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> The problem is the irrational and unnecessary concentration of opportunities in that area.

The concentration is not irrational. That's the problem.

The concentration is driven by the fact that you will, not might, get laid off at some point if your job is in the tech sector. So, what happens is that everybody thinks about where their next job is going to be while getting hired for their current job.

If I somehow manage to land, say, a VLSI layout job in Pittsburgh, PA, there is no point in going there as when I get laid off, there is no other VLSI layout job. So, I'll have to go back to Silicon Valley. So, why should I leave Silicon Valley in the first place?

You might think that, okay, Pittsburgh is a problem, but what about Austin? Oddly, same issue. A hardware company wiped out most of its Austin site, set off a big scramble and those people couldn't land jobs because there are no other ones there (people think of Austin as tech--but it's not really hardware tech). I know lots of people who got hired in the "Big Data Analytics" startup fad who are now figuring out that they basically signed onto "Actuarial Science"--but, if they have a family, they really have nowhere else to go. The single ones are either changing fields (becoming a chef seems to be popular--go figure) or going to Silicon Valley.

Whereas, in Silicon Valley, you turn right at the last light instead of left, and you're at your new job.
How interesting that people within the afk space are beginning to dislike advertisements, while people in the digital space have been actively removing it for a while.

Does u-block allow for extensions?
I'm not the biggest fan of Moments from a product perspective. It feels too much like Facebook Paper; while I'm sure there are people who want to use their social networks as a general news aggregation feed, I'm not one of them.

Still, it does give me faith that Twitter is focusing more on the "What matters?" side of their product, rather than the "What's happening?" side -- a dichotomy brought up by Thompson two years ago in a post worth reading as a companion piece to this one:

https://stratechery.com/2013/might-twitter-maximize-potentia...
They have a ver solid team ;)
"Life is filled with suffering" - and joy. Sure, if you only take one half of what life is then ending that miserable experience sounds like a perfect idea, but there's the other half too and that's the reason most people prefer life to death.
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Then don't give them the loans. That's how the system works. And if they don't get the loans, force the colleges, and the college towns to compete for the lesser funds.

Why should student loan originators get a free ride, when other consumer or investment loan providers don't?
I can get behind this. Hosting a WordPress is too inefficient for a website with just a /index /about and /contact.
Most businesses go without updating their websites for months/years, if we find a way to sell static websites to clients that would be a step forward.

Unfortunately, in the mind of the client static=easy=worth less
The announcer makes a point of touting their "made in the USA" clothing at "low K-Mart prices."

How much things have changed in such a short time.
That will teach me to just skim the article (and to instead Ctrl-F Google :)

Apparently Microsoft did do some significant innovation compared to Google's 2009 design at least:

"The innovation that Microsoft did on this idea was to hack into the switched mode power supply used in its Open Cloud Server machines and put the battery right into the existing circuits. So the battery is not hanging off to one side, as they did in the Google servers from 2009, but is embedded in the power supply without any extra circuit costs. And importantly, the batteries are not in the power path between the electrical source and the server motherboards and components. Rather, they extend the life of the bulk capacitors in the power supply in the event of a power failure in the main feeds."
Building houses doesn't prevent building hospitals and etc. And if they are needed, of course you should.
In general [1], people who hate developers and/or development live, work, shop, and worship in places developed by developers. Someone subdivided and sold the land. The infrastructure of deeds, insurance and mortgages that makes the contemporary housing markets possible exists because development has and continues to take place.

[1]: In the United States.
Yes, but they are opinionated, not biased. It sometimes result in weird articles where the conclusion is in disagreement with the facts stated in the article. This one's just poorly researched, however.
Honestly, as a girl who was actually given access to both, I chose both. I still have my barbies, I still have my lego sets, I still have my electronics kits. I don't think I was ostracized (or at least I found my own tinkerer community), and I played with everything I was given with. I think what made this cooler was that my dad was supportive of what I wanted to do (e.g. make houses, make lights for barbies, make websites to describe what I was working on), even though he didn't understand some of how it worked.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, today I'm a software engineer.

I know this is purely anecdotal, but I think we forget that if you give kids access to everything, they will figure out their own playtime and communities.
Witty as hell, to boot:

"...perhaps we may have to compromise with sin and provide a hard copy terminal after all."

giggles

"In the second place, you will see that the new information system will make the public more responsive to the careful reasoning of you good guys and more immune to the blatant propaganda of those bad guys."

Up with Good! Down with Bad!

(But seriously, futurism generally isn't this uncannily accurate. I know hindsight lets me select the best predictions a posteriori - anyone know any way of improving this? - but it's still interesting.)
A lot of the Gulf states took a similar route. Just look at the rise of the region as an airline hub, location of many satellite campuses, etc.
Your code seems to be missing a license that actually allows @virtualSantai to test it ;)
Nuclear fusion is relatively well understood from a physics perspective, what remains is an engineering challenge. For the longest time most of the money spent on fusion reactor research has been plowed into a single approach. The good news is that at this point in time a wider variety of approaches are getting decent levels of funding.

That's the reality of the situation, we've gone from a one horse race to something closer to an eight horse race. There's a decent chance that the horse we were backing at first will get overtaken by some of the other entrants. If that is the case, some would argue we've been backing the wrong horse for the last 50 years. What it doesn't mean is that the race is over.

Again, it's important to understand the level of confidence when it comes to nuclear fusion. The science is relatively well understood, we've built plenty of working fusion reactors, in fact some fusion reactors are so simple that high school students have built them. What remains is mostly an engineering challenge, working on various ways of triggering and controlling the plasma, shielding the machines from the forces that would interfere with its function, and working out the best way to capture the energy as an electric current. The sun proves you can have get more energy than you put in, hydrogen bombs prove the same, so the potential exists, we're just looking at how best to harness it.

Is there a chance this research won't pay off in, let's say, 20 years? A slim chance yes, but considering the enormous benefits that's a chance many groups who invest in nuclear fusion are willing to take.
Nope. Some plasters, mortars, cements, and similar substances require exposure to air (actually it's usually carbon dioxide they need rather than oxygen) but others, including modern Portland cement, do not.

Classic Roman concrete would also set under water.
I do not understand the new dupe detection system. The same user posted the same link 10 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368978
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The article mentions a "6502.7" CPU core that Ricoh had. I don't think I've ever heard of this designation before, and Google doesn't seem to find any relevant hits other than this article. Does anyone know something about it? I guess it's probably just an internal designation for a specific layout variation/revision, but it seems like it might be a new detail.
Had the Germans been facing more and better armed civilians, they would have used different and more effective tactics.

Instead, the Germans decided to deport the Jews. Had they just gone from the start shelled/bombed the ghetto, and set it on fire, they would have lost many fewer soldiers and taken less time.

Also, the Wikipedia page says the backbone of the German troops were '821 Waffen-SS paramilitary soldiers from five SS Panzergrenadier reserve and training battalions and one SS cavalry reserve and training battalion'. These are not the prime troops that would be on the front lines.

That's not to say there was no effect, but I don't think it's reasonable to say "significant".

Also, a complete tally would need to subtract from the 2,000 count the number of German soldiers that were used to maintain the ghetto.
I don't assume that you know the wheels are about to fall off, only that it doesn't matter to any decisions made prior to the exit.

Assuming a voluntary transaction, it is incumbent upon the investors to perform any due diligence they feel they are entitled to.
I think people are quite aware of that line of thinking. Most people who live in slightly unpopular areas live there because they couldn't afford other places and now when the area has become more desirable they fear being pushed out. This is an especially legitimate concern if you are renting, since building might very well rise demand more than it does supply.
> In a typical UPS backup scenario in a normal datacenter, the incoming power is converted from AC to DC so the battery can be charged, then converted back to AC coming out of the battery to be distributed out to the power distribution units, where it is stepped down to the 120 volts where the servers consume it. By putting the batteries in the servers, Microsoft can do one AC to DC conversion and distribute 380 volts DC directly to the Open Cloud Server power supplies and then step it down to 12 volts for the server and storage nodes.

This is a huge point of efficiency that's been missed for a very long time, mostly because it's right along the border between the datacenter provider and the server customer. The datacenter traditionally agrees to provide filtered 120/240v AC.

Converting the power loses efficiency. And we convert the power 4 times. They may be regaining about a 6.25% loss from each conversion, my math is probably incorrect.

Of course, all parties could agree to change the standard, and provide clean, filtered 12V DC to servers, and redesign PSUs to accept this input instead. But then they wouldn't be wall-pluggable anymore.
No - too lazy.
Yes. I sometimes feel like most of the people in these threads don't enter the discussion with the understanding that computer science, and software development in particular, are a topic of discussion because they have a uniquely bad gender gap.
The biggest thing here is that like all drugs, not all people mix well with it. In fact I can't name anyone I know who was academic whilst high. Most people are of the mindset that to get the most out of smoking weed you need to do something fun like a concert, beach trip, movies etc. Now that I work full time, I smoke as a release after work, never before, it really clears your mind and helps you mentally disengage from even the most stressful work. When I studied, I always preferred to smoke and get stuff done, my last semester of university was my most successful and most influenced by weed. I've never met anyone else who's like this, but when you stop hanging around the people that "only reference the world in relation to the drug" you find it's less acceptable to talk about it openly with most "normal" people. Most of the people that I tell I was high as a kite for my entire tertiary study can't understand how I did the work and how I stayed motivated. If you can't retain cognitive skills whilst high, don't do it when you need to get stuff done. Several times I had to throw away my paraphernalia in order to stay on top of things, drugs are a very easy 'way out' when faced with a difficult decision, task or goal. It takes a lot of mental self control and will power to succeed in any field and for some people THC does provide a way to forgot the unnecessary and focus on the important.
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Fine by me, but if there does end up being policy, it won't be blanket policy.
Denmark is more equal than the US yet you wouldn't call anyone there poor in fact they are one of the richest countries in the world alongside with both Sweden and Norway.

Again the problem as with the article we are debating starts when you try to isolate the argument by creating your own control groups.
Around here the ads are printed on scrim, so you still get light.
Do people build those GUIs without toolkits or GUI builders though? An advanced shell concept would presumably come with tooling too...
How are these kinds of rebuttals helpful? How are we learning anything more about your perspective on this issue by watching you police another commenter for providing their own narrative?

Do you have something more to say than "I would need many thousands more narratives like this to care what you have to say"? Do you have a substantial criticism of what this particular narrative suggests?
Seattle has these signs everywhere. Not on billboards, but on ground signs around bike trails.
I would love to ban the audiovisual advertising in some Sydney train stations. You used to be able to avoid the static paper billboards but these days they have giant video screens and very loud speakers spread all around the platform so you can't escape hearing the constant pollution from advertisers.

I've started blocking ads on my devices again just so I can have a break from advertising in my life.
> if this spreads and becomes the "new normal" ... that's the issue people have with this kind of "improvement".

I don't find this argument convincing.

1. I don't believe anyone in this thread has actually raised this objection.

2. If others have raised this objection, I would not believe this is their actual motivation. The (acerbic) discussion in this thread is not traceable to a future possibility of worse terms for employees - it is outrage over moral turpitude.

3. The possibility of a worse future requires strong proof to not choose real benefits now.
I don't know why you are being downvoted,what you stated is fairly uncontroversial and easily supported. Perhaps people are assuming some stance or approval of that from your words.

It is rational behavior to protect your investments and way of life in this manner. I think it's often short-term rationalization, and acting on bad information, but people are acting in a rational manner given their information and circumstances. Given that, it's probably good to address the base of that rationalization, rather than expect them to behave differently. I.e. give them more information that makes their prior behavior no longer the clearly beneficial choice for them, if such information exists. Play upon their sense of justice and ideals (such as ChuckMcM is). etc.
Tearing down homes doesn't necessarily destroy value. It increases the value of other properties, because you have less supply and more demand. This is exactly the equivalent of not building while demand goes balistic. The price of homes has gone crazy in the Bay Area as a result of not allowing enough building.

You don't need eminent domain, and SFBARF is not advocating for it. The project they are suing the City of Lafayette for was entirely private: willing landowner, willing developer, and most likely a lot of potential buyers or renters in a tense market. But no, the City of Lafayette decided to approve on condition of a drastically reduced number of housing.

She is advocating that landowners and developers be allowed to build to meet market demand, without obstruction from nimby neighbors.
So basically you're saying those experiments had no predictive power in the first place?
I don't think "I've ... liaised with techies in enterprise from time to time" marries up well with "if you select down to consulting software developers". :)

The biggest headcount of a company I've worked in tech with is 60, most of whom were not in IT. The other tech companies are all 10-20 people, including part-timers. Only one company I worked for sold to Fortune 500 - ironically this one had the shabbiest dress of all.

Three of those companies had lawyers - they all dressed in suit-with-optional-tie. As did their visitors (visitors rarely optioned out of the tie) and the lawyers I'd talk to from other companies (admittedly a rare occurrence). Apart from the medical sales at the waterfall place and finance staff, I rarely see a suit jacket in the neat casual dress of other staff (IT or otherwise).

I realise this is all anecdata, but at the same time, the 'neckbeard and t-shirt' idiom is a grossly incorrect stereotype.
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He also means that not all outdoor advertising is actually a problem. some of it's pleasing some of it is acceptable some of its aesthetic....

Can't say the same for the active ones
That's an argument that gets you a team of people who all like the same video games and all pick which beer to drink by maximizing IBUs.

There's a point at which can safely say that this kind of studiously groomed, exclusionary "cohesion" is doing more harm than good. I mean, there's obviously that point: if you refused to hire someone because they were a woman, you'd get sued; if you refused to hire someone because they didn't drink, you'd (rightfully) be ostracized in the community.
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Driving down the road with a calm green billboard beside you, then BAM it changes to pure white and your night vision is gone.
With CLI help we could do a lot better than we are doing, when I used Juniper routers I found that very refreshing they really tried to make help very easy to get.
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Owners have an incentive to keep supply low and to maximize the value of their asset. Next, add AirBnB to add yet more demand. Crazy is the new normal.

Homeowner associations organize the vote during off-election years, as per http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/02/so-you-want-to-fix-the-hous...

Removing rent-control would accelerate the displacement. A friend saw his rent nearly triple in 1999. So, he moved back to a more affordable Paris. He was developing a super cool visual-music platform. A neighbor is developing really cool music apps for the iPad. I am doing iOS based art tools. GAFFTA is in the neighborhood. There are advantages to encouraging a cultural mix.
What is "MR" in those signs.

Tangent: Mozilla just changed the name of its new brotli feature tag, because the "BRO" abbreviation was deemed sexist.
For some reason I still remember the Kmart in-store ad from the early 80s. It was about the photo development at the Camera Bar. It went something like "Kmart now offers the Goof Proof Picture Perfect guarantee..." I'd love to hear that again.
No I don't think I can. But I can point to plenty of people who would make that argument if you asked them.

However as I started out saying. My point isn't to say that one thing is better than another, just that you can't talk about ethics the way the essay tries to.

Cherry picking your "control groups" isn't how ethical discussions are being done. Instead pick the dilemma and then see how different solutions situations deal with it.
Good. The market would quickly self-correct. It's pretty good at doing that. No more 6 figure loans for english degrees. No more automatic 80k loans for shitty technical colleges where most graduates can't even get a job. The whole thing would sort itself out overnight.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333193
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I don't think you understand. Even if they don't do this, people will default. There is over $1 trillion in outstanding student loan debt. The people who are defaulting have no assets, and don't have enough income worth garnishing. They are, for the most part, judgement proof.
Until appearance of cheap superconductors this will not make sense because of distribution losses.
To me your Yahoo example seems to prove the opposite of your point - growth stalled and yet it didn't die. It not only employs thousands of people but also earns billions in profit.
Again, it remains to be seen whether the Chinese economy meets the expectations of earlier forecasts. I think a more realistic view is that the Chinese economy assumes a role in the region comparable to Germany's in Europe.

Military ascendency is not just a simple product of economic ascendency however. Geography plays a large role, as well as military history and institutional knowledge. For example, one does not simply build a blue water navy. China is practically starting from scratch when it comes to naval tradition, and when combined with geography will likely never pose a serious challenge to US naval primacy in the Pacific - regardless of comparative economic might. Even at the height of its power the USSR never posed a serious threat to that primacy. Bounded to its own regional theatre, the Chinese military will likely continue to be structured around anti-area access denial strategies.

However, increasing economic co-dependence is likely to make this entire topic moot. Call me an optimist but I predict the extent of US-China naval engagement 20 years from now to consist of joint security exercises and disaster relief missions.
Sorry, but destroying something and not building something are not even slightly morally equivalent. And that's the problem with some activists: they are so far removed from common sense.
It's on there! I remember it specifically from the first half of the Week of 6.21.92 tape.
No, it is just that overhead wires are older and cheaper. New wiring is underground.
Isn't https://github.com/gioblu/PJON_ASK/blob/master/PJON_ASK.cpp#... sufficient?
Yes, it was one of their "secret sauce" things that they kept top secret for a long time. Fundamentally, if you change the question from "putting computers into data centers" to "how can I build a building sized computer?" it changes the way you think. Microsoft has been somewhat late to that particular party, both Facebook (perhaps with some Google knowledge "leakage") and Amazon have done a good job of internalizing this view point.

It scares the crap out of data center providers because they know they can't really innovate like this effectively. I tried to get Equinex to consider building Open Compute racks in a different style of co-location setup but never got anywhere with them.
I Ctrl-F'd. I remember reading the Google article back in 2009. Wondered if they were going to mention it in this MS centric article, and was glad to see they did.
> But saying "I really don't want to follow through on what I agreed to" just because minds changed is not justifiable

Great attempt at a moral hazard. It's a business contract. Default on the contract, face the consequences. There is no "right" or "wrong" about it.

If at anytime you can default on a debt without consequence, or minimal consequence, it behooves you to do so.