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Outerbounds | Systems dev | SF / Remote | Full-time

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Cypress | Full-time | Remote in North America | https://cypress.io

Cypress provides developers and QA engineers with a better, faster, more reliable way to test anything that runs in a browser. Cypress makes writing, running and debugging tests easy for hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide, including engineering and QA teams from Disney, Slack, GoFundMe, Shopify, PayPal, Betterment, GitHub, NBA, Wayfair, and more.

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I think you're conflating "fair" with "strictly permissible under the law". Lawful isn't the same as being ethical, decent, or "fair".
And that being an average: it is much worse in some places, here in NL it's 20%, and there are countries where it is even worse.
That's almost exactly backwards, where are you getting this? The big inflation driver right now is (1) the increase in liquid cash in the economy due to covid relief programs and (2) the higher wage levels needed to get people to work during a pandemic.

The "poor" are, in fact, doing significantly better (economically, anyway) now than they were in 2019. I'll have to go look it up, but there was a great blog post a few months back looking at poverty statistics over the pandemic. The relief bills helped a ton.
Weird comment. Why lead with a false dichotomy and then slide into everything is a gray area? Maybe pick an example and go with that?
You can read between the lines here, and then the value proposition becomes much more clear for Facebook. For this to work, they'd basically need to provide a common engine for everything using the Metaverse. Rather than Second Life, people should be thinking Roblox as the closest existing technical implementation.

So, what's the value proposition in killing all existing 3D engines and completely replacing them? Obviously high if you can pull it off.

But this "metaverse" thing is really easy to write whitepapers and even fiction about it when you don't have to actually implement it, but gets a lot trickier in the implementation. For instance, right now, 3D engines are undergoing some pretty major changes in every release. This is not generally the time someone can swoop in and stabilize everyone on a particular engine for long periods of time, because while the "metaverse" is being written on this gen, Unreal Engine is advancing to the next level, and stuff written on that engine is going to be easier to write and look a lot better than the "meta" engine. There's actually some deep and fundamental reasons Roblox looks and plays the way it does.

There's other issues too; the "metaverse" envisions all this cross-platform avatar stuff, but are you going to play Call of Duty and its gritty "realistic" gameplay with 24 cartoony dufuses? No. Is Disney going to just happily license all of its characters to go into Call of Duty and get shot and bloodied? No. Are you going to be able to take your trademarked character everywhere with you? Exactly as well as you can stream whatever content you want from any content streamer today.

Building the technical platform is already a multi-billion dollar problem. There's a good chance it won't work well when it's done, but even if they overcome that, then they've got abundant legal barriers to overcome, in an environment where other companies are going to have every incentive to sue for their chunks of flesh.

I can also virtually guarantee that we're going to see very targeted demos, where the demos that Facebook puts out works well, because they were written in conjunction with the engine team, so the engine has exactly the features necessary to make the demo work, and nothing else. When EA goes to port Call of Duty into the metaverse, it's going to be a nightmare bug fest that looks like garbage compared to the real release.

When you think about the tech necessary to accomplish their goals, and then consider the social and industry implications of that tech, it's hard to see how to reach their lofty goals. The metaverse simply implies a level of cooperation and voluntary power ceding and a lowest-common-denominator environment that can't hold up the fictional portrayals driving the hype.

(I think ultimately it's a category error I've seen a lot. Fiction can be good at pointing the general direction the future may be, but taking fiction as a technical blueprint never works out well that I can see.)
It's hard to define any company as a 'tech company' if you're willing to define Netflix as a Media Company.

In some sense, I agree - Netflix, Disney, and Pixar are media companies that use technology to distribute, to recommend, and to produce their content.

But in the same sense, Google is an advertising company that uses technology to sell and to show their ads (and they have a few loss-leading tech ventures like search, mail, a phone OS, and a browser - all of which they give away to more effectively show those ads). Facebook is another advertising company, they happen to show and profile their ads using their social network tech. Amazon is a retail sales, warehousing, and product distribution company that happens to use a lot of technology. They also have a "tech company" division that sells web services, but that's only 13% of their revenue.

Similarly, Walmart is a retail sales and warehousing company (as well as product distribution now, but most recognizable by their brick-and-mortar stores) that uses technology in every aspect of buying product, shipping it to stores, deciding where and how much of it to stock, how to price it, and when to restock it, just like Amazon. There was a time when Sam Walton walked around, squinted at the shelves, and made notes about what and how much to order on a clipboard, but that's long past - it's all tech now. Automotive manufacturers are other very big tech companies, they build and sell automobiles but every step of that design, fabricate, market, and sell process uses technology.

Apple, at least, sells technology hardware. Microsoft also sells technology hardware and software, but they did so before FAANG were big so they're not in the list either.

The list is arbitrary. Software and technology is eating - has eaten - the world, and management of it is critical to every business.
With todays market, or even yesterdays, taking 20 years to double in value seems low IMHO.

At 5% interest, it takes 14 years to double. At 10%, 7.2 years.
Do condors generally have one egg at a time or were there other eggs hatched at the same time with a male parent? Do they think the two bird's early deaths were related to their parthenogenesis, and did the 8 year old one parent any children? On that note, what was the gender of the unfertilized chicks?
No quite enough CPU ;). It's getting a bit dated of course, but my machine is running a Devils Canyon 4790k (at stock speeds), 16G ram, 1.5TB of storage (NVME M2 and a 2.5" drive) and a rx5700.
Brilliant plan to gather trade secrets and pass it onto the incompetent Intel. Quite heavy handed extraterritorial overreach. Imagine China doing the same to the Taiwanese and South Koreans and the headlines.

From the article:

The U.S. Commerce Department’s September call for companies to hand over information related to the ongoing chip shortage has faced resistance in Taiwan and South Korea due to concerns over possible leaks of trade secrets.

While the initiative is voluntary, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has warned that the U.S. might use the Defense Production Act, or other tools, to force the hands of companies that don’t respond by Nov. 8.
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Pretty clear not an illegal poll tax since this man is an edge case who uses a name with no proof. It’s sad that this is ultimately his mother’s fault, and he can’t ask her for the $250 to fix this.
Prior to humans industrializing the Sahara desert was green, 11,000 - 5,000 years ago.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-saha...

The world regularly adjusts, California has had more fires historically (and less).

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/09/1112839109

I agree things are changing, but it's not clear who or what is causing it. That's really my only thoughts on the subject. Seems CO2 has a smaller impact than what ever has caused the Sahara to turn into a desert.
This is just a way for the government to subsidize telco equipment upgrades, using popular-with-voters nationalism and anti-Chinese racism as a pretext.
Migrating your U2F auth service to WebAuthn
> Huawei had just recently proven that China can overtake western technological capabilities in a key industry. That's the point when America flinched.

Here I was thinking it was because Tony Podesta et al were involved with keeping them clean in the first place!
Haha this is even crazier than the original fake-mirroring usage!
For reference:
- I-Bonds base inflation off the CPI-U index

- CPI-U for 2020-2021 is around 5.4% and this table breaks down the different areas it measures: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm

- And some info on the CPI-U: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cpiu.asp

From looking at the 2020 - 2021 breakdown, and if I am interpreting this correctly, the biggest single category change is in energy at almost 25% with a contribution of ~1.81% to the index.
Maybe one analogy to professional sports would be something like "Watching film".

As a professional athlete, you need to be constant watching film so you know how other players are playing and what they're doing.

However, at some point you also need to be on the court practicing and playing games so you can use that knowledge for something productive.

Being too obsessed with reading would be like a pro athlete who only watches film and never plays the game. At some point, you have to be playing the game. Otherwise, you're no different than just an obsessive sports fan.
> Not sure what you are smoking, but can I have some?

Why would you feel this is necessary?

(edit: I see you edited it away, but I still feel like it’s worth calling out.)
Of course there is zero evidence of Voter fraud. States don’t even check for dead voters or voters who moved out of state. Diebold designs black box systems that aren’t audited by hackers.

Saying there is no evidence of voter fraud is like refusing to get an MRI and saying there is no evidence of cancer.
I'd think they'd block certain well known VPN services IPs, no?
If you’re not comparing the United States in 2021 to countries where the entire economy has collapsed due to inflation, then why are you using terms like “banana republic”? You could have used the 1970s if you meant the the 1970s, which as someone that barely remembers it, was not a “banana republic”.
The thing about text is that it is barebones. Everyone can agree what the structure of text is (a stream of bytes with some ascii like encoding).

For representing code as more than text, you will lose so much tools that can handle your code, it's a massive set back. Add to that how much effort it takes to get people onboarded on your new representation, and things look bleak for adoption.

Finally, programmers really like looking under the hood. And with plain text, you know exactly what your code looks like in bytes.
Citationsy | Front-End and Back-End Developer | Remote | Full-time or Part-Time | https://citationsy.com

Citationsy is a reference management and research app. We have raised a small seed round and are looking to expand our team.

We are currently a fully remote team of two and are looking for ambitious frontend and backend developers (or full-stack developers) to join us.

Our current stack is PHP for the backend and frontend, with some basic JS for interactivity.
We also have a Cordova based iOS and Android app, as well as an Electron based macOS app. These use our API (which is written in PHP).
What we’d like to do is write a new web frontend in React/Next.js that uses the same API, and eventually use that new frontend for the mobile apps too.

Please send your CV/Résumé or any questions you may have to cenk@citationsy.com

This role us fully remote and we have no restrictions on locations or timezones. Optimally we’d all meet up once a year somewhere.
Thinknum | Senior & Junior Data Engineers | Full-Time | Onsite / Remote | New York City

Thinknum creates datasets from a broad array of public online sources, capturing ephemeral information on the products, operating markets and labor markets of 500,000+ global companies across sectors, and provides rich toolsets for extracting intelligence.

Junior Data Engineer | Data Engineering Lead | Senior Data Architect

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- Passionate about Data Engineering and Data Ingestion
- Expertise in Python
- Experience with Selenium, BeautifulSoup - Experience with HTML, Javascript, CSS
- Understanding of the DOM, ORMs

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Many say Breitbart is not a dependent new source, but is the content true or not?
What's subjective about it though? Do you think it is not possible by now for us to collectively come up with an objective definition of what trolling and abusive language is? To me it's pretty clear after spending just a few minutes on Twitter...
Expert witnesses are hired as contractors; paid for their testimony.

If they were being subpoenaed - compelled to be a witness - I am sure the matter would be different.
This isn't Python. Nobody needs or asked for coroutines to do networking in C++.
Last-generation automakers sold expensive, complex ICE vehicles and made money back on parts and servicing.

EVs are much cheaper and simpler to manufacture and last basically forever.
I grew up in New Mexico eating (unshelled) and occasionally collecting piñon seeds (pine nuts) though I didn’t realize they were all the same until much later because the taste was so different. You can still buy the unshelled version without paying too much, but it is a lot of work to break the shells.
Lucky you, mine are < 0. (-.5 % to be precise). That doesn't stop the government here from calculating your taxes based on an imaginary 4.5% gain.
I get the feeling that many people do not even know what problems databases solve. It seems to be common to treat them as an extension to the application's memory that somehow isn't lost between restarts, and the properties, operational caveats and other capabilities of the database are not even considered.
Soundstripe | Full Stack Software Engineer | Remote (US) | https://soundstripe.com

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My team is looking to hire a full stack software engineer to build the best platform to Keep Creators Creating.

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The issue here is that for most people (as opposed to highly paid tech workers) these items are all luxury items that are rarely replaced, as opposed to food and energy which are necessities of life. I know a number of university students who are using 4-6 year old laptops to do their work. The fact that they can get a better laptop for the same money is irrelevant because they are spending that money on things like gas to get to classes and work.
It doesn’t seem like you’re acknowledging the fact that the claim you’re challenging was never actually made
> Seems civics in the US are about to be rigged for one party rule.

The good news is that it doesn't actually work that way. First past the post results in a two party system. Nobody can gerrymander that away.

Drawing the lines different affects what party platforms need to be in order to get half of the seats, but there will still be two parties and they will still each control the government half of the time.

Which isn't to say that it doesn't matter, but the thing it does is different than the thing you think it does. Even the party drawing the lines is reshaping what they'll need their own positions to be in order to win.

If you really want to fix it, replace first past the post with range voting. Good luck gerrymandering that. Might even solve polarization by getting rid of the poles.
I'd rather have the ability to filter what I don't like in my feeds, but having the government do this is totalitarian. Who knows what they will search for, I lived under communism for 15 years, thank you, don't want back to the reign of terror.
> there are also clear mathematical criteria that can be used to asses the fairness of a voting/districting scheme

I think this illustrates how bias thrives in generalities - with as little evidence as is necessary to advance the agenda.

Deep examination of nuances leads to an organic, comprehensive understanding, one that is rocky soil for bias.

As example: Ideological media relentlessly push preformed talking points to prevent viewers from contemplating an issue beyond the desired scope.
I know people keep saying Intel is dead, but it's not entirely accurate imo.

All of my machines still use Intels (other than my SBCs). So installing this and running it is trivial.

Intel is still a major contributor to the Linux kernel. Thus, all their CPUs have first-class support for it. AMD fired all their Linux engineers some time back. They never rehired them to my knowledge.

Then there's things like this (MKL libraries are another). Intel spends a lot more money on development of these little libraries which does meaningfully speed up processes. Those processes affect my day-to-day work as a software engineer.

That adds up when I have to deploy on the cloud. ARM is not quite there yet and little hiccups at deploy time are a pain when the cost difference is not so significant relative to the hourly cost of my time. Linus Torvalds pointed this out about ARM, stating it couldn't ever take off unless it took off on the desktop.
It's not a false dichotomy, it's a hyperbole meant to illustrate an uncomfortable trade-off.
> By contrast, a good candidate may not be able to immediately repeat the algorithm, but can reason their way there pretty quickly.

I know dozens of good candidates who can't get there pretty quickly but are really good. I also know dozens of good candidates who can get there pretty quickly but won't be good enough on the job.
> But earning 2x inflation rate is pretty decent for a low-risk investment.

Maybe you mean this anyway, but your statement could be misunderstood: One doesn't earn twice the inflation rate. It is multiplied by two to give an annual rate that can then be combined with the annual fixed rate. When calculating the coupon, you would of course have to adjust for half a year.
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Recently funded and awarded Gold in MassChallenge, Rentable is looking to take our platform to the next level by bringing on an experienced Front End Engineer to own our customer facing tooling. This role will be responsible for choosing an maintaining the front-end stack moving forward and working with designers and business to make the best product possible. Rentable is a fintech platform focused on solving problems related to the home renting process. We help property managers and owners handle security deposits and other upfront payments and offer financial services and additional products to make renters’ lives easier. Apply online at https://angel.co/company/tryrentable/jobs/1665452-senior-fro... or email solomon@rentable.com with your resume
Sometimes, you do a lot of research just to tell you that you shouldn't do something too... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>The entire thing is a farce. There has never been any way to know where an endpoint device is

A good point. Note that I said:

IP blocks...are sometimes necessary for the site
to at least *attempt to stay in contractual
compliance* with the content owners.

I never said that such blocks were a good idea, nor did I say that they work.

I merely suggested that such geo-blocks could be a result of contractual requirements between the distributors and the content owners.

Personally, I think it's dumb too.

But I'm not a content distributor or content owner. As such, my opinion has no impact on the legal contracts between such entities.

>The obvious solution to all of this is to forget about trying to tie locations to IP addresses, since that has never worked, and just ask the user's device what country it's in. The user can set it to a different one but that's no different than the status quo.

You won't get any argument about that from me.
It sounds like the fraudster got a copy of the real person's driving licence, although he must have looked the real person presumably.

A Solicitor has to due the legal due-diligence to make sure they have the right to sell including usually ownership of the title deeds but if you don't have the title deeds and they are held by the Land Registry in name only, this is fairly easy to get around.

I smell an insurance claim against the Solicitor but it depends whether they did everything correctly or not, otherwise I don't know where he stands.
And always have been dying of climate change