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The idea of replacing existing social programs with cash handouts reminds me of Bitcoin's earlier days. Proponents were thinking of what it would be like if they were poor, and not what life is like for poor people.

It is not the case that you can reasonably just give large groups of people with histories of poor financial literacy cash as a replacement for food, shelter, or other necessities. Many people will make bad choices if just given money. That's why many of these programs were built this way: to ensure people can't spend all their cash and be unable to afford baby formula or rent.
> The woman must remove the photos or pay a fine of €50 (£45) for every day that she fails to comply with the order, up to a maximum fine of €1,000

Does that mean you can just write a check to not be covered by the GDPR?
> "you get paid differently depending on where you live"

If I'm relocating to SF from middle of nowhere where I got paid 80k, without a cost of adjustment increas I can't afford SF.
To be honest, my OP was a little hyperbolic. It's more like you'll be less able to demand a wage premium because you're willing/able to live in a high COL place. But you still have lots of other attributes/skills which are valuable.

I already live in a low COL location and successfully demand Bay Area salary. So obviously I don't see a problem with this. Most people all across the country will see no appreciable change here. The only people who need to be concerned are people who are unable to demand a high salary based on their attributes other than geography.
> I think calculus should be taught like "here's a set of tools to help you rewrite your equations to make them output the slope of their graph". Then, afterwards, you can get into what makes it all tick.

I feel the exact opposite way. The method you're describing is how I was taught calculus in high school, that is, with a strong focus on practicing mechanical manipulation of formulas rather than building deep understanding. And I just disconnected from that, I got no mental reward from procedurally finding the derivative or the integral of a function for the 100th time. Lack of motivation meant lack of focus, which in turn made my performance drop, and at the time I assumed I probably just wasn't as good at mathematics as I thought I was. That lasted until I got mathematics classes in college, where many of my mathematics courses used a more first-principles-based approach, and I performed well again.

> Sort of like teaching a student to write "hello world" before diving into the low level mechanics of a compiler.

I found Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html) the most enlightening intro to programming book I ever read. Its approach is also strongly first-principles-based.

I'm not writing this comment to say that you're wrong; the method you describe may very well work well for you, and many others with you. Rather, I'm using the opportunity to spread an opinion that I feel quite strongly about: the best way to learn a topic is completely student-dependent and there is no such thing as the one true way in which a topic should be taught. The most powerful motivator is always intrinsic motivation, and different minds are motivated by different challenges. Unfortunately it is hard to bring into practice in a batch-processing based education system.
> I mean what you're arguing is to essentially turn forum administration into miniature governments.

Forum administration already is a limited government, typically authoritarian in current incarnations. Mods are the police, judges and juries. Works fine if you have the resources and mods are fair, and maybe that's typical for minor infractions, but the conflict of interest is clear.

Authoritarian moderation doesn't scale though, and you disenfranchise a lot of people with every a mistake, particularly since a) there's rarely a transparent appeals process, and b) people don't typically like owning their mistakes. Doubly so when "it's my platform, so I can do what I want with it". Maybe that's not something you care about, but given the increasing importance of social media to democratic government, it's a problem that will likely worsen.

> And I would hope that as reality has proven, government is very easily gamed by people seeking power.

Government is a system of rules for governing people's interactions. A moderation system is a system of rules for governing people's interactions on a specific site. You can't speak of these things as if they're that different. Either a system of rules is vulnerable to exploits, or it's not.

> Because even Stack Overflow as you've referenced has issues with high toxicity among users chasing off moderators all the same.

I mentioned stack overflow specifically for the unintrusive and random review process and nothing else. SO doesn't feature any of the other ideas I listed.

Finally, I have no "idealized form of moderation" in mind, I have knowledge of where existing systems fail, and how other systems have already addressed very similar problems. Designing a secure and scalable moderation system is a big task, so if you want to hire me to research and build such a system, then I will be happy to address all of your questions in as much detail as you like.
I have some misgivings about css grid (vs doing everything w flexbox), in part bc it encourages designing to a (particular) grid configuration, whereas my responsive ideal is to build up from content first, w the design following somewhat organically from it, and the layout remaining as fluid as possible, according to the viewing context in which it's rendered.

This relates to similar thoughts about breakpoints being a sometimes-helpful crutch of sorts, vs their typical adoption as a "standard" set of predefined viewport dimensions designers should target. Because it ignores users who config their browsers to use larger fonts (a larger demographic than all IE users).

/$.02
In a sense that is a default go to platform for many people when searching for (video) content.
And the dev in Eastern Europe is wondering why is the dev in San Francisco getting 10x as them.
Funny how no one was complaining when they got a 50 to 200% raise by moving there. It just makes sense - why would you pay more than necessary?
The full nuance of the law can only be gleaned from the law itself. Any shorter comment on the Internet is guaranteed to leave out one of the meanings. So, yes, I think you're right but that's always going to be the case.
Per the article, the "demo" test accepted it, but the actual exam did not.

Perhaps the demo did something dumb, like check the file extension but not whether the file could actually be opened.
I don't know - I would argue that Scott Manley and Tim Dodd do a better job then any mainstream media on reporting on Space news, and the tech youtube community is better then almost anyone save maybe Ars Technica.
I doubt it. I've worked for companies with remote cultures and generally the way it is done is regions are encoded based on cost of living. This creates the salary band and people with the same job title/level will be paid differently based on this. Generally equity is not considered though, only salary.

Who knows what will happen over some time if this really becomes big. Lots of people will leave the Bay Area and the cost of living will drop, in some places dramatically. Those 2m starter homes will get cut in half or more if this becomes wide scale.

Regardless, companies will still want to attract and recruit the best people they can and if that means having to hire from an expensive zone then they will. Or their competitors will and they'll be out competed. If anything though, over enough time if this becomes the norm than I'd expect places like the Bay Area to see the cost of living decline.
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The examiner’s client program is likely a browser that connects to a web-hosted system, and with the exception of Safari, other browsers do not (yet) handle HEIC natively nor even gracefully.
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I’ve seen this take a lot but it’s missing a really important point. We’re discussing the trend towards WFH. If it continues suddenly your partner/housemates/friends will all be WFH and you can have lunch or work with them as opposed to the people who happen to be employed with you.

WFH != isolation
Micro-payments can be done quite easily via Bitcoin's second layer network Lightning Network. There has been a functional demo of this technology for articles, check out yalls dot org.

Also, no middleman needed, you can host your own server to make the invoices and accept payments using BTCPay Server https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver.
> it expanded because she wanted it to

And now it’s shrinking because she wanted it to.
your claim is that the atlantic is failing _specifically_ because they post too much anti-trump content?

it would be pretty easy to disprove this to yourself by observing that magazine/newspaper sales have been in decline since before trump was a presidential candidate.
It seems like this type of approach would incentivise clickbaity articles even more than the current financing structure does. Subscribing to a newspaper is a long-term arrangement, requiring the publisher to establish and maintain the reader's trust. Articles, on the other hand, are one-time interactions. Once you start seeing enough clickbait from a given source you can avoid the source in the future, but it would be significantly harder for publishers to leverage positive trust and reputation in such a setting.
They're neither an intermediary nor a primary party to the dispute. Facebook is not an arbitrator. The case, as mentioned in the article, was between a woman and her mother.

You'd have to ask them or their lawyer why they pursued action this way. I suspect from the context in the article that it was a recurring issue, and the article mentions that it wasn't just posts on Facebook, either.
"My company had to move to full remote during a self-isolation pandemic situation for the last two months, where I couldn't even go sit in a coffee shop when I wanted to.

Here are my new thoughts on the future of working from home...."
I'm trying to interpret your words as something other than "well, yeah, my weekends were interrupted, but it wasn't my choice so it's not worth mentioning." I can't come up with another way to read it, though.

So, don't you think that, in the context of having to give up nights and weekends, you should mention on-call? Your choice or not, the weekends and nights are affected, in fact isn't it kind of worse when it's not your choice?
Again, Y standing in for X here.

It's probably easier for her to interface with her bank through a desktop computer. Small buttons on handheld devices is not the UI for this job. "Shaky hands" plus "small touchscreen device" is enough context to reach this conclusion.

If you want to make a project out of it, you could set up a browser with a few extensions that limit her ability to expose herself to malware, etc. and make it easy to connect to the services she uses regularly.
Maybe I didn't explain my point well enough since you are just talking past it. People generally don't stop once they get to a level that would guarantee them subsistence living for the rest of their life. Most of us could buy a combination of annuities and long term care insurance that could provide for ourselves for the rest of our lives well before we actually retire. Very few people actually pursue this path and most of us continue to work until a point that would provide a higher standard of living in retirement.
I haven't spent a ton of time thinking about UBI. Can you explain how our current society doesn't already have slums? Or how UB would increase them?
I think if you are compensated for it, and allowed to recuperate from middle-of-the-night working, it's ok. If the employee knew this was part of the job though, and not something that was thrust upon them after they were hired.
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2. In the specific case of the College Board, yes. Keep in mind that maybe the license fee is based on number of institutions and every student would end up indirectly paying for the license.

But also think about independent educational institutions (primary, secondary, higher, etc), think about all schools and colleges in other countries (we're all in a similar situation). All of them would have to find a way to license HEIC, just because Apple decided that they wanted HEIC as their default format.

3. I'd guess that companies that implement HEIC pay for their license.

The legal situation of using open source programs to decode licensed and patent encumbered formats is uncertain to me, and I guess it is to most people, including software engineers and managers.
Once you're working remote why pay someone 80k a year to live in the Midwest.

Why not pay them 40k a year to live in India instead?
Of course. It’s the same reason “think tanks” are established.

You could always argue it’s good to get people to think and bring workable ideas to life... but of course the employees at these think tanks know who pays their salaries and what the expectations are.
I think you missed the biggest one of all for a huge number of us: no school or childcare.
You're not wrong in the sense that things get cached, mirrored, scraped, etc, and probably live forever inside Facebook's datacenters even when "removed", but there is still a valid case for not wanting the pictures posted on a public profile for all eternity.
Samsung uses it too. And the iPhone automatically converts it to jpegs, but the College Board’s form disabled that functionality.
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> I don't see the connection between inflation and inequality. Inflation is relative currency growth vs true economy size and productivity.

If you implement UBI, you're essentially also implementing a minimum wage, since companies will have to pay significantly more than UBI. Rather than accept a cut in their own pay to pay workers more, executives will raise the price of goods and services. This effect, across the economy causes inflation. So if you don't find a way to prevent executives raising their own pay to maintain inequality, you get inflation any time you give money to the poor.

Economic conservatives tend to overstate this problem, in my opinion--there's nothing preventing you from just raising the UBI proportional to inflation. But historically, minimum wage hasn't tracked inflation, and I worry that UBI would suffer the same problem.

> For one humans are tricky in that they don't just lie down and accept the laws you want that go against what they want and instead undermine and loophole it in ingenius ways. Trivially that would encourage "nesting doll tiered" subsidary companies and contractors to bypass the limits.

This problem exists in any solution, including all the ones that already exist. It should be addressed, but I don't think that's a reasonable criticism of any solution if it applies to all of them.

> Second the high end of income wouldn't even be affected as they make their money largely from investments not salary or wages. Even if they got the seed for investments from their high salaries - like every retired athlete who managed to stay rich and even get richer after endorsements dried up.

Yes, we'd have to find a way to treat investment income as equivalent to pay in order for this to work.
I agree, I was a math major and remember how high school calculus using infinitesimals ended up confusing my friends in college.
Do you really want to get your information from a source where hiring decisions depend on a single person with huge interests and biases? I don’t.
Neighbours already shoot each other over politics in the US. As these things always happen, it would be a corrupt government plus a significant part of the population that supports the corrupt government.
Yep. The real selling points of heat pumps is comfort, since they can go from aircon to heat and back seamlessly. Where I live geothermal heat pumps are the practical option, but south of Pennsylvania the air source heat pumps are a great option.
If the company honestly didn't care where you lived and you took it upon yourself to move to SF, you wouldn't get an adjustment.

But if the company needs you in SF, then they'll need to pay what it takes to hire someone in SF, regardless of where you lived before.

It's only a cost of living adjustment to you. To the company, it's what they have to pay to get an SF worker. It just happens to be higher than what you were making before.
I think people tend to underestimate how most publishers don't rely on subscription revenue to survive. All the money is in advertising, which is why I think you see less focus on trying alternative subscription models like this. It's a great idea in theory, but in practice probably wouldn't provide enough revenue to be worth it for medium to small publishers.

Also, say this middleman company does exist and is adopted by a large portion of the publishers out there. How would it benefit them to pass along the majority of that $1 per article to publishers? My hunch is that publishers would be the ones that end up getting 'crumbs' and the middleman would keep the bulk.

Publishers have been burned over the years by relying on other companies and middlemen for traffic and revenue (look at the effect Facebook has had on most news organizations, and not in a good way). Putting all their chips in one basket with a company like this would be a non-starter for most companies. They don't want to get burned again.
What are the benefits of using this over Amazon Inspector?
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I understand where you're coming from, but what you're describing is learning how to use a queue to maintain consistency guarantees across a distributed system. You can get something simple like AWS SQS working with a few clicks, but then you don't have any of those consistency guarantees.
> The $150k is not what your work is directly valued at

Indeed, presumably you are worth more than that to them. It's a pretty naked cash grab to cut salary in response to a location move, and somewhat illogical considering they moved their HQ to the bay area in the first place. If it's objectively bad and expensive, why not move your HQ to Austin or San Antonio or Portland?

> if Facebook starts to hire remote workers, then your value will drop because they now have the access to a pool of workers who don't want to drag their asses to San Francisco and can pretty easily settle for less since their rent doesn't require them to bleed money.

For now. It remains to be seen if bay area rents are high because of tech salaries, or if tech salaries are high because of rents. Likely they feed back into each other. And as a worker in SF, you have access to all the same remote opportunities.
You’re acting like the company is assigning value to people and paying them accordingly. That’s not how it works.

Pay is determined by the labor market.

Substitute wizzle for “senior engineer”, and wozzle for “bootcampers” or “marketing”.

Facebook pays $150k for wizzles because that’s what it costs to get good ones. It pays $110k for wozzles because that’s what it costs to get good ones.

People (reasonably) want a specific combination of wizzles and wozzles, for growth, different roles, etc.

At no point does Facebook assign a price for wizzles based on their expected individual contribution. Maybe there are some “market makers” in some industries, but I don’t think it applies in tech.
>The part that doesn't make sense though is keeping the employees that live in SF, or paying an employee more if they choose to relocate to SF.

The buyer (Facebook) may not be playing all their cards. They may very well intend to reduce SF employee headcount, but want to experiment, and so saying otherwise will allow them to do it in a slow, controlled manner.
It is more complicated than that.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View_privacy_con... for issues that arose in practice from pictures taken in public by Google.
I have simple single node deployment and I was floored how easy it was to set up with Celery. Really surprised. I was kicking myself for not using it sooner.

Granted I don't know all the intricacies of RabbitMQ and this was just one step beyond os.popen, but it was painless, like half an hour painless to set up and it has worked really well.

*edit: reading some of the other posts now I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. but so far it's worked wonderfully.
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That’s why I put in the disclaimer. I don’t think you would rely on consent in that instance. Probably would have to use the “legitimate interest” and have some rules around how photos are taken and used (e.g., people in the background where the soccer player is the target of the photo vs taking a photo of a single fan in attendance).
It is not true Linux in spirit because it forces the user to live with telemetry and other closed source software and drivers, which defeats the purpose Linux itself was built upon.

Not just that. Privacy, trustworthiness and security aside, let's imagine Microsoft porting (or simply making WSL-aware) some of their software, libraries, system internals hooks, anything that Linux users wanted for ages, gaming libraries etc.), to WSL and not Linux, that is, they require WSL but won't run on Linux, or will run "better" on WSL, or possibly will run on Linux but require some closed or prohibitively licensed code to (properly) run.
Those surely are bleak scenarios, but corporations are there to make profits, and forcing Linux users to require a Microsoft branded layer of software is without any doubt a way to keep them hooked to Windows, which for some will turn into buying products and services from Microsoft, and for others into finding less and less software that will run on plain Linux. I wouldn't be surprised at all if say in two years more books will be published about WSL than about Linux. That would hurt as well since it would mean less courses, less schools adopting Linux, in plain words less users.
Yep. It seems to have started with the 2016 election which left popular opinion being that there's a huge part of the population who are too stupid to think for themselves and must be shielded from bad ideas in case they believe them and harm the rest of us with them. Now that such an idea is readily accepted, censorship is easily seen as the morally right thing to do in lots of cases. The feeling is that we're protecting ourselves from real harm by people who really don't have the ability to correctly evaluate the information they receive. Just like China doing it for social harmony. It's not just terrorism and child porn that people tolerate censorship for anymore, it's for 5G and flat earth conspiracy theories, anti-religious ideas, nationalism, and all sorts of "misinformation".
> If you remove B you've massively increased the available talent pool.

i'm not convinced this is the case. maybe by a bit...but massively? if you look at all of the places that all of the top paying FAANG companies are located--lets keep it within the US for simplicity's sake--you've got basically all of the major cities with the top talent. I'm not really picturing THAT many brilliant developers that fall under the bucket of: a) really smart and able to pass FAANG interviews b) not willing to relocate if they did get a huge offer

sure there are plenty of outliers, but my gut feeling tells me that MOST of the talent that really cares enough and wants to be at FAANG are already living in most of the tech hubs currently. i dont think the surge of competent applications will be that meaningful statistically speaking.

not sure if i communicated myself clearly here, sort of rambled.