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A pity that you propose the problem but not a solution. What would you propose to overcome the principal-agent problem in that regard? A tournament between different lawyers (proposed solution by wikipedia for prinipal-agent problem) doesn't really seem to work since it would only make sense after comparing the results of many transactions and of many lawyers.
I think it should have read "took $350,000 of his own money to write a business plan in 2007 and form his online mattress company, Saatva."
I have an alternative proposal that almost gets to a guaranteed basic income (GBI) over time, but with less disruption along the way. I call it guaranteed basic goods (GBG).

The idea is that instead of the government giving money directly to people (GBI), the government pays to research, develop, and implement automation of the production of goods. The goal for each given good is to set up a production and distribution chain that has very little human involvement, and is publicly owned, with the output being given away to the public.

So, over time, good by good, things move from the market economy, where you have to have a source of money in order to get them, to the public economy, where they are produced publicly and you have a share of the output.
For instance, take food. There are several crops now whose production is largely automated, with planting, fertilizing, watering, harvesting, and packaging done by machine. We are at most a couple of decades away from automating much of the distribution from farm to city.

Within 30 years we could have publicly owned mostly automated production and distribution of sufficient food crops so that every citizen's share would be enough to live well from.

Aside from housing, I see no reason that we cannot, within 40 years, have a sufficient variety of goods produced this way that those who wish to can live comfortably entirely on their share of the publicly owned factory and farm output.

There will still be tasks that cannot be automated (at least for a very long time), and so there will be a path for those who want more than is provided by the public output to earn money to buy those things only available in the market economy.

The automation will happen, getting rid of large classes of jobs completely and in many others making it so 1 human can do what formerly required dozens. The number of jobs created designing and maintaining the machines won't be anywhere near the number eliminated, so we are going to have to find some way to cope with very large unemployment.
I don't think anyone loved their employer that much. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. I'll assume there was lots of eye rolling on both sides as their leaders rallied them all around the idea of trading users cat pictures for their ad impressions.

Your salary/equity/etc. vs. your value on your personal life either make overtime worth it or not.
This sounds pretty bad, has it been reported?
Insertion and removal will always require traversal first since the LinkedList's node class is private.
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What a wonderful talk. Thank you for sharing it!
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Fair point--you have no idea what happens behind closed doors and what the available budgets are. And you never will. Perhaps the hiring manager decided they are willing to pay 2x the market rate because their pain is quite high. But how likely is it, due to your refusal to name a number, that the company is going to reveal the top of their range? So, yes, there is an information disparity.

But I still think that refusing to name a number shouldn't be the number one point in all of these discussions and blog posts about salary negotiation. You're right, when there are huge amounts of information disparity, either because a company's pain point is significantly higher than market rates would imply, or because a candidate has a rare and unique skill that cannot be easily found, then all of the entry-level negotiating tactics go out the window. But for fair-market jobs and candidates, I think you should be able to know your value well and refusing to name a number is a waste of time and energy.
This is cargo-culting. Do you really think FB's success is due to frequent lockdowns? They are successful because they've got network effects, people are used to using their site/app and there is no incentive for people to switch - it's already free, you can't go lower than that.
Tons of people rolling around Seattle on these long ebikes with some cargo and a couple kids on the back. I love it! Although anecdotally, ebike riders are much more likely to ride way too fast and pass dangerously close on trails.
I have an extension that provides an always updated list in a niche, and the list items (with detailed info) are directed towards a website of mine with ads. I don't ask for any obtrusive permissions, and I make cents every day! lol
You can browse with Tor but most sites (including this one and Twitter) won't let you sign up/post with Tor. Very dubious practice by the site operators IMO.
Well, a lot of the point of these constraints is to reduce complexity, as the writer mentions. When you add constraints with most of those tools, you're actually adding complexity to your tooling, build process, and cognitive load if not to your actual code base.
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You actually sound more like a social-democrat than a liberal. Liberals do not refer to property as a mere social construct.
Does anyone live in a city (within the US) that takes a similar approach to GDS? I live in SF and developers usually create their own apps for services (Like MUNI/BART) but the city seems to have a mix of good and bad UX when it comes to municipal services (from my experience, at least)
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Got laid off yesterday. Hooray.
The biggest barrier to widespread adoption of grocery delivery in the USA is the lower population density. It's very common in the large cities/metro areas, and has been around for years.

Regarding your comment on choosing groceries online:

My wife is a huge fan of Walmart-To-Go (order online, pull up to a designated station in a parking lot at your convenience, and they bring them out and load them into your vehicle), and now gets the shopping done in minutes, because after you first few orders, the app does a very good job of letting your past orders inform new ones.
In this discussion you're assuming the "employer" as a separate entity from the "employees". This was an enormously hard dichotomy for us to overcome, because it required me and my cofounder to let go of control over the salary structure and hand that over to the company as a whole. That requires a huge amount of trust that "the employees" care about the company as much as we do, really want it to be a success, are capable of informing themselves to make good decisions on behalf of the company.

It is a very worthwhile path, but it certainly is not easy for the founders (and is probably impossible in a large traditional, top down, public company where "the owners" are a faceless group of shareholders who definitely want to believe they are in control - even though they definitely are not).

At this point, we (my cofounder and I) have pretty much zero control over how much people are paid in the company. We provide advice to people making those decisions but we are not the decision-makers. And the conclusion of that experiment is that people actually seem to care far more about getting the arbitrary salary formula right than we do, so I believe it was very much the right choice to let go of this lever and let the company design its own salary structure.

Thanks to this situation (however difficult it was to get there), the problem you outline is not there because there is no "employer" entity separate from the employees that could collude or have incentives different from the employees.
Only 7x dangerous? I assumed it was like 100x... Is that 7x incidents or serious injury? It would also be interesting to see it expressed in hours rather than miles.
Your post confuses me, no offense intended.

Hopefully vowelless won't take offense, because that's probably just a side-effect of how overloaded (and thus meaningless) words like "liberal" and "conservative" and "right" and "left" are in modern American politics. Modern "liberals" are more properly "progressives" (or something), the actual liberals are mostly people who call themselves "libertarian" and "conservatives" are split between the uneducated redneck snake handling fundamentalist types, and the more educated, "fiscally conservative, small government" types. And I'm sure somebody will shoot all sorts of holes in what I just said, which just furthers my point. It's hard to talk about any of this stuff, because we don't have a consistent lingo.
>Tooting my own horn here, but Quasar on the JVM has both models to the T, performs on-par with Go and blows Erlang/Elixir out of the water in its own game.

If that is so then kudos to you.

>it is actually being solved on the JVM as we speak

Right, it is being worked on and it will be worked on for many years to come before it gets released I'm afraid.

>This isn't any worse than any language that isn't JS

Yes, but JavaScript VMs do exist, they are serious competition for the JVM, also, as you say, as a compilation target, which makes it even worse for the JVM. The importance of "runs in the browser" is hard to overstate. And then there is WebAssembly on the horizon.

>Critical software that is required to serve for a decade or more, and whose development costs exceed, say, one man-decade.

Many platforms have that covered. Your arguments in favor of the most widely used platform seem a bit tautological at times. By that standard, Java could never have gotten to the place it is in now.
It's an alt-right thing. Called an "echo". It's used to highlight Jews.
I have friend who got an offer at a large, well known tech company. When he graduated he ended up negotiating a significant five figure raise by looking at other companies.

So I don't agree with that statement. He was basically a new grad, so the standard offer was probably obtainable especially considering he knew employees at that company. And they still did not make him an initial offer that was competitive with other places.
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> I am well aware of what my service is worth

This is the first and most important thing to understand and know before entering a negotiation.

Without this fact, your negotiating ability is irrelevant (and kind of inherently non-existent), as you're operating blind.

With that being said: many do not know what they are worth, to their dismay.

> I refuse to see the relationship with an employer as adversarial

I frame as such: You're two businesses/professionals trying to reach a meeting of the minds. You both want the same thing.
In the Netherlands they are considered to be for old people, since they only use them. Especially in cities with a high student population people prefer to use some old rusty bike because bikes often get damaged and/or stolen in here. When I was visiting Copenhagen I was jealous of the infrastructure and your true love for quality bikes. I wish we had some cycle chic[1] instead of being proud of arriving sweaty and exhausted at work.

[1] http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com/
I'm not sure, but my instinct is that Google's decline had started by then. Sure, they bought their way into email by giving away storage when everyone else was charging for it. But the usability had steadily gotten worse over time. When did the new compose experience launch compared to G+, for example?
It's pretty common to map the kernel memory address to the same fixed range in the virtual memory address space of every process. Typically the kernel portion resides on the higher range of the memory space. For the 32-bit 2/2 split setup, 0GB-2GB is reserved for user mode and 2GB-4GB for kernel. With 1/3 split, 0GB-3GB for user and 3GB-4GB for kernel.

This makes it easy to work on memory shared between user mode and kernel mode code since it's the same address space. Buffer passed from user mode to kernel mode is just a matter of passing down the virtual memory address pointer, no need to copy. The kernel code accessing it just accesses the lower range of the virtual memory space.

The kernel code mapped to the same fixed range in every process also makes it easy to call kernel routine from user mode. SysCall just elevates privilege to be in kernel mode and jumps to the kernel routine at the exact same address in every process. You can think of the kernel as a special library got "linked" into every process at the exact same location, along with all its data.

Although user mode and kernel mode are in the same memory address space, user mode cannot access kernel mode memory. Memory pages are protected with flags, like R/W (Read/Write), U/S (User/Supervisor). A S-marked page cannot be accessed by user mode code. Protection between kernel and user mode is still in place.
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That was one of the issues with Segways as well. A lot of people (understandably) didn't want them on sidewalks. But they weren't really suited for roads either.
Not to mention that aluminum used to be more valuable than silver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_monument#Aluminum_a...
As mentioned in the article, transplanted MSCs have not been found to carry risk of tumor formation, and this is seen as one of their advantages.

Induced stem cells (IPS), or stem cells that are genetically modified may carry these risks, as there is overlap in the signaling mechanisms that maintain the undifferentiated state of stem cells, and that of tumor. In fact, stem cells naturally express more tumor-suppressing proteins as they age, which is thought to be a mechanism to prevent tumorigenesis resulting from damage accrued in the cells over time.
Women can get (possibly unintentionally, possibly not) punished for exhibiting negotiation and leadership traits that are valued in men.

A friend recently had an offer, ready to sign, but the salary was lower than she wanted. She wrote back asking if there was room to move upward. She had the offer withdrawn.
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The three co-equal branches of government have the prerogative to independently interpret the Constitution. But Departments within the executive do not stand in the same place as the co-equal branches. They don't get to have their own interpretations of the Constitution--just the executive's interpretation. They do often have their own in-house counsel, but those are generally responsible for Department-specific issues, not generating independent opinions on matters of cross-cutting concern.

To stretch the corporate analogy, it's like a large company that might have regional or divisional legal departments in addition to a general counsel's office. While the divisional departments may have specific roles and expertise, they cannot go their own way on matters of company-wide concern.

Comparing OLC to outside counsel ascribes to departments an autonomy they don't possess. A company is an independent entity with the prerogative to ignore its outside counsel. But agencies like the FBI are not independent. They're mere organizational units of the executive.
Not sure about at a municipal level, but USDS was based on GDS (https://www.usds.gov/).
I'll be darned. Whole time I've seen it in VMS-related material I thought it was just a pre-processor for ASM or something. Turns out it was a sort if C competitor. Thanks for the tip. :)
I would join this slack channel.
>It was designed primarily to test the procedure’s safety
If you're male, consider that long-term bike riding can cause infertility, erectile dysfunction, and prostate problems esp. depending on the saddle you use.
And look what a disaster it is much of the time.
Having had several technical discussions with Jacob, I’m certain he’s technically skilled.

(I’m a former Google engineer, have worked on privacy and security software [I created Disconnect, have contributed to HTTPS Everywhere].)
Why should the incumbents have security in their position, when as you pointed out college kids can do the same work at lower cost? It is unfair to the unemployed and to consumers to provide special protection to incumbents based solely on their position and earlier entry to the market. That is a classic case of rent seeking with governmental protection.

Good for Uber and Lyft for breaking the law and pushing us out of that local minima. Sometimes you have to harm a few privileged rent seekers to remove coercive monopolies and reduce regulatory capture.
I disagree. We absolutely should create conscious, artificially-intelligent beings, and then hopefully they'll decide we're obsolete and wipe us out. Good riddance.
Please stop posting ideologically inflammatory comments to Hacker News. That is not what this site is for.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11832322 and marked it off-topic.
So they didn't even need to have a clue as to its origin for it to be precious, that's interesting. Can you recommend any good reading to become acquainted with the technology of that time period, in that region?
The Chinese bikes look (are?) completely different though. They look like Vespa scooters with a small trunk for storing stuff and I think they have a bigger battery. The e-bikes in Copenhagen are standard bicycles with a small battery and engine added.
Here's the recent discussion about that article when it got submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826647
OK, not enough information to give a really good answer to this question, but if I had to single out one site I visit for "educational" content, I guess I'd say Youtube. You could also include videolectures.net, coursera.org, khanacademy.org, edx.org, udacity.com and probably a few others, but I find a lot of good stuff on Youtube.
>It's true that the #1 mistake people make is to sell themselves short by giving away a (low) salary upfront.

As an agency/3rd party recruiter/headhunter who asks people questions about salary all the time (current or desired), I'd argue that the #1 mistake people make is saying that they are willing to negotiate before getting any objection. I've written about this at length, but the typical conversation goes like this.

ME: "How much are you looking to make?"

CANDIDATE: "I'm looking for 100K."

ME: PAUSES TO TAKE NOTE

CANDIDATE: "...But I'm always willing to negotiate"

I haven't even said "no" and they are already negotiating against themselves. Any hiring manager dealing with junior level candidates will likely know this tendency for inexperienced negotiators to mention flexibility when greeted with any silence, so they'll incorporate that silence into their "script".
>Doctors make up 1/3 of a percent of the US population

>1.68% of Americans have a Phd

If you mean medical doctors you should specify that, Doctors has a different meaning especially within the context of post graduate degree holders.
>> the manager expected me to stay late 3x a week

I'd argue the job isn't that great.
It all depends on how you build the bike. I just converted a nice road bike by adding a geared rear hub motor. The geared motors (vs. direct drive) have a freewheel built in so they don't slow you down when pedaling (direct drive hub motors have a cogging effect when there is not electricity). And a geared motor is smaller, therefore less weight. In fact, I still road the bike normally after putting the hub motor on, since I had to wait another couple weeks for the battery to ship.

And, you can get the same cardio per unit of time (if you want) on an ebike as a regular bike. You just go faster, therefore further. And since you have a bit more speed, and you aren't required to do a major workout on every trip (so you don't have to change into cycling clothes), you end up using the ebike for a lot more trips -- therefore getting more exercise overall.

In my case, I have a 25 mile commute -- no way to make it in time on a regular bike. But an ebike makes it no problem. And I still get a decent amount of exercise (basically the difference between going for a very long walk vs running a sprint, so a different type of exercise), and on the weekends I give it my all (and just rack up more miles).
How people charge them depends on where they live and where they work. People who live in the modern pencil thin 30 story buildings you see on the news simply ride them into the elevator. Since they are electric and Chinese buildings usually have tile hallways (or bare concrete) this causes no problems. The shorter 6 story buildings do not have elevators, so people who live in these simply hang a cord out their window. Store owners will charge at work.
It also leaves you open to correlation attacks even if your account with the provider is anonymized
I have sent emails to mail@wired.com ("letters to the editor") that described how I don't use an ad-blocker, but I do nullroute hosts I don't like, which triggers their adblocker-blocker. I encouraged them to figure out some other way to keep the lights on.

This open letter is better written, but it's from the point of view of an adblocker. Somebody should re-do this from the point of view of a reader.
And yet with those, we still have security vulnerabilities in C programs. That, I think, is a strong argument for languages which have very specific constraints. (For example: Rust.)
"Don't name a number first" is advice that really only pays dividends to those who don't know their worth.

Those who do know their relative worth are already playing a different game than the former, and will probably be able to reap more advancement and value than someone "getting lucky" by having a company mess up and issue a highball offer.

When entering a negotiation, you should know your worth and be able to articulate your reasoning behind it.

In my experience, it's much easier for me to articulate how I am going to create value and justify my compensation than it is for the counter party to justify their beliefs I am not worth what I say I am.

Usually, if diplomacy fails, it's because the entire team is anchored at a comp range that I would never consider. In that event, though, the counter party has done me a valuable favor: I do not want to work with individuals who are paid less than me.
This article was a dense read that seemed to ramble through several different points. I'm not sure I wrapped my head around the author's intent (especially with the Nazi references), but I really liked the last two paragraphs:

>Trump is, of course, a conscienceless demagogue, serial liar, and nihilist with a belief in nothing save himself. Sanders, on the other hand, means what he says. On the issue of economic justice, he has been a broken record for more than a quarter-century, even if no one beyond the boundaries of Vermont paid much attention until recently. He is now widely trusted and applauded for his views.

>Hillary Clinton is broadly distrusted. Sanders has consistently outpolled her against potential Republican opponents for president because she is indeed a limousine liberal whose career has burned through trust at an astonishing rate. And more important than that, the rebellion that has carried Sanders aloft is not afraid to put capitalism in the dock. Trump is hardly about to do that, but the diseased state of the neoliberal status quo has made him, too, a force to be reckoned with. However you look at it, the age of acquiescence is passing away.
yeah, they say that the stem cells actually disappear after about a month but improvement continues well afterward. and they say its because of growth factors released by these cells.
Drive to a state you don't live in, boot Tails from CD-ROM, connect to a hacked VPN account through someone else's wifi, then run everything through Tor. Then make sure you're using default browser configuration and resolution as not to be foiled a la panopticlick. Even then I wouldn't be so sure you're anonymous.