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That fact that animals end up with plastic in their digestive systems is quite uncontroversially a terrible thing, wouldn't you agree? I can't elaborate on the potential biodiversity collapse, as I didn't make that comment.

Edit: Clearly I just gave the easiest example, not the most relevant one. A basic Google search points to [1], for instance, where you find observations such as

If algae and plankton communities are threatened, the entire food web may change. Animals that feed on algae and plankton, such as fish and turtles, will have less food. If populations of those animals decrease, there will be less food for apex predators such as tuna, sharks, and whales. Eventually, seafood becomes less available and more expensive for people.

These dangers are compounded by the fact that plastics both leach out and absorb harmful pollutants. As plastics break down through photodegradation, they leach out colorants and chemicals, such as bisphenol A (BPA), that have been linked to environmental and health problems. Conversely, plastics can also absorb pollutants, such as PCBs, from the seawater. These chemicals can then enter the food chain when consumed by marine life.

So, I frankly haven't carefully looked into the prospects of "biodiversity collapse", but even that stark term sounds justified. Surely another terrible thing, in any event.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacifi...
> Do you feel that that addresses your concerns?

Many of the responses critical of his decision seem to read as "Here's reason X that his decision is non-sensical, and I didn't read the actual link where he clearly and reasonably addresses reason X."
I absolutely did not enjoy reading Kafka, but I get the importance of the work, and I think about it constantly.
I love the direct admission that one lives in a bubble.
Unbelievable how naked the anti-immigrant sentiment from you and numerous other commenters. I'm honestly shocked.
Really? What have they lost in this theft? The electricity needed to run the server serving the request?
Basically you state that it isnt donation but payment for gig. Which would apply to github "donations" as well, they arent donations but payment for the open source work.

Finnish peoples problem isnt the laws, but the fact that they are total pussies when it comes intrepreting the law.
> There's an alt right author called Vox Day

Went down a strange rabbit hole there for a while this morning after reading this. Ready to come back up for air now and put that behind me a while.
Many tech companies that can afford having a sizable foreign workforce, and thus the (supposedly) culprits of whatever issue the Trump administration is trying to curb with this, do: https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2019-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.asp...

I work for a large tech company (not FAANG), am a visa holder myself. If the Trump administration wanted to go against the actual issue, they would take on the obvious abusers, i.e. consultancy companies. Instead, they chose to leave thousands of high skilled workers on the limbo.
"All of this works because I spent years and years honing my craft and producing software that is truly useful. I’ve poured everything I have into that work, and there are no shortcuts there."

This reminds me of Steve Martin's, "You Can Be a Millionaire ... and Never Pay Taxes":

“You say, ‘Steve, how can I be a millionaire and never pay taxes?’”

“OK first,” he explains, “get a million dollars.”
from the article, apparently Wayland display servers already support multi-touch gestures.
Police unions are almost all terrible. Seattle kicked their police union out of the local labor council, and it would be great to see more cities do the same.
One of my best CFIs is a Director of Hardware at a startup in the Bay, so that's music to my ears.

I have an IPC coming up, if he can't make it, and you're a CFII, and in the Bay Area, I might want to look you up. Anyway to find you?
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Or - and this is just crazy talk, I know - hire some Americans that have been laid off due to COVID?

I'm not even American but let's be honest about H1B - it's 10% best and brightest and 90% wage suppression.
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> What is also funny is that settled immigrants often have more right-wing views about immigration than people born into that society.

> This doesn't appear to happen in the US

Yes, it does. It may happen significantly less in communities where the immigrants, their descendants, and others of their ethnicity are targeted, without selectivity by immigration status, for bigotry, including the highly visible Latino/Latina community (though, even there it still is a recognized and not uncommon phenomenon.)

It definitely happens among White European immigrants.

> It seems very odd to say limiting immigration is white supremacy.

Limiting immigration isn't, inherently, white supremacy.

But the people pushing it hardest in the US are, quite overtly, also pushing White supremacy and courting and excusing White supremacists.

> The US has a huge illegal immigration problem

The United States has had net negative illegal immigration for over decade, and the gross level has been in decline, too. It does not have a “huge illegal immigration problem”. And the illegal immigration problem it does have is in significant part because of stupid features of it's immigration system, like per country caps on top of per category caps, which creates decades long backlogs for legal immigration from countries with large numbers of prospective immigrants meeting individual qualifications, and stupid features of it's domestic policy that intersect with immigration policy, like the war on drugs and the resultant exportation of hardened, long-term US resident gang members to Central America that have contributed to the violence and refugee crises there.
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It is indeed disingenuous, but that's exactly how "black lives matter" sounds to many.

Lack of police accountability and oversight is the problem - regardless of color combinations of the murder and the victim.
A lot of people who are not particularly computer literate do not really grasp the difference between the web, the browser, and the search engine. Generally it's all just "the google" or similar. At least from my limited tech support experience.
Is that a microwave cannon? What happens if people don't move?
It's not a race thing, it's a money thing. The U. S. cotton agriculture workers don't want to work for nothing so they import Africans.
You can exclude the first $107.6k/year from US taxes.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
I'm wondering how self-hosted solutions like Matomo will be treated?
Given Go was developed by Google to solve Google problems I would err on the side of no.
There are lossless versions of PNG, BPF and there is also a lossless JPEG enhancement.
>I have worked with Indian subcontractors that have waited 20 years!

And you think this suspension will help them?
Funny how you ask if it's meant to be constructive in a totally unconstructive comment!
Also the invite-only beta thing that was being talked about on Twitter in a way to make it #mysterious
Related to J1 visas, in my area they are used extensively to fill seasonal openings at resorts.

A large proportion of the workforce is east European college students, working 2, maybe 3 jobs, over the summer.
Thank you, you have helped to make it more clear for me!
This is a nonsensical question. How does one measure "corruption" and how do you quantify it?

IMO these sorts of questions are kneejerk reactions without any significant fore- or after-thought. They only serve to disrupt the conversation.
A woman was killed by a pepper bullet in Boston in '04, when it missed its intended target and struck her in the eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Victoria_Snelgrove
To be fair, all systems can be (and are) criticised.
Also using a Pixelbook here. Interestingly last time I had to reboot for update it spent a long time reprogramming the firmware in the touchpad. I wonder if this means that Google develops the touchpad firmware or if they just ship vendor firmware. Either way, I agree it works perfectly and the correspondence between my gesture and the animation of the display is perfect.
I think they may have been thinking of just blurring rather than actually lowering the amount of pixels. A Gaussian blur doesn't really remove as much information as you might expect. Although it's very sensitive to noise.
I for myself, coming from a privileged situation wonder if 500$/yr would be worth it for me.

Do calling it "work" it is too little. Won't pay the time spent on a job.

At the same time it is an amount of money, causing responsibility. Giving the feeling that one has to return something for it ...

So how does at affect your fun-level?
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>It still serves to support the point quite clearly that police are not to be feared as much as criminals, even if you're black.

As you point out yourself, it doesn't necessarily if you consider the average black person. The average black person is not a gang member, not a criminal and doesn't hang out with those groups. It may very well be that for such a person the police are a bigger risk than criminals. It's simply that the massively higher violence amongst criminals shifts the overall numbers.
Superhuman is supposed to be for business but it doesn't do encryption?
I think it would be ridiculous to attribute your performance to generalized guesses at work ethic across entire nations and their extremely heterogeneous education systems, yes.
If there are large spreadsheets documenting this, I would be interested in seeing some sources on this. Could you please provide some?
And what is your evidence of that?
I don't know if this is valid or true, but I sometimes think that the 1990s through early 2000s pop culture depiction of black culture embedded itself strongly in the psyche of many white Americans. It sounds silly to say that gangster rap, and The Wire, and such things are responsible for racial stereotypes, but for many of my white friends, I think this is absolutely true. One sad part of this is that some of the most well-known, financially successful black Americans came out of this environment, either real, or pretended in order to sell entertainment (and make a lot of money).
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The NYTs is also known to hassle subscribers who want to unsubscribe. The only reason a company would do that is because they know some people will give up, effectively disenfranchising them.
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Yeah. Maybe the root cause here is how to interpret 'absolutely necessary'. It's clear, however, that the police interpretation is overly broad, and they cannot be trusted to deploy these in the emergencies that might warrant them.
Just a hunch but the overlap between the group that abhorred the Cotton editorial and the group that is against doxxing is probably pretty small.

I understand you are in it, but not many people are, I would wager.
IANAL (anywhere), but when you sponsor someone you're listed as a sponsor. I'd say that social credit has some intrinsic value.
Any benefit you have will be short term. In the longer term software projects will move to countries where the talent pool is.

A lot of companies are hiring in Vancouver, Canada for example [1]. If you are a software engineer you want the software industry to grow where you live. Restricting immigration is not how you do that!

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/prope...
They would link against, say, OpenGL. The emulator wouldn’t emulate the x86 OpenGL, but call ARM OpenGL.

If Apple wants to, they could even support selected third-party libraries that way.
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If transparency was the main issue, adding transparency to JPEG sounds easier than coming up with a completely new encoding, especially a lossy one.
> ease of use and discoverability

Good point. It’s like post-Jobs Apple has forgotten that design is not how it looks, but how it works.

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, “Make it look good!” That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” - Steve Jobs

https://quotesondesign.com/steve-jobs/
The touchpads on Macs are, in my opinion, one of the biggest advantages they have. It's not just multitouch, it's also the sensitivity, the clarity between clicks and scrolling, and the general responsiveness of it. Force clicks are one exception: when I force click it's almost always by accident and I have never found a situation where force click was tied to useful functionality.
Could use some linear algebra terms. Pivot? Eigen? Nullspace? Kernel? Determinant? Trace?
Yeah, we have an active person in the Sandstorm community from Finland who maintains Wekan[1]. I didn't previously know the specifics, but he's had to tell a lot of people "sorry, I can't accept donations" too.

It's so much easier in the US. If you're an individual it's going to be taxable income, but there's no up-front paperwork to do (for that matter, you don't have to "set up" a sole proprietorship here either -- that's just what the tax code calls "some rando doing business by themself"). I've done contract work for years, have a bit of my income coming in through GitHub sponsors now.

Now, if we could only get health care covered for folks who don't have an employer...

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> I host a free project myself and I've had to set up a business (sole proprietorship) and sell things in order to get money for server costs.

What's your side project? Speaking of Sandstorm, I'm wondering if it might be relevant; dealing with the problem of developers needing to monetize things in order to cover hosting costs was one of the motivations for the project:

https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-apps-re...

[1]: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/
By using his real name, readers who know that name can get more out of the article. Imagine if he is actually a state senator, or a minor celebrity. The reporter here isn't doing the difficult calculus of "does revealing his name do more good than harm" but is instead relying on company policy. Alternatively the reporter has done the calculus and are using policy as a shield. "Nothing personal, it's just business"
“When force is absolutely necessary” generally means a life-and-death situation, where police are going to use deadly force anyway.
It kind of is an unbelievable concentration except in certain exceptional circumstances. A 0.1% concentration by weight for just the first 30 cm of topsoil would require about 5 tons of microplastics per hectare (or about 2 tons per acre). That's a lot of microplastics. It would be the equivalent of about 52 plastic water bottles per square meter. Unless the farm is on an extremely mismanaged landfill, I don't think that kind of concentration is likely.

Edit: I'm not saying microplastics aren't a problem, they're just not likely much of a problem specifically for agricultural yields.
I've seen this a lot. People who've been on the team a while are happy at getting work done without interruptions. Many of the interruptions are actually important things like helping to onboard new team members.

I'm really bad at asking for help but if I had my time again I'd make sure your talks with managers are regular. If you are supposed to be working on a project make sure you ask which tests cover that area. You should ask to see the desktop of someone in your team how they work, how they navigate around the system and how they would add the functionality you're trying to do.
The bar for proving that "America is run by white supremacists" needs to be a lot higher than, one guy in the white house reads a blog.
This is something I’ve been working on the side for over a decade. A big part of the hurdle is in technologies. Just not there in terms of achieving this in a usable format.
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I mean, it's amusing, but the face is not aligned the same as the training data so what would you expect?
Thanks for this. Without accessing the API oneself, it’s currently pretty difficult to find examples of its output that one can be sure aren’t cherry-picked or “cleaned up”
I'm sure that helpful for the person getting stabbed, that the people who failed them had some marginally better numbers than their American counter-part.

It's pretty binary, either you do a good job of keeping people safe, or you give them the option of doing it themselves at an affordable price.

The US offers the latter, the British fails at both.

Compare violent assaults with serious medical injuries in the UK with say Japan or Singapore. Those are the numbers you need to acquire before removing peoples options of self-defense.
> It is completely irrelevant

It's irrelevant to the real issue, but not to the upthread claim that blacks view police as the greatest threat. In the latter context, it is not irrelevant to point out that such a view does not seem to be in line with the evidence.
No, because they're countries. Who deals with an international incident caused by the NYPD?
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while you make some good points, your intent seems to be "america first", which often veils less egalitarian aims (not implying that of you specifically however).

i'd rather advocate "innovation first", and the "america first" part will follow, but without the discriminatory baggage.

personally, i think we should abolish h1b's in favor of wider, streamlined immigration. bring all the innovators here, up and down the income spectrum. open labor markets and let them work to sort out value and allocation, rather than restricting them through political means and effectively only allowing large companies to take advantage of the arbitrage of all that.

that would actually make america great again.
> Having said that, the story from the OP does not add up: you don't need to renew the visa stamp to stay in the country. The stamp is for crossing the border.

My story does add up. We needed to leave the U.S. to visit China, and we also visit Canada sometimes, hence necessitating the stamping process to take place at a U.S. Consulate in China. And it was this process that ended up being indeed a massive hurdle. In fact, so massive it is a major part of what kept my fiancee from returning. This is one of the cruxes of the story.
That might indeed be true, but it can probably be detrimental to the software industry as a whole. I think at least basic coding experience is needed to plan architecture and design maintainable software to start with. Especially for getting experience for the viability of available solutions.

I have seen more software projects fail because of over-engineering for alleged maintainability, extensibility and a too generic design. Some would say that violates KISS. Many have shifted to more iterative development, which doesn't exclude the need for a solid architecture and extendable software, but it can improve time to an MVP. Quality can suffer, but you also gain experience.

Business logic can be as complex as you want. In fact one of the highest paid field resolves around optimizations in this particular field. SAP is an example here but there are others. "Cubing" data on your normal business data server isn't trivial, but allows to answer questions about trends management is very interested in and they have all the money bags.

Still, developers aren't payed that badly to be honest and you have options to reduce your workload, so that you don't end up with 60h work weeks or regular crunch. Projects might take as long as some unrelated airports in some setups I guess. If you code in a quiet smaller city, you can kiss 6 figures goodbye of course, but in many cases you are the best paid person in the room.
Switch to renewables, then lobby for a carbon tax to crush competitors that haven't switched or can't afford the transition.
> ...NYT is fast becoming a fact free propaganda horn.

The Trump Curse in action! "Fake News Media", indeed.
Just to be clear, I did not mean to imply in any way that bad actors do not exist, only that the article didn't focus on any.
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Sell licenses. People can buy a licensed version of your project. It's exactly the same as the free version, but it comes with a different licence.txt (which allows the purchaser to say that they supported you).

If you're not allowed to sell copyright licenses in Finland, then your whole software business is screwed.
I think protestors should be able to be armed with whatever police are. If they're alright firing it at someone they should be alright getting hit by it.

This would be really cool because it would turn protests into paintball matches. Show the police that the citizens have the numbers and with equal weaponry they would be overpowered. Remind them who they answer to.

Another thing, somewhat of an extension of the first, is that any less-lethal weapon the police carry for use on protestors should be legal to every day carry. I carry a pocket knife (legal in California) for emergencies. I really don't want to stab someone and deal with blood. It is illegal to carry a ton of less lethal alternatives like blackjacks, clubs, or batons. That has always struck me as strange. I'd much rather give someone a few bruises if it comes down to it.
All the h1b salary data is public. If you search any of the Faang companies, the salaries seem in line with market rates. I would also love to see a study that shows otherwise.
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It just sounds like a PR stunt. They already have data centers which are under scrutiny for energy use and reducing packaging helps their bottom line as well. That's why I say it's 'spare change' for them.
One mnemonic that stuck with me: you can remember the start and end characters (/^foo$/) by imagining an animal, like a rhino: the ^ is the horn at the front, the $ is the long curvy tail at the end.
Or how to distract users with flashy animations that are fun to make?
Even if you view it cynically this is a smart plan. It's good PR, and they've got a better foot in the door for when those climate tech companies start getting a bunch more customers. And one way or another they're likely to start getting more customers, whether it's proactive or reactive.
> review and approval are done by poorly trained contractors

That's the "middle ground" scenario that isn't true for either side. Apple does directly hire employees to do this, so their policies and rules are often the pain point. Google doesn't hire anyone - they have the team that runs the approval systems and will review certain extensions, but it's completely automated for 99% of all cases.

The only people that probably do use contractors are Amazon for their Alexa skills and Kindle apps.
It’s child abuse, but it’s so much worse, which is corrupt child abuse. There’s a multi-office institution which has structured itself to say — hit a kid, make the justification happen. Consider that they’ve got underage kids in the police station without access to parents or lawyers. No charges would ever stick from that, but you sure as hell would cover your ass for that whole running over a kid thing.
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If nothing else, it's a size win. These libraries serve no purpose with a prebuilt dyld cache, so you'd be paying to download /  would be paying to upload them to every customer for no good reason.
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Different systems. LRAD is acoustic, ADS is radio frequency heating.