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> some startups have been experimenting with built-in thermometers, so I can imagine this classic design being different 10yr from now

T-fal has had the thermo spot in their regular nonstick pans for at least a decade, if not two or three.
In their defense, I agree with you that this is a first time when global internet connectivity + social media + hatespeech cocktail has become poisonous to our societal health.

We need to deeply think about all this - allowing peaceful, objective, conservative opinions and policy (such as the Lincoln Project) while condemning hate speech, violence, white supremacy and other racist behavior.

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. " - Nietzsche.
How is 300,000 new cases per day controlled? That seems very out of control and the CFR is still less than 0.5
Yes, it's exclusively because of his using his Twitter account as an official outlet for government statements.

Trump has appealed the decision to SCOTUS, which is still considering whether or not hear it [1]. Given that Trump's Twitter account is now banned, I suspect SCOTUS will dismiss the motion as mooted.

[1] See https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trump-v-knight-f... for the docket information.
In the first article one tweeting guy is primarily a comedian but also a writer, but looking at the clickbait he writes he doesn't seem too journalistish:
https://www.huffpost.com/author/tony-posnanski

The other isn't a journalist at all as far as I can tell?

If leftists are categorically banned (the claim was: "If you wanted to de-escalate on parler, you couldn't. You'd get banned"), then surely there is more than these articles, the second of which is a copy of the first which is a mention of two people tweeting about being banned?

I saw the first article back when it first came out and never saw any substantiation, but I didn't keep following it. Is there any significant evidence that leftists are all banned?
Presumably the company that operates these satellites has to comply with more than just "space law" though, right? Could you not still be compelled to go to "earth prison" wherever you're incorporated?
"We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling." - Senator Marco Rubio, R-FL, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chair

https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/8/rubio-s...
Yes, that Stanford now has your tuition payment.

(I'm an alum. Not impressed with how this has been handled.)
I respectfully disagree. For better or for worse, Trump was the President of the United States. Yes, Biden won the election, but nearly 47% of the vote went to Trump. How do you think the conservative (and even not-so conservative) part of the electorate would have reacted if Trump was kicked off Twitter before the election?

While Trump is technically still POTUS, he is now seen as trying to undermine the rightful, peaceful transition of power to the next president, and what's important is that viewpoint is not only believed by the left, but now huge swaths of politicians and the electorate who at least gave Trump tacit support.
The "Left" side of that chart is generously "Center" and less generously "Leans Right."
Oh, please. The people who elected the man who was President for the past 4 years are "the unheard?"
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Normally, I would say no way, cutting their funding is beyond the pail.

On the other, these politicians have been raising millions of dollars in the last few months, very openly, on verifiably false information (that the election was stolen and that they were going to fix it).

So I'm not sure I see it any differently than a processor cutting off funding for any other scam operation out there.

Add to that the results were not just taking money from scammed donors, but ended up lending enough credence to the lies to incite a riot.

Edit: sorry, I completely misread what the article was saying. Those banks are halting their own PAC donations. I thought they were refusing to process donations for all PACs for those politicians. They are of course free to donate how they please.
Executives at public companies are often subject to lock-up periods when they can sell their stock. That is likely the case here, and nothing can be inferred from it.
AWS Given Iowa Code 723.4(4) Notice on Criminal Disruption of Assembly
Everything a company does is a business decision. But it can also be a political decision.
> Out of curiosity, would you have been able to take the semester off had you known several weeks ago, vs now?

They extended the leave of absence deadline, so I could still conceivably take the term off. But I don’t think many frosh are doing that. We’ll be off campus for the spring too no matter what (they will prioritize juniors and seniors for graduation), so it makes sense to just do it all remotely.

Where the timing really sucks is on planning off-campus living away from home. I’m not endorsing leisure travel, but the thought of living at home for 6+ more months isn’t great for a lot of us. With classes starting tomorrow, though, it’s going to be tough for people to make arrangements (unless you want to move mid-way through the term, when coursework is heavy).
Have you tried? A properly written Win32 app is supposed to handle drag-and-drop of files onto its window, and treat it as "Open". Try this in Notepad, for example.

That said, I'm not sure what this has to do with repurposing Windows Explorer? It uses the same widget to browse files, but the File Open window is not actually an Explorer window.
It is used for calculate the maximum flow of a flow network.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-flow_min-cut_theorem#Appli...
I’m sorry that you are going through this. Nobody deserves to work under an abusive manager.

You could try to find out if there is another team or department where things are more stable, and if it would make sense to try to get transferred there. If you do that, make sure that you frame it in terms of your career and interest, and not as in response to mistreatment from your current manager.

The risk is that the culture might be similar, so you might encounter the same problem.

The other option is to find another job. From what you said, if I were in your place, I would go for this without hesitation.
Until you find that every link in the references for an article is either dead or directly contradicts the article. I’ve run into both many times doing research.
I am saying that in order to be accurate the report needs to be tied to specific doctors or at the very latest least specific hospitals.
I'm only saying that what Visa/MC did is the same as what Twitter/Google/Apple/Amazon did. They all took private action against what they deemed as illegal acts without involving the state or any law enforcement.

I would much rather leave such things to the proper authorities instead of massive corporations that control so much without any accountability or transparency.
Exponential Technologies and Disruption
They did extend the leave of absence deadline, fwiw.
There is a lot of truly vapid shit that has made it to the front page, and every time there's a person claiming it's off topic, and another claiming it's on topic.

Republicans getting their just desserts as viewed through the lens of the new normal of social media content policy sure gratifies my intellectual curiosity, for what it's worth.
If you read the blog post I linked to you'd see there are various exceptions that Stripe makes in most categories and they make business justifications for each exception.

It's in Stripe's best interest to deny services to Trump because coups and unstable governments are just bad for business. That's why the business lobbying group the The National Association of Manufacturers is calling for invoking the 25th Amendment

This is part of their statement:

“This is not the vision of America that manufacturers believe in and work so hard to defend. Across America today, millions of manufacturing workers are helping our nation fight the deadly pandemic that has already taken hundreds of thousands of lives. We are trying to rebuild an economy and save and rebuild lives. But none of that will matter if our leaders refuse to fend off this attack on America and our democracy—because our very system of government, which underpins our very way of life, will crumble.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/business/national-associa...

Financial services companies have always chosen their customers carefully, If there were antitrust concerns with this they would have already been addressed - because this is SOP.
On that note, what specifically from Trump’s speech was inciting violence? “March” != “Riot”

This is the section about marching to the Capitol.

“ And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.

Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.

We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated. Lawfully slated.

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today, we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections. But whether or not they stand strong for our country, our country. Our country has been under siege for a long time. Far longer than this four year period.”

“

Full text of his speech (rambling and painful to read, but there was no advocating for violence: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-told-supporters-storme...
Maxine Waters called for her supporters to harass government officials. She’s still on Twitter. A Bernie Sanders supporter ambushed and shot a US Congressman and yet no penalties to various Sanders organizations. Supporters of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard are on Twitter. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted murderer of cops is even on Twitter! AOC stormed and occupied Pelosi’s office in a climate protest in the Capitol and she’s on Twitter.

Notice a pattern? Left wing heroes can say anything they want and Twitter doesn’t ban them.
Going from bans due to ToS violations all of the way to government coercion of executives through imprisonment is an enormous leap in logic. There's quite a few steps along that path in between.

And if course given that bitcoin has to be sent and received, if we ever arrived at your dystopia, bitcoin would not help: the political rival would simply jail the executive for receiving bitcoin payments instead of USD currency. Bitcoin isn't preventing your dystopia.
A broad swathe of unrelated people systematically manipulated into feeling a certain way. This has been going on since Bush 2.0's 8 years of assault on the truth.
I don't think nurses have much (any) training in biotech.

An MD might have a 4-year undergrad in biochemistry or molecular biology or something, an internship at a biotech company or time in a research lab, they might be on one or two wetlab publications, they have another 4 years of medical training with lab experience for the MD, and another 3 or more years in residency training.

I believe most nurses have only an associates (2-year), or a 4-year undergrad degree with zero lab experience, zero biotech industry experience, and zero research-focused biochemistry/molecular biology/immunology training. They're not out there running ELISAs, Western Blots, minipreps and passaging cell cultures.

So they may not understand how the vaccine technology works at a particularly higher level than the general public.

Not a slight against nurses, of course, they do incredibly valuable work. But, upon hearing about a novel mRNA-based vaccine technology, they may be less likely than, say, an MD or a biomedical PhD to go 'that's a pretty cool application of a technology I understand pretty well."

Same thing with cops, fire, paramedics etc. They didn't exactly spend a decade in school to learn all about the magic of B cells and epitopes. So, they might be a little suspicious of something they're not exactly trained to understand, and seemingly not particularly curious about. Not really their fault I guess, it's just way outside of their wheelhouse.

In this particular situation, however, that becomes a bit of a problem since the public isn't necessarily able to contextualize their opinion on something, and may miss the fact that they may have zero clue what they're talking about.

Agreed. Weird time to be alive indeed.
It's widely known that this wall of text blog post promoting linseed oil of all things is nonsense.

https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/en4yml/this_is_go...
I downvoted you because it's ridiculous to compare what companies do to what a state does. Private companies do not have the option of disappearing you. Your rights are between you and the state, not you and a company.

Until the companies being discussed have the right to use force against you your argument holds no water.
I read the article and the comparison is improper. It is a narrow slice of a larger problem that is impossible to see if your processional experience is limited to writing software.

What the article compares: SVC-like vs traditional can be more accurately described as non-software employment versus software employment. It isn't that silicon valley has some magical solution that nobody else has, but instead is incentivized to leverage expectations common to all other industries. Again, this is impossible to see if your experience is limited to writing/managing software, but is clear as day otherwise.

The key reason why this is different for other industries is that the expectations are higher for employees where the investment per employee is higher. This is even true of lower paid and lower educated professions like truck driver or construction equipment operator compared to software engineer. In all other industries there exists some form of licensing or certification followed by some form of formal training such as a broker/agent relationship and then there is continuing education or periodic re-certification. These processes exist because of regulation. They take time and money away from the profession, which is an investment into each employee. With that level of expense more is expected in return by the employer.

The software profession has none of that. There is no investment in a software employee aside from keeping them happy enough to retain them. As a result its hard to think anything more of them than as a tool, like a janitor. This where you get the churn the article accurately describes as death by JIRA. SVC-like companies invest more in employees with higher salaries and thus expect more in return, which is not entirely the same as a formal professional process, but is a step in solving for this gap.

As for plain as day examples look at the common expectations for engineers at engineering firms, lawyers at law firms, and even truck drivers and police officers. There are all kinds of administrative and documentation expectations that are impossible to find in most software developers. Comparatively most software developers at the traditional companies seem largely illiterate. As an example most of these guys are scared to death of writing original software without a billion packages from NPM or Maven and are almost utterly incapable of writing formal documentation.
Surely there is a stronger defense of these companies' actions besides them being not prohibited by law.
Perhaps because there's a long-term pattern to Bannon's behavior?
Twitter still allowed the hashtag.
Your backbone is missing
When half the country is so resentful of the other half that it starts to act out, is escalating that situation the best option?

Or perhaps you let them vent for a bit (mostly harmlessly, but not entirely) and then try to engage with them and bring them back to reality?
Thank You for the much needed Sanity Check !
This is absurd. You must know it to be so.

They are angry because they lost and they are being told that they didn't lose. If you can be told that anything you don't like is the case then you will always be "unheard."

MLK didn't make this statement so that anyone who was unhappy could justify violence.

You can't just live in unreality and pretend you're a victim. Either you can't see it for some reason or you do see it and you're pretending you don't.
The title has been editorialized enough that it’s inaccurate.

Actual title: Capitol Riot Prompts Some Big Banks and Companies to Pause Political Funding

Subtitle: JPMorgan and Citigroup to halt all PAC donations; Blue Cross and Marriott pause funding to Republicans who objected to Electoral College results
I'm not really surprised at all this is still an ongoing issue. And by far I think people that work on the so called Human Interface Guidelines need to get off whatever ideology/belief they fed themselves for the desktop environment to finally, you know, grow for actual humans rather than their egos. At times it feels more like a cred, like when elementary OS was released I read so many comments on how Apple nailed the UI.

From the site:
>If you use GNOME and this is a revelation to you, it’s because you’re used to mediocrity. If you think your experience all this time was normal, you’re completely mistaken—and it’s not least because you’re using a specific desktop environment that’s available only on Free operating systems that account for only a fraction of a percent of desktop computer usage anyways.

I like the author just sarcastically points it out, because I remember reading years ago the same on both GNOME and elementary OS subreddits "it's because people are used to mediocrity". Or, you know, maybe people find it super helpful to being able to see the images without extra steps so they can choose whatever they want.

And then it all just spirals down into:

"Have you tried X/Y/Z?" no? Sucks for you buddy I guess you are stuck with mediocre people making design decisions. But as crud as I put it, I might not be wrong.

That said, I have completely given up on all the nonsense someone would have to follow to file a enhancement report and discuss it just to be stuck on discussion for 10 years. There's just no time and energy for that, and at the end people would just ditch the desktop environment because it's just too much of a hassle to use.
meetfromhome.io has an interesting idea where you move a little character around a 2D room and are only connected to others you are standing near.

It's built on Jitsi.
I don't think it is. There was a time in the 90s when AOL was in a similarly dominant position with much stricter moderation policies, but the marketplace of ideas never felt crippled. Everyone just understood that the AOL sandbox was a sanitized common ground, and if you wanted frank discussions on complex or controversial topics you needed to go elsewhere. (And I don't know of any topic, no matter how controversial or offensive, that doesn't have some active forum where it's regularly discussed.)
No focus on a structured product definition and leaving it to engineers to 'figure it out' does not bode well for the end user or business itself.

This is a real experience in a FAANG company - we were developing a new product in enterprise space targeted to small enterprise IT admins who may not be highly trained or experienced.

One of tiny feature was the ability to download and self manage security certificates (upload again if any issue with security), it took literally weeks to define this feature by the engg and UX team. From tiny things like how to name the downloaded security files.. should we have the app name in the file or not - otherwise how would IT admin locate the file when they search, should file have time stamp because later we discovered that these d**n things expire, is there a 'standard' to begin with that defines the naming convention of these things, and so on..

All this because? The detailed level of spec is never written by product managers. Which I think is a very foolish culture, particularly in enterprise space.
Yes, old CPUs/ICs were built on actual solid-state components, with no "firmware". You owned it, and it didn't change or spy on you. I miss it, too.
There’s still stuff coming out about this.

1) Bombs were left during the invasion. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-50k-reward-pipe-bombs-capit...

2) Weapons were recovered. https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/13-arrested-5-weapons-reco...

That’s weapons recovered. How many more were carrying?
This is a bit like asking what is matrix diaginalization used for. The applications are much too numerous in many different fields of science and engineering. "Graph partition" problems generally search for ways to separate a graph into subgraphs such that some measure is optimized. E.g. resilience of network connections, immunizations, some error correction algorithms, optimizing flow of stuff through nodes, logistics. This list probably barely scratches the surface.

Edit: my comment sounds a bit rude on second read. My apologies, it is the limitations of this medium.
Reading this story from 2012 now, it aged... interestingly. It's basically complaining that this mentality:

> Concept reduction, consistency, skill portability, were all core to how to make a great UI. Why have 17 different ways to pop up (or drop down) a menu? Why have 17 different graphical treatments? With “one menu to rule them all,” users could learn how to use the menu once and then apply this knowledge anywhere they saw this affordance. That way, developers don’t have to reinvent the wheel, and users don’t need to relearn the wheel.

was taken too far, and argues for dialing it down a notch or two. But the industry did exactly that, and the resulting UX is worse than what we had in early 00s - and keeps getting worse every year.

So, perhaps Bill was right?
But this is not a regulation for all politicians. It's finishing what's big tech has already started.
It is not clear who placed the bombs. There were multiple bombs in DC not just at the capital.
In the case of Tuesday's attack on the Capitol, the crowd thought they were unheard because a group of Republicans and right-wing conspiracy nuts have told them so. They were being heard for the last four years, with a Republican President and Senate. But some Republicans, including Trump, had invested so much in the underdog victim persona they lied to keep it up.
Hmm - must have been pretty hard to narrow, since its seems to specifically target shopping centers ?

edit: I seem to remember my son's class not being able to petition in front of a grocery store in California like 20 years ago...Wonder if it had been narrowed by then?
That's not the definition of fascism [0]

Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation

[0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism