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Huh? Gnome 2 was 9 years old when Gnome 3 was released..
Enjoy eating by picking better quality food in small portions instead of focusing on quantity.
The term monopoly originates from the concept not of pricing behaviour, but of control:

"exclusive control of a commodity or trade," 1530s, from Latin monopolium, from Greek monopolion "right of exclusive sale," from monos "single, alone" (from PIE root men- (4) "small, isolated") + polein "to sell," from PIE root * pel- (4) "to sell."*

https://www.etymonline.com/word/monopoly

There's a related term, little used today, that references actively seeking to control a market with an interest in manipulating price:

To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.

(Definition #5.)

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=eng...

Much of modern economics underplays this at best. The Libertarian favourite, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson, fails to mention the matter of monopolies at all.

https://www.mises.org/library/economics-one-lesson

Sometimes it's the censorship and deletions that tell you most of what an organisation or ideology is concerned with.
Ok then. How are consumers harmed then, if prices never increase?

If prices forever stay low, then consumers ALWAYS benefit, right?

You are making a different argument than the one that the article makes, FYI.
Unintentionally breaking the law is still breaking the law. This will cost Netflix nothing to the grand scheme to remedy.
Wait! I read his whole article fully accepting that target is selling Stranger Things box set in VHS format..
I keep wondering: If one thinks that Netflix ripped off Dr. Lui, do they also think that Dr. Lui rip off the manufacturer of the VHS tape? I mean, some designer spent long hours thinking about the many specifics of the tape design; do they also deserve credit? I don't discount that Dr. Lui spent effort photographing the tape, but it would not surprise me to find out that more work went into the artistic design of the tape than went into the photo.

(Does Dr. Lui even mention the manufacturer or brand of VHS tape in his post? I did not see it)
Casey goes through the math, programming, and the logical processes of understanding how to build a an engine and a game with that engine. Its extremely deep, and extremely thorough, but it is by far the most extensive and explicit resource on the topic to date.
Agree. But since the bus in SF is $2.50 I can see why my friend takes the Uber.
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Why do you need blockchains for that? It's effectively a token system.
Network effects apply to any system with links and nodes.

Uber sees this through its financing, application, comms network, drivers, members/subscribers, and political influence.

Transport, comms, data/information, knowledge itself, and land are all classic networks, subject to network effects, and monopoly pressures.
> This is exactly why I think it's dangerous to have a company like Facebook censor people, even in the name of "fake news."

What makes you think this was "in the name of 'fake news'"? It's entirely possible -- and, in fact, much more likely -- that the posts were reported as spam, violent, pornographic, or otherwise abusive. Unless you're arguing that Facebook should throw up their hands and let any content at all on their web site?
You are being awfully hard on a guy who probably has no idea how marketing and professional design workflows occur. To many people, the actions inside any company are quite opaque. It's fair for him to ask these questions; most people would.
It's not possible to be hard science objective in a discussion of values, but in that acknowledgment, there is a possible objectivity in finding viewpoints which allow for subjectivity. If you can't with hard objectivity say that it is correct to execute homosexuals or limit the rights of women, the most objective thing you can do is to protect people of different attributes and viewpoints. The culture which arbitrarily limits those people is operating...arbitrarily.
You might say that multiculturalism is a cultural value in itself, and perhaps some might value multiculturalism more than the survival of their culture.

My view is that syncretic cultures are dominant because they are capable of absorbing other cultures and adapting to change, whereas rigid and intolerant cultures can only last as long as their particular moires are relevant.
I bought some Bitcoin over five years ago, totally forgot about it, and then remembered I had bought some. I sold it and bought an SLR camera to photograph the total eclipse this summer. It felt like the time I won a few hundred bucks at the slots in Nevada.
If you care to share, I’d be interested in examples of the 1/100-tier comments that you’ve seen. I have a more positive view of the discussions here, of course maybe my standards are lower. But I don’t think a comment necessarily becomes lesser because the author is “showing off”. If what they’re talking about is really damn special, maybe the bragging can’t be helped
Perhaps you have never taken the time or effort to properly photograph something so that it can ultimately have the benefit of looking normal and generic. I invite you to try and photograph a VHS tape some time and see how long it takes to get an image as simple as this one. Seriously, try it. It won't take you a full day but it will take your time.
You might be looking at this only from the perspective of a young person who wants to find a job. If you consider the perspective of an actual hiring manager, things start to make a lot more sense. Let's use a hypothetical example based on some plausible real-world stats...

A hiring manager at a decently desirable company posts a job online. Within a week they are likely to get around 50 applicants, at which point they basically stop looking at new ones. Probably 30% of those can be eliminated immediately for not having any relevant experience or coursework whatsoever, having glaring mistakes in their resume, etc. Now the hiring manager still has 35 applicants to evaluate. How do you propose that they narrow the pool in a way that doesn't take weeks of labor? Remember that any multi-round interview, skills test, whiteboarding session, etc. is going to take significant time from the team as well for every single candidate.

This is now an optimization problem. The hiring manager and team have X hours they can allocate to reviewing resumes and interviewing, but X is not nearly enough to properly evaluate the skill level of every single applicant in the pool. We need shortcuts to narrow it to a reasonable level, so what options do we have? Experience is one, so is pedigree (prestige of school, certifications, etc.), maybe we could also look at GitHub commits or spend a maximum of 5 minutes per candidate looking at referenced projects/websites. But we need something that can be evaluated quickly, and experience is an easy proxy since it at least indicates that a person has been around a thing for a while and wasn't so bad at it that they got fired for incompetence. And in many cases that's better to look at than having no indicator at all (i.e., 0 years experience).

It's also worth noting that experience implies more than just technical competence. There is value in having worked on a team in a real-world work setting using skill X that goes beyond how well you can solve technical problems. Experience means you've seen things go right, and also seen them go wrong, you've worked with various kinds of people and personalities while doing X and have the benefit of knowing what to do when you encounter a situation that has come up before.
While the reasons behind the war and its intended results can certainly be called immoral, I don’t think we can apply the same label to enlisted / conscripted soldiers. Most of those guys didn’t join up to protect slavery but rather their homes; and many didn’t have a choice about fighting at all.

Agree that slavery was a moral failing; but the cause of the war was economic — the main reason people were pro-slavery was because they owned assets that would lose ownership of or they worked in the slave trade. Yes, that reasoning is morally abhorrent, but morality often gets tossed out the window when money is involved. It wouldn’t have been a war without the money.
It is easy to understate how having experience with a wide array of tools provides value. The number of times I've seen what should have been a three line sql query written as a 200 line program in python or scala just blows my mind.
To some degree yes, but mostly no.

I have 25+ years experience, and I make as much as my coworkers who have ~5 years experience. There are engineers younger than me that make more than I do. I don't get a free pass or more money because I'm older with more experience.

There's a great deal of salary compression once you hit about 10 years experience. Someone with 20 years of experience isn't twice as good as someone with 10 years experience. It in fact might be a hindrance if you haven't updated your skills.

So, sometimes years of experience is taken into account, but I would say mostly not really, just broad strokes at best.
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Ask HN: What do, when you have a “brilliant” idea, but suddenly cant recall it?
I had similar ideas and I am natively from Ukraine. Do you want to email me? You find my contact details in my HN-handle.
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This happens often - I will have a "brilliant" idea - but then need to table it for whatever reasons, then when I go to recall it, I can't. I am sure you have all done the same - but you still have the "feeling" of the idea - but not the detail you had it at first.

How do you handle this? Do you note-book it ASAP? What tools help you document when you have these thoughts and keep them?
And in the same vein, Liberals show no hesitation in lambasting other people with markedly different values (such as central/southern U.S.) who they lump in as "the same culture" and so consider a valid target.
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A monopolist controls the market.

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-amazon-and-...

The focus on price, alone, is a distraction. The monopolist can choose winners and losers, favour or exclude sellers or buyers, unilaterally determine and dictate dispute resolution (e.g., Amazon's purchase dispute process), in favour of buyers, or sellers, or parties specified on other bases.

Or as comms providers have done in the past, and it is feared they might do if network neutrality obligations are lifted, as the FCC are attempting to ram through presently.

The monopolist isn't answerable to the public or citizenry, as a government body is.

A monopoly market is not a competitive market, with many buyers and sellers, to which any given buyer or seller has a recourse should one counterparty decline business or terms.

A monopolist creates a situation of rents, by controlling and regulating supply. This allows for price inflation if demand can then be influenced, much as is the case with land.

That's just off the top of my head. Any further questions?
World Food Programme’s “blockchain” has one participant, i.e., it’s a database
True, but he said "Netflix could have shot themselves," when probably they had nothing to do with the image acquisition. Netflix itself, as a company, or anyone at it, most likely had no intention of using this image for free, hence some unfair assumptions made by my parent.

But the victim here still needs to be compensated.
His wife is a local. Thats probably how he gets his permit. That may not be an option for most people.
Why do you think it’ll make it as far as governments banning it? I suppose it depends on whether it’s a reaction to laundering or tax losses, with the former meriting attention a lot sooner than the latter.
Just to get the terminology right: A tender is not a "round" - as in "a round (or series) of financing".
Yeah I'd say it's not necessarily a case of honor based systems causing poverty. It's also the other way around. Pretty straightforward.

If you make a long essay about how a belief system causes poverty you'll be demonized by the left; the other way around, and you'll be demonized by the right. Say they dovetail, and nobody cares.
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You miss my point. I mean that the fact that someone used his photo means that they discovered something he made, amongst the countless number of things floating around in the internet, and as such there is a small amount of satisfaction that could be taken from it. Indeed, I did say that I feel he should be compensated however, so I don't understand the sense of animosity in your comment.
A very level headed and motivating post. I hope she keeps the momentum going.

I think there is a bit of irony however, in that while she received inquiries from recruiters in the states, without a degree she wouldn't be able to work there, or anywhere outside the European Union that doesn't have a very comfy work permit. Not that it's necessarily restricting though. I'd love to live and work where she's from. Unfortunately for the same reason, I can't.

Personal Anecdote: I see a lot of myself 5 years in how she describes herself. In some ways I miss that time, in some ways not. Particularly in her attitude toward school, both secondary and post-secondary. Now though, having returned to University in Canada—for the reason I outlined above—I'm finding myself with an intense curiosity about everything unrelated to programming and love being at the University with a community of people just trying learn and do better for themselves.
Because the only real way we have to determine the quality of a developer's talent/expertise is to have someone equivalently talented/expert make a subjective estimate based on seeing lots of examples of their work. And even then it's a bit of a crap shoot.

What employers are doing when they look at years of experience and so forth is trying to hijack the process of evaluation. If you see that someone has been working at some prestigious company in an important role for years or they've been promoted while working there, and so on, that gives you a little bit of insight into what that organization and that person's co-workers think of their skills. If someone has managed to stick it out in the industry for some number of years it's less likely that they are just faking it.

The core problem here is that assessing a tech worker's skills and potential is something that could easily chew up millions of dollars in resources to get a good answer, and easily many tens of thousands of dollars to get a pretty crappy answer. Instead, employers choose to try to get answers to the question with one or two orders of magnitude less in resources expended. That's all it is.
Bingo. I also run a small Meetup with ~50/Meetup. WeWork (among other coworking spaces) have welcomed my Meetup, for free. Meetups commonly bring in new customers and free drinks/pizza that are then promoted to customers as in-house food, entertainment, and learning. It's a win-win-win.
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I think I see it at 27:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiMNbjzYMXo&t=27m57s
Thanks, I thought that was a paper notepad.
Some old traditions like this are so bizarre, I can't even imagine why they were created in the first place. Dowry is also like this -- I always forget which side pays which, because the idea of someone paying for a marriage is so strange.
> If something comes in and it sounds like it might be meant for the legal team, then you should probably ping the legal team.

You're vastly overestimating the competence and domain knowledge of the average customer service representative.
I think that prosperity through the pursuit of opportunity leads to such changes.

The author derides the continent of Africa, yet ignores enormous economic and public health improvement among most countries there in the last 30 years. Attitudes and “honor” culture have changed as well; nowadays commerce and transactions are the norm in cities, rather than violence based.
While an interesting read, I can’t help but wonder about two things:

1. This is obviously .NET projects only
2. 100 is a drop in the bucket even if we take C#-only projects. How good are statistical results, is it representative?
Under American copyright law, no, the manufacturer probably cannot get anything. Are you asking philosophically whether they should?
I spent an extremely memorable month in Ubud 5 years ago writing the software that runs my SO's successful consulting business. She still uses the software, and I'm considering another stint there for my next project.
"outgroup" vs "fargroup" ?
That's the whole purpose of a stock photo website.

To easily track down the owner of the image and buy a license to use it for money.

You can do it manually by contacting a person directly, negotiating a fee for a license to use that image, but that takes time. Stock sites speed up the process.

Just because the photo was not sourced from a stock photo website does not remove the need for copyright or payment.

It's like saying "I copied a dvd and didn't buy it from a dvd shop, so I don't need to pay for it".
Good thing Upcoming.org finally relaunched.
Having worked with people who were eventually fired, I believe there's ample material behind "culture fit". It's stressful working with someone who rubs others the wrong way.

Maybe they're borderline sexist, but not enough where you can pin anything on them. Some people in the office will avoid that team or part of the office.

Maybe they're borderline reverse-sexist, where you disagreeing with them means you're obviously sexist.

That describes two people I've worked with who were fired. It really lowered team and office morale that they were around. I suppose I bonded with my coworkers over our bad experiences, but I think everyone else would've been happier and more productive without these toxic coworkers.
Recall can be enhanced by recreating the situation you were in when you had the thought. Memory is impacted by state or mood, place, context, etc.

But, yes, develop some system for making notes. If nothing else, email yourself.
> Yes he should.

Why can't we program our <something> support departments to act on information they're given? Why do we need to program these departments like they're half AI zombies?
> For instance, by the standard of the general wellbeing of African Americans, it's manifestly obvious that modern American culture is superior to American culture of the 1850s.

But it might be hard to convince a 1850s white American to adopt that standard.

It's tautological to say that as by definition 1850s white Americans culture is extremely distasteful to a modern HN commenter.

Any culture that isn't similar your culture is by definition inferior when held to your cultural standards, so there is no reason to do so.

All you need to decide is if the other culture is similar enough to tolerate it.
or is it? Look at Siri, Launchpad, touch bar, photos, iTunes.
Ask HN: Knowing what you know now, would you still invest in Bitcoin?
Date of introduction 3 January 2009; 8 years ago.

If you could go back to that start, would you still invest in Bitcoin? Or would you consider investing in Bitcoin right now?
Certifications and licenses certainly exist, but proof of their effectiveness often does not. You, after all, do need to hire the people who failed to find out if it works, which tends to be unpopular.

If you can produce a demonstratably effective test for filtering out incompetent or low productivity employees, people will bury you in cash at you without hesitation.
Thats what Google does to some degree.

I recently watched an Eric Schimdt interview where he says... "The industry over values experience, but under values strategic flexibility...I used to go around and ask 'what's your super power'"
It's pretty easy to objectively measure which cultures are better. In general we can just look at long-term trends in voluntary migration rates by country / state / region (or whatever geographic area aligns with a particular culture). Sure there will be some noise in the data based on natural disasters and legal restrictions but those revealed preferences give a good first approximation.
>The result you fear--a monopoly with price control--is illegal

Monopolies are not illegal.
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My question to ask is : What about English in Bali?

Can you deal with banks / landlords / supermarkets / doctors, etc in English?
Loss leading is different. It's when you discount a product to attract people to an overall experience (a supermarket, for example). Not when you discount the price of your core product.
You get back what you put into meetups. There needs to be one or a few people who are motivated to make them happen and plan interesting events/talks/whatever, or otherwise they just wither. If there is no one to step up.. well.. be the person to step up if it's something you care about.
> People are held to different standards based on number of years of work rather than their accomplishments.

Looking at the spectrum of software organizations at one end there are product shops baking simple mobile apps or dressing up WordPress, at the other end - enterprise grade vendors with codebase lifetimes reaching into decades. Those bakeries tend to have small number of experienced engineers/project managers and a high number of cheap fresh grads who will somehow ship something. In those large enterprises juniors are usually required to show ability at baking code and some experience. So we see that years of experience is not necessarily pervasive metric.

> So why are many companies grouping applicants by years of experience, and not by quality?

Bootcamps are based on the very same principle - sharper individuals can be trained in basic principles of baking Angular/Laravel/Spring code in a summer. Competent developer can more or less switch frameworks in even shorter timeframe. Baking code according to spec is not the biggest issue in software engineering. There are two aspects here.

SW industry has a pervasive problem of people burning out and leaving industry and opportunists attempting for good pay. Years of experience can show applicants' ability to live in this Absurdistan that is SW engineering. Years of experience is a metric allowing to chose applicants who will commit to work at relatively low false positive rate (albeit at absurdly high false negative rate). Another aspect is "smelling shit sooner than seeing". In a long term project senior engineers able to scream "Boys and girls of every age, hold your keyboards, this looks good, doesn't work. Been there done that" are crucial to success and that comes with direct experience not from reading books. Years of experience, while it may not be perfect or even unsuitable in certain situations, is not unjustified metric.
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