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Attracting is one thing, retention is another. Pay isn’t the reason people leave from FANGS oftentimes, but pay is oftentimes the reason people move to FANGS.
Excuse me for choosing the word robbery. I was not aware that it meant something different than theft. Did not realize that the different words for stealing implied different contexts. I have edited my comment accordingly.
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Could sunlight be modulating our sense of time?
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Nor many that need to ;) FWSY is pretty flawless as a whole work, and much more depth than this.
> Or we could consider non-profit bases for pharmaceutical R&D, but that goes against the current dominant free market ideology.

Considering the huge costs of healthcare in western countries why don't all the states or maybe EU cooperate? This seems to happen in research but why stop there? Add 1% of tax for it - it's probably worth it - alone on the fact you have an organisation without profit motivation.

However even if realized I guess lobbying will destroy any good that might come out of such an initiative before it's even started.
I would distribute sovereignty more broadly, allow the smaller units of sovereignty to practice mercantilism to protect internal industries (i.e. productive capacity) and remove usury as the basis of the money supply to avoid wealth concentration in money centers.

Wealth redistribution is inevitable at this point, ideally in the form of debt jubilee but, given the political power of the banking class, more likely via something more chaotic.
> Instead of buying prepared foods, cook meals.

He acks that in the article,

> When you are a dual job household with a baby, there’s little time to cook.
> However, food is where this family can cut expenses if they start feeling a little tight.
Similar story here. Getting older has helped a lot and suddenly I'm way more open to different genres and they land with me. Being educated about those genres also helps me get into them. Poetry, classical music, jazz, hip hop, absract sounds, art from other cultures, lots of abstract visual art...in earlier times of my life much of that was just not going to land with me.
Population growth is driven by birth rate, not death rate. Even slaughtering everyone at the age of 100 only delays the overpopulation problem (by less than two decades) if indeed there is an overpopulation problem.
Uhmmmm. Photoshop receipts? If it’s digital, it will be tampered with.
> I’m not sure the benefit to Apple or other phone manufacturers. This looks like a substantial cost with zero benefit to those others than law enforcement.

The benefit is that law enforcement has access to relevant information. Society has a vested interest in this provided it doesn't infringe any other rights. It's why warrants exist. If you have the ability to respect a warrant without hurting your customers, it should be illegal not to do so.

Obviously there are significant technical issues, which is why this is contentious; those are outside the scope of this comment.
Stealing from the (relatively speaking) super rich can be, in some circumstances, according to a sufficiently utilitarian moral framework. One could argue that's what progressive taxes are all about.

I admit it's hard for me to quantify the damage Microsoft's business practices have caused (any helpful links/sources?), but it's extremely difficult to imagine it being worse than not saving millions of lives.
All that eyeballing and intuition comes from experience, though, which is experimentation and learning. That's a pretty geeky process in its own right. And if you're in a commercial bakery, the process is down to a science, with exact weights and temperatures and times. You can also do that at home, and if you do, the results do come out better (or at least more consistent).

Bread has this nice property of being both forgiving and playful, as well as highly optimizable with experimentation. Nice combo.
I've always liked getting gift cards over cash because I usually have to spend them on a gift. If I'm getting cash, I end up spending it on groceries or something mundane.
In which category?
This particular example isn't actually money laundering.

However, in general yes - a 30% haircut on laundered money isn't too bad at all. Consider the classic money laundering scheme: you own a legitimate bar, but supplement the real sales with ghost sales, paid for by the dirty cash. The alcohol supposedly sold in the ghost sales is poured down the drain, so your suppliers invoices match up with your sales (this works because it's typical for customers at bars to pay in cash, and the margin on alcohol sold as individual drinks is pretty high).
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The problem is that Instagram incentivizes this sort of behaviour by greatly-diminishing the reach of those companies/users that have legitimately built their followers. I mean we see 10% reach of our followers (if we're lucky) with any of our posts. That means 90% of our real followers don't get to see our posts that they have asked to see (by following our account).
While this is a reasonable point to consider, do you have any evidence that is actually happening here?

If we have good evidence that a critical element of our environment is being damaged by pesticides with certain characteristics, it seems like the opposite of prudence to wait on fixing it.
Look up "Human History" if you need a source.
I think the problem's origin is twofold:

1. Salesmen come in two stripes- poodles and pigs. The poodle is nice, courteous, and will do what you ask it to. Most salespeople are poodles. Pigs, on the other hand, are aggressive, will stick their nose in to wherever, have no use for courtesy, aren't afraid of offending anybody, and are self-driving. They're relentless, and they convince you the only way to get them to go away is to buy. You can't turn a poodle into a pig. There are a lot of poodles out there to fill sales jobs, and not as many pigs. You may want to beat them both to death, but for polar opposite reasons.

2. Sales managers set up these flows, and they hire poodles to follow the flows. Company ownership is out to lunch and doesn't test out their own sales flow. It's incompetence on a higher level and it's a major factor in why weak companies fail. Compare the sales manager at a successful automobile dealership and the one in this company- the more daylight you see between them, the worse the staffing decision.

I see it written that salespeople can't be bothered with piddly sample orders, but the fact is that samples today are six-figure orders next month and career-makers the following year. Sometimes the incentive structure is obviously a problem- in some orgs a senior sales rep can snatch the customer the peon spends 6 months developing, along with any incentives. The peon thus does the bare minimum until they "season" into the senior position.

Suffice it to say, this is a major, if not the major, problem with commerce today. Companies like Amazon and Walmart are killing their competition for a number of reasons, but not having stupid incentive structures that end up looking to the first-time customer like a big middle finger is definitely not hurting them.
Devil's advocate after 10 seconds of thought. Is this _really_ a bad thing for the users? I mean, you don't have to follow accounts you don't enjoy following. Just black and yellow squares? Don't follow it. If you enjoy the content, does it matter if the account is run by bots? Even on the explore page, Instagram seems to do fairly well with showing you pictures of things you like - I see a ton of cats, burgers and watches. I don't really care if the accounts are run by bots... They're just pretty pictures. As for my feed, it's my friends or people I've chosen to follow. Whether they're posting themselves or via a cron job on a raspberry pi, I don't really care. If I did, I'd unfollow.
You’re not wrong. But you’re also attributing choice to things that may not be choice. In your description, if a tech worker wants a cheaper lifestyle and larger living space then they should move away from basically the only places they can find those highest paying careers. There are exceptions, but they are not numerous enough to dismiss that current prices exceed many explanations and leave many people wanting.

Also, long commutes to work (longer than 20 minutes) do a great harm to the world. Both in opportunity cost from being able to do other things through to things like climate change.

Edit-Also, I want to live in a world where spending the morning in a coffee shop with a scone is affordable on at least a weekly basis for people. Cafes, restaurants, and other such places are cultural bases. We should be insulating them from destruction.
A proper apology would be meaningful. I don't have strong feelings about whether what he's doing 'offsets' what he's done, but going on the record and apologizing would go a long way to get me off that particular fence.
this is obscene. he deserves a prize.... for what? microsoft? ruthlessly monopolizing the market in the 90s? having a fortune?

It's so disturbing to see people bow down to the billionaire class and think that they earned their wealth through normal, good guy means.
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There's some amount of government support of medical research:

https://www.nih.gov/grants-funding

It apparently contributes something or other to the system:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/02/06/1715368115

(annual NIH grants are ~$32 billion, NIH funded research contributed to every drug brought to market in the US between 2010 and 2016...)
For doing what kind of work?

Off hand I’d say anyone on HN would benefit from Hazel and homebrew.
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Jeffrey Hamelman's "Bread" is also a great book. He really digs into the science of bread, and he also offers up an incredibly wide variety of techniques that will really expand your repertoire.

Unfortunately, I can't come up with the dough (ha ha) for Modernist Bread...
Ikr, I'm so clueless. Its like they're trying be obscure.
>I didn't mean that a custom domain is an indicator. Just that they go to the trouble to register throwaways for this use and it isn't limited to just free email services.

Yeah, I'd assume someone with a firstname@lastname.com email and a web presence is probably an indicator it's legit rather than fraud :)
If you need to mix them up, there is bunch of options. It all depends on what you need to do, and what language you are using, but usually there should be simple solution to this.

For example, if you simply want to have functions that works for both of them (so that you don't duplicate code), you can either create function from Manager to User (so that you can reuse functions for users), or use whatever polymorphism stuff your language support (polymorphic function, OOP, ...).

If you want to mix User/Manager in same collection (or have function that returns any of those), OOP can help too (Manager is "child" of User). If your language have sum types, you can use those (have additional type "User or Manager", and accompanying matching/extraction function).

In some languages you can do this with no runtime overhead (i.e. the additional type will be erased during runtime, as it's already type checked).
At least for the Aztecs, this is in fact the case. The Aztec kept subjugated peoples alive to husband them to supply human beings for their sacrifices.

The Spaniards allied themselves early with these would be victims, who therefore helped remove the numeric superiority the Aztecs would have otherwise enjoyed.

These allied tribes (see the Tlaxcala) then became a privilege class among the natives.

The guns, and the horses, obviously helped - but we're talking 4 orders of magnitude advantage if the Spaniards had not allied themselves with the locals. Even pandemics cannot erase that advantage (and they take time to spread)
And I believe it wasn't even a close relative. DNA matching can identify relatives many generations separated from someone, by finding stretches of DNA with the same set of specific mutations (haplotype) that have not yet been broken by recombination.

What this means is that getting just a small fraction of the population into this database will enable it to provide leads for any DNA sample.
> slowed progress in computing advancements

What? How does your operating system limit the kind of computing that you can do?

Furthermore, how can you say that Microsoft's monopoly position didn't actually allow them to accelerate the progress of computing even further than their competitors might have otherwise?
You see it all the time in the insurance business -- when you make a claim many times insurance companies verify it. Yet insurance is still a good business.

Sure, it's a nuisance, but ipso facto a bad business?
In my experience, there's an academic world, and a practical world, and never the 'twain shall meet.

The academic world knew without experience that higher-level structured concurrency was the way to go. It took the practical industry decades of unmaintanable pthread messes to learn the same lesson, but they ultimately learned it.
No: he was told to keep quiet saying it was True. He did not (and by the way he wrote a pretty insulting book against the other party, painting them as “simplices” -idiots, simple minds).

He could havo got away with everything just saying “if this is true then...” But he did not.

And turns out it was not because of “honesty”...

Not that the other party was quite honest anyway.
You shouldn't be downvoted for stating something that's obviously true: the IP industry has huge amounts of influence and they've been sucessful at driving legal change.

This includes making commercial copyright violation a criminal, rather than civil, offence. It also includes things like making circumvention of technical protection measure illegal.

It's wide ranging, it removes freedoms, it causes economic harm.
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So, an article in "The Guardian" laments the immorality of teaching capitalism to future would-be capitalists. Color me shocked!

What should we teach them instead? The importance of social responsibility, sustainability, diversity and warm feelings and how capitalism is really evil and how they should feel bad about employing its principles? In other words, shall we turn them into sheep to be let loose among the wolves (and charge them for it)?

There's an argument to be made against many practices taught to MBAs, but those arguments better be supported by some science (like behavioral economics). It all has to make sense and support the bottom line.

Let's take the example of the manager who fires a hundred workers and who pays himself a 500,000$ bonus (half of which will fall to taxes). He's in it for the money, just like those workers. Should he give up on his bonus and save ten employees for one year? Will that increase productivity or is he better off increasing his own wealth? We're talking about a man who rose to the top, someone whose education (or indoctrination) will not have destroyed his sense of self-interest.
This procedure was used to identify leads, not conclusively prove someone was the killer. For that, they use DNA from the suspect himself.

In this case, an man in Oregon was earlier a suspect, but direct DNA comparison ruled him out.
Headline is:

> Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for universal flu vaccine

Story 16 years ago on The Register (an agency undeniably prone to hyperbole & sarcasm, but also fiercely committed to truth in reporting):

> Gates gives $100 million to fight HIV, $421 million to fight Linux [1]

Right now the Gates Foundation is sitting on around 38,000 million (USD)

The foundation has some non-trivial criticisms [2]

Whenever anything about Bill's activities comes up in the modern era there's several demographics that appear - people wary of lionising people whose wealth was obtained at best unethically (at worst, illegally) - through to ends-justifies-the-means types.

Some commonly understood context around why different groups have vastly different takes on these announcements would be good for everyone involved.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/13/gates_gives_100m_to...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...

EDIT: For any astroturfers keen to discourage comparative analysis, I'm happy to engage in an actual discussion around this. I appreciate it's a complex subject full of subtle nuances.
300 k is ridiculous, but in the coastal regions I would not be surprised if a family of 4 needs 200-250 to feel financially secure.
I think we should come up for a new term for working high income households, something like a "City class".

They make between 250-699k. They have mostly what they need but work very hard and aren't the leisure or power class that is associated with the upper. They don't have or really identify with the same money problems as the true middle class but they certainly don't have enough to spend frivioisly. They give up some things compared to the middle class in low cost cities though like yards and larger homes. They also have to pay expenses that other single income lcol dwellers don't like nannies.

This seems to draw a real.line between the nonworking rich and the working well off.
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My idea of middle-class existence is a thrifty but relatively happy family life with an emphasis on education. The budget could vary enormously depending on how this is implemented.
> why shouldn't they be able to celebrate it being "over"?

Because it's not nearly over. In my experience, going into production is the most worrisome phase. For one thing, no matter how much you test and prepare, you just never know what's going to happen. For another, there are the initial bugs and user confusion that come with any new deployment, and the rush to respond to them effectively and quickly in order to maintain user confidence in the new system. And in the bank's situation we're not talking about an update, but an entirely new thing made from whole cloth (or code), if I understand correctly.

The outcome of the project, the goal, isn't to press the big red 'release' button, it's a stable, functioning system that meets the project specifications. When you have that, then you are done and it's time to celebrate. And exhale.
$2100/mo to feed 3 people is ridiculous. You can feed 3 people on $750/mo.

$700/mo/person is $7.65 per meal, which is quite reasonable. $250/mo/person is about $2.70 per meal, which is not.

"In 2005, sociologists William Thompson and Joseph Hickey estimate an income range of roughly $35,000 to $75,000 for the lower middle class and $100,000 or more for the upper middle class."[0]

In 2018 dollars, that's $44,800 to $96,000 for lower middle class and $128,000 for upper middle class.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class#Income
> Edit: People has started to downvote without any logical explanation.

They are talking about more serious virus which are more dangerous than common cold virus.
Man, this article makes me feel old and out of touch. I don't understand so many things about it. Why would someone pay to have a bot click "like" on them, and why would someone invest $X000 in a list of usernames and passwords rather than create their own free accounts? Why are "followers" worth money? Can someone ELI5 me the chain of money that makes any of this activity make any sense at all?
I use different workspaces for different projects because of differences between code formatting. One project uses 3 spaces and the other uses four spaces. One has curly braces on the same line and the other on their own line.
Middle-class is such a meaningless term now. US median household income is about $60K, that is the middle of the income distribution.
MS values replacement disks for Win 7 Pro at twice that.
> I’m not middle class but if you are thrifty and can prioritize freedom over needless expenses ie $5 cup of coffee

I'm not sure how the $5 cup of coffee became the symbol of financial irresponsibility. An apartment in Midtown NYC runs about $4k a month. LIC is $2.2k. Yet for some reason we blame the coffee.
Any interesting links to academic research of higher-level structured concurrency?
I think you’re confusing corporatists (more commonly called neocons or neoliberals these days), and progressives.

Corporatism is the idea of government by corporation. In practical terms, this means that government functions should be privatized, and all laws that restrict companies repealed. Puerto Rico is a great example of how this plays out in practice.

People also frequently confuse conventional libertarianism, which argued that monopolistic/large corporations are simply an arm of the state, and present day libertarianism, which is basically just corporatism.
Good question. I think most think that this process is trivial and doable with ffmpeg etc.

TVS is still proprietary format by TeamViewer and that raises the challenges here.
Not a choice you actually have for many careers.
As a family of 4 who just left the SF Bay area making what you call secure. I can assure you we did not feel secure and were living paycheck to paycheck on that amount.
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I cant think of anything worse than my plastic metal and glass friend being forced to snitch against me. Its like my best friend betrayed me. Beyond creepy, key escrow proposals are the very definition of totalitarianism.
Exactly - more importantly this is preparation for college or workforce. Your college professor or boss doesn’t care that you feel that Hemingway or Java is XYZ - they want reasons.

There was a trend/fad to get kids to write by encouraging navel gazing.

My son recently had an assignment like this for Homer’s Oddysey. The writing assignment requested he write a response to The Beggar and His Faithful Dog. It asked for something that was hidden in his life that no one knew about. This is a literature class not creative writing.

My wife’s response was that besides being inappropriate, this isn’t even the lesson / point of the beggar and the faithful dog!

Her response:

>The last prompt has stymied us. Why would a teen want to write, on paper, to their teacher, to be read and graded, about something so personal that they have kept it hidden and never shared it with anyone? [literally what was asked....] In the story of the Beggar and the Faithful Dog, Odysseus isn't hiding some private character trait that makes people refuse to understand him. He's carrying out a clever ruse to see what's really happening at home and whether his wife has been faithful. It's a story about cleverness, trickery, and faithfulness. Turning that into a personal exposure of hidden feelings takes the fun and adventure out of the story - and it's a boundary violation.

This isn’t common core - this is left over lessons from the previous fad.
In every civilisation there’s founding myths, Romulus and Remus from Rome, Yellow Emperor from China, Abraham from Israel, the Dreaming for indigenous Australians. I wonder how much those myths might actually be telling us about those otherwise undocumented times.
There are tons of places with great opportunity for that tech worker and non-absurd cost of living. I understand ambitious people wanting to stay in the Bay Area where all the tippy-top jobs are, but there are very good jobs elsewhere. You're just much less likely to become a billionaire or a top executive or a well known name in the industry outside the Bay Area. But again, that isn't a middle class sort of concern.
Either you have denser housing near jobs with impact on living space or you have longer commutes.
I’m not sure you and I have disagreed on anything I said.