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>all the humans in the world put together couldn't make a 747 with their bare hands.

How does this make sense. How do 747s exist if they are not created by our hands? Maybe it's my mistake, I am not precluding hands from using tools, as long as the tools are eventually made by hands somewhere along the supply chain. Lets not complicate the matter with deliberate nitpicking. This is not faulty logic, the fault is with you.

>More to the point: Who was Gates unfair to? His own workers? He paid them well, in fact above market rates. His customers? They wanted his products more than they wanted their own money.

I'm talking about his own workers. Market rate in India is 5 cents an hour. Market rate is rarely fair. If you think market rate is fair then you are highly highly mistaken.

>It sounds like you're just looking at his wealth and saying "that's unfair" without having any idea of what he actually did that's unfair. That's... rather weak.

Sounds like you made a claim about something I'm doing when I already told you my reasoning. Sounds like you didn't read what I wrote. I'll repeat the logic. He is being unfair because his wealth is to obscenely high for one man to own. What does that mean? It means what he "did" is underpay people working for him.

Do I really need to spell out the logic? I am describing a dead body and I am calling the man with a bloody knife standing next the dead body the murderer and you are asking me to point out what he actually "did"
>We all know that Android handset business is barely profitable. Even Samsung makes a fraction of what Apple does, and the rest are rounding errors.

What a silly statement. Samsung's smartphone division reported profits of 3.6 Billion USD in their Q2 2017 financials. To claim that 3.6 Billion in 1 quarter is barely profitable is beyond ridiculous.

As for the second largest smartphone OEM - Huawei:

As we look at the overall revenue for Huawei during the first half of the year [2017], the company was able to bring in $42.04 billion, at an operating margin of 11%.

https://www.xda-developers.com/huawei-releases-financial-rep...
This is one thing that amazed me about early mainframes, the hardware was the API. It was designed to be used, not abstracted over and cleaned. In the modern world each abstraction layer fixes problems of the layer below, exposing its own flaws that are fixed by the layer above. With exokernels, nanokernels, picokernels and unikernels mabye we can get some of these qualities back. If an abstraction because pervasive enough, then we can make hardware that implements the abstract hardware interface.
Doesn't the SF Bay Area include the cities an hour east of SF?
First line: "The area is due for a major hurricane, ..."

Hurricanes aren't like earthquakes where something builds up over time to make an event more likely if there has not been one recently. It's like saying "The roulette wheel is due to hit number 2."
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Why do we "need" to? I'm yet to hear a single reason. Pen&paper just works. And it's as good as electronic voting regarding representation.

Direct democracy has more issues than technical challenges. #1 being education. And that very few people would bother to put enough time to go over proposals and cast in informed vote. Even in today's loose voting cycles, a lot of people vote based on feels and shitty advertising.

We can't expect a major chunk of population to participate in day-to-day politics and vote frequently. We'd be stuck with low participation and only "interested" votes which would very likely not be representative of whole population. And paper&pen works pretty well for voting once a year or so.
I don't know a single person that lost a job in 2007/2008. Everyone just hunkered down. Stopped job hunting, employers stopped hiring, everyone just stayed quiet.

Now, I know my anecdote doesn't mean much, because supposedly unemployment went up. Traffic certainly got better. But my point is, the anecdotes aren't worth a ton. I'm not making mine up -- I'm dead serious. Nobody I know got laid off, nobody I know left the area.

I also know far more people who have moved TO California than out of it, and the only people I know who moved out were a couple of people in the past 3 years.
SLC has worse air pollution than LA for the weeks it's inverted (approximately 6 weeks a year). Climate change is adding to the problem.

http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3799747&itype=CMSID
> Doesn't the SF Bay Area include the cities an hour east of SF?

No, an hour east of SF is deep in the Central Valley.
I spent years in China and lamented that I couldn't keep up with my Chinese and tech at the same time, so this is awesome to see.
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There is also D and Object Pascal, unless you won't consider inline Assembly as having support.

Oh and Fortran of course.

But yeah, I also find it sad having to go down to Assembly to make use of them.
I'm definitely for decriminalization of all drugs, not sure yet how I feel about full legalization. Regardless, thought this was an interesting article.
Seattle weather is actually pretty good. You don't need much AC in the summer (these last couple of weeks being an exception), and it hardly ever gets cold enough to snow in the winter. There is rain, but being able to keep your window open year a.round is great for fresh air at least.
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How much skill required to build new organizations is also debatable. Sure there are few people who actually build organizations, but is it because the skill is scarce or is it because the positions accommodating this skill are few and far in-between? If a pauper can replace a prince then it must mean anyone including a pauper can do the job of the prince.

Trust me. Gathering people and telling them what to do is 100 times easier than actually doing it.
I'm not sure. I know a guy in the Dallas area that works in finance, who keeps dragging his heels because he thinks a $300k place is so unaffordable. I don't get the dynamic -- it seems cheap to anyone in the Bay Area (Or San Diego, or Portland, or Seattle, or LA, or New York City, or.. most cities on the eastern seaboard). My understanding is that pay is fairly decent in Dallas. I don't get how $300k is anywhere near burdensome.

And yet, here I am in one of the most expensive markets in the world, and I can swing housing, but he cannot bring himself to do it. That's not to say it's less affordable there; it could be a matter of personal psychology, but regardless, I don't get it.

All I know is that I've noticed over the past decade or so, everyone who argues that they can buy property far cheaper in XYZ location far away from the bay area, and live like kings... somehow... don't.
Improving interview processes is great! What do you think are the best ways to interview candidates, as opposed to whiteboarding and code challenges?
And Foxconn makes the iPhone yet Apple sees no need to buy them.
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> As long as you have a good alibi, they won't be able to hold you more than 72 hours and you should be able to get your job back.

The US does not have legally-mandated job-protected leave for pre-trial detention, people have been terminated (for cause, and so not eligible for unemployment, either) for missing one day of work due to an arrest for which no charges were ever filed.
I did my undergrad at UW and my grad at UU, I would say the cultures between SLC and Seattle aren't far off, in fact, SLC is the only city I ever knew to have 24 hour coffee shops. Not to mention mountains, hiking, and skiing.
The big architectural flaw is that when I as a consumer prove my identity to company A, that gives company A enough information to impersonate me to company B. Or equivalently, it can give a rogue employee at company A that power, or anybody who hacks company A's database.

The solution is asymmetric cryptography, wherein identity is tied to a public/private keypair, and I can prove I have the corresponding private key without giving the other party the ability to impersonate me. Ideally, the government wouldn't know my private key, either, rather they would just give their own attestation that a given public key is owned by a person with a given name, DoB, SSN, and biometrics.

Along similar lines, any financial account would have its own keypair, with moving money out of the account requiring signing with the private key.

The state of cryptography today is way too obtuse for this to work right now, but I think it could be made more user friendly with specialized hardware to hold the keys and perform the encryption.

The idea that SSNs are secret, but we hand it out to half a dozen organizations is absolutely ludicrous.
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Keeping retired people alive requires devoting some proportion of current economic output to their welfare. Whether that proportion is paid from private savings, public savings, or current taxation ultimately doesn't change the fact that it comes out of current production. You can't save (nice) food, health workers, winter heating, etc.

So the real fight is what proportion of current output goes to old people. Private schemes try to ensure wealthy old people get the biggest slice. Public schemes are more vote driven. It doesn't make them Ponzi schemes.
The phone was quite nice, when comparing with many of the Nokia and Siemens Ericson phones of those days.

It is easy to fail when a competitor is giving away for free a stolen OS.

Of course OEMs will choose free.
How about "The area is, due to climate change, in big trouble"
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Hussein gave the UN weapons inspectors sufficient access that their leader in retrospect has pretty much accused Tony Blair of flat out lying based on what he knew at the time. There was no ambiguity.
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and you don't need to download 15mb of garbage to read a few kb of news
Have you ever been to RTP? We have a TON of techies here and this is one of the fastest growing areas in the country. Which is both good and bad, because right now one of the nice things about living in this area is the relatively cheap cost of living. But an influx of newcomers will eventually drive that up. But more jobs are good as well. Anyway, the point was just to say that lots of techies are already quite happy in this particular corner of the South.
When I was in computer science classes in college, "concurrency" was defined as multiple processes running at the same time on multiple processors. You could not have concurrency with a single core. If all you had was a single core, then the best you could hope for was "pseudo-concurrency," because it is impossible to run two things simultaneously on one core. When did this definition change?

Your food metaphor doesn't really work in the computer science sense, because you cannot concurrently eat three things at the same time unless you put them all on the fork at the same time, which is something you simply cannot do in computer science.
In third world countries people voluntarily get paid 10 cents an hour. Where is the unfairness there?

A contract between an employer and an employee can establish a salary that is only agreed upon. Both parties can agree to either a salary that is fair, or is unfair. It is totally possible in this reality to voluntarily agree to unfair policies.

>If you're trying to argue that, "it would have just happened anyway", all you're asserting is that the profits would have gone to someone else, but at a lag of several months to several years. Why is slowing down technological advancement an improvement?

When did I say slowing down technological advancement an improvement? You're making a lot of random stuff up here. I've never claimed to have stated nor do I understand any of your statements here.
I don't see any financial upside to this rumor. What does Google gain from buying a struggling smartphone OEM and inheriting all of the financial burdens associated with it? In fact, this makes about as much sense as Apple buying Foxconn just so that they can own the factories that make the iPhone. You don't need to buy a smartphone factory to make smartphones in this day and age. Design your smartphone and have Foxconn, Pegatron or LG build it for you.
Don’t try to live off AirBnB (my negative AirBnB customer service experience)
Fine.

The only person I know who works for USDS is one of the most talented engineers I've ever met. He's a foreign national but was recently naturalized.

He made boatloads of money off of stock options and loves the idea of solving these kinds of problems.

He owns a house in a western state but maintains an apartment in DC and jokes that he "loses money" by working for the government.

I'm sure not everybody's like him, but come on, give USDS a chance.
You don't even have to be in the Deep South to need A/C. I live in North Carolina, which is "South but not Deep South" and I can't imagine living here without A/C.
I've applied mutliple times for Support Er. Never heard back.
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The real problem of HK's home affordability is the land release/auction system. It is a highly corrupted system controlled entirely by the local elites and major real estate developers backed by big banks. They managed to push average joes to the very limit when 90%+ of the land in HK is used for reserves/parks under the name of environmental protection.

What is worse, this cancer got exported to mainland China in the 1990s and it was systematically rolled out for all major cities there. $1.8m buys you an 80sqm new apartment in Shanghai in an below average location, when the median household income in Shanghai is definitely lower than US$20k.

It is lucky to be living in HK as there are still public housing options. In cities like Shanghai and Beijing, using the national household median income figure, a Chinese peasant needs to start saving the deposit from the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) to be able to afford an average apartment there.
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Sorry, but companies that save pennies and nickels only to lose billions deserve this...but makes no sense that individuals have to suffer the consequences...of course they release the news when it's hurricane season.
Not sure about "fragmented" but perhaps not VC-appropriate.

This stuff will all go away once (a) the non top-tier investors realize their entire portfolios are underwater and (b) interest rates rise a bit.

Stepping back, it is pretty remarkable that a company I've heard of, with a launched product and some degree of use, just _fails_ like this. Tech entrepreneurship is hard.
> Even though most contemporary money systems are fiat, that doesn't mean that all money has to be.

If you want to avoid deflation you need a supply of money that grow at least as much as total wealth (otherwise the relative value of money is increasing => deflation). That's why gold-based currency are now considered a bad idea (and crypto currencies also, see [1] for illustrations about the deflationnist situation in bitcoin).

[1] http://avc.com/2017/08/store-of-value-vs-payment-system/
The moon landings also have videos of them. Also of the astronauts moon driving, which is pretty cool.
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I counted word n-grams up to length 6 in a corpus of 6 billion words with Madoka, a Count-Min sketch algorithm.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/madoka
Thanks, yes, it was the uncertainty about getting the job back that I was hinting at with "should".

BTW in case anyone thinks it was a ridiculously contrived example, I was just trying to illustrate that what one person thinks is totally innocuous can appear damning to someone else.
> a popular plugin called REST

Why cant tech 'journalists' get someone who knows what they're talking about to proofread their articles?
Golden handcuffs
They actually wrote a tool that turned C code into (unidiomatic) Go code, and then later gradually improved the codebase they got from that.
I think the banks and loan industry are as guilty for giving information like this out to ththe credit bureaus.

Next time you apply for a loan or open a credit card, ask them who they report this too. If it's Equifax, walk away.
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There is some debate as to which Struts exploit was used. If it was the one from Sept, 2017 then you make a valid argument. However, if the exploit used was years old then the fault clearly lies on Equifax for not keeping their servers up to date.

Also, didn't the Equifax breach happen in May, 2017? If so, I fail to see how the Sept, 2017 exploit plays into this unless it was in the wild months before it was published in Sept, 2017 - which I find hard to believe.
Completely agree. It's like when people say programming Python is fast. No it just has almost everything pre built and you glue it together.

C's standard library is just sad.
Who is searching news via Google? News are better read by going to news sites of your choice directly. Or via RSS, which is slowly recovering from Google's embrace + extinguish.
"Sewer pipe" was the story that got in the news I saw.
In Romania, many restaurants have weights next to every dish.
agreeing under coercion shouldn't be considered agreement.

yes, I realize that the definition of "coercion" here is complicated and nuanced, but I feel the point stands.
We don't understand how climate change will play out to a level of detail to be able to make such a claim.
One interesting thing is that a specific twitter search sorted by latest, often produces very decent localized news/reports during some events. One of the first things I turn to confirm the scale of an event, for example blackouts, fire, or meteoroid sightings.

Also there are specific feeds on twitter for some cities that report police/fire scanners. If you ever get a power outage you can track the scale within minutes, by looking at which addresses/intersections have stuck elevator reports.
capitalist realism by mark fisher, the divided self by r.d. laing, and absolute recoil by slavoj zizek, i suppose
But he/she surely wants to be able to use his/her favourite apps, right?
The ironic thing is that the US broke their faith and credit, by closing the gold window.
Demonstrably not a question of “if”, but “when”.
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I would really like to see similar graphics for Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada. I don't know where to get the data though, and I don't think I could make such a beautiful visualisation as he did.
Amazon should consider the Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) area of NC. There's definitely a strong university presence here, as well as an existing workforce of highly skilled / educated folks working at companies like Red Hat, IBM, Cisco, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Microsoft, and the like. The Raleigh metro area population was 2.16 million in 2011 and this is one of the fastest growing areas in the country (or was as of 2015)[1].

The Triangle is also in a sweet spot between beaches to the east, within about a 1.5 hour to 2.5 hour drive, and mountains to the west, within about 4-5 hours. And locally we have lots of outdoor green spaces with plenty of trails for running, hiking, mountain biking, etc.

We have major league sports (the NHL Carolina Hurricanes) and minor league baseball (Durham Bulls) and soccer (NC Football Club, formerly the Carolina Railhawks).

The local airport has direct flights to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, DC, and Toronto among others.

There's a nice nightlife scene here with each of the three "points" of the Triangle being a "college town" (Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State being the major universities). And if you like music, you can get everything from jazz at Beyu Cafe, to the NC Symphony Orchestra at Meymandi Hall in Raleigh, to black metal / death metal / metalcore / etc. at The Maywood in Raleigh, and all sorts of eclectic shit at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro. And Trans-Siberian Orchestra always has a stop here at PNC Arena on their winter tour. And that's not even mentioning Motorco and the Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham, or Lincoln Theater or Walnut Creek Ampitheatre in Raleigh.

There's plenty of good food to be had here, although admittedly not quite the variety found in Seattle, Chicago, New York or San Francisco, etc. But still you can find a very nice range of options here. Lots of good Thai food in particular.

All in all, despite the embarrassing fuckups by our state government over the past couple of years that have made the national news, this really is a nice place to live and work. And the Triangle metro area is really a different world from the rural parts of NC. Yeah, if you go looking, you can find some pretty backwards, uneducated, ignorant people in NC, but the area here is very diverse, educated, cultured, etc.

[1]: https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/morning_call/2015/01/fo...
I feel as though climate change lacks the precision of predictive models.

You can make the general claim that sea levels are rising globally, but to make the claim that global warming is specifically responsible for climate event A requires a lot of evidence.
>If there is one thing that is reliant on JS it is AMP.

...? AMP literally remove JS scripts from the served page..
Fulfillment centers are not going to be a consideration, sorry.
The difference being that the government confiscates the property while the case makes its way through court.

In practice this is a huge difference.
We all got two comments into this thread and decided literally anything is better than trying to deal with all the crazy legal theories and bullst going on in here.

I've just been skimming search result for lawyer... You're pretty much the only one actually asking for one...
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Low-lying land! Surely you must be joking?
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It's ridiculous, but no property management company wants to risk a fine when the cost of checking the OFAC SDN list is so small. I'm not sure if we ever saw a decline due to the OFAC list, so I could easily see it would take a long time for something that unusual to be straightened out.
I subscribe to this website (I am based out of Vancouver): http://www.yvrdeals.com I'm sure most cities with large airports have something like this sort of website - of course this strategy only works for people

Whenever a good deal comes up to somewhere that seems cool, I just book it. There is a chance I won't be able to make the trip work, but in the long term, the cost of periodically missing a $300 round trip to Europe or a $500 round trip to Asia is far lower than always paying $1000, and for me the spontaneity of going to new and exciting places sometimes last minute is absolutely worth it.

This can be very difficult to coordinate with my job, especially when the deals come up last minute, but we usually find a way to make it work.

Sometimes friends and I will want to go somewhere specific. Our usual strategy in this case is to not book anything because always one of us cannot 100% commit, or one of us has a hope in the back of our minds that a deal might come up. We almost always end up committing in the end, and a deal almost never comes up, so we normally end up paying the highest prices at the last minute. Though we do get lucky sometimes :)

As for choosing destinations: we're an outdoorsy friend group, so the combination of all of us reading nature and travel blogs / magazines, following Instagram feeds, etc. is enough to give us a bucket list. Usually travelling inspires me to visit more places. Whenever there's a really good deal on YVR Deals, I'll use that as inspiration to go somewhere new.