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Unfortunately, the hard part of every subsequent interview with other employers is "So what happened at company X? You were fired, right?"

I've been through what the author is describing, but in an on-site office position. It's horrid. They're exactly right on how these processes poison all other interactions. My boss would call me in to ask if I was going to the company picnic, but the history meant that every "Hey, can you see me in my office real quick?" was a gut-wrenching terror moment, certain that I was getting fired or told off again, or something.

A classic response to this is "Did anybody consider the economic impact on ferriers when the demand for horses goes down?"

And yeah, there are people projecting such impacts, but overall it's usually considered valuable to innovate. Some jobs will inevitably be left behind as older tech becomes obsolete. There's been a few different ideas on how to solve this problem, but none of them are perfect.

If you say so. I've been glued to that sub for months, and it's still filled with anti-trump messages, pro hillary, pro bernie stories.

First, the language was not designed to do what people are trying to use it for

Against this point: Few languages are used for what they were designed for. Java was designed as a control language for "smart" TVs. PHP was designed for making personal homepages a little bit reactive. JS was designed for making client side pages dynamic.

And now all three are being used as server software.

That may have been an argument in setting the date, but Disney was the real driver of it. The reason it's 70 years after the death of the creator is because Mickey Mouse was in danger of becoming public domain again, so they added years to the law.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find any instances of people committing murder for IP reasons.

This is not the case for the Chernobyl area or Fukushima. This place is lost and cannot be used by humans for a long time. This cannot not happen when using coal power plants.

Wrong.

The Centralia Mine fire has been burning since 1963.[1] The area of the mine is extremely dangerous, causing the city above to be seized by eminent domain and condemned. Poisonous, dangerously heated gases erupt from the ground at random. Chernobyl is reaching the point where the radiation levels are low enough for tourism. Centralia's mine fire will continue burning for up to 250 years. The released gasses will continue to contribute to atmospheric CO2 that entire time. The radiological components of coal combustion (radium gas being one) will continue to be released. It's already a known fact that coal power plants cause more radiation in the cities around them than nuclear plants do.

This is not the only mine fire in the state of Pennsylvania[2], let alone the only such site in the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Run_mine_fire

Say what you want about nuclear. Coal is far worse.

As a consequence of the Centralia incident[1], a portion of Pennsylvania, USA has been rendered practically uninhabitable since 1963. The fire may continue burning for up to two hundred and fifty years. It is not the only persistent coal mine fire in that state, let alone worldwide.

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

I do not mean to diminish the tragedy of the Chernobyl incident or the dangers of nuclear accidents, but to provide context. Even ignoring the energy balance which show nuclear as being safer per KWH than any other tech (including wind and solar), even including the disasters of fukushima and chernobyl, Nuclear has been safer and less damaging to the environment than coal.

Wind and solar are great, I'd love to see more use and developments there. They can't compete with the energy density of coal, let alone atomics.

Exactly my thoughts. The headline "Boeing vows to beat Musk to Mars" literally translates to "Elon Musk wins". His whole goal in founding SpaceX was to foster competition in the stagnant space vehicle industry, just like the Tesla's purpose was to get other auto manufacturers to work on electric vehicles (and to convince consumers that EV doesn't mean it has to suck).

Having worked in childcare / early childhood education, I've seen it a lot. Kids younger than about 5 or 6 don't care. The boys love to play dressup and the girls love the sandbox with the toy cars. As they get older some start to fall into stereotypical gender roles... and even then it's usually obvious that they're learning from / being indoctrinated by their parents. My use of the word indoctrinated is only to indicate that sometimes these gender roles are passively learned from the parents example, but in some cases there are parents that actively enforce / teach their kids to follow gender roles. For example, I've seen a father, on arriving to collect his son, react almost with horror to see the boy in a skirt playing in the mock kitchen.

Cliche is the wrong word. Gender roles in society are a topic that spans many disciplines and has a whole lot of detail to discuss. They are a huge thing, and you're right: the gender role assigned to girls does prescribe for them a lot of child rearing practice. That said, after seeing what some kids will do to a baby doll, I can confidently assert that such play is no substitute for actual instruction.

Usually wrought iron, not cast iron. I have a blacksmith friend who made a large amount of iron nails when he was starting the trade, since it was good practice. He still makes them in demonstrations at Ren Faires. They're still used occasionally for horseshoes apparently, though that market from what I know has been using more and more mass-produced steel instead.

I use baking soda. On old batteries there's sometimes a little bit of acid leaking out around the terminals, and the base counteracts it. It's also a great abrasive, and washes away with water.

Well, since you're asking for anecdotal evidence...

Lemon juice has a pH of about 2, while most colas are more Alkaline at around 2.5. My mom eats lemons raw nearly every day. Sometimes limes (pH ~2.2).

It doesn't. They need a constant stream of new data for their business model to work. Thus, they benefit from continuously collecting data on users.

You could set such a thing up yourself. It's basically a trust. Put your money in the index fund, and have a process to automatically withdraw the safe amount and donate it.

Now build a product around that idea, and be the next patreon. I heard of this great company that'll help you get ssh certs for free.

How does this sort of tech handle large scale use? Living in an apartment where all but one corner is in range of 60+ traditional access points has been a huge pain for my connectivity. I can only imagine it would be worse when you're in range of everybody in miles.

I'm not really arguing one way or the other, just pointing out that they're functionally equivalent. It's two different maps keying to the same set of frequencies. The BASE12 system described above would allow for keys as well, just with a different notation. Instead of flats/sharps marked next to the clef in traditional sheet music, the BASE12 system could start each line with a list of 'prohibited' notes. For example, when indicating that a piece is in the key of Gm, the staff in BASE12 could start with : [01,04,06,08,0b]. This indicates that the majority of the song will be made of the notes 7,9,b,0,2,3, and 5, and serves the same purpose as having two flats next to the treble clef, one on the middle line and one in the top space. Which of these systems would be easier for humans to grok is up for debate. I personally don't think either one is better.

Thinking about it, the traditional notation is just mapping to an octal system, with the key accidentals acting as modifiers to the map and the base-8 values being displayed graphically as vertical position on the staff.

As a percussionist, yes, musical notation is used for drums. However, it ends up looking rather like a step sequencer with some standard notational effects (staccato/legato, rests or varying lengths instead of the absence of markings, etc.) This helped me out quite a bit later when I started getting into digital music.

Db would be 01. Dbb would be 00. (or 11 and 10 for the octave)

The point ajuc is making is that the flat-sharp accidentals aren't used or needed at all if you just assign numbers to each tone. There's no concept of flat or sharp, unless you want to deal with microtones.

The phrase "Youtube Community" does not bring positive images to mind when I hear it.

The study that suggested (not proven) that was found to have some flaws: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463053

Many Prisoners are used as a source of virtually free labor already. Unfortunately this is being done as exploitation, without regard to how it may help or harm the prisoners used.

"Facebook is for the pleasure and benefit of the whole world, myself included, on a number of levels."

Wrong. Facebook is for making money. If providing users with pleasure or benefits makes them money, then that's lucky for the users.

"Facebook has become a world-leading platform for spreading information, for debate and for social contact between persons. You have gained this position because you deserve it."

Also wrong. The second sentence, I mean.

I agree with the intent here. I agree with the outrage at Facebook. The author of this piece, too, seems to understand the futility of this open letter, and I do think it's a good thing that he's making the statement regardless. I just think that maybe he's being too generous to Mark and Facebook.

He is fond of saying "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."

I've seen a quote attributed to him along the lines of "Cyberpunk as a genre died out because if became real life", but I have not been able to track down any source or proof of that attribution.

I'm using an apple "magic mouse" right now, and while yes, it is capable of right clicking, the surface is still a single piece. This causes more than a few misclicks for me. A mouse designed with separate surfaces for each button doesn't have the same problem. They begrudgingly added a right click, and their 'design over all else' philosophy has made it an inferior product.

It depends on the philosophy that guides the emulation author. For example, the creator of bsnes believes in accuracy over everything. He's proud that his emulator will show the same bugs as the console when other emulators don't.

That describes a playground slide.

Honestly I'd trust MS code on my linux box over anything Oracle puts out.

Ah, so this is why print is dying as a medium.

The president literally said in a speech, regarding what to do if you suspect someone of dealing drugs: "Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun — you have my support"

True, but imagine if you were one of the remaining executives. You just saw that guy rat you all out and run off with 22M$. I think that they're going to have to be on their toes, because now the rest of them know exactly what will happen if there's any malfeasance.