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> “but in most companies remodeling the already owned office to open plan was an excuse to squeeze in more people, introduce desk sharing and other disruptive inventions.”

It still seems like you didn’t fully read my comment. This has not been my experience at all. Most companies choose open floor plans because they superficially look trendy and because it is a cargo cult copy of what Facebook & trendy start-ups do. They are even happy to spend more money on this type of floor plan.

You keep asserting that companies are very budget conscious when it comes to real estate expenditures, but this doesn’t match reality, and you’re still not addressing the bigger point of stupid corporate spending on fountains, roof decks, parties, etc., which totally contradicts your point of view.

> “the fountains and the rest will go away, while the open plan is going to stay.”

This makes no sense. I’m not even sure you understand how real estate works. You don’t make money by removing a fountain or a roof deck you previously paid to install. You just lose more money if you want it removed or remodeled. If you fall on hard times, you’re absolutely not spending money to pay construction workers to remove physical features of the office. I can’t begin to describe what a naive understanding of office real estate you project.

Also, any theories we might come up with about open plan office choices have to be good theories when the company has lots of money, not just when it’s having hard times, because tons of perfectly profitable companies that can easily and trivially afford to pay for whatever office space they want are still irrationally choosing open plan spaces (which destroy productivity and make workers unhappy) even when any cost savings from doing so would be entirely trivial compared with billions and billions of net income.

The idea that managers in those cases are simultaneously so unconcerned about money that they will throw lavish parties, spend millions on unnecessary office decor, roof decks, etc., and yet also act deeply concerned over a few million of extra rent to get a large enough space for private offices ... it obviously refutes what you’re saying.

The faux concern offer real estate cost obviously is just for show, as a pretext for the overtly political reasons to choose open plan layouts.

You seem to think companies try to save money at all costs, and see open floor plans as a necessary evil to cut costs.

Company spending behavior contradicts that claim. Companies clearly and obviously do not see open floor plans as a necessary evil. Not at all.
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I tried reading the 1st one of the series (Gardens of the Moon) not once but twice. Both times I was quickly bored and did not make it past page 50. The book (at least in its first pages) is filled with boring descriptions and uninteresting events.

I've heard good things about it (along with that it won't be an easy read as you say) however I don't want to torture myself reading boring stuff for like 1000 pages until something interesting happens.

There are much better books to read and too little time.

Actually, that's more or less a rule I try to follow: If the book can't hook me after some pages and I keep feeling bored and not interesting I just put it away. Other books that I have started but found way too boring to keep reading them:

(* please don't downvote me for this. I know that some of these books are considered classics and many of you won't like this but remember that this is just my personal opinion; I tend to get border easily *)

- The orphan master's son
- The man in the high castle
- Metro 2033
- Neuromancer
- Catch 22
- Digital Fortress (this wasn't so boring but I hated the smart-ass characters)
I think that is true for the junk food juice which realistically, is what most parents will serve their kids. I'm referring to anything in grocery stores in plastic bottles, which is 95% of what's on the market. Filtered, pasteurized, made from concentrate, blended with grape juice, tainted with pesticide residue and plastic.

It is less true for parents giving their kid fresh carrot or beet juice, for many reasons that this article ignores because western medical orthodoxy is not interested. Vitamins, enzymes, healthier forms of sugar and other nutrients present in actual juice more than make up for the presence of sugar, in my opinion.

Of course this should be part of a truly healthy diet, which almost no parent offers their child in the US because they have no idea what it is and don't eat that way themselves.
Interesting. Pretty great that Adobe didn't require a non disclosure of that type of information for a set time after leaving the company like most. Bravo for Adobe for allowing their ex employees freedom to talk about what they are working on.
Also: https://www.formgraph.com - a bit richer (multiple layers, drawing tools, social features, etc)
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You can unmount them all at once. Select the disks that you want to unmount on your desktop, then press Cmd+E.
This blog post is based on posts from the Urban kchoze blog, which has been linked on HN previously. I liked it so much I read the entire archive. One great post is about a possible remedy to American zoning: dynamic zoning.

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-to-make-urban-ho...

It doesn't provide a direct route to move to Japanese-style zoning, but it would allow densities to increase organically based on demand in areas, which is a major component of Japanese zoning that is missing from American zoning.

If you are interested in these topics, I recommend the entire Urban kchoze archive.
As a Brit something that always struck me as strange was that Americans all seemed to own large, detatched houses. It just seemed odd to me, and whilst it's true that a lot of the US is less dense than the UK I find it fascinating that the zoning laws seem to massively encourage and protect single family homes.
Angular is not react.
As technology improves, fewer people are required to work on farms. Lack of work then drives people towards urban areas. Globalization and automation are affecting the world in ways that are difficult to predict. I see something dramatic happening in the next 15 years as wages stagnate, inflation rises and wealth is concentrated in the top .1% of the worlds population.
I think all of those cases are possible today, you just need the right tools.

For example:

1. contains a syntax error: this is solved with TypeScript or flow which can run against a .js file

2. calls to eval(): this is solved by linting the .js file

3. only 2 hours old: this is solved by looking at npm publish date for the package version...take a look at the "time" key here: https://registry.npmjs.com/eslint-scope
Don’t you have a file browser now ? What are the main limitations you are hitting ?
You're still seething with hostility with regard to the conditions of a Usenet newsgroup fifteen years ago that is only very lightly active now. Reddit has r/Lisp which is more active and very different from old c.l.l. (Not that it's reasonable to equate r/Lisp with "Lisp community", either.)
Lengthy article. But good review of how we got here.

Shorting is as natural as going long... It's an important characteristic of any market. But the articles point is that the shorts might be clustered in the hands of some influential hedge fund guys... Who basically wage an information campaign to crush the stock... Whether they're right or wrong.

In that sense, I disagree with the articles premise that Musk should ignore the short sellers. Fight fire with fire... Or a flame thrower. Musk's company is a super speculative one at this stage. So a lot of it runs on gut feelings and perspective. Not actual fundamentals.
> Most people these days don't seem to know that Netflix even has a DVD service

A few years ago, Netflix was going to spin off the DVD Service as a separate company. I can't remember the name of it but it was kind of goofy I thought. For some reason they decided to pull back on that and they are still running it as a division within Netflix.
However I have to imagine it doesn't make a lot of money compared to streaming. Buying and handling physical media, dealing with damaged media, losses on non-returns, etc. has got to be something that doesn't scale well.
I disagree for a variety of reasons. Fresh juice made from actual fruit or preferably vegetables contains vitamins, enzymes, healthier forms of sugar and other nutrients which make up for the presence of sugar, in my opinion. As for the filtered, pasteurized, sugar laden, pesticide tainted brew in plastic bottles that 95% of people and grocery stores consider 'juice', I agree that nobody should ever consume that, under any circumstances. I'm sure that is what these doctors are thinking of since they don't seem to mention or be aware of actual juicing.

I'm not sure at all what the alternative proposed for a drink is - water? tea? with no sweetener? I'm still confident that carrot, beet, tomato, whatever juice (diluted... like people normally do) is a better choice than just about anything with sweetener in it.
I suggest you pick up a small-town paper talking about any proposed development at all to get a sense of issues that exist beyond just whatever old zoning laws are on the books. People have lots of reasons for not wanting that to happen -- some, granted, are silly, but not all of them are.
I think the author closer to the end makes it clear that the short sellers ride on real problems with the company.

And he doesn't label all short sellers as "bad actors", but only those that engage in opinion manipulations at scale.
Of course not. It's an awful idea because as a diverse, representative democracy you'll be subject to the whims of the congress.

Do you really want rural conservatives who hate cities dictating urban land use as you would today?

Do you really want democrats with tight ties to big real estate interests (key members of the California delegation, for example) dictating land use policy?

Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley because everyone fled cities in the 50s and 60s to buy the then-american dream in the old orange groves. Whatever the next phase is, it isn't going to happen there.
Claude Shannon's paper on information theory [1] is possibly an example of such a paragon of work. No citations, 50 pages of pure awesome, spawned a whole research field of its own and 70 years on just as valid.

[1] A Mathematical Theory of Communication - http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop...
The article draws a parallel between what Chanos (or the guy who worked for Chanos) did to Fairfax and what Chanos is doing now i.e. trying to tank the stock with unethically:

”Incredibly, over the next three years was stories of harassment of Fairfax workers, the CEO Prem Watsa, his wife, even his pastor. While this was happening Fairfax was besieged by accusations of fraud sent to rating agencies, regulators, even Fairfax's own business partners. Nearly all of these troubles could be traced back to Spyro Contogouris, a man hired by Chanos, Loeb, and Sender to "bring down Fairfax". Contogouris’s strategy would be to sink Fairfax by “closing access to the capital markets”—cutting off its access to funding by undermining its reputation. This was old-school Sun Tzu stuff, isolate-and-destroy tactics, “attacking by stratagem”: General Contogouris would cut off his enemy’s supply lines by, among other things, sullying the firm’s standing with ratings agencies and shareholders and others in a group he termed “FoF,” for “Friends of Fairfax.” He wanted to “get them where they eat,” cutting off their credit lines, particularly going after their ratings by agencies like A. M. Best. All this Contogouris promised to Chanos, Loeb, Sender, and others from the start. He pledged to “get the message of what I think is a massive fraud to these long term value holders” by creating a “crisis of confidence” that would frighten investors and “shake them out of the stock.”
Science and Sanity - Alfred Korzybski
Steps to An Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson
I didn't like at all the first of the series (Mistborn); never got into the other ones. It had some fresh ideas however the story was way too childish (in my humble opinion). Here's my review on that book https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2031838874?book_show_a...
I've done it, doing it. Not extreme countryside but bears, coyotes, turkeys, deer, etc. roaming through the yard everyday. Garden, few acres owned, hundreds of acres of woods around.

Major thing I'd note which bit us more than we expected: a typical "farmhouse in the countryside" is roughly equal to another full-time job when you add up all the time and money you have to put in. So if you have an SO, then another half-time job each. I'm comparing this to renting an apartment or condo or even a cookie cutter in the suburbs, of which we've done each also. And I'm not talking about the cost/time to install that deck of your dreams. I'm talking about your water pump breaking in a heat wave, your heat dying during a snowstorm, your basement flooding in torrential rain, the slow decay of exterior woodwork begging to be replaced, etc. The plumbing in general...my god the plumbing. We've been in the house for over two years working our butts off and haven't made any real forward progress yet, just battling entropy.

Anyway not to doom and gloom, just wanted to drive that point home. I highly suggest it regardless. We're much saner and a little more financially ahead compared to living in a city, but we're not exactly sipping mimosas watching the sunset every day. The house will be much more demanding than you think, so just something to put in bold on the balance sheet.
I'm surprised this guy didn't bring up the famous story of Overstock.com around 2005-2006, where at one point there were more shorts in existence than actual shares. The CEO of the company sued a bunch of large investment banks (who all heavily shorted his company).

For those that don't understand, that is called "naked shorting", and that constitutes fraud by NASDAQ and the major investment banks.

In the end, all of the investment banks that he sued, except for two (Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch) settled. The banks that did settle? Ended up getting their junk kicked in when their shorting scheme failed to work, and they lost a lot of money because the suit against them signaled there was no truth to their claims and the Overstock.com price went back up.

I have no reason to believe that is not what is happening to Tesla currently. Given that this example and the example given on the forum post are very similar, and both turned out appropriately, maybe Elon Musk should consider suing the largest firms shorting his company.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a good place to start.
10^15 is not that big. We could construct and compute on sparse matrices that large today.
You do not need a GPU accelerated or highly optimised text editor.. You simply need an editor that does not load the whole file to memory, and potentially preloads some data for smooth scrolling and zooming. Operations should be done in O(1) storage as well.
I'm a contractor but have my own independent business too so i'm mostly a remote worker. I live just under an hour from the capital city (Edinburgh). You could definitely say i live in the country however, i live in the biggest town in the countryside. It has all the convenience that i want like supermarkets, restaurants and amenities within a 5 min walk, fast internet and a 5 minute drive takes me out of the town and into plush green hills and forests where i walk the dogs.

Theres a direct train into Edinburgh from here that takes 50 minutes and the view out the window on the journey is awesome. I bought a house here, a medium sized 3 bedroom with gardens front and rear, for the same price as a cramped 1 bedroom flat in Edinburgh. I also have a 3,500 sqft warehouse with an office i rent for my business and hobbies (motorbikes, quads, metal/woodworking) that costs me the same as a 800 sqft office in the city.

I've picked a damned good balance between convenience, ease of commute to the city and financial arbitrage, i'm very happy here.
She wrote a book on the subject too:
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

I assume you would be interested.
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How is this "not being new" relevant at all? People posting inane "corrections" anytime someone makes a comment worth a fuck isn't new either. Doesn't mean I accept it.

Also, it's not a game.
It is a really valuable tool for knowledge workers. If you study medicine for example a lot of courses provide you with tons of slides with low information density. The last thing you want to do is carry them around as printed out stacks of paper. You need to be able to annotate them and draw little diagrams on them. For that an IPad Pro is perfect.
Tybee? Was just down there with my wife for our anniversary. Great little tourist stop.
The tweet, sent upon reveal of the Touch Bar: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/791767756928462848
Im about to fully read Mark Fischer's "Capitalist Realism" [0]. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, film (Children Of Men, Jason Bourne, Supernanny), fiction (Le Guin and Kafka), work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience, is anything but realistic and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged It is a sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free market neo-liberalism are givens rather than constructions.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zerobooks+capitalist+realism&t=ffa...
Homo sapiens evolved within a set of interlinked groups living across Africa
According to one definition of communication, you are absolutely right. There are other ways of defining it.

You define it as requiring intent. Fair.

I can formulate just as valid of a definition of communication without intent. The way you dress communicates certain things about you, whether you intend to do so or not. My pheromones communicate a lot of things about me, even though I don't intend them to do so.

Again, it's not so simple unless you use a single narrow definition and forcefully ignore all other ones (some of which are easier to accept than others).
Microsoft NetMeeting had that in the 90s, I remember it quite fondly.
If only it had custom emojis... It's the one thing keeping us on Slack.
This is definitely my dream! Unfortunately I work in embedded which is especially hard to find remote work in (I`m guessing?). So I`m thinking about switching to more high-level work, maybe back end web development, I can at least leverage Linux experience.
Do you not want a large, detached house? :) I think part of it has to do with the fact that that is what people want... When you have such a place you don't have to worry as much about how much noise you're making or if you're disturbing your neighbors.
Maybe, but I expect straight economics will do that too...
It was very very limited and clunky. Perhaps they later added more Adobe Cloud integration, but that alone wouldn’t help much.
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Not saying this does not exist, but it's hard to find good companies that offer remote work, and finding one that pays remote workers equally to onsite is even harder from my experience.
They sorely need the asset manager they‘re already working on. I would have prioritized that over Designer, because it‘s holding many people back from leaving Lightroom for Photo.
> for the vacations months

What vacation months?
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Interesting cite [OP's #5] from the paper (while searching for Wolfram :-)

E. F. Codd was doing CAs in late 60s. What an impressive mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd%27s_cellular_automaton
I always wondered how to actually type out nowadays... all those spellcheckers had me convinced it was now days with a lil mumbling in between.
What do you expect from a file browser that the current document picker interface doesn’t give you? The one missing feature I see is that you can’t just attach a USB storage device and it shows up as a source along with Dropbox, ICloud Drive, OneDrive, etc.
Ask HN: What is the most effective way to learn React for PHP developers?
I'm a seasoned PHP developer, and have been building WordPress sites for longer than I care to remember. I'm quite conservative in my choice of tools because I like to know that what I build has a decent chance of lasting a relatively long time for my clients, hence WordPress / PHP. With WordPress moving to the React-based Gutenberg editor it feels like a good time to get going with React because it seems like it'll be around for a while. I'm OK with JavaScript, but I'm old enough to be self-taught (I worked with the people who built the first BBC website - three pages of TV listings) so things like closures are still a bit of a mystery to me. Where's the best place to start getting a good grounding in modern JavaScript, and from there what would be a good roadmap into React development?
>The steelman of the Success Sequence

Well now I'm interested, what do you take to be the steelman of Bruenig's/my position?

>Is there any conceivable evidence for this view that would be compelling to you?

Well for one I'm not talking about behavioral tendencies writ large, I'm specifically talking about cultural and normative tendencies. Two you haven't posted any evidence that those come prior to systemic oppression.

>Is there a possible state of life outcomes that cannot be explained by pointing at "the system"?

Let's think about fish in an aquarium. Is there a possible state of the life outcome of a fish that isn't actually explained by pointing at the conditions of the tank? (I'm actually interested in your answer)
Gvim can handle gigabytes of text easily.
If you want a poetry anthology, can I recommend "Other Men's Flowers" by Lord Wavell - poetry that he momorized that saw him through WW1 and WW2. You won't like everything, but there is lots of good stuff in it.
Thanks. We've updated the title from “Blackmagic eGPU: Apple's external graphics processor”, which was editorialized and misleading.