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Oil pipelines do one thing - transport oil. Not water, not milk, not corn syrup. Just oil.

Rail can transport anything. Containers, tankers, even rocket booster segments.

Yes, we're absolutely taking a short term hit, but investing in general purpose infrastructure that can be adapted for new technology and demands is a good thing. The continental rail network started off with coal powered steam trains, then diesel, now diesel-electric and even some pure electric locomotives. Maybe this century it will evolve past fossil fuels as well.

So yes, cancel the pipeline, but in its place invest in the safety and reliability of rail networks.
Maybe we can create a freesite, on Freenet.
Look at the history of this permit: Obama's administration being against it; agencies and courts during Trump's administration being against it, but being fought; Biden's administration being against it. There was never certainty here and this company was gambling, hoping there is another administration today.
That's true, and JSON is probably the best choice as a lowest common denominator given the protocol's intent to be language agnostic. You'd want to implement a language server for language X in X itself, and most languages have mature libraries for working with JSON.
There's also a way using Apple Configurator. Process is start an update for the desired app via configurator and nab the IPA from the temp directory on the Mac and install it, and remove the quarantine bit.

https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/download-run-ios-app-m...
Facebook and Google have always been regarded as some of the best tech employers in terms of compensation, benefits, perks, etc. Apple, not so much.
Is it infeasible? Wouldn't the pipeline operators happily agree to a tax or levy as part of their permit if the alternative is that they have to shut down?
From a consumer perspective

- Cheaper phones, they're just slower

- Lower resolution videos and images, less data, less cpu cost.

- Single shared desktop instead of everyone having a laptop

- Literally the same

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From a business/software eng perspective

- Less compute, let things take longer.

- More efficient programming languages. Simplify problems (e.g. use aggregate statistics instead of working on the whole data set).

- Timesharing on servers

- Pen and paper for people who don't really need one? Don't buy the delivery driver a computer, just tell them where to go? This one is hard to make a business analogy out of.
or Forth... :)
Tantivy? Written in Rust. More like Lucene than Elastic, though.

https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
Calm down. This is obviously going nowhere. Nothing is going to change, the French are just sending up some lead balloons for their own media, right before an election year (April 2022 presidentials). Do you really think 26 countries (most of whom don't speak French nor trade primarily with France) will just let Paris lord over them? Of course not. The working languages will stay the same; some overzealous French bureaucrat might try to act a bit snootier for 6 months, but I bet that they'll eventually go back to normal if they want to get shit done.
This doesn't work. As soon as a meeting has 2 people in person, the first time a zoom glitches or a leaf blower is in the background; the 2 in the office will feel disdain for remote.

If the office mic in the room only picks up one person, the remote person will be left out; the 2 in office will feel disdain for the remote miscommunication.
That is why facebook can do full wfh. They don't care if you look at facebook all day.
Yes. For me, no, but I would reconsider it if I wanted to write a compiler. I did not like Knuth's writing style at all.
So I take it Linux was not used at all in any shape or form?
Money laundering is one problem; getting a large payment of cash is another, particularly if you're in the business of, say, demanding ransoms. This story was posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396804
I'm assuming this is facetious, but... high performers are potentially big winners in a remote world.

Let's say someone gets 5x the person next to them done. Very few companies will pay them 5x. Maybe double...

But if they can manage their time well enough to get X done in some fraction of the time, they could realistically do two or three full time jobs worth of "normal" work, and increase their pay - and income security - over having just one job. This doesn't work when you have to be in person all day, but remote?
Can Quartz become a scrappy media startup?
This matches my personal experiences. Companies have decided that hybrid is the worst of both worlds (right or wrong) so they're actively choosing remote-only over in-person only.
> about Apple enforcing the ToS

An illegally anti-competitive ToS is the point though.
Should stores not have to pay rent? I mean what gives with that!
Wouldn't the pipeline operators have willingly agreed to a levy or tax of some sort if the alternative is complete shutdown?
Sure, cathinones are a sub-category of amphetamines, but only in the same way that amphetamines are technically phenetylamines.

But cathinones differ from "pure" substituted amphetamines by a ketone group at the Beta-position, which is what I mean here.

And regardless, the point stands for substituted phenethylamines like the 2C family, which are clearly not amphetamines.
Is this supposed to be news!! If you need fungible currencies, try Monero instead.
To your point 1.

Younger generations don't feel like these features are hidden at all, and wouldn't feel like it's any different from most new apps. What Gen Z are very good at is discoverability inside apps using things like swiping. A younger person will interact with the app by swiping up and down or left or right, where older people might be more trained for button pressing. Having spoken to some younger people, they find some apps like Facebook harder to use, since there are too many buttons, and not enough contextual motion.
Thank you for your service as being a literal leech on the economy. There will always be people who try and exploit the system - trying to guard absolutely against them is a futile effort, but I hope the number of folks following in your footsteps is quite few.

And hey! Maybe one of your coworkers will see this post!
They are stating that they would put 19A of load on a 15A rated socket. E.g. creating an obvious safety hazard that should be caught and addressed.
pay adjustments have already been known for over a year, its not some secret. its to -15% to places like hawaii, -10% to miami, -5% to seattle/LA, or 0% to nyc

its based on cost of acquisition of labor in the region, not cost of living as you can see from hawaii
It happens because pay is balancing employee demands with company number needed. Employees in lower cost areas will very often accept lower pay. It's still often very high pay for that area. I grew up in oklahoma where median entry pay for tech is roughly half of bay and fb is way above median pay in the bay. So to many people from back home even if fb gave an offer 30-50 percent less it'd still be much better than most local options. While I expect more companies being remote to put some pressure on salaries upward I do not expect it to ever be equal to hcol areas. I expect it'll converge to like 20-30 percent lower. Noticeable but still massive gain for those places.
brand and marketing power. Apple is the cool developer brand and devs with their sticker filled macbooks and consumers don't have a critical attitude when it comes to Apple.

It's really funny. Imagine if every independent game developer who has ever built videogames for Windows had to pay a third of their revenue to Microsoft, and had to go through a store review to get their games approved. Would we ever had some of the more controversial games? People tore Microsoft a new one for bundling a browser. Yet you cannot even install anything other than webkit reskins on ios. Completely absurd.
Are you sure you remember when your memory is faillible? ;-) (Mine is perfect, I don't remember I ever forgot something.)
Apple would have to develop new APIs and poke new holes in their security to enable this. Then they’d have to test and maintain these APIs. That’s work they don’t want to do and a cost they don’t want to pay for.
Come on, many ransomware packages are quite sophisticated and the operation's run by organized criminals. We're not talking about people impulsively robbing a gas station.
Disagree on the supply-side angle: If we cut our dependence on oil for power and transport but the supply stays high, it’ll lead to a drop in prices. People will be incentivized to find new profitable uses for this cheap oil, which will then cause oil usage to go back up again. If we cut supply while cutting demand, that’s less likely.

Of course in the end, the real solution is a carbon tax that factors the bad externalities of oil into its price (which would likely make it unprofitable for a lot of purposes regardless of the free market price). However, that seems unlikely in the near future due to one party denying that the problem even exists. In light of that, I could see a (grim) argument that really rough solutions like denying pipeline permits are the best we’ve got on hand at the moment.
Do you know that Epic failed with their Android Epic Store because no one was sideloading it from their website and quickly went to the Goole Play Store and started paying 30% fee because users use unified solutions not geek ones.
I think you should, yes.
scaling with market cap and having a huge “free” tier is an interesting approach. Something like an official license requiring companies to pay 10k for each trillion $ market cap calculated on jan first of the current year

low complexity, low decision making overhead. it wouldn’t help for small or very specialized open source projects but the big ones that keep the world running are probably used in some way in all the big companies anyways so the total should come out somewhere in the range of 1-2 developer salaries (adjust the 10k above to match. no idea how many trillion+ companies there are right now)

edit: I overestimated how many there are. With 10k one would get to 50k this year. Numbers must be adjusted a bit :)
Then call it criticism. Don't excuse it away.
An element that is often missing from the conversation is the opportunity cost of the employee. A significant portion of a worker’s compensation should to go paying his opportunity cost. I think that despite similar productivity and the recent rise in remote work, an employee’s opportunity cost is reduced if they move to a remote mountain town.
If developer accounts count, then you can run unsigned / self signed code on iOS as well. That's how Dash for iOS was distributed for some time when it was banned from the App store: https://github.com/Kapeli/Dash-iOS
You should listen to "Think for yourself". Pretty good song.
Dive deep and fast. (Obviously, there’s a balance to strike here.) The deeper you go, the better the treasures are.

The Word of Recall scroll is your friend: always have at least two on you. You can read it, and get transported back up to the village after a few turns. I like taking multiple with me down into the dungeon, just in case one gets destroyed by, say, an acid trap.

If you read this scroll from the village, it will transport you to the lowest level you have visited.

Rest frequently. There’s nothing wrong with running away from a fight.
I don't think so. I'd say the mobile market is quite different. Look at Android and the Google Play Store which also has similar pricing stipulations. There are players offering separate app sources/stores (Amazon or Epic appstores for example), but I certainly wouldn't consider virtually every big player or even a large portion opting out.
Tantivy (written in Rust) uses MIT. I can't speak to the quality of the code, but their aim is to rewrite Lucene-type functionality as a Rust crate.

https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
I think you might be confusing Keystone XL with the rest of the Keystone pipe system. Keystone XL was to be a 1200 mile addition to the Keystone system, and they had just barely started laying pipe. They have paid about 90 miles of it.
> A high price of oil makes it profitable to sell oil.

Only if your costs are below the high price.
Blocking this pipeline raises their costs to transport the oil, eating into profits.
It's an interesting point but I think that we're honestly vastly overestimating how highly performing high performers can be - 5x is a pretty reasonable number to me for an extreme skill gap including an experience gap but ruling out the most junior folks.

We've already got a wage spread that more than covers 5x with most folks fresh out of college looking at 50k/annual if they're outside of SV and some devs within SV making 500k or more.
There are a tremendous amount of people who have just been fed the same compounding stuff on YouTube or wherever based on their previous clicks. There's a difference between considering the nature of X with a way to validate or think about it, and simply having watched a netflix documentary while high on acid. The latter of which become conspiracy nuts, and they're really draining to listen to, probably as much as big L liberals droning on about whatever pet topic they have
Apple draws a pretty clear line, it's the difference between buying a book and an ebook. An ebook is delivered and consumed on your iPhone or iPad, a book is not.
Can my tech illiterate grammy do it all by herself using just her iphone? if no, then OP's point stands.
> because that's where people are relying not only on noise but on outright disinformation most right now along the political spectrum

"Since this is an engineering forum", I hope you'll forgive me if I ask for an empirical and quantitative source to back up this assertion. The phenomenon of social media bubbles is well-established, as is the fact that anecdotal evidence is not data, so a person simply noticing that the people spreading disinformation in their particular social media feed seem to be of a certain political bent means slightly less than nothing.
Your compensation is driven by several factors, the two biggest being how much value you generate and how easy you are to replace. It has nothing to do with your needs. Even Google's official compensation policy explicitly notes that cost of living is not a factor and only local competition density is.

The reason these adjustments are being made is because the whole world isn't remote yet. The engineer in Brooklyn could more easily go get a better offer at a Wall St job then the person in Kentucky.

People who believe that we're all going to be remote and keep our Bay Area/NYC compensation levels are laughably naive. It is possible that, your compensation relative to your cost of living might improve, but long term we will see equilibrium end up closer to average remote compensation than average BA/NY compensation.

It's true employees might more easily switch jobs, but hiring remote adds a LOT of candidates to a companies hiring pool as well (which is why they're doing it). Furthermore, a push for a stronger remote technical culture with more async communications, more documentation, etc is inevitably going to make the outsourcing efforts of the 2000s a lot more viable. There's still time zones and language barriers, sure, but remote work solves several other challenges.

Finally, even if your current employer keeps your compensation the same, you have to question how it will affect your next job search.

People seem to be thinking that they are going to take Bay Area compensation and go settle in the middle of the country and live like a king. Short term that may happen, but long term it's an absolute guarantee that tech compensation stagnates or goes down because the supply of the labor pool increases so much with remote candidates. That's a major rationale for companies going remote in the first place.
Oil doesn't really have an alternative right now for many of its applications. Plus, at the beginning of the pandemic gas was dirt cheap, yet no one needed it. However, this discussion was about transportation of oil, and the idea is that pipelines are more efficient than rail or trucks (if that even makes sense), so it's a pity the decision to halt the project is more political than even environmental.
The existence of the pipeline very well could induce demand equivalent or greater than what will be wasted transporting it by other means.
Sure - but what's best for the worker bees is ultimately important.

If they're more efficient, then it just sucks for you.

If they're not more efficient, then there's a business case for bringing the worker bees back to the hive.
From climate activists' perspectives, if oil companies are less trustful that any permits they're issued will be valid long enough to complete their projects, and it makes them more hesitant to start new infrastructure projects even during cooperative administrations, that's an even bigger win that the defeat of this single project.

If you're making a broader argument that, say, people won't trust plumbing permits in building construction because the federal government revoked a permit for a cross-border oil pipeline... I suppose there's no way to know, but personally I just don't really buy it.
This has always been part of how Bitcoin works and it’s been the reason I’ve felt like I’ve been taking crazy pills for well over a decade trying to understand its popularity amongst criminals.

Do people realize how HARD it is to trace regular currency!? It’s a nightmare! At law there’s an entire equitable principle devoted to the tracing of money. You can’t just prima facie say $A Dollars are $B Dollars, you have to convince a judge to invoke and principles of natural justice to imply such a connection!

Meanwhile, Bitcoin literally stores _every transaction ever_.
Yes, of course, the UI most often has THE_THING_WE_ARE_TALKING_ABOUT. Sci-fi UI in the 60s was a TV screen showing THE_THING_WE_ARE_TALKING_ABOUT surrounded by hundreds of randomly blinking lamps with switches (all of them with no labels). Today it's a virtual screen showing THE_THING_WE_ARE_TALKING_ABOUT surrounded by dozens of concentric circles, squares and random icons, lines and tiny unreadable text. Frankly things haven't changed much. That's really not what real UI is in most cases, but that's fine.

As for the holograms. I get it, holograms are convenient. They're especially convenient because you can show the character's face and body as they work with a hologram BEHIND the hologram. Otherwise you have to awkwardly show a TV screen covering most of your own TV screen, and it makes for boring framing, and a boring show.

But that's the thing. They're convenient for framing the shots, and for looking conventionally "futuristic". But otherwise such stuff pulls me out of whatever I'm watching rather quickly. Because a magical holographic display that produces image just like that, in the air, with no projection target, is frankly silly.

I give Star Wars a pass, because it's a western/fantasy, not actually sci-fi. But for a sci-fi that's trying to be gritty and realistic, it kinda bothers me, because it's kinda lazy and uninspired. Even if we could, no one would design a UI where you're waving your hands in front of your face all day in empty air with dimly lit thin lines that're supposed to show you whatever you're working on.

Also holograms look distinctly added in, because while they light up themselves, their light doesn't reflect from anything around them. Sometimes they try to correct for this by adding some blue or red fill lights in front of an actor's face, but it still looks quite fake.

I don't know where the balance is, because as I said, a show can't really be like reality. Reality of using computer UI is rather boring, and will be boring for centuries to come. But also a lot of what we see in the Expanse UI effects are old, established, somewhat tired UI tropes, and while I respect the work of everyone involved, they're merely "does the job" level. There's no attempt to rethink anything, or try something new. In that sense, BTW, Battlestar Galactica was a breath of fresh air, because it chose to go simple and retro. And it looked fine.
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Both can be true. One public instance of the government putting in the effort doesn’t mean the enforcement application of this scales to all instances.
> We can be full time remote but still occasionally grab a coffee with coworkers if that's convenient for folks.

+1 this sentence; personally, I'm not interested in the fully distributed model espoused by some evangelists. I still desire physical proximity, with just-enough/just-in-time physical interactions as determined by myself (and relevant coworkers). I would love working for a business that offers something like an internal WeWork - reservable low-density dedicated workspaces, near social venues and transportation.
Probably, but even if they did, it's probably not within the power of the executive to create such a mechanism.
There's some other examples too:

- Automatically erasing all script-writeable storage after 7 days, crippling local PWAs and preventing them from competing with native apps

- dragging their feet on Service Worker support for ages, another PWA issue

- blocking the standardization of numerous web hardware APIs:

- Web Bluetooth
- Web MIDI API
- Magnetometer API
- Web NFC API
- Device Memory API
- Network Information API
- Battery Status API
- Ambient Light Sensor
- HDCP Policy Check extension for EME
- Proximity Sensor
- WebHID
- Serial API
- Web USB
- Geolocation Sensor (background geolocation)
- User Idle Detection
Just don't pretend that it's open source.
Maybe it would make it more clear that this was not 2FA attack.

It might be confusing but that was account recovery attack.

For account recovery there is no "password" as thieves just made their own password while having your phone number.

So phone number as a password recovery option is not secure without any additional checks. Not 2FA because with this attack there was no second factor.
I'm incredibly skeptical that it would do much at all to hasten rollout, at least in the US and other countries in a similar place. There are more than enough vaccines to go around at this point[1], and adding any kind of question mark to "should I get it?" just creates unnecessary complexity.

Just get it in everyone's arms as fast as possible, all this dicking around with rules around who can or should get it now that it's plentiful is just slowing everything down.

[1] to the point that 'we' should be doing a lot more to get our excess to countries that are still struggling.
> I learned more about people that I had spent months zooming/emailing with over the past few weeks talking to them face to face.

One thing I thought of that could alleviate this would be the team work getaways. Think 2 weeks away, 3-4 times a year. Obviously not everyone can every join all of them, but I'd imagine most still would do 2. Ideally the families should also be invited.

I am sure it would still come out cheaper than maintaining office space and build stronger relationships than the mere coffee break talk.
In the US, we invented zoning, mostly to exclude black people from white neighborhoods. And now we use it to prop up property values and continue to keep poor people out of wealthy neighborhoods.

Now I'm speculating, but I wonder if Japan, being mostly Japanese people, didn't have such a large group to exclude from certain neighborhoods? So they didn't entrench the institution of local control and exclusionary zoning?
For example, we, as a company have decided on some rules around PII (personally identifyable information) that means, amongst other things, that we don’t have any of it outside of production. We therefore cannot just copy data from production to staging/dev.
The only reasonable way to structure the payment is on the gross value. If Apple tried to define it on some net or retained value then Apple would be auditing the developers of 337030 paid apps each pulling their own shenanigans to hide their revenue.