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> I have no idea what you're driving at. No one chooses to be born, no one chooses the cell structure that requires consumption. There are thousands of choices we don't make to live in society.

"Your argument is that someone unemployed and starving found a job where they could feed themselves - but its not a good enough job?" is not an explanation for why the argument is emotional.

> How do you think they're NOT choosing to do it?

Because I don't have a idealistic view of free will that assumes all choices are ultimately unconstrained? I view the distinction between an armed robbery and being forced into a job to prevent starvation only a matter of abstraction not kind.
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What "economic structure" do you propose that we reform to that wouldn't "dictate the decision most people make"?
Where are the entries for deer and fish? Mmmm delicious.
I totally missed your point in the original post. Apologies for that! It seems others didn't. I agree with you.
Or Book/booklet, I'd buy that as I'm sure many would.

Indeed, there are some people when it comes to best practices, that I respect more than industry standards as they are usual best practices that will be standard tomorrow.
Create a logic bomb in the AWS servers that turn off all fans while overloading the CPUs, at the same time as you make the servers send out false reports saying that temperatures are normal. That will get their attention.

Why campaign, when you have the power to do something? If your not willing to use the power you have, then I think you should quit and do something useful with your life. Asking them to change, while still supporting them is pathetic.
Agree. And in particular, I think that a lot of death and suffering is already baked into the cake, in the sense that there is simply nothing we can do.

That said, we should try to do what we can to lessen the damage. We should all be "all ears" for the best thinking towards this end.
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Well, "we", as in "first world countries" can't "ban" meat in other countries without stepping on their sovereignty. "We" have done it before, for worse reasons (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A... and numerous other examples), but that doesn't mean "we" should do it again.
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I tried getting an egg inside an impossibly narrow mouthed glass container by soaking it in vinegar for a few days.

The vinegar dissolved the shell very efficiently, but it also swelled the size of the egg by maybe 25%.
There are plenty of places where you can buy hand sanitizer currently. Any sort of manufacturing takes time to ramp up. There’s a usual demand for freezers and that’s how much is typically made. If everyone decides they want a freezer there’s not enough. Why is this surprising? Sure they may start manufacturing more freezers now, but it’s going to take time and it’s not clear if demand will stay high, so who knows how much will be made. These things continue to be made, so our supply chain is not breaking, it just can’t massively scale up production instantly. I don’t know why this would be surprising.
My pleasure. Great, will keep it in mind for potential future collaboration. ;-)
> If we need to provide the capability to flag pages as "deletionists don't like this" and present a deletionist view of wikipedia to those who don't wish to be exposed to that content, then go for it.

That flag exists. It's set by deleting the article. As you note:

> in the current deletionist world, the initial article and its deletion will be preserved in history forever

So if someone wanted to present an inclusionist view of Wikipedia to those who find that content valuable, they could do so.
They are working on different setups apparently, I was able to use ctrl+c/v to copy paste and next versions promises different selectable profiles. Sadly it defaults to your system language (swedish) and the menu shortcuts collide with some of the commands. I can't use alt+r for running the music for example, it just gets stuck in the menu for "Redigera". Only way I can find to start is by clicking run with the mouse. Can't find a way to switch language either.

Really great program, daughter really loved the few minutes we had before bedtime. Not that it's only for kids, it's nothing like scratch where you can get started but the next step up is gigantic to programming. It seems to nicely scale up with your learning level. I'm no musician though so can't say how far we get with it :-)
I feel like this is a bit of a sweeping generalisation. Certainly many countries in Europe would not give this. And others would have maximums which are lower than typical Airbnb pay.
We're talking about a decade-old company with billions in revenue. If your job at AirBnb was your first chance to build any wealth, you never had the option to diversify. I don't think it's fair in that case to blame the employee.

I don't necessarily blame the management either. I do hope this reminds employees of private companies that their equity is only on paper until they are able to sell, and they should pressure management to give them the option.
As a European I wouldn't be too fast to gloat - the EU is trying to keep jobs on hold but it's not clear to me what will come out of this - it seems like the restrictions are going to be here for a long time and keeping businesses afloat artificially could end up blocking restructuring. My biggest concern right now is that migration restrictions are going to kill seasonal manual labor migration and government unemployment subsidies will prevent local population from taking up that work - we could end up with major issues in things like crop harvesting.
1. It's code reuse. Don't rewrite code that's already written.

2. It's harder to understand. "Why didn't this use the standard library function? Is it doing something different? It doesn't look like it, am I missing something?"
Valve did this for a number of their games (e.g. Portal, Half Life 2). You can play the game in a developer commentary mode, where (iirc) "orbs" that play recorded audio commentary are littered throughout the regular game world.
I don't think you're in a bubble, but we've recently started evaluating Coder and have found the switch to a cloud-based IDE (especially when you add Progressive Web Apps to the mix for native keyboard shortcuts) has been extremely attractive. I'm finding myself more and more drawn to hosted IDEs where I don't need to worry about network performance or how the Docker VM on my Mac is eating up my battery life...
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You're saying that creating and enforcing non-competes that not all parties are in a position to agree fairly upon is unethical?
What they didn't tell is that the latest variants are much more harmless. several dangerous sequences got deleted, so that's why the virus is now more contagious. it doesn't kill its hosts, it acts more like the common flu to spread better.

And "new mutant" sounds worrying, but is not. it mutates every two weeks. mostly for the worse, much more deletions than insertions. kind of a self-deactivation switch. https://jvi.asm.org/content/early/2020/04/30/JVI.00711-20
I think it'd look good on a portfolio.
What makes you think the military favors simple firearms? American forces use small arms that require a fairly high degree of service compared to alternatives like the ak-47/akm variants. It's not a problem because the maintenance requirements can be adequately accomplished by a single disciplined soldier and the performance gains over simpler alternatives are substantial.
Hey awscompassion, I am not surprised that you tried expressing concerns with internal management and were ignored... the only things that have gotten movement from Amazon (on climate change, warehouse worker safety) were actions taken by employees that did not follow Amazon's verified™ feedback mechanisms. A few people have been retaliated against, but thousands more have taken action and have so far been safe in their numbers.

In Tim's Blog post he talks about Amazon Employees for Climate Justice as an organization of corporate Amazon workers he supports. You should reach out to them, either DM them on twitter (https://twitter.com/AMZNforClimate) or their gmail (amazonemployeesclimatejustice@gmail.com).

It's true, 2 of their leaders were fired by Amazon which was a big reason Tim quit AWS. The firings might scare you. If it does, Amazon is getting exactly what it wants ... scaring away other employees who care about other humans by only having to fire two vocal dissidents. If you want change to happen, if you REALLY, ACTUALLY feel compassion and want change, you can't allow yourself to be intimidated and bullied by anti-labor forces within Amazon.

But besides the 2 members who were fired, there are many more sympathizers who are organizing for both warehouse worker safety and climate action who have not been fired. There are lots of things you can do through AECJ with varying levels of power/risk/exposure, including actions that would be very low-risk for retaliation by Amazon. Get in touch with them and make a difference!
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This was probably development environment limitations. You have to remember that this game was released in 96, which means it was probably developed on a command-line machine with an IDE like Turbo C.
> evidence of longer term contracts in play.

Contracts between whom? Uber/Lyft and auto companies?
On Linux it has avoided libc for nsswitch in the common case since 2015: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10485

Golang has only very recently (in its lifetime) and grudgingly admitted that operating systems that provide ABI stability at the DSO layer, rather than the Syscall layer, exist. It has been Linux-first for most of its life, and on Linux syscalls are the ABI stability layer. Not so pretty much anywhere else.

On MacOS, Go links libSystem rather than libc. And this was new in 2018: https://golang.org/doc/go1.11#runtime despite having a Mac port since ~2012. Prior to that they ignored the system ABI stability layer and just did raw Darwin syscalls. They still do so on the BSDs, despite this explicitly not being the supported stability interface.
You're correct on the Cousot text, thank you. I stand by the assertion that if people want to go beyond the simple PA described in the article a far better and more approachable text is the binary analysis one I listed. Practical hands on experience that doesn't require a math major in uni is a good thing!
Most of impoverished countries already eat mostly veg. We wouldn't need to ban them
This sort of problem (or its opposite) is inevitable with our internet circa 2020.

Maybe wikipedia is too narrow. Maybe it's too broad. These things don't have singular, indisputable answers...

The problem is that we have an internet of bottlenecks. Wikipedia choices about what is encyclopedic or notable is the only definition of encyclopedic that matters. Youtube's interpretation of fair use, twitter's definition of offensive or facebook's definition of obscene... they're the working definitions.

The internet needs to be less centralised... Even wikipedia.
All indications at this point are that the virus spreads a lot more through the air than via surfaces. And it only stays active up to 3 days on plastic and metal surfaces, and that's in ideal conditions.

If you bring cleaning supplies and just wipe down high-contact areas like counters, doorknobs, refrigerator handle, etc. when you arrive, it doesn't really seem any more risky than something like bringing in groceries from the grocery store, which may have been touched by other people, the cashier, etc. Or to be extremely cautious, you could pay for an extra 3 days prior to arriving to make sure nobody has touched anything in that time. If you're gonna be there a full month anyway, what's another 3 days added on to the cost.
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No, it has to do with bothequally.

Changing a 0 bit to a 1 in an integer increases its value, and by the rule I gave, should also increase the value of the floating point number with the same bit pattern. It doesn’t matter whether that flipped bit is in the mantissa or the exponent.

That requires the use of the biased number in the exponent. In particular, the “all zeroes” bit pattern for the exponent must be the representation for the lowest possible exponent, and the “all ones” one that for the highest. It cannot be the ‘normal’ two’s complement representation of -1.
This sounds like an excellent guide to a perfect vendor lock-in. It's just missing the final principle:

#4 Operate as if you may be bought or cloned by Amazon at any time.
Why would I ever want to use it again after php5? It might be better now but the competition is so much better than what php5 was that I have zero reason to revisit the language.
This. Sure, "asking to understand" can be used as a toxic ploy, but imo that's not the purpose. Just like almost any tool, it can be misused in toxic and damaging ways, so that's beside the point.

The reason for why you would want to "ask to understand" is to figure out the root cause of the issue that caused the mistake/bad practice you observed in the first place.

Finding the root cause will allow you to help them address the issue effectively, because otherwise, you will just be playing a whack-a-mole game of battling against symptoms instead of the disease.
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Exporting cultural strictures rarely ends well (many historical examples, both distant and recent), so I'd say, if you can get a large number of people in the West to not eat meat, then you've reduced the suffering of animals by a tremendous amount. That alone is a perfectly fine goal. Let non-coercive cultural influence do the rest of the work, while never forcing a populace to do something against its interests or will. (After all, non-Western vegetarian cultures have influenced Western diets...)
I think it's highly unlikely...but I'd be very happy to be wrong, too.

These highly-leveraged "new" companies and individuals make up only a portion of AirBnB-rented homes, which themselves are only a small portion of the entire housing market. There was a very recent interview or article with AirBnB's CEO where he (I'm sure he was fudging the numbers a bit) said only 1/3 of AirBNB homes are actually owned by these kinds of speculative home-buyers. The remaining 2/3 are split evenly between traditional real estate leasing companies and homeowners with only 1 house.

Also, worth considering that short-term rentals can easily be transformed back into long-term rentals. In any case, I think a national housing market plunge is highly unlikely.
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PHP is the Web's C++.

It keeps getting declared dead, but then, keeps rising from the grave.

I wrote PHP for a long time (more than 20 years). Many, many thousands of lines of it. I got fairly good at it. I wrote my last big application in it about a year and a half ago (PHP 7.3, I think). It's a great application, but no one would want it, as it does the same thing lots of big SaaS does.

Except one single person wrote it, from soup to nuts (no dependencies), in about six months -part time- (it was sort of a "thesis" project for me, as I was re-learning my engineering discipline), and it's quite good quality. So I guess PHP is good for something. I just open-sourced the application, and more or less sent it out to stud.

https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...

I discuss my design methodology for the project here: https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/forensic-design-documenta...

That said, I never really liked the language, and am glad to have seen the back of it. I write full-time in Swift, nowadays, and would be thrilled to never write PHP ever again.

Despite all the hate, though, it's a perfectly good language; especially with all the stuff added in 7+.
Well, it's a philosophical conundrum.

If a business has enough money to hire more people (revenues per employee is proxy). It should do so as long as it can recoup the investment.

If a business already has thousands of people sitting around doing nothing, should it continue to hire more?

There are a near infinite amount of small optimizations and extensions in global businesses that can pay for themselves,
so technically it should always hire... but should it really?
But is that because of price? I thought China had one of the greatest rates of increases in meat consumption as their income rate grew
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One could argue that proves its point.
They want to achieve a decrease in pollution, animal cruelty, heart disease, etc.

When I look at this I see 1.5 billion pigs producing insane amounts of by product that directly affects our climate and our watershed. Not to mention the impact on human health.
The pandemic doesn't end simply because quarantine is lifted. People will seriously question flying or passing through airports, especially as case counts are getting worse while the restrictions are being lifted.
Do you refuse to support all businesses that sell to DHS abd CBP?
No, you can't edit pages that have been deleted, so that's more than a flag.
IME Cloud 9 is helpful for building applications where you need public endpoints (like if you're using OAuth) or in cases where you want a Linux environment but are on windows/OSX/chromeOS. But I would pass for everyday use.
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I also dislike unnecessary use of programming jargon. A type constructor is all the possible ways to make a value of that type.

For example:

type answer = | Yes | No | Maybe

The type is 'answer'. The constructors are Yes, No, and Maybe (these are actually called type variants but now we're getting into jargon). I presume an 'abstraction over type constructors' means you want to generalize that type, so you can use the constructors to produce an abstract type that works with any type but I've never heard that specific term.
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From this I conclude I should try using Two.js for my game.
I have been limited to drawing 4k neutrons for performance but Two.js might be a better solution.

https://darrell-rg.github.io/RBMKrazy/
What happens to your healthcare as a Californian the minute you travel out of state?

Something so important should not be in the hands of states. There's a reason we don't have every state building separate armies and nuclear arsenals. Why have them create their own disparate patchwork of healthcare approaches?

The strength of any nation's economy relies on the health of its citizens, as we are now learning the hard way.
Paper.js simply isn't meant to be used to draw thousands of rectangles. You should only use something GPU-based for that, like Pixi or Three.

I love Paper.js because it has a TON of super useful vector features and is still is reasonably fast :D
>We all collectively pay for the Uber drivers' welfare, but rather than having it be progressively paid for through taxation, it will be regressively paid for through price increases that disproportionately impact the poor / middle class.

Sounds like a very American centric view to me and not even sure it applies in the US. In most countries personal ride services are consumed by upper-middle-class professionals at the expense of public transportation and road congestion.

I think it's very likely that the utilisation of ridesharing services skews heavily towards people with lots of disposable income in urban areas so having them pay higher prices is actually correct and internalizes the cost they put on public infrastructure.

edit, some stats according to Gallup: People with incomes over 90k are almost twice as likely to use ride-hailing services than people who make under 25k, and usage rises with income. (https://news.gallup.com/poll/237965/snapshot-uses-ride-shari...)
That joke in video form:

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You mean if you're still an employee? I've read their RSUs have 7y expiration, which is part of the whole Airbnb IPO problem because the ones from 2014 will start expiring next year.

But what's the window to exercise once you leave the company? I doubt it's until expiration.
I believe it's just the full cost of the plan you were already on, the sum of what you and your employer were paying for it.

So it can be expensive if your employer was paying a lot for it.
I was too, but I have a few friends who own multiple AirBnBs. They are all fully booked with long term renters. Some of them were forced to stay because they have nowhere to go.

So I guess it isn't quite as bad as you'd imagine. I'd guess the purely vacation rentals are suffering, but the ones that were typically business renters could be converted to long term.
"Animal equality" is not a great brand. Sure, maybe you can get most people to agree that they should be treated more humanely. Equal is not the right word.

If it came down to me or a chicken - I sincerely hope society would prioritize me.
I can't add much. My wife does significant but non-urgent care and is not working. My dentist is not doing cleanings and checkups. I do have a couple of friends with broken bones that got them set. Personally, I wouldn't be caught dead in an ER unless there were simply no alternative.

> People have been avoiding the doc's office for non-urgent stuff out of caution and fear, not because it's forbidden.

I'm sure it's both. Either way, it matters. Hypothetically, if we can hit herd immunity fast, that fear would probably diminish quickly. I don't know if that's a good plan or not, but certainly it needs to be considered.
This page doesn't count animals killed by other (non-human) animals. Mother nature is also cruel. I don't think that humans are the biggest animal killers. A single humpback whale likely kills millions of krill every day. One could even argue that eating whale meat is ethical because it saves millions of lives.

Also it should be noted that most of these farm animals would never have been alive if humans did not breed them in the first place so we shouldn't see death as necessarily a bad thing. We give them life and then we take it away. Every creature dies eventually - So do we.

I think the focus of animal protection movements should be based more on the ethical treatment of animals. It's important to make sure that all animals have the opportunity of a decent life before they are slaughtered; especially have room to move around in an open area with access to natural light.
Yes, humans eat animals. "Top of the food chain" means something. It means lunch. Delicious lunch.

Oh man, now I want a chicken sandwich with bacon on it.
Well ducks at >90/second and chickens at >1500/sec doesn't quite compare with 15/second. How do you figure 15/second is about right anyway?
Actually, underwithholding can still happen. Employers may withhold at a flat 22% federal rate, which can be significantly lower than a highly paid employee's actual marginal tax rate. So the employee may still need to increase the withholdings on their regular pay, or make an estimated tax payment for each quarter of RSU income.
They used to use the term "Stub" for brief pages that weren't full articles yet and they do put warnings on articles that don't meet certain quality standards, though I think that's different that what you're talking about here.
This is such a good idea, especially when you consider how bad various websites have gotten with annoying ad strategies. I feel like reading articles is getting to be like solving captchas.