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There literally are no similarities between what you described and the original topic.

There was no exponential growth or betting or downsides here. The Jr. bankers billed a metric-ton of hours and made their firms truckloads in fees. They're probably just disappointed all those late nights were essentially for nothing.

Saudi Aramco is still a 1.5 trillion dollar company. Just not a publicly listed one. A public listing wouldn't change the value of the company. This is not some hot high-growth tech IPO that retail investors would clamor over.
I never give out my cell for any sort of general form. That's what my office number is for. Which, not coincidentally, is a number I never answer.
I am certain that percentage of the biomass of an old growth trees, like the one mentioned, devoted to cooking and heating is negligible.
> Organizations are free to internally modify, run, and distribute changes to AGPL code as long as the modified code is made available on the internal network.

I'm not so sure about that. If it is only on an internal network, where everyone who uses it is using it in their capacity as employees of the organization, would the source code obligation apply to them personally, or would it apply to the company because they are acting as agents of the company? If the later, the obligation would be for the company to provide itself a copy of the code.
That's a good question. So let's clarify:

Would this be unethical if it was a real pizza company doing an A/B test for their real brand?

Would this be unethical if it was a real pizza company doing the A/B test for a fake brand?

Is it unethical for Google to have done this?

You've just said no to the first question, and previously yes to the last. so I'm curious where you lie on the second, and how you justify those different answers. I don't see a difference between any of them. (in other words: the line is "when its no longer an A/B test and they're actively soliciting your feedback", but you draw it differently. Why?)
You might want to visit Europe at some point. That's a very specific US problem. (Europe's not problem-free, but access to daycare/medical care/education is much easier to obtain there)
The article doesn't mention the horrid isolating effects of decades of urban and corporate sprawl and the effect of the resultant car culture on Americans' psyche.
It is a heafty price to pay, I could understand 30% in the early days, but the volume they’re dealing with now does make it feel unfair.

Surely the solution to this is Progressive Web Apps, WebGL etc? At some point, they’ll distrust themselves
Humans are also security focused rational animals, and if we can believe that there really is enough for us and no one will take it away, then happiness might be for all. Perhaps UBI will make us all happy
Yes, I prefer not having my card details stored across so many different services. Even though I trust Netflix to be competent on security, it's one more place I have to remember to update/manage it every time I get a new card.

A friend of mine noted something I'd forgotten while we were discussing this: that cancelling a subscription through the App Store is just a few clicks. Doing it through other channels can be a tremendous pain.
A very simple explanation: Soviets worked out ways to find those who would. And after they did so, they killed them.

Because everybody who was capable of putting up a riot was killed, nobody put up a riot.
This is not about 'the open source community' this is just about Redis. The open source community is doing just fine (and Redis is doing just fine), no need for overbroad or inaccurate claims.

Besides that the obvious point is that every open source producer is entirely free to release their product under whatever license they see fit and if you don't like it then simply don't use the product.
> Foreign journalists based in China write critical stories about China on a regular basis.

So what ? They are not entitled to a Chinese visa.
I burnt out last year just over a year ago.

I shut everything down and went and got a full time job.

It’s only after a year of not working more than 40hrs a week have I realised how close to the wind I sailed (burnout co-incided with some serious health issues).

Now I work 9-5 for a decent wage and have time for my partner, her boy and my hobbies (Chess and cycling).

We are fortunate, we work in an in demand industry, from deciding I just wanted to go work for someone else to getting a job took 9 days.

My point is that if the money isn’t making you happy then take a few weeks off mull over what you want, write it down, put it in an envelope and open that envelope in 3mths, if it’s still what you want then go for it.

The only thing certain in life is none of us have enough time.
> but Apple's certainly adding value.

Do roads add value? Should trucks pay a 30% of their cargo retail price in road tolls?

I agree with your point that Apple adds value. I just do not see that as a justification to take a 30% share of all apps that run on their devices.
Microsoft owns the end user experience. I'd say it's as much B2C as it is B2B.

Being able to purchase any book (any knowledge) it's amazing. Definitely not even close to instant food.
I'm just trying to understand, I see three of those machines, inside a pretty nice rack, with the switches, routers, a keyboard, I would assume some fairly high quality hard drive / RAID type of thing etc. then the blog post claims "We run our Edge infrastructure on commodity hardware that costs us, ballpark, $1000/restaurant. ". Just the intel nuc I can find on newegg alone costs $349 each, with no memory or harddrive installed, retail. I know they are likely getting amazing volume discounts but it still seems amazing that whole stack could possibly be only $1000 each.
I think x is for cut because it looks like a pair of scissors. vim :help does not clear this up.
> China has alot of debt problems, and will suffer heavily in a trade war. About 45% of Chinese GDP is in 'investment', where probably half is waste (continued state investments into expensive-to-maintain, rarely used rails, bridge, and buildings). Whereas for a developed country like US, it's about 20% investment (70% in consumption).

This seems like almost the reverse of the conclusion you're trying to support. Investments in development and infrastructure are a good mechanism for long-term economic growth, and it's not clear that a trade war will hurt China worse than it hurts the US.
The paradox of intolerance[1]: being tolerant of those who are intolerant leads to less tolerance. It is completely right to call out intolerant views and actions and work towards eliminating them.

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paradox_of_tolerance
It's really screwed up even as a consumer. E.g. for things like Uber I've taken to always rating 5 stars regardless of my experience, because even if I have something bad to say do I really want to so nonchalantly be a cog in the machine of potentially robbing someone of their livelyhood?
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You may think it of as a parody but that was not my intention. Also, provide useful inputs that contribute to the discussion vs. just your observation of the nature of the comments. You obviously are not able to relate to the challenges which real families face.
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> We as a society need to start thinking about how we rate people. Right now we all shop for that 5-star rating and punish anyone with 4. We need to mature beyond that as it grows increasingly impossible to maintain perfect ratings.

I couldn't disagree more with this sentiment. The answer is not to intentionally sabotage competitive market forces that are driving better outcomes for consumers. That's the equivalent of a jobs program. If you can't compete, you don't compete. Businesses are inherently risky and some people will lose.

If an inordinate number of sellers are failing or struggling, that reflects a failed assessment of market risk and ill-informed decision-making. The answer is to improve the decision-making capability of participants or otherwise improve the social safety net for people who are facing new realities of economic obsolescence.
Yeah - and while we are it let us all become tri-athletes too and swim to our offices.
Some, but not all.

A lot of the wood gets burned. Either as the purpose of the wood, or as how the forest got cleared. (Fires are particularly common in the tropics on purpose, and fairly common in the temperate zones by accident. As California demonstrated this month.)

In the process of turning tree into manufactured goods, there is a lot of waste that tends to wind up in the atmosphere.

Manufactured goods are themselves vulnerable to fire, decay, beetles, etc, so some of them are released.

Tracking how much is released, and when is very hard.
That is why according to the Kyoto protocol, a tree is counted as released as soon as it is cut down.

All told, deforestation is estimated at around 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions.
Study finds alcohol hangovers hamper learning and reward processing in the brain
> I recently became a multi-millionaire (not from crypto) and this is so true. I'm less happy than I was

> Even though I'm young, I feel as though I'm entrenched in this game now with no viable way out.

I'd be happy to take those unwanted millions off your hands so that you could return to the life you miss. I'm the breadwinner of a single-income family in the Seattle area and I don't make a FANG-level salary. If we could afford to buy a home instead of renting, I think we'd be much happier.
Inequality dramatically matters in any realm where there is a finite resource. I do not comprehend how articles are written with the idea that relative wealth has no effect on prices.
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>In a macro sense, we as a nation are prosporous.

>

>In a micro sense, people do not see that prosperity as basic wealth, and it manifests as their personal cost and risk exposure not matched to their income.

This isn't a magical mystery. It's very simple to explain. Wealth is a power law. An average is the most useless metric to use yet everyone still does it. In the same country with Manhattan, you have people with lead filled pipes and raw sewage on their front lawns because wealth is not distributed evenly.

And this isn't by accident. Wages for most working people have not kept up with inflation, and wages diverged from productivity since a little before the Reagan area. [0] The value people create doesn't evaporate, it goes to the top.

[0] https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d...
Doesn't look like they actually use that. It seems like more of a research project that they wanted to see if it was feasible.
but then you have to hire security and stuff. too expensive.
The title is a little out of date. Prosperity has been increasing in the 20th century, but has not increased for a few decades.

Sure, crap like gadgets is now cheaper, but buying a house, giving your kids an education, and so on have increased. In the 40s and 50s a middle class household could get by just fine (and the house be bought) by a single income earner. Such a house now would be on the verge of bankruptcy. And that's not even adding in the decline of working class jobs, and the instability of most modern careers (outside of IT which still has it good).
What's the power draw like?

I once left the reading lights on; car was supposed to have turned it off when the doors locked, but somehow didn't. I found myself calling AAA in the morning to get a jumpstart.
Apple does have a monopoly on their own products. No need for scare quotes. They also have a monopoly on iOS app distribution. One of those bothers more market participants than the other, and for the same reasons monopolies can (but don't always) cause trouble for the markets in which they exist.

As per usual, competition is a good answer. Competition in making iPhones is nonsensical. Competition in distributing and selling iOS apps isn't, and would be good for the market. Or at least it might be good for the market. That's the whole premise of this discussion, and for most discussions about monopolistic tendencies.
> Apache Common Clause license

No. This is reprehensible garbage. This license is not endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation.

EDIT: removed "proprietary"
> You can prevent Coiled Snake from folding a line that it otherwise would by putting a # at the end of said line

Ugh. I'm not really in favor of modifying source code to influence/configure plugin behavior..
Regarding this comment from that HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476906

>This is great. Along similar lines, "Foundations of Network Programming" by Brandon Rhodes (and originally John Goerzen) is fantastic

Anyone have an idea which of the two editions is better?
Used to work for a very large POS system provider, and I can confirm that soda spills make repairs take 10x longer.
I'd like to hear the story of why a McDonalds would need a PDP. Weren't they...expensive? They would be at the heart of university's IT department, or running a steel mill. Stuff like that. But until PCs came out, at a restaurant I can only picture registers and a dumb terminal hooked up to a distant mainframe.
Meh. Unless you personally own a franchise, or work for corporate, this is pure conjecture.

The article did mention if a failed node is detected, a next-day restore 'disk' is delivered to the store, so obviously that is faster/more reliable than random ISP.
On the other hand when reading the article I kept thinking of the poor sod who has to cook a new batch of waffle fries because “The Edge” told him to.
I understand that not everyone is an American but YC is an American company, hence the hypocrisy of only calling out YC China when the U.S. is also complacent about human right violations, which is the point I was trying to make.
To be fair most of the complains were about the model. And such complains where pretty pointless since no resource to write Redis core is take in order to write Redis modules. Fortunately (haha) Redis OSS was always just me and sometimes (like now that there is Fabio part time just to OSS side) some other collaborator, very few people allocated there, plus the very important contributions from Redis Labs devs, Alibaba devs, and so forth. I agree that criticizing the Commons Clause makes more sense, I did not follow closely how the license was created, but the process was to let N vendors to use the same clause so that the basic license was still valid but with the added restriction. It was AFAIK a non evil process, but actually now that I read the complains about Commons Clause I can see more how that could be better with new names for each license that each vendor used. Maybe you just cut&paste the clause into the OSS license you are using, but then you call it <company> Commercial License.
The article cites income increase but doesn't talk about the necessary factors even if you're only talking numbers:

1) real inflation (ie, cost of living has skyrocketed due to rent/medical) outweighs any income increases.

2) overall wealth was not accounted for - in fact many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, probably far more than at any corresponding postwar period in the US.

In short "prosperity" != income. Ignoring things like cost of living and the high possibility of surprise bankruptcy due to medical emergencies lead to a very inaccurate picture.
They should call it the "Redis Labs License".
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In the absence of any alternative methods of developers getting their apps into users hands, it is difficult to say whether "search, promotion, distribution, and analytics" offered by Apple are really valued at what Apple is charging for them. It is also difficult to separate these things from things Apple is doing for its own sake, since they increase sales which benefits Apple directly.

I strongly suspect that, given enough time to compensate for the existing momentum of the App Store, if an alternative App Store was an option, Apple would either improve its offerings, lower what it charges, or see a mass migration of publishers away from the App Store.

Edit: Clarity of meaning.
Indeed, claims for increase in prosperity seem pretty illusionary.

Headline: Most Americans are one paycheck away from the street

Subheading: Some 63% of people can’t deal with a $500 emergency

The website is CBS Market, fairly respectable, draws on several plausible studies.

Link: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-are-one-pay...
> Some are seeing that corporations are the ones making all the money on the back of open source software.

But the value those corporations are creating is embodied in much more than just the software. It's the whole infrastructure they build, which integrates the software into a complete solution that meets users' needs.

> Why would I want to build a tool for corporate infrastructure if they take it and make millions while I run support for free?

If someone is using a corporation's cloud infrastructure that happens to rely on open source tools you made, they're not going to call you for support when something goes wrong; they're going to call the corporation. If the corporation comes asking you about it, you are perfectly free to set the price of your services to them.
We kind of do. Food Stamps / EBT cards are sort of like a public grocery service. And Exchange Stores are quite literally public-owned retail stores for Military members - https://www.shopmyexchange.com/ is basically a government-owned government-run WalMart/Amazon. And there's a public-owned restaurants (cafeteria) inside various government buildings, like the Longworth House Cafeteria.
My sons' favorite book series. I guess I was unaware Disney had botched an attempt to animate it.
> As in, if one found a way to bet against your car remaining in tact and realized sabotaging your car was cost effective to manipulate their bet, then they reap the market pay out.

You just described insurance fraud. And just like in insurance, the fix is to be very careful about how you describe the "win" condition—not just "will the car become damaged" but "will the car become damaged through no fault of the owner" (to begin with; the actual terms would be much more complex).
> What evidence is there that people in this study might have been lying?

People tend to systematically misreport food intake (eg https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/133/3/895S/4688054).

People are really bad at estimating portion sizes (eg https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/35/4/727/4812...).

If you run a non-blinded experiment using a self-reported measure that is well known to be wildly misreported and only get a small effect size to boot, it's on you to prove that you actually affected behavior and not just reporting.
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Yeah, the way Uber ratings work it seems like there are only two ratings: "I had an acceptable experience" or "This person should lose their job".
I suppose I'm struggling to see how much of a requirement for low-latency data processing exists in a restaurant.

There just isn't that much data there unless they're attempting to do real-time control of equipment (in which case, just use a regular control system).

I can imagine a requirement for logging potentially, but thats not a low-latency requirement and the use-case for edge-computing is exactly that, low-latency.

Still not seeing anything here but a dramatic overuse of technology I'm afraid.
Indeed is scary, and a lot of hUmans these days don't look future in the future and its all about now, and what can I get now!
I agree. I think this is my biggest objection with it. Aside from that attempt to hijack mindshare (consumer protection and trademarks anyone?) I couldn't care less about the license. Proprietary licenses are a dime a dozen.
The logistics improvements from early computers were massive. If you compare the equivalent price nowadays it's not worth it compared to other options, but going from paper to computing wasn't just an incremental improvement but allowed for entirely new abilities.

It wasn't like having an account to crunch all the numbers on staff full time was cheap. Especially when you'd have to have 3-4 accountants just to have 24 hour service, regardless of the work load
Best overview of containerization is here (the video parody is actually funny, perhaps NSFW):

https://zwischenzugs.com/2016/04/12/hitler-uses-docker-annot...
For GPL (not talking AGPL as my knowledge there is too limited) Vendors in "classical" environments GPL is a valid business choice - competitors get access to the code, but also have to share their extensions. The original vendor however can be in a stronger position and share their extensions commercially (with dual licensing and CLAs for external contributions)
In a cloud environment however the cloud vendor doesn't "redistribute" the software, thus doesn't have to share their extensions, thus taking revenues without any contributions, putting the cloud vendor in an even better position as the original vendor, as the original vendor pays for the maintenance of the core product, which the cloud vendor uses for free.
Texas ISP slams music biz for trying to turn it into a 'copyright cop'
I've cut my business travel within the USA due to the variable time it takes to get through security -- on a good day I can breeze through in 20 minutes or less... on a bad day it can take 90 minutes or more. So to be assured of making my flight, I need to plan for the worst.

Even real-time security wait times are little help since even if it shows 20 minute waits 2 hours before the flight, an equipment problem or personnel shortage can make that wait much longer before I get to the airport.
That does not seem like it would require much bandwidth at all, though.

You could easily do that on dial-up.
> Is there no way to win?

There isn't. Once evolutionary processes churn out a species capable of pullulating, at the cost of other species, essentially without limit, the die is cast. The notion that 'we' can 'decide' to escape this biological heritage is just another case of the old superstition: that humans magically transcend the physical world. Just as some tree species may be stripped and killed by a beetle new to the region, our planet's current ecosystems will be destroyed by Homo sapiens. New ecosystems will develop over millennia. Human history will cease. There will be no lamentations.
Come on now.

They invented the app ecosystem, which is far more important than just inventing a phone. Without Apple, the application market would still be controlled by Sprint and AT&T and Verizon.

Not defending Apple or attacking it, just pointing out the facts.
> It'd be pretty hard to extract from the 13th amendment a constitutional right to put prisoners to unpaid work.

Fair, I had forgotten the "except... shall exist wording"

> state-owned prisons also profit off the system to the same extent

Also fair, but I'd expect the private prisons to be the ones to sue states.
Japanese $500bn giant launches AI deep learning fund
Yes, but it's not enough.

Even the brand name cards aren't worth shit; you need to buy "industrial" cards.

Source: tried to get a root filesystem to work on name brand SD cards for a high availability product.
Its not just Uber, most surveys and other such feedback, unless is satisfied or extremely satisfied is considered bad!
Typical half truth. Ukraine government has kicked out 1C accounting software (de-facto industry standard in Ukraine and Russia at that time) and mandated it to be replaced with the half-baked M.E.Doc software. This opened the door for the NotPetya. Some unsupported claims about Russian military hacker are all over the article but it beats me why this journo doesn't mention this part that is public knowledge. Maybe because it gives a completely different context for the attack.