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Having a chronic and/or complex health issue is a good way to find out just how many doctors don't deserve to be practicing medicine. I've had doctors tell me they don't treat conditions that their own practice's website says they treat. I've had doctors read letters and notes from my other physicians and claim the letter said the opposite of what they did (and then when called out on this discrepancy, refuse to acknowledge it and tell me I can either accept what they're doing or leave. I left.). I've had doctors prescribe medications, and then when when I encountered the very same side effects listed in the "stop taking this right away and call your doctor" was told I can't be experiencing that side effect because "it never really happens". I've had doctors tell me to do one thing, and then when a different doctor called them to ask about what they said, claim they never said that at all (despite having the written prescription for what they said).

I've had phenomenal doctors too, ones who a lack of coverage for is reason enough for me to turn down a job or to choose a more expensive insurance plan. But finding those "golden" doctors in the sea of average and below average doctors has been a nearly decade long process. And it's been really easy to see how people with complex medical issues can get suckered by snake oil salesmen and grifters. When you spend so much time fighting with the medical system and getting no relief, finding someone who will pretend to give a damn is a form of relief in and of itself. And I have never once in all the times I've filed a complaint with a hospital, or office or even state medical boards gotten any response other than "We've investigated ourselves and determined we did nothing wrong".

It's a definite problem and there really needs to be a better process. The state medical board claime they don't dispute physician diagnosis, just evaluate the care of the provider within the scope of that diagnosis. So if your doctor says during your 10th visit for severe stomach pains in 3 weeks that you have gas and gives you Gas-X, and it turns out that you had appendicitis, the medical board doesn't intervene, because Gas-X was the appropriate treatment for the diagnosis. And the hospital patient advocate/experience folks aren't in the business of pissing off the doctors they work with every day. And too often doctors are unwilling to criticize the work or actions of another doctor, even when blatantly wrong. There badly needs to be an independent patient advocacy and dispute resolution that is aligned with the interests of the patient, not the doctors.
> The classic example is Enron.

Enron went to zero after their fraud went public.

> Unsustainable practices eventually have their reckoning regardless if they are public or private.

The looming crisis of local government is known, but nobody does a thing about it. Unlike with stocks.

> Public checks are at the voting booth, private (publicly traded) companies checks are at the stock exchange.

There's a huge difference. To change things in government requires a 51% majority vote once every several years. But if you don't like a stock, you can sell it in a millisecond (literally). You don't have to convince anyone else. A vote is not the same thing as a choice.
Yeah "value-free" seems pretty laughable. We're "retouching" your face to make it look different, not better? Not credible. By using code words, all they're doing is avoiding blame for the harm they are doing.
65% of young women in Australia exposed to internet abuse
Once the employees know that their CEO is "shopping" the company, it seems like the CEO should have known they would be looking towards the exits (unless, of course, they had lots of equity which would turn into $$ once the acquisition happened, which case they would likely stay put). It was not only kind of sleazy to try to, essentially, sell your employees to another company as if they are your property, but also not very business-savvy. If she had simply taken Apple's "acqui-hire" offer, she would have made money, burnished her reputation as a founder who successfully "flipped" to Apple, and probably gotten VC money to try again.

Now, I think she may have acquired a reputation as someone who ends up treating her employees like her personal property? Maybe she's an awesome boss normally, but if this is all you knew about her, I think I would not be interested in working at her next gig, whatever it is.
I think the key with a mathsy topic like this is to sit down and really just laser-focus on what you don't understand.

Don't trust your teacher, read 4 different textbooks if that's what it takes to make it stick - it doesn't matter whether is dry as a desert or visual, just whatever works. The amount of intuition you have grows exponentially.

The rule of thumb that I live by is that learning mathematics is difficult, and teaching mathematics well is almost impossible - prepare before hand. I don't think I've learnt anything in a lesson or lecture post-algebra, that may not be the best thing but I have a very good feel for what I need to learn because of it.
Telegraaf is a (underbelly) tabloid and they paid for that poll (it says in the header). Can you show the questions and the answers instead of the Telegraaf interpretation? As that means nothing at all.

No mention of cbs by the way; it was done by Kantar which is a data company for hire instead of cbs which is not quite state owned but acts like it ‘quango’.

I do not know about SE but demoskop seems a data company for hire as well, so who paid for this? Where are the q/a and raw data?
> There is a yubikey with fingerprint sensor that is supposed to come soon as well

It was announced 11 months ago with no status updates since then. Its really not clear that this product will ever get released.
Same reason why people use walkie talkies. You get to do voice or data without infrastructure. That's kinda cool.

Also, listening to ATC, satellite telemetry, and other sorts of radio communications can be fun too. It's like having some insight into… a lower level of the world.
AFAIK non-competes are enforceable in Europe, unless they're unreasonable.
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With the release of version 1.0 today, the Draw.io integration extension for VS Code got many new features.
One of those features is the advanced support for liveshare. Besides content synchronization, cursors and selections of participants are synchronized - this is crucial for collaboration.

A detailed list of all changes can be found in the changelog (https://github.com/hediet/vscode-drawio/blob/14209ad462028cb...).
Tech gig worker underclass: customer service reps who have to pay to talk to you
The article is worth a read. Honda has quit a few times before.
If you think hospitals are bad, try inpatient rehabs. Full lock down, through-window visits after approval for an appointment where they take your temperature etc, limited to once per week. Covid has encouraged a bit of giving-understanding, but for the most part it has just exacerbated the existing bad incentives and draconian top-down policy regimes. None of these places welcome oversight, for the reasons spelled out by the article.

FWIW a close relative with multiple comorbidities got Covid from a hospital, likely when they decided it was prudent to cycle three different roommates through their room in as many days. Then the hospital wanted to discharge them when they were still infectious! Hospital policies are based around ass-covering and not actually stopping the spread. Never got any calls from contact tracing either. Thankfully my relative ended up beating it.
I don't know how much of a role this plays, but even with lower market rates, employing a team in Europe can be an expensive, unwieldy task. Firing in particular seems to be a lengthy, drawn out process. I don't think that's a bad thing, but I can imagine how a significantly increased cost for every bad hire might increase the risk profile of a small startup.
> a similar knotation that Louis Kauffman

that's much simpler to understand than the lambda diagram.
Is your coffee making you fat?
It's a bit like the old (apocryphal, all the famous people who supposedly said this almost certainly didn't) joke:

"GROUCHO (to woman seated next to him at an elegant dinner party): Would you sleep with me for ten million dollars?

WOMAN (giggles and responds): Oh, Groucho, of course I would.

GROUCHO; How about doing it for fifteen dollars?

WOMAN (indignant): Why, what do you think I am?

GROUCHO: That’s already been established. Now we’re just haggling about the price."

The CEO of Hooked has presumably learned a valuable lesson about treating engineers like cattle. I've never heard of this kind of "partial acquihire" and it seems outlandish that she expected things to go her way in court.
4 and 5 should already be covered by your privacy policy, which you can point at or copy paste from. Yes, you need to have thought about this once, but you've done that once and not when a customer asks hopefully! Ecommerce even has easy answers for why and how it is processing data most of the time.

The logfiles argument is generally overblown: the process for someone to establish a valid request for that isn't that typically that easy, and in most cases has the simple solution to not keep logfiles with personal data for long if at all (e.g. many webhosts already will by default or as an option anonymize IPs in logs, and it's not all that difficult to implement in other cases).

For business data, yes, you need to be able to look up customers and what data they've given you - but which business application doesn't allow that already?

I don't want to say it's trivial, but small operations tend to also have a small surface for this, easy oversight over everything, and can get this in order with an initial effort to design privacy policies (and identifying and cleaning up places they maybe were negligent before) and prepare checklists that make handling requests easy. I know plenty small shops that have done this just fine.
Wow.. Already been downvoted. I think my advice wasn't wrong. Going through such experience with someone like me who doesn't understand it can be risky. Hence, I suggested to see a psychiatrist.
The code comment uses variables ‘n’ and ‘s’ without defining them. From context I gather ‘s’ is the upper bound, but what’s ‘n’? And when it says (n * s) numbers contains n values, I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean either.
I didn't know that was open source. It is such a well made game, I recommend it for anyone who liked factorio. The campaign is a bit repetitive, though.

Side note: It runs so smoothly, I'm surprised it was made in Java as I didn't really notice any gc stutters.
You communicated ambiguously. You wrote

> so they could pretty much justify pulling someone over, at any time.

But didn't clarify that your associates did not do that. In human language, people make inferences from what is said to natural extensions, in order to make utterances more compact.
Sometimes those inferences are in error.
My brother was working on his engineering PhD and one of the things he always emphasized by his actions was a productive workspace. He loved owning his environment thus carefully designing his engagement with his ecosystem. Being the big brother that he is, he showed me some of the more tangible components such as his latex editing environment (he’s a bit of an editor junky), the simplicity of arch, and the power and brevity in nix tooling, Naturally, studying engineering forced him to pickup programming. He introduced me to project Euler as a means to learn the basics of programming.

At the time I had no marketable education. Using python, I ran through puzzles on project Euler and have progressively increased complexity since. Ultimately, I had the opportunity to finish a degree I had failed to finish 5 years prior. Computer science was the obvious choice. Fast forward some time, now I’ve worked at 2 of the bigger companies in the northwest over the last few years.

With the help of my brother, I found a new challenge I’ve since parlayed into a career at the corporate empire. I wouldn’t have done this alone. For the most part, none of my friends were really into tech or they were not well equipped to speak to it in an attractive manner.

So to all of you who try to spread your hobbies and interests to other people, thank you. You make the world a better place for anyone listening.

Cheers brother
That's why the universal panoramic panopticon is desirable for society's weak. When all can spy on all, everyone's crimes are public and whether you're the homeless man on the streets of SF or celebrated lawyer Jeff Adachi, the programmatic police will come for you.

Fair, just, unbiased. And therefore a scary situation for people like me who willfully violate the law but are generally safe from prosecution. This is power and advantage I don't want to give up.
As someone who is also on the border between "good mentally ill" and "bad mentally ill," this is a really accurate portrayal of what it's like. The feeling that you're holding it together now, just barely doing the right things and making yourself seem normal enough, but that in the past you couldn't and the fear that in the future you won't be able to. I can't understate how much economic worry there is. Even for a software developer who is now doing pretty well financially, I can't help but wonder if I'll slip into another crushing depression where my brain works at 1/3 the speed and clarity and I can barely make it through a work day before collapsing on the couch. To anybody who sincerely wants to help, you can help by supporting strong social safety nets so that people don't have to shoulder the anxiety of being out on the street in addition to whatever else they're going through, and can also access affordable therapy. You can also support flexible or shorter work weeks.

Edit:

I would estimate that at least for me personally, at least half of the disease burden has been from second-order effects -- from economic anxiety, anxiety about stigma, and working through illness at an unsustainable pace.
It’s also about positioning. Honda’s brand wasn't performing as well as they would like in F1. Probably in addition to it being expensive.
Why would they do that? Apple still earns some money from these devices via the app store. Locking the device will just piss the users and may harm Apple's reputation. And they can still get more money if they win the lawsuit, which is very likely. It's all win for Apple.
The most important net effect of abandoning meritocracy will be the degradation and debasement of the institutions in question.
That's illegal so you might get a nice settlement if you press your rights and the "goon" assaults you.
No it doesn't at all. Those employees were always free to apply to Apple independently. This finder's fee sounds like the commission a recruitment agency would charge for literally finding workers. That's a perfectly reasonable way to charge for that service.
To pile on, Europe also makes it difficult to raise venture capital funds—particularly smaller micro funds as the startup cost is so high. Europe is going to regulate their way back to the dark ages.
What does “NP” stand for in the title? My google search turned up nothing.
No...my fat is making me fat.
The F1 program was by far their most expensive program, and would have easily had the worst ROI. The Honda engine (well, _this_ Honda engine at least) was not going to win a world championship. It was miles behind the Mercedes engine, it didn't even look as good as the Renault one. Even the crippled Ferrari engine was beating one of the Honda teams. The main Red Bull team has got some not bad results from it, but that's obviously down to Verstappen's talent. Because everybody they've put in as his team mate has completely failed to deliver.

Dropping out of F1, and investing in more consumer-facing (ie, profit generating) technology was an obvious cost cutting exercise. Given their obviously ongoing commitment to ICE motorsport and car production, you don't have to be very cynical at all to imagine the green-tech part of the statement was just thrown in there for some free PR (it's hard to imagine this news would have otherwise been post here, for instance).

Also, if anybody's interested in who's going to replace them at Red Bull, the article implies Mercedes is a possibility. It's not, the rules only allow a manufacturer to have 3 engine customer teams (unless they get a special exemption from the FIA). Mercedes already has 3 engine customers. It will almost certainly be back to Renault, because Renault are required by the regulations to give them an engine if they ask for one, and the Ferrari engine is terrible at the moment.
The Problem with Auto-Tune
because they are animals
Also that Europe lacks large pension funds that are legally allowed to invest in Venture Capital, or a large class of super-rich that will invest in Venture Capital, or a large class of moderately wealthy startup veterans that like to do angel investing (the last one is changing).
You're right the point about the AfD is a weak one, so I won't argue it further (though I don't cede my ground, either).

But you did not respond to the rest of my comment. Free speech in Germany (and, for that matter, most of Europe), does not exist.

There is a great article in The Atlantic about this, titled "In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right": https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr....

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that:

> > By accusing Muhammad of paedophilia, [E.S.] had merely sought to defame him, without providing evidence that his primary sexual interest in Aisha had been her not yet having reached puberty or that his other wives or concubines had been similarly young. In particular, [E.S.] had disregarded the fact that the marriage with Aisha had continued until the Prophet’s death, when she had already turned eighteen and had therefore passed the age of puberty.

To which the author rightly responds:

> Having sex with a child isn’t pedophilia, in other words, if the child’s prepubescence is not your biggest turn-on, or if you also have sex with adults, or if you continue having sex after the child reaches maturity. (Am I alone in finding the Austrian court’s reasoning offensive?

Just look at a map of blasphemy laws in Europe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law). Germany is on par with Yemen, Oman, Turkey, Indonesia, Myanmar... This is not a good thing to have in common with those countries.

I maintain that the government should never hold the right of censure. It is a slippery slope. Given the ECHR rules, it's quite possible criticism of Islam will be fully illegal in the next 10 years. This is dangerous.
Haha Red Bull, back to Renault.
In Europe, environmental issues are seen as important. Not such in the USA.
How often does a civil war lead to a better constitution?

China? Vietnam? Korea?
Thank you for the comment. I don't know much about it. I actually have three friends who're going though it. One of them is seeing a psychiatrist and is coping well. The second (who called me) has been self-dosing on these natural medication. And third one has been hit the worst. He is alone and can't access proper treatment. He doesn't talk to many people due to anxiety issues. And he is outside my lockdown zone, so I can't even visit him, unfortunately. I make sure that I at least text them every once in a while to find out how they're doing. I'll read through the guide and see if I can do more to help.
What kind of logic is that? I'm not trying to defend the USSR here, just understand how infrastructure spending works. But if that's how you conduct your reasoning, wouldn't you also believe that Abraham Lincoln must have been wrong about everything, seeing as how things ended for him?

The Roman Empire isn't around either, but I don't blame their infrastructure projects for that. More likely that those helped them last as long as they did.
I was not talking about California, though.
Two things. First, maybe it's just a personal interest, but I'd like to see more coverage of socially responsible startups. For example, where are the startups that will help fight or prevent California's next wildfires? It's been said the pandemic revealed tech's shortcomings when it comes to natural and environmental disasters -- but is that true, or are those startups just not being covered? (And if they were covered, would that build momentum for more such startups?)

Along the same lines, Tim O'Reilly has complained we focus too much on Silicon Valley -- and the prevailing culture that surrounds it. But there are startups (and investors) outside the major tech hubs -- notably, O'Reilly's own angel investment company. Maybe if there were a more geographically-dispersed coverage of startups and investments, it might help non-Silicon Valley regions (and companies, and investment firms).

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/26/tim-oreilly-makes-a-persua...
F-1 has always baffled me as a sport. Not that it's inherently bad or boring, just that there are so many motor sports that make it look that way. Same with NASCAR. I don't understand how an audience for those exists when, for example, rally races exist.
Had the same reaction when I read that line. It's the same as saying scoring in the top 1% percentile is within your control. And how are kids even suppose to know about these schools at a young age? I would assume it's the parents that needs to be knowledgeable and push their children to those admission exams.

The author certainly seems to have a tormented school career. It's to be reminded that when in that situation, survival and escapism often takes priority than figuring out the best high school to go to.
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> From any angle, they created an environment that made these guys think “my time will be better spent at Apple”.

tbf I don't think many startups running out of cash and exit opportunities would expect to keep their engineers if Apple approached them to offer a pay rise, regardless of how wonderful the environment was.

But the idea to raise capital by 'selling' engineers to Apple instead of agreeing to the aquihire (and perhaps negotiating for the IP Apple didn't want to be spun out) looks naive. Surely this is one where the investors and advisors ought to have stepped in?

The CEO apparently firing a CTO for interviewing for a job isn't a great look for management either...
Like Harrison Bergeron?
It's a self-perpetuating problem!
I wrote some config for my application, which knows how to read it. Why do I want some other application In some other programming language to read it too?

I am far more worried about localisation issues than language issues. If you are storing something central to multiple applications I'd argue a text file is the wrong tool
This whole thing feels ick to read.

"Hooked would “sell” three engineers to Apple
(including a longtime employee who served as Chief Technical Officer) and continue operating the less technical aspect of its business, relating to advertising."
Yes, that’s true. I only meant that in the western developed world, Montreal and Barcelona are the only cities I can think of where the vast majority of people have native (or virtually so) proficiency in more than. One language.
In the same vein, the fact that teachers are paid orders of magnitude less than lawyers boggles my mind. I don't think lawyers are overpaid considering the supply and demand but given the amount of value that teachers provide to society, it's surprising that teachers are so undervalued and that the people who would make good teachers never end up teaching.
> Any contiguous range of (n * s) numbers will contain exactly n values where x % s is 0, n values where x % s is 1, and so on, up to n values where x % s is (s - 1).

n is any number.