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>What happened about doing one thing, but doing it well?

Mass connectivity and the sorts of companies that entails might contribute, but financial structures are responsible for most of it.

Public corporations and investment firms decouple capital from production. The neoclassical economic theories establish this as a reasonable approach to a liquid market, but they fail to account for a few things, including mode of production, which comprises the means and relations of the production process. Whereas specialization brought efficiency to production, these recent arrangements remove production from sight, altogether. Our financial system is essentially just optimizations for doing this type of business, and other industries have followed suit. Monopolies are among but still the least of our problems.
As Truman said: "If we see Germany is winning, we should do everything we can to help Russia, and if we see Russia is winning, we should help Germany. Better to let them wear each other out."
I'll throw in a personal anecdote too.

The hardest worker I've ever met was the manager of the produce department at a grocery store I worked at as a teenager. He was here on political asylum from a South American country. His (and my) manager lied to the state department to get him deported because "Mexicans need to go back to where they belong". Afaik he's now rotting in a particularly shitty prison despite doing everything he should have and more.
Not flying at the same altitude?
As an aside, it annoys me to know end that I can't sort search results in Amazon across different departments/areas by price. You have to choose a category like "Electronics" before you can do that. I wish Google made it easier to do more flexible searching+sorting on Amazon.

Lately I've been trying to get more into embedded electronics. I was surprised how much cheaper it is to find things on ebay and aliexpress. The shipping is often much slower than on Amazon but I can get resistors, solder flux, esp32's, shift registers, etc -- waaaaay cheaper. Though it may be because aliexpress hosts a lot of sellers directly from China where the items are manufactured? I used to think of ebay as auction-only, but I generally research things on Amazon for product details and then go to ebay to find it hundreds of dollars cheaper. Did this yesterday with a laptop. Amazon is less risky than aliexpress or ebay, but I save more than I lose.

(I swear this is not an advert)
As a US centrist, I care about the social safety net. But I also care about efficiency. I have no love for a janitor making 200k/year. I don't care what the laws are, that's a broken system someone has figured out how to game.

I think that in the future, decisions about redistributive action will be much more individual and finer-grained. People sometimes forget that nation-states aren't the only way to provide a social safety net, and in fact, they have significant disadvantages, including tons of complex rules and an entrenched bureaucracy that resists change.

I would much rather have the social safety net work like American Red Cross (incidentally, to which I'm a donor) than the US federal government. The key is to install the right social norms so that as the power of states fall, people still feel compelled to engage in some level of redistributive personal donation. Fewer McMansions and boats, more volunteering and donation.

In sum, just because the power of government and organized labor is declining doesn't mean everyone is going to become a cold-hearted scrooge. I think there's a third way, where we could help a lot more people for a lot less money out of pocket.
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Replying to myself after doing some additional testing.

I've now seen multiple examples of Pinterest hosting images with the "original link" being a Google Images search result page, complete with the huge URL query string intact.

While it's possible users who don't know how to find the original URL for an image are pinning Google Image pages instead, the accounts that have pinned them do not look like real people.

It really makes it look like Pinterest is crawling Google Images for specific search terms, auto-generating pages to match the results, and then manipulating Google to get their own pages to show up in Google instead.
The speed of light is a hard limit. I don't believe there is any free lunch[1], but trade-offs to manage. I'm skeptical of any claim that implies free or easy speed without potentially significant trade-offs.

If you can live with somewhat out-of-date and/or out-of-sync data, you can throw mass parallelism at big read-only queries to get speed. The trade-offs often are best tuned from a domain perspective such that it's not really a technology problem, although technology may make certain tunings/tradeoffs easier to manage.

[1] (Faster hardware may give us incremental improvements, but the speed of light probably prevents any tradeoff-free breakthroughs.)
It is worse on mobile firefox: https://imgur.com/a/WgS3d
I believe this comment is going to trigger my rate-limit so apologies for not being able to give further context. But to one: how about being poor, working hard and then staying poor?

More importantly why should it matter how someone defines success? I think the false and self-perpetuating notion of meritocracy is massively benefitted by the lowered expectations of the lower class. If I'm born poor, making it to lower middle class could be a huge success for me, if I'm born rich that same outcome would be a massive failure. Even to acknowledge that that is true is admission of how massively tilted opportunity is. If the poor and the rich had the same visions of success, they dreamed the same dream, do you think we could still say with a straight face that, really, hard-work is the most important factor in success? I don't think so.
The leaders of tomorrow are the leaders of today. Prescott Bush groomed his son to be president and the same with W and H.W. Obama was most likely sifted out of the pool in U Chicago by all the Strauss followers. The Clintons are a pretty powerful family and had Hillary won, it would have been a continuation of the Bush Clinton dynasty.

Trump might seem like an outlier, but he's more like Reagan: an actor. He's a puppet on stage and the corporations actually running the show know they can play him. He's there to distract America from all the interest groups that really run things and they selected him because he's so out there.

Make no mistake, the future leaders will either be groomed from an early age to be very careful with their public image or the puppet masters will latch onto actors who will be bombastic to keep America distracted.

The rules are different for the rich. Their PR departments build worlds around them that use social networking. If there's any doubt, remember Obama joked about predator droning people interested in his daughter and people laughed.
Yep, being anti-h1b !== being anti-immigrant. Immigrants who are free to hop jobs are a key component of a vibrant, entrepreneurial, worker-friendly economy. Immigrants who are disposable, bonded labor undermine the freedoms everyone else has while also promoting inefficient labor allocation.

not sure if this organization actual feels that way though...
A lot of people may be less and less interested in Facebook "the social network", but a lot of them are still using Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, so FB is still huge and dominant in the social sphere.
The "leader of the free world" stops being coincident with the officeholder of the US presidency the instant someone devoid of positive leadership qualities steps into it. It is entirely possible that there no longer is a "leader of the free world" now, or that it might change hands on an ad hoc basis, depending on who was particularly brilliant on a given day.

One might be able to make a case for Angela Merkel or (metonymically) Brussels, Belgium, in it's role as headquarters for NATO and host of the EU parliament, but I'm inclined to believe the title is still awaiting someone worthy of it.
I think most people have no idea of what it was like living back in those time periods.

Yes, you could get a job back then without a diploma. You might be digging ditches or loading hay in 100-degree weather. I really haven't run across someone willing to work hard like that today who can't get a job somewhere.
>The far left's constant push to draw increasingly unremarkable positions like "US jobs should go to US workers" as beyond the pale is why we're stuck with Trump.

Well said. Just like how anti-illegal-immigration (an unremarkable position) is now synonymous with anti-Mexican.

It creates scenarios like the article where you're kneejerk labeled a racist and that's supposed to be self-evident.
Agreed. I deleted my account 2 weeks ago and haven't looked back either. Instagram on the other hand is still one of my favorite ways to share photos with my friends.

I think the facebook(.com) product has some serious soul-searching to do and if they continue to ignore their monumental problem -- it will not end well for them, nor their stockholders.
Except CIFS proves it is possible to have a network file protocol that isn’t quite such hot garbage
>May be sometime in the future we would have a universal human rights charter that expands and decides what are the basic needs of a human that a society should provide in exchange for basic responsibilities. This way life will not always be a rat race and the poorest and unlucky can at least have some dignity.

Life has always been a rat race. The only reason that it isn't for some people right now is that we are at a very unique time in human history where we have greatly increased our ability to produce food and, at the same time, have extremely low birth rates as a result of being poorly adapted for modern life.

This, too, shall pass.
That title was only valid from 1940 until around the end of the cold war. How can the "Free World" be free if it is dominated by a single foreign nation? If anything, that title should be given to an organization.
Google’s search of Amazon products is frequently better than Amazon’s. For instance, I was looking for a specific long obsolete model of compact digital camera. Google easily finds to used ones for sale on Amazon. From within Amazon I never could make it give me the item, just pages of compatible accessories.
You have other options you can also try:

1. Try to get a raise at your current job. Are you being paid fairly, given experience and other people's salaries?

2. Try to switch to better paying job within your company. If you have additional skills, maybe you can switch to something where you're a little less qualified. Since they know you, hopefully they will trust you to be able to learn new things.

3. Apply to entry level developer jobs elsewhere. "Formal qualification" matters less than skills and willingness to learn to many companies.
You don't need that giant dense buildings for that and you don't need "lots" of cafes etc. 3-4 in a walking distance is better than nothing like in average suburbs. There's thousands people living in 20 minute walk radius and if you add bike ride here, it's even more. Put cluster of reasonably large apartment buildings as a core, cafes and shops in this area and individual homes sprawl around it. I'm sure we can find at what scale economics does work.
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It was really weird to me when people in the 21st century started calling themselves to differentiate themselves from other sorts of liberals. Modern progressives and the progressives of the Progressive era share many features but traditional progressives were strongly associated with moral paternalism and eugenics. Seeing people I would have called liberals start calling themselves progressive was as jarring as Trump's use of "America First". And I think that nativism isn't unknown to modern progressives. I think Bernie Sanders is commonly considered a progressive and he was very down on immigrants depressing native worker's wages.
Yes. But Facebook buttons don't spread themselves, people actively put them on their sites.
Toys 'R' Us Store Closings: A How-Not-To Guide for Retail
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Errol Morris on Stephen Hawking, “a king of infinite space”
Interestingly amzn, goog seem to be doing this on much lower volume than the competition

https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,ORCL,GOOG,INTC,QC...
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The threshold for noticeable touch "rubberbanding" is 1 ms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=52&v=vOvQCPLkPt4
I really hate arguments like this. I saw this concept mocked in a book once. Among other things, it had pretty women intentionally making themselves less attractive.

We need to find ways to make smaller organizations more robust and less vulnerable to having their lunch eaten by large organizations. But this advice to not buy anything popular and only go with that which is unpopular is not the right way to do this.
It is telling that 3 out of 4 of the trillion dollar companies are actually oil companies. Just goes to show how dependent we are on the fossil fuel.
Google's official blog post on the subject also explains things pretty well: http://adwords.googleblog.com/2018/03/shopping-actions.html

It's basically just a new type of search result ad that charges companies based on actual sales driven rather than just clicks, and it integrates directly with Google's own shopping cart and payment system to enable things like ordering from multiple stores at once and buying things via Google Assistant.
Newly released app Streety makes it easy to monitor neighborhood activity
I've experienced the same things and believe that the requirement to put more effort into maintaining friendships has been a large positive for me. Particularly given that I have been a poor communicator my entire life. The phone calls that I have been forced to have with friends since I stopped using social media have drawn us much closer -- at least in part because a phone call is far more intimate than a series of text messages.

Nevertheless, I do think some people are perfectly capable of using both social media and more traditional forms of communication. I don't think I'll ever attempt to achieve that balance given the other ills of social media that I've found myself susceptible to, but to each their own.
Are you familiar with how senators name bills in the US? The patriot act, no child left behind, so-on.

If you are against the patriot act, are you against patriotism? If you are against no child left behind, would you prefer to leave children behind?

I suggest you reconsider what end you define as Orwellian.
Is it possible to see details about the sdk without having to give Magic Leap my email?
No it isn't, it's clearly about commercialism. The commenter makes specific examples and includes the phrase "buying decisions".
It really depends on what subs you choose.

The defaults are cesspools. Just plan on nasty things being said back and forth to each other. In reality, the defaults are worse than 4chan, which is saying something.

However, the moment you start getting into tech subs and narrow hobby subs, the SN ratio cleans right up. Yeah, there might be a single spam, or some rude person, but they are the exception.

Reddit's like Usenet. The more people in a general group, the worse behaved they are. Go look up "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory" -- so true..
So this doesn't really work. You think you deleted it, but when you "re-activate" your account, there are backups that bring back most of the data from the starting date of your account to just before you deleted it - plus or minus a day.
We now have the HW/SW technology to authenticate and isolate code and individual humans, including the creation of parallel universes (copy-on-write disk and memory for transient VMs that are forked from running code) with optionally persistent side effects. Some of these ideas are present in https://cappsule.github.io/faq/
Stop using Facebook. Your future self will thank you for it.
i know you meant for that to be funny, but you are correct in a scary way. github has become _the_ place for sharing code and they (as you already have seen multiple times) have no problem in deleting or locking out repos when the first hit of a DCMA gets into their hands (without any verification to the legitimacy of the DCMA mind you).
I understand and sympathise with that example. But surely you agree that not all lines of work can be equally compensated.

That doesn't mean that hard work is ineffective and a lie though?
I don't know enough about UK laws or laws in general, but it should be easy to discredit such law. It only takes one rebel tech savvy teen to send his nude sext to whatever celebrity/politician email/phone he can guess while alarming the police - and the press to stir as much shit as possible.

Actually, pardon me for a minute, I have sci-fi short to write :).
How do you know that `Social Book Post Manager` isn't scraping all of your data and sending it to some third party server?
I’ve never worked hard in my life and I earn more than my (hard working) parents combined
I've got Evernote hooked up to Evernote Publisher [0], which renders my notes site [1]. The setup is OK, but I just checked out vimwiki [2] and so far it is amazing!

[0] https://github.com/jaytaylor/evernote-publisher

[1] https://jaytaylor.com/notes

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16607072
Yeah, the real data's properties are what are under study, so the artificial data needs to mimic it.
Here is an interview of a Cambridge Analytica data scientist describing how they harvested and made use of FB data:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdYSQ6nu-M
This reminds me of SQL Slammer. Remember that? After that mess, there were Slashdot threads just like we have HN threads right now, and the overwhelming consensus among the sysadmins there was, "Database servers should never be visible to the public Internet. They should always be behind a VPN or application server". And then, as is usual for nerd fora, someone would try to come up with a counterexample, "But what if...", and the sysadmins would just cut them off with, "No. Never ever."

That hasn't changed, folks. If someone on the Internet can talk to your Postgres database, you are Doing It Wrong.
On the contrary, their stance is more in line with the traditional view of progressivism. It's only fairly recently that free market capitalists tried to push for open borders and mass immigration under the guise of "progress". There's a simple reason why the big tech companies want more immigrants. It suppresses wages. It changes the dynamics of supply and demand of the workforce in order to take power away from workers and give it to employers.

If you're against the 1%, you should be against these neoliberal immigration policies.
In my country, the big media companies and the state are highly colluded. Social media has come as a welcome alternative for broadcast and dissemination of information by reporters who don't follow the state's agenda.

Independent and small-party candidates opposing the ruling party have also found in social media a vehicle to reach their constituents being they can't rely on the big networks. Social media has been used to make wrongdoings public, including during the election, and raise the public's awareness on stuff TV networks don't report.

I can't and won't speak in absolutisms, and I think you shouldn't either. IMO though, in my home country and in terms of political action and public awareness I disagree with you.
> Epic is absolutely SWIMMING in money thanks to what was essentially a weekend project by two of their engineers.

Are you talking about Fortnite in general, or the Battle Royale mode?

The weird thing is that my impression is that Fortnite was talked about for awhile as this Horde-mode construction game, sort of like minecraft meets L4D. Then the BR F2P mode was added and the whole thing blew up.
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I haven’t checked the numbers but those stocks trade 5-7x higher so it makes sense you would see lower volume. Multiply by price to see size of market. Or am I misunderstanding?
Value is relative, right? It depends on who looks at it. To Epic, they're definitely worth $12M whilst to you and me it's probably not more than a couple hundred bucks (unless you're a game dev in need of assets, that is),
Do you have a substantive point, or are you just trying to be pedantic? Clearly, if your conception of god is contentless such that it's isomorphic to a basic physical substance then there is no problem. If your point was simply to point out such conceptions, well, OK, but I'm not sure why you felt the need to point that out.
You already have to trust the TLD operators today, since a rogue one could reply to a CA's domain validation requests as they please?
Site unaccessible from VPN. Guise I promise I'm not a spammer I just value my privacy :'(
My understanding from reading that was that even on a "public" project the owner can delete it, change it's status, and it disappears from availability.
Your adversaries can always do more harm with information than friends can do good. This is because information "warfare" is fundamentally asymmetric: one incident, presented a particular way and targeted to a particular group can do great harm: someone somewhere will take offense to what you did or what you said, if a certain actor facilitates the travel of information to paint you in a bad light. Look no further than Twitter, whose functionality is effectively tailor-made for this behavior.

Facebook's original purpose stems from a time of naïveté: put all your interests and factoids about you here, where you can be yourself. As if anyone would use any of this to market you products, target you political ads, toy with your emotions by running A/B tests on your feed, or dox you to grief you in real life -- right?

So you pare down your friend list, you put your best face forward on Insta, keep your silly stuff on Snap, move your chats to WhatsApp, at which point your Facebook is nothing more than meme reposts, a rolodex of your acquaintances, and that one relative who always picks a fight with your friends on your political reblogs, yet you can't delete them because you have to see them at Thanksgiving. Your feed is 60% ads, but you don't care, because all posts are out of order, so you can scroll down until stuff looks vaguely familiar, then x out and return in a few hours when you're bored.

The author's points ring true, but Facebook is already past its prime, infested by overcommercialization, and no more harmful to the average person than the fifty thousand Google cookies they carry with them from their Android to their browsing with Chrome, or Amazon's uncanny ability to show ads for the exact thing you looked up from a different device yesterday. People deride the filter bubble, but what's the alternative; your private space full of people's stuff you can't stand?
seriously, like if someone builds an entire gaming company from these assets then it would be worth way more than $12M