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Would love to hear from others who run groups/events on Meetup and/or Eventbrite. I used to love Meetup, but the interest has been dwindling and the pricing for Meetup is very odd. You can't run a multi-city Meetup from a single account, which makes it very difficult to expand your Meetup without greatly increasing your costs. Meetup then came out with https://www.meetup.com/pro in order to help you wrangle your cluster of fragmented accounts all over the world. Between Eventbrite, Facebook Events, and Facebook's direct integration to Eventbrite ticketing, I'm not sure I see the point in using Meetup at all anymore.
Google trends graph shows a fairly recent and step spike for the phrase "fake news"[1]. I'm sure the phrase was intermittently used for some time, but it's current usage send new, and much more popular.

My memory is the same as the comment you are replying to. "Fake news" was a left attack on the media supporting Donald Trump (think Breitbart). Trump and friends then coopted the term to describe the mainstream media and repeated it enough for the term to become associated more as Trump-thing than anything else.

1 - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
Thank you for that detailed reply! I really appreciate it, and I read through all of it. One thing that I forgot to mention were that the some of the ads, if not all, run by the IRA (Internet Research Agency [0]) were veritably false. If Facebook kept score of ads that were known to be false run by an ad buyer couldn't they present that information beside the ad e.g. a sort of running "boy crys wolf" heuristic?

Thanks again for your well-researched and extensive reply.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
Even more concretely, the terms better and worse are only capable of encoding relative positions on a linear scale.

I find it instructive to look for those scales directly--e.g. rates of violent crime, GDP, life expectancy, etc. This also makes it more natural to recognize specific problems with such linear reductions.
Also experience tell's you the person isn't going to do anything inappropriate in front of colleagues and do any sexual misconduct.
Well, given there's shipping costs here blowing out and Prime has been proven to be losing money the more a customer buys, not sure your statement holds up.
That's not special cased for calculator. Scrolling goes to the window that the mouse is hovering over. Your point in general still stands.
Hold on a second, you’ve got it wrong. Uber can’t be worth $69B unless the values of all the shares (including the common) add up to $69B.

While sure, selling common at a 30% discount doesn’t necessarily mean the company is worth exactly 30% less. But it is worth less. And 48B is going to be closer to the truth than $69B. Keep in mind the preferreds are giving up a bunch of voting rights here too.

Yes it’s common practice to say the valuation = number of shares * last preferred price, but that’s a convenient fiction.

All that said, $48B (or whatever it may be) is a spectacular success by any measure so I’m not sure what you’re so defensive about.
I find the opposite is true. Really niche meetups are a great way to make sure no one attends except for you and that other person you know.

EDIT: I find it works best if the meetup group topic is really broad. Then you plan specific meetups with narrow topics that indulge your interest. That way you have a very diverse group of attendees to pull from.

Of course, things may vary depending on region. In places like Silicon Valley, maybe it benefits you to have more niche meetup groups.
they've definitely let the desktop os be swayed by touch idioms (which you could reasonably argue was good or bad), but they didn't try to unify it all into a single os, like a windows and ubuntu.
If I was given 1 satoshi every time I hear some old fart is preaching Bitcoin doomsday I would be a trillionaire. I can summarize it without even reading into

I don't get Bitcoin, why don't they all use banks instead, banks are cool because I use them and I am def cool. Bitcoin is not supported by anything, look at that nice cool bank where we used to fuck whores, USD is backed by all that coolness, Bitcoin is backed only by math and I don't get math.

But tbh fees are now ridiculous, I think Bitcoin will crash soon
>But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups.

So they basically stalked her? Interesting to see how WP treats some (all?) whistleblowers that come their way.
> I will use the Arabic word thar, "blood vengeance," for this value system

Do I see a strawman there?
Your experience is not everyone's experience. Meetups are extremely popular in big cities, I attend a few each month with probably a total 300 attendees among them.

In fact, our local meetup has even had high-profile language contributors and members of the ISO speak.
I loved Facebook in 2006. I would've kept loving Facebook if they didn't change a single thing about it for the last 11 years. As it stands, with all the innovation they've been doing, I deleted both my social account and my family account, and now only stick around for the event calendars.

What parts of Meetup seem stagnant to you? What other innovation is there left to do? They let you create a meetup and describe it, make it paid or unpaid, allow +1's, post pictures, let people join, and have a message board. What else is missing? It already doesn't degrade to no-JS, but is not yet at the point where there's random shit happening all over the place without me asking. Please don't encourage them to move in that direction.
cry..

Seriously - I do something with my body that frees my mind...like going for a bike ride.
I heard (perhaps apocryphally) that was an interview question from Microsoft before Google existed.
That's definitely a good point.

The fact that a 3rd party looking at the picture managed to recognise that it was his tape (when it could have been one of potentially millions of tapes) shows that it is not significantly different.
If you're doing short term cap gains then you have to report as regular income. If you have over $526,443 in taxable income in California then your total income tax rate is actually 51.9% (39.6% federal, 12.3% state).
SoftBank has been equivocating for months over this deal. It has been in the works long before the current Uber CEO arrived.

They are structuring a deal that is advantageous to themselves, exploiting Benchmark’s desire for an exit so they can pay its investors their returns.

SoftBank is getting extremely cheap debt at the moment, so it makes sense to take advantage of shareholder turmoil to get valuable companies at a discount. With this purchase, SoftBank will have a hand in every significant ride sharing other than Lyft.
Wow, this plus a persistent data structures library could be almost as much fun as clojure!
Thanks everyone for upvoting.

I wanted to share this article in HN because I know many people here are looking for alternative ideas about where to live meanwhile building something independently. Not just Ubud specifically, I recommend people like me to explore developing world and consider alternative places for starting their own venture.

Cheers
Honestly if you write as well as you are in your OP, you'll be fine.

Design your website so that there's a small profile of your in the top right or top left where you can prime readers that you're a German.

It's often frustrating for me to write in Japanese (since I feel that my English is much less stilted), but most readers have had nothing but positive things to say about my style. I imagine you'll feel that your English writing will be stiffer and less fluid than your German, but if the objective of your articles is for you to reach the largest audience with your writing, then English is the way to go. If you want it to be an avenue of expression for you, then German may be more suitable.
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The author's Japanophilia masquerading as social insight is laughable. His cute anecdote illustrating the self aware remorse of the Japanese is of one doctor who has a shrine in his living room. I wonder if in his extensive travels he's ever visited Yasukuni shrine.
I have found that a really good library is typically a much better work environment than these coworking spaces, and at 100% less the cost.

I tried Regus for a couple days, but it felt no different to me than a coworking space. Maybe it was that particular Regus location.
Yes, certainly that's what happened. Not an excuse for anyone, but a plausible explanation.
An awful lot people speak English - you'd probably get by quite easily.
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Hm, out of the nearly 100 meetups I have attended in recent years, all were about the content, with an emphasis on the speakers. Nearly zero self-promotion and never once met a salesman.
It’s probably a misunderstanding of common media units of measure. If an Olympic swimming pool or an Empire State Building are a valid unit of measure, why not a container ship?
This reminds me of a passage I read from "Hillbilly Elegy" by JD Vance, where he talks about growing up in the Scots-Irish parts of West Virginia, and the almost pathological devotion to family honor.

One anecdote (the details of which I'm mis-remembering slightly) involves an incident he witnessed in a Walmart or Kmart or some such store, where a mother whose out-of-control kids were scolded by an employee for their behavior. The mother proceeded to physically threaten the employee for the perceived affront against her family's honor.

The canonical example of "vendetta" behavior among Scots-Irish is the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys, which I believe Vance also mentions.

Throughout the book, the author intertwines anecdotes of self-limiting (or even anti-social) behavior like the above with descriptions of the worsening economic climate that the region's residents find themselves in. He makes a great case (sometimes subtly and sometimes bluntly) for the idea that the two reinforce each other.

It's amazing what kind of mental gymnastics people will go through to convince themselves that they're "honorable", especially when that honor is the only asset they think they have left.
Neat to see this written up, even if critical.

I was loosely involved with this project and the goal was to learn and expand WFP's knowledge. Folks who built this were not paid, at least for the initial build.

It's great that WFP is innovating a bit, but these things take time. I do believe WFP can benefit from exploring new ways of doing things. Maybe blockchain will help make things more efficient and transparent, maybe it won't. But to me, seems worth trying new things.
> Someone interested in the truth would not react violently to that criticism because they would acknowledge that as a contradiction and that doing so would prove their critic correct.

But wouldn't proving their critic correct give them "truth" points?

Presumably, you actually mean "someone I'd call a reasonable person, who can recognize the truth; but who has other aims beyond making things true". That person's actions will still follow some kind of points system, although it might be slightly more complicated. But "honor" points can be complicated as well, since they need to encode which actions are "honorable".

Ultimately, the only difference is that you agree with one kind of behavior over the other. But what you think is a flaw in someone's utility function, they'll think is a flaw in yours. That doesn't mean all value systems are equally good, just that their relative ranking depends on the person doing the evaluation.
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it is worth of note that gnome 3 only now is getting to 90% of what it was during gnome 2. what was that? six years too? I have no idea. I am a KDE user now.
I read it, and think it is a so so writing. The author piles too many things together.

martythemaniak gets more of what it is to it.

There are no such thing as an honour based society, and the author is imagining things.

Popular explanation: what seems as an "honour" things to people in the west are often just egregious displays of social status. It is hard for Americans to naturally arrive to the way of thought of this sort. I'll drop few examples for you:

Men killing their wives who were raped - it is not them any much recovering that "honour," but to show everyone that these men do not let the enemy to assert dominance over them, non-verbally stating "hey look, the enemy has no power over me, he will not diminish my status by forcing me to sleep with a woman raped by him"

Same for the extreme sensitivity to insult marty mentions - it is to show everyone "No one is allowed to place themselves above me"

Acceptance of personal revenge including retaliatory killing - is the thing from the same opera. It is to show that you do not let the assailant to assume social status above you. If you can't retaliate and kill, you show your weakness/inferiority/impotence.

Americans, you are fortunate enough to not to live in a society where ones social status is not determined by a principle of "the ones who have higher status than I am are the ones I can't kill"
I am one of those guys. I don't really understand the value of pinterest. So a drop in performance made my exit far easier. I am probably not their target user.
So you're working illegally?
> I would happily buy SpaceX stock but I'd stay away from TSLA.

And that right there is the reason that SpaceX will not be public. SpaceX is an investment in humanity, not a financial investment.
It's overly pessimistic view but if you didn't like it then you can consider other parts of the world. May be Patagonia, or Kenya ? I never visited both of these countries but would love to hear from other engineers.
"Athletic" might be misleading. The heatmap in my area (East Germany) only shows activity on the city golf court, whilst we have plenty of real athletes training here, on the amateur, professional and olympic level. Looks like only golfers use Strava.
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This is kind of interesting because my friend and co-worker had some of his photos licensed for use in the actual production- e.g. shown on screen- and they were VERY respectful and cooperative with him:

https://tau0.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/stranger-things-2/
Re the ash, I'm in Kuta just now and it's not really noticeable apart from the airport being closed about half the time.
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Completely agree. It is a cliche and somewhat prejudice to talk about the "Thai smile" or the smiling in other asian nations. These cliches are informed by foreigners who impose their own motivation for smiling onto that of a very different culture.

It's not unlike how I often hear non-Americans talk about how friendly all Americans are, simply because when you do things like get a meal at a restaurant, the waiter will ask, "Can I get anything else for you?" Well, to me they are just doing their job but to some people from different places, the waiter is being unusually friendly to ask that.
If I could upvote this twice I would.
I'd rather agree it's a correct term. With such a growth of GDP the country is indeed developing: https://www.google.ch/search?q=growth+of+gdp+romania
What does that mean though? That thier smiles can be fake. I dunno. Slow island tropical life could be nice on people's mood though.
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I think China has more airports than the ones listed in the site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_China#/med...
Was probably aggressive to characterize it as "trivial"

Some examples of cost effective interventions include better mental health and substance abuse treatment in primary care (methadone tx for example), integration of medical and behavioral health reimbursement and relaxing some onerous rules like not being able to bull for medical and behavioral services on the same day (though I think this is improving), better training and supervision for mental health professionals, more rigorous research into group therapy, Better education on psychiatric meds for PCPs, more follow up etc
That argument is relatively vacuous on its face, because that is moral flattening (along with intentionally misunderstanding the problem), and promotes inaction.
I have seen plans like this in multiple countries around the world. You buy sim card and have let's say 1 GB mobile traffic per day but Facebook/Youtube/Instagram is not counted into it so you can watch unlimited Youtube videos and use Facebook as much as you like. Quite scary, it will trap people in these walled gardens even more because of how these plans are structured.
28% of US GDP spread across 250M adults would be about $20k/year. This would be just enough for subsistence-level living. (I live on <$10k/year just fine.)
Throwing politicians out of office who don't do it and promoting a stigma around vast amounts of wealth will change things.

Elections matter.
Yeah right
"No one is allowed to place themselves above me" .... "social status"...

This is exactly what the author means by "honor", as opposed to the western definition of integrity, trust, chivalry, etc, etc.
It all depends on the value of the common stock. If the common stock is worth 30% less than the preferred stock, then the common stock purchase should be zero-sum. If it is worth more, then SoftBank is indeed buying at a bargain and this is analogous to a down round.

Just the fact alone that they’re getting preferred shares at the same price as the last round is a bad sign. Shouldn’t companies be trying to increase valuations at each round?

I didn’t see any defensiveness on the part of the parent poster. Your expressions conveyed more emotion. That said, they added color to your writing and shouldn’t be omitted.
I’m using “Netflix” to encompass them, their agents, or affiliated production company. Somebody somewhere didn’t do their job in clearing the photo. They just found something online and went with it. That wasn’t an accident unless they don’t know their job.
I think "unemployed" and "hire an attorney" are not 100% mutually exclusive, but if he's not asking for much and doesn't have much money it's a probalby not a good option. As for handsome royalties, they're rarely large unless you've got a lot of leverage. You're coming at this as if he's got money and wants to make more and nothing in the post suggests that's true.
"for the last six and a half years, I have never once ragged on Amazon publicly."

glad to see _nothing_ changed with this post. its not even a war story. tl;dr bezos likes direct communication because hes busy.
Ubud is beautiful, and I will probably take a couple of weeks to work there again next year, but I don't know if I could ever put down roots in a place like Bali.

Full story: I am of Sri Lankan heritage, born and raised in Malaysia and now live in Australia with my own family.

So, I know what it is like to live in an Asian country after also living in the West (er, South). My summarised take:-

UPSIDES:

Bali and other developing Asian countries ARE very cheap to live in for the long term. The food is a big plus to me, but I grew up with most of these foods and fruits, and they are a familiar part of my life. Some westerners may have trouble adapting.

For instance, I LOVE durian, but it make most of my Aussie friend retch even when I mention them. Of all the things I miss most about Asia, it is the street food.

I also miss the mixes cultures. I really enjoyed going to various friends houses throughout the year to celebrate Chinese New Year, end of Ramadan feasting, Deepavali, Christmas etc. There was a general cohesiveness of different cultures that doesn't seem as strong to me in Australia.

DOWNSIDES:

Most third world countries are rife with corruption. Get arrested in Bali and you better be ready to pony up some hard cash to the officials or else face worse consequences. Health services are also really bad, in terms of emergency services. I routinely get dental work done in Bali, but if I broke a limb or got appendicitis or an infection, I would far rather be back in an Australian hospital.

Language can also be a factor, I guess. I speak Malaysian and English, so getting around in Bali is not really an issue for me (Indonesian is 99% similar to Malaysian). However, I would struggle a bit in places like Vietnam or Laos.

Bali, and especially Ubud, are being ironically killed by their popularity. A LOT of local Australians I know go there to co-work for weeks at a time, and unfortunately, with tourism also comes nasty things like higher crime and fraud. Bali is becoming less and less safe as some of the less savoury locals learn how to manipulate and extort visitors. The old days of being humbugged by stall holders at the beach seems quaint. The newer operations on unsuspecting tourists are far more sinister.

Conclusion - I don't mean to put anyone off. Bali is a beautiful place, and Ubud is definitely worth a visit at least once, to work at with your laptop, or for a company retreat. But I wouldn't pencil it in as a 'bucket list' destination. There are plenty of other Asian countries that can offer the same, or if not better opportunities. For those used to the convenience and modernity of the US, perhaps Singapore or Penang (Malaysia) might be a better place to experience the difference in cultures?
If by "most" you mean those with just a single maintainer who works on it in his free time, you're probably right. For KDE, not so much.
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In the US, you want to send mail to the registered agent.

That's the person on file with wherever they incorporated who accepts legal paperwork during business hours -- and thus can always easily be reached by mail. Companies are required to have one of these, and they'll deal with routing legal complaints internally. Just send your angry letter with tracking to the registered agent, so you get a signature when they drop it off.

For Netflix, it seems like:

> The address of the registered office of this corporation in the State of Delaware is Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19081. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

So if you send your angry mail there, Netflix legal will almost certainly read it.
I pointed out why I downvoted. Not for the misspelling, but using a common incorrect spelling when making a confident assertion about the Indian independence movement. I am sure the commenter knows nothing about it, so I downvoted.
Yay!!! I have always hated Unity (No offence to the devs behind it) but it was always a PITA. I am glad that Gnome is back!

But that being said, Gnome3 has a lot of chrome space.
The idea is commendable, however I find it unfortunate that they did not choose to use already existing data on OpenStreetMap (perhaps because it's a competitor to Google Maps?), for instance reusing the weelchair routing efforts started in 2010: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wheelchair_routing

OpenStreetMap already has metadata that could not only help with tracing weelchair paths (pedestrian crossings have a "curb" field designed especially for weelchair accessible; POIs such as shops and buildings have a weelchair-accessible boolean; etc.), but also indicate which sidewalks contain, for instance, tactile pavings for the blind, besides lots of other useful metadata.

Also, there is a lot of effort already invested in OpenStreetMap, and more contributors are always welcome. The overall utility of the maps should help ensure the data will remain used by the community at large, and hopefully up-to-date in the long term.
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