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== For the US to provide Schools/Hospitals/Houses services comparable to the European countries it would be done at the State level.==

The tax structure of the US makes it very hard for states to provide this as so much of our tax dollars go to the Fed. Then, as a blue state resident, a bunch of those Federal taxes go to poorer states. We could do a lot with the ~$4 billion annually we pay in taxes that go to other states.

== At the Federal level it is to some degree unprecedented to provide services at the level of quality and at the scale.==

Medicare? US military? Us postal services? And on and on.
The answer to all of your questions is "it depends". I can say with certainty that no one is going to be able to provide an accurate answer without looking at each case individually.

Generally speaking:

- It's typically okay to receive money from foreign companies and foreign-owned businesses/organizations. Both culturally and legally. E.g., the government explicitly black-lists instead of white-lists.

- Forgetting to report small amounts of money (low five figures at a time) can be chalked up to sloppiness, even if the total amount adds up to six figures over a long period of time. E.g., just as a graduate student I received mid five figures worth of travel grants and honorariums from a half dozen different funding agencies, many of them foreign-owned. As a more senior researcher I now keep track of every penny in and out of my group, but many of my colleagues do not. And that's reasonable -- they effectively run small consulting shops with seven figure annual budgets and were never taught how to run a small business! Don't get me wrong, they should be way more serious about these things (and most people now realize this), but there's lots of failure to report that IMO doesn't rise to the level of fraud or criminal conspiracy.

- Forgetting to report larger funding streams (six figures/yr for multiple years, or any funding stream that adds up to more than maybe a half million) is either fraud or at least such inexcusable oversight that firing is perhaps not an unreasonable action.

- This all gets more complicated if the funding was received "on the side" (i.e., not through the university). Note: it is 100% Ok and even normal for professors to do consulting/advising on the side. To be clear, they still need to report this funding. But, again, it's super believable that someone could forget to report or not know they were supposed to report for a side gig.

- Similarly, this all gets more complicated if the funding was received many years ago and was not a huge sum. E.g., did I receive any money from <insert random European country> while doing my PhD or the first couple years afterward? No fucking clue, that entire time of life was a whirlwind and no one trained me to keep track of such things.
Sadly that's not the case in NY, where I live. I've tried calling my representatives to see if they can propose it for a national law, but I suspect COVID has put this on the backburner.
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> 3. Cancel print job

At this point, as user, you have usually lost the game. This can mean anything from: "The print job can't be cancelled/deleted." to "The PC will restart that job every time you restart the PC".
I downvoted you because you're wrong. There are strict rules to prevent foreign influence and these people didn't follow them.
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When I tried a couple weeks ago it didn't.
Fair enough, but with a name as generic as “proud boys” and given this same phrase is being used negatively to describe people who are actual patriots you can see the confusion. TIL “proud boys” is an actual, far right, org.
Don’t hot swap. Just don’t do it. 99.99% of us should never need to do it. Learn sound network topology and load balancer practices instead. Embedded? Your hardware documentation will tell you how to offload this problem to it. There’s no earthly reason for most of us to be learning this.
This must depend highly on where your calories come from, because for most people it really isn't that easy. Even bodybuilders will switch to liquid diets to try to pack that much away. If you're consuming lean protein, fibrous vegetables, nuts and pulses, 4000 calories in a sitting is far more difficult. Think of how many apples you can eat in a sitting, and consider that a single apple is 52 calories.
> Here you can do something even better: give these two options different types, this way not only it makes the code more explicit, it also means that it gets enforced by the compiler

Bool is also enforced by the compiler; adding ad-hoc types for things that have only two values is generally not something you should do without good reason. By the way, constructs like these are fairly common in Swift:

enum SearchType {
case literal
case regex
case extendedRegex
}

extension String {
func substring(matching needle: String, interpretedAs type: SearchType = .literal) -> Substring
}

which you'd use as something like

"foobar".substring(matching: "o*ba", interpretedAs: .regex) // "ooba"
Hmmm, I have more than one current project in pure ES5, as terrible as it is. I have one polyfill file with stuff like Object.keys and things that organically accumulated over time, and should probably be cleaned of obsolete nonsense but it's 6k LOC, and otherwise I need to remind myself to use my XHR abstraction, as I automatically still type stuff like "if xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status = 200" like a doofus... such is life in wart-land.

I will be happy when I leave wart-land, but only when I really leave wart-land, not when it's just "lipstick on the wart"-land.

Types and classes sound nice, but only if they really exist, and not as mere compiler advice. A type is really a memory shape/size/structure in compiled languages.

Ok, having said all of this heretical nonsense...

(and yes, I've used React, Vue, etc. I tend to like Mithril best, and avoid JSX as I've no problem with hyperscript, and have even made my own lousy reactive hyperscript that I don't use (lol) in favor of Mithril)

... i DO have to say that Typescript seems like a nice/useful tool for teams, were transpiling to be accepted for the project needs, after weighing the costs/needs.
I am recently rather fascinated by Svelte, and I'm mostly trying to break things and see what generated code looks like, etc.
I'll admit that ES3 get's a bit useless, hence the polyfill.
Minified JS with single-letter variables is usually a hoot to read.
The flip side is how Ford generates killer sales in China, China has the population of America in a single city, yet analysts look at a few recalls on a new model redesign and knock the shares down 50%

Common-sense fundamentals take a back seat to technical analysis and HFT algos these days
I always love these kind of sites/apps. Here’s my little masterpiece:

https://music-grid.surge.sh/#274-72-292-1168-2-584-130-1060-...
So it's not that delivery of the service would not scale, or that delivery of the service would somehow be impossible because of diversity in the population, but that a diverse population does not want to pay for the service?

Is this perhaps some sort of code for people of one ethnicity do not want to pay for people of another ethnicity? That seems to argue that because a political strategy of fostering ethnic hatred worked to shut down social programs then social programs do not work because different ethnic groups hate each other. Which is sort of like me saying because I scored a goal in the game you can see how trying to keep me from scoring goals is not going to work - might as well go home now and leave me the trophy.
It was last edited 3 years ago, but it was only a minor edit, most of the actual content is from 2014.
Many police departments have software that can identify people in crowds
Here is a brand new article reviewing conceptions of enlightenment. Very good:

Jacobs, B. J. (2020). Getting off the Wheel: A Conceptual History of the New Age Concept of Enlightenment. Numen, 67(4), 373-401.
That’s correct. I’m not worried about homicide as I am property crimes.

If a second virus wave hits and basic supplies are unavailable people may resort to crime. Weapons are intended to be a deterrent. I sincerely never want to use one.
During American Airlines 2011 bankruptcy and subsequent merger with US Airways. Creditors ended up getting paid in full and people who bought the stock for a few pennies made 40x on their investment.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/shares-of-bankrupt-american-air...
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One thing about California law. If you are terminated involuntarily (1), then you can do whatever you need to do to make a living. Build a competing product, hire your former co-workers, sell to your former customers, whatever. Your previous employer can't deny you future income, not one dime. (1)Involuntarily, except for cause, and those causes must be given in writing at the time you are hired.
Can we all please go back to Firefox?
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Chinese government has contributed to the largest concentration camp of muslims, the most death for Americans since Korean War, the loss of liberty for Hong Kong citizens and Tibetans.

And we're "racist" to hold them accountable??

I can't believe some of the stuff people are using to deflect blame from China and instead have us focus on some other non important things.
Yup. And it's one of the big reasons that Silicon Valley is a force in the world. Without the "Traitorous Eight" and the Fairchildren, things could have turned out very differently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
Are we now going to use the same policies attributed to a dictatorship? Moreover, there is no evidence that his is happening even there.
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The market for carshare ends up being an awkward market in the US.

Ride share solves urban car problems far better than the old taxi services — mostly problems around parking.

Carshare tries to solve the parking problem, but for long or complex urban trips, or trips involving city to suburbs and back.

But for longer trips in areas where parking isn’t a problem, carshare doesn’t add much compared to established rental car networks (or owning).
You’re misinformed about L1s

All L1 visas are internal transfers; they require extensive documentation of the role being performed outside the US for an extended period, and tie you to a specific set of responsibilities in the US; and they are not transferable once in the US - you can’t move to an L1 at another company, because you haven’t worked for that company outside the US. THe difference between a and b is just the kinds of roles that are eligible for transfer.

If you are on an L1 and you quit or are dismissed, you lose your immigration status and have to leave the US.
I’d recommend you learn to use Debian’s ecosystem for packaging and distribution. We build binary packages out of our source tree using dpkg-buildpackage and run our own organization of apt repositories managed by aptly. We control all of our own signing/key infrastructure and install that on machines just like the rest of the OS.
you might unlock another 9x and fix that crash by using copy to load your messages instead generating arbitrarily large insert statements, and maybe a little more still by using appropriate data types instead of text for identifiers and dates.
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Pretty much any keyboard without dedicated function keys, you press Fn+number. ErgoDox has similar, except fully configurable. I believe I have F11 and F12 on somemodifier+shift+1 and 2, too. (I personally use function keys so rarely I can't even remember how to type them on my ErgoDox.)
NIH grants go out to 300,000 people. Through some largely unclear process they picked 399 of them as "scientists of possible concern,"and further investigated 189 of them, 82% Asian.

Further, that quote suggests they were actively searching for Chinese backed offenders only, and had concluded that Asians are who should be targeted.

China has built a reputation that may make this targeting understandable. The US has also built a reputation of racial profiling, and their waving away of these claims should not be blindly accepted.
The danger is from group think, mostly.

A SARS virus was modified a few years ago in a study done at the NIH. The modification was done to target mice receptors to get the virus in the cells where they could replicate. What they created was basically a Covid19 for rodents. Still digging for the link.

Covid19 has fish DNA in it: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.29.925867v1..... Many Asians already have the anitbody for the sugars embedded on the lipid shell (not the spikes, which also have sugars on them). That fish DNA encodes the spikes (which it appears to be in SARS as well).

We've now confirmed that Asians are less affected then Whites, Blacks and Latinos by this disease, mostly due to ACE2 handling differences across the populations.
He is one of my favourite all time descenders on the road. Absolutely fearless and precise. I wish professional road cycling gave the discipline of descending the respect it deserves.
Think of it like being able to pull any function from a global scope. eg. var/const foo = require("bar") Its one gigantic standard library.
Plotting is a killer feature of Sage, IMO. It's a wrapper over matplotlib, and eliminates reams of boilerplate. In my experience, it's not just easier to use, but also easier to navigate the Sage docs than figure out the right way to do something in matplotlib.

I'm a weensy bit biased; I probably took part in conversations around the plotting interface as it was taking shape, and got familiar with that before learning matplotlib in earnest.
If you are perfectly content with your existence and your understanding of the "self", you do not need to pursue paths of meditation or enlightenment. One might think that you are being stubborn and egotistical by implying that you have everything figured out but those opinions don't matter. It is easier to live your life the way you want it individually but when you are part of a society, others expect you to behave in ways that might contradict your actions but that's just how the societal system works.

As to why others choose to seek the said "enlightenment" varies from person to person. Sometimes its hard to find meaning in your everyday life and you get stuck in existential angst and it is not easy to go on. There one find comfort in seeking the answers and meaning through western or eastern philosophies , through meditation, through religion, through community or whatever fits well to their sense of the world.

As the Easter Indic philosophy points out that the optimal and yet hardest path to "enlightenment" is not in abandonment of your responsibilites and an ascetic way of life but in the "middle" i.e. where you do your duty towards others in your everyday life while being aware of the the highest moral standards and doing your best to adhere to them (reflection of Stoicism here). I would assume this is something you believe you are already doing so cheers to that!
It seems technically valid (maybe?) but it's pretty hard to parse. You should at least add another word or two to indicate what it would deter.
I think you might be interested in a little language called Objective-C ;)
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To the author, if timestamp is only a timestamp, that will not guarantee uniqueness. It may be sufficient for your use case, but unless there are other constraints on your system design you may loose data (since they will be treated as duplicates and dropped).

If timestamps are just wall clock timestamps. You should be looking at the SQL type Timestamp (without timezones) as putting a primary key around text fields is not optimal. Not 100% on PostgreSQL, but I would look at moving timestamp to Timestamp and group to varchar.
Well I'm exhausted by UI/UX engineers oversimplifying things that are inherently complex. To the point to not really helping people simplifying their work and totally hindering advanced user. There is a reason industrial UI usually don't suffer this, because complex interfaces are there for a reason.

You know what else is "a UI space resource hog" on the web ? Advertising. And I'm sorry but "wasted" space is generally much bigger. So, no, I'm not ready to loose my address bar for bigger ads.
> Sure, but hospital requirements don't scale with area.

They absolutely do. How can you say the requirements of getting emergency response to a sparsely populated area is the same as a much smaller and more densely populated area? Getting a appropriate response times to cover the larger and more sparsely populated area is definitely going to be more costly and difficult.

>If the US had a horrible healthcare system in Alaska, and a great one in urban areas, maybe we wouldn't have this debate.

Actually yes healthcare in rural areas is significantly worse. Urban is not great, but that is not relevant to the point, also they are not disjoint systems they share significant funding. Saying urban US doesn't have great healthcare doesn't disprove the point that rural areas have higher healthcare costs and worse outcomes.

https://hpi.georgetown.edu/rural/#:~:text=The%20rural%20popu....
I've only heard of noncompete agreements being enforced out of spite against someone who has quit on bad terms, not because of a genuine interest for noncompetition.
Looking at the commit history, they've mostly added checks for edge cases: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-odd/commits/master

Which is, to be fair, exactly the reason you'd use a library like this.
That's politically tricky -- if the rank and file are paid less than government workers, then it's easy to make ad hominem attacks on the government employees for living a cushy life / excessive spending.
> Such actions have a tendency to back fire.

So this conclusion was drawn based on speculation that he was complacent person?

> FAANG engineers have grand startup plans but are comfortable with their jobs

In this case he got a job with another govt agency( Chinese ) so equivalent would be FANG engineers getting a job in another FANG company, which they do all the time.
Unfortunately there are people who misuse the "flagged" feature to suppress what they consider to be unpleasant opinions.
Remember when words meant things?
These are still tiny numbers. If you completely abandoned these groups (you definitely shouldn't), the US healthcare system would still be entirely broken.
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ES6 implies transpiling, or polyfilling, IF you want to support most browsers still currently used.

It seemed to me that the author was describing the (somewhat common?) practice of writing client code directly in ES5 and perhaps polyfilling any missing features for any targeted browsers that required specific fills.

I, personally, find ES6 to be ugly and requires me to pretend all sorts of things that are not true for the targeted runtime.
It's like a whole fake world, so I'll prefer to avoid it unless there's some obvious reason to use it, as in an existing front-end build toolchain and a spec to use ES6, etc.
Greenfield? I guess Svelte and such will use it, but if Typescripting, then one will just write Typescript, right?
I just wanted to quickly thank you people for making topics like this one widely discussed, so I can easily make a decision to blacklist that company as my future, potential employer, saving time for more reasonable options!
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> Seems like something the “greatest” or “richest” country should be able to figure out.

As soon as we figure out how calling yourself some superlative and speaking of your exceptionalism makes things happen, it probably will, yes.

> Are you suggesting the culture of rural Japan is the same one-size-fits-all as Tokyo?

Much, much, much, much more so than that of San Francisco vs rural Montana, yes. Is this really controversial?

The US culture is so fragmented that it matters what state you're in for plenty of things regarding taxes, laws, employment etc. That's unheard of in European countries.
Best available is not as effective as working from the worst case scenario assumption. Either the desease is not that bad or they didn't care. Wearing a mask and staying home is safer than doing none of that and continuing life as normal.
Is this article addressing a strawman? I certainly raised an eyebrow at their use of the name but is there actually a "controversy"? And if so, why not be similarly upset over YOLOv4? That edition confused me just as much as v5, given that neither one came from Reddie.
The 5 non-Vedantic schools were already on the decline long before foreign invasion. I attribute it largely to the Bhakti movement which sort of functioned as the popular wing to the intellectual Vedantic school, which had no parallel in the other Astika schools. Nyaya-Vaisesika arguably survived in the form of Navya Nyaya but never gained popular support while Sankhya-Yoga (and the Buddhist/Sramana milieu) had a lot of their concepts reincorporated into Advaita Vedanta. Mimamsa is completely extinct as far as I know except for perhaps the Srauta tradition in regions of South India. If you want to blame anything for the death of Indian philosophical tradition, blame the onslaught of Vedanta and their relentless arguments about self-god metaphysics for 1500 years.
You can criticize a language where it fails even if it is overall better than others.
I wonder how the naive timestamp approach works when multiple users are syncing at the same time?
The fundamental notion of contracts is, as they said, a meeting of the minds. "You do what I tell you or else" is pretty far from that.

Whether or not they're "inherently" unethical is a matter for philosophers. But in practice, they're clearly used heavily as an anticompetitive measure and to exploit labor. Those are definitely unethical, and contrary to free markets.

Your last line is willfully blind to labor history. Quite a lot of employers have done their best to make sure other options are limited. Employers definitionally have a huge power advantage, and there's nothing wrong with leveling the playing field to prevent exploitation.
This is incorrect, non-competes in South Africa (I got advice on it once for a gig there) are enforcable is they are reasonable.

For example, if the company pays you your old salary for a year after you leave, the non-compete with be enforceable.

If they just part ways with no reasonable exchange of value for the non-compete period, all you have to claim is this is how you make your crust.

Those folk have a serious legal consititution.
> to maintain their own rendering engines and browsers instead of just skinning Chromium.

If just rendering engine (but not a browser) then Sciter will qualify I think too. And it is not derived from any others.
But it is all about making you no compete without paying you.

Company could for example still keep you hired for that time, without requiring you to perform any work for them. I don't believe non-compete ban would apply for that time, since you are technically still their employee so you still have your responsibilities as long as you are being paid.