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My favorite feature of NA beer is social. I found myself enjoying one too many beers sometimes with my group of friends I play hockey with, which made for terrible mornings after and the poor health effects overall.

What I do now is enjoy a real beer or two, and then finish the rest of the evening with NA. Athletic brewing is my favorite. I wish bars had it on draft. It fits both needs, I get to enjoy the taste and effect of the real at first, but continue socially with the NA after that won’t lead to drunkenness.

Alcoholism runs in my family, I could very easily go down that road if I’m not careful, but I found combining the two short circuits the desire to binge on the real thing. I can easily do most events with just NA beers and enjoy myself all the same.
This is a company that is enjoying roaring success with such questionable employee management practices. How does this happen? Does success have no correlation with bad culture? If yes, why are other companies focusing their time and energy on good work/employee culture? What gives?
Practically everyone finds fat people less attractive. Lying to them about their prospects will only cause cognitive dissonance when the truth eventually presents itself.
In latest Safari, none of the videos on the landing page or in the docs work. The only way is to right-click each, choose “Download video” and view locally.
It might be a "waste" but it doesn't have to be damaging. Air conditioners (a special case of heat pumps) are extremely efficient and could easily be powered from a solar array. The hottest places in the world tend not to be short of sunlight.

Where they get the water from is another matter though. I always wondered how much you could scale up Air Well technology, which condenses water out of the air. I suspect the places that have lots of sunlight also don't have a lot of humidity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_(condenser)
Came here to say this. Couldn't really see past it, which says more about me than anything else.
There are plenty of parts of anti-lock brakes that are novel mechanical devices, like fast acting solenoids or pumps. The software running on a general purpose device is not novel or unique. Patenting "anti-lock brakes" is a great example of an overreaching patent, as you can't lay claim to every implementation of "anti lock brakes". Patenting individual parts that are novel and unique is applicable.

This practice didn't even come into play until the mid-late 1990s when lawyers realized they could put "may use cd-rom" or "electronic" in their patents to cover a wide swath of things they didn't invent.
Sure, if they were only targeting poor performing folks then your statement has merit. The difference is at amazon managers have a 5-10% URA (Unregretted Attrition Rate) and must let go that percentage of their team each and every year.
Doesn't take long to chew through poor performers and have to move on to people lower on the political totem pole, or worse at playing the political game/being friendly.
Yeah, I use azure so I can get build support for linux, windows, osx. I wish I could simplify all that, but with windows I need call native C++ toolchain (using rust).
Live a life of "No RAGRETS" so you dont have to think of being "27" again...

I am 26 so I have no advise to give...
> Either we both are wrong, or we both are right [...]

You said: "pay 1% of list price in taxes". They said: "pay taxes on 1% of list price".

There's a difference. For example, given a 50k€ car and 35% marginal income tax rate, your version would result in 500€ additional income tax per month, while their version would result in 500€ * 35% = 175€ additional income tax.
Especially given that first aid kits are often marked in similar ways.
Agreed. Mainly I think it’s interesting that we can get that many states to come together on anything. Generally the red/blue divide is very strong.
This is wrong on several levels. The energy expended by a fan is proportional to the mass flow. The energy required to accelerate the rotor is negligible compared to the ongoing energy required to keep it turning and doing work. Also, I'm pretty sure that the energy use of the fan is itself negligible compared to the heat pump.
I used to live in a Muslim neighbourhood with a wide variety of malted drinks for sale, albeit not advertised as beer. Seems humans just like the taste. When I lived in the Caribbean you’d see Supermalt everywhere too
Well, great maybe the AI can create and run a few more successful SaaS businesses for me
Isn't the Red Cross emblem just an inverse Swiss flag anyways? Just pull a Blizzard and make your medics Swiss.
The article is conflating two concepts at Amazon. There is "devplan/focus" and there is performance improvement plan (PIP). You are not fired while on focus. Despite what one of the people indicates in their comments, you cannot be on a PIP and not know. The PIP is an agreed upon plan with a specific output between HR, management and the employee. Firing happens through PIPs, not focus. Though focus is what leads to a PIP.

I agree the lack of transparency on the focus is stupid (especially since it can prevent you from moving), but you don't wake up one day and end up fired. You will be put on a PIP first and be well aware of it (since you have to agree to the plan or take a payout to leave instead).
It's a job, not a no-show job.
I very much doubt the results of this study when there's been huge successes with Ivermectin in Mexico, India and several others.

I'd like to read more details on how the study was done, but details in the article are scarce.
How would you compare Earthly to creating Docker images using Nix[0]? I love Nix declarative nature with strong emphasis on reproducibility.

[0]: https://nixos.org/guides/building-and-running-docker-images....
In the US, at least, anything below 0.5% can be labeled "non-alcoholic." So I'm surprised that Mikkeller are able to label themselves as being in the 0.2-0.3% range.
for sure. on top of energy taxes, we could assess escalating maintenance fees on cars by size and weight, to encourage right-sized vehicles, especially in metro areas where it really matters.
You should call it Red Cross Cola and just mix coke with rat poison.
And pharmacy in Spain also.

The red cross had issues in the past with the symbols. Muslims didn't wanted to be treated for them (seeing the cross as a symbol for christians), so they needed to create the 'Red crescent' symbol exclusively for Muslims. But then jews, hindi and asians felt excluded also, so a third symbol was necessary, the red crystal, that aim to represent humanitary work without being assimilated to one of the bands in conflict. The red crystal is used in delicate cases to not upset anybody.

The red cross should be named now the red crystal, to hide that it was created in an European context, by a christian, and also that is just the Switzerland flag with inverted colors (he was from Geneva).

Is a good example of how politics and ideology can spoil anything.
Agree with your points. Also, your comment reminded me that habitable, unhabitable, inhabitable, uninhabitable, is one of the most confusing situations in the english language.
Yes, so they have sole use of the (rather basic!) symbol > more donations

Sad, but all too common with modern charities!

"categorically false". cmon man
Hiatorically, the Red Cross was foundes in response to the suffering caused by the Crimean War in the 1860s and their mission is to help people who get caught in armed comflicts. The symbol is protected by international law as a sign of medical facilities and medical personal who may not be attacked. Using the red cross for any other purspose is considered abusive and is formally a war crime. It may sound absurd, but keeping the narrow and important meaning of the symbol intact saves lives.
> What does misuse particularly mean here?

Use by organizations other than the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

The point is to strictly maintain the neutrality of the symbol in wartime and similar situations, as distinct from merely indicating (for example) an army medic of a particular country. If it ends up broadly used just to indicate 'first aid', that purpose is lost.
>independent invention was a defense (as it is supposed to be, but in practice basically never is)

It's actually not a defense at all and isn't supposed to be. Its sort of like a prize for inventing it first.

It's only a defense if you publicly disclosed it before patentee did. Secret use was a defense if you invented it first (and didn't abandon or hide your invention when it was ready), but that was changed with the America Invents Act.
0.1% of all the power generated on the entire planet is being destroyed by bitcoin mining.

If that is not massive harm I do not know what is.
No, I don't see they claiming that the use in games caused these deaths. What I think they are claiming is that it is necessary to protect the symbol such that when we see it, we know that we really are dealing with the Red Cross, not with some other random thing related to medicine. And that if the symbol becames banalized, this takes away the protection that the symbol should bring to them.

I understand this, but, perhaps in the long term they should consider using a more complex symbol, and including the Red Cross name in it. It is much more difficult to protect a symbol when it is so generic and simple to draw it.
Mush? Batter?
BrewDog have some great "AF" beers, such as Pale AF and Nanny State. They're a bit different from normal beer, but they're nice and hoppy and carbonated, and also low in calories. Partake is another one I like.

Not a fan of most other brands of alcohol free beer. They taste like they're just wort they stopped fermenting early, so it's oversweet and smelly.

Heineken 0.0 isn't too bad in a pinch.
I didn't know that; having RT-11 at work and running CP/M at home, there was a 'sort of' similiarity there but not like the same kind of underlying structure between CP/M and DOS (hence the reason I was asking). Thanks!
I wonder if any actual harm is done (or has been done) to the brand (or anything/anyone else for that matter) by including the red cross in video games. If anything, it's probably a free ad.
> which I thought would be blatantly illegal until I saw it myself

it would seem to be:

https://www.eeoc.gov/regulations/questions-and-answers-eeoc-...
This is an extraordinary naive comment.

Claim is stronger than insinuate.

claim: verb (used with object)
to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due

insinuate: verb (used with object) to suggest or hint slyly

Sometimes one is forced to wonder if some people actually read what they write, or listen to what they say.
Sharing from somewhere totally different: NYC has a number of theaters that show (mostly or half-half) not-new kids films, art films, and cult classics like Miyazaki or Blaxploitation films.

These theaters are typically small businesses owned by locals who have been in the business for decades. But there are also some US chains like Alamo Drafthouse that do this too.

On a slight tangent, in the suburbs of Lancaster, PA the chain theaters ran free re-runs of children's movies in the summer each Wednesday morning.
You can certainly judge GTA for that.
This is entirely backwards. The International Committee of the Red Cross's roots are firmly fixed in a need to respond to armed conflict in 19th century Europe, and early national-level Red Cross groups focused on the same for quite some time. Disaster relief and public health came along much later.
However, the types of games that work well on iOS typically aren't the ones people want to play on "serious gaming machines".

(There are exceptions.)
My cellphone doesn't leave my home. Makes location tracking much harder.
The point is to strictly maintain the symbol as indicating members of the internationally neutral Red Cross and Red Crescent, not just "healing". If a war happens and a bunch of people on either side are using the red cross symbol to indicate medics, then members of the actual Red Cross are at risk of being accidentally targeted along with them.
There's a pharmaceutical company in Korea that's literally called "Green Cross". (Looks like they recently changed their logo to... a rainbow cross! While keeping the name. Not sure why they thought it would be a good idea...)
Is there even a single documented case where this has happened?
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I have more respect for that than I do for, say, Phoenix AZ.

It's quite the stunt to make a habitable vacation spot in the hottest place on Earth. There's only one Death Valley, and people want to see it. The golf course is... kinda pushing it, yeah, but I have respect for the sheer human ingenuity it takes to do something like that.

Phoenix is more of a case of putting a bunch of people where a bunch of people probably shouldn't be. It can probably be made energy-independent, there is a lot of sun to be harvested, but water is a different story.

tl;dr scale matters.
In Firefox, they play, but show "aborted due to network error" but keep playing. (which was interesting)
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Believe me, it isn't. Don't ask how I know :/
It is not surprising that such absurd request comes from the local branch of a highly litigious capitalist country. I could not imagine seeing the Serbian Red Cross (change the country at your taste) stating such a ridiculous thing. This is like forbidding games to use the SOS distress signal, or the UN logo.

The red cross sign in games/toys/films is a GOOD thing, it creates awareness.
Alcohol is intrinsically very caloric, that might be tough
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> they seem like a better idea than air conditioning whole rooms

Is that really true? It's more efficient to cool larger rooms, because their surface area to the outside world is lower relative to the volume of the room.

Keeping entire factories or warehouses cool uses surprisingly little energy. Once they reach the desired temperature they stay there with only minor additional cooling.
> In my unprofessional opinion, the red cross should go the way of "tissue", "google", "coke", etc. It's too common, hasn't been enforced. You lose the exclusive right to it.

Was "tissue" ever a trademark? Did you mean "Kleenex"?

FWIW, "Kleenex", "Coke", and "Google", all still have their protected status. "Aspirin" was once a trademark (of Bayer?), but is no longer.
> Software can be protected by copyright.

You want software to be protected for the lifetime of the author + 70ish years? 95 years in case of corporate authorship?

The Beatles catalogue, released 60 years ago, won't pass into the public domain until 70 years _after_ the last Beatle dies. Maybe my grand kids will see that day.

Given that the law almost made the 8 note ostinato from Katy Perry's Dark Horse into a copyrightable bit of music I would weep if we tried to really apply copyright to software.
What makes Amazon employees so eager to work there? Is it purely because of their salaries? I have worked at large companies where none of this dystopian stuff happens.
Clearly, publishers do a lot of work. But what is the value they provide?
That study, done in a lab and not in the real world, contradicts the latest real-world science on this issue. The two relevant studies:

1) A report in Nature that the natural immunity produced in people who have already had covid may last a lifetime. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

2) The Cleveland Clinic--consistently regarded as one of the top hospital systems in the United States and in the world--recently shared a study of 52,238 patients showing zero incremental benefit from the jab to the previously infected, recommending that "people who’ve had COVID-19 don’t need to get vaccinated." https://www.healthline.com/health-news/new-study-determines-...
I don't think I can physically drink enough NA beer for it to be an issue :D
Trying putting the whole article in context instead of picking apart two sentences. What they're saying is that the Red Cross Emblem is being watered down, so much so that it's losing it's symbolism of humanitarian protection status and impartiality and as such are becoming a target in conflict zones.
Well, I suppose with healthcare the way it is in the US... maybe smoking cannabis before going to a hospital is a good idea.
This only works with people who follow your rules of warfare.

Otherwise, the red cross symbol just becomes a huge target painted on you.
I would be pretty impressed if Apple got their trademark enshrined in the Geneva convention like the Red Cross did.
Not really sure what can be accomplished with an EO in this arena. Perhaps tell the executive branch not to require any non-competes in their own hiring practices? Ask them to not do business with contractors that use non-competes? The latter is tougher as it is already subject to a number of laws. It would be nice if someone more knowledgeable on this site can let us know how an EO can nullify a non-compete that someone has agreed to, or prevent a company from requiring non-competes in the future.
There are down votes to comments suggesting that it is "pure rent seeking".

And I see why, people think that there is no obvious financial interest for them.

But think again deeper about that, they are often selling their own brand. For example, in a lot of places, they are asking donations exchanging them with red cross stickers that they put on cars.

For some people it is a status symbol to have this sticker on their cars as it is a signal that "they are generous".

And, as said otherwise, the red cross recent history is plagued with waste of money and very bad management.
>> It's too common, hasn't been enforced. You lose the exclusive right to it

This isn't some bit of copyright law. This is an international treaty that has vested the right to enforce this thing with a specific group. Misuse isn't going to result in in a DMCA takedown. Misuse of the red cross is an international crime, a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Don't like it? Elect people and have them withdraw your country from the Geneva Conventions. I doubt any party anywhere would ever adopt such a platform.
I don't. This isn't the first time.

First it was accessible programming languages (BASIC, Pascal, etc. ~1970s/80s), then it was standard software (spreadsheet software, ERM packages, etc. 1990s), then low code/no code (early 2000s), then model-/requirement driven (Rational Rose etc., late 90s, early 2000s), in between it was visual "programming" every now and again, now it's back to low code/no code again.

As long as the mechanical systems cannot test requirements for contradictions, don't accept non-functional requirements such as performance or security and produce non-correctness proven results that even fail to compile or are syntactically incorrect from time to time, I have no fears.

The current situation might as well be a local optimum in which NLP/ML will be stuck for quite a while. It's really hard to tell, but I don't see any reason for starting to panic just yet.
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The Soul of a New Machine is still one of the best books about product development ever written. (Showstopper about Windows NT is very good too,)

I was a longtime hardware product manager at DG starting a few years after the events of "the book" as it was called. I knew a lot of the people involved and even dotted-lined into Tom West for a while when the first x86-based NUMA servers were rolling out.
The study that used a very high dose was an in vitro study from Spring 2020[1]. If anything, that study should be a proof that it is worth studying further.

The dose makes the poison. The typical dose of Ivermectin for treating parasites (and Covid19) is 0.2mg/Kg. The LD50 is around >15mg/Kg in humans. Around the world it is one of the most administered medicines. AFAIK, not a single death has been attributed to it. Extremely safe.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422...
I am still waiting for a hackernewsque article explaining why French pharmarcy have the blinking green crosses showing the time and temperature and often a whole complicated LED show.
> June sea ice extent was 103% of the 1991-2020 median value.

Greenland has been gaining ice this summer, quite unusual: http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/
I worked for a company that only had one in-house programmer. The outsourced to the Ukraine for most of their programming needs. This was 20 years ago.
It would not be correct in German either (source: Native speaker, went to Grammar School).

This is just another instance of North Americans (I haven't really seen this in British English speakers) placing their commata not at the boundaries between clauses/phrases, but where they pause when they read the sentence out loud. You may argue with descriptivism -- that the grammatical rules have changed and this is the new normal -- but placing a comma like this has the probably unintentional effect that reading the sentence out loud now causes you to pause in yet a different place.
I still can't justify the cost. One of the reasons I want to cut back on beer is to save money. A lot of these alcohol-free beers cost more than their real counterparts.

I get that these are still small-batch, artisanal products and eat up the same shelf space as beer. But my brain can't get past the idea that this is really fancy soda being sold at beer prices.

I just want a line of dry-hopped La Croix.
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It's already associated with weed and pharmacies. The trademark is also already registered in some major countries.

Where do you get this confidence that there's no confusion with the green cross?
No, but it's a closer call than you might think, and (the general idea) has been litigated relatively recently: https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/blogs/incontestable/goo...

Google has also been taking defensive actions to prevent this from happening for all of recent history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3006486.stm
What accessibility? It has never had much support. Linux is terrible at that.
Funny, I've seen this happen multiple times and by any measure the companies and teams both did very well.

If you're spinning up a new project/org/whatever hiring all the expertise in a single shot is so much more efficient than one-by-one. If they have agency, it's often a recipe for success.
I don't quite get the issue? If anything it ensures every kid recognises it & associates it with medical treatment
> I don't think it detracts at all from the Red Cross mission

Part of the point of the symbol is to indicate the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, specifically, which keeps to strict neutrality in wartime. If it starts getting used willy-nilly it puts their members at greater risk because they are no longer clearly delineated from the medical services or army medics of specific countries.
I worked for a company 20 years ago that only had one in-house programmer. The rest were contracted from the Ukraine. About 5 of them.
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On an intellectual level I know how often trends suddenly shift and how unpredictable the future is, and yet... this seems like such a plausible future path that it's pretty unsettling.
Amazon workers should unionise, then collectively every single employee asks their boss “morning boss, am I on the list” every single day. They’ll soon change the policy.