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Another thing I've noticed is that the people who are anti-wfh seem to do better with externally-imposed structure rather than internally-imposed. I can't relate at all to people who say their sleep schedule is ruined, their work and personal life blends together, etc. I wfh lately and my work day is a hard 9 to 5 unless something out of the ordinary's going on, I get 8 hours, work out most days, stick to my diet, etc. The less external constraints I have, the more I can create a routine that's perfectly suited to myself.
It's also a great way to destroy your neck and back. If you thought you had problems with ergonomics at your desk, it will be way worse typing away in a bed.
You can always run it over NFS.

I'd be curious to peek at HN Source code. I recall there was a version posted online but it's several years old.
This is not FUD, this is the rationale behind "right-to-work" laws.

Unions want to represent every worker, because it gives them more power. This isn't a conspiracy theory, this is reality.

Some workers do not want to be a part of the union, but in states without right-to-work laws, they can be compelled to be part of the union.
> There is no fighting against Bitcoin as the future of digital currency. The fast dinosaurs like PayPal have already started seeing the mass extinction ahead.

My experience in the past 9 months is that shopify is winning online payments for small vendors with websites, venmo is winning for individuals selling peer-to-peer (e.g. facebook marketplace), and anyone bigger has their own credit card management front-end. I've purchased from many small operations for my hobby (houseplants), and in the past 9 months only 1 of them has advertised accepting bitcoin. YMMV
anyone know who designed this rebrand?
I know where you're getting at, but I think investment vehicle is a better term than commodity. Bitcoin is traded around as bitcoin to speculate that it'll have future value upon a traded upon nationalized currency. Commodities, while do get traded, are eventually consumed outside the investment market. You might trade and hold corn on the market, its end goal is to end up (consumed) as doritos or cornbread. Or iron gets consumed as steel for a car. The end goal of trading bitcoin ends up to be continously traded for a direct return on investment in the future. This is partially the issue with the housing crisis. Houses were constantly market traded without being consumed. Both in home investment speculators, folks that just bought the house to flip it the next week without ever living in it (a paper in florida at the time did an article showing a lot of homes in neighborhoods would go through about 6 owners in 2 or 3 years before someone lived in it right before the bubble burst) then there was the investment vehicle constant trading of the mortgages themselves. That was a twofer of shit hitting the fan.

Anyways yea, not harping on you too much for semantics but the rabid crypto fanboys(not calling you one) really fuck up their terminology and understanding of basic economics.

Hey, wait a second, isnt McAfee supposed to eat his dick since bitcoin didnt hit the million mark?
it is pure anti-faith
Anybody look through the dev console to see if there are comments or hidden easter eggs? If they are recruiting techy people, techy people love easter eggs...
Not disjoint, but different especially when over half of all money in the US is acquired via inheritance rather than earned income during one's lifetime [0].

Moreover, much wealth (especially at the top) is held in equities, often that aren't sold before being passed on to inheritance. That means:

a. that this wealth isn't counted as income

b. that decreases in equity prices due to unionization (and corresponding decreased expected returns to owners/shareholders) will burden the non-working rich disproportionately.

Sure, it won't solve wealth inequality - but where there is a zero-sum tradeoff, that tradeoff will mostly be from rich tech owners + management to affluent tech workers, not from the rest of society to the tech workers.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/people-l...
> The answer is that the type systems of these languages are not sufficiently developed. They can tell you if you're assigning a string to an int, but not if you're assigning 200 to an int whose type allows only numbers in [10, 100].

I am pretty sure Ada did that in the 80s. :)

I get what you are saying, but the example you gave is a pretty trivial one that has been solved (although not implemented very often...) for awhile in more "regular" languages!
All of those times also overlap with the so-called 'gilded age' when "rapid expansion of industrialization led to real wage growth of 60% between 1860 and 1890, spread across the ever-increasing labor force.[56] Real wages (adjusting for inflation) rose steadily, with the exact percentage increase depending on the dates and the specific work force."

There were definitely issues, but nothing like the Great Depression of the 1930s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age#Economic_growth
You would have a part in shaping the contract, though. And if you don't like it, yeah, leave the union, you're no worse off than you were before.
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> So you do enjoy having text broken down in small pieces inside an interface that's obviously made for short messages

I do enjoy having text broken down into small, coherent pieces - whether it be a tweet or a paragraph. Twitter enforces it, blog platforms do not. While neither twitter nor blog platforms can enforce writing quality, length limits at least prevent the most egregious run-on sentences.

> with ads on the side,

Twitter doesnt have ads for me on any device - app or browser, computer or phone. Blogs generally have ads (that circumvent my blocker) or empty white space (where ads had been) on every device. Twitter has centred text on my laptop (comparable to most blog platforms), or the text fills my full screen width on my phone (better than most blog platforms).

> and replies right in the middle of the main body of the text?

I don't see replies in the main body of the text. I can click on any given tweet to see the various replies, but otherwise the author's tweets remain in an unbroken chain.
A person on the security team tasked with notifying employees browsing the Web of company guidelines and policies decided to author a policy notification entirely of her own.

That's like the guy hanging up memos from the top floor in the company lunch room one day deciding to slip in a political message, printed on official company stationary to disguise it as an official memo.

It's not about using general-purpose internal communication tools to remind co-workers of their rights, it's abuse of a privileged position involving the power to broadcast official messages.

Whether someone thinks it's justified by the cause is a separate argument.
I can buy bitcoin with cash. Where can I exchange cash for stocks?
I think it was visiting ProductHunt that was the nail in the coffin for me for these types of projects. Now, if it isn't purely for fun for me or my inner circle somehow, I don't even bother. I write it down and move on. A weight has been lifted and I sleep a lot more.
And HN is back to normal as well :)
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Honestly? Because they have a big legacy in CPU code, and because of mostly political reasons they haven't invested in making their GPU (Realtime preview) renderer production ready till very recently. There are some serious technical challenges to solve, and not having GPUs with tons of ram among them, but the investment to solve them hasn't really been there yet.
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Actually I think the posters who make that false equivalence are often of Chinese sympathy. Whether they know they are doing false equivalence is a matter of debate.

I've heard people compare the imprisonment, re-education, forced labor, and organ harvesting of Uigher minorities in China today to the US internment of japanese in the 1940s.

Needless to say, both are bad, but if you need to reach back 75+ years in US history to find a comparable example, then the difference between the level of civil rights abuse in the two countries should be crystal clear.

It's obvious on the surface that the US still has many problems, but government sanctioned organ harvesting isn't one of them.
The HN community doesn't "believe" that—people have different opinions on this topic, as on many others. As evidence you don't need to look any further than the massively upvoted subthread that you replied to. It's at the top of this page because a large slice of the community obviously supports this view. That many others don't agree is evidence that the community is divided, not that it's lined up against you; it's basically a variation of sample bias that makes things feel that way [1].

Would you please review the site guidelines [2]? They include this: "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." One common kind of sneering is this sort of supercilious dismissal of everybody-else-in-the-community and their dumbass "hilarious" opinion—this is an internet genre we need to avoid in order to have real conversation.
If you're posting here, you're as much the community as anyone else is.

I understand what it's like to feel surrounded by enemies/jerks/assholes when you constantly run into comments saying things you strongly disagree with. But it's important to understand that this effect is largely a consequence of the fact that everyone is crammed into one big room here—there's no self-selecting into silos the way other sites do it (follow lists, subscriptions, social graphs, and so on). If you don't understand that, this place will feel much more fractious than it actually is [3], and the consequences of that are pretty stark: one ends up feeling surrounded by demons [4], and tends to retreat to things like defensive sarcasm, putdowns of others, etc.

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What you are arguing is moral myopia.

Countries are sovereign, a Nigerian person living in Nigeria is only beholden to laws of Nigeria.

In your world, you can accuse someone who lives in Mongolia of a crime that doesn't even exist is Mongolian legal system, such as some peculiarities of US copyright or packaging of lobsters. You seem to think they should be flown to the US to be tried at your convenience to in a language they don't speak, in a legal system they don't understand at their expense?

You could prosecute him in Australia for hacking in whatever form it broke Australian law. How can any non-US citizen be held responsible for some vague 'damage to US national security' if they have nothing to do with the US? Why should a hypothetical person living in Nigeria be responsible for US, UK, Russian, Saudi, Israeli and everyone else's national security?
I saw her title (cryptologic language analyst) in the articles that I read looking into her role(s) [0], but you seem to far more informed than those journalists.

> Leaking should not be reserved for those with technical skills; anonymity is one of the aspects real journalists should consider themselves bound to help their sources with.

Are you not at all familiar with the relationship Ed had with Glen Greenwald? I taught my mom how to use PGP over text and that was entirely painful, so I can relate, even though the thing is my Life wasn't on the line with the World's biggest intelligence agencies were after me.

Journalists have a responsibility to protect their sources, and the Intercept having had Ed, Laura Poitras and Greenwall all on their staff at one point you'd think this would be a part of a basic training. But then again, that may be why they also left?

But even as a person with a healthy sense of paranoia and understanding of OPSEC, true anonymity is a pipe-dream in this perverse panopticon that's been created and emphasizes why we need to build another a new Internet.

> Sure, ok, yeah. Whatever dude.

Shrug... you want to pretend that isn't a massive blind-spot that's up to you.

Making heroes out of corrupt members of the State, politicians, is in large part how we got to this situation in the first place. And that includes the normalization of 'rendition' black sites, torture, and 'extra judicial' killings of US Citizens and their children under Obama.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/us/Russian-interference-a...
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Does the font read like sPoNeGeBoB text to anyone else or is that just me?
So in a way...who cares who mines it?

Do you care who owns your real estate before you buy it? Or who mines your gold before you wear it? Probably not.

Yes I suppose there is some political aspect to that side of it, but the crypto itself...it's about as apolitical as it gets.
Author here!

I can only refer to an article another comment also already mentioned. It is _excellent_ and covers animation & dithering: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/
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History is replete with pure democracy leading to tyranny. Beyond just Brexit, it's not out of the realm of possibility that the 'majority' could vote to nullify constitutional checks to the power of a president, to term length, to guarantees on the protection of individual rights and freedoms, etc. Of course any such votes are deemed to be in the interest of the 'people'. The ancients and the US at its founding were wise enough to mix democracy, the at the moment will of the people, with various checks, balances and buffers. The US seems to be moving to more and more pure democracy. In my humble opinion this is dangerous, a slippery slope, a camel's nose under the tent, etc.
Omg I didn’t think of this application for dithering. Love that.
> What government can't do is to steal your money or block your access to your money.

https://xkcd.com/538/
This makes sense and my original comment reflects my ignorance of pre-WWII history.
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While it is true for most applications. HN does not do any customisation of the content

I don't think that's true. For example, if you hide a thread while logged in, it remains hidden when you return.
> people attempting to pick their own pockets since increasing employee compensation (themselves) is taken from shareholders (themselves)

Unless employees make up 100% of the shareholders that is trivially not true.
> No one imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay is a US Citizen and neither is Assange.

I think you should I know I -- and probably others, are reading this as "b-b-but, they're not US Citizens, so they don't deserve [the same] rights"

I hope that's not what you mean, because if it is, that's really fucked up.
It's not an argument against democracy, it's an argument for sensible government.

It's a very, very bad idea to hold a referendum along the lines of "vote no for the status quo, vote yes for, erm, something, we'll let the Yes side make up some stuff about unicorns and cricket playing vicars for you". The vote should have been for a realistic deal, with article 50 notification contingent on having agreed said deal in principle. People had _no_ idea what they were voting for, and that's entirely Cameron's government's fault.

That doesn't mean that referendums are necessarily bad in principle, though.

In Ireland we have quite a few of these, but generally the government will say what it intends to do with a Yes result. When people voted yes on the abortion referendum, say, they weren't just voting for "more abortions, please" in the abstract, they were told ahead of time what would happen if they did vote yes.
oh god please don't make an engineer (at least) prove their worth in a bunch of silly metrics
Source code to ransomware that targets male chastity devices
I saw this book mentioned a couple of times during my research. I guess I should read it.
This is such a well-written article: it describes the impetus, it is researched, it has great examples both as code and as output, and it piques interest. In the late 1990's I contracted with an embedded software company to optimize a dithering algorithm for 8-bit MCUs that was used in most laser printers & copiers, and this paper is a really good overview.
> Employees can ask for better, but when you already work at the company that pays and treats their employees like Google

I think one important aspect is this union includes their contractor workers, which are treated far worse than Google SWE's, this allows the union to do collective bargaining on their behalf. Which I do think is a pretty worthwhile goal.
Good tips. I'm lucky enough to have a great room available for an office.

I curtained the doorway off, to remind the rest of the family (and myself) that when it is closed, I'm at work. Put a standing desk in, to help maintain my health.

I still shower and show up 'at work' around the same times I did before. At first I was there around the same time I'd leave for work, but I found I was not able to concentrate productively for 12-13 hours a day, so I've cut it closer to an 8-6 schedule, with some breaks to eat with family or drop kids off where they may need to go.

Take advantage of the greater flexibility- take the good with the bad. Was listening to Phish on the surround sound speakers connected to my receiver via bluetooth to my Mac Mini the other day, while working on my desktop I'd brought home attached to a nice big bright 4k monitor that I have at home, and connected via SD-WAN to the corporate network. Was a pretty productive and glorious way to get a lot of work done.
I doubt that regularly releasing breaking changes that reduce uptime is a good strategy to get a bonus or promotion.
15B years ago, the requirements started to be gathered. Coding started 14.5B years ago.
If constitutional rights can be signed away with the stroke of a pen since they are alienable... then a lot of absurdities become possible, such as someone selling themselves into slavery and so on.

Do you know the prominent cases of the examples you mentioned?