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So at least park of the justification here is that we have to comply with Americas foreign policy?
Don't forget about the prison population and the prison industrial complex in the US
Millions using ‘fake’ versions WhatsApp that could let hackers read your texts
Come on people, it is Douglas Adams. You don't read Douglas Adams and think, "Well, technically..."!
True but you can't talk about one without the other.

Young journalists have to be active on it in order to establish themselves. But by being active they're overexposed to it.

In theory, you can both be there and keep it in perspective: to know it's a dirty pub for angry people and robots to yell at each other, that doesn't represent the real world.

But that's hard, and not everyone can do it long-term, especially when more and more people around you spend a lot of time in the same fun house.
Ever volunteered to help a tech startup?
What started as a project to rescue our tech startups when Covid 19 hit, we are looking at creating a Volunteer Market Place for tech startups.

Everyone's familiar with UpWork, Fiverr and Freelancer. Their business model is proven.

But what about a similar place where people give their time to help a bootstrapped tech startup?

Do you think this has legs?

We trialled with 20 tech startups and 100 volunteers. All startups are from the UK right now. 90% of volunteers are from UK as well, but there are few from the USA, Sri Lanka and Australia.

Keen to understand whether it's possible to build tech companies, especially pre-investment with employees, contractors and volunteers.

Thanks, Manoj
Both dishonorably discharged, which has consequences in later life not unakin to a felony conviction, and also renders post-separation benefits null and void. One also served a few months prison time. If you want to argue it's not enough, fine. But to claim they faced no consequences whatsoever is substantively false to fact.
> Wow all my US expat friends who constantly complain about having to pay US taxes despite living here in the UK must have things totally wrong then.

If you are a US citizen, you are expected to pay a certain amount of US taxes even while living abroad. Presumably, this is because you still benefit from bring US citizen while living abroad.

> No it's racist to ignore the injustices we commit in the west while condemning Asian countries for doing the same thing with different branding.

No, that's hypocrisy, which is a totally different thing from racism.
The date is a compromise between security concerns from the government and its allies, and business concerns from telcos that have already shelled out the cash to buy Huawei infrastructure.
Your link looks scary.
The long quest to stop a judge
Some of my GPT-2 experiments
> the software has a bad config and skips the VPN and uses your actual connection

Just stuff it into a separate network namespace. It's easy to do with firejail, but can also be done manually (firejail automatically configures the IP address, the routing table, and so on.)

$ cat /etc/firejail/qbittorrent.local

net enp3s0
ip 192.168.100.201
dns 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1
The thing with tests is that the effect is indirect, and you won't really realize how much time is not wasted down the line.

That time could apply to your whole department / the people you work with. In worst cases, that time is saved by there not being a rewrite of the application down the line.

(disclaimer: I'm currently rebuilding an application because the existing codebase is a mess, a web-based UI built in mid-2000's technology in the 2010's by a C developer who never seems to have learned basic code quality / craftsmanship or web development practices. It can probably be salvaged but it'd a lot of work (160KLOC) with little gains compared to rebuilding it in a modern stack)
> Would they have removed most of the fuel

Low fuel is more dangerous than high fuel. Most Navy fuels will put out low temperature fires on contact - the ignition hazard is from the fumes. A mostly empty fuel tank full of vapors is easier to catch fire and more explosive when it does.

> I have none of the knowledge and all of the curiosity about at what point is it cheaper to just commission a new one.

it is almost certainly cheaper to decommission if all you consider dollar cost. however, there are concurrent concerns about fleet readiness that may outweigh some dollar differential.
No, I mean something else. The situations of:

A: "Nobody is saying X!"
B: "This person here is saying X, I am getting tons of messages to that effect!"
A: "These are just trolls! It is all ironical and they dont count!"

If you are invested in people claiming X is not existing or not an issue, then it is comfortable to pretend that anyone who say X is a troll. But often they are not. They are expressing their opinions or are trying push others toward that opinion.

That part of about people who will insist that someone is troll to stop discussion, because they dont like the discussion against said person. It was not meant to be about people who simply do not cared about the whole thing, decided this is not the case where they will join the argument.

I am definitely not saying that everyone must join every single argument or outraged group on the internet.
Any kind of guild or central body like that would be a political target and pressure group football.
I think many educated people cognitively "know" this, or at least have heard it from somewhere. But I also think that the majority of people, educated or not, don't feel this in their actual lived experience. Your brain does a good job of telling you that what you see is what is.
> Wow all my US expat friends who constantly complain about having to pay US taxes despite living here in the UK must have things totally wrong then.

This is not the same as being physically restrained from leaving, and they would find these stop if they renounce US citizenship.

> The argument isn't "China is good actually." It's "We do most of the same stuff you are accusing them of."

But we don't, neither to the same scale nor intensity.

It's not racist to criticise the actions of another country, even if your own isn't perfect. You can criticise both, and you can call out which is worse.

In this case it is the undemocratic nation suppressing speech and political expression, while commiting racist, demographic genocide within its own borders.
Brilliant! I suspect this might help me remember the Box--Muller transform, which would be even better than relying on the CLT!
If you didn't know much about these frameworks I don't think this article tells you anything useful.

If you did, I don't think this article tells you anything...
Yup, sounds like the "not invented here" adage; it's good that there's multiple ways that the same concept is explained.

Of course, as a developer you need to know tools exist and how you can use them to solve a specific problem, and to have the patience to not go coding right away but do a bit of research first.
It would really be incredible if Apple devices were the only device with unbreakable glass screens. That's why phone cases are ubiquitous. Why should they pay for your negligence? You might have a point if they refused to replace the screen at your cost.
> I feel like that would be a rare soul these days.

Remember, there's a big selection bias on that impression.

After all, the people who think it's none of their business if X at work is sleeping on the job don't post about it on social media.
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Quick Heal launches next-generation suite of cybersecurity solutions
There is a much simpler solution. Obviously people want their "0.01" coin, so we should instead envalue the currency. Cancel the dollar, make dollar2.0 which is exactly 10 times as valuable and done. You eliminate everything below 10cents effectively, the metal industry is happy to supply material for new coins, coin collectors are happy to get new coins, banks are delighted to make a bit of profit skimming a few dollars off people's accounts when converting their currency in their databases, everybody[1] wins!

[1] for some fraction of "everybody"
Seems like at least one company solved this problem. I have Asus TUF monitor (I don't remember exact model, but they should be similar) and LED indicator is almost unnoticable at night, but enough to see if the monitor is on.

[0] https://www.pcomp3000.pl/images/produkty/Monitory_32/VG32VQ/... (I couldn't find higher resolution image, the indicator is on the bottom right)
The UK left the EU so now it has no option but to be a big guy's bitch because it is too weak to face them by itself, and it has always been quite obvious that it would be a satellite of the US.

This is not the same situation for the EU.
Yes it wrong. But we aren't punishing africa for their genocide of muslims and christians and we arent doing it our own ally israel. So isn't it a bit weird that its mentioned with china every other day? Do you know what they call concentration camps in israel? The gaza strip.
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> I’ve yet to find a service that saves 5 hours per week per employee. How do I estimate the actual savings in time?

Sure you have, albeit by another name likely.

GitHub/Gitlab as a service easily saves more than 5hrs a week.

I have custom slack bots that easily save me a couple hours a week in aggregate.

Then there’s services such as managed CI or, heck even things like the “search” function on a wiki, those are all things that can be provided by a service.

But a tool like this will show you much much it might be worth investing in a service vs hiring someone dedicated and running something yourself.

> Work expands to fill available time. Will my employee use that time to the company’s advantage?

There’s two points to this argument;

1) if I save an employee time, what value does that give me?

2) if I’m an employee, and efficiency is improved; I still have to be in the office 9hrs per day.

The first argument is at odds with the notion that most knowledge worker jobs tend to only be around 40% productive.[0]

There’s no evidence that it goes lower than that; most of the reasons that percentage is so low, though, is friction. Friction can take many forms such as a bureaucratic process for approvals to change things- all the way to “needing to talk to that one guy who knows the thing, and teams is having an outage”. It’s hard to quantify, but there are so many frictions and there is evidence to suggest that removing these frictions increases productivity, not lessens it. (To a value of 80% which represents a significant increase).

(I will supply citations when I get to my pc, this comment is from a phone)

Problem 2 goes into the expectation that if you’re in the office you must be busy- there’s no value to you the employee of the company gets more efficient! Except obviously that’s not true in a more macro sense; I wouldn’t argue that. I would instead argue that the feeling of empowerment that comes with doing actual work and not busywork will make people more engaged and not less.

You wouldn’t feel motivated in your job if you had to assemble your chair each time you wanted to sit in it, it would be tedious and not challenging and certainly cause you to mentally check out.

[0]: https://talentculture.com/how-knowledge-workers-really-spend...
Regarding your first point, yes, that’s an interesting take. Regarding the criticism of the US, yes you’re probably correct, but this is a “what about” argument that doesn’t really aid the discussion in my opinion.
Unless the response to, or impact of, Covid-19 leads to exogenous circumstances (e.g. massive global economic depression, unprecedented levels of global political coordination resulting in aggressive carbon emissions reduction targets, etc.) that somehow transform the travel landscape, I would expect existing trends to resume once the Covid-19 situation resolves.

Assuming we get back to “normal” in the next year or so, it seems to me that, with regard to business travel specifically, there’s a tension at play between technology that increasingly enables asynchronous, location-independent collaboration and increasing global economic integration as new markets enter the fray.
Is that to avoid the FOUC?
A big function that universities play is circumventing some arguably bad interpretations of labor law. In the United States, it is essentially illegal to hire based on the results of an intelligence test. This is the result of various cases interpreting and applying the disparate impact doctrine.
But no one bats an eye when you send your recruiters to only the "elite" universities or when your company is overwhelmingly staffed with top-20-university graduates and won't even consider the applications of people from "lesser" schools. That's despite the fact that which university you attend is largely a function of your SAT score (and to a lesser degree, your grades), an intelligence test.

No one looks at Harvard on your resume and thinks "they must have learned so much at Harvard". The thought is laughably absurd. It's not that someone can't learn something at Harvard, it's that everyone knows Harvard academic rigor is a joke and you can just as easily party your way through 4 years and graduate with a B+ average. They think "they got into Harvard, so they must be smart". The most important department at Harvard is the admissions department.

This strange power is then abused for the sake of funding the institution, pursuing its political goals, etc. Donor's children get preference. Politically-favored groups get preference. Applicants who signal that they share certain views get preference. I'm sure the motives are often quite noble, but it is corrupting nonetheless I think. They are just counting on the fact that it's still worth treating a Harvard degree as a proxy of intelligence despite the fudging they do at the edges.
Is SEV really a "breakthrough technology"? AMD was far from the first to do this, and you have to trust AMD to have implemented this correctly and not be backdoored or cooperating with the US government to believe it's really secure.
I'd really love to know if the individual asking the question is still with Apple. I'd also love to know what he thinks of the company now.
I sleep with a fan at night - when my fan from college finally died after a decade of use, I replaced it with a similar tower fan. It had a nice speed, timer function that went long enough for me to use the auto-shutoff as an alarm clock to avoid being jarred awake by an actual alarm. Oh, and it also had

FIVE, HUGE, BRIGHT BLUE LEDS WHICH WERE ON CONSTANTLY WHEN IT WAS RUNNING.

What idiot thought this was a good idea? Oh, and snipping them from the circuit also made sure the fan wouldn't work in high speed for some reason. So I had to solder a piece of wire from one end of the removed leds to the other.
The first thing I usually do in a Hotel room is to unplug the TV.

What drives me really crazy is that lately there seems to be a trend to have smoke detectors with regularly blinking LEDs above the bed in Hotel rooms. I make sure I always have some stickers with me when I go to Hotels, but I find it really hard to understand how anyone could think this is a good idea or even acceptable...
I think you should just go for it - many gliding clubs have introductory or passenger flight options. I flew gliders for a few years and it's really wonderful - it's very quiet and the view is fantastic. Landing is suprisingly easy most of the time - when people fly "cross-country" (long distances, away from airfields) it's actually common procedure to "land out". Which is basically the same as an emergency landing (e.g. in a farmer's field) but much less stressful because gliders are actually designed to fly well without a functioning engine.
Volunteer in the UK is defined as someone not gaining financially as well as from a benefit in kind.

Share options and warrants fall under benefit in kind.
Different != Improper.

They're not perfect, but over the last 30 years they lifted half a billion out of poverty and didn't wage war all over the world.

Not everything needs to be wrapped in our style of propaganda, sometimes it can be wrapped in other brands instead.
Exciting is also a confusing property for me.

AWS has offered a superset of services beyond what I or colleagues have ever been able to apply.
It'll usually change if you power cycle your modem.
Google offers data pledge in bid to win EU okay for Fitbit buy
Not sure about the fuel, but the hold was almost certainly empty. When I was onboard one of these while it was in port in Japan the hold was empty. I think since these are typically used to transport Marines they are empty until they need to take Marines somewhere.
Creating and deploying a Symfony 4/5 application on AWS
I see the challenge is that in addition to traditional methods of effective pedagogy, a teacher for today must also be adept at running a broadcast studio in order to be effective.
>We can thank the Sub-Penny Pricing Rule of Regulation NMS for this feature

Are you sure? I did a quick search and came up with this

>One of the rules in Regulation NMS is a new Sub-Penny Rule: “which establishes a uniform quoting increment of no less than one penny for quotations in NMS stocks equal to or greater than $1.00 per share to promote greater price transparency and consistency. . . . In particular, Rule 612 addresses the practice of “stepping ahead” of displayed limit orders by trivial amounts. It therefore should further encourage the display of limit orders and improve the depth and liquidity of trading in NMS stocks.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/sub-penny-pricin...

which suggests the opposite of what you're claiming. Also, I'm not sure how you'd even make money this way, considering that NBBO requires brokers to execute their customer's trades at the best available price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_best_bid_and_offer
In that instance you can. What is also nice though is if you have a custom domain, you can set the custom domain to do the same thing AND have an alias.

So for me, I have a few emails in my custom domain:

{firstname}@example.com

market@example.com

(there's others, but it's not relavent to this discussion).

market@example.com just goes straight to spam, as I don't use that email for anything. foo@market.example.com is used for each email instance. It works out extremely well.
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Ask HN: What would you do if you had 6 months off to transition to a new career?
In January of next year, I’ll be 6 months away from getting out of the Navy, which means I’m eligible to participate in the Department of Defense transition program known as SkillBridge. SkillBridge allows military members the opportunity to arrange their own full-time internship with a company or organization anywhere in the US. I still get paid by the Navy, and the company I work for gets free labor and a chance to help a veteran, so it’s a win-win for all parties.

Some friends of mine decided to pursue competitive veteran internship programs at places like Goldman Sachs and FaceBook, which often turn into full-time positions. Another one of my friends decided to do something less rigorous and more interesting, and went to work for a farm for a few months. Right now, I’m leaning towards joining a startup to gain some operational experience at a faster pace than I’m used to in the military/government.

Looking back on your careers in technology, business, engineering, etc., what would you do if you had an opportunity like this?
I have put black masking tape over so many LEDs in my life. Often more than one layer. Once I can no longer see them lighting up the nearby environment when the lights are off, I am done.
This. The risk calculations can be quite scary and people's responses to them can be poor given a powerful human dislike of uncertainty.

Consider a totally fabricated and naive example of finding a minor aneurysm with a 0.1% annual risk of rupture versus a 10% risk of death during surgery.. there are many people who would take the surgery to remove the uncertainty. (And this is a highly contrived example, real life is far more complicated!)
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Granted, this was in the 40's, but they even raised most of the sunk boats in pearl harbor and rebuilt them after the attack [0].

[0]: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2012/1207/Pea...
I think they mean you are finding better wine in boxes. Like canned beer (also good for boats). It used to be a sign of cheap stuff, now you can find craft beer in cans.
Yes. The point is not to hurt your own civilians, aka civilization. I don't even understand why you question that.

Our credit system is bad and theirs is worst. Next topic?

They can at any point renounce their citizenship, but they don't and continue to pay their taxes.

I grew up with cultural values, and I don't like the Chinese ones. Does that mean the US is perfect? Of course not.

Whataboutism is cushioning the evil creeping, instead of trying to stop the incoming flood, you're busy mopping up the puddle.
> time spent wrangling the finance department

Oh god, those cases when you'd love to try some tool or increase the plan to go over an auditing line but no-one has the energy to push it through the bureaucracy
What makes you think he’s American?
You're right about back doors, but this is about (like it or not) supporting the US and sanctioning China without saying so (likely a good think because of coronavirus, HK, minorities, democracy, etc).
Super helpful - thank you! IIS / containerized .NET apps that may be optimized in Azure is compelling.
Indian consumers lucrative target for cybercriminals
The point of LXD is the multi host clustering. So, if you don't need that, yes, there are simpler solutions.
Good point. Binary money is ideal.

But you can get arrested (or shot if Black) for trying to spend a two dollar bill in America.

Man arrested for using $2 bills at Best Buy - clip from The Two Dollar Bill Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3yjfefUD8

A $2 Bill At Taco Bell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbp-UyLH2ng

Police Involved After Student Tries To Buy Lunch With $2 Bill

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/05/04/pol...
I either go back to sleep (relatively easy because I'm still sleepy) or struggle until I wake (harder because struggling makes you panic more).

Once I managed to wiggle my pinky against my wife and she realized what was happening and woke me up fully.
> I only graduated a couple of years ago so inflation is negligible.

If only inflation were the only thing driving the price up! The whole problem with college cost is that cost is increasing faster than inflation.

I went to a similar university to Harvard. I enrolled in 2013, and the total cost per year was under 60k. It's now 80k. Cost of attendance is increasing at ~ 4% per year, which is entirely unsustainable. Crazy how a couple years means a difference of 20k per year = 80k over 4 years.
It is a bit weird that there are whole movements like BDS setup against Isreal, a wholly democratic and liberal country where people of all religions enjoy the same rights and nobody is placed in concentration camps, while every time someone mentions that China is a bad actor we get asked why does BDS not exists.

BDS does exist, and China is a bad actor and should be opposed.