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How and where did Snowden put informants at danger?
If you look at my posts, I seem to be on the "downvoted every post list" from a few unhappy members as I frequently find my posts instantly downvoted for no reasons...
> “Workers” aren’t some monolithic group

Yes they are. We're all individuals and have different goals, wear different clothes, read different books, code in different editors, whatever, but objectively we all have something in common by way of being workers in the first place: we rely on wage labor to live.

And crucially: we don't own the means of production (or we'd be owners and not workers).

Why should "that guy" have a voice? Because our fortunes rise and fall together.

Frankly it boggles my mind to no end that tech workers, just because they're contingently pretty comfortable while riding the wave of an advantageous labor market that gives them a lot of (contingent) leverage at the moment, don't understand that they (as single, individual people
!) aren't standing as equals against like Alphabet, Inc. an institution that brings in double digit billions per year, increasingly has its hands on levers of policy and culture around the world, etc.
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Sounds like a great opportunity to work on not having Slack as the only trigger mechanism. :)

Or a least document how to call the slack bot manually. (assuming it's just a http endpoint)
Do many teams use Notion as a way of communicating?
Either side can appeal in an extradition hearing. There's no guarantee that the High Court will grant leave to appeal.

If the US seeks to appeal, it'd be under s105 of the Extradition Act.

If the appeal is filed and accepted, Assange can be kept in remand pending appeal under s107.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/41
Baltimore is one of the most violent cities in the world (not just in Maryland, not just in USA, in the effin world).

What that means is that there are a lot of innocent people being victimized by criminals. There are parents trying to raise their children in these neighborhoods and are desperately hoping that they their children don't get assaulted, killed or recruited into gangs or drugs, as they walk to school. All those tech bros in this thread wouldn't drive through some of these neighborhood. They wouldn't even let their children watch PG-13 movies due to the violence ... but there are children living in those violent neighborhoods day-in and day-out.

None of that is the fault of the police.
> Where the demand comes from does not enter the conversation

Econ 102: Where the demand comes from matters. Aka "substitute goods".

Gold has no convenient substitutes for the combination of ductility, corrosion resistance and electric conductance it offers, hence demand has a (high) floor.

BTC has an infinite number of convenient substitutes for its fundamental properties -- anyone can make a BTC substitute in half an hour, and there are hundreds you can buy already. So the floor on demand is the psychological buy-in -- which is not any better than the demand floor for tulip bulbs.
Or unless that engineer was not in the US
Although I usually ignore responses like in the GP, I like what you wrote here. It implicitly names the unfair rhetorical attack (effectively the kind of strawman that treats you as if you spoke authoritatively, when you were clearly giving your opinion). But yeah, with the right audience you don't have to respond at all, we'll know wassup.
As pointed out in the comments, 6.033 is a good overarching course to learn about a lot of computer systems fundamentals. If you want to dig deeper into networks, OS, computer architecture, MIT has plenty of specific courses for those:

http://web.mit.edu/6.829/www/currentsemester/
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
I've never played Alyx, but wow those liquids do in fact look incredible
I tried to convince EA to let me do that. Didn't work.

EA really, REALLY doesn't want to update SC4, they don't want to fix its easily fixable bugs, and don't want to share the source either, despite the most important parts of it being Open Sourced recently (EASTL is notable)

SC4 to start of, was never finished, while modding the game and then trying to fix its bugs, I found out a ton of features people want, DO exist, but are partially implemented, for example the game even calculate the wind effects on the ground, but does nothing with the result of the calculation.

It also has a advanced modding system using dlls, theoretically you can make dlls using the game APIs and greatly modify its behaviour but the API documentation is heavily secret, asking individual EA (ex)employees about it resulted in them telling me it is secret, and asking EA itself got my questions outright ignored (different from other requests, where they reply declining...)

And it has bugs because the devs went so cutting edge at the time, that they used everything they could of the hardware, that immediately moved from under them:

1. It uses RDTSC for its original documented purpose: count clock cycles. Meanwhile right after launch Intel decided that RDTSC was supposed to count time instead, and changing what it does, breaking some features of the game, and causing crashes, the game still crashes often because of this.

2. The game uses DirectX 7, mixing DirectDraw and Direct3D, it used all the features it could at the time, it was running really poorly in a laptop of mine, so I went to check and found out that nVidia some 2 years after the game launch decided that DX7 is so outdated that they wouldn't bother supporting it at all, and whenever a game asked questions to the videocard using DX7 APIs, it would lie, so SC4 on my nVidia based laptop would get a lot of lies as answers to queries to the video card capabilities, and attempt to do poorly supported things, resulting in severe graphical artifacts and performance issues.

To me the treatment of SC4 by EA just serves to show that EA is a company that doesn't care for quality that much.
Is the union preventing teachers from going into the school? Is it not OK for the union to have a position on the matter and communicate it to their members?

Why is it ok for the administration to say "we prefer but don't require you to come in" but not ok for the union to say "actually, we prefer but don't require you to stay home"?

A unified front is EXACTLY the purpose of a union. The threat of collective action by the entire workforce is what unions derive their power from.
https://thinklucid.com/

This is a new company created by a bunch of ex- Point Grey engineers who left FLIR. They're worth keeping an eye on.
I watched Alex Jones on Tim Pool's IRL podcast say that it was a crucial part of "The Great Reset" to clear out the middle-rich -- the people considered wealthy enough to cause trouble but not part-of-the-program so to speak.

I have no idea about The Great Reset but it makes sense for the CCP.
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Lets say you are right and was bad ec0n0mics...

Your shorting vested interest wins?

Not today...
a Union is about rights, they _should_ provide an extra safety net should your employer put you in a bad position. It means that its much harder to divide and conquer employees

A moderately well run union is useful for the employer as a way to consult, defuse and get sentiment for changes.

Unions have nothing to do with employability, its about making the conditions better for the workers, and not because that's what other companies do.

Employees leaving doesn't mean the place changes, especially if there is a limitless supply of keen, naive and cheap labour out there. The VFX industry is a prime example of this.
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There are a few other shows from some of the same creators:

- Treme tells a story about New Orleans after Katrina. Instead of focusing on crime, it goes with music, food and death.

- The Deuce's from 70's and 80's New York sex industry and gentrification.

Both of these are quite similar and at the same time different compared to The Wire. I like all of them a lot, but there are different opinions, specifically for Treme which never gathered any large audience.

Anyhow, if you ask this question, you might need to see them both.
I think in general, there have been some examples where the the environment has been prioritized of over people in a way that is hard to unsee. This can make some people very suspicious of such taglines and seeding the interpretation of the balance to others.

An eye opener for me is how water policy is impacting small farmers in the eastern part of California. Imagine spending 40 years building a business, and then being told that starting in 2021 you will have to pay 1M$ in fees to continue pumping water that you have legal rights to using your own infrastructure. It is literally taking peoples livelihoods without any compensation and eminent domain.
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I don't quite agree, that might work for your specific workflow, but you can flub that sort of thing.

There's a reason I'm specifying specific actions, I can easily see increasing the cognitive burden breaking the ease of that workflow. You can't tell me that putting your cursor to a code block and hitting a key is the same as selection, copy, swap to console, paste...

I've certainly had situations where I've done what you're describing and then still taken the extra time to setup the workflow I've described above because it's worthwhile when you're trying to debug a knotty problem.
> Investigating - Notion is currently experiencing an outage. We are currently investigating and will share further updates.

- Jan 4, 08:09 PST

0: https://status.notion.so/
Gold has the same capabilities whether it's priced at $1 or $2k..... do you see where your logical fallacy lies?
I wasn't talking about the status page, I was talking about the uptime % tracker.

edit: oh, sorry, i did say 'status page' in the first part. But I kinda meant update % tracker like the parent.
The International Criminal Court: Now Simply Indefensible
I was curious about this, so I went to the edge, and as I drew near I could see fingers hanging on and trying to get back up - but they failed, and as I drew close, I saw there was a molecular rim that was so thin it cut their hands and they fell. Sad that this much needed confirmatory testimony was lost...;)
I can't wait to see how combining unionism with social justice politics improves google's products. Very excited.
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The Windows desktop app is less fortunate.
Yeah, Google would easily top the list of companies which can have catastrophic impact. Microsoft, Apple, Salesforce, Dropbox would be the next in the list I guess if we leave out the utility companies and internet providers etc.
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That second link says "each full body scan of an individual would generate 6 Micro Sieverts (µSv)" so 2 scans per day would be 12 µSv, and a dose chart [0] shows the average daily background dose to be 10 µSv while a flight from NY to LA is 40 µSv. So it's a bit like taking that flight every 3.3 days. So maybe it's no worse than being a pilot / flight attendant?

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/how-muc...
It isn’t just you, but due to Hacker News’ right-sized[0] infrastructure, you should sign out unless you need to comment. That way you hit the caches instead of getting the server to make you a new page.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911461
Every new programming language, or at least the ones that aren't built around a relatively new concept, does the exact same thing.

This crowd in particular has plenty more examples than economy and immunology. We never learn.
Aren't you worried about so many security vulnerabilities found in Zoom?
What is the practical utility of jewlery?

Outside of a few incredibly niche industrial uses that have only emerged in recent years, no one has had any need of gold except as a means of storing and exchanging value. It has been used as a store of value and as a currency throughout history and across cultures for a number of reasons, such as its recognizability (few things in nature are the same color), its difficulty in counterfeiting (gold has a number of unique properties like its density that would make it very obvious if you were trying to pull one over on a merchant), it's ease-of-use (gold is highly malleable and has a very low melting point, meaning it can easily be made into coins or bars), its rarity (supply is reasonably constrained by the difficulty of mining), its permanence (gold will not tarnish except under extreme conditions, so it's okay to leave in a vault for years on end). However an important property that also contributed is specifically gold's lack of utility - steel was very valuable in pre-industrial societies, but a pound of raw steel is worth less than the tools that could be made from that same pound of steel, so if anyone made steel coins, they wouldn't remain coins for long. If anything, the development of real uses of gold make it less desirable as a store of value - speculation artificially drives up the cost of consumer goods like electronic devices.

People need to be able to store and transfer wealth. Tools which facilitate this are valuable for being able to serve that purpose. Gold is one such tool, and a pretty good one at that.
>Since he is using the Cairo library everything is rendered locally and transferred in uncompressed form to the X server for drawing. The same is true for all font engines which use in the case of Xft the Xrender extension.

So this is not necessarily true, it depends on how you're using Cairo. If you're using Cairo's xlib surfaces, those will try to accelerate with XRender if that's available: https://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-XLib-Surfaces.html

As far as why the toolkits never got on board with it, some do actually use XRender in certain circumstances, but it's hard for all applications to make use of it properly. Most of the advantages go away if you have any images coming down the pipeline at all, or if you need to do any text layout or reading back from the pixmap, or if you have any GL/Vulkan usage in your application, etc. Plus historically I've heard the implementation of this was very inconsistent and on some servers it actually resulted in a slower rendering path, although this should not necessarily be the case if you're using the current Xorg with glamor enabled.
Imagine if you as the CEO actually started ripping servers out of the data center and erasing them! Of course you're supposed to work with your department heads to allow them to run a response - and your departments with 4000 employees are going to handle that task differently than the departments with 40.

Even your example is flawed. The United States is not one giant government - it's a collection of smaller governments. The President does not pass laws in Texas or North Dakota. The Fed has no power on internal state matters.
Lumbar support is a false friend. I used to rely on this until I learned proper posture and did exercises to strenghten and relearn to use skeletal musculature correctly. I need not rest my back on anything now and my general health couldn’t be better.

Unless you had a recent surgery and the body is weakened or you have a serious condition (torn discs, etc) I’d advise to try to ditch all these crutches which end up weakening us up in the long term. However, I admit they could be very useful and help with back pain. I used to not be able to concentrate because of backpain and lumbar support did help at the time.
Edit : See comment below
Biden's political personality is not Trump.

I think that invalidates the theory a bit but the personality cult that got Biden elected was anti-Trump, not pro-Biden.
This is nothing more than conspiracy mongering.

Despite the author's protestations of this-is-not-conspiracy-theory, it is a conspiracy theory. The pull quotes include one beginning with: "I’m just asking, Is it a complete coincidence ...". Ah, yes, the old favorite of Qanons everywhere, "I'm just asking".

This is just another attempt to cause a significant fraction of the population to throw up their hands in resignation, and excuse everyone in the USA from responsibility.
Only when slack is down ;)
> Why would the intelligence community be involved with decision-making inside the department of justice?

Because the intelligence community hates Assange and what he represents. They spied on US lawmakers, tortured, manufactured evidence... I find it hard to believe they WOULDN'T meddle in this case.

> Obama's DoJ apparently decided not to pursue the case, why would we expect Biden's DoJ to come to a different conclusion?

Because post 2016 election the Democrats are no friends of Assange and WiliLeaks, regardless of the implications for press freedom.
That's not always the case though. There's plenty of industries and workplaces the world over that benefit from unions whilst still maintaining the discretion to hire who they will.

I've worked in a company with both union and non union staff and I believe the union benefited all of us without limiting the company in any meaningfully negative way.

Contrast this with shareholders and C level execs who have immense power and often world it to the detremen of the workers.

That same company was literally bought out and our office was shuttered.

Unionising allowed us to collectively bargain for better severance pay and allowed us to prioritize those of us who had additional family/visa considerations.
Anyone else having a fantastic morning/afternoon without the constant pinging? Just saying - there's always a silver lining.
This is one of the original concepts why to go capital-A Agile. Make smaller releases more often, so at least if something breaks, it's (hopefully) something small, and least it's easier to trace.

(I'm not making a statement if that's good or bad or if it works or whatever. Please don't read an opinion into it.)
The companies giving this away at cost are obviously doing something good for the world. That's not my point.

I just find it odd that companies like Pfizer and Moderna are about to lift the world out of a catastrophe in unprecedented fashion, and we have people complaining about prices which are not overly high when compared to the benefit, even in the developing world. India's GDP in 2019 was almost 2.9 trillion and the virus has knocked 300 billion or more off that just this year. Even under your extreme example they aren't going to care about spending an "extra" 14 billion.
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It is easier to cache stuff for users who are not logged in as it is the same for everyone. and everyone is looking up on Hackernews at the moment to see what is wrong with slack, which is probably the cause of the slowness.
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I think more accurate to say the fiduciary duty is to make money as much as possible. At least that I would want the my company to do.
I'm a 35 year old who internetted/"worked" from bed all the time in my teens and 20s, I really believe doing this:

- Removed the sanctity of bed. The bed is a great place to train yourself to decompress and unwind.

- Absolutely destroyed my back. I'd build pillow forts around myself to compensate for increasing weak muscles.

- Hindered the ability to notice shifts in my mood/difficulties in my routine. Eg: I struggle to get out of bed these days.
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> I'll take this moment to remind everyone of their human tendency to read meaning into random events. There's no evidence to suggest New Year traffic has caused this, and outages like this can happen in spite of professional and competent preparation.

On the one hand, sure we don't specifically know what's going on. On the other hand, it's the first Monday in the new year and they went down shortly after the start of the business day Eastern time; it could be coincidence, but it would be a remarkable coincidence.
I was just able to sign it as a medical professional. I am not one. Literally nothing on that site is verified. I keep seeing you quote things in this thread related to this site, which as far as I can tell has zero authenticity, and to random YouTube videos. Hint: if a doctor or researcher can only publish their findings on YouTube/Facebook/Instagram, they don't have anything worthwhile to say.
The privilege is based on it being in the public interest for information to be withheld -- that its disclosure would threaten the nation's security, not that it would threaten the executive branch's authority or ability to do its job. It being none of the courts' business, and the exposure threatening national security, are two different arguments.

Other forms of executive privilege that protect autonomy are easier to invoke, and easier to challenge. State secrets privilege cannot be used lightly. It's used all the time now, and there is reason to be suspicious that it is used fraudulently.

The courts really need to figure out a way to in principal allow US citizens bring a case in situations like this. You have to prove now, in essence, that your name is on an invisible piece of paper. I agree that the nomination procedure is extremely sensitive, but I think there is some room on the yes/no presence of someone on the kill list, given other supporting evidence. The danger is that we reveal to someone that we're trying to kill them -- but again, we're talking about a citizen, and if they have supporting evidence and are in court then they already suspect that.