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Technology makes a lot of these good intentioned laws hard to interpret. You cannot be fired for telling your co-workers that they are allowed to unionize. What if you work for a call center, commandeered an auto-dialer, and called every co-worker in the company with the same message? What about a popup on every page of an internal company website? Is someone allowed to stand up in the middle of the office with a megaphone and tell everyone they can unionize?
I went to a Frys in the South Bay recently and everything there was at least 20% more expensive than it would be online.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you're saying telling people facts about reality they should know is advocacy, and advocacy is somehow inherently political? By extension of this logic teaching children math is a political act.
European cities prove that density doesn't work? What?
You're implying that there's a set "value" per employee that the companies are going to pay and they merely subtract their costs from employees while contractors are paid more because they lack these fees.

That might be the case for skilled labor that freelances but we've seen a plethora of gig economy jobs be created that trend towards minimum wage or lower. That does not mesh with your claims
But there's a subtle difference between being big enough to make profits and ranking. If you need X amount of business to make profits, why does it matter whether one or two guys make X+ ?

If you take your SpaceX example, they need to launch some number of rockets. So what if someone else is launching more?

Why isn't the minimum expressed as a % of the market for example?
I really really don't like software subscriptions, but for a password manager there is obvious ongoing work just to keep it functioning.

It's one thing to use a standalone app like MS Money for 20 years with various hacks and compatibility modes to keep it working. Over the time I've used a password manager I've seen OS and browser updates break parts like plugins or syncing. I've transitioned to using passwords more on my phone (and phone APIs have changed).
Yes, and needed the approval of two reviewers, which she got.
Google is dumping billions into GCP right now.

Google migrated from a weird, Apple like "come buy stuff from us, but first solve this riddle" sales process with reps with huge territories to a more traditional enterprise model. Based on Linkedin updates, the Oracle class of 2015 has basically moved in on the sales side. Those guys usually make premium bank, so they need to bang out deals or GTFO.
> it's quite possible to completely ignore the existence of undecideable statements.

It's not being ignored, it's just that once you know about the theorem, there are whole classes of problems that are no longer being worked on because they're impossible to solve.

It's like once you know about relativity, you stop trying to learn about the properties of the aether.
I've bought many cases of cat food from Amazon. So far, they have all come in the standard manufacture packaging.

Is it worthwhile to 'counterfeit' cat food?

The only problem I had is in one Amazon shipment a few cans got smashed in. Chewy does packaging better!
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It makes sense to take advantage of platform features if you expect stability and for those features to ease your development process in some way that justifies the cost of vendor dependence.

There are certainly features of Google Cloud that meet the latter criteria, but stability? This leaked report suggests we shouldn't expect that past 2023.
That comment: "the company had fired someone last week for misusing the browser notification, and it had also disciplined two others as part of the incident"

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/17/21024472/google-employee...
I'm fairly certain Google Cloud is not profitable. Even if it is profitable, Google will divest from business that don't hit a certain scale (billion $ businesses). Basically their goal is to never have employees staffed on projects which yield a low $ / employee ratio. They will invest for a while, but pull the plug after some arbitrary time if it doesn't hit the scale.
Sorry, what? They have the right to unionize. The whole issue at hand is that the employee put a notice of that legal right into an employer tool. What rights do these people not have that you're thinking of?

Look, the point here is that if you want to win a unionization fight (which is a legal victory, it will happen in courts and with contracts) you have to fight using legal tools. Pulling anarchist tricks like this just makes you feel better, it does nothing but make management's position stronger.
The rich history of this topic: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Amateur%20Radio&sort=byDate&da...
The power density on WiFi is minuscule. FCC Regulations mean you can transmit at a max of 300mW only, and the power you receive is affected by the Inverse Square Law on top of that, so total delivered power to your device is fractions of a mW unless your wireless router is right next to the router. Even then the entire process tends to be rather inefficient on top of that so the math probably doesn't work out.

The Qi mousepad makes a lot more sense.
Some counterfeits are good enough you wouldn't know if you have a problem or not. If one out of 1,000 instead of one out of 1,000,000 is defective, 99.9% of people will be "happy" with their counterfeit, and it may be outwardly indistinguishable.
Agreed with all the examples you list. The flip side though is I have been dealing with a clothing company (Zanerobe) who's return policy is store credit only. The main problem with that is their product line is really small, so basically my options are keep the pair of pants that I don't like OR just let them hold my money as store credit forever. Should I have read their return policy before buying, yes, probably, but I've gotten so used to places like Nordstrom AND Amazon giving refunds for returned products for any reason that it didn't even occur to me.
Best Buy matches prices too, they're good for things that are widely available.
Would you be ok with her putting the 2nd amendment on there? Or perhaps a message on how to legally immigrate?
Trading software for healthcare – a report from one year in the trenches
Ability to write my own HTTP server from scratch.
Content is for downloading and use offline.
Let me explain this to you very simply. If you are making significantly more than someone of your work experience length, you probably don't want a union. most of them put in rules that align pay with seniority, seniority being very stupidly defined as length of time in career.
There's a pretty significant difference between "when you use their service you can opt-in to have your data added to the dataset" and "buried in the EULA is a clause saying they own your genes."
They could even sell most of the products they murder to someone else for millions.

It would have cost Google more money to sell Reader than anyone would have bought it for.
Does Google not have enough vegan options in the free cafe?
The single biggest line item in this program is agricultural methane emissions.
The second single item is drastic reduction of energy usage in industrial applications.
Even now the farmers in the hague are protesting the former. The latter is simply impossible.

This programme for climate control is an unrealistic plan thought up by a bunch of nerds.
You should all elect me dictator for life and do what I, the cyber-fuhrer, command you.

Step one: we must recognize this is OUR planet and OUR environment, so we can do whatever the hell we want with it.

Step two: Reshape carbon level perspectives. carbon levels above 500 PPM are unhealthy and we are on track to reach that in a few years.
Canned air is a thing now.
We must curb our carbon emissions and reduce carbon levels in order to be more healthy, not control global warming.
Everyone, even the critics, recognize Co2 above 1000 is bad for your health and everyone has experienced high CO/CO2 levels.

Step three: The climate can go fuck itself. We'll glass over a portion of arid desert or mountain land the size of texas, divided into plots of land 100 square miles each in remote areas around the globe, and cover them in mylar reflective sheeting. The increased albedo will more than counteract the temperature trends estimated from greenhouse gas based warming. I have done the math.

Step four: We must observe that it is not merely renewable energy but renewable infrastructure that must exist to fix this problem. Batteries and solar panels and devices that wear out too quickly exhaust our resources, and infrastructure costs make up a large portion of the factors limiting adoption. A Renewable Society becomes our focus as a total propaganda and government mandate worldwide.

Step five: we create a global research funding scheme and open patent pool that internationally maximizes research effort into renewable infrastructure. We establish trade agreements that create international laws which incentivize renewable energy adoption through guaranteeing adoption payoff by establishing long-lived warranties and government subsidized repair and renewal programs, ensuring that your investment into the future is a safe bet.

Step six: we hang anyone who disagreed with this post.
How? If I am instructed to email an update notifying our users about new terms of service whenever they are changed, and I add an addendum, "Don't forget, you have 3 days after the old terms of service expire on order to return old devices..." The company has every right to fire me.
I led the portion of this project on Borg itself.

Security team did most of the security infrastructure, and coordination among almost every large infrastructure system team inside TI.

I'll be waiting for them to answer any questions. :)
Well, there are always ways to make yourself more wealthy. You spend less on consumables and spend more on investments.

People who typically become extraordinarily wealthy do so via high-risk, high-reward activities like business ownership.

Now you can argue that the risk reward equation isn't the same for people who have 20 million in the bank and 200 dollars in the bank, and that is very true, but it doesn't make the advice to spend as much as you can on investments incorrect.
I was one of Colbert's biggest fan, I'm aware of the point. The point that was apparently unclear was that superpac's have famously been the norm. I would not change an ounce of the facts about what Crew and Ajs have done together, including the revealing of said funding streams. The political rigmarole of sensationalizing 'dark money' which is already famous and being shocked by something people cheered for in a joke comes across as too blatantly political and boring.
Agreed! There's always more work to do, no matter how much you automate.

I run my company's admittedly very small IT. If I could automate everything on my list, that list would immediately fill up with even more stuff that needs to get done.
And how would that matter if the user's device is not on the same network they set the speaker up on? You're describing a confusing and frustrating experience which would be a nightmare to help non-technical users with.
IQ is largely pseudoscience. It is tied to chess in the same sense it is tied to most other things, as a baseline filter: IQ below 80 means one can hardly do anything at a high level, beyond that it has almost no meaning.
I'm just flabbergasted this would even leak out. It will be a self fulfilling proficiency as prospective clients will shy away from Google. They must be doing damage control right now with all their latest enterprise clients who switched over. May as well start the clock on the Stadia death march. I give it 13 months.
I dunno. I'd rather spend $25 on an unnecessarily expensive cable than get a $10 cable that blows up my $1000 laptop: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2XDBFUD9CTN2R/ref=cm_cr_rdp_p...

The fact of the matter is: Amazon's cables have such low-quality assurance on them, that they're untrustworthy now.

I think for cables specifically, Monoprice has created a good reputation and a good price. Unlike Amazon, who hides behind "marketplace sellers" and "comingling", Monoprice puts their own reputation on the line when they sell cables.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=5458

Ultimately, if Amazon wants to be a "marketplace seller", they can. But Amazon needs to do a much better job combating fake-sellers, low-quality products. I'm not even anti-Chinese or whatever, I'm fine buying cheap Chinese stuff as long as there's some long-standing brand name that is willing to take the reputation hit if things go wrong. (Ex: why I'm fine buying cheap Chinese goods from Walmart, but not fine with buying cheap Chinese goods from Amazon. Walmart does step in and take responsibility)

Otherwise, its just Alibaba Russian roulette with your stuff. Maybe things work, maybe things don't, maybe things will blow up your laptop. Maybe the 18650 cell will blow up in your vaping device and give 3rd degree burns on your face. Or the 18650 cells will create a garage fire burning down your new scooter. Etc. etc.

The problem is the distinct lack of brands and accountability on Amazon. If a Monoprice or Best Buy cable destroyed laptops or caused fires, we'd all blame Monoprice or Best Buy. But if an Amazon item does the same, we somehow don't blame Amazon, but some indistinct unnamed entity.
I'm not sure why there are so many complaints on HN re: these junk items. I've had an account since 1999 and don't have issues. I just pay attention to who the seller is for an item I'm looking to buy from. If I'm looking for a new Sonos speaker, I buy from the seller named 'Sonos', not from 'Jims Secondhand Sonos Shop'.

I would think most folks here would be savvy enough to know the difference and pay attention to whom they are buying from on Amazon.
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For that specific question, the GINA legislation would be a barrier.
>> You're defining the cashier by their job/role, as well as how they spend their money on saving for retirement. Textbook classism.

I didn't talk about cashier nor I defined any role. What are you talking about?

It looks like you was struggling the whole life and counted every dollar (see "I've earned far less than the average, saved more than the average"), do you manage to "to provide for your loved ones"? People rarely change, greedo.
There's another story climbing the front page right now reporting similar information without a paywall: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/17/google-reportedly-wants-to-b...
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There isn’t. Anyone who bought Stadia either doesn’t care about losing their purchases or is deluding themselves.
> What if you work for a call center, commandeered an auto-dialer, and called every co-worker in the company with the same message?

The law already covers situations like this, in terms of whether or not employees are allowed to use the internal technology tools of their employers in order to organize.
That's true, although for another example, React is also commonly used with JSX to express DOM fragments. And JS has that syntax but Python, C, Rust, etc. don't.

In other words, the particulars of the language matters. I wouldn't underestimate 20+ years of JS evolution toward expressing the problem better.

I'm working on my own language and all those details are hard. When they work, they're invisible to users. You only notice when it's not there or doesn't work! I would agree that Python is a better language than JS in most respects, but it's not clear to me that it's a better language for writing web front ends.

e.g. the async abstractions and promises are different and I believe that matters.
How's it been since their buyout? I stayed away for a few years since.
I think they don't have that return option because if Amazon were to present a return option that lets you signal sellers sending you counterfeit goods, that'd be tantamount to Amazon admitting they sell counterfeit goods.

They'd never sell you counterfeit goods, so that option on the pulldown doesn't even need to be there in the first place!?!? wink wink right?!? RIGHT??!

As someone who's received a counterfeit board game, I do have to say that they were exceedingly prompt in getting me a replacement item. I know it's probably an uphill battle, but I hope they're able to make some progress on that front.
If "free will" is only a subjective feeling and not an objective state
Let's Encrypt only works on public domains that happen to not route externally. I can never (or at least, should never) get LE certificates for *.pikachu.local, but that's a perfectly valid hostname for a local machine.
My girlfriend is from Turkey, and I shared this story with her a while back (I discovered it while also researching some Unicode collision issues.) She said that while it's an entertaining story, there's almost certainly a bit of sensationalism and exaggeration from the Turkish press combined with credulity by English language journalists when re-reporting it. Basically, the supposed texts wouldn't have made sense in terms of grammar and syntax with a straightforward dotless/dotted I swap, and would've been obvious to someone fluent in Turkish what happened. This is would've been especially true if you had had this cell phone for any amount of time and communicating in Turkish and it had been routinely swapping Is.

More likely is a bunch of young and/or not too bright people were looking for a reason to get into a violent confrontation. Then the muckraking Turkish press had a sensationalist murder-suicide lovers quarrel story, and as a bonus a nationalistic "see how cell phone companies don't respect our culture" angle as the cherry on top.

However, you should still ALWAYS be careful when converting between character sets and be locality aware when manipulating strings. Practice string safety. ;)
Befuck you google
In Canada political ads are regulated so that they must always clearly disclose who they were paid for and by what party. I think that's a good place to start which doesn't censor anything, but enforces disclosure.

> Allow all ads and let the people decide for themselves.

I think that's an argument for banning targeted ads? In a way, you can think of targeted ads as a form of censorship. I can't see what someone else does.

I wonder if censorship can go both ways? You can censor the message, but you can also argue that the listener can be censored.
What's the distinction between product and by-product then?

I called it a 'by-product' because it's not the product we're actually aiming for, not the point of the exercise - if oxygen were produced instead (by whatever science-ignoring magic) we wouldn't mind.
It's interesting to see you write as if the very words in your quotation aren't there to compare with how you paraphrased them. A bold choice!
I haven’t but we have done a camera on a whiteboard. It just doesn’t work super well. I think a lot of it has to do with just being stuck in a room together without distractions from personal stuff.
Shit company privacy violator
And no offense to the Google team, but they are just awful at UI. I cannot imagine using anything Google related to manage complex hosting scenarios.
In my opinion, it's better to ensure that you have the right to do whatever you want, and reap the benefits of that, if what you're doing does not compete with your employer. That way, you're covered with OSS projects as well as any others.
Utterly dumb question but why is tail recursion necessary in the JVM given that the compiler is better placed simply to turn recursion into a loop. TR removal should be done best at the highest level I'd think.
That doesn't protect you, as all "new" stock is treated as interchangeable. If someone sends something to amazon to sell as new and you buy from their marketplace shop you won't necessarily get the one the seller sent, you'll get the one that Amazon can deliver most efficiently.
This comment is way out of date, Microsoft started reporting O365 revenue separately from Azure revenue years ago.
> I imagine when cuneiform was first invented, there was a group of people who were the first writers and they probably worried that it would get saturated. How can we all be writers? There are only so many things to write down: recipes, shopping lists, the kings desires, and heroic tales.

When cuneiform was invented the things to be written down were tax records, business transactions, beer recipes, legal codes, poems for various gods, lists of military spoils, multiplication tables, customer service complaints, teachers griping about their students being lazy, and students griping about their teachers being hardasses. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir https://books.google.com/books?id=Nvgz3NOuo5EC&pg=PA230&lpg=...
> It seems you misunderstand what scientists are saying and forming an incorrect opinion from that.

I feel highly confident that I don't actually misunderstand what scientists are saying, but rather you have misunderstood (misinterpreted due to heuristic modification during interpretation) what I have said.

Would you be willing to quote particular statements I've made that you consider to be mistaken?

> The projections are statistical models. They have a range of values and probabilities associated with them. Without major change, the probabilities of catastrophic climate change are very, very high.

I agree.

> Are they certain? Not mathematically, no.

I agree. It is that they are commonly presented as if they are certain that I am complaining about. It is clearly incorrect/dishonest. It is claimed to be "science". Actual science does not say things it knows to not be true, but people that believe they are discussing matters purely on "the science" are regularly guilty of this.

But try and get people (who well know this is true) to acknowledge this simple fact, and observe the amazing complexity of human psychology in its natural form.

> Would I take that bet? Any day of the week and you should too.

I do. And I suggest you consider being more open minded about what might be preventing us from making progress on this issue. Specifically: resist the natural urge to classify a lack of total agreement as opposition to your cause. Perhaps what appears to be opposition is anything but, and is actually new ideas that you've never considered before.
So, in the best-case scenario, there will be a mere 1.0degree Celcius increase and in the worst-case scenario, the average increase will be 6.5degree Celcius.
I don't know how it is possible to model technological breakthroughs. I mean if we have a working Nuclear Fusion technology by 2100, that could drastically change everything - (almost) free energy = unlimited desalinated water = full aforestation, even in the desert areas.
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>Yes, it's company policy, but this is more like running into a meeting and then interrupting it so you can start reciting NLRB policy than it is posting a flyer.

True, but it seems kind of shady to come down harder on an employee based on the content of the interruption, and that content notifying of the right to organize.

Like, imagine there's a documentation page for http cookies. Consider two scenarios:

A) Rogue employee adds to the bottom of the page: "Cookies are also delicious treats given as a reward on the internet."

B) Rogue employee adds to the bottom of the page: "Employees reading this are reminded of their right to organize under NLRA."

Let's say that in scenario A, an employee would typically get a written warning, and in B, you always got fired. In that case, I think it would be fair for B to say -- at least in common speech -- "I got fired for notifying employees of their right to organize."

This is true, even though there is a general policy of not adding non-topical messages to doc pages, because the punishment never escalates to firing unless it's something like scenario B. (In a legal context rather than common speech I don't know enough to say whether it would be legal.)