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I work in "online payments for guns" and it's amazing how many innocent people get banned by PayPal over guns. I talk to at least one per week. In almost every case, these people simply weren't aware that PayPal prohibits firearm transactions. Although PayPal doesn't provide much warning, it is actually following an industry-wide practice. All the payment platforms prohibit guns [1].

[1] https://www.guntab.com/payment-platform-firearm-policies
Sure, and you can WFH in the bay area and enjoy the bits around your home rather than the inside of your car.
If you absolutely have to use PayPal it should always be a payment proxy and should never hold a cent longer than necessary.

Whenever people snub cryptocurrency I always bring up examples like these.
Imagine the lawsuits from something like this. Company's hiring people to meet a quota while planning to fire them. That is like borderline violating someone's human rights in terms of psychological manipulation.
I always wondered if it’s was possible. Without looking. Now, I know?
I think Bill Gates has a fairly balanced view of the energy needs/wants. At least that was my takeaway from reading his most recent book. I could see why we need fission energy even if we eventually find better ways of generating/capturing energy.
When one of the more progressive tech CEOs are pushing a 3 day return-to-the-office I suspect the remaining 90% (much less progressive) will go with 1 or none days work-from-home for the vast majority or workers.

On-the-other-hand... many CFOs are probably eager to significantly reduce office floor space, so it should be interesting to see how this plays out.
Policy formulators really need to understand Goodhart's law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

- If your "productivity" is measured and rewarded based on lines of code, you know what'll happen.

- If a QA engineer is incentivised based on number of detected bugs, you know what'll happen - a lot of trivial bugs gets reported.

- If a dev is incentivised based on number of bugs per line of code, fewer bugs will get reported.

... and that's just w.r.t. software metrics. At the country level, we have the GDP to thank for if a govt targets its policies towards influencing the GDP number upwards to the detriment of what the people and economy really need in their context.
National security implications of relying on such a cable strung across an ocean to power your economy seem quite large.
Right, but the same is true with Washington regarding taxes but I don't see quite the same congregation. Never seen the Tetons, would love to.
There are a LOT of "India bad" articles though.
I feel like we're talking past each other. In other words, you're refuting points I wasn't making, in context.

It might be stupid, or a bad idea, sure. I'm not a pro office person.
But the reply was in the context to a comment that more or less asserts CEOs have blood on their hands because of all the workplace shootings that will occur. Because they're asking people to come back to the office...let that sink in.

And because we're talking about Apple and AR15s, and workplace shootings for that matter, I think it's pretty clearly aimed at America. In most places in the US, any adult who wants a vaccine could have already gotten one.
I haven't trusted PayPal for years - but I still use them.

My business does ~$100-250k monthly revenue, and probably 1/3 of transactions are via PayPal. I'd never not have them - it helps conversions too much.

But, I made sure to call their support and enable the "auto-sweep" feature, so that I can withdraw everything above a balance that I set into my bank daily.

This way, I never need to worry about too many funds getting frozen should anything go wrong.
I don't think empirical data is bearing out your assessment. Many companies are measuring higher productivity for remote employees.

For me there is way more distraction in an office. Unless I get a private office with a door that locks.
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The promo requirements are not different? The levels are calibrated to be the same across the whole company
A SPAC is basically a vampire company that is publicly traded, but which has no operating business. Its sole purpose is to merge with another company, usually a private company, by expending its founding capital to buy the target. After the merger, the private company is now public - it trades on an exchange, has to file 10K’s, has to abide by Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.

It’s a mechanism to take a private company public without an IPO. That’s all.
If you want to hang out or work with your friends, nobody is stopping you. Maybe you should make mutual friends that don't need management to force them to be with you
I don't know about go specifically, but many languages randomize their hash tables to avoid Hash Collision DoS attacks. This is a problem for any piece of software putting attacker-controlled data into a hash-table that does not randomize the hashing and where they assume that it will be amortized constant time.
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Tax evasion, worker abuses, and anti-unionization all happen far away from me and require some kind of SJW attitude to motivate change. I don’t see these things, they don’t impact me directly, so it’s no wonder they don’t factor into my decision making as much as things things that are actually happening in my home.

Alexa advertising to me, becoming a nuisance, and coopting my internet connection all happen close to me.

I ordered two HomePod Minis to replace the Echo Dots in my home yesterday. Amazon will no longer have a foothold in my home, and won’t have visibility into my shopping list or other usage.
These children set out together with the intent to escape, an entirely different scenario than the novel. I imagine a racially diverse set of kids in the novel and my take is genocide would happen fairly frequently. Lord of the Flies is a wonderfully insightful book on human nature.
There should be a company that recruits people who agree to be fired at other companies.

They could all be stage artists who flail when learning the news and proclaim that they should have followed the company mantra and listened to their managers more carefully.

That would be hilarious.
Do you have screenshots or a little write up? This sounds like something I could be interested in, but I don't want to download a phone app to see what it really is.
WFH needs to be mandated whenever possible. We have an existential climate crisis caused in part by constantly driving cars to and from work. This is more important than office productivity, and oddly, nobody is talking about it.
I don't think free food at work is particularly common outside of big silicone valley companies. Free espresso coffee (of middling quality) is pretty ubiquitous where I am though.
I had someone walk away from a sale because he would only accept guntab after getting screwed on a PayPal transfer. I hadn’t heard of it then.

I know nothing about the industry you are in so far as payments go, but get the fees closer to 2% and you’ll own the market.
It’s not uncommon to pay $3-400 for your electrify per month because of AC in the Midwest (for three months a year, that is)
The blue leds actually add a further layer of symbolism, invoking impermanence and the flight of fashions. When they became widely available (early 2000s?), for a short time blue leds were a distinction for premium devices, but soon they started showing up on anything electronic. Then people realized that they were extremely annoying to have in your room, since they shine like searchlights at night, and their use as indicator lights declined.

This clock was unveiled in 2008, which I think was already at the tail end of the blue led's popularity. The clock is meant to last at least 200 years, but that design choice pins it down mercilessly to a fad that was dated in a few short years.
I know you're being snarky, but those things are not required. Remote ID is still months/years away from being required - there isn't even a published specification yet, much less anything on the market that conforms to it.

Whomever this was presumably broke many laws, but the things you mentioned aren't among them.
Do they have a choice? When your product is eyeballs can you afford to turn them away. This is similar to Facebook's empty threat to charge Apple users. What a laugh. People will just switch to the next free thing. It isn't like someone else cannot offer the the exact same experience. All their real effort is in data mining and users don't give a shit about that.
Maybe throw some ketamine and adderall in there for added productivity.
What you are saying is that it became 50k cheaper to poach you when they let the leases go and gave away all the plants?
> There are many people in the current working generation that avoided the soul-sucking suburban commute from the start.

Very few of those people have kids. Unless you're making L8 comp, raising a few kids within bicycle commute the major tech campuses is financially unobtainable. The cost of a backyard, good schools, and safe streets is astronomical in tier one urban cores.
I buy prepared food multiple times a day.
it's about having the option isn't it, you should not be forced into either way. Going to the office 1 per month for that buzz is fine by me. Some people needs more. No one size fits all.
The funny thing is that in the old days, it is required to know how the machine worked - you coded assembly against physical memory.

But that was incredibly hard, and error prone (and comes with tonnes of limitations). The fact that today, it's very easily possible to write working programs without knowing any of the underlying details, is a marvel.

If i were to hire a truck driver, i wouldn't expect to have to ask him to understand how the truck itself worked (e.g., fuel injection when he presses the accelerator). He only needs to know how to operate the truck from the interface (steering wheel!). Why isn't this the same for a java programmer?
I don’t deny it, some will quit. But most will suck it up and no major tech firm goes full remote, merely allowing it on a case by case basis.
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This seems to be why senior executives are so out of touch on the issue. "I don't see what the big deal about commuting to the office is. Just buy a $12 million house in the middle of Palo Alto"
Exactly. Nothing some good old boring gouvernering to raise the bar of standards.

Like for foods, hostels, stuffs on the roads. There is some analogies.
The home theater speaker kits from DIYSG should be right up your alley! Lots of 12" and even 15" woofers I think.

https://www.diysoundgroup.com/home-theater-speaker-kits.html
Where is the evidence this "Hire to Fire" practice exists? I can't see any in this article?
Our company did a survey and 85% of people said they wanted to work=from-home. I think pandemic has shown and also forced people to learn to work from home. I honestly don't understand the need to go to office. I don't understand the benefit for the company at all.
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> I do not care about being competitve.

> I work so I can draw a salary to fund my life. That's it. I don't care about constantly climbing a ladder. I don't care about advancing my career for the sake of advancing my career. I just want to enjoy my life, and working for a living is just my means to that end. If I'm making enough to be comfortable, I don't care about chasing a promotion or getting ahead of people. I can't think of a single thing I care about less than having a competitive advantage over other people in the Game of Offices.

I’ve made the mistake of saying that out loud during pre-pandemic lunch conversations and happy hours and every time people looked at me like I had two heads.
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I suspect that's entirely the point. By not giving people 2 consecutive days, it requires you to still remain close to the campus and prevents you from doing anything interesting like travel for half the week.
> WFH for years can result in a serious mental health decline. If you think you're doing fine after 1 year, come see me after 5. You'll realize by the end of it just how important water cooler conversation is for your BRAIN

I've worked from home 100%, worked from an office 100%, and worked a combination. Overall, I think the combination is best. However, having put in somewhere on the order of 15 years fully remote, it has not caused any problems for me. I chat with people via IM, including both purely social and problem solving discussions. I've been on teams where everyone was remote and ones where I was the only remote, and in areas in between.

Overall, working remotely is good for some people and not for others; much like every other arrange. It takes skill and effort to get good at, just as in person social interactions do. Some companies make it easier than others.

It's a complicated topic, and I really don't think it's possible to say "it's good" or "it's bad", only "it depends".
> That said it’s not entirely impossible to track the source of origin of a Bitcoin transaction

We're asking how to tell if the destination of a bitcoin payment is on the restricted list, not the source origin. You are not going to be able to fine/sue someone for making a bitcoin payment to an anymous address by claiming the address is on a sactions list. This is my point. Thus any such laws banning the payment of ransom to restricted entities are unenforceable.

This is true even if, after the payment is made, it is discovered who the wallet belongs to, as the person making the payment under US jurisdiction didn't know who they were paying.
It did address what you said. You are demeaning people with trauma when you say “lots” have “BS” traumas. It ties in with people doubting their trauma.

You don’t get to decide what is and isn’t trauma. You aren’t the arbiter of what is trauma.

Respect what people say or just keep your thoughts to yourself. It’s not hard.
That is one way to look at it. Another way to look at it, which seems superficial and yet likely explains much, is that Kevin Mandia really likes being CEO of a company that’s named after him.
> a large proportion of interactions with remote work is formal, in a sense. No casual chat, no social “grease”.

Why? You have to put in the effort to be social, but you need to do that in person, too.
I find this very interesting, because I'm in a similar boat, pretty senior, but not the top of the ladder. But for me some of my favorite pair programming sessions are with people who are operating on another level. It really gets the brain juices going.
Think the question is why Google has more.
But the electric path can be ultra short if arranged properly, result in smaller heat disposal. If designed properly, probably it can do the exact same thing with far shorter wire length. Result in higher power efficiency.
Yeah thanks, sadly that all seems true. Not to mention fishing the oceans to exhaustion. (Vegan here for 30 years)
The problem is that computer science ≠ software engineering, especially in academic contexts.
My electric hits $400+ a month in the summer and it’s just going to get worse when our pool is completed. I live in a new 2500 square foot house in Arizona, our insulation is fine. And we have two pretty nice heat pump/ac units.
I think a possible generalization is that each of us optimizes for what's important / possible in our lives and jobs. We never really knew how to impute the economic value of those things in the first place, but simply followed heuristics and cultural habits. And then the pandemic took all of our assumptions, and threw them out the window.

In my case, my family prepares almost all of our own food anyway. And more than a few days of eating prepared food begins to affect my health. But that doesn't mean a worker who lives on prepared food wouldn't value the benefit of free food at work.
The care givers who are vaccinated by now?

Kids weren’t even shown to be to be too infectious.

No vaccine is 100% safe, it’s very possible the risks of vaccinating kids outweighs the rewards.
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If tech can't stomach unions, it'll never take to co-ops.
Sometimes people say they're making a time trade off for more money, and plan to use that money to buy more time.

While money is fungible, time is not. You can't buy more time with your kids while they're young if they're already grown. You can't buy more time with someone who has passed away. And you can't buy your way out of missed opportunities in your personal life, once they've gone they're gone.
Absolutely for employees, the biggest (I'd probably argue only real economic downside) is more space if the company is urban and they really want to stay urban. Arguments around electricity are ludicrous and food only applies to a very limited set of companies.
Microsoft has been pulling its punches for a long time here. We all thought Sysmon+ETW+WEF would be the death of EDR, yet... nope. Why will this year’s acronym be any different?
Being able to use Gimp's feature set in the 3d view while texture editing would be mindblowing. Or even just seeing changes live on the model.
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When your regulatory fine is smaller than your greenskeeper bill.
>The reduction in area under the curve (the orange part) represents the loss of positive outcomes. The total loss is small, but it’s concentrated in the tail of the curve where the extreme successes happen. This is upside decay and it’s catastrophic.

"Loss of positive outcomes" is the definition. That is, rare but really good outcomes become rarer.

The diagram at the beginning of the article illustrates it pretty clearly to me. I had never heard of upside decay before this article, and as soon as I saw the diagram I understood the meaning (but not the cause).
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Agree. I think the core of the problem was that we didn't get a discussion before implementation.

We got an implementation and then were given chance to discuss upon. So when the discussion pointed out flaws, since so much work was already put in, it was decided to push as experimental instead of starting from square 1. But now that implementation was available for everyone with simple flag change (a strength of Nix, if I might say), adventurers started using them. And since these adventurers have outsized impact in terms of mind share projection, the community looks divided and confuses the hell out of newcomers. I know I struggled with this because when I started learning 'The Nix Way™', flakes were the hotness and everywhere, but the documentation sucked, but still looked like they were the future so I had to wade my through anyway.
What you're missing is that people are intentionally hired and set up for failure from the start. This seems to be standard practice at Amazon. You can't just fire people randomly, there is a whole process including documenting how the employee is falling behind and giving the employee a warning and a chance to dispute, etc. Setting up a new employee for failure by abusing the internal processes, setting up roadblocks and giving them unreasonable tasks or incorrect requirements is pretty common from what I've seen.
Yeah what? Maybe it’s some local dialect.
> Why does it matter whether you are over another superpower's land?

One of the fairly easy ways to defeat stealth is by operating your radar at a low frequency. As the wavelength becomes "much longer" than any characteristic dimension of the airplane, the shape of the airplane matters less and less and the wave will penetrate deeper and deeper layers of radar absorption material.

But there's no such thing as a free lunch.

The problem is that the resolution of your radar depends on the physical size of your antenna relative to the wavelength (either the diameter of the dish, or the spacing of the antenna elements in a multi-static or phased array). So low frequency = long wavelength = bad resolution. You know a plane is in your airspace, but not where in your airspace.

You can solve the resolution problem by installing a physically large antenna. The size of the antenna should be several times longer than the wavelength. That might mean having a single very large dish or it might mean coherent transmitters located hundreds or thousands of meters apart. Great, now we have defeated stealth and have high resolution.

But remember how we were talking about wavelengths much longer than the airplane? How do you carry an antenna that is several times longer than the wavelength for a wavelength that is several times longer than your airplane? I can think of one way: trail wires behind you--but that turns you into a flying bullseye. You might as well file a flight plan.

That creates an asymmetry: It's much easier for the side on the ground to get a good picture of what is going on in the air.
I always try to use ascii char 31 (unit seperator) if I'm computationally generating csvs for shunting around data internally.
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Indeed, as a Midwesterner, I'm fascinated by the sheer logistics of having to bring a sandwich to every computer programmer in San Francisco, every day. It's one of those features of "how cities work" that you never even think about.
> There's no type difference between an x-coordinate or a y-coordinate

no human unit difference does not imply no type difference. Types are tools to write correct programs, we should use them at the maximum !
A lot of questions the article raises about Venus are tentatively answered in this ESA article:

"Since Venus has no intrinsic magnetic field to act as a shield against incoming charged particles, the solar wind sometimes interacts directly with the upper atmosphere. However, Venus is partially protected by an induced magnetic field." https://sci.esa.int/web/venus-express/-/50246-a-magnetic-sur...
WFH has been much better for our lives and I am not looking forward to going back. These are how WFH has benefited us:

The wife: Does chores / cooking and baking while she is just a participant in a meeting. Go for a run before picking up the kid from daycare

Myself: I can drop the kid off at daycare, do chores around the house, do HIIT workout multiple times during the week. Try body hacking like intermittent fasting / prolonged fasting

We take naps to recharge if we are tired. We also go enjoy nature & hike practically every week which is naturally therapeutic.
Good point. When I wrote that comment I was imagining the value of something like Datomic, which could let you see the result of a query at any point in time. In 2014, how did someone answer this question?
With regards to keyboard navigation it gets really good if you work for it (no harder than you would with an editor like EMACS or Vim).

I use vim extension which works well for editing the files themselves. Accessing pretty much almost anything else can be done using the command palete and you can manually assing keybinds to it as well.
Hmm but why target such a well known company? It's almost guaranteed that they will not pay to save face, no?
I was turned off from fiction in high school because I thought "we are being told to read the best of what the world had to offer, and most of this is shit".

Turns out there are great fiction books out there - took me a while to unlearn the bias.
Yes it could help. A breach of contract claim would force them to provide evidence that the amount withheld is disputed actually disputed.
> The average commuter in one of the largest metro areas in the country will spend over 13 full days commuting a year:

This might be technically correct. But realistically I'd count only working hours. 200 working days and roughly 2 hr commute for me a day. So it is about 400 hr commute to work/home i.e ~50 work days spent in commute.