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Without diving into the ins-and-outs of this, my current contract contains a claim like this. Well outside the US, and the UK/EU - it's in South East Asia.

It says something like "on company equipment" and/or "reasonably related to skills/knowledge gained or applicable during employment with the company".

So I wouldn't quite quote this as being US imperialism. I seem to recall similar clauses in my previous contracts, but can't swear on it.

My take is the "skills/knowledge gained or applicable with the company bit": if its in my company's core market, then sure. If it's from training they paid for/provided (say - I don't know - Kotlin, if I didn't already know Kotlin) then OK.

But if I make a PHP/JS app, in my own time, in an unrelated market, then they can bite me for it. Obviously, in a more litigious environment, some people may not want to take that risk.
From the article, the observation is that 3 21 bit values can be packed in a 64 bit integer.
> This is a no-brainer.

It is NOT obvious to someone who hasn't thought about it for a while. Suppose someone is trying to persuade another person and just assumes that they already realize the costs of organisational complexity. There's a good chance they'll run into a wall and not get the message across.

If you think realizing it is a no-brainer, then your 25 years of experience is showing.
Peter Thiel has a good book on this [1].

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one
> What I'm saying is that there's the possibility that this trapping is imperfect, and ratios of atmospheric gassed may change after being sequestered..

Do you seriously think that we don't consider these things? Seriously?
>Sure but that's no reason to expect yourself in specific to be on the right side of the shift.

Everyone from Caesar to the crusaders to Martin Luther to the American revolutionaries to the KKK to the Amish to the imperial Japanese to the 1960s hippies to the Taliban to the IRA is on the right side of the shift as they see/saw it.

We can't all be right, some people have to be wrong. Some people will be right on some things and wrong on others. Some people will be so right or wrong on particular things that it will overshadow how right/wrong they were on others.
Some internet providers restrict users to the number of devices they may have connected to their WiFi network.

Not sure if this is what they’re referring to, but possible.
Also they just hired a new guy to head up GCP from Oracle, I doubt someone like that would join if there was even a hint of there not being 100% commitment to GCP in the air.
> In the meantime, the less selfish among us are putting our own privacy at risk for the greater good.

Your actions are actually more selfish. You have an opinion where you don't care about other people's opinion, so that's selfish.
I think any home automation system should not have to rely on the home owner having a CCNA cert in order to be secure.
This is what makes the parent comment insensitive; "they're just doing it to themselves"..
It wasn’t given back to the sea because they were tired of having all that extra farmland. They are strategically giving up on some parts to preserve others.
> The thing is, every prime p gets passed through a filter that filters multiples of primes p' for all p' < p

But the filter for multiples of 3 only sees the values that weren't already filtered by 2. So if we have N filters we don't evaluate all N filters for each value. The 2 is applied to everything, the 3 filter is only applied to things that are not multiples of 2, the 5 filter is only applied to things that aren't multiple of 2 and 3, etc. That doesn't sound very quadratic to me.
You are conflating multiple things.

If you are on an untrusted device (eg. someone else could have hacked the root cert store in the OS/browser), all bets are off: they could have also just hacked the browser to drop any and all warnings and to always display a green padlock icon.

If you are talking about someone else hacking your machine, well, then it's pretty much the same: they can get most stuff by adding keyloggers, screen recorders and just scraping your disk for useful data.

If you are on a trusted device, you can "hack" the root cert store all you want to add root certificates you trust. As long as you trust them, no trust has been lost.

Root certificates are not really "centralized": they are issued by different CAs, and different browsers trust different root CAs too, and it was even more prominent in the past where you had some certs "work" in only some browsers. Still, there are multiple recognised attack vectors there as well (each individual CA, their certificate issuing servers which have access to the root or intermediate signing cert, browsers and OSes and their trusted-CA components...), and the big difference is that the attack vectors are known and heavily monitored.

PGP/GPG keyrings were basically the same approach without the root certificates, and the (in)famous signing parties did not bring a trust level that is ultimately needed on the internet today. I would love to see a development in that direction (one could say it was an early consensus-building approach on who to trust), but we are not there yet.

It certainly is your choice to how you want to protect yourself and your web site visitors, and it's your web site visitors' choice whether they want to trust you with their data (for instance, I personally would recommend you to set up a self-signed cert and add that root cert to your keyring for services that you plan to only access yourself through untrusted networks).

Except that most people won't understand where the risks are in either approach, and that's half the battle.
I don't think there are many languages with a large disconnect between spelling and reading. There are some exceptions in most languages, but nowhere near as bad, in my experience.

The Romance languages for example have pretty clear spelling rules. It's not 1 letter : 1 sound, but usually 1 group of letters : 1 group of sounds, such as "ll" in Spanish or "ill" in French or "ch" in Italian&Romanian. There are usually exceptions around loanwords and old names, and sometimes different sounds that native speakers don't realize they pronounce differently (e.g. in Romanian a final 'i' in a word is usually a semi-vowel, while 'i' in the middle of a word is a full vowel, but most Romanians you ask would tell you that it's the same sound, even if they pronounce and hear it differently ).
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Compared to factory farmed meat it is most certaly clean. No unnecessary suffering of concious animals and far smaller impact on the environment make it that.

I'm not even sure that clean meat relies on genetic modifications, but even if, so what? There is no reason to believe that targeted changes are more harmfull than random mutations.
I like how people get outraged at US tech giants but gracefully ignore the fact that Glencore which actually is the beneficiary of exploiting the children is based in Europe. It's no small target either with annual revenue of 219.8 billion in 2018 vs Google's 136.
It appears that basically LEGO is punishing buyers so as to put pressure on Aussie post . . .
A couple of months ago, one of the guys running our watermanagement ( https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/ ) claimed The Netherlands would sustain 'multiple meters of sea level rise'.
the liability is with the mining company and national government of Congo. the companies purchasing products can indeed put pressure on both to improve the working conditions of miners but in the end as with nearly every human tragedy, it comes down to the government to take responsibility for its actions and inaction. nothing changes until the local government has to change it.
Slippery slope fallacy gets trotted out too often, and I'm starting to sour more when it does. The actual fallacy is assuming that all slopes are necessarily slippery. But it is equally a fallacy to assume that none of them are.

Increasingly, I see the slippery slope fallacy being used to advocate against paying attention to or correcting very clear, observable trends.

Of course not all slopes are slippery, but I think people should be more cautious about this kind of argument. It's easy to forget that absent friction, this universe tends to preserve motion.
Sorry I don't speak Swedish. But according to Google translate - don't we all waste too much time on the internet?

It's really sad that HN now is more likely to darken my mood than to be an enjoyable experience, though.
There are plenty of examples where A and B is treated as a negation of A or B. “Do you want A or B? Why not both?” As one example from a popular mime. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-not-both-why-dont-we-have...
No, it's not a small quirk. It's a repeated error with several different, completely unrelated cases.

Only English surnames need to be spelled when pronounced or pronounced when in written form because you can't possibly know how to pronounce them by just reading them (and don't blame this on immigration)
Sorry to hear that. That's seriously fucked up, and I am almost sure that it wouldn't stand in court

>> that you don’t decide what’s in direct competition. That decides a lawyer

No. If in doubt a court decides it, not an encroaching law department -- but nobody wants that to happen so everyone silences themselves beforehand...

Just one more reason for me never to be employed by a company with more than 150 employees
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Tesla is not popular in Europe. Two orders of magnitude fewer units sold vs the popular brands.

http://carsalesbase.com/european-car-sales-analysis-july-aug...
At my present day job I make software for factories. My team and I make people's jobs safer, keep machines running longer, and have improved food/drug manufacturing safety operations.

On my evenings and weekends, when I'm not unwinding, I'm presently working on Haskell libraries for type-directed data migrations, extending the community fork of Lean to add FFI support, and working on a course in abstract algebra.

Making the world a better place is pretty easy and can start with small things. I like visiting some of our customer factories and meeting the people who use our software. It makes my day to hear their feedback and know that it's making a difference for them.
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So you would subscribe to the notion that BASIC is not a proper introductory language because it hides some of the theoretical CS complexities while exposing the lowest hanging fruit to beginners?
> OPEC said "no oil for you" and it worked. And no one invaded or otherwise compelled them to sell oil to people they didn't like.

This is like world history as told by Dreamworks.
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Higher bandwidth. Not sure if that is 'orthogonal' though, seems like the requirement is on the same dimension, just bigger...
Pronunciation consistency is pretty important too. "I deer you to slap the beer" does make sense because both /ɛr/s (?) have been remapped to /ɪr/s (?)
> I think using some arithmetic rules to entice someone who knows arithmetic, but otherwise is awkward around music theory

The biggest win from that POV would actually be numbering the diatonic scale degrees starting at 0 for the tonic, and the diatonic intervals starting at 0 for the unison. Unfortunately, it heavily conflicts with all sorts of existing notations. But once you think of the third as a "2" interval, the fourth as a "3", the fifth as "4" etc. you can arbitrarily add intervals together and to scale-degrees, without having to constantly correct for the archaic 1-based counting.
Companies could do double the R&D that they are doing, but nonetheless, they are doing more than before
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But they don't, that's the point.
> Even in california, it's the companies choice what a "fireable" offense is, not the employee, nor what social media thinks "seems fireable". If you violate any company policy, or even if google does not think you are performing, you can quite legally be fired. There is very little chance of any recourse.

I don't disagree with that either. I'm just saying that, if this is the company's choice of fireable offense if the company actually considers it normal to exercise the right to dismiss an employee (which they legally do have) for this sort of mistake, I'm glad I don't work there.

As I mentioned in another comment, I recently did something at work that you could spin in an equally sinister way, if you want. My company would be within its rights to fire me for it. My employer would be within its rights to fire me for sneezing at the wrong time, or even for no reason at all. I choose to continue working at this company because I trust that, despite their legal ability, they have no intention of actually doing so. If I ever lost that trust, I would leave.

(In fact, my employer and Google's also have very similar employment agreements about ownership of outside IP / personal open source, but I had reasons to trust my employer to act more reasonably than Google, which was part of why I chose my current employer when deciding about it and Google. In practice that trust has turned out to be well-placed, and there's now a thread on the front page about how Google loves to follow the letter of the employment agreement and arbitrarily deny IARC requests.)
Even if you're on ipv4 and using the 192.168/16 network you've still got >65,000 addresses to work with.
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I like to think of Sisyphus a bit like someone waiting in line for a rollercoaster or a ski lift. The pushing is a slog, but then you reach the top and WOW BOOOM the rock cascades down the hill and it's AWESOME! Time to start pushing it back up again.

Yes yes I know Sisyphus is a metaphor for the pointlessness of life - but that doesn't mean you have to take it at face value.
I think that's the other way around - you get to drown now, but boy oh boy, you'll sure have a happy time come next millennium!
Don't forget weekends vs weekdays.
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After 18 years' service my Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical's scroll wheel is no longer working reliably, and I need a replacement.

I appreciate:

- this mouse's size

- being able to use it left-handed or right-handed (it's symmetrical/ambidextrous) - I switch to help with RSI

To many it's a classic mouse, as much as the Microsoft Intellimouse.

What do you recommend as a modern-day replacement?
Which is why we need regulation. Any ad-supported product should have a paid ad-free version priced at the average revenue per user (so no way to discriminate based on the fact that the user wants to pay).
And we know that no law going against the citizen's own interests ever passed.
Get a cheap instrument like guitar or harmonica and start again from scratch with a good theory book?
It was a business meeting too -- great way of tanking that meeting.

But yeah, being gay in Iran or Saudi has serious consequences. Plus Gawker, posing a progressive media outlet via organs like Jezebel, shouldn't be airing anyone dirty laundry like that -- and then they did, repeatedly.
From what I’ve read, Zigbee is for the rest of the world what Z-Wave is for the US, in terms of market share. Not sure how accurate that is, but from what I’ve seen, there are a lot more Zigbee devices here in Germany than Z-Wave, while most US sites talk about Z-Wave.
Coming from French. I find English spelling easy. I mainly learnt by myself, reading stuff on internet and books. Could not care less about correct pronunciation though, and I have the thickest 'cliché' french accent. But which of the native English accents would be the correct one anyway? So I decided to consider mine not worse than any. H does not exist by the way.
It is. Google hasn’t killed anyone so far that disagrees with them. Plenty of governments does.
> > USA has more people in prison than Turkey has.

> And is substantially larger, and tends to not lock up everybody that might be against dear leader. For now.

Just for the record, the incarceration rate is much higher in USA than in Turkey.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2... lists 737 vs. 97 per 100k population (though I can't find a date there), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera... says 655 vs. 288.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/300986/incarceration-rat... has data from 2019 and says 655 vs. 318. Still more than twice as high in the USA than in Turkey.
Except Google is one of many corporations that exploit passion for the work their employees are doing to get hundreds of extra hours out of them off the clock.

You're right, it's very easy for them to say "only work at work" but they don't want to do that, so instead, anything created by employees is their IP.
I'm sure the "water shapers" are optimistic given their success thus far. They have done quite well overall. But catastrophic failures tend to be combinations of events, events which individually could be handled.
Worth noting this is a 40 year old show. Brilliant, but not very similar in atmosphere or production value to the "nordic noir" which is currently popular.
--l looked like C++ pre-decrement on first read.
Ok but they definitely should put pressure on the government by not buying their unethical produce.
Congo produces 2/3rds of the worlds Cobalt. It really doesn't matter if Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Tesla and Google admit they used child labour.... They have.

Instead of levelling skepticism at the lawsuit, why not level skepticism at the companies with a collective market cap of ~$2 trillion? Doesn't that seem more constructive?

There's a real failure of imagination in these comments. Working conditions can and have been improved by advocacy. Saying child labour is an inevitable outcome of capitalism is the same argument that was made by slave owners in the south and Industrialists in Britain at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. You're wrong.
No, it really shouldn't. Which still leaves the question why it did in spite of the laws in the first place. Those aren't a recent addition, other countries with similar laws had already fined them in the past, resulting in rather localized licensing changes. So why did Google sell its phones in a country despite knowing that it was breaking laws with its current licensing agreements?

The answer is most likely that profit > laws, so they did what they could get away with as long as they could. In my opinion those fines should be backdated to the day the EU found them in violation and they decided to limit the resulting changes to a single region.
as somebody who meditates, i've noticed there are connections between brain and heart in terms of memories. i believe the heart has a big role to play in terms of memories but i can't back it up with anything verifiable.
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Also a googler.

> because you think that a good open-source license will not protect you/your work from being stolen (!).

My reason for wanting to keep copyright is that I want to be allowed to work on my code under the same name after I leave the company. I'd happily trade away that option if I were being paid to work on it, but if it's my hobby, and if (in my view, if not IARC's) it isn't related to my work or Google's business, I won't.
> wonder whether this particular essay is someehow related to Scalia's positions on orginalism

Indeed. IANAL, but i suspect that in the poultry case, a British judge would start with the plain meaning rule, decide that it wasn't absolutely clear whether a fighting cock was poultry, and then fall back to the mischief rule, asking what the original intent of the law was. They wouldn't sit around poring over dictionaries trying to find a definition that fits their desired meaning. Whereas that's an originalist's favourite thing to do!
Insensitive or not, both statements can be true at the same time. I.e. Africa is plagued by bad leadership and corruption, and the west is more than happy to take advantage of the situation.
Who cares....
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It's common for large corporations, but I've been able to negotiate it being removed in all cases but one (it was an acquihire by large corpo and I quit over that after golden handcuffs expired).

Don't accept it as standard or it will really become it.
Including Italy is stretching the definition of Nordic though!
The return of the concentration camp:

- Ugyers in China

- US draconian immigration detention centers

- Now India is gettin into the mix

Not a lot of hope for the rest of the 21st Century, tbh.
Comparing others to cancer, that's always a great display of character. There is much to unpack here, but I'll enjoy myself a bit and simply leave you with the concept "eternal September". Google, if you haven't heard of it.
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That is pure speculation.
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Or perhaps the Russian market was large enough that the return on continued investment in it despite the required changes justified remaining in it and the Turkish market isn't large enough to justify continuing to invest in it.
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> Nobody can tell a company who they HAVE to sell their product to..

Of course the state can do that.
Then they should say so in the article. All it says is "The Noordwaard polder was one of 39 such areas selected for the Dutch government’s “Room for the River” program, in which land was given back to the water."

Shame on the Dutch government for the euphemism, too, I guess.

Afaik it is nothing new that the sea claims land that was previously settled on. The destruction of Rungholt in the 14th century is a famous example that comes to mind.
A modified client could simply claim to be official.
the problem with that is that you "gain skill" in their programming language when you work there. And you "gain skill" as a programmer...
What’s better? Waiting for a yearly review to talk about why something 6 months ago was low? It is better to adjust these problems as they came up.

That way everyone’s on the same page. There’s no doubt that X is an important metric and that your manager is informed of it everyday so that it isn’t a surprise when it comes to a review later on.
Content is king... good and interesting content serves any given market niche and acts as your hook to aggregate people?
3 out of the top 5 dredging firms are from the Netherlands and one is from Belgium, right next door.

The Netherlands will be fine. Actually the Netherlands will make bank selling water management knowledge to others.
In America, at least, that's still not what we use in industry. So the top response to my comment is a proposal to make this classic American book even less practical here!
Yes. (The local tonic, at least. It's no coincidence that the structural feature which most often results in "extra" sharps and flats, outside the key signature, is known as "tonicization".)
What actually happens in a “business purpose focused” company:
You tell the boss you need to double the estimate they gave to the customer, so that you can pay the tech debt and add those layers we need. Boss refuses, we need that change now so get it done without fixing the debt, why is the team so incompetent that they didn’t add layers to start with, why didn’t you just fix the tech debt on your own time in quiet periods, we can’t have a ticket for that since it doesn’t add business value, blah blah...

;)
She mentioned it herself in the Medium post

> This kind of code change happens all the time. We frequently add things to make our jobs easier or even to just share hobbies or interests. For example, someone changed the default desktop wallpaper during the walkout last year so that the Linux penguin was holding a protest sign. The company has never reacted aggressively in response to a notification such as this in the past. It’s always been a celebrated part of the culture

https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for...