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> Also if you think “hey I can’t go to church they don’t believe in XYZ”

What if that "XYZ" is the god that the church believes in? Or no god at all? I really wish there was an alternative to "go to church", because I do agree with you on the community aspect. To me it's just a shame that probably the most efficient way of connecting with people is still via religious beliefs.
I agree. If you just want to keep tabs on people, that’s what Christmas cards or family newsletters are for.
Typically my "cup" measures 2 cups based on the coffee pot.
It causes all sorts of other problems too - because you don't pass thru immigration as you leave the US you don't get a stamp in your passport, if the system fucks up (it's the airlines who become responsible for processing your exit), the US still thinks you're there, many many people have been caught this way, suddenly found themselves in some detention centre for 'overstaying' because the INS's bookkeeping is out of whack last time they were there.

ALWAYS travel to the US carrying the boarding pass from your last departure
Unfortunately I believe the numbers you're citing are actually in relation to their Solar City acquisition. The roughly $1B figure you're citing is the valuation of Solar City, not Tesla.
Well that pays for my Christmas shopping. Made a couple thousand now off ~$10 I spent out of novelty. Hurts a bit seeing what I used to have

I really don't see it personally. It seems pretty clear people are buying and holding en mass at this point and it just seems like pure FOMO. There is no underlying asset and I don't think its that useful for replacing cash. Not going to complain though. I'll go on, take my money and run.
Thanks apetrov - checking out these posts!
EXACTLY
Note that we pretty much have widespread, legal gambling in the US.

Lotteries, and then there are tons of casinos.
Due to its geography, I can't think of any other country in the world where it would make sense to fly via the US. Mexico and Canada are the only two that would happen, and both have their own large international gateways.
There's a lot you don't learn from watching gameplay videos. You don't learn what the controls feel like, how responsive it is. Many games look like a confusing mess if you haven't played through the tutorial stages yourself to understand what the player is doing and what drives the decisions they make. And unless it's a first-time playthrough, you don't learn what it's like for a new player. There's a great big pile of streamers who've been playing Dark Souls for thousands of hours, and you will get a very very wrong impression of the game's difficulty if you just watch them.

A good review gives an accurate impression of a game's strengths and weaknesses in 5 minutes of reading. I've bought games based on overall negative reviews before, because the writer was even-handed enough for me to judge exactly how my tastes differed from his, and see that I could live with the bits he hated and love the bits he thought were just decent.
I've done free Internet in common areas and discounted monthly rates to tenants. I think free is giving too much.
Interestingly enough, even the physical constants are all over the map in terms of their experimental uncertainty. The gravitational constant is only good to around 5 digits.

https://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?bg
> but got tired of GC pauses

Lol, were you guys making 3D simulations or something? "GC hiccups" usually only become an issue in high-performance-demanding applications.
I've made money in the past buying out of the money call options on TSLA, I'm guessing all those short sellers buying butterflies.

That said, the point that sticks out at me in the article is this one -- "... because money is how we measure success. And this is in fact true of most companies. But it is not true of Tesla. 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure,' and this is as true of money as it is of any other measure. The purpose of Tesla is not to make money;"

There is a tremendous amount of visibility put on the company, and Elon is up front about what they are trying to achieve. The arguments against them succeeding boil down to either 'we don't believe you can do what you say you can do.' or 'we don't understand why you are doing what you're doing, so it must be wrong.'

It used to really bug me when someone told me that what I was proposing was impossible. I work to do the necessary research and foundation work to understand the risks and challenges of a course of action and someone says "Well, I've never heard of anyone who could do that so you clearly are missing something." No discussion of the idea, no attempt to understand how I came to believe what I did.

One of the things I admire in Elon is that he seems really good at just completely ignoring that noise. It is something I have tried to cultivate as it is helpful in starting new businesses or projects to be able to not get bogged down by people who want to tell you why you are wrong and are unwilling to listen to how you think you may be right.
I understand that the author is British and not American, but I couldn't help avoid a little bit of schadenfreude, sorry.

As a Latino, every time I'd have to go in transit through US I'd face similar treatment by American customs. I hope this has improved but it's been more than 8 years I've been able to avoid any American airport.

So, yep it sucks. But never mind, there are plenty of interesting countries in the world; China and the U.S. are not the only ones.
It is hard to determine what to make of this anecdote, without more information.
what platforms fulfill the need for intellectual socializing? medium.com?
The larger issue that your getting at is the rise of “individualism” over the last 40 years.

The first time I heard that I remember thinking what a ridiculous concept, people have always been interested in success and self-improvement in America.

But after hearing nearly every brilliant sociologist and conservative/liberal political commentator make the same comment, I started to see things differently. The loss of community in America has been really sad. As jobs have become harder to get, as social programs from the government have decreased, as people have turned away from churches, people have either lost the community embedded in those institutions or the financial guarantees that allowed them to pursue community without worrying about-side hustles or growth hacking.

Christopher Lasch’s The Age of Narcissism (1979)
or anything recently by Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Lind, or even Laura Ingraham all point to the same loss.

A really sad statistic I heard the other day was the experience in suicides of those 12-14 years old. It’s doubled in the last 5 years among boys and girls. I would think childhood would be a somewhat happier place but even it is engulfed by sadness.

EDIT: Just saw you mentioned Bowling Alone so I took that out. Also want to say community vs individualism is a recurring theme in the history of America, one tends to dominate for 40-50 years before succumbing to the other.
so... you could also be the one to go the extra mile and use facebook...

don't misunderstand i log in about once a month but because i have other platform (and because i'm terrible at keeping in touch), but other than political or idelogical reasons why not use it for your family convenience?
OpenShift.io is "Currently waitlisting registrants." and I think it will only give .io subdomains, not .com subdomains.

I like being able to give my personal website as http://peterburk.github.com because the .com subdomain makes it sound more professional somehow. Non-English speakers will recognise a .com when they might not recognise .io as a URL.
Amazon's "factories" were fulfillment centers, data centers, and free shipping. All of which were extremely expensive.
I recently moved to Chicago and the amount of people blowing large amounts of money on scratch off tickets is insane.
I had to see the rows of trees for myself. This is what I could find: https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Bikini+Atoll/@11.5262428,16...
I don't believe in Tesla's long term business, but you have to be either a naive fool or insanely rich to short Tesla.

As Warren Buffett once said, the market can be delusional a lot longer than you can be liquid. You can be right and still lose a ton of money
Some people believe the earth is flat, too. I'd rather hear a detailed discussion than a summary.
I always thought that a good way to spawn a space race would be to let the first human representative of a country who successfully lands there and plants a flag gets the planet.

As a species, we should agree to these terms, because expansion of our species is more important than anything.
The depth and number of pops that Google and Facebook have is way better, commerical cdns give you some foothold but are not in the same league at all.

For example every small isp all over the world will most likely have YouTube caching servers running on their infra likely for free because letting Google do that saves them considerable upstream bandwidth both isp and google benefit, whereas you and I pay .10 to .20 per GB for CDN
I don't like these "paper rich" comments. Why? Because the vast majority of people who hold BTC can market sell their coins now without affecting the market.

Your statement, from my understanding, is saying "if people cash out, everything will crash". That's simply not true. More so, it's not true because that's fundamentally not how markets work.

Whenever someone buys 400 BTC, that means someone else sold or "cashed out" 400 BTC. This is a highly liquid market system with many participants, not a lottery system.
A lot of the venues seem to only exist for the poker machines, not that it would be a bad thing for them to go away.

Where I previously lived we would occasionally go for meals at our local pub and the dining area was pretty much always quiet, I doubt that they would exist if they were relying on dining income.

Australia also has the Melbourne Cup horse race/ public holiday, where there is a culture of having a bet. People who otherwise would never look into gambling bet on that race, I think it acts as a gateway to further gambling and normalises gambling even further.
Hong Kong’s Bitcoin businesses suffer after local bank accounts frozen
Consciously avoiding FOMO is something I also try to do. Takes a certain amount of mental discipline, but reduces stress significantly (for me, at least).
> Many traders and bots make decisions on headlines.

How is that anyone's fault but theirs? They should know and accept the risks of doing so. It's not like misleading clickbait is a new phenomenon.
I’ve tried to write unit tests. They just haven’t been worth the effort.

1) It takes more time.

2) In any complex application, unit testing requires creating mocks to separate the code you are testing from live subsystems.

3) That requires modifying your production code to be easily mockable in ways that don’t benefit the production code base.

4) Unit tests are by default artificial. They don’t test real world usage.

5) As you refactor production code, you have to rewrite unit tests, adding more overhead.

A far better way to write tests is within your production code. Validate every parameter and every assumption. Raise errors when possible, log everything else.

This is far easier to develop, and maintain. It runs when you testers, and customers use the applications.

Now I write desktop and mobile apps. If I wrote APIs and servers unit tests would become far more useful. But on device most of my problems can only be caught by integration tests, not unit tests.
So you should be available on (within many limits) all platforms. For somebody _not_ using facebook could be alienating.

Moreover there is a great difference in motivations and convenience; facebook is convenient for many people as a fact and there is nothing wrong with keeping contacts with acquaitances
Everything from simple stuff like drink more water, observe and correct posture, etc all the way up to reading more often, reducing time wasted, correcting automatic negative thoughts, etc.
You can fully understand the -EV of gambling yet still act against your own self-interest by engaging in it.

(Most) humans aren't emotionless machines, even highly intelligent people engage in self-destructive behaviour despite recognizing it as such.
Nobody said anything about a monopoly.
Uhhh, what?

The illegality of paying college employees fair wages has resulted in for profit companies/universities making hundreds of millions of dollars off of people.

Why should we extend that and allow MORE people to be exploited?

It is crazy to me that people support making it literally illegal to pay workers wages.
I would say that Rust has a different memory safety story from say C#, which distinguishes between "is safe" and "contains unsafe code outside the CLR itself". I find that very-binary distinction more helpful than Rust's memory safety story.

I don't use C++ anymore, but I am not clear on how Rust has better memory safety guarantees than C++. I do like its story more, for sure, and I could see how they might turn in to guarantees (but I could also believe that someone could identify a similarly safe fragment of modern C++, and don't want to start that).

Edit: will rust-lang.org take a PR changing "guaranteed memory safety" to "memory safety story"? ;)
The USF was not intended for building broadband. It was designed to replace implicit cross subsidies for rural phone service with explicit ones. Starting in 2012, the FCC started diverting a relatively small amount of USF money for broadband, but the total amount is less than 1% of the amount of private investment since 1996.
The idea that stocks exist for some investors to get rich is utterly silly.

Stocks exist to trick investors into funding someone elses ideas that they wouldn't fund otherwise by selling them casino chips that they can use to gamble among themselves.

The only reason the company should be concerned about their share price would be that they want to issue more and they'd like to get as much money for them as possible.

The law that makes boards care about value for investors is the most ignorant thing ever written.
> [no] withdrawals, only deposits

Oh, like write-only memory?
Interesting point. I assume they chose these atolls because the prevailing winds wouldn't blow any radioactive waste or ash clouds over populated lands. I've seen plenty of pre and 'during' photos of the test explosions, but rarely seen ones that are a few minutes after the fact.

I wonder just how much fire, smoke and debris was ejected into the atmosphere? I assume not much given the extent of water around the place, but if indeed 23 Skyscrapers worth of matter was moved, you would assume that most of it would have been scattered into the upper atmosphere as fine dust amongst the water vapour etc.

I wonder how that affected the weather and climate around the area over the next few days. They must have studied that, but I don't see very much available in terms of their findings.
The USA is a very common transit country for Europe-South America and Asia-South America. It's not uncommon for travel between Europe and New Zealand or the East coast of Australia either.
There is an old joke that Wikipedia doesn’t work in theory but it does in reality. In the same way, Church’s don’t make a lot of sense but they’ve worked for thousands of years. I kind of think of it as a thing like the family, which also doesn’t make sense in some regards, but it’s proven its “value”. I hate using that argument because you could argue for a lot of stupid things that way, but it’s one way of looking at the situation.

Also I noticed you used the word “efficient”. What if meeting people is supposed to be inefficient, what if “efficiency” in meeting people is the worst possible thing to “optimize” for. Sometimes when meeting people is slow, when you’re forced to get along because “oh man this guy goes to the same church and could tell on me if I’m rude and whatever he’s the most interesting person I’ve met so far” you force yourself to discover better understandings and deeper connections with people. Maybe that in the end is what religion is about.

EDIT: Also something beautiful about being connected to the humans of thousands of years ago and doing similar rituals as them. The connection to human ancestry, sometimes more so than god, is another beautiful thing about religion. Even among the Chinese, which is not a very theistic society, this is noted in their traditions of ancestor shrines and worship
> "sign a piece of paper that was written in Mandarin"

"Mandarin" is NOT a written language, but rather is a group of spoken dialects in Northern China [1]. The Chinese written language is called "hàn zì" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters
So how did he get busted?
React Developers: What kinds of notes do you incorporate into your workflow?
I just bought a sweet new note taking app (Quiver notes) with plans to get myself better organized. I would love to hear what kinds of notes other developers use to increase their productivity or find generally useful on a daily basis.
It's not unreasonable, but a misinterpretation or a bad redaction or even a bad faith reading of the feedback may open a lawsuit. So the legal department in most companies just forbid giving any meaningful feedback.
There is no guarantee that all complex problems can be solved in an obviously correct way if you use small enough functions. As the number of functions increases, the complexity tends to get pushed into the interactions between them - and you need integration testing to look for bugs in how they interact. If you are writing small functions - and, generally speaking, you should - integration testing becomes more important than unit testing.
The exchange value in this case directly impacts the utility. If you are moving large amounts of wealth and the price is high, then the transfer bandwidth is also high. If the price is low then the transfer bandwidth is low. Ability to transfer wealth geographically with no counter party is the utility.
Your hotel does it for you
Nothing to do with increased security for the 19th Congress.

Nothing to do with being a journalist.

Everything to do with not presenting yourself at the Chinese police station.

Source: Lived in China for years, was forced to write an apology to China for not presenting myself after moving to a new city 2 months later (had a work visa); my communist party member landlord smoothed things over with local police. Obviously Jon didn't have enough guanxi.
I've taken high doses of LSD and definitely experienced very similar entities ... Normally there are many types of forces and drives that are each "speaking to us" constantly... we just never perceive them as personifiable or distinct -- it's just "our inner voice".

My thought is that the brain stores something analagous to a kind of a big fuzzy hierarchical hash table between sensory inputs and nervous system response (pleasure/pain). LSD/DMT allow us to traverse these hashtables in ways that are not usually possible. (DMT especially...)
Aren't personal attacks frowned upon on HN?

By the time I'm merged, I am at the junction point, and I'm not preventing anyone with flashing lights from passing, that's why people use 'mirrors' -- well, most of them anyway, especially those who aren't standing on high horses.
> no details of the said station, no opening hours or any further information is given

If you are staying in a hotel, you don't need to go to a police station. Otherwise, the person you are staying with should be able to help you find it.

> The process is quite slow, the queues are long, and the officials are visibly irritated every time you come and wake them up from their slumber.

Not my experience, but maybe I just got lucky.

> Then there are people flying 3-4 times per week to Hong Kong or Seoul on business, technically they are required to register every single time they enter China.

Those people presumably have some kind of permanent residence. It would be news to me if that required re-registration after each re-entry.
> I contend that is supposed to be an OS function

Different sandboxes for different needs. Processes, Jails, Docker, Hypervisors/VMs, Interpreters, they virtualise different resources with different levels of abstraction, and they all have pro's and cons.
Musk has nominal oversight, but that has nothing to do with his creativity. The BOD didn’t come up with how to reuse boosters.

People are creative. Groups are not. Elon and Englebart likely developed new ideas that were sparked by conversations with others, but that’s far different than committee meetings.
For small stuff, pick one thing and try to do it every day for three weeks. Once it is a habit, it should have momentum of its own. Rinse and repeat. (Keep a log book or you will forget and feel like nothing has changed.)

Negative thoughts can be more complicated. I will recommend you start by drinking a glass of water, having a bite to eat and/or taking a short nap. Negative thoughts can have multiple causes, but they tend to be more persistent when you are hungry, tired and thirsty.

For "bad habits," it generally works better to find a better way to meet your needs than to try to deny yourself something. For example, trying to eat healthier is generally a better approach to weight loss than restricting how much you eat.
I've seen a couple comments on emotional well-being and kindness, and I couldn't agree more. Life is about people, and when we optimize for our relationships, life is better for everyone, and everything else falls into place.

As for professional goals, I'm often too aware of the fact that new information over time causes me to change my goals, but that's a natural part of the process and I try not to resist that. Instead I just try to make sure I'm learning and growing in some way or another.

One struggle I've had along the way is balancing what I choose to learn about between what I think will make me more employable or better at my day-to-day work and what I am genuinely interested in. Trying to lean more towards the latter, it's much more rewarding and generally still pays off career-wise.
Yeah, that part seemed particularly bizarre. I would never accept a gig writing reviews for Jazz performances -- I don't know anything about Jazz and I can't fathom why anyone would care about what I have to say.
Title IX was only created in the 70s, the government created the NCAA as a self-regulatory organization in the early 1900s so that they wouldn't have to get involved and regulate sports directly themselves.

> Aside from the fact that a ban on pro sports would fly in the face of centuries of case law prohibiting arbitrary government interference with private enterprises

The new research on health outcomes for pro athletes is more than enough to overcome the requirement for non-arbitrariness. And given how many other strange and unnecessary laws there are, this might not be as serious of an issue as it seems.
How do you engage your employees
Check out the book "The Power of Habit" - it goes into findings and science behind lasting change. It is an interesting read, and not just dry science.

Edit: Summary link. http://www.deconstructingexcellence.com/the-power-of-habit-s...
> Btw: What I mean is the space left from the first tab, not the "drag space" on top.

The drag space should enable/disable both, the space left of the first tab, and above the tabs.
I travel from NZ, these days I choose to go through HKG (and visit the Shenzhen markets, in China) to Europe.

My normal experience of entering China is always fast and courteous, entering the US is frankly scary every time, lots of questions about what you're going to do - I show the same business APEC card at both borders (unlike China it's not a visa for the US border, the US is not a full member of APEC, but it does get me in the crew line, and identifies me as a frequent business traveller)
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