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Hiring, Firing and Honesty: Interview with Kantox CEO
The tone of the whole thing is quite odd. It's like saying "Boomers who won't cash in their IRAs distort stock market", but houses are not just an investment mechanism! Everyone starts out house-negative, so the assumption that people are going to sell down from 1 house to 0 is a bit bizarre. Sure, some might eventually downsize, rent, or move to shared living, but not everyone will. I'm not sure why this is a surprise.
Sounds incredibly inefficient!
I kind of feel like this is deception, and shouldn't be allowed (though I agree it'd be very difficult to outlaw)....
There was an article a while back about a company in New York which was run by a group of Orthodox Jews (the article focused on this fact quite a bit, it's not a personal observation) - which was one of Amazons top sellers, and they explained their business model: to look at products that sold really well, then leverage their network of Chinese manufacturers to create a generic branded version of the same product, fight the margins, and sell that product at a lower price... and it talked about how successful they were at doing so.

I think one the main example products was a Bluetooth speaker...

I'll see if I can find the article, it was a couple years ago..

Edit: found it: "Amazon whisperer"

https://www.fastcompany.com/3021229/chaim-pikarski-the-amazo...
That's a nice tactic for discounting people's thoughtful opinions. Cognitive dissonance resolved!
Someone else's democracy.

You don't get that flag-waving, chest-beating attitude here in Britain. We're shit and we know we are (as I think the chant goes)
I pay for most purchases here in the UK with a debit card - mostly using contactless payments. There is no doubt to me that this is much faster than mucking about with bits of paper and chunks of metal.

e.g. when buying train or tram tickets the printing of the ticket takes much longer than the payment step.
Your argument doesn't make any sense. If the insurance company is paying for the drug then they would rather pay $50 than $75 for it. If the person has a deductible, it is conceivable that they would forgo treatment if the price is $75 but not if it is $50 because they didn't think they would use up their deductible, but then they ended up using it up anyway. The insurance company would then save money. But this doesn't seem like it would happen often enough to make this a good bet for the insurance company.
4 bedrooms can sleep more than 8 people. More like 12 possibly. All that matters is the beds layout and your willingness so try and max the sleeping area. This is from experience.
Yes, the accounting for his legal defense was always annoyingly murky.
As a German

a) I don't want to feed the Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Whatever leach earning a few cents of every transaction.
Adidas is not owned by Fossil: https://www.adidas-group.com/en/investors/share/shareholder-....
Seconded! A classic.
If it has a different mechanism of action it is a different drug. It sounds like your campaign is just more marketing by the pharmaceutical industry which is illegal in most countries.
ZFS has journalling too, in the form of the ZFS Intent Log, where writes are placed rapidly as they occur before becoming part of the main filesystem. The effect is similar to a journal in a journalling filesystem [i.e. to allow recovery and consistency of writes in flight in the event of power loss], but the way it is used is different.

Unless most journaled filesystems, ZFS:

- allows a separate high-performance device to be used for the log. This is important because the cost of journalling can be high when lots of fsyncs are being used to ensure integrity (i.e. try running a write performance test on a database like postgresql using ext4 with and without journalling, you'll see a difference).

- the filesystem log can be mirrored physically, to protect against the risk of log device failure [which would endanger writes in flight].

Other similarities/differences:

In a journalling FS, you need to take the filesystem offline and check the journal. In ZFS, there is continual passive checking of file data and metadata at time of access, as well as the option for an online 'scrub' that is similar to the fsck of a journalled filesystem without requiring dismounting of the filesystem.

While copy-on-write by itself may not be necessarily strictly superior to journalling, ZFS is strictly superior to either.
It's a stretch to describe the Summer of Love, even just in San Fransisco, as a commune. If anything, there were many communes that existed or maybe started in that time.
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Mostly in cash but I would not base decisions off of where I am. Investing is complicated, I've decided I suck at it and have handed it off to someone with a good track record.
Is it really useful to slap a left or right label on those examples? I heard plenty of uproar about all the "right" stories you referenced and all the response were the same as the "left" stories; "well, it's a free country and it's their right to do that but it's gonna offend some people and might ultimately be bad for business."

There are organizations people tend to view as "above all that non-sense" until they do something stupid, then you see phrases like "very bad path", "slippery slope", "fine line". Then there are organizations people expect might take extreme stances on certain topics and no one is really surprised when they do it. People still talk about it when it happens but it quickly dissolves into something like "well, I'm never going to convince them what they're doing is bad and I was never going to buy their cake anyway. Best I can do is not be that way myself."

If there's anything to polarize on it's probably reach of the organization. Actions by organizations that have no direct effect on most peoples lives won't get talked about for very long. When it's a organization that provides a global service with little competition, people get more concerned.

But even reach isn't a good divider. Most organizations don't accomplish global reach without first promising things like equality and fairness, but some do, some even promise to do "bad" things. So maybe people's reactions to events like this are more about broken promises.
I'm saying, free speech (an open exchange of ideas, tolerating views that are sincerely and respectfully made, or at least trying to charitably interpret those views, especially if you think they're wrong) should be something groups of people and organizations aspire to.

The fact many supporters of this guy's firing are treating these principles as technicalities is troubling. The first amendment is a starting point, not a loophole.
BitTorrent is "just" exchanging files via a p2p connection. It's kind of useful, a lot of projects use it in one way or another, but it's unlikely to be instrumental for "the next big thing".

The BitTorrent DHT is great for storing and exchanging metadata, but a DHT is not something most people associate with BitTorrent (Bitcoin also has uses a DHT (for client discovery), as do countless other services).

Blockchain technology on the other hand offers verifiable distributed timestamping (with ok-ish resolution). That has much wider applicability than just payment tracking (which is essentially all bitcoin does), which is why there's plenty of people exploring what's possible.
What's funny about this article is:

1. It's obvious clickbait - "secret" brands - how salacious! Yeah, as though a company wants to keep things it sells secret.

2. Each time you click on a link from the Quartz article, you are given a url with a link tracker tag. For example, for the Arabella brand, you get:

16352060011?tag=quartz07-20

So basically someone sat there behind a computer, authoring an article while using words like, "expose" and "clandestine" brands, and "attacking small brands," while simultaneously setting up ad links on their Amazon account so that they would make money from Amazon every time someone clicked on said brands.

Now that is journalistic integrity at its finest, and emblematic of the world of manipulating people's fears and worries for profit that we live in.
I agree. This kind of righteousness has no place in modern corporates. I will add even CEOs/management is not safe from getting fired. The difference could possibly be huge severance in case of such incidence.
It is actually quite good, and certainly worth a look.
False equivalency. The left at least advocates for inclusion, and asking your workplace not to discriminate is not "just as bad as" saying women shouldn't be able to be engineers.
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My guess is that you wouldn't be able to discuss voting for Trump around some people.
I don't think they can get away with "gotta hear both sides" on this one. They fired the guy as in my opinion they should have.
Was listening to Atul Gawande on the podcast "Conversations with Tyler". Sponges are now bar-coded (less expensive than RFID, etc.) and scanned during the process to make sure they're not left inside the patient.
Overloading is dispatching based on types of multiple arguments. If someone adds a more specialized overload, it will be called instead of the existing. The problem is dispatching on polymorphic types. As long as you still have your Squares and Circles intact, the right function will be called. And in C++, keeping the concrete types intact as far as possible is a solid strategy.

For your collection example, at some point you need to introduce some kind of polymorphism to get back to concrete types; but once you're back, overloading works just fine again. The best strategy to recover types depends too much on specifics to be formalized.
The real problem, and the article alludes to this, isn't just that the boomers aren't moving, it's that they aren't moving AND they're preventing more and denser housing from being constructed in their neighborhoods. Many of these boomers live in single family zoned neighborhoods and fight tooth and nail against allowing any multi family developement around them (i.e. Duplexes or 4 plexes). This chokes of supply, raises land prices, and makes living unaffordable for younger folks who do not yet own.
The wait times seem insane. For things like seeing specialists or having an MRI, the wait time seems to be 30-40x that of the US. Maybe more.
> ....Because I've met COUNTLESS people who make comments like "We shouldn't hire her because she'll get pregnant" or "it would be too distracting to have her work here" or some crude variation of "I'll put in some extra hours on her".

Well, the pregnancy avenue is a significant area of unfairness between the sexes. Women of childbearing age DO have that hanging over their head precisely due to federal law.

There's 2 ways to fix it. Get rid of the federal law (and deny that pregnancy carries complications!) or offer the same benefit to the male.

I'm for offering the same benefit to the male. And now, that both have that law, the differentiation becomes moot.
> Euro

> stable
>Fake news were used to manipulate the recent election

I see this being repeated often, but very little evidence behind it.
Midwestern folks respect competence without regard to race or sex. Google has clearly indicated that they think otherwise.
> real gender pay gap issues

There is no such thing, there's been a plethora of research about this that disprove this false claim
I meant "reasoned manner" in the sense that it was a document with footnotes citing scientific research, and that he wasn't out on the plaza screaming about how he hated women, or something like that. The former, even if you object to the conclusions or the spirit they are offered in, you can just ignore by not reading it, or rebut by pointing out flaws with your own document. The latter is obviously a real problem in every way.

Suppose someone asked why it is that Jews are overrepresented in things like winning nobel prizes, being millionaires, working as a college professor, or working in politics. My answer would be that Jews tend to have higher than average intelligence, so it is only natural that they are overrepresented in fields that require higher intelligence. But wait - some of my colleagues are not Jewish! Am I suggesting that my colleagues are less biologically suited to their work? Oh dear, that can't be right. Maybe the politically correct answer is that there is a secret cabal of Jews who run society and try to elevate their own into positions of power... but, come to think of it, that doesn't sound like such a good answer either. Maybe the real PC answer would be to accuse whoever asked of being a racist.

To your point about some of the arguments in the document being gross and terrible, I'd like to discuss those points in particular. I read the document and didn't see anything obviously wrong or objectionable. If there is something wrong, it seems to me the thing to do is correct with a better argument or better evidence, not fire the author for having the wrong opinion.
Because it is not really about the science. What people differ on is the level of moral responsibility we hold.

Some people simply reject the moral imperative to protect the environment. And science does not help in that argument. You cannot scientifically prove that someone should care about a moral issue. They have to understand at a more intuitive and emotional level first. This takes time and is messy (see every contentious political issue ever).
the license the name from the brand owner to make watches

you'll be shocked to find out every single pair of sunglasses at Sunglass Hut is made from the same company.
It's a 1 liner in 2017. In 1985, it's 2, right?
Then perhaps this is a teaching moment for Google's PR team. As an outsider, and based on what I've heard and read on blog posts and hiring pages about affirmative action, a common method of meeting their goals is diversity quotas. Given the fact that men and women have a 50/50 balance, and given that many programs reach as close to perfect equality as they can, it seems obvious to me at least that they would be trying for a 50/50 distrobution between the sexes.

If this isn't actually the case, then their PR should make it known, because the implications of the current system do make it seem like minorities may be given precedence at the expense of white or asian men.
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Hi HN! I was wondering if there's some sort of service that would check our client websites (we're a web agency) automatically before go live. We currently have our own doc to run through but it would be nice if there was something that would automatically do that for us.

Examples for checks are:

- HTTPS and related (HSTS -> cookies etc) enabled/correctly configured

- robots.txt configured

- Correct API keys configured (e.g. Stripe live key instead of test key)

- No dead links

and so forth..
Amazon isn't doing some sneaky business here, just regular business. I'm not going to wear an Amazon branded polo, but I might wear a GoodThreads branded polo.

Lots of stores have house brands and others have manufacturers make a specific product line for their store. Walmart has the Great Value house brand and several others [1]. Kohls has a licensing deal with Rock & Republic jeans to sell a "budget" version [2]. Target recently announced that they are dropping their Mossimo brand for a dozen new brands [3]. Best Buy owns the Insignia brand [3]. Amazon isn't doing some sneaky business here, just regular business. I'm not going to wear an Amazon branded polo, but I might wear a GoodThreads branded polo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walmart_brands
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Republic
[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-ditching-merona-mossim...
[4] https://www.insigniaproducts.com/
Out of Interest: are they allowed to do this?

Surely he owns copyright, and his work is being published without consent?
The "I only have my debit card on me. What's your minimum spend" conversation used to be annoying. Thankfully that's been less of an issue since contactless as shops now often expect you to pay for small items on card.
If you're beating up a little guy you don't need allies. You need fellow bullies.

And your whole notion about "hot events" is ridiculous. It wasn't like Iraq in 2003 was USSR v2 and only the US intervention stopped it from taking over half of the world...
Yeah, what a silly theory. Not once have I thought "oh, gee, I better not pay with CC because remember what happened back in the 20s/30s". And yes, you could argue for some sort of cultural trait that stems from that time, but I don't know anyone who pays with cash because they inherently distrust the financial organisations.
Quite a few years ago, I saw a trailer for a movie about the 1950s quiz-show scandal. It included a clip of the producer, Robert Redford, saying something about "the end of American innocence." At that point, I started wondering about the man's smarts.
> asking your workplace not to discriminate is not "just as bad as" saying women shouldn't be able to be engineers

The former is exactly what the author of the memo did, and they got fired for it.
To the contrary. Of the three closest grocery stores, only one of them has a single cash line. One of the stores is cards only, and one of them doesn't even have any live employees.
He's most likely referencing his next two lines down, "As part of Google's mandatory diversity training, one is presented with Google's internal research claiming that unconscious bias is real and measurable, and that diversity hiring yields both better individual and group performance. Google has a line which they feel is backed by research..." so he can't post that data publicly as it is Google's private research.

It doesn't mean it doesn't exist though, just that we won't get access to it.
This is a bit like atheism. If you denounce your religion, they can't exactly drag you back into it. But that cuts both ways, if you are an atheist, you can't expect somebody religious to throw away their religion and marry you. The world doesn't owe you a marriage on your terms.

Caste is similar, if you throw away your caste and then go for marriage, a strong caste affiliate who doesn't subscribe to your world view may reject your proposal. This isn't discrimination, everybody has a right to marry somebody whom they feel they can be comfortable with.

You will be surprised how much 'pride' people take in their caste here in India. There are many caste specific festivals and traditions people observe. Almost all caste affiliates in India are willing participants.
Don't forget about the drinking water contamination.
I think Fossil only makes watches under these brands, They don't own the brands themselves.
Must be personal variance, as I'm not any more likely to spend with a card. I would guess it's the other way around for me -- cash is "spend money" to be used more freely, while using the card draws from the savings so the transaction carries some hesitation.
OP here - I'm seeing 50/50 support for the gifs. I'm keepin my gifs. I like the idea of adding, and will probably implement, a toggle for all extraneous gifs. I love that most of the commentary about this article is about the gifs. Gifs.
Well, there's gendered and then there's gendered.

Some things are explicitly gendered, like GI Joe or Barbie.

Some things are implicitly gendered, like Legos. There's nothing about then that makes them "for boys." But most stores put them in the boys aisle. Lego started making "girl sets" that are all pinky not too long ago just so they could go in the girl section.

As a kid, where were the magazines with computer stuff in the store? Were they next to Tigerbeat? Probably not. It's little stuff like that. That's not the whole story, of course. But what we find interesting is at least partly due to society.
From the article:

Only one of the brands makes clear that it’s an Amazon product: Pinzon
There's a package on AUR that works pretty well (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/unreal-engine). I can't speak to other distros, but this package worked reasonably well on my system.
If you want to write something with old-school blocky 3d models (think X-Wing, early Mechwarrior games, Starfox) is it easier to just learn how to do that in a modern engine like Unreal/Unity, even though it's way overkill for the purpose, or work from a smaller and simpler base?
From a similar angle, wind power's greatest onshore potential in the United States is roughly speaking the Great Plains region. Most of the states that lead in the percentage of power supplied by wind are Republican dominated. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_State...)

Wind turbines in my opinion make great sense for farmers and ranch owners. Turbines (which often are installed via leases to the power companies) often offer a reliable, steady source of income to this group (compared to commodity prices, which are very volatile). There's also less potential for NIMBY issues in rural locations, in my opinion.

At its core, I think anti-environmental politics is often largely a central distrust of government regulations, in my opinion. Renewable energy in itself should not really have a political tag (unless one is too deep into political tribalism to notice). Such is already a profitable prospect in many places today.
"Car companies own whole collections of secret brands"

Holy crap did you know Lincoln and Ford are the same company? So nefarious!
Sure, but 1. someone has to implement them, and 2. they can serve an educational purpose regardless.
This may be so. I often wonder though if this "disaster recovery plan" has been tested with any bank of significant size. Maybe that's where the whole too-big-to-fail thing comes in.
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As an american, I find it strange that cash is faster. Most people who pay cash need to wait to get the change back unless they know the total beforehand and happen to have exact change. In the US, credit card machines are very fast even the chip enabled ones.

Cash workflow:

- Cashier tells you the total amount

- You look in your wallet/purse

- You spend time counting exact change if you do have it

- If not, you take out a rounded bill/note (say $20)

- Cashier takes the bill/note, punches in the register and then spends a few seconds giving you the change back.

Credit card workflow:

- Cashier tells you the total amount

- You look in your wallet/purse

- You swipe card/insert in chip reader

- Done
It's not limited to online stores, either. Best Buy has a few house brands that don't use the Best Buy branding. Walmart has so many house brands that it merits its own Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walmart_brands
"I think half of this group should not be allowed in here because of their biology" is not a diverse thought, it's a dangerous one that doesn't need to be entertained yet again (Eugenics, etc etc)
But (3) is exactly why many people do use credit cards: exposing information of your actual cash accounts over and over in transactions increases the risk of fraud. It's much safer to fight for the integrity of your credit account because it's someone else's (the bank's) money. They are far better equipped to handle the case, which would sap not only more of your own money, but a lot of time. Waiting for a replacement card is far less painful.
Adidas and Burberry are separate companies. Burberry is registered on the London Stock Exchange. Adidas is based in Germany. The page you're looking at refers to watches manufactured by Fossil under those brand names.
People are hesitant to publicly say that the right thing to do is the thing that should be done so they bring financial arguments into it.

Hence the studies promoting the idea that diverse companies are more profitable, as if that should make any difference. It's a sick obsession with viewing just about everything through a financial lens even when money shouldn't come into it.