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Of course. Sometimes companies do things that are blatantly illegal and they know it. Usually they don't put these things down in SEC filings. For example, I'm sure that many hedge funds routinely trade on insider information and know that what they are doing is illegal. Most are smart enough not to publicize this.

In this case, my point is not that this is legal or illegal. My point is that they probably ran this by their lawyers and at the very least those lawyers probably said "yeah, you have a reasonable case if this goes to court". If the lawyers said "yeah, this is definitely illegal, you are going to get sued, it's an easy case and you are going to lose", then sure, it's possible that Twilio decided to do this anyway, but I don't see that as likely. They probably have at least a legal theory on why this is permissible.
Security team was just checking that it was actually me in terms of the location I was in being off. But they didn't make much of an issue after I simply confirmed that yes this is actually me.

But outside of that one time, I basically don't disclose where I am.

My GF isn't tied to a location since she does mostly freelancing/contracting and makes it known she will not/should not be expected to be in a single location and gets away with that just fine. So I basically just started joining her in her travels the past few years.

I'm pretty set in that I would simply quit if my company ever demanded I go back home and stay there.
That is exactly how it works for millions of people who bought or refinanced with record low rates. If you borrow $1million at 2% interest, and inflation is 10%, you are profiting $80k/yr if you put the money in an asset that goes up in value with inflation.
There used to be a TGV direct from London to Marseille, at least during the summer season, iirc.

But, IMHO, it's much more convenient and faster to fly from Heathrow to Marseille.
You can try CenPOS [1] or tempus [2]. Both are easy and fairly quick to implement.

[1]https://www.elavon.com/industries/cenpos.html
[2] https://www.tempuspayment.com/default.aspx
Ah yes, so according to you, in the “real world”, shareholders interests and the interests represented by the government are functionally equivalent. This must be why we have no minimum wage laws, worker protections, nor does the FTC ever block any mergers.

> If you make the false assumption that the public requires 100% support to do anything.

You’re sitting here complaining about not being perfectly understood over and over and yet here you claim I said 100% support is required. I said one group isn’t representative of the other, ie it’s interests are not reflective of the pother groups interests.

> You don't need it to be representative, just to form majority. 51% is more than sufficient. 58% provides a healthy margin.

Assuming 88% of that 58% are in actually in agreement.

> Should it imply it? I don't see the relevance.

You made the argument that the shareholders of one public company are somehow functionally equivalent to the public at large:

> Anti-trust could, in theory, do more to prevent the general public from not caring about the product they control. The problem is that laws (where Figma and Adobe are located) are prescribed by the very same general public, so you have to convince them its a good idea. And if you've done that, the law becomes largely superfluous because at that point they're already on board and will act as such on their own accord.

Your position is basically: we already live in an anarchy capitalist society with extra cruft.
Tbh, there's probably a reddit for stealthy digital nomads and you could advertise there. Like r/overemployed but for unauthorized remote work.
This is a dumb take, product recalls happen all the time if the issue is bad enough, otherwise everything else flies under the radar. All physical goods eventually need upkeep, too.
Unfortunately the Raspberry Pi doesn't support WoL :(
We had a guy from toptal for a while. He was okay, but nothing extraordinary. The odd thing is that nearly everyone they sent our way was of Eastern European extraction, with a demeanor & grooming more military than nerd, which I found most peculiar.
just as a bit of trivia, not sure where this even comes from, Dickensian counting houses? but you're not supposed to put the word "and" in there, just strip it out; say "and" when you get to the decimal point
It’s a communist tactic to sow division in society by raising tension along identity lines like race, etc. Of course schools usually cover this part of history as “McCarthyist nonsense.”
I don’t agree with all of what you said but if there’s one thing I completely agree with it’s the booking website. It is such a pain to book tickets on it.
Godot 4 entering beta is quite an important thing since that is update that has been in works for a couple of years now and adds lots of new capabilities to Godot.
Ka Forushi = Hay Market

I understand this article is about the restaurant, but its good to be fair. Taliban are hypocrites, but so were the Mujahideen with Ahmad Shah Masood and now his son. They were freedom fighters but they were also thieves who stole emeralds from Afghanistan's mines, smuggled and sold them to Pakistan (same people who fund taliban). They've made millions but afghans haven't seen a lick of it.

It's all a mess.
I'm pretty certain that was the GP's point as well, just expressed in a sarcastic tone. The experiment is famous for baffling physics students.
Thanks, Jeff!

I opened some issues:

https://github.com/ThomasVon2021/pikvm-board/issues/38

https://github.com/ThomasVon2021/pikvm-board/issues/39

https://github.com/ThomasVon2021/blikvm/issues/3
is that assumption not reasonable? It's the one I've been working with for a while.
I have (had, soon) this add-on and I very much care a out privacy. Blocking all cookies from non-whitelisted sites is more or less impossible with all the consent pop ups. Ant many of those pop ups make it really hard to reject cookies.

So I went for a solution that makes browsing less annoying, whithout storing many cookies:

- Have this add on accept all cookies
- Block third party cookies
- Delete cookies from websites as soon as I close a tab

I (and you) don't know if many users of this add on do something similar, but it is what's recommended on the website

> Please educate yourself about cookie related privacy issues and ways to protect yourself and your data. For example, you can block 3rd party cookies, install ad blocking extensions and then block tracking tools, delete browsing data regularly, enable Tracking Protection in your browser etc.
California has already started to try to tax people leaving, if I remember correctly. Something about the value of investments sold afterwards that appreciated during their time in California.

It's only going to get worse as the differentials increase.
But Photoshop is not a vector design tool? I thought this move happened in the 90s
Not to mention that in large areas of the northern US, any painted road markings are likely to be covered by snow and ice a good portion of the year.
Bottled water is still going to have plastic inside it like the problem in the title.

Reminder that humans have only been drinking plastic for the last 100 years of our existence. This could be having far reaching consequences.
Not here, nor anywhere I've been. Maybe they're useful? I can understand a degree from any university, and I can validate your creds with the institution. Certs? Nah. Plenty of cheats available anyway.
news article about the study: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/15/scientists-h...
Oh yeah for sure. I don't mean to convey any disdain for dbm itself or for having it rolled into the standard library. Reading and writing custom files for "convenience persistence" or configuration is one of those really common things that you don't usually need to actually do if you know about tools like this.

I was just pointing out that the title and even the article seem to associate this system with python per se, rather than understanding it as python's interface to a common and pre-existing system.
Also notable[1][2], but for entirely different and wider purposes, and considerably closer in generational performance to the host machines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_card

[2] https://lowendmac.com/1991/radius-rocket-and-stage-ii-rocket...
Relevant Silicon Valley episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAxzkl2cmNY
IIRC, it's more or less inspired by the Kingfisher's beak[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingfisher
See also, Supabase, a competitor to Appwrite.

https://github.com/supabase/supabase

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319901
Or selling NFTs to yourself to launder money.
OP here: Those are fair points.

I get it from the business' perspective and also from a software developer's perspective.

Its unfortunate that there is so little option for a consumer here when they are just wanting to just simplify their lives without sharing their personal data and/or subscribing to a service.
I EXCLUSIVE UPPERCASE SQL, not really sure why, just find it more readable
"The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized an exception to Title VII’s protections from discrimination in industries where employers can establish a historical imbalance or disparity in the workforce. In United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC v. Weber, 443 US 193 (1979), the Supreme Court considered an affirmative action program that was implemented to increase the amount of black skilled craft workers. Half of the positions in the training program were reserved for black workers. Because this training scheme was intended to eliminate longstanding patterns of racial segregation and Title VII “did not inten[d] to prohibit the private sector from taking effective steps” to ensure the goal to prevent discrimination was implemented, the program was upheld. This same theory was applied to the underrepresentation of women in Johnson v. Transp. Agency, Santa Clara Cnty., Cal., 480 U.S. 616 (1987). A male worker had challenged the agency’s selection of a female worker over him. Here, the court upheld the Santa Clara County Transportation Agency’s plan to “achieve a statistically measurable yearly improvement in hiring and promoting minorities and women in job classification where they are underrepresented.” Where no specific number or quota was required but short-range goals were implemented and adjusted yearly, the agency could permissibly take sex into account as one factor in deciding whether to promote women."

source: http://www.epspros.com/news-resources/white-papers/2020/the-...
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This is libdbm, a relatively ancient db library that you could find on most unixes.

In the 90s you might target dbm for your portable Unix application because you could reasonably expect it to be implemented on your platform. It lost a lot of share to gdbm and sleepycat's BerkeleyDB, both of which I consider its successor.

Of course all of this is now sqlite3.
There are, but, as we say in Czech: "the paper can tolerate anything". I will certainly be opening a bottle of Malbec the day when the works actually start.

HSRs would be very useful, as the contemporary railway network is badly overloaded and at the edge of its capacity. Every irregularity, including planned repairs, unleashes a hurricane of delays all over the main corridors.
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There's something what's called a naming convention.
ALL CAPS are usually constant

All other use of CAPS is dependent on the language and it's naming convention.

One does not simply write like preferred.

Why you ask?
> Wait, aren't digital nomads literally bringing money in from another country? They pay taxes on everything they consume, yet they don't take the money from inside the country, they bring it in from the outside.

Not quite. They do bring money by buying things and paying sales/VAT tax. However, they don't pay income taxes because in 99/100 times they are not allowed to work, so they are illegal immigrants essentially.

They also come with their LA salaries and make renting/buying harder for locals.

I know people who do that in Thailand on tourist visa, and just have a short vacation every 90 days to qualify for new tourist visa.
Yah, the title's not 100% right. :) There isn't a free TIER of Spanner. This is a 90 day free trial.
It comes down to how you define 'working from a country'. Doesn't it mean 'being employed by a local company and paying income taxes' there?

If I go on a vacation and respond to a few work-related emails, am I breaking any laws because I'm working on a tourist visa? Yes, that is ad absurdum, but I'm trying to point out that it's not as clear cut. There is a line that international treaties define, and staying someplace (sometimes even up to 6 months) and working there doesn't necessarily have any income tax implications for you or your employer.
Vans Old Skool.
It looks like they reconfigured the intersection into a roundabout, which eliminated the weird geometry of the previous design and reduced the options available to drivers to just entering and exiting roundabout.
Yup, correct. The title here isn't right. It's a free trial, not a free tier.
Even if we disregard the recurring-monthly-fee part of SaaS, which is popular because it makes more money, I think the "cloud" part is a main reason there are so many. Nobody wants to deal with creating installable business software, and businesses mostly don't want to deal with installing software across their systems. It's much simpler for a small dev team to have the software live inside a website, and it's relatively simple to bolt on a monthly fee for access to a website.
May I ask what your business and business model is, just to get a better understanding of the whole situation?
I'm not sure what we're disagreeing about here.

Do you doubt there's been smoggy air here in SF, which you can see due to particulate matter from the wildfires? This happens often. I mean it's basically just slightly thicker than normal smog. And there have been many fires. It's an unremarkable, common occurrence in the Bay Area today, this smog that is made worse by fires.

When it's moist out - not enough for real fog, mind you - it can pass for a fake fog.

Due to the heat, there's also been much less real fog.

So all I'm saying is that there have been more days w/visible smog than fog in SF in 2022. Which I stand by, as something I've observed, which is also something you'd expect, given 1) number of fires increasing smog and 2) heat wave decreasing real fog.
Read up on the accounting required for baseball players. It's absolutely insane and sometimes comes down to "were they on the roster" or "in the stadium" or "on the lineup" and so forth.
“Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone that your adrenal glands produce and release.”

It’s the underpinnings of many different problems. And think about it for a sec, if you found yourself hypersensitive to cortisol how do you think your brain would react?
The two examples you gave are not equivalent.

It's not about whether you're working for a Mexican employer or not when you're in Mexico. It's about whether you're working at all.
Definitely recommend this one. I have it switched to not consenting to anything, and I haven't seen a cookie popup since.
Alright, seems reasonable. Where do you buy your filters from?
Agreed!

But this point from the comment shouldn't be overlooked:

> You can, but it's not a slam dunk decision, and just because you paid that money, you may still not get things as you want (or when you want).
Thank you. Definitely a bit harder than Stripe. I understand the difference now.
YC is the wrong comparison. This is a lot more like an old school patronage – give smart/talented/motivated young people money with no strings attached, just so they can live their lives without worrying about rent and food. Chances are some of them will eventually produce works of exceptional value. The MacArthur Grant is a famous modern example.

There's no point in judging the program in terms of success or failure, like this article is trying to do. Thiel isn't investing in anything. Returns, if any, aren't measurable. It is simply one of the thousands of scholarships and grants out there, with the only noteworthy thing being the "you have to drop out of school for two years" clause.
These are essentially utilities in today's world.

And with that you cannot turn off someone's electricity (which they don't "need": see Amish) just because you don't like them. And definitely not while hiding behind an algorithm.
this is true, to be fair .. anyone remember "Xaos Tools" (video effects), Audion or when Marc Cantor became so personally offensive that the business people paid him to leave? it is true.. end of innocence stories here
Isn't Amsterdam also famous for its decorative red lights?
Does any state do that? I'd think it could cause a civil war damn fast.

The nexus is "where the work is performed" or "where the employee resides" and usually states have agreements with the neighboring states so it balances out.
Whoops, my mistake. I missed the link back to the original. Thanks for the correction! I'd edit my original comment, but I'm past the edit time window.
The most infuriating part about number input, is when you set min=0, you can't backspace in the field to enter a different number.
Maybe? Because climate change is a self-feeding cycle, releasing large amounts of CO2 early, then amortizing that over decades of operation, is worse than a constant steady release.

I guess you're probably right, nonetheless. It just annoys me when people post polls like this to prove that people in general are stupid, when polls generally show that ordinary people everywhere are way better on climate issues than political elites.
The F-16 has a targeting radar mounted on a flat bulkhead. It's nose is effectively transparent.
On the other hand, many video terminals (such as the VT100) could be put into a reverse mode, dark text on bright background, and I've seen it in enough old photographs to assume people actually used it pretty often.
Traffic lights aren't the main problem: four way intersections are.

Roundabouts, offset T-intersections and grade separation all make traffic safer by removing conflict points - it's not the removal of traffic lights that improves the safety. Four way intersections put traffic directly on collision paths at high speed, meaning if anyone makes an error (missing the light or otherwise), you have an awful crash.

It's relatively rare in the UK to have four way stops or high speed four way signal controlled intersections. One of the weird things about driving in the US for me was the prevalence of both of those things.
For most purposes, a foreign tech worker is a lot like having an extra tourist on any given week. They are giving money to your local businesses, but aren't competing with locals on anything but housing. The locals are going to see an increase in income in the very same way that they do in tourist towns: Extra demand for goods and services will provide more jobs and quite possibly marginally higher wages.

Take a random tourist town: Say, in the southern coast of Spain. Then tell them that finally, they had managed to get rid of all the tourists, forever. Is that good or bad for the town? It's not as if there are no externalities, but in general, tourism is going to be good for your economy, and the amount of extra taxes the tourist pays on lodging is pretty low. Which Caribbean islands do better, those that have a lot of tourists, or those that don't take any external money?

Also consider what happens in the opposite side of the remote worker, where what you get is the equivalent of a foreign worker who comes in, pays taxes, but spends basically nothing, and spends all their salary in remittances, to be spent abroad by their family. The worker is competing with you for the job, but then doesn't spend it locally! You will not find many municipalities that are all that happy of having a lot of jobs formerly done by locals in offices suddenly done by someone that is far away.
> For something that is supposed to "change the System" it for sure is often pitched like the System can never change. That missing (enforcement of) regulation makes it economically beneficial to just vent methane without even flaring, is not something to celebrate. It's nice that the incentives lined up decently, this time. We should work on fixing the incentives so the methane can stay in the ground where it belongs. Don't dig that well.

Bitcoin was never billed to change that system, and yet it is anyway.

You're trying to let perfect get in the way of good, failing all modes of consensus until the world is uninhabitable, while this just works and fulfills the goals of all political parties at the moment: reducing emissions and being economical.

Bitcoin mining on existing fracking sites is a stop-gap solution at best, right now nobody is making new wells with the perk of adding miners or renting space to mining firms. Right now, the fracking operations are just meeting their climate goals, the captured state regulator no longer needs to be in the awkward position to rubber stamp emissions exemptions, the governor no longer needs to run interference for the whole fracking industry. Its only a stop gap solution because if 10x more wells were made after a 90% drop in emissions, then we're at the same place we were, so if you begin seeing that then be vigilant about that. But thats really not a bitcoin issue, thats a fracking issue that you're putting on bitcoin because you've had zero influence your entire life on the oil and gas sector, the separate higher standard doesn't make sense though, as - for now - this stop-gap solution is here and working. "oh no but its bitcoin, that other thing I spent so much of my energy hating" cope, my guy. this is working.
How does that particular thing work? You run the exchange, then have dirty untraceable money traded on the exchange to dirty participant and you take the exchange fees? You'd have to KYC both participants, right?
> I don't believe that these industries are prone to higher than usual fraud.

This belief might be wrong - or at least not shared by payment processors?
> If I go on a vacation and respond to a few work-related emails

Law isn't code. Reasonable people (judges, normally) are able to decide what is "actually working" and "incidentally working while on vacation".
Nothing wrong with living like a Hobbit, if that's one's jam. Hobbits do a lot of things right.
At worst, you've made single vote FPTP with extra steps. Give your guy 5, everyone else 0. The goal is to get in the runoff and to keep others out. If everyone adopts this strategy, it's the same as FPTP.

At best, you're made RCV/IRV with extra steps. Because still you give your guy 5 stars, but now there's people you do not want at all. They're 0s. Then there are people you're ok with, but would rather have your guy win. They're 1s. That way, if the runoff is between one of your 0s and one of your 1s, you're making sure a 0 doesn't win. Which is exactly RCV/IRV where you've ranked them 1, 2, and 3.

Past that, candidates towards the bottom of the ballot are going to get shafted. There is incredible decision fatigue in having to rank everyone 0 - 5 stars. After a while, you will either give up or just start picking more arbitrarily.

RCV/IRV is fine. Condorcet is fine. Star voting is just bad.
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