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Not really. I think that the gold and diamond industry is hugely destructive and I'd encourage everyone to avoid their products wherever possible. Gold has some valid industrial uses, but diamonds are just bullshit and I think the world would be a better place if everyone believed that.

If De Beers found diamonds in my neighbourhood, I'd petition my local government to refuse them a permit to mine; if that permit was granted, I'd petition them to enforce high environmental standards and ensure that the externalities of that mining activity are appropriately priced.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672415
The companies of 2018 are playing chicken with the labor market. They are not offering higher wages, betting that the workers will start to get hungry long before the stockholders start to notice that the cabana boy has been delivering smaller drinks to their beach chairs, at longer intervals.

They don't have to pay more. The stockholders just don't know of any place better to put their money right now. It's not like a startup could undercut and take all the business by choosing to funnel less profit towards the founders and investors. Investors won't invest in a risky venture unless you dangle a good rate of return in front of their faces. Established companies won't change course from a proven business plan.

If you pitch to investors a grocery store that will operate on a 1% profit margin instead of 2%, and give the difference to the store employees, in the form of living wages and solid benefits, you'll get laughed right out of the boardroom. If you instead walk in and say that the workers have cartelized, such that no existing store will have any employees unless it offers living wages and solid benefits, you're far more likely to get them.
I have found the calculations for these historic companies to be dubious. They mostly calculate the worth of a company in relation to some historical GDP figure and apply that percentage on a modern GDP figure.

Think about it, how can the Dutch East Indies company be worth $7 trillion dollars when the Netherlands today has a GDP of only $900 Billion, which is after centuries of economic growth.

The Dutch East Indies company may have been comparably more powerful in relation to its time though.
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I've always wondered about this: How much is that a problem with letting go of sugar, and how much is it finding things that don't have sugar in them?
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These seem more like levels of income than wealth (hint, the three levels are not worrying about debt/dinner bills/vacation costs).

Wealth is the ability to generate such income levels passively (having control over your time).
Here you go:

[1] Construction Equipment Operators ($22/hour median)

[2] Carpenters ($22/hour median)

[3] Construction Laborers and Helpers ($16/hour median)

[4] Food and Beverage Serving ($10/hour median)

The longevity argument ignores the fact that many careers today are focusing on younger and younger workers as a means of effecting cheap labor. Easy to measure labor costs, not so easy to measure labor skill. How would you put the prospects of a 60 year old software developer looking for work?

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[1] - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/construc...

[2] - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/carpente...

[3] - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/construc...
so poor people outside america don't count as people?
It all makes perfect sense to me now. Someone has developed a time machine. If copyrights are longer in the past, they will have incentive to go back into the past, create new works there, and use the profits to fund the operation of their time machine.

That's actually the only scenario where this copyright extension will cause the creation of new works. Barring that, yes, it's just a money grab by copyright holders (most of whom are not even the artists who created the works).
Correct, but they're 120/240V. Or at least, should be.
I legitimately love that discussions of company valuations can morph into discussions of time travel on HN. Favorite comment threads anywhere.
They didn’t show any restraint. They killed anyone who looked at them sideways, raped any woman they fancied the look of and ethnically cleansed more or less every German east of the Oder without regard for who died.

The Russians could have done worse, they could have had an actual policy of genocide.
Libertarian 'dreams' are routinely destroyed when faced with reality.

(I can't wait for that 'crock o shit' libertarian sea nation to get it's first visit from the libertarian pirate nation.)
In the case of Microsoft they directly acquired the original DOS and the designers of Windows NT - so they've perhaps done that twice?
I've been reading the O'Reilly book but I'll look at TRPL next. BTW I'm read this on Safari: Steve, do you know how publishers/authors get compensated for Safari books? Are there just normal royalties or is it somehow negotiated in a bulk rate?

EDIT: Steve answers a semi-related question in [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8u0ggw/trpl_is_releas...
Unfortunately, ssh-agent does not have a way to discriminate against which remote is requesting authorization. So if you have dozens of keys and the correct key isn't among the first to be presented, then the remote server is likely to kick you for too many authorization attempts.
That is simply not the meaning of the word "let" in this context.

Just to let you know I know what you mean, here's an expression using "let" in both senses:

1. How could you let him do that?

2. I didn't "let" him do that. How was I supposed to know he would do that? He never asked me.

Here 1 uses your meaning and 2 uses mine. Donald Trump's transcript uses 2, not 1. (Another usage of 1 is whenever someone says 'how could you let this happen'? That never means allow.)

Another example is one someone says: "I can't believe I let this happen." They don't mean "allow" then. However, in Trump's transcript he means the allow meaning.

You can be quite certain, because he set the context clearly.

Basically, quoting "grab them by the pussy" is leaving out the meaning as uttered.

It's a nice scary quote. As a translator you have to kind of mistranslate it so it is shocking but also grammatically kind of still matches the imperative.

But that's not what was said.
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The title has since been changed and an update posted at the top of the article:

> Update: 11:49 AAPL has now passed the $1T mark and is the world’s first trillion dollar company.
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Can I write Golang code and see it executed through Life?

Is there a Life target for the Go compiler?
Which one did Microsoft buy?
>people always bring up China

Because China's often top of mind due to being in the news. Also, because China does many things (some good, many horrible) that suit them and not the West or Western principles. I'm curious to see why this bothers you and I hope you avoid falling into the "whattaboutism" trap.

Regarding parent comment: China's aggressive military base push in SCS and other waters is very worrying.
Yeah, they definitely wouldn't be in distro packages, but I want to play them nonetheless. That means I either have to run software which isn't in my distro repo, or switch to Windows.
I see. I am wondering if you ever had a look at H20, which I think is being used by Fastly.
Where did you get that idea from?
Double underscores have to do with name mangling, nothing else
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1301346/what-is-the-mean...
I think about this very topic sometimes, but my levels are different. Mine are something like

1. Paycheck to paycheck. Includes constant worry and frustration about living expenses and basic necessities. Any unexpected cost will lead to not being able to pay the bills. Money is on your mind 24/7, life in this category is hell. Very difficulty to escape this category once you fall into it.

2. Able to afford living expenses with a little left over. I guess you'd call this middle class? Or maybe upper lower class. These people have an income that lets them pay their bills without worry, so they have a cushion of a few hundred/thousand dollars a month. These people don't experience stress over standard bills anymore, they are free to enjoy living life a bit fancy. Can go out to eat at good restaurants, can afford to do miscellaneous activities.

3. Anything above #2 really. This is the bracket and beyond that has plenty of income in that expenses don't matter anymore. Stress about affording living expenses is non-existent.
While I do agree with the sentiment of reducing meetings and time spent planning, I don't believe that removing all scheduled communication and planning is a good answer. This approach is especially problematic for teams that are working more directly on rapidly changing business concerns. Communication, planning and analysis are quite important for teams with members who need regular guidance or teams with lots of distinct roles.
>Clustering is built into it with security

Just to note, distributed erlang is NOT secure AT ALL. You absolutely need your own source of network isolation to keep it secure.

By default the EPMD daemon (that coordinates nodes in a cluster) listens on an open port and accepts node join requests if they contain a correct secret cookie (short authentication string). EPMD has zero protection against brute force attempts to guess a cookie. If your EPMD port is open to the internet it is trivial to gain access to your entire cluster and execute arbitrary code.

See: https://insinuator.net/2017/10/erlang-distribution-rce-and-a...
The title is a bit misleading. This is mostly about inequality, using the "three levels of wealth" are a jumping off point to explore how income inequality has changed over time. The conclusion is nothing new: inequality is rising.
The self-identification chart is pretty interesting. It looks like within the past few years ~10% of people who would have identified as lower/working class are now identifying as middle/upper-middle despite the middle class continuing to decline while the lower and middle-upper classes have slowly increased
"... and it won't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard"
My first thought is a relationship with glutamate excitotoxicity. Fronto-temporal dementia is known to be related to glutamate. If that’s lumped in as part of the dementia cohort that may help explain the result.
IT takes two to tango, the Irish government was ordered by the E.U. to pick up those ten billion or so of taxes but they didn't think it would be the thing to do and didn't demand what was rightfully theirs.
I'd say more interesting is the Dutch East India company sort of portrays what life would be like if companies became their own govts.
Other than focusing on caring about the price of restaurants or vacations, what about adding financial independence to the equation?

Somehow that is something that does not seem to be valued enough when it comes to this type of discussions.

Financial independence does not mean necessarily being rich, as much as it means not needing to work for someone else and still be able to make a comfortable living.
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Please don't point out "duplicates" on valid reposts. "I posted this before, but nobody cared" doesn't add anything.
Maybe someone advanced enough to master time travel no longer has need for money?

A bit like saying we could go back three thousand years and corner the market in nifty sea shells
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Not so fast, they bought back $20 Billion in stock last quarter.
> lightweight meaning 0.5kb for a BEAM process

It's quite a bit more than that. According to the offical doc[0] it's 309 words without SMP or HiPE, on my machine (with both) it's 336 words.

That's 1.2~1.3k on a 32b system and 2.4~2.6 on a 64b system.

[0] http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/processes.html
I went to grad school with a guy who, the day Apple stock hit $14 a share, decided to spend $500 of his grad student stipend to buy some. He figured Apple's cash on hand was worth more than $14 a share.

I thought he was nuts. I was an idiot.
Can you tell us a bit more about the morale and employees opinions back then? Was there a prevalent theory about what's wrong and how to fix it?
> Google is failing me here.

Really? Indeed, if you search for just "CLOS" Google doesn't find it. Duckduckgo on the other hand, gives it in the 3rd link.
I wonder, why is it NonZeroU8, NonZeroU16, etc instead of something like NonZero<u8>, NonZero<u16>, etc?

In theory, in the future, when Rust supports constants as template arguments, one might even add a const argument, the value that should be used as "null". E.g. if my u8 never reaches 255, I could use something like Never<u8, 255>.
For Chicago, specifically, the closest official equivalent is the 77 community areas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago), which definitely don't align with how residents see neighborhood boundaries. That's in part because the CAs were created decades ago by the U of C, and aren't really allowed to change so that longitudinal comparisons can be made using them.

Just speaks to how tricky the question really is. Cities have legally-defined boundaries for very good reasons while neighborhoods just...don't, so what is a mapmaker supposed to do?
Except, you know, all the sales tax collected in their retail channels. And employment taxes on their 80,000 domestic employees. And property taxes. And real-estate fees. And government testing. And the obscene amounts of duties they pay importing every single thing they make.

That's just for the U.S., in every other country they do business those apply as well (with exception of perhaps the import duties for business done in China).
It is a joke, a piece of tape over the speaker effectively silences any phone sound.
I would disagree with 3 because there are many in 2 and 3 which can go to 1 just by losing their job and e.g. having one high medical bill (in the states at least).

So surely there must be differentiation on whether any given job or emergency can affect your standard of living significantly.
I'm pretty happy about the GlobalAllocator stabilization. Now you can run Massif and Heaptrack on rust code without switching to unstable!
Apple is also the largest tax payer also?

(according to Apple!)

https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2017/11/the-facts-about-ap...
Maybe on the definition of "preemptive", but it should be treated as a preemptive VM in practice.
Article is spot on. I quit a well paid job at large corp for this exact reason.
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Are those things mutually exclusive? Apple is sitting on hundreds of billions in cash. They could literally make a million people rich just by gifting the money. But they don't.
Just go back to 2009 and buy bitcoin, then sell it on 15 Dec 2017 at $17,500.
Debian Developer Stephen Kitt said the opposite, as you can see.
What makes the maps that the city makes up better than the ones that the real estate agents make up?

In this case, the city designations are important because each year the city divides a pot of money that goes to supplemental infrastructure improvements in each neighborhood.

Because it's supplemental money, it is a fixed amount for each neighborhood. If a neighborhood's boundaries increase, then money available for improvements in that neighborhood is stretched thinner. If a neighborhood's boundaries shrink, then more money is available for improvements per block.

This is why boundaries matter, and why they are codified.
Nextdoor.com maps out most neighborhood boundaries with some inputs from users. The boundaries are also allowed to “evolve” as time goes on and areas change.
When I quit drinking, (1L vodka/day for years cold turkey), I craved sugar like nothing else in the world. If removing sugar from your diet is anything like getting sober, I feel GP's pain.
Not sure if this is a serious question, but it takes some serious cash to market products at that level.

There is a reason why those brands stay in the high end price brackets over decades. It's not an accident and it's not just a trend. Companies like that have more than one expertise - their core competence like watch making - and top notch marketing departments. That stuff costs a lot of money.
Sugar is basically banned in french schools though.
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I didnt know this about NT - Where did they come from?
Maybe moviepass could pivot to a babysitting/housesitting/petsitting service that happens to give free movie passes and other date-night packages to parents of young children or pets. They could charge way more.

Like a going-out version of blue apron
Yeah but those "historic meanings" change all the time, and names shift because what's easy to pronounce wins over what's "correct". This is a digital equivalent of a very, very, very old process utterly intrinsic to human civilization.
So question remains will UBI be the solution? Or will it be forced by automatisation and Ai progress?
> All good things in politics come from vociferous arguing

I would hope you recognize the opposite. The natural inclination is to increase aggression to try again when battles are fought viciously and lost. The idea of losing as commonplace and safe is not reinforced enough. While I don't trust a single representative (very bad sign), I also don't think the arguments should be full of frothing.
Just don't ask about using WINE. (-:

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/460036/
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> There's no substitute for your package maintainer personally auditing and preparing the package for you.

This is true, but it's not a feasible approach for software like Slack, Spotify, and VSCode that gets updated /weekly/. These aren't packages like 'libgit' that you could validate once and leave the same until you ship the next OS release. Some of these apps completely stop working if you fall behind by too many versions. Having people running older versions is also a huge pain in the ass as a developer, because those users inevitably email support, complain online about how the product is bad, etc. and only after lots of emailing does it turn out they're using a year-old version. (Full disclosure: I maintain Mailspring and switched to Snapcraft /very/ enthusiastically to have an auto-update mechanism that works across linux distros!)
I'd say one of the differences between 2 and 3 is that people in category 3 are virtually immune to dropping a level due to life events.
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I can't parse "share an ID number". Anyway, it comes with a debit card with an associated bank account number with ABA so you can do direct deposits to it, and use it for EFT payments to pay bills that don't accept cards. I use the Chime card with locally owned merchants to keep their processing fees down, and as a way to track discretionary spending.

I have a Citicard that generates one time virtual card numbers for online payments. It's a really neat idea but with a painful interface that makes it impractical. I'd like to get a virtual number for each merchant that has a user configurable credit line and can be used multiple times. That way I'd have a unique card on file with each online merchant, with its own credit limit set by me.
The justice system is designed to handle these ambiguities, it's literally the job of the system to gather the facts and experts and make a decision. If it gets to the point where you can't tell at all out seems like you would just need a new law that requires you to prove it was in public or get consent (which you should get anyway, even in public). Proving it was in public would be trivial for the case of something like a protest (lots of eye witnesses and security cameras). I guess I'm not seeing the scenario where it will ever be that unsolvable of a problem in society.
Yeah, I don't happen to know, as I'm not being paid for this book :) None of the other books I've worked on have been on Safari, or at least, if they are, I've never seen a breakdown of the (not large, mind you) payments that described that.
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TBH I'd just try out Pico-8, which inspired this Python project. Pico-8 games are super easy to share, you can share the png file or embed the game in a webpage. I'm mainly a Python developer but I got started with Pico-8 about a week ago and it's a blast. My 7 year old son loves it too.
I'd say look at this generically, without adding exceptions for outliers. Even for #3, a multi-million dollar medical bill could be a huge setback. I'm talking more along the lines of standard happenings. Say if a kid gets sick and the parents need to fork out a few hundred/thousand dollars for treatment. #2 would be able to rely on their cushion to avoid being cast down into #1.
and it’s even got the virtue of being true.
I think I lose more of my time on the daily HN submission about page bloat than I actually lose on page bloat.
Exactly. You can certainly pity someone for lacking empathy but blaming them makes no sense.

And behavior isn't necessarily a static thing. This same person might read a good book (which would become part environment) which might move them to be more empathetic.
It sounds like you're using this for proaudio and/or provideo work? I heard that not all apps (i.e. Adobe Suite) can take advantage of hackintosh hardware and eGPUs on OSX fully or partially. What have you found?
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There's a free tool called Color Oracle that makes it very easy to apply color filters to your computer's display in order to simulate the different kinds of dichromatic colorblindness.

https://colororacle.org

I'm sure it's not perfect, but it at least helps make things a bit less tricky to get right.
Does he still own the shares?
> But that is expensive so is not done.

The goal is to produce, as efficiently as possible, programs that work adequately for their intended purpose. "Work adequately" does not mean perfection. The optimal solution has failures in almost all directions - not-quite-rigorous processes, not catching all bugs, not testing all scenarios, just-barely-adequate code review, just-barely-adequate tests, and so on. To "improve" any of those would be to make the whole process more inefficient.

That's at best, when management knows what they're doing. At worst, those things are totally missing, and technical debt kills you later.