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For those, like me, who didn't know about Letelier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Letelier

Just use the same password for all of your slacks? It's not like they're going into a different database... If Slack gets breached, all passwords get leaked.

Employees, through their unions, /demanded/ and obtained defined-benefit pension plans from large employers in the 60s and 70s.

One problem, in the United States, is that Ronald Reagan passed a law that allowed companies to fall behind on their pension liabilities--i.e. shortchange their employees' pension plans. Add 20 years, and suddenly GM, among others, had a bankruptcy-inducing pension shortfall in 2008.

Banks being CIDC-backed just protects the first $100K of one's holdings, so far from the full retirement savings...

StackExchange manages to do this, and it's not just the developers of StackOverflow, it's also all the other communities. Set a proper model and see good information flow.

We're not there yet, but they've gotten closer in Bruges...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/bruges-pipe-dr...

> Asked about a likely date for a return to service for the Max, Dickson said it isn’t helpful to talk about timelines. Boeing needs to concentrate on making complete, quality submissions on its fixes for the plane, he said.

Ahh, "we'll ship it when it's ready, not on some arbitrary deadline." Music to any engineer/builder's ears.

> They did get a slight improvement

Not only did the winning entry only bring in a slight improvement, and the payout followed suit, but they never actually used the winning algorithm.

Netflix's big winner for this contest, unplanned as it was, was their own recruiters and dev teams: Netflix became a company great developers wanted to work for because it cares about "hard problems".

We need to invent a quantum ratings system.

My 5-star system:

: I want to give this more than 5-stars

: This is pretty good, but not MORE than 5 stars

: I've enjoyed this.

: I need to keep this for completist reasons

*: Delete this.

Oh wait, that's my iTunes rating system

There are plenty of people on this very forum regularly criticizing Google and Apple's open source efforts...

The parent post just complained about winter, not summer...

Parent got your point and is joking along

Toronto has none of Vancouver's rain and almost none of Calgary's snow. I wear running shoes for all save maybe 3 or 4 weeks of winter. -15 is considered a deep freeze and happens about 3 times per winter. What are you waiting for?

In what way has PNG not already replaced TIFF?

That kind of CPU load is a drop in the bucket for Netflix.

CEOs are controlled by their context, i.e. owners and regulations (for publicly-traded companies) which drive the profit-motive, and then have agency to take various actions to achieve this goal.

We teach AI empathy by programming it with the heurestics of care--optimizing for human well-being instead of profit. A difficult thing to achieve when the entities paying for the design of AIs are themselves driven by the profit motive, and for-profit AIs are self-perpetuating.

That's not "tied", which would imply a contractual relationship...

therefore...

> Baker's compensation has been inversely tied with performance

You've mentioned this twice in the thread now. "Inversely tied" is quite a strong and unusual claim for compensation. Care to prove it?

What I'm trying to figure out is how is this not the landlord's responsibility rather than the commercial tenant's?

They are, it's IT departments and customer internal apps using IE-specific things like ActiveX which are keeping it alive.

For 2 users, fine. But the parent was mentioning 8 users. You can't have live conversation delays/asynchronicity that p2p'ing through multiple users would bring.

There was plenty of warning of the effects of these bills on sex workers. Legislators at best ignored them, and at worst were happy for these side effects, depending on where they sit of the political spectrum.

The parent post didn't mention individual citizens.

> Taking from the hf funds.. who think they have some right to impose a defacto tobin tax on transactions

You just blew my mind there. Of course!

> Say $1B/yr

That's not even a lot of money, in the U.S. context.

We need a word (like "Godwin's Law" or "whataboutism") to shove in people's faces when they spam the response threads with "everyone is doing it" and "are you surprised?" when a tweet or news item like "BigCo or BigGov is doing Bad Thing X." No we're not surprised but we didn't know, I want them to stop, and fuck you, your comment is not adding to the conversation.

It should only get voted up if it's insightful, but the top parent here bemoans our fellow hackeroos' upvoting reflexes...

Your backyard can be a walled garden--this is about the public front of the property.