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> The pen that signed the surrender of Japan

On the off chance you're interested in that particular pen, there were actually several of them. I collect fountain pens as a hobby, and ones used to sign historical documents are of particular interest to me.

This thread has lots of information on what they were and where they ended up, including a photo of one of them: http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/177886-japanes...
Many major banks do that too.
It's easy to forget too that the history of credit cards was that they started as store credit cards, and centralized and inter-operated from there. When credit cards first started you would have one per store only usable in that same store.

(Also note how gift cards/stored value cards/"prepaid credit" cards recently seem to be following a similar trajectory. It is somewhat fascinating.)
https://www.reactiflux.com serves that purpose for me. It's React-focused, but lots of knowledgeable, helpful people in there including the great #jobs-advice channel.
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It actually took all of my time to get the operation going. Considering that I was a co-founder and there weren't many of us around, it was a sizable time investment and a huge gamble for the company.

While I didn't have to do any writing, it would be disingenuous to promote the idea that all it takes for SEO to take off is a clever trick. In fact, if there's one message I would share, it is that there are no shortcuts (but on the positive side, if you do put in the work, you can make it despite being an early-stage company).

Most of my work went into analyzing the topics we should be writing about, creating lists of keywords I was encouraging our writers to use, recruiting writers, and then building relationships in the relevant communities and promoting the content. Eventually we ended up getting enough people to subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter that the promotional work went away.
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For any given project, I aim to use the simplest tool possible. This means vanilla JavaScript/jQuery and straight CSS unless there's a reason to make the project more complicated.

(But modern browsers support a lot of ES6 without transpiling, so if legacy browser support is not needed I do use ES6 features.)

When I do need to use a framework, i choose Vue.js, because it is the most flexible and does not require transpiling.
>The library could, almost certainly, use the money

Ehhhh. Those books probably cost more to store than they make in profit. Books take up a lot of space and are likely selling for $1 (hardcover) or 10 for $1 (paperback) at the use book sale. Used books are really hard to sell, and there are a lot of them lying around.

My wife had a collection of hundreds of paperbacks that the public library refused to take and Goodwill suggested we throw away, so we sent them to the recycling center.
Ah, a shadow banking crisis, right on time!
no but i'll absolutely complain about the way the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has changed the school system in the US.
> Well, monetize through ads is something expected in any free platform that does not belong to a non-profit organization.

You could also, you know, charge money for the service.
As much as I would like to see more competition in that space, on the topic of search Google is still head and shoulders above the rest as soon as you leave mainstream queries. I regularly try out DDG or Bing to see if they are closer to fitting the bill, but after a few days or weeks it's back to House Google. Maybe it will be simple to drop them at some point in the future. But in 2018? Not so much.

And there's also that one thing, that's kinda hard to avoid because there is no direct equivalent, what's it called, ho yes: Android.
the same reason people didnt switch off facebook when they started showing ads. Or instagram. Or Twitter.

the network.
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Ars on your lunch break: Tim O‘Reilly discusses the birth of “open source”
There have probably been employees as long as there has been a State. Certainly since the early Chinese and Assyrian empires.
Do people really think that providing free catered food is in any way, shape, or form the norm (much less an expectation) for companies--even those in urban locations employing well-paid professional workers?
Sorry! I'd missed the previous discussion on businessinsider.
Thanks, we changed the URL to that from http://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-018-0100-6 since the latter is behind a paywall without workarounds. (This is
explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989).
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$0.0135 per message. That's almost like SMS, to be honest.
Yeah, but there's less permanency.

If I'm contracting a company to do X, who they get to do it could change day by day. So I can hire an agency to outsource something to for like a three year contract. That company then churns employees every 6 months under some slightly sketchy practices.

Not as worrisome with certain skilled jobs, but for unskilled jobs, it's kind of a rough deal.

Drives wages down while the contractor can still charge decent fees. That and the contractee can terminate at any time basically.
> and the banks are actually pretty good at deciding who is too risky to lend money to, so why should this be a surprise?

Well, what you say is certainly true in America. But is it necessarily true in China?

Those are the kinds of assumptions that may not hold as you cross borders.
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1. Free lunch may not be free but while it may cost $X for the company to offer that lunch and while they may deduct that $X from my salary, the value of that lunch to me is not $X but, say, 10 x $X because it saves me time going to and searching for places to eat, waiting in line, waiting for meal to be prepared, paying more per meal, including the tip...etc

2. Sure, they can. For example, Google will hire "Totally Unrelated To Google, Catering Inc".
on iOS was purchase, on android was subscription, after a while I think they may have switched to subscription on iOS for the people that didn't buy it.
"banks are overlooking or turning away a large group of creditworthy customers, and so far it doesn't seem like that is happening."

Bank do refuse to lend to large segments of the population which can be lent to profitably.

In China, part of the reason is caps on loan interest rates.

But banks in developed countries, like the US and the UK, also fail to serve a large segment of the population. Those underserved by banks have limited options to get loans for emergencies etc., and difficulty building their credit history to gain access to cheaper credit in future.

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But those productivity gains need to be directed efficiently, which requires some mechanism for the market to know the needs of a broad swath of the population. People get to vote on what problems need solving and that directs productivity growth as capitalists chase revenue.

However, if income is too highly concentrated, then folks with serious problems don't get many votes on what problems need solving and the folks who do get those votes are disconnected from those with more dire problems.
I don't really agree with this. Regular employment was definitely not available for a large number of people, but it did exist. Specifically, to run States (i.e. bureaucracies). Just take a look at how China has been governed for the past couple of thousand years. They had a well defined examination system to get into civil service etc.

_Private_ regular employment was certainly less common, just because private enterprises (as we understand them now) have been a relatively new invention.
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Unless you're using an unorthodox definition of 1% (e.g. 1% of demonstrated academic ability), you're mistaken. Rich people can afford to send their kids to private schools or live in economically segregated areas with high-performing schools. Charter schools do not charge tuition, making them available to the masses.

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You have people pouring money into the school system, and the OP says it's in the wrong spot, and then the next poster asks, but who will fund that? clearly take money from one, put it in the other if that's the solution.
It really depends on where you live. If you're in say, India, then sure, what you've said is probably true. But it's certainly not true everywhere in the world.
Industrialization was the opposite of that, people used to do piece work but with the advent of industrial looms you needed paid workers who understood how to use your equipment.

A rather large portion of factory work was carried about by unskilled children who only needed to do some very specific thing and could be paid far less than skilled craftsman.
Go 1.11 will add preliminary support for versioned modules
Like I commented above I haven't had a chance to go through the https://github.com/mml-book/mml-book.github.io book yet. But now that I have read your article in full I think diving headlong first with ML and then back filling the Math/Stat/Prob holes is the best approach to learn ML engineering. Like SICP authors mused about modern software development as being "programming by poking at it using APIs" instead of just lesrning to program just for the heck of it.
I wouldn't call a form requesting your email (the only entry field on a dedicated page) a "dark pattern". They out right imply an email is necessary and knowing it's not requires knowledge otherwise or accidentally clicking "next".
Jonesforth is a great tool when trying to teach people how stack based interpreters would work. I used it as an example in a class that I taught.

The documentation is first rate with exact descriptions in the code.

As far as the FORTH being a horrible language, to some extent it is. But if you are stuffing into a small chipset it's good. Granted there are things like Lua now, but back in the early years, FORTH was a huge tool for imbedded systems.
it was free for android and $1 for iOS users. subscription came way later..
Since we're sharing anecdotes as qualitative data points, my experience has been the exact opposite: every last one of my friends that were on WhatsApp have migrated to Signal. I followed them. We're all US based, with two exceptions in the UK.
> If one is against this idea, then ask why any investor of money into a company should get money back from it when they did no explicit work for it?

Because they did. They put their capital (that they worked for, or their ancestors did) at risk so someone could use it. It's only fair that they get a cut.
Hi, that's me :)

Fusion.js is a team effort though: https://fusionjs.com/team
With $1 purchase you were getting 1 year subscription included. Next year would be $1 in-app purchase.
You pay off a politician to get laws passed against them or to go after them with legal instruments.
I tried to get my friends who use WhatsApp to switch to Signal during the big Delete Facebook movement... I got a lot of pushback. It did not happen. :(
Phony in what way?
Been to a dozen Indian weddings (in the US and India). At the weddings in India, no cake. At all of the weddings in the US, there was cake, regardless of the couples' religion(s). But they were all real cakes; after the couple made the first cut, people lined up to watch the caterers cut the rest of the cake and grab pieces as they were laid out.
Does this inference work across files?
Product development and the internal documents you have, can serve as the basis for good content. Essentially you're writing about problems that you're solving with your product.

Your first articles can be related to your MVP, and the following ones about stuff you discover after gaining your first users.

What I think the OP is trying to communicate, is basically that SEO or creating content that attracts people, is just a natural step within the development of your business. You'd need a interesting take on a problem or solve one that nobody else is solving, and then make sure that you don't miss the keywords people search for.
This thread is making me realize that proponents of the "dweb" for conventional, popular use will probably want to figure out messaging for it that doesn't activate someone's strongly-held opinions on [hate|free] speech.
Things in history that are similar to long term employment:

1. Soldiers e.g. legionnaires in the Roman empires

2. Filial relationships e.g. a lord and the subjects of their court

3. Apprenticeship with a master

4. Membership in a guild that held a monopoly for services within a region

5. Servants and bonded laborers,

6. Monks and Priests

7. Artists, writers, musicians and scholars with wealthy patrons

8. Professors, teachers and tutors

9. Various artisans and craftspeople employed in a noble's household

...

There are not exactly the same as modern employment but they do have many of the same characteristics (long term relationships, valued labor, etc...).
That's something I would worry about. When Accenture is boasting that they can do your core competency better than you, you have to start to wonder if outsourcing your core competency was the wisest move.
They don't need paid subscribers. Physical papers and tv have been supported by ads without tracking for decades. Companies pay for space or time.

Internet allowed advertisers to track so now we have this BS. They had many years to fix this. But tracking is the business of many companies like google and facebook. Now lot of people uses ad blocker and it's increasing.
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https://www.change.org/p/san-francisco-government-ban-kitche...

Context:

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"Two San Francisco supervisors move to ban free workplace cafeterias, obviously directed at tech firms. They argue free cafeterias are denying business to local restaurants and (as per Supervisor Peskin) “depriving [techies] the pleasure of mingling with the rest of The City”, which is impossible for me to read in anything other than a cloying sarcastic bully voice. @theunitofcaring has a typically thoughtful and compassionate take on this. I am less thoughtful and compassionate and my take is wanting to start a petition to ban San Francisco City Supervisors from having kitchens in their house. It’s literally stealing from the restaurant industry! [EDIT: Commenter “Jeltz” has made the petition]."
It's comparatively much easier for you. It's also comparatively easier for me to just throw my trash out the window, instead of taking it to the community dumpster. [1]

What it does, is it creates more busywork work for society, as a whole. Instead of a few HR persons/systems/payroll experts, in a no-employee world, everyone now needs to become at least somewhat competent at dealing with all this rubbish.

There's a reason we don't churn butter by hand anymore - dedicated creameries are much better, faster, and cheaper at it then I'll ever be.

[1] I'm not saying that you're a bad person, or that having your employees do their own paperwork is like throwing trash on the street - I am only making this analogy because of the amount of busywork that doing your own taxes/payroll/compliance entails. Busywork that most of them are not experts in.
The idea of employment also brings more stability to workers, to focus on their families and other stuff. Worker's rights on the beginning of the industrial revolution was terrible, no wonder communism rose to power in a country so fast.

In the end, social democracy was a compromise to maintain capitalism and avoid spreading revolution. And it worked.
With some restaurants apparently giving up on waitstaff, I guess people can now put more work in their lunch hour serving themselves.

I really do hope those serverless restaurants are cheaper, because otherwise, what’s the point?
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I keep telling my bank SMS 2fa is bad but they say it is not. Many banks replaced tokens with SMS unfortunately.
I have and it works but they completely revamped the implementation in 2.0. I'm procrastinating the upgrade because it is a royal pain.
I’ve been hearing this since 2011. The Chinese government seems to have an amazing ability to get control over the situation as it always seems to be teetering on the brink.
"Propaganda" is another descriptor along those lines. Neither tells you anything about the content other than the value judgment belonging to the person making the statement.
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That's nonsense.

You're buying a laptop for your college kid. Your choices: a thin laptop that requires $350 of accessories, a midrange laptop that is 4-5 years old, or a laptop that is expensive and has a defective keyboard.
You realize this is an article that exists because a Google employee leaked it to the press right?
> scientifically they're classified as fruits

Honestly this is just blatant sophistry, given that other 'fruits' include blueberries, pumpkins, cucumbers, avocados, peanuts, lima beans, raspberries, and arguably pinecones.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit#Table_of_fruit_examples et al
I recommend the No Bullshit books for anyone with no real math background past trig to get their feet wet, and/or anyone who hasn't done any serious math study for years.

https://minireference.com/