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San Francisco isn't even as dense as Queens, and isn't anywhere close to Paris or Barcelona. Its problems aren't a result of density, but rather economic stress.

Moreover leaving a few trees up in a lower-density development isn't a way to respect nature; whatever trees are left are there to decorate human properties.

We need new cities designed to be high-density from the start, and we need higher density in most existing cities. When humans live in urban areas, nature can be left alone, and you don't have to go 100 miles outside the city to reach undeveloped land.
Did you just make that up or have you actually met him? When did he turn into a "flake"? Exact moment when he endorsed Trump? And he was a visionary before then?
Microsoft and Amazon don't even need to do anything. Knowing that there might only be 3 years of service remaining, I definitely won't use Google Cloud and I'll tell everyone I know not to use it too.
Reminds me of Ray Noorda[1]. Nothing good ever happens when companies focus entirely on their competitors. If Google really wants to beat Amazon & Microsoft in "Cloud", they should focus entirely on the customer and the value they can provide that customer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Noorda
I seem to have stopped at some level. I still look at prices for groceries (those mangosteens are pricey) and restaurant items, let alone flight prices. This despite being in the level 4 category in the article.

Maybe it’s being poor since childhood or the first generation immigrant frugality.
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Returns are auctioned off in grab bags of random items. There's dozens of youtube channels of people going through these boxes and talking about how much they'll relist each item for, keep some items, throw away a lot. One key is you need to be near the auction site to personally pick up your wins since otherwise the shipping is too high. One exception is some lots are for entire truckloads of items, which sometimes come with free shipping by truck, and free the problem of what to do with a truckload of random returns such as 80,000 lbs of cracked large panel TVs.
Yep, I honestly don't care where it comes from. Unless it's food.

Is it in good condition? Does it work? Is it appropriately listed as to it's current condition? Then does it really matter that someone pulled it out of the Office Depot dumpster?
Not directly. It's a large, PE owned company, so no profit-sharing or stock grants. But, over time, via access to more interesting projects, quicker promotions, and more visibility with senior management, in theory, yes.
US health insurers cannot even possess genetic information for underwriting purposes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscr...
> So that means she should be able to inject her opinion on any site that she doesn’t like?

Just to be clear: her "opinion" is "don't take actions that would cause the company to break federal labor law."
I made a joke years ago about how Google would shut down GCP on a whim, ending the last shred of goodwill they had in tech.

Too absurd for reality.
They primarily sell backup software, and they show the occasional ad to you in the app.
Viewed from the 'sometimes things have to get worse before they get better' lens, it might drive better security/backups/etc in the medium term.
Increasing precision here doesn't increase confidence in these estimates.

The phrase "highly subsidized" says basically nothing, yet it's enough to estimate global temperatures 80 years from now with a margin of error of 0.05?
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I just bought Christmas presents and I ordered only the books from Amazon. JetPens packages stationery for less damage, Uncommon Goods has a curated selection, and a wallet from Nordstrom has a better return policy.
> and so improvement can only ever be small and incremental.

You seem to hint that some hypothetical non-small improvement can be made differently (in some other language). Perhaps it could, but it doesn't seem anyone has done it yet. We do not observe large differences between and in companies based on language choice. I think some of the reason is that developers overestimate the cost of coding in the entire software development process.
I assumed it was the presidential candidate. Would support a title change to clear up the confusion.
What if the data is highly proprietary and now all your competitors have access?
Yeah, I'd say that a great job, putting you in the top maybe 5-10% of Americans, could get you to level 4. Levels 5 and 6 (tens of millions and hundreds of millions of liquid assets) will not happen for any appreciable segment of the population, but they are given equal weight on the diagram.
> Being in charge of the infrastructure does not mean you are in charge of the content.

Whether or not it was her job has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not it was protected activity.
It wasn't personal revenge it was personal information dummy. Could have been sensitive to him for any reason. He was outed as a gay
> Provider can choose to share that data with other providers

Not without express consent. The default is 0 hops. Same rules applies for banking info.

You want to share with someone else? You have to ask for consent again. A lot of people did unknowingly sign up to have their data shared like you say though, which I think is a regulatory failure more than anything else.
And how's your commute in SF?
I'm an IJ user and I do this; however I remember eclipse was much better about knowing that you have a dependency also in the workspace and using that when you "go to definition" instead of going to the compiled version.
NIMBY's aren't the only reason you can't get that deal. Usually that kind of deal exists only in lower COL locations that aren't that popular.

The whole idea that increasing supply will drop the price isn't 100% accurate. In Chicago we've had lots of new development in an area that wasn't that expensive to be in. Now we have 900sqft 2br places that are 3.2k a month and studios for 1800 in that same area.
there are clearly a lot of folks returning bad motherboards to amazon as "ordered wrong item" or whatever, and they make no attempt to verify the return. i had to stop getting motherboards there years ago.
I can't imagine a more damaging leak for Google Cloud. A company that's already notorious for abandoning projects now has a public date for when they'll abandon cloud. How could anyone in their right mind start building on GCP? They may as well shut it down today.
This is exactly it. My family is incredibly well rounded, we are both earners with success in multiple industries. We could get a job in any city in the US and many cities in the world, because of that we can choose where we live, and it's not one where I have to move back in time or fight to get fast internet in my house.

The thing is, companies aren't moving to expensive places for the cheap land for office space, or the low salaries for cleaning and food service employees, They aren't moving to cities because of vast cheap and free parking. They are moving there, because the talent that can live anywhere it wants to is living in these cities. I'd love to work remote, but then I'd work in my basement with my legal weed and fast internet and still in the middle of the city I live in now.

There's a fundamental misunderstanding here thinking that the people who can move anywhere they want haven't already. So if they want to make a difference, the best way would be to encourage the arts, federally support human rights, and move the whole country forward, break internet monopolies, pay for education. I'm not moving my daughter to a state that's still challenging abortion rights or teaching creationism in schools, or still has their head in the sand about confederate statues. I don't want my kids growing up in a place where the war on drugs isn't just a failed experiment.
I assume most of these occur through phishing and very few occur by someone sniffing unencrypted data in transit.
There might be some folks interested in living in manufactured cities in "The Heartland," where the only thing that matters is having a huge, cheap house and a job. For the rest of us though, who appreciate mountains, good weather, and culture, we're going to stick to the existing cities in geologically and culturally diverse areas regardless of the cost.
I'm also not familiar with French law but this https://www.loc.gov/law/help/freedom-expression/france.php seems to be a good resource.

One thing I am familiar with is the European Convention on Human Rights which grants Freedom of speech in Article 10 and which is binding in France.
The huge game tree of Arimaa is somewhat misleading, because a lot of moves are just simple transpositions. It's a fun game but it doesn't feel more complex to play than Go.

Note that despite the anti-computer design, classical computer chess techniques (with some clever hand-written heuristics) were enough for computers to exceed humans.
Nothing makes me want to subscribe to a company's offerings more than timelines, or threats it might be eliminated. That is one of the many reasons why GCP has not taken off; outside of Amazon and Microsoft just having much better salesmen/women.

The Google unit, which sells computing services to big companies, is under pressure from top management to pass Microsoft or Amazon—currently first and second, respectively, in cloud market share—or risk losing funding.
I disagree with most of this; but let's just say we inhabit different worlds, and leave it at that. I figure we just take different vacations and go to different restaurants. :)
Maybe this is news to you, but engineers typically have to go to college and get a degree before they can work as a software engineer. That typically takes 4 years, starting at age 18, which is when most people graduate high school. A 21-year-old working as an "engineer" at a company is typically an intern.

So to answer your inane question, she wouldn't be an employee because she's not old enough to have graduated college yet. And that's just to get a BS degree; lots of engineers these days (esp. at top-tier companies like Google) get an MS degree before they enter the workforce full-time.

I'm rather appalled that I have to spell this out here on this forum.
You can do whatever you want, there are options at those wealth/compensations ranges

There are also people living up and above their means and want to stay there
I think you're assuming it's related to the message content, but that's not what Google are saying and it's not how corporations work in my experience. How you do something matters a great deal in any large bureaucracy. If Spiers wanted to remind people they could unionise there are communication systems that exist for people to talk to each other on their own initiative without approval, systems like email or even memegen.

Modifying the behaviour of people's web browsers isn't a channel intended for employees to push personal messages to each other and this should have been really obvious to her. She and her colleagues were trusted with a tremendous amount of power which could be readily abused (see my other comment on this thread), and the expectation was clear that it'd be used only within the bounds of what her management asked her to do, namely corporate security.

When she went outside those bounds and started using her immense technical privileges in ad-hoc ways, and (worse) making arguments like "I got a colleague to approve a code review so it was OK" she gave an extremely clear demonstration that management simply couldn't trust her. It's not about unionisation. It's about someone with the power to steal cookies from her own colleagues going rogue and deciding her own personal political priorities matter more than company policies she had agreed to follow.
We can talk all day about bugs and mistakes. They're a fact of life and we are human.

It's also important to remember that your Master Password still plays a role and YOU provide that. If you use a weak Master Password, and we somehow introduced a bug that set the Secret Key to 0's, then your Master Password would be the only thing protecting you. In an ideal world you'd continue to use a strong Master Password.

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I’ve finally reached the age where I was using something before a language that ‘copied’ it even existed!

This was around in Haskell before Swift existed.
My take on this is that she was trying to ruffle feathers, and she succeeded. I suspect her firing took into account that intent. Putting myself in the shoes of whoever decided, I can only think that factor would have weighed heavily against her.

She might be naive enough to believe that this was actually protected concerted activity, but I don't think so. I'm not sure I think firing her was the right play, but I also don't have all the information. I will say that I don't think this outcome should surprise her. It should definitely been one of the likely outcomes she modeled when deciding to submit that code.
So you're saying a billion dollars spent by the Hillary campaign couldn't compete with Russia's $100,000 in targeted ads?
Individual Googlers inadvertantly violating the law opens the company up to risk of legal discovery processes and is therefore a beach of company security.
I'm assuming they mean users/customers of the firm being aquired.
Is there an adaptive difficulty AlphaZero engine? It would be interesting to learn by playing one set to "try to win 50% of games" as a difficulty.
> The almost-but-not-quite unstated major premise of the whole argument is that you're putting a key piece of smarts into the queue: Tracking whether a message has been processed. One could argue that that is the real antipattern.

Indeed.

Lots of good writing on the tradeoffs, for example: https://sookocheff.com/post/messaging/dissecting-sqs-fifo-qu...

At the risk of beating the point to death, the transition from SOA to Microservices is marked by the transition of smart pipes to dumb pipes, and dumb pipes have no knowledge of whether a message has been processed. In the microservices era, the basic presumption is that the transport has no knowledge of the state of the message processors' progress through a queue.
Its relevant that the US DoD contracts helped build Silicon Valley in the first place. It makes sense for the government to encourage firms to other regions. https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
You do realize we have internet in the rest of the country, right? I get over 150 Mbps regularly at my house with Comcast. Upload is around 3Mbps. But I could change to Comcast business to get symetric at my house. Or I could colocate in any number of DCs in my area. Or I could move to another neighborhood and get USI Fiber[1] for about $100/mo. I don't because I don't want to move from the current neighborhood I am in.

Internet access may suck in many places, but not everywhere. Don't assume that you need to be in SF to get good internet. Most metropolitian areas in the US have good internet.

[1] https://usinternet.com/fiber/coverage-map/
I'm curious how discrimination economics affects the relative lack of investment in some of these areas. Particularly for transgender people and immigrants (a larger group).

If immigrants/engineers are getting murdered in hate crimes in your city, why should the whole country pay to subsidize the fact that your city is an unpleasant place to work and live?
I buy the open box and slightly damaged warehouse deals when they are available, and usually have fairly modest discounts. So far I haven't been able to ascertain that any of them were actually damaged in any meaningful way. Like maybe the box had a slight dent in it.
(assuming you're asking in good faith)

It's the same thing, just on a different scale. If you own, say, one share of VTSAX (Vanguard Total Market Index) you now own, by proxy, 1.8% of one share of Microsoft stock. You don't have any direct voting or economic rights but because of the way a mutual fund is structured you get most of the economic benefit of that fraction of a share. I.e. you get the benefit of most of the capital gain and dividends that it distributes.

I would personally say that if you want to actually "own the means of production" then directly owning shares is the way to go, but if you don't actually care about making decisions for specific companies then you get most of the benefits without any of the day-to-day thought and worry by owning shares in a mutual fund.
A mortgage for a $1M property is roughly $4-$5k depending on credit etc etc.
> Because the core proposition value of make is the dependency graph and incremental rebuild

So you are in agreement with your parent? He's suggesting make for these use cases.

The issue is that a lot of times people use Makefiles for putting convenient commands that have little to do with dependencies/incremental builds.
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> CS isn't a career. CS is part of all careers.

This right here. I was in awe when I realized that software engineering affects all industries. Even farmers, it might not be necessary, but it can make a huge difference.

Also I too have been coding for a long time because I love programming. The way I see it, if I ever tire of it, I can switch careers. I'd still code regardless of who pays me to do what.
Which basically includes all monetary policy.
I think you underestimate what people will put themselves through to score a high-paying, high-status prestigious job (see: med school)
Except that you have to live in the Midwest, so no, it's not as good.

I like doing outdoor things in the mountains and the queer culture on the "left coast" that is anathema to more conservative areas of the country.

So no thank you, I'll keep my high salary, access to mountains, and ability to retire anywhere I like after I sell my ridiculously overpriced house to someone else.

Living in most of the U.S. sucks if you're not a cookie-cutter copy of the socially acceptable suburban family with 2.5 kids and a dog. It's not all about money.
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> Yes but if you borrow like a maniac from credit cards and default on everything and live in a van but still start a successful software business you still get wealthy.

What happens if the software business doesn't succeeded to the extent that it dwarfs the level of debt? What if it doesn't succeed at all?
What? How is a user supposed to show you and reproduce their problem when you're connected over SSH or RDP? Both run in a different session than the user's
I understand what a classic stock was - it just seems so abstracted now, it doesn't feel like it's an equivalent. You aren't sharing in the companies success directly, but now there's layers of abstraction and speculation and gamification that it appears that stock success is only tangentially related to company success.
I've also heard and got counterfeit baby items

This is a big reason I have the rule "Never buy from Amazon anything that goes in or on a living thing."

No food. No pet food. No personal products. Amazon simply can't be trusted.

I know the violation of trust is from Amazon's "partners" but Amazon allows this to happen, and makes a profit off of it.
> Lots of basic products are being sold to pump up reviews then being switched to a much more expensive item.

This is the most frustrating of them all, reviews mean absolutely nothing anymore when the item can be switched out at will while keeping any old reviews.
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Silicon Valley is a place where you have lots of smart people because the smart people all go there because that's where the other smart people are. You can get them in a room and they can figure out amazing things.

It's kind of like Los Alamos for nuclear physics. Sure, you can put a team together elsewhere, but it's never going to be quite the same because those happenstance conversations won't have the right people in them.

Let's say for a minute that you could break this thing up into dispirate groups. What's the advantage? You'll be splitting up the best team ever created and hoping they somehow reconstitute. Sounds dangerous to me.
For remote collaboration, have you tried something like the Meeting Owl to bridge that gap? https://www.owllabs.com/meeting-owl
>You cannot avoid spending 1/3 of your income without it affecting your life style.

Yet people live super-fulfilling lives with families making $50k annually. Find a job clearing $75k and you'll be golden.
For what it's worth, ConnectWise is also owned by private equity (Thoma Bravo). TB seems to be supporting the growth of the company.
I'll second you on ninjabuild.

I just wish https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/1578 would get merged, so I can compose ninjabuild repos seamlessly.
The amount of data you have to store for even the network's current larval state does not to me suggest that †he current version is real practical to scale.
Have you ever tried to get someone to move to Boise? Did you succeed?

I work for a tech company in North Carolina. Cost of living is very reasonable and there are plenty of tech companies here but in my experience getting someone to move here for work is hard. It's not just the employers you need to convince.
It is basically like eBay, if you ignore who is selling the product.

It's pretty easy to tell when you are, for example, buying Panasonic batteries from Panasonic as opposed to buying no-name lithium cells from a seller with a name like, 'krazedeals'. And sellers with a brand to maintain are unlikely to opt in to the 'comingling' program.

I guess that Amazon could highlight the seller information a bit more, but it's already pretty prominent.

I'm also a little bit confused reading all of these comments - do people think that Amazon sells everything on their website? It's rare to see an ecommerce business run that way these days - new-ish entries like Walmart also have third-party sellers, and old mainstays like Newegg have switched to that style of selling too. Personally I'm not a huge fan, but things have been like this for awhile now across the web. Do people not use other major online retailers? Or does Amazon get more flack because they are the service that almost everyone uses?
I want a slider that lets you shrink the population (not just "low growth"). Climate change is just one of many ways that overpopulation is negatively impacting all life on earth.
Uniquely good. State needs to punish domestic abusers. Not break families by giving women right to vote.

Elites want a large workforce for a large gdp. That's it. That's why women are promoted to do things they haven't evolved to this being constantly sad. They have to divert their maternal energy elsewhere. They can fix by promoting love between husband and wife but who will think of the gdp?
The difference between local and remote in most AP software is minimal. Admins defederating is more a parental powertrip about which domains their users can or can’t read than anything.

If this sort of thing were really valuable and popular, we’d see browser extensions that do it. For the most part, those only block spam and trackers, and don’t break HTTP along ideological grounds.

I think it’s the “free hosting” part that is popular, not so much the “admin powertrip” part.

They also aren’t only censoring from their community. They are censoring their own users’ posts from the entire set of users on the instances they have blacklisted. The censorship cuts both ways.

If anyone with any sizable audience were using AP, they would not tolerate a hosting admin deciding who is allowed to follow them.
neat, I didn't know Scuttlebutt worked that way!
I agree with you -- it's not the ONLY barrier to entry, but it can be A barrier to enter that also works as a good standard to support many features IT workers need... Though I suppose video calls w/screen sharing is now a better measuring stick for the current shape of IT.
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