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I will suggest it is probably not just you and your friends. I am more financially savvy than most people I meet and I really don't know much at all about stock options. I imagine I would try to find out if it were being offered as part of my compensation package, but I think stock options are a fairly sophisticated financial concept and most people will not really understand them.

I say this as someone who worked in insurance, which is a financial services industry subject to federal financial regulations, such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley. So, it is not just my opinion that I know more about finance than average, I also have relevant training. And I only have a vague, hand-wavy idea of what you are talking about.
We don't have enough doctors to do that.
Are you taking time to just sit and let things bubble up? If not, your mind is occupied primarily with tasks and todos and immediacies.

John Cleese of Monty Python fame has an excellent video on how to be creative. I can attest to how well his method works - and it is a practical, doable method.

https://vimeo.com/89936101
A family member is the administrative director of a demanding internal medicine residency program here in Canada, and I can say from experience nearly all the residents take maternity or paternity leave during their residency. The program is incredibly accommodating to new parents, partially driven by Canada's strong parental leave laws, but mostly because they recognize doctors are people too. From what I hear US based programs haven't come to the same realization.
That analysis ignores imperialism, transnational capitalism, colonialism, different signifiers of progress, and cherry-picks evidence from random points of history without doing any type of rigorous analysis.

It ignores the vast majority of history with no functional government, no taxes, and free markets such as say, 3000BC in Moscow --- take your pick. Was there technological advancements, well maintained cities, and a prosperous middle class of entrepreneurs and innovators in societies free of coercion? Where were the emergent social orders which arose as an inherent stochastic process from individual capital pursuit in say, 600AD in Berlin?

These only started happening after the rise of civic society and only in places with well-organized, democratically run institutions.

These apologists also choose to ignore any counter evidence.

There's over twice as many doctors per 1,000 people in Cuba than the US, however those facts are dismissed.

When people talk about how decrease in things like open sewage, food-borne disease and other civic advancements lead to increase in longevity, those facts are dismissed.

When people talk about how there's more affordability and more equitable medical care under democratically administered health systems, those facts are dismissed.

When people talk about what Nestle has done to privatized water, what the diamond industry has done to Africa, how the market-based oil system has kept the middle east in 21st century monarchies, those facts are dismissed.

Such claims as miraculous progress due to privatization are absurdist fantasies and easily refuted without even having to bring up their abysmal failures such as Puerto Rico, Enron, Pinochet's Chile.
These days The Economist and Teen Vogue have more in common than most are prepared to admit.

It's disappointing that the only publications willing to tackle heavy issues are things like Vogue, The Rolling Stone and Vice Magazine. The rest seem content to sit back and take a more academic approach if they take one at all.

USA Today, like CNN, is utterly worthless.
to say one of the most successful contemporary systems programming languages was born out "old man rage" is insulting

Should I be insulted by your finding it insulting? My thought on reading that phrase was, "Right on!"
> And of course, if you are rich and starting a business, you can put all your risky loans into a "limited company", which means you can make all the profits, and walk away with no debt if the business goes south.

In the US and much of the developed world, the qualifier is not "if you are rich", but "if you are rich and have a banking loan relationship through a business entity". Open a de novo small business for the first time, and you cannot get a bank loan without a personal guarantee. Factoring and business loan companies won't even approach your company until you've been on DnB for a number of years, and even then, when you get into the application process, you will often find a personal guarantee is still required.

Where businesses commonly rack up unsecured debt is vendor payables. But those are typically very small until you have a proven payment track record with each vendor.

The amount of debt leverage you can access as a generic, new US business entity is much a smaller ratio than you can in real estate loans (which are secured, so no real surprise there).
> Apple should bite the bullet and license macOS for third-party hardware

Please, please, no. Presumably you've never gone through this particular form of hell:

1. You have a [Toshiba|Dell|HP] laptop. You've upgraded something. You need [graphics|sound|network] drivers.

2. You go to [Toshiba|Dell|HP].com to get those drivers. You navigate to the "Support" page for your laptop model.

3. You - you, the user - are presented with options. Do you want the AMD network drivers, or the Intel? Err. What? Why should I know? I typed in the model number of my machine. You, the vendor, should know what's in it! But you don't.

This is infuriating madness. It's one of the many things I hate about the Wintel ecosystem. Opening up the Mac leads us down that path. Please no.
To answer your question in one word, "yes".

Counting hours studied is a lot like counting lines of code IMO. I'd personally rather live in a world where people are free to seek any fulfilling end, whatever that is. Painting liberal arts majors as lazy alcoholics isn't constructive to anyone.

The world wouldn't be a very interesting place if we were all engineers.
He said abuse, not use.
Not the original poster, but I also built a hackintosh in the last 2 months and its working great, here's the PCpartpicker list ($1350 without monitor): https://pcpartpicker.com/user/bshep/saved/xgn7P6

The only issue was getting the video card to work correctly and that was pretty easy after finding a tutorial on tonymac.
It's only used to for the logical induction. It doesn't help the blocks above balance any better.

The bottom block hanging over the table with a heavy weight on the top right edge means the whole system is prone to tipping, and moving the bottom block back so we're just worried about the next edge higher up means that the system is, on average, less prone to tip over. It turns out to be easy to calculate the difference in tippyness/torque between these two cases, so we can use this to calculate how far the block can hang over.

One block obviously balances at 1/2, and has a center of mass at the edge. Two blocks obviously still have a center of mass at the edge - else they would tip, or could go closer to the edge without tipping. But how far out is this second block hanging?

If we put the second block flush with the edge of the table, it has a center of mass at -1/2 and a mass of 1, and the top block has a center of mass at 0 and a mass of 1. So the center of mass of the system is at -1/4 and we can shift it this far to the right. With 3 blocks, we have a mass of 2 blocks with the center at position 0, and another block below with a center of mass at -1/2 and a mass of 1, for a system centered at -1/6th (and so on for more blocks). We always shift it over in the end, but it makes the math of how far to shift it easier to compute if we start with it backed up a bit.
> It seems the root cause of traffic is a mismatch between jobs and housing

Which I suspect is quite natural, because it is driven by a mismatch between where people want to be when they are working (commercial districts) and where people want to be when they aren't (anything except commercial districts).

When you have errands to run, or want a day out exploring, you want all of that in the same place.

When you get home at night, you don't want to be next to the noise, parking lots, crowds of people, airports, ...
I'd be curious to see if anyone has stories of trying to implement a community and it blew up on them.
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So now I have to let other people touch my screen? Best argument against a touchscreen ever :-).

Seriously though, I'd probably prefer a touchscreen and normal keyboard to the touch bar -- at least I'm already looking at the screen.
Thanks for the tip on net-internals. I think I used a similar feature in Firefox a long time ago, but I've never used this tool in Chrome before.

I know Chrome in Linux definitely doesn't cache DNS requests. I believe Linux only keeps the DNS info around until the socket closes, but I don't know the actual implementation. I looked in to the ncsd man page, and it looks like DNS info isn't cached, only open sockets.

I know Chrome uses the system DNS cache in Windows, and my understanding was that all browsers in Windows used the system DNS cache.

I don't know a lot about how sockets are handled. I thought they were discarded as soon as they were closed, but they could function similarly to a DNS cache. I though a DNS cache stuck around for a lot longer though.
Doctor amputates the wrong leg. How much in compensation is that worth in your mind? There should never be an award more than 250k? I disagree. My wife is a psychiatrist that works in patient. She got a transfer from another hospital who was on 32 drugs. That's clear negligence and should be a malpractice suit but no lawyer will take the case. It's not clear cut enogh. In recent years the pendulum has swung in the other direction. There isn't enough access to the court system for patients wronged by the medical community.
>It's unfortunate that we don't have a "yo-yo" knowledge with a easy to remember URL we can point to. Plenty of great articles out there, including by prominent VCs. But it requires a lot of digging.

This seems impossible; stock options just aren't simple. There is no way for most employees to get enough information in a reasonable amount of time to make an accurate estimate of their stock options' worth.

Employees probably aren't privy to bank loan terms (e.g. converted to preferred shares in certain conditions, over time). They aren't privy to the preferred share terms (past, current or future). In the case that an employee has to purchase their shares prior to a liquidity event, they have no way to know what the future holds in terms of dilution.

It's an exercise in futility. Even if you make logical guesses, guesses are worth very little. If the economy tanks, and suddenly there's a cash crunch, your best guess may not apply. Even if things go WELL (but not smashingly well), you can get screwed by weird preference issues, dilutions or other shenanigans that weren't public knowledge that kick in.

An option to buy stock puts you last in line for money. If everyone else gets paid (vendors, banks, VCs and founders), you'll get a share of what's left (after a lock-up period). There's no good way to know what that's worth.
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It'd only work if you keep the quality of the people commenting the same or better. There's nothing really unique about the way HN works, there's just smarter people here, on average, than in your typical Youtube comment thread.
I'm curious why so many people still put up with it?
Hm...

From the perspective of the ad network:

Lower click quality drives up the merchant's cost of sale (COS). Sitting between the merchant and the publisher, the ad network tries to balance this out, by

- mixing good and bad traffic sources
- encouraging the merchant to spend more money
so they can buy better traffic and/or rank the offers higher on their publisher's sites
- punishing the publisher for sending bad traffic by lowering the amount the publisher is paid for each click
- filtering out extraordinarily bad traffic

AdNauseam will increase the amount of bad traffic.
Merchants have to pay more money to get their ads through to those people who do not create fraudulent clicks.
Publishers will receive less money per click.
Ad networks will try harder to invade your privacy(1) so they can get more comprehensive data about those people who are worthy to be targeted. Startups which promise to detect fake traffic will get a boost.
Companies which manage advertising via social influencers or in-game mobile ads etc cannot care less.

I do not see the direct benefit of this for the end user...

(1) for example by paying more money to antivirus providers to send your browsing habits their way.

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I know it may seem like a long read, but I highly recommend taking the time to look the document over if you have/will have stock options from your company. The part about early exercising covers a calculated risk that can potentially save you thousands if not hundreds of thousands in taxes if your company does well.
I'm liking it for the open IP cores for FPGAs, there's some that are really tiny but give you a nice powerful core that you can fit into as little as 750 LUT. That can be really powerful for handling stuff that is better suited to a CPU instead of complicated logic gates.
> My oven, microwave, and dishwasher all run on code.

The quantity of code being written for devices like that is not high, and the quality is almost universally crap. Bad enough that I'm pretty certain 99% is written by a hardware engineer who needed to get the product to work but who had no clue about software engineering.

I've worked with people who write code for cars, and I've done embedded work. One developer can support dozens if not hundreds of products over a career. I still stand by the fact that most software engineers fall into the categories I'm talking about, if only because one software product might require 100-10,000 developers work on it for years, while your microwave probably took one person a month (and an actual software engineer should have been able to write the code in a couple of hours).

I'm not counting by number of devices. I'm counting by number of software engineers. And even if you count the hardware engineers who don't know the first thing about software engineering, I don't think you'd come close.
There's a whole article above about what laws were not followed and a solution that works for both parties: Apple pays the taxes it owes. If it is unhappy with that burden, it can leave Ireland and the EU, but I suspect that will not happen.
That's unsustainable. You can't cut taxes and subsidize cronies. The money has to come from somewhere.
Not the OP, but I prefer subscriptions. It's a direct exchange of money for value, and doesn't involve a creepy middleman whose incentive is to track you across the web.
Thanks, yeah I am familiar with the bird but I guess I didn't see it.
No, the issue with biofuels was the feedstock; it was directly competing with food crops for quality arable land.

Alternative feedstocks like Miscanthus don't have this issue, and neither does solar. It can use marginal land that is not otherwise profitable to farm.
The totality of Nextstep (kernel, os, obj-c runtime/component model, frameworks, gui layer, tooling, expert teams who built and maintained these things, etc, etc) was much greater than Palm or QNX, let alone something yet unbuilt 'based on Linux'.
Would you mind elaborating on the tools you use?
You were part 'Red Team' incidents[1]? I can only imagine the panicked sysadmins running around like crazy, but jokes apart his is the best way to train a team's incidence response I've seen.

[1] https://medium.com/starting-up-security/red-teams-6faa8d95f6...
I'd suggest the author's definition of 'tech' meant 'computers'.

I don't believe Microsoft acquired QDOS, just the IP.

Furthermore, bringing Jobs back to Apple resulted in Apple going from nearly bankrupt a top 5 Market Cap Company in the world (http://dogsofthedow.com/largest-companies-by-market-cap.htm)
I pay for the news that I read online by having subscribed to them also in paper form, or by paying taxes.

Most other services I use are paid via subscription fees, or are run ad-free by people as hobby projects.

Almost all the ad-supported services I use are monopolies anyway, have strict network lock-in effects, and shouldn't be in private hand anyway, instead they should be run by a cooperative, foundation, or government. (For example, web search, maps, phone books, etc).

This leaves us with a few ad-supported pages which likely couldn’t directly survive in this new environment, but which rely on content creators for their business anyway – such as YouTube.

For such cases, something like Flattr, but paid out by view, would be useful – something like the Datenträgerabgabe for the GEMA and VG Wort, but paid per month, not per empty CD bought.
That's a really good point, and honestly I'm not sure I know how to avoid those problems. That being said, I'm open to discussing this with others. I don't claim to know how to run a group like this.
As a counter-argument to this, the employees at Enron were pretty blindsided (for the most part) when their stock was wiped out.
We can dream!
Or doctor/nurse practitioner pairs, since training and paying a NP is far cheaper.
Because, sometime you don't need all the whistles, but only a subset.

Curious, what inconsistencies does asciimath have?
How I long for the day when I can configure the subnet mask of my mouse, the mDNS settings of my graphics card, and the routing table of my PCH!

(Yes, sarcasm. Two can play.)
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Mine, too. I was working my first appdev job at a startup in 1999, and as they talked about IPO and such I thought "apple, that would be some cool stock to own" based on my IIc nostalgia from school. I had no idea how to actually buy any at the time, though, and not a strong enough desire to pursue it further.
Not to suggest you're wrong, but the picture you linked is one of Surface Studio. (There are other things wrong with that machine that I won't get into.)

Do you have any evidence regarding the fit and finish of the Surface Pro (which was what the original question was about) wrt Macbook Pros?

Again, not saying you're wrong, just the picture you linked doesn't say that.

Edit: changed Surface Book to Surface Pro
True. But it's also important to not view taxes as the thing in deciding what to do.

I had options that I could exercise (at a big, publicly-traded company, so I didn't have the startup, no-liquidity issues to worry about). My options were worth quite a bit of money. I had already exercised enough to put me at the edge of the next incremental tax bracket. On about December 15, I was looking at it, and thought it was a really tempting price, but... taxes. I decided to wait for January.

Three days later, our company made an offer on another company. The stock market didn't like it. Our stock went down. I lost more than the taxes would have been.

Moral: When money is growing on trees, pick it.

Disclaimer: That isn't always good advice. If the price had continued to go up, it would have been really bad advice. But too much focus on taxes is also bad advice.
I think visitors see the worst of it. LA is big, can you can set up your work/life to avoid the worst of it (like the parent poster did). Like you said, you plan accordingly (many jobs are flexible about scheduling, too). When visiting, usually you're on a constrained timetable and your only choice is to brute force your way through the worst traffic.

Holidays are usually the worst of the worst. For a few years I drove from the east part of LA to Vegas for Thanksgiving (not having to drive through LA). That 4 hour drive (admittedly a bit longer on a Friday) took 13 hours; 1pm - 2am.

What's unfortunate is in LA it is not just that there's rush hour on the weekends, it's all over and at odd times. 9-5 workers have accommodated the situation so long that leisure time is regularly constrained.
:s/Idaho/Ohio, and you'll have my story. I also lived at home for the first two years, but I was dumb at saving money, so it was a wash.
> a comment on gay marriage they said they'd allow someone to preach about their religious views on gay behavior and marriage

Unfortunately in that regard they're only following the same standards of acceptable arguments that hold in public spaces in the US.
There are significant differences in the two companies and how they approach privacy, so yes.
I remember being in college and Apple stock was at $7. I had some money in an E-Trade account, but Apple was in such dire straits that I figured a better use for $7 was to buy lunch at Chick-Fil-A. There was a good chance the lunch would be around longer than Apple would! I don't even want to think about how much a couple thousand $$ of Apple stock would have been worth at its peak.
Go to college and you'll be fine was the implicit contract made over and over to kids growing up. "Just go to college, it doesn't matter what you study." People my age were told this, over and over and over. Ad naseum. Of course, the people saying it probably believed it.

Now you're right that there was no paper on hand. There was no explicit written agreement between adults - just an implicit one between adults and children. When this agreement wasn't upheld because of the housing crises and a change in the economy, there was nobody to sue; no agreement to say "this was violated" other than the implicit social contract between the new adults and those who raised and guided then through an often inane, ridiculous system.

I know people paying over a thousand bucks a month in student loans, and they aren't making much money because they studied digital/graphic design instead of computer programming. This guy would love to start a company, but a 1k/month loan payment puts a bit of a dent in his budget.

I didn't have that problem. I studied computer science and physics and never had an issue. The people i've seen struggle with this were people who were a) good and b) wanted to do something good for the word. People who haven't struggled were those who just wanted to get money and didn't really care a bout their impact on the world, and then those who went into certain classes of sciences - i.e. not biology.

I agree that the generational warfare is destructive. I've seen so much shade thrown at millennials by the people who raised them, but you're right that it does no good to play that same game.

I think you're right if you say that college students should be self-aware enough to know that studying a major not tied to a career will make it harder to earn a good living. By the same token, I think it's also accurate to say "if you wanted your pension paid, you should have ensured that the government would remain solvent."
> I wasn’t roped into a single intrusion this year at any companies with completely role driven environments where secrets were completely managed by a secret store.

> This can either mean one of a few things: These environments don’t exist at all, there aren’t many of them, or they don’t see incidents that would warrant involving IR folks like myself.

What are these secrets store? Do they exist?
if only those who advocate slashing taxes had to cut funding from their pet programs first, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.
I can not understate how much of my little West Virginia town has been destroyed by opioid addiction. There doesn't seem to be a perfect solution to fix the problem, but I hope this will shed some light on the situation and at least bring it to the forefront so hopefully real changes can be made to combat this
My dad remembers his broker calling him up at various times and trying to get him to buy Apple because it was basically worthless (which is also why he didn't buy it).

Wouldn't have taken much to make a lot of money.

Of course, most people, even if that lucky, would have sold early iPod era thinking "This can't continue" and wouldn't have made the profits they would if they held until the last year or two.