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> I see it as one incumbent battling another incumbent over literally billions of dollars of future ad revenue.

This is a little reductive. Although Google Fiber is a sibling company related to Google and probably heavily subsidized by parent Alphabet, it's incorrect to say that Google Fiber is selling billions of ad revenue.

I think this is a good example because it starkly puts in contrast the power dynamics: if an ISP that is strongly subsidized by Alphabet can't even break into the market, we know things are really bad.

This is a great move on the path towards making 15-person startups competitive, and it isn't insignificant. Success and failure are not a binary all-out choice between total ISP monopolistic domination and 100% free market for 1-person startups. It's a sliding scale, and any movement in this direction is a success.
This reminds me of a paper maybe ten years back where they found that normal cells go into a holding pattern (I hesitate to use the word hibernation) when resources are scarce, but cancer cells do not.

Because healthy cells are less active, they take less damage from chemo. So they were looking at intermittent fasting before chemo to reduce the collateral damage.
The salary is partly imposed on me as a constraint but we are also offering an unreal equity package vs what I've seen (multiple % in voting shares.) My salary is the same. And it's not low for Toronto. With my experience I know I could make at least another 20k but the equity compensates.

Our team is extremely small so the value of work contributed by each head (given the individual can successfully contribute in such an environment) is very high.

The issue is less finding takers and moreso finding the right takers. I've turned down people who were very interested because I wasn't sure about them. Unfortunately, I have been outbid on hires I was sure about which is very difficult to swallow. I would like to be able to offer at the upper end of the spectrum but the equity does have some value in the picture. I'm sure we could do an either or thing. Like you choose - either more cash or less with more equity. Because not everyone seems to be very interested in ownership. They just want to be paid.
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> On the other hand, the people who design Facebook or mobile games to be maximally addicting definitely understand something about how their software is affecting society. It's not a huge leap to go from "I'm pretty sure that certain people will become obsessed with this," to "It's probably harmful for lots of people to become obsessed with this."

I don't agree. I think this causal relationship makes sense in hindsight, but I don't think most people capable of designing or implementing software can reliably extrapolate what its impact on society will be. That goes for both positive and negative impacts.

Researchers and engineers should still put the effort into questioning the nature of their work and its impact on society, because that's a good exercise in general. But I'm skeptical any given individual would be good at arriving to the right answer.
Single-process concurrency is great in OCaml. It’s flexible and composable with libraries like Lwt and Async. On the other hand true multicore backend is where the most work is moment. For the latest update on that see: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-multicore-report-on-a-june...

(Tl;dr: It will be officially merged in 2019.)
That does seem to show older images though.
That's a cynical and nonsensical position.

All you need to do to refute this is look at the history of fraud, incompetence and other abuse in the Bitcoin/*coin marketplace. Adam Smith's invisible hand drives price competition in the marketplace, but it doesn't govern conduct.

Punting the need for regulation to the courts is just robbing justice from the public at large. Instead of having a rule that can be easily enforced and understood through the regulatory process, you're going to organically create rules via litigation and precedent. But in the process you're raising the bar in terms of cost and preventing entities without the resources to litigate from realizing justice.
They sit in the middle of any content you purchase; instead of your New York Times subscription supporting journalism, 30% of that goes to Apple instead for the privilege of owning "your" device. They intercept your text messages to provide iMessage. Who knows what happens to things I've stored on iCloud after I delete them.

The content producers have choices.

- they can force you to pay for content outside of the App Store (Spotify, Amazon)

- they can allow you to pay for content either in the App Store at a higher price or outside of the App Store at s lower price (CBS All Access)

- they can allow you to buy content in or out of the App Store for the same price (Udemy, Hulu, Netflix).

As far as “intercepting your text messages”, they are end to end encrypted where neither Apple nor your carriers can see the messages. Unlike Google’s latest text messaging app.

But as a user, I know my transaction cost - the price I pay to Apple. With Google and Facebook, the price is tracking, embedded ads, crapware (in the case of Android phones), etc.
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That site (starts with N and ends with gate) doesn't like to be mentioned here on Hackernews. If you link to there from here, it will pull a jwz -- albeit thankfully, without the nutsack, just a fake "captcha" that's really a looping "Loading" gif.
You can get pretty close though. Like a Dymaxion map (shown in sibling's XKCD link) or one of those orange-peel maps if you have enough little slices.

Edit: better Dymaxion link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map It's made of triangles that you can rearrange, which isn't really shown in the xkcd.
Everybody wants to be healthy. Lots of money in fruit these days.
For a sufficiently small externality, "ignore it" is a perfectly valid option. I think that's uncontroversial, although there would be substantial disagreement on the actual threshold.
I was under the impression that it was about taking funds out of the 401k entirely (because the article doesn't mention 401k anywhere), not about changing the fund allocations within the 401k.
for me, I use bash for anything less than 10 lines long, python for anything between 10 and 500 lines, and then I switch to a heavier programming language for anything longer.
In a sane universe, both of these things would not be true.
Girls Who Code encourages STEM, one coding class at a time
If you want something closer to Rust, consider looking into Reason. It’s essentially OCaml with braces and semicolons.
I lived through the .com bubble and the last couple of years I feel warrant a lot of comparison.

The tech bubble burst because of a 'spook' i.e. interest rate change and massive bubble in the regular markets that needed to be cooled. So the smart money fled first, the dumb money later, and things became difficult.

The underlying economic impetus these days is reasonable - but it could be fudged any moment by Trump's 'trade wars' (I'm not saying anything about him or the policy, just that there is risk), or it could be revealed that a marginal shift in rates really does have a bad effect.

The all of the surplus 'lift' in the market evaporates and all of this gets wiped out.

ICO's in particular are a really bad sign.

CEO's are currently trying to get in on the IPO market while they can - with companies like Sonos popping on float day even with not particularly strong fundamentals.

It's not that startup land is bad, it's just that fundamentals don't justify the valuations.

These Peloton bikes and their services are way too expensive for mass market, and I'm not confident. It seems like one of many fitness fads to me.

Note: this is series F. At $4B Billion. This behoves the question, why not public? Maybe because any amount of public scrutiny wouldn't bear such a lofty valuation? It makes you wonder who's writing these big cheques. This is not Uber or AirBnB which have naturally massive markets and cashflows. These are $2K + $50 / month stationary bike / status symbols.
What grand times we live in, where you can actually get this kind of data from the services that you use.

Having the law say your personal data is owned by you and not some company just because it's on their server may turn out to be a landmark in consumer friendly legislation!
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I'm in Orlando FL and idk what to visit apart of parks. Any recommendation?.
Wow, I assumed similarly - that there's something in the bag that helps the air inside heat up. I guess maybe moisture in the corns is enough. I learned something new and useful today, thanks!
$2K stationary bikes + $50 a month is still a niche market.
I'd like to try that with my Lodge. Did you sand it by hand? How long did it take? I'm not very handy!
Comcast may have little incentive in a remote city to make these changes, but if Comcast even believes that Google Fiber may be looking to expand to one of its areas, it is in Comcast's best interest to preemptively improve service in that area.

Preemptive retention is much less costly than having to reacquire customers after they've switched to Google Fiber.
And they don't ever report it.

I used to work there. They are pretty transparent in most of their ranks about the salary ranges. However, people at the top are paid an unknown amount of money. Probably an obscene amount, disguised through alternative compensation methods.
Increase butter, cut out the bread.
I recently got one.

Can't comment on the money side of things since I didn't take regular studio cycling before. (And let's say price is not an issue for any readers here on HN)

However, the product itself is very well put together. It is a really good studio grade bike to begin with, and the classes are constantly updated. The leaderboard and all keeps you motivated and I do find myself doing more cardio now I can utilize 20 30 or 45 mins for a quick workout (as opposed to driving to the gym, parking and change etc.)
> No results found for site:wikipedia.org "health concerns" consumers "american corporation".

How does that search demonstrate anything?
Vanguard is great as long as you don't ask much of them.

I used to have my accounts split between Fidelity and Vanguard. But after several botched transactions where Vanguard reps gave me inaccurate information about their own processes, and lost or claimed to have never received multiple mailed signed documents (with difficult-to-obtain Medallion signatures), I switched everything to Fidelity and am much happier. I have never failed to get a knowledgeable/expert person on the phone whenever I've called Fidelity, which is a stark contrast to my experience with Vanguard.
yes, interestingly Turkey being one of the more westernized Muslim countries. Nothin implied, just interesting.
Thank you!

I'm actually quite annoyed that Google took away the visible option to disabled the 3D aerial view. It's such a resource hog, and my work's internet is often quite slow, and 3D has far more data to retrieve.
People already explained what they do, but just FYI, they advertise pretty heavily on some TV stations.
> Today, its a multi thousand dollar event to publish an app on Apple's store, vs the insignificant cost of publishing on Android and Web.

Mac Minis are definitely much less than that. Yes, you need a Mac to build apps for their hardware. No, it's not many thousands of dollars.
What is a 'friendly' market in contrast to an efficient one?

Do you a prefer a market where you get a worse price, but your broker smiles at you?
Why the best productivity tools are horizontal
I think it accomplishes the opposite of the intended political goal. Larger regions aren't more loved. Larger regions look more threatening. It is now far more obvious that people near the equator can't all migrate to the EU and US. The US and EU look much more vulnerable and precious.
Hire a fee only advisor. This is a separate role from the funds.
While packaging leads to some pollution problems you only have to see the results of large gatherings in outdoor events and even in some stadiums that America has a problem with people who don't care, don't think its their job, or worse think its cool to trash a place. In many places you just have to look along the side of the road to see the problem. Where I am it is a common use of prisoners to clean up the shoulders.

Children are the best chance of changing it all up. Get them early and emphasize the positives while not dwelling on the negatives. Plus it is always good and sit down and see if we are living up to our own standards. Its one thing to complain on a message board it is another to set an example and hold to it

When it comes to packaging its going to take a combination of consumer pressure and possible regulation. What we must not do is react stupidly like the recent straw bans because when people mock something they don't respect the reasons behind it and it cascades.
You're not the only one. I came to the comments here primarily to see if someone would remind me what this company does. (Of course, I could also have just Googled.)
>"Don't let a high per-class cost stop you from getting healthy"

There are much cheaper ways to get healthy. But I guess this company is targeting people that have already purchased the idea that they need to pay a ton to make progress.

Sidenote:

>$3 shoes + $2 water

Bring your own shoes and water, that will definitely pay for itself lol.
Goodly looks to give companies student loan payments as an employee benefit
It seems quite strong to expect "researchers disclose any possible negative societal consequences of their work in papers".

This isn't just a matter of knowledge and familiarity. It requires some intensely personal moral and ethical judgments. One person's moral evil (self-driving trucks putting truckers out of work) might be another's moral obligation (getting rid of the life-shortening occupational hazards of trucking).

The verbiage around fully disclosing the possible outcomes adds an extra wrinkle. Reasonable results require social and technological forecasting and weighing of what researchers thing is likely or reasonable. It's possible that the researchers we're discussing might not have extensive training in forecasting large-scale social behavior.

I would submit that it's worth this effort to catch some small percent of potential negative impacts only if we can do so without excessive costs from false positives. A scenario in which an excess of false positives overwhelms the number of true positives at great cost is a very possible outcome and one that merits more than casual dismissal. If we can't predict outcomes reliably and can't agree on how to weigh them, then some might consider it wise to not predicate significant and consequential decisions based on a combination thereof.

You're absolutely right. Researchers should be taking a look at the long-term consequences of their work. It's just possible that researchers should not assume that they're equipped to make long-term predictions or shape the efforts of their peers around said predictions.

Hecht's heart - and yours - are absolutely in the right place. We can, and should, think carefully and deeply about the consequences of all of our choices with compassion and humility.
Color me wholly confused by this metaphor. Who's the blind squirrel; Google Fiber, Comcast, or FCC? And what's the acorn?
Of course, they have different goals, they're using different frameworks and so on. But ask yourself this. If the average Windows user had a choice of two different desktop environments, would they be more likely to be thankful for having a choice, or is it more likely that they would be confused?

Windows and Mac OS X don't allow much customization. Not because Microsoft and Apple are lazy, but because they want the average user to be able to pick up any Windows PC or Mac and be immediately familiar with how to use it.

If we didn't have the Gnome and KDE wars, we would have likely ended with a "standard" Linux desktop.
But people have wildly differing interpretations of reality.
This is great. I wonder if the EU can write a law to allow us to see what adverts are being served to which audiences on platforms like Facebook and Google. More transparency please.
I got one this year. When I had a membership at a gym, I didn’t really use it. Now I am on the bike 5 times a week. So it works for me and they’ve done a good job.
> impossible task

A well seasoned cast iron pan is almost as convenient, so it’s not impossible.
Oh, I'm decidedly pro-regulation. I was just answering the argument that the economy suffers under regulations, which I don't think is a given at all.

Existing businesses might go belly up, but new ones will spring up to fill the post-regulation needs, and as long as there are businesses doing stuff the economy will grow.

There is much less evidence that the economy suffers under regulations than the opposite. Just look at California, for instance.
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Google forcing other manufacturers not to make other products is nowhere on the scale of “open”. That would be like Apple telling Foxconn, ARM, TSMC, TomTon etc that they can’t do business with any other company
The target date funds seem to have a 1k minimum with an ER of 0.13-0.15%. [1] There are no admiral shares for target date funds. Across their other mutual fund offerings, investor shares generally have a similar expense ratio to the target date funds with a 3k minimum.

When I was getting started, it took awhile before I was diversified beyond a single fund (currently not using the target date funds), then eventually getting up to admiral shares.

> Last time I looked I didn't think it did, so you would need more than $10k if you want to do the sensible thing and not have 100% of your assets in stocks.

Looking through all their target date funds, none have more than 90% stocks. The 2015-2040 funds have 60% to 15% bonds, with all later dates at 10%.

[1] https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/list#/mutual-fund...
It seems right that if you have things well handled there's no value in putting a lot of effort into analysis. But what's a good approach if the solution isn't clear?
I see, so as an example, you eat your final meal at 6:00 Sunday night. Nothing Monday. Breakfast at 6:00 on Tuesday. 6:00p Sunday to 6:00a Tuesday is 36 hours.
Sounds like an unsustainably low calorie intake. Have you measured? Or, how "intermittent" is it?
Google Maps must be one of the modern wonders of the world, it's still nothing short of breathtaking to zoom out of streetview in crowded London and then land somewhere on a country crossroads in remote Vietnam.
Vodka is not a good choice, ethanol (7kcal/g) is second only to fat (9kcal/g) for caloric density.
I think the main benefit of bitcoin in history might be to teach an entire generation about the importance of proper financial regulation.

There has to be a less expensive way to recapitulate the history of market regulation.
It is a good one, but my experience is that the customer service on the card is not so hot. Namely they are overly aggressive with fraud detection, which combined with slow card replacement can be problematic. They canceled my card once because I swiped it instead of inserting the chip for reading, said they could not reverse the action, and then took over a week to get me a replacement card (granted there was a holiday weekend, but this was very different from Amex who always have overnighted replacement cards)
I repeat my suggestion that you put down the bong. You're not making a coherent argument.
How many landfills are proper landfills, and not half-assed landfills, or just holes in the ground? Out of all those proper landfills, how many are properly maintained? Like everything, protection and drainage degrades with time.
Thats why asked - How much you earn and how much you save.

Cost of Living = Earning - tax - saving

Isnt it obvious?
We seem to have the same approach to unpopular content: this is what we can get the most innovative ideas from

Thanks a lot for the gate suggestion, after checking it it seems to post a contrarian analysis - basically singling out the post I will be interested in reading!
I interviewed for a marketing position with them a while back. It seemed like a team that really knew what they were doing. Good luck to them!
I always wondered where that two-sim feature request comes from. I really only need one.
Thanks for the Whataboutism.

That's really the one example. It's the same situation where horror movies have to be elevated above the genre to be discussed.
> It seems like one of many fitness fads to me

I agree but I think the fitness industry itself is inherently based upon dietary and exercise fads. If it wasn't a fad, they probably wouldn't be raising capital so easily. Guessing these investors assuming there'll be a greater fool?
AMD’s press release seems to have more detail. Subor is creating both a gaming PC running Win10 and a console with their own OS, presumably Linux-based.

The CPU and GPU are on the same die, while the GDDR5 is on the motherboard through a 256-bit interface.

https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2018/08/03/n...
It's been a while I'm thinking about this. As an european (french if that helps), living in asia , does that worth it to invest in an american fund ?
Anyone has a recommendation?

Thanks!
I don't think it's OK... It's a ripoff of Titan Graph. I think Datastax picked up that team to work on a cassandra specific graph db.
There was a pretty interesting TED talk on this subject that includes how they used indoor plants to help clear up the air at an office building in India.

https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_...
I just watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRVhRt1p54, which another commenter said may be the catalyst for China's ban on importing recycling. I'd be hard-pressed to say a well-run landfill is worse than what I just watched.
I didn't dare to assume that you were that old (like I also am, BTW).

Anyway it is actually documented, here is the prologue from the first episode of the "Superman (1940s cartoons)":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1941_film)#Prologue

“In the endless reaches of the universe, there once existed a planet known as Krypton; a planet that burned like a green star in the distant heavens. There, civilization was far advanced, and it brought forth a race of supermen, whose mental and physical powers were developed to the absolute peak of human perfection. But there came a day when giant quakes threatened to destroy Krypton forever. One of the planet’s leading scientists, sensing the approach of doom, placed his infant son in a small rocket ship and sent it hurtling in the direction of the Earth, just as Krypton exploded. The rocket sped through star-studded space, landing safely on Earth with its precious burden: Krypton’s sole survivor. A passing motorist found the uninjured child and took it to an orphanage. As the years went by and the child grew to maturity, he found himself possessed of amazing physical powers. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, the infant of Krypton is now the Man of Steel: SUPERMAN! To best be in a position to use his amazing powers in a never-ending battle for truth and justice, Superman has assumed the disguise of Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper.”
It can be done. Two years ago I've seen it done with Coca-Cola bottles in Germany. They'd have those thick bottles with visible scratches coming from cleaning and reuse. About the same time as I first discovered this practice, they abandoned it for some reason; on my next trip, I found only regular, single-use bottles. To this day I wonder about the reasons behind this change.