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Salaries may not improve in Europe even if Visa restrictions are tightened, companies may set up offices in countries where wages are lower. I think the reason that western countries encourage high skill immigration is because it creates additional jobs to service the new workers: every new software engineer will need restaurants, cars, etc. These jobs can go to locals. Also, the taxes paid will go to the western governments to improve services for westerners.
"Scientists should not feel pressured to discuss their deliberations outside this particular forum."

Then I'm sorry that's is not science, science is based on discussion and the possibility to falsify ones conclusion.
Yes, simply allowing the pickup of your own confiscated items would suffice.
By that logic, the US has many unemployed people and many, many people earning low wages in low productivity industries. Why not just train them properly rather than import workers from elsewhere?
Since you asked :) - Nay!! (what's meh?)

and you said it - it's a pseudo science... so why, even?

If you hadn't said 'pseudo science', I'd have assumed you're a believer and that the question was in earnest.

OTOH - you do end with 'old world knowledge' so I'm not sure anymore.

but you're not asking that...I suppose what you're asking is akin to training an AI on two unrelated datasets and asking it to predict one based on other... sure - it's going to spit out some 'pattern recognition' where none exists. Basically, AI (or anything else) can't manufacture causality.
Arguably the neural net is the leakiest of all abstractions. Inputting enough data, preventing overfitting. Not having a human readable implementation because of the computer figured it out with brute force. Those are all complex details leaking out of the abstraction. Machine learning has its uses in processing large amounts of data, but it is the opposite of a designed algorithm with self-contained abstractions.
Lucky you, most of us can’t read it all due to the paywall.
yes, not having information science in high school is one issue. unfortunately, it's only where the list of problems starts.
Yes, I agree. It is just a personal story about the culture which, although has become mixed and evolved in Singapore, maintains this aspect.

About the exam in China itself:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2097512/gaok...
“But then, it's also possible that some of the WHO staff or consultants were biased.”

Indeed. Which it is why declaring COIs is so important. e.g. From a followup piece on Forbes (emphasis mine):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffreykabat/2017/10/23/iarcs-...

“Portier, an American statistician who worked for the federal government for over thirty years, was the special advisor to the IARC panel that issued the report declaring glyphosate to be “probably carcinogenic.” The transcripts show that during the same week in March 2015 in which IARC published its glyphosate opinion, Portier signed a lucrative contract to act as a litigation consultant for two law firms that were preparing to sue Monsanto on behalf of glyphosate cancer victims. His contract contained a confidentiality clause barring Portier from disclosing his employment to other parties.”

It is easy to view these Glyphosate wars as tiny heroic Davids battling a vast malicious Goliath, and huge multinationals certainly can get up to all sorts of dubious stuff—but so can the “little guys”. And we have been here before: just look at Andrew Wakefield, found balls deep in lawyer money and rival patents, and still causing serious harm (e.g. 79 dead in Samoa) a decade after being busted for the mendacious money-grabbing little shit he really was.

As for the WHO, while it has done a great amount of very good work over the last 70 years, it is a human institution like any other and thus not immune to errors and corruption.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/who-promotes-unscientific-t...
>What would you like to see happen instead?

No problem about the sale/auction, but where does the money go?

I would prefer to know that the money coming from the bulk sale is going to a known non-profit, as an example.
Right now, Iran has a working ICBM but no nukes and North Korea has working nuked but no ICBM. The nightmare scenario is that they swap kit so both has both. That would make them both untouchable. Nk is crazy enough, they'd demand cash (and fuel and food) not to just press the button and likely get it.
I'm also a non-shill advocating SmartGit at any opportunity. Is it so incomprehensible for FOSS users that there are commercial products that are so great that they have a dedicated fan base s opposed to half baked open source crap?
That's the reason why people work for a company in Switzerland and live in Germany.
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I think it's very considerate to not add lead to a business card people may put in their pockets.
> use the CLI and see updates in the GUI

Which GUI tool does not?
Mkws(1)- Made a web site for it
NVIDIA has never owned a fab either. The fabs that AMD once owned were spun out into a separate company, Global Foundries. Intel in some ways is the odd duck in the semiconductors business, still holding on to its fabs.
Periodic Table of Videos is a classic. Most high quality and informative videos in the first decade of YouTube probably.
This strip is about creating unifications based on two things that are not standarized. While the idea is to make a new JS branch that will solve issues gathered through years. So the strip does not apply here. Also, while it has some point with extreme unification efforts, there is a vast range of unification projects that actually delivered what they promised to.
EU companies rarely set up shop abroad since the culture here, driven by the lack of a common language like English prefers cultural similarly and physical proximity. That's why German companies prefer to do business with Swiss and Austrian companies and vice versa or how Norwegian companies prefer Danish or Swedish firms for example.

And if they do outsource something abroad it's usually nothing exciting, so local salaries should not dive.

For example, Microsoft has offices in Eastern Europe and India as well yet Seattle workers still make a killing.
Seems to me that they edited out opinions, not findings, which is exactly how it should be done.

Ex: "The authors firmly believe" and "the authors concluded"; not exactly scientific facts.
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Seems to not be working for me, I get

TypeError: result.data is undefined

on

file-tree.js:54:24.
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I considered it, then dropped it. The Google Play Store definitely has a mechanism of adding more data/bundles to your application, but (when I investigated this) you'd need to drag in Google-provided libraries and tie your app to the Google Play Store. I dislike lock-in and do my best to be able to independently develop and distribute my product. So expansion files/bundles didn't look interesting.

To compensate, the Itch.io Android APK is actually pretty much identical to the Google Play Store version, but it just includes all 3D assets too.
Only 130k? That is very recent, overlapping with modern humans, although they might not have been out of Africa yet.
> every new software engineer will need restaurants, cars, etc. These jobs can go to locals.

That's the most absurd thing I read today.
Python's ist comprehensions are just set builder notation with English keywords.
I think the people in former Yugoslavia and also the Middle East would love to see the army pick up after itself. Especially the depleted uranium ammunition turns the areas it was used in into a wasteland. I remember a British researcher pulling one used round from a water-tank and brining it home. The airport in the UK went NUTS. One round... The army used 1000 tons of depleted uranium munitions in 3 weeks during the 2003 Iraq war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Ammunition
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Can you live in India like you live in EU?
I meant - jokingly - the opposite, i.e. you call for a consultancy a security engineer as you are interested in increasing/bettering the digital security level of your business and he produces to you the Linux USB business card, you proceed to insert it in your computer and he says:

"Ah-ha!"

Reference:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094898/quotes/qt1099763
The links from that page leads to https://wiki.sipeed.com/en/lichee/nano.html which is a Linux computer in form factor similar to a SD Card
Yeah, that's what I said. Oracle charges per core. I didn't cherry pick anything.
I mean, I don't live in SF so maybe I'm off base. But my impression is that even with a roommate you're looking at $1500-2000/mo. That's oppressive on $50k/yr.
> You can still buy a house

Read `take a 30y mortgage` with plenty of downside risk is quite a low bar for one of the best paying industries in the world.

The disconnect between salaries and the housing market in western EU is pretty much at an all-time high. If these are the expectations for tech salaries then how about the rest of the (middle-class) workforce?
For sure. Not in SF though, or so I thought anyway
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Back in the 40s-60s, the AEC was also cool with radiation exposure testing on US troops, poor Black people, prisoners, etc.

Edit: Plus Japanese, of course. And, arguably, the entire US population.
> Dig it up, and threaten to leave it / break it on a place where currents flow towards continental United States.

Declaring war on the United States with a threat of intentional nuclear warfare against its population would be a particularly bad idea. That'll get your sovereignty revoked very quickly via military occupation.

The response to what I said of course is: yeah but the US is doing a bad thing. That's correct and it changes absolutely nothing about the fact that declaring nuclear war on the US, declaring the intention to try to harm its people with nuclear material, is a bad idea. Fairness is never going to exist between a superpower and weaker nations, it never has, it never will. The superpower dictates the terms in nearly all cases.
I remember running inference on a model that I trained on a pair of NVIDIA 1080TIs with a NVIDIA 2080TI (after upgrading) and observing slightly (albeit not significantly) different results.

We’re dealing with single precision floats for everything. FWIW, every implementation of IEE 754 floats has its own set of minor oddities and quirks.
It's not impolite to use standard terms of address, and it's disrespectful to expect others to learn and remember your personal, nonstandard preference for how you want to be addressed.
Depends, my ex employer got a really good deal on some workers from China who are working like crazy even on overtime, being grateful to just be in Europe even on below market salaries so it worked for him hence his focus to just recruit from there exclusively.

Most tech companies already have enough thinkers, to scale fast they just need more doers that execute orders quickly without rocking the boat or challenging the status quo.
"Our other options are to associate with eg China or Russia, and between those the US, even with people like Trump at the wheel, is splendid."

Russia has done nothing even remotely comparable to what the US has done in Middle East: after the second Iraq war the country still hasn't recovered, Libya is a mess, Syria is a mess, ISIS was a horror.

After all that calling the US splendid compared to Russia is bizarre.

Maybe you at least should try to do what benefits the EU, not the US, or Russia, or China.
Is that really the responsibility of the person making the card?

This is the responsibility of the creators of the USB hardware, firmware, motherboard firmware, electrical design, OS developers / driver developers.

It should be safe to plug in a USB device by default
Microserfs - by Douglas Coupland

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2748.Microserfs
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> those same engineers can tackle pretty much any challenging problem they choose, while continuing to take home those massive paycheques from a big tech firm.

but usually not in the way they see it. There's enormous value in having freedom to do things the way you want, without being restricted by corporate culture and/or engineering conventions of a Big Co.
> Most websites not having human-readable URL's

What problems human-readable URLs solve in the context of URL shortening and modern websites? Their benefit in the past was that on websites with clear hierarchy you could strip URL path or change a word, thus quickly navigating on a site without resorting to clunky menus or site maps, but modern web doesn't look like that, and "human-readable URLs" slightly changed their appearance over the time too.

I find modern auto-generated URLs like, say, news.ycombinator.com/item/21867994-Kutt-a-modern-open-source-URL-shortener to be much inferior: 1. they're longer and much harder to type by hand (and I've seen websites where lowercasing or omission of a single letter past the id results in 404) 2. they don't work well when the author decides to change title (and even HN submission titles change a lot, often multiple times as a result of a long discussion). In fact, (1) is exactly the reason why one would consider using URL shortener today: it's so much easier to dictate and type in by hand!
Now the trackpad is enabled by using two fingers on the keybard. To select, you can long-touch where you want the selection to start, and select more by using this trackpad gesture.

At least that's how it works on my iPad Air 2, which is a bit outdated, but has the latest iOS.
Don't miss the "Designing my Linux Business Card" post

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/designing-my-...

Edit - I find it amazing that the CPUs for these are sold for $0.90 on Taobao, without needing a bulk discount or anything.
I practice TDD frequently (whenever suitable).

The tests are wrong 70% of the time. Either a silly mistake, the design wasn't conceptualized properly (or was changed), or just plain bad code.

If you're tackling your suite one test at a time, and committing code that solves just that test, seeing it fail and then pass, and thinking about why, everything will be fine. If you batch things, or don't debug success, you'll ultimately be buggy.
Is there anyway to embed close captioning to audio-only files? (e.g. podcast)
Been searching google for such features. But seems like it doesn't exist.

I am surprised podcast apps don't support closed captioning of podcast audio. Plus such features are also useful for music files for lyrics.

It would help those who are hard of hearing... also it would make podcast easier to search and index as well!
>I think you should first try to understand people at the individual level and only then understand them in aggregate, and you seem to want to skip that first step.

You try to understand people at the individual level not "at first", but always -- when dealing with them individually.

For any other type of dealing (social, political, organizational, etc) you must try to understand people at various aggregate levels.

Here's a company analogy. If you do customer support, treat customers as individual people. But if you plan your next releases features, you need to think about demographics and what different user categories want. And if you plan to open a store, you need to think of the aggregate patterns in the area (average spending, shopping behaviors, etc).
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Your premise is the worst possible choice, next to the other person that suggested starting a nuclear war against the US with the material. Emailing the Iranians to come get it will get you blockaded, sanctioned and occupied by the US military if all else fails. The Iranians aren't close to being stupid enough to act on it.
You don’t need anything fancy in an interview to figure out someone’s competence with circuits. Granted, it depends on what level you’re targeting and what specialties you’re looking for, but even asking them to draw a schematic of a lit LED may be very telling.
Sure, the lead may cross one or two layers of cloth and migrate from the pocket to your skin and bite you.

More considerate would be to provide the card in a protecting sleeve (that would protect from all the bad, bad substances it may contain) or just use a good, ol' plain paper business card, posibly printed with "bioetical" ink.
Short term supply will be inelastic - Airbus wouldn’t be able to fill all the demand if customers turn their backs on Boeing. The opportunity might be for COMAC to gain some ground...
Why does white collar crime get such low punishments?

Sure he didn't put a gun to someone's head, but this guy ruined lives.
I very strongly disagree with this approach.

Suppose a candidate identifies a crucial flaw in your production code but for some reason the hiring negotiations breaks down and can't hire them. What happens next? Do you compensate the candidate for the time and effort to improve your code base?

The interview process shouldn't be a free code review.

I like your idea of testing if they could work with your code base. I just think there are better ways to test for this without getting into potential predatory actions. The only way I see how this could work is that you say: "You'll either get hired or we pay you a bug bounty of X amount".

I might be too cynical but good luck on convincing the higher ups there's a small chance they need to pay candidates if they did extremely well in the interview process because it's "only fair and they did the work".
Haha I wish

The gist of it, according to experts, is that fusion is so cheap and powerful that it's like sailing on Earth: didn't take "that long" (few thousand years) before we circled all of it. So give us fusion, and given enough time, and few enough aliens (so far so good we've seen none), and they say we'll be all over the Galaxy, eventually even beyond.

Cool perspective if you ask me! Wish it were my time. BTW, check out "Isaac Arthur" on YouTube if you like this sorta topic, he's as hard as science-fiction gets. Awesome dude.
This had nothing to do with the patient, it’s plain old insurance fraud committed by the physician and his buddies in the out-of-network company in the same building. Which is why they where so eager to get the bill payed and cover the patient, so no-one would pay too much attention. And why not? They end up paying around 2k to the patient but steal 25k from the insurance company. Considering how badly they carried this out it might be their first fraud attempt, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they done it a dozen times before.
No screenshots or links..?

That’s some flaggin’
Yes, astrology is phony. It's nothing but confirmation bias, placebo effect, paredolia and fraud.

There is no known physical mechanism by which astrology could possibly work. Its claims have been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked through experimentation, and the psychological biases which cause it to appear true are well known and documented[0,1].

Note that this applies to all forms of astrology. Doesn't matter if it's Indian, Greek, Babylonian or generated by algorithms - the thesis that astrological phenomena and star patterns have an influence on human personality, behavior or events is demonstrably and universally false.

Please spend 2020 learning something of value, rather than continuing to be intrigued by meaningless nonsense.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_science

[1]https://www.relativelyinteresting.com/astrology-and-horoscop...
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Don't know why you're being downvoted. If people would look at the property prices in German cities for example they'd get it. Unless you and your partner are very high earners you're priced out of buying anything family worthy in all cities with tech jobs.
Also, Don't bitch about other's code. You don't know in what constraints they have to write it.
Of course they spend in the local markets and pay taxes. No?
> The worry is that all the online chatter about cannabis’s beneficial qualities will have offline consequences, ultimately influencing attitudes and behaviors, Allem said

I doubt this is a realistic consequence... I mean, who is following these bots? Would people really listen to a bot? I presume most people would be able to tell bot-controlled Twitter accounts from friends and legitimate followers.

I think the study should have included impact from those tweets, such as number of likes, retweets, quotes, and replies, as well as count of human followers.
I think the benefit of working at startups is similar to the benefit of working for smaller companies in general. With a small team you'll get to touch more of the stack, and maybe even parts outside of your job domain altogether. In my first job I was the 2nd developer, the first was the CIO. In addition to writing most of the code for this project, I set up the entire production network including load balancers, database replication, firewalls, etc. I even picked out our hardware and physically installed it in the rack we rented at a local ATT data center. Now that's an extreme case obviously, but you will never get anything close to that broad of a base of experience working for a BigCo.
>Another idea to "force" US hand is to make it their problem in other ways. Dig it up, and threaten to leave it / break it on a place where currents flow towards continental United States.

It's not wise for small nations to give big nations the bird like that when there are other options. GP's suggestion is much more tactful because nobody worth taking seriously is going to argue with the idea of selling property to the highest bidder whereas dumping stuff in the ocean is generally frowned upon by everyone.
I think your first question is actually supposed to be: what if a single (not two) entity is modified from multiple chunks?

All external effects that can happen to an entity are written to an atomic integer that tracks healing points, damage points and effects like poison and stunning. Angeldust currently runs on CPUs supporting atomic integers everywhere, so this doesn't have to fall back to mutexes. On platforms/compilers without atomic integers I have a software-fallback that uses mutexes for this, but currently it's not used anywhere.

Most world state is compiled into flat byte arrays each tick to save processing time, since many clients can be in the same area at once. The server bundles these world state byte arrays for chunks near a client together and sends them over the network. The client interpolates from these updates. What you see on screen lags behind subtly to make sure animations are smooth. I think this happens in most online games since you don't really want to extrapolate.

Angeldust's game pace and mechanics are designed so that the interpolation doesn't affect your aiming accuracy or game experience too much.
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yea damned humans will rape the mermaids
Companies will outsource, move development centers elsewhere etc etc. Visa restrictions alone aren't going to save anyones job. The world is too competitive.
Yeah, what's missing is first-party integration with the package manager (like Gazelle for Go) with proper dependency locking.
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I don’t think any of the regulation directed at Facebook has any relation to addiction.
nice ;):

throw Error('A const declaration, Really? What is this, Haskell?');