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> No market can function properly without all parties having the same information.

Salary info is a very small piece of the information needed to evaluate the fairness.

The article details quite extensively how difficult it is to communicate the totality of information in all but a few circumstances. If everyone could see every piece of relevant info then I'd agree.

One example: my value to the company may be for something you see as worthless. But you don't have the full strategic roadmap of the company's leadership in mind when you devalue my contribution. And the company may have valid reasons for not making the strategy widely known in the company. If you learned that I got a big raise for my success in that area, you'd feel slighted. The problem there isn't lack of info re: salaries, it's the impossibility of every employee having every bit of info needed to make the assessment.
Only if you had signed up with AWS and agreed not to reverse engineer and you used the actual output of the APIs to compare to your product.

This is a contract dispute around the common sense term "reverse engineer", not a copyright or IP dispute.
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No, you completely discount human nature here. There are far too many people who are more concerned about what others get and have than is healthy. Plus in many work environments you end up with those who either think that one party is not justified in their rate or that they themselves are woefully under compensated. Worse, you have a bunch who will not work beyond what they think is "fair".

I like the privacy of my coworkers not knowing my exact compensation, it is not their business. If we follow your logic to its natural end, why not force disclosure of all expenditures each of us make as well? (which on another topic, that is the best reason to never have digital currencies)
I don’t know their arrangment with their old employer and I don’t ask. Very often folks will have an ongoing maintenance consulting relationship and retain some IP just in case. More often folks will just have some stuff lying around, and they’re already breaching their contract by having it.

Believe it or not, there’s next to nothing I’ve ever seen that was the remotest bit interesting on an industrial espionage level. Just regular old business logic that was either cleanly done, or not.

I honestly could not recall any of the crap from the interviews I’ve done beyond a sense of how people thought.

Anyways, you wanna do some interviews your way, be my guest. I will happily send the guys who don’t want to do show and tell to you. I’m not trying to be all things to all people. No open source, no closed source, no side projects? We can play API bingo or code a b-tree, but prob not a culture fit.
On the flip side do people want all the reasons listed out why someone is better than them?

Athletes are used to this comparison because it’s happened literally their entire life (well until the everyone gets a trophy crowd kicked in), but I’m not sure the population at large is ready to be explicitly told of their short comings.
It's very close to saying something like rape is fine as it prevents killing. Both are kinds if crimes (no matter what the legal status of porn is, it destroys lives of actors and promotes harmful stereotypes and actions towards women too often, which makes it very close to a crime).
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This is no longer held by most western medievalists/orientalists/etc. let alone by the descendant of the peoples of concern.

There are too many references, but here is one to start with:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/islamic-science-and-making-eu...
TL;DR it's not like it was in the past.

TL;DR it's not what they promise.

But where is the news in this?

I think the interesting facts are that (a) they still manage to influence countries with their plan (and might for instance gain more influence over Afganistan than both US and Russia have achieved), (b) they still manage to increase internal growth through their projects. Both are really good things for China. That you need to tell a story of historical values with such a big plan is normal and should be expected. Sadly the article doesn't discuss that and instead just focusses on showing the obvious. Also it vastly underestimates the middle east. There's a reason why there's so much fighting in this area. And it's not just oil.
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Rule of law and enforced property rights are everything. Absolutely everything.

Ever wonder how China was able to emerge from decades of regressive economic and industrial policies in a short span of time? International investors were willing to pour capital into post-Mao China because there was a strong central government presiding over an orderly society in which cheap labor was plentiful. Of course there were other factors that helped as well, like a cultural obsession with education that has generated a wellspring of human capital.

Cheap labor is everywhere. Cheap labor and stability is rare.
Every single AMZL package I've had in the past month has been delayed. What's more frustrating, there's no actual reason for it being delayed.

The last one that was delayed was delayed for 2 days. I contacted chat and apparently it was because they couldn't get into the mailroom and were waiting on delivery instructions.

I don't know from whom, because I was never contacted.
I'm actually working on a solar punk book about this topic too, hehe. It can be hard to articulate but the word that does it best is "wetiko". No book has impacted me more in my worldview in the last three years than, "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism"
by Jack D. Forbes, a native professor who started the first Native American Studies Program.

If you read only one single book this year, please read this small powerful book. On a personal note, my father didn't teach me much very much technically, or set the greatest example, but he did share his love of Montana, Flyfishing, the rivers and the mountains with me when I was young and I'm forever be grateful to him for that (even if he kind of an asshole). He taught me to respect nature, and leave no trace, values that he learned from my grandfather when they went on Sierra Club trips together. I spent 17 amazing years in Montana, some of the very best of my life and I hear it calling me back. I'm getting a bit emotional as I type this, but even if it takes humanity a while to articulate it exactly, and much will be left unspoken, we know what is missing, we feel it deep down, and no amount of tech or money will ever fill that void. We need to move in harmony with the natural world and each other "be in right relations" as many first nations people call it. It will take time, be more than anything it will take some soul searching and courage.
This, I believe, is why everybody is in an uproar over this decision. You put it very succinctly.
Hmm, I suspect I'd have the opposite problem if I were to go interviewing again. As I teach students, there's an awful lot of whipped-together-in-an-hour demos on there from answering student questions by writing tiny non-meticulous examples.

To be honest, though, I've tended to find interviews go well when the interviewer goes off-piste. Probably because you've both decided your each reasonably smart, and are letting the conversation go where it leads.
Great country to visit too.

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The fact that everyone does it doesn't make it okay for you to do it.

Be the change.
I believe the world is warming through man made causes. However, I think it is just a byproduct of overpopulation. Pollution cannot be stopped with a exponential population curve. So turn off plants, recycle, re-arrange chairs, and volunteer all you want - but, in, 2040 I am not sure how we will support 9billion - without lots of waste.
While this is true it is just another reflection of the backwards nuclear policy of NASA and the US government.

With different reactors, creation of more Pu-238 would not be a huge problem.

The issue is just that there seems to be very little interest in pushing forward any areas and as so often the case many of these technologies are mutually supporting.

I would really love a real push forward on Molten Salt reactors that would give you the ability to filter out a number of important substances that have a hole host of different uses. It would also go a long way in solving the nuclear waste problems.

Here is some exploration of what is contained in nuclear waste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-mFSoZOkE
I'm not in the UK, and I could watch it just fine. Probably because Channel 4 blocked access to it in the UK, where they made use of the laws available to them. These laws likely don't let them enforce worldwide.
Well, I suppose Mcdonald's doesn't make you sign a contract before you buy their food, although I wouldn't be surprised if soon there will be TOS printed on the receipts that make it illegal.

But yes, that would mean that peeking in the kitchen to see how they prepare the food would somehow be an agreement violation...
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Enjoy wrestling in the mud.
I highly doubt that your paygrade/position is anywhere near the level, where public shareholders would care.
> The police need a warrant, I [an individual] do not

Well, you just can't legally break into and search my locked property at all; it's true that the remedy for a police violation (the exclusionary rule) doesn't apply to a private violator of property rights in this way, but that's because regular civil and particularly criminal process is available, without governmental immunities and, at least in theory, without the conflict of interest that arises when government law enforcement agents pursuing law enforcement evidence are the ones violating property rights.
> Not the prettiest, but, why should a language do the linker's job?

Because it's not cross platform. I have no idea how to do the equivalent in Visual Studio.
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so when he referenced amit patel in there i though to myself, surely that's not he of red blob games fame. what a surprise!
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The main function of the modern government apparatus is to divide up the commons and parcel them out for private ownership. Coase was just another power-supplicating priest.
As as result of the recent detection gravity is now known to update at the speed of light to within ~0.0000000000000001%, if I'm not mistaken.
So you are admitting you are bad about making decisions about people? Luckily you have something empirical because you are no good at judging someone. Thanks for admitting that, the first step is accepting you are no good at evaluating people.

Ha, but seriously, I hate take home assignments.
Doesn’t look like it’s been posted before
But is it true? Do people who don't deploy numerous countermeasures suffer significantly more crime?
We use Zoom and it’s fantastic, just not as tightly integrated into Slack.
At scale, our technique is economically viable on its own (but subsidies would always be nice I suppose). Currently though, we are on a pilot scale so we cannot yet compete on volume, hence our gtm strategy of differentiated hydrogen peroxide products.
It only needs to be lighter then the massive amounts of solar panels that would be needed on mars.

People have done the calculation and nuclear would be way, way better then solar for a mars colony.
While I like the idea, I think the page should be more robust.

This feels as though it was hacked together in 2 hours as an experiment.
"smooth as a Quantum stabilized atom mirror" just doesn't have the same ring to it...
> No, you completely discount human nature here. There are far too many people who are more concerned about what others get and have than is healthy.

This is a great point, and let me add that it becomes 10x worse when money is involved. Some (many?) people are just flat out irrational when it comes to money. Jealously and envy quickly block any rational thought when it comes to explaining why someone might make more than they do.
Many companies claim HIPAA compliance. That doesn't mean much, though, unless they're willing to sign a BAA with their customers. I don't have direct experience with this and our Slack usage, but I'm guessing this is where the disconnect is.
Really happy for Solugen's success and what this means for other biotechs seeking to augment traditional petromethods with enzymatic ones.

Can you help us better understand how you use CRISPR/Cas9 to mutate the protein? Your enzyme is proprietary, sounds like human protein, but mutated in certain positions prob to increase rate, but how do you use Cas9? I assume like other biotechs you purify this single protein using either E. coli or yeast with protein on plasmid. So why use Cas9 instead of site-directed mutagenesis?
Yes, you just have to control it via its JSON API. The only real non-free thing we have is the control panel GUI.
At which release Apple will just stop supporting playing your own mp3? iOS 14-15?
Yet another corporate lobbyist type response

- You can't have net neutrality, it'll confuse customers
- Food origin labeling? Bad, people will realize we have no idea where food came from.
- Single payer? But it'll undermine the whole employer paid insurance patchwork.
- Close tax loopholes? We'll just push rich people to move money offshore.
- Stop bombing the world? Where's all the weapons, oil and mercenary companies gonna make money from?
- Share compensation data? People will quit once they realize their pay grading mechanism is subjective and arbitrary.
These are work devices. That is good advice to raise this issue with my department manager. The experience has made me more aware of my surroundings even with my own personal devices. I have never worked for a firm before with such high surveillance.

Biometric / password managers are not an option simply because the devices that I have been issued are not setup for it. I am still not totally sold on biometrics for authentication, but I agree that they would solve this particular problem.

Thanks for your input.
Which is the precise reason I fled union work when I was younger.

I got sick of being compensated the same (typically worse) as the worst employee on the floor, while doing 5-10x the productive output.

All these policies do over time is ensure you lose top-tier talent and eventually get stuck with a lot of middling folks who are content with the status quo. This can be a good or a bad thing, depending on who you are.
There're plenty of ways to learn of one's SSN or birthday date too - this is still private information, which doesn't concern other people, unless the person explicitly wants to share it.
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I know someone who tried that - the company fired him, plus the company fought paying him unemployment. You gotta watch out!
Nuclear thermal rocket would be best for upper stages or mars-earth transfer vehicles.

Nuclear power to use on ion thrusts would only be used in Space.
Dude, for code I'm writing today, your future solutions are worth nothing.
The same could be said of much private medical information. Guessability, or someone else knowing the information, are not the controlling factors in what is considered private information.
Where is the cutoff? If shareholders care about the CEO salary they also should care how much 20000 people like me make.
When they're old enough to work they'll be forced to interact with people who aren't their friends, and then they'll discover a new appreciation for email.
Wtf I love Islam now
It's really nice to see startups working on industrial processes here

AFAIK the main problem with enzymes as catalysts beyond the bench scale is their limited lifetime. How is the half-life of your enzymes at operating conditions? I'm just curious how the process works in real life (so are probably your potential customers).
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There was a reddit comment I came across years ago and saved because it sums up the limitations of shell scripting so well:

I think I've just come to realize a sad fact though: processing raw text streams through mostly-regular languages is really weak. There aren't that many problems that can be solved through regular or mostly-regular languages, and not many that can be solved well by the former glued together with some Turing-complete bits in-between.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2svijo/command...
> Well, you just can't legally break into and search my locked property at all;

That's my point and counter-argument to the item I quoted; Just because something is visible, or behind an unlocked door, it is NOT available for someone to search through it.
People get what they deserve and deserve what they get.
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This is very interesting data analysis regardless of your politics.
Not entirely. LIDAR has other issues important when building self-driving cars. LIDAR can't read signs. LIDAR doesn't work well in the rain, though progress is being made these days.. And don't forget the cameras tesla uses don't rely solely on the visual spectrum we see. They can still see through fog via infrared, for example.
I don't get what this does or how it does it. It sounds like they have some mumbojumbo machine that decides who to dole out cash to and how much, but that's unclear.

Capital As A Service is, by definition, what VC is. You give capital as a service to your startups.

I'm not sure (yet) what is novel about this approach, but if it's "shotgunning money into things based on a set of rules" they might as well just call themselves YC-lite.
I have had to interview, recommend, and train a replacement before when I involuntarily separated from the employer. One key factor is that the employer did not cause this separation.

The big difference is that I am in software. My industry is highly portable and the jobs are in incredible demand. Essentially, I wasn't hurt by this separation.

Always have a backup plan. I have a backup career in an unrelated industry. When you rely upon a single source of truth for all your (and your family's) welfare you are at greater risk of losing everything.
Some thoughts on “the top contributors to GitHub 2017”
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A lot of programming is real grimy and there’s a lot of skeletons in every closet. Par for the course. I’ve seen it all. The code isn’t the code, it’s a conversation we have about how you think. So many people dragging me in this thread think it’s about the code. It is not. I’m interested in the person. The code is just an artifact and a conversation piece.
Read Hank Paulson's book, Dealing with China. That's a the former CEO of Goldman Sachs who opened the Chinese banking markets, and became Secretary of Treasury, overseeing the financial collapse here in 2008 (1). It's from 2015, goes up through October 2014.

He knows Xi. Well. Read that book.

https://www.amazon.com/Dealing-China-Insider-Economic-Superp...
Hiring manager here who reads Github profiles -- it just occurred to me that I've almost never actually mentioned it to the interviewee. It's flavoured the conversation for sure (except for the bootcamp grads who all have identical Githubs) but I tend to talk more about your process than the actual code.
Yep. People are horribly fragile when it comes to this, and vastly overestimate their importance in comparison to others.

Just this week I had a talk with an employee asking for advice. He was paid $10k under one of his peers, and he was rather upset he got told to go pound sand when he asked to be brought up to that level.

My thoughts at the time? Only $10k? The other guy is vastly more valuable in his role than you, sounds like either you're overpaid, or the other guy is underpaid to me!

The fact the guy thought it was unfair is the norm for humans. Exceedingly few folks have the self-awareness to step back and say "oh yeah, that guy really is more valuable to the company than I am - maybe I should step up my game".

Typically we call those folks high performers, and they aren't generally the ones having issues getting paid well :)
You say limited lifetime, startups hear recurring revenue ;)
So, a bank?
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This reads like someone who is upset over getting rejected, and has to justify it by mentioning how they jog for many miles, and do art for hours in the evenings.

Yes, very good for you. But let me tell you, I have many very impressive (and large) side projects, and I also do art in the evenings for hours. I've also created entire albums of music. I've written novels.

It's not a matter of "doing other things", or "having a life", but it really is a reflection of how passionate you are about a field, and probably your time management skills. Instead of making excuses for having an empty Github, how about you discipline yourself, if you want to be competent in software development.
> This has temporarily stopped production from wide swaths of factories along China’s east coast and forced some factory owners to move supply chains to other countries.

What's the next country down in the environmental/cheap labor race to the bottom? Is India about to see huge manufacturing growth?
Hi there. Thanks for building a truly great product and congrats on the acquisition.

I know your hands are tied to some degree about all this, but I'll make a plea regardless.

We use Screenhero regularly. It is the critical tool for enabling remote collaboration which is a big deal for our distributed teams (all of them).

Our corporate firewall blocks Slack. Plenty of us are upset about that, but it's life for us. As of December 1, we can't use Screenhero anymore and this will be pretty disruptive for us.

We'll find some way to deal, but this is disappointing.