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Large companies will continue doing illegal things while reward outweighs the risk. This reminds me of pharmacy distributors that contributed to the opioid epidemic. They continue operating even when they were told not because there was no real punishment in place, and the only thing that stopped them eventually was a criminal indictment [1].

Fines do not work, because like the OP article states, the shareholders end up paying up, not the executives who let these things happen. If we want to curb this behavior, we need to do one of 4 things:

1. Criminal indictments for executives and/or the company instead of fines for breaking the law

2. Fine executives severely, to the point of bankrupcy, on top of fining the company

3. Significantly increase the fines against the company, maybe a magnitude of 100-1000x, to the point where breaking the law flagrantly may result in bankruptcy or dissolution of the company. A fine should not just be "cost of doing business"

4. Prevent the company from doing business in an area where they broke the law. E.g - if they launder money illegally for a Ukranian businessman, forbid them from doing any business in Ukraine for several years. This one is more nebulous and may not work effectively for banks. Worked for shutting down opioid distribution for certain localities[2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/716571375/drug-distributor-an...

[2]https://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/oxycodone-supplier-shut-d...
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The idea that such an ignorant and partisan response would be found here really speaks to how bad this community has become

Donald Trump has been credibly accused of dozens of felonies, including by Special Counsel Mueller, who said he wanted to charge Trump with 11 felonies but was prevented by the AG, and who said that these felonies (and more) are chargeable after his term.

This is a man who has seen no less than 6 of his closest advisors and lawyers go to jail for crimes he asked them to commit. Who was an "Unindicted Co-conspirator" to crimes that landed people in prison.

0 members of the Obama administration went to jail. There were 0 special counsels. There were 8 investigations into Benghazi which found 0 crimes --- the comparisons between these two administrations is one of the largest differences in American history.

To conflate the two is ignorance and rancid partisanship.
I wish for a day my amazing coworkers aren't used as pawns in a political game and are given the stability they have earned and they deserve.
In my case, the limo was hard, dense, and the tissue around it was sore.
It is easier for unions to argue for safe working conditions than it is for individuals who work in non-union shops. Here is BC, where for the most part the government has done a decent job in trying to product us, it is the BC Teachers Union that is fighting for consistent safety protocols for schools. See for example: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/arti...

If there was no teachers union, everything would depend on individual school administrations.

So there may not be an obvious causal link, but what has become clear is that good safety protocols reduce the rate of spread, and that implementing good protocols requires ongoing effort. I have no doubt that, in this situation, being unionized is better than not.
> I think the problem with our response to covid in the US was that all our policies were half-assed...China was able to have a full lockdown for a few weeks and mostly eradicate it

I see this view a lot from people--the US just needed a real lockdown. Spain also had a real lockdown, and their case count is surging right now. The difference in how China seemingly (you can't spell Xinhua without Xi) handled it is in aggressive contact tracing and tracking where everyone goes regardless of their covid status.
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If economy is down or unemployment is high, is it proprtional to number of umemployment rate in highly skilled workers or other categories? Cause I always understood unemployment numbers include all categories with a majority in low skilled workers. Which means that, it may not be related to H1 visas.
What one can expect from going to foreign country? People in mine (or yours) country will try to get as much as possible for free from others.

If someone thinks that some country is composed only from good will and good people, it will be disappointing. There is price to pay for moving, it is not always obvious. I moved to another country and I earn more money than if I would not move, but opportunities that I left back in my country are somewhat biting me back after all those years.
China is as bad as it ever was. The people of China have not had any redress. The CCP is doing fine though.
I’ve got a microphone with a physical kill switch and when turned off it still leaks like a sieve. Be careful with those switches.
How did you use Anki(what kind of flashcards?) for math?
I have accomplished this by using an external audio mixer at my desk. I have physical volume controls for three PC's, two ham radios, and a police scanner. Then there is a master volume control for everything mixed.
And we’ve got this far! Imagine how far space idiots have gotten! :)
Cryptocurrencies aren’t subject to counterproductive regulation. Anyone who has had an account balance locked up by PayPal or their bank for bogus or unexplained reasons will appreciate this.
They don't actually do that and haven't done that for many years, it's rather less friendly nowadays because oil was discovered nearby.
Is there any reason why aerogel (e.g. PyroGel) hasn't caught on as an insulation for winter jackets? The demos look pretty impressive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Ig8rW80uk
No necessarily, but there's quite a bit of it sloshing about and if one can get a piece of the action, and the associated fees, it is profitable. Deutsch Bank did quite a bit of it it appears:

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/16/dark-towers...

See also many banks in Cyprus and their association with Russian oligarchs.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/everyth...

* https://www.bbc.com/news/business-21831943

Supposedly toned done in recent years:

* https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/cyprus-loses-luster-as-mediterra...
Why not? The US sure as hell hasn't sided with democracies give the long list of propped up dictators (although said dictators are treated very disposably). Realpolitik has a long history of holding above whatever affinity "is supposed to" happen like Christian kings allying with distant Sultans and declaring war on their neighbors. Stalinists paid far more attention to Trotskyists than any strain of capitalists. Ideology while it may introduce some irrationalities tends to be a tool of the state instead of the state being a tool of the ideology.
Wait until all the tech enthusiasts support this but also get mad at any level of censorship that impacts them.

Fuck this authoritarian bullshit. We SHOULD be better than this.
Because regulations are wrong headed and injurious to honest customers.
This is the wrong year for this LOL
Yes, and that history is partly why people in Nevada dislike the idea of more nuclear waste there. Here's an article from a local paper about it https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/aug/23/nevada-is-winning-t...
Damn crazy. Why did that happen? Moderate burnout situation that went on for way too long? Or intense burnout in a few months?

Yeah I mean going off of the great burnout comment before, it's that the negative mental pathways are being carved super deep every day by your continued effort -> failure (or perceived failure by you or manager).

I wonder if mushrooms/acid/mdma can help cure professional burnout faster?

How's being a bike mechanic money-wise? If you have a solid amount of capital built up from grinding as a soft engr, that could be a nice segway for a time.
I can't disagree that your time may be better spent doing other things.

But you can definitely cook with fresh, healthy ingredients and still be way cheaper than eating out. It takes some planning, but it is minimal planning.

Especially if you make common sense alterations to recipes. Many times, online and cookbook recipes are created for the visual wow factor. There are usually expensive ingredients that are not necessary for the dish.

For example, if the dish calls for a teaspoon of capers or fresh parsley or whatever and you don't already have some, you can generally skip it.

And you can also make larger quantities like what you might make for a family and refrigerate or freeze leftovers. Things last a lot longer in the fridge and freezer than many people think.

As do ingredients like milk and eggs. If you keep your fridge adjusted cold enough, milk generally lasts me more than a month. Yogurt and sour cream more than 2 months, usually. Dryer cheeses basically indefinitely if you cut off any mold before eating.

Lettuce and leafy greens are the shortest shelf life for me, but they can be bought in rather small quantities so I just buy as needed.

I supplement that with flash frozen vegetables like frozen vegetable medley mixes or bags of frozen brussel sprouts that will last about as long as you like if they stay frozen.

I also buy large quantities of high quality meats at Costco and simply portion it up and freeze it. I use a vacuum sealer for best results, but ziploc bags are fine. I recently found a steak that had fallen to the back of the freezer. It had to have been there for at least 18 months. I cooked it up and it was delicious.
If you have two kill switches, one on each wire, would it still leak?
Please. At this point, both blacks and Indians are able to take various Federal and State monies to be the best they can be. The Indians have relative sovereignty. They could take their federal and casino monies and plow them into an R&D bonanza. Blacks in the US have a golden ticket to pretty much any institution they wish to attend. Both have had trillions of US dollars plowed into their communities over the year via various government spending.

At this point they have redress. They have agency. They even have adulthood, much to the chagrin of the Democratic party. Blacks and Indians should be like a wiser Arab nation. They have a pool of funds. Use it to make a better world for their people. Stop keeping people on the plantation/reservation.
The only people I've seen use such nonsense were marketing departments. Do they think people can't do basic fractions any more?
Probably referring to people like African oligarchs who steal international aid intended to help their citizenry and Russian oligarchs who engaged in a variety of criminal shenanigans during the nationalization of USSR agencies in 92, among others.
I really wish there were public trust crimes with penalties of dissolving a corporate charter.

Currently unscrupulous people face no consequences except for extremely limited brief public shaming.

When we got rid of kings, I don't think this was an intended replacement.
> I'm not sure. I think it will be a little while yet before we sort out which layer is the right place for all the different parts of the problem of "storage." ZFS has gone down the path of putting everything in the FS. Other folks are putting in a different set of things. It's pretty clear that some of the functionality that existed in BFS does not belong in the FS.

Now that's wisdom.
ROTW doesn’t treat US businesses like US treats Chinese businesses because the profit vs risk calculation is skewed in favor of profit. It’s the same reason why African countries, with some limited hesitations, are doing business with China.

It’s not cognitive dissonance. It’s advocacy of self interest. The world is not a fair place, where everyone does what’s best for everyone else and reason rules the day. Policy is driven by profit and fear.
That's a correct decision. No way does the Executive Branch have the authority to ban speech without a court order.

Like a lot of what this administration does in foreign trade restrictions, this was more of a bargaining threat than an actual action. This is really about control of TikTok by a foreign government, which is an actual foreign trade issue.
As a guest worker you are not supposed to put down deep roots here. If you want to immigrate you should follow the law and get an immigrant visa. This isn't hard at all. It's just like being a guest anywhere else, you have to follow the host's rules even if you don't like them.
you would say "use 1/4th as much memory" if you were a normal person.
This is also true in Germany (to rent a place you need a bank account, but to get a bank account you need a registered address). You almost always will need a 3rd party to help you. In my case my employer rented an apartment, and then had someone register me there, which required me assigning limited power of attorney. Then I opened a bank account with that address, and the cycle was broken. Note that this also requires a work and residence permit, which is usually going to be a blue card, which is a whole other ball of wax. So, yeah, its hard, but not impossible.
Blows mainstream media out the water.

Because its reporters are from the "mainstream media." Often reporters who could not get any further in their old companies, or who were cut from their organizations due to budget cuts.

cancel subscriptions to major media institutions

...and that's why those budgets got cut, and large media organizations became more reliant on advertising money, instead of subscriber money.

News isn't free. It's good that you appreciate strong journalism. But robbing Peter to pay Paul doesn't work.

Even if your local newspaper is terrible, you should still support it financially so that good people can still try to do good work, and not disappear altogether.

My local paper is bad. But I subscribe, and reading it (actually reading, not looking at a web site) have learned that there are good people there trying to do good work. Between the lines you can see that they are underfunded, and do a lot with very little.

I also subscribe to large, award-winning important journalistic endeavors. "Real news," as it were. But I also know that award-winning journalism doesn't magically appear out of thin air, or straight from journalism schools. Those reporters have to learn their trade at small newspapers, television stations, and radio outlets to work their way up to the big leagues. If we don't support local reporters, there won't be any smart journalists in the future.
Is that what South Korea did too?
The real design flaw here is not conveniently being able to set the volume per application. Most systems are able to do this, but don't expose that functionality conveniently.

In my opinion the volume keys should only be adjusting the volume for the application/website currently in focus.
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You didn't read the methodology. They segmented the data by occupation, and then examined the data per occupation by year.

Do you have a study that shows the adverse impact of H1-B visas on American workers?
As always when I see Be file system stuff I point people to the very readable document by its creator:

http://www.nobius.org/dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf
See the other replies

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/15/20866829/b...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/five-times-bret...
locate (mlocate) does that, but it's not find's job to do it. I understand why the naming might be unfortunate though.
The problem is that, as an Indian, you will be doing this dance routine for the rest of your life. Sure it is easy to do it when you are in your late twenties, early thirties but once you reach late thirties and early forties, you will not even get any interest from the recruiters.

Ageism is very real in the tech industry and your only options are to either get a green card or move to another country. Recessions and layoffs are a way of life in this country. Sure you survived this one - but may be not the next one or the one after that. Also with each passing decade, it will be harder for you to immigrate somewhere else - partially due to countries like Canada, Australia reducing points past a certain age and partly due to having kids who are used to a specific way of life in the US.

So while your status is safe for you, it is a good time to define the course of your career, because no matter how good of an engineer you are, at the end of the day, you are just a number on a spreadsheet who will be laid off at another recession.
Article is written by Bradley Tusk, founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings.

This is mostly from Wikipedia:

He previously served as the campaign manager for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2009 re-election bid, as Deputy Governor of Illinois, as Communications Director for US Senator Chuck Schumer, and as Uber's first political advisor.

In 2015, Tusk ran a high-profile campaign featuring TV, radio and digital ads, direct mail, grassroots outreach, earned media, social media and mobilizing community leaders to oppose New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed plan to cap the number of vehicles Uber could operate.

The campaign argued that "the company was good for the city, providing jobs and transportation for less affluent residents in the outer boroughs." The bill was dropped before it could go to a vote. Tusk Ventures was launched two weeks after the Uber victory.

Tusk Ventures has worked with over three dozen startups including Bird, FanDuel, Lemonade, Handy, Eaze, Nexar, GlamSquad, Ripple, Nurx, Ro, Kodiak Robotics, pymetrics, Grove and Care/Of, solving a variety of political, regulatory and media challenges solely in return for equity in each company and for investment rights in each company's next round of financing.
These were all in one state (NY).

One cause was presented: more PPE (presumably demanded by union).
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Strange how HN is so keen on having millions of people come here to compete for your job and put downwards pressure on wages.
My man couldn't even be bothered to read the abstract. Literally the fourth sentence says all of their data is from New York State.
My old IBM ThinkPads operate exactly as he described, the embedded controller immediately instructs the hardware amplifier to adjust its volume or power down.

My slightly less old Lenovo X201t does everything in software, and while my computer is still groggy after waking from suspend it often takes 10-15 seconds for volume changes to take effect.
$88B annual police budget. Maybe we can find some wiggle room in that budget.
The CCP conquered the Chinese people.
I don’t think that easy to dismiss findings.
I just don’t want the first comment here to be about the name already being taken.

Let’s discuss the substance of this language and let its authors figure out marketing.

If I’m reading it right, it’s a functional programming language but has higher level language capabilities built on top of it and each level of capabilities is packaged as a “level” to help know what runtime/capabilities are available to any program. I could be way off though.

It also seems very dead as the original site points to a GitHub 404.

Edit: bad forward on the domain but the GitHub repo is here, last update was three years ago: https://github.com/cdiggins/cat-language
The problem with our response to COVID in the US is that China didn't give the world a fair shake.

https://medium.com/@georgetoparis/the-book-rage-on-china-f5d...

A second reason is all gov were bad to solve novel problems 0 to 1, but good at solving 1 to 2, 2 to 3 problems. HK, Singapore, Korea Japan had experience to protect itself, swine flu, bird flu, SARS, etc. Western world had not.

But the truth of the matter, we're victims of geopolitics, media, and social media blaming thy neighbor. Go look at U.S. fatalities due to COVID which NYT posts at 200k as the time of this writing. Then go look at CDC U.S. registered deaths annually, which was last reported at 2.8M. While I am sympathetic for those who loved lost ones for whatever cause of death, quick maths show that in 0.8% of the population dies in a normal year, and COVID-19 blimp would increase it to 0.9 to 1.0%. We've grossly overreacted.
> That’s what New York City needs to remain to be the greatest city in the world

Uh, is that really what New Yorkers tell each other?
Hawaii?
I imagine being a CUPS maintainer is not a good experience. They did something great, but probably only hear from end users when they are frustrated and not inclined to be civil.
>You can enable issues on forked repo, and any forked repo may receive PRs.

Their point was that issues in the new repo are completely separate from issues in the old repo. A new issue created in the new repo will be issue 1, and to browse the old repo's issues you have to navigate to the old repo. If the old repo is deleted all those issues will also be deleted and history will be lost.

That's why they mentioned the workaround of using the Github API to export the old repo's issues and re-import them into the new one, which would not be needed if issues were git objects and thus trivially copied into all forks.
I think it makes sense to decriminalize at the federal level and leave it to states to determine the appropriate level of local regulation.

Banning corporatization, advertising, and branding of these substances is an intriguing idea, and probably necessary to make progress in this country.
> Over here, there seems to be much more emphasis (and trust) on your resume, and the hiring process is more focused on fit. If you have the basics down, most can be thought - but it's pretty difficult to teach culture.

That's probably because OP makes triple to quadruple your total compensation at minimum as an L5 ML Engineer at Google.

https://www.levels.fyi/

Total: $356,119
> The ICIJ and ProPublica consistently put out the highest quality investigative journalism, exposing injustices committed by some of the biggest institutions in the world. Blows mainstream media out the water.

ICIJ is the mainstream of mainstream. It's as mainstream and establishment as you can get. Also propublica is mainstream as well and created by bankers ( ironic huh ). So much of mainstream media was actually started by bankers.

If they do quality journalism then so be it, but they are mainstream/state enterprises. Not independent ones.
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The article isn’t really about whether blame should fall on the individual versus a corporation, but why do you feel it doesn’t fall on individuals? It is individuals’ consumerist habits and hunger for extreme convenience that makes these corporations viable? I see the argument that the individuals didn’t know the tradeoffs (due to deceptive corporate actions the article mentions) but I am not confident that greater clarity would have mattered much either.

I feel much of the problem is due to our culture - if you have a large population that wants a lot of things, bad things will happen. If a culture is willing to emphasize living more simply and portraying happiness and status in other ways, consumption will reduce. But culture is bigger than individuals and corporations - and I can’t see blaming just one of them.
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Yes, grant-style funding is really bad for basic research. For where larger institutes have the advantage: a few prestigious findings can bring the funding to do a lot of less glamorous stuff on the side.
What’s one more curse at this point?
It was a tongue in cheek response to the original ignorant and partisan response. Don't get so triggered bro.
Or the increase due to it is only that small due to how serious we took it, even if not serious enough.
That is a downright terrifying take - it implies literally any rejection is invalid if from an opposing political party without so much as a sketchy claim to a conflict of interest and implies absolute power with no checks as the "rightful state".
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