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Or even better, come up with punctuation that supports nesting and makes grouping clear. So you could literally reuse the language, but surround each term in the list in { ... } or something similar.
Older people also have more life experience and maybe even some wisdom. We need a diverse mix of views for democracy to be strong. Instead of penalizing one group we should try to get people more excited about voting. Things like your vote only mattering in a handful of states and there really being only two viable parties because the system suffers from the spoiler effect are obvious obstacles that most be resolved.
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I was responding to the person who said they didn't have confidence using the CSS in their mobile projects because the site where they got the code from didn't work on mobile. That's not the logic of an engineer!

It's like saying you don't trust the drone will fly above 10 feet because in the store where you bought it the test flight was limited by a 10 foot ceiling.
The one at way out west might have been without human ordering [0]. But since you still need humans to make and compile the food it might not make sense to have automated serving. And since you have people serving they might as well take orders under normal conditions.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmCECwKpLgA
No. Landlords will not just raise their rents. They are already charging the maximum the market will bear. However the result of LVT would increase the disposable incomes of those that rent, from which they will apportion some of on purchasing more/better location, the rest of more goods and services.

Rents will rise for this reason, and so will the amount an LVT can collect. But this isn't an infinite spiral. There will reach an equilibrium, as there is now, where renters apportion are certain % of their income on valuable locations. Which is collected by the landlord and taxed away by the LVT.

The LVT would not make landlords build denser housing, they have exactly the same incentive anyway. It would how ever reduced vacancy and under occupation among owner occupiers, and would increase the average size of dwellings, even if that meant they were more densely clustered by building upwards.
I'm an avid board gamer as well. I've averaged over a hundred new board games tried every year the past 3 years. I'm pretty aware of the state of the hobby board game industry, and that's mostly what I'm targeting (albeit the simpler card game end, not the eurogame end, at least not yet. Think something like Arboretum, Parade, or Sushi Go). Tonight I'm excited I'm going to finally get to try Imperial out, and I'm going to try to get an older game I had to order from Canada, Pack & Stack, to the table.

That being said, there are benefits to having randomness. It helps to broaden its appeal. If you've got the time, I recommend checking out one of Richard Garfield's many talks on Luck vs Skill. He talks about his experiences with Magic the Gathering, as well as how Valve designed Team Fortress 2 based on his articles and juggling luck vs skill. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSg408i-eKw

I know how worrying it can be when a video game designer switches to board game design though. You get some that will just slap something together without considering the industry, and then you get something more akin to Exploding Kittens or some sprawling miniatures game that looks beautiful but plays like garbage.
That's exactly what the $120k is for.

From the YC FAQs: "Half (maybe more) of the startups we fund don't need the money. And in fact the money is a only a small part of what YC does. The money we invest works more like financial aid in college: it ensures that the people who do need money can cover their living expenses while YC is happening."
There's a PDF of an incident report linked: assault.
We are probably not taking enough risk, esp. for manned missions. If qualified astronauts are willing to take a 10% risk of death, why spend far more to engineer for a sub-1% risk? Over time risk declines with more missions and experience.
Deporting immigrants who decided to violate the law is in no way comparable to the systematic murder of millions of people. Get a grip.
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Your space sharks would have so much better results by simply throwing rocks at they targets that I don't know what they would use the lasers for.
Is robots.txt compliance written into law anywhere?
The labor board would, among other things, force them to pay for the missing wages.

These labor boards tend to be pretty vocal about defending the rights of employees. However, employees don't always know to invoke their help, and they don't have unlimited resources.

A company not paying wages for time that employees have worked is a pretty open-and-shut case for them to handle.
To expand on this as it's an important point and QSBS is the reason why VCs love C Corps... the deduction is the a HUGE benefit but also thanks to our tax system the deduction % is not static...

The % deduction you can take is entirely dependent on the year and sometimes month of when your stock is issued. For example we had C Corp stock issued in February 2010 so our FEDERAL deduction was 75% NOT 100% which it would have been if it was issued in November of the same year (Blah), also California no longer has the QSBS deduction so you still pay the 8%+ here.
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As with every Nazi comparison with the current administration, this is neither helpful nor honest.
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I agree that unpaid work is foolish and it's all too common these days. I would counter the expectation of unpaid work with "I can't sit around doing nothing at work and expect to be paid." Really it's the same thing only in reverse.

I bet a large amount of companies are not viable due to dumping even more tasks on employees each year and also expecting unpaid work.

Even in just the last ten years it seems so much burden has shifted to lower rung employees. I can't imagine what business will expect ten years from now.
10:1 (I'm guessing) sounds like pretty a high contention ratio for a MOOC.
I'd be fascinated to see how this compares with the ratios for YC proper (as well as others like the Fellowships).

[Edit note: I misread the post originally, and got 50:1, which I found more surprising.]
You seem to have replaced the phrase "foreign citizens" with "US citizens." They're obviously very different but especially in this context.
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Just for the record:

Fuck Palantir.

Fuck Peter Thiel.

Fuck everybody else that supports the above.

edit: I know comments like this aren't popular. But I've had it with this individual openly supporting violation of privacy and supporting a KGB asset that fuels racism and grabs women by the vagina. I guess Peter Thiel also supports grabbing men by the glans. Downvote away YC. Palantir is something we should all strive to not becoming or working towards.

Software should help humanity not become a tool for powerful individuals to abuse.
From my reading, the accelerator came across as disorganized and perhaps a bit over their head. I might even go with "not completely honest/upfront". But I'd need more evidence before I'd write them off as "unethical" or a "scam".
I...just like the fable, haha. I am happy with close derivations.
Not to disagree with the basic argument of the article, the defense and aerospace industry exports $95/year, 3X the education valuation cited.
If you are interested in Indian women scientists and engineers, there is a nice compilation (a bit tiresome to read, but worth it, IMO) of biographical essays called 'Lilavati's Daughters' https://ia800402.us.archive.org/33/items/LilavatisDaughters-...

My perception of it, growing up plugged in to the Indian science and engineering community is this: Indian Government organizations (essentially, the major employers till the 1990s) were quite progressive when it came to women in the workplace than you'd think based on population statistics of women-at-work, etc. The reason for this imbalance is inequality: millions of women suffering terrible inequality in the lower socio-economic and lower-caste segments of the population offset gains on the higher end.
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But there's no difference in price between going to see a silly movie or a"good" movie.
I would write it (agree I you) since it is similar to a conjunction - the "with" is implied.
To what loophole are you referring?

Or better yet, can you explain the difference between a loophole and a deliberate choice of language intending to make one thing legal and another very similar thing illegal?
Lesley Lamport, Paxos inventor, describes it thus in the abstract to the original paper:

"[Paxos] provides a new way of implementing the state-machine approach to the design of distributed systems."

Original Paxos paper (written with somewhat whimsical style):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/part-ti...

Follow up paper to explain Paxos more simply:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/paxos-m...

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
Upwork is about as bad a place to find freelancing work as you could find.
That's what I was thinking too. Looking back at Apollo, it seems like they were far more willing to tolerate a higher % risk. What changed? The lack of competition with the USSR? A general shift in our culture?
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I have implied nothing of the sort.

I have, however, implied that "Helping the government do its job" has no bearing on the morality of your actions. What the job is does.
I use uBlock origin on all my browsers. are you doing anything extra (e.g. blocking at an /etc/hosts level?) or am I covered?
But did you take his pills?
If you're a wealthy person anywhere in the world and you have a really terrible disease you're probably going to come to the US to get care. Why? Because we have the highest quality healthcare in the world. There's a reason why there was some mild drama over Danny Williams (Premier of Canadian province) hopped the border to have heart surgery in the US. We're the best. What we lack is healthcare access for the poor. Dampening the profitability of health care with single payer will reduce quality and increase access. That's an okay argument to make, just make sure you're stating both sides when you make an argument. Otherwise it's just disingenuous.

Also, it's important not to be fooled by some of the comparative health stats. Many of our poor health stats are the more the result of culture than they are a lack of access to health care. Being able to go to the doctor without paying a copay doesn't matter much when you're 100 pounds overweight and don't follow the diabetic diet your doctor laid out for you.
Which is they Geneva Conventions and other treaties of the like make it clear that the protections only apply to groups that have signed and follow them.

The proto-ISIS militia groups in Iraq did not, and would deliberately target civilians, refused to wear uniforms, and hid among civilian population. Because of that they did not have POW rights that afforded to legitimate militias.
Because you don't need to be a master chef to tell if a meal needs more salt. "Never criticize anything unless you could personally could do it better" is a ridiculous notion mainly proposed by oversensitive creators.

Also because it's annoying and wasteful to have to recreate years of effort from scratch because the people who've done it before won't share. Which is, y'know, the entire point of open source.
It's perfectly legal to express your opinion that something is a scam. It's also legal to claim something is a scam based on your personal knowledge of a situation. It's only illegal (defamatory) to claim something is fraudulent if you know that it actually is not and are knowingly presenting false facts. IANAL, but I don't see how this post fails that test, unless the author is lying and knows it.
Look at the bright side -- we seem to be approaching a point where the expected outcome of any serious war is one of either (1) no human lives lost at all, because high-tech weapons blow each other up before they can actually hit anything living or (2) a few of those high-tech weapons make it through the defenses, efficiently destroying your civilization in a matter of a few minutes and constraining human suffering to that brief period. :)
I think it's interesting that people link Palantir to Peter Thiel's "evilness" so easily because he's a libertarian. When it seems Thiel has very little involvement with Palantir outside of its intial founding (and owning a chunk of it) - and the founder of Palantir is an avowed socialist. The structure of the company explicitly revolves around "doing social good". As they say, the road to hell...
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ICE spent $10M on Palantir in 2016. There are 26 firms that collected more money: are we protesting them as well?

[*] USASpending.gov
yep, I understand that "wealth" isn't a zero-sum concept.

Perhaps I should've chosen my words more carefully, because I am emphasizing the 'consumption of "natural" resources', more than to "wealth".

(If we're going to keep using the word "wealth", a movie may produce intangible "wealth" in the form of happiness, among other things)
> As you can pretty much do everything off the bat, there's no "oh a boulder, can't move it, better come back later" element to the game.

Many people (myself included) see that as a good thing. Every time I come up to an obstacle, I know that the only thing keeping me from getting past it is my own skill; I know there's no contrived McGuffin that will come along later and trivialize the time/effort spent working my way around it.

> As my gear improves, I don't feel any stronger.

Really? I'm about the same place in the game as you (i.e. two divine beasts down), and I can take on all sorts of enemies that I couldn't before. I definitely feel stronger than I did at the beginning of the game (e.g. I don't have to run in fear every time a guardian lights up, I can quickly go to the "test of strength" shrines whenever I need new weaponry, etc.)

> Cooking could be 10x easier

It could certainly be faster (I'd love to be able to batch my recipies instead of having to cook 10 meals, one at a time)
Nope. Unless I'm misunderstanding English (sorry, I'm not a native speaker), neither of those two are implications of "maybe you need to avoid it" statement.

My understanding of the GP statement is taking it at its literal value. I.e. that if it's known that some animations one may encounter at random may be severely harmful to their health, it is possibly smart (a "maybe"-grade suggestion) to take some precaution by disabling animations. Which may be or may be not a good idea - depending on what value non-seizure-triggering animations have.

No other things are implied by this (or at least I fail to see it), and I'm sure it doesn't imply that receiver should've somehow foreseen that they would be attacked that way.
Sure, and I'm aware of the non-profit initiatives. I don't think many people have considered producing actual software under a not-for-profit (except for Khan Academy?), probably because it's insanely expensive. Would YCombinator help facilitate funding a fully open Facebook or Twitter clone, for instance? It sounds outlandish to consider, but it seems equally outlandish to consider the 2020 election happening over essentially the same social stack & people will just be okay with that.

(Obviously, a clone itself wouldn't suffice, you'd need to start with federated identity, and....)
"Cutts was using IRS/Wikipedia/NYT as stand-ins for "sources people trust", not "sources of high quality by some magical objective standard that Google decides contra their users"."

It ends up being the same thing. Brand value being an overwhelming factor is precisely what the OP and everybody in this thread was complaining about in their SERPs.
> Lower taxes tend to bring in more revenue and create more employment.

Two responses:

1) A bit of an irrelevant point, since we're not talking about RAISING taxes, we're talking about collecting taxes that are due under current rules. (You can argue that's an effective tax increase, but I doubt people/companies that aren't following the rules are a good basis for policy - with lower taxes they'll still cheat)

2) But if we do consider your point...I don't know that your point has been shown at all. Sure, if you're on the far side of the Laffer curve, which is 50-70% tax rate (depending on whose numbers you trust), but we're at 20-38% tax rate in the US (and that's marginal rate, not overall rate). I'd also look to the efforts of politicians like Brownback in Kansas, where a massive tax cut led to...a tanking of the local economy. I don't recall of hearing of a single supply-side success in post-WWII America, but I'll admit to non-perfect knowledge.

Also, as a liberal, I support taxes because I support many govt programs. Taxes themselves are NOT exciting - if we could really raise more govt revenue by cutting taxes, I'd be all for it, but I've not seen any reliable evidence for that (again, unless you're on the other side of the Laffer curve) and I've seen at least limited evidence against it.
What a horrible title.

Into the Wild was a movie about a homeless traveler. It cost $15million to make.
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Because in case of the astronaut's death, public opinion of the organization diminishes. You could say that the astronaut's life is more valuable to the organization than the astronaut himself
This ties in with yesterday's article about young people staying home and playing video games.

The article mentions "Welcome to the NHK"[1], which is an unusually bitter anime.

[1] http://www.gogoanime.to/welcome-to-the-nhk-episode-1
That kind of language policing is ridiculous. The words mean what they mean. If there is some taboo around a word like Marxism or feminism or islamism, that doesn't mean we need new words, it means there is resistance to the ideas. Over time the words depoliticize slightly and can be used freely again.

Giving in to people who are trying to cloud the meaning of words is the linguistic equivalent to negotiating with highjackers. You can do it, but you just make the job easier for the next highjacker.

I know it's a scary moment, where it feels like words have lost their meaning and insanity reigns, but that's just the zeitgeist. Words still mean things and that still had power.
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It's marketing. Everything is marketing. It's obvious the target audience of this article are women. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
She's blaming the boogeyman of the "alt-right" for the poor reviews. Yeah, it's got to be that, not that she has no actual material beyond "I'm a girl saying gross things, now laugh at me."

I'd rather have seen the money wasted on her spent boosting the publicity of female comics that are actually, you know, talented. Start with Tig Notaro.
Presumably the amount of energy dumped into the target is a function of how long the laser dot is on it. You'd probably need the laser on a particular area of the target a little while to disable it.

If your target is ducking behind waves and goes from beyond the horizon to onto of you fast enough, that would be pretty good against a laser probably?
> But Peter Thiel, the new boogeyman

Well he is quite vocal about his political opinion, and he is rich. Maybe that is what he wants anyway.
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Appreciate the response and POV. Based on the info you shared here, I think you're someone who could definitely work with more left-leaning people to find common ground, which is sadly missing from the people actually making decisions.

My question would be: without government intervention, what incentive do mega corporations have to allow unions to continue? What prevents them from making their own rules, which prevent unions? Since these same companies are behind the efforts to dismantle unions, it seems that removing government would just remove the middle man, making it easier for companies to abuse workers, dismantle unions, etc.
Well, with regard to non-technical concerns, the only reason I can think of to compile your game for a web browser (as opposed to native) would be for convenience/no-install. The main advantage of the browser being you have access just by navigating there. If you're putting up a pay wall you're kind of killing the convenience/easy-access thing anyway. If you want the traditional model of pay-for-game->get-game the browser doesn't do a lot for you.

You could argue it's easier to target one platform (the browser) rather than multiple platforms, but I would argue that: A) engines like unity can already handle that for you, B) having worked for a company that was using asm.js + webgl for a product, I can tell you that browser is a really annoying platform to target when you're using C++ and OpenGL. It works but it's incredibly hard to debug and browser updates tend to break things randomly and a lot more frequently than you might think. I'd only use that stack if it gave you a competitive business edge.
And the conviction was vacated on a technicality, so standing precedent on the issue is a little thin.
Just for the record: Your virtue signaling is not in any way rebellious, or unpopular in the HN/SV bubble.

Also, your use of words is childish, and does not promote a fruitful dialog about the problems.

To sum up: grow up.
> What changed? The lack of competition with the USSR?

That exactly.
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The reason why a Basic Income paid out from a LVT is a good idea, is because it reduces costs by leveling the field for all participants in the immovable property market. So that market can then allocate resources at optimal efficiency.

A UBI paid out of taxes on produced factors (income,capital) distorts resource allocation, so we all end up poorer.

Rents would go up, but then so would the LVT and then the UBI until an equilibrium point is reached.

In the US, without any other changes to your tax/welfare system the LVT/UBI would result in every man,woman and child getting around $4000 each. That would rise as rents went up.

That would go up even further if other taxes and benefits were reduced.
that's fantastic context; thanks for pointing this out.
Fuck IBM too for helping with the holocaust. Palantir and Peter Thiel wouldn't hesitate to do the same.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

edit: downvote means you deny holocaust and IBM's role in the massacre of Jews
I know a lot of VC funds really don't favor Services and Solutions companies really well - and of course prefer SaaS due to obvious reasons. What does YC think about Services related companies? Would it be a waste of time to apply?
How can someone earn less than the minimum while in work? Is the minimum not required to be paid? If that is the case, what is the minimum for?
That was my first thought, too. Why not do it that way?
The general problem isn't convincing people that housing them would be more cost effective, it's that a large portion of the population is worried about incentivizing people to not work. Whether or not that is a valid concern is up for debate, but it's definitely the main driver why programs like this in the US rarely get funded.
You are quite the centrist, aren't you? Unfotunately we cannot flag individual comments, but you certainly worked very hard to earn your downvote from me.
Some people let their feelings get in the way of rational discussion. "Mass deportation" is probably their way of legitimizing the criticism of deporting illegal aliens. re: people who came illegally or stayed here illegally past their visas.
I was trying to point out - he didn't have any with him :)