TheSoftwareGuy

If the lobbying they do is unfair, then they should change the rules around lobbying

DIB = Defense Innovation Board, I believe

>If a company isn't growing by at least the equivalent of inflation then it's shrinking

That depends on what exactly is growing. As long as profits are growing by more than 0%, then the company is growing, regardless of inflation. If its only revenues that are growing in the low single-digits, then still the company could be growing! Inflation is the phenomenon of prices generally increasing, but no matter what anybody tells you it is not distributed equally. Just because the overall rate of inflation is 5% does not mean that your costs have increased by 5% YoY.

This is talked about in the article. The Nespresso didn't quite catch on in the US like it did in europe. Americans generally prefer to drink larger quantities of coffee, often in the car. This does not lend itself well to espresso. As such, K-cups got much more traction

A lot of low level drug dealers take Venmo

I think that’s fine. The path of egress should always be outside the bathroom, no?

Hah, I think I heard of that company on a podcast, it may have inspired the idea

I've been thinking about this recently, what if we're doing it all wrong? what if, instead of your manager giving their reports a review, and then also giving raises based on that we go with a more market-based approach. Hear me out:

Every year, and once a year, all the managers in the company submit bids to the employees that they want to work under them. Employees then select their favorite bid, and that becomes their new manager. Employees are free to accept/reject bids based on any criteria: Salary/PTO/On-call requirements, etc.

From your own article: >President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin worked to convince those senators that the universal $600 unemployment boost would be more efficient than varying supplements by income because that would require the federal government to administer funds through a patchwork of state-run unemployment programs, The Washington Post reported.

I’ve noticed this too. The title has an air of “this is how you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps” feeling that turns into a “just takeover your dads company” when you read the article

I don’t trust China with very much, but I’m also a proponent of free trade, generally. I’m not sure how I feel about it

I don't think he did miss that, rather it simply wasn't on-topic for the article he was writing. Anybody who has used the C preprocessor knows it works at the level of text/tokens and no further. The fact that it knows nothing of types would hardly be "scandalous"

But you can go ahead and use this thread to promote D anyways.

Really? https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Marketing-for-Engineers/issues...

Am I the only one that thinks it’s annoying that people feel compelled to announce their enthusiasm? I’ve always thought reddit comments along the lines of “have you an upvote” were annoying noise, but this seems a bit more egregious. Issues are supposed to be for reporting issues, it’s on the name! Not only did someone have to spend time to read this, and close it, but it crowds out actual issues.

The coronavirus was not caused by rampant buy backs and borrowing. So yes

I took a linear control systems class in college, probably at the peak of my mathematical abilities. I hadn’t yet forgotten the fundamentals of Laplace, Fourier, and solving differential equations. Not to say I was some math wizard, but at least the prerequisites were fresh on my mind.

It was fascinating, but I just couldn’t grok it. Whatever weaknesses I had in the relevant maths, that class just seemed to amplify it x10. I still wish I could have absorbed more of the knowledge

I’ve been noticing lately that people in video meetings basically use the mute button as a convoluted ptt button. I’m glad someone else saw this

It’s specialized for a very general problem though. If he made his own graphics logic in there too he could maybe make it faster too

I've been saying this for years. Cookies are already a browser feature. Browsers just need to expose a little more control over it

Personally I've always found the constant airflow starts to dry out my eyes, making it very uncomfortable

>Google is a direct competitor

I think that people over estimate potential damages of being your competitors customer. Google is not going anywhere, with or without this contract, and if they want to make an investment in video conferencing, they already have more than enough capital & resources to do that.

Staying away from GCP purely because it is under google would be a crazy decision

Maybe, but you still want the people with renewable infrastructure to be the ones with the capital to create new infrastructure.

Although tbh, nuclear is fine and I don’t care if we have more nuclear power

Really though, unless you're writing x86 assembly, any language should be just fine on ARM. The only potential holdp is is you rely on precompiled binaries at some point. Otherwise it should just be a matter of hitting the compile button again.

Jesus Christ. I personally know two people that started working there right around when the lockdowns were starting to get put in place. They've probably been there less than a month.

I've found it to be pretty effective to simply not engage with those who keep taking the worst possible interpretations of your (or others) arguments. It sort of simulates an environment where everyone is charitable.

In other words, "Don't feed the trolls"

Hmm.. maybe this is a chance to kickstart a US Sovereign Wealth fund. If all the bailouts are in the form of buying an equity stake, we simply put all that equity in a portfolio, and rebalance it when things stabilize. Presto, that's a sovereign wealth fund right there.

interesting, that's a new one I didn't know about. I've always heard the Bleach + Ammonia = Mustard gas, but not that one

It's stupid. N95 masks are in short supply and so should be reserved for healthcare workers and those caring for the infected but sugical masks can still help slow the spread. People should be weraring those in public. But the only messaging from the top is not to wear the masks

>There's not enough pressure on politicians in both parties to ensure a solid and fast as possible recovery.

Oh I disagree, I think there is plenty. Every politician knows that incumbents are more likely to lose in a down economy. That's why they just passed an unprecedented stimulus bill

a fee and a tip are very different things, and ti would be bad to conflate them. A fee is something mandatory and a tip is supposed to be optional. I think their are also differences between how the two things are taxed, so you really can't start conflating the two

Most of the pollution from food production comes from actually producing the food. Things like tractors and stuff use a lot of fuel.

Furthermore, putting farms in urban buildings means that some urban businesses or residences will ha e to be moved further out, increasing pollution. In reality, this would move the pollution to the urban areas, and not reduce it.

Lastly, I can’t think of a reason that you’d know more about farming practices if it happens in an urban environment than in a rural environment