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I send out the agenda in bullet points before the meeting, open the meeting by briefly going through the agenda, then wrap up by going over the answers to each point on the agenda to confirm, then send out an email with the same notes and actions to be taken as discussed in the meeting immediately after.
>Oh, you mean that you can't build a multi-billion dollar company overnight without venture capital?

No, you can't build a large company ever without venture capital. Money begets money. The only way that any company will ever be large in the future is if some other existing billionaire decides they think they deserve funding.
Isn't there any competition between health insurers in the US?
If it's a free market and consumers care about costs, then you'd expect that at least some health insurer would start looking for ways to put their insurance premium down.
this. everyone else is arguing about a red herring. but 10 or 20 of those sites probably accounted for over 90% of the clicks.
Because it's a malleable term.
In this alternate universe, PayPal could have morphed into PayPalphabet and spawned other companies corresponding to Musk's interests. I think that would still work fine as long as the money stayed within the company and out of executives' hands.
Crap. They throw away food because it's cheaper to throw it away than to give it to those that need it. It has nothing to do with 'liability' or 'regulation', given they still do the same in NZ, which has neither the concept of personal injury liability nor onerous food regulations.
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People have a natural right to a fair share of society's toils solely be virtue of being human beings, yes, absolutely.

What you have is not the result of your toils.
Those rules were a proactive measure

Were? Obama's rules affected by this legislation wouldn't have taken effect until next December at the earliest. It was an Obama administration screwup that opened this privacy hole in 2015, and it's been there ever since. Why is the outrage only popping up now? The ISPs have almost 2 years' worth of data already.
I believe it is 1000.
Absolute nonsense. People start companies in extremely difficult positions in life and only some of them succeed. No one said it's easy.

But that doesn't change the fact that every single one of Amazon employees is free to leave the company and start their own tomorrow. You don't have to have complete financial security to be "free" to do something.
I'd like an assessment of the EUPL [1]. IANAL, but supposedly it's an AGPL-like copyleft license adapted to EU (Code Civil-derived) law eg.

- with American and Common Law concepts and terms such as "copyright" translated to concepts meaningful in the EU

- covering "moral rights" (like German UrhG law which has certain rights that you can't transfer at all, such as claiming to be the author of something)

- avoiding overly broad (and hence void) non-liability provisions

- with provision to determine the venue/court to bring cases to.

The EUPL has provisions to integrate EUPL-licensed works into other works and for relicensing under more liberal/non-copyleft licenses, but the cavalier attitude when it comes to copyleft makes it unclear to me whether the EUPL actually is a strong copyleft license (cf what the FSF says about it [2]).

[1]: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eupl/og_page/eupl

[2]: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eupl/news/new-fsf-stat...
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If you put an upper limit, you'll have people stop once they hit that limit. Why would you go after that billion dollar idea when you are hard capped at millions? Nobody would ever go after moonshots.

If we're talking about fantasy economies, IMO we should move to a system where we don't need money at all. Money is basically a way to partition access to limited resources among people. Except, outside of this planet, resources are near infinite. With complete automation and unlimited access to space, everything would be free with our only real cost being energy - which luckily, is also near infinite given the billions of stars in the universe. Something like Wall-E but less dystopian.
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It is divisible in information and coding theory, where it makes perfect sense.
It was pointed out the last time I posted this that the demo is "fake" at least in as much as the inserted words aren't being synthesized but rather copy-pasted with existing intonation intact.
See point 2. In other words: They'd be up far more if the nuclear hadn't been removed, which still has the same effect of killing people.

As I said before: Until there is 0 fossil fuels, taking nuclear offline kills people by delaying fossil decommissioning.
The same thing that prevents you from killing people that you really don't like, I guess? I assume you don't do it because you are at least a half-decent human being, and not because of the threat of violence. Same with taking property.
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> I open up Uber and tell my destination, and Uber tells me 87₹.

If the network is down, your Uber isn't going to open. Yet you can hail a cab and pay with cash (or credit/debit).

Your taxi experiences are probably very different from mine, but getting scammed by a taxi driver is very unlikely where I'm from. And in my experience everything runs like clockwork in Denmark, I'd expect the situation to be very similar there.

Taxi services across the world are very different, so your experiences might be as valid as mine. But where I'm from, Uber doesn't provide anything that a normal taxi service wouldn't.
I live in Sweden. Just a few days ago I audited and filed my returns for 2016, it took me about 2 minutes.

1. Go to skatteverket.se (IRS), enter your "personnummer" (SSN).

2. Open the BankID app on my phone, which contains an X509 certificate identifing me, issued by my bank. Enter my password to decrypt the cert's private key and sign the authetication ticket from skatteverket.se.

3. Audit my pre-filled returns. Contains all information about income tax, captial gains tax and so on.

4. Press "Sign", enter password in BankID again to sign the returns.

5. Smell the roses.
> First, losing money to edge out competition is not illegal. Loss-leaders are a normal business practice.

Well for a start, loss leading and intentionally lowering prices unsustainably to cut out competitors are different things. Loss leaders don't exist to be anti-competitive, they exist to attract people to your shop so they will buy the other things you have, which is how you make profit.

Selling some things below cost in order to sell other things to make a profit is fine. Selling some things below cost in order to not make a profit, living off of venture capital while your competitors go out of business? Completely different story.

And, quite frankly, 'normal business practice' means fuck all. Lots of things are normal, illegal and unethical.

>Second, none of your three points refute the Chamberlain argument.

No, the argument resting on a false dichotomy refutes itself.

>And yet, Wilt is still featured in this classic thought experiment to illustrate fair distribution of wealth.

I have no fucking idea what NBA is.
On the other hand, the same is true about inspecting an entire rocket for manufacturing defects.
Yes, the Linux kernel was always licenced as "GPL2" without the "or later" bit that the FSF advised for GPL code.
Luboš is known for being extremely hostile in all his opinions. :)
It still depends on vigilance on the part of the consumer. Lots of hoverboards bore fake UL stamps when UL hadn't certified any hoverboards.
Thank you! My math brain says I can define (I think) a pathological system that is both "patterned" and "non-patterned," and a bunch that are non-patterned but still result in equality given the right initial conditions, but these definitions aren't meant to be rigorous in that way, right? He's talking more about what's likely to be true given what we know of realistic human societies?
Is there dispute over the long term toxicity of nuclear waste? It's not hard to find numerous toxic, long lived isotopes. The world has no shortage of waste and the volumes are growing, not shrinking.
Im not a proponent of coal, and at the scales my part of the world needs, hydro fills most the need. Yeah, it needs maintaining but that's unlikely to be more costly than nuclear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product
It shouldn't even have to hold bonds, it's a closed system, so why exactly? The Social Security system is funded by the current active population, and the beneficiaries are the inactives of past generations.

Sure, it's great that in theory your payroll tax is converted into a bond, and then when you retire they sell it and pay you from that, but ... that's not what's happening in the big picture, because if there's surplus then it just lowers the yearly deficit in the federal budget. (As it happened for years, but the fund will be depleted around 2034.)
I'm indeed referring to Theresa May, sorry for the confusion.
I'm always amazed at how different /r/SpaceX and /r/Tesla are from the rest of Reddit.
Do you have a link to the docs for this? I cant seem to find it.
Well that has absolutely nothing to do with unions. That is the Government mandating that people be trained by particular people. That's a Government-imposed rule.

I personally think that laws banning closed shops are completely absurd and undermine peoples' freedom to negotiate contracts that suit them (which labour should have free access to, because of the massive unfairness of employment as a concept, and its inherent inequity between employer and employee).

But they have, and pretending that it's not their own fault for then turning around and effectively mandating a closed shop is absurd.
Examples of something isn't proof of a system working. I'm more inclined to say that the low number of examples is proof that the system ISN'T working.

There should always be motivators (like money) for people to work harder, take risks, invent things, and fill a spectrum. I'm not sure if that spectrum needs to be in factors of millions though, instead of say, 100-1000s.

And I'm not saying anything about Bezos in particular. He really is self-made, but for everyone of him there are 100s of (patently less rich) inherited top 0.1%:ers.

But did he work millions of times harder than someone else? Did he risk that much?

I'll gladly work TWICE as much/hard for 5-10 times the reward. A lot of people do, for diminishing returns.
Expanding the money supply and controlling inflation are precisely the things the Fed does (with monetary policy, the fiscal multiplier is only part of it).

Re: corruption and concentration of wealth, I see no reason why government should have a monopoly on that. The 2007 crisis, and Enron before it, and countless other scandals, are evidence of the former being rampant in capitalism. The observation that without exogenous (non-capitalistic) forces, return on capital will always outpace economic growth (popularized by Piketty) is evidence of the latter.
Why would you want to change something that works perfectly fine for everyone?
While that is true, coal is just one of the sources that play into that, and the point that you yourself made was that it can be offset.

While the dust and radioactivity released by coal plants kills hundreds of thousands of people now, and we can't meaningfully offset it by trading quotas - it's not like having more kids makes up for killing other people.
>I really don't think you can apply any sort of free market principles to ISPs.

Shouldn't we then work towards that. Instead of applying more regulations.
When a major sports apparel company sponsors a famous athlete to wear their gear on televised events, they are getting no activity beyond an impression. Doesn't mean the sporting event is trash. It's up to the advertiser to determine whether or not those impressions have value.
[Mild spoilers ahead] There's the drama of the initial accident, then the recovery. Stealing the vials. Pursuit by the government agency. Locating the opponent, and the final conflict between them. Plenty to work with there, I think.

The challenge, as you say, would be to do justice to the story and not turn it into some kind of car-chase/superhero mess.
We really ought to have a scraper and chrome extension "HN cache", for things like this. Where we can click "cached" and see the original content hosted somewhere, like on S3 or something.

I'm too busy/lazy right now to implement this :P but I just wanted to throw the idea out there.
Do you need a general video to introduce your company or open a presentation?
yes, but your gain is still an integer number. the non-integer ratio is just a statistic (gain per number of units).
Should have called it GEEOS
That is true, if you build a company for growth. We built our company for lifestyle. We don't need to show off that we have 200 employees and make X million in revenue. While other people are busy bragging about it, we go skiing together. Different mindset.
Are you seriously suggesting that a Chernobyl in every capital on earth would still leave nuclear safer than solar? It's many tens of thousands of deaths from Chernobyl and you can't safely go there now.
Would guess !!! ???? - same provisions as AGPL, but even more niche.
couple this with a system that transforms pictures of people into nude pictures of the same people. win $$$. watch civilization crumble to dust.
I agree. I always feel that the AGPL maintains the "spirit" of the GPL, namely that (external) users get the complete source code for the software they are using. In the past, external users physically got the software, hence the GPL's clause kicking in on "distribution", but the rise of SaaS means many don't, so the licence adapted.

Now there are those who always preferred the BSD-style over the GPL-style, which is fine. But I find it strange to prefer the GPL over the AGPL...
Very cool, but...

It looks like he doesn't have enough power. He only manages to get a few feet off the ground and is probably getting extra lift because the ground is so close. Perhaps adding an other engine on each side might make the difference.

You would need to be relatively strong to be able to fly this (as he clearly is). His weight is supported by the engines which are on his hands. To fly and control this you would need the kind of strength required to do gymnastic rings. Perhaps some kind of stiff suit to move that load to other parts of the body might solve that, but this would add weight, which would increase the power requirement.
Most places in Europe I have lived will pick up everything from public containers not further than a few tens of meters from your house.

You only need to drive to recycle very-specific trash like baby diapers, dangerous substances, furniture and big appliances.

Common division is as follows:

- Blue for paper and carton
- Green for glass (some places classify glass in three colors: green, brown and white)
- Brown for compost
- Yellow for Metal and Plastics
- Other: Anything that does not fall on the previous containers.

Exceptions: batteries, electronics and dangerous substances, which, as I explained before, need to be picked or brought to a special recycle center.
I just don't get this complaining about wealth concentration - for every person capable of complaining on an online forum that some people have 100 to 1000x the wealth they do, there are also likely to be more people that exist who have 1000x less than you. How exactly am I any more entitled to the wealth of those richer than me, than are those poorer than me entitled to my (relative) wealth?

It seems to me that the problem with the totem pole is that each level is logarithmic, but always talked about in absolute terms. If my boss makes 10x and her boss makes 10x of what she makes, aspiring to 100x my wealth looks like a completely impossible goal in my lifetime - but it's really just two promotions.

An argument could be made that some people try to sabotage those attempting to climb the totem pole, but once someone has reached the top and did not illegally interact with anyone they passed on the climb, why all the hate?
He was recorded admitting to groping women who weren't his wife. What on earth makes you think that his browsing history is going to bring him down?
excess fat causes insulin resistance which causes sugar to stay in the blood stream.
> Yes, but what's the alternative? Having countries run on "expert opinion" lest people shift their preferences later?

Requiring super-majorities for large constitutional changes, like most countries do.

> When majorities shift they can always revert course in any case.

Often that is not true. E.g. it is extremely unlikely the UK can ever get the same deal it had if it wishes to rejoin the EU later. Even if it gets offered the same deal, it requires unanimous approval - every single member state can veto.
You think visitors to a city will put up with the bureaucratic interaction you describe to recover 20 bucks? Might as well not have it.
Really interesting hack. It basically gives (almost) free timestamping (using Let's encrypt for cert issuance and CT logs for storing information). Previously one would use Bitcoin OP_RETURN outputs for timestamping [0].

[0]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/OP_RETURN
No ISPs will get opportunity to differentiate themselves.
> that's communism.

I think you're confused about communism.
What you're talking about seems more about soviet russia and other countries that run/ran an authoritarian state-capitalism system (often calling it communism).

However, communism has nothing to do with enforcing people to work under a threat of death, rather the contrary.
According to Oxfam, you too have more wealth than hundreds of millions of people. They're counting net worth, and lots of people are in debt.

If you use a metric which is more in line with subjective wealth -- say, assets or sustainable annual consumption -- then the it doesn't seem anywhere near as crazy.

Basically, Oxfam is exploiting a bug in how people misunderstand wealth.
Companies would still be able to accumulate money, and moonshots could still be pursued under corporate control. People would pursue billion dollar ideas in order to strengthen the companies they created rather than to enrich themselves.
> but it'd be good if these inherent inequalities were better managed by society

I am not talking about the people making ~40-50K each year. I am talking about the software engineers in Amazon.

Creating a better managed society is a complete different conversation.
Smart Contracts? https://www.ethereum.org/
> There is nothing consistently consistent about UB.

Yet, for years I am memmove-ing objects which should not be memmoved. Or using unions the way they should not be used.

> and that they mostly dropped the other saner interpretation expressively allowed by the standard and practiced by "everybody" 10 years ago

Do you have any example?

> that UB can also be for non portable but well-defined constructs.

Do you mean instead of signed integer overflow being UB it should be defined as 2 complement or something like that?
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The very fact that atomics do lock means that you cannot properly write lock-free data structures with them.

"Lock free" typically refers to code that can prevent blocking operations; atomics do not do that, though some people think of atomics as a simple lock-free method, it really isn't. Lock-free is about algorithm design that can prevent locking in the first place, and atomics still lock, even if they hide that from you. If you mentioned atomics as a lock-free tool in an interview, you'd likely be chided.

Here is more information:

http://preshing.com/20120612/an-introduction-to-lock-free-pr...

"when you attempt to satisfy the non-blocking condition of lock-free programming, a whole family of techniques fall out: atomic operations"
No, it isn't.

The same cycle goes around in other countries, the fixed exchange rate (it's called "pegged to the dollar") means that the central bank has to do open market transactions (on/in foreign exchange market venues) to achieve that fixed ratio.

That means that in case the rate of inflation, economic growth, balance of accounts of foreign trade, etc. differs between the particular country's and the corresponding metric of the USA, then they will have to act. (Of course it's not a top-to-bottom thing, but it's directly influenced by forex markets, therefore there are a lot of speculation when central banks try to maintain a fixed ratio of anything to whatever. [You might remember when the CHF/EUR ratio started to go haywire and the Swiss central bank intervened ... and then suddenly stopped that intervention.])
I'm not attacking it because it is stupid and shows a shocking lack of knowledge of the situation.

The EU is not a country, it is a trade union with aspirations to become a full political union one day. You're talking like it's the latter when it's not.
I thought it was pretty common to have different corrections for each eye (as I have).
I'm a Mathematics major so I make a point of reading all maths related articles and if I have something to contribute then definitely comment.

On average I read 2-3 articles fully but it also depends what's it on. On breaks I always try to read top 10 or 15 and sometimes comment. I find this community and commentators quite a pleasure to read because many of us posses something unique or at least it seems so.
> What of the risks taken by others?

What risks do employees take, they are getting a salary. If they are not happy they can leave and get another job. The founder has to put everything in it, his money, time, relationships, reputation. This is not "some risk", he cannot just walk away.
Yeah, I think at least 0.5 difference is very common.
"Unfortunately you have reached a page that does not exist."

Looks like someone's doing their diligence to remove all traces.
What does 20/20 mean? Is this a USA specific way of measuring vision quality?
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This is gatekeeping, since the message is coded to be obvious to those "in the know" (of course mb means mebibyte!) but is a barrier to those who are trying to learn more (mb probably means megabits per second? it's a unit for measuring download speed? why is the 's' left off?)

This is putting the burden of collaboration in the wrong place: it shouldn't be a question of, can we expect a reasonable engineer in the industry to understand this unambiguously (with some deductions); but rather, can I hold down the shift key when typing the abbreviation for megabytes.

Obviously this depend on the actual audience, don't bother following this in team chat where speed is more important than clarity.
The iOS Gmail app has increased in size to 140MB at the last update. I'm on a 16GB iPhone and I've noticed app sizes slowly increasing over the last two and a half years that I've had my phone. I have to keep an eye on app size to make sure I don't run out of space on my phone. I've already boycotted the Facebook app, but apps like Gmail are too important to uninstall. If it comes to it I'll be getting rid of a lot of other apps before Gmail (e.g. the Google app) when I need to reclaim space. I don't understand how app sizes keep creeping up; it's moronic. By contrast, the Reddit app is a slim 13MB and I'd say it does a lot more than the Gmail app.
Hopefully we will get Encrypted SNI with TLS 1.3

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/94/slides/slides-94-tls-8.p...
Planescape: Torment 4K remaster comes out April 11
Under the ACA you can't even go out and buy insurance at any point in the year (from a large number of companies) unless you meet a minimal list of conditions that most people won't.