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Nearly every country I visited in Europe had defined foreigner's departments in the hospitals (but not in all hospitals). The entire purpose of those departments was to work with people who did not reside there and likely did not speak the language. For instance, in the case of the foreigners department in Spain, they had translators on staff during the day for communicating with specialists or the doctors as well as English speaking nurses during the day, which was not guaranteed in other parts of the hospital.

In some countries I visited the foreigner's department was more involved in handling currency exchange and payment details, but less concerned with care or providing services (Czech Republic was this way at FN Motol for instance: https://www.fnmotol.cz/en/samoplatci/).

If you are a resident citizen of an EU country, you can often seek treatment in other EU countries under the same social medicine scheme they have and your citizenship/residency paperwork covers you. I'm not sure if Country A bills Country B or how that works exactly, but it was pretty clear that the foreigner's department concept was for non-EU citizens who were private pay and ineligible for social medicine.
Some of what Uber is describing sounds like a way to keep competitors from entering the market. The best way I know to keep driver's total compensation high is for them to be able to drive for places other than Uber.
Did you ever stop to think that keeping people on the precipice of ruin so that they have little negotiating power for their wages is what causes 10% to 20% of the US to be “prosperous”, but not the rest?

Not to mention the myriad other reasons for success in the US, such as being the only developed nation with large resource stores left intact after WW2?

Not to discount the very important work of US scientists and engineers who objectively did make great progress, but to say that the nation’s success depends on not helping its most vulnerable is ridiculous.
Most people are willing to pay bribes, so this is not an issue for them
i see the point youre making, but i'm interested in hearing more about how the economy works, and which reforms are laudable vs which are moronic
i'm surprised that people are surprised by this.

i work for aerospace, and this is fairly typical -- albeit not floppy disk examples, but we keep a bunch of old laptops running win 7 and other examples around, hound around for them and spare parts. these machines are off the network, etc.

these systems were developed 20+ years ago and per contract the a manufacture is obligated to maintain them for the service life, so unless these are obsoleted these are to last 20-30+ years.

the costs associated of porting all tools from win 7 to a newer system and re-verifying 50K+ test cases to do a similarity analysis run into astronomical in terms of $ and months (years) of work. no one really wants to poke that bear so you have situations like these.
Memory use isn't real though, especially with OSX and Chrome. It is just eating up what's available as an optimisation, not taking only what it needs.

Also, get Firefox.
If you could build the internet from scratch what would it look like?
My main pain points are: managing 200+ accounts/identities, wastefulness of host based addressing vs content addressing, data silos at large data monopolies, lack of ubiquity across devices and finally lack of decentralization of the internet.
As mentioned in my sibling reply, I tried to unravel the logic there and made my best attempt at an answer a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11670698
If you lose your phone, you lose your phone. I've personally done this before, but since I have a secondary low-end device for such contingiencies, it wasn't so much a problem. It does require some preparation, though.
There is zero benefit of setting manufacturing unit in India.

Afaik, most of the manufacturing that happens here is assembly.

Unless your product is one of those mass market, multi million dollar revenue makers you'll be eaten alive by adminstrative costs.
I think what the OP went through is pretty much re-zoning of an agricultural land to commercial/industrial land which probably will run into similar roadblocks in Western world too? Of course, not saying it will take this long but have heard about similar bureaucracy.

Small town governments in USA at least are very strict with their zoning codes and based on things what I have heard, changing the zone sometimes require even putting the change in a ballot! Mostly requires council approval I guess but the process is similarly full of red tape. I remember a very similar article by someone who tried to start a business at their home in some US state and the red tape he had to go through.
Isn't this situation due to ISO rules, and don't they publish a "draft" that is identical to the actual standard before hitting publish, to get around those rules?

Or maybe you're talking about something I don't understand.
Anecdata: I have always wanted to do a full body exercise routine, gravitating toward body weight exercise. I _never_ wanted to deal with personal trainers and didn't really know where to start. I tried a few step-by-step guides over the years and always lost motivation. Always, sometimes relatively quickly. I'm healthy, skinny and do a lot of aerobic exercise and outdoor activities (soccer, frisbee, etc.), but I always wanted to have better all around fitness.

I used the pandemic as an excuse to start an at-home routine. Purchased a workout mat and an app subscription. The app tells me what to do, when to do it, and increases/decreases the difficulty of the next workout based on how long any given set of exercises took me. (As an aside, it's pretty cool. I took too long to do a particular exercise, like squats? They'll backpedal a little and build up my ability to do squats with a range of other exercises, then back to be able to do what I couldn't before). Anyways, long story short, I'm going on five months straight of workouts three times a week and have noticeable increase in general strength and flexibility.

Previously I hadn't ever considered an app to be in place of a human personal trainer. And really being able to workout at whatever time is convenient for the day (as long as I do 3 days a week) really makes it flexible.

Sorry, long post, but the article is a bit devoid of any information so thought I would throw my relevant experience in there.
T-symmetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-symmetry > See also links to "reversible computing" but not the "time reversal" disambiguation page?
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I shifted to doing AI (mostly vision) stuff a few years back, and I sometimes feel I was happier doing backend systems. There is so much noise out there in AI and the whole thing is moving at the pace of JS frameworks (i.e. too fast to humanly stay up-to-date with). I don't know if it is generally better to make the switch to AI or stick with the old stuff. People will always need the old stuff. Also, there is a reason those AI projects have gotten canceled at your workplace btw .. I think most orgs don't have the right setup to derive value from AI.

Question to OP if you want to discuss this .. how do you see ML/DS vs. vision. Vision needs a ton of data and I think hard for a lot of orgs to get benefit from. Is ML/DS very different?
How is Google "Big Knowledge" when the actively play a role in deciding what knowledge gets disseminated or buried? You said yourself the problem is inaccurate information or propaganda which Google is a part of if they're suppressing information they don't like.
Operations and Support seems to be the smallest chunk of that at 2.3 billion. I am not sure if that's the pool of money drivers are paid out of. It would be better to see the actual cost paid to drivers instead of assuming "a big chunk", as to me it's looks like a smaller chunk of the smallest chunk.
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Is it still an uncompetitive wage when you:

1. Don't require housing etc money

2. Are ranked up to any degree higher than random POG

?
So what you're saying, if I'm understanding you correctly, is that instead of me exchanging money for goods and services from specific companies or exercising my freedom of choice, it's much better for me to be making up the hidden costs of chronically underpaid workers for businesses that I don't like. And somehow Walmart is subsidizing me because I'm exercising my freedom of choice. As opposed to about 5% of my paycheck going to subsidize companies like Walmart who choose not to pay a living wage.

So why not just remove all the money from the economy? I personally find Walmart's business model of chronically underpaying people then making them dependent on a huge bureaucracy to make up the living wage pretty repugnant. Whereas paying them an extra $6.00/hr means they no longer have to spend time waiting in line and on the phone during their off hours. They don't have to look specifically for landlords who accept section 8 vouchers.

The living wage removes a huge amount of hidden labor involved in living off of minimum wage and that's what you're missing here.
This article doesn't really have any facts, it's just asking a question into the void. I doubt people staying home is going to lead to _more_ fitness, but I have as much data to back it up as the article.
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I'd use FF with an ad blocker like uBlock Origin, ads can hog tons of resources. Here are some other tips too https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-m...
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Also, to your last sentence: check out whatever they're calling Blackwater these days.
Note that the article covers the 747-400, which first flew in 1988. Using 3.5" floppies for updates made sense then, and aircraft avionics tend not to be updated unless absolutely necessary.
Stopped to think on it. And no, that doesn't make sense.
Most Americans don't benefit from this strong economy. So that's just a silly term.
But is this scalable? A lot of big manufacturing moving now like Foxconn etc is just assembly. What they should want in the long run is to have the whole ecosystem in place.

India has lagged a lot in terms of its peer economies in other parts of Asia which almost started at the same place in the last century. I know they did liberalisation later than most, but they haven't catched up well even after that.
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> "please raise a regulatory moat around us because we are now safely inside the citadel".

Exactly. Competition is probably the best way to make sure that drivers get the most total compensation (regardless of whether it is coming in the form of salary or benefits). What is being described here would really limit other companies ability to compete with Uber on the terms that Uber used to compete with taxi services.
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I asked whitequark about the name; it's named Glasgow because it's where the headquarters of FTDI are based, and the initial prototypes were intended to be an open-source serial adapter gateware before feature creep set in.
Perhaps, but this case was explicitly about US copyright, and may even hinge on the specific intricacies on whether database copyright in US law covers this specific case.
While the timeline was accelerated this year, it's hard to imagine that there could have been a different outcome. It's been decades now since the UK formally handed over HK to the Chinese central government, and the Chinese have always said they would integrate it slowly into mainland China.

Hundreds of thousands of HKers have been migrating out of China for decades.

I'm unclear why people expected HK to ever be autonomous permanently?
The tech tree isn't translated as far as I can tell. Though my point was that the projects talks in a universal way but the listed sources are really from one cultural group. The translated files are translations of the file "Guide To the GitHub Code Vault" (GUIDE.md), I don't think that's really relevant here.
I'm more interested in the recidivism rates of criminals let out on COVID compassionate release. In Maryland recently they released a rapist and he murdered the victim. There are a bunch of anecdotes that warrant looking at these dangerous policies and the risk we are putting towards the general population to reduce the risk of exposure to criminals. I've thought it was a foolhardy exercise to begin with.
The atheistic point of view is that we are all "chemical scum" as per Hawking. Death is the end of everyone and everything, and nothing matters.
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I've only ever seen that happen when re-exporting using Quartz filters, where the whole point is to re-encode, and saving an e.g. 300-page PDF will take several minutes, with a progress bar.

If you're just using Preview to rearrange/combine/etc. pages, no re-encoding happens and file size stays the same.

Believe me, I do a lot of PDF management in Preview. Even to the point of creating my own Quartz filters in the ColorSync Utility precisely so that I can intentionally re-encode images when I want to. (Because the Apple-provided Quartz filters are hard-coded to abusrdly high or absurdly low resoltions.)
>this responsibility really should lie with everyone

some responsibility should lie with the public, but to capture the diversity of benefits and needs of every single employee with a centralised program is impossible, and it would also be an unprecedented amount of power transferred to the federal government.

Not everyone requires the same benefits or same training and this is why corporations do need to have some responsibility, decentralisation of benefits is necessary.

This sort of technocratic dream of taking all responsibility away from business which then functions in pure form while all social responsibility is transferred to bureaucrats who hand out benefits (but also can cut them at any point), is volatile and essentially has one single point of failure.

Not to mention it completely ignores the messy reality that we can't simply "tax the billionaires and upper middle class" because of the complications of real world politics.

The US is already way too dependent on this logic of having an all powerful government bail out citizens and unaccountable business. It was one of the lessons of the financial crisis and right now during the pandemic it is failing again. Yes, the government can write trillion dollar checks, but it does nothing to combat the mass unemployment and dysfunction that is the result of having no responsibility or organisational capacity within firms, who ought to be the first line of defense.
A bit disappointed that this would favor Flask over Django, particularly if RoR is favored over, say, Sinatra
The headline is misleading in my view because loading navigational data is not the same as an update to the software code or operating system.
This is a major privacy violation. Who would willingly install malware that censored their posts? I've never seen a generation beg for LESS rights.
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Why shouldn't an employer pay their employees enough to live? Why should companies be able to benefit and profit from an employee's labour without providing them enough to even have a home? You sound like you want a work force full of slaves you can drop any time you feel like they cost you too much. Maybe corporations need to understand who the people generating these millions of dollars are, they're the people down their being paid fuck all to make ceo's rich.
Interesring! Enabling the social dynamics that naturally happen when large groups gather together, is something defenitevelly needed and the existing video conf solutions are too rigid to implement anything similar.
Good job!
Periodic reminder that though "forbes.com" may have implied some credentials in the past, it is now a site where anyone can post anything.
So would this be similar to Apache Ignite?
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That is some classic feminist irony right there. If I were a woman, I would hate that shit but it seems like most people who comes up with and support ideas like this are either too stupid or too ignorant to care.
Why wouldn't you use Safari on it? When it comes to being optimised for the Mac, that's where it's at.
You're on a closed sourced OS, webkit is open.
Firefox. Block ads. It’ll do fine.
I don’t see any of my well educated, well heeled peers recommending their children to join the military. Because their children have better options.
You can get the standard here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2310.pdf

(more or less)
That sounds interesting. I've also been contemplating getting a personal trainer. Would you mind sharing the app's name?
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I've been looking for something exactly like that. Could you share the name of the app?
That's not how the courts view these issues. Fake facts hidden within real facts have been litigated many times and has always been shown to be uncopyrightable. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street#Legal_issues.
>On the consumer side it looks very much like they undercut the existing market by dodging taxes and benefits for their disguised employees.

I'm curious if the salary for an Uber driver was significantly (or even at all) below the salary of a cab driver. It isn't like cabbies were rolling in the cash if they were employed by the cab company.

Also, is the salary significantly different if you compare it to independent cabbies (who owned a medalion).

Quick googling shows that the salaries are comparable: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/11/28/fare-d...

>by dodging taxes

Hold on a second here. Let's not play fast and loose with words. Minimizing taxes is not illegal and everyone does it..

>for their disguised employees.

Employment has certain characteristics. It is much easier to make a case that Uber drivers are not employees rather than they are.
Based on my social circle, no. A few people I know used the lockdown as an opportunity to improve their diet, find ways to exercise that don't require access to a gym, etc. but the majority have just gained weight, gotten more online, and generally become less healthy.
Perfect way to ensure that teams will never write stuff down anywhere.
The find your phone is nice, but not necessary. Especially the hassle of getting it back if it's been stolen. First - don't keep nudes on your phone. . .

Then just add your contacts and other files from your phone to a monthly/weekly (depending on your personal preference) backup schedule.

I have all of my home data set to backup automatically monthly. I just make sure my phone is plugged into my desktop the last Saturday of the month. Problem solved.
Doesn't work for me. It opens the emoji picker, but doesn't close it. :(

Tried in both Chrome and TextEdit.
If you were to to open a plant in China instead, which tariff would customers have to pay on your product?
"Compatible type" is defined in the standard as well. It doesn't mean "whatever the compiler thinks is compatible", it's what the section "Compatible type and composite type" defines as compatible. Different struct types are not compatible.
Unless you're a spook, isn't it pointless? We're bound to make mistakes. Or just make it a bit more anon?
I can suggest qutebrowser.
Great advice on forcing the documentation as both a gating function and an optics advantage to management.

I have been trying to re-route RTFM queries to inside the org by putting in support structures where there were previously none, as well as working on some training sessions that are basically "how to avoid RTFM queries" but in a respectful way.
Uber wants you to believe that the cost of paying drivers as employees is that you won’t be able to get a car in most places.

This can’t be true.

Uber replaced a poorly run system that actually covered most places and employed it’s labor force.

If Uber and other car services were forced to recognize their workforce as employees, there would be market incentives to support doing so.

Uber mentions the subsidized cost of their health plan. This is very creatively failing to mention that the American taxpayers pay this difference. Your ride may seem cheap, but you pay for it in your tax bill.

Maybe Uber thinks PR pieces like this one will convince us not to regulate them. I hope we’re not that slow.
It's kind of counter intuitive, but writing about women's role in computing directly sheds light on men's role in the same. It is one of those sentences, where what is not said is just as important.

> We believe women's unique role in founding and shaping computing and technology deserves its own section.

> <Hidden> And men's role doesn't deserve a section, because literally everything else you read about was done by them. <\Hidden>

I too think, the on-the-nose-ness of communicating women's roles here, is annoying to both men and women of 2020. However, this document is written with societal-recovery in mind. In that case, I would rather it be explicitly mentioned that women deserve just as relevant a role in tech development, lest some post-apocalyptic male-supremacist historian notice that almost everything important in tech was invented by men and postulate that, 'Tech should be the domain of men and only men.'

I do hope they also talk about the internal culture of nerds, societal-outcasts and less-than-macho men, that shaped tech as we know it. I don't think the uniqueness of nerdy tech culture is explored enough.

Better safe than sorry.
I use Firefox but it's a memory hog too. To be fair, websites are the memory hogs imo.

Sadly I don't think you can have the full web experience without sacrificing a couple gigs of ram if you have several tabs open at once.

I know it's not open source but on a Macbook I would expect Safari to be the lightest browser.

If you really want open and still like Chrome, you could try ungoogled chromium here : https://chromium.woolyss.com/
Yes, but this arcane way of working isn't OK, when the entire opensource world depends on the language to produce functioning code.
Sanctions on places like Iran Venezuela are "genocide" in the same sense that silence is violence, i.e. when you don't believe words have meaning, and when you seek to obscure rather than enlighten.
If I'm following the author's argument correctly, the very influential companies who maintain very large, very old C code bases don't like what you just described -- new warning messages in code that used to not have any. They worry, then, that if the STANDARD actually mandates a warning, that is even more likely to happen, and that makes the very influential companies very sad.

Which sounds like bullshit to me.
Brainstorming an idea here, but what about a modification to the corporate tax rate based on something like the Gini coefficient of the compensation inequality of the workers. Want to add an extra $10M of compensation for your CEO for adding a one-quarter 2% boost? Pay an extra 0.2% in your corporate tax rate, or similar?

The other end of the spectrum is of course capital gains for shareholders, but any of the wealth taxes proposed recently would help make that more stable.

We are at French Revolution levels of inequality, with a pandemic, a president that despises the majority of US citizens but runs clubs where power-seeking wealthy people pay for admission, and we are not even building enough housing for an entire generation that's growing up. If we don't start addressing this inequality in substantial ways, we will see much greater unrest.
All sports leagues have been through extensive rule changes and updates to make sure the game is enjoyable and fair for all, and does not result in one team winning everything all the time.