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Not glorifying crime, but one of the best parts of the video game warez scene (for me) was the artwork that accompanied each release.

On later systems like the Nintendo Gamebot Advance you would often find a little demoscene preview before the game booted up. Amazing what you can code in just a few kilobytes of space
Is that really true? The international supermarkets may chose to invest by open new stores....secondly, they had to buy the local supermarkets in the first place...that went somewhere...maybe that was reinvested locally. It is not clear cut.
It’s definitely possible to “work” that much if work consists of being present in the office and nominally working on something or thinking about it. There’s a lot of menial work in most jobs that you can kind of force yourself through for hours at a time.

60 hours a week is easy: just work from 8-6 six days a week.

To get past that, the easy option is to add Sundays. But you do burn out if you work all Sunday, so taking Sunday to rest is a good idea. Let’s say you just work from 6-10pm on Sundays to map out the week and get ready for Monday, that leaves plenty of time to rest.

So now you’re at 64 hours a week, and you want to bump it up. Not too hard: give yourself a dinner break from 6-8 each night, and work again from 8 to midnight M-F. That’s an extra 20 hours, so you’re at 84. And that’s actually not too bad because you have Saturday nights free to socialize and Sunday morning to sleep off your hangover.

Getting past 84 hours is harder, you’ll have to sacrifice Sunday. But if you go ahead and adopt your normal 14h schedule Monday-Saturday you’re already at 84 without working Sunday, and by comparison fitting another 11 hours on Sunday still feels like a little bit of a breather. Maybe you just work 8-7 on Sundays and use the last few hours for some Netflix and go to bed early.

All of this is much easier if you’re not trying to spend 8 hours a day in bed. Suppose you find that 6 hours a day in bed can get you through, now you’ve got an extra 14 hours a week to do thinks like go jogging at 6am or whatever else helps you de-stress.

TLDR; 60 hours a week is relatively easy. 80 hours a week is harder but still manageable. The difficulty ramps as you go from 80-100. 100 hours a week is very hard. Anything over that is unsustainable, but can still be managed in short bursts if you don’t sleep, and we have lots of drugs that can help you avoid sleep.
I can't find any reasons why it was rewritten.

Was it C before? (I can't tell, because https://github.com/matryer/bitbar redirects to xbar)
do you own your own body? if not, who does?

a related question: do we really seek to protect others from harming themselves, or merely to protect ourselves from having to watch?
Habit Fragility and Puppies
The fact people are willing to argue against it and thus are arguing for forcing those with chronic pain and terminal illnesses to continue suffering tells you everything you need to know about them, too.
The book “How Asian Works” touched on this as well. A combination of promoting/subsidizing local industries whilst pushing them to be competitive on the global stage can do great things
Spain is a majority Catholic country in part because of a widespread terroristic campaign of torturing and killing Jewish and Muslim Spanish people, carried out by the Catholic Church. What about the dignity of their lives?
Boston has a number of ways to access online services, including free public wi-fi, libraries, and even a mobile City Hall that brings services directly to different neighborhoods: https://www.nationalcivicleague.org/promising-practices/bost...

More accessible than requiring someone to go to a City Hall basement!
I think it's healthy to have a diverse set of mid and upper market companies. Chinese companies will ultimately buy their way into up market businesses. One antidote that I can readily think of is the acquisition of the street wear company Bape buy a the Chinese/Hong Kong manufacturer I.T Group. Forbes magazine is another company that was acquired by a Chinese company.

Furthermore, Hong Kong has some international appeal and most people think of it as a nation separate from China. In reality, companies from China incorporate in HK to escape the aurora of being a Chinese compnay
Chia Blockchain Explorer
Don't we see this every year
Obviously, part of the problem is that it's a very politically ugly topic. People hate thinking about death so much that they put off writing their wills until the day they actually die, after all!

With that being said, there are rational arguments against euthanasia. You need to be extremely careful with creating legal ways to kill people. Recall what governments have tended to do in the past when given power over, for example, forced sterilization or forced institutional commitment. Now imagine what can happen with a hostile actor in the mix... rightfully a scary proposition!

I'm not against euthanasia, despite my counterarguments, but I do believe that this is the kind of thing that should be a constitutional right afforded to the individual and not a power that may be exercised over you by anyone else (not even by proxy or process). The stakes are simply too high, because there are no take-backs if someone screws up.
I worked at GS but not in investment banking. I had a really positive experience and rarely went over 60-70 hours.

It all depends on your role. IBD is definitely the most demanding, but they all made a choice, with basically perfect information, to accept that job. I promise you, they knew it would be like that. It's hard for me to feel too sympathetic.
The reductum ad absurdum argument for assisted suicide had been decent at converting many skeptics I've talked to:

There once was a man who fought in Vietnam who was burned by napalm. He had 2nd and 3rd degree burns over almost his entire body, lost both arms, both legs, eyes, ears and most of his mouth. And yet he survived for weeks in agony, a literal hell on earth, typing out "kill me" in morse code with his head.

Surely, this person should be allowed to end his life as even people of faith should see this as a worse state than hell.

Therefore if this person should be allowed, then we just need to determine where the line is, not if it should be legal or not.
Talk to people. You should be asking these questions to your direct management. They clearly don't have a great onboarding process (even more difficult if you're remote) so you'll need to do some extra work to stay on top of things and figure out how your role fits within the team and the company.
Yes, but I'm mentally well.

If I was having severe mania or a psychotic episode, the legal frameworks we have in place would allow me to be sectioned to prevent me causing harm to myself and others.

Surely that is a worthwhile law?
> All of the dumb people will have a million kids and displace them if they do that, Idiocracy-style.

Happily, this kind of racist, eugenicist model is utterly disproved.
Apparently they did,

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-n...
The US government's web traffic (2015)
Oh I didn’t see PoS there. I didn’t know there were such networks out there in production.
The way you phrase it, makes it sound like theft...surely, they have to buy the assets and that goes to the owner...the owner then can chose to re-invest locally if they choose to...the capital doesnt just disappear...
In legal terms stealing != stealing. There is larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny. One type gets you a slap on the wrist (stealing one's personal data for monetary gain). Another gets you a ridiculous monetary fine (downloading a song/game from torrents). It's out of balance like the murderer going free while the kid with minor amounts of weed going to jail.
Baltimore is a very distinct city with a distinct identity, although the border between DC suburbs and Baltimore suburbs is kind of vague; I wouldn't consider Baltimore part of the DC area.

My general cut of it would be Frederick - Leesburg - (follow US 15 south) - Gainsville - Quantico - La Plata - Waldorf - Bowie - Laurel - back to Frederick, although I'm not high confidence of the cuts on the MD side of the line.
I don't know about railleys temple, but the Harry Potter books I swallowed in no time, too.

But yes, you cannot really do this with Carre's books.
You either read very slowly (which I tend not to), or you read them twice or more to fully understand. It is very deep shit, so to say.
In terms of Character and story.

There are long mental battles fought, in dialoges in a boring room. And you try to make sense of it all. The layers of conspiracies. When the characters come in play with the story - when some slight things hinted in a dialoge - will in hindsight later reveal that person to be a traitor. So I read his books as elaborate dedective books.
Shooting and night assaults do happen, but are quite rarely and happen fast and get not battle glorified. Like in reality.
Sometimes you read only about the bloody shadow battles by a note the protagonist reads in secret.
So you have to be into that, or not.
OK, but can we do better? Is there a better way to assess supply chain security risks than these questionnaires?
This is the first step of digitization: Putting electricity on the paper. But it's only the beginning. For the long-tail it may be good enough. But for lots of government forms there are so much more that can be done.

Like, we discovered some absurd amount of forms sent to us (like 90% or so) had errors that actually would make the applicant ineligible for whatever the form was for. Stuff like "if you answered X on Q14.2c, you have to answer Q32.5". All this is something good UX and logic can help make a breeze. Instead of a huuuge form to cover all edge cases, it only expands when veering from the happy-path.

Also, next step of digitization is actually getting the data as structured data. So that it's automatically put into whatever software the govemp uses to handle the form. Without that, majority of the amount of time spent from a caseworker can be to just transcribe the form into application before it's actually being worked on. Next step after that is of course to automatically approve/deny stuff. If not for everything, there are lot of simple cases that often don't need much scrutiny.

A big step is to actually get the gov to change the process/law. Putting electricity to paper is a small win over the incredible wins with just fixing the process.
Like one form I worked on was so complicated (maternity/paternity leave) because the law had basically hundreds of small edge cases accrued over the years. Either to fix a loop-hole, or to help some group of people a bit extra. But that just ends up in regulation not even the experts approving these forms understand. It's a hard battle and can take years. Like, sometimes a new rule the politicians invent will cost far more to implement and execute for the small case, than just making it apply to everyone and grant them some extra money...
100% spot on here.

There are a significant number of people who use their phone as the primary or even sole method of internet access. And that's not just low income people but also young adults. When you start counting homeless people who primarily use the library (if open), you have another problem.

I've worked in various "digital divide" issues for almost 10 years. Online first is okay but we can't wipe out the offline approaches without leaving large swathes of people without any feasible options.

Innovate but make sure you're considering your constituents' needs.
That’s what all laws are. You take some moral idea founded ultimately on some unprovable axiom, and then you impose it on others through violence. Whoever is able to repeatedly and reliably deploy violence to impose their religion (which doesn’t need to have a god) gets to rule society.
Do you guys pronounce it Juarez, or Wares?
I haven't gotten cash in over a year and I'll only need to get some more at some point over the next month or so because I was in a store whose credit card system was down.

About the only thing I'd do with a bank in person (other than ATMs) would be either special transactions--much of which you can handle over the phone or on-line these days--or if I still had to deposit sheafs of checks like I did when I had a business years ago. (Though I assume these days most people would pay digitally in some manner.)

I've observed over the past year that even brokerages and the like that pretty much used to require going into a branch have discovered that's actually not necessary.

I don't care so much about the speed of transaction logs but that I can access my records, pay bills, transfer money, etc. with a few clicks.
> For example, is an SUV in the city the right vehicle for the right road? or is that causing useless stress and danger for everyone involved?

Yes, SUVs are stupid and totally the wrong type of vehicle for a city, but for a different set of reasons.
Land Reforms by Country
Nobody's going to take you by the hand every time you want to read something above you.

Have some humility.
Lets not forget the garish anime graphics and loud chiptune music that was the look of any reliable keygen.
The article says that the wallet might not be in their control. They believe it might be a part of a coin tumbling/washing operation.

I think the main reason they don't use one they control is the potential to trace where the original funds come from. There might be things you can do to obfuscate things, like tumbling the coins. It's all a risk though.
The book "On Bullshit Jobs" covers your situation in some detail, including the phenomenon of working on open source for free just for something interesting.

You may enjoy reading it, just for a clear understanding of the situation.
Ha such a true statement. I am mid-thirties but I agree with the sentiment with regards to sales of digital art as NFTs.

I can see a use for NFTs such as for concert tickets but a JPG or GIF? Sorry but we already have good protocols in place to transfer ownership, copyright, etc. of artwork to someone that has been used for centuries. A blockchain isn't needed for a god damn GIF sorry.
> but there hasn't been any evidence of abuse as far as I can tell.

Is anyone looking for it?
Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe
The erlang case suffers from none of these problems, plus it's even more sophisticated, you can set up failure domains with few lines of code; it's designed for the spawn to be truly autonomous with restart/retry logic, do rpc over distributed systems with unreliable networks, etc.

Once you've spent time working in erlang concurrency, it's hard to believe that this pattern is an advantage except for the fact that python (and go, and js) is designed for linear primary execution flow. In erlang by contrast, a script with a primary flow is a special case of a concurrent system (which itself is a special case of a distributed system).

Addendum: If I'm not mistaken, the nursery concept does exist in the BEAM vm, it's Task.await_many in elixir.
I miss .nfo files
Seems like a good decision. Would be good for other African countries to do similarly, but they are largely hindered by corrupt governments whose officials benefit from exporting the raw materials.
> The long term cultural effects spanning all cultures show that when both sexes have close to equal rights, birth rates drop.

I haven't thought of it this way. I still think lack of poverty is a bigger predictor, but it's interesting the outliers are countries like Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, and Iraq. [0] (babies per woman vs. income level)

[0] https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$marker$axis_y$which=...
I can vouch for how strict they are about their accessibility requirements. I was working for a contracting company that was making training materials and teaching a class for the government, and all the material had to have a voice recording for blind employees, even though that particular job we were teaching for couldn't be done by blind people. We also had to provide a script of everything that was covered and wasn't on the slides in case a deaf person was in the class. It made it difficult to teach the class because the instructor couldn't cover anything that wasn't in the written script, or else it would be considered discrimination against the deaf employees.
It easily could take 10 minutes to actually read/decipher the word games being played to confuse the reader into accepting the preferred option the vendor wants. Just like it only takes seconds to accept the ToS/EULA because nobody reads them. If people did actually read them, it would take hours/days to do a "simple" install.
Not all of these changes are ‘sensible’ by default.

Some original settings are useful belt-and-suspenders for flow blindness.
Cultural Inertia is a powerful thing. As a parallel, docking a dog's tail, clipping its ears, or declawing a cat is considered inhumane, but routine neonatal circumcision is accepted and defended. Why would an aesthetic modification be unethical on a pet animal, but encouraged for an infant human? If something is culturally accepted as normal, it's a lot harder to critically examine it.
Thanks -- good to know about clang, although it does appear that the most recent version supported is clang 7 (Ubuntu defaults to 10, and supports 11). That's to be expected with RH/Centos, which again is one reason why e.g., Ubuntu can be easier to work with.

I'm also not sure I've bought in to the way the devtoolset stuff works, by swapping symlinks around. AFAICT that means that only one version is available at any given time.

If you build and install your own tools, you can (and should) install them in a non-standard location -- once you do that, it's relatively simple to support multiple versions at the same time.

Although if it wasn't for the COW vs. SSO strings problem, I would have spent more time on the devtoolset approach, but the lack of true C++11-style strings was a deal-breaker for me. I would much prefer not to be building compilers, although once you've done it once, it's not too bad.
I think you're being unkind to containers. Yes it's easy to say that "containers aren't a thing" and then list all the little tools that are used to implement them. That doesn't make them not real any more than any other abstraction.

Why wouldn't you want to run a database under VT-x, with random emulated hardware and a dependency-bundled disk image? By and large there's no such thing as a VM, there's just sprinkles of housekeeping magic?

Containers as specced and implemented do come with security guarantees. And if they fail to meet them it's a bug.
Juarez
High on the hog by the standards of the big coastal cities, or high on the hog by the standards of Midwestern or Southern small towns?

A fair portion of the upper middle class, mostly "west of the park" (Rock Creek Park) uses the public schools: Eaton, Deal, Wilson is a common progression. And some those who can use the public magnets, Banneker, School Without Walls, Ellington. I am not talking here about the really rich, whom I do not know, but about the prosperous.

Yes, lobbyists, but there have always been lobbyist. Yes, contractors, but the DOD contractors tend to be in Virginia. Again, I don't think that there prosperity of the region as a whole has changed that much, rather the share of the region's prosperous who live in the District.
China to Restrict Tesla Use by Military and State Employees
https://archive.is/8AtXv

This seems similar to the US government's banning of the use of DJI drones. Both Tesla and DJI collect image and location data which are integral parts of their products.

Is this an intractable problem from a technical point of view?
I'm sure there are many artists who would disagree with you and who aren't rent seekers at all. And they benefit massively from scarcity in the digital space. That's just one group, there are many others.
Good. Watched the father of my friend suffer late-stage through end-stage COPD, which lasted around 4 years.

The last year, he was confined to his bed, and needed 24/7 care to do pretty much anything. He simply could not move any distance himself, without passing out. Nor could he sleep, without feeling like drowning. As you can imagine, his life quality was inhumanely low.

Both him, and his son/my friend, agreed that there should have been some easier way out. "Luckily" he went out with a heart-attack, just as things started to get very bad.

It's a difficult topic. On one side, you have religious people with very negative views, and on the other side, you have medical professionals whos oath contradicts the action of assisted suicide.
It is hard to understand today, but back then every manufacturer of a chip design needed a "second source", a fully independent competitor who could supply a compatible chip. Otherwise it would be far too risky to design their chip into your product. What if they folded? AMD, by cloning the 8080 and other chips, gave Intel what it had to have to be a serious supplier for serious products.

The 6502 succeeded by being 1/10 the price, and was designed into products of companies that embraced extreme risk.
Why? That's just asking for poor perf, even on Windows. I would never do that.

Leave CLR in applications, where it belongs.
I feel the opposite - any contact should be online only and traceable - this will minimise surface area where the corruption could creep in as any conversation prior to the decisions could be audited.
You know there will be no table to slide the money under.
> Is it unethical for a lion to kill a baby zebra that couldn't get away?

Under an atheistic materialistic world view, we can kill off the entire population of the earth and it's all the same. However, we're not animals. Actually, even animals don't do that.

> People need to step outside this fantasy world that everyone can be winners/successful.

That's not what we're saying. Islam never says that everyone is going to be equally financially successful. As a matter of fact, people with wealth are going to be accountable for how they gained their wealth, and where they spent it, it's a test. That's why the poor enter Heaven before the wealthy, because they have less to be accountable for.

Islam places barriers on exceedingly immoral and parasitic and destructive practices, like lending money with interest, fornication, drinking, etc., and everything else within those bounds is a fair game. That's why we witnessed the immense and unprecedented growth of a religion and population, reaching the Islamic Golden Age when the rules of Islam were generally being applied correctly (at least much better than today).

> We can have compassion for those that fail

If that's the argument, then Islam has even more compassion. Lend the needy money *without* interest, and give them charity (Zakat and Sadaqah), and more. We already know that there was a time in Iraq where there were no people left to take charity as people gave their Zakat and Sadaqah.

> Should we base our policy of slavery on Muhammad's (ﷺ) opinion about having slaves as long as they aren't Muslim

I think you have a misconception. Having or not having slaves under Islam has nothing to do with the religion of the slave.

> told us we shouldn't eat shellfish or pork for arbitrary reasons is no basis in rational policy making

We don't follow a religion because it tells us not to eat pork or shellfish. We don't determine the truth of a religion due to those same factors. It's the other way around, once it is determined that the religion is True, then we follow its rulings and teachings.

> Like c'mon...these theologies do not contain the end all be all to the way life works.

Depends on which theologies you're talking about. It's a fallacy to group all religions under one umbrella then toss them out altogether as equally false. Islam has proven to be a system that has brought up a culture out of nothing, and went on to give us the Islamic Golden Age, among many other beautiful things.