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Thinking too hard about it.

The point was the dangling sword over his head, being the imminent publishing of the article.

They told him they wouldn't hide his name, but they didn't tell him they wouldn't publish the article.
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The problem is that LEGO doesn't want any association with anything that would endorse ongoing war/killing etc.

They produce kids toys and don't want to glorify current violence.

There is no LEGO Osama Mountain Hidout + Spec Ops blackhawk attack team.

Only pirates, knights, police and robbers.

Of course they could rebrand it, and they will in few years.
For now its probably not worth the risk of backlash.
Nobody thought you put the label on. They were speculating on why someone would ascribe that label to themselves.
"These people" fill in the ranks of priests, management consultants, and political activists. It matters not whether they themselves believe the bullshit they are producing; what matters is whether others believe them.

They make decent money by writing books or reports, giving speeches or sermons, and in the process they influence large numbers of clueless people, among whom there are also quite a few important decision makers.

So while you may be immune to their charms, you cannot simply dismiss them as irrelevant.
Note that this algorithm does not require translations as input. It takes large corpus of the languages of interest, models them and then find parallel between both models which are used as a crude basis for a model. They use it to train a better model and iterate.

This stems from earlier work on natural language translation (by the same team) and opens quitte a number of doors.
> The main reason for comments for me would be for config files, which maybe shouldn't be in JSON anyways.

I think this is a bit of 'over reach' in what JSON was intended to do, so it's perhaps not surprising that there may be some things 'lacking' for that purpose.
Yes, I think this single point is so moronic that it doesn't warrant entertaining anything further. Saying that a founder should go into personal debt, and if they don't they don't "believe" in their business enough, is mind-boggling.
>So at least what I did is stop trying to put so much of an expectation on my job to fulfill me. I took responsibility to find and do things at and especially outside of my day job that did fulfill me.

I'm not debating you but I just want to point out that your advice depends on the personality. It may even work for most workers but for some us, we cannot mentally "compartmentalize" the day job as the isolated 9-to-5 soul-sucking slog and then use the weekend activities to make up for it.

I used to have a boring high-paying job and used the money to go on exotic travel and buy expensive hobby toys like hi-fi audio equipment and camera lenses.

I should have done the opposite. Find a day job that I was passionate about instead of looking for fulfillment in after-hours hobbies. For me, I need my hobby to be my day job. I know an entrepreneur who sold his business for millions and I always envied him because he worked 80+ hours every week and he had more energy than I did even though I only worked 40. Why? Because his intense overtime aligned with what he wanted to do. Mine didn't. He didn't golf or go on vacations. He always worked because that's what the most interesting activity was to him. His only break was weekly meditations.

That's what I'm trying to do now. I want to find something I can really sink my teeth into and work overtime on. I don't believe in "work/life balance". I tried that. I need work to be my jam. I'm probably the minority and others may even see that as a psychological defect but I can't help it. For me, the dissatisfaction of a boring day job always bleeds into the weekend as an underlying unhappiness I can't shake.
> Who said jobs can't be fulfilling?

Life experience. ;-)
> JANUS looks great on paper, but is pretty restrictive for doing anything useful in real life.

Were they going for reliability rather than bandwidth?

Are there any alternative 'underwater modem/codec' standards?
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You spend around half of your wakeful hours at your job, if it's unfulfilling you're trading misery in addition to time for money.
Yuck, even after living in Germany for a year I still hate Ritter squares.
> Also medicine and magic used to be synonymous until quite recently.

Not at all. Under Roman law, "magic" was forbidden, and healing magic was considered "not magic" precisely because it was helpful instead of harmful. (As we can see by the fact that people wrote about the question at all, they were well aware of the conceptual similarity.)

Compare WWII terminology in which the difference between a submarine and a U-boat is that the submarine is good and the U-boat is evil.
“But A/B testing showed more ‘user engagement’ when you default to public”
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ok, thnx for clarifying.
What I think is disingenuous is to want anything to exist in absolute isolation. Sure, Pizzagate and QAnon probably draws from same demographic, but blaming something that that hadn't existed yet and saying that it "should have by rights have disappeared into obscurity after the imminent mass arrests of HRC and other prominent Dems didn't occur" is total bulls*it.
Why not move to another team for a while to learn what and how they are doing?
> be glad you're not cleaning toilets for 20% of your pay

Be advised: If you are programming computers in 2020 and making only 5x what a toilet cleaner makes, you are approximately 100% underpaid.
Care to elaborate? Genuinely interested.
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Well I agree fully that there are patients who are smart and could take in the info (for that matter, lots of doctors also end up as patients), and I'd hope their treating doctors give them any info they ask for and get them involved in the aspects. After all, in this specific case I'm pretty sure you can get a PSA taken by yourself even and then the cat's out of the bag.

But in a broader sense, what I was thinking of was that when faced with a shocking piece of info ("you might die and there might be nothing we can do about it" etc.), most people don't stay very composed - there are several different reactions and phases and one is certainly "I want as much information as possible and I want to be involved in all decisions" but I'd argue it's not the most common reaction and even in that case, it's a crisis reaction and maybe not as logically driven (or productive at all) as it might seen at first.

So then you'd first have to figure out how this specific patient would react before deciding to do the screening and if you just guess, you'd probable be criticized at some point, so you instead make sure you follow the national plans and recommendations..

Then the (sad) fact is that you usually have maybe 15 minutes allocated in primary care to say hello to a new patient, listen to the symptoms or concerns, examine, make a plan, inform the patient, say goodbye, dictate the journal. You can't spend hours educating the patient. I'd wish this was different (but then again that applies to any service interaction, even your car mechanic or whatever).
I thought the exact same thing when I got the email. I would have much preferred a permission reset resulting in profiles being locked down tightly.
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I think the entire point of the article is that governments have a way of pumping money into the economy that doesn't require central banks...
Um yes, i didn't argue that it shows up magically.
The attached PDF is an automatically generated report.

You can get something like that for £5-10k if you go through one of the typical audit firms (KPMG, Deloitte and co).

In addition you can look into some ISO certifications or industry specific regulations. It's basically a checklist of a thousand questions: do you use TLS? are your applications protected by authentication? can custom folks access personal data of customers? are there audit logs of support accessing customer information?
I dunno, I found it useful. It's a self-reminder that it's better to err on the side of caution when hiring and be more aggressive when firing.

No, it's not specific advice for a specific situation. But if I'm sat pondering whether someone is a good fit for the team, it's definitely been useful to remember this.
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Here to second this. I’m by no means a heavily experienced VC but I’ve made about a dozen seed stage investments. And would have been pitched to hundreds of times.

The founders that over index on what they think an investor wants to hear almost without lose me within the first minute. I’m not buying your 5yr projections. It’s not believable that you’re literally the only other company in the top corner of a competitive quadrant. Try and pitch me about the tax efficiency of my potential investment and we’re done. Sometimes a founder forces a deep dive and what typically surfaces is they have a pretty superficial understanding on most of this stuff and we end up a multitude of holes or inconsistencies in what got pitched. It’s not their fault, they’ve only learnt enough of this stuff for the sake of fundraising because that’s what someone somewhere told them they had to do. A meeting that ends with the overwhelming sense you didn’t know your stuff isn’t going to end with an investment.

Contrast that to the founders I’ve invested in. One I contacted originally because I was building a competitive product. A few referrals from people I know with “they could use a little help, would you mind having a chat and giving them some advice?”. More than one of those I thought was not a particularly viable idea and planned to help the founder map a path to working that out themselves as quickly as possible. Instead I walked away from all of those conversations feeling like a knee nothing. That I’d just been gifted a brain dump from one of the most insightful people I’d come across. And that they’d introduced me to a whole exciting new area of potential I’d been completely oblivious to only an hour earlier.

I definitely want to hear a different story to what you’d represent to a customer. I think people would be more successful if they gave me the version they’d give their first dozen employees and not the one they think investors want to hear.
Not in Amazon myself but rumor has it that Amazon is actually the inverse of what OP describes - more at the verge of sweatshop rather than an easy-boring-sail downwind.
Same here, page loaded pretty fast and lag is maybe 200ms on my phone using Firefox.
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It seems that early epidemiological estimates based on Chinese and Diamond Princess data were very accurate. Error bars are just smaller this time.
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Because he is a human being.

And from a pure short sentence, you can't read anything out of it.
Yes. I didn't want to be so blunt.

When in doubt, the easier rule of thumb is to go without humor here.
My point is that there's nothing in CSS that's exceedingly difficult to understand once you sit down to learn it - it's that you're often sitting down to learn things that are entirely idiosyncratic to CSS and act as impediments to creating anything beautiful. I could abandon CSS and use SVG to create prettier things pretty quickly, because although SVG has some gnarly parts, programmatically manipulated it makes much more sense. CSS is designed to solve different problems to the ones I often want to solve in isolation - i.e. it's document oriented as opposed to element oriented, if that makes sense. Then I'm dealing with the interaction of specific elements and document flow and everything is liable to fall apart the second some mismatch between my mental model of layouts and CSS's actual model occurs. At least it's getting better, as gradual as it is.
Your trying to use their premise to insult them, but to do that you need to actually understand and keep within the premise.

The error that you have made being that in the scenario presented, the successful entrepreneur does not know that luck is the main reason for their success.

A better zinger would be something in the lines of suggesting that the poster only knows all this because of how acutely they have failed. Just as you have.
That sunk cost isn't as big as it would be if we actually administered it. There are lots of things we don't have to pay for - shipping, storing, and physically administering it. not to mention that if it doesn't work, some people will act as if it is - further spreading the risk of getting disease. And on top of it all, anyone against vaccines has a real world example to draw dire things from (and lie about, obviously, but still).

Simply having a sunk cost isn't a good enough reason to actually administer it.
>The problem is that bad writing is immediately obvious to fluent speakers, but bad powerpoints are not.

This is a very good point
Don't get me wrong, of course if you'd ask me whether I could envision something better and more elegant than CSS I would immediately have ideas in the back of my mind — however if you'd tell me I'd be stuck with CSS as it is my response would probably be a neutral shrug. It could be better, but it is okay and the direction things are going (CSS variables, Grids, ...) are not too bad either.

People who call it horrible in my experience often just didn't really take the time to learn it properly. For me to handwrite the CSS for a normal sized personal blog takes maybe 6 hours if I do it from scratch with mobile support etc and most of the time goes into little design adjustments that have nothing to do with CSS. As I said: to me it is not great, but it doesn't really get into my way too much either.
I think the theory is a small subset of engineers can do work that speeds up the entire codebase for the rest of the engineers instead of spending time rewriting that entire code base and also retraining all of those engineers.
But wouldn't that just be decompiling with extra steps?
Thank you. That's great, it seems like it can't parse a full AST, but works with other languages, like C++.
Your comment really surprised me as I didn't expect that this was just a pen-test, but after visiting the link, indeed it was!

I think it's a bit sneaky as for a product like this, people expect this to be a code and crypto audit. The "network" part should be emphasised and in the title of the page, instead of just the PDF.
Feeling sad about it doesn't mean you're going to force your children having children.

You can have feelings without acting on them, but just perceive them. When Joscha talks about controlling your emotions this certainly would go into this direction.
> Why would it not be binding?

By requesting and reading this reply you hereby grant me 50% of your future income the next 5 years.

By your logic, this statement should legally binding too, just because someone somewhere wrote it and put it on your screen.

Obviously it’s not though, so why should a EULA be different? It’s literally the same thing.
I don't get it ... for me CSS is very easy. It's logic and clear. But yes you have to learn and work with it. It's ok ... so not everybody can master it drive-by and call themselfs an expert.
> Dear new developer,

> Two weeks after I graduated my coding bootcamp, I had an offer. Two weeks after that, I started my first engineering job at a small startup.

> Here are some of the strategies I used.

This is Randall Kenna:

https://randallkanna.com
https://testandcode.com/guests/randall-kanna

Look. If you're a woman, you have lots of allies rooting for you to succeed in an industry and profession that's indisputably biased against you.

But especially as a white-presenting woman, maybe have the decency to not flaunt the exorbitant privilege -- not just socioeconomic and racial, but that of the multiple forms of affirmative action offered to you in certain corners -- as if it's a product of your effort or virtue.

This is a close kin to a mediocre white guy.

Appalling tone-deafness.
Here's a thought:

"This is a GDPR erasure request. Your site contains my PII by way of that of my father. Please erase this information and indicate that you have complied within 30 days."

Shall I try it?
If you look at society as a system it should be clear that spreading ideas is critical and difficult. Consider basic and topical advice like "wash your hands". Even for that simple advice the number of people who can talk to why we wash our hands is small compared to the number of people who need to be washing their hands (consider eg, how soap interacts with bacteria - very few people understand that, or how bacteria on hands enter the body via various means which another large group of people don't understand). For more complicated ideas, the numbers get terrible very quickly.

It is important to have mechanisms where good ideas are spread - and indeed encouraged socially - that do not require people who understand why the idea is good.

What you are seeing is the people who have (probably not on purpose) fallen into the role of pushing ideas they don't understand around in the hope that they are helping. Since it makes evolutionary sense, there are probably some % of people who just get a real kick out of finding out what someone smart thinks then repeating it ad-nauseam. If you are unusual enough to be an independent thinker it can be a bit baffling - but such people are useful and indeed vital. It would be nice to have a less noisy channel though.
It’s business, but you still didn’t get what I wrote. :)
The case of law enforcement in US is unusual in that claims to being "special" come largely from the officers themselves - that's the whole point of the sheep/wolf/sheepdog theory that much law enforcement training is centered around these days.
Yes and No. I worked at a big company where on my own initiative I automated 40% of the QA processes. It was great because I was productive and received recognition. It was also frustrating because I delivered 5x value more than my coworkers but was paid similarly. The company limited raises to 10%. I did get rewarded with non monetary things. I took 8 weeks of vacation, tagged along on any international trip the directors were going on. Worked from home as I saw fit.

Large companies do not want people like you and I making 800k/year and being at our peak productivity. It is putting to many eggs in one basket. They would rather pay 6 people 200k to do the same work because it is more stable
Well, you’ve also touched on one of the aspects of life at Amazon that isn’t one of the LPs: Mechanisms are better than intentions.

Good intentions fail at some point, even when people have the best of intentions. Being distracted. Trying to do too much. Whatever. Where possible it’s better to design the environment and system so that the right things occur (or are more likely to occur) irrespective of an individuals good intentions.

So yes, you’re right!
There's the experimental :has pseudo-class which appears to be doing what you want [1].

Personally, I'm against adding any more complexity to CSS, though; and :has fundamentally changes the locality/algorithmics and complexity of CSS selector matching. I think if the goal of CSS was to bring good-enough styling to the masses, it has utterly failed to so, yet has left a legacy of overcomplicated and badly specified ad-hoc styling rules that don't compose to a reasonable whole. CSS is what you get if you're starting with a disruptive mindset at a welcoming phase in an innovation cycle, then just can't stop to add features. I personally know several graphic artists who did fantastic professional animations using sprites (and also Flash), yet couldn't make sense of CSS, at all. To become proficient in CSS, you need years of learning a non-type-checked and bogus hell of half-assed and half-implemented bloat. As a Comp.Sci. nerd, I also question the notion (ie nonsense) that "HTML is for structural semantics, and CSS for presentation"; the reality is that HTML, it being based on SGML, has excellent support for vocabulary evolution. I mean, look at CSS: it's an item-value syntax (sans the selector part). In which world does it it make sense that, starting from generic markup with lots of syntactic features (elements, attribute), to come up with yet another syntax for specifying item-values? Specifying hundreds or thousand of microsyntaxes does not an inherently procedural layout system make, and there were much better styling languages for SGML available. To adequately describe layout mechanisms, a constraint-based formalism makes much more sense.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:has
You could try working for yourself - it doesn’t necessarily needs to be a new product/business, it can be consulting or algorithmic day trading.
You are aware of the conviction rate federal prosecutors have? They don't do anything until they have all the evidence they need for a conviction.

And, if there's a group of people involved, they just seal the indictments until they have the evidence to convict all of them.

There's a huge number of them involved. You can view the number of sealed federal indictments by state on the qmap.pub site.

Be patient, the arrests are coming.
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