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> corporations lobbied to make benefits (specifically healthcare) tied to employment

They didn't. It came about because in WW2 labor wages were fixed by law. In order to attract workers, employers could not offer more pay. But they were able to offer benefits, like health insurance. It stuck because employer paid benefits were paid out of pre-tax income, while if the worker paid for them himself it would be from post-tax income.

I.e. it was cheaper to provide it through the employer, thanks to the tax code.
"On Sunday, an unidentified wrecker sent by the Imperialist powers to humiliate Facebook..."
I worked on this toy project for a while, but it's not nearly as complete as these photo editors

https://ballpoint.io/about
No cars?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

More seriously, my guess is that you enjoy those streets because there's so much more character to them. They are generally part of an older, more storied urban core, so the streets are more imbued with a "there"ness of the community.

Contrast this with the experience of walking down a recently-gentrified street.
They are not different functions. They are the same function. The average case is a special case of the general function in which some of the terms collapse.
When is an electrical engineer not an engineer?
An OpenBSD Desktop Using WindowMaker
No, it doesn't care about worst cases. But the asymptotics of the generalized function of the runtime by necessity are it's worst case.
All this talk about student loan forgiveness is an unnecessary solution to a problem that’s not really that bad: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/upshot/an-international-f...

Average BA holders in the US graduate with $28,000 in debt, versus $21,000 in Sweden. The Swedish system is basically like our income-based-repayment, which we have had since the 1980s. Except, as you’d expect with Sweden, there is less paperwork and fewer gotchas. Simply tweaking the PAY-E system Obama created, to add automatic enrollment and automatic annual income verification based on tax returns, would get us a system that has proven workable in Europe. All without trillion dollar loan forgiveness or radical changes. (And with, in my opinion, a fairer system of redistribution, where those who needed loans and got high paying jobs subsidizing those who needed loans but didn’t get high paying jobs.)

(And simply tweaking ACA would get us pretty close to the Dutch model of health insurance. But that doesn’t get headlines.)
I don't think you understand how the court system in America works
If they stop paying government student loans en masse and then hid thier income (get paid and work cash only) all that would happen is our current trillion dollar deficit might increase a little bit. The government budget takes into account payments and interest from these loans. The total amount of all the loans is likely spread across repayments over 20 years.
Some devices don't turn off bluetooth when you turn off bluetooth.
My favorite part of when I post that example is how someone inevitable tells me how much $50 is not a big deal.
Of course! That's pretty much the point of supercomputing.
NYC Mesh and similar networks use point-to-point relatively high bandwidth links (e.x. Ubiquiti radios commonly used by WISPs)

Disaster.radio uses LoRa which is very low bandwidth and typically omnidirectional antennas. It only uses WiFi to connect users’ “terminal” devices to the node within a short range.
Yeah this is a problem that caused itself. Price fixing always breaks a market, and this loan backing by fiat is like a cancerous version of price fixing.
As far as I know Navient is the servicer for Federal loans. Who else is there since the change to DOE-only government loans?
Kong is very new. Only a few thousand are out there. Frustratingly, or perhaps amusingly, it doesn't yet have an agreed upon value. I don't think it's appropriate for us to set one.
People have been talking about this for at least a decade & I wonder when the shoe will actually drop.
Note that Atari BASIC for the 8-bit computers wasn't made by Microsoft and is incompatible in some ways. Microsoft did port BASIC to the Atari computers, but not until 1981, and it was much less popular.
Thank you for the correction/clarification.

However I still have a government guaranteed loan that was issued by a bank. If I default on it that bank isn't selling my account. They'll garnish my wages. Also I never plan on paying off my loan early! It's only 2.25% apr! I got lucky. Rates were really really low when I graduated and consolidated my loans.
MacOS build/test servers, potentially- but I'm not sure that would be a useful CPU to memory ratio.

It may just be that that happens to be a valid combination of memory slots and memory density available on the market.
We don't have anything to do with disaster.radio (maybe that should change), but we do have an existing single board computer that runs Linux, has a LoRa radio, and wifi. A somewhat similar product, but we use this for reception of a satellite data broadcast.

https://othernet.is/products/dreamcatcher-v3-05

It has the 2.4 GHz LoRa radio, the SX1281. It also has a wideband mixer and synthesizer, which allows transmission across 85 - 6000 MHz. You should be a ham in order to play with the tx-side. The SX1281 is not compatible with sub-GHz LoRa.
But these are fundamentally supply and demand issues. Why is there so much pressure to develop interesting research? Because there is a deluge of research coming out from our huge oversupply of graduate students, and you only will progress to the next stage if yours is deemed most interesting. Why is it hard to pass peer review? Exactly the same reason. Why don't people just quit their abusive advisors? Again, same reason.

None of this is an argument against having empathy, but it is an argument against high-minded ideas that are supposed to change things without addressing the root problem, namely the 100:1 oversupply of grad students.

For example, peer review can be brutal, so why not start journals with gentler peer review requirements? Well, those already exist, they're called lower-tier journals. But they haven't relieved the pressure on PhD students one bit, because you can't make a career by publishing only in such journals. So why not just ban top-tier journals? Then competition would instantly shift to drumming up buzz for your papers by some other route, to get citations. Why not ban selection based on citation counts? Competition instantly shifts to indirect avenues, such as recommendation letters from prestigious people or extreme polish in presentations. And so on.
I’m pretty sure that’s only true for Chrome at this point.
View complete study > https://news.gallup.com/file/poll/269087/191206Pre-Existing....
Can anyone elaborate on this?
Economic well-being across generations of young Canadians
All they have to do is wrap some fabric around their phone core. They should be thanking Williams, not sabotaging his career.
I'd take a post-doc simply to avoid either of those careers.
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To an extent, I feel good that the Secure Scuttlebutt guys are behind this.

A good direction to develop would be to talk to FEMA and its global counterparts. There is literature on what is needed in disaster. Instead of an insular tech-world development of such a platform having disaster response practitioner insights might be useful.
Personally, I think Reuters does a pretty good job. They tend to clearly distinguish between news and opinion. Mostly, but not always, their news reporting is just facts and little interpretation.

Too many networks either blur or outride hide the distinguishment between news and opinion. E.g. you'll get a bit of both in the same article. For example, CNN, NBC and FOX. Although, and I'll probably get downvotes for this, FOX News (online at least) probably does slightly better on this. Opinion pieces are generally visibly labelled as such at the top of the page, but they dont always make it clear on the front page in the leading headlines. And on actual news stories, they tend to present facts as is, without interpretation or opinion (again, not always the case, but I think they try harder).

I used to read CNN, NBC as well as FOX, but was driven away from CNN from their flagrant bias in reporting news. NBC drove me away with their site redesign when every article had to have a large picture associated with it on the front page. Made it too hard to figure out what the articles were about and loaded at a snails pace. FOX has done some similar things, but the front page loads fairly snappily. Reuters is probably the best though. Site is responsive, mostly text links, except for the main article in a section.
I have read that, thank you for posting. Schools are good at selling the vision for sure. Sister did photography, and is amazing at it. Just doesn’t pay the bills. In that context, we do need future poets and artists, and I am sure their jobs will not cover their loans, major loss.
That's a really great argument for free education, which is an argument the strikers would make. I do think though that you are underestimating the power ordinary people have. If the various funding mechanisms suddenly go into crisis, this will cause a very large ruckus with the potential for positive change.
In ham radio in the US there’s ARES, RACES, etc, but you’ll typically need a ham radio license (not that hard to get, though)
No supercomputer in the TOP500 runs macOS (or any OS other than Linux, since a couple of years ago).
(Note: I'm assuming from the reference to "map layout" that this comment is directed at the original article, and not the video mentioned in the parent comment.)

Reading the assembly language is what many (perhaps most?) people would do at that point. But not everyone is as comfortable with reading assembly, and I wanted to show that a lot can be done without taking that step.

Also, "easier" is a relative term. It was far, far easier for me to examine the data files sitting comfortably in front of my Linux box, than to try to pull together a decent debugging setup inside of a dosbox before making any headway. There's always more than one way to do it.
I wish there were a Google distro I could use - I trust Google to properly vet all dependencies. I worry that other distros have trojans via app dependencies.

I have been thinking about using OpenBSD - but I am guessing that a secure OS is no help when you need to use insecure apps.
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The 386SX was a 16-bit CPU capable of 32-bit operations. Think of it in the same context as the 8088 vs. 8086.
> We can only print Kong; we cannot remove it from circulation.

This isn't strictly true; you can buy notes from people.

> We likely will need to have another document detailing how the lock drop works. The short version is that you lock up Ethereum in a smart contract for between 30 and 365 days; when you prove that fact to a given Kong lock drop contract instance you receive Kong token (at the end of the period).

It sounds like the basic idea is that you "preorder" Kong with Ethereum, and then you visit a physical location (the "contract instance") to receive your cash ("Kong token"). If my understanding is correct, then this isn't outside of your control at all — you (or the "contract instance") can simply refuse to issue the cash.

Re: verification, here's my issue:

> Most importantly this contains the public key for each Kong note known at the time and the token associated with that note

What if someone counterfeits Kong not by wholesale faking currency, but by duplicating valid notes in circulation? The public key would be the same, so they would both pass offline verification.
this is a solution looking for a problem, enabled by default. i think most people dont care that homomorphic encryption is being used, they dont want their user/passwords being sent across the wire in any way shape or form, especially enabled by default.
I wonder if there are any research towards adapting desert sand for use in concrete? It would solve this "problem" in a jiffy.
Why was it necessary to change student loans to being non-dischargeable in bankruptcy? That is a recent change and it shifts the burden from banks having to evaluate the loans they are making which would likely mean fewer loans and thus less money earned from interest. It seems like student loans should be treated like any other unsecured loan. And really student loans shouldn’t even be necessary for public universities but that’s another point.
That is not always the case. Clearly, you’ve never encountered “vim: command not found” but found vi to work without a problem.
This release had triggered a spam war on Notepad++'s github.

They still spammed its repository until 9 days ago.

E.g: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issue...
> Microsoft is truly serious about Linux, if anyone was left wondering.

You forgot to mention how you've come to this conclusion. History doesn't suggest the same thing you seem to be suggesting.

They've always been serious about Linux. But more about how to get Linux out of their way.

If anyone is left wondering, and you've got the answer, it'd be nice to see something more substantial as to why we shouldn't be wondering anymore.

It's true that there could be synergy. But that was the case back when it was clear MOST websites were coming from Linux servers than Windows, in spite of Microsoft's constant claims of being on the forefront there. They weren't. They still aren't.

I'm definitely still "left wondering."
I have gone past the introduction a long time ago. Currently, I am trying very hard to find a book/video which teaches how to create UI in CSS.
Bet you giggled.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_nourishment
> Is there any data on if folks with student loans are living above their means?

Literally every single friend of mine bought a new car when they graduated from college and got a job. Anecdotal, but I suspect it is more common than people realize.

It doesn't mean they were living above their means, but I think buying a new car at the start might be a financial misstep.
>I think eventually we will pine for the old way. Already you can’t get useful reviews anymore because all of the “comparison” searches are run by manufacturer mouthpieces.

Absolutely. A lot of reviews these days from google results read like someone who has only ever read the feature list from the marketing page. There is a bit of a search engine hack where you just put "reddit" after any search and it brings up fairly real results for now.
What poor person is using a coffee grinder is sort of my original point.
4B records is 2^32 which is 2^24 * 2^8 which is 256 (2^8) records for every 3 bytes (2^24) prefix.
We do know what makes a player better, it's win rate. What GP is saying is there seems to be no leaderboard or ELO/MMR to really understand how good the AI actually is at the game.

Is this achievement closer to AlphaGo beating Lee Sedol, or is it more like AlphaStar beating a bunch of Bronze league players?
Indeed. I tell people that what the world knows about urban development comes from mistakes made in MA. I live here too. Not in Somerville- I’m up in Marblehead- but I moved from Gaithersburg MD. At first I was annoyed by the regs when I moved to MD, but then I came to understand why they are there.

I love big brother...
Absolutely my feelings!

Jaw dropped when i realised the "screenshot" of the editor is actually the editor. On my phone!

Of course I've used Pixlr and i love it bur will definitely try PeaApp more
I tried this out and I really just need a way to manually set the latency. My recording computer only has an audio interface with no monitors (just headphones) and I pretty much can't use this software because you don't seem to support ASIO input or manual latency settings.
I like the secured hash check method. I think this is good.

Most of my current life is in unique-per-site and 2FA but the burden of remembering which one(s) are using shared was more than my motivation to fix. This mechanism may take me to fixing faster.
What license? In event of disaster there will be nobody to check or enforce licenses.
>Maybe an unfair criticism given it's "introductory"... but I'd urge anyone who seeks a better grasp of the power of CSS to look instead to the axioms and layout examples on https://every-layout.dev for its much more rigorous, up-to-date, "first-principles"-based, expert treatment of this thorny subject.

Yes, https://every-layout.dev is eye-opening in terms of taking advantage of the power of CSS and using it as it was intended vs. trying to turn into… something else entirely.

Highly recommended.
People sell non existant software all the time.
I think it’s more of a result of the recent availability of inexpensive low power (relatively) long range radios that operate on the ISM bands, i.e. LoRa.

APRS is probably the closest thing to this in ham radio, but it typically requires multi-watt VHF radios.
It’s actually fundamentally different, because instead of trying to agree on a key we can use to securely communicate cleartext over a hostile network, this is a scenario where neither side wants to know anything about what the other side knows, except in the very special case where we both have the same exact value, in which case only one side should discover that.
Oh, I didn't think reducing discrimination counted as catering. You're not really saying increasing discrimination to previous levels would make women happier, are you?
Thank you; The link is informative.
Yes, agreed, many domains are just used for email only, for redirects, for in-code variables or data collecters.
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Step by Step Guide to Create Your Own Speech Classifier
You can do deliveries on bike, rent a car just to do the job with getaround:

https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/getaround...

Also cars are typically cheaper than rent, and the gig economy hires you usually on automated & objective criteria with flexible schedules. Vs. having to convince your local mcdonalds manager to hire you and working on shift schedule that is ever shifting.
I have wondered if the right person in the right place could go Mr Robot on the Dept of Education’s loan data, nuking all borrower data (prod, backups, everything). “Non Congressional Sanctioned Forgiveness” thought experiment.
I don't know what to say at this point. Any reputable reference will disagree with you, including the two Stack Overflow links I posted, or even the Wikipedia article on big-O notation, which doesn't say anywhere that it has to do with the worst case of algorithms.

> They are not different functions. They are the same function.

Sure, if you expand the term "function" to include "random variable", which is legitimate to do in some fields of math... but we're talking about deterministic functions from the natural numbers (or real numbers) to the real numbers here. Which is what big-O notation is defined for.

Can you write down the deterministic function from N->R giving the "runtime" of some algorithm? (I mean the actual function, not big-O).
> but instead of a government with checks and balances that is ostensibly accountable to its citizens

what government is this and can I vote my face onto their currency?
Exercise advice on food labels could help to tackle the obesity crisis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21758388
Jokes on you, we have a Users directory.
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Yes, and the current user space approaches are spinloop based so the machine isn't really general purpose at that point. You might as well just call it a router if all your cores are spinning on RSS/etc queues.
>Why was it necessary to change student loans to being non-dischargeable in bankruptcy?

I believe it was something along the lines of people borrowing for law degrees then discharging the debt right after graduation with the knowledge gained from their new degree. I'm sure it was done in other degrees as well.
I feel like this isn't too unlike the old Xserve's that could get up to a price this high. They're machines with a very, very limited use case, and budgets to match.
There's one big difference here, I'd bet. Do you have children? Or a spouse? Because as assiduously as you can corral your own content for pesky ads there will be devices, services, and platforms that your children or your spouse use that will leak into your life.

The day your child asks you why youtube keeps giving him ads for diabetes medication and you have to face your still unresolved feelings about your mother's death and explain that he'll probably one day have to have daily injections and a few toes amputated and maybe deal with kidney failure is the day you'll probably feel the same as the author of this article.
You may be aware, but to add to your comment...

Good ol' Z80s are still in active production as well, and you can buy a 20MHz chip in a DIP, LQFP, or PLCC package.

Anyone who is interested should check out the RC2014 and retrocomp google groups. Lots of discussion there, and there are a few people selling Z80 and Z180 computer kits.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rc2014-z80
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/retro-comp
Odd how it isn't "surveillance" when criminals monitor people. I think there's a certain age where you start seeing things differently, biologically.
I don’t think numbers are declining.

In related news, see https://www.rrmediagroup.com/News/NewsDetails/NewsID/18899
Arimaa is a chess variant which was created to be easy for humans to understand but hard for computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa#Arimaa_Challenge
I didn't work in an assembly-line kind of factory, I worked in light manufacturing. That builds a ton of interpersonal and "conflict-with-reality" type skills, such as disagreements over quality and wrangling cranky machines. Retail was not nearly as challenging.

I will grant you that selling garden soil might be as physically demanding as working in a factory, and miles walked could add up too. But I never woke up in retail wondering if I'd be physically able to continue working my job much longer because of the wear and tear.

There's a reason every rich country got there by manufacturing and not retail, and in part it's that you don't build human capital by sitting in a chair scanning price tags. Manufacturing productivity increases steadily so workers have to become steadily more skillful to keep up. It's also far from a dead-end job, as productivity is easily measured and the cream can rise.

People in retail can be ambitious and talented, but their talents are wasted there. We can't get every ambitious, motivated person out of retail and into the job where they would do the most good just by offering them money, because money isn't everything. But we can avoid screwing things up by _pushing_ those people into jobs where their talents are wasted, by offering them too much money. I've worked lots of mandatory overtime because people wouldn't come work for my employer, so I feel the pain of jobs that need good people but can't get them.
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When making comparisons with Sweden or other countries the cost of healthcare, housing, food, and transportation should be taken into account. Healthcare and transportation costs are much higher in the U.S. I think too we also have a higher per capita income and I don't know how things balance out. One thing for sure though. I'd rather be poor in Sweden than in the U.S.

There is also the fact that many students who start a four year degree end up never graduating. At the college I teach at it is clear that we are marketing to students who should not be going to college and shouldn't realistically expect to get a degree. But we need the money due to lack of state support and as a result standards for passing have gone down. What we have now is a system that has the incentives in the wrong place and this will have bad societal consequences years from now.

Like almost everyone else who comments on this topic I have ideas on how to make things better and like almost everyone else those ideas are largely naive.