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That's taking entirely the worst interpretation of what I said. I assume Thomas is sensitive about his appearance, took the worst interpretation possible and flagged all my posts. Which seems at least as shitty as noticing.

It's not like I'm making fun of the lady for having a big nose. She's simply completely ignorant in life experience, and even possible life experience to do justice to the source material.

I think it's also a damn shame my comments are seen as "toxic." I realize America is collapsing into a foment of witch hunts, statue topplings and city burnings, but if you really consider my writing on HN to be .... even "spicy" -the end can't be far off. God help you all.

Best of luck to both of you, Happy New Year, and apologies for rustling your jimmies.
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Thanks for the info in general, I just wasn’t expecting a general response to be your motivation in a response to a comment where I pointed out the parent poster was bullshitting me.
I couldn’t bring myself to work from bed. More due to the mental separation of being “at work” vs at home. I find it’s beneficial for me to have an exclusive area otherwise I’ll mentally feel like I’m always working.
We have one Phd Transpersonal therapist cofounder, and MD partner and we are close friends with our legal and listed them.

We’ll be adding more therapists.

We were just excited to add our partnership with the Plant Medicine Law Group - they aren’t in house counsel.

But I get it.
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Holy cow. That's absolutely incredible. Does the use of mRNA make these vaccines faster to develop?
I use the example of forest fires. Small forest fires keep large forest fires at bay. But if you prevent small forest fires then it just leads to large forest fires.

System's problems were regularly removed from the economy when we were on Gold standard (like run on the banks etc). Then Federal reserve gets a hold and they start putting out these 'small fires' and it just leads to large uncontrollable depressions.
Me too. Although that's occurring irrespective of Slack's system status.
Ownership of free-time developed stuff is likely the only thing that has peaked my interest. maybe unions aren't that bad after all. Tho one would hope this type of thing would just be covered by the law without requiring an union to handle, but heh, world is imperfect.

I remember when working in games you couldn't even write blogposts about any type of unrelated to programming thing (e.g. not even about playing guitar) and that was super frustrating. Likely those clauses weren't enforceble but still anoying.
Assuming this is a bad deployment--not hardware/network issues: It will be interesting to read their post-mortem, on why rollback still has not happened yet after 2 hours of outage. You would hope that a service the level/popularity of Slack would plan for deployment-related outages and be able to roll back a deployment.
I've been a pretty consistent believer that Assange is a narcissist and an ass on personal level. His public statements about his work always seemed childish and petulant. It probably does bias me somewhat against his work. I'm generally supportive of bringing information to light, but Assange himself doesn't seem to do much besides host the data and he doesn't even do that well since he leaked the unredacted cablegate. And given that MSM sources have exposed far more and it don't more responsibly and faced courts over their actions, it makes me think that he's not much of a hero. I'm not sold that his actions wrt to cablegate were espionage, but I'd very much like to hear about what he discussed with Roger Stone and Guccifer 2.0.
and yet they're still proudly proclaiming: "Uptime for the current quarter: 100%"
This is the list of what the EU is paying:

Oxford/AstraZeneca: €1.78 (£1.61).
Johnson & Johnson: $8.50 (£6.30).
Sanofi/GSK: €7.56.
Pfizer/BioNTech: €12.
CureVac: €10.
Moderna: $18.

Compare with the price of 1 liter of hand sanitizer. These vaccines are incredibly affordable.
Perspective from one pushing-back tech worker:

-Never seen a manager scream. Note that anyone who does so is bad at their job; and won't last long unless if anyone else wants it.

-Workers commonly take multi-month parental leave breaks; block off afternoons for a kid's event, etc.

-I don't know anyone who works 100 hours a week; and if I did I would think them a fool. And also help them; as this is unsafe and they need some more sleep!

I understand that other gigs, especially perhaps in Gaming, are different! And workers of course have the right to freely associate, and so collectively bargain, if they choose to.
I've had more filesystem corruption trouble with exFAT on Linux than with any other filesystem, ever, including Btrfs. Really crossing my fingers and hoping for the quality of the Samsung driver in Linux 5.7. It's going to be great to have an option for high-capacity, cross-platform read/write storage. The day I never have to use NTFS-3G again cannot come too soon.
If a tanker sinks, that means nothing about the value of oil. Similarly, when there's an exchange hack, that means nothing about the value or security of bitcoin. It just means they had poor security standards.
I don't think any of them wins in terms of design appeal (that Pontiac is really really peculiar and peak in its own genre). Now I think that BtTF got 1) an already very excentric car (pontiac was mainstream) 2) hollywood seal of fame, TV is important but not as glam.
It depends on the goal you’re trying to accomplish. Are you going for a promotion or bonus? Or instead is your goal to maximize uptime?
Don't you need the files from the original game to use it?
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We should be careful here because a lockdown and a medieval quarantine are not the same. In the middle ages quarantine typically meant keeping a ship at port and preventing from landing - and that's a very doable thing. You literally just prevent them from dropping their gang plank, and they have supplies and everything they need on board.

The same does not apply to lockdowns. People need groceries, many people have limited cooking capabilities, and homes are not self sufficient - you need maintenance people, regular supplies, so on. And, those people who live in apartments and other small domiciles are not going to stay cooped up forever on end - they are going to go get food and visit people and no amount of threats is going to prevent that.

And that's the issue. Lockdowns always have a maximum timetable that they're effective for and then they suddenly become less effective - and you don't get to reset that timer all that easily. Masks help but they are a partial solution - they have a relatively low effectiveness rate that is fine individually but in mass don't hold up.

Many governments - and I'll pick on California specifically - keep locking down tighter and tigher. Curfews, dining restrictions, gathering restrictions and more that have been going on for more than 6 months now. Do you really think getting more restrictive will be helpful at all?
Common Lisp (hereafter Lisp for concision) is differently dynamic, not strictly more dynamic.

One quick example: standard-class objects in Lisp are mostly more dynamic than python objects[1] but structure-class objects are quite static, and compilers will use this to their advantage.

On top of this, functions in python are in fact objects; in python you can do this just fine:

def foo():
foo.bar = 3

def bar():
print(foo.bar)

There are obviously other ways to accomplish this in lisp, but the fact that someone might do something like this can inhibit optimizations.

If you read the Lisp specification you will see dozens of places where they allow for opting out of dynamism in ways that help the compiler optimize. Type declarations are one and the fact that a function defined in a single file is considered to have a fixed definition for the scope of the file is another.

1: It's not quite as easy to add new slots to Lisp standard-class instances on the fly as it is to python class instances, but it's doable, and Lisp, of course, supports class redefinition in a way that few other languages (including Python) do.
You misunderstand me.

I am not saying that your language or your way of working is not as good as mine. I'm not saying that you or anyone else should discard your ways of working and adopt mine.

I'm not saying that Python's repl isn't actually a repl. I'm not saying that everything needs to have breakloops. I'm not saying that I or anything I like is any holier than anyone else.

What I'm saying is I like a specific style of programming and it makes me happy. I think more people should know about it because it will make some of them happy, too. I would like that.

Besides just liking to make people happy because that's the kind of personality I have, I would also like it if demand for tools that support my preferred way of working increased, so that there are more of them available over time rather than fewer.

And, finally, I like to use the phrase "repl-driven programming" for the style I like because some time ago someone asked about what distinguished old-fashioned Lisp and Smalltalk environments from others that the questioner was more familiar with, and "repl-driven programming" was a phrase that person used. So I adopted the terminology. I think it's a reasonably good piece of jargon for its purpose.

We can sensibly distinguish a repl-driven environment--that is, an environment whose design is driven by the requirements of interactive programming with a read-eval-print loop--from an environment that merely has a repl as one of its affordances.

If the distinction isn't meaningful to you, then presumably "repl-driven" design isn't either, and you're presumably not one of the people I'm talking to.
They formed a Members-only union which can exist absent a majority of employees joining. The terminology is confusing since all unions are member-only.

These minority unions do not have collective bargaining rights unless the employer agrees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members-only_unionism
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A union is not a competitive market force. It is a means to force an employer to use a monopoly supplier of labor. It's anti-competitive.
patents just shouldn't exist at all
people actually argue this? slack is a great coms tool, and great BACKUP if you can't find something in a real documentation/knowledge/etc.. repository.
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Honestly, when you look at the massive energy consumption compared to the tiny transaction volume, Bitcoin should be banned.

Whatever about other cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is climate arson.
I have the insider build. These are usually released a couple of weeks prior to the main app being released
No, it was simply a lie. And one that should have fallen completely flat. My respect for Colin Powell went through the floor that day.
I agree that most buyers are investing as a speculation; all investing is speculation. Bitcoin is a new type of asset that has properties never seen before. That is what my point is, that they new properties are being discounted heavily by the author as they try to force it into a traditional asset to make a shaky comparison.
> Don't appeal to authority.

> I have a masters degree and three publications.

Enough said.
Considering how ubiquitous slack use seems to be in a lot of major tech companies, I wonder if it's reasonable to ask whether or not the stock market's performance this morning is somehow correlated?
A pattern that I see with tech companies like these is poor communication about features and decisions made within the company. Price changes and policy changes, understandably, are made quickly and following rules. What about when the UI changes, or when a policy change affects how a user can behave? That's probably either not communicated at all or hidden in the many, many pages of the T&Cs.
You missed the point. All the examples obviously all have at least one line of code, otherwise there would be no program to display "Hello, World!" at all. The goal is to have a program that is _counted as 0 line by the software "sloc"_ even though it is not 0 line.
no man you don't get it, the union exists to protect the workers and therefore anything a worker does contrary to the union's position is against the worker's own interest by definition

just keep paying your dues, shut the fuck up, and we'll take care of the rest
The joys of multi-tenancy.
Is online in germany right now
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Republicans have only opposed the unions that don’t support them. Police unions, like the ones in Wisconsin, supported Gov. Walker so he conveniently didn’t break them. That’s corrupt in my opinion and unprincipled.

You have begun to see labor movements distance themselves from police unions. I’d expect at some point it will be politically acceptable for Democrats in places like Wisconsin to strike back at them, which I’d support. So long as the other unions in the public sector are broken too.

No public sector should be able to unionize. If these groups want to lobby then fine. Lobbying, although corrupt in many ways, does not beholden tax payers to corrupt contracts.
- 2mb

- no data collection

- beautiful

i love macOS because devs on that platform embrace apple's mindset

on other hand you check the windows store, and you get plenty of dotnet apps, even the simple ones are heavy on disk, 100mb on average
> ..., ignoring that the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE/SoV.

So, here's what I don't get about Bitcoin. Those capabilities are great. But those capabilities exist whether a Bitcoin is priced at $1 or $25,000. Why are those capabilities enough to drive the price of a Bitcoin up?

To me the "value" and the "price" of Bitcoin seem to be completely unrelated, and that makes me skeptical that it is an investment.

It feels like investing in a hammer -- I love what a hammer can do for me when I want to hit a nail, but that doesn't mean that the price of a hammer should be related to the house I can build with it.

What am I missing?
Up means working. It does not mean that something is displayed on the screen.
not an expert (in anything else either), but in the US, bitcoin is not a financial instrument. they might as well be buying tulips or beanie babies (no slam intended), as far as the authorities are concerned.
Honestly I kinda prefer it to the case designs 10 years ago. There's still a strange hankering by case makers to try to make them "edgy" and a solid percentage are still competing to be the xtremiest PC equivalent of go-faster stripes on cars. However there is at least a new aesthetic where people are taking simpler and tidier case designs and then making them garish with LEDs, and I quite enjoy seeing some of their creations.

Personally I don't bother, I go after sound-proofing in my builds instead, but my partner, who isn't particularly into computers, is actually quite a fan of the RGB stuff so her computer will be notably more lary.
Imo the problem is that the ruling accepts the premise that the case has merit i.e. is criminal in the UK, that itself is a threat to press freedom given the charges.
>It's in part because the US has a storied history of corrupt unions and their affiliation with the mafia and organized crime.

The joke is, that isn't even history. Mafia families do still exist in NY and everyone knows they own both the unions and the companies.
> And the values from the mission statement does sound like something every company should aim for

For the record here is the second listed value

> Social and economic justice are paramount to achieving just outcomes. We will prioritize the needs of the worst off. Neutrality never helps the victim.

Let me speak plainly. This type of phrasing is extremely common for progressives. A Trump voter would read this as politically charged and outside the scope of most unions. If you cannot see why someone would oppose this you need to widen the scope of people you talk to.
> But it's a cultural taboo to use those same competitive market forces for the benefit of workers.

Forming a union is not competitive, it’s the opposite. When you gather up all of the suppliers of something (in this case employees are supplying labor) and collectively fix a price that is exactly what anti-trust legislation is trying to prevent.

It’s not a cultural taboo to be pro-union on the left because it’s not free market. It is a cultural taboo on the right precisely because they are seen as discouraging competition and rewarding tenure over competence.
> That doesn't make it wrong, though.

I never claimed that. The point is that for most hn readers, these arguments would have been brought up already and therefore as a whole the article as a whole isn't really interesting. It's like being in 2020 reading a "mongodb is bad because it's not ACID compliant" article.
I don't really think production of vaccines or test supplies is limited in a way that could be improved significantly with DPA. Vaccine production for both the US approved mRNA vaccines is highly specialized and those companies are heavily incentivized to deliver vaccines as soon as possible since they have a de-facto duopoly for an unknown amount of time. Testing supplies are a probably a lot more scalable, but I haven't heard about supply shortages with tests in months.

The areas where executive policy could make a difference are timelines for approval of additional vaccines and optimizing vaccine delivery to hit the highest number of individuals as soon as possible. Prioritizing quick approval and distribution of the Oxford/AZ vaccine and doing the same for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine when data becomes available would likely save thousands of lives over the next few months, but neither the current nor future US administrations seem to be taking an interest in this.
I have an established personal opinion on this, and the opinion is that I'm glad that things are this way. It means that ads are pretty dumb and relatively harmless so far and I can easily ignore them. Floor mats? Tough luck bud, I just bought one.

Now, when the ads begin predicting what I would want the next day—that's when I start worrying.
> That doesn't make it wrong, though.

This is no different than covid deniers being presented with evidence and then completely ignoring it.
On a single someone else's land then?

Going multi-platform from the start is probably not the way to go as you are adding complication before you have the basics rounded out, but once you are spending that much on advertising you presumably have a sizable turn-over and should have long ago looked at diversifying to deal with situations like this which (even if temporary) could kill the business model.

Of course if FB is truly the only game in town for your target audience, you have a problem there...
Well now's the time for a big push!

Oh wait, how would you share the link...
Often "welcoming environments", especially when paired with progressive dogwhistles, really mean an environment that is hostile for those that are not on one end of the political spectrum. The threshold isn't just conservative, even moderate liberals fall afoul of this. For instance, not supporting the defunding of police would get you eviscerated at my company despite the fact that it's a view 75% of Americans share: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/07/09/majority-of-...
The federal crimes have already been committed. Trump has authority to pardon him prior to charges being made.
Agreed. I would add to this, after reading through the comments, that there is a naive idea of how a civilization or order works. The question is not whether or not we are worse in the west than China, but why we need the supplement of China to maintain the coherence of our order. If we are in fact reacting to timing and criticism to China, how come, as superpower, the US even compares itself in any way? In what ways do we create China/Russia/X as enemy to crisis manage the collapse in the belief of the goodness in the West? The current line of thought across all platforms about China ask questions that guarantee no answers save for reactions and war.
Interestingly their uptime for the quarter is still 100% despite a full-red dashboard. I wonder if that's something that is calculated only after an outage is resolved
Ok, let's hear your definitions of what social justice is, and what justice is?

In a traditional sense, social justice is referring to the balance between the individual and society at large. Distribution of wealth, public services/schools, taxation, regulations of markets and more are part of what social justice is, at least in this part of the world.

That does sound like justice to me. It's not criminal justice, which you might be referring to, but more justice in the sense of "just behavior or treatment".
Total production. It's an increase of their previous estimates. It's enough for 300 million people following the schedule studied in the US trial that led to FDA emergency use authorization.

Pfizer projects making more than that.

The AstraZeneca vaccine has much larger production, and the J&J vaccine will also, if it is approved.
> The adversarial model of employment where passionate employees fight against penny-pinching bosses is neither natural nor inevitable

Very few people would continue working their jobs if they didn't need to to survive. The legal, cultural, and competitive structure of corporations demands paying employees as little as possible for as much work as possible. Barring serious cultural and political change, I don't see how this could result in anything but adversarial employment for almost everyone.

Treating employees well is bad for business outside certain bubbles, and "the right thing to do" doesn't factor in to these decisions.
My point is that the new properties don't matter for this discussion.
I’m glad that FB treats everyone equally.
Every time this kind of thing happens HNers love to grip about how the status pages aren't correct yet. It's so weird -- like the people freaking out about the outage are going to be updating their uptime trackers right now or something. Who cares? It'll be fixed later.
Indeed! Not intending to be sneaky, just brief.
Google got rid of forced arbitration recently without unions.