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Common nonsense and entirely false.

Corporations are treated like people for certain elements of the legal process (like the question of civil rights) because they are owned and operated by people, as a way for those people to do things together as a group (like exercising civil rights).

This line is a strong indicator that you're with or have been influenced by the "I hate Citizens United" people, who never seem to bother to remember that Citizens United itself was incorporated as a nonprofit, making a movie about Hillary Clinton with (non-tax-deductible) donations, as an exercise in those peoples' first amendment rights — one which the FEC sought to stop.

Anyway, Pinkerton's corporation has been replaced by a successor legal entity wholly owned by Securitas AB.
It is fixed at 21M but technically, this can be changed through an Economic Majority [0][1].

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3945/how-could-t...
This article is ridiculous. The domestic cocaine industry in Colombia is irrelevant. The international market is what drives production. Regardless of domestic legality, international trade isn't going to become legal just because Colombia wants it to. Even if the US didn't interfere internally, they (and the UN and others) wouldn't change their stance on international trade. The government purchasing domestic production would only increase domestic production, and when they ultimately stopped buying it up due to cost and cancelled the entire program, the international market would be flooded with even more cocaine, and the economic disruption would cause even more internal conflict.

Cocaine should be legal everywhere. It's not, though, so this is a stupid idea. A giant unsustainable agricultural subsidy isn't going to reduce domestic production when the entire market is international. On the contrary, it will only increase the size of the market and the amount of violent criminal behavior associated with it. By all means decriminalize consumption (which they've already done), but until there's a legal international market, don't subsidize it.
Additional discussion over at /r/MachineLearning [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k5ryva/d_e...
How does this work with database replication? Does all “application logic” have to execute on the master database?
Ah, that one must be the exception that proves the rule - i always forget about that.
What is a _healthy_ gut microbiome? And if it's not healthy, how to make it healthy?
That sounds like exactly what they did? (only company-wide averages, adding noise is not really needed)
The volume of stuff here is bonkers. Is every Unreal point release like this?
...so far. Other countries have some mechanisms - legal and cultural - in place that have resisted the creep of capitalist power concentration better than the U.S. has. But I'm pessimistic - I think globally we'll continue to see taxes cut, social safety nets dried up, and privatization of benefits, like has been happening in the UK. It just seems to be the tendency of capitalism.

edit: I invite downvoters to let me know why they disagree, besides "capitalism good"
Atlas is pretty awesome too. Build a C Corp in a few minutes.
Except they rust or break. They leech too sometimes.
Our church has taken as many precautions as we can while still remaining open for in-person services.

* Offering live streaming.

* Reducing capacity for services to one-quarter capacity and having our ushers enforce 6-foot (4 seats) separation between family groups.

* Constant "wear a mask, please" signs and reminders.

* Reducing childcare room capacity to 6 children and 2 adults per room.

* Opening every window and door possible.

* Keeping the ventilation system running to circulate air.

Our city fire marshal recently threatened us with fines for keeping the interior doors open to improve ventilation.
The discussion is about Amazon hiring Pinkerton operatives to spy on employees suspected of organizing even when they are off work. This was an interview with the journalist who broke the story as a continuation. [1]

Deflecting criticism with "some workers have even more upsetting conditions than these" doesn't help either party, moreover it actually shuts down an important discussion relevant to both. We shouldn't tolerate any business crushing dissent the way Amazon does; that's what is being discussed here.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...
What kind of exam requires you to memorize trig identities? Were they trying to prepare you for a world without paper or computers to look them up on? Or to be a smidgen faster at hand calculations?
Eh? I mean, by the same token you could say that single-core benchmarks of Intel chips are invalid, because you need eight threads or whatever to saturate a POWER7's multi-way SMT.

The main purpose of single-threaded benchmarks is to approximate performance for things which are actually single-threaded.
Unregulated? American unions are tightly regulated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act
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I dunno, the topic may be a bit more nuanced than that because the HTTP/2 upgrade is free (via ALPN, part of the TLS handshake) while there’s not yet any good way of starting on HTTP/3. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24855848 that I wrote 42 days ago on this very topic, with arguments in both directions.
>> 550 of the top traded coins,

This is all I needed to know. The markets are complete fiction these days. We are awash in bullshit investments with zero underlying value.
Not if you're rich
I recommend mercury.com. Amazing in basically every way IMO.
It’s probably less now though because we’ve seen a macro shift to debit from credit this year, which are cheaper to process and have much lower interchange fees, so processors that charge a fixed fee are keeping more of every transaction.
No. How would you prove it? As soon as there existed some document allowing one to "get back to normal" in some way, I guarantee you there will be a black market for those documents, to the point where they become useless. Oh, wait, it's already happening [1].

1: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2020/11/11/covid-...
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how many Pinkerton employeee have you met? Also, you know what they say about assumptions..
And lith means stone. Strike two.
I think you misread the question you are replying to.
I can't speak for California law, but where I live (which has a very generous wrongful termination regime), an employee resignation ultimatum (i.e., "if you don't agree to X, I will resign") is one of the classic employee blunders. It's not even really "hardball" for an employer to run with it, since being able to characterize it as a resignation rather than a termination is one of the few things that can dramatically affect what they may have to pay out.
Do these exist on Android?

If not, why not?

If they do, why hasn’t it enabled Android to leapfrog iOS?
Screen Actors Guild member Tom Cruise would like to chat with you about negotiating based on leverage, since you seem to have some misconceptions about what a collective bargaining agreement does what to the workplace.
Don't believe the headline. Google has a problem with activist employees pushing radical political agendas, often in ways explicitly prohibited by company policy -- for example, leaking internal documents to sympathetic press and harassing individuals on public forums like memegen because of their privately held political views.

These activists present their activities as "union organizing","transparency and ethics", "whistleblowing, and other sweet-sounding and broadly-liked labels, but in reality, what they're doing is not any of these things. What these activists are actually doing is trying to turn the company into a vehicle for advancing their fringe vision for a Utopian society. And if you know your history, you should run away screaming from anyone trying to engineer a Utopia.

Neither Google nor any other company should tolerate employees using the power of the company to advance their personal ideological beliefs. Companies should be mission focused. Coinbase got it right where Google got it wrong, and now Google's activist chickens are coming come to roost.
One of the common threads in media critiques like Manufacturing Consent and Hate, Inc. is that direct editorial control is not necessary in order to promote your agenda. Control of money and access, along with ideological indoctrination of journalists at elite universities, is all that's needed. See also my comment below about NPR listenership and trust in Amazon as an institution.
I - and many I know - won't spend the majority of our waking lives developing atop an engine that's now 40% owned by Tencent.

Why? Because my users trust me.

So I won't make decisions that increase the likelihood of my users being exploited.

User exploitation is something tech folks doesn't seem consider, for now, anyway. But thankfully folks are waking up, and it's effecting valuations.

Sad to see that Epic sold out.

Tim Sweeney (epic CEO) acted short term out of the allure of $. It'll be hard to look into your employees & children's eyes not deeply regret this.

I've shifted to Unity. Turns out it's remarkably better, so I can't complain about this impetus for the switch.
If you don't need the best single core performance, the cheaper Ryzen 3000 chips are still available.
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Only partially, since corporations can be owned by people and other corporations, yet owning people is not legal.
I remember when Trump issued travel restrictions on China, only to be scolded for being xenophobic.
That is a very valid comment. Thank you for that perspective. I think you are right.
Harder still, if they retain Pinkerton agents to spy on you even after you clock out [1]

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...
> What tactics are ok for a company to use to combat unions if it doesn't want them?

Won't somebody please think of the companies? :'(
Ah. So not, like, in your server room or anything.

Still bad enough. As shreygupta said, stay safe...
Would they make enough money from cocaine sales to offset the aid loss?
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> A "living wage" doesn't mean "middle class". A living wage means that a person is able to afford someplace relatively clean to live, feed themselves, afford heat in winter, etc.

That's not middle class in traditional class terms (petit bourgeois) based on the manner of interaction with the capitalist economy, but it's pretty much requires being “middle class” by the modern American broad income categories standards, where middle class is the middle income category.
My main question around legalization is how the transition happens. It seems to me that people who are already in the drugs business are at an advantage if we change the law to make things legal. I don't like the idea of enriching people who earlier made a living out of murdering their rivals, and I get this suspicion that they aren't going to immediately drop their whole muscle operation when they go legit.

I simply disbelieve the idea that a random legit businessperson could decide to go into the drugs trade without fearing harassment from the existing players, as well as gain knowledge in the area without having to associate with the formerly criminal.

What are some ways to address this? Any early indications from other places?
Why yes. Very much so indeed. I don't know why (actually I do), but I read that in the voice of Stephen Fry.
I don't think any company should have forced arbitration for regular employees for anything, but the right place to lobby for a fix to the arbitration problem is Capitol Hill, not memegen.
> Capitalism tells us that if we're not making money, we're worthless as humans.

I agree that pure capitalism thinks that way, and some cultures are closer to that than others.
Not necessarily. You can make it so that cross replicated databases can function independently and then sync the data together. This of course assumes that you don't have something like an ordering system and you absolutely need to make sure that you don't sell more than your inventory.
This is usually governed by country specific financial laws.
Good points. I had to do some research on the Durbin Amendment [1]. It seems to be a legal cap on debit card swipe fees, which saved money for merchants.

I could see a scenario where Stripe is currently capturing market share with a 2.9% + $0.30 fee, and then starts increasing this fee once it has a monopoly.

However, Stripe Payments isn't a loss leader that's focused on growth. I would hypothesize that Stripe Payments is profitable [2] and that the 2.9% + $0.30 fee isn't a huge sacrifice. If this is true, I don't see the incentive for a monopolistic Stripe to raise the fee.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment
[2]: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/stripe%3A-the-internets-most...
In addition to pay, a union would also give employees some practical muscle if, say, the company decided to deal with sexual harassment by paying the perpetrator a giant sum of money to go away instead of following up and seeing the situation through to some justice.
But do you understand why other people consider it to be an investment?
Do you have any evidence that Amazon has decreased overall employment? To me it is totally plausible that with the convenience of online shopping they have increased the overall “retail pie” and have not taken away from local businesses. So I would prefer when you make claims about how small business are dying out because of Amazon you provide evidence
Breaking up Google won't necessarily do anything to end anti-union activity.

Google's pieces could be just as anti-union as Google itself.
The other point missing in most of these discussions is we already know how most drug targets fold, even if we don't know the exact structure at atomic detail. It's everything else about their structure, dynamics, and in vivo function that remains very difficult. The real promise in AlphaFold IMHO isn't that we can magically solve protein structures without experiments (most really interesting structures are beyond what it can do anyway), but the more general application of these AI methods to human health.
There is quite a long tail of small/niche frameworks, but for most folks there aren't many major ones, really it's 3; React/Angular/Vue. There's probably another 5-10 in the next cohort, including Svelte
> In most of the US lottery proceeds go to schools.

I'm well aware. A government-run school system, however, is NOT a charity. And it's an enormously inefficient way to contribute to a cause -- more than half of the teacher's "donation" is kept by the lottery (distributed as prizes, vendor fees, admin costs)

Nor does much of the money actually impact kids. Most lottery-based education funding in the US is either misleading, or simply replacing (rather than adding to) other funding sources. For example, in New York:

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/education/how-much-lottery...

“People think the money is going strictly for education, like for books, or schools, or to pay teacher salaries, but it’s not,” DiPietro told 2 On Your Side.

According to DiPietro, the money on occasion has been “pinched off” by the state, to pay for a variety of items, including attorney’s fees for construction projects and even to pave roads near schools.

“They could say there are school busses that are going to drive on this road so the spending would be ‘education based’ when it’s really not, to me that’s a stretch,” he said.
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I'm just getting started with Unreal, and I've got an overwhelming amount to learn. It feels like embarking into an entirely new field.

I know Google works for these questions, but I'd like to hear opinionated responses if people have experience:

How do you manage / version assets? Git? Git LFS? ...?

How do you import photogrammetry assets? Do you need to process them in other software first, and is there a desired format to put them in? What's the best way to import and version them?

Is networking support for multiple players something that works out of the box? Or do you have to hand roll this and the server code?

Are there tools for integrating sensors like VR tracking and Kinect? What about adding real time point cloud data into the scene?

How do you tweak shaders? Is there a good guide to shader development that is Unreal Engine aware?

How do you delve into raw C++? Is Rust supported?

How might I find people with experience to work with, review my code, or potentially hire?
Probably devaboone: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=devaboone
I'm not discussing or comparing fossil fuels, but rather renewables, and specifically hydro, with nuclear. Coal sludge, tar sands mining, and fracking have nothing to do with hydropower generation. Those are the activities renewable energy alternatives are specifically intended to replace, and as such, they address any related concerns directly.

I'm unaware of any substantial credible literature describing toxic accumulations in hydro projects due to the hydro project itself.

"Cancer alleys" along major riverways due to other streamside and watershed activities (e.g., the lower Mississippi river & delta region) are prevalent without any accompanying hydroelectric facilities. Hydro isn't the cause.

This seems to be a shifting of the argument on your part.
If corporations were people, we'd see some face the death penalty.
I think it's inconvenient in a number of cases - if you have an injury on your face that the mask irritates, if you're trying to eat or drink while walking, or if you're wearing glasses which fog up.

The glasses thing is actually a pretty critical issue. I've seen people wearing masks and glasses by themselves in cars while driving with the windows closed. In that scenario fogging glasses makes wearing the mask more dangerous to people around you than not wearing the mask...

Of course, none of this is to say that in all these cases, even outdoors, that you shouldn't wear the mask if you can't social distance or need to go indoors. You totally should! But giving people the stink eye when they're 30 ft away from everyone else and outside and mask-less seems a bit much. It doesn't seem like there's any justification for that outside of shaming non-conformity.

Other commenters here are saying things like - if there's a .0001% chance this pre ents harm to you or others, then it's your duty to not do it. I'm a teetotaler; I wonder if these folks drink alcohol.
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> In my opinion the value is in the network and the ability to move money instantly (or at very least faster than traditional methods), securely, to anywhere in the world for a fraction of a cent. That ability alone is valuable and hasn't existed until now.

I spent some time working in a relatively-unknown but high volume clearing bank.

Banks can and do move billions instantly, and have done so for years through SWIFT and ACH. It takes literal seconds for a confirmation to pass through different clearing networks around the world.

Even today, we're seeing banks improve their correspondence networks with each other.

For example, you could have a Transferwise Account where you receive USD and convert to GBP.

If you wanted to move that to a Monzo account, you can do so instantly as Transferwise and Monzo have accounts either with each other or in the same institution.

The bank debits and credits each counterparty immediately.

At the end of the day, it nets its position, then sends its report to the central bank, netting positions between other participants.

Looking at crypto from the outside, I really don't see the added value based on existing infrastructure.

It seems more like a proof of concept rather than a viable long-term asset.
>> Not so with Bitcoin: the total supply is fixed at 21M, forever, and there's no central authority with the power to change that.

But as TFA indicates, there are over 500 other crypto coins. When anyone can create a new one they become irrelevant.
The first obstacle to general software engineering unionization is getting software engineers convinced that their problems stem from shitty management, and not incompetent peers.
My dad got me a really good deal ($600!) on the RAM on ebay, otherwise I think 64gb would have been plenty. The nice thing about it is the Linux buffer cache keeps everything in memory, the SSD is just for durability.

Over 4 years of heavy software development I think the system has paid for itself in time saved.
Isn't this what he's advocating for when he expresses the need to approach work "UX first" even when it comes to story and epic-level work?
Most of the world's natural resources and land have already been claimed. This means that most people have no choice but to work for the people who control those resources and land.
> the right place to lobby for a fix to the arbitration problem is Capitol Hill, not memegen.

So, remembering that employees successfully organized to get Google management to end mandatory arbitration, whereas such requirements are still permitted by law, - that was the wrong approach, and employees should have continued waiting (and still waiting today) for congress to act?

Who determines the "right" place?
>> they sell any cocaine

Lol. Take that money I mentioned above, all that military aid. If the Columbian government starts selling cocaine that money will fund the US military invasion of columbia. The US might be on the brink of legalizing weed, but it is a long long way from accepting colombia as an official narco state.
How do those $800million compare to the costs of enforcing the prohibition?

Colombia is a small country, at 50M inhabitants, but not that small. Drug fighting and the divisiveness it causes are some of the largest issues of the country.
That's right. Selling a piece of spectrum is a very good analogy.

Another easy analogy would be IP addresses. Early on in the internet huge chunks were just given out for free. Now they're valuable because they're scarce and the demand for them has skyrocketed as the internet grew.

You need spectrum to participate in the radio business (and other kinds of businesses). You need IP addresses to participate in the internet. Similarly you need HNS (as an example) to participate in the Handshake network.

And as with spectrum and IP addresses, there's only a fixed amount of HNS (or at least that is the expectation, the details vary in each cryptocurrency).
I’ve been living in my car in SF for about 915 days, on less than $18k/yr take home. I’m so poor that I can barely get hired to a minimum wage job (“but you have a car,” “but you have an iPhone”). Everything I have is left over from a time when I made $200k/yr as a software engineer, and thankfully I’ve been given a lot of benefit of the doubt given my upstanding ways. (I was slandered, so people I meet see a good guy but when I interview they’re told of a violent bigot during the reference check, false).

I’m working on a book, or books, on the subject. It seems surprising to people that something happens called poverty with less than a certain level of income, that makes things get extremely hard and require great care to recover from. I was on track to get off the street and nearly did last year but faced a setback, and the pandemic threw a big wrench in my system this year (which is adapting, harder mode). My working budget has been $55/day or $375/wk or $18k/yr.
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The problem with plants is that other people can grow them. If Colombia makes this work, other countries will be looking on with interest. What actual advantage would an incumbent such as Colombia have over upstart competitors?

Seems like a short-term and inflammatory gain at best.