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I don’t understand why the author didn’t take medical leave. That’s exactly what this is for. You get reduced pay while on leave, though you can work with the company to see if they can fulfill a portion of that. My current employer covers 30%, while short-term covers 60%. 90% pay to be able to completely disconnect from work for several months is absolutely worth it.

It does sound like communication with the manager was poor, though. The manager should have been more empathetic to their situation (depends heavily on how comfortable the employee was with giving out this information).
With the help from Bosch:

"Supplier’s Role Shows Breadth of VW’s Deceit"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/business/bosch-vw-diesel-...
Having gone from limited PTO to unlimited really helped me realize that I'm a hoarder. When PTO is limited, I rarely take it, but when I had unlimited I was much more liberal about actually using it. I went from average 1-2 weeks per year to 5-6, mostly by taking random days here and there, ducking out early to have a fun afternoon with the kiddo, etc.
That is probably what I would do. But only because I avoid confrontation, sometimes to my disadvantage.

I admire what this guy is doing.
>I assume that cheap stuff outnumbers nice stuff by a few orders of magnitude, just like every other consumer facing industry.

Depends on when it was made. Stuff made in the 70s and earlier are very high quality. Probably just like every other consumer facing industry. Even today, you can find cheap guns, but they're still made mostly of steel and they have to survive an explosion, so they're pretty sturdy.
How many of those weapons were discharged? And how many were “seized” is not as interesting as how many were being held illegally? The government can illegally seize all sorts of things from citizens, including cash, but the process of doing so doesn’t make the original possession a crime
With the advances in text generation by machines that looks, but isn't quite accurate (aka GPT-3), seems like it would be easily gamed (given access to GPT-3). Even without GPT-3, if the content being prioritized is mere text, I'm sure that for a pile of money, I could generate something that looks like Wikipedia, in the sense that it's a giant pile of mostly text, but it would make zero sense to a human reader. (Building an SEO farm to boost ranking of not-wikpedia is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Saw those ROMs in my Romanian clone called Cobra (Computers Brașov). Young me was fascinated by the way they were encased in some sort of clear epoxy instead of black ceramic. You can read more about the clone here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/the-underground-stor...
Agreed with all of the above, but it addition, isn’t it obvious gun owners in the United States are much more likely to support any likely authoritarian government? They are mostly right wing, and the right wing in the US increasingly leans authoritarian.
I was seeing it on Android w/ Firefox. Seems like it's fixed now though. :)
> increased the throughput from 400 bytes/s to 7.5 kB/s

Since then someone has come up with yet another custom disk loader that's more than twice as fast as that one!

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=197710

It's incredible that people are still pushing the limits of the stock C64 system these days...
For some languages (Python and Java) there is official documentation that might not always be easy to read but is always correct.

Don't search for things on Google or Stackoverflow if you're using a language with a good manual. Learn how to find things in the manual. Read the manual on your tablet when you spin at the gym. Learn it like the back of your hand.

If you use sites from the spamweb to look up answers you can almost never save time because your time will be wasted by spam, spamvertising, wrong answers, bad explanations, etc.

Unfortunately Javascript doesn't have a real "official manual" but

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web

comes close.
Just because it happened slightly earlier doesn't diminish his point, which is that it's a common occurrence.
On the one hand, you have a million "growth hackers" espousing the benefits of optimizing this and that, including pricing, to extract the most value from your customers. On the other hand, some people are going to call you manipulative if you do it. As a customer, I filter through the bs and go with what I need. I also know an organization is likely to have some offputting "player" working, say, marketing, but the tactics employed at that level won't speak for their whole org and/or products. Maybe I'm influenced one way or another, but if I keep paying, you must be offering me enough value or I'll eventually walk away.

Yes, it would be great if pricing and marketing was always honest but I don't expect to see "We do our best, but we're often mediocre, so just go for the cheapest plan" anywhere soon.

Train the bs filter. It'll serve you well in this and many other cases.
> For instance: someday, the enemy may be the US military itself.

That's exactly what I mean when I say "if you let it happen then you have already failed to defend your freedom." The US military is not a band of invaders, it's made of your fellow Americans. What were you doing while it turned into your enemy?
>This isn't the way the government is supposed to work.

But clearly this is how the government currently works. If you don't want it to work that way, you'll need to change it.

>To say that the real solution is to just hope and pray that the legislature comes to their senses

No, the solution isn't hope and prayers, its activism, donations and getting others politically involved (especially about things that aren't the president).
As long as the contract is reasonably sound and the company has assets, many lawyers will take it on a contingent basis and you can request legal fees in addition to the promised sum. It would still be a hassle, but part of it's the principle for me.

I'm sorry your experience is with people not paying. Can I ask why you haven't pursued them or what the outcome was?
A regular user would have said, "What's a disk partition?"
"Why isn't the stock market reacting at all?"

Inflation. In the stock market, yes.

There's a lot of money with nothing else to do. Somebody puts some in the market, stock prices go up, and everyone says, "hey, stocks are going up!" Lather, rinse, repeat.

Remember, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Have you ever been part of a company sale before or been at a private meetings/meetups where founders talk about how they sold their business? I've never sold a company, but I've talked privately with many that have (and have raised considerable sums).

Very common that the baseline is the amount of money raised - it's why sometimes companies die and not get sold. Other times, companies will use amount of money raised as leverage to increase the final sale price (based on investor expected returns).

Money raised plays a huge factor in regards to sales price, or if a sale occurs at all.
Well-regulate here means well armed. So, theoretically, this means that the right of the people to keep and bear arms should include all weapons useful to a militia. So machine guns, mines, grenades, rocket launchers, tanks, helicopters, etc.
The profiles have a separate history, password store, settings and extensions as a bonus.
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> How do are these qualitatively different kinds of value?

The second set are tradeoffs, they give you a framework for decision making: "integrity" is obviously a thing you want, but everyone wants it, it doesn't really tell you anything about the values that a particular organization has in comparison to another. The second set are implicitly about tradeoffs: when on the fence, prefer doing something to not doing something, or when you're uncertain, make a change and deploy a feature even at the cost of potentially breaking things. This gives you information on how decision should be made and what the organization values (features > reliability, at the margin). When that value changes ("move fast with stable infra") it tells you that while the organization still values velocity over reliability in some places, when dealing with core infrastructure, you should work the other way, preferring stability over feature velocity.

This is explained better in the blog post I linked, I'm mostly restating what it says, but worse.

> An alternative is to simply judge their actions, how they treat people, and the results their organization produces by your own values.

But, and here's an important thing: a leaders' values may be different in different circumstances! The same person, when running a 5 person startup, and a 50,000 person company, will land on different sides of the same tradeoffs! Organizational priorities change. The values I'm describing are how you communicate those organizational priorities.

If you just try to judge a leader or organization based on how they acted in the past, you will be misled if circumstances have changed, unless you can read the leaders mind. That's why stating values is important. Again: they're how you communicate priorities.

How the leader acts and how they treat people don't fundamentally matter when you're trying to figure out if the work you're doing will be considered valuable by the organization. Like yes, you should work for leadership who you enjoy working for on a personal level. But that's totally independent from how good a leader they are. There are very nice people who are incompetent leaders, and there are people I consider assholes and wouldn't want to work for who do a good job of managing their organizations.

It seems like you're talking about personal values (and ethics) which are important yes, but not at all what I was talking about. I'm talking about organizational values as an aspect of leadership. These are in many ways totally distinct from the personal ethics you hold.

And importantly, I think with very few exceptions, trying to glean anything about organizational ethics from stated values is a fool's errand. But they are still important for stating organizational priorities. Don't confuse the two!
You've probably used it when braking hard, you just didn't realize it at the time due to the adrenaline pumping through you.
I'm not minimizing the dangers of someone else recording you. I don't think Schmidt was even thinking about that, probably because smartphones weren't so ubiquitous then.

However, you CAN control what you do yourself. Your to-do list can quite easily be on a paper notebook, as can your journal. Another thread here talks about self-hosting your location history -- why TF would you even want that? You can leave your phone at home when you go places where you don't need it. You can talk to people instead of texting them. All these things might be inconvenient, and amusing for some of your friends. But you'll survive it.

Maybe you can't shut off the flow of data about you, but you can at least refrain from adding to it.
Yes and: more generally, biz based on ad revenue inevitably resort to fear, outrage, and anxiety to juice their numbers.
What Would Happen If We Slowed Down?
> I'm sorry, I don't understand this question. Many people could theoretically do or not do things at some point in the future to benefit any given piece of software, so any answer would be purely speculative.

It is no longer possible to assume good faith. Goodbye!
Until mmWave 5G becomes the norm, LTE towers aren't as accurate as the GPS data obtained by Google. The difference between 30 meters of accuracy[0] and a few meters with Galileo/GPS[1] could be the difference of a search yielding everyone in one building and finding everyone in the neighboring buildings on the same block.

0: https://www.marketingdive.com/ex/mobilemarketer/cms/news/res...

1: https://www.deingenieur.nl/artikel/after-13-years-galileo-sa...
"It’s performant, asp.net is at the top of the tech empower benchmarks, c# is only just behind c++ on the compiler benchamrks game leaderboards". That part isn't available with Clojure.
As much as the hardware fuelled my interest in computing, and ultimately forged my career. Something that I think isn't appreciated enough was the beautiful design language Sinclair employed.
I've always viewed Sinclair as proto Apple.
With everyone saying unlimited PTO is a joke, my experience is the opposite. I used to work at Improbable [0], which had (and still has) an unlimited holiday policy. I regularly took 5 or 6 weeks off per year, never had a single problem with that. Managers would actually encourage people to take time off if they weren't taking enough. Now at Google we have a very generous PTO policy, but I do miss not having to do time off arithmetic to see if I can spend one more week back home for Christmas.

[0] http://improbable.io
Did you expect changing the way an entire country does something would be easy?
> INAL but is see no way this would damage his legal leverage... actually the opposite.

IANAL either, but I imagine posting this gives an opening for Atlassian to sue for slander and ruin the author by taking forever to debate minutiae of every sentence in the article - whereas if the author went after Atlassian directly, the case would be only about what the company did or did not do to them personally.
You don't need to burn off your fingertips (and other biometric myths)
I am so very confused with the recent ubiquity of VPN. I understand VPN. What happened that everyone needs or is at least being convinced they need VPN? Why has it become a product worth being marketed to consumers on every channel? Is this a bubble? Is it a money laundering scheme? Seriously, what is going on?
If they had $79m in cash/liquid and no debt then their enterprise value was $1m and a sale for $80m would make sense at a $1m valuation. But yeah, doubt that.
Alternatively, you can see it as

- (Quiet, Lawyer) Watch your target carefully and, when the opportunity presents itself, go for the throat

vs

- (Publicly Yell) Bark loudly at your target with your teeth shown, so that everyone sees you, and the have no choice but to treat you like a rabid dog and put you down.
Yep. Bosch tried to protect their asses by sending VW a letter that this software was test purposes only, any road or production use would be illegal. They still got fined.
I think that's where policy + manager discretion for overages is the better approach. Your manager should know if you and your team are killing it.

"Unlimited PTO" just sounds like make believe land.

And if it's not an actual, usable, guaranteed policy that doesn't negatively impact your career... then why are we deluding ourselves and creating a policy vs culture mismatch?
Absolutely feel the same. What a legend.
After the first couple of biscuit-tin amplifiers and some bare board products like the Mk14, design became a Sinclair USP.

He was a kind of proto-Jobs. While most of the competition made boring-looking devices, Sinclair hired some of the top people for the time and made products that stood out because they looked exciting.

The ZX series are the best known, but there were precursors like the Black Watch and the Sovereign Calculator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch_(wristwatch)

http://www.vintagebritishcalculators.info/html/sovereign.htm...

He wasn't so good at making things that worked reliably or delivering them on time, but even with the delays the ZX comps were game changers.
Kim husband basically used the tactics I described to get where he is.

Controversial character who aims at winning no more than 10% of people at any interaction and being hated by the remaining 90% is not a problem.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUNTcOGeSw
you're right that my math is wrong in regards to sale_price < real_company_worth - it should have been the other way around... (real_company_worth < sale_price)... I guess I needed more coffee...

max is correct though (whichever value is highest, that sets the base price).
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> I implore you to get legal counsel ASAP, and keep it quiet

If you’re a white male the lawyer will politely tell you no thanks because you’ll never get punitive damages. Why does that matter you ask? Well ordinarily wrongful termination is only subject to actual damages. So if you get another job in a month you can get at most one month’s pay in damages. But wait it gets better! If you can’t find another job because you’re not able to perform those job duties, say because you’re caring for a sick loved one, then the court will deem that your actual damages are zero. Obviously no lawyer wants even a great shot at winning 30% of nothing on contingency.

The only exception would be if you’re in a jurisdiction with juries that are exceptionally sympathetic to the plights of white men and will vote for punitive damages large enough to make it worth a lawyer’s time.

In any event the consult is free so by all means talk to a lawyer, but realistically you’ll get better results by just asking nicely for a separation package.
> It isn't clear at all that delta breakthrough infections result in superspreading.

The party in Münster that's making headlines over here is being called a superspreading event.[0] The number of confirmed infections has now risen to 83.

> transmission is almost certainly reduced by some amount. It may be a substantial amount. Literally nobody knows

If no-one knows, is the phrase "almost certain" appropriate?

[0] https://www.wa.de/nordrhein-westfalen/muenster-2g-party-coro...
Murders aren't the only issue, though. Just the possibility of a gun being present changes a lot of interactions in the US.

Every police encounter has to assume you have a gun. A lot of innocent deaths at the hands of police are treated as "I thought he had a gun", which makes everybody scared of the police -- especially minorities. School children go through metal detectors every single day, never turning up any guns. Many are even required to carry transparent backpacks, just in case one has a gun.

And despite the low murder rate, many are still convinced that they're about to be killed by one of those many, many guns, as seen right here in this HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28556161

All of those guns have a significant, negative effect on daily life in America. The actual murders are comparatively few, but the ability of guns to appear at any instant keeps the entire country on edge, all the time.
Quite the opposite, which is why my comment is poking fun at the parent post which summarizes to "just become a powerful politician".
> A marketer is of no use if nobody needs your product

That's the point of marketing. To mostly convince people to buy products that they don't need.
I don't know much about the design of German cars, but typically in the Japanese ones, you will find that they are designed to work with loose tolerances, but manufactured with actual dimensions very close to the "blueprint" and very little manufacturing variation. As a result, you get very robust construction since everything is basically working exactly in the region it's designed for.
I still have my "Quora Top Writer 2013" fleece jacket though.

So there's that.
That's an invalid application of this theorem. (It doesn't necessarily hold)

Suppose there's an unambiguous ranked preference by all people among a set (webpages, ranking). Suppose one search engine ranks correctly the top 5 results and incorrectly the next 5 results, while another ranks incorrectly the top 5 and correctly the next 5.

What can happen is that some there may be no universally preferred search engine (likely). In practice, as another commenter noted, you can also have most users prefer more a certain combination of results (that's not difficult to imagine, for example by combining top independent results from different engines for example).
Well it is quite easy actually. Your biggest customer request a bunch of features, some for test purposes. You find something fishy, you ask your boss and he tells you orally to just do it because this customer is the most important, or he takes the matter seriously and gives the feature directly to your colleague in India who doesn't raise an eyebrow.

The SW is done and millions of vehicles have the feature. Don't count on other engineer to spot the cheat because everyone has a specific area of expertise, and the software is closely related to the engine hardware. It is very difficult to understand the purpose of each piece of code.

Remember that at that time, noone was ever tried for cheating the exhaust norms and the compliance team only cared about financial fraud.
If it was N26, that's a European bank so I could see similar domains being used in phishing scms.
This! It's infuriating.

I also find that at first it pulls up File Explorer when I type "exp", but in a flash it switches to Edge. Just wanted a file management window, please.
Why would there be no miners? Do you realize that the difficulty is adjusted with the number of miners? If 99.999% of the miners went away you would just mine the next block on your laptop which is what was happening in 2010.
But it would equally be a scam is I explicitly earned a given number of vacation days and couldn't take those.

My main objection to "unlimited PTO" is that it really puts the onus on the company to set some expectations and stick with them, e.g. "While it will differ by workload/deadlines/etc., a normal expectation is that employees take 3 to 5 weeks in a typical year." (or whatever.)
To begin with you're creating a premise that the only reason gun legality can be justified is self defense, particularly against other people.

I do not accept this premise. There are many other premises for gun legality.

That said, when I was very young my grandfather had to shoot a number of stray dogs out his car window while driving through a rough pasture because they'd killed a couple calves and were attacking his cows. Some tried to bite the vehicles tires after the first shots. Gun used was a Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle. I didn't witness, but saw pictures, possibly originally taken for insurance purposes.

He was not, under a very strict definition, defending himself. But it still seems very unproblematic to me.

In many ways being adult enough to vote is synonymous with being adult enough to own a gun safely: the ballot box is as capable as any gun of unleashing horrors on the world.
Indeed, and if you've ever used a machine in China with that crap installed you know how well that went.

Speaking of China, it has always been strange how well ExpressVPN worked there even during high pressure moments where all other vpn operators bit the dust, with some already wondering a few years ago if there wasn't something more shady going on. Eventually I ended up using some self managed shadowsocks servers and it's been a while, so no idea what the current state of affairs is, but I'm even less convinced to use them now.
macOS 11.5.2/iOS 14.7.1 Kernel Race Condition poc
"In June 2008, Bosch wrote a letter demanding that Volkswagen agree to pay any penalties if they were discovered using a defeat device."
The patrolmen are unarmed, police with rifles are just a radio call away though.