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That was the policy several years ago but was changed in 2019 to include at least all salaried roles in the engineering org, and I believe across TMP.

I'm staring out my window at planes landing at Reid-Hillview right now, it is not closed.

RHV is under a federal funding agreement and cannot be closed without FAA agreement for most of the next decade.

One piece of context that's important is Pornhub only submitted to those changes due to mass public demands for credit card processors to cut them off, largely due to reporting on this exact problem by Nicholas Kristoff[1] in the opinion section of the New York Times.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...

Authorities aren't restricted from using a lie detector in the US, just from using the results in court. They're frequently used to pressure suspects in criminal cases during questioning, knowing the results are inadmissable.

> I am personally anti-populism, and think that civil cases with large financial stakes should be decided by an (appointed not elected) judge- not a random group of folks who can afford to skip work for two to four weeks.

US Federal judges are all appointed, not elected, so not much to worry about there.

The judge and jury serve different purposes in the US system. The judge's job is to decide questions of law, the jury's is to decide questions of fact. Appeals courts can generally only consider failures by the initial judge on questions of law, meaning it only gets overturned if the first judge really screwed up their job.

Given that, it's not clear to me how removing the jury improves the system.

They can: https://freemanlaw.com/immunity/

If you invoke your Fifth Amendment right not to self-incriminate you can be served with Statutory Immunity and then forced to testify, with contempt charges if you fail to testify.

There are also several different types of voluntary immunity, which is what you're describing. Those can't be compelled because they may not prevent the government from using your testimony against you in other venues, statutory immunity does not.

The downside to being a principled legal defense organization is that effective defense of common rights generally requires intervening on the side of people who are real criminals. A significant amount of 1st Amendment case law comes from the ACLU defending from people whose speech is abhorrent, but nonetheless protected. A failure to establish desired precedent often means allowing the court to establish the opposite precedent.

As the saying goes, "bad cases make bad law". In this case the EFF is weighing in at the appellate level to make sure that this otherwise abhorrent case doesn't lead to precedent that's damaging to all Utahns.

These are different cases.

Purdue and the Sacklers faced federal suits from DOJ and its offices, which were tentatively resolved by the settlements you linked.

Separately, Purdue is now in bankruptcy proceedings, to which the federal, state, and local governments are party because of their suits.

The Sackler immunity request is part of the bankruptcy proceeding, not the DOJ settlement.

Social Security eligibility contributes to retirement age, but real average retirement age is ~64: https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-retirement-age/

Many people who are retired can't financially afford to retire, but are more willing to make changes in their consumption habits than go back to work.

80% of those deaths are of people retirement age and older[1], only ~130,000 working age Americans have died of COVID. That's significant, but definitely doesn't explain the extent of worker shortages we're seeing. There are a lot of things going on, but some of them might be there are many people who are now simply willing and able to not work, because that's what they had to figure out during COVID lockdowns.

1 - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm

The neighborhood in question was built in the late 1960s, underground has been the default for a few decades now but this neighborhood (along with many others through SJ) is just all old construction. There's no real justification for moving the power underground, even in rich neighborhoods most streets still have power via poles unless they're relatively new.

(Power put on lines - expected transmission losses) * billed cost of power - customer payments.

I hope for the sake of their billing department they're using a database and some customized software for the data, but could just as likely be in a large and painful excel spreadsheet.

Power theft is not particularly interesting to the power company unless they're not getting paid for it. If it's just the wrong person paying, that's their problem.

Even if you believe that there's little difference between Snowden and Protasevich, the scenarios are clearly different. Rescinding permission to transit is a far cry from falsely reporting a bomb threat, backing it up with military force, and then searching the plane and taking multiple passengers into custody as a condition of the plane's release.

Valuing people as primarily their economic output is anti-social to the point of being dystopian, and we have much better economic indicators than arbitrary heuristics when we do want to understand the economic damage of the pandemic.

90% of US taxpayers used the standard deduction in 2018, up from 70% in previous years.

This has been a major topic of discussion in tax circles for decades, the vast majority of Americans do not benefit from deductions and the federal government's direct knowledge of your income is essentially identical to your own (because of mandatory reporting from employers, banks & other financial service entities).

Specific deductions are written by and for high income individuals, and supported by lobbying from the tax industry which wouldn't exist without them, but they're not used by the vast majority of Americans, especially with raised SALT limits and doubled standard deduction.

It's about 50% above average for the country, but HN tends to have a very coastal crowd, in particular a lot of SV talent where average pay is much higher. Experienced people easily break $200k, at my (non-FAANG) company the entry level package for Bay Area devs is more than $150k.

Presumably paying salaries, hosting/hardware, and he specifically calls out marketing costs.

This crew does have a US military veteran, so even that distinction isn't accurate.

Since this article, PA has adopted a way to pay more money to jump the line - join their patreon (Club PA). For $5/month you will get a couple days early access to buy up to 4 sets of tickets.

Also, Robert Khoo left PA the year after this article was published.

In the US, there's a significant gender gap in administration, especially above the school leader level. Also, larger schools (middle, high) are more likely to be run by men than woman.

Genuinely one of my favorite trivia questions about curiosity: https://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery/curiosity-rover-m...

This has been common in the US for decades now, I was prescribed them as a minor for my wisdom tooth removal. I was also fine with ibuprofen.

I'm assuming there were significant kickbacks to oral surgeons from the opioid sales people.

I spend a lot of time giving advice to people changing careers into tech. I agree with a lot of the criticism here, but I think the author's choices are reflective of the new grad hiring climate.

Hiring for any competitive tech job relies on having a stellar resume with impressive sounding projects, and ideally a degree from a top CS school. Interviewers have little time to review projects, so new grads market small projects like this as much more impressive than they are, knowing they'll only be asked about them in passing as a break from algorithm problems.

The difference is that Clear is a paid, private service, not a government requirement.

The collaborative process begun by the Obama administration appeared to be much more successful than sanctions or war.

> In 2020 a top consumer or business printer will not jam on you.

That's just not accurate. I've personally dealt with truly unreasonable numbers of service calls for high end business models over the last 8 years, jams aren't frequent but they are definitely not rare.

Hilariously enough, my class' Valedictorian is now an ML Engineer on Amazon Echo.

I wasn't answering the question of "what will their parents think", I was just pointing out the reaction of our peers because I grew up in the same community. Parental reaction is typically much more about them as people than any other particular factor.

> I'd imagine for most of his peers from high school he's considered a disappointment for working at "only" AWS

I went to school at about the same time at the other high school in town (technically 2 towns, 1 combined school district), my family mostly still lives there. A job across the country in a well known tech company is reasonably top 25% of the class or so. Not standout, but nothing to be embarrassed about, and that's where plenty of us ended up.

> I can walk to multiple supermarkets, pharmacies, everything pretty much.

This is an essentially nonexistent characteristic of the kinds of places people are moving in the Midwest. The walkability of most of suburban America is ~0.

I'll leave GP to answer the outrage comments, but I think the rest reasonably calls out for perspective.

Merrick Garland wasn't just not confirmed, his nomination was ignored for 9.5 months. As you point out, it's not uncommon for opposition party senates to turn down supreme court nominees, as is their due. It is, however, extremely rare for them not to hear those nominations at all, and Garland's nomination timeline stands out for its longevity.

Out of 163 nominations, only 11 have lapsed (from your wiki link, which lists an incorrect count in the summary). Reverse chronological order of the most recent 5:

- Garland (2016): 293 days. Opposition senate.

- John Marshall Harlan II (1954): 27 days in lapsed nomination + 49 days for confirmation. Ally senate, confirmed by opposition senate.

- Pierce Butler (1922): 14 days lapsed nomination + 16 days for confirmation. Ally senate.

- William Hornblower (1893): 45 days lapsed + 41 days to reject confirmation. Ally senate.

- Stanley Matthers (1881): 36 days lapsed + 59 days to confirm. Opposition senate, confirmed by split senate.

The point being that there is essentially no historical precedent for this behavior, to the point that we need to look 135 years in the past simply to find any example of an opposition senate delaying a candidate's nomination. Even then, Garland is the supreme court nominee with the most time under nomination in US congressional history by a factor of more than 2.

> over the history of USA 29 times supreme court judges were nominated in election year

This doesn't really do justice to the history here, 1/4 of those nominations happened in a single year due to conflict between President Tyler and the Whig party, and an overlapping 1/4 were withdrawals. The last ~170 years of supreme court nominees have been pretty uninteresting and undramatic.

- Garland (2016): lapsed. Ally senate.

- Fortas (1968): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Thornberry (1968) withdrawn because the seat was no longer available, due to some musical chairs replacing Chief Justice Earl Warren. Ally Senate.

- Murphy (1940): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Cardozo (1932): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Clarke (1916): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Brandeis (1916): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Pitney (1912): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Shiras (1892): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Fuller (1888): confimed. Opposition senate.

- Woods (1880): confirmed. Opposition senate.

- Hunt (1872): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Chase (1864): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Bradford (1852): lapsed. Opposition senate.

- 7 various nominations (1844): none confirmed. Opposition senate.

- Crittenden (1828): postponed i.e. rejected. Opposition senate.

- Johnson (1804): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Ellsworth (1796): confirmed. Washington was president and rejected party politics, but the Federalists were friendly with him, so ally senate.

- Chase (1796): confirmed. Ally senate.

- Cushing (1796): confirmed. Ally senate.

I think there's plenty of evidence that Garland's nomination fight radically rocked the boat in US national politics, and we're likely to see similar boat rocking over the next few years as Democrats are pushed harder to abuse the limits of their power in order to improve their leverage on Republicans.