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This is old news for large portions of the interest rate derivatives market, which is quickly moving towards OIS[1] rates instead, based on widely traded liquid instruments.

Also, the implication that LIBOR is purposefully a scam is basically untrue.

When LIBOR was first developed, it was an improvement on other interest rate benchmarks, and it also reflected current market conditions at the time, as banks actually did regularly make bilateral interbank (the 'IB' in LIBOR) loans to one another.

There are checks built into LIBOR to discourage fraud: for example, the actual calculation discards the high and low outliers, so individual banks cannot manipulate the benchmark easily[2].

But as the interest rate market continued developing, much of the actual lending transaction volume moved towards other markets; the financial crisis just accelerated that trend.

So now we have a lot of contracts written against a benchmark that slowly stopped reflecting an actual interest rate market. The right path forward would probably be to renegotiate these contracts so that going foward, they're against OIS instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overnight_indexed_swap
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor#Calculation
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This looks awesome! Thank you for creating this.
If you read the article, he did, someone got back to him on his behalf and it did not resolve his problem.
Actually this argument only works for binary treats. Like "tall" vs "short".
If hired random people above 6'1", we would still expect that most women hired were only slightly above the cut, while the men were a bit further up.
Did James Damore really deserve to be fired for what he wrote? (P. Singer)
posted above but https://registrar.stanford.edu/staff/student-initiated-cours...
Out of curiosity, have you sold items in the 1000+ price range?
Definitely a sign of weak leadership.
Is this what we've come to? Willfully failing to acknowledge obvious hyperbole?

And for what purpose? To score cheap political points? Defame the opposition? Drive clicks to hot takes on a low rent blog?
I don't necessarily disagree with the post, but I will say that in almost 30 years of programming, I can only recall one programmer who took small functions to a harmful extreme. On the other hand, I can recall dozens who took long functions to a harmful extreme. So yeah, it can be bad, but I see the other extreme way more. (That may be because I don't do enterprise programming, though.)
Sure it is, and a number of scientists in the relevant fields have spoken up and said so. Here's a start for you:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manife...
Make good change is about making small steps of progress all the time. In the context of my employer, if they are hindering or ignoring my attempts to make the workspace efficent, healthier and more productive then it's time to leave.
There is nothing humorous about being thrown against the cabin ceiling and breaking your back, or neck, or getting a concussion. Do you equally enjoy being thrown from the 5th floor of a building? That temporary loss of gravity is almost exactly what a plane experiences in mild to severe turbulence.
"You seem to think my intent is malicious."

Nope. I think you're acting out of pain. I think you're in pain because you yourself said that your current behavior on the forum is "costly" and bad "for my heart or my psyche." Again, you're reading something that was literally never written. Hence, cognitive dissonance.
Agreed. That was what frustrated me about the Gamer Gate discussion here. And Ellen Pao. And this. And probably some I'm forgetting.

It may be uncomfortable but it's important.
Service Changes for U.S. Customers
It was decided in court already actually (maybe you were being sarcastic here?) back in 2001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

https://cyber.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/NY/appeals/opinion.htm...
Yeah I definitely think there are some good ideas behind it I just think the focus is a bit too individualistic. Overall I liked it.
My point is it appears to be mauled from your perspective, but you’re clearly not the target user. If you were, people wouldbe jumping off of there as quickly as you did, but that’s clearly not the case.

It’s more likely you’re missing something and they do have a user demographic that is strongly entrenched. Of the users they do have they have strong user activity.

Take my 11 year old sister. She primarily uses snapchat and I can’t see her ever switching. She definitely doesn’t shop around these apps based off of some pro/con table of features.
This is still misrepresenting. He said those gender-based tendencies lead men and women to prefer and be interested in different things. Preference and interest has nothing to do with "suitability".

To say that 100% of men and women are suitable to work in tech, but that maybe only 20-30% of the women would actually want to would be a more accurate representation of what he wrote.

It's hard to see what's sexist about suggesting women should work wherever they prefer to, rather than being told they should become software engineers.
> If "being conservative" becomes a "fireable" offense in most large tech valleys, then we are in a path to similar stances

It's not similar. It's not even remotely similar, that's what you don't get.
>>> Golden handcuffs - first world problems suck.

Sorry to disappoint but you don't have golden handcuffs. Not at all.
Most of the actual radio transmitters are no longer operated directly by the BBC. As far as I know the only site still under their operation is BBC World Service Atlantic Relay Station on Ascension Island.
Whilst the BBC still produces the radio and TV programme content, in the UK the radio and TV transmitters are operated by Arqiva and World Service shortwave by Babcock.
I was lucky enough to work on one of the last remaining operational high power longwave AM radio transmitters in the UK at Droitwich Transmitting Station. BBC Radio 4 longwave is broadcast at 500kW on 198kHz (locked to a HP 5065 Rubidium standard) and can be received in large parts of western europe.
Have you tested using drip for the weekly emails? Might prove profitable without devaluing content.
Google is a global company. What might pass for "right wing" in the US is lunatic fringe in many other countries. Do yes the search engine of the works should be biased towards fact based sources and away from sites like BB that preach hate and not science.
It doesn't make that argument either. It makes the argument that since less women (will on aggregate) be interested in CS then men, less women will be in CS.

And that less women being interested in CS has _some_ basis in biological differences.

Whether you agree with that or not (the research does support it pretty strongly, but is certainly not settled), it is a reasonable argument.
Discussion about sexism in tech businesses shouldn't happen on a board aimed at people starting/running/working in tech businesses?

Seems dead on topical to me.
Don't forget about CRAPLAB
He didn't leak the memo but it was shared publicly within Google.
Reminds me of this great GDC talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVGonAUUQ8c (which is more about plausible game worlds in general).
Maybe it's a calculated risk thinking that if you lose the bet you file for bankruptcy?
I don't know about Stanford in particular, but my experience so far has been that if you just volunteer to do stuff (and maybe have rear cover from one higher-up, but that's often not really required), and don't need any budget, people just let you do stuff.

At work, I started a study club, and started teaching a programming course, all on company time. No pre-approval. Nobody objected.

And the universities I've been to tend to be even more liberal than companies in such matters.

So an undergrad teaching a course doesn't seem questionable to me.
No billionaire startup CEO, or anyone at the top of their field, was born knowing how to do it.

Just believe in yourself. It's the people who have the courage that'll end up as leaders. You've just got a taste of it.
I quite appreciate your measured response, thank you for that.

> I don't agree with you that science has concluded that biological factors don't play a role in what professions people go into.

I don't recall saying nature isn't a factor at all, and if I did I take it back. But I do personally believe that right now nurture, which includes social and historical gender issues plus all forms of implicit and explicit social biases and discrimination, is the biggest factor. And enough bigger that it doesn't make any sense to talk about nature yet.

I didn't really intend to contradict the possibility of any biological factor, what I'm saying is that social issues appear to me to be a far larger influence than, say, any discernible difference in IQ. The memo either disagrees or ignores that.

Given that social factors were >99% of the distribution discrepancy less than a century ago, and that we're still working through huge social issues, and that workforce distributions of women both locally and globally are far from settled, I find it pretty hard to accept the idea that we should look at anything other than social factors.

It is possible that biological differences explain some of the workforce distributions. It's also possible that nature's effect on the current sex distribution of women in US tech is not even large enough to be measurable. It's possible that should we eradicate social gender inequality globally, biology's role will even out to a 0.0001% distribution discrepancy. It's also possible that Sabine Hossenfelder is right, and that once we have equal opportunity, "the higher ranks in science and politics would be dominated by women". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14976028

I will check out the videos, thank you for the links.
> anything different than 50-50 deserves some attention.

If what these researchers are saying about preferences is true you should be more suspicious of an exact 50-50 split than any other because it suggests that people are pulling the strings behind the scenes to make it so.
What I should do is create a 'contract' among some of my friends.

Require that N out of X friends agree that 'the will' needs to be opened; for that to be a contract the combinations for satisfying N need to be calculated out and those sequences of decryption the master decryption key setup.

Both the master key enciphered 'will' and the multi-party unlock blobs can be stored together, that way maintenance and updating everything is on the owner of the will. Obviously one additional copy of the master key for that would be kept in a file enciphered to just the owner's key.
I did this to my cell provider a few years ago. As a protest around some privacy law. Holy crap they got a lot of data.
Markets need transparency and trust to be effective.
Google could easily have blacklisted him from any future management positions. This would have been essentially cost-free to them.
Sorry I meant "flagged and hidden". Just because it's flagged doesn't mean that people can't stop commenting on it. It just doesn't show up on the front page anymore.
>and isn't it well known that Silicon Valley do not share conservative views

If Silicon Valley didn't share conservative views, there wouldn't be so many articles and comments defending said memos, and the views expressed therein. Certainly, what's "well known" about HN and SV seems to depend on what set of cultural or political strawmen one wants to punch down. I've seen both described as wretched hives of leftist cultural marxism and alt-right fascism.

>I think the answer can be derived herein.

Yes, but not for the reasons your comment implies. People who are strongly ideologically driven are more likely to engage with these threads - they're likely being flagged by people who are tired of seeing the deluge of content which they feel is off topic, or no longer delivering anything of insight or quality.
This can be achieved by adjusting the size of the browser window. Not only does this give fine-grained control to all users, but as a bonus it frees up the horizontal space to be used to display other things alongside.
Why are we drawing the connection that he was fired for being a conservative? Tons and tons of people in the valley are their own special breed of techno-libertarian and they seem to be totally secure in their jobs. He was fired for being political at work. Don't be political at work. No one wants someone walking around their workplace talking about the evils of abortion. No one wants your coworker to ask if you'll sign an ACLU petition on trans rights while you're microwaving your pasta. No one wants to sit down at their email and see something like FW: My Thoughts on Women and the Workplace with Damore's pdf attached.
Certainly regulatory capture is a thing, as is law breaking.

Regulatory capture doesn't do you much good if nobody cares when a business breaks regulations, though :)

I think American society does care about businesses following laws and regulations. I think a narrow segment of the press is wowed by 'outlaw cool' and investor funding, but that is not the same as America as a whole.

Obviously corps are gonna lobby, but I think we as a society should and do draw a distinction between lobbying to change a law that you are not breaking and lobbying to change a law you are breaking. I am pretty sure most legislators who aren't closet anarchists take a dim view of things like that. I will wager a large amount that a vast majority of regulators take a dim view of things like that.
You're definitely right. Our ability to ignore our ideals when we're slightly inconvenienced is why content paired with invasive ads is so effective in the first place.
No, they knew exactly what they were doing.
so use legal pedantry?

instead of blocking requests, replace the domain name with something funnily invalid, with a play on words on each original domain. then in case of any dmca, claim satire fair use.

it would make patchs review much more fun too!
There's no justification. Just Silicon Valley brogrammer culture.
Wikipedia is not a scientific source, nor is it (at all) an unbiased source.
So the $7,500 tax credit for an EV buyer is a subsidy? Yet the tax write-off for a failed well is not a subsidy?

Anyway, I think the whole idea of a tax savings classified as a subsidy is ludicrous. It's as if the federal government owns 100% of may paycheck, and the 70% they allow me to keep is then a subsidy.
Required reading for this discussion: https://medium.com/@adljksbvkj/heres-your-point-by-point-ref...

And, for those still outraged by his dismissal: Damore made a subset of his co-workers feel uncomfortable. That's all the reason any at-will employer needs in order to pull the trigger. End of.

There are constructive ways to discuss diversity in the workplace and potential ways to improve it. His memo (and the WSJ "open letter") is a great example of how not to conduct this conversation.
Or maybe there is a large community of very angry people who identify as victims (gunpowder) and this particular piece was the spark.

Maybe it's just a matter of time until this same group gets offended by another controversial political opinion held/shared by a coworker.
Hackernews doesn't allow you to "downvote" submissions, but users with higher "karma" can flag posts, effectively giving the most active (or popular) users censoring powering.
If you can get USD at the end why does it matter if you have to go through BTC for now? The liquidity is still there.
Victimhood has been used to justify aggression and heinous acts throughout history.
At least they're promoting mental health! If there is a natural law then what is in the best interest of the worker is in the best interest of lawful business. And since anything that goes against the natural law ultimately destroys itself, as Aquinas explains, a lawful business is the only kind of business you want.
I would reply to Jeff again with the particularly unhelpful email.
Netflix has a documentary episode on tempura in Japan: https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80159732

If you've formed an opinion on tempura only from eating it in North America, I highly recommend exploring it if you visit Japan as it barely compares. There's a whole range of tempura-dedicated restaurants, from fast food up through multiple Michelin stars.
I don't see that implication. I personally spend most of my time on GitHub.
Having the land and access rights is a lot of the cost. Often there isnt much space by new roads.
Who gets to decide who's the victim? How come I'm not allowed to have my own, equally-valid opinion about who's the victim?

Doesn't seem fair to me. I think the victim is the person who I believe tried to express his views and was fired.
I think you're confusing their adoption curve with a problem they solve. For example - PDA's certainly solved a problem (having a mobile/digital calendar), they just didn't solve enough problems when they were introduced.
You have fabricated a quote.

Do no misrepresent my post.
This is pretty hilarious - I don't know what very liberal people might think when Peter Singer - one of the most liberal moralists out there - writes in defense of James Damore.

As a very liberal person myself, seeing this gives me a bit of hope that perhaps other more extreme liberals also give this another look and take down the outrage a little bit. Very interesting.
The article rightly talks about the conflict between investors and consumers, but neglects the conflict between investors and workers. Index funds returns are returns to capital. For the vast majority of people, even people with lots in their 401k, most of their income is from their labor. Most of the increased national income in recent decades has gone to capital, not labor. If that's going to continue, in order to maintain shared prosperity, capital will need to be redistributed.
On the one hand, LIBOR is a completely made-up number. On the other hand, so are central bank rates.

If you're going to peg transactions to a made-up number, is LIBOR really any worse than anything else?
> I never buy from third-party sellers in Amazon, but I am having such a hard time explaining to friends and family how to do the same. They keep buying from third-party sellers and keep wondering how it is not "Amazon".

3rd party sellers are usually fine.

There are things I check for:

1. A "critical" mass of 4-5 star reviews

2. Prime Shipping

3. History of selling the types of items I want to buy.

If I am going to buy from someone who is a one-off seller, I'll do so locally via Craigslist, or OfferUp.
This thread has disappeared from the front page, but it doesn't say it's been flagged. What's up with that?
All due respect, wikipedia cites only published scientific articles. You're of course free to edit it if you think it has an anti-left bias...
There is more than one shortwave band, some are more useful than others and there are fairly large gaps between them, so it would feel sparse even if there were a lot of stations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_bands

But as others have said, in many parts of the world there aren't many shortwave stations left. Africa and parts of Asia still have quite a few however.
I think the key point is that they already have a right of way reserved for cycling use, so even if they all need to be rebuilt the cost is merely that of breaking up and laying down concrete. Generally any bike infrastructure project has to contend with the politics of taking space away from cars.
Time to start mailing s-team members instead
Buy and Sell forums at FredMiranda.com are very very good as well.
FWIW, I've had Amazon instruct me to file a chargeback in one instance that they had already identified as fraud.

It was a very different situation, however: someone had my CC info and loaded it onto a new account and made a large purchase.

Oddly when I inquired Amazon said they had already flagged the fraud and I needed to send a chargeback. It appeared that they were not going to proactively let me (or my cc company) about the issue.

I get it, but can't help but lose a little respect for a company that knows with certaintly one of their customers has been defrauded and sits back and waits for them to notice. Maybe they couldn't initiate the refund, but surely they could send a notice or otherwise reach out.
It is really hard to be efficient in terms of headcount. Every single manager inside the organization has a personal incentive in pushing to hire more people cause that's how we measure career growth. So they all come up with all sort of BS to justify hiring more people.

The crazy thing is that it should be exactly the opposite. People should get more credit for achieving X with as few people as possible. Instead it works the other way round.
Ask HN: How do I move from an entry level SE job to contracting remotely?
Hey HN:

I'm a young Software Engineer who has been working in the healthcare field for about 3 years. At some point in the near future, I would like to move into contracting remotely. I have experience working in a full-stack dev role, with an emphasis on cloud infrastructure.

My question is this: How should I go about making connections and getting my first contracts?

Thanks!
It later came out that banks had not only lied about their numbers during the crisis to make the financial system look safer, but had been doing it generally just to rip people off, pushing the number to and fro to help their other bets pay off.

Written exchanges between bank employees revealed hilariously monstrous activity, with traders promising champagne and sushi and even sex to LIBOR submitters if they fudged numbers.

"It's just amazing how LIBOR fixing can make you that much money!" one trader gushed. In writing.

Maybe this is old news, but they should be imprisoned for it.
It's a couple years old now, but there's a similar trend towards certain colors in the iOS universe too: http://hboon.com/ios-app-icon-colors-in-the-year-2015/
Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
This piece is really good for reasons that go far beyond the hidden Indiana Jones style secret lab:

Every six months, the star moves north or south in the sky at a scale equivalent to the hands moving 22 ten-thousandths of a second.

To magnify parallax enough to see it, you need a very large telescope indeed.
Weird indeed. That makes it the only flagged story in the top 100 https://news.ycombinator.com/best list. A lot, like hundreds, of users must have flagged it. (I don't know how ranking works, I just assume that there must be a ratio of upvotes vs flagging and the more upvotes the harder it is to flag).
But aside from the sources - Damore was fired when he violated a code of conduct by complaining about diversity. Richards was fired when she violated a code of conduct by complaining about jokes that offended her. They are pretty analogous situations if you're capable of looking at them in the abstract. It turns out that mass internet outrage as coercion is a staple of pretty much everyone's playbook, and it is disingenous at best to recognize it only when it is done by people you disagree with.
I find it weird that this article acts as if Robert Hooke isn't particularly well known, and downplays his accomplishments somewhat. He's an influential scientist, with contributions in many fields, whose name everyone learns in high school (both in biology and physics class).

The British should be a bit more proud of him.
He was also on the Google search team, which we all know is full of scrubs and duds.
Anecdotally (fwiw), my wife, whose profession requires a high level of expertise in biology, agrees with the memo writer
That the ratio of women:men in tech may never reach 1:1 even if historical biases against women are resolved (he lists some possible reasons). Therefore efforts by Google and others to improve this ratio to 1:1 at all costs can be counterproductive and discriminatory in and of themselves and should be re-examined.

That was my interpretation at least.
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