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But a judiciary should be careful to synchronize laws and justice to the best degree possible. Otherwise they end up as the joke that they are. There is room to the bottom of course, but I don't think trust is available in excess in western nations.
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> There are loads more to it, great starting point to learn more about unions

A great starting point to sound condescending, as well.
> I think we should push for a metric where "up" means 100% of people that want to use the service are able to use the service.

I mean, that’s nice to say, but how do you measure/prove it?

Certainly, having the SLAed party check themselves is silly. But what are the other options? If it was up to the customer, customers could make up faults to get free service. (Since it’d be up to the customer to prove, and customers are generally less technical than vendors, you’d have to expect/accept very non-technical — and thus non-evidentiary! — forms of “proof”, e.g. “I dunno, we weren’t able to reach it today.” Things that could have just as well been their own ISP, or even operator error on their side.)

IMHO, contractual SLAs should be based on the checks of some agreed-upon neutral-third-party auditor (e.g. any of the many status/uptime monitoring services.) If the third party says the service is up, it’s up in SLA terms; if the third party says the service is down, it’s down in SLA terms.

(And, of course, if the third party themselves go down, or experience connectivity issues that cause them to see false correlated failures among many services, that should be explicitly written into the SLA as a condition where the customer isn’t going to get a remedial award against the SLA, even if the SLAed service does go down during that time. If the Internet backbone falls over, that’s the equivalent of what insurance providers call an “act of God.”)

But in a neutral-third-party observer setup, you aren’t going to get 100% coverage for customer-seen problems. An uptime service isn’t going to see the service the way every single customer does. Only the way one particular customer would. So it’s not going to notice these spurious some-customers-see-it-some-don’t faults.

So, again: what kind of input would feed this hypothetical “100% of customers are being served successfully” metric?

ETA: maybe you could get closer to this ideal by ensuring that the monitoring service 1. is effectively running a full integration test suite, not just hitting trivial APIs; and 2. if gradual-rollout experiments ala “hash the user’s ID to land them in an experiment hash-ring position, and assign feature flags to sections of the hash ring” are in use by the SLAed service, then the monitoring service should be given N different “probe users” that together cover the complete hash-ring of possible generated-feature-flag combinations. Or given special keys that get randomly assigned a different combination of feature-flags every time they’re used.
More power to her — that sounds a lot better than any of the teachers I know.

For me, the biggest push here is that we've had a generation or so of our society collectively telling everyone that the future for good jobs is STEM, STEM, STEM or maybe STEM. If we actually believe that, we should be paying and treating teachers well because we are targeting education-intensive subjects and because we need to hire teachers who have an understanding of subjects which pay well. Teaching shop was a great job option for a contractor who was getting older and needed the benefits but that dynamic doesn't apply to someone who can teach most STEM subjects can often get comparable benefits and likely better pay, and enjoying teaching only goes so far to compensate the various drawbacks.
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TPP was a brutally anti-Chinese trade agreement - it forged privileged trading status with all of China's main rivals and China would only be allowed to join later if they shaped up.

The US opted to drop it and unsuccessfully deal with the Chinese party 1:1 in negotiations. Imagine if a business partner was robbing you, and instead of finding other partners, you tried to negotiate with them. Obviously, they hold all the cards and have no incentive to play along. If anything, they would want to steal more! They would get more leverage!

I don't know if the TPP would have been a silver bullet, but it's hard to imagine the CCP would be this brazen if they were on the outside looking to come in. Remember that actions in Hong Kong and Xi Jinping's lifetime appointment all happened after the TPP was killed. I think they are power grabbing as much as they can now while no one is really holding them to task.
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At least in the case of GPL, "user" refers to the end user, and yes, the license is all about some freedoms that are guaranteed to percolate towards the end users, indeed empowering them to become developers themselves, if they wanted:

> It is absolutely essential to permit users who wish to help each other to share their bug fixes and improvements with other users.

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It's much more difficult to compromise someone's computer than it is to obtain/get one of their passwords thru phishing/guessing and then try the combination on a bunch of sites.

It's -vastly- better for casual users to have secure, single-use passwords instead of what most casual people do: have 1-2 insecure passwords with variations. Thus allowing any phisher to get access to everything anyways.

Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it is not an improvement.
Succinct..agreed.
Which would be unfortunate if based only on evidence of Slack being down today, given how many other sites are down as well. (Discord is up, though!)
Aren't these all downstream sources, and therefore may lag or fork?

IME it used to be possible to anonymously get binaries and sources from Qt themselves.
> the US is doing literally the same thing

The same thing, really? Like picking organs on political opponents in prisons? I didn't know the US was doing that.
> When the vision maps to 80 / 90 percent of labor at that enterprise, the effort to unionize can win.

The odds of this happening at Google in the next ten years are pretty low, I'd say. That's why they organized this as a members-only union rather than trying to do a real unionization drive.
I was being sarcastic — Germany's union system is an existence proof that the claims made about unions in the U.S., to the extent that they're even true here, are artifacts of a bad system rather than inherent to the concept.
In the early battle.net days competing clans would split and steal channels. It was tons of fun. Taught me lots about bots, proxies, simple scripting, in the process too.
"never" doesn't feel instantaneous though.

Joking aside, email never coming is a pretty common occurence for me on new services, especially small orgs (local clubs, small merchants)
Doesn't matter. Copyright, without the licensing exceptions, won't allow EvilCorp Inc. use your code even if you publish it in the clear on the internet.

Also, more relevant to the discussion I was responding to, the GPL license doesn't allow re-licensing without consent (or a pre-arranged copyright assignment - a contributor's agreement). And it's copyright law which enforces this.
It is far more plausible that people are just deliberately looking for reasons to fit a 'CCP bad' narrative.

X happens: "CCP is bad"

Opposite of X happens: "CCP is bad"

What is this, a children's story? Where is all the nuance? Reality can't be reduced to a simple "X is bad" narrative.

This narrative overshadows the actual issues, and thus produces nonsense. Note that nearly nobody talks about the ACTUAL financial issue, which is that Ant's way of dealing with money is very dangerous and has the potential to cause a financial crisis.

Yes I know the regulator's timing is suspicious. But to completely ignore the actual issue, or to casually brush it away as an illegitimate distraction, and instead to focus 100% on just the 'CCP bad' narrative, is just sensationalism, stereotyping and oversimplification.
They've been discouraged for some number of years, but community upvoting manages to get them to the front page now and then regardless.
Not having sexual abusers in management stay with no repercussions?

Why shouldn't Googlers be entitled to more of what they produce?
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I do miss them, terribly. Lightweight, fast, brutally simple. Even with splits, it was better, and ever since IRC bouncers exist, like ZNC, they are rock solid.
> Sounds like XMPP all over again.

It's different, it's addressed here:

https://matrix.org/faq/#what-is-the-difference-between-matri...

We think of Matrix and XMPP as being quite different; at its core Matrix can be thought of as an eventually consistent global JSON database with an HTTP API and pubsub semantics - whilst XMPP can be thought of as a message passing protocol. You can use them both to build chat systems; you can use them both to build pubsub systems; each comes with different tradeoffs. Matrix has a deliberately extensive 'kitchen sink' baseline of functionality; XMPP has a deliberately minimal baseline set of functionality. If XMPP does what you need it to do, then we're genuinely happy for you! Meanwhile, rather than competing, an XMPP Bridge like Skaverat's xmpptrix beta or jfred's matrix-xmpp-bridge or Matrix.org's own purple-matrix has potential to let both environments coexist and make the most of each other's benefits.

The whole area of XMPP vs Matrix is quite subjective. Rather than fighting over which open interoperable communication standard works the best, we should just collaborate and bridge everything together. The more federation and interoperability the better.
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OpenTTD is a great game, especially considering it's free.
I don’t know what to say. Or the person behind this is 150 years old and was living under a stone, or is someone that obviously has 0 knowledge about Blockchain
> Employees can also vote with their feet, if they don't like their bosses, they can leave.

That's an absurd take because your boss suffers no consequences and you do.

It's not about fair, it's about exercising the power you have.

Besides, each part of the country is someone's property, but government gives you a say anyways. I would counter that the equivalent would be saying "why should anyone vote? why bother changing things? if you don't like your country why don't you go find a different one." We don't tend to accept that argument in government, why accept it in private enterprise?
They don't usually require me to be awake all the time (online at all times) , as long as you've deliver your task on time, it's fine.

Time zone app is also very useful. I put each of them to my world clock app so I won't missed any deadlines or meetings.
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I never liked google and googlers.

Google is nothing but a monster which shares private info with goverments and companies. Use their platforms to rev up their products at the expensive of small business.

so i do not care what happens to google/googlers.
I've experienced this with Slack before where the push notifications come through but opening them fails to load.

I imagine their infrastructure to send push notifications is decoupled from their infrastructure for chat services themselves.

It'd be interesting to know if they have a master switch to disable notifications in times like this where they aren't usable anwyay.
I am hoping the incoming administration invokes the defense production act to help with production of vaccine and testing supplies, as well as providing a comprehensive policy at the federal level regarding vaccine distribution. The current admin is basically letting things roll out on their own. What I am seeing is that if we do everything right, which up to now we have not, early fall is a good target for things starting to turn back to normal. I wonder if a more concentrated effort could shave a month off that. And given the projected estimates of how many tens of thousands will die in the next few weeks, and the additional surge after everyone decided to travel for the holidays, February is likely to be straight up lethal.
This isn't a power trip by union leadership/ "the organization of the union itself" though?

It's a real concern
about the safety and working conditions, and how a lack of a unified front can lead to fissures when negotiating that could actually hurt a majority of union members.

The unions members probably mostly prefer work from home due to safety concerns. Should the school district wish to demand all teachers report to the building, the negotiation position of the union is significantly weakened if the administration can say "well 25% of your membership is already in the building" as a justification for denying hazard pay, further health and safety precautions, etc.
More directly: He only expected his code to be used in Windows NT and made the fatal flaw of thinking that just because he slapped it together in an hour it would be easy for someone to rewrite in the next version of Windows to up the limit.

Instead the code sat untouched for decades as the limit slowly became more and more unreasonable.

IMHO the real issue is the artificial limit. Instead of straight up disallowing you from creating large filesystems, it should have had a dialog box warning about small files being inefficient but letting you make it anyway.
UIs to use client certificates are terrible, and key and certificate storage almost always involves a password anyway.

My day job occasionally involves a WebDAV server protected with a normal login plus a client certificate. Sometimes I need to explain the process to less technically literate people who use different client software than I do, and the certificate part is a total pain.
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TD Ameritrade has an API and tda-api python package makes it easier to use, but not easy to paper trade with it for testing.

You can also use an unofficial Robinhood package like robin_stocks, but Robinhood doesn't officially support any of this.

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Down detector shows quite a lot of issues across a broad spectrum of services, including AWS and Google.
This is after many had a week vacation. I'm sure most weekends some people pop in and out, and logins are more staggered on a typical monday morning.

Just a theory though.
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What's the point of this? I looks like it's some sort of token that represents bitcoin, on the etherum network? Why not just hold bitcoins directly?
Our prod systems seem to be working, but our lower environments seems to be not working. I don't know enough about where these things come from. I wonder if the real problem is regional. Some connections work and some don't.
> I see all green checks on the AWS Status page.

I'm sure you know this already, but that status page isn't worth the cycles on your CPU, you would be better served asking the toaster if AWS is functioning properly than checking that status page.
>Unions are intended for industries where a worker doesn't have a marketplace of options as there is a single or just a few employers (e.g. Hollywood, teachers, coal mining towns, hospital staff, etc.). Unionizing at Google makes no sense, as there are thousands of tech companies hiring engineers in the valley -- engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better".

I feel like this is only half of the truth. They also help employees increase negotiating power as a counter to employers working together to increase their negotiating power (colluding on wages).

>The reality is that Google is an easy place to work relative to how much people get paid. People don't want to leave a cushy job for one where they would have to work harder for their money, so instead, they are trying other means to have their cake and eat it too.

If by taking some action they get a bigger slice of cake, why shouldn't they take that action? Our economy is built off the idea of rational actors acting in their own self interest, so doing something to get you a bigger slice of cake at a lower (or equal) price fits the expected behavior of actors in such a system.
I have also been having intermittent issues with Twitter also this morning (can't load tweets etc) and was wondering if it was connected.
As the article says, that is not the kind of union they set up. They set up a "members only union" which is voluntary to join or not. Either you are unhappy with conditions and need protection so you join for the the support network, or you are happy with conditions but join anyway out of solidarity with the lower classes of employees. https://tcf.org/content/report/members-only-unions-can-they-...

Or not join at all, which is fine, but punching down and across at your coworkers comes across as not being a team player.
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