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>It’s not so simple. In a perfect market, the market value of the company will go down when company buys back stock. Why? Because the value of the cash is now gone. So in your example, each stockholder just owns a slightly larger piece of a slightly smaller pie.

That's not right. You have a larger piece of a smaller pie, but you have the same amount of pie.

Edit: the confusion is you are talking about total market cap while the parent is talking about share price. Total market cap is irrelevant to stockholders. Share price is all that's relevant.
Can you blame them? People act in their selfish self-interest.

Hoo boy, but if a CEO has self-interests that involve steering the company in a socially responsible direction (or maybe just being less extractive), cries of fiduciary duty to shareholders ring out.
Firefox barely supports U2F. It works on Github and Dropbox, but doesn't work on sites like Vanguard and Google. Every time I do a Firefox update I do a search of the bug listing and they seem to have an incomplete implementation of the spec. They're kicking the can until they fully implement the WebAuth API and jump over dealing with whatever earlier spec they were targeting.

Speaking of which, why does Vanguard force you to still have SMS two factor available even when you add a U2F device...
Not to be rude but Electron apps' level of footprint has always been a compromise and should not be used to justify extraneous resource usage. Emacs must be able to run from the console and resource-constrained systems like AWS instances, where 5mb of RAM can make a difference.
Yes, if one looks at productivity numbers in the last decade, as well as more indirectly via new business creation, perhaps at lifetime of businesses, and at an even wider scale if one looks at inequality (failing at distributing of wealth). Just to name a few factors I'm thinking about.
Yes, luck is a factor.

If you roll once or twice, then say "It's just luck", you're completely right.

But if you keep rolling the dice again and again and again, you're eventually going to get a good roll - especially if you can tweak the roll just a bit. Then you say, "Luck is important, but hard work helps, too."
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On the flipside, I have a very rational distrust of sequential sequences. Over the years I've seen far too many bad SQL database designs abuse sequential sequences for things that should not have a sequence, and too many bad SQL applications that create sequence collisions inadvertently through off-by-one bugs and forced inserts.

In several of those cases, because the sequence remained consistent/in order with no obvious holes, collisions went undetected for days/weeks because people just assumed that because they could count off 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (not realizing they were missing that a second 2 had overwritten the first and a bad outer join was bringing in the wrong 5, for instance) that everything was working correctly. At least with UUIDs there's no accidental assumptions about data integrity from meaningless tangents like "looks like a proper number line" from the human brain's default pattern matching toolkit.
Where do I put a bid for a short on the ability for the earth to support human life comfortably?
So if you wanted tech giants to have less power what exactly would you do?

I suppose you could tell your representative, but then they'd have to somehow influence the senators of your state, but even if that happens you need a majority rule to do something, when it comes to an eventual vote, right? Even if they did have a majority, the Supreme Court, which is inherently stacked one way or another, could simply negate whatever decision was made, no?

It's amazing that despite all of the technological growth, there are more middle people than ever skimming off the top. Somehow it feels that technology is simply making things even more inefficient.
I graduated in 1992 and my state school (UIUC) cost around 4K year + 10K housing, easily worth it. Today it is 30,000. Still probably a pretty good deal. Over 25 years, the cost probably rose by about the same as inflation.

For schools that cost 100K+/year, parents would be better off taking the 400K and investing in the S&P 500 over those 4 years. Because of compounding, their child would never need to save a penny to have an outstanding retirement. If the money doubles around every 8 years (9% ish) and they retire in about 48 years, they get 6 doubles, so their 400K is worth approximately 25 million (in non inflation adjusted dollars)
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Yeah, there are people who believe a lot of weird stuff. For instance, a small but significant group believes that fictional television shows are real, even ones with non-human characters (Sesame Street puppets, or cartoons, say).

Many actors have stories about meeting people who don't understand the difference between the actor and the character the actor plays. It happens all the time.

Nonetheless, we don't usually have "fact checkers" explaining to us that Kermit the Frog doesn't exist, nor do we generally have Facebook threatening a site because they've posted one of those popular "Kermit the Frog drinking tea" memes, and the "fact checkers" have pointed out that Kermit isn't a real frog, and that even real frogs generally don't drink tea.
Thats fair. I have loved wing commander, privateer and freelancer. I hence followed SC development closely, and hence have been cognizant and baffled by these issues. I was too curious what the HN community would have to say in response. I'm frankly hoping to be slammed on my technical comments and have someone prove that its all gonna be ok!
>Your individual ownership is the same value,

No it's not because it can be sold in the market for more money. Value is what the market will pay for your shares.
You should read some more, particularly DC v. Heller. Supreme Court ruled 2nd amendment protects and individual right.

Also, the ideal of "reinterpreting" a right is terrible. They do that to the 2nd amendment and they can do it to the first.

Change the Constitution if you want to take away the right.
That only works if the equity price is a sufficiently correlated representation of the fundamental efficiencies of companies. That's the failure.

If CEOs are managing to manipulate the stock price for personal gain having nothing to do with how efficiently that company manages actually delivering products and services then that's a failure of the market as an economic allocation tool. Choose winners and loser stocks all you want - you can engineer a profit, but all that work might not do anything as a signal for companies to manage their fundamentals better. Now - you can argue about if this is just a short term influence and it doesn't matter because maybe it all still balances out in longer terms. But I lean towards thinking it's a systemic long term disconnect problem.
Right. Per comments from the devs, it was basically a rebase that between two slightly different forks, that took a couple engineers two days to accomplish. The "engine change" was effectively just a licensing matter.
Yeah I would agree. I've struggled to find much work that looks at this at a large scale though!
I can't login to the console as of 15:19 ET. I need to check why my application isn't working.

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As of 15:15 ET the page https://status.aws.amazon.com/ isn't working for me.

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https://status.aws.amazon.com/ is back it says a internet connectivity issue was resolved. AWS Console still isn't back for me.

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Things seems back. 15:33 ET
Around 2001, a cohort of recent grads was working on an obscure experimental thing at Microsoft that never went anywhere. Half of the group went to Mountain View, and half stayed in Redmond. The first half are all millionaires now, and the second half are just well-off.

You can look at this from many directions. Did the natural hustlers hustle their way to Google, while the naturally complacent stayed put? Did the Googlers just go there because that's where their friends went, or because they thought it was cool? Did the Mountain View people catch the fever after the fact, and become hustlers, while the Redmond people absorbed the relatively relaxed culture there? Did everyone just go where they thought was best and then it turned out one of those places was saturated in money?
Also, Greg Bear's Blood Music.
> Time, energy, and effort

My contention is that using real objects normally does not take materially more of any of these, and thus that most code is served best by being tested only by integration and regression tests. Where my contention is untrue, apply your best judgment, of course. :)
"The right of the people...shall not be infringed"
somehow in a case about the credit card industry, which actually extracts monopoly rent on most personal financial transactions its more important for author to talk about about "tech" bogeyman
That is easier said than done. The right place is usually only evident in retrospect. A lot of people move to Silicon Valley, work their freakin' asses off for decades, and still don't succeed.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that it's hopeless and that you should just give up and play video games. But I believe that dumb luck is a bigger factor than effort. Luck is necessary, and can be sufficient for success. Effort and skill are neither. (And, BTW, this is a consequence of deep problems in the system we have set up, and we ought to try to change those. But you can't solve a problem without first acknowledging that the problem exists.)
Analysis of nearly two decades in the US where they banned planes and Muslims:

2001: 2,996 people killed in plane attacks

2002-2018: 0 people killed in plane attacks
I know of a doctor in my area who has nearly killed several patients. One of these patients I know personally and they confided to me that they looked and looked for a lawyer but couldn't find one who would take their case.

I am sure being on a fixed income influences the types of lawyers one has access to and the distance that is affordable to travel. Nonetheless, I found the whole situation appalling. If patients are unable to sue physicians who are incompetent, these incompetent physicians will simply hurt more and more people.
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The first step in correcting a problem isn't proposing an alternative. It's identifying the problem.

Given that the powers that be clearly have no consensus on the existence of the problem (nevermind that they may have a vested interest in not identifying the problem), and that identifying a problem, while non-trivial, is typically orders of magnitude easier than identifying a solution, it's a little disingenuous to dismiss the point by asking for a solution. Just because the solution is unknown doesn't mean we can't discuss the existence of the problem.
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For all the complaints on HN about losing our rights, the Constitution is the only thing stopping it.
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I don't have a problem with the general concept. Tourists spend a lot of money coming to visit NYC in no small part because of attractions like the Met. Why should the airlines, hotels, restaurants, bars and so on get some of that but not the actual attraction itself?

That said, as I understand significant mismanagement and scope creep have lead to the financial shortfall that inspired this pricing change. I worry that in signing off on this change the city has rewarded misfeasiance.
Speaking of declining usage, ASCII art is on the same trajectory.
No, that argument makes total sense to me as well. You're right that there are plenty of hate sites like the two you mentioned that don't have issues.

I also wasn't trying to attack the existing social media sites, either. I think it makes absolute sense for them to kick the trolls and hate crowds off their platform; strong moderation makes for strong communities (HN being one good example).

Mostly, I think I was trying to point out that "go somewhere else" is a solution that only works to a certain extent. Against a relentless enough opposition, there isn't really a true "public square" you can absolutely fall back to on the modern internet. I don't know what the actual argument behind my pointing that out is, just… contributing a fact, I guess.
In fairness, Elite: Dangerous was much, much less ambitious than Star Citizen. No out-of-ship experiences, no planet landings or exploration out of the box (that has been added now), not even any character customization in the initial release. Even now, with much more than the initial launch featureset added, E:D doesn't have anything close to SC's scope.

What E:D does have is an amazing flight model, great visuals and a genuinely well-made physics engine that offers a surprising amount of realism. It's the most "you are a real pilot in a real spaceship" feeling game I've ever played. It just needs more depth to the actual game beyond that.
Yes. There are several very serious problems with the American justice system:

- elected state and local prosecutors
(who feel pressure to resolve cases quickly
in order to be able to get reelected)
- appointed federal DAs who use their jobs to
gain notoriety for subsequent runs for elected
offices (and therefore feel pressure to resolve
cases quickly in order to be able to get elected)
- too many police (thank Bill Clinton for this),
whose salaries have to be funded somehow and
which too many cities fund via fine revenue
- ever-escalating sentencing guidelines (because
no politician of any party wants to be seen as
soft on crime)
(recall that Hillary Clinton was part of this in
the 90s; this is not a phenomenon limited to
one party)
- overload due to criminalization of minor things
(e.g., marijuana related charges), which leads
to enormous pressure for plea deals (even
judges want these so as to reduce their courts'
load) and puts pressure on jails...
- ...making jails big business
- that thoroughly disgusting invention:
civil asset forfeiture
(let's hope that the SCOTUS gets to rule that
unconstitutional soon)
- defendants are not allowed to press for
jury nullification
(for the first 100 years of the Republic it
was established by the SCOTUS that defendants
get to, then that got overturned in the late
1890s)

and many other issues.

Add the fact that there's always poor people to go after who lack education and/or means for obtaining good representation and... these issues add up to a massive injustice system.
Perfect efficiency does not exist. Some efficiency does. There are three variants of the hypothesis: "weak", "semi-strong", and "strong" form. [1] Insider information isn't some conspiracy -- people have gone to jail over it year after year. With information disparity, efficiency is always going to be a fraction of what it could be. Just think about two parties -- one thinks the stock should be high because of insider information. And lets say they are also mega-rich big bucks. The other party is people without the insider info, they think the stock should be low. So Mr. Mega-Rich buys a lot of shares, the stock goes up. Then it falls back down because no one else wants to buy it at that high price. These oscillations will continue as Mr. Mega-Rich takes advantage of his insider information - and the more trading volume on the buying end, that he provides, the more choppy the market for that equity will be. If Mr. Mega-Rich is continuously buying, that choppyness won't go away - lest other parties take his actions to be information itself, and adjust their appraisals.

Wall Street I and II aren't the most accurate pictures, but they certainly aren't fiction. If you aren't the shark, you're getting sharked. But because of 21st century prosperity, you still might be happy with your returns, even while paying the tax of giving money to those with better information.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
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> (+) is not SUM.

As I said, people expect a mathematical summation to be defined in terms of addition. Otherwise one has non-compositional semantics and broken equational reasoning. Perhaps you care not for these properties, but many people do.

> All languages treat these basic operators as fluid logic that depends on surrounding context and data types.... Likewise (+) means concat if you're dealing with 2 strings

Syntax overloading is not relevant here. String concat is just sharing syntax, it is a different function. The issue is that the treatment of null is not consistent. It's possible to add null and still have all algebraic laws hold, so null itself is not the problem.

> within that function context making NULL = 0 is a reasonable coercion

IMHO no coercion is reasonable, especially one that is unexpected. They should have called your "SUM" something else and provided one defined in terms of (+).

> What is the parameterization issue exactly? Instead of a view, you use a stored procedure

Stored procedures are not SQL, they are a feature of various imperative languages with SQL as a subset. Typically I am not allowed to define a stored procedure when I query your database.The context was deficiencies in the standard SQL query language.
My point is: Your experiences taught and reinforced that lesson. It's turtles all the way down.
You can use --private-home to 'import' an existing set of files (e.g. a 'clean' FF profile) into the sandbox, then any modifications made to it are discarded when FF quits.
You sound exactly like the "ideologically possessed social justice minority" you're castigating.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14946450

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868884

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14682604
> "HN policy states that topics should be relevant to tech and startups."

Something along these lines is often-cited, but isn't supported by the guidelines or by comments by the moderators.

From the guidelines:

> "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Discussions on contentious issues very quickly devolve on HN: it's not built to support them well, and many members recognize that. You're right, these are important issues and they should be discussed, but HN empirically has not been proven to be a good place to do so. And rehashing the same arguments time and again is almost the definition of not interesting.

Your posting via a throwaway account is anecdotal evidence of this. That's not a judgment, that's just a reflection of how it is. Likewise your assumption that curation on HN is due to "an ideologically possessed social justice minority": that's not a assumption that engenders the foundation of good faith that discussion on contentious topics desperately needs. Regardless of other factors at play that make discussions like this difficult (and I agree they're myriad), this is one that is destructive, rather than constructive.

And please don't confuse this stance as normative. Hopefully we'll figure out better ways to use things like online forums for working through issues, but we haven't done that yet. Want to have better, deeper discussions on difficult topics? One thing you can do yourself is conduct yourself in a manner that makes that possible. Build a reputation with a regular account so people can trust that you're engaging in good faith, and assume that people are behaving reasonably for reasons that may not be clear to you or you may disagree with before deciding that they're unreasonable.
Before the buyback, the value of the stock consists of cash plus future earnings. After the buyback, you own a bigger share of the earnings but there is less cash. In terms of the value per share, it cancels out (assuming the market was properly valuing the stock at discounted cash flows).
Comments in this thread illustrate how even a tiny bit of linkbait like "the Rich" tends to dominate discussion, riling it up and dumbing it down.

We've edited the title to the subtitle. There's a lot more to this article than that.
An additional overhead between 20% and 25% definitely doesn't feel reasonable to me. Hopefully this isn't linear.
I went to Iceland 2 years ago, and visited both Reykjavik as well as the entire country. As an Asian person, no one assumed I speak any Icelandic and spoke perfect English to me. :) But I did learn to pronounce Icelandic names; by the end of the trip, words like Eyjafjallajokull was not an issue.
I don't think that's quite right. Chinese is a notable counterexample in a lot of places, as well as Vietnamese and Tagalog and some others. But Spanish definitely has a more universal geographic distribution in the U.S. than any other non-English language.

This article and map were pretty interesting:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/05/langua...
What? You pay income tax on the value of your options, and also capital gains tax on the appreciation in their value after vesting. That’s only a tax advantage if you get options in a worthless company that later becomes valuable. The luckier startup employees are in that boat, not Fortune 500 CEOs. For public companies, you can reap this advantage yourself by buying and holding their stock using your cash compensation.
Interestingly, it's well known that the stock of firms with high levels of investment does worse than the stock of firms that do not invest as much -- see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304405X1.... One possible reason for this is that managers may channel investment funds into unproductive empire building.
Can I blame them? Yes, the same way that I can blame a thief for stealing a car even though society "gave him an incentive to steal it."

One of these is an ongoing source of considerable societal damage. The other is illegal.
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I never said any of that.

But they have a pretty high ownership rate and are always left out of the discussion when it doesn't fit the narrative.

Process for actually getting a gun in Switzerland - https://www.ch.ch/en/acquiring-firearm/

No one's arguing about full automatic rifles. There's very few places where fully automatic rifles are actually legal.
Personally I thought the connection to tech was a useful way of provoking thought on the ramifications of the potential court ruling.
Yes, it is on chess.com
I don't think it's as simple as that. Plenty of intelligent people don't finish high school for a number of reasons -- medical issues, problems at home, some simply drop out because they need to start working full-time to afford living.

That's not to say that all of those people would have necessarily gone on to become millionaires, but it's really hard to improve your situation if you don't have that momentum.