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Ask HN: Do VCs often do this?
I worked for a company a couple years ago which was in a very odd situation. Let’s call them Company A. They didn’t seem to realize that they were being vastly overcharged for IT services by a “firm” that was owned in part by the individuals running the VC firm that gave them funding. They primarily invested other people’s money, not their own. This ultimately drove the business into the ground, as they had software that barely did anything and no money left for anything else. They charged over half of the total “investment”, hundreds of thousands of dollars, for an app one guy could have built in 2 months. At the same time this was happening, sketchy IT firm was giving free help to their biggest investment (Company B) in an attempt to try and keep them afloat.

It seems to me that the investment in Company A was really just a means of moving money to Company B, which was in a different fund that was running dry. That, and pressuring companies to use the sketchy IT firm to begin with allowed the managing partners of the VC to shift money into their own “business”. All of this was even occurring on the same floor of the same office building.

Now I’m just a junior dev now, and this was just an internship I had, but to me this seems like it should be multiple very serious crimes. But I know nothing about that, and I haven’t dealt closely with any other VCs.

Is this kind of behavior relatively common? Is it even illegal?

Sorry if this is off topic or not a good post for HN but nobody else I’ve ever talked to about this has had much to say, and this seems like the most knowledgeable group of people I know of about this sort of thing.
I recently (two weeks ago) - went hiking on Mt. Tam in Marin. I played on a beautiful mossy log.

When I got up, I wiped all the leafy detritus off me - and I found a tick. I killed it immediately and gouged his head out of me.

What should I do? Should I be worried about Lyme? How test?

I had a tick only once before on a camping trip in Big Sur - and that one was much bigger than this one - but nothing happened.

Any advice?
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Not really. For one, anybody that can use your computer can see a plaintext list of your Chrome passwords directly from the Chrome options menu. It's an incredibly primitive system.
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I have used the SIMD instructions quite a bit. Even used FPGA's for some tasks.
Yeah I personally use the concepts interchangeably but if you go to the pun competitions in the bay area they will disqualify spoonerisms in the general sense which includes any partial word substitutions like "punderdome"
You cheating to acquire a degree that says you have learned x information devalues that degree for everyone else that has it. That is nothing like crossing the street where you aren't supposed too.
I haven't read a sci-fi/cyberpunk book in a long time, I think I'm going to pick this up. Been meaning to read more of Stephenson's novels
I think the intent there would be that you can't intentionally degrade unrelated parts of the service. For example, if Facebook disabled your ability to view or upload photos because you wouldn't consent to sharing your location.

It would be unreasonable of anyone to expect to see location-based content if they'd opted out of location sharing.
As far as we know*, which is a pretty substantial disclaimer.
On the other hand, letting them live is disastrous too. Malaria has killed half of all people who have ever lived. Also, we unintentionally destroy a lot of species every year, often with little direct consequence to humans, so destruction of another one isn't necessarily ecologically disastrous. Of course, it could still be a bad idea, and we shouldn't do it without sufficient research, but the option to do shouldn't be dismissed outright.
> Plasmodium, in all likelihood has been responsible for the death of about half of all people who ever lived

From the abstract of this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16250876
In Open Source (at least in the sample measured by that site) number of people writing Rust has outgrown Haskell and OCaml, and is approaching popularity of Scala:

https://www.openhub.net/languages/compare?utf8=%E2%9C%93&mea...
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That'd be a great example if it weren't for the fact that Zuck didn't keep things the same at all: he wants to raze the surrounding houses.
Well, it's not clear that that's true in the first place[0].

But even if it is, it's certainly not the case today.

It's not in the top-10 causes of death at the moment. If we limit the scope to developing nations only, it's #9, which is huge, but still killing less than half the number that heart disease does.

Furthermore, most mosquitoes don't carry malaria, but all sugary foods are capable of causing heart disease if consumed in excess.

So it's not unfair to say that sugary foods are more dangerous to humans than mosquitoes.

0: http://factmyth.com/factoids/malaria-killed-half-the-people-...
"Word on the street is that kids just don't want to play guitars anymore."

This pretty much started during the early 80s when everyone and his cat would want to impress girls playing a keyboard or a sax, then glam rock happened, followed by grunge and guitar became appealing again. Time changed since then, as did the interest for guitars, but it's not going away anytime soon; let's hope Gibson manages to survive the period.
Today I'd say there's more interest for drums than guitar or bass: in my band a while ago I was among the 4 people who could play drums and we had only one guitarist, way different from say the 70s.
What surely changed since the early days of guitar factories is the quality of unknown brand guitars; today it still requires some good work to manufacture a good guitar, but it's definitely much much easier than it was decades ago, and the quality difference doesn't reflect anymore the price delta.
Aedes aegypti are an invasive species to the U.S. [0] so there's little evidence that they would greatly negatively affect the ecosystem if they were to suddenly be eradicated.

[0]: https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/disease-vectors/facts/mosquito-fac...
More evil than cutting off all the other users of other services that chose to host with AWS/Google? Cause that's what happened when Russia banned Telegram, and Russia didn't show any problem with doing it again.
"Inferior" is debatable. It is pretty darn accurate. And it could potentially track my coffee mug, which has value :)
Low barrier to entry? Then show month on month numbers of people onboarding. Traction is key.
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It's pretty surprising they didn't do this a long, long time ago.
Java and Python are much closer to C than C is to assembly.

Managing memory and raw pointers are nothing. Try implementing a recursive function call in x86 assembler to get a real idea of low level.
Operators are just a pattern, not a technology.

I think they chose "operator" over the more traditional "controller" because the latter can be quite simple, whereas an operator is potentially a combination of several things, including CRDs, API extensions, and controllers. For example, an operator might start different controllers depending on what cloud it's deploying to. It's a useful distinction; if someone says "I'm using this operator for X", I instantly know what they mean.

FWIW, I'm one of those who remember your name, simply because you pop up in every Kubernetes discussion with a predictably contrarian, long-winded opinion. I don't know what you're getting out of it. In this case, you're not wrong — but the curmudgeonly, somewhat tone deaf way that you go about it isn't very nice, which probably explains the downvotes.
Careful readers will notice that you did not use the word extinguish in your reply.
> exercise Ohm's Law.

FTFY ;-)
I'm not an accountant/lawyer, but yeah my reading is if you're a sole proprietor, disregarded for IRS purposes (e.g. you use Schedule C)... then yeah you owe TN this tax.

FWIW, I don't live in TN, but I used to. And I've done sole prop LLC's in a couple states now so I looked into moving back to TN and found this info.
>The idea of using Souq.com or Google.com as the domain name in the TLS header was that even oppressive regimes won't block Google or Souq for their entire country.

Which, at least in the case of Russia, seems to be false.
A nice debate about it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/kill-all-mosquitos...
> mixing permethrin with DEET is neurotoxic

[citation needed] - I haven't been able to find anything that says this is any /more/ dangerous than either chemical on its own

Somewhat relevant, but involving other chemicals:

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-04-17/news/mn-59595_1_gulf-...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/syndrome/abou....
Okay that's about what it looked like to me too. There's only so many magic words you can throw at a tech and expect it to work together happily. Looking into it, the stateful service side of SF doesn't seem particularly compatible with the container side of it. A stateful service is a stateful SF service, and a container service is its own thing. Maybe there's a way to plug them together but unfortunately I didn't see it.
That response has always struck me as FUD. You could say the same thing about the actual diseases humanity is trying to, and has successfully gotten rid of. What if the response to people trying to eradicate smallpox was that we should keep it around because we don’t know what the consequence of getting rid of it is? Well, we would still have smallpox around... Should we keep polio around too? Not snarky—is like to understand. Sometimes a known good is better than an unknown bad.
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Woah. Someone said "all homeowners benefit from increased density in their neighborhood". Tom replied that as a homeowner he didn't feel he benefited from increased density, and explained why.

He didn't tell anyone what to do. What are you so upset about?
Copyright is often so complicated. Fixed dates are easier than year of death + N years, because in some cases an author's death date isn't public. You end up with works which are technically public domain, but which can't be safely used because if you want to avoid any risk of being sued, you have to assume the worst case. Perhaps the author was young when it was created and lived to be 110.

Note also that the US 1923 rule applies to the date of publication: works that were created earlier may not have been published until much later. This typically happens with photographs.

Edit: and don't expect stock images sites to tell you when an image has fallen into the public domain. They will go on issuing licenses forever. The licenses are bogus, but there don't seem to be any legal repercussions.
Disney would never go for it.
Meh, this is the worst kind of pedantry imo. Like, first of all, doesn't matter. But if you must, you're going to have to go with 'as would be defined by mathematicians' - because they spend a lot of time thinking about these things, and thus are by far the most qualified to have an opinion....

And the mathematicians have thought long and hard about how the Euclidean concept of a straight line generalizes to other geometries... and came up with geodesics... aka great circles...
I see. First rule of COBOL club. Don't talk about COBOL club.
No, it isn't. Signal didn't ask Amazon's consent to be dragged into their battle.
Why is this on HN? Irrelevant, poorly written, lacks credibility.
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Clearly everybody who already owns a home is heavily leaning into the 'make housing as expensive as possible' conclusion.

Where these sorts of articles comes from is observers who would like to change that narrative.
And what about all the other people who host their stuff on AWS and Google Cloud? Should they be unwillingly dragged into your battle?
There's been a good bit of press about this, and I expect more. Here's one recent article:

https://aeon.co/essays/how-lyme-disease-became-the-first-epi...

The article is by the author of Lyme - The First Epidemic of Climate Change. [1]

[1] https://islandpress.org/books/lyme
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My first thought is "How is it in the interest of Amazon's stockholders to prevent censorship in countries ruled by dictatorial regimes?" and secondly, "How does consenting to being a front for services that are strictly forbidden in certain countries benefit our company?"
Is skateboarding going to be another one of those scenes created and, curiously, popularized by low status males that will have its history rewritten to have always been the province of powerful elitist misogynists keen on wielding power to unfairly keep out the teeming throngs of talented girls and women?
The vast majority of mosquito species do not eat humans.

The 1% of mosquito species which do can fuck off and die, as they’re literally responsible for killing tens of billions of humans.

Seriously, we do a lot of damage to this world, but eradicating human blood suckers wouldn’t be one of them.
> private companies are typically free to do as they please in free countries...that's kinda the point

Er, no; in every "free" country, trade/export restrictions are still a thing. US corporations can't sell to North Korean citizens, or even Cuban citizens, despite not being in a state of war against either. And "munitions" (e.g. what encryption algorithms used to be) can be traded hardly anywhere. Just call censorship-enabling technologies "munitions" and it neatly solves the problem of who exactly US corporations can give them to.
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I’ve used every major CDN on the market and none of them do this.

Some don’t even check that the Host header host is a customer and just proxy it anyway.
I originally found the quote in a computer science book, and it interested me enough to seek out The Rubiyat to read. The version I found (online I believe) was actually a translation of several different versions of the work I believe? I'm not sure who the translator was. The quote in particular was only present in one of the 'versions' of the work. I imagine translating poetry, of all things, would be tremendously difficult, but as I don't know many other languages I had to take what I could get. Regardless of source, I think the quote is very insightful and stupendously relevant in todays world that seeks to reduce all people to an easily manipulable optimized factor in a rigid system. Viewing those systems as a game to optimize in turn seems the only rational course.
I mean they didn't force me to - i also have a 6. But after trying them out I instabought them and have no regrets. Its amazingly convenient, so light you can easily forget about them, okayish sound and I basically use them most of the day via phone or laptop and I can't go back to any kind of wired in-ear headphones anymore.
Interesting! Was there a time when it was thought that every mid-sized city could have a subway? Today even Chicago (the third biggest U.S. city) doesn't have one. I can't imagine there being enough urban space in Cincinnati to sustain one.
Wow, I'd never heard of Fargate until this. It seems so somewhat obvious now for things that Lambda doesn't fit. Heroku for containers, not VMs.
Construction began on a Detroit subway in either 1928 or 1929 and they built two stations. When I was in college someone got busted for running tours.

But I've been frustrated for the past forty years trying to find more. Current employees working for the city know nothing about it. My Dad watched the construction as a junior high student. The newspaper story about the illegal tour was the only confirmation I've ever seen.
The general understanding is that these creatures, at least far as the U.S. ecosystem is concerned, is that they are an invasive species and provide very little value to the rest of the ecosystem.

The Debug FAQ [1] under "Challenges and Impact" actually has a good answer on this that I'll copy below:

> What’s the ecological impact of reducing Aedes aegypti mosquito populations?

> Globally, there are already extensive attempts underway to reduce Aedes aegypti populations in urban environments to protect human health. Aedes aegypti is an invasive species that almost exclusively feeds on humans in order to reproduce. They are native to some parts of Africa, but international trade and other human activity have allowed Aedes aegypti to spread widely. These mosquitoes invade and proliferate in new communities every year, putting more and more people at risk for mosquito-borne diseases.

> The general consensus among scientists is that the ecological impact of removing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from urban environment would be small. They are not a significant food source for other animals and don't help pollinate crops. The main ecological impact would be to restore the ecosystem to how it was before the mosquitoes invaded.

> For these reasons, the ecological risk of this project is low, particularly when compared to the impact of existing control methods that can be broadly toxic to humans and the environment, and the Debug team is committed to working with communities and regulators to ensure the safety and acceptability of our field trials and releases.

[1]: https://debug.com/faqs/
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I hope that's Apple's response too. But I fear they might just conclude to that their expertise is in cell phones and they shouldn't invest too much in laptops after all. Maybe introduce some more gimmicks and see if anything sticks. I really hope I'm wrong. I'd love to see an MBP I could get excited about.
You can just cast anything using Chrome anyway...if you expand the dropdown in the top right there is a "Cast..." menu item right there.
Stomping on the rights of one party, to obtain rights for another, is not ethically permissible. This is about consent as much as it's about censorship.
Or you can vote municipalities that best aligns with what you desire.
Not the place to ask for medical advice... maybe call an advice nurse?
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It's not an ethical issue for you, but the world is made of many other people, and it is an ethical issue for them.
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Yes but my comment was "Displays a list of permissions" not allow you to pick which permissions

I do not believe the first version if iOS has the ability to reject specific permissions either.
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Chicago certainly has a subway. Sure, only a portion near downtown runs underground, while the rest is elevated (the L) but their system is the second-largest in the US.
I would say it's more common than people want to admit.
I agree Google has screwed up the choice of communication offerings. But from a use case point, one can very well argue why need one for messaging and one for talking (iMessage and Facetime). Instead WhatsApp does everything in one - dead simple. (In fact, Skype did this too but they never properly capitalized).
Yes an a responsible person that downloaded a photo app that requested access to "your contacts, location history, notification center, and firstborn child" would choose not to install it.

If you continue to install those apps you only have yourself to blame IMO
A couple animal studies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8637057

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3513590/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1528739049027356...
"Mosquitoes and ticks and the germs they spread are increasing in number and moving into new areas."

Why? I suspect that climate change is a factor, but how do we know whether that's true and the CDC isn't allowed to report it, or whether it's false?
Do it! I've seen videos floating around E.g. [0] that are as simple as a giant fan that sucks in mosquitoes.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhV-o77RqQ
Well, how about getting blackballed professionally?

After all, surely the main upside of acing university is to get into a high-stakes position.