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The main point of a Mac and why you are "highly productive" in it is because "things just work" with a nice Unix environment. When you go the Hackintosh route, things will no longer just work. Your life would be easier just going with Ubuntu or buying a Mac Mini.

This said, I still don't understand why Apple doesn't release a Mac Pro lite. A screenless laptop (Mac Mini) isn't good enough and a big screen with a laptop embedded doesn't cut it either. Personally I got a last gen Mac Pro on Ebay for a quarter of the price of a new Mac Pro. The problem is that now the upcoming MacOS update isn't compatible with it...

I've also gone the Ubuntu route and I've found that it's really only good for development and some Steam games; not to mention that with every small official update from Canonical, I'm wondering what part of my UI will break next?
or if you're German!

('hart' translates to 'tough' or 'brave' though, not heart. The German equivalent would be 'Herz')
> No offense, and knowing nothing about your situation, the experience you describe suggests to me that you are so out of shape, you haven't experienced the point where the sense of well-being starts to move the other way.

Explain to me how this is a falsifiable claim.
At my last job, the 10:30am daily standup was very clearly intended to enforce the start time of the work day. Further, the company provided both lunch and dinner every day, and we were expected to be there for both, every day.

Needless to say, the founders of this company were previously finance guys (the startup itself had nothing to do with finance. honestly it didn't even really have a business plan other than raise VC money and improve vanity metrics to raise more VC money) and were very fond of the ass-in-chair metric of employee productivity.

I could write pages about all the things that were wrong with the culture at my last place of employment, but I won't. I do owe that job for actually plugging me into the network of startups and tech in NYC, so while it was a shitty 2 years, it was worth it (especially since I now know which companies and management styles to avoid).

I am very happy to have moved on from there to my current job, where the only metric that matters is the get-shit-done-whenever-wherever-however metric.
But sourcing has always been a problem with the Wikileaks model! They can't generate their own info, so they're beholden to the kinds of interests that will exfiltrate huge databases of sensitive information. So far, we've seen that these kinds of interests come in two flavors:

* Well-intentioned but rash whistleblowers who relay to Wikileaks troves they can't, simply due to scale, fully vet, and as a result either (a) end up in prison or (b) end up accidentally doxing almost every woman in Turkey.

* Russian intelligence.

Unless you think the US is going to engage Russia head-on in this "information war" and start feeding Wikileaks dumps from Russia, it simply stands to reason that Wikileaks is going to end up serving an anti-US narrative controlled to a significant extent by foreign intelligence services.
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Just invest in a power-rack or half-rack, and you will be capable of doing heavy barbell squat (and also heavy bench press) in total security
The intro is interesting enough, and there is a good point he makes about needing to satisfy the ultimate user intent rather than just focusing on keywords and queries.

Ultimately pretty basic, but good for beginners to dip their toes.
Your shitty last mile DOCSIS3 connection over 20+ year old coaxial copper is not a reflection of the quality of an ISP backbone... I realize that from a customer perspective the two are indistinguishable, but if you look at the quality of the router/switch equipment used by the top 50 ASNs (ordered by CAIDA ASRank) for major north american ISPs, it's vastly more expensive than what's used in countries where ISPs don't have the budget luxuries for $100,000 routers.
It's legit for you to factually describe your situation and raise questions about it. And it's legit to use a throwaway account to do so, since there are sensitive business matters involved.

It's not legit for you to break the HN guidelines by yelling, calling names, hounding, and going on about downvoting. Those things aren't allowed on HN. They also aren't in your interest, since doing them reflects badly on your credibility. I know it's hard to resist the temptation to lash out at something you perceive as restricting you unfairly, but if you want to comment here, that's what we need you to do.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12278660 and marked it off-topic.
No. Do not move the goalposts. The Wikileaks anti-semitic tweets were not "critical of Israel". They didn't even mention Israel. They invoked racist stereotypes about Jewish people.
> Do you actually believe the public school system's goal is to educate children?

Absolutely. It doesn't work out perfect every time in every place, but it does a pretty amazing job of that given the poor level of funding and constant bashing from the entitled anti-union right. Freeing up parents is a wonderful side effect that has worked out pretty well for contemporary society.

If you're surprised that kids going through puberty are engaging in sexual activity, you must be living under a rock.
> You are confusing my argument with yours.

I'm contrasting them. I don't argue that the copyright owner's possession of the copied property remains intact. Her rights in that property, I'd argue, do not.
When actually interacting directly is not the point, it's pretty effective.
Totally agreed. I think I have a few years at least before I need to worry about VR market saturation crowding me out though :P

It's an interesting question of whether it might make sense for me to get into that space with Complice (which is mostly a productivity app—the rooms are just one feature). I can see reasons why that might make sense but I think it's ultimately pretty far from my central value proposition and it would make more sense to partner with BigScreen or something instead.
> If the universities really cared about open access, they could unionize against the publishers.

If universities really, really cared, they could band together and set up their own journal publishing organization (many universities do have their own academic publishing arms, but a single-university journal publisher probably would be harder to establish respect for than one sponsored by a broad coalition of major universities.)
Amazing video. I went to see him speak and he introduced himself with that, and then quickly went over his philosophy about the risk of death as "the boring stuff".

He seems genuinely sick of discussion about death, which at first shocked me (shouldn't someone tell him that almost every free soloist dies?! It's irresponsible not to!).

But if you listen to him, it's immediately apparent that he's fully cognizant of the situation. After just a few minutes even I was annoyed by the hypocrisy and judgment when someone questioned his risk assessment. And he has to deal with that almost every time he interacts with people outside of his inner circle. I can hardly imagine how frustrating that must be.
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They won't accept only taking a portion of the ivory and leaving the rest for the elephant. The demand and the value for ivory incentivizes an "all or nothing" approach. That's why you see cases where elephants have been poisoned but their tusks remain in tact. It's because the poachers didn't have enough time to get whole tusks. The people actually poaching the elephants aren't the ones who make the big bucks, so they're likely taught by the traffickers how to obtain the tusks in order to maximize THEIR value.
The reason customers are eager to use credit cards online is because they actually can do chargebacks, so they don't really have to verify if every merchant is trustworthy.

The only place where irreversible transactions (i.e. bitcoin without escrow) make sense are those services that have almost no risk of needing a chargeback.

There are many businesses that I trust to pay them with bitcoin, but if chargebacks are a problem for a particular type of business, if they're getting a significant amount of chargebacks then those are the exact businesses for which the protection that chargebacks give me is useful, those are the businesses whom I would pay only with a creditcard but not with bitcoin, because paying them with an irreversible instrument and no easy dispute resolution likely to end in my favor means I'm likely to be taken for a ride.

Competitive merchants with good reputation will accept credit cards (because for them chargebacks aren't as big a problem), and if a merchant is explicitly telling that they won't accept credit cards because they don't like chargebacks, then they're de facto admitting that they're likely to screw their customers, that their other customers are not satisfied and request chargebacks.
Well it doesn't matter before puberty, and access to long-term contraceptives like "the pill," depo-privera, diaphragms, IUDs, etc. starting at puberty can create the same effect of defaulting to no pregnancies (or at least extremely unlikely).

I would also like to emphasize the importance of accurate, timely sex education so kids learn how their bodies work and what their options are. The combination of contraceptives + education has had a dramatic effect in Colorado on teen pregnancies.

And although it's less of an issue in the U.S. and Europe, legal equality for women (right to own property, conduct a business, drive cars, hold political office, etc.) frees them from dependency on a husband.

Even the basics help: marital rape is not yet a crime in every country today. In fact it wasn't a crime in all 50 states until 1993!

My point here is that we don't need to imagine some sort of draconian program like universal reversible sterilization at birth. All we need to do is promote and make progress with the tools we already have. That can be just as effective, AND more moral as well.
I don't think there is. Knowledge-based authentication is extremely vulnerable to identity theft.
I don't see what's condescending in it? I see it more condescending to assume everyone who doesn't exercise just likes "feeling like shit". I think that's a very unhelpful way to discuss things.

I put it in quotes because it's not precise. I don't know what it means for you, which particular things you classify as "feeling like shit due to not exercising enough".
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If you knew stories about the lake, wouldn't you try to get away from it? And by the pictures away <==> up in most cases. Also, I feel like at least my flight instinct prefers higher ground.

Not saying the 8 survivors didn't know what's up, but stuff like this is definitely how religious stories get formed in general.
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> "We want to avoid taking editorial or moral stances regarding the businesses built on Stripe."

This really is true. All companies will have to apply some criteria -- there are businesses that AWS or mail companies reject. In our case, we would like to avoid editorial and moral stances as much as we can. And as the post hopefully makes clear, we still have a ways to go.

> If you were just explicit from the get go that as a financial services company you have to CYA first, and then try to do the right thing second nobody would blame you for that.

We would actually like to be a bit more progressive than that -- rather than supinely CYAing all the time, we want to (and frequently do) take risks and push back on behalf of businesses we believe in. The latter half of the post was intended to lay out some examples of that. But the distinction you're drawing makes sense and I'll look at editing the post with it in mind. Thanks for the feedback.

Separately, I would be very interested to hear about your suboptimal experiences if you'd be willing to share them over email or the phone.
Karen McGrane gave a great talk about just this issue. She made the very valid point that many employment portals are neglected backwaters and don't have mobile friendly or responsive designs, making them unusable on phones. That effectively cuts off employers from huge chunks of potential employees and verges on not being equal-opportunity employers.
for me, it's boredom. running on treadmill like a hamster, lifting weights repeatedly like a machine are the dumbest ways of spending time.

I thought about solving this with vr making exercise fun and social like games.
RE: culling, Yeah, there is stuff (I notice manga not reprinted since the 90s, they didn't hold up physically that well and they loaned mainly to teens) that I remember being common that has been culled.

e.g. My library system doesn't have a copy of any of the volumes of "Please Save My Earth," and that was a title that many libraries had if they had any manga at all, in my experience.
first rule: find a good pt who can teach you the correct form for every single exercise. That is the most important thing. People think that powerlifting is about "moving the heaviest weight possible"... it is not. It is about "moving the heaviest weight possible without failing at doing it with the _perfect_ execution form".
Seems like normal questioning. Most people aren't (and can't be) in elite high risk sporting circles.
I'd like to see a new PC with the SGI name on it, or maybe a laptop. And a 4k successor to the 1600SW LCD display.

... I'd settle for a mousepad, though. Or maybe a mug.
The context is recognition and promotions. Sounds to me like they meant within the company.
Yes, they're in the middle of some refactoring stuff; they had to put some things back in the kernel. Should be back out when they're done.
Yes, and I'm arguing that it's a poor metaphor.

I think the metaphor you're looking for is that they are journeymen, and the time in the Bay Area their journeyman years.

In the college town metaphor, most of the students are working towards their bachelor degree, not PhD.

Have you ever been in a PhD program? Do you know many PhD researchers who did not end up in the Bay Area? Could you ask them if they think their PhD work was equivalent to 10 years as a software developer?
It's when the people stealing the precious moments of your life, take five or sixty minutes out of their busy schedule of not actually working (see: meetings), and dunk your head in the baptismal toilet of despair, and force you at knife point to pledge undying fealty to your own enslavement.

Then they make you recite the tickets you have worked on, are working on, and shall work on, in reverse chronological order, with an alphabetical sub-sort, and then clap and praise Martin Fowler, after exclaiming each ticket number.

Then, while you're waiting on the other drones to complete their turn, you stick a finger in your nose, and a finger up your butt, and each time a worker drone finishes their roll call, you switch.
> a copyrighter's property is wholly intact and unaffected by a third party producing a copy of something the third party possesses.

A real property owner's parcel remains intact, in the same sense, when an access easement over it is seized by eminent domain, only his right to exclude others from uses -- the essence of the relation known as "property" -- is impacted.

The requirement for compensation for takings of real property is not limited to cases where fee simple title to the parcel is taken.
> Add more restrictions and penalties and you'll soon find that nobody will be willing to take the job.

That's probably fine. If we really need them we can pay more to get them. What's happening now is that we're paying them with "get out of jail free" cards instead of money.
HRC is a powerful person who wants even more power. Assange is just pointing out that she has a history of abusing whatever power she's been entrusted with, and has a strong disregard for the little people. She's apparently got the press cowed - just look at some of the leaked emails - so that leaves organizations like wikileaks.
The members of an index fund are supposed to have little correlation; not the same goes for Alphabet's divisions.
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John Taylor Gatto, the NY State Teacher of the Year in 2000-ish (not sure of year), wrote "Dumbing Us Down" from years teaching in some of the worst (and best) NYC classrooms, and doing wonderful things for his kids all the while.

His thesis is that the public school system is pretty much doing what it was founded to do in the 19th century: to hone down kids to be good, obedient, unthinking factory workers and military, to the lowest common denominator.

His "Underground History of American Education" expands on that quite a bit.

Most definitely worth reading.
Yep. Though it's still counted as a "calorie" that's stored in your body as a certain number of grams of protein. If your body later decides to lose that muscle, then the calorie is spent.

Since fat and protein each have different amounts of calories stored per gram, that's why if you want to get really accurate about weight loss/gain, you track your body's %fat & %muscle and not just your weight.

Edit: to clarify your analogy, just because we use wood to build a part of the house, doesn't mean we won't take it and burn it if we're desperate for heat and have used all the other fuel.
I don't accept that this is the case. Restrictions which disproportionately burden bad people in the job may make the job more attractive, rather than less, to good people.

Especially if those restrictions result in improved working conditions by mitigating police/community relations problems (either directly, or by disproportionately burdening, and thus encouraging job changes by, the bad people already in the job.)
Most of my post-startup routine in Linux is doing things like re-seeding my development database after the ramdisk has been mounted, starting up screen with database clients, and booting up the local servers (the ones that make up our application) all connected to one another - a single script, but still takes a few seconds to get going and can only happen after the database on the ramdisk has been configured.

Application state for all three GUI apps I use is pretty much restored on every platform. Thing is, there are only three of them.
I once met a developer who apparently worked on "Uber but for dogs", in the sense of finding dog walkers, groomers, etc. He seemed really humble and open about his work.
Wow, that's quite visionary. By the way, our startup is about doing exactly this: https://arbital.com/p/Arbital/

We are starting with mathematics, but plan to expand to all other topics as well. If you are interested in contributing, join our slack channel or newsletter (https://arbital.com/newsletter/). We are planning to roll out small projects soon, which people can contribute to.
I made a service called Amazing Airfare (http://www.amazingairfare.net). I'd email and text people curated, ridiculous deals on airfare (50% off or more intentional flights from USA/Canada).

I wrote a good medium post (https://medium.com/@zacharycohn/on-mvps-glueing-things-toget...) about the process of building it.

I grew it to a couple hundred paying subscribers ($8/m) (which was about 93% profit), then sold it to an acquaintance when some life situations changed. I get paid out an amount per month according to our agreement.
Or Berkshire Hathaway, to really nail the point home.
> A fair number of police get shot when busting them.

Do you have a citation for this?
Good thing that the other one never threatened anyone : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWAFvIT-NHs
What benefit is it to me :)? In all seriousness we run things in US and Ukraine and while in theory you would expect there would be some tangible differences given the concerns you outline in reality they are not there. Major backbone providers also use cisco and juniper gear and are about as reliable as stateside providers. Residential providers due to intense competition offer way better service at a small fraction of the cost.
So, in your fairy-tale world, a 5 year old is not an infant?
That was the most stupid thing I read this decade.
>then we all do 2 and then we suffer from first mover lock in.

I don't find JS has a "first mover lock-in" problem. If anything, it has the opposite...
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I spent $800 to build one circa 2011 and tried to use it full time. For that price you got great hardware relative to what Apple was putting in anything close to that price point.

There was one bug I couldn't get past... I don't remember exactly what it was now, but it had to do with audio out and the Sound preference pane forgetting about your speakers and having to be opened after every restart. Perhaps someone who's been working on them for a few years can describe it more precisely.

I also remember inexplicable kernel panics. And updating the OS was tricky.

I ended up using it just a few dozen times, then it mostly collected dust (I still have it today). A lot of that probably had to do with needing a portable computer every day. It was just more convenient to keep everything on a MacBook and dock it to a keyboard and monitor on my desk at home.
I appreciate your intellectual honesty. Abortion is death, taking a human life.

The question is whether the justification suffices. For abortion, the justification is: "Because the mother doesn't want the child, we allow her to kill it in the womb."
I understand your remorse.

During her time as Secretary of State the Obama administration's stance in regard to Wikileaks and Assange has placed them as political opponents. There's no reason to suspect that the State Department under Clinton was opposed to Assange's extradition from Britain to Sweden or would not have sought extradition from Sweden if a sealed indictment exists for WikiLeaks' alleged role in the collection of documents by Chelsea Manning [or any other act]. There's no reason to suspect that any future US administration would forgo extradition under any sealed indictment given the chance.

The rhetoric of 2010 rose beyond ordinary political discourse to that of mortal threats with Clinton stating it was worse than an attack on the US and Biden classifying it as terrorism. Politicians were openly discussing killing Assange. So far as I can tell, that hard line has not softened.

The article ignores the distinct possibility that US foreign policy includes a willingness to kill Assange. Pretending it's handbags at five paces doesn't cut it, Assange is still in the Equadorian Embassy six years later.

To me, wanting Assange dead or in frog marched in manicles is a more likely reason than appreciation or admiration for Putin.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/2010/11/29/131668950/white-house-aims-to-...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQW0US2sJw
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mr. Roger's Neighborhood yet. One of the best if not the very best childrens' program in the US. It was slow-paced and deliberate like the Danish shows are described, but instead of being crass and letting things play out, he dealt with serious topics in a simple, honest, and caring way. He also encouraged curiosity and investigation and broke gender and ethnic mores way before it was the in thing to do.

Well worth checking out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Your example is nonresponsive. I think military conflict with Iran would be a catastrophic mistake. But it wouldn't be an existential mistake. A nuclear strike against Raqqa would be.
> stereotypes

Hence being stereotypes. Add some PC and modern media to the recipe and you have harassment hot and ready.
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Yes. That is what I meant. :P

Thank you.
Oh yep, you are right. Thanks for linking.