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While I actually agree with you in some respect, the hyperbole is not helping your cause. Unless you are just wanting echo chamber comments.

I think there are too many confounding factors here, but would be heavily interested in knowing if there are any results that are worth talking about from the company trying this. Health or productivity related. (And, obviously, positive or negative.)
Chargeback. Chargeback. Chargeback. That's unfortunately the new strategy that I've been using more and more these last couple of years to deal with crooked companies like Uber, Amazon, as well as local businesses like car repair and ticket vending. It's just unbelievable how little protection consumers have. And of course, even chargebacks don't always work. Then it's over to small claims court. This has also been increasing because we simply don't have proper consumer protection laws and have no other alternatives to companies literally stealing our money. It's just a fact of life in America that you will be fucked over and over by companies stealing money with little recourse. This isn't even uber's only scam. Drivers often don't even try to come and when you cancel the ride, they charge you for the driver's incompetence. Chargeback again and again and again then small claims. If only we could have proper laws regulating such fraud...
Deconstruction in not the classical sense?
at least some kind of reports..
I would think that the more straightforward paraphrase is even better:

"The greatest trick the Super-Elite ever pulled was convincing the world that they didn't exist."

I doubt you'd find many people who actually agree that inequality is a desired outcome of a properly functioning economy (even if it's true). However, the Super-Elite have been remarkably successful at disappearing into the background and making the world forget about them. Look at the headlines today: they're about ICE & undocumented immigrants, or Nazis in Charlottesville, or Russian interference, or antifa protesters. You see very few news stories about private jet vacations or the real-estate holdings of the super-wealthy.
I got both. Living in one of the big cities in Germany, but on the outta rim of it. 10min walk and I'm in the forrest, 10min subway and I'm in the city center.
I will 100% never work at this company now, neither would any of my friends (just asked).

What a weird way to shoot yourself in the foot talent-wise, lol. It's incredibly bizarre and controlling.
Raising livestock means using cropland to grow feed. It's hugely less efficient than growing plants for human consumption using the same resources.

If you eat meat, have you ever asked yourself why?
So apparently you have bigger problems with the users now.
Heh, honestly didn't realize I was name dropping. I'm curious what a poll of "does the word Hasidic mean anything to you" would show. I was just using it as an example of the kind of person who is different from me.

The second paragraph of the parent comment expresses some incredulouslness that anyone would want to live in a big city. I was specifically addressing that by giving my reasons that I love the city I live in. I totally understand that personal preference comes into play. This is my preference, and those are my reasons for it.

The bigger issue is what you stated: cost of living. It's not as bad here as San Francisco, but I believe strongly that unaffordable cities is one of the biggest, and least appreciated, problems we face as a society. As I said, I think there are many good reasons a person would want to live in a city. I don't think the fact that it's unaffordable for them to move here is a law of nature. It's a problem - crisis, actually - that we should be tackling with the same energy we would any other emergency that has such material impact on so many citizens.
The concept of reputation is harmful to a meritocracy? I don't agree with this at all. Your friend didn't want to open source his project because he was annoyed that he wasn't a famous hacker type who can get free publicity, so he didn't think he would get paid to work on it? That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

Nobody gets torn to shreds on HN for showing people their project, people get torn to shreds for trying to use open source and HN as a cynical self-marketing tool, especially when they can't back it up with something cool and interesting. Open source doesn't exist to further the career or finances or reputations of open source authors, it's just a nice little miracle when it does.

If someone makes something great, there's a teeny tiny chance it'll catch on to become widely used, and if that happens there's an even teenier, tinier chance that the creator will at some point get paid to work on it, but that's a tiny sliver of the open source world. If that's all your friend cares about, then the meritocracy is real and working. Someone who will only write open source to become rich and famous is clearly deeply confused about how and why any of this stuff exists in the first place, and until they grow up they can't be relied on to do good work for good reasons.

However, there's a silver lining. If instead of becoming the next Linus, someone simply wants to steer their career towards working on open source professionally, that's awesome and commendable. There are lots of companies and government agencies and so on that pay people to work on open source projects as their day-to-day job. That doesn't take social capital or name recognition, that just requires getting a job in one of those organizations, which span the gamut from tiny startups, to giant companies like Google/Apple/Microsoft/etc., to government agencies like NASA. Tons of people get paid to work on open source if that's what your friend cares about.
>I think there are too many confounding factors here

care to name some?
according to Needham & Co. analyst Rajvindra Gill. Tesla disputes that"

I'm trying to find some substantiation for the claim but I'm not finding anything. The closest I see is from BI that there was a "note to clients." The claim is falsifiable so ostensibly this analyst has information other people don't have somehow.

I'd sure like these analysts to show their work, when they do these "projections." The news media and traders seem to respond to them, so there must be something to it, but I'm incredulous generally.

Anyone have any insight on whether these analysts can actually substantiate their projections?

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/10-things-european-markets-jul...
Sooo, your comment is kinda aggressive. Just saying.

I don’t doubt that there are many vegans / vegetarians with a holier than though attitude.

But as a vegetarian and ex- vegan, I have experienced more than enough lecturing on why my choice is dumb or wrong to last a lifetime, been the butt of more jokes to count (actually it’s mostly the same three jokes heard over and over), and seen many many people wear that look on their face of “how dare you threaten my sense of self that has existed unquestioned for decades and so now I will lash out at you so I don’t have to confront this scary place”.

And I as a rule do not pro-offer the info that I’m vegetarian and I never proselytize and I only explain my decision if someone asks multiple times and they agree to have more than a two min discussion on it and understand that I view it as my very personal decision.

Anyhow. This topic could def benefit from us all agreeing to approach it constructively.
Such as? After having driven one for 6 weeks now, there isn't much not to like.
Basically, don't expand... Or, add one employee every 5 1/2 years!
Looking at the context, it seemss like it's the keyboard that needs to evolve for these languages. I can't fathom anyone writing a school report on a smartphone in english
> A meritocracy is something I want to live in.

Then why not celebrate BPG? It appears to stand on its own as superior to older formats. Or celebrate Fabrice? I don’t know him, but his merit appears to be earned, I think.

Why do you think Fabrice bothers posting stuff when Google & Facebook & Microsoft exist? He could easily give up, fighting image & web standards is an impossible task for most people.

> my friend just gave up on open sourcing their amazing project

That’s too bad, but it’s extremely common because building an audience and solving real world problems takes a lot of work, work that’s not programming. Many amazing OSS projects fail for lack of adoption because they’re programming things that, as awesome as they may be, have no demonstrated need nor enough engagement or support to keep them going.

> Credentialism. Reputation. Audience. These are harmful to a meritocracy.

Credentialism I could agree with, but what’s wrong with reputation or audience? What is merit exactly, and how does it exist without reputation or audience?

Think carefully & be honest — how many software appps or projects do you invest your own time in that have no reputation or audience? There are people, early adopters, who try unknown things a lot. Most people aren’t early adopters and don’t want to spend their time waiting for bug fixes and improvements until the software they hope will work actually works. I’d say that not only is this natural, it’s necessary in a meritocracy.
Please stop using your customers as your Quality Control.

I get Gitlab is going for "breadth over depth", but your company must ensure the features being promoted actually work.

Shipping untested code does not build confidence.
How often does this happen? How about Uber eat the cost if driver and rider don’t agree on the facts. If a driver reports statistically more denied vomit, cut zhim off from any benefits. Isn’t this how, eg, other types of fraud prevention work?
But are the manufacturers as known and reputable as Tesla?
Because it is delicious.
Very interesting. The question that springs to mind; what is to be done?

Is it fair that teachers can’t afford to live in the districts they teach in? I think not.

Should districts have to cut activities ( sports, arts, etc) to pay for a pay raise? I think not.

But these examples ^^ are simple and possess less moral hazards than the issue of teacher pensions.

As far as I can tell teachers in California were promised a certain pension payout by politicans no longer in power. Should the present population subsidize the foolish promises of the past?

I think not.

But I know very(very) little about how pensions function so am curious how HN thinks we solve this crisis.
On the other hand, when I was driving for Lyft someone vomited and bled on my back seat. I'm glad Lyft covered the damage and cleanup.
I think the situation with podcasts is different, because I'm not required to go through Apple Podcasts to get to the same content from the same underlying sources. To access videos on a YouTube channel, I'm required to go through YouTube.
We just need a clueless CIO to turn up and ask if 'Cloud' will solve the problem :D
Yes, this definitely counts as criticism! I think the best critics are the ones who can tell you specifically how and why something is great. As an example, James Wood's book "How Fiction Works" is basically a compendium of paragraphs and sentences Wood thinks are wonderful, which he cracks open to inspect and explain. It's really impressive whenever a critic can pull this off; I often struggle to get beyond "OMG [THING X] IS GREAT."
> You might say this is a dupe.

I'd say it's a clear case of attention-whoring.
I have to wonder where your anger against vegetarians and vegans comes from.
Would they not allow bringing your own meat based food? If allowed,what's the big deal?

Edit:
Wth is a "cheif culture officer"? Is it like "political officer" of the USSR?
That's debatable. All the vegetarians are now somewhat more likely to work there.
The Kona is by Hyundai, so id say yes
"The Miami-Dade Office of Consumer Protection said that as of July 1, 2017 it no longer “regulates complaints against transportation services such as Uber or Lyft,” and that any complaints should be addressed to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

The state consumer affairs department said it was not aware of the change and declined an interview request."
Yes. That’s the real answer. In developed countries, most of us kill animals only for pleasure.

And because we want to do that as cheaply as possible, the conditions those animals spend their lives in are pretty bad.
I'm not sure that it is possible to analyze this, but I'd like to see a breakdown of the >$10 million net worth range based on whether it was earned in America or not. You can change the American tax code all you want, but if it is only being used as a storage system (due to a good track record of stability and maintenance of property rights) then I'm not sure it will have much of an effect. For example, I think Venezuela was basically looted over the past few years, and I'm sure a lot of that money went into i.e. Florida real estate. I wouldn't credit any study of the super rich that is only looking at one country.

An as far as using post-WW2 as an example, I'd like to see an example of a way to reduce inequality that doesn't involve killing millions and destroying Europe.
Does your preference offset the suffering and impact on the environment?
This is why I object to the "who cares about inequality if all boats are rising" argument. Massive disparities of wealth lead to massive disparities of political power and a government which serves the interests of plutocrats above all other concerns.
The article makes it seem like the company is forcing pescatarianism (not vegetarianism) down people's throats. But unless you're eating the majority of your meals at work events, I don't see this as being the case. This new policy seems pretty consistent with policies which limit how much alcohol (if any) one can expense.
I am fully aware of this. But instead of going vegan or vegetarian we could put our meat consumption back to a sensible level, where we don't overdo it and raise and slaughter more animals that we can actually eat.

I'm not against being a vegan or vegetarian, but I am against these kind of moves.

There are million other problems that need fixing first and have a bigger impact on carbon emissions then eating meat.
That's not anything different from the described HAP bit and removal of unneeded modules. You still have 10% of the ME left and required to boot, on top of the BSP, which is also 'secret'.
With respect to smack dab in the middle of nowhere, I think this is a matter of relative scale. For reference, I grew up six miles outside of Conrad Montana, which isn't all that "close" to anything. However, my cousins thought nothing of hopping in the car to drive to the middle of Utah to check out a dog that someone was giving away. Or take a little further east to the town of Jordan, Montana where there is no railroad and the biggest events are the high school football games. My friend works at the University in Missoula, and complains that in driving back east, after an 8 hour drive he is still in Montana.

And Montana isn't even the biggest state. There are counties in Texas that are too small to have courthouses, so they share them with neighbors. That are not really walking distance. Check out the book "Miles from Nowhere". It tells of two census takers who ran out of gas and were lost for days in a county in populous Oregon.

My definition of remote is likely different from yours. I would define it as no internet access other than satellite, no roads connecting the rest of the country, no waterway access. I would be hard pressed to find somewhere in Europe that is smack dab in the middle of nowhere.
The answer is the shorts. Billions are on the line.
That's how in the article one of the victims got her money back.

> But she disputed the charge with her credit card company and got back her $98. Uber then canceled her account.

The problem is then Uber canceled her account. So they assumed she was the one being fraudulent.

I guess she can try Lyft from now on, but then the same fraud could happen there and she'd be locked out of that app as well. Then back to taxis? Which may or may not be bad, as I noticed some taxi services started getting better after they were forced to compete with these ride sharing companies.
I think the market will force them to rethink their decision, and rightfully so
For me it's not about the vegetarian aspect per-se, but the lifestyle controlling aspect. Yes, I know it's on company time and dime - I don't care. There are dozens, or hundreds, of other companies that don't feel compelled to do this. I don't want to get preached to at a full-time job.
Livestock is a bigger contributor to global warming than cars.
It's probably not such a coincidence that meat is also the costliest for them to provide as well.
What if you want to work for yourself? What if you want to start a startup? What incentives do you have to open source your software?

We all rely on open source tools, but lately they're coming exclusively from large companies that can afford to develop it. And that should worry us. It means we're losing the control we used to have.

In a scientific paper, the related work section doesn't present the past work of the authors, unless it's related to the topic at hand. There's a reason Ballard didn't mention himself (beyond signing the page at the bottom).
Does anyone know of studies on whether the time of hours of sleep matters? I.e. is sleeping eight hours from 2-10 in any way worse than eight hours from 11-7?
Performance? Not even close. The Kona will have a time of 9.7s for 0-100km/h, vs 5.1s for the Model 3. Much slower charging too.

What is a Lead 64?
I support this decision, hope their employees handle it in a mature way.
I will be totally honest and upfront, yes it does. Humans are meat eaters, I am never going to convert away from that diet
Because the wild meat I eat would decimate your plants and other parts of the ecosystem if they are not quelled each season.
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I wonder if it's yet another creative name for head of HR. If so, don't you dare bring meat based food from home.
Does the attack work if AMT has not been provisioned?
Your ethics are off then.
"Chief culture officer" does have an ominous ring to it.
At this rate, we'll be left with no option but to go down your suggested path anyway.
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Ask HN: How to overcome the “You need a co-founder” objection?
I started a company last year after moving to a new area (mid-west). I didn't have the relationships or network established to find the perfect co-founder. I decided that waiting to find the perfect co-founder was not a valid excuse for delaying the product or giving up. Over the past 8-10 months I've grown our company (a social shopping app) to over 30,000 users and $500,000 in sales.

We're currently raising a seed round to help us continue our growth and build out a team. Investors love the product, upside, and vision, but they hate the fact that I don't have a co-founder.

My opinion (open to having it changed):

We've outgrown the need for a co-founder, and I think it would be a huge risk to bring one on at this stage. I would much rather raise money with the equity I'd give a co-founder, and build out management, marketing, and engineering teams.

Questions:

- Are you a solo founder? If so, how do/did you handle this objection?

- Is it common/logical for a co-founder to come on after a product is in the market and gaining traction?
Sorry, if I offended you. I am not against vegans or vegetarians, but you never see a non-vegan one walking up to you and telling you that you are a shit person if you're not one of them.

I think veganism and vegetarianism is slowly becoming a cult.

I have vegan and vegetarian friends and I never make fun of them. I am usually curious why people chose that diet. Some do out of love for the animals, other do it because of the carbon emission and there are who just do it to try and eat healthier and such.

No problem with this. I have problem with the vegan police culture.
You know the shame of ME is that the concept and intended use isn't terrible and the engineering behind it is rather cool. It is however unfortunate how poorly Intel implemented it and essentially forced it onto personal systems that have no need for it to begin with.
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I think there is a huge architectural philosophy divide here. Some think ME has it's place if done right,but surely many would agree with me when saying all of ME's functionality should be implemented by the OS. ring -1 should not exist. Period.
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There exists companies that don't subsidize employee meals. If he proposed to simply stop subsidizing food completely, this would be a non-story.

There are other publications calling this a "ban" on meat; nothing is being banned.

The hyperbolic reaction here is pretty shocking. Seems the idea of vegans being the "holier than thou" ones is a severe case of projection.
If you want to take a mystical angle on it, start reading stuff about one's True Will.
Eh, it still requires to de-encapsulate the controller, make a mask and expose the controller to UV light, it's not a super easy process.
Or, people do understand and yet still don't like it. I've lived in New York City and also had those superficial interactions with people different from me. But like the person you're responding to, I much prefer my current life of remote work from a rural town in the South, for all the reasons in the original comment.

It just felt like your comment, despite reiterating the parent's "to each their own" caveat, was either a total non sequitur or pushing the perspective that if you don't like city life you must just not understand it.
Who exactly is going to compensate us for the time spent giving every single proposal ever made by anyone a fair shake, given that we are no longer permitted to use heuristic shortcuts like "checking if the person has ever made something in the past" or "evaluating their formal training" or "acknowledging that they have a long term history of being a crank"?

An author has a promising idea but asks for people to invest early in order to iterate the idea to the point where it's strictly superior to existing alternatives. Investors want to know that the idea will bare fruit, and that the author will not abandon it. How do they evaluate the author's capacity to see the project through without resorting to the author's past history of seeing projects through, references, or credentials?

Moreover, what stops malicious actors from inundating us with garbage that takes longer to refute than to produce? We can't ban spammers because banning them is based on their past history, not what they're producing now. What if their next post isn't spam and has value?

Surely these considerations mandate that even if you believe people are insufficiently charitable to new entrants in the market of ideas, you can't throw the babies (credentials, reputation, audience) out with the bathwater. This is a good opportunity to position yourself as having made a provocative statement that will, of course, require some concessions to reason.
I notice articles like this never seem to address what happens when they confront non-whites about similarly held beliefs.

I somehow suspect they won't react very differently.
The inside of a Model 3 is not anywhere near as nice as the inside of any other expensive car. For $40k at an Acura dealer you will get the top-of-the-line interior with fancy stitching on the seats, an actual instrument package, Android Auto and CarPlay, etc. And that's at a price point where Tesla cars are currently not even available.