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Is it though, or is it in stocks? And even if he cashed in on that 4.8 bln, what would he do with it? Surely not put it all as a bolus into the economy, no CEO does that, they'd place their funds into bonds or other stocks. He will likely still buy 1 pair of jeans, 2 pillows, and 1 ice cream like the rest of us. The true way to put that 4.8 billion into the economy is to give the consumers, the drivers and riders themselves, the best bottom line. Then each of them in turn can buy that one more product, far more spending than a CEO is likely to do.
So... it's not a problem?

This feels like responding "Of course Harvey Weinstein's been creepy to young women, people has been saying he's creepy for years."...
Agreed. Some people are concerned with getting people out of absolute poverty. This includes things like access to clean water, a roof to sleep under, the ability to not die at 30, etc. Other people are concerned about the spread of income. They don't want to see someone making millions of dollars when someone else is making $20k. In the US, for the most part, people are not living in absolute poverty.
WebAssembly has no access to DOM so you still need JS to drive the UI in most cases.
You might have had a chance at making an argument if the first and only laborer you exemplified wasn't "basketball player".
I delete my Google activity every few weeks. This allows usage of features which they require you to enable tracking for, but keeps your information relatively private in the long term. It'd be nice to have this done automatically somehow.
Is there really a need to even have a “main wallet”? Most implementations I know of will aggregate multiple wallets into your balance, and I think handle sending transactions from those wallets in sum of the full amount being requested to send.
To be completely honest, I don't think many people outside the tech bubble have realized the extent to which facebook used and collected users data.

I just don't feel like it's fair to say everybody has known for years. Maybe in your circle, but certainly not in every ones.
While I generally applaud the idea, I cannot help but notice that the most likely abuser of users personal data is the governments of the EU itself.
Can someone explain why this is getting downvoted? This is Hacker News not Reddit, please express your angle with text, not just a downvote.
He probably bought it on a huge loan for 1 million, and you can't just retire on the difference.
Most taxi drivers must work very long hours to earn enough to live on -- the driver mentioned reportedly worked 100-120 hour weeks for 14 years. While it may be OK to do this for a short time, doing this as a lifestyle is not good for a society not at war.

Such jobs should be replaced by technology / gigs / something else. Being displaced by the technology is painful for the folks affected, but we should focus on minimizing transition pain for those affected (money, training, relocation, other help), not on blasting companies challenging this insanity.
Its not dark UX merely because you don't like it.

Dark UX suggests a control designed to trick you into making a decision you would deliberate otherwise not make. I looked at their opt-in control and it is very clear that you have to opt-in.

In other words, if you didn't want Facebook to have all your call and SMS data then why would you deliberately agree to give it to Facebook with their very obvious consent form?
The magnetic fusion triple product* did in fact increase exponentially from 1970 to 2000, at about the same pace as Moore's Law. Then we reached the limit of the superconductors at the time, and could only move forward by building an enormous reactor which still isn't finished. Now we have better superconductors; fusion output in a tokamak reactor increases as the fourth power of magnetic field strength.

We also have lots of different designs to experiment with, and much better computers for running simulations. As the computers improve, fusion progress will speed up, if the funding is available.

* (The triple product of temperature, density, and confinement time is the critical fusion metric; for every fusion fuel there's a triple product above which you get net power.)
> I feel like Rust started out with solid dependency management in place, at least it's been there from the early days.

Rust had actually been through three failed package manager projects before they decided to bring in the domain experts at Tilde. Nice that at least that bit of churn has been forgotten - but yeah, it became obvious over that time just how non-trivial the problem is. Cargo makes it seem easy though ;)
Isn't there a distinction between hyped sales cycles and a propaganda machine?
You wouldn't consider it evil to push bad products onto thousands of people with a technological tool, where before you could only push that product onto hundreds?
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I never cared about what Facebook did with the data they collected from their users because I did NOT consent. I chose to remain off their platform. I am, however, reliably informed that they nevertheless /persist/ in gathering data about me -- presumably via friends and family and the FB apps they use, along with backend pattern and facial recognition and so on.

Any claim of theirs that I "consented" to them building, using and profiting by my foibles, relationships and habits is false. Not merely disingenuous; an outright lie.
I want to see one actually work before getting hyped up. There has been “good news” thru the years but nothing happens with it
Using AI to weed out people most susceptible to manipulation via ads doesn't really seem to be something that falls under "good & moral" category.
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Why does that even matter?

Admittedly people like me have a larger proportion of our wealth pinned down in things like real-estate, but it's not like most of us stuff cash in shoe boxes around house. Once you discount accommodation and personal cars, most of us have the rest "in the economy".
Who were they trusting to responsibly invest it other than themselves? I thought the people who lost were the ones who had it all invested in Enron. I'm not aware of any financial advisor who would consider this responsibly invested.
It also seems like leasing a 1.1M asset for 36k/year is poor retirement planning. 3.2% pre tax won’t ler you live that well.

Seems like an odd emotional link. That we’re supposed to support this person’s edge retirement plan by making hailing cabs suck for users.

What if someone invested in Exxon. Spent $1.1M and was relying on the dividend yield (4.6% btw-http://www.dividend.com/dividend-stocks/basic-materials/majo...). And in twenty years renewables make Exxon tank.

Would we feel sympathy? I would, a little as people losing their life’s savings is sad.

But investing your whole nest egg in one thing is bad. Investing it in a thing that causes misery is even worse. Investing in a thing with artificial scarcity is further worse.

Putting a million into medallions because they’ve risen in value for 80 years is dumb. The article is also disingenuous as there were lots of investment firms buying these. Why only show this one example of a single owner.

This guy’s firm owned 500 in 2005, valued at $200M. https://www.nysun.com/business/new-york-citys-biggest-owner-...

This was a $5B market back then if all 13,605 medallions were worth $400k each. These weren’t mostly owned by mom and pop individual owners.
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Earlier I realized, the lesson to be learned is, if you have an online platform, you should care about users' privacy even if you're small, because who knows, one day it can lead to an international scandal with you as the bad guy.
You do need to disable those systems to have a proper test and may have adverse confusion with the AI
if you want to pay for something what is more expensive than what you have in one wallet (or transfer larger amount), you will eventually have to combine multiple wallets
I think Brexit might be his lucky out here.

Now if he's summoned to appear before the US or EU government, skipping that I suspect would not turn out well.
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Sorry, you're right that I mixed you up with whoever posted the original comment. I do think context matters though, of course that makes no sense to say specifically to you.
> generally adding multiple layers of control on the same axis

They wouldn't be. Subsumption architecture is the usual method to couple these things together, since the 80s.

Individual reactionary modules, that may be 'dumb', like the AutoBreak, that have a hierarchy of response.

Redundancy is essential for safety.
Another prisoner's dilemma stuck at backstab/backstab. No individual company can offer simple terms, because it's against their short-term interests. Simple terms only work if everyone else offers simple terms. Legal precedent and regulatory capture has evolved us to a local maxima.
Discrimination when it comes to housing (just as in matrimony) is still rampant in India: religion, gender, marriage status, and certainly caste are all reasons people are regularly denied access to rental properties. I suppose my point was more about ephemeral commercial activity, like entering a coffee shop, which was the example that was given in the grandparent comment.

Edit: Fascinating interview, by the way. Thanks for posting it! Loved this part:

>GIDLA: I will say this: Everybody is dying to know whether I got into university because of reservations. My answer to them is, “Go ahead and die.”
Yes, it's purely based on artificial scarcity. Which historical never lasts.

PanAm went bust because they banked on price fixed airline tickets.

USPS benefited from national mail logistics only being available to government level endeavors.

DeBeers is about to get crushed by artificial diamonds which are both cheaper and "better diamonds" than the massive stockpile they've accumulated.

The rocket industry has long labored under the delusion that massive government contracts underwriting their $100m launch prices keep them safe. But their bubble is popping one $60m Falcon 9 launch at a time.

And finally, the government will support whatever brings in the most taxes and f̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶a̶l̶-̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶e̶s̶t̶ lobbyist dinners.
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I would never go to a company with an incredibly proprietary infrastracture unless it’s at the edge of today’s advance (see Google).

Seriously, how does a developer sell his skills later on? “I had programmed in Django... But in LISP.”?

I love DSLs, but what you’re saying makes 0 sense business-wise.
Isn't the surprise of many that this was used for political purposes in a way that significantly differs from the expected pattern (micro targeting vs generic political advertising)?

I suspect most people on HN are aware of how naive much of the public are about the implications of technology.
I would argue that consenting to allow Facebook to access your contacts is not consenting to allow Facebook to log your phone calls and SMS messages.

Of course, some of the blame for that belongs with Google, for failing to accurately describe the permissions being given to apps.
Pretty sure they are working on a Universal App for Windows. Which means many of your concerns could be addressed. I haven't noticed any issues with the OSX version, but I don't use my Mac much.
Paint.Net didn't even have customizable keyboard shortcuts last time I used it. I would consider it far behind GIMP in feature completeness.
> Maybe in your circle

What if the audience in question is limited to people reading Hacker News? Do they have an excuse for the sudden change of heart?
It's never been easier to start a business. We need more CEOs and business owners, not more serfs.

Lack of wage growth incentivizes people to find new, more value-producing work. Subsidizing low-income work is self-destructive.
The risk is much higher because it is not only about human deaths, but also about unusable land for decades and decades.

It will be impossible to re-populate land up to six miles from the Chernobyl for the next 10,000 years, and it will probably be the same for Fukushima

Along with that, zones that can be repopulated are suffering much higher risk of cancer and misc health issues.

The safety margins are big because the risks are tremendous, not because people love to waste money.
Feature wise they sound similar, but we’re talking about three atoms thick here. This could be world-changing tech if it gets efficient enough.
> The value of the medallion is purely based on the gov't promise to maintain the system.

There was never a government promise or guarantee to maintain the system as was. There was nothing more than a hope that they would.

How is that any better than building your business around assuming Google was never going to change or improve their search algorithms pre Panda/Penguin? Or betting on newspaper classified ads never going away. Or a thousand other examples like that from the last century. One of the more common requirements of staying in business, is managing to adapt with change.

The only alternative is for the government to try to freeze technological progress for the benefit of a few and at the expense of the many. Except that's impossible, the rest of the global economy will destroy you, leaving you in the stone age.
Do you realize how obnoxiously condescending the line "look how good you have it over the people a few hundred years ago" is? How about we give that line to people who already have a lot but always want more? No, it's only used against the little guy who dares to want a decent life.
Globalization: it works both ways! We can exploit rural Chinese and they can exploit rural Americans.
This wasn't work for hire. Gordon Moore was a cofounder of Fairchild. As a founder who was doing primary research work, he should in fact be held directly accountable.
I can see it from the perspective of Volvo pushing this - one of their cars is now widely shown in the media killing someone, and their whole reputation is safety. I'd also want people to know that Uber was tinkering with the standard safety features, even if it was for good reason.
"Hey we would like to give you weather reports and the ability to see when people in your area are selling things

P.s we will sell this on to third parties so they can target you to influence elections."

The problem here is Facebook doesn't ever word things like this, they up sell Facebook platform features, even if they are segways into increased advertising revenue.

I think regulation should have a stance on this. It needs to be easy for users to see exactly how their data is being used, and in a timely fashion. If the company can't protect our data, they don't deserve to have it.

What do you say Mark? You agreed to this*

* - https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180325071038-01-faceb...
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Not sure it would require more manpower, but it would surely decrease their revenues.

People refuse to accept it, but there's a reason there used to be millions of spam messages sent out each day 10 years ago and there's probably even more sent today, we just don't see it as much. Shady business brings a lot of money. Heck, entire (smaller) countries kick-started their wealth by collecting from shady people.
So, do you or the original poster actually have a materialized petabyte of RNA data? Otherwise, you're just describing a million files spread over a million file servers, not being used for science or processed in any way.
I don't understand - would appreciate if you elaborate.
That was exactly the attitude that led me into business school. I just discovered too late that most of business school isn't about any of that.

I highly encourage you to study those interests independently, whether you stick with business or not. You'll never have more time to spend in the library geeking out about whatever you like. It's what I miss most about university.
Why don't they just come out with a subscription version of Facebook? $40/year for no ads, no data miners or data sharing and a customizable "news" feed (e.g. no shared posts from crazy Uncle, prioritize family, etc.)

Some percentage of users will do that. If 1% of 2 billion users choose it, then they get $800 million per year.

It seems logical if people don't like being the product, let them pay for the product, right?
Part of the problem is how the TOS is deliberately obscure long form text while the UI (which does not make the data sharing explicit) is nice, polished and A/B tested for maximum engagement [0].

Were the same information design effort applied to explaining the data collection and sharing, all users would at least know what is happening.

Most users should know/intuit how this pervasive data collection/sharing can have unwanted side effects, even without such nicely designed explanations, but one of the most effective rules of UX is don't make me think.

[0]: "Frictionless" in practice means "don't wait, start using this now and only think about it later".
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Then the value just diffuses in the whole economy, ending up in investments in countless industries.

Instead you can keep it in stocks of companies you believe in, like startups and interesting moonshots.

It all ends up with the question - do you want the economy to decide where to focus the value (the diffusion) or do you want to decide yourself?

But if you have this amount of money in the first place, you are statistically in the better place to decide than the economy.
Okay, babygoat, you're not familiar with Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick, which is the allusion here. Granted it's an obscure one... but one many who have been introduced to this question (wage and price controls) academically would be familiar.

Nozick made a classic argument about how naive concepts of social justice are incompatible with a system in which everyday economic transactions made by free will can be honored. He used the wealth of Wilt Chamberlain as an example (although his argument was actually concerned with wage ceilings, the same thinking applies to wage floors).

You can insert the words "for example" before "basketball player," or fill in another profession if you need this to be an argument. I wasn't really trying to make one, because the burden of argument isn't on me.

When someone claims that capitalism requires coercion in order to pay high salaries, the burden is on them to explain why so many high salaries exist, sans coercion, under capitalism. Or why wages have generally been higher in capitalist countries.

Another problem with wage floors (coercing higher wages) is that -- to the extent they are effective -- they inevitably create surpluses. For example, requiring every fast food worker to be paid $30 an hour would create a shortage of fast food (by the economic definition). Requiring every programmer to be paid $200,000 would create a shortage of programming.
I think this reputation for intransigence was probably merited by ~noughties GIMP team, but it doesn't seem to me to be deserved at present. I think the UX issues that remain are more due to lack of development resources than intransigence.

Edit: Despite my defence of the current devs, I continue to be annoyed by the GIMP cheerleaders who continue to unhelpfully blame the program's shortcomings on its users.
> Nobody forces anyone to visit that ad invested shit hole.

That's a little simplistic. In the social media space there are no widely-used competitors to Facebook. Companies that could be called competitors in scale - Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, Snapchat - target different demographics and use-cases[1]. You're not likely to find too many older family members on Snapchat for example. Even so, Facebook also owns several former such competitors like WhatsApp and Instagram.

I try to avoid Facebook like the plague, but it gets harder every year. Just about my entire extended family currently uses WhatsApp for messaging and phone calls to save money on overseas phone bills. I'm trying to push them towards Signal - but it's like pushing a boulder uphill because all of their friends use WhatsApp also.

[1] None of these vet their ads with any rigor either, by the way. If I'm looking for a company that uses personal information and displays ads carefully and ethically such a beast doesn't exist.
Exactly, and that's my problem with ride sharing companies like Uber (or rather, with governments letting them operate as unlicenced taxis despite strict regulation of 'real' taxis). The government created an artificial monopoly, sold tickets to operate in that monopoly, and then failed to protect it. Medallions were a stupid idea but that doesn't mean the government should be able to just write them off and screw over the people holding them.
Not at all. Fingerprinted lockfile systems (yarn or otherwise) provide separate benefits from semver:

- The potential for deterministic builds. Saying "my system will work after update because all of the updates are minor versions" is a big benefit provided by semver, but saying "it will work after update because the bits of the built files are the same" is a lot more assurance. "No Trespassing" signs haven't "failed" because door locks and fences exist; it's just different levels of effort/assurance.

- Security/package verification.

- A speed advantage in dependency fetching. Using a lockfile, you no longer have to ask the registry for something that matches your semver pattern, or make multiple round trips. For a single package that advantage is negligible, but across multiple packages with shared dependencies, having a lockfile improves the ability to do parallel package downloads and gives your system knowledge of which dependencies are shared much earlier in the process.

- Auditability/visibility. If you check your lockfile in and someone else is having problems reproducing a bug, being able to diff lockfiles makes it very easy to see if your environments differ. Since the full tree is serialized in a predictable place, it's easy to diagnose situations like "you're using a different version of package X, which is causing weird behavior because it's depended on by a package we use". That semver's fault; people put '>' without '<' in semver strings all the time, and that's no more a failing of semver than misspelings are a failing of your text editor. Lockfiles also make it easy to identify the opposite scenario: "our installations are identical; must be something else on your system that's causing the problem--maybe check your environment/kernel rev?"

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Would you feel the same way if the CEO of some massive Russian or Chinese firm holding the private data on millions and millions of American citizens refused to appear before the American Congress?
It's not developed by Mozilla anymore though.

It's a community project now. So yes, is is abandoned by mozilla.
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