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> It's not an interesting topic to argue about at the bar, it's my fucking life.

You see, the problem is that pretty much every political topic is someone's life. It hardly would be worth discussing otherwise. Thinking that the topic that concerns you personally is somehow universally special among the others is despicable arrogance.

Now, I suppose that you are thinking that it is easy for me to say all that stuff about same-sex marriage, because I don't care. And you are kinda right. But let me assure you that there are topics in which I am pretty heavily emotionally invested and have a very strong opinion on (I won't specify what it is to not escalate this even further). And that some people I work with, and even have pretty good friendly relationships with have not only argued against, but outright have hobbies that go directly against to what I think is right. So I'd rather wish some of these hobbies to be banned (or, let's rather say "legally restricted"), and I said that to these people on more than one occasion. We both are fine about that. People cannot agree on everything.

(There is also stuff that is currently banned that I want to be legal. Just to make it more symmetric, so that you don't think it's something about wanting things to be banned that is special.)
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Goebbels had a literature PhD and became the Reichsminister of Propaganda. Humanities education does not guarantee a moral outlook.
It's ridiculous that the Linux community thinks it's normal to insult people and tell them to go away and never come back because they are "careless" or "stupid". Reject it (and maybe educate if you're feeling generous) but there's no reason to be a dick.
Why would anyone at the talent level that I assume are on par with anyone working at the big tech companies accept the salaries of senior software as a service CRUD developer in any major metropolitan area in the US?

I’m not in any way throwing shade on CRUD developers, as a developer that’s what I was until a few months ago, but the minute I saw the opportunity to pivot to make more, I did.
I was once treating my window ledge with Linseed Oil and was quite surprised when the cloth set on fire from direct sunlight ignited!
> Interesting that the recent Apple drama is making its way into the update as well

The actual scandal to me is that Apple used to be given unfair advantages by developers delaying updates on Android because the iOS version hadn't been approved yet.
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I think this is the most brilliant aspects of the game.

Throughout history, colonization has always required the demonization of the colonized people. Savages, barbarians, white mans burden etc.

Now a typical factorio player would be aghast for murdering humanoids to take over their resources ( or maybe they wouldn’t? Could be an interesting mod!). But we know those slimy brainless insects are just reactive monsters.

But even more... if you play the game, the early waves of the natives can actually do a lot of damage if you aren’t too careful, and can even kill ya. So the game instructs you to absolutely hate these creatures and to fear them. And when you finally build a base large enough to defend itself from hordes and hordes of natives, you feel rather proud, rather than feeling aghast at the carnage. There is a visceral hatred the game has taught you for these “enemies”.
Because some people just like to be used. I think they call it codependence.
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I own two bikes, a gravel bike with carbon front and steel frame, and a touring bike with aluminum frame. I did some 200 km day rides on both at about the same pace. The gravel bike is more comfortable off road. The touring bike is more responsive and probably faster on paved roads but I do my serious cycling with the gravel bike now. Those are the expected characteristics of steel vs aluminum. A full carbon frame would be the best, comfortable and fast.
Respected doctors within Russia are claiming this vaccine has substantial levels of mercury preservative, and are recommending against it.
Great hard data. Hopefully at least some VC's will look internally at the way they talk about "pattern matching" and recognize it for what it is, a selection bias tuned for young white male founders.
>Microsoft still runs the dominant operating system! They have a huge opportunity here to complete. The same way Chrome advertises on Google.com, Microsoft can provide the default fucking browser that is HUGE.

They've had that advantage since Chrome came out. Didn't stop them from losing almost all their market share.

>Its multiprocess architecture, by far its most long term scalable feature, was behind Internet Explorer's (they started multiproc trend with, iirc, IE8).

Chrome has been technologically ahead of IE since it came out.

>Acquire Servo, do better? That's my entire point.

Why do we think Servo will be better?
> Just think of it! In a few months we are completely re-examining the utility of taking out a student loan that many cannot pay back in their working lifetimes.

I think it astounding how we humans are swayed in the information/meme/idea wind.
Ah, damn. Nobody could have seen this coming.
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There is a famous Ted Talk arguing that non profits should pay competitive salaries with the market to get the best employees.

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...

And here is an article about the same thing for those who want to skim through it.

https://www.idealist.org/en/careers/rethinking-salaries-and-...
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I interpreted the original point as championing intelligent design, but maybe I’m wrong and I’m missing something?
Honey bees are the number one venomous killer in Australia.
I agree, although if the premise of the article is true, #1 is the implied outcome.
My experience in engineering grad school (industrial) was that the most valuable things I learned were engineering econometrics and statistical simulation, both of which apply to nearly everything.
Every political position hurts someone. (Heck, the mainstream leftist view is that you have to vote to make it easier to kill babies, and if you don't then you must be an evil person who hates women). If you vote against tax breaks for oil drillers, you're voting to hurt oil drillers. I don't think that's a productive way to frame political disagreement (and I say that as someone who lost most of my life's savings due to a shift in the law).

No doubt there are thousands of people from your partner's country who would like US citizenship and can't get it. You're demanding a special privilege for your partner and then talking as though it were a natural right. (My country doesn't give citizenship for any kind of marriage, FWIW).
Well, yes, but actually not quite...

It's an infrastructure game.

If I need to build new fiber/cable/whatever to X homes to get N% * X new subscribers, then those costs & profits have to amortize out to at least 0. And most of the time they dont.

We tried to fix this for electric power by separating transmission from distribution ("deregulating") and allowing consumers to have a choice.

There is conflicting evidence as to whether or not this actually lowered prices for consumers.

For internet services, bandwidth is essentially free for providers (for typical usage), so the main costs involved are infrastructure upkeep & customer support. Cable TV distribution & phone/security services typically subsidize these costs too.

Municipal broadband is a nice idea, but it takes a unique set of circumstances for it to work. Consider how many other municipal infrastructure services are 100% run by your city/county.

Maybe there's a different approach. The federal government wants to prevent Huawei from deploying telecom equipment in the US. Maybe we should look at a top-down approach to internet infrastructure funding, the same way we do with highways and schools. If they want to set the rules, they should put up the money to do so. But then again, look at the poor state of our bridges and tunnels...

What's abundantly clear is that telecommunications services are an essential piece of infrastructure for modern commerce. COVID eliminated any doubt whatsoever about this fact. So how do we make sure it's funded well, but also run efficiently? It's not a trivial question by any means.
Even if they aren’t in the Bay , they still have to compete with Bay salaries. Especially, if more of BigTech starts allowing remote work.
You aren't being serious.
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They didn't have Zoom either, so we don't know what they would have done if remote learning had been possible.
Many organizations have non-technical founders in addition to the technical ones. IIRC, Mitchell has been the chairperson of the board for ages (if not the whole time) and has moved into and out of the CEO role as needs dictated, including being CEO for the first few years when Firefox was growing, in addition to the most recent year or two.
We don't know how many kinds of atoms there are, and infinite is pretty damn accurate all things considered. And it's pretty disingenuous to go out of your way to take quarks to mean what he called atoms just so you can claim he's wrong.
Amazing what happens in big cities when the job opportunities disappear, rents don't come down, and fun things are forcibly closed.
It is very simple, from the quality of the work you know that those people worth the price. If you are not paying that, they will leave and work for other companies that could afford them.
I on the other hand was hoping no one would make that joke.
In the first example of exploding fireworks, the company was not following regulations, as noted in your link. The fireworks were stored illegally and people went to prison as a result of their behaviour.

The second is bad, but isn’t the same the same as it’s there by accident and the remedy is far from clear. Depending on who you believe, the munitions are either safe now, or can’t be touched. Quite how that gets managed I don’t know.

The link also says this about the last time they tried to manage a sunken munitions ship:

“One of the reasons that the explosives have not been removed was the unfortunate outcome of a similar operation in July 1967, to neutralize the contents of SS Kielce, a ship of Polish origin, sunk in 1946, off Folkestone in the English Channel. During preliminary work, Kielce exploded with a force equivalent to an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, digging a 20-foot-deep (6 m) crater in the seabed and bringing "panic and chaos" to Folkestone, although there were no injuries.[5] Kielce was at least 3 or 4 miles (4.8 or 6.4 km) from land, sunk in deeper water than Richard Montgomery, and had "just a fraction" of the load of explosives”
I know there are studies that suggest elections tend to favor Republicans when voting becomes more restrictive but my intuition is that in this unique case this is just as devastating to Republicans as Democrats since older folks are not going to stand in line during a pandemic. I see this as a completely idiotic move by the executive branch. Or am I misunderstanding something obvious?
> In a dead stop, maybe, but a car isn't likely to be stopped dead.

I guess it depends on the kind of accident.

In a head-on collision or if you run into a tree/concrete wall, that's pretty close to being stopped dead.

In the more common rear end or "T" collisions, probably not.
Good point. "best seo tactic" doesn't show any of this on the front page (and there's a half page of ads before you see any real content).
Montana is reliably Republican, and has voted so in 9 of the last 10 presidential elections. (1992 was the exception.)

If the mailbox removal is part of some sinister plot, it's not the GOP behind it.

https://www.270towin.com/states/Montana
> Create what you hoped your search would find

This is the content is king mantra. Ideal SEO is the point that delivers the best results with the fewest consequences. That’s a subjective rule, so it’s hard to say creating content works for everyone.

Point of saying this is you should strive to appease search engines by creating useful content, but the real world is messy. Some industries need to bend the rules to survive.
How would a recent grad cope working fully remotely without any mentorship? I would much rather go with someone with more experience.

That being said, I have to admit that I was very impressed with the work done by the two interns that were on my team (at $BigTech) who are leaving next week. But they had their own projects and weren’t on critical paths.
25% positive test rate is terrible!
Rather than "I love Debian", I think its core strength making the preferred choice for most situations:

* well-maintained and large user-share

* lowest common denominator for most deployments; regardless on if it's cloud, SBCs, bare-metal servers or desktop, Debian's default installation has a base set of packages for any scenario; just enough that you don't miss anything vital but not making opinionated choices when there is one to be made. For anything I use it for, the only additional things that go on all machines is userspace utilities like vim/tmux/htop. I never felt a need to remove anything.
like the rest of the world
But this human readable section of the URL is primarily useful for reading outside the address bar, before you've loaded the page.

Eg. if someone pasted you the URL, you can kind of get an idea of what it's about by reading the URL in your instant messenger or something. Once you've loaded the page and the URL is displayed in your address bar, you'd be looking at the page itself to understand it rather than your address bar.
Same thought haha
A) The linked WSJ article claims "The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco in the month of July dropped by 11% compared with the same month a year prior, according to rental-listings platform Zumper, which analyzed nearly 11,000 listings in the city and several surrounding areas."

http://archive.is/CZeTm

However,

B) A different article, dated 8/3/2020, claims: "In San Francisco, Zillow says rent prices declined 3.2 percent compared to the same time last year."

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/08/03/in-bay-areas-co...

PadMapper shows the range for a 1 bedroom rental as ~$2k-$4k, and 2 bedrooms as ~$3k-$5k.

A 3.2% drop on a $4k rental takes the price down to $3.9k. Not a big 'fall' in the scheme of finding affordable housing.

https://www.padmapper.com/apartments/san-francisco-ca/2-beds...
May the goal isn't so much to win as to undermine the very legitimacy of the election.
Per capital is higher in rural, but there are going to be more guns in a N mile radius of you in the city, and a lot more armed individuals (ten people with one gun each are more dangerous than one person with ten guns).
You're right.

The bars should be closed, too.

We should be spending the entire defense budget on paying for people to stay home, stay safe, and to get them what they need; as well as funding as much scientific research as feasible to fight this clear and present danger to our lives and livelihoods.
Relaxed atomics translate to native loads and stores. In theory there is no cost to them apart from the compiler barrier which prevents other loads/stores from moving past them, depending on the case.

For larger objects, std::atomic uses a mutex, so it's kind of silly anyway. If you wanted a mutex, better to make it explicit.
> For example, if somebody liked to spend their time skinning small animals alive and posting the videos on YouTube, I don't think I'd accept a job at their company. That's just a bit too far for me!

Skinning animals alive for fun is a criminal offence in many jurisdictions (animal cruelty), and recognised as a symptom of mental illness (it is in the DSM-5 criteria for conduct disorder, and maybe other disorders too).

By contrast, donating to a mainstream political campaign is not a crime, and is not recognised as a symptom of mental illness

So I think the analogy you are trying to make here is a poor one
>locally anti-entropic processes. We do see liquids turn into regular solids after all:

Crystallization is exothermic process. It releases heat into environment. It converts potential chemical energy into heat as result of bond making. Thus the total entropy of the system "crystal forming liquid + environment" is increased. Life is another famous process of local anti-entropy which is driven by the increase of the total entropy.
Walter Bright is the creator of the D language so this is the best place to ask these questions.
Oh right, I can't believe that didn't cross my mind. I also sad that I now live in a country where I have to worry about that.
> sharing it on HN

Perhaps it is more of a grey area. Probably not so much the whole Show HN thing, more of the hustle seen in the comments.

Usually you see someone comment on a post about some tech by saying "I am with X company and we are working on Y to solve this problem!".

Personally, I think this stuff is great. You gotta respect the hustle.
In the private sector and abroad. Corruption correlates pretty well with rates of emigration.
Doing so may likely require creating a separate code path for threads = 1 case, which is probably not worth the effort involved.
> Presumably many/most of those users are not happy with Google/Chrome/advertising/tracking.

I wouldn't bet on that. A lot of non-tech-savvy people use Firefox because it was recommended by their nerdy friends.

If funding Mozilla resulted in no return, Google would have realized it by now. They have been doing it for quite a long time.
I'm in my senior year of college. I seriously considered doing exactly what you're suggesting.

I would much rather just suck it up and enter the workforce at this point. I don't know what I'd do with myself for the year, and I don't have enough credits to speedrun my degree in the spring. There's also some conflicting information about if I would keep my financial aid. I haven't taken the time to dig into it, because at that point I decided it wasn't worth it.
1. Things tend to turn to dust rather than stay together, because the number of states where things are "together" are small, and the number of states where things are dust are high.

2. Ice has a few arrangements, and water has many. So water is "dust ice".

3. H2O will naturally tend towards "dust" form over time, so ice will eventually become water.
We already know #1 isn’t true. Facebook, and Twitter both reduce salaries for remote workers.

They probably still pay a local premium but that isn’t different from the Bay Area in general.
To be clear, that isn't what I meant, though I can't really edit my comment for clarity. Some things don't manifest the way you intend when converting from thoughts to text.
I read the article. Did I overlook the part where partisan politics, and their depth of responsibility for the homelessness problem of NYC was covered? If I did, my mistake. If I didn't, why are you bringing up how conservatives affect the homelessness in NYC? I'm pretty sure conservative policymakers in NYC are as common as hens teeth..in NYC.
One possible model of the universe is a low-entropy "bounce" in the middle (the big bang), with entropy increasing in both time directions away from it (and therefore observers on either side of it experiencing the big bang as being in the "past"). Then the only part that remains to be explained is why there's this single point of low entropy, and that's kind of a "why is there something rather than nothing?" question.
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4G is very hit or miss geographically, and "unlimited" data plans tend to throttle you at usage as low as 2GB/mo, and will refuse to renew your contact if you use too much too regularly (now that contacts are rare, that often means justa few consecutive months over an unwritten amount will get you terminated.
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I should have been more explicit. My estimation is that the more-accurate tests which can be turned around within a day or two should be made inexpensive. Not new technology, different distribution. What good is it to be a large rich nation if we can’t do that here in the US?
> The San Jose metro, which like the city of SF is dominated by tech workers

Is this true specifically for homeowners? Last I looked it up, only 7-12% of bay area residents work in tech, and I think a lot of us rent.
Having moved back to Vancouver for a few weeks it's honestly so refreshing to, be back. Living in SF for a few years kind of makes you forget what being in a half functioning city is like. It's safer, it's cleaner, the people friendlier, the discourse less polarized/toxic, and the public transit isn't garbage.
Thank you for recommending this. I just bought the game and I’m most certainly going to be spending a few weekends on this : )
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Ask HN: What can employers monitor while you work from home?
It occurred to me that the only employer provided equipment that I use for work is my laptop. The monitor and peripherals are all mine.

Can an employer use my webcam and microphone to monitor me or my activity? Can they log keystrokes typed on my keyboard? Can they do all of this through the internet service that I pay for? And should they be able to do all or any of this?
From an Australian perspective, the USA can look like a place where the earth might suddenly turn to jelly and knock your city down, or giant wind vortexes could descend from the sky and carry you away - things which seem more terrifying to me than a few animals I can easily avoid.

I kind of assume those things are blown out of proportion in media much the same way our wildlife is.
Who said that it’s all base salary? Ever heard of bonuses?
It almost looks as though the fire started in the truck itself or on one of the rear brakes, was there a report on the cause of the fire in this particular case?

I'm afraid I don't know. :-(
There is no money in preventing care when compared to treating sick people. The latter one is magnitudes more profitable.
But then it slows down my internet. Why pay for Gig E up/down just to have it throttled?
I'm genuinely afraid of trying this game.
Seems like you're jumping out of the frying pan into the fire, no? Mozilla might be obscuring their financial details, but on balance they are one of the most ethical entities on the internet.

Google and Microsoft both have the corporate predator instinct in their DNA.
You're arguing in very bad faith here. That's a huge misrepresentation of what pro-choice advocates want.

> You're demanding a special privilege for your partner and then talking as though it were a natural right.

It's not a special privilege. It's a privilege people who are straight get but not people who are gay, which is not okay.
I'm Chilean, and I lived in Bolivia back in 89. I used to travel back and forth all the time, so I got used to see lake Titicaca from the air, and a couple of times on the ground. The place is astonishingly beautiful. Pristine. Ancient. The Aymara people have the deepest connection with their land, and the lake, of any place I've ever been at.

I haven't been back in a long time, but whenever I hear about the Altiplano (the highlands) I get an overwhelming feeling of respect for their people, their land and their culture. In South America (at least definitely in Chile), we're obsessed with modernism, state-of-the-art highways and skyscrapers. Aymaras, on the other hand, seem to live in a place with no time, where even their language expresses the past in front, and the future behind. Their people continue to carve artifacts like that llama today, just like back then.
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