting and a waste of time and gasoline.
There is good news tonight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Heatter#%22There's_goo...

"Heatter was already well known for trying to find uplifting but absolutely true stories to feed his commentaries. (He was especially known for a fondness for stories about heroic dogs.)"
I said nothing about greatness. Just pointed out that being public makes someone more likely to be talked about after death.
I see, I agree with your interpretation as well.

> Certainly there is some level of prestige that comes with having a degree. This comes from the level of communication required to simply navigate a degree. Also it is, in a way, a validation stamp that says… “Yes - you have the skills to be a Software developer”.

Prestige is only worth something in an inefficient social system. I don't want to encourage prestige or signaling as it will make a system worse off in the long run. Prestige does not hold any inherent value as the metric of why something is prestigious may be for completely the wrong reasons.

Moreover, the level of communication required to navigate a degree is too heterogeneous to measure and then state as an opinion that it is always more difficult than a bootcamp. Navigating my psychology, CS + business minor bachelor and game studies masters were easy. Navigating my CS master degree was tough. They are all university degrees and it was fully dependent on my personality. The reason navigating my CS master degree was tough is because I'm not that formal in my thinking.

Likewise, I had a couple of people who really disliked full-stack development and wanted to be front-end developers but they were stuck in a full-stack bootcamp.

Navigating those 3 months was a really tough thing to do for them. They talked with me and I adjusted their curriculum to a front-end one as much as possible. And also, front-end wasn't my specialty, so I couldn't optimize it as much as I would've liked. Other teachers may not be so nice (I've met them) and they knew they were taking a huge risk telling me this. They were vulnerable, and made the situation more complicated for me and themselves as well, which I was fine with but it isn't easy. I had an easier time at my psych. bsc, CS bsc. and game studies msc.
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Governments have a poor track record to manage our money.
Are there any proposals to just regulate insurance providers, pharmaceuticals and hospitals as non-profits? In addition other industries that provide for basic human necessities should simply be regulated as non-profits.
It is simply perverse for insurance companies to profit out of my misfortunes and further optimize those profits to pander to industry and investor whims.
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I still remember voting for Obama because of a viral video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU

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You've got it backwards. Schools have an earliest solar time that they can start, given the daylight constraints on commuting. Losing the "fall back" of daylight savings time would cause this solar time to have a later clock time, which means that the school has to start at a later clock time in order to accommodate the correct solar time.
if I recall, you can refuse to take it. They then take you to a station for a blood test (may need a warrant).

Depends largely on state though, but armed with this reporting you can probably sue if you face consequences of refusing (implied Consent doesn’t ring as valid if the test is not valid). Not a lawyer though...

https://dui.findlaw.com/dui-arrests/can-i-refuse-a-breathaly...
I work for a non-FAANG Fortune 100 company that just implemented a 4/10 schedule after being 9/80 for a number of years. These are the perfect kinds of symbiotic moves where everyone benefits - employees get more time for their lives, employers save operating costs, and the environment saves a day of commuting from thousands of people.
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That is a different situation, since a family with one partner earning £100k is assumed to be well enough off to provide childcare for their kids.

Another way to look at this is that it's providing more to the poorer families who need it more by cutting away costs for richer families.
You may want to re-evaluate your use of startpage.com: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
People have been mentioning this technique for a long time on HN. I finally started doing it a few years ago (my email is through Fastmail), and it has worked pretty well. It turns out most customer support staff are surprised to find the name of their company in your email address (“is that your real email address?”).
I did the same thing. I started working at 14, so way before I went to university. By the 4th year, since they had no real computer scientists, they just flooded it with super hard math courses.
We don't have that. We have some populations that are charged significantly more than market value for their annuities and some that are charged significantly less. Social security is a combination of mandatory purchasing of annuities plus redistribution; we should nix the perverse redistribution aspect.
Quote the relevant passage instead of gesturing vaguely at all of labor history. The idea that working hours are set to sap workers of competitive energy is just a weird conspiracy theory. But I guess HN will believe what it wants to believe.
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I think that is a really nice way of doing it. I honestly, don't know what you would do as a capstone project for Computer Science though; perhaps design a compiler or a language?
An enterprise which is "regulated as a non-profit" is just a for-profit enterprise with opaque money flows, corruption etc. etc. Genuine non-profit enterprises require commitment, and the private sector is better able to deliver that.
Does anyone know whether this is 40% daily or weekly productivity? If it's daily, that's only a 12% weekly boost (still good! but less breathtaking). If it's weekly, that's an amazing 75% daily boost!
Most definitely not. This is what happens. Article also contains a good summary of how the science was manipulate to get the ban in place.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/01/09/with-the-bee-c...
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You could say the same thing about sports or Kim Kardashian, or you could just not care and focus on things that actually interest you. That seems like an even more mature choice (hence functional adult).
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It's interesting to see how programmers were portrayed. I suppose it's inevitable that the portrayals become more accurate as more people code for a living.

Any foreign film aficionados out there to offer commentary on foreign film programmers?
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Also atleast in Germany, if u not refusing and the breath test says u drunk, they will have to take a blood test anyways
That’s news to me! I haven’t had an operating system crash (kernel panic) in 2 years, and I think that was caused by a sharp bump sustained by my laptop when taking it out of my bag, not a bug.
>Unfortunately, a shared cache enables a privacy leak. Summary of the simplest version:I want to know if you're a moderator on www.forum.example, I know that only pages under www.forum.example/moderators/private/ load www.forum.example/moderators/header.css.,When you visit my page I load www.forum.example/moderators/header.css and see if it came from cache.

You would expect fewer requests to www.forum.example/moderators/private/ than to, for example, www.forum.example/public. If you look at caching from the server load angle vis-à-vis security, then it could be inexpensive to not cache www.forum.example/moderators/header.css so you would simply not allow browsers to cache this resource.

If site A thinks that allowing the user's browser to cache a certain resource puts them at a security risk, then this resource should be treated as not-public.
Maybe I don't understand the difficulties faced by the manufacturers of these machines, but for the price they're presumably able to charge there's no justification for sloppy or incomplete code.
Ask HN: Pricing B2B for Self-Serve SaaS
How do you price a B2B product for self-serve? I.e., what's the upper range for products that can be added to a business credit card without going through procurement?

The "SaaS valley of death" is that zone where a product is priced too cheaply to justify a sales team (e.g., <$25k/year) but too expensive for credit cards (e.g., $5k/year). So presumably the upper range is around $400 a month?

But that sounds theoretical and I'm curious to hear from those who have had real, trial-by-error experience playing in this upper SaaS pricing range.
I too find their performance numbers hard to believe... More digging required I think!
In Indiana, if I'm asked by a cop, I am legally required to take the bullshit test.

If I take and 'blows drunk' then it can up to a 180 day drivers license suspension.

If I refuse, its a 360 day license suspension.

(And yes, every state is very different on handling and assumption of guilt.)
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Is there a way to write a kernel directly to a boot sector and boot directly from it?
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I always felt like this was mostly a dream anyway due to the diversity of libraries, versions, and CDNs across the web. Everything would have to line up perfectly, within the TTL, to get the performance advantage of loading from cache. And even then it was only really an advantage on the first page load of a site visit; subsequent pageloads would hit cache anyway from the first page.

And speaking of privacy... if everyone across the web is loading resources from one CDN, that seems like an interesting stream of data for that CDN.
You could apply the exactly same argument to the other example. And regarding the second line, in both cases the problem isn't that richer people get less, but that there's a sharp cutoff instead of a gradual scale.
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Alan Turing lived in an era where being murdered was arguably more probable for him than suicide (hard to know what happened). The name Apple being derived from the death of Turing is unlikely nonetheless.
I find it fascinating that if you were to make an equivalent statement about the political realm, you'd be immediately branded a conspiracy theorist on HN. But when it comes down to labor management relations I guess HN is happy to upvote conspiracy theories.
Relevant discussion from not that long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783339
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I agree with you in theory, but here's your problem. You assume people without degrees in Computer Science cannot learn those concepts and those with them automatically understand them. A lot of CS people I've met pass a 15 week course in Finite Automata and could not explain one thing they've learned from it. I can go buy a book on Amazon and watch YouTube videos and become more of an expert on it than they ever will. Outside of certain degree programs that I've worked with people who have them, I would never assume someone knows something because of a Computer Science degree. That being said, you're right there are a lot of people without CS degrees that have no idea what you're talking about and wouldn't know where to begin on certain problems. (And you did say in general too, so I know you were making a basic assumption, and that it's not a steadfast statement).
A politician wanted votes. To get votes, you need to lower taxes. But that requires money, which there isn't much to go around. So they picked a niche of people (freelancers earning less than 65k) and gave them a tax cut. Making it progressive (i.e. everyone pays 15% on the first 65k and then a higher tax rate on the rest) would either cost too much, or be too small of a cut to gain enough votes.
This advice is very wrong for many states. In NC, for example, you will have your license suspended if you refuse a breath test (regardless of actual intoxication.)

And sure, you could sue, but if your defense rests on invalidating implied consent laws, I sincerely hope you have the time and money to fight all the way to the state supreme court.
Since the mandatory telemetry in Windows 10 (and the backports to Windows 7 onwards if you trusted Microsoft and installed their recommended updates) we don't even have that transparency on PCs, sadly.

But I agree, it's a serious problem. The abuse has become so widespread that I am now in favour of heavyweight statutory regulation and severe penalties for violations. I don't see any other way we come back from this situation now. Competition in the market has utterly failed.
I honestly wonder what most people would do with the extra time? Side projects? Hobbies? Family?
Can you elaborate on what 4/10 and 9/80 means?
I also didn’t know why a remote server would have news on it. The worlds of Linux and Windows server administration are so far apart as to be unrecognizable to each other.
So the actual problem is that they don't take blood tests after the breath test says u drunk?
In Germany this must happen (unless u say u drunk I think)
Their desktop session is video recorded and ocr is used for text matching of DLP.
I'm pretty sure it does that by default.
> other people are proud of their parenting, their hobbies, their friendships, etc.

People can choose to work more or less. But if someone chooses to work less, he forfeits the right to complain about being paid less and being promoted slower compared to people who work more.

The proposed four day work week would increase this disparity between hard workers and "default workers" who work as much as they're told to work, then do other things, some of which you just mentioned. Many people already find vaguely unjust, though it isn't.
Easier for some people but not for the masses. Not everyone will know how to do this.
Firefox Nightly, I'd say:
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> We, the AI, and/or the AI we'll be connected to will be able to recreate and terraform, to bio-engineer species, environments and food however we want.

You say that as if it was a fact but nothing is corroborating that vision of the future outside of wackadoodle silicon valley.
"Tech will save us" is not that far from "Jesus will save us" at that point ...
When you become conscious of the fact that your employers are not going to graciously give a 20 hour work week to you and you need to take it for yourself.
You are being downvoted because the claim is ridiculous and unsubstantiated. Scientists don't need to be lobbied or prodded into tearing shitty research papers to shreds. It's what they do. Science is an adversarial sport, that's why it works. Scientists aren't exactly paid like bankers, and the one coin they do trade on is their reputations.
We should make it easier for people to relocate to lower cost of living areas with good jobs. It's easier to commute to Jersey City or Newark from New Jersey residential communities than it is to commute from Brooklyn. Plus there are a bunch of tax and other administrative issues with living and working in different states.

JPMorgan may move workers out of New York, here's where they may go -- https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/jpmorgan-shifting-worker...
Obviously you'd have to issue a full refund, which solves the loophole.
Sure it is a quirk, however it could really be better.

Anyway, I think the fact that people has more patience with learning a language than tools is that learning a language is fun, while tooling is just boring.
Yes, it was introduced in late 2018 and came into effect this year. It's basically an extension of an equally bad tax cut that was previously reserved to people earning less than 30k. Given the higher limit, it makes the jump above that limit twice as steep.
This is exactly how many conservative Americans think our tax system works (it doesn't work like that at all). Republican politicians and their henchmen like Rush Limbaugh played that up for years during the 90s to help keep the anti-government anger stoked. Whenever they were called on it they hedged back to some weak argument about having to work twice as hard for each marginal dollar being a disincentive.
> if you're living in a regular house or apartment in the Western world, with electricity, plumbing, heating etc., perhaps using public transportation several times a week, you might produce much less carbon than your fellow citizens, but probably not less than the average human

A large part of this is due to current practices surrounding energy and material goods production though, as you point out.

For example, the UK has an intensity of approx 300g CO2 emitted per kWh on the national grid. We also have diesel trains. A lot of the material goods we produce (including things like, say, the metal body of said trains) are carbon intensive in their manufacture.

But it's not impossible to change that.
The sum of money that's genuinely "required for survival" is so low as to be almost insubstantial. People, even the extreme poor in fact, spend a lot of their discretionary income on what amounts to social inclusion, not bare survival. (But social inclusion is basically a collective good, that's far more cheaply delivered by altering social norms in a direction that boosts provision of social capital.)
> Maybe because you got used to it. There's a bunch of awful scaling issues with that screenshot. The taskbar is unusable, a bunch of icons in your music player are wrongly scaled, and there's a bunch of text layout brokenness.

could you detail ? the taskbar is exactly at the right size for me. The only thing I see that is blatantly bad is the text on the left sidebar of the media player.

> I also suspect you've had to configure things quite a bit to reach this layout

The only thing I do is setting Xft.dpi = 144 in my .Xresources.

> I see for example your zoom-level is non-default in Chrome.

that is because I keep playing with my middle button when I'm reading :) before taking the screenshot I had it at 250%