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This. I just used adobe XD for the first time and I actually truly enjoyed it. I'm not an Adobe fan boy - there just happened to be a sale on the Adobe cloud suite that I bought and XD came with it.
Every time this comes I ask - "so what?"

So again, I ask - even if it's true, so what? It's impossible to conclusively prove, and even if proven what exactly is proven? That an accident occurred? OK, so what?

The article attempts to answer this:

> The vitriol also obscures a broader imperative, Relman says, which is that uncovering the virus’s origins is crucial to stopping the next pandemic. Threats from both lab accidents and natural spillovers are growing simultaneously as humans move steadily into wild places and new biosafety labs grow in number around the world. “This is why the origins question is so important,” Relman says.

However the reality is from the perspective of the USA it doesn't even matter. Even if China was malicious and deliberately sent it off to us, it could've been easily stopped but we didn't do it. Unless we're going to go to war over this it seems like a pointless exercise as conclusive evidence will never emerge as it requires cooperation from China.

We're worrying about whether it was created from labs in China, meanwhile we couldn't even prevent a massive superspreader event in Boston via the Biogen conference, filled with people who already has an awareness of the virus to begin with.

Even now as I type this cases of the variant are increasing and the amount of people taking the vaccine is decreasing and silly accidents like the J&J fiasco are occurring. Not to say that we can't explore both things simultaneously, but it's pretty obvious that the return on investment will differ - one will do... what exactly? And another will prevent more cases.
It does matter in the context of deciding whether we ought to fund gain of function research going forwards.
Show HN: pptr console – Play Puppeteer scripts live visually
Incognito tab didn't work, googling it didnt work, and outline.com didn't work. Anyone have any other tips or tricks for finding the article to read it?
They're underpaid enough as it is? Seriously, that's usually what it comes down to: Nobody wants to give up a dime for union dues when they're already barely making ends meet.
If they unionize Amazon will close down the warehouse and open it somewhere else.
I have a hard time seeing how sending you $600 has anything to do with the productivity of a tool. Most people design PCBs using Altium which is $10,000 per license. Are you saying companies should send you 10k because they could use Eagle instead?
Prince Philips owned the rigs that pre-mined the shitcoin that john2602 will sell you on signal.
Although it was capable of Myst.
In the US they still have closed shops (where you have to be a union member to work there), and in the UK you still need to reach a threshold of membership before the employer has to 'recognise' them and negotiate with them. The situation isn't as different as you are making out.
People aren't voting against the dues, they are voting against the union.
The Affective Growth of Computer Vision [pdf]
I managed to get a new chair once. It took an ergonomics expert visit. Everyone was filled with envy from vp's down the line. In the end management pushed me into full time remote so they could take the chair.

And it wasn't even $600.00
> most people no longer celebrate Christmas, don't speak your language, and don't work

I find this the most alarming part of what Europe is doing. In the USA they had a welfare system back in the 1960s that many saw as actively discouraged employment and dual parent households. These policies were meant to help American Blacks recover from centuries of discrimination. But the unfortunate part is that it just ended up creating permanent ghetto subcultures of culturally ingrained poverty, crime, and government dependency.
Anecdotally, bike thefts in Toronto are as high as ever. It's most likely a mix of an increase in the number of cyclists + bikes in the city as well as more brazen and organized thieves.

I've had two thefts in twice as many years recently. A handful of friends have also had their bikes stolen in the last two years. It's very demoralizing.
Even without a monarchy, society can self-organize into self-perpetuating classes. See "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System" by Paul Fussell.
Writing Built the United States
> In US (and elsewhere in the world) it seems to be more accepted that natives deserve special protections and privileges.

Hence the reservations I guess. Very "privileged"...

I agree with the rest of your post though. Actually right now in France, since immigration is starting to hurt some of the classes that traditionally promoted it (teachers with the beheading affair, politicians losing against ethnic lists in some cities, journalists being aggressed, one in coma) the public discourse is slowly changing... a little. When everyone, up to the president and people in the parliament will be negatively affected, things will change fast. Until then people having legit complains will be labeled racists.
Calgary is the home of the urban sprawl. Edmonton has a long way to go to get that ugly.

Edmonton saw a massive shortage in housing a few years back during the oil boom and moved to build tons of condos and apartments, plus offered tax subsidies if you converted a basement or in-law apartment into a full-on dwelling. So there is a glut of average-tier 2-bed 2-bath apartments everywhere.

Plenty of space and COL is reasonable if you're willing to go further out.

But, on average, still 100k (adjusting for currency) more than what my coworkers in the NC Research Triangle are paying for a similar square footage house.
> I absolutely do not understand why you would vote against your own collective interest

The whole "voting against your own interest" is hugely paternalistic and anti-democratic. People have their own set of values and interests. As an outsider without knowledge of the people to accuse them of voting against their own interest because they did not vote the way you wanted them to is the height of arrogance.
lol, chill out. everyone has said regrettable things.
Agromining – farming plants that contain metal – could help power the future
I think reasons will vary, and I didn’t vote in this event. But in previous situations I’ve not supported unionization due to how it favored existing workers in ways I thought were unfair in that all layoffs were due to seniority not performance so older workers would be kept and younger workers laid off, no matter what.

It also established more rigid pay levels that were better on average but not as good for high performers, and I always got much higher than average raises and bonuses.

To a lesser extent, I didn’t like the idea of union leadership who were paid for things I didn’t think added value.

So my overall take was that it was good if you were in the union and employed, but was much harder to get work and join the union.
>If you ignore all the harm and violence caused by drug traffickers to get the drugs, from production to distribution in their final destination,

If such products were legal and regulated, there would be legal avenues (the courts) for disputes to be settled, rather than violence.

It's the black market that causes the violence, not the products themselves. Something to consider.
Network effect and perceived legitimacy is critical. Splitting that is obviously suboptimal, especially when privacy depends on having a large number of users to blend in with. There isn't a single cryptocurrency in the top 20 by marketcap that isn't mass-surveillance-friendly
No, this isn't beyond evil maid - it doesn't require physical access, it only requires root access.

Increasingly, root and kernel access aren't the same thing any more (if you enable lockdown mode). That stops root from doing a whole bunch of things. It's true that often, user-level access is enough (if you only care about the user's data). But if you want to modify syscalls or do some other thing that root may not do in lockdown mode, you'll need to get kernel access. And many other ways of getting there have been blocked in an attempt to strengthen the barrier between root and kernel (some dispute the utility of that separation, but I think it's because they fundamentally reject its goals). This is about closing another hole in the barrier.

How useful that barrier is against attacks of the https://xkcd.com/538/ kind is, of course, a different matter. In my view, the point is that it raises the cost.
>Am I wrong that this was my first though after seeing this comment?

Yes.
That's apple's problem. I've been fixing apple devices since the puck mouse. They choose to go against the grain on purpose. Sometimes it makes sense and sometimes it makes absolutely none.
It is an interesting topic, I don't disagree, I just really didn't like the presenter's style.
Yeah, what's wrong about punishing Javascript users? It's funny.
They don't support MathML which also is a part of the format apparently. I think Google dropped it presumably not to have to worry about securing the code base.
Looking forward to know about this plans with Amazon coworking offices https://www.worksocial.works/
I believe Wicket is somewhat similar (and still actively developed).

https://wicket.apache.org/
Most of the folks who vote aren't really the type to sit down and think long-term. $50/month in dues getting them +$2-3k more annually every two years? They won't do the math and see they'd make a net profit of whatever that annual income increase is minus $600.

There was some great video floating around recently of a forklift operator or something who explained what his union dues got him and he was so informed and unphased by the dues he was paying.
I might not be more evil, but the monarchy is he linchpin upon which Britain's immense woes with social class rest.
It depends on that $600’s ROI. Are you going to make it worth it, the user productive or contribute to the goals of the company?
I absolutely abhor modern day versions of unions. They have not done enough to separate themselves in my eyes from the misguided activities that brought them their current negative reputations.

However, I absolutely understand the need, and feel sorry for those stuck in a sitation where union type help is needed. If there was a way to wipe out existing unions and start fresh where nobody from leadership of exisiting unions were allowed to have influence, then maybe just maybe I would start leaning towards unions. But at the current implementation, it's a nope from me.
There are plenty of "US professional workers" who do not need all of Photoshop's functionality. I've found Pixelmator meets all of my needs, for a one time purchase of less than $40. The moment that changes, I can purchase Photoshop; doing so now would be a premature optimization. I believe many still use Adobe products merely because they accepted that as a default.
A lot of things are illegal in life ... but lawsuits take time and money most people don't have.
Bitcoin isn't private or suitable for peer-to-peer transactions since it has tainted coins.
> we don't have a single human case documented before those in Wuhan

The disease spread all over the world before people discovered the first cases, so it's not very surprising if previous cases on a less developed area than Wuhan were ignored.
I would love to get my hands on one of those! I assume you have to use some sort of adapter to make the USB connection?
Why hasn't the idea of using rhinovirus as a covid vaccine been looked at yet?
You're obviously arguing from a point of bias, with an agenda that ignores facts. Animals form an integral part of the optimal, zero input agricultural system (as demonstrated by natural environments). The problem isn't eating animals, the problem is a system of agriculture that is self destructive and stupid. You can't have a balanced ecosystem without animals, and eating them is the best method for population control.

You can rail all you want on factory farmed meats, and I'm with you on there, but to go from "factory farmed meats are bad" to "people shouldn't eat meat" is fallacious as hell. That would be like going from "drinking too much water will kill you" to "people shouldn't drink water".
Chances are this person knows his friend and how that friend acts a lot better than some rando on the internet does.
Yes, that's always the case. Whenever you're writing, your writing is more accessible to some audiences than to others, according to how familiar the vocabulary and conceptual framework you're using are to them. So it's important to know what audience you're writing for so you can tailor your style to be maximally accessible to them.

It's tempting to think that you can organize kinds of writing on a one-dimensional continuum of levels from "more recondite" to "less recondite", with people being able to read anything at or (more easily) below their level, but it's totally false. Yesterday I went to check out some power usage statistics in the datasheet for a microcontroller I wanted to use for a project. To my dismay, it said, and I quote, "电流消耗是多种参数和因素的综合指标,这些参数和因素包括工作电压、环境温度、I/O引脚的负载、产品的软件配置、工作频率、I/O 脚的翻转速率、程序在存储器中的位置以及执行的代码等。"

I mean, that's surely understandable to many more people than what I'm writing here. But I'm not one of them. (Fortunately, in this case the data tables mostly answered my questions.)
Not especially cache efficient compared to trees with higher branching factor, true. But intrusive data structures can be manipulated without memory allocation, such as when holding locks. That is the main reason they are useful in place of B-trees.
Other than dues and having control over pay grades (maybe workers think they can do better than union-negotiated flat pay scales), unions can vote to strike and force you out of a job.

And at the end of the day, the workers just weren't particularly unhappy, and those weren't palatable risks.
As you yourself admit "for the limited tasks we use it for".

And there I certainly agree with you.

If you can work in a relative silo with a limited number of tools, then sure, there may well be scope for shopping around, just like you did.

But once you're in an environment where you may use multiple tools that come under Adobe's remit, then its likely better to stick with Adobe and get the benefit of the cross-integration.

For example, a friend of mine runs a small business, they have someone on their team whose day job is something else, but is good with design and has become the office's go to designer.

In the course of an average year, that person will regularly use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for all manner of graphics tasks. They will use InDesign to create print and electronic documents for dissemination. They will occasionally use Adobe Premiere and Adobe Audition to edit videos and podcasts. And they store photos in Adobe Lightroom.

Even as a small, non-design focused business, its not difficult to get your money's worth from Adobe.
Unions will only work in a few scenarios. The biggest of which is that the people with the skill need to be 100% together in starting the union, and willing to not work when the union says to not work. The facts remain that most of these employees most likely can't afford to not work. They can't afford to be without the stability of their employers paycheck. Additionally, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of people willing to replace these workers. Sadly they don't require any trade skill to pick/pull/pack. So there is no barrier for new recruits to be hired and replace the missing union workers.

Advantage: Amazon
This is most of Ontario.
Problem is they specifically don't want you to know it's date. Technical marketing material without a date has not expiry date. Putting a date makes content old and you need to do additional work to keep the content updated. If it doesn't have a date it never expires... Not what you and I like and want but what we get a lot of times..
It’s probably a mystic tradition that Freemasons adopted after the fact.
Not a lawyer or organized labor person, but a favorable vote would turn the warehouse into a "union shop," where the union negotiates on behalf of everyone, member or not, with regard to wages and working conditions and collects dues from everyone, member or not. In my very limited experience, the union offers some benefit like vision coverage to encourage people to join.
Oh yeah definitely not blaming you, just trying to do a PSA for the discussion. People are probably focusing on it because the article emphasized it.
Aren’t Amazon workers paid more than average warehouse workers?

ZipRecruiter shows the average in all states as under $15 [0] so an Amazon worker will likely make more than a worker in other warehouses.

Doesn’t mean that they are rolling in the money, but makes me think higher wages is probably not a motivating factor for unionization.

[0] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-Wa...
We also know that a very closely related strain of the virus was being studied in the only BSL 4 lab in China, located less than a mile from the meat market where the virus supposedly originated.

For me Occam's razor says unintentional lab leak.
If we cut subsidies and internalized the externalities (i.e. heavy carbon tax on all meat used to offset the GHG emissions), it would be theoretically feasible to make meat carbon neutral.

I'd imagine taking these minimum steps toward environmental sustainability would either a) greatly exacerbate food insecurity in America or b) make meat into a luxury that only the top 10% can afford to eat at all.

Either way, I suppose it would be an effective way to let the market reduce animal agriculture.

If you'd like to help this come about, please consider boycotting the current animal agriculture industry until it reforms, as this kind of carbon-neutral meat currently does not exist.
Right up until that new raise puts you in the lowest tier of the next tax bracket so that you suddenly make less by making more.
I think there was at least some morality at play from the likes of the Quakers, Wilberforce etc. It seems unnecessarily reductionist to say only one or the other force was present, and probably historically inaccurate.
OP is actually just asking why, and explaining they don't understand why workers voted that way, which superficially seems "wrong".
It is occasionally realistic, depending on your use case. The open source situation on Android is not nearly as lamentable these past couple of years compared to earlier. In the context of specialist paid software and hardware, it's of course less likely to be possible.
https://archive.is/DZZay
> 2. It's not xenophobic for people from the US to suggest the possibility of a lab leak

Inherently? Of course not. But does xenophobia motivate a lot of this argument? It certainly seems to. Look at how quickly proponents of this nonsense jump from detached discussion about the possibilities to outraged condemnation of the PRC. Just read the discussion here in this thread.

If you only wanted to discuss the lab and the virus and try to put relative likelihoods on the natural evolution vs. Andromeda Strain theories, that would be one thing. But... that doesn't seem to be all you want.
> why you would vote against your own collective interest

Maybe they are not sufficiently confident that the union will act in their interest?

Is that so crazy an idea?

If you're in favour of unions then I guess you're in favour of workers being able to have a say in how they work. And if they don't want to work with a union then I can't understand how you can rationally do anything but say 'ok thank you for saying, if that's what you want no problem we'll do it that way'.
I believe there can only be one union per type of worker — you can’t have some warehouse pickers be repped by Union A and others by Union B. The vote isn’t just to unionize, it’s to unionize with a specific union. It’s entirely legitimate to put that to a vote, to ensure employees get to choose their preferred representatives.
With HTTPS you have to handshake for the first connection on each domain.
Depending on your use case, you can get similar products for a one-time purchase of less than $40.
Most people think "1918" as that was the first time some women were allowed to vote, and later in the year they were allowed to stand for parliament (and Nancy Astor did so in 1919)

Like most things, Suffrage was a scale - before 1835 most men didn't have a vote either, working men got it in 1867, 1918 all men over 21 and property holding women over 30 got the vote, in 1928 all women over 21 and in 1969 everyone over 18. In devloved areas like Scotland suffrage is even lower (16).

Unlike in the US I don't think it's ever regressed
The standard and governing bodies has no right to demand anything. The internet is not a democracy. If they want something put the money where their mouth is. Until W3C ships their own browser engine and gets it into the hands of customers, relevance is nothing more than a nice-to-have.
Without force the unions can’t exist. It’s like a lot of things with government involvement: Unless you are forced to do it, many people, especially if money is involved, will eventually decide not to. So in order for the union to survive and have power they have to force everyone to join, everyone to pay, and everyone submit to its system whether they like it or not. What I see in this union vote is that people didn’t want to give up their autonomy to someone else. I think anything that asks citizens to give up some kind of autonomy - especially now - is going to incite people negatively.
Fun fact: that’s what the Devil’s Advocate actually was - a person appointed by the church to argue against canonizing someone by digging up any negative things about them that can be found:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate
Well, I find such selective highlighting reprehensible. If we seriously care about Nazi sympathies we can make a list and go from the top and get some perspective for tackling this issue. But to bring it up after a person dies is, at minimum, in poor taste.
Maybe. They sure will threaten to. But fact is, Amazon has quite an investment in these warehouses and wages are really just one aspect of the calculus for whether or not to keep running the warehouse.

Plus, if unionization makes its way to every Amazon warehouse, then everyone will compete on equal footing vis-a-vis wages.