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If I carry more than one thing in a pocket, especially if one or more of the things is small, I usually end up dropping things a lot, sometimes without realizing it, while getting something else out. That's the main reason I use a card holder and don't do what you do. Other benefit is that the cards are very unlikely to end up in different places in your house when you need to find them. Even if you are very careful to always stack them in the same place when you get home and never take anything from the pile without taking it back, it's much easier to bump a card off a table and have it sail under furniture across the room, without noticing, than it is a wallet or card holder.

[EDIT] and of course a sleeve on a smartphone is even harder to lose than a separate card holder. Plus, it comes with find-my without needing to buy some kind of extra bluetooth tag or something.
Great deal for lawn & garden companies who will still be able to get it forever and charge us a fortune to kill weeds we could kill ourselves today for pennies.

And it's those exact sort of workers who are the ones most likely to be exposed to harmful amounts and experience health effects.
Cars, funerals and home improvements: EU to crack down on large cash payments
> To be more precise, it is right above the backspace/delete key on every other device that has one. So they decided to stay consistent and put it in the exact same spot here too.

Is it really more precise to say above the backspace/delete vs. the absolute top right corner? Until this product rolled out, those statements would have been practically equivalent.

I'm thinking of this like I do the power button. On my Macbooks, that's one and the same with touchid, and is in the top right corner (and yeah, above the delete key, but for me the significance is the absolute position). The power button on my non-Apple keyboards is also in the top right, above the numpad - albeit not a touch sensor as well. Not where the eject key is, but in the absolute top right on the old Logitech Wave I'm typing on right now.

Quite honestly, I didn't expect I'd be in the minority on this one. I suppose this is why design teams exist. I wonder if there's a better spoken version of me at Apple arguing like an asshole for the exact same thing!
Great reply, thank you. I don't want to get into a long argument, but a lot of what you say hinges on that 40% number. I'd like to know what that refers to. My reply to that 40% number:

I thought that vaccines made you something like 20x less likely to end up in the hospital from coronavirus (widely cited as 95% protective.) And that unvaccinated people spread at 5x the rate of the vaccinated ones. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02054-z

Despite having done some research in virology for my MSc I definitely don't claim to be an expert. The field is really complex, and I'm always open to learning. So feel free to reply and educate me as long as we can keep it cordial.

To answer your last question (presumably non-rhetorical) I worry about unvaccinated people allowing for mutations via community spread, as well as getting sick when they didn't have to, hurting themselves while taking up healthcare resources in the process. Is that unreasonable?
What about the lives that have been saved? Do those not count? Just this week a drunk driver passed out and the Tesla safely slowed down to a stop. What if that guy was in an Audi and ran over a child while passed out?
Reminds me of this: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
> South Koreans frequently believe in superstitions, fortune tellers, urban legends, etc., and generally struggle with critical thinking or questioning established ideas.

You provide references for the other points, but not this. I can see it being true for older people, but is it really true in general? (I actually had this question before since I'm seeing a lot of shamans in the kdramas and it puzzles me since there is little of this in the west.)
Just that it isn't as simple as adding the lines to when the code gets executed. I think I misunderstood you, instead of prepending the code you are suggesting the entire compromised package get replaced with `throw "You got Hacked"` at import time.
The whole main application the company is named for was built for stalking so color me unsurprised.
I think adding search to the HTML standard makes more sense overall. The thing I hate about search like this is that they don't work with JS turned off (e.g. terminal browser). Why not just add a JSON search component to HTML itself?
Its silly how many otherwise smart people forget that income = expenditure. Whatever you spend is someone elses income. That money doesn't get incinerated.
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Data is scraped from RT and stored in SQLite. It's updated once a day using a python script and the data is then used to generate a static HTML.

The network and genre are as displayed on the website. It seems series usually only have one genre on RT.
> that comes to an end after about 24-36 months of working at the same company

Have you looked into why?

The one job where I stayed over 10 years was the one where my expertise was highly respected (large degree of decision-making autonomy, no micromanagement via agile) and I was able to fluidly change projects every 2-4 years. The pay wasn't that great but it never mattered because the job was so rewarding.

Most other jobs just micromanage one to death and stagnate career, so a couple years of that kind of abuse is all one can take before moving on to the next deathmarch.
Bingo.

This would make a fantastic "phase one" alien bioweapon to aid in wiping out a planet's existing lifeforms and replace ecosystems with one better matching their own. Assuming post-biology aliens care about biology.
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Bullish on macOS? Windows isn't going away anytime soon. My apologies if I am misunderstanding what was meant by "bullish" in this context. It does strike me as odd (given your tone here) that you would be requiring users to submit their email address, and answer [a Google-hosted] questionnaire, in order to use your application. "…we want to deter as many people as we can [from using the browser at this time]" (brackets contain my own words) doesn't seem like a great pitch; why not let everybody test the software, and invite (from within the app) users to share their feedback after a day/week of use?
A good example of this is in American Football where a team can waive a flag (heh) that penalizes the other team and replays the down if they prefer the outcome of the play above the potential penalty. A common example, team A passes but the pass is intercepted by team B player, then a player on A does a "holding" foul on the player that did the interception. The punishment for holding usually means you redo the play, but that would give the ball back to team A, clearly team B prefers to keep possession due to interception over slightly punishing and redoing the play with the ball back in A's possession.
But why? The post box is presumably run by the USPS, not Amazon.
I hear you, but it's NYC - rents are still high enough that I'm thinking demand for housing is there even if demand for office space isn't.
> the confusion about on what day 00:00 AM falls.

Not so much actually: 00:00 is on the day that is starting, 24:00 is on the day that is ending.
With that said, it may be tricky to become a resident [1] in the first place. There are per-country-of-birth quotas, currently the wait times for people born in China / India can be significant (if taking the work visa route), up to 11 years. The longest wait that I see is for family-based immigration from Mexico - 24 years' wait for "married sons/daughters of US citizens". [2]

[1] resident to me means lawful permanent resident

[2] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...
As Moe Green said:

I got a business to run! I gotta kick asses sometimes to make it run right!

Regardless of whether Elon Musk has been sufficiently sensitive to the emotional needs of the people around him, his accomplishments (across a wide range of business and engineer problems) speak for themselves. If feelings get hurt in the process, whatever.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/the-science-behind-why-so-ma...

I, and many scholars, would argue that traits for a successful CEO are about the same as a criminal.

Great many are not often good men.
If you observe yourself closely enough, note the most capable self observer is still at least an order of magnitude less effective than a 3rd party, you'll see a bunch of startling behavior.

Indeed, one type of commenting on HN is to dig the past comments and come up with an observation. And one immediately was startled by the past behavior of the commentators.

Sure, are these behaviour bad? Yes of course, but does the article gives the full pictures? Likely not... Without contexts, the assessment of behavior is just meaningless.
"I'm honestly surprised that any company would still do this sort of thing to critics after how that turned out back in the 60s."

That's famous. GM had a private detective follow Nader around. He followed Nader into the US Capitol. (Anyone could walk in back then.) Private detective discovered by Capitol cops. CEO of General Motors subpoenaed to appear before Senate committee on national TV.
> It is clearly unlawful, but is it criminally unlawful?

Well I am not a lawyer. But some searching suggests interference violates Section 7 or Section 8 of the NLRB. The NLRB website [0] appears to be down for me at the moment so I can't look up exact info though.

[0]: https://www.nlrb.gov/

Edit: the site is still sorta spotty but sometimes works.

[1]: https://www.nlrb.gov/guidance/key-reference-materials/nation...
This doesn't quite work because employee productivity assessment is very grey, and there's a lot of goodwill assumed in the equation.

It's difficult to measure employee productivity. Sometimes, managers don't care. Sometimes employees make every effort to hide their lack of productivity.

Despite that we might think of companies as 'evil' - most of them are not. We're all human, none of us like laying people off or firing them. It also comes with negative political consequences i.e. the person you fired may never be a good reference in the future. The manager may have negative incentive to let people go, as their 'worth' is founded on headcount. And truly the vast majority of employers just don't want to layoff or fire if that don't have to.

What this means is that there is quite a lot of 'grey' in the system, and there's a lot of goodwill assumed by all parties.

Everybody is saying that they want to do 'remote work' and at the same time signalling that they may 'want to do the least, because technically, I'm getting paid for that?' - in a situation wherein there is quite a lot of 'trust' expected?

How do we expect employers to 'trust' workers in a 'very noisy productivity assessment channel' with this kind of approach?

It just won't work.

There isn't enough time in the world to be looking over each other's shoulders like that (I particularly don't like Amazon's approach for example).

So the onus is on us to 'do a good job'. It doesn't mean 'break your back' - it means try to do what is expected, keep your chin up, grind through it.

I feel that if people could see the big picture, and see that mountains are climbed one step at a time, that morale across the board would be higher. 'Passion and inspiration' are nice, but fleeting, whereas 'grinding' through the issues is how most things ultimately get done. In this way, they might be more personally incented to 'fix that bug' or 'get that build out'.
There's videos of lifeguards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KTqPloUiU&list=PLgqwWmjSsN...

Can be pretty hard to see, but no absolute about flailing
It's easy to make a linear power supply, but a switching power supply like a charger has a lot of complications. Among other things, the layout of the board matters a lot due to the high frequencies involved. I'll point out the the application note on this controller chip is 34 pages long. https://www.st.com/resource/en/application_note/an1326-l6565...
Gross. Longtermism is just the Singularity for a new wave of out of touch futurists.
> Anger is the ego being upset that people and the world didn't do what you expected

Why does ego play a role? Couldn't one be mad because of what they believe is wrong is being done?

It's not right to be angry at someone that didn't know any better but there are individuals that I've worked with that aren't aligned with the company well, are lazy and do selfish things. Why am I not allowed to be angry at a person like that?
Yes, agreed. But does that change the case?
They're not psychopaths, they're just disconnected from your perspective. They've got other stuff on their mind and it's hard for them to put themselves in your shoes.

Are you a psychopath for driving your car for a holiday trip, even though there's people dying in 49 degrees heat in Greece? It's really not that different from Jeff Bezos flying his spacecraft.

Not that I'm saying it's ok, obviously Bezos's company is operating in real scummy ways. I'm just saying it's not a sure sign of psychopathy. Frankly, I don't think being a psychopath is compatible with their achievements, but I'm no psychologist.

Also, they're not that powerful. People keep saying this as if they're somehow super powerful because there's a big number next to their name on the Forbes list. 90% of their assets are tied up in stocks that they're not gonna sell soon. Bill Gates couldn't eradicate polio because some broke warlords in Afghanistan started propaganda against him. It took Jeff Bezos 20 years before his spacecraft did anything semi useful, and he still can't land a deal with NASA. If he really is a psycho, why was Zuckerberg so nervous at his senate hearing?
My ethical framework allows for disagreements on the nature of what is and isn't ethical. It doesn't matter if you and I agree some behavior is unethical. Some other group of people clearly consider their behavior to be in the realm of ethical given their worldview, location, upbringing, etc. So no amount of us whining about how unethical it is really changes anything, does it? I personally consider massive hoarding of wealth unethical... so... from a total harm standpoint... yeah it's kinda grey.
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Every time this is mentioned, it seems like there are vocal factions insisting that they treat the cables gently but they split and fray, and others insisting that they abuse them but they last forever.

Anecdotally, I've actually seen examples of both.

It's hard to imagine of Apple, but maybe they have high variance in cable quality between batches, or multiple suppliers?
Marriage != monogamous relationships
My understanding is that foreign real estate buyers have also pushed real estate prices up. That said I think you make a lot of good points and crypto is about the only thing I disagree with you on.
I talked with Jinnah Hosein who, without any prompting from me, told me Elon Musk is a certifiable psychopath based on his experience at Tesla and SpaceX. Don’t let the Saturday Night Live appearance fool you— the exterior is nothing like the what happens behind the scenes.

The OP article might be a response to investor lawsuits filed against Blizzard and/or the Google lawsuit for the Andy Rubin and David Drummond cases. Abusing your employees it not just bad for them but can also be a violation of fiduciary duty. Musk is pretty transparent about his disdain for the SEC among other things.. .. If more people finally come foreword about Musk, he’ll never change his behavior, but at least everyone else will pay less for it.
I have the complete opposite experience aligning with the OP.

Out of all the hundreds of cables I've used, only the white iPhone cables tend to fail in this manner. In fact, not a single white iPhone cable has been spared from this insidious fault.

This is a direct unarguable observation for me - how come so many other cables I own and use in similar manner don't fray?
>where the "o" in o-keanos came from

That would be an easy task, since "o" means "the" for male subjects in ancient Greek (grammatical articles like "the" were gendered).

So o-kyanos would literally be "the cyan one".

(Not saying that's the etymology, but the "o" would be easy to explain).

As for the "y" changing to "e", similar changes happen all the time in ancient, hellenistic and medieval Greek for phonetic reasons (literally: just because it sounded better this way). It can also be the case that there were several variants in different city states, and the modern version is just the one that stuck.
Could you add the ability to toggle between tv shows and movies?
Even before the Epstein scandal, there were hints of it old personality like when he claimed in Steve Job's biography that Next OS had no role or association with the creation of OSX (now Mac OS); hinting that Jobs was hired back on the board's whim.
Somewhat of topic but:

> Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk

Why do people keep thinking Elon founded Tesla? Pretty sure he wasn't one of the founders, so I don't get why people think so.
Not sure if you're an Engineer or not.

But it's very common to have people involved in the engineering process e.g. Business Analysts, Project Managers, Testers who have a deep understanding of how things work. And by all accounts have excellent technical capability.

That doesn't mean they have the ability to design or build the thing though.
That's infinitely more powerful than the charger which comes with the iPhone 12!
Can you point to the law or are you making the law as you go?

I remind you, your parent comment says "Your comment is a broad generalization, yet provides no examples of evidence."

So if you point out people not putting evidence, at least demand the same standard for your own posts.
Not if it's taken too far, as it will create new biases based around the "rigor" of the process. You end up "hiring to the process" as opposed to "hiring to the team / role". If someone doesn't have enough experience/knowledge, but they are clearly talented enough to learn on the job and look like they could accomplish great things, that person may be a much better fit than someone who knows everything but is terrible at executing or working within the structure of a large organization.

(the "lizard brain" is a myth by the way; I think you're confusing it with unconscious bias of heuristics, which is not what the triune brain theory was about)
> If a developer of a certain caliber is able to demand a given salary on the open market, why isn’t their existing company paying them that very same amount?

One possibility would be it's because of the price point that the manager has in his head for that individual. I don't remember the actual term from Dan Ariely's book, but it was about becoming attached to the first price you hear. So if you know the current salary of employee X, and they want more, you could be reluctant. But an unknown person that you want to hire will ask for more, and that might be fine.

Another possibility is that the management doesn't always know who they should keep, or simply they have a different perspective on who or what is valuable. So a regular employee might wonder that they let a person go, but their contributions were maybe either unknown or not as valued by the management.
It's only for tv shows
> What I do know is that it's much easier for me to hire a competent lawyer or UX designer than it is to hire a competent software developer

I'm curious if you grill the lawyer on some abstract topic from their undergrad courses (possibly 20 years ago) and make them write it perfectly on a whiteboard? Meaning, the same way software developers get interviewed?

Or do you look at the lawyer's professional experience and hire based on that?

It's easy to hire people when you make it easy, it's difficult when you put up artificial barriers to prevent the hiring.
Then they should pay me for results, not for showing up. Then I'd have an incentive to actually try to do the best job I can.
The DoD maintains its own registry of hardened container images they call the Iron Bank. I guess they can't issue guidelines to the general public that you should use these, but the DoD has to use them. Which kind of sucks, because they may be hardened, but they also break all the time because the people responsible for hardening them can't possibly understand all the myriad subleties involved in building and deploying software packaged with dependencies in the same way the actual software vendors do. They make some serious rookie mistakes, like just straight copying executables out of a Fedora image into a UBI images, which works perfectly fine when a brand-new UBI release happens and it's on the same glibc as Fedora, then immediately stops working and all your containers break when Fedora updates.
Err... I don't think your second point necessarily follows the first point. For a country to become "angry an belligerent, with massive chip on shoulder," it needs (1) angry, desperate people, and (2) someone who would gain politically by fanning the hatred (often in a self-reinforcing cycle).

I think the anti-Japanese sentiment didn't really took off because, once you start looking into the matter, you'd rapidly realize that half of the country's ruling class was national traitors, at which point the question will become strictly verboten. By the time the country became democratic enough so that people could actually raise these questions, there was no point in becoming a "freedom fighter." Sure, everybody loves to hate Japan (especially when there's a soccer match), but nobody with half a brain would want to, say, visit Tokyo and blow up stuff ... it makes zero sense!
> UK has a bit more covid direct death than most

What? The UK has double the death rates of similar EU countries. Double is not 'a bit more'.

> and had a bit less lockdown days (and with overall less restriction) than those same countries

If you look at this[1] chart, I think it shows that the UK was in lockdown for longer than most (all?) nations in europe.

EDIT: I'm not sure where wikipedia is drawing their data from. This Jerusalem Post article quotes 79 total days in lockdown, which compares favourably to Germany at 88 days, but unfavourably with Spain (69 days). Regardless, I think it's clear that the UK is one of the european frontrunners when it comes to days spent in lockdown.

>a bit more on protecting the economy/societal model

If you look at this[2] chart you can see that the UK had a GDP fall of 9.9% in 2020, which compares unfavourably to France (8.2%) and Germany (4.9%), and Italy (8.8%).

Shambles is the kindest word one could use for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_responses_to_the_COVI...
[2] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/OEMDC/...