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I work at a company that employs developers in the US and in Europe. The European developers are more upset that they’re paid less, than the US developers care about the European benefits.
Did you read the article? It's a COVID related restriction - not a judicial system one.
The picture in the article is literally money being flushed down a toilet lol.

But yes we all get paid, almost always whether the software (or product) is good or bad or useful to the world.
Great idea nrao123! We've done a bit of this: (1) Naval's recommended reading https://www.zeneca.io/navalsrecommendreading, and (2) the most re-read books from a popular twitter thread https://www.zeneca.io/reread (this was came with a fun blog post about Clojure!)

Definitely think there's something to this. Perhaps even people historically -- for example, I'd be very curious about Victor Hugo's favorite books, etc

We'll consider going deeper on this.
This is fine while you're employed, but what if you lose your position or decide to take a couple years off? Then it becomes a different equation.

Spread out over time, in the places I lived outside of the US that was not really a concern. Same with most other "social care" situations. In the US, it all felt a lot more tenuous which was a source of constant low-key anxiety.
There are payrolling companies that take care of all this. They have subsidiaries in every country, will give your remote employees all the things they have a right for according to the local laws, and send you an invoice.
Zero out of pocket seems like a silly line in the sand. Why wouldn't you care about out-of-pocket max? The only reason I can see about a well-paid professional caring about $20 co-pays is because of a psychological aversion to being paid for healthcare.

(Not saying this feeling is necessarily wrong. Humans may have evolved a feeling that their community should take care of the sick and injured. Demanding more for this act, I think makes a lot of people feel tawdry and icky, in a similar way to paying for sex. Still this is a psychological, not an economic argument.)

Imagine, that you insisted on car insurance that covered every oil change and car wash starting at dollar zero. It'd probably be astronomically expensive.
Skylines is sandbox and traffic simulator, or more less traffic jam simulator
Finally this is getting some attention. Somewhat related, Healthcare startups are struggling with this because the standards they have to comply with (for developing medical software) cost up to 280 EUR (for a pdf!). [1]

One common workaround is to go to "the Estonian site" which offers the same, English version of standards for a much lower price [2]. Being a bit cynical, I would say that Estonia prioritises open information much more highly than.. other developed countries. I created a price comparison on my website [3].

But: The core problem of standards being openly available is still not solved. Why is this not possible? For me, standards are very comparable to the law: A large number of people should comply with it. For that, they must be openly available to everyone. Everything else doesn't make sense. Is that unreasonable?

[1] https://www.iso.org/standard/38421.html
[2] https://www.evs.ee/en/
[3] https://openregulatory.com/accessing-standards/
I think a less radical solution would be a bit more of "socialism" in the good sense (social protection, protection of the job etc.).

It has its pros and cons, but the pros IMO win - bringing some peace of mind to people.
Just to clarify.. Yes, vertipaq is the tech behind power pivot, power bi and sql server analysis services (in tabular mode) and the same column-oriented storage is also used in sql server. Excel generates queries against the data stored in a vertipaq model. You cannot write normal excel formulas on top of it and you have to use DAX (a unique to msft language, which is the replacement for MDX) instead, which is pretty much a no-go for anyone but well-trained power users.
Taking a non-diverse population and making it diverse is not easy at first. You need to jumpstart the effort across the board. Example: if there are no minority engineers applying from schools, it is because there are no minority students getting degrees. Follow that back to the source. It also is a lot to ask of a non-diverse group to suddenly understand diversity: they really can't, you need the group to be diverse in the first place so that those opinions are baked-in to the system. It's a catch-22, and bootstrapping is gonna upset the status quo (and probably newcomers) until things are running smoothly.

One source: With engineering it can be followed back to opportunity at school. The US school funding model sucks: wealthy districts get the most money, which means better education, which means students come out primed for better jobs. Then there's the Gatekeeping common in engineering that tries to keep out others (in the late 80's it was harassing women so that they dropped out... one of the frats at my uni had an actual game to try to get women to drop out by making fun of them in recitation, which was horrific).
Yes you can. If the token price falls substantially and the fee pressure disappears you can continue transacting without adding work to secure the blockchain.

This is actually one of the largest open problems for Bitcoin. In a few years, the inflation will drop below a point where it is enough to secure the blockchain, meaning the security of Bitcoin is entirely dependent on revenue from transaction fees, which only exist if there are more transactions trying to get into blocks than there is block space to hold the transactions.

If Bitcoin doesn't have enough transaction demand, you will be able to transact on bitcoin for nearly free without contributing to the security at all, which is a very bad thing for Bitcoin as a whole.
... because they are? If you can't turn a profit then you go under, regardless of if you have good support or not.
> Being in the prison system is far worse than lack of freedom. That's why prison reform is so important.

Or maybe that is kinda the point of prison? I’m all for nonviolent offenders to go into rehabilitation etc etc... but for the violent... prison is supposed to be shit, or am I missing something?
Will tech’s perks ever be the same?
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I love how this comment amounts to "nuh-uh!" because you can't think of a single example even though you're an enthusiast.

The only people using smart-contracts are enthusiasts and proof-of-concept startups that have no traction in the market because smart contracts don't offer any advantage over any other computing system.
I also had the pleasure of taking cipro about 10 years ago. Since, then I have met hundreds of people. Symptoms of adverse reaction include depression/anxiety, tendon/muscle pain, tendon ruptures, vision issues, such as visual snow and floaters. These issues are widely underreported as negative symptoms may show up even up to 12 months after medication was stopped.

I have seen 40+ physicians at Mayo, Rush and other popular hospital networks, only one doctor said it's a possibility. Others outright dismiss it and look for alternative diagnosis.

However, there are some recent discoveries and theories. There was a study which found DNA adducts from cipro, others are looking at mtDNA and collagen issues.

For anyone reading please research any flouroquinolone antibiotic before taking them. It is A SERIOUS medication and not like other antibiotics.

The worst part of FQAD (Flouroquinolone Associated Disability) as it is a thing now, there is ZERO tests to confirm it. If it happens to you, you will be dismissed and ignored by the medical community. I know doctors, pharmacists who had a negative reaction and were outright called crazy by their colleagues. An optometrist who was quite outspoken was dropped by some insurance companies as this view is "controversial". Many older flouroquinolone antibiotics have been taken off the market completely due to severe adverse reactions.
Yes, you put considerable trust into applications running on your system. But I hope that you don’t just install random applications. You probably choose only vendors where you can reasonably assume that they don’t want to accept the backlash of having shipped a malicious application.

Now shipping a malicious application is always a risk. This application release is evidence of misbehavior, should someone choose to analyze it. This risk is almost non-existent with dynamic web applications. It would have to be the one targeted user who analyzes megabytes of code.

To sum up: there is a good reason why websites are sandboxed and don’t get any access to your system.

Note: I am the author of this article.
Less than 9% of prisoners are in private prisons, so I don't think that would make a significant difference. I mean it might be a good thing to do, but won't help the vast majority of prisoners.
Are you referring to the low interest rate? I suspect that depends largely on which bank/currency you're referring to. Bitcoin sure doesn't fair very well, except if you invest at the right time. The bank is a known quantity.
This is great! I love the aesthetics and I've been waiting years for someone to provide a viable alternative to Goodreads.
yes, Sen Sinema (I had to look up that tough spelling...)
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The "gas" fees will be literal for these NFTs.
Already mentioned, in julia just do rand(a). But if you didn't have that, couldn't you just switch out floor for ceil and have the exact equivalent for 1 based indexing?
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I’m genuinely surprised you trust the intentions of an insurance company over a nationalised health system. Insurance companies are famous for weasling their way out of claims.

Maybe you can elaborate a bit more on this.
You're in a different world.

https://www.gasbuddy.com/gaspricemap
I think you can have a level of both. Obviously we don't want crime to be free of consequence, but we also don't want inmates to commit crimes again after their sentence(both for the sake of others and their own). In the US, we mostly care about retribution, even when we say that we want reformation. All the time I hear from people about how we need to focus on rehabilitation, but then hear a lot of the same people shout "lock 'em up!" even for property crimes.

I'm not one to be in the "America is bad at everything" camp, but I think one of the most negative aspects of our culture is that we act entitled to everything like the world is Burger King and we should get everything our way(or your money back). Fries too cold? Send 'em back and don't tip the server! Someone backed into our rear fender? Sue 'em for all they've got! Someone stole your TV? Lock 'em up and throw away the key! It all stems from materialism.
"then they don't deserve being released" -- suburban America
I didn’t mean it strictly literally. The original comment was a thoughtless namedrop of a brand new book (which means by tautology it’s irrelevant to the topic at hand) and doesn’t have a shred of reasoning behind it. So, functionally, it’s a billboard advertising Taleb’s book.

I am aware that the Cult of Taleb means that people are willing to advertise his work for free.
That’s actually legitimate functionality of this extension. :-)

Note: I am the author of this article.
Even without that it would be a vicious circle. You might initially lead a fairly normal life with some "side-hustle" to earn a little cash, and go to prison for that. Now when you come out you are an ex convict (with barely any assets because life in prison is expensive). So you look for a space to rent (that takes ex-cons) and a job (that hires ex-cons). Chances are you won't find a full-time job, so you turn to crime to pay your rent. But now crime turned from a side-hustle to a half-time job.
>>> Prepare to be shocked. The majority of SWEs employed at Google in the EU (Zurich, Dublin, London) have comp packages over 150k.

1) It's factually wrong.

2) These 3 countries are paying in 3 different currencies so you might want to clarify 150k of WHAT. With an exchange rate of 1.4 in some directions it's actually quite important ^^

3) No matter the currency, it's still factually wrong :D
I guess you do too.
Even if that were the case, is outcomes the only thing to value here? Revenge for the wronged is a part of the justice isn’t it?
Here it is: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/857

The issue is even older than I thought, though I was pretty sure the requirement for a notification specifically appeared around Android 8 or 9.

Also, seeing as K9 doesn't look to be anywhere near frequently updated, I'm not expecting this to change soon.
Browser extensions being enabled for all webpages by default is bad practice for security and privacy. Often the user only wants to use the extension on specific webpages. For example, if I have a video downloader extension, chances are that I only want to use that extension on the page with the specific video I want to download.

Extensions should be disabled by default upon install. If the user wants to use the extension, the user should be able to click on the extension to active it for this specific page for one time only. None of the major browsers are capable of this (so far as I'm aware), so I always have to remember to disable an extension when I'm done using it.
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Is there a prison review website? Let's say I wanted to get sent to the "nicest" prison in the USA (not a white collar "tennis-camp" prison). What crime would I need to commit where to have the highest chance of getting sent there?
I understand what you're saying. The goal isn't immediately obvious for a game like this, so I thought it would be best to explain what the game is before throwing players straight into the deep end. Perhaps there's a better way to do that, though?
> It's nonsensical, designed to appeal to emotion instead of presenting a coherent, logical approach to sentencing.

That's the thing though. Sentencing in the US is driven by emotions. That's how they like it. That's what they want.

Nobody cares about what's best for society.

Nobody cares about having five times the recidivism rate and the highest prison population in the world.

What they do want is satisfy their base urge for revenge. And they're pretty good at that.

Different goals, different outcomes.
> For instance, suppose binaries were typically distributed in a platform-agnostic format, like LLVM intermediate representation or something equivalent.

The Mill does something like this, but only for their own chips. "Binaries" are bitcode that's not specialized to any particular Mill CPU, and get run through the "specializer" which knows the real belt width and other properties to make a final CPU-specific version.
> I like to throw a racist jokes, especially about my own nation from time to time

Do we really have to explain why that's inappropriate?
I’m not sure I can describe to you why I feel this way in logical terms. Perhaps it’s just cultural but I know I, and the vast majority of the population finds mental and physical work far less undesirable/bad than sexual.
> A technical interview has an uncanny resemblance to the trier social stress test [39], a procedure used for decades by psychologists and is the best known “gold standard” procedure [1] for the sole purpose of reliably inducing stress.

> The trier social stress test involves having a subject prepare and then deliver an interview-style presentation and perform mental arithmetic, all in front of an audience.

> … rather than avoiding unwanted stress, technical interviews may be inadvertently designed with the sole purpose of inducing it.

39: https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/119004
We're coming up on a year of restrictions now, and many countries simply haven't seen much protest activity. Politics in some Asian and European countries is very much consensus-based, and if the main parties have converged on the idea of maintaining some level of social distancing, there isn’t much space for the populace to voice opposition to that.

Large protests in those countries tend to be unlikely because 1) protests have been banned on epidemological grounds, and the authorities have made it clear that any protest will be swiftly suppressed by the police, and 2) QAnon and antivaxxer conspiracy theorists tend to be very visible at protests, and normal people are unwilling to be associated with that. So, the bulk of the population is not going to be willing to go out and protest.
Ignorance of the law is indeed not an excuse. But all that means is that it’s not a legal excuse, as in it’s literally not a defense you can raise. It says nothing about the morality of criminalizing innocent conduct.

Many regulatory crimes require no mens rea at all. And even more criminalize things that no reasonable person would expect to be a crime. Criminal punishment is supposed to be for despicable conduct, not morally innocent behavior.
Whether it's either cruel or unusual is a subjective question.

What I asked was whether it's ok for a prisoner's quality of life to be determined by the whims of the prison. I'm of the opinion that whatever the right quality of life is, it should be consistent across the board. If I commit a federal crime, the punishment shouldn't vary based on which prison I get sent to.

In other words, if you think it's perfectly reasonable for, say, a murderer to be placed in extended isolation (as an example), then that should be applied evenly to all murderers.

Surely we agree on that much? Or do you believe being a criminal means you should be subject to arbitrary punishments at the whims of your captors?
On the contrary. It's beautiful to see what people come up with when they're not tethered to the norm.
That's definitely part of it. The way they suck the prisoner's families dry is particularly shitty, for things like phone calls, letters (jPay), commissary, charges to see the doctor (yes, really), and so on.
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Below, I do some napkin math to attempt to estimate your likelihood of getting in trouble for firing somebody.

In 20 years, there were 1.8M employee discrimination cases filed in the US, so ~roughly 90K per year. Each year, about 19M employees are fired or laid off.

Considering that not all employee discrimination suits arise from termination, we can expect a rate to be significantly below the calculated likelihood of 0.04% (90K/19M), or less than 1 in 200. However, I don't have an estimate for this,

You can adjust that for the prevalence of underrepresented groups in your field, of course - usually it will be about half that have some protected factor (age, gender, ethnicity, disability, etc.), so let's double that, for 1 in 100.

Of those cases, 82% were closed without even a settlement. So we're back down to about 1 in 500, if you pretend that the EEOC chooses entirely randomly and cannot differentiate between real discrimination and made up ones.

I think it would be worthwhile for you to do some real risk assessment, and figure out whether the < 1/500 chance of paying some money, if you need to fire a person with a protected attribute, is worth being "terrified" about.

(Also, age discrimination constitutes the plurality of EEOC cases, so you should possibly be more concerned about hiring people over the age of 35 than hiring women or black people).
Upside of being a token X: sometimes you get enough cash out of it to be able to leave it behind again. This only works if they get to trot you out. So get used to that bridle.

Downside of being a token X: normally they just keep you around long enough to tick off the "hiring" box(es), since nobody gives a shit about retention, and you probably won't be the one chosen to get put on a pedestal.

So yeah, keep trying until you can find a place where you can just do your work and be taken seriously and not have them treat you like a piece of meat or worse. Good luck. I'm still looking for that place.
The frontend/backend divide is very large at the moment, especially for new (or recent) developers.

I feel this is limiting, as I was lucky enough to learn at a time where it was all smooshed together (2000), and I felt comfortable enough jumping from one to the other and back again.
> I will definitely keep an eye on Counter.dev as an alternative to that, good luck!

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I've had a similar idea. It's not terrible, but gives Google a partial incentive to abuse it. I say "partial" because the perverse incentive would be offset by the PR hit. Paying for support for a problem Google created, and having the call centers become profit centers, would impose a reputational dent.

Google could charge small amounts for new account creation. $5 per new account could probably cover an increase in human-contactable support. But that also probably doesn't work because Google doesn't want any friction for users creating new accounts.

Probably the only solution is regulation. If a company is going to offer a vital service like email, even for free, then they should be required to provide procedures for restoring the account. Procedures that involve direct contact with a human at some point if the matter isn't resolved early on. I can't see the US passing such regulation any time soon, but perhaps the EU would step up.
Most people think this is a valuable feature. If you normally access your account from California, but one day you access it from Romania instead, that triggers heightened login security. Because 99.9999999% of the time this is caused by people getting their accounts owned by organized crime syndicates.
The security isn't there to protect historic transactions, it's there to protect the holdings of current holders. If I had a bitcoin at one point and no longer have that bitcoin, I'm completely indifferent about the security of the transactions involving that bitcoin because it no longer impacts me.

Also, the cost per transaction - even if viewed through that lens - does not approach infinity as time goes to infinity because there would be an infinite number of transactions as well.
That's how IBM implemented the AS/400 platform. Everything compiled down to a processor-agnostic bytecode that was the "binary" format. That IR was translated to native code for the underlying processor architecture as the final step. And objects contained both the IR and the native code. If you moved a binary to another host CPU, it would be retranslated and run automatically. The migration to POWER as the underlying processor was almost entirely transparent to the user and programming environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i#Instruction_set
> In CLOS one would not like that design. Though there also might be generic functions with many methods. My default CL has for example 84 print-object methods, some might have hundreds. Though generally it is not seen as desirable to group semantically very different operations under one name - especially given that CLOS provides different types of method combinations and a CLOS generic function might create a more complex interface.

Totally agreed here. However, addition, multiplication and so on have a very uniform and well defined set of semantics that apply to many types from all the various representations of real and complex numbers to the many many different types of matrices in Julia's LinearAlgebra library (lots of wrappers for things like Symmetric, or Tridiagonal matrices, lazy matrix factorization objects, adjoint matrices, etc.)

That's why there's so many methods on addition and multiplication in julia, and why I found it so surprising that CL doesn't do this on purpose. But I get that scientific computing isn't as big a part of the demographics in the CL community so I guess it makes sense.
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