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> actual unions are a far cry from how they are portrayed as helping the worker.

But that's life. Real capitalism is also a far cry from the fairy tale capitalism presented by many popular economics books and articles (e.g. the beautiful self-regulating system where everyone is better off in the end by definition).

> They are set up as antagonistic between administration and workers, and adds a layer of bureaucracy that I've only seen be negative. I've worked with people who effectively could never be fired and were so bad at their jobs they spread negativity with everyone they encountered.

You could say the same about democracy. Wouldn't it be better to replace our actual democratic system with an idealized autocracy? There'd be far less interpersonal strife over politics, and we wouldn't have to waste our time with voting or political participation, and could devote our energies to more productive things instead!

The union debate is weird like that. There's all kinds of negative discussion about specific instances of unions, considered in isolation. But that's rarely balanced against the specific problems unions are meant to solve or mitigate, so the effect is to compare the negatives of unions against an unspecified but implied positive management/shareholder-led status quo.
I don't really think much of anyone has optics sharp enough to resolve a star to one pixel with perfect contrast on an a7R. Maybe the 135 2.8 GM stopped down to f/4 in the middle could do it?
Well for one, where is the fuel? Seems like it would take a tremendous amount of fuel and there are no visible fuel tanks on the jetpack.
Out here Target went hardcore on self checkout a while ago. Now you'll see like 2 registers open, kinda sucks if you have a lot of items.
You're completely right. There is no theory behind program design and structure. We have no way of measuring why one paradigm is better than another paradigm. This is the first thing that needs to be solved before we can unequivocally prove that one paradigm is better than the other.

The first question that needs to be answered is, what exactly is a well designed programming language? What exactly is a well structured program?

Until you are able to answer the questions above axiomatically we are doomed to run in circles forever.
That should affect the app, but I have seen it cripple gnome desktop too. That should not happen with Wayland.
> I mean Bella literally bailed on $200 pay per view stuff and essentially exploited her past as a Disney star, of all things, to draw attention to herself, and as a result has single-handedly irreversibly screwed over the lives of every other performer on the site by forcing monthly instead of weekly payments.

I disagree. She screwed over lives of every other performer on a platform by showing up and running the numbers. Her being a former Disney star was immaterial - she happened to be someone that people fantasize about seeing naked or barely dressed hundreds if not thousands times more than they fantasize about seeing other camgirls, etc. Some of those people were willing to pull out their credit card. The response would have been the same if it were one of the Hadid sisters or the likes of Emma Watson.

> Bella Thorne didn't figure out how do to micro transactions. She thought she could take advantage of her micro celebrity status to give herself an advantage over others, exploited hundreds, and screwed over hundreds, probably thousands of performers.

Either her or someone in her camp convinced her that by doing what she did she would make a massive amount of money based on micro transactions as opposite to getting $20,000-$50,000 appearance fees or $200,000-$2,000,000 deals.

It is no different from celebrity influencers pushing out the micro-influencers by consuming the available market. Those with millions of followers will command more attention and hence more money than those with thousands.

> I have a lot of friends in the sex industry and camgirl industry as the queer communities which I am a part of often are supportive to these folks, and it's awesome that the people who choose to do this non exploitavely can do it. I don't think it's that different in that case from being any other kind of celebrity, except I do believe it is obviously objectively riskier.

The celebrity is measured by the amount of money these people can make via fees. Clearly Bella can make orders of magnitude more than the others which is why we are talking about her and not about a cam girl with 450 paying followers.
>Maybe because a lot of people on HN are small business owners,

A lot of small business owners who also happened to work for a union and had a bad experience? That seems like a lot for a site largely filled with software developers. Is HN more mainstream than I'm giving credit?
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In 2020, this issue is only present in Bulb Mode or on the a7Rii and a7Sii for 1x1 stars.
"Do programmers have any specific superstitions?"

"Yeah, but we call them best practices."

(from https://twitter.com/dbgrandi/status/508329463990734848 but thats probably not the original source)
I feel inclined to say "... well yeah, obviously".

Not in the "obvious in retrospect" way, but because browsers have been progressively blocking history-sniffing tactics for years precisely because advertisers were using it to identify visitors.

Did this research... establish better numbers around it or something?
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The more canonical form is DAMP rather than KISS. Descriptive and Meaningful Phrases. DRY is fine in moderation in tests. E.g. instead of `Person.builder().withName("Alice").withAge(100).build();` using `People.grandmother()` is DRY-ish, but certainly something you'd see less of in production code.
It's the same tech used by the next-gen consoles (e.g.: PS5).

Essentially, it's about streaming game textures directly into the GPU memory.

The idea is that this is highly asynchronous and parallel from the perspective of the CPU, so trying to do this through the "main game loop" would be an absolute nightmare to code at the scale we're talking about here. Think 50K IOPS sustained at 8GB/s with pretty hard real time guarantees.
Port and starboard isn’t used on the radio at all. ATC will say things like “traffic 2 o’clock, left to right”.

The words left and right are fairly unmistakable and everyone understands them. Doesn’t have to be complicated!
Why not BDD style in unit tests though? Our team adopted it and I really like it over triple A.
I'm kinda confused about that one. Because if the value isn't coming from some external source like a db, api, file, whatever then why do you even need a static initalizer? If you mean they hardcoded the prod database then I'm so sorry.
Both are written in Rust. Looks like Amazon is investing in the language quite a bit.
Ah, interesting. I've only experienced it on the A7iii, which has it fixed more or less completely (none of the green blobs or any errors showing up in the article you linked).

https://petapixel.com/2018/06/08/sonys-star-eater-problem-ha...
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Union membership in the UK has been going down long-term for four decades. It's halved since 1980 in fact.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/287232/trade-union-densi...

The Labour party have been ineffective for a decade and haven't been less popular since 1935. They're at their least popular when their leadership is more aligned to the unions. They were at the most recent popularity when they were furthest from the unions. They have just one representative now in Scotland, once a key area for unions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/election-2019-50768605

If you're a fan of unionisation in the UK then I'd say you have cause for concern.
That's really it.

I live in Puerto Rico which is one of those places where Amazon kind of sucks. Items used to take over a week to get here and I was OK with that because I understand geographic limitations. Now they often take a month, which I'm willing to accept because of current circumstances. But what puts me off is that they flat out refuse to sell me many items. I have a Prime subscription but my last phone didn't come from Amazon. It came from Walmart online. Even eBay serves my region better.

About Walmart, I have a Walmart owned supermarket within walking distance of my house, a Supercenter about 9 miles away, and there's a Sam's club right next to it. My groceries and my medicines come from a store owned by Walmart and they're everywhere. If I didn't have the time or the energy to buy my parents their groceries I would get them delivered to them from Walmart.

Now, I don't expect to use their service (if it becomes available here) because most of my online shopping consists of items that I can't find locally, but for people in areas like mine who can't visit or who don't like to visit physical stores this service would be great.
I did not say we should get rid of the warning, I said it will scare some users off. That's the point of the warning, and it's a good thing, but it means sideloading isn't a viable solution.
The camera angles in that demo were off axis.

Take a look at The Mandalorian series, almost all of the outdoor scenes were shot using the video wall technology.

I've worked in computer graphics and I didn't realise the sets were fake until after I finished the whole series.
In case people would like similar functionality in the Julia programming language, there is also a package for that:

https://github.com/korsbo/Latexify.jl
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Because there's an election in just over two months. And if the US blew handling Covid, that reflects badly on the president. So you have insane levels of propaganda (from both sides, plus foreign meddling), trying to influence how you see Trump's performance as a leader.
Check this reddit thread out [1]. A very toxic streamer going on complete tirades with his teammates playing Among Us, and all the comments are people playing down the vitriol of the streamer with phrases like "I love him", "He's really funny", etc.

What's equally sad is the special moderation privileges given to large streamers by Twitch.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/ikce21/xqc_...
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I've noticed it especially on small Reddit communities for cities where constant narrative shifting has occurred: from flattening the curve and potential high death rates to we don't know the side effects of the virus and potential future complications.
"Unsurprisingly, this decision lead to exactly what the Bennett Hypothesis predicted in 1987, that “colleges will raise tuition when financial aid is increased” in order to capture as much of that government money as possible. In essence, the feds handed colleges a blank check, and the result is just as expected for a decision like that."

That's a feature, not a bug.
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> People donate thousands to streamers and models because they are [lonely].

Speaking of being reductive...

Consider the possibility that people also do it because they enjoy the interaction they get out of it, however shallow and/or fleeting.

The same way some people pay top dollar for a "meet and greet" with rock stars or athletes before a show or game, where you get to shake hands, take selfies and trade platitudes with famous people and then they never see you or think of you again.

People donate to streams to hear the streamer thank them or call them out by name or interact with them, in some manner, for some amount of time.

I'm not saying loneliness is not a factor, but it's definitely not the only factor. Like everything else to do with human interactions, it's complicated.
I feel like this sort of definition doesn't serve any purpose beyond some political correctness. In the sense of the definition, I have been a sex worker (I programmed dildos once). But it doesn't feel that way at all.
To be really blunt, I reckon it's just supply and demand: there's not that many jobs (relatively few airports in the world compared to other entire industries) and a relative lot of people who love it, and would rather do it than earn a bit more at a lower stress higher paid similarly skilled desk job & hobby listen-in/plane-spot.
I must have misunderstood you. What's the point you are making here?

> Since it is practically impossible to confirm if a given sex worker is participating under duress or not, especially when it occurs "remotely" as in this OnlyFans situation, I would say it is always unethical to purchase such services

I agree that ethics and law do not coincide in all circumstances, and sometimes what is lawful may not necessarily be ethical. However, in the situation you described, prudence is what you should aim at, and understanding where and how trafficking can arise in your area or community should be your priority. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater by demonizing sex work entirely because of its susceptibility to trafficking is not only extreme, but risks sacrificing people's freedom to choose their work based on events that they cannot possibly control.

This topic is much more complex than that, but that's one side of it at least.
> but you can press them faster if you want

I mean, yes but not really? There's very real speed limits to the human finger, after all.

But the times given above are also quite far off - the actual keyboard numbers seem to be more in the 5-15ms range, not 30+ms. At least, my mechanical gaming keyboard is hitting 8ms on this test: http://blog.seethis.link/scan-rate-estimator/
Yeah, I already read that. If you pay attention, you'll notice it talks a lot about the problem they're trying to solve, and very little about how exactly they're going about solving it. Partly because it's apparently still in flux, which calls into question what's going on with the storage API for the Xbox, which really should have been nailed down by now.
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So many podcasts operate parasocially as well. Especially during COVID and negative polarization there is a high demand to be able to participate in interesting conversations. For lots of current events podcasts that have a paid tier, the member-only episodes tend to be a lot more social and personal than the main feeds, to say nothing of the zoom calls many of them do.
Fine, XUL had to go. But where is the replacement? How many more years should we expect Mozilla to need to implement configurable bindings? It doesn't even need to be extension-accessible, just give users a tab in the preferences menu like damn near any other application has been doing since the dawn of GUIs.

Do they even have one engineer working on this?
I remember watching an YouTube interview with the founder, and he explicitly said that he could suspend his entire body weight on his arms alone, on pilates or something, and that was the base idea for the design he went with.

He is a former marine and I think one would need considerable strength to use his jetpack.

One very, very interesting project is Frank Zapata's Flyboard Air (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kB-BGMXxZc and https://www.zapata.com/). You basically stand on a hoverboard.

I wonder what these guys could accomplish if they partnered with, say, DJI or something. Their flight controllers are very small and have years of development in automatic flight stabilization. Anyone that has flown a DJI drone knows what I'm talking about. It would take balancing out of the equation and make these much more feasible for a general audience.
For months when the LHC came online there were articles about it creating a black hole that would gobble the earth. I'm waiting for a larger accelerator to get built so everyone will claim it could lower the vacuum ground state and destroy the universe.
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This is a big ol thread but I think it is worth touching on software design.

If an app can be a desktop app written in say JS (Java c# or similar term back-compat language) and not need “infra”. Or if it can be a Unix until that does one thing well. Then that is more likely to be a thing that can be forked and untouched for years and just work.

Granted anything that interacts with web services may have bit rot. However solid principles may allow those parts of code to be surfaced out to plugins etc.

Anyway let’s put it this way. I use YNAB 4 desktop budgeting software. No longer supported, not even FOSS and I’m not worried I can run that thing for the rest of my life, with little hassle, as long as I can run the last version of Windows that supports it in a VM.
It is true of any fact checking service. It's important, then, that there be more than one. Any single oracle of truth becomes a single point of attack for liars, propagandists, and suppressors of truth.
Hmm this is a bit of an interesting question. The original study (2012) exploited a security bug, which let anyone see which sites you had visited. (Basically, by checking the color of links with JS to see if :visited styling had been applied.) That bug doesn't exist anymore, and the new survey just uses opt-in data to "confirm" it.

So, I don't actually think this research is particularly relevant anymore? It can't really be exploited (and when it can, there's much better ways to track the person).
I just remember a summer class at college. Some prat made the observation that everyone in the room was paying $40/hour for instruction and there were 25 of us.

Hmm...
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I believe it is not even relevant, there are very smart people who support completely different policies. Nobody is smart enough to process all the data points about a certain subject, especially when it is something that is not hard science. Political and policy decision are based more on gut feeling than on logical critical thinking. Do you think Karl Marx or Milton Freedman lack the cognitive ability to do some critical thinking? And what would the green haired 21 yo "fact checker" decide is "fake news" if both of them were tweeting at the time?
Is it though? Costs can’t rise if people can’t pay them. With student loans, no matter what people can pay them...so they keep rising.

We have high demand, limited supply and no sensitivity to price to drive down demand.

It’s only now that the costs have become so high that the payback cost can’t be ignored that we are seeing a societal shift questioning the value of college for the price.

And even then, people still choose to pay the price.
This is a good question and is something I’m wondering too. The same phenomenon is occurring on Tinder, where women will get hundreds of matches and men will get less than 10.
I bet it was also a sound to hear, and some heat to feel as well!
> You're talking about union education as if it's equivalent to mathematics or something, like there is an absolute truth to be learned. Surely even the most pro-union people would acknowledge that not every implementation of a union is equivalent

Just like in school civics class you probably learned about the concepts of the government is structured, the principals behind it, a bit about other approaches, etc, I don't see why you couldn't learn the same things for unions. Of course the government doesn't really quite work like that, but isn't it better to have a baseline understanding and shared idea? The situation with unions now is that basically the only thing people know about them is propaganda from anti-union groups, unless they happen to be in one. I fail to see how this is better. It would be like if you first learned about democracy from a monarchist telling you how bad democracy is.
Considering they fired half the people working on this, probably not.
Solves your problem of whiney pitches. If the kid goes back to normal tone it becomes just a complaint.
the arriving date is for the end of september. which is why I'm assuming one of the books wasn't in stock but they sold it anyway.
It's probably in the wing/back thing.
I feel like the comment you responded to acknowledges all sides of the argument. How is being coerced to work at McDonalds worse than being forced to sell nude pics, other than the puritanical sensibility?
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OK. At a keyboard now so I'll flesh this out a bit.

In my experience people have a fairly balanced view of unions. There's pretty broad membership. In most places I've worked people join the union if there is one. Some unions where regarded negatively at some points in time but there's also general sympathy for some industrial action. It varies - blue collar workers tend to be more positive and white collar workers (especially in non-unionized fields) tend to be less.

But this guy seems to be implying that that's wide-ranging hostility to unions in the UK - which I've never been aware of. There's a plurality of views as you would expect. I've known plenty of tory-voting union members so it's not even a strict right/left split.