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No, it is a WWW site privacy policy. YCombinator's is at http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ . Others have been mentioned on this page.

You can compare to other privacy policies, and note the somewhat ironic fact that other privacy policies are quite woolly and vague about whom personal information will be disclosed to for the purposes of protecting the site, protecting its users, and enforcing terms and conditions of service. For all users know, these companies and organizations could be disclosing it to some randomly selected stranger in a faraway country. The U.K. Information Commissioner has some guidelines for privacy policies, and making it clear what sort of people personal information will be disclosed to is actually a good thing, even though the BBC has been somewhat inept about it.

* https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

Rather than the vague "we may disclose information" of Apple, Reddit, and their ilk, the BBC is trying to point out that the people that it may disclose information to are going to be the people discoverable from things like looking up one's IP addresses, which is going to include employers if one posts to the BBC site from company computers, schools if one does so from school computers, and so forth.
It's all about operational practices. DO is a DIY IaaS platform, so if you practice good operational hygiene you'll be successful. If your operational expertise is lacking, you may have a bad experience with the product.
Actually I think there's a relation with exponentials and integral calculus. Or anything hyper-iteration related.
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>due to artificially reduced supply, but that is not what rent control means.

Rent control artificially reduces supply. Price changes come after.
Today Upwork announced that this feature will also be applied to some of the existing clients.
None. DoD doesn't require Firefox, Chrome, or IE. But the base install is typically IE only with the option to install Firefox or Chrome upon request.

If anything, it'd hurt Firefox's market share, but would have no impact on the government beyond not being able to use it. Especially these days with sites making themselves Chrome-first like the damned IE-only sites from 20 years ago.
This is what I figured as well, but I also wonder if that's just because the devices we use haven't been built for this.

In other words, if public interest shifted to some kind of mesh network, perhaps the devices could be improved enough to support the load.

That said, I don't know much about mesh networking at all, the routing methods it uses, or if it's even possible to support what I'm talking about.

It also has to contend with the existing, established infrastructure so probably won't see many large investments any time soon.

I still think it would be a decent alternative to what we have now if it could overcome bandwidth/latency limitations.
This was written in 2012, it's 2017 now, don't refer to this anymore whenever you read something about PHP.
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I often wonder how factual articles like this are. Under modern labor laws it would be difficult to create the kind of situations described. Especially in California. Unions have been trying infiltrate Tesla for awhile now. They have the most to gain by disseminating false information. On the other hand if the information is factual then Tesla really needs to improve working conditions.
all rent-controlled housing was once new. what does that tell you will eventually happen to the housing you build?
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There's no market in Silicon Valley, why would there be one in Seattle?
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> In February, Tesla worker Jose Moran published a blog post that detailed allegations of mandatory overtime, high rates of injury and low wages at the factory, and revealed that workers were seeking to unionize with the United Auto Workers.

This could have a very serious impact on their expenses.
Lower rent on the rent controlled housing depress market rent across the board, discouraging new housing investment.
they follow different indices and have similar returns. Please explain how this is possible while still underperforming what they 'should' be returning. Are both indices being front-run? But if they reconstitute at different times how is this possible.

And yes, you do sound snarky.
Given the context of what caused those power issues:
- lack of maintenance (not non-existence of maintenance) for almost 2 decades
- the electrification of more homes without bringing on additional capacity
- poor/subpar management of the sole power producer

A year or so is fine because those issues have been resolved by:
- a slower economy (I'm putting this here because we shot ourselves on the foot)
- more generational power coming in
- the rise of independent power-producers.

So there should be stability from a power generation perspective.

It's "long gone" because depending on which part of society you come from, you might have gone a few years without experiencing load-based power issues.

In general the power issues still exist once you step out of the suburbs or metros, but then again the DCs will likely be hosted there, or MS will enter into a power agreement that gives them preference over the rest of the average consumer.

I'm just glad that we'll have Azure DCs as a start, and hope Google and Amazon follow suit if MS succeeds.
Pet peeve here: "variable" and "mutable" aren't concepts that are useful to conflate. Imagine a function that takes a variable and prints its value to the command line. There's no mutation of the variable going on, so the variable is immutable. And yet it's still a variable because each time that you call this function, the value that gets printed is allowed to vary. This is distinct from a constant, where each time you call the function the value of a constant must be the same.
holy shit they aren't far right... laci green is talking about people like sargon of akkad and chris ray gun
Interesting anecdote, but it's obviously skewed. For example: attorneys, nurses, physicians, and accountants are all missing from the graph. From that I intuit that either a) the data intentionally captures people in only their first job or b) the data is just wildly incomplete.

Conservatively assuming this is intended to be a snapshot of first job salaries, it's interesting to note that a $40k salary is in the top 50% of jobs in the US [1]. And again, we expect most of these people to earn increasingly more as they hit their earning stride (which will be after grad school for many).

1- https://www.fool.com/retirement/2016/10/30/heres-the-average...
I think the success will depend largely on what H1B reforms are brought in and if taking the academic (MS) first will be of continued benefit (as it currently is). Personally I think this is one of the better options vs the body shop route. And there are plenty of smart qualified people around the world as well.
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Not a single mention of sub-prime loans is baffling. The man is a hands-down expert (leader) in the field. I found the lack of mentioning the ease of financing risky home purchases odd, however. It nearly sent the US economy over a cliff.
> They have the most to gain by disseminating false information.

To be fair, management has just as much to gain by disseminating false information. (That everything is hunky-dory.)

Also, workers trying to organize is not 'infiltration by unions'. It's their lawful right, in a society which allows free association. Management bargains collectively - why can't employees?
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Hello Everyone,
I am a guy from India(New Delhi) and i am finishing my graduation. I have gained some skills in web development. And i have created team with three of my friends. We have break down the task as one of us knows Android, Me being the Web Developer and my third friend looking into sales and marketing and every other task so that we wont be slow on making our product. I am kind of a guy who really want to make this world a better place by adding real value in this world for everyone out their and it's one of the main reason about starting a startup and not looking for job.
Now why i am here is because as i am starting my first startup statistically speaking i am sure we are going to go through some common pitfalls and create some mistake. What i want from all of you is any piece of anecdote or advice or guidance that you think you have suffered and how you overcome it. It could be anything that could help me so that i wont create some common mistake.
Advice about how to start, early days, time management, team management, getting shit done, psychological advice. I am looking for everything. I am pretty confident about myself and the work we are going to do. But i am also afraid because stakes are high and the pressure from my family. So if you got something valuable to add to my life i am here welcoming you.
Thank you all !!!

Any kind of help would be appreciated.
This concern for the survival of a particular corporation is just as arbitrary as your questioning where they drew their
arbitrary lines around DIY operations.

80% of the Fortune 500 list in the 1960s is gone. Survival is not guaranteed of any of company. So why get so worried about it?

You know why they do it that way? Because the people there decided to.

What's more self-parodying? People on here grousing about the issues of our society, only to lean into more capitalism and VC/startup life?

Or people deciding to bike their food "several miles" for their own reasons?
Some stuff isn't available in the UK. It's not even a paywall. It's pretty silly.
You could try checking the rental vacancy rate (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRVRUSQ156N), it seems it was high back then. You would expect to see unmet demand there, at least. I think the conclusion is okay.

Also, sticky prices is something else entirely, rent controls are typically price ceilings.
Complexity isn't smart.
Is anybody here using Kotlin for back-end work? It seems like I generally hear Kotlin come up in connection with Android, and less for writing server code, though that's where I'd potentially like to use it.
Helsinki bike share teamed with transit and ridership boomed instantly
You do realize that not all technology originates in the US, yeah?
The US isn't the center of the world. You don't have a monopoly on technology or IT and in fact, most of it wasn't even conceived in the US or by US inventors.

You need to get off your high horse about "US-America being the greatest country in the world" because it's not.

And to answer your question, no, I don't use Google, nor Youtube and especially not Facebook. I go out of my way to explicitly block them all to protect my privacy.
At this point they would just switch to Edge if they haven't already. It's secure and can also be locked down more by network policy.
I've been using CircleCI and my biggest frustration is the inability to switch to faster machines.
IIRC, because they receive funding from taxes they're constrained on what they can post for UK consumption.
That's true. An independent investigation is really the only way to know for sure.
bbc.com is specifically for international audiences, whereas bbc.co.uk is for the UK audience.

bbc.com is blocked within the UK because it is funded differently.

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC..."
I'm a huge Elon Musk fan and I deeply share his vision for getting humans on mars, being more environmentally friendly, etc. However, I'm starting to lose faith in him.

First of all, the guy is stretched way too thin. He runs two huge companies. Now he is starting some other company to be even more distracted. (Boring company)

It sounds like he really pushes his workers way too hard. I wouldn't want to work at one of his companies. Long hours, a lot of stress, and you're underpaid!

He rushes too damn much. I understand wanting to be first and beat the competition, but Telsa is moving way too fast with the Model 3. Rushing this car to production. With software, when has this ever played out well? They are building cars that real people will drive. You can't rush or cut corners with something that will kill people.

I really fear if he doesn't step back and change his ways a bit, he just won't be able to hire and retain the talent needed to change the world.
Tesla's preemptive response: https://www.tesla.com/blog/creating-the-safest-car-factory-i...
Cloud doesn't automatically come with that stuff - you need to set up your own failovers, backups and monitoring. Also you still need to administer those servers.

Also, tying yourself exclusively to AWS services is not a good long term strategy because then you have vendor lock-in that's worse than being stuck with some old hardware.

If you don't need the scaling abilities of cloud, then it just doesn't justify the added expense because no matter what you say, you still need people to manage systems.
There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened. That is troubling, because that violent housing cycle helped to produce the Great Recession and financial crisis of 2007 to 2009.

It's also troubling because the origin of bubbles has been combination of econ 101 and psych 101 since Charles Mackay wrong about the Madness of crowds back in the day[1]. Well, ironically, "it's different this time" is one of the constants in these thing.

And simple explanation for this kind of situation is that Feds are resisting the conclusion that inflating the currency lead to the situation, both to avoid blame and because similar tools are still in use [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
"shampoo planet" these days and he foresaw it. Amazing author. BTW he has a very inspiring column at FT

https://www.ft.com/stream/authorsId/Q0ItMjI1YTIzZQ==-QXV0aG9...
This sounds even worse than the inevitable disagreements over light level or temperature.
Thats not how EV works. It all depends what the increase in pay and unemployment are.
Some industries flat-out give you issues with moving SA data out, and others have players that are very risk-averse and aren't moving to the cloud.

My day-job is as a consultant in the financial sector. It's been always burdensome getting a project approved where the data will reside outside of the country. We have smaller players , but their rates are exorbitant in comparison to MS, GOOG and Amazon.

I'm glad and optimistic about this move from MS, because now we can get more work done with less red-tape.
True, but building new units is a slow process. High rents on existing units move the supply curve much faster -- people take roommates, people move away and free up units, etc.
Sometimes I wonder if the mortgage model of buying houses will have to change or adapt in the future. To me it seems to be a lending model especially prone to abuse because of the boom-bust cycles it creates: a bunch of people bite off more than they can chew when debt is cheap, and rationalize it with the assumption that housing prices will only increase, so they're not even losing money by taking on that huge debt responsibility. Then when interest rates go up or they lose their jobs, they become unable to support their debt, leading to massive foreclosures, creating a housing glut that erodes others' liquidity (simple supply vs. demand) and puts them underwater.

Obviously this can happen to varying extents among other equity markets but lenders are much more likely to give someone a $400,000 loan to buy a house than to buy stock. I don't think this is necessarily sustainable.
I loved DC in "Gen X" and "Microserfs", and I have been purchasing his books then on, but they have been going downhill. "Girlfriend in a Coma" was pretty good. "JPod" and "Gum Thief" were from unremarkable to pretty bad, and "Generation A" the first one I abandoned. So I'm not buying any more.
I wonder if this same philosophy applied to stocks as well which has created the roller coaster we have today. Has the idea of day trading and flipping for profit always applied to the stock market? I have to believe at one point the sole idea of stock ownership was to have the right to receive dividends/rents and that's about it.
>Is that effectively enforced?

As far as I understand, yes, based on the fact that nobody seems to rent out their basement unless their home was specifically built to accommodate the regulation. IANAL, but with the balance of power tilted towards tenants here in Canada, I don't think you'd do well to shun it.

I lived in a few basement apartments as a student. They're generally more affordable, with shared utilities. I think it really hurts the market.
I think deflationary policy would cause a housing crisis of its own. Taking out a mortgage in a deflationary environment would be extremely unattractive financially (because even as you paid down the balance you'd hardly build any equity in the home).
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Main thing: solve problems, don't fight them. If it appears you must fight really, really hard to fix an issue and there isn't a clear way to move the needle without potential work, move on (avoid sunk cost fallacy) and figure out how to avoid the problem all-together.

That could mean: hey the product in this respect isn't working and we don't know how to change it. What happens if you change the business model? Customer acquisition strategy? Product strategy? Everything is always on the table when in search for P/M fit, so don't get too locked into a solution. Dial into your problem.
Second this. We just moved our sizable infrastructure to GCP for more or less the exact same reason. GCP makes all of this a breeze -- I don't understand why other providers can't do the same.
This will never happen.

More likely, employees will unionize, and come to some agreement with management, or, they will fail to, and anyone attempting to unionize will be fired. (Illegally, but in at-will states, employees have almost zero recourse for that kind of termination.)
This will work: http://archive.is/GfdgF :)
Comcast HATES this one US city!

(Sorry, had to) What area do you live in? I've heard of cities trying to do things like this and ISPs clamping down and suing the city to stop any sort of public infrastructure. I'd be interested to read about if/how the people in your area had to deal with this.
Yo why ban young folk by pbj?

But really, novel idea maybe for an internal radio in the office that employees plug into. Playing over the speaker, maybe not so much. I wouldn't want to be that guy getting shamed for playing long boring droning music to help me focus.

I can already hear the "Ugh, not Insert band again". I wouldn't want to force my musical tastes onto anyone else.

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It's not a great point. Many companies have been around since before EC2, and many of them have moved to EC2.

Not saying EC2 is right for everyone, just that this particular point is bad.
Where I live (United States, rural area) there is no choice in cable internet service. We have one provider (PenTeleData) who charges $60 a month for 25mbit, though you'd be lucky to ever see that full 2.5 MB/sec.

Because of the lack of competition, their customer service is absolutely abysmal as well. They don't care how their customers are treated because we have no viable alternative. We've had our internet turned off (and were charged to turn it back on) because we were allegedly downloading movies. We've had our internet go out and the service tech said it would take a MONTH to come out and take a look at it (at first he said there were NO appointments, like at all, but when pressed he gave the month time frame).

Our corporate world is shitty, and it's getting shittier every day.
It depends on whether you use the figure for rent of primary residence (where the sample they use to calculate it includes rent-controlled units) or owner's equivalent rent of residence (where it doesn't). See https://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifacnewrent.pdf for details on how each figure is calculated.

The two figures tend to track each other closely in practice, though, so if you're primarily interested in observing trends the distinction is mostly academic. Here's a graph with data for both indicators going back to 1981: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=dM2A
You'd use nested let clauses and name the param instead of using the implicit "it"
In what way would it not? ISPs could leave everything as it is, and there'd be no change. But without net neutrality they will have the ability to extort cough, sorry, "request" that companies and (potentially) customers pay them extra for prioritizing certain content. They'll also have the ability to deprioritize content, potentially costing companies that don't pay (why I call it extortion) customers. If Comcast does this to Netflix (deprioritizes) then Comcast can drive customers to their own VOD services. If Netflix doesn't pay, Netflix loses customers, Comcast gains customers. If Netflix does pay, Netflix retains customers, Comcast gains money.

Either way, Comcast is better off. The primary issue is that ISPs are not just ISPs. They have many services which compete with 3rd party providers (some big, some small) and their market position will allow them to abuse the hell out of both customers and other service providers.
On paper, I'm a poster child for the above-described "cultural nihilism" with respect to national identity: my grandparents are Indian but spent a good chunk of their life in France, my parents moved to the US in their 20s 40+ years ago, and I was born and raised in an impossibly diverse environment, to the point that I was shocked when I came to college and discovered (e.g.) East Asians who only hung out with other East Asians or white people who only had white friends. The upshot of my background is that my family hasn't slotted easily into a given national culture for a few generations, and my personality developed around the concept of building one's identity around other (IMHO more rewarding) things. The accelerating trend towards universalist, fluid cultural identities built around mobility and big cities is practically tailor-made for a person like me.

That being said, it's either very dishonest or extremely narrow-minded to claim that racism is the only reason someone could care about a cohesive national identity. Just because it doesn't suit my view of the world doesn't mean no one gets value out of it, and in fact I'm acutely aware of the extra work required to connect with someone without a shared cultural background (I just happen to think it's more than worth the benefits of such a philosophy).

On top of that, this belief in a cohesive national identity is entirely possible without going anywhere near racism. "Blood n' soil" nationalism doesn't have much claim to relevance in a nation of immigrants like America, so our identity as a country is ideally built around people choosing to voluntarily join a society based on shared core values instead of the historically-common form of national identity built around ethnicity. It's possible to hold this view while having absolutely no opinion about someone's race: one could consider an ethnic nationalist (e.g.) Norwegian refusing to accept our values to be just as unfit as anyone else.

You'll find that the world gets a lot more interesting if you don't desperately rush to pattern-match everything you hear into one of a few trite buckets that comprise an overly-simpleminded model of the world and its people.