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Ah, that’s my bad sorry, I only searched for the NYT url, not the subject.
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> How many employees do they have in Sydney?

Based on sightings of dudebros wearing branded shwag in coffee shops and bars around here, I'd say quite a lot...
This is what leases are for. And I don't think this is a thing. I am a landlord, and a member of several landlord groups. Most landlords I know increases the price of rent slower than the market for good tenants(some follow market, none raise above market). This is because it costs just as much for a landlord to replace a tenant as vice versa. A landlord usually pays 1 months rent to find a new tenant. Plus any losses out on rent while it's not being rented(several weeks). Has to run through and do audit of the property. Replace locks, etc..

It can easily cost $1800 on a $1000 a month rental. And moving is usually cheaper than $1800.
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As somebody who followed the story and also counter-intuitively a $GOOG shareholder I think he has a valid claim. I recently left San Francisco because of the absurd hypocrisy. It's counterproductive to go into specifics on Hacker News (I'm in the minority here), but James was unfairly treated and if he were instead a female and non-white and fired for speaking on the other side the outraged in SF would be huge.
Regardless of what we can debate about the arguments Damore laid out, does anyone feel that he should have been fired for the memo?

From Sundar Pichai's public statement after the fact:

> First, let me say that we strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it. However, portions of the memo violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.

I find this inherently contradictory. How is actual expression supposed to occur if a well-intentioned argument can cross an ill-defined line that leads to removal from the workplace?
Redwood City has been interesting to watch. I hope they get more diverse retail with the added increased density. Right now it is a lot of restaurants and bars, which while nice to have, means that it misses out on a lot of the foot traffic and such that other Peninsula cities like neighboring San Carlos, or Mountain View, etc. have.

Redwood City is also nicely positioned as a mid-point between SF and South Bay.

Beyond that, it seems the entire El Camino corridor is being heavily developed with retail and high-density condos and apartments.
Develop an interest in basic electronics and make DIY hobby projects involving electronic circuits. Since it involves physical construction and failures can be costly in terms of time and money, careful checking and rechecking of plans, circuits and any microcontroller code before switching it on becomes an automatic habit.

I found these habits carrying over to my pure software projects resulting in less bugs.

And if you really want to take this idea to the extreme, learn to build power supplies and other projects involving mains electricity - a mistake there can mean it's the last bug you'll ever write!
The rocket carrying the satellites had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, he said, saying it had been given bearings for take-off from a different cosmodrome - Baikonur - which Moscow leases from Kazakhstan.
You're asking: what's the advantage of being willing to look farther afield to find your perfect job? That's what people in this thread are talking about when they say "labor mobility".

In case you want me to answer, there are myriad advantages: the chance to work with your most preferred tools, on a product that's more interesting you, with maximally compatible coworkers, etc. All the normal reasons people go somewhere besides where they were born for a job.
I feel like our entire mechanism of discourse on this topic is broken. It is not useful to regard regulations in general terms because the factors that underpin whether or not a regulation is good or bad is entirely dependent on the details of the regulation and the context in which it is applied.

> But that's the real issue: regulations in general are not good

This is akin to saying "laws in general are not good", when they are simply a tool. Of course, overzealous regulation is a stifling obstacle for small businesses, but this is something we can all agree on, the disagreements always come down to the details.

> regulatory capture: regulations end up benefiting the industries being regulated

Yes, this is a negative side effect of regulation, but there are also positive side effects from regulation and we have to evaluate the spread on a case by case basis (or at the very least, differentiate the ramifications of specific kinds of regulations per a given industry). At the end of the day, regulations are society's response to a sordid and well-documented history of abuse by corporations; that doesn't mean regulations should be punitive, but they are a necessary tool.
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Case in point, Trump suggests killing the traitor, it's what we used to do in the good old days after all.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/2/donald-trump...
In the article the cofounder says it was "an offer we couldn't refuse". I guess she meant in a "You'll give us _how_ much for less than 5%??? You're joking? No? DONE!" way, rather than a "Nice business you've got here, it'd be a pity if anything happened to it." or a "We know where your children go to school" kind of way...
No, it's evidence that they are correlated, not causal.
I liked that post by Adrien (a frenchman who is focused on productivity and organisation), lots of great insights in it! https://byrslf.co/work-on-12-projects-without-burning-out-f5...
To provide a slightly different perspective: I recently came across a great blogpost/newsletter: http://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/how-to-ride-your-brain-bicycle

It argues that the main reason we don't achieve our goals is not external factors, or the lack of an effective productivity system; it's a commitment failure. We have subconscious second thoughts whether our goals are actually important to us, we lack a sense of purpose.

"There is no point being focused, with a finely tuned productivity system, and maniacal discipline against distractions, if you're not sure what you're doing is worth doing"

So sure, our attention span is decreasing and we're becoming more easily distracted, but is that all there is to blame for the alleged productivity loss?
> relevant to his 23,000 women coworkers in his memo criticizing the hiring policies at Google. If he didn't think it was relevant to the women at work

Considering the question is about (lack of) representation, it is very much about the women who are not coworkers.
Thanks. You may not be old enough to know from experience, but how does this differ (if at all) from the Soviet period?

AIUI Soviet citizens didn't generally learn English in (high/middle) school, which I always thought a bit surprising (assuming that's correct), and for some reason I have the idea German may have been taught in the USSR. (An idea which may simply derive from Russian being taught in East German schools.)
12:00 isn't AM or PM. It straddles them, and isn't wholly either one because of it. That's what this is about. Some people could argue that noon is 12AM. Others can argue that it's 12PM. Both views have merit, and despite that, we need to agree on one or the other, because times are often written down and everyone needs to know what time is meant when someone writes "12AM." Since consensus on this has never been achieved, we just decided on something that people COULD agree on: noon and midnight.

The question isn't valid for 11AM vs 11:01AM, because crossing into 11:01AM doesn't put you into the afternoon like 12:01PM does. It's only a valid question at the transition time between AM and PM or vice versa. So, it was decided a LONG time ago to just skip the problem and say "twelve noon" or "midnight" (or "twelve midnight".)
I don't think anyone is claiming this is solved. Mitigations are by definition a half measure. "Mitigate (verb): make less severe, serious, or painful."
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The Bitcoin product is garbage, just like in a pyramid scheme. People buy in to Bitcoin so they can profit from the people who buy in later and not because there's a valuable product to invest in, just like a pyramid scheme. If Bitcoin was useful in commerce, it wouldn't be useless as it is now.
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Not the same effect that way :).

I know that statement by that shouting at me, have never bothered to actually read it.
Funny that those cheap phones dont run WhatsApp natively. Remember when WhatsApp was new, one narrative was that it was so successful because it had a client for absolutely every system, including Symbian and Java Mobile.
AFAIK Ripple is pre-mined ("minted") and the creator(s) controls >50% of it.
Cant agree more. Whenever I will feel more confident and ready.
"Intel CEO stupid enough to not know how stocks work, but smart enough to keep 20 year secret vulnerability that would destroy stocks."

Yeah... those don't exactly work out together.
Actually construction wants to expend the least effort for the most profit. Given how critical the housing gap is in most areas* (that are near jobs) right now all that 'wants' to be built is the upper end of housing. If the market hadn't reached these levels that /would/ be fine, since then previous housing from that category would depreciate in to the lower income strata in an actual trickle down method. What will happen instead is that only enough housing will be built to maintain the current status of an unhealthy market.

In order to have an actual //correction// in current trends directed building must be several times beyond a normal build rate to make up for the decades of under-performance.
The specific aromas of what you're distilling come through very strongly when distilling gin, especially any aromas from essential oils.

I used to do home distilling, and I made gin from old juniper once and it was foul, you really need botanicals that are as fresh as possible.

Also, especially for the bigger distillers, consistency in your product is important, so they'll likely have quite thorough sourcing for their botanicals, rather than just buying them from a local wholesaler.
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and for some reason people are upset about the 400?
This seems obvious, no?
I don't get winging about mining crypto currency and "wasting power", it's not really a waste, it's proof of work. Besides, we humans waste energy on way worse things than mining Bitcoin.

What about running Facebook, the tens of thousands of high end servers running globally just to figure out what useless junk to feed people, in a way that is detrimental to their health. I don't hear many people complaining about that side of it personally and it's a way bigger waste of electricity IMO.

The other issue is the fact that electricity is produced using fossil fuels, again, not enough protesting about that issue.
Maybe write a blog post about this and make it a HN article? I doubt whining like this in an AskHN will be very effective.
Plenty of companies have their own TLD.
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I know! However, the price is a little out of my budget.
Can’t you attribute criminal intent to any action if you’re willing to assume limitless ignorance?
So far they've even got away with it.

I don't pretend it is secure and listening to HN I've been halfway expecting a huge flaw to show up but so far, -nothing.
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> it's not really a waste, it's proof of work

Every kind of waste I can think of is a proof of some kind of work. That doesn't make it a good thing.
Insiders are still allowed to trade, they’re just not allowed to trade on the insider knowledge.
Front page test – an ethical standard for behavior that evaluates each action through the lens of the media/outside world.

Example: What would happen if HN found out we’re mining our users’s IMs?

I feel like I might be okay with it if was a university (.edu domain) and I knew it was anonymized. Not sure I'd be okay with a random blog doing that.
The correct phrase would be "organized crime" or "criminal conspiracy". They're a prostitution/human trafficking startup billing themselves as the solution to human trafficking.
That sounds like a more extreme version of what the Cell[1] was supposed to be. Developers seemed to think that developing for that architecture was really painful, specially compared to other contemporary console platforms. I'd love it if the progress being made in the industry got us to actually being able to exploit the full potential of such architectures.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
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Is Apple Pay compatible with those "contactless" debit cards they have in London/UK?
What I mean is, if in the UK I go to a Boots and I ask to pay contactless, can I use apple pay? thanks
You would limit your kids’ internet access to dial-up speeds? That’s a little ridiculous.

Would you make them walk to school uphill both ways in the snow too?

Kids don’t have to have their parents’ exact childhood experiences to properly grow up.
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> Sigh. The only sense in which it "solves" the Two Generals Problem is the sense in which it will, over the course of decades, create a rainbow table for it. None of the work being done is in any way socially useful (a crypto coin based on, say, folding proteins actually produces a social good and so could be equity based).

That is by design. Doing useful work would hurt the network's security.

> Decentralized proof of a transaction having occurred is in principle valuable, but the token itself is not the store of value. The reason it is accurately described as a pyramid scheme is because holding bitcoin for the purpose of reselling it is exactly like holding a baseball card, or a share in Bernie Madoff's hedge fund: it is based on the premise that someone will come along and pay you more for it than you paid, despite no actual appreciation in any fundamental value.

What you described more closely fits the definition of a "bubble", not a "pyramid scheme". I agree that Bitcoin could be qualified as a "bubble" in the way you describe it. That is, similarly to paper money or gold, its price is completely disconnected from its "intrinsic" value.
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I'm amazed at how BTC supporters don't even know who invented BTC and the blockchain (Satoshi), yet champion it to no end.

If I was to tell you to invest in a company whose founder is 'invisible', yet controls a large chunk of the company's stock, would you do it?
That's just Meltdown workaround.

Spectre was more relevant to context.
> I'm really starting to think it's about time for me to get out of this business.

Maybe it is time to move to IT security business?
You seem to be misinterpreting what the IRS means by "property". It is equivalent to "asset", not to "land". It can mean land, but can also mean a stock, bond, capital good, etc. that you own. See [1] for example usage.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc703
similar to noscript, there’s “JS Blocker” for Safari. it’s truly an excellent extension; significantly more powerful than noscript because it allows hugely customisable rules for loading only some scripts on some pages (eg https and *.cloudfront.com when loading console.aws.amazon.com), rules about canvas usage, XHR requests and a whole lot of other things. it’s the honestly the only reason i haven’t moved back to firefox, because by comparison noscript is just SO awful!

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The lawsuit says he was discriminated against not only for being a white male but also "discriminated against (i) due to their perceived conservative political views by Google".

Discriminating against someone for their political beliefs is not illegal. Federally political affiliation is not a protected group and in California apparently 'political affiliation' is according to wikipedia[1] however I couldn't find the relevant section of the CA statute on the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) of CA[2].

If he was discriminated against because of his race or gender, then that is a problem. But firing him for having conservative views should be entirely valid. I am not saying that believe firms SHOULD fire people who have X view or Y view so much as they should have the right to.

While we can debate the merits of James' individual views, let's take a more extreme example. If an individual regularly spouted off white supremacist and neo-NAZI views, I don't think any of us would have a problem with a firm firing that co-worker. Firms are trying to create a culture that aligns with their objectives and enhances employee/workplace happiness and harmony. Some views are antithetical to that.

Furthermore, we can back away from such extreme views and still find cases where it would be legitimate to make decisions based on individual's views and perspectives. If you owned a company focused on selling sustainably sourced, carbon neutral products. Hiring a sales person who does not believe in climate change and is actively hostile the the concept of environmentalism would be a bad idea. It is entirely logical to hire/fire people based on non-religious beliefs.

Beliefs are choices individuals make, and thus they should be judged by their choices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160909163923/http://www.dfeh.c...
The growing season may be shorter in parts of Canada than in, say, Florida, but that doesn't mean it limits produce to a handful of things.

Pick any major city in Canada and you can get local, fresh berries when they're in season, lettuce, squash, beans, corn, wheat, any of the usual staples. It's only when you go above the Arctic Circle that your options get more constrained. Just because the growing season is shorter doesn't mean it's not possible to farm. You just need to pick appropriate crops and be more selective about their varieties.

An example of this is Winter Wheat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_wheat) which is a specific variety of wheat that grows much better in the northern praries. There's a lot of other crops like this with hardier, more durable varieties that have been adapted over decades by farmers. Fruits and vegetables of all kinds do just fine with the right choices and careful attention.

You won't get local avocado, bananas or oranges, but the same holds true for about a quarter of the continental US, states in a row from Washington over to Maine.

Instead there's apples, strawberries, blueberries, peaches and apricots. There's also a wide variety of livestock that don't have any trouble with the winter weather or can be housed indoors, from chickens to cows to goats to ostrich and emu if you prefer. There's also vast amounts of land for ranches in the western part of the country.

I don't know what your point is other than blathering on about total nonsense regarding maple syrup and seals.

(Honestly, the biggest single export from Canada is probably marijuana. In many cases it eclipses lumber in terms of revenues.)
I just tested this for 'kumiko patterns' and 'islamic geometry' and was pleasantly surprised at the great results hidden 1000 links away that I would never have come across in google. I'm going to be using this search engine.
I also came up in the dawn of the PC era, when it was truly a hobbyists paradise. I don't think the hacker spirit is gone, it's just drowned out by the big business of tech which didn't really start to make in-roads with individuals until ~20 years ago. Distasteful as popular tech maybe today, look on the bright side: it's never been easier or cheaper to build cool shit. The only issue is sifting through the ubiquitous advertising, self-promotion and hype to find the genuinely cool stuff.
Yeah, it has, apparently:

https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/c...

The idea of a fully private social media profile actually scares my half-sister, since it would mean less likes on her posts, so her friends would get more. We had a conversation about this and the way she reacted wasn't pretty.
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I assume these are massive like D-Wave's systems? https://youtu.be/60OkanvToFI?t=392
Disregarding the Flynn effect, the slow integration of Irish and the Catholics into American society prior to the end of Jim Crow and the fact that the US Black community and US mainstream left were lead by a black President who went to Harvard Law and Columbia, which toxic culture are they supposedly glorifying?
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Well, obviously if you're smart, you'd express the thoughts that would not meet disapproval of your superiors, or at least not to the level that can raise controversy that can be scary for Google top management. If you're not smart, well, you know what happens. It's like training a neural network. Eventually it would produce the answers you need, without any need for external intervention.
What do you mean exactly by more effective?

As much as we love email, it depends on the context and message you are trying to get across. The medium is the message and when you need to get a response or communicate urgency, you call or do F2F. Email is great for short conversations and simple topics. Think about what you're sending and what you'd like to get out of the email conversation.
so you believe that physical difference between sexes in size of the brain, is not due to sex? what would you say this is caused by?

I would like to point out that saying this changes are due to evolution not sex is unvalid because then nothing will be due to sex, not saying that you think that but just getting it out of the way.
That's a naive view of networking. The physical location of an IP address can be very difficult to track down (and of course IP addresses aren't part of the bitcoin protocol).

Bitcoin is also super low bandwidth, and it would be very easy to build a custom proxy to circumvent the firewall. We are effectively talking about 3 megabytes (or even less) every 10 minutes (5 kBps). It could also be obfuscated with stengraphy rather than encryption (e.g. a valid webpage, where the spacing, or css properties are the (also encrypted) bitcoin blocks).
Also various Apple systems define CFBundleShortVersionString to be of the format A.B.C, no fourth element allowed. macOS versioning is still stuck with 10 as the A, B identifies the major release and C is the point release that is effectively also marketing driven. With iOS the first number is used for the major releases so C is available for bug fixes.