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> What slays me about the GMO debate is the misportrayal of my anti-GMO position, lumping me in with the anti-vaxxors

The scientific consensus on GMOs being safe is stronger than consensus on climate change. If you go against the scientific consensus, you are rightly labeled as being anti-science.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-entine/post_8915_b_657213...

https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/mark-lynas/gmo-s...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/once-again-us-expert-...
Sorry, the truth is that many people simply don't earn enough to save money for a down payment.
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I dont think you could rightly compare the two. One is a full IDE the other isn't.
So, here's my issue with your comment and the mindset it betrays: rather than acknowledging that this is a serious issue that we should not take lightly, you do the opposite. You say, 'That' what PR firms do. They lie to help the company. Everyone does it.' We can get to everyone as we go, but it's time to start holding people accountable, rather than accepting it as the way it goes/is.
You're right, I'm not a mod. The only authority I have is the good will of other HN members. The community is capable of encouraging better behavior on its own behalf. As for deleting my comment, that would be out of courtesy to my parent. The point isn't calling out bad behavior, it's improving the site. The site is better off without my comment after it's served its purpose.
> That came totally out of no where.

You can't throw around concerns about divisiveness or "sowing destablization" without asserting your view on stories that are true and legitimately concerning.

I suppose you think those are harmful to keeping everyone happy with their lot in life too?
I'd love to see the algorithm for that. It's creative to say the least. Simpler to just add 1, 2 etc to the end.
Interestingly, I've heard recently from two different sources (both in biomedical sciences) that there is a shortage of professors in Germany. As in foundations or national initiatives having funding for them but there aren't enough candidates
Can verify that these books are quite good. We ended up with a very easy baby, although slightly preemie and we were worried about her weight for a while. She's running around like crazy now though!
Oh boy, another Hacker News commenter with zero experience running a large corporation telling experienced folks how they should run a large corporation. Better yet, with no explanation for why. The sheer arrogance.
Right. As you said, companies aren't optimizing just for this year's sales; they're going to be balancing acquiring customers this year, the cost of each sale, and the retention of those customers year over year. So if a sales guy gets a huge commission and salary for the first year for his acquired customers, but the company's retention rate is high, then that sales person's salary could be paying multiples in revenue over several years.
I agree. This article has no substance. What does this have to do with Juicero? Amazon is trying to solve the problem of not being home when someone attempts to deliver a package. She didn't even attempt to provide an alternative solution to the problem.

She just claimed that it's dumb idea because some people like interacting with people. Sure, that's fine. But I just bypassed a store to order something online and not interact with people. Why would I have the desire to interact with my delivery driver? I wouldn't. I just want my package delivered.
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You're talking about imaginary money. Had they only owned the place where they lived, there is no profit or loss that matters.
Goes for kids at any age really if they have health problems. My parents' daily tracking of my siblings' asthma status was crucial to get them good care when we were growing up. Both for analysis by the specialists and daily by my parents.

Being able to confidently predict "it looks like he will have a cold in one or two days, let's increase his dose and preempt it" based on PEF (peak expiratory flow) measurement done morning and evening was such a boon. Also being able to confidently identify patterns like "he always gets worse when we do X". We did it with pen and paper, but today of course there's an app for that:

https://www.spirometry.com/eng/products/smartone.asp
There are currently possible ways to access and invest in those pre-IPO companies.

For example, EquityZen is a platform that lets people to invest in private markets: https://equityzen.com/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=comm...
Flattr only keeps 7.5%. As a creator, % wise you end up with more in your pocket this way vs a lot of other revenue sources. Also, no fees are charged until end of Nov, so some time to test the waters.
>In Seattle, for example, many (newly) wealthy Chinese people are buying houses purely for investment purposes.

Same thing in Los Angeles (the entire county) and Irvine.
I (European) have toyed with that idea but found camping sites very expensive. And the prices would go up if everyone did that.

There are sites that compare caravan vs. cheap flat and the cheap flat comes out ahead (Europe again).

The fundamental issue is that land prices are too high and every square inch is owned by someone.
Implying Trump uses the same shady "foundation" style bribery kick-back schemes as the people he uses his Twitter to slaughter daily.
What if I already have a job?
> A 30 year old hairdresser in Seattle isn't renting because they don't want to deal with risk - they are renting because they can't save up a $XY,000 downpayment, and tie their entire salary into interest payments.

If you're talking about cities like Seattle, the reason that a 30-year-old hairdresser would have a difficult time purchasing a place is because prices have been pushed absurdly high due to two factors:

a) a housing shortage (primarily in the SF Bay Area, but Seattle has similar problems, and the SF housing problems spill over into other nearby cities)

b) speculative purchasing by foreign entities

The second point is less relevant Seattle than it is to nearby Vancouver - and nowhere is it more true than in New York City - but it still has a huge inflationary impact on property values in a way that doesn't benefit any local residents at all (the properties are used as places to park money by people who don't live there, and may never even have visited the US).
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Yes anything in pink.

In all seriousness, your question seems to come from a biological perspective, and that might have _some_ influence, but culture is likely to be a far larger factor.

As an aside, I feel like people think they are some sort of genius when they say “there are scientifically proven biological differences between the sexes!!!” and that is true, but culture tends to have a far larger impact.

Culture isn’t static either, in Western culture, with it’s focus on both progress / “rationality” as well as spiritualness, gender traits tend to go through periods of convergence and divergence. Right now we are at the peak of gender roles convergence, and we’ll probably see divergence over the next few years (as social programs finally improve one parent, presumably women, will find it easier to stay home), and then again convergence later on.
It might have. When we were looking at Rust, it was a topic of conversation.
This comment doesn't stand up to scrutiny. There aren't a lot of available statistics on how wealthy landlords are, but for instance, according to a San Francisco property owners survey[1], median income for landlords is $90k, only 15% higher than the overall San Francisco median income ($77k). And of course a software engineer's median income in San Francisco is higher ($92k). Either way, there is little evidence that in one of the hottest real estate markets in the country, landlords would be 'substantially' richer than tenants on average.

Of course, income is only a component of wealth--no doubt the property owned is worth quite a bit--but, according to the same report, at least 75% of these landlords are still paying mortgages on their properties, and over 10% spend more than their rental income on their mortgages!

Since most landlords borrow money to buy property, then attempt to sell access to that property profitably over time, they are more like entrepreneurs than the land baron 'monopolists' portrayed by the Churchill quote above.

This isn't wealth redistribution in any direction. It's a trade. Renters get access to property without having to own it. Owners, if they are smart and/or lucky, can profit from property, but of course take a substantially larger up front risk.

And, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that Winston Churchill was from one of the wealthiest British aristocratic (read: rentier landowning) families and was born in the family home, this palace[2].

[1] http://sfrb.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/188...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blenheim_Palace
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Hot housing markets are extremely high risk high reward investments.

Buying NYC real estate for example, it is practically impossible to use a traditional "buy and hold" strategy and have the rents cover the cost of investment (typically rent covers more like 50% of operating costs in NYC). You pretty much only make money in NYC REI via speculation (ie the property goes up in value) not from paying down the mortgage with rents.

The solution to high pricing is to increase supply of housing. Mind you _this_ is an area where landlords do have high rent-seeking behavior in the political sense. Landlords are incentivized to push for increased regulation that limits new development whenever possible. As much as I hate to use him as an example due to his "lightning rod effect," Trump, for example would see his net worth plummet if NYC development regulations were relaxed.
I wonder if FBI/Secret Service swoop in to prevent the President's data from being sold in these cases. Or if they restrict its use/sale by other platforms as well.
I predict some headlines:

"Twitter is in funding crisis now making revenue as a remedy"

"The tables have turned, Twitter now making money, what's next?"

"Twitter demonstrated first profit, VC-s are in shock"

"Twitter in decline, first profit is below expected after 11 years"

"A profitable Twitter is considered harmful"
> Let's say you sue for an entire year's worth of crops and you win. Then you win the appeal. And you win the appeal of the appeal. All the way up the chain. For 10 years, you win on every level.

Herein lies the beauty of a class action suit. Let the lawyers finance and worry about the lawsuit while you go on your merry way running your farm.
Overall, this is overwhelmingly true, to the point that I feel slightly embarrassed to want to discuss edge cases. But here we go. We already know that prospects for humanities and social science PhDs are extremely grim[1]. However, economics might not be so bad[2].

Prospects for science are better, but we need to distinguish between fields. Computer Science PhDs encounter a completely different market from Biology PhDs. In a field like Biology, there is probably great variance even between sub fields.

There was one more great link I wanted to share, but I can't remember were it is or find it. It ranked graduate degrees by degree and university (i.e., MBA from Stanford, JD from Harvard, etc). You don't see any PhD or MS degrees on there until around spot #30, which was a PhD from MIT. Unfortunately, that's not granular enough - a "PhD" from MIT makes about as much sense as a "Masters" that includes the MBA degree. You can figure that since it's MIT, the PhD degrees lean toward the technical, but I'd really need to see PhD in CS to make the comparison. If this data were available, I'd guess that some PhDs from elite universities are actually very well paid on the level of elite JD or MBA programs. Even then, PhDs have vastly higher attrition rates and longer and less certain completion times[3]

[1] "Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go"
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Graduate-School-in-the/4484...

[2] "If you get a PhD, make it an economics PhD"
http://theweek.com/articles/452770/phd-make-economics-phd

[3] Attrition rates often shock people who don't know. The attrition rate at an elite law, medical, or business school is typically well below one percent. At elite PhD programs, they can reach or exceed 50%. It's not an exaggeration to say that attrition rates at elite PhD programs can be 100 times higher than a 2 year MBA or 3 year JD program at the same university.
There are ways for investing in companies Pre-IPO such as EquityZen (https://equityzen.com). Often, shareholders want to get liquidity before IPO and sell their shares via the secondary market.

Disclosure: I am an engineer at EquityZen
I'm not sure what you mean by "setup" but Flutter does use Gradle and Flutter's Gradle plugin [1] depends on the Android SDK's Gradle plugin.

Also, Flutter's install instructions say: "Flutter requires Android Studio to be installed and configured" [2].

The Flutter SDK hides this away nicely, but Gradle runs when you launch a Flutter app during development (on Android).

[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flut...

[2] https://flutter.io/setup-macos/#android-setup
Google was first to develop self-driving technology. Now they're first to extend it to ice and snow conditions. As a Michigan resident do you mind if I shout hallelujah?
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While I think that this is a somewhat useful rough overview, it should have had some more details about the actual differences and in particular how to accomplish the same thing with some code examples in each library.

On a side note: I know that I can also link tensorflow directly to a C++ application instead of using it with python. Can the same be done with pytorch?
Groupon should have figured out how to be self service for merchants. maybe combined with an ebates. maybe even pushed into a influencer marketing.

Amazon would have probably gone the way of pets had it not found AWS.
From what I've found in my extensive research (5 minutes of Googling), Atlantic salmon still migrate to fresh water sources however unlike their Pacific counterparts they don't die after spawning.

Someone should tag and release a bunch of farm raised salmon and see what happens to them.
I'd feel way better getting in a car battle tested in Michigan than one tested in San Fran.

The conditions are just on another level.
Nope. The technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation or raising a different issue.
The OP did not state if that was gross profit margin or net profit margin, or operating margin, which makes a huge difference.
"If I were looking to get my foot in the door, I would totally code a week for free."

I absolutely would not. They're a company; they can afford to pay me. Me, however, my landlord isn't going to accept "I had to work for free" in lieu of rent.
Could you elaborate? Who's doing something like that?
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Why trust their answer anyway? If this concerns you, you should switch to Mastodon.
Calculating these metrics at scale is not trivial.
This seems like a realm where voice assistants could be useful. Tell it to start a timer when feeding, or to record the nature of the diaper change while you're actively changing it.
Knowing something and using that to schedule something are different. The primary value here is knowing what happened.
And you came up with that number, how? Do you have in-depth knowledge of what their staff makeup looks like? If you don't, how do you even begin to think about making such an absurd statement. You are saying that Twitter can continue to do what they do if they fired 3 out of 4 employees. You know what, you should propose this to their leadership, I'm sure they haven't thought of this great idea.
I assume a company in fashion journalism's model is "we sell to rich, well-connected people so we want to employ the kids rich and well-connected people who will be able to appreciate the needs of our customer base, not to mention make the right connections for us too." Using money to screen out the unqualified candidates sounds sensible. Next they should require that the money paid comes from your parents and is not yours.

OK, I was intending to be snarky and cynical but re-reading that...apart from the last sentence it probably is their plan!
For a normal company one could believe this. But Monsanto is like the energy / coal companies in that they are deeply entrenched in politics via lobbyists and campaign contributions. It's very difficult to go to war with a company that has the support of the government and a virtually unlimited budget.

Even if they are sued and lose, the fine will most likely be a percentage point of their operating profits.

Essentially the drift is a positive for them. Neighboring crop fields are damaged. The farmers cannot afford to sue Monsanto or fear doing so, and their only recourse is to switch over to Monsanto branded seeds next season.

Another interesting tactic is that if you plant a Monsanto crop for a season, you are not allowed to use any seeds generated by that crop to plant the next season, you have to purchase new seeds every season. [Edit: This next point was debunked] In addition if any seeds blow onto a neighbors farm and those seeds grow, that farmer can and will be sued by Monsanto for growing their IP.
UE4 is not the most widely used game engine in the industry. That would be Unity by a wide margin.

If you are restricting to AAA, I’m not even sure if that holds. There are a good amount of big teams that use UE4, I think I’d go with Frostbite due to the sheer amount of titles that EA pushes out that are now based on Frostbite. It’s certainly more big games than UE4 is shipping. I’d probably put Ubisoft ahead of them too with their internal engines.
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Because not all work in academia is interesting. I don't know about your field but academic research is more about doing what your funding bodies want you to do or following the latest trend to get funding. Publishing can be a political game where institution and contacts matter more than merit. Advancement in your career can be the same. I don't want to make a blanket statement for everyone because I am sure there are varying experiences.

If academia is about interesting research, then I would gladly take your perspective. But sadly, from my experience (life sciences), to get anywhere, it is 3/4 bullshit work (admin, politics) and 1/4 interesting work.

I imagine I can find a job in industry that's 1/4 interesting work and get paid a lot more for it.

So it's not about "values". Let's not religion-fy academia and infuse it with a semblance of "virtue" associated with doing research. Scientists shouldn't be monks for science.
> Is carhart really work wear?

Yes. It made the to 'cool' on the back of the rugged reputation, but Carhartt jackets are still a common sight on construction sites, out hunting, and so on. The jackets at least really are that good - waterproof and extremely sturdy.

It's sort of the same role Red Wing boots have slipped into - they count as cool now, but they're still totally viable as heavy workwear.
Surprisingly, it works well. I tried searching for few items and it showed similar items on ebay..
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Whats also sad is that all GM technology is seen through the anti Monsanto filter. I was appalled when Greenpeace and other called Golden Rice a trojan horse conspiracy, despite the fact that its free, can help with Vitamin A deficiency and has proven to be safe.

The amount of FUD and science denying rhetoric that Greenpeace directed at Golden Rice or any public backed GM effort is basically reminded me of the press releases from climate change denying groups. Whats also hypocritical of Greenpeace is that they are fine with mutation based on radioactivity (that has been practiced since the early 20th century and where we get a lot of our varieties from today)
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The core of Android Studio is IntelliJ.
I don't think medians are the right thing to look at here. The majority of individual landlords will be small-time, but it's the behavior and impact of the largest landlords that is important.
Well, if your mom or dad pays your rent and groceries like these guys, no salary and 2-5% is totally realistic, I guess?
Quote from http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/26/technology/business/twitter-...

"These third-party applications used Digits, a software development kit of our now-divested Fabric platform, that allowed third-party applications to send authentication messages via SMS through our systems, which did not relate to activity on the Twitter platform," the company explained in its earnings report.

Really seems like something they should have caught earlier.
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> but they're also full of random useless or harmful behaviours that might be holdovers from when they used to be useful

This is the problematic part, but a lot of people don't believe there is such a thing.
I've been seeing this a lot more recently - not on Popehat, but on other sites including The Hill (although in my case it was a fake Amazon gift card giveaway).
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2806#issuecomment...
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We damn well won't, since the jobs around Boston really don't pay salaries commensurable with Boston rents.
That wasn't very helpful, it was basically "I have no idea but here's some wild speculation."

>It has been suggested... or... Either of these might be correct... 'pegs' could relate to many things.... it isn't clear what they were... Lacking any real evidence, we can't be sure of the origin.
You didn't challenge the statement to GP made, but one he didn't make. He didn't say that landlords are vastly richer than workers. He said that landlords make little or no contribution to the general welfare.

Your own comment points out that in SF, the median landlord makes roughly what the median software developer makes. But a software developer in the Bay Area is one of the most productive workers on the planet, with a literally unparalleled opportunity to generate value, both for the company he works for, and for global society/consumers in general. In contrast, the landlord does not produce anything.
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Hi Jeff! I actually hadn't seen your presentation before I wrote the post, I'm going to take a look at it today and might update some sections based on it. Thanks for the resource!
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