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Perhaps the organic farmers I know are true edge case radicals, but they don’t use any pesticides at all. All soil and weed management tactics.
Q: Why is e special? (2.718…, not 2, 3.7 or another number?)
>redistribution of wealth is not practical IMO.

Why not? We essentially distributed it up, why can't it come back down?
It was $37.99 a month, and its the standard unlimited data device plan under the Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA). Up until recently, it was truly unlimited, but Verizon has decided to start throttling it without renegotiating their multi-state contract.
> Well, for one, we can rename the "Department of Corrections" to reflect what it really is

Well, we could, but no one wants to sponsor the bill to replace that name with “Department of Vengeance, Torture, Slavery, and Maintenance of th Permanent Underclass”.
Not true at all. Less regulation leads to multiple market entrants that can compete in price and quality. Over-regulation leads to the opposite of that. Remember how expensive long distance calls used to be? A direct result of regulation, same for regulation over airline routes. Regulation led to monopoly routes that gave Pan Am a monopoly on major international routes, making prices daramtically higher than they are today.

To be clear, I am not talking about safety regulation, but competition regulation.
> Terrible book.

Definitely overstated and not good advice for beginners.

My advice to beginners would be:

- Read all the Haskell books available at your disposal. (In addition to LYAH and the Hutton book, I would say Learning Haskell From First Principles and Get Programming with Haskell are great, https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-haskell, http://haskellbook.com/)

- When you hit something that doesn't make sense in one source, try referencing it in another source.

- When you have some experience writing programs in Haskell, refer to some older books like Real World Haskell. There may be a few issues compiling the examples, but nearly all the techniques in the book are still widely used and you learn about the language has progressed in the last few years. This gives you a compass to read and maintain older Haskell source code).

- Read as much Haskell code as you can from popular libraries (Pandoc, XMonad, and smaller libs as well).
The ability to use 200Kbps all the time and the ability to use 50Mbps all the time are both limited to the speed they allow. Personally I'm fine with saying a plan is unlimited without requiring them to build infrastructure to host everyone on a single tower at the full rate. Throttling to give everyone equal access (especially during an emergency) is a lot different than simply throttling someone on an empty tower simply because they have used a lot of data. The first very much fits within what you'd expect from an unlimited plan. The second is simply punitive if you make use of your unlimited plan. I'm not sure which was the case for the firefighters.
Wow look at those plan names: "go unlimited", "beyond unlimited", "above unlimited"...

WTF does that mean?
I think there is an entire 100mhz frequency band chunk just for emergency services. It should be the other way around, when there is no emergency Verizon should be able to use this (35 mi LTE at 600mhz anyone?) and when there is an emergency, it should be exclusive to emergency services.

The military should be running these forest fires anyway with a dozen C130/727 flying non-stop around the country.
And if you had a dog...

http://acronymrequired.com/2011/10/the-four-dog-defense.html
> There are a lot of cases where truth and falsehood are absolute

Sure, but for most contentious political issues, this is not the case.
Two tranches: one a number of shares at par value to make up the difference in pay, the other the same grant you'd give any employee. Really though either pay cash market rate or else give them a meaningful stake.
Yeah, same. I think I could have enjoyed going into history but the huge salary disparity certainly helps make the choice between two otherwise more or less equal paths.

Also, rent in some cities might not be as much if fewer people went into tech ;-)
Commons Clause
unfortunately nobody told the designer to expect ads as part of the design, given the unfortunate position of the first ad right above what looks like an otherwise really nice design.
Some expertise can be bought, but some of the support is built over time, intrinsically outside the factory into the overall Toyota system. But ironically, thinking one can just buy an expert is to apply the same short-term mentality to the process that Tesla is accused of misapplying to product.

When Toyota first started creating their own US factories, they took the steps of shipping floor employees in the US to japan a few at a time and working for weeks of training each class. When other auto companies tried to replicate Toyota processes in their own factories, it didn't help yield in the factories in many cases because often the input supplies needed so much rework. And then they had problems changing suppliers configurations because those relationships were contentious, and not of the nature of Toyota to it's suppliers. When you're trying to stand the whole system up at once, it's not just a matter of "don't write bugs" in one part of the final assembly.

When Boeing reworked it's production design process for the 787, they had years of production problems to re-iron out, despite having years of great process experience previously.
I think the key differentiator in most of these pictures is the amount of area without buildings. With shacks, the whole area is covered with tin roofs. In the wealthier areas, the cheaper housing is higher density apartment towers, and the expensive housing is single family homes (or townhouses) with lots of lawn.
Title should add 'in USA'
> And that's the problem: it's free. Interviews have a nice limiting function; if it's a waste of the candidate's time, then it's a waste of the company's time. Not so with homework assignments.

The company I work at's primary screener is homework, and it takes us a ton of time and effort to grade homeworks, this argument does not make any sense.

https://adhocteam.us/2018/02/26/why-we-use-homework-to-recru...
Even if you pay your #1 employee at market rate he is taking huge risks and should be compensated accordingly. Working at an early stage company often comes with huge job insecurity, loss of medical benefits more mature companies might be able to offer (better insurance etc.) and a possible kink in your CV (3 years at Microsoft look much better than spending 3 years at an unsuccessful company that eventually shut down).

To sum it up, I would expect a #1 engineers equity to be at least half of a founders equity AND payed at near-market rate.
These were my thoughts exactly. Maybe it just hasn't made business sense for them to host cheaper plans, since it's available to self-host. But you're right, even against competitors (Squarespace) it's quite a bit more expensive. Not sure what justifies such a gap.
My thoughts exactly.

I agree that companies should to have the freedom to be able to test markets to optimise their systems designs (free trade is important), but surely a multi-billion-dollar company can use a real business and spend a little extra dough to test their system without breaking the law. This seems lazy, and legally it should be investigated.

And this doesn't look good for their brand either, now that we live in an age of 'fake ads' swinging entire US elections.
As facetious as this comment is, this is exactly why it's problematic to broaden the definition of slavery.
They were using the Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA) $37.99 unlimited plan for data devices, its a perfectly normal plan. Here in Seattle we use it for our busses WiFi Hotspots, on AT&T it is truly unlimited.
Ill try follow the guidelines here

You really don't see the issue here? The migration of poor peasants to the cities living in slums is a well known phenomenon even in the UK a lot of slums existed until well after ww2

Of course South Africa has its own tragic post ww2 history I would have thought that most people would have some understanding
I was one of those accepted then rejected. Beforehand they announced that everyone had now been accepted, they offered to provide feedback to the rejected applicants which I received. The reasons my application was rejected was I was a single cofounder and was not working on my startup full time - yet. I can’t afford to do so as I look after my family here and overseas. So this vetting process although understandable does not always necessarily mean people who were rejected had shit ideas or that yours was more superior. This is a startup school. The point is to guide even so called startups who “don’t have their shit together” to a place where they do. As a single founder, I appreciate being part of a community that will give me ideas, feedback and guidance so I’m obviously happy about YCs decision
Best wishes
It’s true it is unlimited data, but that doesn’t mean speeds have an SLA.
But the availability is what matters.

If I want to make an ISP available to even just a small neighborhood, we're talking tens of thousands of dollars of investment. Scaling it up so an entire city can use my ISP is an investment in the millions of dollars.

If I want to make a new eBay available to the world, it's a couple days of software development for a proof of concept and a few dollars for a VM in AWS/Azure/GCC. Polishing it a bit and scaling it up is only a few more months development and possibly a couple thousand in server costs, which your revenue would be scaling nicely with.
I got the $15 from other areas that have said the cost of labor is roughly $30/hr for stuff like this.

But regardless, if you really think a 37 minute fix is costing them enough that it means they are selling the car for a loss, then I can see why people are upset by this news, as it means that shutting down the entire plant would make more financial sense than selling at a loss.

But since we are both working from a guess of a guess of a guess, I'm fairly certain that an extra 37 minutes per car of work isn't eating over 100% of their profits, and that their choice of not stopping production over small fixable issues is a smart choice. And even if it were, i'd argue that keeping your workforce from getting other jobs because they can't get work at your company while you endlessly tinker with the production lines to try and achieve what only a few companies in existence have done before (almost 100% FPY) isn't good business sense either...

But then you want to throw in the cost of tooling changes, and now this conversation isn't against the cost of a car, but the entire cashflow of the business, which if you are curious you can lookup. They aren't turning a profit, and nobody thinks they are yet. But if people are holding them to the ability to get everything right on the very first try and the second there is an issue to shut down again, then they are going to be disappointed regardless.
There was a SF startup with an obnoxious, high-density open-floorplan (ie a narrow table down a long corridor like a bad library with the panopticon of managers watching) that tried this bullshit with me. They didn't even look at it, a sample of how Puppet works. They asked about MySQL architectures for scaling reads, writes, HA and backups, I provided clear answers to all of them while they made all sorts of snide, unprofessional remarks that weren't based in facts. Overall, they were incredibly rude, dismissive, inhuman, self-aggrandizing and arrogant muppets. They even had the gaul to call me up for another interview later after previously literally pushing me out the door. As I went independent, I let their HR and recruiter know with some actionable feedback: "Please convey this message to (shall go nameless hiring manager): 'Fuck you. (middle finger). Please go fuck yourself.'" They deserved chewing-out but they weren't worth my time.
> A lot of the initial work is done as a "virtual" company with no lab.

After that stage, if a true "wet lab" is necessary, one of the perceived barriers may be, especially for the majority of modern software professionals, the situation with lab computing.

Interpreting what former colleague (who is now a YC biotech founder) recently explained to me, labs often face significant challenges in needing on-premises computer hardware. [1]

For some labs (DNA sequencing being a notable example, with the cost of sequencers plummeting), the sheer quantity of raw data flowing from the instruments can make (fully) cloud-based processing prohibitively expensive, if not impossible [2]. Having on-site servers hardware can be necessary, but, as a self-fulfilling prophecy, the knowledge about how to do this (supposedly) "nightmare" task well has been dying out.

The far bigger issue, applicable to the vast majority of not all labs, is all the computers attached to the instruments and lab automation equipment, which are, in general, running proprietary software on a broad spectrum of Windows versions, which the users (lab) patch/maintain/administer at their peril (lest the proprietary software and, thereby, the instrument itself, stop working).

Unfortunately (for me), the on-site server problem is generally much less dire and painful than the instrument-control problem. It can also be solved just barely well enough to cut down the size of the raw data, at which point software people breath a huge sigh of relief because they can ship it to the cloud and pretend hardware doesn't exist.

The instrument-control/Windows problem ends up being hugely labor-intensive even to approximate a solution involving decent security and reliability. It also can require a remarkable amount of learning things that might never be used again in ones career, such as how a particular vendor's software communicates with a particular model and version of that vendor's instrument (so worth it, if it means making virtualization possible!).

There are lab automation companies attempting to provide this sort of thing as a service, but they're not numerous, and it's unclear if this kind of IT is, so far, just a services/consulting add-on.

[1] I consider my expertise in this area to be differentiating part of my Ops skillset, so it was of particular personal interest.

[2] On a workable scale. With enough money, it should be possible to bring even 10-gigabit fiber Internet anywhere, or move the lab somewhere that already has it, but not in zero/negligible time.
That's the definition of speculating.

Investing requires more research and analysis.
Bill Gates Noticed a Economy Trend No One Is Paying Attention To
Probably because they have some not-so-critical application that requires high bandwidth burst data (downloading tiled bitmap maps comes to mind), which is not something that you can do on VHF bands with currently available off the shelf technology (not to mention that the spectrum allocation certainly constrains emission types in such way that doing things like wideband MIMO COFDM and other high processing gain modulations is explicitly forbidden)
That’s a good start, now if only the Greek government would allow us individuals to use wind and solar energy (with a proper plan including a battery storage system) without breaking the law. It’s illegal to own a house not connected to the national grid.
Nope. It's definitely interview specific prep.

Read /r/cscareerquestions/ to get an idea of the levels of prep that many candidates go through. Not everyone needs that level of prep - especially if they're interviewing candidates at their current job. (No better way to see how not to fail by seeing endless failures)

People prepping 100+ hours for interviews at these big tech companies is completely common. After all, spending 100 hours to get 100k+ more comp is a pretty good tradeoff. It's just sad when you do all that prep but fail anyway.
Unless you posit an infinite period of time, one limits the other quite a bit.
Ask: How are you approaching diversity at your workplace?
I guess this is more of a question for management. I am curious to get different perspectives on this matter. I am already sold on the value but just looking for ways to increase diversity without injecting a bias into hiring process. Currently we make sure to have a diverse set of candidates in the interview pool, and ultimately pick the best candidate. I am curious to see what others are doing.
Is the data capped? When they exceed their data cap, does the service shut off?
> "Have a high "pass" rate. If 90+% of candidates aren't progressing past the homework, you might have an abuse problem. In an abuse problem, companies are giving homework to candidates who are unlikely to make it. Figure out why you're giving too many poor fits homework, or figure out why good fits aren't doing well."

That sounds crazy to me. Both from an employer and employee standpoint... If that's the case, it's a waste of time. Why have a test that almost everyone passes?

I've given homework like this before and our pass rate was about 40%.
This set of images is just an example of the extreme consolidation of wealth amongst some select few individuals. I agree that redistributing wealth equally is no easy feat, however, we need to be aware that this growing inequality is progressing exponentially. If precautions are not taken (i.e. net neutrality for example) the 1% will continue to acquire most of the world's wealth, making it more and more difficult for any social mobility.
Work has a lot of satisfying features above and beyond simply keeping people busy. Creating value for yourself and others is what’s fulfilling.

A lot of people take pride in the fact that they pull their own weight: that their ability to provide for themselves and their families comes from their own work. You can still do work with UBI, but if you don’t need to, you don’t necessarily derive the same sense of accomplishment.

This is a problem even for people on disability, many of whom could do at least some work, but can’t work as much or as reliably as they’d need to replace their disability benefits.

Upper-middle-class folks seem to think that work is rewarding to everyone for the same reasons that upper-middle-class work is rewarding to them: some combination of status and enjoying the work itself. And upper-middle-class people can easily imagine sources of those rewards that don’t entail employment. The problem is that you can’t fulfill everyone with status and enjoyment because status is a zero-sum game and not all work is enjoyable.

There's something deeply fulfilling and honorable and worthy of pride in doing work, like farming, that is completely diminished if the work turns out to be completely unnecessary. Unnecessary farming is basically just gardening. Someone whose sense of worth and meaning and purpose in life comes from feeding their communities won't be satisfied with a world where their communities are just as well fed with or without them and they're just gardening.
Intel Details Cascade Lake, Hardware Mitigations for Meltdown, Spectre
I don’t think “misleading” is the right term. Advertising a plan as “unlimited” when it really isn’t is fraud. It’s crazy that they’re allowed to keep doing this.

I have no problem with capped data plans, but you have to advertise them honestly.
Apparently that happens:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mumbais-slums-make-way-for-luxu...
Many developing countries have increased the average income over the last 40 or so years quite substantially - from a low base of course.

You don't have the regular famines in Bangladesh which I recall from when I was a child.
We were comfortable calling slavery by what it was back then, and we shouldn't shy away from the term if that's what's still happening. The constitution defining slavery doesn't make it right. But it does imply we shouldn't mince words.
looks like engineers or robots decided on the store name... "Doctor Fork"? for a pizza restaurant?
Not sure why you're being downvoted. None of these assertions are wrong.

I have many family members who still have big company pensions from back in the day and also own target date funds in their 401ks so combined with social security income they end up being massively over-allocated to bonds (a pension & SS can be treated as bonds).
From the article: After receiving a complaint in November, it immediately commissioned an independent investigation by a law firm into the allegations. The intention was to establish whether the allegations were substantiated by evidence — rather than to determine a disciplinary outcome.

ICR were playing by the letter of the law - as they ought to - and sound properly contrite. There must have been a lot of substance.
Which separates it from scientific visualization, which is expected to be a representation as neutral as possible... (The claim of infographics is particularly a different one.)
If I read your parent correctly, you need to compare standing on a basketball, not with flying a helicopter, but with precision hovering one.
Paul Manafort, Former Trump Campaign Chairman Guilty of 8 Charges in Fraud Trial
TeraPower is a clever attempt at a fast reactor using uranium/plutonium fuel. We have had various fast reactors (commercial and research) since the 70s. IIRC they tend to be very twitchy, and have proliferation issues.

Thorium reactors, a.k.a LFTR, a.k.a. "hope-ium" are still very much on the drawing board. They have some nice properties (stability, safer, liquid based).

p.s. I am pro renewable. Nuclear will comeback around 2050 when we run out of space...
This is a great example of skin in the game affecting behavior.
Antifa is anti-fascist not anti-wealth. The are a lot of leftists who are both, but they are not the same thing. Antifa groups don’t protest Republican political rally’s, for example.
> Isnt there a name for this type of reasoning?

counterfactual reasoning? if it weren't for the fact that you disagree, you might just call it being thorough.
Yes, but if you find a bug in development and you are days away from shipping, and you have a solution that fixes the problem but doesn't address the root cause, are you going to delay the whole launch so you can fix it before hand? or are you going to release with the patch, and fix the root cause later?

Now software is different than cars, but I'm gonna say that I'd go for the latter just about every time. Both as a developer, and as a user.
But as I said else where the average wealth of a lot of developing countries has gone up a lot - take China 30/40 years ago to today and the Rise of the middle class in India.
Agreed. I tried to learn Haskell with this book. I can program basic things in Haskell but this book caused more confusion than anything else.
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>Given that, they’ll probably be forced to steal to survive after release and...end up back in prison.

But that's precisely the thing, isn't it? For-profit prisons, a multi-billion dollar business, are precisely incenctivised to bring and keep and many prisoners inside as possible. It's an economic incentive that works precisely against the social goals we as a society would like to achieve (for the great gain of a select few). Absolutely disgusting.
I had much the same experience earlier this year, probably with a different company. I think that maybe interview processes are sometimes created via a tug of war between different groups, and to function at all, the people who will be working with a new hire have to have a veto at the end. So you may start out talking to senior people elsewhere that are paddling the boat in a completely different direction.
To each child rapist a pony, to each law abiding productive citizen, a lump of coal.

Seems reasonable to me.
What are you going to do with your savings then? It's enough to not put all your eggs in one basket. It also helps to listen to experienced people who were warning about crypto currency left and right.