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> The restricted stock is not tradeable for at least 180 days after it was issued

ESPP and RSUs are two different and unrelated things. Your original comment I responded to mentioned only ESPP.

As for RSUs they're tradeable as soon as they vest, which is typically a year+ after they're granted. The stock can certainly go down between when they were granted and when they vest but it's more accurate to say you made less money then that you lost money. If I buy a painting for a million dollars and give it to you (at no cost) and you then sell it for $800K you didn't lose $200K.

Don't get me wrong I (and every other VMW employee) would much rather see our stock go up then down, but I think you're being a bit unfair to the ESPP and RSU programs. Even when our stock goes down (and it's done pretty much only that since I started...which I hope is just coincidence, ha) it still works out better than the stock options employees at other companies (particularly startups) get.
Yes but the mass doesn't effect the volume of water displaced if you put in a hollow 10 cubic meter steel cube into water or a solid 10 cubic meter steel cube they'll both still displace the same amount of water which is 10 cubic meters.

BTW the density of the sub is also for the most part pretty much equal to the density of water.

The only times where it's going to be either greater or lesser than water is when it's doing a static dive or fast ascent.

When the sub does it's initial dive and takes on water into it's buoyancy tanks it becomes about the average density of salt sea water once that is achieved it can use it's diving planes (foreplanes) to adjust it's depth.
I agree with that too. A big part of the reason for that outcome is that for-profit universities are pin-compatible with the university education system --- which, as noted upthread, is often really just a means for wealthy people to purchase status for their offspring --- which allows them to capture student loan subsidies, enabling them to bid prices up the same way universities do.

The alternative to college education isn't going to look like a college.
I'd say the bottom 50% live much more prosperously in Denmark than in the US.
Equally credible alternatives to university education for professions that don't involve students shouldering $100k-$200k in debt based on decisions they have to make when they're 18 years old.

Why not just free university education for people who have the prerequisite academic qualifications?
Keep in mind that some of the additional tax would be funded by the basic income received by the rich (i.e. some people would get the $10k and then pay back $10k more in tax than they would have before, thus not gaining or losing - and of course some people will fall on either side of that middle line). Also, some social benefits costs would be cut, and in theory possibly also save money on currently-needed beaurocracy.

Whether it all balances out would depend on how it was implemented and then your subjective opinion of how it would work, my point is just that it's not as simple as "find another $3.2trillion".
If any function has such a significant commit history that this is a problem in your code, there's probably a violation of the SRP right in front of you. Stop modifying it. Write modules that are small enough that their usage is obvious and you'll find it less likely that you're changing code so often that commit history on a function matters.

In the case of the CEO mandated approach, write a test that explains it. Why comment something that can be tested.

[Fact]
void FooReturnsBazBecauseJoeMadeUsDoThisInsteadOfBar()
{
var actual = _someObject.Foo();
Assert("baz", actual);
}

This way, if that code ever is changed, the comments and the code don't get out of whack with each other. Instead, you'll have a broken test. At that point it becomes obvious to reach for understanding as to why that test is there. The first step is read the commit history. If your commit history is useless, you talk to the dev that implemented it, or go back to the spec that drove it. These solutions are still 100x more useful than a comment.
B2B is fine so long as you retain some leveragee.

A common form of leverage is a contractual "switch" with SaaS. If your service if valuable, they pay on time, otherwise you turn off their service (after suitable warning procedures).
You're right of course. the branching factor of Go really only shows how much more difficult it is to blindly brute force than Chess. It's worth saying that neither game is close to being solved completely (as in mapping every possible game state). Creative techniques must be used in both games to cull out large chunks of the search space.

I definitely see how the more simplistic movement rules (and lack of variety of piece types) in Go would make it easier to cull off large swathes of the search space. Despite this my gut tells me that the branching factor is still the best benchmark we have (and easiest to convey) for comparing the computational difficulty of solving a board game with an adversarial search algorithm.
Evidence increasingly is showing that direct cash transfers to the poorest are among the most effective interventions, among randomized control trials in the developing world.
They didn't mean "prove" as in mathematically "prove" than an algorithm works, they meant it in mechanical terms (does it compile, does it run, does it past test inputs, etc.).
Yup they are the agents of missionaries in their countries. Look at Bobby Jindal he is asian per say but in reality a hard core christian.
Are you saying that I'm wrong because no modern economists have advocated policies similar to the Khmer Rouge? We're talking about a spectrum of evil here, with Pot and his cronies a way down one end.
Wait, how does too high prices for stocks mean cause companies to buy stocks? In the hope that the price goes up further, ie a classic bubble?
Childcare is dying for some automation. 1 person can care for ~3 very young children(<15mo) which is freaking expensive. That grows to ~8-10 starting at ~4 years old.

Worse, these are all minimum numbers. You need extra staff to cover someone being sick, or turn people away.
I guess I did data consulting for one too many programs and read it as, "damn, that's going to be a hard outcome to work out and the data collection is going to be problematic. I hope they find someone who knows what their doing."
A Show HN showcases your own project not others' (like a vendor). It's likely to be more visible that way too.
Plugins can get you a very compact ui: http://paste.click/XfPZOR

I'm also a fan of minimal as possible.
Congrats to you and the team, Nate! We have several shared customers and they all speak very highly of Lever.
I had the same reaction as the OP. I wasn't worried about offending people, I was embarrassed that co-workers might think I was looking at sexy pictures at work.
"$690 for an hour minimum wage for state management in haskell" I knew I should of learned Haskell!
All of Silicon Valley should chip in and fund Basic Income for all SF. It would quickly become blatantly obvious that all bonus money would get sucked in by landlords.

Basic income yes, but not without progressive tax on owned real estate that could curb rent seeking behavior of large property owners.
Replace "cheque" with "direct deposit" and what time is wasted? You have to do taxes every year anyways.

And what little time is wasted is offset by the sense of security that $200/week is going into your bank account every week like clockwork no matter happens to you or your job.
You can see replays on this blog post: http://www.furidamu.org/blog/2016/01/26/mastering-the-game-o...
So is there already a solution for https on Github Pages with a custom domain?
You don't have anything to back that up, though. You know Clyde will make work when he doesn't have to. You don't know what Alice does in the time she has not spent creating a redundant CMS.
But studying and caring for children is not idleness. We're talking about "sitting around idle" which, admittedly needs to be defined, but I'd argue doesn't include productive activities.
In my opinion, "we tried this before" and it didn't work. We didn't call it Basic Income, but we have some historcal examples of large scale attempts to guarantee everyone gets a share. Famous failures include communism.

I do not care how you arrange this research, it will not tell you what will happen under real world conditions. There is plenty of instructive data from the real world that you can look at. For example, about 2/3 of lottery winners are bankrupt within 5 years.

When people get unearned money, most of them piss it away. "Easy come, easy go." I have thought long and hard about this. I don't have time to write an opus on it today, and I imagine it wouldn't be welcome anyway. Here are a couple of things I wrote previously:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/01/ubi-we-tried...

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-conversa...
Revisiting the NSA Suite B Announcement
Net ring-buffers are essential to an OS
It's important to realize what exactly basic income is, because it's a somewhat vague concept. People typically mix two different concepts, the amount of income redistribution (how much money goes to welfare) and the structure of it (who's eligable, etc.).

What people usually call basic income is different from current systems in these points:

- It's automatic, no paperwork or going to authorities.

- It's simple, everyone gets the same amount - disabled people, people with children, etc.

- The income jump from unemployment to employment is higher.

But I don't think the difference is that big. Just modify a few parameters of the current system, perhaps change the level of income redistriubution to your liking and you have basic income.
It might seem more efficient to give everyone money rather than spend on bureaucratic infrastructure until you've realised just how many adults don't work or pay income tax or claim welfare. The choice between raising taxes or cutting incomes for the people that do really need the welfare payments isn't a pretty one...
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I had strep every year around the holidays as a kid. It's a common, and easily treatable infection, but extremely dangerous left alone. It can go from bad to really bad, quickly, especially when it travels to the heart.
* There are limited seats available at the highest-status universities, so admission to those schools will remain a privilege disproportionately available to wealthy parents who can pay to game the admissions process.

* Simply attending a 4-year university has costs beyond tuition and books; there are plenty of people who don't go to college because they can't afford 4 years out of the workforce.

* The 4-year university system is extremely brittle, in that it creates good outcomes primarily for people who are in the right place (somewhere they can easily attend a good university) at the right time (right after they graduate high school) --- do anything to get off the college track during your high school years and it becomes extremely hard to re-engage with it.
Or just do what Australia does and have a different minimum for teen agers...
nada.

http://letsencrypt.org/
I can't take this seriously.

>(Questions about how a program like this would affect overall cost of living are beyond our scope, but obviously important.)

No, that's not just "obviously important". It's practically the ONLY thing that's important. If basic income raises the cost of living to the point where it negates the effect of having it, then basic income is meaningless.

Here's your study.

1) Bring one piece of candy into an elementary school class.

2) Ask all the kids what they'll do to get that piece of candy.

3) They'll pretty much do anything.

4) Next, bring bags of candy into another elementary school class, give one bag to each student.

5) Now brandish a piece of candy and ask what they'll do to get it.

6) They're pretty much ignoring you at this point.

Money has no value without scarcity and work has no value without ownership of it's rewards.

Basic income makes money less scarce and (to pay for basic income) steals from people who work.
I'm a fan of remote work too, and your devil's advocates list is pretty much an example of remote-work gone wrong.

It's happened to me, and I found that I needed to:

- Have a routine, or else one day blends too seamlessly into the other
- Always go out with my friends on the weekend
- Make good food (Blue Apron was a huge help in this respect)
- Get dressed & do it well to make the context switch to being at work
- Set it you up so if i'm at work, I only do work things and not other chores

As for the rest, happily I don't yet have to worry about kids and my only office equipment has always been my computer.
Politicians are the ones acting contradictory. By removing red tape for mega-corps - for companies who already have the financial capacity to hire lawyers and staff to deal with regulation - instead of removing red tape for the small companies who would really benefit from it.

I believe it's clear where I stand on the matter.
If their costs had been 20% higher, they still would have priced others out of the market by using VC money to subsidize (as they still do now). Technically their prices were higher than cabs, since they were only black cars for the first two years.

I personally never take cabs anymore even if they're cheaper, the Uber experience is 10x better IMO. The only time I'll consider it is when I use Flywheel on NYE to avoid surge pricing.
https://www.completegate.com/blog/52-applications-of-5g-tech...
Thanks for the info, I'm a big fan of the Space pen. Also been looking into Field Notes every since I got one through the Cards Against Humanity Holiday thing.
Finally PHP library to get information from any web page
and yet Warren Buffett continues to work?
Refactoring as a Feature Tax
That's true in technology, which is why I qualified the second suggestion with "non-technology jobs". It's much less true in other fields, where the work hasn't yet been done to create evaluation rubrics that don't depend on signaling from college.
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Define poorest. The great society handed out lots of free cash in the 60s and 70s, and it didn't work.
CloudFlare works best.
Then in that case, Alice will have features A, B, C, and D of Project Z. She won't have wasted time developing a system that didn't need to be developed in the first place.
What's the "pre-history" bit about? I don't think 1989 qualifies as pre-history, and the linked post is just titled "The Auragen file system".
I use every browser, Safari primarily since El Capitan. It was only in the last week or so that I've just had enough of dealing with it killing my machine. I had to systematically kill each tab process on a regular basis.
I'm in my last year in CS in a North American university and most people take pen and paper notes when they do take notes, and mostly only use their laptops to read previous slides again in presentations/ waste time on random internet bs. This article is making a big deal out of nothing out of the ordinary
Both child and elder care are very labor intensive (assuming you don't want to just warehouse bodies). Perhaps robotics with fantastic AI will improve things in the future, but I'm skeptical.
Eh, this isn't really much of a story. I had to go to E3 for work back in 2002, 2003, 2004 and I've heard from former colleagues that the show has drastically changed...and not for the better.

I wouldn't be concerned about other companies dropping out and trying to pull people away from the LACC, there isn't much space for other companies to run their own large invents in lieu of renting space at E3
Because Spanish bankruptcy laws are anachronistic in that it kind of does not exist. If your business fails in Spain you are on the hook for entire amount. People have committed suicide over it. There was a movement to get it changed after the GFC 2008 but I'm not sure if they've been brought up to date or not.

Less risky to create a Delaware LLC, open a spanish subdivision, and if it fails no one has to sell their house.
A similar article (though not specifically about technology companies and more about the economic landscape in Sweden in general) got the cover of The Economist a year or more ago.
I think for me one of the open questions is are "prerequisite academic qualifications" as they currently stand, the right precursors to the kinds of educations we might dream up in the future.
I guess to counter Satan's views...

- no routine that gets you going

Well, you still shower in the morning, right? And eat breakfast? With the commute time eliminated, you could add the gym to the morning routine, if there's one you can walk to in a few minutes, or failing that, some bodyweight exercise or yoga videos. The only time I'd see this as a downside would be if you bike to work, but you could just go bike for that amount of time if you want, just ending up at home.

- less time with your friends and colleagues

Seems like this should be "more time with your friends, less time with your colleagues"? Unless your friends happen to live near where you work and you can meet up easier afterwards. Very situational.

- less team lunches/nice dinners

I guess on the lunches, but you shouldn't be having dinner with your colleagues anyways, since you shouldn't be at work at dinner time. Also, working remotely allows you to make more nice dinners, because you can take 5 minutes to do some minor prep that requires the ingredients to rest afterwards - allow dough to rise, marinate things, etc.

If the company is spending money on nice dinners, I would prefer to receive the cost as additional salary - that applies to beer fridges and ping-pong tables as well, is this a frat house or a serious engineering company?

- getting dressed can help you mentally make the switch to start your workday and can translate into higher productivity

Well, you can still do that if you want to. I usually dress better on weekends because the office is kept at what seems to be 80°, so it's impossible to wear my sport jackets or sweaters in the winter <_<

- you have to spent money for office equipment

Much less than the commuting costs anyways, assuming you already have the computer and you're just using a little paper for sketching. They probably provide a computer anyways, so you're just looking at paper and pens?

- you have more sick days, since kids are bags of disease

Well, that only applies to people with children.

- no eureka moments after water cooler chats

I find it much more likely that someone else's chat will destroy my flow, although that problem is fixed by providing private offices with doors that close.

However, I work on a team where I am solely responsible for my piece of software, so YMMV in larger teams with more direct code collaboration.

(I used to work remotely. I don't anymore. When I leave this job, that will hopefully flip back!)
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In what respects would it differ? On-campus residency is an optional feature, and MOOCs can help education scale better, but in the end, you need to somehow 1) compensate experts for the time they spend teaching material and evaluating students, and 2) even more importantly, implement a robust accreditation system to eliminate the temptation to loosen standards in order to raise enrollment.

What you end up with ends up looking a lot like a college. Now, we can talk about changing how funding for college works, but that's a separate discussion from changing the fundamental model, which I don't see as a practical goal.
How not to be a better programmer
YC may be closest to being this startup.

If their process was an "Empirical, blinded, skills-assessment", and they funded anyone who met their predefined requirements, we'd have a real alternative to class-based universities. At least for anyone willing to create their own business.

YC is already more fair (less gameable) than the elite universities, but it's still far from being fair enough or big enough to really change things.
Yep. Grew up insecure & not rich. Now own my own house outright, work for myself, and can afford our exceptionally high medical insurance. Am much, much happier knowing the house is mine and that I can afford to repair it. Unlike my family as I grew up, we don't have to leave pots under holes in the sealing for years at a time because we can't afford roof repair. Am much happier knowing I can't be fired by a stupid boss. Money has made me much happier.
Nice job defining all taxation as theft without actually stating it.

I can kind of see a basis for that - people with guns enforce that you pay your taxes. On the other hand, in the US, Congress decides on the budget, and we vote for those folks. And we don't seem to care enough about government spending to vote out the ones that spend a lot.

And, if taxation is theft, what is your alternative? Government supported by charity? Government supported by printing money? No government? What?
Link to mentioned paper http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15-440/READINGS/borg-1989.pdf
Other way around. Because Alice set up Wordpress and was done, she had plenty of time to work on actual, hard problems that needed to be solved.
I disagree.

It would be weird if it was a collection of various images from different times of the same person, or a collection of female celebrities.

But it's a series of images from the same photoshoot. It's a perfectly reasonable grouping to make.
So you're saying there's a final fractional digit to PI? That's good news.
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THERE GOES MY INTELLECTUAL RELEVANCE
It's what ruby does and coffeescript is basically an exercise in making js more like ruby.
Someone's got to read/watch/read/play/hear/use all that stuff the people who love to make things are going to produce.
We already have programs for granting preferential immigration to high-skilled foreigners. Every advanced country does. Unrestrained immigration is incompatible with a welfare state. Which would you rather have?
He is 2p in China, so his rank is actually chinese. In Europe (EGF) he plays as 7d. An oddball rank would be 2-3p in China, 3-5 or so in Japan and maybe 2 in Korea. But just guessing, I'm to far to properly compare, the only gauge is when he plays other "non-EU pros" in the EGC.
> What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?

Gamify budgeting. I'm on a low income (UK sort-of disability benefits) and I've got a budget set up, but I don't set aside anything. I should, and I should be able to.

I'm more than happy to describe my experiences of claiming "employment and support allowance (work related activity group)" (and the transition from Incapacity benefit to ESA-WRAG; and the difficulties of working while on this benefit.) AMAA.
> In other words: "Fatties gonna fat."

You can't comment like this here.
I think "dying" is perhaps a bit of overstatement, but there is some merit to the notion.

Containers may change the game. If you can containerize on top of something like Mesos, Kubernetes, etc - there is no need to run on top of a virtualization layer.
Ability to leave bad relationships is one of the proposed benefits of basic income and similar ideas.

The linked article hypothesized "reduced pressure on the breadwinner to remain". Too many fights over money, financial ability to leave a bad relationship, and no need to "stay together for the bills" could all be causes.
They must employ the wrong people (or, more likely, the wrong managers) IMHO. I cannot see how it is vital to sit together every day or even most days of the month. Sure you need it sometimes but so often you need to buy/rent a house 'close' to the office cannot be true. Maybe they are doing something different than the management/development I do?