Pyxl101

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I recommend reading: http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html Inequality is the result of people earning different amounts, such being compensated in proportion to the value they generate - rather than everyone earning the same irre
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That's already the case for Linux and epoll, isn't it? Epoll isn't POSIX and is Linux-specific. If it's going to be platform-specific, it had better be right. A different way to look at it is that NT was designed by a si
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The labor board would, among other things, force them to pay for the missing wages. These labor boards tend to be pretty vocal about defending the rights of employees. However, employees don't always know to invoke their help, and they
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> in general, the federal minimum wage is $7.25, but for waitstaff and some other "tipped" jobs, the minimum wage is less than a third of that, at $2.13. In the United States, pay for tipped employees is regulated by the Fair L
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Arbitration proceedings are normally private and confidential, by consent of both parties, so the fact that it was "secret arbitration" isn't surprising. It looks like the news media were describing this as "secret court
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Why not, by the way? Why don't helicopters have a simple control input system these days, that can be interpreted by a computer and applied to actual flight controls? I'm imagining a helicopter with the same controls as a current
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Wind farms are dangerous and result in many fatalities to humans and wildlife: http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/accidents.pdf I'll skip over the 170 human fatalities and mention: > Environmental damage (including
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> Has Snowden been charged with anything? Yes, according to the Washington Post. > Federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of docume
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You are mistaken. Please read the rest of the article, and the comment that is a peer to yours. "Where an employee does not receive sufficient tips to make up the difference between the direct (or cash) wage payment (which must be at l
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They should investigate before refuting. Investigating takes time. If the investigation confirmed what she claimed, then it will require even more time to adequately tackle the problem before going public with an announcement.
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> But, if you decide not tip someone, especially a food service worker that you know is only making $2.35/hour In the USA, all tipped employees always earn at least the federal minimum wage. There is no such thing as a service wor
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> In USA, even minimum salary for servers is lover then minimum salary for other workers - the law expects the tips. Not true. The federal minimum wage for servers and other tipped employees is the same as other employees: it's just
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The doctors I know are not enjoying it as a career path. It's crushing - tons of debt for medical school (like >$100k), two week stints working nights in the ER or other major hospital, little choice over your true career path due t
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Yes, the security of the traditional financial system is largely based around the ability to reverse transactions. One time I was transferring money from one of my accounts into a trading institution. Except by mistake, I was looking at one
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If I'm remembering correctly (I'm not the person you asked), she wrote some insightful commentary about what was going on in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
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How about a way to report, "I don't like receiving this type of message" and "I like this type of message", along with an ML system that can learn which type of users send lewd messages, and which people either like
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These federally insured loans seem to be a common source of problems. The massive moral hazard means that incentives don't operate correctly. How do we fix it? Can we wind down and stop federally insured loan programs?
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Yes, this is a crucial distinction and matches my understanding from what I've read of these public documents: PRISM is a program in which the NSA intercepted Internet and other communications, and then reconstructed the meaning of t
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A fair number of sleeper agents like this have been outed over the years. Another example that comes to mind is the KGB agent couple on which the TV show "The Americans" was based: https://www.theguardian.com/world
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> It would be nice if a kubelet's access was restricted to only what the kubelet needs to know. This seems like a fairly difficult problem to solve with meaningful security confidence. The only easy way I can see this working is if
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Have you considered that maybe other people have thought about this and reached a different conclusion? I think calling it an NSA bug is pretty silly if you have a smartphone or laptop. How are those not bugs? All of these devices have mi
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Would there be a benefit to changing from <table> to something else, if <table> works just fine for the purpose? If it ain't broke, right?
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How in the world could guests be locked in to their hotel rooms? That sounds like a major unacceptable design flaw and fire hazard.
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Is there any special reason to worry about your Echo being backdoored rather than your PC or laptops with their frequently built-in microphones? Heck even my computer monitors seem to have microphones today. I'm sure my PC is a lot e
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> This list is essentially unsourced and because of the nature of these numbers being unpublished, will always be original research. Does not seem to be a notable list. Seems like pretty good reasoning to me. The list is unsourced and Wi
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The difference is that dropping a bomb involves no risk to the drone pilot. Shooting at a main battle tank with a rifle? Another story.
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Came here to make the same point: It's not appropriate for the official social media account of a government agency to tweet political content that criticizes the current President. That's going too far, and I'm not surprised
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Let's say that the car is entering a fog or other weather condition, which it realizes is beginning to obstruct its visibility or control (e.g. snow, heavy rain, wind). After visibility or control impairment has crossed a warning thres
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Correct. "Withholding" is something that companies do when they're legally required to, such as withholding taxes from your salary. When you receive a grant of stock or options, the company is not as far as I'm aware obl
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$200K would be a high salary , meaning a fixed cash payment someone receives on a periodic basis (with $200K being the yearly sum). However, as the value of total compensation , meaning cash salary plus stock plans, retirement plans, the

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