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> If the HR rep was speaking truthfully, then I would have expected to Google legal to just adopt the updated text in this agreement and all future agreements. It literally got tweaked at least once a year so the problem of "multiple agreements" wasn't really a problem.

I'm definitely not defending the actions of Google here but I do understand them - it's quite likely this HR rep couldn't legally agree to this contract modification and it's entirely possible that when it was forwarded to legal they didn't have the power to approve this change without consulting up the legal ladder and possibly passing the question by upper management.

To contrast, if this person had said "I can't agree to that clause for my personal property but I am happy to be issued and exclusively use (for business purposes) a phone from you folks." - that problem has a solution that's pretty negligible in cost when compared to the cost of employing someone and it doesn't go against the contract they've been asked to get people to sign on to.
From Wikipedia:

> the PowerBall jackpot draw require[s] players to pick five main numbers from 1 to 45 and one 'PowerBall' number from 1 to 20 for an entry fee of R5 per board

As suggested elsewhere here, this could be someone who has broken the system trying to draw attention to the flaw. If that's the case, why choose this sequence then? Why not go for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?
Well, I did spend hours playing on flying simulators with the default inverted axis (yoke down to climb up, yoke up to climb down) and I do not invert the axis when playing other types of games. Anecdotal but this is true for my friends that play/played the same type of games.
The trick is that there's an auditable trail of things that she did. Notably, she bypassed restriction in our code change system which would've required review. The policy around bypassing that is explicitly to only be used in emergencies.

Again, reasonable for her to be fired.
It doesn't matter. The subsidy is 22% and the gap is more than 22%.
So... are we suppose to consume... Disneyland? Like... with a knife and fork?
List of Countries by External Debt
Yellowstone (TV show) reference? :)
Build things that solve real pain that people will pay you to make it go away.

Startups aren’t inherently different from big companies. Big companies you have enough of a buffer that you could do nothing and they’d survive. At a startup if you’re not working on things that will keep you afloat, the startup does.

So the #1 skill is focus on things that will help you get paying customers, and do it well that those customers are happy enough to stay with you long term as you grow.
Last time telcos were taken on we got Google Fiber. I'm skeptical if the long-term play is to stick with servicing just rural customers. Also telcos get paid quite an insane amount of money to service rural areas poorly. I'm not so sure they'll see it as "not a threat".
Solar beamed power from orbital facilities?
> I think pretty much everyone recognizes

This “vote” was 27-25.

The 27 with a brain would best ignore this UN committee entirely. And stop any funding to it too.
I've only worked at small to mid sized firms. Either way, Knowing what the agreement is before I agree is special treatment? I'm not asking to modify the contract, merely to see it before I give notice and upend my families life.
The latest ARC claims from Whyte's last presentation was 3MW/m^3 density, and that's with currently achievable magnets, not those people believe are ultimately achievable. Counting just the PWR reactor vessel, and not the entire containment facility, seems a huge cheat.

We're talking economics of energy. PWR Fission reactors have enormous footprints, averaging 1 square mile. An ARC reactor wouldn't need anywhere need that size. The very nature of using pressurized water means your containment facility has to be a factor of 1000 larger than the reactor vessel to handle a flash boil over.

Current costs to build a 1GW fission plant are $6-9 billion. Predicted costs to build a 200MW ARC reactor are $4-5 billion, so the ARC reactor costs ~5x more at the high end, and 77% more at the low end, for the same output (e.g. build 5 ARC reactors to equal one fission plant). The economics are still viable, and your costs for storage, disposal, and de-comissioning are far lower, as is your land footprint. Note that these ARC costs are for the first reactor, include the sunk development costs, and not the economies of scale that would occur from dropping HTS costs.

> It's all about the limits on areal power density at the reactor walls.

No, he makes lots of assumptions about how the magnets are shielded, how breeding works, and how heat transfer works. All of these are addressed by FLiBe, there's no "structure" to the heat blanket to damage, it acts simultaneously as radioactive shielding for the magnets, heat transfer, and a breeder. The "blanket" in ARC isn't a surface sandwiched with a super structure, it's a volume that's continuously pumped and recirculated.

He also makes the implicit assumption that reactor wall damage is a huge problem. Instead of seeing it as a problem, you should see it as a solution, like an ablative heat shield on a rocket or capsule. As long as the cost of maintenance or replacement is low, and reactor downtime is limited, it is not a problem. Current estimates for ARC, which is designed to be modular, so it can be easily maintained, is that the reactor walls will last about 1 year.

He doesn't even mention the biggest unsolved engineering problem, removing the "ash" (Helium) that accumulates in the plasma.

His article has all the trappings of reusable rocket naysayers in the 80s and 90s, who claimed reusables could never work, because carrying wings, landing legs, heat shielding, and structural reinforcement to make rapid reusability would cut down on your usable payload, and thus doom reusable rockets to always be substantially inferior. And this is because of an obsession with a single variable, like power density, or payload fraction, and ignoring the end to end economics of the entire system, including safety margins, maintenance, footprint, etc.

And that's why I believe ARC will prove Lidsky wrong.
Your dog would like you to know that he is most certainly NOT as stupid as a computer.
The fact that it was using a known-good computer algorithm means little. Suppose an actor can set the algo seed and thus the generator can give you whatever results you want. Or the output is intercepted. So many possibilities.
this is why rooftop solar, which has the highest LCOE of any power generation, still ends up making sense for consumers. Because it doesn't have to compete on the open market, it just has to be plausibly cheaper than your utility bill
Drug classification does not depend on the harm they do, but on a complex net of economic and political causes. There are very harmful drugs that are legal and regulated (like alcohol) and also many substances that are not explicitly regulated, regardless of how harmful they may be.
Yeah, In my opinion poppler should be a dependency of rga in homebrew (since it's kinda useless without having the default adapters), but I don't maintain that package.
I hope Microsoft eventually make a "real" chip instead of the Qualcomm 8cx rebrands known as SQ1/SQ2. I wanted to buy a Surface Pro X but performance was a showstopper, not to mention the weird price increase.
No thats what they literally do https://freakonomics.com/2011/08/09/the-church-of-scionology....
I'm surprised that the parent post was downvoted, because AFAICT it's a valid comparison. Is there something I'm missing?
Just tried it. My experience might be abnormal, but it seems glitchy and slow. A playlist that I already created with my offline songs synced with my phone, but playlist said 0 songs. No error messages, very unintuitive. Had to create a new playlist and add the songs again, still wasn't showing. Relaunched spotify on both devices two times and it finally showed up. And this is for ~20 songs. I wouldn't want to use this method on a big library.

Also, Spotify doesn't upload your music for streaming, its just a sync between your phone and computer that have to be on the same wifi, and keeps the songs downloaded on your phone. Wouldn't work for a collection bigger than your phones storage. I wouldn't even compare this to GPM.
There's a setting in Google Home where you can alias which TV a given speaker is paired to as its default so you don't have to name the TV. If you have a device _named_ TV, that goes out the window, though.
How often does the computer ticket "quick pick" system generate this combination?
> Block compilation or whole program compilation are used for delivery of applications.

Mostly, sure just like LTO in C/C++. But if I were doing any scientific programming with common lisp I'd try to use block compilation in a few select places during interactive development as well. I'd imagine that for some code this would get rid of a lot of boxing and unboxing as well as type checks, in addition to getting rid of indirection. I'd not be surprised if you could get an integer factor speed up if you got many small functions which mostly operate on doubles or double arrays. I should probably give it a try just to satisfy my curiosity.
Many societies and sub-societies practice daily light consumption of alcohol, although less so with better water quality.

Frequent "popular health" headlines claim that "a daily glass of wine" or "2-3 drinks per week" has some benefits for heart health of whatever[0]. It is perfectly reasonable for people to believe that light consumption of alcohol, like a glass of wine every other day, could actually be good for them.

It is false, but it is not a ridiculous belief. I'd guess that more than half of all Americans believe it.

0. https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/list-hearthealthy-wines-100... "While excessive alcohol consumption can have adverse effects on your health, moderate consumption of wine is linked to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease."

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/benefits-of-wine "Emerging research continues to suggest that drinking wine in moderation — about a glass per day — offers several benefits."

http://www.namhpac.org/5-healthiest-red-wine-choices-good-fo... "We’ve all heard that red wine has a health benefit or two to offer..."

https://www.health.com/nutrition/healthiest-wine "If you like wine, you've probably raised a glass (or two) to the reports that drinking it is good for you."
Schedule 1 is specifically classified as:

"contains the substances considered the
most addictive and harmful."
Totally agree with the example you give, with quotes.

My comment was directed more towards news where they would report, following your example, <Group a says "man walked on the moon", group b says "nobody was ever in the moon">.

When it is reported in this way it feels a bit lazy, under the pretense of reporting on the "facts" ("Somebody said something" is a fact too, but were we on the moon or not?)

I guess all I am saying is sometimes reporting from the perspective of "there are two sides" (for every issue) is not neutral. It is an instance of False dichotomy, and removes all nuance on the debate (only options pro or against)
No, that’s just a literal description of how these old Japanese businesses pass themselves along for centuries.
If we are going to include organisms here... ALL of our energy production is or was at some point solar, with the exception of geothermal and nuclear.

Coal? Solar. Wood burning? Solar. The food you eat? Solar. Wind? Solar. Gasoline? Solar too.
Good point (also, don't think you meant to include Telegram in there)
This is helpful information - the next time I'm working on promoting my website I'll remember that it's entirely optional whether my business thrives or I go destitute due to refusing to be indexed by their search index.

Your statement is accurate when a healthy market and competitors exist but you are not free to avoid doing business with Google since they have an insane amount of market control.
> Wednesday's vote therefore does not clear U.N. member nations to legalize marijuana under the international drug control system. Canada and Uruguay have legalized the sale and use of cannabis for recreational purposes, but many countries around the world have decriminalized marijuana possession.

I’ll add that Canada has faced zero consequences for ignoring this useless committee. I encourage all other countries to do the same.
That would have been an interesting novelty, for sure.
> To contrast, if this person had said "I can't agree to that clause for my personal property but I am happy to be issued and exclusively use (for business purposes) a phone from you folks."

And indeed this is a thing that many people at Google do.
>The 27 with a brain would best ignore this UN committee entirely. And stop any funding to it too.

Anyone with a brain realized it's best to ignore the UN as an entity quite some time ago.

I guess this time around the strongly worded letters will be what? In support of asking people to perhaps (please) reconsider their legislative approach to or classification of cannabis?
> Timing side-channels are extremely hard to perform, especially if it is over the internet.

Not all attackers are over the internet. Especially the ones who have had the opportunity to capture your past traffic, e.g. because they compromised your internet gateway, or have the ability to MITM you and may have used that ability to compromise other devices on your LAN or inject malicious javascript that could perform certain timing attacks from your own machine.

> But all of this does not matter because all modern protocols use algorithms that are safe from timing attacks.

New classes of timing attacks are discovered on a regular basis. Then existing implementations have to be hardened again. Moreover, it's generally not the algorithm itself that has to resist the attack. Sometimes it isn't even the cryptography -- Spectre can allow the attacker to read arbitrary memory from the address space of a vulnerable program, and the timing vulnerability doesn't have to be in the cryptography library, it could be in any part of the program.

> If the master key was generated with a weak rng then the same would also be true for any ephemeral keys. That being said I doubt that any device capable of running signal is going to have a weak RNG.

This is a thing that happened:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...

And even after they fixed it, so that ephemeral keys were no longer using the bad PRNG, the long-term keys generated with the bad PRNG were still in use by anyone not paying attention.

There are also degrees of brokenness. A bad PRNG may produce output that can be guessed but not inexpensively. The attacker may be willing to pay the high price once to crack the long-term key but not pay the same price for each of thousands of messages.

> The easiest solution here is to not backup the signal directory.

But then you don't have a backup of the signal directory when your phone falls into a wood chipper.
>The anti-vaxxers aren't going to change their minds either way.

But this is false for anyone not super anti vaxxer

>Why worry about it? We've got bigger fish to fry right now.

It's important to weigh all the effects of our policies as a nation. If we can accomplish 99% of the result without some side effects it's better than trying for 100% with possible future problems. I think it's fair to see how policies will affect the population/its divide (i.e. it's not a small enough fish to disregard).
It's so refreshing to have it completely normalized in Canada now. Like gay marriage (legal since 2005), it's just another thing that is perfectly common everyday, and nobody thinks it's a big deal or has to expend energy constantly fighting for the right.
The name does not mean anything. What is the official name of North Korea again?
This is one way the 27 can influence the 25. What do you think the UN is?
Dispensing Errors – leading cause of mortality in the United States
not sure if this is still relevant, but this happening nowadays isn't acceptable. I propose we not only have tools and it's cheap enough to either augment or replace existing solution. A bit of regulatory power in standardising packaging and this error can easily be cut in halve if not fully eliminated... or perhaps some effort is already underway?
> If Customer purchases additional capacity ... unconsumed Capacity will roll over ... Otherwise, purchased Capacity expires

What is vague about that?
welcome to enterprise software?
PRs welcome at https://github.com/hackclub/jobs!
that's also true of schedule II. the key difference between I and II is whether there is any accepted medical use.
This is a really cool and very smart looking mathematical way of looking at something that I do with lower-tech taxon labels using LTREE in Postgres to store the annotations.

In PG you can do a kind of KNN for things that are X LTREE degrees away as well as ordering by distance from trigrams of text. With an ensemble of online learning models for different blobs of taxa, it is a way to prevent concept drift and give weights to the different subdomains of training data to fight bias.

This kind of topological approach is great. One challenge in SQL is that class membership can only be so expressive and I have a nagging desire for slightly more RDF-like edges of predicates/verbs, but that still feels like overkill to me since I can already do rule engines with facts based on the labels. Therefore I end up with class names like "things that verb" or "things that are verbable" like would be done for naming interfaces.

Scanning the paper I don't understand the math well enough (am more of a code plumber). How would different "types" of edges be encoded to get past the perceived limitations of class membership?
Sounds like they're saying Coronaviruses aren't a new thing, just that new types pop up. The CDC lists human Coronaviruses were first found in the mid-1960s [0]

[0] - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html
The vote was actually quite close, 27:25, which means there are still 25 people that don't get it.

At the end of the day, the rulers realized that there is a huge market and billions to be made in this industry.
Coronavirus vaccine, Dr. Fauci says, could fill stadiums in 2021
It sounds corny, but happiness is something you decide, not because of something. In all situations, you can choose to embrace your experiences and do everything you can about them to the fullest, or not. This can take an instant, and it can take a lifetime. Whenever we can't feel comfortable, we can do stuff we know further the constructive narrative of our lives. This narrative when nurtured and fed, will grow as exponential potential, unseen until unleashed on the world. The nurturing and sharpening of your own willpower, requires to leave outcomes to the higher good, trust and faith in that you've put in your part and that you continue to charge up.
"it differs depending on whether it’s measured in meters per second or miles per hour." Wait what?
I guess that's reasonable, though it appears the name goes back to the 1st century, so the UK is named after the Isles, rather than the other way around?

Has anyone proposed a viable alternative?
Some fun explorations of siteswap I've done before: https://joshuamorton.github.io/2017/01/25/juggling/
Setting aside idea of playing a lottery, if you insist on playing it at least do it properly. Don't choose any pattern of numbers as you are exposing yourself to having to share the win with other people. Don't choose a date as it is more probable somebody will also chose a valid date than a completely random set of numbers. Don't choose digits from your favorite irrational number, for the same reason.

Ideally, choose numbers that no other person is likely to choose. Not exactly random. Maybe generate a random sequence and check if you can see a pattern, do a search on the Internet, etc.
At this moment the HN submission has 42 upvotes.
The whole thread here seems to revolve around whether or not Spiers should have been fired for what she did.
And while I have a clear opinion on that and had fun sparring with y'all here about it, can we also talk about how unionization is actually something that we need to think about as a profession / group of professions?

The days where "being in IT" made you a rockstar that could command a premium in individual negotiations are, best I can tell, way in the past.
Open source frameworks and industry standards, while certainly excellent from a standpoint of work de-duplication and stability, have made it much easier (at least for bigger corps) to replace engineers, or to simply hire someone who's cheaper and less likely to make trouble (read: people more vulnerable to exploitation).

There are certainly still exceptions to this, and there will continue to be. For example, the mythical 10x people among you will never have to worry about this, because they're simply that good. Or if you happen to be working on rust for a year before it breaks into the mainstream, then you'll have a head start for a while. But don't expect that to last.

Overall: we will either realize and act on the fact that we are now for the most part a skilled labor like any other, or we will see our precious privileges erode and our incomes and work conditions deteriorate. And like it or not, but for many among us who are not "the gift of god to coding" the rational strategy will be to not fight on our own.

To bring this back to the current case: the NLRB decided that Spiers got illegally spied on. Whatever your take on her actions before that: illegal stays illegal, and as such don't blame her for it "because she had it coming." Blame google, for blatantly pushing against workers knowing and demanding their rights. If you see what they did here, and the context of this whole story, can you really take their argument at face value that she got fired for misappropriating company property or some such? Doesn't it seem much more likely that they simply made an example of her for informing her co-workers of their rights?
So uhm, dodging it is. That wording is somewhat more lax than I remember, last I checked it required actual residence or VAT registration in the country. Then again, I guess it’s a bit more money for local companies...
>> So you're saying that judge will ignore the separate profiles but it'll magically stop from depositioning all your phones that might contain work conversations?

Yes.

Source: Been subpoenaed three times and my attorneys have had restrictions placed on what can/cannot be searched... like I am assuming most competent attorneys can provide. The party has to have reasonable indication that relevant data is on personal devices so the opposing counsel doesn't go goldfishing through a bunch of stuff to turn up potentially unrelated dirt in discovery.
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>> Some of the equipment could be updated, but a vast majority of systems would have to be replaced.

Just curious, would this mean digging up cable and other stuff which would include parts of this system you're referring to?
I have no idea what this is supposed you mean. You told me:

> Drug classification does not depend on the harm they do

I'm telling you that's explicitly the opposite of how they intend to classify drugs.
Rock seems to be a lot more than what Slack has to offer. Great product from very ambitious team. Also love the marketing slogan. Very catching.
Try getting an Alexa/Siri or whatever to play "Radio" by Rammstein. Come back when you're done listening to random top 40 radio or being told there is no Rammstein radio station and click the link below to hear the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NfI2NeDHI