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Sand theft is very rampant on Long Island. On the north shore, where there have been a slew of high-density developments built, first thing developers do is scrape all of the sand from the lot. Some projects are actually built on what was once sandy bluffs. The sand indigenous to LI is a fine sugar sand, valued for it's quality in concrete manufacture. There are entire lots where sand is excavated and then left for drainage issues. As one can guess, sand mining is heavily regulated and usually prohibited by law. The sand acts as a filter as water leaches down to recharge the aquifer where most of LI gets it's drinking water from.So think about that... they're destroying the land's ability to provide potable water because of greed. Yes, the aquifer fresh water levels are decreasing and pollution plumes are growing. As the fresh water level goes down, it acts to suck salt water into the aquifer.
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Are you concerned that organizations like the NRA are doing an insufficient job defending the 2nd Amendment to the point where the ACLU desperately needs to step in?
As part of some volunteer work I'm doing with Lucy Parsons Labs, I submitted a FOIA request to every single state's largest city, asking for search warrant records that would likely exist on complaints for search warrants, the warrants themselves, or from any audit. About 100 requests in total.

After two months, only two cities have sent me their search warrant records. All other states have given me rejections saying:

1. The records are on paper and never transcribed.

2. The records are digital, but there's no way to query from a frontend.

3. The records are digital and queryable, but the agency considers the use of queries "creating reports", where tons of states have case law backing this up.

4. Nothing, because they haven't responded yet.

So far I've received three enormous fee estimations of ~500k, ~400k and ~150k. Obviously not affordable.

Chicago is one of the few cities that sent records (though, it took a year). They've sent three separately sized files for the same timeframe - 11k rows, 9k rows, and 20k rows. The data is messy, and there is some very important info missing from their records. Can't speak too much about it yet, since I'm still confirming the reasons. It's been blindingly frustrating trying to get a consistent message about whether the data is even accurate.

All this goes to show that police agencies don't make records on search warrants even remotely easily available to the public, and we have no way of gauging whether our constitutional rights are being upheld throughout the US. It's honestly very sad.

If you want to support this work and our other projects, please consider a donation to Lucy Parsons Labs: https://lucyparsonslabs.com/support/
Is there anyone in the universe voluntarily quitting their job at Google to go to work at In and Out Burger? No? So in what sense is it a better place to work? Clearly not empirically.
Google hasn't become a terrible place to work, it's just not as great as it was 5 years ago. I think most people would agree with that.

Also, why can a burger company not be as good or better then an ad company to work for?
Unless there might be loopholes in those annual caps that the wealthy use to their tax advantage. Found one:

==The GAO report shows that the top 1% have saved $1 trillion in their IRAs, 22% of the total.==

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-shelter-hundreds-of...
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Have a little sympathy for my pain, dude.
I experienced something similar with Electron applications too. If you're an Electron dev, do NOT handle authentication within Electron. Handle it in their default browser.
Ah yes. Same reason why Google and Facebook are actually terrible places to work. They only pay ~$200k/year whereas JPM can pay millions!

What a simplistic view of the world.
Are you kidding me? This is one of the things people have been hoping ML could help with for decades. We're only going to see more music composition and production-related ML applications in the future.

I think they may soon revolutionize workflows for electronic music producers. This is an amazing first step in that direction.
On the other hand, a third of the population doesn’t drive, either because too young, too old, too poor, too handicapped, etc. Making things more walkable certainly helps that group of people.
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Allowing ourselves to fail (and learn and have fun) is a powerful thing. I discovered this a few years back playing a (new to me) board game with friends. I didn't know it well enough to win, so took the point of view that I'd probably lose, but have fun at the same time, learning this new game. All too often we are told that we have to win, succeed, make a passing grade. This definitely puts in a level of not fun and anxiety. But once you give yourself permission to fail, that dynamic changes.
You said we shouldn't factor in pay, then the only thing you say is good about In and Out is that they pay well.
Probably less than 1%
This is just AOP.
Depends on the position. Would you prefer them to be an accountant at In-N-Out, or a Google contractor paid to scroll through and flag thousands of images of child pornography?
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Similar to Spring dependency-injection: https://www.journaldev.com/2410/spring-dependency-injection

It seems too powerful, though. I could see it quickly becoming intractable to find where the code lives that is causing a certain outcome.

The root problem it's trying to solve is the fact that things often don't fit neatly in a single bucket, but our traditional idea of modules as mutually-exclusive and hierarchical categories forces you to choose just one place to "put" something. An idea I've had is to get rid of hierarchical modules altogether. Really they're a relic of directories and files. Instead, one could "tag" a function/class/constant as belonging to multiple modules, and one's editor could aggregate all members of a cross-cutting module as needed. Organization within actual files on disk becomes an implementation detail.
I’m gonna go ahead and say that this is one of the reasons why people like Go so much. Latency is a big problem and becoming bigger as fanout increases, so the old defaults for tuning GC turn out to suck horribly.

However, the throughput penalty is very real and e.g. compiling a large codebase I’d much rather have throughput tuning.
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Don’t be fooled, both are slavery.
Right, but can sponsors themselves access this data via an API or something, currently? Asking the creator to email engagement metrics screenshots every week isn't too practical.
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Rodney Dangerfield was a comedian who made his career out of portraying a character who was a chronic loser. His tagline was, "I get no respect."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVQB9N__pdc
Indenture is loathsome because the person under it is compelled to work. That isn't so in this payment model - they're free to work or not as they wish, and they are free to choose the amount of work, and their own balance of pay vs working conditions, and so on.
i would
My reference is when an Apple salesman came by my workplace around the time the Mac was released. He proudly showed off a sheet of icons, claiming they were all obvious, to a group of maybe 15 of us. One pointed to an icon, and said "what's that box of kleenex mean?" The salesman says "print, it looks like a printer". We all laughed and said it looks like a box of kleenex. The salesman didn't get much headway after that.

Printers come in all kinds of form factors. Besides, even if it was recognizable as a printer, a printer is a thing, not an action. Why wouldn't it mean "configure the printer"?
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I would argue the primary benefit of having an API even if not made public is that it will encourage better architecture , design, and development making the product more maintainable over the long run.

It also means you can scale if you ever do need to add a customer that wants to make use of an API.

Saying not to do an API because customers don't want it is similar to not using source control because you're the only developer.
I don't think there's any question that this is true.

There are some efforts to address it (eg. SSL, Mongo, etc), but they're the first "drafts" if you like.

When a majority of the users of free software were programmers themselves, things were quite different to today. The world has changed, but the free software model has not kept pace.

With hindsight, I think the "Open Source" definition can be seen as a turning point, and the issues we have today stem from the decisions to give everyone the use of free software, even those who aren't of the community, or able to contribute in turn.

I don't think that was a bad or wrong decision, but I think that the ramifications are still playing out.
I agree that bicycles are a superior ride in every way, but a large number of people who don't use bikes do use scooters, and that's enough to make me a fan of them.

Also, speaking as someone who rides a pretty vanilla road bike, the rental e-bikes feel bizarre to me. You call scooters "grotesque" and "suboptimal," but have you ever tried a Jump bike? I can't put my finger on why, but after renting them a few times out of curiosity, I now find myself walking past them and going an extra block to find a scooter if necessary. I prefer my own bicycle over either rental option, but I think rental e-bikes will have to get a lot better before they become as popular as rental scooters. And even my bike doesn't win in all categories. Both rental options (and scooters especially) have an advantage in parking quickly and worry-free at my destination.

In any case, I'm happy to see a variety of options available. I hope rental scooters don't disappear until they are replaced by a better alternative that captures what is attractive about them.
Well, what if you could have approach described in the article but there would be a defined patch interface so that if you looked at it, each patch makes sense also?
There really needs to be a new rule added to the posting guidelines about not posting Twitter threads
There are lots of IRA accounts with far more money in them. We have the data (from 2011) which shows it.

==As of 2011, 314 multi-millionaires had more than $25 million saved in their IRA, with average holdings of $258 million, the GAO reported. About 9,000 taxpayers had at least $5 million in their IRA, with average holdings of $16 million.==

==All told, 630,000 millionaires — about 1% of all IRA savers — cumulatively had more than $1 trillion in IRA accounts, accounting for 22% of all IRA assets.

Meanwhile, the other 99% — the 42 million taxpayers whose IRAs held less than $1 million — had average savings of just under $100,000.==

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-shelter-hundreds-of...
Those are pretty interesting links. Thanks for sharing.

I wonder if there's any way to come up with a net value overall for those subsidies? For example, pre-K education is fully subsidized in some states and it looks like the total economic results over a long time are very positive. How would you go about figuring out if those road subsidies are too high or too low?
Fact 4 is largely incorrect. Boards with adversarial relationships with large blocs of shareholders generally adopt provisions like staggered board terms (like the US Senate).

Fact 3 is also a fairly fanciful interpretation. Large public corporate board membership can be lucrative, but is in practice not competed for by a talent pool the way that say, a CTO or VP of Sales or CFO role would be. New board members are almost always vetted and nominated by the existing board. Hence new board members are nearly always either 1. in-group members (a cynic would say "cronies") with satisficing business acumen from the same social/business milieu as the incumbents, or in the exceptional case, 2. high visibility outsiders (a cynic would say "window-dressing") from other endeavors, such as former politicians, admirals and generals, etc. A new movement adds a third possible vector in, namely being a highly qualified business person with a politically / optically desirable diversity characteristic. But once that candidate comes in, they quickly will learn that the means to stay in the Inner Ring and gain lucrative additional such opportunities is to toe the line...

I'm sympathetic to your idea of emergent behaviors of the group arising from knowable axioms about the individuals and their motivation but I think you've got some incorrect axioms about the selection and incentives of those individuals.
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Another day, another "best place to work" list that has no real quality controls on the reviews or methodology to ensure reviews are not fake or coerced.

They all do not control for systemic bias of reviews.

At what point is it just a marketing piece?
==All told, 630,000 millionaires — about 1% of all IRA savers — cumulatively had more than $1 trillion in IRA accounts, accounting for 22% of all IRA assets.==

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-shelter-hundreds-of...
Of course. The notion that these things are "intuitive" is false. Recall all the laundry icons you see on clothing? Nobody knows what they mean until they're told, even though they're standardized.
Uh, effeminate?
Brand new ones.
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Chick-Fil-A's engineering office is in middle of nowhere south Atlanta. You either have a long commute from midtown and above or you're living in some sketchy neighborhoods.

According to this article[0], they have trouble retaining employees, because their office location is so bad.

[0] - https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2019/10/19/chick-fi...
Exactly. It's really pointless to compare a $20k/yr position to a $200k/yr position, especially based on things like "having flexible schedules". The worker pool and expectations are leagues apart.

Consider: The In-And-Out worker would need 10 sick days to equal the pay of a single sick day for the tech worker.

Maybe it's a nice place to work compared to McDonalds, or other similar places... but trying to imply that people are happier working there than FAANG is just silly.
You know the GM at any In-N-Out location grosses over 160K a year right?
imagine them naked is the classic go-to solution.

practice, practice, practice. Toastmasters would be a good start.

but also, realize that not every job is for every person. find your strength elsewhere and don't look back!
Indeed. The Nazis took special care when occupying Eastern Europe to seek out and kill anyone who could qualify as an intellectual (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligenzaktion).

They wanted to reduce the Slavic peoples of the east to a slave caste, a dumb, unthinking labor force suitable only for hard manual labor. So anyone who had demonstrated a facility for the work of the mind -- scientists, artists, teachers, civil servants, and so forth -- had to go.
I would expect an empty array to always be returned regardless
> I'd take Matrix with all^wmost its flaws over ActivityPub

protocol-wise, which flaws are currently the most egregious from your pov? (i.e. `all - most = ?`) (And if any are security issues, please chuck them to security@)
Why not both? When that 5 year old is 15 I would be thrilled if they worked at a place like In and Out. It's a good company, it pays well, and working in that type of job is an invaluable experience.
Obviously it's difficult to compare companies in completely different industries, so I wouldn't worry much about minor differences between #1 and #11.

What IS notable to me as an engineer, is how Google is ranked #11 but Amazon isn't on the list at all. Are the horror stories about working at Amazon true? ️
Why would you compare such drastically different (and frankly extreme) positions in the first place? That's not making any sort of point in good faith.
We have a lots of great initiatives these days: wt.social, brave, twitter+. Monopoly stopped not being evil. Puts shadow on the Internet. But there are still people who believe. Who try to save it!
I see lots of people mentioning email clients. What email client do people use? Is it fast and robust? Every one I know of seems to have severe lags and/or have a lot of mess to clean up when it inevitably crashes.
If pay weren’t a consideration I would have been working at a coffee shop years ago.

I love working with a complicated temperamental machine and cranky demanding sometimes charming people.

Which is why I went with my 2nd choice: programming
So the headline is kinda click-baity in that someone at a dealership WRONGLY told the author "you can't change the Mustang Mach E at home" because apparently no one at any of the many Ford dealers called had a clue what they were talking about. Still an interesting read, but you can apparently charge your Mach E at home if you get one.

"Absolutely nothing but misinformation was sold to me. You can’t charge a Mustang Mach E at home, they can use Tesla Superchargers, it doesn’t have enough range, a plug-in hybrid is better, ect ect. Nothing of importance because it’s all, simply put, wrong."
> returning a null array to represent no items, and returning a single object without an array to represent one item

this happens when you add JSON version for old XML-based APIs (seen this multiple times)
A GM at an In-N-Out can easily make over $160K a year.
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Haven’t read Soul, but I read and very highly recommend one of his other books, Mountains beyond mountains. Incredible story about how much one person can impact the world.
It's only a heist if no one else is as smart as you. If anyone is as smart as you, they would notice that stock buybacks are correlated with a future decrease in price, as the increasing price of the stock is due to manipulation (i.e. the current demand for the stock is not a function of an increase in expected future values, nor does it signal a change in population level discount factors).

This is just your average outrage by people who don't know how to properly reason about financial markets.
I get where you're coming from, and I do like the idea of a self-contained centralized physical currency powered by whatever kind of tech, but I think the minimum viable money is much, much larger than the scale of your initial announcement/launch seems to indicate you think it is.

The Monopoly example is interesting, because there's enough currency in the box to pick up the entire system and operate it. In that context, the money isn't the point, it's just a tool to operate the Monopoly game-system. Similarly, for us money isn't the point, it's just a tool that powers the human society-system.

I think it's better to frame it in terms of the minimum viable society. Figure out how much system it takes for an arbitrary group of humans to operate a society that is indistinguishable from any given slice of modern life, and then derive how much new money you'll need to make and distribute to make it possible to switch all at once.

Privately owned or rented homes, food purchased from a store, utilities, transportation, entertainment; all the things that being a human in society entails. All of it needs to be present and purchasable with the new money, or else the new money will have to be converted back to traditional fiat, which as many have said defeats the purpose and introduces a boat of security problems.

I like where you all are taking the concept of money, I like the Kong experiment, and I wish there was One Weird Trick to get past the adoption phase and into usefulness, but idk it just seems like all we have are ten thousand interesting experiments.
My understanding is that it's just based on employee satisfaction with their workplace. The implication is that In-N-Out Burger might be a better place to work relative to other options for its employees than Google is relative to other options for its employees.
As an engineer?
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So Google still harvests/analyzes all your email data. Is this just "step1" of migrating off Gmail for good?
What's special about private repos? Why not just clone and use a local editor?
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True, i was thinking about Apple and Google in the same time
Because it depends on the position.
The NRA is more an arm of the arms industry than it is an organization actually interested in the rights of individual gun owners; for example, they're in favor of making 3D printed guns illegal. This is good for the industry, but would infringe on the currently recognised rights of individuals. I think the Second Amendment Foundation would be a better example of an organization that actually supports the 2nd. I do think our 2nd amendment rights are slipping away (in the beginning we could own and sell unregulated cannons), but I'm not presuming to tell the ACLU how to spend their time and resources. As noted above, I would appreciate a recognition that their decision to not defend the 2nd is actually political rather than legal in nature, which I believe is pretty obvious.
Google is not in the business of satisfying your content needs, though: they are in the business of making money by getting people to look at screens. This may occasionally overlap with giving you what you’re looking for, but is by no means strictly linked.
Hybrids are interesting because you can reach higher bypass ratio's because you can power n number of ducted fans off m engines.

Currently increasing fan sizes are getting problematic. That is the problem with the 737 MAX. The fan diameter of the new engines is too large to fit between the bottom of the wing and the ground. So it had to be mounted forward and up which fucked up the aerodynamics.

Two other advantages are, potentially maintaining thrust in an engine out situation. When you lose an engine not only do you lose half your power but the thrust is unbalanced. And faster throttle response. Turbine lag is a big issue with jetliners.

Note: The reasoning behind high bypass turbofans is thrust is proportional to delta v times the mass flow rate. Where power input is proportional to delta v squared. Bigger the fan the more efficient you are and the less fuel you use.

Diesel is kinda interesting. Manufactures are developing diesel engines for light aviation. I suppose you could have a hybrid diesel/electric aircraft.
> The right answer is to re-certify.

By "re-certify", do you just mean the pilots? Or do you include the plane itself?

The original problem was that the FAA requirement for how the stick force has to vary with angle of attack could not be met, because of the new engines having to be so far forward: instead of the stick force continuing to increase with higher AoA, it started to decrease at some point because of the pitch up moment due to the engines.

The simplest way to fix that would have been to increase the ground clearance so the engines could be moved back to where they were on previous 737s. That, of course, would have had to be done in the design stage, before planes started being built. I'm not sure if it would be possible to retrofit existing 737 MAX planes to do this.

If the physical airframe stays the same, then there has to be something in the flight controls that compensates for the pitch up moment of the engines at higher AoA in order to meet the stick force requirement. MCAS was an attempt to do that while keeping everything "close enough" to previous 737s. If that constraint is dropped, there might be a way to keep within the FAA stick force requirement without having the same failure modes as the MAX does, but that would still require a new type certification for the plane.
I bet lots would if the pay was the same.