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Do you have a link to the California law that states that an employee is not allowed to work for any other company? If anything California has specific non-compete laws and moonlighting laws that forbid a company from preventing their employees from working for another company.

Hilariously, you are so far off that you don’t realize that the only legal way Uber could prevent their drivers from working for Lyft in California was if they were contractors and not employees

Where did you get this information?
Without detonation, burning ammonium nitrate would have had a hard time building up pressure higher than the bursting pressure of the windows on the warehouse.

That was my thought as well. I was skeptical of the article saying it wasn't a detonation of ammonium nitrate and that a shockwave wasn't generated.
I created Office Snapshots 13 years ago and naturally like these sorts of sites.

One of the hardest parts will be getting content over the long term. 99% of ours is submitted at this point, but it took years of emailing people to get enough new stuff coming in on it’s own. At this point we publish ~15-20 projects per week.

If you could get people to give a quick synopsis aBout why they selected 2-3 items on their desk it would probably help people know why they might want to buy as why as SEO.

Good idea and will keep an eye out for you in the future!
Material Safety: None. The End.

> Contains no other components or impurities which will influence the classification of the product.

In the unlikely event you survive adding something, you won’t make it any better. You certainly can’t make it worse.

> Unsuitable extinguishing media: Water, Foam, Halons

> Specific methods: Move away from the container and cool with water from a protected position.

Um.

> May react violently with combustible materials.

Specifically, everything.

> Seek medical advice before using product.

“Don’t.”

> Ensure vehicle driver is aware of the potential hazards of the load

Driving is a strong indication that he is not aware.

> and knows what to do in the event of an accident or an emergency.

“Run.”
That's what frameworks like Hibernate or Doctrine do, they have their own object oriented query language that compiles to SQL.
Overall I like the ideas behind it and the problems with SQL that it solves, at least on a superficially observational level. It could use some real brain bending examples for those of us that deal with difficult data sets.

The tasks needed to actually take over where SQL has left off seem absolutely monumental though. I can't help but think it will never get there, just like every other attempted query language out there.

In my opinion, there are two things that can make SQL 100% better, which wouldn't be a new language, but rather an update to the language standard:

1) algebraic data types, allowing us to get rid of terrible ternary null logic and more closely model real world data domains.

2) a really well thought out date/time API, along the lines of JSR310.
I'd like to interrogate those ideas, if you don't mind? I'm truly curious here. Somewhat skeptical from the impression my reading has given me, but I don't mean to be hostile.

The initial testing is all very well, and I have no reason to expect it's at all ineffective, but I imagine it would be more interesting to look at the consequences of wear/weathering over time.

I suppose my biggest question is the mechanism by which those (fixed and personal) detectors work. I know that the aerial solutions work via lidar, and I expect satellite similarly looks for absorption in particular wavelengths.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measure...
That is awesome! I didn’t try it yet. Just saw the nice vibe of creator and the license. Glad you like it.

Trying to soon foray into consulting/coaching including [productivity enhancing] apps and workflows. This is a nice boost before going to sleep.
Wife screamed at me threatening to divorce...blah blah. So illegal prob not but ban yes.
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MacFarland is a con man and FuckJerry is a slimy ad agency. Both of them create reality distortion fields for a living, so be skeptical of your impressions if you only watched one of the two competing docs.
https://2019.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/#front_end_f...

Versus 2016: http://2016.stateofjs.com/2016/frontend/

Angular is 100% fading, albeit slowly. Seems like a lot of slow moving enterprise companies are still going with it anecdotally. I'd bet on very few new projects opting for it currently, and probably near zero within 2-3 years.

As to why, IMO Vue ate Angular's lunch. Single file components did everything angular's MVC wanted without all the failures like $scope and other things. React and Vue can coexist, but I think Vue and Angular are direct competition. Also see those developer surveys and the massive growth of popularity of Vue along with angular's fading.
What odds would make you take the bet?

And, perhaps let's talk about a conditional bet that removes the difficulty of space exploration:

The bet pays me X dollars, if human vessels can go to the asteroid belt and not find life. It pays you Y dollars, if we find life. And no payment in either direction, if we can't go to the asteroid belt and don't find life. Say, all limited to the next 100 years.

What's the ratio of X to Y that would make you accept such a bet?
You're comparing unrelated numbers.
Nice to see that I speak with a peer SF lover! ^^

I agree, I would be surprised if we discover first alien life in a non-chemical form. Somehow though I would love to be surprised!

There are so many possible environments and substrates, and we cannot think of all of them. The multiplicity of the places where things could happen, and the scale and age of the universe, also increase the possibilities that there are places with the right conditions or stability. The conditions on Earth were kind of lab-grade perfect too! Any nearby supernova, ill-directed solar flare, etc. could have nipped life in the bud. Only the huge number of Earth-like environment in the universe, and the large interval of time allotted, can justify that we have had the chance to arise in these conditions.

PS: also, to be fair, a lot of life forms in Baxter are actually engineered. But our First Contact (or First Observation) could be as well with a "natural" form as with an artifact! And that would not matter that much.
> archive.org copies

> short lived

Two predictions I really hope are correct.
>>Am I mistaken that these are actually bids on a single, quantity=1, item?

Ja Rule was in the vicinity of such items, we are lucky they're so cheap considering ;)
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Edge cases for an obvious hyperbole is not really bad news. Of course you can't Tweet whatever you want, and you can't even say whatever you want. That's obvious. The hyperbole was a jab at people, often commenters on this very site, justifying "freedom" in the U.S. as being able to Tweet the president whatever you want, within reason, as opposed to other authoritarian countries.
Yes, clearly every asteroid has its own gravity. I guess what it should say is that it has a strong enough gravitational field to allow a spacecraft to be placed into orbit and have it stay there.
I don't pay much heed to AWS Heroes.

Honestly, I don't either. There's a handful of us who are technical and a huge number whose contributions are primarily marketing.
Given the nature of the dents Jobs inflicted, no, happy is definitely not anywhere on the list of relevant adjectives.
Are there really that many job openings?
The preference shortcut works for me. Maybe not all the time. Will have to check again.

I don’t think Zoom is the only app that doesn’t have everything in the menu bar. The point was more general for when things aren’t in the menu bar (and not just electron apps)

Keyboard Maestro or something else may be able to automate it. But still.
... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

I would argue that the United States is worse than China. China isn't, nor has it really ever been imperialist. The United States is an imperialist country that has wreaked havoc across the globe, and is responsible for the death of millions of innocent civilians.
Bear in mind that these ridesharing companies are basing their entire business model vs taxis not on some dumb app, every taxi company tries to get you to install its app. Instead its innovation, is reducing labor and capital costs in order to offer cheaper rides than taxis to corner the market. In order to reduce capital costs, they have workers bring the cars. To reduce labor costs, they pay less. Uber is a cash inferno and they have been fighting against employee status because for various reasons the workers get paid more overall.
Because people are selfish sometimes?
Thank you for the reply. Good points, and the comments you linked really help as well.
Eventually, I burned out on the sheer density of Chateau Ubuntu.
This would be more surprising to me if I hadn't seen the guys who make Cards Against Humanity get a bunch of money thrown at them to dig a hole a few years back.
How do productive activities become habits?
Appreciated! (You have no idea how much!)
According to the Zelle website they have 924 partner financial institutions. If you total the number of FDIC insured institutions and the number of credit unions in the US the total is very near 10,000, so Zelle is very far from universal.
Object moves -> air goes back and forth -> your eardrum moves -> pressure pattern over time registers as sound as a 20-20kHz ish spectrum captured at 0.1s ish timesteps

Supersonic airplanes move past the speed of sound(280-340m/s in air) and generate wavefront at its interfaces with air but the resulting disjoint tsunami wave expands at the speed of sound and heard as single ‘bang’ when it reaches ears or microphones

So there’s no way one could hear the bang through air before visual bang hits

However the speed of sound is about 10x faster on solid mediums such as ground or seawater so could be those
> Were all those companies breaking the law?

This is actually a really good thread, because most people are surprised to discover that yes, those companies probably were "breaking the law".

As other posters pointed out, AB5 is relatively new, so the test is relatively stricter now, and only relevant in California.

More importantly though, employment classification is only challenged when a plaintiff files a lawsuit. Thus, even if someone is technically misclassified, if the relationship is mutually beneficial, nobody is going to complain. This goes on all the time, which is why most people are surprised to find out they were technically misclassified.

Case in point: I worked at a company (in a state much more permissible regarding employment law than CA, and pre AB5) that forbid using the term "contract-to-hire", even though that happened pretty frequently. Reason being that technically contract-to-hire is not legal unless there is a substantial difference in the work and relationship when the person is a contractor. Now, many times there is, but that phrase alone can make it seem like the work contractors do is too similar to the work employees do, which is why our legal department banned the phrase.
> First, no one is for voter licensing, a person is 'licensed' by being a citizen

With voting license legislation enacted, in order for a citizen to vote, they must have a government-issued license. It can't be just any government-issued license, either, it needs to be one of the specially designated licenses that you need to jump through hoops to get beyond being just a citizen.

For many people, obtaining such a license is both a monetary and time expense that is only necessary to participate in elections. A citizen living in a city might have little reason to have a driver's license, but they'll need one if they want to vote, and they'll need to renew it every few years at their own expense.

A solution to this problem is making sure every citizen receives a voting ID on their 18th birthday. For whatever reason, voting license proponents never seem to want to implement such a program.

> The ugly truth is democrats know that sloppy voting tends to fall their way and republicans know that voter id laws tend to fall their way.

And yet voting fraud is nearly non-existent, and there are numerous examples of courts finding that voting license legislation disenfranchises voters.
Your analogy doesn't map to this situation. Google and Apple would be the people you're driving around, not Uber. The company that employs you as a plumber maps to Uber, which of course would just be you if you were self employed.
There's a lot of electricity-driven stuff in ICE cars these days. For example in my car AC is running off car battery, not directly using the engine. When driving in city, start-stop turns off engine at traffic light and AC keeps going.

Regenerative power for starter in frequent start-stop cycle must help a lot too.

Lights do add up too. I remember when a good decade ago day lights were made mandatory all around the year all day long. Very few cars had LED daylights so most people had to run dipped lights. Some people did backyard tests that lights add 0.5L/100km or so. Obviously now LEDs are much more efficient. On the other hand, infotainment system is ever bigger beast. But if regenerative braking power can take off the edge... Why not.

Anyway, I'm not saying that ICE is better than EV. Just saying that ICE can make use of regenerative power.
It's my intention to collect the moderation comments on various of these perennial topics, cherry-pick the best bits, and turn them into either some essays or perhaps a kind of super-FAQ. That's why I link to old moderation comments using hn.algolia.com; the answers have started to converge in the last few years, and maybe there's a blissful future in which we can simply link to official explanations rather than endlessly reworking them. So yes in principle, though when there will be time for it is another question.
if NoSQL caused SQL databases to improve, then i'd argue it was a success.

maybe EdgeQL can have the same success by demonstrating improvements that can be added to SQL databases.
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Classic misdirection tactic.

"what has company X done?"

"company Y did this bad thing"

"all companies in Z do bad thing"
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What does America look like from outside America?
Wade Davis, a professor of anthropology and an expert in cultures and ecosystems, describes the last 100 years of America, culminating in the now of COVID19.

This portrait stings.

If you can keep your eyes open long enough to read and absorb Davis's shocking chronicle, the silver lining is that 99% of Americans are not to blame... so long as they can keep their eyes open for long enough to make a difference.
Nope, didn't fully work. The still won't let me add a credit card without receiving a text.
I actually don’t think that point B is the ones they failed off. They claim that they are in the business of facilitating a connection between drivers and riders, in the same way that Youtube connects creators to viewers without employing them.

The main thing they failed on is that the court thinks that they exert too much control on the drivers. For example, they don’t allow users to choose their own drivers. They also don’t allow drivers to price their ride.
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> “ everyone knows Facebook is the living emobdiment of a psychopath”

The context of this and the rest of your original post made it sound like you believe the statement as well. This comment appears to reinforce that.

Again, I’m not sure how many people care about all the things you listed beyond the current trend to say how evil or bad FB and Zuckerberg are.

The same trend began with Bezos a few years ago when he became the richest person and has continued.

Companies most in people’s lives will naturally have the most attention. So their rich founder CEOs will get the brunt of negativity too.

I don’t think the average person understands it.
> PDF's main downside is the remarkable unevenness of the quality of the creation and reading tools

Funny enough, I think one of the reasons PDF became so popular, is because it was originally seen as a "difficult / impossible to modify file that can be downloaded as a file and read in a static way". The lack of editing tools in the most popular PDF reader for a long time (Acrobat Reader) was the reason it became such a widely used format. Especially compared to distributing a .doc or .docx where the user can easily accidentally change something.
“I’m looking for $X with Y vacation days. If you can get me to that, I’ll sign today.”

That phrasing works really well with internal recruiters.
Sounds great, hope it works out!
It should be illegal to pay any form of wages, whether gig work or 9to5, without paying into social security, medicare, medicaid, and unemployment insurance.

This pandemic has proven that EVERYONE needs unemployment insurance, and it is already well-known that everyone needs income and healthcare in retirement.

Sp sure, let people do gig work on their own time, but don't let them opt out of the basic social safety nets we all need to survive.
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It was an interesting time because IE actually broke a lot of new trails on the web by breaking standards and single-handedly adding features. Netscape, the more "standards-complaint" browser, lost out because of conformity.
Love them even more for that.
I absolutely love love love love 'The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife'...I saw it for the first time online almost twenty years ago and even then without knowing what it meant or the language, i just knew that it would be the most erotic thing that I will ever see.. two decades since, I still stand by that assessment.
One alternative is to use something like Keycloak or some other auth tech.

Then you'll have password recovery, 2FA, sign in with FB/Goog/LinkedIn etc., loads of insightful management screens and even SAML support for enterprise SSO - all free, out of the box, battle-hardened and already in wide use with many eyes on it for security.

Then when your customer waves some IT checklist in front of you asking you "do you support blah blah password complexity" the answer is just YES.

The TFA has a solid point, but has picked a bad example to illustrate it. These days if you find yourself even thinking about building your own password recovery, even way off in the future, you should really reexamine your core decisions.
It works for anyone who is honest and considerate of others.
This made me sad. I was so excited to find this new term that I was looking forward to using.
One painpoint for me was that no matter what I tried, I couldn't get eglot to connect to a remotely started clangd. I haven't checked if that's solved now, but good to see that there's some momentum in remote editing in general.
I'm tempted to say "In a van?" but actually I don't understand your question.
Unfortunately, js2-mode's parser isn't updated to keep pace with modern language development. I've had much better results over the last year with an LSP integration, and rarely if ever go back to js2-mode these days.

Similarly, while js2-mode's built-in formatter is quite good, Prettier is both more (and more easily) configurable and more shareable - it can enforce an agreed-upon style at the codebase level without any editor-specific tooling or configuration, and the consequent absence of bikeshedding is welcome.
Ah, then the reason this wouldn't work is that the court would still deem them to be employees, after seeing through this incredibly transparent and cynical facade.
Thanks, but I'm using eglot. I might try lsp again, now that some time has passed, though.
Stripe's primary datastore is mongodb.
Thank you for updating my favorite editor of all time ;-)
Because propaganda and nationalism are one hell of a drug.
Seems to be up now (11/8 4:40 AM GMT). I am able to see the setups under /explore and the charts although charts take up ~1s to load.
I am saddened to be reminded of the story in your link, as I read it at the time it was posted, and was also saddened then.

I’m not convinced you have adequately eliminated other potential reasons he may have done the uncharacteristic thing he did. Even if he was in his right mind, I’m not convinced he had anyone’s interest at heart but his own personal one, as jobs are a form of social control. He desired to be free of this control. Even if individual liberty is worth fighting for, the Constitution doesn’t grant you the right to the job you want on the terms you want. That’s what the courts are for.

This guy was wrong to do what he did in every way but for the right reasons in a very minor way that is more a matter of principle rather than tax law. No matter his beef, it was just his own, and as such, it doesn’t justify so much as slapping someone’s hand, let alone the stunt he pulled.

I do see your point, though I disagree.
Yes, carbon dioxide is not biologically inert like Halon is. It's the signal your body uses to say it's out of oxygen. You will definitely react negatively to getting a lung full of it.
Nice to see some research into this. It's amazing that masks or face coverings are being pushed so hard by the powers that be, even though there are no peer reviewed studies or double blind trials. Good thing they are not made of hydroxychloroquine I guess.
thehistoryoftheweb.com is a cultural treasure and I'm very happy it's there. One thing that would make me like it more: if I could submit a pull request or two....
Not all c-syntax languages let you implicitly convert from integer or pointer to boolean though. Java and C# don't. I have heard MISRA C doesn't allow it.

I actually don't mind this feature of C personally, just playing devil's advocate. Some people feel really strongly about not implicitly allowing conversion to bool. This is why.
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Not only this, but resources GALORE since its been around longer than the internet and has been used by just about every developer. Java, Python, C#, Node, PHP etc... they all know SQL.
Just search for all current and past "data scientist" / BigData job offerings for those agencies on Google and Archive.org for the last 10 years. This data is freely available.
The Space Shuttle payloads to LEO cost $40,000 per pound.

Before SpaceX commercial launch payloads cost $5,000 to $10,000 per pound.

Falcon 9 payloads cost around $1,500 per pound.

Falcon Heavy payloads cost around $1,100 per pound.

Starship payloads will cost between $100 and $500 per pound. It will be able to lift at least 100 tons to orbit. And using in orbit refueling, it will be able to accelerate that 100 ton payload 6.9 km/sec, making landing it on Ceres trivial.
It's not equivalent, that was the point. Any responsibility one might feel towards their employer's code goes away immediately when they find a new job somewhere else for better pay. If you follow that, this whole line of reasoning really doesn't have anything to do with FOSS versus proprietary. You can observe the same effects happening at tons of Linux companies too, i.e. employees who don't care one way or another about the OS or the license and are just there to put in their time and collect a paycheck.