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I'm not a lawyer, and I'm aware that the law might be infinitely more ridiculous than what I've seen as a mere observer working in business, but:

> Damages can be shown from the loss of career opportunities that a fancier title would carry.

The guy is going to sue his employer because, while he's arguably overpaid in the way that's easy to measure (pay for a given job title) he's arguably underpaid in the way that's difficult to quantify (was he provably more worthy of a promotion than the person who got it?).

And not even he claims that he is not receiving equal pay for equal work?

Honest question - has anyone (a person that can be named, not a message board hypothetical) ever won a lawsuit like that? Did the victory involve anything more than a court ordering that they be awarded a "fancier title?"
I think the intention of the phrase, is that most cs programs include a systems course. you will learn von neumann arch, with cpu including {registers, clock, ALUs, etc}. Obviously modern CPUs have a lot more complexity, but even the basic coverage of CPUs is more coverage than GPUS.
“ German folklore held that storks found babies in caves or marshes and brought them to households in a basket on their backs or held in their beaks. These caves contained adebarsteine or "stork stones". The babies would then be given to the mother or dropped down the chimney. Households would notify when they wanted children by placing sweets for the stork on the window sill”

Lacking any further evidence, we must conclude that German people must not know the link between sex and reproduction.

(To be clear — your statement is a very outdated belief)
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You're downvoted for apparent irrelevance even though you're absolutely right. It's a shame that those of us who dislike car-centric design have no affordable options in the US.

Without a hint of irony, Musk likes to talk about engineers optimizing solutions to a problem that shouldn't exist. An EV is still a car, and still contributes to the impoverishment of our lives. Cars shed brake and tire dust. They necessitate huge scars across our cities, removing double-digit percentages of land from productive use with their 6-lane roads, and massive parking lots and structures, and ruin much of the rest of the land with proximity to noise and particulate pollution. They make (or made) suburbs economical, contributing to increasing loneliness and isolation, as well as raising the financial bar for participating in society. They've ruined what makes cities great, and without giving us anything in return except huge money and time sinks.
31 states have already enacted some type of special registration fee or tax on EVs to make up for the gas tax. In the majority of them, the new EV-only fee is higher than the average gas tax paid by the average driver in that state.
Not much? EVs have better weight distribution and axle loads are similar to the front axle of an ICE car.

The road wear goes up to the third power of weight so you really should be looking at semis for road wear.
> Ruby 3.0 doesn't have async/await, though. There's a third-party colorless Async gem, and built in constructs (that require a scheduler implementation) for lower-friction asynchronous programming (async as an approach has been popular for Ruby for quite a while), but not with async/await syntax in either case.

(I haven't written anything in Ruby in roughly a decade, so I'm happy to defer to anyone who's actually followed the language the whole time)

That's fair. I had skimmed and found some reference to the async gem relying on Fiber::SchedulerInterface which was introduced in 3.0, although it apparently existed back in 2017.

There's similarly the async-await gem by the same org (also first released in 2017), which at least partially supports that syntax. But in either case, it's not a native language feature.
I dropped a jaw at the $1,500 per month for the cluster. My mind says 15,000 Lambdas costs basically zero dollars… until they start getting run/used. I think the key thing was the request rate, or maybe that combined with the raw number of functions? I can’t imagine using something that was so expensive just to house functions rather than run them at high frequency.
Firearms license renewals were at a standstill for over a year because apparently the single license card printer for the entire country was out of order.
Team Behind NextGen ATSC 3.0 OTA TV Explains Why DRM Is Needed for Free OTA TV
My vehicle enables my person to do so much more than I could do without it.

To focus on People, for me, would imply making vehicle transport easier and quicker. There's virtually nothing I'm interested in that's in walking distance (there are plenty of things in walkable distance - I'm just interested in none of them).
There really isn't an ecosystem. It's mostly just used for driving the tools and describing the configuration. For example, if you needed to generate power straps for an ASIC, you'd add a line to your place-and-route tcl script to generate them.
Preaching to the choir there! While public records laws stink, a lot of the work by orgs involved in transparency, and others have made it better. By no means is it going to be "good" anytime soon, but progress is certainly being made. Whether the work is being done fast enough is a different story, though I'll say that any amount of help makes a larger difference than it might seem. Just gotta be persistent.

One of my proudest moments is (through reporting) getting the Chicago police department to admit they made an enormous mistake in their analysis, which a colleague says was the first time he's seen them admit to such a mistake in the years he's done this work. So there are signs that it's not all lost. Happy to chat about ways to contribute towards this work if you're interested.

One thing I'll say about leaks is that they occasionally have the effect of revitalizing interest in these issues. But again, it takes persistence.
Not in Australia. Even rural is expensive.
This can get pretty complicated. Mineral rights have priority over basic use rights (like living there), and they are often titled separately to different parties. Exploration on the property requires permission from the person with the use rights but there are ways to circumvent that (e.g. from adjacent parcels). Even if you own the mineral rights on your land, you have to actively defend them from encroachment or you can effectively lose them.

In practice everyone will usually try to come to terms to avoid the legal headaches but if you don't own the mineral rights you are negotiating from weak position when this happens.
Something is paying for Canada's massive public sector. What do you think it is?

As for California, a lot of companies moved to Washington to escape the high taxes. Washington used to be a low tax state, but no longer, and companies aren't moving here anymore.

(Washington recently added a capital gains tax, payroll taxes, a $.50 per gallon additional gas tax, and boosted the sales tax to 10.1%.)
If that's the most perverse, backwards thing you have ever heard of, you should really get out more and read more code, because there's much worse stuff in production that you unwittingly using every day. Have you ever tried reading the source code of your X11 window manager, or the screen updating code in Gosling Emacs? (Not to single out the authors of NeWS: David Rosenthal, who also wrote the ICCCM, or James Gosling, who also wrote Java).

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...

>In summary, ICCCM is a technological disaster: a toxic waste dump of broken protocols, backward compatibility nightmares, complex nonsolutions to obsolete nonproblems, a twisted mass of scabs and scar tissue intended to cover up the moral and intellectual depravity of the industry’s standard naked emperor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849522

>James Gosling's Emacs screen redisplay algorithm also used similar "dynamic programming techniques" to compute the minimal cost path through a cost matrix of string edit operations (the costs depended i.e. on the number of characters to draw, length of the escape codes to insert/delete lines/characters, padding for slow terminals, etc).

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/emacs/skull-and-crossbon...

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And how do you propose tracking miles? Keep in mind you should not be taxed for out of state travel, not for travel on private roads.
Road wear is proportional to the fourth of vehicle weight (modulo contact patch size, but let's not complicate things), so let's tax in the same proportion!

Tangentially, I got a look at a Rivian's front tires today, wanting to spot-check the rumor that model shreds front mitts and they looked worse than the rears on the Mustang some friends welded the rear differential on.

Rivians are rumored to squat at highway speed and dump all their power (800 hp, is it?) through the front wheels. The suspension supposedly toes the fronts in for stability at high speed, which results in scrubbing, shredding the fronts.

These mitts, I swear, had wear flaps, where the tire was peeling up. The rears showed none of this. Mind you these were the stock Pirellis that are supposedly extra warrantied for the Rivians design.

Like a true moron I was too excited to go biking to get a picture, and walked off satisfied in validating the internet rumor with my own eyes and those of a couple buddies. One of whom is an insurance agent and just rolled his eyes, saying, "oh yeah we're having an awful time getting coverage for those".
Get in the frakking sea you villains. Literally millions? So you are going to force some shitty Internet connected DRM scheme on the public airwaves, over something so so so cheap to the industry?

> This security upgrade for television broadcasters is important since unprotected signals can easily be intercepted, “deep faked” and redistributed without permission. Courts have shut down these illegal schemes but it took years and cost the industry millions.

Find a real problem, you awful crooks.
Yours is the most reasoned comment here, thank you. And you're right to point the finger at both major parties.

While I agree that there's no single definition of Canadian, I do think there's a particular Canadian sickness that seems to think that policy that benefits and protects existing established interests is good policy.

Example: local rural zoning laws here in Hamilton area were being revisited some years ago. I live on a small farm so went to the sessions and read the documents, etc. And I have an interest in the wine industry, so noticed that in the bylaws they went out of their way to explicitly forbid winery development in any area but an area east of the city (towards Niagara.) Why? When I asked the zoning officer at a public meeting, she just stared at me blankly: "Because that's where the wineries already are."

She wasn't corrupt. She wasn't stupid. She didn't care about the issue. But the thought that you might want to craft regulation in such a way to leave things open for new entrants and possibilities was ... confusing to her. But why would you close off a whole agricultural area to new developments like that? I don't get the mindset, but I see it all the time. Maybe because we're so used to being squashed by the US that we feel we have to protect the successes that we have? Bizarrely though we have very intense internal protectionism.

I see examples of this all over the place. From Alberta's recent moves against the burgeoning renewable energy sector, to Ontario wine regulations, to the way the telecomms sector is run nationally, to the way grants and incubators etc are set up.
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I appreciate your perspective. I think another crucial aspect is that the Canadian population is only 10% of the US, and the variation among states here is just like Canadian provinces or even countries in the EU. The US is very decentralized, and one of its secrets is that during times of great internal division the federal government becomes paralyzed while the states becomes empowered, and conversely during times of national unity the federal government can move mountains while the states take a back seat. Currently it’s a paralyzation moment, but that doesn’t really prevent anything from moving forwards as the system is pretty decentralized and individual-focused already.

On the healthcare aspect, there is no doubt the poorest people in Canada are the EU are treated better than the poorest in the US. I do have a suspicion that as the universal systems reach a breaking point they start to look a bit more like the US - where people pay more if they use more - to encourage better economization of scarce healthcare resources. I have heard some really fucked stories of cancer treatment delays leading to death which I don’t think is as common here (they will treat you in the US, but you might go bankrupt). It’s like, would you rather be rationed and die or get treatment and be bankrupt? I’d prefer to live myself.
several articles also note that this tax is significantly higher than the calculated average ICE drivers currently pay.
https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/texas-electric-vehicle-tax-r...
This is wrong. They can fire the director (which sets the policy). As the director is not that independent (or there is no strong safe guard that she is) then you indirectly set the interest rate.
It's a deceptive example because banks are distributed systems (in that they interoperate with other banks/financial systems, and often have distributed internal database systems across multiple products too). Regular db transactions are insufficient for ensuring consistency across a distributed system, primarily because one of the systems may fail to commit their transaction after the other has succeeded. Even if there is only a single database, protecting data against concurrency issues is still non-trivial even with transactions.
you act like the tabloid that is their lives hasn’t been equally silly
What's this weird confusion between "requirement" and "gives a shit"? A Stanford graduate isn't treated the same as a random state college graduate out of school, period, before you even consider relationships forged during college and alumni networks.
Why don't you try using facts and numbers instead of insinuations, then? Show me how Canadians are being screwed on taxes.

Actually I know working class Canadians are -- Canada's system is actually not very progressive compared to many US states, the bottom end of the tax bracket is fairly heavily weighted... but corporations here are sitting pretty. Best gig in Canada (after real estate) is to be a fake "contractor" paying corporate taxes instead of personal income taxes, and stashing your wealth in corporate assets and paying your spouse dividends... it's ridiculous.

In any case, to throw it back: Something is paying for the US's massive defense sector. What do you think it is?
Souffle seems to suffer from the standard small language issue of no code examples front and center. Also, no "how is this better than X" or "example of usage in Y".

To those who have used Prolog, is the description sufficient to know what it does and if it will be useful? I've never use prolog and I don't know the lingo.
Fossil also uses Tcl for some of its web stuff, iirc!
WhistlinDiesel turns controversy into ad revenue. The ad revenue from such a suit would allow him to remain in court pretty much indefinitely, but Ferrari doesn't have that luxury. He's also the same guy that burned up a Ferrari bombing it through a harvested field, so being "reasonable" (as a lot of people would define it) isn't really his thing. There's no scenario where this doesn't result in a lot of egg on Ferrari's face if they actually went after him for it.
The limiter on those grazing fees is water availability and water rights, which are usually owned by private parties or the State. Any grazing land without water isn't worth much and leasing water rights isn't that cheap.
Miles seems like it might not be worth the added cost of administration. Also note that road damage as a function of weight goes up by roughly a power of 4. Doubling a vehicle's axel load causes 16x the road stress, though that may be in line with what you were suggesting and may even add weight to your point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
> but in absolute terms it does seem to be a healthy three orders of magnitude safer than being in a car in the US (at ~37K direct fatalities annually [3]).

Absolute terms of being in a car measured this way don't make sense.

People in the US are exposed to tens of billions of hours of driving annually and probably low millions of hours of being in bad storm conditions in forests. (I don't know, do 1 out of 300 of us even spend an hour in that?)

This is like saying that because few people die from playing Russian roulette, it's not too big of a concern to play now and then.

The response you've made has no probative value on the statement "Walking through a forest during a storm is an easy way to get hurt or die."
These types of grievance comments have really found a permanent home in certain types of HN post. Exhausting.
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I know the cost of living is now a standard excuse for everything unfortunate in Canada, but I have an untypical view on this topic:

Canadians strike me as a very undemanding nation. I mean, they are ready to go through whatever inconvenience a big corp may force them into, and still be fine about it. To Canadians, it's just the way things are, inevitable evil. At the same time, an entrepreneur frequently starts by targeting a market niche and offering better quality or better service or a novel way of doing things. However, a market niche assumes that there are consumers with a niche demand. But if consumers are undemanding and are OK with keeping paying for something subpar, this leaves us with not so many market niches and thus opportunities.

At the same time, doing business is great in Canada. The tax system is simple (just 3 taxes). Reduced tax rates for small businesses. Registering a business can be done online for a small fee. The banks are OK. Abundance of decent business-related services - accountants, designers, etc. It's relatively easy to sell to the government. Finding a good lawyer is a tough problem, though. But I suspect it's a problem everywhere.

PS. I run a technology company based in Canada.
For background, I was in global geophysical exploration for decades and worked on:

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

before it was sold on to the US Standard & Poor.

In general, globally, pre mine arrival local communities get a crapshoot.

They might get jobs, they'll usually get environmental issues, they often get a dedicated "company town" built, they may or may not see money from miners spill over into their community.

They might see their town bulldozed and moved on, they might get flooded with "off peak" miners gambling, chasing women, starting fights.

Sometimes they'll get jobs, and money - but not always. Mining companies tend to feed and house their own workers on many mining projects.

1.5% of $64 billion is not 98.5% is it?

You may notice I use neutral language and the question you might like to ask yourself is why might your local community give away 98.5% of $64 billion to people who were allowed to hammer four sticks in the ground and file some paperwork.

Personally I'm for it, as an Australian I have shares in various transnational proposed mining projects and will get a good return from Australian mining companies extracting resources from US soil with little return to US citizens.

Rio Tinto is certainly talking up the benefits of this to local communities:

https://resolutioncopper.com/cultural-heritage/

https://resolutioncopper.com/land-exchange/

and they're absolutely got a track record in respecting cultural heritage ( /s ):

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/26/rio-t...
> That government shutdown in 2013 was instigated entirely by one U.S. Senator, Ted Cruz, expressly for the purpose of sabotaging ACA

You say it like it's a bad thing. ACA is horrible -- extremely expensive, few options, huge deductibles, virtually zero transparency, "keep your doctor" turned out not to be true in many cases.

I'm no Ted Cruz fan, but I wish more people had stood up and admitted this thing was a total piece of shit and tried to prevent it from passing.
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Most companies don't but I was replying to omneity's inquiry.

And yeah, Elixir is great!
Canada's population only appears low if you're not looking at its geographical distribution. Toronto is as big as Chicago, and the population density in southern Ontario is as high as any of the US eastern states, and mostly contiguous with them and part of the same shipping routes, etc. etc..

It's a population clustered near the border and really should be seen as one that is culturally and economically contiguous with the US, just not politically. In terms of metropolitan regions, much of Canada is really much the same as the US.

On healthcare / public services, I will give you examples of where the US liberal biases about Canada just don't line up.

At the tail end of the COVID-19 crisis, spring 2021 I went across to go skiing with a friend from Albany. I needed a test to get back across the border to get home. I was able to just go to a US pharmacy and get a molecular test for free, with almost instant results. I was told that if I tested positive I could get anti-virals, for free, immediately, without even showing citizenship. Meanwhile in Ontario all public testing for COVID-19 was cancelled before the end of 2020. My elderly parents in Alberta just tested positive but had to fight to get anti-virals because despite being 1 year shy of 80 they didn't qualify unless they had pronounced comorbidities. So... a country without a universal public health care system was able to offer much better universal coverage (where it mattered) than here.

Another example: say you wanted a blood test for your kid to test blood lead levels. No doctor will offer that here, really. You'd have to really lobby for it and have a serious acute reason for it-- despite all the older cities here being full of lead pipes. I was down in the Finger Lakes a few years ago and there were signs for public clinics all over offering this as a free service.

It is by no means a black and white situation. There are many aspects in which many liberal US states outdo Canadian provinces on certain social programs.