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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer Rates in the US on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:20AM (#22855569)
No, that is a Russian site that uses English/USD (maybe for easier international remote job seekers.)
I hope you are right. OTOH, with an actual over abundance of labor instead of always on hiring barely finding enough employees, they can either go even farther in the direction of pointless hoops or even shorter on wages relative to output.

My advice to everyone who is thinking about tech is to find a domain that needs tech assistance and consider that domain your career future. Street smart engineers I know have mostly dropped out by 40, so tech is not a career.

"and you will too" is a big part of why this is the accurate TLDR.

I looked at the job market a few months ago and Carona aside, the market is in a terrible state. Companies are looking for unicorns that agree with them on style, chose all the right techs four years ago, are young or otherwise willing to accept abuse, and write like someone with 10 years experience teaching TDD style programming. On top of that they want you to agree that they have chosen a profitable business that will save the world.

Re:What Armenians should know about life in America (2014) on Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:04AM (#22778617)
Building with insulated concrete forms costs about 5% more.. So it is really not unaffordable to build a durable house in the US.

Everything is done to minimum standards in the US because of paradoxical markets like banks competing to give mortgages. The bank that wants only houses that will survive the mortgage let alone second buyers mortgage (for the threat to resale value) loses.

Yes, and given that an Intel PC is a valid build target for almost every language and we pay were paying by the word in job classifieds, we almost went broke before we realized we had to throw them out too.

But after initial turbulence, life has gotten much simpler (and dare I say quiet) for our HR since we moved to using the stock job profiles shipped with the platforms we buy.

It's nice to see a good quality effort on a modern C book.

Looking at the current language/job markets outside the center, I feel like we are hitting the same problems as in open source. People add C++ to every C job to have something with the same level of innovations going on as new languages, even if it is about Linux embedded and you wouldn't let a C++ construct near the system.

Re:David Attenborough calls for ban on deep sea mining on Sunday March 15, 2020 @11:08AM (#22583853)
Attenborough recently accepted criticism that he went too far in avoiding the topic of environmental damage (i.e. finding angles to imply pristine environments where they no longer exist.)

I would say that makes him a perfect person to raise these topics as his previous bias is to avoid problems until they are beyond grim.

Re:How a 'growth mindset' can lead to success on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:01AM (#22567277)
Yeah, I think the most charitable explanation is that as one gains expertise one is looking for and increasingly helped only by ever more critical and precise review. One may have trouble seeing the difference in what a beginner needs and think "better" review is a short cut around "wasted" time.
Re:What should have been an IMG element became this on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:13AM (#21303437)
Is there a static Twitter thread cache somewhere? Loading this fails with "something went wrong" and then "you are rate limited".

If Twitter's dark pattern to force login/app usage were just a little closer to the headline, I would have thought the failure was the punchline of this posting.

With toll free numbers every land grab makes sense to the buyer, but no one else can take .google and existence of this and other brand TLDs will suck for their product experiences.
People fly to cruises so frequently that it is part of a the package system.
Re:I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:15PM (#19558656)
Ignoring what you don't understand is arguably valid, dark mode would be illegal..
Re:What's New in JavaScript for 2019 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:49PM (#18972904)
If TS becomes the majority, it seems to me like the browser debuggers could start using types at run time to catch some interesting things that aren't so obvious when compiling the pieces. I.e. help the people who add the final touches to a site check that they have not messed it all up without the project writer needing to decide how many guards to compile in to the project interfaces.

Probably the largest problem I have with modern projects is how unfriendly they are to experiment with on the page, even if there's no intention to prevent it.

But the opposite happens because the same scientists own IP and run the study to determine its worth. So we know less and waste more than having done nothing.
It must be nice to have an employer who is OK with your neither confirming nor denying your job responsibilities.
Definitely these are not extreme joy riding, but I don't think an ethical doctor would help with highly above normal neuron growth, wakefulness, testosterone, or get involved with experiments starting from near normal levels in a patient. They might have some serious problems with a medical board.

It's a bizarre case that doctors will help normal people (journalists) experiment with some levels of sport doping, but it comes from knowing a little about the experimental professional sport dopers (where doctors try to stay anonymous.)

To give a different example, what about an anorexic that wants their genes to ensure their desired body image, i.e. 0 retention of normal fat? (Personally, I would be more concerned about bulk experiments in the beauty salons than the tattoo parlours.)

Re:Criminalize Fake News on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:46PM (#18926283)
I'm confused, I would be perfectly happy to stop people from making a livelihood out of writing a "interest-group paid authoritatively-toned opinion-piece" if there were a safe way to do so without damaging other rights.
Re:The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:38AM (#18919962)
They were allowed to keep the key.. I think focus on shutting off ex-employees is exaggerated given that they can plan as disgruntled employees.
Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:36PM (#18914854)
I think the US is trying to be quiet to get the UK a good deal with the EU. Suddenly lowering the EU's trade status is an example of more visible setup for what they want.. Special access to Europe through a corrupt merchant island.

I.e. how do you bypass EU regulations without a nice English speaking middle man country with near EU trade status to do a lot of dirty work?

IMO the UK will be a specialist in packaging and final assembly of US and Indian goods if they get a good deal from the EU.

Re:Train Your Brain Like a Memory Champion on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:44PM (#18913106)
I've had stronger and weaker Aphantasia at different points in my development and in different learning/work situations.

Given that styles of learning has largely been debunked, I would suspect that the vast majority of us actually have roughly the same capabilities and they are just unexercised, exercized to fitness or from too much stimulus to exhaustion by our specific environments, diets, motivation levels, etc.

I believe the path for Krebs when under DDOS was free CF cloud to akamai to special status (from Google?) Using CF domains with or without CF's normal services turned on would have made akamai impossible until a transfer process to a real registrar completed leading to an extra week or so of downtime.
I'm saying why would you let a CDN be your registrar in what sounds like an abnormal registrar agreement. (If they block you from the CDN, what happens then?)
> I honestly can't think of a scenario where I'd want to use any other nameservers.

What about the scenerio where you are thrown off of cloudflare service? A CDN is more inclined to ban sites to limit their own risks from litigious IP owners, etc, irregardless of who would win an actual court case.

Re:He Disparaged the Police on Facebook, So They Arrested Him on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:36AM (#18854842)
The interests of people who have been defamed is very different than one of those 23 DAs looking to gain from politics and/or subscribing to shock doctrine. It's virtually impossible to sue a DA for starting a criminal case.

But coming the original question is whether this is on topic. Yes it is.

I am talking about whether Trump is theoretically guilty or not guilty of criminal defemation if 1(NH) or more (23) states claimed their jurisdiction applied and why that being discretionary in those states is therefore extremely problematic to our civic system.

I'm not sure why you are interested in civil defemation law.

I don't see what you think I missed.

It's annoying to always use Trump, but it makes sense to use the person in the position of President to demonstrate that the law without discretion would net big fish.

IMO, law enforcement/DA discretion is ALWAYS a violation of civil rights. Laws would be less prevalent and less severe if they had to be applied equally. If you go through the mental exercise in obvious cases then you end up with a model of how the American System achieves discrimination through populist control of the executive branches and discretion, bypassing constitutional equality for minorities or the otherwise unpopular.

It seems to get into the impossibility of such a law being at the discretion of law enforcement.

Should he be arrested at the next NH primary for his knowingly false statements and their relationship to an actual bomb threat? Probably not, so probably this law is illegal.

Showing that you can maintain a stress state for school years doesn't really tell us whether you will retain any information after you are done or be a safe doctor by retirement age. I would guess today's doctors will have a much higher chance of dementia than equally educated but never sleep deprived peers.

Similarly, a firefighter who does steroids might be better until he dies of a heart attack at an inopportune time causing additional deaths. But the real risk as far as I am concerned is that if the steroids are allowed and the tests are standard, then his eventual choice is to take steroids or not be a firefighter. Play that out enough and you have a doped out society that is quantitatively better on what you choose to measure, but highly toxic, needing bail outs for long term side effects, and making short term labor discounts until you figure out where the no free lunch thereom has stashed the harm.

> 4) I suspect depression is seriously underdiagnosed in med students and MORE students should be taking antidepressants than those currently on them.

I find that seriously messed up. Maybe it's not 75%, but let's assume an extra margin should be taking antidepressants to exist in the highly competitive med school environment. Further, let's assume that antidepressants progress and competitive programs keep raising the bar based on entrants and dropout rate..

Our public health goal seems to be to develop a society so stressful that psychiatric drugs are not for unbalance in the patient compared to a healthy control but to make unhealthy people that can survive hyper-competition and are maximally profitable for institutions.

A social network with other smokers in proximity. Regular breaks from work that they don't forget to make. Regular time outside of a sealed office space..

There are definite short term advantages to smokers. There (_)used to be similar short term advantages for those who drank during work hours when it was socially acceptable.

(_ Used to might be wrong.. Startups with designated drinking times that seem to be mandatory are annoying but not irrational given their short term interests.)

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