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Why don't we hire a bunch of experts to figure out what the most common and efficient routes are for the most people and then hire people to run those routes regularly?

Oops I just invented buses again, just the rest of these transportation startups eventually end up doing.

The extremely boring answer to our transportation problems is to properly fund public transportation. We've known the solution for ages, but it's kept down by the wealthy class who don't want to pay for public works that would benefit everyone.
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Maybe your "powerful central government" could organise an effective police force?
It's because we don't have guns. It's absurd to think police could act like that there knowing there are so many armed people. The gun thing is a chicken and egg problem, of course.
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In all fairness, cell phone coverage is still pretty spotty in national parks, wilderness areas, etc. And I, for one, don't buy WiFi on planes, in part because I appreciate the time as an opportunity to read books and watch things I often don't have uninterrupted time to.

But, yes, as you see on this thread people are growing up today who find the idea of not being able to be reached or to reach someone (even for a few hours) as unsettling. And, if I'm being honest, I've also thought to myself that if I were going off on any extended solo hiking/backpacking these days I'd start seriously thinking about getting one of those satellite messaging systems.
Why would those things change who gets paid more for the same work, or who has access to healthcare, or who is going to be hassled on the way to the voting booth, or who gets taken seriously when trying to buy a house, etc.
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looks quite interesting - thanks!
Good solid advice right here. For me, personally I feel meditation is about developing wisdom through concentration. The more wise you become, the more sense the Buddha's instructions make. The more insights you get.
> Yeah, no. How can you claim we started off with nothing yet say over thousands of years we built things?

I'm not sure how to respond to this. Have you read a history book? At one point humans were in caves, with effectively no possessions and terrible lives. That was poverty, and it affected everyone. Whether or not one cave man was born smarter than the other is irrelevant.

Over time, we developed all of these systems that made life better for the vast majority of us, yet some of us still live in poverty, because the default human state is to have nothing. That in no way implies a level playing field among two different people born today.

> If you change "nothing", with "no possessions, talents, abilities, or skills", which is the same thing, then you'll see why what you're saying is illogical.

You're still missing the point. I don't know how I can rephrase this in a way that won't be intentionally misinterpreted.
I'm not sure what the "nope" is in response to: Insurance companies profit when people don't collect on their benefits. If I pay and don't use it, they win. This is why companies that self-insure take out further insurance on their pool in case someone does actually get very sick and it drains the pool, which does happen more often than you'd think.
I think that's false. Humans are social, but that means social activity is rewarding. You can build a Skinner box out of "social" rewards just like you can build one out of money rewards (e.g. slot machines).

Success for a social network is not "people feeling better on average" it's people coming back more often on average. Their actual level of enjoyment or well-being is irrelevant to the platform.
It's not really a paradox, right? It's just a big equation and we're guessing at the variables.
This is SO useful. Thanks
> Diversity initiatives level the playing field by increasing opportunities for one group relative to another. That doesn't necessarily mean that the disadvantaged group has more opportunities than the privileged group -- it only means that they have more than they did before.

Most diversity initiatives aren't about equal opportunities but rather equal outcomes.
>> The reason tether has added plenty of $100m USDT while the price is going down, is that people have been selling lately.

This makes no sense, other than unless you agree that the mass USDT issuance is indeed an attempt to manipulate the market and prevent a crash.

Usually what would happen if people want to sell is the price of BTC or whatever altcoin they want to sell would have to come down to where the buyers want to buy. Instead it looks like Bitfinex are conjuring up tethers from nowhere and propping up the price.

>> If USDT was fake...

We wouldn't necessarily see anything until confidence in USDT ws somehow damaged. That hasn't really happened yet.
Pardon me, if I'm wrong, but doesn't the article argue against its initial argument ("Code less, think more")?

In my understanding an incremental "delivery" plan, like the one illustrated by the comic involves actually more coding and rewriting of things on its way to the final goal. The author admits this even in "Incremental Delivery can actually take more time to finish the whole thing!".

Also, I do not get why the clients smiley 3 in the upper row is so angry about the almost convertible looking like chassis if the requirements changed to convertible and the client's smiley 5 in the bottom row is super happy about the chassis with an added windshield.

My key takeaway is: Think more about how to built a useful part of a split-up big project, instead of how to build a big project and increment throughout development. And: don't aim for a starship, if you actually want a glider.
I think the problem there is simply the fact that it isn't knowable. If there is a way for life to be that different, how do you look for it?

My first statement is likely stronger than it needs to be. My main question back to you is, how do you look for something that you imagine may exist, but couldn't say how?
> ...if you can't respect the reasonable wishes of the person who you paid to go see what are you doing there?

Why the false dichotomy? A person could easily lack all respect for an entertainer and still want to go see them... Heck, I've gone to concerts before just to make fun of the band and its fans with my friends. One could be there doing a lot of things but the blindingly obvious answer in this case is that people like to record stuff.

Jack sounds like a vampire. It my energy that he's feeding off of isn't it? Seems like Jack should respect his audiences' wishes.

Furthermore, if the concert venue can't go out of their way to provide a measly fucking digital video and picture download for people, then I say fuck 'em.

If they don't respect my wishes why should I respect
theirs???

It's kinda like how HN asks you not to treat the downvote button as a disagree button and to just post your disagreement - but just about everybody ignores that rule because thinking is hard. Hmmmmm
Human facial reconstruction has the advantage of millions of examples of the soft tissue to study before making the model. Dinosaur artists have zero real life examples to work from so they have to make lots of guesses. For a long time they were thought to be most closely related to reptiles so the artists used modern lizards as a reference.

Now that we know many dinosaurs are most closely related to birds it is causing a revolution in dinosaur art.
Help given to Liu Chu will by necessity pass through many hands and you have no control over the ethical structure of Liu Chu's society.
Helping Bubba is something you can verify, and it will also help Liu Chu when Bubba has more income and can afford to help others.
> Why I left Google for a Bitcoin startup - 4 years ago - 0 comments

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People oftentimes say, in a defeatist tone, that it's impossible to protest a monopolistic social network, because network effects make it impossible to quit. I made this project to thoroughly put that notion to rest.
Not necessarily a tech company, but I worked at Disney for a few years. They have about 500K employees. It's such a large company that their own companies sue each other. Like, our team couldn't use some Disney IP because we had to have our legal team clear with their legal team. That's when you know a company is too big.

Edit: by "their own companies" I mean all of their subsidiaries.
I gave up the Waze app for GPS as it drained my iphone battery to quickly. I switched over to the default maps app on the iphone 7.
I know. I mean, I do this. I go to a lot of effort and expense to play music for small audiences, solely for the pleasure that they're there to listen to my songs. Which is why it's so sad when someone is busy reading social media rather than listening.
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> But 50 years later, it was eventually solved.

We've made progress, but I'd hesitate calling it "solved".
> The same thing that happens in the non-Waze case: you kick them out, call the police, get mugged etc.

It's not so simple. Normally people, at least in cities, rarely hitchhike or take up hitchhikers. The goal here is to make it acceptable, and naturally greatly increase the frequency this is happening. This can be reasonably taken as an endorsement by Google to the driver/passenger, because it is -- they want this to happen more often, and are essentially saying "it's OK to hitchhike through our app". This means that they can reasonably be seen as taking part in the entire transaction and assuming some portion of the liability.
That sounds terrible for 9/10 of the customers that are forced to have a worse-than-possible experience.
Tldr politics, glass ceilings, re-orgs, purposeless/abandoned projects. As a former Googler, I can see why people post these: internally Google is hyper-evangelized as the best place to work ever (why would you work anywhere else). When leaving, its a necessary step to form a good argument for yourself as to why you've decided to go against the culture. The personal spin makes it an interesting read.
yes. the person you're responding to is getting caught up in a very narrow style of authoritarian communism which honestly i can understand being repulsed by! But, as i was saying in the original comment: hundreds of years of work has been done by thousands of scholars and activists to develop marxist theories. the person you're responding to paints leftists as a bloc, all trying to accomplish the same thing! If only!
The law that allowed them to do this never got repealed, so you know it didn't get any better. Everything is changing... but it's not changing for the better, yet.
You might have low fat, a lot of "white" muscle (explosive sprint), and not a lot of "red" one (endurance). White is heavier than red. Also, bone density and lung volume might be factors.
Why are these companies not haul off in front of Congress to testify as to why we shouldn’t completely regulate thOrr user interface design. We have the largest invention since the telephone that it hurts society and our representatives have done nothing.

Maybe it’s time for us to publish a list of elected congressman who receive big campaign funding from The social media companies
Cheeseburger: 7.99, soda: 2.49, regular fries for 4.19 or small fries for 3.29. Either way, that's about 15 with tax.
(Here's the archive link)

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YouTube’s gaming vertical is 3x bigger than Twitch by audience size, and 4-5x bigger by # of creators. That’s primarily driven by on-demand viewing and the demographic differences between people who watch live (older, grew up w TV, watch passively) and people who watch VOD (younger, prefer to watch what and when they want, prefer personality-driven content, etc).

Twitch is big and buzzy because it was VC-backed and acquired, but YouTube dominates gaming media.
I think you're taking that statement a bit too far toward its logical conclusion.
Check out Lyda.com or other online professional development provider. You will find many different options. We have written about the GIG economy and how free lancers use digital tools to acquire new clients.

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Kosemen's "All Tomorrows" is also a fascinating art book, looking at a possible future of humanity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Tomorrows
FWIW, I found a table with prices for Oracle database licenses once, and it made Microsoft SQL Server look cheap. I am not sure if that means MSSQL is cheap, though. At least I am fairly confident that Microsoft is not going out of business anytime soon.

In my current job, I needed to get intimately familiar with the database our ERP software uses, because my boss needed lots of reports that the ERP software just did not do (unless paid an expensive consultant to customize the software for you). And the idea of having to move all that data to a different database makes me shiver in horror. I can understand why a business would be very reluctant to move their data from one database (both schema and engine) to another.

For business-critical tasks, I prefer a boring, reliable solution. But it is good to know that there are still interesting developments going on in the database area, building tomorrow's boring, reliable solutions.
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If you do the same for Facebook it's all users no longer using Facebook rather than employees no longer working there
So what if a game breaking bug introduced with a later content patch? At the time of the sale the game wasn't defective
All customers would have the same exact service on day one.
Good. I do this at my personal parties, I have a phone bowl by the door. Few arguments are solved by Google, and creative things happen.

Social Media is definitely at the point where TV was in around 2012. There were the early 'adopters' who cast out their sets and proclaimed the virtues, but they weren't shunned and understanding was attempted... what's a DVR? what's streaming? Silly questions a few years later, right.

Cell phones are wonderful, apps are useful, don't get me wrong. So is self awareness and presence. It's a huge waste of effort to go to a party/concert just to use a device for non-urgent activity. I used to be on PagerDuty for 7on/7off and I forewent my normal life during those days to ensure I could respond. Sometimes I'd go to a bar with my backpack and sip with coworkers/acquaintances, but it obviously disturbed the vibe not keeping up so eventually I stopped.

I wouldn't go to a concert if I had urgent stuff that could happen. Family emergency? Shit, we'll we've managed until now, life happens. The external cost to social skills and ambiance are so great, as we can all observe, that that one act of nature edge case isn't worth the external costs (we can agree to disagree).
What's your replication/HA story?
Ok, I can appreciate that, but, from the article:

"For those looking to do some social media postings, let us help you with that. Our official tour photographer will be posting photos and videos after the show at jackwhiteiii.com and the new Jack White Live Instagram account @officialjackwhitelive. Repost our photos & videos as much as you want and enjoy a phone-free, 100% human experience.”

So you won't only get your memento, you'll get it professionally produced and in much better quality, without being a pain to all those who really hate that.

That the media is freely distributable is a nice touch too.
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Having this conversation on HN risks bias. Most of us have been selected for our cognitive skills. Regular people have a terrible time learning programming. See https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/224105-learning-compute...
I suspect that programming is so hard not because it is necessarily so, but because it has been developed by people like us for people like us, who can tolerate or even enjoy massive complexity.
Either they have to talk to each other, which means standards, which slows innovation, or everyone will switch to Office365 because they don't talk to each other
Yes, but outsource to someone like SITEL to handle these. It's not like Microsoft staffs the phone directly.
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What really drives me up the wall is this exchange I've had repeatedly:

- I want to do X

- But we're responsible for X

- When can you do it?

- We're understafed, so years from now

- Fine I'll do it for you, I need it now

- You don't have the proper permissions

Basically when some mid-level manager holds a feature hostage so they can grow their little fifedom, essentially trying to promote themselves by growing the org chart underneath them.
Though there is a difference between intentionally blocking something and never having it at all. Airbags didn't exist for most of the time we've been driving cars, but it would be unsafe if you got a modern car and removed the airbag.
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That's because Facebook is a network and you leave networks. Google is a set of services and you quit services.
It was actually interesting to read some of these. Most of them seemed to have really been turned off by the culture or the morals of what they were / are doing.
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The "why I left google" brand seems to be more beneficial in terms of reputation and monetization than google itself.

Bad time for google who pays already its employees a lot compared to the rest of the market.
I think this is a step in the right direction, but it still has the central issue that looking for oxygen rich planets (or any atmosphere with a disproportionately high quantity of some suitable agent for reduction (respiration). We didn't even get around to the whole respiration thing on this planet for quite a long time, and there's no requisite that ATP/ respiration is the direction life is going to take, and equally, in the event of some kind of reductive respiration, there's not a prerequisite that oxygen be that agent, although its a pretty good candidate.
Meanwhile, in the real world, it is the demand of Capital to grow at %6 a year regardless of the health of the overall economy that is fueling the attacks on the social safety net.
I gets attention, and forces Google to be yet again needlessly seen as an exception to the rest of the work-world, where leaving an employer to find work closer to your interests is natural and expected.

Would love to tab through a collection of the reasons the last 10-20 people left any particular company, and I believe we'd still likely fare far better in appearance and substance.

(Disclosure: I work at Google)
Just tell them SQLite is used by ALL Android / iOS phones (billions of them) to store user's critical data.

I have not heard of any cases of SQLite failure in phone, or anyone needing a DB admin to recover their phone contact data.
This is a beautiful comment, thank you.
>> There is no reason to default if you can just print more.

Sure there is a reason, it is called hyperinflation.
Though technically the authentic experience is to be around phones as that's what is naturally happening. He just doesn't want that experience so is changing it.
He had a buoyancy compensation device, pretty much a life jacket with adjustable buoyancy, so he'd wind up in the HELP position like this. Fetal but head held above water by the PFD.

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>> Money is being left on the table.

It sure is -- I'd buy that immediately.

The nice part about it is, if their "cloud" services actually added value, I'd be happy to sign up for that too.

I just want a direct access and a fall-back if their cloud goes offline (and I read about that happening in the reviews of every single one).

And sure, we're a subset of the market, but I'd expect a sufficiently large subset to make it worthwhile.

If it was a really good unit with high-quality sensors, WiFi connectors and other components, I'd pay more than for a Nest.
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That is a huge problem at the majority of places I have worked. I think that really comes into play when they have too many employees and not enough projects.
Your twitter link at the bottom of that article goes to an account suspended page.
Perhaps an outright ban is a bit heavy-handed, but we do need to come to terms with what the appropriate etiquette for the usage of personal electronics is. I guess I could care less is someone wants to spend a show checking Facebook, but it's rude to other guests if their screen grabs your attention or it blocks your view. This ties into general camera usage -- wanting to take a picture (or 50) does not entitle you to squeeze in front, or otherwise monopolise the path/area in front of the painting/sculpture/view, nor does it excuse bumping into people while you scuttle around for the right angle.

A particular thing I find very unnerving, is the playing of media on a phone or tablet with the audio on in a crowded public space, typically, but far from exclusively, for the benefit of a child. A close runner up is people keeping audible notifications on their phones or laptops while using it - the sound grabs everybody else's attention, too.
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I never made any of those claims, nor do I endorse any of them. I will say that the concept of "same work" is very hard to define, and I don't think you can do so outside of very specific industries that are mostly low skill.
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AIML is somewhat misnamed and really has little or no applicability w/r/t what the OP is asking for. If you're building a chatbot / conversational dialogue system, then sure, use AIML. That's really all it's meant for.
That's extra helpful because these units are approximately the speed of light. Light travels a foot in one nanosecond, and it also traverses the width of a (small, ~.01 inch) pepper flake in a picosecond.

When I think about light travelling one foot in a nanosecond, it suddenly puts CPU speeds into proportion for me -- CPUs are now routinely clocking 3-4 cycles per light-foot! A foot is a long way in CPU die lengths, but it's surprising to think about how close CPU's are actually getting to the speed of light already.