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>Then you've never done real science.

Done enough to have an MSc in experimental particle physics.

But do you have a point that isn't a personal attack?

>Science is how we verify that reality operates according to how we believe it does.

Drop a feather and bowling ball together. Feather drops last. Law of gravity proved wrong.

Science is the removal of the incidental qualities of a phenomenon until only the essential qualities are left. What is incidental and what is essential depend completely on the context.
Why aren’t borg keys good enough? Why not just contribute that to borg?
I am sorry but SZ is not one of world’s most livable cities. Not even close. Have you ever lived in Palo Alto? It’s insanely convenient and I don’t have to bump into people every three feet. Almost everyone will prefer to live in the US over China at least until the communist regime fails. It is also becoming easier to live in rural America (or else where in developed countries).
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Context, please? OP reacted to a specific comment in this thread.
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Is that even possible under Norwegian law? To my understanding, Aas has been trading as a private individual, meaning not through an LLC (an AS in Norwegian terminology). If the rumors I'm hearing are correct, this was in order to avoid publishing his trades and profits, which he would have been required to do if he was trading through an AS.

Personal bankruptcy is a very pietistic, convoluted procedure in Norway. It requires giving up all your assets and surrendering all of your income (above a sustenance limit) to creditors for five years, and can only be done once in your life. If Aas is going this route, he will not be able to save any owned assets from the proceedings, and will more or less consent to being a debt slave for the next half-decade. That's an extreme measure that people only do when there is no other option. (The default option being to just not pay anything and leave creditors hanging indefinitely, with the expected consequences for any personal financial endeavor in the future).

So at most this is a play to negotiate with creditors, if the understanding I have is correct. There would be no way to save any assets if actual bankruptcy is the chosen move.

You seem to know a lot about this, though, given that you work with this. Are there some facts here that I'm not aware of?
The author's true colors come out when he rails for post-Keynesian economics as an alternative worth studying.

As much as economics ("mainstream" or "orthodox economics" is an expression like "allopathic medicine") is a struggling pre-science that has just in the 90s begun to adopt RCTs, etc -- the alternative these people are saying is snake oil. "Post Keynesian economics" isn't even trying -- it's just a justification for the kind of irrationally exuberant policies that
caused 2008 in first place.
Why do you need to hold the microphone close to your mouth?

I often answer calls whilst wearing these cheap Mpow earphones. Even with background traffic noise people can still hear me http://amzn.eu/d/8zNp1kz
Markets are one mechanism for social regulation; there are many others. For example it was common for rulers in past societies to bury large hordes of treasure as offering to the gods. This was done not to store it, but because it increased prestige while reducing actual power. This is not a market. Not everything is a market and attempting to apply market mechanics to things which are not markets (like relationships, education) is a major source of inefficiency and unhappiness.
> Either you choose a somewhat open platform, or you choose privacy

Those who would give up essential Openness, to purchase a little temporary Privacy, deserve neither Openness nor Privacy. -Benjamin Franklin
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AirPods, which I think is sort of a good reference here, charges wirelessly too. We’ll ser about the battery life though, I suspect you’re right about them eventually needing replacing. Likely a very difficult repair too!
The digital source material is a limiting factor for achievable quality, but so is the DAC that is to translate the source material. Some cheap DACs are not meant to translate specific bit depths and sampling rate, some supply the jack with less output power, some exhibit more crosstalk, some have more limited frequency responses. So yes, second to the source material, it's the DAC that is the limiting factor for good sound.
Won't work for me at all, I have my headphones on for hours at a time. What makes it worse is that you could have your wireless ones and someone like me his wired ones.

Apple decided rightly or not that they don't care about me. So be it.
See also: https://fckdrm.com

Barely anything for major film releases. Sure, you can get some indie films DRM-free, but that's about it. Torrents is really the only accessible source.
I 90% agree with this.

The other 10% realizes that if you had warnings and waivers for every fringe case, you'd have the worst UI in the world and had a worse UX for 99.9% of the people it didn't apply to.

Do you want them to disclose it won't work in Taiwan? Timbuktu? That you'd have to agree to GDPR if you went to Europe? How about warnings that this format may not be viewable in 20 years due to technical or regulatory shifts?

I sympathize with the original person's situation, but as a consumer of media that's frequently geo-locked (I'm from Canada), I blame copyright holders for the situation.

And frankly, it's garbage like this that turns people to pirated media.
Wow that's so absolutely contradicted by my experience, I'm almost speechless.

Having a degree does diddly-squat to the requirement to interview. It can even (famously) be counter-productive. The only good indicator of what somebody knows, is to ask them to demonstrate facility.
> And for that matter it is not the corporations fault for exploiting all laws to the greatest extend possible either,

It's not like the laws just sprang up out of nowhere. Those same corporations wrote many of the laws via lobbyists and got them passed by legislators who were either too ignorant or disinterested to think through the ramifications.
Removing the headphone jack, but allowing the option to use a dongle, I can live with. What really drives me nuts is all these (expensive) wireless headphones and earbuds, but the batteries are not replaceable. After a year or few they basically become useless because the batteries end up degrading and lasting only a fraction of when they were new.
So after 4 years in Google's case you'd have 800K extra (most likely more depending on how you invest) plus Google on your resume. The 6% will get diluted into ? If you are so confident in your ability to pick winners you are better than top 1% of VCs.
Ok, now as an advertiser how can I scale that to a thousand sites?

And as a small website I update on the weekend how can I go find these advertisers consistently and easily.

Not really sure how we got here but we did..
This was originally going to read "Phenomenally stupid question, but why hasn't somebody brought out an adapter cable that provides both charging and a 3.5mm jack?"

But I figured I should google first. Does anybody have any firsthand experience with Belkin's adapter that lets you do both simultaneously? Asking since my wife's work phone just got "upgraded" and we found ourselves unable to listen to a podcast on our last road trip.
Almost all the software used in biology is FLOSS. The problem is you need a lab process to get the data in the first place.
Interesting to see this pop up here. I play a lot of traditional music, and one thing I'm more exposed to than most people is variations in bagpipes. The Highland Bagpipes of Scotland are a bit of an anomaly; Scotland obviously has a great piping tradition now, but historically there's not as much evidence of it as there is, for example, in England. However the English tradition died out almost entirely, with the exception of the Northumbrian tradition.

The Highland Pipes are also extremely loud and they're built for marching. They're not particularly designed for soft expression, as a lot of other pipes are. And honestly attaching two bags to the highland pipes would require such a ridiculous amount of pressure/air that you'd likely die from exhaustion :D

As mrob has already said, the pressure could vary the tuning, but it may be more possible to vary the sound using pressure when using a single-reeded instrument rather than the double-reed that most modern pipes use.

Probably the most amazing design of pipes is the Uilleann pipes, which have an insane range (3 octaves I think?), bellows for feeding the bag instead of a mouth pipe (not uncommon on other pipes as well), and something particularly interesting called the "regulators". These essentially let you play chords, or single notes, on the drones by using your wrist. This allows you to add accompaniment or rhythm into the playing. Here's an example of someone playing the regulators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTHs7eQSKc

There are other interesting pipes that use multiple chanters, or combined chanter/drone systems that let you vary things more effectively. Some of my favourites are the Zampogna of Italy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU_xR_mS9YI, and particularly the odd Boha from Gascogne in France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKyXn2dqg9s. The Boha that the guy in that video makes are really interesting; he makes them with additional holes that you can move corks between to vary the scale, and he makes some with two chanters and a drone all together, which allow you to play simple harmonies. A technique which a guy I know has turned into a pretty phenomenal playing style (on some English-made pipes here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJisKPjCEXA
It would be great if this was open to people who want to make the leap to CTO. Sounds like a good opportunity to learn from others who are already there.
Because they don't know how to develop software. At least not desktop/mobile software.

A Windows CAD/CAM app I've developed, with very advanced algorithms and visuals, takes about 300k lines of code (45% C++, 45% C#, 10% others), has 3.7MB download size. That 3.7MB installer includes both 32 and 64 bit binaries.

Couple general things how to achieve that.

Be very conservative about third-party libraries. Not only they inflate size, you have to support every line of third-party code you've brought to the project.

Prefer vector graphics over raster, and you'll get hi-dpi support for free.

Stuff like XML or DDS can be compressed by 50% or more, other stuff like JPG or PNG is almost in-compressible. Distinguish these 2 resources, compress first with e.g. gzip but not the second it'll be a waste of CPU bandwidth.
If you buy a song from iTunes, you download your copy of it, and it is yours forever unless you decide to get rid of it.

The change is that, in addition, you can generally download more copies. The limitations on this may be inadequately explained, but this is all on top of what you'd get if you 'bought' 40 years ago.
I used to work at the local theme park and often enjoyed looking at the plen-plotter produced maps of the ride construction diagrams and whatnot.

Why aren't there any low cost (sub USD700) pen plotters available today? Were they just always super expensive and are now only cheap because they are outmoded?

I know Roland makes large format printers etc. but those are oodles of money and so will almost never be bought by non-professionals/enthusiasts. It just seems like we lost the ability to make 'good enough' large format drawings without resorting to sign shops.
> The idea that because things are some way now they will be forever thusly hasn't panned out historically.

I'm not refuting (because I don't really know) but questioning this statement.

Technological progress is a confounder, apart from that I think people and organizations behave as they always have. Okay, enslaving and murdering people has become harder - in the "modern" parts of the world at least. The "system" still favors not paying too much attention to the human side, and to do whatever you can get away with regardless of cost to society, I think.
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Do you have data for this? I'm also in the absolute minority
I like real organic peanut butter.

Who's Hazel anyway
Having lived here for the past few years, originally from the Midwest in an area much different than SF, my best take on the younger generation working in tech is that most do not hold strong views in terms of fiscal policies and generally equate politics to social issues. There is a fear of not being "politically correct" and offending someone. Most do not actually care and just lean with the side of least resistance.
By that logic, if I buy a DVD at the checkout of Marks & Spencer on my summer holidays before returning to the states, I get to the US to find out it won't work in the DVD player here, should I be annoyed at Marks & Spencer for not posting a sign that explains media regions?
Public enterprise also has many unpredictabl incentives. And many of the more predictable ones are pretty harmful.
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If you're on Android the answer is no, there's no way to do it.
Many physicists believe quantum “measurements” are just an approximation to underlying unitary processes. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894779 for more discussion. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence.
“livable cities already, a head above of Silicon Valley”

You are kidding me. What are you smoking?

Safe uncancerous air: SV

Safe water: SV

Safe food: SV

Safe medicine: SV

Freedom: SV

Nature: SV

Education: SV

Healthcare quality: SV

Salary: SV (10x-20x)

Food: SV (China has Chinese food and not much else. Most of the time you are stuck eating hot pot. There is pretty good food from China in SV)
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If an existing system works badly, one shouldn't be too eager to understand and replicate all of its details.
> You just dont fight the war on drugs on the back of chronic pain patients.

You're pushing the same line that Purdue did - that there's an epidemic of untreated pain and that it is cruel to leave people without treatment.

This point always comes up when discussing the US opioid crisis. What do we do about people in severe pain? What do we do about people in long term pain?

The US massively over-prescribes opioids. The US could reduce opioid prescribing by 80% and it would have no effect for these groups of people.

But, more importantly, for most people in long term pain opioids are the wrong choice. Opioids are a good choice for end of life care, and for short term acute pain (especially when supervised in a hospital setting). But for long term pain opioids are for most people a poor choice. The patient will develop a tolerance to the opioid which means it's not working to treat the pain. They'll need to increase the dose of opioids. This increases the risk of harm from the medication. It also increases the risk of dependency. So, you end up with someone addicted to opioids, taking very large doses, yet still in pain.

Note I'm not saying all people. Some people who are carefully selected and regularly monitored will get some benefit from opioids.

Here's a radio programme with an interview with someone who was prescribed opioids for long term non cancer pain, and how it caused him harm: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wv052

Here's the UK Royal College of Anaesthetists pages on opioid prescribing: https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-awar...
I agree and disagree.

Economics, as practiced, is profoundly unscientific in numerous deep particulars.

(There are exceptions, though these are largely peripheral and or heterdoxical.)

It need not be, and I've described the fallacy of "no controlled experiments" as regards several other fields in a recent comment. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17998690)

I'd argue that a principle failing of economics -- and one which can be found to apply to its sibling spin-outs of moral philosophy -- is what W. Brian Arthur has observed: formulation of economic theory, or selection among competing theories for inclusion into pedagogy, virtually always occurs in the context of policy formation. That is, these are inherently political.

And Smith's curt not, that "wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power" (incorrectly attributed elsewhere to Marx), plays into the selection of texts for teaching, the granting of tenure, the establishment of departments. Before the Koch brothers were financing, and calling shots oncurricula and faculty, in Florida and at George Mason University, an earlier oil baron, J.D. Rockefeller, was establishing the Chicago School. Each is curiously mute on that intersection of wealth and power Smith highlighted, particularly as concerns monopoly. A topic almost wholly missing from the Libertarian economics bible by Henry Hazlitt.

One wonders why this might be.
Normally mixed up signals are a sign of having eaten something poisonous. So barfing is a reasonable evolutionary response.
Treating addiction as a disease in it's own right seems like a good place to start. If the drug seeking, dishonesty, etc, are symptoms of an underlying disease, wouldn't it be best to treat the cause rather than fiddling with the symptoms? What would such a treatment plan look like, I wonder?
Bounty hunters exist today, avoid shootouts, and are well enough trained when that happens. They would have no special powers, and thus be liable for any damages caused by a shootout.
You forgot to mention the fact that the medical care in China is atrocious. Most doctors are quacks. Everyone knows not to get majorly sick in China
Meaningless relative comparison, and you know that.
I get the same sort of bemused condescension when I talk about continuing to buy the Blu Ray, the book, or this strange dance of rotating out on and off-site HDDs and (gasp of all gasps!) occasionally putting my most important documents on WORM media.

I might think that attitude stems from a lack of awareness regarding control of digital data. You and I might know that if we put our movies, books, backups in The Cloud, they are really just going on someone else's server and that such an action causes us to lose some control over it, but others not so much.

Once I took the time to explain why I did all of this 'old school stuff' to someone who kept everything in their Google Drive, only downloading to local storage if they had to, and their response was a lengthy worded version of "I don't feel confident doing all that so I won't try to learn and instead trust in Google since they are the experts."
Does anyone have a TL;DL?
As you say "access to justice" costs lots of money today, it isn't obvious that this gives less such access.
I think this is a false comparison. If USB-C had been better defined and chosen by all manufacturers, we wouldn't have had a problem with replacing the headphone jack I feel.
> In mathematics, nonlinear basically means “hard to analyze;”

my god how low Scientific American has fallen
Since we’re asking rhetoricals, is it useful to have an approximation of some portion of a system, or nothing at all?
Somewhat ironically, iPhones have only gotten thicker since the abandonment of the headphone jack. The iPhone X/XS, XS Max, and XR are all thicker than the 6/6S.

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
To expand, it's still there and used, though Microsoft has pushed Powershell scripts in its place.
I did say explicitly that the one exception to fines as official punishment is failing to arrange for insurance. Your contract with an insurer can specify the court that judges disputes with it, and the forms of punishment available there.
I had a similar issue with FF. IT looks like the canvas kept losing focus and FF was interpreting the letter keys as search terms sometimes. I believe when it looses focus with the keydown caused the sticking issue.

No issues in Chrome.
People have to get insurance to drive on roads today; are you outraged at that too?
Oh indeed it was, it's just that at this point I can take any group of friendly devs to chat and don't need much CTO glitz around it.
Sorry, I meant lipid-phase organics. In any case, it is true that some science has huge initial investment cost - synchrotrons, space telescopes, etc
This is true. The author doesn't mention behavioural economics but I think that that is more the way forward. People are not the simple rational actors of conventional economic theory. They lie, speculate, panic and so on. Bitconnect is a one word disproof of rational agent theory.

I don't know about predicting the mortgage crisis but if you assume humans are human in all sorts of awful ways then you should stick to systems which are simple robust and hard to screw up and time tested rather then the opaque mystery content derivatives that fueled the mortgage bubble. This may have prevented it rather than predicted it.

The prediction thing is tricky as in the joke "The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions." There are always people predicting things will go wrong but how do you filter which to take notice of?
it's not that we haven't learned, it's just that the forgetting is so good.
>Hepatitis

This isn't limited to homosexual activity and is far more prevalent in exclusively heterosexual "populations." In fact, there isn't a correlation between any kind of sexual spectrum (though there are sexual activities that increase risk of infection, male or female partners). It just is. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1195276/

Where are you getting your information from?

>HIV fear being reduced due to PReP, and decreased use of condoms.

As a Western homosexual (there are more heterosexuals in the world with HIV than homosexuals), this is a concern. But it's largely about HIV resurgence. Condoms can help prevent a whole host of STI's/STD's so it's always just good practice, and one that's been waning lately due to lack of education, community reinforcement because of the former, and people thinking everyone is on PReP. And of course, HIV isn't the death sentence it once was.

As far as other STD's go, you'll need to provide some data in regards to those diseases specifically impacting the homosexual community.
Maybe this poster does that elsewhere, but this comment seems pretty mild to me.
Of course they know how to develop software. They just don’t have a goal of a small app bundle size.
Food diversity is much better in China these days. Last time I was in GZ, I had a lot of options (Indian, Vietnamese, Japanese, etc....). Also, cheaper of course. (Again, I’ve never been to SZ before, but I assume it’s at least as good as GZ).
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I recently needed a new phone and ended up buying a Nokia 8. The fact that it had a headphone jack was one of my main reasons for selecting it. I'm not going to ditch my collection of high quality functioning headphones just to spend more money buying new ones and getting worse audio quality.
This is a surprisingly jaded response that flies in the face of my experiences at multiple startups.

I concur with assuming equity will be 0. Dilution is real and almost all startups fold. Counting on equity is unwise and dangerous.

As for the rest of your commentary, I’d say startups are great because you get a better ability to shape your experience. I’ve now been employee: 21, 7, and 1 at respective startups. While I’ve seen poor management, I’ve not seen evil management.

As for opportunities, they are what you make them to be. There is always room for leadership at small startups, for instance. If that is a path the OP cares about, it is an intruiging option.

All that said, at 3x the salary google is hard to say no to even over a 1-2 year span.