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While this doesn't answer your question directly, there's a good case to be made that Sears lost a lot of its value due to the way its current owners have run the company. Brick-and-mortar retail is obviously a tough business to be in these days even under the best of circumstances, but Lampert arguably made Sears's circumstances much, much worse than they needed to be. I won't rehash all the arguments about that here -- you can look them up yourself if you're interested -- but he did a lot of things that seem to be shortsighted and stupid.

To answer your question more directly, I think a more abstract case could be made that this is a failure of vision endemic to the way we currently implement capitalism: the whole value of running a company long-term -- to shareholders, employees, and customers -- may be greater, on a sufficient time scale, than the value of stripping the company for parts, but you can get a higher short-term return on investment by stripping and re-investing the income somewhere else, letting the full economic costs of the company's collapse (which, again, go beyond the cost to the shareholders) fall on others. I don't think this is good for society in the long run. I also don't think it's somehow required by merciless capitalist logic.

However, I'm not sure how one can craft regulation to "solve" this without a high risk of creating more problems than one avoids. Sears may not deserve what's happened to it, but that doesn't mean it deserves to be saved, either, especially in its current state. It's easy to imagine well-intentioned laws creating zombie businesses rather than shielding salvageable ones.
The story is, some ML researchers did their job properly and detected ethical issues before they became a problem. That's more rare than you'd think.
Counter opinion: I think of hn as a perfect example of a non-product. I can't think of anything positive about hn that isn't ultimately traceable to its nature of not being a product.
This scam has been going on in the UK for a few years. It's called "authorised push payment (APP) fraud". Typically you're having some building work done (or any other large project or purchase), and an email will arrive from the builder saying they've changed their account details, could the purchaser please send future bank transfers to the new account. Of course the email is fraudulent and usually happens because the builder has a virus on their computer (or even the customer).

The problems are:

* since cheques are no longer in widespread use, the only good way to send money is by a bank transfer to another account; in the UK these are free and nearly instantaneous

* but every account is identified only by a 6 digit sort code and 8 digit account number[edit 1]; the numbers don't even have parity checking, forget about any sort of way to verify the destination account

* complete insecurity of email and computers in general

Finally, after years of foot dragging, the banks are promising they will introduce an "amazing" new feature, where before you do a bank transfer the name (I think surname only) of the account holder will be displayed. This should, when it finally arrives next year, prevent most of these frauds, although I guess the scammers will quickly adapt.

The fraud: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/sep/25/uk-bank-custom...

How the banks propose to solve it: https://www.psr.org.uk/psr-publications/consultations/APP-sc...

[edit 1] True story to illustrate what a shitshow this is: When I started working for my current company they asked for my 6 digit sort code and 8 digit account number to pay my salary in. However the first payment was bounced by the bank. When my employer checked with me, it turned out they had only entered the first 7 digits of my account number into the payments system. Surprisingly this was not an error. For example say my a/c number is 12345678, they entered 1234567, and the system assumed that meant 01234567 (this is a feature of all UK banks, not something to do with the payroll, because bank accounts are really just natural numbers, the first customer is given bank account number 1, etc.) Luckily the 01234567 account was dormant or closed so the payment was returned, otherwise several people would have had a bad day (and one person a good day).
To be more accurate, in this case the crime was somewhere else, and it rode in on the freight rail.

At a muni level, which is where a lot of public transit is done, you are hardly empowered to fix social problems a thousand miles away, so your options are limited. You try to turn away transients, or you don't. SF is in the latter camp, of course.

You describe me as espousing the mentality that blocks public transit. But really, I'm just observing, it is a matter of fact that interstate rail is a source of crime in our town. You can show a crime map of our town, and there is literally a hotspot around the rail line. But I'm still pro-transit, pro-rail, the whole shebang.

If anything, I feel like trying to wave arms, point fingers, & distract from this indisputable fact is sweeping things under the rug. Better we acknowledge it, and include what we're going to do about it in our pitch & plan.
I’m pretty much just trying to say, “Let’s talk about the science.”

Of course here I am, with the top post at the moment being a non-accretive meta-discussion about gender politics. I guess I’ll go upvote all the people who are talking about cool science stuff. :-)
Even worse, they don't even attempt to justify how EEE applies to what MS is doing now. Please, at least try to make what you're saying relevant to the story.
I continue to believe that knowledgeable professionals being locked out of investments (sometimes for projects they have meaningfully contributed to!) because they aren't literally millionaires (per US accredited investor reqs) is a much bigger scandal than any shitty ICO.

Here's hoping some version of the Jobs Act 3.0 passes the Senate (before getting stuffed with a bunch of bs)...
Remember, they're a data company. They have data on you, and they want more. The best thing for us to do is to just stop giving it to them. Just as open source was the shadow of licensed software, I'm hoping there'll be a competitor to the data-hungry regime of current internet companies. Not sure how they can replace the revenue stream, but, that's the beauty of the marketplace. There's the demand. The supply will find a way.
Who is “the cognitive community”, and does it include the evolutionary psychologists?
The general assertion that mass transit brings crime is very common but isn't supported by evidence [0].

Not to mention the prejudicial undertones it carries...

[0] https://www.citylab.com/equity/2014/12/the-myth-that-mass-tr...
It's still a deductible and is comparable in coverage to a single deductible if you choose lower deductibles for each type.
I use zombies in my epidemic modeling class - one of my favorite results is, with a semi-complex model, you can replicate the script of most zombie movies mathematically (lots of people die, the survivors take shelter somewhere and are safe for awhile, attrition starts to take hold, things collapse and then you're left with a small surviving fraction of protagonists at the end).
> One is the change to accredited investor laws to allow people to prove investor competence without meeting arbitrary income / asset requirements.

No one, absolutely no one should sit on their thumbs waiting around for regulatory clarity from a slow moving ship unless they have too much to lose. It's time to up the ante and move out of the US. If they keep adding laws instead of deleting them the exodus of seed stage companies is a near-term likelihood.
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Except it didn't -- the raid makes one very small group of investors a lot of money at the expense of literally everyone else.
Regarding the Mitfords, Wikipedia notes:

"The sisters, six daughters of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and Sydney Bowles, became celebrated, and at times scandalous, figures that were caricatured, according to The Times journalist Ben Macintyre, as "Diana the Fascist, Jessica the Communist, Unity the Hitler-lover; Nancy the Novelist; Deborah the Duchess and Pamela the unobtrusive poultry connoisseur"."
How do you know the definition of stealing?
>Good, then take the gender politics chat back to reddit where it belongs.

How about taking your superiority complex elsewhere? I'm willing to bet that 90% of the HN audience uses reddit in some capacity.

Would it shock you to learn that there are other communities on the internet that have great discussion? Some even make fun of HackerNews for the misperception that the discourse here is superior.
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> Forcibly upgraded as many Windows 7 and 8 machines to Windows 10.

This was a terrible decision, I agree.

> to have any motivations other than "whatever makes us the most money as possible".

Well they are a corporation. That's the end goal of any corporation.

> Implemented extremely-invasive data collection in Windows 10

This I don't agree with though. Yes, they collected data, and that is wrong. I was pissed off too. However, it was not as invasive as made it out to be. They did not track the websites we browse. They did not track who we communicate with like Google, Facebook and other such companies do. I would trust Microsoft with my data and privacy over Google and Facebook. And yet most of us use Google services without a second thought.

Another thing I dislike about Windows is the bloatware and ads in Start.

However, this does not negate their recent contributions. Is the end goal for these contributions to make more money? Absolutely. But that does not mean we should not welcome the good stuff from Microsoft just because its Microsoft.
I thought gender is a social construct. Not true anymore?
I developed tinnitus during a time when I was using noise-cancelling Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7b over-ears for 5+ hours a day. I did have other things going on though, so can't specifically say that was the cause.
The MTA generally doesn't own the land above the tracks, and your last paragraph succinctly explains the differences in financial incentives to build rail between New York and Tokyo.
> Why am I so pissed off about this? Because it's going to crash the AR industry (already on its knees because of an overhyped VR industry) and set it back years. Already, and for years now, no one wants to invest in an AR hardware startup because "how could you possibly beat Magic Leap?

Found the guy who read the Palmer Luckey "Tragic Heap" article.

I'm not allowed to give details, but from my own perspective, neither the VR or AR market are as fragile as you make it out to be.
^^ key point, I'm glad to see it came from you actually! I'd add that it's rare to see well-used transit systems where stations end up being hotbeds of crime; it's mostly the poorly designed and barely utilized ones where that becomes the case.

For example, where I grew up, Cleveland, the stations definitely have a pretty grungy vibe, but I'd attribute that largely to the fact that RTA is super slow and infrequent, there are so few lines for such a large geographical mass that you can't do most trips with RTA, and many of the stations dump you in pretty unwalkable, economically dead neighborhoods. Even if you rode it somewhere, there's a very high probability you'd continue a journey on a bus for a crazy long amount of time or need a car to get you to your destination somehow. Even in the well-positioned spots like Ohio City, the station design dumps you next to a bridge on the opposite side of a crazy intersection with no crosswalk that takes like 5 minutes of walking through parking lots and past the garbage-smelling loading dock of the West Side Market to get to any of the businesses there. What a joke lol.
That's the other big problem, yes.

See also the Netherlands. In the 70s they decided that bikes were good, and that paving over canals to let big trucks and cars take over was bad, and it was time to stop doing that and move to a better way.

They got away with it because the Netherlands is 19 times smaller than the state of Texas.
Crap, now they'll have to discriminate manually!
Not familiar with go or that pattern but is this a good example? https://gist.github.com/vaskoz/10073335
There may not be formal government programs that presriptively sanction the murder and decimation of minority communities by the American constabulary but the law also historically has given merit to "disparate impact".

Furthermore Van Dyke's conviction came with mitigating factors that I will passionately argue create the conditions for disparate impact when black Americans are killed by state actors in the form of local police officers.

This IMO supersedes any argument that we lack government policy that sanctions police brutality and points to a direct need for police reform which is the root of a statement like "Black lives matter".
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The burden's on Bloomberg for accusing China of implanting the devices, or it's on the tech companies accusing Bloomberg of being full of --it, though? Looks like a standoff until we hear more
I'll grant that most of the world is at relative peace, but as long as a few feel that their existence is at risk, it will be nearly impossible to get rid of nuclear weapons, which was the original point.

South Africa shows that a country can get rid of its weapons, but it's not a particularly relevant example to those that still have them, or are likely to add them.
Yup. Getting a Spotify account and then Netflix account made me forget the desire to pirate. Fast forward a couple years, my favourite songs and movies disappearing from those services made me seriously reconsider the value proposition, compared to visiting a well known Bay of buccaneers.
Similarly the trailer shows one of the device's biggest flaws at 0:42-0:44. The limited FOV of AR devices breaks the immersion in a way that the limited FOV of VR devices doesn't. Any augmented object disappears from view if you aren't looking directly at it, but unlike with VR you can still see that area of the real world so the missing graphic is immediately noticeable. So complements to the marketing team for being truthful in how people will react to the device and its true capabilities, but it is just surprising that this type of thing was approved.
Telecom industry person here: About four years ago I was contacted by a real estate industry person, purporting to represent Sears, that was looking to get revenue from putting cellular carrier sites (other other monthly rental from telecom-related things) on the roofs of Sears' big box retail stores. They had a website marketing it and everything. I don't believe it ever went anywhere, because the nationwide big-4 cellular carriers would much rather pay a mall owner for a 15'x15' plot of land to put in a cabinet and monopole, than sublease a rooftop from Sears.
Bias as in racism, sexism, etc, has multiple definitions, some of which are mutually exclusive.
I'm not sure about DC, but for Atlanta at least it's really a question of density. Atlanta's one of the least dense major metros, so outside of the major corridors that MARTA already runs on, there's not a lot of big wins to be had by adding more stations.

In my opinion, Atlanta's actually pretty well-built in a lot of ways. While MARTA is awful for commuter/everyday use, MARTA is effective for a lot of other things like getting to major events downtown, or getting residents and tourists to/from the airport. I'm not sure you could really make it all that much better without some fairly insane investment.
> Lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, and other chemicals do not have a political leaning. They dont selectively impact the democratic left more so than the right.

Yes they do, unfortunately.

If you look at state-level regulation of industrial activities in the South, you'll notice that the cavalier attitude towards pollution only applies when it's the poor and the dark skinned who live downwind or downstream.
I would agree more if there was an actual juxtaposition in the article between Nixon and Trump, but after that, Trump was never mentioned. I interpreted it as the author wanted to take a free jab just because they could, and that is the part that is off putting to me.
You may not have meant it as such but -- Good, then take the gender politics chat back to reddit where it belongs -- may have been taken as a call to sequester undesirables and thereby censor unwanted opinions.
See, this is why you need the lines above and below the letter I. I thought this was a Rust remake of Final Fantasy 1. So disappointing...
> when there are tiny numbers of violent leftists who are only sporadically public

What is "sporadically"? I read about violence in Berkeley and Portland almost every month. I've just seen a number of videos from violent Antifa groups in Portland taking over city streets, attacking pedestrians and motorists, literally yesterday - before that I've read about many other riots, including ICE blockade and such. Police is mostly ignoring them and treating them with velvet gloves.

I don't know if they have central organization or how they are managed, but they seem to be organized, financed and supported enough to regularly perform takeovers, blockades and riots without being afraid at the least of the police.

> are organized and centralized enough to effectively temporarily take over a small city

Which city? Rally in Charlottesville in no way "took over the city", and there was police presence, which can be obviously seen in many photos. The police failed to effectively separate the marchers and counter-protesters, which ensured there was violence, so there was a police failure - all too common, in general the police is way too timid in cracking down on protest violence. Which is probably connected to the courts refusing to prosecute such violence - e.g. Berkeley professor that bashed people over the head with a bike lock got only probation for his violent behavior. Not a day of actual jail time.

And this was probably the best they could do ever - 2018 rally of the same people is universally described as "pathetic failure", with virtually nobody showing up - they had like 30 people there. They may be organized, but their numbers are tiny. They never pulled off something that Antifa is routinely doing in Portland and Berkeley and never will be able to.
"So the number of nukes has gone down, but the destructive power is quite similar" is very, very false.

The military efficiency is quite similar, however, the destructive power has dropped significantly - these targeting improvements resulted in much less powerful warheads being necessary to achieve the same goal, so not only there's much, much less warheads (10000 vs 60000 at the height of cold war, and "only" 3000 of those 10000 are available at short notice) but also each warhead is much less destructive, the "default" warheads have gone down from multiple megatons to 100-150 kilotons.

This means that an all-out war will not only have much less fallout than in 70s, but also much less civilian casualties, much less destruction of cities, etc, etc. In the 70s, if a military base near a city would be targeted, then the city would be eliminated along with the base; now it'd likely be targeted with just something like 100kt bomb with much smaller impact; if the target was in the middle of the city, then most of the city would survive.
Evolutionary arguments are complementary to work done in other cognitive sciences. Both are important to understand the complete picture of how we behave.

Many evolutionary explanations begin as 'just so' assertions, but so does anything in science, really. Evolutionary arguments can be very difficult to test because our knowledge is incomplete. There are many interacting variables at play and we can't go back in time. It's doesn't mean we can't test hypothesis, though, and there is a huge body of evolutionary behavior research that shows how much we can do.
But there's a difference between being middle of the pack (113/211) and being one of the poorest countries. I'd also argue that GDP isn't a great measure of NK's wealth.
> They quickly discovered that while the email appeared to have been sent by “accounts.recievable@clarkbuilders.com” the email address had been “spoofed.” The display name of the email was different than the actual originating account.

Um, and it was mis-spelled apparently.
Hi, NJ native chiming in here. We have a vast majority of our state served by regional and light rail services, as well as a bus system that supplements it to areas where it would be difficult to get added rail lines.

Anecdotally, you can find drugs, needles or crime just about anywhere if you want. There are amazingly safe suburbs with train stations as well as less safe suburbs with train stations and city stops on both side of the spectrum. These people aren't riding the rails to get to some juicy soft targets out in the wealthy burbs.

Crime is a law enforcement problem, not a transportation problem. Your whole post is NIMBY nonsense. I promise you, there's plenty of poor drug addicts and criminals in areas that aren't served by any sort of mass transit. Your thesis that they'll come ruin a perfectly good thing is just as flawed as my thesis that they'll magically all stop behaving that way if we gave them mass transit which allowed them greater access to different job opportunities (there's elements of truth in both, but they're both more complex then just a quick summary)

TL;dr- What's incorrect about your statement is basically everything in your statement, or at least your perception of cause and effect.
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Sears was Amazon before Amazon. He started by selling watches from mail order catalogs and then selling more stuff, and then opening stores.
The holes in his argument didn’t justify his termination, however. Not sure if some folks are too attached to that outcome, but the accusations against Damore are beyond parody.
Behavioral Economics has only gotten "so popular" in non-academic circles. This is mostly due to the quasi-science of economics where we try to mathematically model the world. These "cute Freakonomics" type studies, while publishable in some outlets, haven't even come close to displacing traditional microeconomic foundations in mainstream economics.

I'm an Economics PhD and former professor and most of the research isn't taken very seriously. Everyone acknowledges that people don't behave "rationally", but no one yet has been able to figure out how to build these behavioral assumptions into a working model that is actionable.
Where does all of this leave Brave’s BAT token?
What does a generic LibreOffice application do anyway?
I think to discuss it as a technical problem is to put their heads in the sand. It's a political problem - one of the two major American political parties opposes government spending on principle and also opposes public services in particular; they favor policies that increase profit to big business. In this comment I'm not saying that the party is right or wrong, but that these are the consequences of their policies, for good or ill.

I understand that many would like to avoid politics. Citylab wants to focus on technical issues; Bill Gates cares about education, but AFAIK ignores how the same problem is one of the largest obstacles to improving education in the U.S.; people on HN are the same - they don't want to discuss politics.

Don't discuss it then, but then the discussion you do have is as pertinent as talking about technical solutions to your overloaded bandwidth, which are well known, when the real problem is that the CIO intentionally underfunds it.
China has really strict controls on the amount of money that a Chinese citizen can legally wire transfer out of the country, to a foreign domestic bank account, per year. People have come up with all sorts of "creative" grey and black market things involving Vancouver real estate and BC casinos. Google "china money laundering BC" for news about it.