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Sure, if they want, if they choose to. And that's the point for me at least; freedom of choice.

Writers should be able to write how they want, employing whatever literary devices they want, about whatever topic they want. There should be no restriction imposed.

On another note; writers can't ignore reality, if they are writing about reality that is. Homeless people exist. They are smelly and unclean and in many cases can be violent. Ask anyone living in San Francisco, Los Angeles etc. Sure, not every homeless person is white, but the majority are. Trying to pressure writers into adding forced "diversity" due to wokeness is ridiculous. Reality is not woke, it is what it is.

If they want to use tropes, no problem. If they want to find different ways of representing real life situations without the use of tropes, no problem. Whatever. Choice.

What i disagree with is the imposition of language that the OP (Chris Winkle) is trying to impose; that tropes are somehow bad and to be avoided or "cleaned up" because they are somehow demeaning or offensive.
I think the point is that there hasn’t really been 3-phase double blinded trials to determine dosing, safety, tolerability, and efficacy as well as side effects.

Much of what we have is anecdotal.
I'm not sure what you mean by "gains getting sucked up from where they naturally would have gone". If you have a capitalist economy where:

- productive output increases

- wages remain the same

- the length of the working day remains the same

then you have gains accruing to the capitalists and not the workers. (In the case where wages also increase but at a lower rate than productive output, gains are accruing to both capital and labor but disproportionately so to capital)
> So, I would be on your arrest and prosecution list.

The problem I cited was failure to demand prosecution for crimes, which you repeatedly demonstrate.

It is telling that you avoid mentioning deliberate poisoning, and even invent things I did not say. Dishonesty is not engagement.
I don’t subscribe to Medium yet but I started using Apple News because the ad-driven model has led to publisher pages that are near unreadable / terrible UX. So I won’t be surprised if Medium is successful.
A good chuck of that average is all the workers that are structurally unemployed and will only accelerate https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-big-structural-...
> very clear

Politicians completely ruined this particular word combination for me.

My reflexive interpretation is that things were exactly the opposite of clear and the speaker is likely to be lying.
That makes no sense. Everything since Julia v. 1.0 should be considered stable. There have been no real breaking changes since that release.
I have gotten myself into trouble have a syntax error, etc in my comment body. I kept thinking that piece of code is “commented out” and shouldn’t cause issues!
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Those two things are disconnected. Wages are dictated by supply and demand, not efficiency.

An oversimplified example [with lots of nuances I'm sure people will comment on instead of the original point]: The supply of heart surgeons is small, therefore they can command a larger wage and have their choice of jobs. The supply of burger-flippers is much larger and employers can usually find someone willing to do the labor for cheaper than another person.

The point being, the best way to increase your wage is to switch jobs to something where the supply of applicants is smaller and the demand is strong.
Julia has really nice abstractions for dealing with this. Things for which you might do such calculations in other languages can often be done in a way generic to the number of dimensions, as well as the initial index, using CartesianIndices & friends. And this should be zero cost.
Think of someone targeting immigrant run restaurants?
Neither am I. I'm debating whether it is small.

> I'm actually happier to pay a small premium
Valid point. I think there are two totally different reasons it could erode trust in whatever ideas were in wide circulation before the introduction of the new medium:

(1) People could get better at critical thinking. This is a kind of enlightenment. Enlightenment usually requires effort, so it's not automatic. But some people will seize the opportunity that they didn't otherwise have.

(2) People are just exposed to more ideas. They don't take the (old) default views anymore because now there are more choices readily available to them. This can happen without people getting smarter. The paths of least resistance have been rearranged.
Insofar as the article is talking about minimum wage workers specifically, it makes even less sense. Has the productivity of minimum wage workers gone up at the same rate as for all workers? The chart is comparing apples and oranges.
We're far from being in a perfect place, but we're in a relatively good place compared to the rest of history.

Reinstituting modernized versions of monarchs and clerics who tell us what we're allowed to know and to think.

I neither want Facebook and a few corporations to declare themselves the gatekeeper of morality and acceptable thought nor do I want the oppressive regimes and dictators use freedom of expression against us by flooding us with misinformation and lies. But forking over control to a group of tech figures like Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Bezos, or Pichai cannot be the answer to the threat of Putin and Xi Jinping.
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If I need to clearly and calmly plan out a tricky bit of software, I will often bring out an old-fashioned dip pen. I'm not slow with it, but I have to write a bit more carefully than a regular pen or pencil, and of course it's much slower than typing. I tend to end up with a page of thoughtful self-debate which I can then condense into a typed summary to use in implementation. It is a silly way to work, but it does work.
This is exactly why I will never work for a small company again (have only worked for 5-digit companies at least, since then).

How much can I spend on meals during business travel? Why does XYZ get to work remotely or come in late as they please, but nobody else seems to? How did ABC get to go fully remote?

Every workplace has rules, but in my experience, the more vague a company is about their rules and processes, the more they want to mindgame you into asking for less than they would've given. See things like unlimited vacation. In my experience, you can count on successful large companies having clear, well-established processes and expectations because there's simply no other way to run a business of 20- or 40,000 people.
What about the main point of the article that SQL is not composable.
> Overhead cost of providing a physical workspace is easily 50%+ of base compensation costs.

That estimate is high by about an order of magnitude. To get a sense of the cost ceiling per person, look at the least cost-effective way to rent a monthly desk which is to do it as an individual in a co-working space.

Here's one price list for coworking space in Campbell (Silicon Valley)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iljwYScQ4d5F4rUcQN-9XH0D8E2...

An open office desk is $325/month, up to a dedicated cubicle for $725/month.

So for a junior engineer at $150K salary, that's between 2.6% to 5.8% of their base comp in office space cost.

Now, of course, a company renting tens of thousands of square feet at a time gets better rates due to scale, so the percentage is less than those examples.
I think you're conflating two points - the granularity of targeting and the auction method. Everything will get simpler if you reduce the number of targeting variables. The auction method seems less relevant to me, that's simply a financial matter.
Unfortunate that Amnesty wouldn't be able to produce a similar report [0] about India [1] now.

Protestors in India are being charged under UAPA [2]. In 2019, the act was amended allowing the government to designate an individual as a terrorist without trial.

[0] Amnesty International India Halts Its Work On Upholding Human Rights In India Due To Reprisal From Government Of India - https://amnesty.org.in/news-update/amnesty-international-ind...

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1314054705455144962.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Activities_(Preventio...
>Sure, it might make sense in specific cases, but in general it doesn't make sense to transpose a table.

From my intuition, I don't see anything stopping the function from existing -- it can be applied to any arbitrary table. You probably don't want to transpose your table, except when you want to, but that's true of any function -- I'm can't imagine any scenario where transpose(table)->table would as an algorithm fail (unless I suppose if julia tables include header rows, in which case there's probably no generally correct definition)
https://reason.com/2020/10/07/phony-fact-checking-on-forest-...

(Facebook, not Twitter)
At most companies of this size, HR/payroll is separate from the recruiting department.

I'm definitely in agreement that a functioning HR/payroll department is a prerequisite for a good experience though. I had an employer that kept paying me after I left company, and they only stopped because I told them that this was the case. Obviously, afterwards, they sent me a letter saying they had "discovered" an overpayment, and I should send them back the money to exact cent, with no allowance for the cheque/mailing costs...
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My thought on this has always been ad networks need to flip the script. Detect how much users like the content/services they are being sent to via ads (things like whether they come back on their own, upvotes, etc., can be used to detect this). Then dramatically reward the ads people found useful to click and dramatically punish (they have to pay more) the spammy ads everyone regrets clicking on.

I would rather live in this kind of internet.
Seriously, post a video of you doing that. Or someone else's.

If you think I will refute it whatever the case, what can I do? I can only say that I will watch in good faith.

If, as you seem to suggest, I do see issues with the video and evidence, and you don't, what does that tell you about your threshold for the acceptance of what is presented as true to you?
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I have done little to no marketing, and spent less than $100 in the last 7 years.

Initially, I relied on integration listings with our partners (Stripe, MailChimp, Zendesk). Overtime customers started talking about us. People would post an odd review. We also rely on 'powered by' links under forms on free accounts.

We don't have one strong acquisition source.
I buy popular brands I see on ads often enough (especially if you consider food items). Granted, there was a reasonable chance I was going to buy the products anyway, but seeing the ad probably raised the chances. I think every time I thought about the product, there was a chance that I was going to pull the trigger on buying it, and seeing the ad prompted another thought about the product. Also, when I see ads, I often have a thought like "I see this ad more often than the competitor's ads. Are they doing better? Maybe it really is because their product is better than the competitor's".
Don't tell that to my AdNauseam extension ;)
It's fundamentally useless to nitpick like that and accuse someone of dishonesty for glancing over irrelevant details.
> unrealistic tropes

mmmmm...some tropes are rooted firmly in reality, maybe a little exaggerated sometimes, but there is truth to them nonetheless, just like there is some truth stereotypes.

I think there is nothing inherently wrong with using tropes. Freedom to choose is what is important. If the author wants to use tropes, they should be able to.
> I am trying to be a good novelist, and hoping that people will forgive me for being a bad correspondent.

%s/novelist/coder

%s/a bad correspondent/unresponsive on slack
i should have read your last sentence before i shattered some childhood memory of the graphics of Citadel.
>Peaceful protests have been banned under draconian COVID-19 powers ..

Most regions have draconian regulations on public gatherings (including religious services) but somehow protests (peaceful or otherwise) should be exempted?
Not if the drug costs US$2000-$3000 per treatment.
The article contrasts a hypothetical trend with the reality where labor scarcity drives prices.
Is that net or gross? And assuming 30 days of vacation at 7,5 hours each, are those 225 hours part of the equation?

Interesting to see how those numbers aren’t as drastically different from my country as I’d assumed.
macOS and linux got a lot more secure and stable, so is Microsoft Windows (less random crashes).
> With internet, you have much higher chance of knowing stuff is misinformation, though.

I think if you're willing to put in the effort, and if you're aware in the first place that a lot of stuff on the internet is nonsense, this is probably true. The problem comes when people don't. There are people whose main source of news is social media, and many really don't have a great basis for figuring out what's real or not.
Does this mean both companies agreed to close forever?
I have this gut instinct we're veering towards the way China censors their internet. The great U.S. firewall, to secure our citizens from "disinformation"!
I too was surprised at how complicated my first food service job was. there are so many opportunities to mess up in every minute of peak hours. at the same time, I almost miss it. if food service paid the same as software dev, I might seriously consider switching back. as stressful as it was, there was a sense of closure at the end of every shift. if I messed something up, I would either hear about it by the end of the day, or it just wouldn't matter. in software dev, I can get bitten today by a poor design decision I made last year. nothing is ever fixed or finished; the bugs just haven't been filed yet.
I didn't say all people loved Bell Systems, I said there were people (some people doesn't mean 100%) who loved Bell Systems, just like there are people today who hate using Verizon and love using it.

And Apple is not universally loved also, no matter how much you adore them, there are people who don't.

This youtube parody was also not unpopular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyTA33HQZLA

And there are plenty of videos similar like this.
We can both cherry-pick like this, and my point still stands, I am not arguing which monopoly is loved more, I am arguing what is FAIR before the court of law, not how much developers enjoy WWDC and their Macs.
In the real world, customers don't actually do that and in fact cannot for everything they buy. Regulation is simply more efficient and effective.
I wonder how many of these “permanent” WFH positions will be made to return to the office after Covid.

It’s nice to say that now when you don’t have the choice anyway. But when the tide turns, it will be easy to force people to return / fire them / make it unattractive for them to avoid the office.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Competence is demonstrated over time, not in a vacuum of individual decisions. Someone that is competent at Chess proves it over an entire game. A novice can still make a few good moves over the course of that same match.

Pretty much any competency can be demonstrated that way.
The problem with any model where ad performance is based on how much cash you can throw down is that scams are much more profitable typically than legitimate services. A scam page can afford $5/click if it's scamming 1% of its clicks for $5000. Bidding on clicks is just a race to the bottom in terms of quality.

We should instead be using user metrics to evaluate and punish ads that lead to pages users regret navigating to.
Actually working on a non-violent indie 4X right now, called Slipways [1][2]. It's set in space, but I do owe lots of inspiration to Railroad Tycoon and Transport Tycoon, and the core of the game is about connecting places together so that goods can flow from place to place.

It's a much more condensed experience than either of these - 40-60 minutes per playthrough depending on playstyle.

[1]: https://twitter.com/krajzeg/status/1304447134209585152

[2]: https://slipways.net
Well, higher prices not only allow for people to be paid decent money to review the ads manually but are also a bigger risk for any scam operation as not only is it more difficult to obtain & move that amount fraudulently (you're not going to be able to buy a TV ad with a stolen credit card) but they also have much more to lose should their entire operation be discovered (presumably, a TV network discovering a fraudulent attempt will report it to the relevant authorities and will not just give the money back).
>Second, we will prevent “liked by” and “followed by” recommendations from people you don’t follow from showing up in your timeline and won’t send notifications for these Tweets. These recommendations can be a helpful way for people to see relevant conversations from outside of their network, but we are removing them because we don’t believe the “Like” button provides sufficient, thoughtful consideration prior to amplifying Tweets to people who don’t follow the author of the Tweet, or the relevant topic that the Tweet is about.

I want to applaud this, because it's clearly a good move. but i don't see how they can square "our recommendation engine is harmful enough that we need to disable it to protect the security of an election" with "we're gonna turn it back on in four weeks"
You don't need to own a time slot completely. You could still split impressions based on a time slot, eg. you pay for 80% of the impression in a slot and I pay for 20%. You can still target "all sports fans form 10am to 2pm" or something as well.

This would still remove the incentive for fake clicks.
If you're an end user --- don't buy Apple.

If you're a developer --- don't build for Apple.

Problem solved.
> imply there is a huge market opportunity for someone else to build their own ecosystem and charge less?

Hmmm. Let's see what one would need to do at a bare minimum:

- start manufacturing phones

- build own OS (or fork Android)

- develop own SDK

- develop own online store infrastructure

- manufacture other devices (e.g. Apple) and/or develop other services (e.g. Google) to complete "ecosystem"

The barrier to entry in developing a mobile (and beyond) ecosystem is astronomical when competing with either Apple or Google. It's practically impossible to break into a multi-trillion dollar market when it's siloed to two multi-trillion dollar corporations.
You should look at the priority dates for Indians before you comment.
Isn't the long wait due to the arbitrary cap of something like 50K GC/country/year. Seems like Congress should just fix that as part of comprehensive immigration reform.
Hello Peter,

many thanks for taking the time to answer our questions!

Q1) What are the options for an EU freelancer (geographically based and registered in EU e.g. Germany, France, Poland) to contract with an US based company via homeoffice?
So you refuse to go to France because you once saw a single cop on TV with a vest cropping a logo on his shirt such that it looked like that of a defunct socialist organization? You're a full-on whack-job.
As long as you're referring to the original version of Pirates, it works great on phones in an emulator (I've used the NES version)
The biggest reason is that there has been almost no productivity gain for cleaning a hotel in the last 20-30 years. It takes same amount of time and effort. So why would the wages go up if productivity is not up?

The productivity gains went to either things that got automated (e.g. speciality equipment operator - wages are higher but there are less jobs) or knowledge workers (software engineering salaries have skyrocketed).
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I’ll take this week in stupid for $1,000
HCQ needs to be administered early before symptoms are severe and with zinc and azithromycin.

This is not what is being tested here, and this is why studies like this one are misleading.

The title should be explicit: HCQ does not show better outcome for patients when administered late.
I'm not seeking alternative truth. Everyone cheers for Twitter because they think they are going to censor people in a way they agree with. But what about the day that changes? What about the day they decide to censor you instead?

On one hand, I agree that businesses should be free to operate as they like & you can vote with your feet if you don't like the rules. However, we also have to be realistic about the fact that the largest tech corporations are now more powerful than most countries. Opting out isn't a very practical solution.
Moderna Vows to Not Enforce Covid-19 Vaccine Patents During Pandemic
And that avoids the rent-seeking problem... how?
It's already being misused, consider Cambridge Analytica.
> QWERTY was intentionally designed to avoid jams

Minor quibble that this is not true (or at least strongly disputed).

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-...
> Propaganda exists to be spread

Indeed, that is the meaning of the word.
Doesn't help the case, along with the deaths, that a snake oil conman loves it, loves it, loves it; unless he's being treated for covid.
Find employers that transfer visas or are WFH friendly (with 1 click)
Supply and demand isn't purely about total numbers. it's also about the power to walk away.

This is why employer lobbies are very keen on reducing public benefits (means you are more reliant on having a job) and reducing public sector wages (reduces competition in the labor market).
I agree with what you're saying, but I think it's inevitable. The system is set up that way as an inevitable consequence of modern technology; automation and economies of scale are simply better at producing valuable things, so much better that an individual worker with no capital can't compete. We can change who has access to capital or reallocate the benefits of capital, but we can't change the fundamental problem that capital is required to get anything done under modern technological conditions. The most dedicated shopkeeper on the planet couldn't match Amazon's capital-intensive delivery network, nor could the best machinist on the planet make a better washing machine than Whirlpool's capital-intensive assembly line.