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>people even assume there are laws enforcing it

Aren't there? I was under the impression that shareholders can and do file lawsuits against directors and executive leadership. A cursory Google search suggests that this is true.
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Ebooks are easier to carry.

You can use one to take your entire library on vacation instead of just a few books.

Some of them have lights built in for reading in dark environments.

They're much easier to use one-handed than most paper books.

Some of them are waterproof and will survive being dropped in the bathtub better than a paper book.

You can change the font and text size to suit your preferences.

You can instantly download a new book when you want to read it instead of waiting for it to arrive in the mail or going to a bookstore or library.

They are not "simply inferior" as you put it, even if you happen to prefer paper books.
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Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google. Jim Cramer created the acronym to name these four companies as high-performing tech stocks years ago [0]. But now, as in the above usage, it is more of a catch-all name for the big tech companies. And in its new role as a name for a category of companies, people confuse Amazon/Apple, and also implicitly include other equivalent companies.

[0] https://www.thestreet.com/story/13230576/1/what-are-fang-sto...
Very cool, thanks.
Whenever I see posts or leftist commentary saying the stock market only benefits the ultra-rich and wealthy CEOs it shows a downright ignorant view of capital markets. Working class Americans have lots of skin in the game in the market through 401k's, retirement plans, pensions, traditional investments. The ideology that it's a rigged system for the rich to stay rich and oppress the middle and lower class is a load of nonsense.

> Maybe it's just because I'm a pinko-European

Maybe.
I am too lazy to google, but here is the first result when searching for "russia election meddling", which does not talking about annexation of Crimea (hence proving your third "yes" wrong):

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/03/trump-russia...

The point is, every news article that is negative towards China will talk about all the previous negative articles about China regardless of their age or relevance.
That's not the point of the story. It's actually about the T-Rex named Sue that was one of the first dinosaur fossils to be auctioned at an insane price, and kickstarted the whole fossil-hunting-for-money industry.
Oh yes, one of my bucket list kinda goals in life is to be able to get to a level where I can grok TAoCP at a visceral level and understand the underlying mathematics used to derive the algorithmic complexities and how they all function. I think any computer science person who is passionate about the topics should give it a try at some point in their lives.
Which way? I think the first US one with chris rock was Chinese police coming to the USA, and the second one was USA police going to China. Unless you mean super cop, which was...mainland police in HK?
One other comment: Is it possible that you have a learning disability? This is completely unrelated to intelligence--you can be VERY smart, but still have a learning disability. Some people just don't learn in the standard way. Perhaps you could consult the education professors(specifically those specializing in area of learning disabilities) to see if they'd be willing to evaluate you?
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Hello,

Not sure if useful for anybody but I created a wallboard that can follow your build. At my work we use it constantly to check for all our projects if no important builds have failed (and to point fingers at those who broke it ;)).

Though might be handy for others as well.

Hope it useful for somebody.
You mean the one run by the Shanghai water company?
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Sounds a bit like the German works council system [1] that gives workers some representation in management.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council
well, ROC and PRC are for all intents and purposes foreign to each other... if not hostile
Space Shuttle parts manufacturing was distributed around the country for political reasons to ensure continued support from Congress. It would have been safer and cheaper to manufacture all of the large components close to the launch site, or at least at sites reachable by barges. The Challenger disaster was caused by a booster o-ring failure but there was no technical need to build the boosters in pieces joined by O-rings; they could have been assembled as a single large unit.
Its not even a "plausible deniability." Anyone who listens to Jones knows he speaks over over the top and is hyperbolic. Yes "Battle rifles" can be taken as literally, however in the article they state against the media without quoting the full video/statement. It's hard to take it literally that people will get their battle rifles and attack the media (an object). The media isn't a person so its is reaching.

what isn't provided in the article is the actual video that provides context. He is making the statement 'we' are under attack. The Battle rifle is being used in the context of defending yourself from these attacks.

Media Matters posted a clip of the video in question.
https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1029477795561463808

In my opinion they are reaching here even in their own clip taken from Alex's periscope video. I see it as him saying 'we' need to be ready. Earlier in the clip he says the time is now to act but says economically, judiciously legally and criminally. I assume given the others he mentioned criminally meaning press charges on those who attack.

I defiantly urge people to seek out the actual video or at the very least the clip above before instantly going to the 'He deserves to be banned.

I hate that I have to say this but I'm not a fan of Alex Jones. I feel like I as well as many others have to say that (not just for this topic) otherwise its looked at as we're just followers and will defend him no matter what.
>> populist execs vying for employee votes

The alternative to democracy is feudalism, which is basically what we have now. You might hold your nose and say "politics" or "populism" but this is how you as an employee can exercise power in the workplace.

I certainly prefer "populist execs vying for employee votes" to "brown nosing employees vying for exec favor".
It's meaningful. X11 is a part of the structure of reality now, it's not going anywhere. Why can't you assume it?
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Sounds similar to cruiseships and law jurisdiction, the open seas doesn't follow the same conventions as inland
> Management should be a skill, just like all the other dozens of skills tech teams manage in various ad-hoc ways.

I would phrase it as "like all the other dozens of skills tech teams half-ass in various broken ways".
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> The US equities market value is already highly inflated. It will be coming down regardless over the next decade.

I'll take the other side of that bet if you are saying that the market will be worth less in 10 years time than it is now.

If on the other hand you are saying the market will go down sometime in the next 10 years then, we'll that's not really a statement worth making:) That's like saying I predict that it will be colder than it is today sometime in the next 10 years.
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For those who are actually curious about what was said in the video Media Matters posted a clip that should provide some context:

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1029477795561463808
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But it is not Open Source. There are more commercial products using FPGA's for emulating gaming console hardware.
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> I assume the directors would be qualified people and not just a random employee.

Quite the assumption, wouldn't you say? Lots of people find Trump unqualified but here we are. I think this bill would just create more populist, political leaders, only now at work instead of DC.
They are not - they are also accountable to jurisdiction in which they operate. So problem solved.
If someone has a reasonable grasp of English (Like OP appears to have). I would highly recommend Grammarly[0]. It should be able to compensate for those "frustratingly arbitrary" facets of our language.

[0]: https://www.grammarly.com/
Edit: apparently this is b.s.

On an unrelated note, I recently found out that ants pass the mirror test[0]. Is that weird or what?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test#Insects
Since 2010, SQLite has had Write-Ahead-Logging. Perhaps your project was using an older version of SQLite? https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
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"Demonstrated interest" in college admissions means that they attended an information session or visited the campus or something else like that. Maybe a reasonable thing to consider in admissions decisions, but hardly what I would call an "accomplishment".
So have I, but we probably give the impression we know what we are talking about. Send a 16yo kid who doesn't know a thing and see if they sell to him. That happens at motorcycle shops every day.
> Historically, board appointed the CEO and most board members are shareholder. Having incentive aligned with the board earned you loyality of the board members and more compensation if you could trick the market into believing your fairytale and still juice out the max return.
I will also recommend Philadelphia. Between Uber and SEPTA, you won't need a car even if you live in the suburbs (source: Me), the city is well connected to NYC and DC via Amtrak, and the tech scene is solid here (N3RD Street, etc.).
> So are MacBooks.

I wouldn't consider a MacBook competition for one of these, because a MacBook doesn't cleanly run Linux. Maybe something from Purism?
They're only unique in trivial ways. Roads are made of the same material everywhere - they're different only in some strict geometric sense.

Meanwhile even very ambitious tunnelling projects like the Gotthard Base Tunnel, if you watch documentaries about them, they only hit a very small number of really unexpected issues even over long periods of time. Tunnelling is an incredibly predictable business. You buy some TBMs, set them going and worst case, you hit unexpected rock types or have an unexpected malfunction. The technology is advanced but rock is the same as rock has always been. Once the project planning is over requirements don't change. The course you're on doesn't change. Workers are largely trainable and replaceable - you never find you're unexpectedly relying on some random worker somewhere deep in the org chart who is 50x more skilled than their coworkers and who just got poached by a company that pays 3x as much as you can. The users/customers have no input: they get what you deliver and a tunnel is such a simple thing talking about whether they like it or not is a nonsensical question - it's a tunnel.
> In order to monetize games, new titles have to be approved by two regulatory bodies, the National Radio and Television Administration and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The National Radio and Television Administration hasn’t approved new games since March, part of a restructuring of the regulatory agencies that oversee the industry, analysts said.

I guess China probably doesn't have much of an indie game dev scene if this is what it is like.
One past incident I had: I was working as intern in a tech support company.

We had there some 1.44mb discs with the game "Lotus III", so whenever we were bored we would play a little.

One day I arrived at work... And they were scrambling all over the place using ancient antivirus from same era as Lotus III... Found out we played that game on tons of random computers and it was infected with a DOS vírus that could actually copy itself to USB drives too... Whooops.

We caused outbreak of what was then an already obsolete virus. (Most of the machines had windows 98 in them at best... The virus worked on then surprisingly fine despite being intended for DOS, and in those machines specifically it would infect USB)
But the CEO doesn't own the company, the investors do, so why would the CEO be the one to state the goals leaving investors to "take it or leave it"?
Again, you are considering that all 1.3 billion or 1.0 billion or 0.8 billion people will fall ill. How can you not see that it's an unrealistic scenario?

Coverage is only provided for those who fall ill. Only critical illnesses require the entirety of $7,200. The rest of the diseases are treatable in the $1 to $200 range. The government hospitals already provide free treatment for a majority of these diseases. It's the critical illness treatment which has become a burden for the government hospitals as they don't have either the equipment or the staff or the infrastructure to cater to the patients. That's where this insurance will come handy. Instead of spending $100 billion dollars bringing the government hospitals to match state of the art private hospitals just reuse the existing private hospital infrastructure and subsidize the illness instead of wasting money on infrastructure/equipment/staffing. I can't understand how this doesn't make sense? This even lessens the load on the government hospitals so they can focus their energies treating curable diseases and leave the critical illness part to be handled by private hospitals.

Trust me, we can argue however much we want, but the poor of India see this and understand the significance of this move. Many poor cancer patients (especially those with mouth cancer due to smoking tobacco/chewing gutka) who couldn't get any treatment in free government hospitals due to lack of infrastructure/equipment/staffing can get themselves treated in state of the art private hospitals. And the poor are not beggars to misuse the scheme by claiming insurance for even the simplest of diseases. They will get themselves treated in government hospitals if the particular disease can be cured for free because that's where they are comfortable going (many build rapport with the government doctors too). Only if it's not possible, would they approach the private hospitals. You need to be on the ground and understand the poor of India to be able to think beyond numbers. If numbers is all you see then there is nothing further to argue about.
> This is a joke of course

Yes, you're right, our inane system of corporate profiteering at the behest of everything else _is_ an incredible and sad joke.
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> Which itself is over 4000 lines and includes tons more code.. It's a pretty meaningless metric.

Hardly. Including standard libraries in the line count wouldn't mean much, unless you're the compiler.

Doing it this way lets you know how many lines are likely to have problems. Not to mention how much code the guy wrote.
Look up "Surveillance Camera Man" on Youtube. It's really fascinating to see that (not surprisingly) people hate being filmed by someone with a camera. Yet for some reason they don't care about the hundreds of other cameras being operated remotely that line the streets.
> Establish productive code review rules. E.g. always go from big picture to details, otherwise you'll waste time on details that you end up throwing away.

Well, that's a nice rule. Another one I heard people say is that code reviews are not for arguing about architecture or design decisions. If we take those two rules together, code reviews are good neither for discussing the details nor for discussing the high-level picture. Which in my experience is about right.
I think the problem is technical and not moral.
Alex Jones threatened lifes, and the banhammer is easy to give to one single user. What about new user that are doing so many accounts a hour with different (guess private) proxy, etc?

I hope that twitter is addressing that problem with stronger anti-spam measure, but it doesn't really relate to Infowars.
I'll take your word for it, given who you are :)
50 lines wasn't really a hard requirement though, just minimal enough that you can sort of get a feel for the absolute basics. like equivalent capabilities to TinyWM. Sway doesn't quite fit that bill as it's more of a fully-fledged wm that you could install on machines you actually use for stuff (I'm running it on this machine for example)

ps. Thanks for creating/maintaining Sway! it's great stuff! ds.
It's a US vs UK thing. In the US, a group or organization IS <something>, in the UK, they ARE <something>.

This was particularly noticeable during the World Cup coverage.
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> Whenever I see posts or leftist commentary saying the stock market only benefits the ultra-rich and wealthy CEOs

Nobody has said anything of the sort here.
This will just lead to more private companies that average Joe doesn't get to benefit from. Creating rules for private companies would take a refactor of our entire legal system.
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This has some ideas that are similar to what happens in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany

Worker representation at the board level is good for companies as well because it can encourage pay restraint when the company really can't afford a pay rise. A board of very rich people telling you the company can't afford a pay rise for you is very different from some of your fellow workers saying the company can't afford a pay rise.

The German law goes a lot further than this law does though since it applies to all companies with over 500 employees.

Considering Germany is an economic powerhouse this law probably isn't harming the economy.
Dude congrats! Super hyped for you.

There's no harm in being honest, and I believe previous offenders have already gone through YC
Cue the "Spaceballs" references.
Fewer than half of Americans own any stock at all [1], including indirect holdings, like 401(k)s. So, while it may not be entirely "for the rich", most Americans have no stake in the stock market.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/18/for-r...
Since this article specifically cites Milton Friedman, it seems apropos to consider his son David's point that if workers were interested in owning their firms it would be fairly trivial to do.

Excerpt from "The Machinery of Freedom", by David Friedman:

> The socialists who advocate such institutions do object to our present society and would probably object even more to the completely capitalist society that I would like to see develop. They claim that the ownership of the means of production by capitalists instead of by workers is inherently unjust.

> I think they are wrong. Even if they are right, there is no need for them to fight me or anyone else; there is a much easier way to achieve their objective. If a society in which firms are owned by their workers is far more attractive than one in which they are owned by stockholders, let the workers buy the firms. If the workers cannot be convinced to spend their money, it is unlikely that they will be willing to spend their blood.

> How much would it cost workers to purchase their firms? The total value of the shares of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1965 was $537 billion. The total wages and salaries of all private employees that year was $288.5 billion. State and federal income taxes totalled $75.2 billion. If the workers had chosen to live at the consumption standard of hippies, saving half their after-tax incomes, they could have gotten a majority share in every firm in two and a half years and bought the capitalists out, lock, stock, and barrel, in five. That is a substantial cost, but surely it is cheaper than organizing a revolution. Also less of a gamble. And, unlike a revolution, it does not have to be done all at once. The employees of one firm can buy it this decade, then use their profits to help fellow workers buy theirs later.

> When you buy stock, you pay not only for the capital assets of the firm—buildings, machines, inventory, and the like —but also for its experience, reputation, and organization. If workers really can run firms better, these are unnecessary; all they need are the physical assets. Those assets—the net working capital of all corporations in the United States in 1965—totalled $171.7 billion. The workers could buy that much and go into business for themselves with 14 months' worth of savings.

> I do not expect any of this to happen. If workers wanted to be capitalists badly enough to pay that sort of price, many would have done so already.
If you swapped ‘road’ for ‘seeds’ in the one about apples, it becomes not bullshit.
Retiring = I don't want to work anymore

Resigning = I don't want to work here anymore

They are trying to emphasize that they are leaving because of dissatisfaction with the school, not just because they are old and are ready to stop working.
It's a UK/US thing; in the UK your understanding is correct (I like it better stylistically too, but I use "singular companies" to fit in in the US)
You're right! We should consider carefully that there might not be a universally correct answer here.

Like most things, I suspect it may be best regarded as a tradeoff. Is presenting as your idealized in a restricted environment more or less harmful to society than being unable to present as anything that vaguely resembles yourself in a less restricted environment?

There might not one answer that's right for everyone.
Companies have always basically been about shareholder value.

The whole point of a 'company' was for investors to hire an 'Executive Officer' sailor, so he could make/rent a ship, hire a crew, buy some stuff 1/2 way around the world, come back and sell it a profit so the investors could make money.

That's it.

And there are definitely laws to protect those interests.

People mostly buy shares and found companies to make money.

There are other motivations and concerns, always ...

But if a group of people are getting together, raising money, to do something other than making money ... there are other words for those: non-profits, NGOs, clubs ...
Flask/Docker/Postgres.. bit of a learning curve but more than enough resources online to get going.
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Also please don't use bad fonts. Someone posted the following article the other day and the font drove me so nuts that I had to resort editing the CSS code to make it readable.

https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/

I really wish "reading mode" was a prominent feature in desktop browsers.
Which was made explicitly illegal by US labor law in the face of rising union power to prevent workers from having this kind of say.
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