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The only way the US can maintain its high standard of living is through immigration of the best from other countries. The Chinese government is investing heavily in artificial intelligence. (See https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609038/chinas-ai-awakenin... ) Whichever country wins the AI race will become the new superpower. If the top Chinese engineers can be persuaded to immigrate to the US then we can win this race. If not we will lose economically and militarily to China.

When companies like Disney use H-1B to replace American workers with cheaper immigrant workers that's a problem. This is a misuse of H-1B and it needs to stop. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater!
It's also delicious
Take it up with BeOS? :D
Because Firefox is actually great now. I just switched back to Firefox as my primary browser. I suspect others will do as well.
At my old job we used 200 proof, undenatured ethanol by the gallon. A bunch of forms had be signed as it was untaxed (~$10/gal, $50/gal with tax).

I did try tasting it and it was awful. Pure ethanol is near odorless, but gains a smell from the oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde. The lab grade stuff had a very strong smell.
Will Google record the input from the users and/or analyze it?
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I do not consider the Wights (or zombies in general) as evil since they do not have a free will. They are more like a force of nature like a stampede or a forest fire. The will behind the Wights are the white walkers and if they are evil is still open.
Both examples are good examples that there are no omnipotent evil power in Christianity, and that there certainly is no facing off. Both of these stories serve to show the power of God. There is no power struggle.

The one exception where there is a struggle against evil is perhaps Revelation, but that is a bit of an outlier in Christianity as it serves very little liturgical purpose and clearly speaks in images more than anything else.
In order to obtain the optimal amount of benefit, the family unit must already be in a disintegrated state, eg non-married, non-cohabitating, with offspring present. This encourages an anti-marriage, anti-stable family pattern.

Doesn't appear to be a problem in, say, Scandinavian countries, those hotspots of unbridled socialism. Pretty much every quality of life ranking lists those right at the top, along with other socialist troublemakers like Canada, The Netherlands, etc.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/quality-of-life-f...
I was in a group of people that didn't get the H1B in the lottery for a big tech company.

Most of us went to work in the European office. Later, about 30-50% of those people went to USA on L1, much closer to "indentured servitude" than H1B.

Did anyone win in this situation? In this particular scenario, limiting the H1B actually decreased American workers job security.
I think it is opposite. I read old tales (north european, German, French and easter european) and all had much less good-vs-evil-good-always-win kind of morality then contemporary one. Even three musketeers were transformed into good-vs-bad in our culture and they were not like that in original.

They also tended to care waaay more about ordinary person whereas current interpretation treats non heroes non rules as cannon fodders.
Candy and snacks - that's obvious, but low rent. The real win would be to have drivers pitch job opportunities. Use the driver's payment information to get their background, and if they're in a high-demand area, get them in touch with a recruiter. Uber/Lyft drivers in convention cities are the primary targets for this. Have a setup so the recruiter can pitch them by video while in the car.
Yeah I used to think so too. Now I just think it's a thing people like to say to emphasize how difficult and important execution is. But execution mattering doesn't mean ideas are easy.

Ideas are really, really hard. Good ideas are the result of an extraordinary feat of luck, an extraordinary feat of outworking everyone around you to get very deep domain expertise, or a combination of both.
Sorry for the form fail. Everything works now :)
There's also tf import and tf delete to manually import resources to your state and remove them respectively.
What if someone wrecks my house?
Here's the abstract of the original study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18596247

And at least for as long as it stays up, here's the full PDF: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bffe/858c706dc4298b8e1e947e...
I'm awed by the educational quality of Grant Sanderson's videos. No wonder he was a Khan Academy talent search finalist: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/125876900000/mee...
Vodka is a terrible spirit in most respects. I am Ukrainian, but I buck the stereotype. Ideal vodka is pure water with pure ethanol. That is as boring as you can make a beverage.

In Ukraine we also had horilka, which is basically spiced vodka. This was not some delicacy, but was historically done by necessity because the many impurities in the vodka had to be masked by strong spice flavors.

Handcrafted artisanal vodka is about as much horse manure as “living water”. Would you buy hand crafted artisanal gasonline for your car? Or high purity electrons for your computer to run on? Again, if you can get to 40% ethanol, 60% water, you are good. Who cares how it was made, it’s an artificial product.

(Ok some people probably would. After all, they buy $1000 gold cables for their audio equipment.)

Personally, I prefer things with actual flavor. Like rum, scotch, or brandy. More flavor is good.
While the european union was formally established 1993 it was built on European Economic Community which was established 1951. In other words the European countries have worked on coming closer and closer over the past half century.
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I’m not being coy by phrasing this as a conjecture; it is just a hypothesis: perhaps Google is worried that FF could gain mind share under technical people , who might then cause a ripple effect by installing it for everyone whose computers they “manage” or influence (friends & family). Which could up being a lot of people, in the end. I have a feeling that’s how MSIE originally got dethroned.
To some degree, yes, but then it's also a problem at Pocket, Evernote, Readability, ReadKit, Safari Reading List, ...

If the content breaks all of their parsers and scrapers because it's tied up in these custom dynamic components, then I wouldn't really expect all of the parsers to handle that themselves. (Of course one pure text standard would be nice.)

The bigger issue to me is that the omissions are silent.
> My understanding is that he used that as a metaphor for getting at this social construction of reality idea.

That would be in itself a good reason to talk about it in the article. I think Dick also had some mild psychiatric issues, maybe natural, maybe drug induced (again, what's the difference?). His religious delusions and paranoid ideation probably made him see reality in a much less clear cut way than, say, a physicist would.

Anyway, I'd say that reality in this context means "subjective reality", the complex of our individual beliefs of what is real. I'm fine with this usage: its meaning is clear in this context. Nobody is trying to say that by believing really hard in it we can defy gravity or walk through walls :)

The important thing is that this fluid reality idea rings a bell with us today. The world is becoming increasingly more complex and layered, and we're less and less able to see through the layers the underlying truth, whatever it might be.
Ted Nelson is a genuine visionary, the real deal. He sees things that others do not see (and won't for another decade or two). He knows what is important (or will be important) and can be irascibly stubborn when explaining what he wants (needs) to fulfill his vision. He gets impatient trying to bend reality to fulfill the vision of his personal distortion field. He is difficult and charming. He is persistent. He creates language and words like "hyperlink", "intertwingle" and "transclusion" as he tries to explain to mere mortals his ideas. He writes well. And, more often than not, his vision is correct. Ted deserves more recognition, perhaps even a Turing Award.
To amend, why I'm even bringing this up, what worries me about Drake is this: https://github.com/Factual/drake/pulse/monthly
Its GitHub pulse is - dead; For two years now. Makes me think one of the other projects listed might be better choices.
>It is entirely possible to change jobs on an H-1B.

It is and it's quite easy when your H-1B has not been extended past 6 years. Then it becomes interesting and this is what people colloquially refer as "indentured servitude".
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If anyone wants this in an easier to read format and without the double scrollbars (and with far fewer trackers loaded) it's also available directly at

https://airtable.com/shrbKl9sxaFJqtjAN/tblzm60W80AwbPLJj?bac...
There's a strong bias for founders to describe their founding story as a "Eureka!" moment. Don't fall for this. Most founders come up with ideas because they're looking for them.
Focused on a niche subject. Wrote with humor, brevity and (unearned) authority. Was strategic with visual and verbal tone: styled the blog to reference institutions like NYT, wrote with the voice of authors I respect and/or enjoyed.

Most important, I think, was writing for being pleasurable and nourishing to the reader rather than egoistically trying to impress with wit, domain knowledge, and, worst of all, personal anecdotes – the boring, herpetic poison that oozes from most blogs.

Like art, you're assembling a puzzle with no preordained point of completion. It didn't come easily but seemed clear when it was done.
What the title suggest will never happen. But maybe users of big porn sites might have to prove they are over 18.
When I was younger I always did well at everything, winning lots of awards in physics, math, and state level awards in computers. So I was accustomed to doing well without trying. Not trying didn't work as well in college, because I had a 2.3 but that didn't bother me because I considered myself "smart". Assumed that employers would recognized I was "smart" and I'd do really well.

Then my wakeup call was getting fired from my internship, realizing I had a shitty GPA, no idea how to code, and no guarantee I would graduate, or that I wouldn't end up homeless after I did.

So every time I needed to do something and had that feeling of procrastination I'd reach down inside, imagine how much my life would be a failure if I didn't accomplish these tasks and then push. And it worked. I started getting a lot more done, my grades improved dramatically, and at my next internship I was a star.

Then it was 5 years later, I'd done well at every job I had, but I was 25 pounds heavier, had stomach issues, my memory was terrible, I hadn't thought about anything but work in years, and my cortisol levels were abnormally high. I decided that I needed to slow down and I can't.

Success is addicting, and now interwoven with my identity. And I've found that it's very hard to slow down. And when I do I start to get depressed when I don't do as well on projects as I'm accustomed to so I usually end up revving back up again promising myself I'll slow down for the next one.

Not to say procrastinating is always great, but not procrastinating isn't just a bucket of pros without any cons.
There is undoubtedly some small contingency of people who fervently believe that putting methanol or acetone in ethanol to ”denature” it will reduce alcohol consumption and improve “public health”. Mostly, though, denatured alcohol exists to ensure that industrial use of alcohol isn’t crippled by “sin” taxes.

Alcohol taxation is a big revenue generator. Selling 190 proof ethanol at the hardware store for a couple bucks per liter would likely put a real dent in tax revenue as people used it in place of vodka and everclear for punches and whatnot. Charging a $10 tax per liter on industrial ethanol would put a real dent in otherwise valuable uses. So denatured alcohol is the ugly compromise.

I’m just happy I live in a state where I can buy 190 in a liquor store. It’s faster and more cost effective for liqueur creation than 150. It’s amazing how rapidly it desiccates lemon zest. I’d leave 150 for almost a month to extract lemon oils. 190 does the same job in about a week.

I agree that blocking the sale of alcohol over 150 proof is bizarre and does nothing to reduce alcohol consumption. Frankly no one is drinking 190 straight so blocking the sale just means you buy two fifths of 150 instead of one of 190 for your party.
Idk I like the idea of a crypto collectible even if genetic crypto kitties misses the mark.
That ignores Jews in Europe.
Yep. People like Sergey Brin, Max Levchin, et al. would count as "foreign" under the metric of the study in the article.
Another Everclear lover here. It's great when you want a serious buzz. Because there's nothing there but ethanol and water. So hangover is much less intense. Back in the day, I used to drink 95% reagent grade ethanol, liberated from the lab. But not absolute ethanol, because it contains traces of benzene.
Also if it's so easy, why these kind of posts frequently appears on the front page of HN? How to find a good idea worth pursuing seems to be a common question among aspiring intrepreneurs
As an electrical engineer (but a new one, so take this with a grain of salt) it really is kind of staggering. This probably could only have worked with the selectric- they're quite special and if you haven't seen one in slow motion it's a thing of beauty[1]. The bug only had to measure magnetic disturbances in a few dimensions to recover text, and because it can measure the amount of time it takes to locate a new letter the field measuring error is much more acceptable. You wouldn't be able to do that with a more classic typewriter.

The level of sophistication here reminds me of current research[2] using software-defined radios. I'd LOVE to see a diagram of this thing. Old circuits were elegant by necessity, and something this sophisticated has to be a work of art.

> It contains special components to hide its presence even from non-linear junction detectors (NLJD)

That's really amazing. NLJDs work by blasting broadband noise at a circuit- any internal wire trace gets turned into an antenna, and if it's attached to a transistor or diode it'll re-radiate at multiples of the frequency. Typically you can even find just chunks of metal touching a semiconductor with those... the fact that they evaded detection is very impressive.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izZ02t2UEGc

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ7Nz942yAY
> And even civilian casualties don't matter much when you're fighting "evil" (e.g. Dresden, Hiroshima, modern Middle East, etc).

Are you implying that these events are not extremely controversial because of their civilian death toll?
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Yeah, not exactly the work. But the success work brings.
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You quite literally stated that progressive policies break up families and capitalism brings them together.
Tl;dr I hope they upgraded the the DB backing their battery manufacturing process.

I had a buddy who worked at Tesla. The first step of the battery manufacture process involves a robot taking a little cell out of the box, discharging it, charging it back up and testing to see if it shows the right voltage. Super easy quality control test. But all that needs to be written to a database. The database was hosted on a vm using a shared raid array of spinning disks. Their battery manufacturer process was literally gated by a slow ass disk drive. My buddy pointed this out. Asked that they just throw an SSD in there (we’re working on it). Followed up, asked if he could just do it himself (no). Followed up a third time asking for the authority to fix the problem (no). Finally quit in disgust because they refused to solve a simple problem so how are they going to solve hard ones?
If there's only two copies on offer and you believe the higher priced seller is planning to buy from the other: Buy the book from the lower priced seller, list it for sale at a much higher price, and order it from the higher priced seller before they change the price.

I wouldn't risk a million dollars on that strategy, though.
That seems like an accurate TL;DR to me.

Somehow the author wants to tie school shootings to lack of healthcare, I assume he thinks a single payer system would fix this.

However, it's not as if we went from a national healthcare system to a market based system and things disintegrated, the opposite is true.

Healthcare regulations and government intervention has increased of the last 50 years and things have gotten worst, and by worse, I mean expensive.

Having a family member with mental issues, I can assure you of what the real problem is...and you're not going to like it.

The real problem with mental health in the US is the institutions have been shut down and we no longer commit the mentally ill in mass. Instead they get forcefully drugged for a few weeks in a hospital, then they start behaving better, then they're released with a prescription, then they stop taking their meds. Wash, rinse, repeat.
This comment is ahistorical to an extreme degree. The EU was not founded until 1993.

You could not be more wrong. The EU was built from the ashes of WWII: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/history_en

the European continent after WWII was rebuilt via the economic engine and output of the United States.

This has nothing to do with the discussion at hand, so I'll take that as a "rah rah America" statement.

Does no-one remember the Balkan wars, and post war scarcity that existed to a more extreme detriment in Eastern Europe than Western?

Well, everybody that survived the balkan wars are sure to remember, and so do their offspring. Again, nothing to do with the subject at hand.
"I think I just configured sendmail to only use ipv4 and that solved the gmail issue."

This was my experience, too. I took this advice [1] configuring postfix and Gmail started to accept my emails.

[1] https://christian.skala.me/blog/gmail-why-are-you-doing-this...
The death star destroying alderman is not like the U.S. Nuking Japan, it's like the U.S. nuking Georgia during the Civil War (if the Civil War happened because 20 years earlier the president had dissolved the union in lieu of a dictatorship).
I didn't get that at all. The author doesn't mention Europe in this article, except for noting that the UK in the only other country with a declining life expectancy.

Asia and Africa are mentioned, a couple times, as examples of places that don't suffer from the same problems as America.
I think the key is differentiating between real risks (wingsuits are dangerous!) and fake ones (who cares if strangers give you weird looks because you’re barefoot).
The role "Chief Scientist" sounds fishy to me. A smart investor might wonder what exactly that means. I recently decided to avoid purchasing from a high-end audio equipment company (Sweetwater Sound) where commissioned sales reps have the title "Sales Engineer".
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can I ssh into it?
does it have a public ip?
Given the increase in fractured heterogeneity and the fall of Christianity in the USA, or at least adherence to its teaching and participation (i.e. census stats disregarded), it's not hard to see how people feel socially isolated and free of any debt to any form of "community".

Coupled with a media (traditional tv, print, modern online) whose purpose seems to be purely to exacerbate divisions and perceived social tensions; giving voice to only the most radical on any spectrum on any issue all in the name of getting clicks to sell ads to; it's again not hard to see how groups are drastically losing empathy and support for one another.

America has become a model of how not to approach the goal of creating and supporting a healthy society. One would hope that lessons would be learned from it, but it seems that Western Europe is gung-ho to follow almost every footstep.

As people in tech, there should be no doubt of the contribution we've made, or leadership provided, to the above.
Civil war killed 25÷ of males between 18-45 in South. It thoroughly destroyed their way of life (as it was trully slave society). Internal reform is a bit understatement. There were many disagreements and figths over former slaves after, including violence and terrorism and laws to limit their rights (meaning they went from elected to unable to participate in politics). It was not straight line.

Women and children died too.
Anyone writing opioid epidemics only happen in the US is either poorly informed or is intellectually dishonest. I assume the second here, since this reads like contemporary agitprop.
I can hardly imagine anything less appealing from the rider's perspective
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> In practice, though, H1-B becomes indentured servitude, since they cannot freely move between companies.

Not true. An H1-B can change job. I did it a number of times without any problem. In addition, good companies do not take advantage of this so called immobility. Netflix certainly does not. Its CEO used to say money shouldn't be an issue to employees, and he certainly means it. In fact, Netflix's culture is so good to ICs, but I digressed.
Also, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Georgia, and Ukraine...
I believe that Everclear contains even less contaminants (higher alcohols, esters, ketones, etc) than typical vodka does. I know that 95% reagent-grade ethanol does.
Towers of Hanoi, anyone?
Would isopropyl alcohol work for those industrial purposes? Amazon sells 99% isopropyl.
This would be way better then either: https://github.com/mozilla/mentat
Absolutely not. The time complexity is exactly the same. A quantum computer can simulate quantum annealing with exactly the same asymptotic complexity as an “analog” physical system that takes advantage of quantum mechanics would.
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The problem is, people's words are not reliable. You can ask 100 people "would you pay $5/month for app X", and maybe 25 will say they would, but only 3 actually will when you build it.

There only real way to avoid building a useless MVP is to ask to pre-pay for a product that doesn't exist yet.
That’s fair - and I’ll grant that he has moments of sheer style that I find myself quoting decades later.

That said, I don’t think saying his writing is awful is necessarily derogatory - if anything, he just didn’t let good prose get in the way of a good story or a good idea - and frankly, his style actually enhances his literature - it’s almost part of the narrative.

He’s my favourite author by a country mile, and my several excursions into writing (a novel, two novellas, dozens of short stories, all unpublished as I don’t think they’re even worth pulp) may have inherited his approach ever so slightly, by which I mean they quite definitely have.

The Exegesis is pretty much my Bible.
>We aren't talking about the overall Linkedin userbase, just that specific subset that reuses passwords for secure services.

I have absolutely no idea what you mean.

>most users are probably still using the same password for their email as they used for LinkedIn in 2012.

Suggests that more than 50% of all users currently use their 2012 linkedin password as their email password, which is absolutely not true.
Measuring utility of luxury goods by price is saying that rich people enjoy the concert more than poor people, which is clearly untrue.

Rich people pay more not because the concert offers more utility but because the same number of dollars offers less utility.