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> Indeed, but they've had many years in which to deliver and have manifestly failed to do so

This is highly dependent on locality. I don't claim to follow broader national trends, but certainly things in the Bay Area have improved significantly in the last 2 decades.

e.g. SJPD has seen encouraging reductions in use of force over the last five years (https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/29/as-police-decry-georg...)
>So on a supposedly unbiased website the only place conservatives can hang out is at r/unpopularopinion? That doesn't sound wrong to you?

Conservatives are a minority in America, so it makes sense their opinions would be unpopular by virtue of that.

There's nothing that's not political, every aspect of life is political, how we distribute resources, interact with our neighbors, basically everything is political and sidelining political discussion is itself a political act which benefits whoever is currently wielding power.
> Especially in Europe where the existence of a national healthcare system is not a religion but a norm.

An NHS-type system is not at all the norm in Europe. Comprehensive and universal health insurance or even single-payer health insurance are not the same as the single-payer (mostly) single-provider system in the UK.

In most of the Germanic countries, for instance, the norm is closer to the multiple-payer multiple-provider system in the US in structure, albeit most certainly not in outcomes due to some important tweaks.
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Yeah, this 100%. If you went by what Reddit and Twitter thought was going to happen in recent votes and elections, you'd think that Sanders would be the Democratic nominee in 2016, that Trump was not going to be president, that Britain would vote to remain in the EU and that Jeremy Corbyn would lead the Labour Party to victory over Boris Johnson and the Conservatives.

The fact that all those predictions turned out to be wrong indicates that at least a sizeable percentage of the population is further to the right politically than the majority of Reddit or Twitter seemingly is.

You may not always get banned for having the opposite opinion on topics like those (though it definitely happens in quite a few subreddits), but the point is, the prevailing consensus on those sites is certainly a lot further left than the mainstream as shown by election resultls.
> Am I missing something?

Yes, you are. Police are the solution for mental health. Police are the solution for roving dogs. Police are the solution for kids out of school. Police are the solution for drug addiction.

The alternative is to defund the massive chunk of budgets that go to police and invest in commmunity support, from medicalised addiction treatment to educational opportunity to mental health support.

Or, we could let these problems continue to fester because people in wanton and willful ignorance embrace your false dichotomy and legislate on the assumption that anything but police with (even more) laser sights and (even more) armor played APCs is a commitment to Mad Max.
Gamergate in no way was totally responsible for the election of Trump. If anything invoking that Bannon capitalized on a small fraction of people in the movement is used as a cudgel by those wishing to shove their own political agenda down "gamer culture's" throat. Feeling excluded? Why not just destroy it instead. Pathetic.
The user you're replying to has a point.

Now it's stay-at-home time. People think: I wish to go visit my friend, but no, it's not allowsd due the quarantine. I fish I attended a concert, a meetup, a conference, etc — no luck. The tiredness and tension grows.

Now there is a case when a lot of people say: No, I can't miss this! I must be there and show my support! IG there is one case when i'm willing to break the social distancing rules, it's this one.

So more people who have accumulated the desire to be out now have a good cause to go out and demonstrate.
Yes, that would absolutely be the proper name. For us I think it was just a matter of familiarity, does the lay person know what a "relief" map is?

It's more descriptive, but potentially at a cost of understanding.Though maybe we should be targeting the demographic who knows what a "relief" map is though... Unsure, just making this up as we go along!
I am more afraid of a police department that has no legal accountability than I am of a criminal.
Good advice IMO, but I want to nitpick something: "Assuming you did something that has a conversion rate of 1/100 (worst case)"

The worst case is making something terrible that no one wants, despite all that effort. And it is definitely possible. (Don't let that hold you back though, anyone reading this! Failure is the best way to learn, because it sucks so much.)
You're allowed to shout that there's a fire in a crowded theater if there's actually a fire. No one has ever argued that there is an unlimited right to say whatever you want whenever you want (libel and slander laws exist and don't seem to be controversial). If you falsely shout that there's a fire and cause a stampede and people are injured and it can be proven that you did it with malicious intent, you will be prosecuted or sued, but this isn't fundamentally different than libel or slander laws. Finally, you should know that the "fire in a crowded theater" phrase came from a unanimous Supreme Court decision that endorsed censorship and suppression of speech that criticized conscription during World War 1.
Reminds me a lot of the "job simulator" game on oculus.
Since most states unemployment insurance (UI) only pays a percent of full regular wages, it should have been "up to an additional $600 / week up to 100% (including state UI) of previous average weekly reported wages."

So, if Bob made on average $800 per week, and his state pays UI at 60%, his state UI would be $480 / week leaving him $320 short per week. The additional federal money should have paid $320 / week to get him back to 100% of his $800 / week average.
For one HN allows you to see most "deleted" content and engage with it if you choose to, unlike many other platforms. Secondly, the mods don't claim to engage in fact-checking. And downvotes are not driven by single entity. Of course that still leaves the issue that minority views could be downvoted to oblivion, but that's not in direct conflict with democracy, even if outcomes still may be suboptimal.

As for self-censoring. Yes, that can be an issue. You picked racial slurs because that makes self-censoring seem morally acceptable, you're biasing the scenario in your favor. What about protesters calling for violence against an oppressive government? That would commonly be considered a violation of "community guidelines" on social networks.

My issue with social networks is that they amplify without providing contrast. Often there's viral, in-the-moment content which is technically truthful but doesn't provide context. Getting the "yes, but ..." replies that add nuance or rebut the framing would be helpful. Distinguishing and filtering by affirmative vs. conterarguments would be helpful in controversial topics.
This doesn't require fact-checking by an arbiter of truth, just a way for people to select which responses they see.
They are different, but it's not clear to me that the distinction is significant in the context of OP I was addressing which is the exact point I was making. Not every difference is relevant in every context.

As for me not teaching you anything you don't already know, I can't possibly have any idea what you do or don't already know and I think it'd be more productive to leave that kind of snark out of the discussion here.
I agree. I'm going to check this out.

I went back to school 10+ years ago after many years in software engineering. I naively thought it would be a good idea to keep notes in LaTeX because 1) I have a hard time reading my own handwriting. 2) Source controlled 3) Math notation!

Wow, what a special circle of Hell LateX has been.
Not in this case, but in qayxc's more general statement.
It signals he has determined that after this point in time, staying onboard becomes less profitable.

The "for my country" part is just dramatic posturing.
I’m a young white man and I grew up in the Deep South (Alabama/Mississippi).

I had just started eighth grade when I moved to a very small town in Mississippi. On my first day a group of white kids invited me to sit with them. They decided the best way to break the ice would be to tell me heinous racist jokes. For example, somebody would tell a “joke” about how they’d like to hang Obama from their Christmas tree and everybody would burst into laughter.

All that is to say that I don’t think their opinions are different than those who raised them. They were children and had to have learned it from somebody.

But they would never express their racism outside of small white groups because they knew at some level it was wrong.

At some point in my teenage years I noticed a shift among these “friends”. They had joined online groups that echoed their sentiments and argued that it wasn’t wrong to be racist but rather it just makes you “woke” to go against the crowd. They think they’re just seeing the world differently.

One guy in particular would say heinous racist things and immediately follow it up with something like “I’d rather die than live under communism”. He had become radicalized. He was no longer a closeted racist boy. Now he’s a fully grown racist man filled with vitriol.
'Karma seeking behavior' is a problem even on wholly uncontroversial subreddits. Shit like "my girlfriend baked me a cake with [subject of the subreddit on it]" is really uninteresting content after you've seen it for the thousandth time but gets upvoted pretty reliably. Reddit's system simply isn't an effective moderation system if you want to establish a thoughtful community because cheap pandering to the crowd is easier than finding or creating thoughtful content.
That's at least partially true. There are lots of "life coaches" out there who may have a certificate in coaching, but not a degree in related field and no professional license (like a licensed social worker or therapist). Some are good, some are no better than your best friend, only anonymous-ish (I guess there's some value there).

But, there are legit coaching programs out there (Georgetown has one of them). While not full degree programs, the end product (ie, the coach graduates) can be very good.

And getting value from a coach is a 2-way exercise. They won't transform you into your best self without work from you. You need to have problems that need solving, you need to put work into discussing them, and then you need to execute when you're back in the office.
There are no TODOs, just bugs.
Ha! Same here! I though that it must be something like that link between relief of depression and sleep deprivation. Turns out, fitful is not related to being fit or to a full night of sleep, but more to throwing a fit.
The problem with any of these statistics is they lack context. How many of those incidents were justified? How many times did the suspect point a gun at the police? How many times did a suspect engage the police and attempt to assault the officer or grab his gun?

Without context, its easy to sit her and say that black americans are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by cops than whites and just assume that NONE of those incidents were justified or the cops had to use lethal force as a last resort.

Which is counter to two things.

All of the data in the UCR (Uniform Crime Report) would indicate murders align more along racial lines. Look at the data from 2018:

Number of blacks killed by other black: 2,600
Number of blacks killed by whites: 234

Likewise you see the same pattern with whites:

Number of whites killed by other whites: 2,677
Number of whites killed by blacks: 514

Likewise, if you look at the raw numbers by race of people shot by police, you get similar numbers:

2017

Whites: 457

Blacks: 223

2018

Whites: 399

Blacks: 209

2019

Whites: 370

Blacks: 235

2020

Whites: 172

Blacks: 88

Again, what do these statistics really tell us? You can't really dig any deeper because we have no context on what lead up to these, where they happened (urban vs. suburban) or what was the actual situation that lead to someone being shot by the police?

Also, just purely from a numbers perspective, you can say that since there are far more white cops than black cops, then yes, it would make sense that there is a higher percentage of white cops that are shooting and killing black people. Again, without context, and proper reporting (which police departments and the FBI don't track) its hard to tell what those statistics are actually telling us.

Understand, I'm not saying there isn't a problem with police brutality as there very much so. The MPD has had a long history similar to that of the LAPD. It took 25+ years to get from the LA riots in 1992 to Minneapolis in 2020 and to finally realize they have major problems with how they're policing their minority communities.
Yeah but it'd be even easier to just not kill so many black people for what often appears to be very little reason. The whole thing would solve itself.

If a few police started stepping on babies and killing them for sport, making sure that all the other victims of police got 'equal-time' isn't going to be winner.
> There's a terrible principal agent problem here where management, the principal, decides how to track work, and can put the heavy lifting of filling in values onto the developers. This happens when management's more worried about losing their job than improving their team's output.

I no longer believe a single tool is good for both a team tracking & communicating amongst themselves about the work they're doing, and communicating the same to and among management. Trying to make them both the same thing is a great way to come up with something that's terrible for one or the other of those uses (usually the former).
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> This thread is great, every suggestion has a reply that says "This is terrible advice."

That's good! Someone smart and driven will inhale every reply and pull out common tidbits for experimentation.
woops there goes the nuance again :D
There’s a scanf in there...
This is not the first time someone has corrected me about default emacs keybindings. Considering that I probably set up that keybinding 15 years ago, it sure feels to me like it's part of emacs. I guess the next time I am trying to give some advice I need to do some software archeology on my .emacs first.
> failure to do so...

How do you enforce the penalty if the perpetrator is anonymous? Fine their management instead? That doesn't work when the executive branch is above the law.
However benefits are defined

There are always costs to projects (money spent on wages to UK taxpayers, money spent on imports, environmental damage, political damage from nimby campaigns, opportunity costs from people working on this project instead of another one - say crossrail 2)

There are always benefits to projects (money generated from more passengers, benefit of more space on existing lines, movement of freight from road to rail, movement of passengers from air to rail, benefits politically from spending money outside of London)

This is the same no matter what project, or who is funding it. Musk presumably includes "being able to go to Mars in his lifetime" as a benefit of starship, as that's his stated goal.

You could reduce the cost if you said "we don't need to go to mars", but that would remove the main benefit, and Musk isn't going to put as much as he does into it.

Clearly if you can reduce costs without reducing benefits it will increase the viability of a project, but reducing costs on its own does not necessarily increase the viability.
I'll speak for you here. Fuck you.
This is what I don't get: saying they are theoretically good but problematic (without necessarily saying "police are a net bad"), and then saying it's unethical to do business with them for routine products.

If there is logic there, it's very subtle and I'm not getting it. Can you elaborate or compare it to a precedent?
A lot of it is probably location, and also comparing yourself to anecdata.

But some percentage of it needs to be standing out. There are a lot of developers in cube farms working with stacks that look exactly like your resume. The javascript stuff is very quickly becoming devalued as boot camps crank out front end devs by the hundred.

Maybe becoming (or just advertising yourself) as a leading specialist in one or two of those technologies, or becoming an expert in an emerging technology would do it.
That’s great because I have a T2i with magic lantern. Will have to give it a try.
Right. Dig into campaign actions and - as an example - it looks a lot like the trump campaign won wisconsin with robocalls more than with social media.

Hard to tell for sure, of course, but the recent blanketing of facebook with political advertising doesn't seem to have achieved that much except for buying Brad Parscale a ferrari.

Social media does presumably have some effect but I'm not sure how you'd tell how much/how little compared to other approaches for reaching people.
But you have to acknowledge some features are bugs.

For example, if you have a word processor, having a running word count sounds like a feature.

To a developer it seems frivolous, like having a LOC counter.

But to people who write professionally word count might be the most critical metric of all (like a progress bar for "article is done")

just saying... failed promises
Correct, but then the subsequent question, as the other user pointed out, is WHY? The default position to fill in the gap seems to be that "racist discretion on the part of the police is responsible," but is that actually a reasonable and defensible assumption?

Note that I pointed out that 96% of people killed by police are male, but men only make up 50% of the population. Do you assume that the difference between their per-capita representation is best explained by anti-male sexism? Aren't there a series of other relevant factors you could use to explain the disparity? I suggest you reflect on it honestly.
i can extrapolate even further and say that everything is a state machine. humans are a state machine, plants are a state machine, reality itself is a state machine.

we don’t see it like this because of the sheer complexity, but in the end we are a continuous computation that occurs at every moment in time.
I've encountered a few pieces of math that are more naturally expressed in 0-based indexes and it is pretty easy to define them in Julia using arbitrary indexing.

TaylorSeries.jl is a great example of this. x = x_0 + x_1 t + ... Then indexing into it with x[0] would give the zero-th order Taylor coefficient.
I’m a physicist so all kinds of numerical and symbolic calculations, e.g. very complicated integrals, differential equations, integral equations, and so on. I also work on math problems either seriously (way back when I was an undergrad I worked on some number theoretical problems where computational insight is very important) or for fun (think Project Euler style problems).

If you just need to a calculator to do everyday arithmetic or unit conversions, or even simple physics calculations with units, it’s serious overkill... I certainly hardly ever need it when I’m wearing my programmer hat.

I guess to answer is that the boundary between a calculator and a full blown computational environment is very blurry to me.
oh man, i still play SimTower.... keep my OS9 emulator running for it!
I've been a part of the communities (develop) for a long time and later started a business once I deeply understood (enough, years) the hardest problems we face
If things like this upset you, you are seriously naive about the operations of your government. As a former Palantir employee, I can say with some confidence that the govt and private company's make efforts to ensure these things remain secret..
Related suggestion... most large companies have internal coaching and leadership training opportunities. I'd check with HR or the L&D group at your bank.

Failing that, I made the engineer-leader transition a few years ago and have taken most of the internal training at my employer - if you just need to bounce some ideas around, let me know. I'm not a certified coach, wouldn't even claim to be an expert, but happy to help if I can.
Genuinely curious: do you have sources showing this?
Sure, I agree to that absolutely. But how you get from "the police needs radical reform" to "we don't need police, abolish them" is a mystery to me.
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> What leads you to believe this at an empirical level, though?

The huge number of officers that surrounded Derek Chauvin's house, for example.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/officers-protect-home-of-derek...

The video is actually just creepy. But that's empirical evidence that you can verify by observation of said video.

> How can you, I, or anyone know any of the true statistics?

We actually know that the US ranks as high as many 3rd world countries when looking at the murder of black people by police. Even the murder of white people is staggeringly high compared to other western countries. The statistics are there.

> Since we can't, the most important thing is to try to improve and fix the system and the systemic issues as much as possible, and to try to decrease the odds of hiring shitty cops and increase the odds that shitty cops will be quickly identified, removed, and, if appropriate, prosecuted.

I agree. That's actually what we all want. And that's not happening now.
Hatred is a perfectly natural human emotion. If we forcibly prevent people from expressing their emotions with words and abdicate our responsibility to defuse hatred with dialogue, it will eventually boil over and be expressed with violence.

It's ironic, because mass censorship proponents claim censoring hate prevents violence, when perhaps it actually makes it worse in the long run.

"Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."

-MLK
> I hired freelancers at my last job. When going through candidates, I didn't look for the lowest bidder. I looked for someone who charged a reasonable amount who looked like they knew what they were doing.

+1, this is how anyone sane chooses vendors. Paying bottom dollar is a good way to end up costing the company just as much in hassle and in-house resources dealing with that hassle.
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I like how you just completely ignore the part about how no one is saying "abolish the police and replace them with absolutely nothing we love crime!" You also lump various different debates all into one and assume the people you disagree with are in alignment with each other on all of them.

But it's the other side that's had its "rational thought" overridden. These are not a good faith arguments.
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Of course, the British were also the pioneers: Thames Tunnel in Rotherhithe was the first tunnel constructed under a river and must have been an amazing feat of engineering back then (1843). There’s an interesting museum there and the tunnel is still used, now by the Overground line.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel
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As an EU expat you can easily move to Croatia thanks to EU freedom of movement, most people in the tourist areas speak decent English. I don't know anything about bureaucratic issues for non-EU expats though.

Foreign companies however aren't really willing to open remote offices/parks there because most of the talent pool (not just in IT but across all industries!) heads off to Germany or other countries where there is real earning potential. The "brain drain" across the whole Balkan is immense.