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> I'm relatively OK with pharmaceutical patents

I wish things like Generic Drugs could be applied to other items, like generic paint, generic computer peripherals, etc. The closest thing to generic computer equipment is the Amazon Basics items you can get, and also own-brand groceries which are usually cheaper since they don't spend much money on advertising and fancy packaging
If they try they will run into attempted murder issues.
I've been using Tilemaker for a few months, it's been really great. The process script being Lua makes it easy and fast to make updates -- I was able to identify a problem and get the fixed tileset deployed in a matter of minutes. Before, something like that would have taken days. Thank you so much for your work!
People should stop agreeing to these. You already went through the interview process, already given an offer. Companies aren't going to rescind the offer because you strike out this line from the employment contract. Just like you negotiate salary, you negotiate the agreement, striking out that part in the contract.
I don't think we're likely to replace alcohol any time soon - even with other relatively popular things like cannabis. The effects are more predictable and enjoyable by more people.

There's even some evidence, perhaps of questionable quality, but it makes a good story at least, that we may have evolved to prefer alcohol despite its toxicity because it was a reliable source of safe drinking water.

And even newer theories saying it may be related to the smell of ripe fruits leading to some primates getting a better source of energy.

In any case human affinity for alcohol likely goes back very far.
Electron is popular because it gets the job done quickly. I can start a new Electron app in 10-20 minutes and build it across Linux/Mac/Windows in moments. There's almost no setup needed except node which is easy to install locally (nvm, nvm-windows). Most other solutions require installing large tool chains manually first and lots of pre-reqs and being familiar with those tool chains. On Electron I just "git clone proj && cd prog && npm i && npm run build && num run dist" and an installer/msi/dmg/AppImage pops out.

I'm fully capable of writing a native app or using Qt but for a large number of apps my clients won't notice a difference and I can be finished faster with Electron so I use Electron.

I even use to just provide a GUI shell over running command line tools. Sure it's "bloated" by some definition of bloated but I get the job done so much quicker and 99% of the cross platform issues disappear.
The "brilliance" of any technology is not intrinsic to the technology. It's determined by humans.

It's always politics.
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I recommend checking out NA beers by Surreal and Bravus, esp the darker beers. I agree that Lagunitas/Odoules NA doesn't taste good.
Sorry, the parent comment is completely correct. Yes, exceptions exist, such as someone making 32k€ and given a hybrid/EV or e-bike as company car will not pay as much as an engineer making 80k€ and a diesel Passat. Otherwise, the comment is correct. Taxes are kind of insane in Germany.

Stock options (or crypto) counted as regular income _are_ taxed at your marginal tax rate, which, for anyone making above 55k€ or so is either 42% or 45%. Can't be bothered to look it up.
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The path of least resistance is not going to prison.

You realize that in publicly traded corporations decisions are made by whole teams of people? And that people talk? Word gets out, company gets fined more than they made, executives go to prison. The US actually prosecutes this stuff, the same way they vigorously prosecute insider trading.

A couple of neighboring grocery stores can realistically collude to raise prices. Multinational public corporations, not so much.
I don't think China has anything to do with it. People have been complaining about patents (and especially abuse of patents) for years/decades.
I don't live in New York City, but when I was there Uber was the absolute best option for our use case, because they were the only option that allowed us to ask for a toddler carseat as an extra. It was a game changer and preferred that over taxis and other car services.
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If they are throwing money at patenting actually novel ideas, then they are using the patent system as intended.

If they are throwing money at the sort of ridiculous obvious patents that people here are complaining about, they are essentially funding an army of private investigators to go out and invalidate bad patents.
Through my work, I have access to Placer.ai, which allows me to track foot traffic to any retail location or chain via visitors' cellphone GPS. Here's AMC's nationwide foot traffic from January 2017 through July 4, 2021.

https://i.imgur.com/s3H7EYj.png
Airplane was not strictly an original, it was a remake/spoof of Zero Hour from 1957 and more broadly spoofing the "disaster" film concept.
HBO had been doing it for a few years, with shows like The Wire and Deadwood. But Breaking Bad helped bring it to a wider audience, since AMC is basic cable rather than premium. (AMC had launched into that a year before with Mad Men, which was similarly TV as good film.)
The least nuanced thing here may be your worldview.
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What about the tax on owning business items in LA? Does that sound fair?

Also, don’t you think it is insane that at a time when we are in need of jobs for an increasing population, job creation is stopped due to bureaucracy?

I love California, I am staying to create businesses too. However, there is way too much complacency among residents regarding the situation at which we have arrived due to our policies.

These policies perhaps impact business creators first, but also have massive repercussions on the quality of life of other residents.
It’s not clear that they violated a building permit. It sounds like they had a building permit but the environmental permit for the tanks had not yet been approved.
Don't take the naive position that stock prices are (or should be) directly reflective of the value of a company's business. They aren't. Stock prices are defined by what people are willing to pay for them. In the case of AMC, the price is higher because some retail investors are willing to invest in the hope that they will be able to squeeze the shorts.

Fundamentals are great, but as the old saying goes: the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
A lot of conference talks are little more than marketing. So you work at a big-ish company and either write or evangelize your framework there first, then give a talk about it that advertises its benefits.

The idea of doing this through interviews is painfully slow by comparison to the number of people that will listen to a talk or a user group presentation and send links to it later.
although genuine, this analysis is sort of 2D cutout characterization, which feeds class stereotypes in another way.. "When I was in school, I had to walk 2 miles every day, uphill both ways! .. you people are less motivated" sort of applies

Modern life has the number of human signals daily, increased to stratospheric levels.. this is new, very new. It is not clear how intelligent, social people are changing under this communications environment.

other points omitted for the sake of brevity, but not the whole story here..
Not just IDE. It's because Kotlin is a general purpose PL with wide utility and tooling which Clojure doesn't come close to. Clojure doesn't even work on mobile platforms.
ok have at it :)
I think that's because IBM has a massive portfolio and just treats it statistically in IP cross-licensing negotiations. I had a boss at a company who said they added up theirs and IBM added up theirs, then his company wrote a check to IBM every year.
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I said:

> You have to pay 1% of the listing price of the car _per month_ in taxes (that's 1000$ per month in taxes for the employee if their company gives them a 100k$ car..).

You said:

> That is just wrong. You have to tax the 1% of the list price, [...] so you have to put the 1% (1000€ for a really expensive car

Either we both are wrong, or we both are right, unless you are somehow using language in a super subtle way. EDIT: you are right and I'm wrong, sorry, you get 1% of the list price as if it were income, so you need to tax that, i.e., what you said is correct, 1% of the list price is taxed per month. With a 45% tax rate, for a 100k$ car, you need to tax 1k$ per month, and at 45% means you pay 450$ per month in taxes.

> Also you don't have to pay taxes on unrealised gains, that is just bullshit.

I work in Germany. I get stock every month. I don't sell the stock (gains are unrealized). I have to pay taxes for all the stock I get. I do pay the taxes for all my stock (my employer declares it as part of my income).

Also, I've interviewed and gotten offer for some SV startups and they would have allowed me to work from Germany. Talked with 3 financial and tax advisors here, and they all said the same: stock options are part of the income, and just like the stock, they get taxed with your income tax.

> Also you don't have to pay the 45%.

Right, you only pay that if you make more than 50k brutto per year or so. For example, in an entry level job right after the university, e.g., as a PhD student working on a publicly funded project, you have to pay 45% taxes.

> But with your level of tax knowledge I would also be scared of the bad bad Finanzamt. OwO

lol after reading my reply, read also the other replies to your comment

Tax evasion is a crime that you really don't want to commit in Germany. Arguing that "you didn't know" isn't really a defense.
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You are right, LinkLonk is a filter bubble. The difference from other systems (e.g., algorithmic feeds powered by machine learning that optimize for "engagement") that exhibit the filter bubble dynamics is that LinkLonk puts all of the control into the hands of the user. The user is responsible for the content they upvote which directly determines who they get content from in the future.

In a sense this is similar to how users of RSS feed readers control which feeds they subscribe to. They are responsible for the content they consume. What LinkLonk adds is a transparent layer of automation that helps you subscribe/unsubscribe based on your content ratings.

My hope is that LinkLonk will help people get more informed, but I cannot be sure. The project is a live experiment to find out if this is right system of incentives.
This is correct. What people want is a canned vodka soda, but vodka is taxed at a much higher rate than malt beverages (and depending on the state, harder to sell/purchase). The innovation of using sugar as a fermented base to get closer to that flavorless alcohol is what drove the hard seltzer craze: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/how-tax-policy-gave-...
As a commentor noted, there are already fees to maintain a patent.

The problem with the approach is that the fees are often trivial for big companies, who may not think twice about maintaining a patent "just in case" even when they are not using the patent.
As we're seeing with infrastructure now in the US, civil engineering isn't a "do once" kind of job. Infrastructure (roads, bridges, irrigation etc) takes consistent upkeep, resources, and redesign as the fixtures degrade and usage patterns change. Engineers still need resources, manpower and direction, so as the empire's control area and wealth centralization receded, so did the impetus/capacity to maintain infrastructure.
Sorry, I really do not understand what you are trying to say.

It is obvious that the measures that were taken have a high cost [0]. On the other hand if they were not taken there would be a high cost as well.

I was arguing that knowing the true origin of the virus is not very important.

[0] It does not really matter for this subject if you define cost as just money or human happiness.
In addition to the criterion channel, already mentioned, try MUBI [1]. It’s a cinephile’s dream: a film discovery nearly everyday while also curating the great directors.

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> It makes me feel like a grouch to complain about the uber-popular, widely loved thing but this intertwined superhero universe exhausts me.

I feel the same way and here is how I approached it: buy a bunch of DIS stock, don’t watch superhero movies.
> argument behind preventing remote-work visas

A remote employer may not pay all the local taxes and contributions. In particular, in EU a part of the social security contributions is usually paid by the employer, not employee. The remote worker will benefit from the social security paid by others .

A remote employer will not necessarily respect obligations that local employers may have (e.g. the number of maternity leave days). It may give the remote employers an unfair competitive advantage wrt the local economy.
Can't you just spray that stuff on anything? I've seen it sold for hats and shoes
I remember seeing indie comedies and horrors. I dont think indy implies serious, altrough there are also sad indie movies.

> . If a viewer wants 'fun' then they're stuck with formulaic superhero blockbusters.

I dont think this is true either. The industry producing formulaic is not because it is only way to have fun. If you look at series that came out lately (Money Heist, Westworld ... ) they are not formulaic and are fun.
“…who’s work a generation ago fueled the modern internet”.

It’s 2021, and generations are traditionally 20 years. I think they’re off a bit.

3 generations ago. Quite a long time now.
I second Pushover.

During first wave of the pandemic the leading online grocery company in my country started slot system which opened at random times and people had to spend sleepless nights trying to see if the slot opens.

I wrote a script to automate[1] this and used Pushover for notification. It was used my many and so I guess they might have gained several new customers.

[1] https://abishekmuthian.com/bigbasket-slot-alert/
It never stops shifting.
There's honesty (which is indeed largely good) and then there's being honest about your overinflated ego, which is what I suspect is earning you the downvotes above.
Yes! We've been focused on B2C, but we already worked with our first B2B housing complex in Bern, but that's it. This is an avenue that we still have to explore, but you're right, this could be a great channel for us.
70% of memory corruption issues causing huge increase in development costs happened.

Right now their only use for green field projects is on ecosystems where there are no alternatives.
I wonder the same thing. If you get a chance, try to test the various configurations!

I would suspect you will also see different results depending if you have multiple windows or just 1. For example, if you have more than 1 window and can seal the opening except the fan, then the fan will move x amount of air in or out and will have similar results.

Simply mixing the air inside the room seems like it's probably the least effective because it will result in very little heat exchange at the windows themselves. However, making the temperature within your house more even may make it more comfortable on the average inside your house.
They should start by making patent trolls illegal. Also shorten the patent expiry to 5 years instead of 20. If the patent holder is actively using it, it should be enough time for them to recoup their R&D costs and make profit.

Of course that's never gonna happen because too many people stand to lose - too many vested interests, bought out politicians, armies of lawyers, etc.
Perhaps bank accounts, transactions, credit reports, grades, should be public information, physical measurements, medical history, etc should be public information.

That way we, we do not have to play these signaling games and can focus resources elsewhere.
The Copyright Act of 1790, just a few years after the constitution was signed, enabled a 28 year copyright grant (14 years with a 14 year extension.) So unless you think the copyright laws haven't been legal since their inception, you probably want to bump your number up at least five years.

Edit: Also, if you're interested in this argument, and IIRC the most recent Supreme Court opinion on it is Eldred v Ashcroft (2003).
Or because the act of creation is pleasurable in and of itself.
I think the fact that Google was not updating the java usable on Android might have also played a big role in kotlin adoption, don't you think?

Honestly I feel kotlin doesn't add much to modern java, and if possible I think it's generally better to use the native language to the platform. Probably a reason why kotlin is not that popular on the backend where people can use modern java :)

I think jimbokun statement is 100 percent correct which doesn't mean kotlin is a bad language.
I pay for Spotify and Steam Games and HBO Max, but pirate movies since Hollywood isn’t interested in making films available to be watched.
As a 60+ year old programmer who's pretty familiar with writing code for PDP-11s (down to device driver level) I'm interested in the link from PDPs to CP/M, which (as with MSDOS) I've also written for at a low level. While the link from CP/M to QDOS/MSDOS is clear to me, the jump from PDP11 trap instructions to CP/M's BDOS invocation is less clear. Is is the general idea of system calls/returns, or a deeper connection I've missed?
Sadly you can't use ↦ for anonymous functions.
Your local library probably has tons of DVD and Blu-Ray discs (and librarians who can provide recommendations), and maybe free access to an app like Hoopla with classic/highbrow movies.
4. Buy additional fan for ~$15.

Seriously though, it depends. If you have no other way to intake or exhaust air, probably 3, since fans are more effective at blowing than sucking. (IE: 1. would spend some of its power recirculating inside and outside air rather than just pulling inside air out.)

Most likely your bathroom and hopefully stove have exhaust fans, so even better would be to turn one or both of those on, and have the fan blow in a window on the opposite side of the house. It may not even be ideal to open all the windows. You want cool air flowing through the whole house. In an extreme example, if you have the fan blowing in the balcony and an open window right beside the balcony, it could just circulate air there, rather than reaching the rest. Likewise with exhaust, if you have a fan in the bathroom and the bathroom window open. So you'd need to experiment a bit to see what flows air best through the house.

Things also change if you have a central blower.
Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on your entire premise.

If you're a non-managerial employee its unethical for any company to force you to sign a non-compete.

We've been subject to so much corporate propaganda that we don't understand what our rights are any more and have them backwards and we've been taught that up is down.

If a company teaches you to hammer nails into a 2x4 they absolutely can't prevent you from hammering a 2x4 for someone else.

Amazon's reach is too broad and they already have the playing field slanted so heavily in their direction that if you decided to compete with them they could squash you like a bug anyway. That whole premise is nonsense.

Fuck all non-competes for workers.
the "gaming" industry includes mobile games and things like slot machines, in addition to the big consoles that most people think of.

I think there are more "gamers" than you might think.
Up until the launch of AMD's Ryzen, Intel having 80+% of consumer CPUs and 99% of server CPUs, would in fact, be considered a Monopoly.
I do. I'm a 2-year-in-a-row top tier rated senior SDE. I work 8:30 to 5:30 every day. If I work later it's because I'm working on something interesting to me personally and it's my choice.

I'll admit I have good management. That makes a huge difference. I also give reasonable estimates for project timelines up front.
> too easy to get a patent

If you make it harder, startups will have difficulties obtaining them.

Patents are a way for private companies to benefit from the public enforcement. Like anything provided by the state, it can and will be taken out of its goals and used by the largest corporations to reinforce their dominance.

Removing the tool would make the playing field more fair.
I graduated in 2000, and cheating was rampant if you knew where to look.

One variety was legal - you’d have a doctors note to get a reasonable accommodation for ADD. In the 90s, it was pretty trivial to do that. Once you had that, you were taking tests in a facility that made cheating very easy (open book) if you were motivated.
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I was not speaking to taxation. I’m speaking to private influence on wages, regressive taxation, privilege for the financial elite, the real health issues and costs of extreme inequality as being authoritarian.

Relativity; being poor isn’t a character flaw. Lack of experience means not knowing what one should be fighting for.

Relativity is a scientific fact yet in the free world we enable class-based suffering. Do we throw them in a gulag?

No, we let them rot in the open in tents under bridges, and complain about it. We’re far more civilized.

Even for engineers buying power is incredibly diminished by inflation to prop up Bloomberg’s and grandpa’s property portfolio he was able to afford starting in 1970.

Normalized agency in deference to political nostalgia not what communities need isn’t constrained to China and has real consequences on lives. Is it jackboots with machine guns? No. But the effects are just as measurable.
Link or it didnt happen ;)
It would almost make me feel better to find out they were doing this. The number of people who can't think laterally beyond the tool in front of them is scary.
Since it fails to achieve 70% of the memory corruption issues that modern C++ is capable of, definitely less safe.

As much as we would like the modern C++ from books and conference talks to exist in real life, that is not how the large majority of the world actually writes C++.

Heck, just check the AOSP source code to see how much modern C++ it has, from one of the companies that contributes to ISO C++.

Or if that fails to impress, see how much modern C++ exists in Microsoft Github sample projects.
> we need people to teach as part of how they learn.

I've got a principle I came up with called LTD: Learn, Teach, Do.

The idea is to prioritize activities where I can be doing all three at the same time. An example would be pair programming with a junior on a new problem where I don't know how to solve every part of the problem. "Learn on the job together with a team, and share learnings as you go" is basically the kind of work that I mean. I've found LTD activities are awesome in so many ways. You build up the team around you, grow as an individual, and get shit done all at the same time.

I'm increasingly against activities which focus strongly on only one of these(school being the main example).