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>If a group of crazy incoherent people get a Nazi cancelled by shouting "they're a Nazi!", and the person really is a Nazi, does it matter that they're a bit crazy and incoherent?

On principle, for me, it does.

For one, I don't want "groups of crazy incoherent people" dictating their terms.

Second, I want all voices able to being heard, and adult audiences judging for themselves if they like to hear them. This includes access to book deals, speaking halls, conference spaces, etc. This includes Nazis or people in favor of the extinction of all mankind, fans of royal government against democracy, fans of Bieber, the KKK AND black panthers, and so on. As long as they don't act illegally/violently.

Third, the tricky part is not agreeing with silencing a Nazi (which many will agree, some will disagree because they favour free exchange of ideas, whatever they are, but in any case it would be popular to do so).

The tricky part is determining who is the "Nazi" (that is, the person to be silenced). And on that front, the tide turns very easily. Under Hoover a open leftist could lose their job. In the 50s a black rights supporter in the South could loose business deals, concert and writing gigs, get cancelled, etc. You think that this can happen from now on only on the "bad" side? Doesn't history taught you how fast the tides can turn? There was Obama just 4 years ago, and now it's Trump, for example...
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The actual meat: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keroserene/rickrollrc/mast...
What is WASP? WA State Police?
How many people would report feeling overwhelmed by driving normally? I've always felt as such.
1.Scout with F-22/ F-35s.

2.Don't shoot and blow your cover.

3.F-15EX follows behind, launches their huge barrage of missiles.
> Use <magic material> to build a wall around the city?

That sounds expensive. Do we need to do that? Does it solve the problem better? Does it maybe create a worse solution? How would you find out?

> Have the people who maintained each individual building form a team that can keep an eye on sections in shifts?

How would you make this less time intensive? Can you use automation?

> If we have enough magic material, build a double wall system for breaches?

Is there a cost-benefit analysis you can run here? How would you find out? Should we keep adding walls ad infinitum or does each additional wall have diminishing returns?

> I'm done.

wrong.
It still freezes (as in says “not responding) for ten seconds when I type the first character in the search/filter box above the email list. How does something like that to pass through testing?

Something that scales with mailbox size, network latency or similar is happening on the UI thread in Microsoft Outlook. This boggles my mind every time it happens, which is every day.

Something tells me Outlook is a huge pile of legacy C++ that no one dares rewrite any major part of even in the face of issues like this.
> Also, the non lethal, non-mild cases, are at least 15%, which means hospitalization.

Can I get a source here? Are you basing this off of the "case hospitalization rate"? Because that number will overestimate the true hospitalization rate by a factor of 2-100x depending on where you're talking about. Same principle of looking at CFR vs IFR (although ironically CFR will start trending down, not just in the real sense as doctors get better at not overreacting with early intubation, but also in a numerical sense as states like Florida are clearly misrepresenting their case numbers which will make the denominator larger)

As one example, in the population of people who can actually still get bad outcomes but have the best outcomes - people in their 20's - the implied hospitalization rate from serology studies gives us something like 1 out of 500 young people getting hospitalized (see https://esb.nu/blog/20059695/we-kunnen-nu-gaan-rekenen-aan-c...). So that gives us a lower bound, and a semi-decent upper bound would be the 3.4% hospitalization rate in the 60-69 age group. (They don't seem to report >69 years, which would be way worse) <--- Note that study I found a couple months ago at least, so there are probably better numbers out somewhere now, but I lost some motivation to keep doing SARS-2 research once BLM started because it became clear that it was never really about saving lives in the first place. Although that's a topic for another day)
To be fair, I can not say Mercedes cars are reliable.
Not sure, but given that this work is extremely recent my bet would be that there's some room for optimiztion still, but probably not anywhere close to the 100hrs mark.

My guess would be the modem is the most power hungry component of practically any smartphone and 24hrs is already in line with mainstream smartphones so any additional % squeezed would be amazing indeed.

EDIT: Maybe 90hrs? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23852043
Do you think we should also start donating to them?
Some of it is recycled as Mox.

Most of it is stored underground (FAR underground) in special regions where we know that the geological makeup is highly stable
Yeah, that's the part that sounds crazy. The benefit is you get to try them out first and you can negotiate a higher salary after you become indispensible. If it doesn't work out, you move on to the next C2H.
Just a Google away... this isn’t exactly a new topic. I don’t think they all hand over IP exactly as the GP stated, but it effectively happens through various means including what the GP said:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-systematically-pries-...
Honestly though what a bunch of bullshit to build you modern economy on being a tax haven.

What a fucking world we live in sometimes.
> Companies VASTLY prefer full-time employees for software developers because it is so costly when they leave.

Companies whose core business is software development probably do, some other companies have almost entirely outsourced development, even where they have very large ongoing custom development needs.
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Interesting. I haven't thought too much about C2H in particular, but it seems like it might just kick the can down the road instead of solving the root problem; The root problem is human nature.
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Hard to prove bad behavior, though.
The materials engineer can give you a great material. They can't design a system to monitor said material for defects.
How interesting. I have lupus and I’m in a very small lupus-related subreddit (<5,000 members) and we’ve had quite a few posts from people who are claiming they had COVID-19 and now have lupus. I kind assumed they were just having the lingering COVID symptoms that have been in the news rather than actual lupus. Perhaps there is a relation after all?
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And do all other power source magically do not use unsafe materials ?
Hard disagree. I’d encourage you to reflect on your startup’s culture and figure out what distinguishes a good engineer from a good engineer who can convince you about their passion.

Usually, it’s when startups want employees to work longer hours than the value the they’re calculating on receiving from the equity+pay that’s being offered.
Give it a try Saurik!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching https://m.twitch.tv/samg_is_a_ninja/ attempt to make a weird Jailbreak tweak for fun.

He did all the things you mention and it was entertaining as well as informative.
I saw 50-150 live viewers.

I think quite a few people would like to see you work on something like a new tweak. Start or post an account with a specified stream time then post it here/reddit and see how many people subscribe.
This post requires a lot of context to make sense out of. Unless you are in the security space and familiar with what happened last 36 hours, it probably won't make much sense quickly.

1) Microsoft has a critical flaw in DNS server

2) A security company publishes the info - no public exploit available at this point

3) Someone creates a fake exploit - playing a prank on hackers and other security companies

4) Lots of people ran the prank code or helped spread the existence of the fake exploit

Not sure if this makes it easier to understand- at least I tried. :)
There might be a sweet spot where plutocracy is incompatible with kleptocracy. When you own a government you'd want some level of property maintenance. When you want to enrich yourself with public money you want as much of it as possible. The long vs the short game.
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Yep - this is a great question and I have tons of thoughts here.

First and foremost: sperm quality is an indicator of overall health, and the two are closely correlated. This is both good and bad.

Good because living a healthier lifestyle improves sperm quality. Bad because there is no easy fix to improve sperm quality. Supplements are fine, and there is some limited research to support them, but they are not a panacea.

We brought on a sperm expert from Harvard - Dr. Mariel Arvizu - to create a protocol to assess and evaluate the lifestyle of our clients and create personalized recommendations based on what we believe is highest impact.

We bucket our recommendations into categories like nutrition, sleep habits, etc. and reference WHO or other trusted resources when possible.

We also get you in touch with a urologist (we have one on-staff) to do a consult if needed. He can discuss your specific case and provide insight.

Lastly, it depends on the results of your analysis. For example, morphology (how "normal" your sperm is) can be significantly impacted by things like using saunas, hot tubs, etc. or even from having the flu. There are simple and easy changes you can make to address things like that.

Sperm takes about 2.5-3 months to regenerate, so any changes you make today will be reflected in your sperm analysis after that time period.
I won't say it's a pattern but it happened last night for whatever reason and the vividness is normally unusual and actually remembering specifics almost never happens.
LA's 405 and 101 interchange is probably one of the worst I've had the misery of experiencing in North America on a repeat basis.

Gridlock in LA feels objectively more dangerous than being stuck in, say, NYC city traffic or Toronto's 401.
> How do we square the value statement "black lives matter just as much as any other race" with the acceptance of over-policing of black communities as justified?

Many black communities are disproportionately victimized by violent crime, and increasing the police presence there protects them from that crime and hence saves many of their lives.

Maybe it hasn’t worked out that way, but here we are again arguing how we perceive the situation, not the underlying values we’re trying to optimize for. I might listen to you mention the drug charges and say, “fine, let’s legalize weed”. I might listen to you talk about how black people distrust their local police departments and vice versa and I might counter by advocating for community-oriented policing. You might convince me that none of that works and the basic concept was wrong-headed. But nowhere in this process do we actually disagree about the basic value you mentioned.
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The same thing that has slowed efforts to curb emissions before they need removal: the free rider problem, or collective action problem. Every country benefits a little from one country's efforts to remove atmospheric CO2, and the non-participating countries don't pay anything. There's an incentive for every country to wait for some other country to take up the burden first.

That said, I think that the cost of accelerated silicate weathering could drop significantly with further advances in automation. At some point individual governments or well funded NGOs may be able to make a dent in the global problem without waiting for everyone else to cooperate.
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Agreed. It is a difficult situation to understand. And I think we are still in the early stages of learning about the virus, what it does to various human bodies, ages, etc - and more importantly - that we should not roll back the lockdown until we think its safe to do so no?
Worth noting that, at least as far as I've heard, the pressure on employees in at least some roles at the two companies you mentioned is incredibly stressful. I would rather have an interview without undue stress than a stressful one, but I'd rather have a stressful interview than continuous stress on the job. (I am differentiating here between "working on difficult problems" stress and "always wondering if you're going to get canned" stress.)
Also I forgot to address your other points.

I was not claiming that H1N1 was as bad or worse than COVID-19, to be clear.

Obviously COVID-19 is the worst pandemic we've had in over a century. But that's mostly a function of the fact that we haven't had a truly bad pandemic (the scary ones like SARS-1 fizzled out, presumably because the virus was very symptomatic and very deadly).

The point is that, we didn't lose our shit over flu pandemics which actually kill children, and actually cause more significant recurring deaths than COVID-19 will do to what I already explained about COVID-19 targetting the unhealthy/old.

If you want my argument in a nutshell:

- The most stable solution to the problem of COVID-19 is to build widespread population immunity. Also, banking on vaccines as an artificial way to get to herd immunity is a foolish strategy, because we're relying on a temporally unbounded future event, which is an awful idea.

- Lockdown not only increase all-cause mortality by making every other health condition in the world worse (both directly through social isolation and depriving exercise, as well as through suspending elective surgeries, as well as the widespread culture of fear/etc leading to people to not go to the hospital), but I actually believe that it increases COVID-19 mortality. The same factors of social isolation, stress/fear, unemployment and lost sleep are at play, but also particularly the prevention of exercise (which plays an immunoregulatory role besides the other positive effects), and even more particularly, being cooped up outside = no sunlight = no vitamin d. Vitamin D is actually a ridiculously important vitamin as far as respiratory infections go - I didn't realize how strong the effect was, I encourage you to research it. Additionally, nitric oxide, also produced by sun exposure and not provided by a vitamin d supplement, decrease blood pressure so helps cardiac events, and is even being directly studied as a COVID-19 treatment (perhaps due to immunoregulatory effects?)

- Because I don't believe in practicing containment, for the above reasons and others I don't feel like going into at this point, I believe that any attempt to artificially slow spread in the general population is counterproductive. So, insofar as universal masking works, we should not be wearing masks. Insofar as lockdowns actually work, we shouldn't be locking down. And if they don't work (and I think the evidence is not there, and thus they likely have either no effect or possibly make spread worse, particularly with masking and school closures) - well, then why are we doing them?
They 'may be', but they're not. They are on opposing sides of a huge regional political divide, and pretty much in cold war against eachother.
Gitlab used to have more outages than github, but these days they're about the same or even better than github. Also, they're really transparent about handling outages. They post link directly to the issue page in their status page so you see all those gitlab employees frantically trying to restore the service. I was pretty mad when they were having the last outage because I can't finish my work, but after checking the issue page and seeing how hard they work, I felt bad and decided to cut them some slack :)
For websites and online businesses yes you need as much data as possible. For free software I agree, I don't see a use case
I agree with the comment you were replying to. There will always be outliers, but testing prowess in technical problem solving and grit correlates well enough with the job of a software engineer.

The "amazing scientist" maybe was not a good culture fit, or, yes, the interview was botched.

Good candidates are so good that they often enough compensate for bad interviews. Sure it means we sometimes don't hire the best, but that's better IME than sometimes hiring a not so good candiate.
I would think the idea of C2H is instead of having an intense interview you have a performance review and talk about how you work together. If you still have to pass a high pressure interview attempt to filter you out after working with a team for 3 months there’s no advantage to C2H.
That's because Microsoft allows it, and (b) Microsoft has a monopoly on their market (not on the "Windows market", but like 98% on the whole Home/Enterprise PC space) and abused it so they were forced to open up.

If Microsoft had just a small share of the Home/Enterprise market with Windows, they'd could close it in any way they want, same way the game companies do for their consoles or Apple for iOS.
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Is that an opportunity for software to standardize and be able to output different kinds of specs? Or is this something only a human can do?
The part about not calling the police is not that surprising. You call the NYPD if you would like everyone in the area shot and drugs and guns planted on the bodies. Otherwise, they're not very useful.
> because you are "too good" to do C2H hear me out

No I dont want to quit my current role until I have a secure job. I'm not going to c2h to be told six weeks later I'm on the street.
If that‘s true that‘s nice – but not an argument against lockdown measures before we can be reasonably certain that‘s true, by the way.

Given that we cannot time travel and all.

Also, other countries well below 30 percent seropositivity also don’t show signs for second waves, so that‘s an indication that your explanation isn’t the only possible one.
I'm very glad you are not a police officer. I want people checking cars to see if anyone was hurt before they go slamming people to the ground. I don't want people unnecessarily attacking others who are no physical threat. There was no "assailant" here, because nobody was "assailed!"

Your way of thinking is what's given us roving, armed bands of state-sanctioned thugs who close ranks when confronted with wrongdoing, rather than public servants who are there to serve and protect.
Even if it is a full order of magnitude larger, it still compares quite favourably to fossil fuels.
The poor never had no economic value to begin with, the question merely becomes who is the latest in the line of exploiters. When they have no power and no leverage they are forced to work for peanuts in menial jobs that can just as easily replace them. In an increasingly automated society the lowest tier of human labor slowly resembles replaceable cogs; how much would a business pay for those?

Economic growth does lift all, but in an unequal society disproportionately lifts those who are already well invested in it. It will barely improve the lives those at the bottom with no equity in the market, perhaps with slightly better consumer-grade technology, but nothing in terms of income, social safety, or health that comes with climbing out of poverty.
> She set a car on fire! That is literally violence.

Not only that - there were four people inside the van and she aimed the explosive at the window in an obvious attempt to set fire to the passengers.

Lots of mental gymnastics required to believe this wasn't attempted murder.
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I think I'm the complete opposite. I want to hire you if you come in to interview. Interviewing for an open position takes up so much time from so many people during the process, why would I want to spend more time than necessary. When I'm in the interview I try to do everything I can to make sure you can succeed and looking for reasons to hire you, otherwise I have to spend more time interviewing.
Wow, didn't know Steve was rocking D.
Their awards this year seem to be mostly given to non-US brands, with the exception of awards for trucks.

https://www.jdpower.com/Cars/Ratings/Dependability
Hang in there dude, I think the coronavirus and remote working really messed with the traditional hiring process.

The fact that you are getting steady interviews speaks for itself that you have the design chops and experience. I think people don't know how to interview design candidates well as is, removing the physical cues you get from an in-person interview makes it even harder to assess a designer. Also, it could just be companies are flying by the seat of their pants and a lot have reduced workforce with this second wave of infections.

High probability it's not you, it's them and their broken process during covid-19. Keep your design skills sharp and keep building your portfolio and use this time to work on concepts that you are passionate about that haven't come up in a 9-5, that will help you until the right opportunity comes along. You got this!
>Apple just produces them, users should have ability to use the devices as they see fit.

They have the ability to buy the device they see fit (Apple, Google, Samsung, whatever) -- they don't have the right to dictate other terms to individual brands.

The ability to dictate to the maker of the device how it shall be and who it should do business with and allow on its platform is not part of anti-trust law...
I used to work in a client facing role for enterprise software before I got into programming. The ability to stay cool and override nerves with sheer adrenaline that I developed by attending high pressure client meetings is 1000x more helpful to me in technical interviews than any leetcode practice problems. If you have the basic technical knowledge and problem solving skills then 99% of the interview is just staying calm enough to use them properly without coming off like a nervous mess. Much easier said than done, I know.
You're correct, but let's say the target is 1/10th of it, or $15/month, therefore affordable by many. Still, there's something that prevents us, as a society, from doing it.
Coal = Trees = Nature = Green

Obviously
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> Now gaps are fixed

Not really. They've improved on the 3, but people still routinely get some really wild tolerances on current Model 3s. And the Y has had an absolutely awful beginning of production, facing many of the same build quality problems that early Model 3s had.

Tesla is relying too much on buyer enthusiasm. As they expand into the mainstream, they need to avoid building a strong reputation of poor quality that will be really hard to shake.
Sorry, but C2H sounds like a great idea to you because you have the luxury of having already earned FAANG money on your side. You'd have to pay me considerable money for me to consider taking a C2H role so I could cover health insurance across the usual suspects (general health, dental, vision, specialists just in case). Like many people outside of this website (and enough here), I don't have the luxury of FAANG money and I live in the United States, so I need health coverage either through my employer or on my own provided I have enough money to offset it.
I don't know. I think that's company specific. I work in finance and most of the quant stuff is Python, R, and Java. It's easier to teach a business person Python and R than it is to teach tech people finance (at least that's what the business people say).
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Elon Musk has his hacked as well... https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1283495825998520320

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