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What's annoying about this is that the anchor point the article uses to draw the conclusion that big brands have to change their strategy is the market shift towards "perimeter" foods --- produce, deli, dairy, bakery, prepared food --- and the suggestion that this meant consumers were buying more produce and fewer frozen meals.

In fact, a giant part of Whole Foods strategy is to get customers to treat them like a high-class version of Boston Market --- which is to say like a counter service family style restaurant. That has less to do with what ingredients customers shop for, and more to do with the fact that people aren't preparing meals at home at all.

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Also: click through to the report they're citing, and then mentally walk a grocery store and ask yourself what isn't a "perimeter" product? Flour, bottled tomato sauce, chips, dry pasta, canned beans, frozen dinners --- but pretty much every home-cooked meal will depend somehow on the produce section, dairy, the deli, or the meat counter.
C'mon, first show me where where these automakers are breaking the law, and also where it is these days where you can't import a car without bribing someone. Here are some stories by reputable journalists showing how expensive and bureaucratic it is to import a car by yourself if you want to, yet also how completely legal it is:

http://carros.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2014/05/08/burocra...

http://economia.terra.com.br/carros-motos/importar-carro-por...

http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/automoveis/importar-traz-excl...
Good post in terms of content; really wish he had a nice syntax-highlighted code box instead of screenshots of code
Whether a PhD is considered a doctor is a cultural thing. In Germany for example, "doctor" simply implies a PhD/MD or similar (and in fact calling yourself one without a matching degree would be criminally fraudulent) -- although that seems to be changing thanks to the influence of American media and less emphasis on titles (and likely not least because of a large number of politicians having been revealed to have cheated to get their degrees).

Other than that I agree.
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"Only working 60 hours? Not happy making 50% of market with .35% equity? You must not really believe in the mission!"

Exactly. Now, there might be more money to make the goal happen and better if only the founders and VC's were similarly passionate rather than profit-motivated. ;)
Corrupt unions are a problem, however corrupt unions are still better than no unions.

Edit: to the downvoters: consider what life was like for workers before unions were widespread.
Again, if you really think that there is a significant chance that you will get screwed over by the founders, then don't join the startup. Joining a startup is, in no small part, a bet on the founders, and it requires that you take some risk yourself.

Yes, a lot of early employees have ended up with worthless stock. That's the risk they took. There are also a lot who have become very rich.
> Smart money controls Bloomberg like a Puppeteer a puppet.

I don't know much about Bloomberg -- is there evidence out there that backs up this sentiment or is it just derived from a sort of "the-powerful-are-all-in-cohoots" cynicism?
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If you take only one thing away from this thread, this should be it. It's phenomenal and worth every penny, IMO.

Incidentally, this is the first time since the change that I miss having the upvote score on an item.
Is it the case that farmers grow soybeans instead of broccoli because they're subsidized, or is it rather that broccoli is more seasonal, more specialized, harder to grow, and especially difficult logistically, with a value chain that includes more middlemen that suck out more of the value?

How many different broccoli farmers or farmer-co-ops are there that have nationwide distribution?

Because you can grow soybeans, supply several different industries in doing so, and the commodities markets are more or less set up to directly manage your risks.

That's not a public policy priorities issue, it's a "soybeans are a more fundamental output of the agriculture industry than broccoli is" issue.
As I remember it, these stories were mostly due to the "psychologists" basically cheering him on, same with the media. This is an example of our abhorrent mental health system as much as our legal system.

Didn't they also manage to pull in some medium somehow?
Would those countries have the same benefits without British rule? I think they would.

And as for Britain "giving up" their claims, they simply couldn't afford to keep India after the Indian military rebelled, and without India, they simply had not enough colonies to make profitable quickly after the devastation of WWII.
"freshly prepared meals with locally sourced vegetables and grains"

I will never understand this obsession with "local". Local is not safer, local does not embody less CO2 (it actually has more), it does not mean more nutritious, it does not mean less pesticides.

Pretty much the only argument that ever made even a bit of sense to me is cultivating a relationship with the farmer - but what difference does that make when you buy the food from a chain restaurant (as described in the quote above), or even a grocery store?

Is this author just trying to load up the article with as many buzzwords as possible? I noticed they didn't mentioned "organic".
Didn't you also support Unicef in Kongo and helped fertilize endangered Rhinos in Tanzania? You must have forgotten about that - ah yeah, and the novels you wrote during your sabbatical while travelling down the Ganges on a house boat ...
BTW, I emailed rms@gnu.org about microcode updates and the only reply was a pointer to http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html.
True, but I bet most people pasting snippets of jQuery into Wordpress would be equally surprised if you called them engineers.
Have you checked out the Microsoft Band 2?
It always amazes me that if you get a bunch of workers together and organize them so they can act collectively, you get a ton of hate and a lot of people assume you're destroying value. Yet do the exact same thing on the employer side and this is not only acceptable, it's the only way we would ever think of doing things.

In other words, why can't I replace "unions" with "corporations" and have the statement still be true?
> What if we paid workers meaningful amounts of equity?

How would you provide equity for public school teachers?
Require large food corporations to become B-corps or non-profits. Wouldn't that solve most problems with food industry comparatively fast?
I would venture to guess that subsidies also drive our obsession with adding dairy products to everything.
Inefficiencies like paying people a living wage and giving them reasonable benefits?
> Unfortunately, the high volume of posts means that getting a Show HN post to reach the homepage is difficult/impossible.

Not more than any other submission to Hacker News. It's about luck.

> Frankly, I’m not sure it can be done without asking all your friends to upvote (which I absolutely hate doing).

People shouldn't be doing this anyways because it doesn't work.
How come this is never brought up in international settings, say the UN or EU?

It's so outlandish when I first heard it I though people were just joking.
I'm not from the US, but from Romania. My grandparents lived on the country-side, working the land and during the communists Romania did not have much access to the vast quantities of pesticides and fertilizer that the US was left with after WWII, due to a large surplus of ammonium nitrate and of various poison gases. Our animals were not fed and grown on cheap, subsidized corn and kept alive with antibiotics. Our diary products were not low fat. Our white flour was given for export. Etc, etc.. And guess what, after 1990, after the revolution, when we started importing food and adopting the "western diet", we ended up with the same shock like everybody else ... people getting fatter, increased rates of type II diabetes, increased rates of coronary artery disease, etc. And most importantly I think - our food is losing its taste, because vegetables grown with pesticides and artificial fertilizers have shallower root systems, grow faster and thus are unable to gather the same amount of nutrients as vegetables grown normally and in season. Same goes for animals, like cattle or pigs or chicken, raised on corn and kept alive with antibiotics.

In regards to your statement, organic food is the conventional way to produce food, and note that I'm not talking about any standard, but about how people have been growing food before we discovered what fossil fuels are good for.

There's actually plenty of evidence to go around, plenty of studies, showing links between the western diet and type II diabetes, heart disease, obesity, cancer, with my father's PhD thesis being one, evidence that has been ignored because it flies in the face of the low-fat bullshit we've been fed, plus it goes against a multi-billion dollar industry. Artificial fertilizers are also known to be responsible for the destruction of our environment, leading to such effects as water pollution with nitrate or acidification of the soil.
Kevin Kelly[1] had a similar viewpoint where technology could be viewed as an organism. This was clarified in his book What Technology Wants[2], where the chapters are online.

[1] http://kk.org

[2] http://kk.org/books/what-technology-wants/
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Well, that can't be entirely true, because if it was, Kraft would still own the category-killing brand for every frozen and fresh prepared food product. There must be more to it than palatability.

I don't think the effective differentiator is healthfulness, but it's something other than hyperpalatability.
Most of the colonised countries were left out of the technological race too.
40/60 splits often turn into "group A does this, but group B does that". It happens a lot.

I remember an article about whether people consider various acts on social media to be "cheating". So you know, 85% of women considered having a tinder account to be cheating, whereas 75% of men did (or something like that, I can't really remember). This was reported, of course, as "men and women differ about what counts as cheating on social media" when the data screamed "men and women largely agree about what counts as cheating on social media."

The split may be relevant - it does tell you something when 60% of one continent feels one way and only 40% of another does, but "Europe is this, whereas the US is that" is usually a vast oversimplification.

It's generally media driven, the differences make for better headlines, but it crops up all over the place.
My argument doesn't rely on their (non) availability.
Don't think that is true anymore ... there are lots of qualified Malaysians, Indonesians, Indians and Pakistanis who will work for $10 an hour and be happy about it.
We have a plutocrat class. PG is part of it.
I assume you're trying to call me out for lying?

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It doesn't necessarily mean more nutritious or fewer pesticides, but if you are optimizing for attributes like that, your best bets are going to end up being a local producer.

Not all local is good, but the best producers usually are.
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JP Morgan may be laying people off but they had a hiring ad out on the Haskell subreddit <1 week ago [1] looking for help.

I don't think general layoffs at all correlate to language usage in this case (they didn't cut a Haskell team, specifically).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3re0kp/jpmorgan_ha...
I don't think it's shoehorned at all. The author makes it clear that marriage should come first and children second because if you lose touch with your husband/wife while focusing solely on your children you will inevitably become miserable with each other and it will rub off not only on your kids but also your marriage. I've heard the same thing from just about any married couple I know.
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You we're on sabbatical.

I've used this to describe time I took off in my earlier 30's to do various volunteer work and travel. Never an issue. Most folks look at it and say something like, "Cool, I should have done that"
The US simply produces mind boggling amounts of food.

The United States produces almost 40 pound of wheat per person in the US (58 million tons) 50% of that get exported. Also, 40 percent of US corn ends up as ethanol.

Anyway, subsidies often relate to how automated the process is. Combines are wonderful things, but there also expensive.
I share the same opinion and congratulations for tailoring this great piece of rationality you wrote.

But I think PG isn't bad. I think he mostly want to do good things and thing well of him, just as all the other venture capitalists that back his incubated companies. But they rarely get how hard life is for most of the people.

They were born in the land with the most opportunities, and/or studied to be in the field with the most growth in the last decades by far(technology)... and they don't get it.

I actually miss the time he was just a computer programmer, he wrote cool stuff.

Now, it seems everything to be about making a dent(5-7%) in the universe. Everything is about money. Money. Money.

I seriously see no value in making taxists make less money than they already do, or completely "disrupting" markets where the workers, the poor, end up having shittier lifes because all of that venture capital injected to a competitor just across the street.

But well, history will tell if this was right or not. I'm just a man who can barely come up with a concise though as you.
That can do a good job? No they are not in abundance.
We use it on medium size tables (around ~100M rows and ~100GB each). No problems. The perf boost we get from clustering rows in the right spot on the disk is huge.
> Not more than any other submission to Hacker News. It's about luck.

I agree with your first point. I think it’s about more than just luck, though.

> People shouldn't be doing this anyways because it doesn't work.

Actually, it does work—but you have to do it a certain way—and it sucks.
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He created HN, and is pretty much a god on a site that likes to worship founders.
Dear deity, how do you find the fortitude?
That's a great point. Maybe we should view the issue from two perspectives: 1) unions for government employees and 2) unions for corporate employees. Where maybe the solution for corporate employees is more equity compensation, and for gov't employees a formal union system makes sense. Though some have argued that perhaps the gov't should not be in the business of education, and perhaps encourage a voucher system instead.
> Simple thought experiment: would you prefer "$100" or "51% chance at $0, 49% chance at $1000"? I strongly suspect you'd prefer the latter, even though the median for that scenario is $0.

$100 or $490 or $1000 isn't really enough to make a meaningful difference in my life decisions, so I'll take the higher-expected-value option, simply because the money is strictly bonus. If I want to plan with the money, though, I want the lower-risk option.

In particular, compare a $90K + equity salary with a $120K + no equity one, where there's a small chance that the equity is worth well over $100K in three years. With the higher salary, if I want to spend it now, I can get an apartment closer to work, I can visit my family more or take more vacation, etc. Alternatively, if I save it, I can take a year off of work and fund my own work, I can put a down payment on a house, etc.

It's certainly true that if I win the equity game, I can take well over a year off of work, I can put a larger down payment on a better house, etc. But if I don't, I have to keep working and living in an apartment. And since I have no guarantee of it, I certainly can't spend that expected value now. From the purpose of planning, if I actively want to do one of these things in three years, I'd rather have a guarantee of being able to do it somehow, than a chance of being able to do it very well and a chance of nothing.

Once I have a guarantee of being able to buy a house in three years, I can do things like plan to start a family then. If I have such a goal in mind, it's clearly better to choose the lower-risk thing, if it provides enough money to enable this sort of long-term planning.

$100 vs. $490 will hardly make any difference to how many people I can invite to the wedding.
Marriage first, children second. If you and your wife/husband make a happy couple, you will likely raise a happy offspring by creating warm, healthy and balanced environment.
Have you tried with a ShowHN? Many people read the /newest page and if the project is interesting they will drop a comment.

I submitted a few post with 5-10 upvotes, that's not enough to get to the front page, but it get about a hundred visits.

Others were more lucky/better and reached the front page and they got much more visits. But I think that an important part of the value of a ShowHN is the feedback.

Some comments:

* In IE11 I get in most pages a "No posts yet" message. Supporting every browsers is difficult, but you can try to change the message.

* Are you sorting the post by age? I really like some variant of points/age like in HN or Reddit.
> That has less to do with what ingredients customers shop for, and more to do with the fact that people aren't preparing meals at home at all.

I'd say it's a bit of both. It's nice to know that the prepared food at WFM adheres to the same guidelines as the rest of the store (e.g. no HFCS, no trans fat, humane meats, etc). It's pretty hard to find a restaurant anywhere with such standards.
I come from a banking background so that stuff seems normal to me but what I find in the wild every now and then has me wondering how long it will be before a major service will go off-line due to some act of premeditated vandalism. It can't go on forever like this.

SoD alone would go a very long way to close some of the larger holes (dd question: who has access to your backups?) but even that is something that a lot more people seem to be aware of than is put into practice.

The amount of trust placed in the hands of a very few people is scary, and to do all that without real backups is something that would keep me awake at night if my bread and butter depended on it.
Speaking from experience, there are a lot of people looking for Westerners with a $40-60/ hour budget, which is too cheap for Westerners and too expensive for South Asians. It doesn't have to do with qualification, it has to do with reverse discrimination. Their ideal is to get Westerners at a discount, because whether right or wrong these people perceive trust, communication, and quality to be greater working with a Westerner even, if that Westerner is working out of hostels and coffee shops.
Please don't mistake the tweet of one man as representative of a nation of 300 million. It's most certainly a viewpoint that many of us oppose.
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Yes, in my response I am trying to be as explicit as possible in saying that I think these inefficiencies are a net good. However, they are still inefficiencies. There will almost always be somebody willing to work for less, and things like union protection keep that from happening. The result is a net positive for the workers. However, that doesn't stop the process from being economically inefficient.
Yes, but my ancestors ate meat from chicken, pigs or cattle, they survived and I'm alive as well. Compared to rats, we don't have to do a trial and error for everything we eat, as culture is part of who we are and we've been eating most of the same meat, vegetables and dishes for hundreds if not thousands of years.

You are never going to see meat being broken down to its components on an ingredients label. The only way you're going to see chemicals on such labels is if those chemicals were added by food processors, for various desired effects, like for improved texture, or taste, or for extending shelf life.

It's usually bad because, as I said, it's meant to fool your senses. Why do you think sugar or HFCS is in everything these days? It's also bad in the case of health claims and fads because reductionist science is applied.
Out of curiosity, as you apparently have some real data and real use-cases - have you benchmarked SSD vs disk for your use-case? In particular, do you still see a (comparable, or not) speed-up from better clustering of rows on SSD? (I would guess not, unless you have a lot of fragmentation at less than SSD write-size (typically 4k?) - and AFAIK postgres should already be trying to fix that for you, by how it lays out data on disk. But SSD do have somewhat better sequential read than random-read, even if not as dramatic as spinning disks).
Colonization isn't required for that, trade works well.
For some people. Within the union some members benefit and some members lose relative to individual bargaining. Generally speaking unions base compensation heavily on seniority rather than productivity. That really screws the young, the hard working, and those with the most initiative.

I think the net result is a greater share of the profits for labor, but there are definitely some people in unions getting totally screwed by the unions.
Yes, absolutely. And that's acceptable. If your customers can't deal with the realities of the internet today then you're better off without them anyway, no service will be able to guarantee 100% uptime and if major banks can be taken out by DDoS then so can a small time operator like this. That's no news and should not suprise anybody.
I think the bigger problem is using 18th century opinions of Africa.
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Followup clarification tweets:

(I don't mean in simply paying people less, but rather that industries afflicted by unions are sclerotic so have left lots undone.)

There is much more money in doing new things than in paying people less.

edit: this received a number of downvotes, and I'm having trouble understanding why. Presumably providing context is a good thing here, right? There are comments that would be better informed if they had seen the follow up tweets.
Seems like anyone with root on a server can compromise anyone who logs on to it using putty; e.g. by putting a payload in the motd or /etc/issue. Or setting the command prompt to something nefarious. Or putting something into log files that are cat'ed. Or even a regular account with access to put a log file somewhere, or using /wall. Or maybe a filename that is shown when using ls (like if you uploaded a file to a server and that file was stored with the name you entered as a user; this would require very carefully crafted shell code though).

All quite unlikely attack vectors and hard to pull off remotely, but I've seen exploits that looked harder from the outside.
Workers tend to consume as much or more than they make in income, hence most workers would immediately liquidate their equity holdings in exchange for cash that actually improves their quality of life. The best move would be eliminating the inefficiencies in the private sector (i.e. Unions) and adding universal supplemental income via the public sector.