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> Why is the Tesla stock illiquid? It's publicly traded.

Pardon me, imprecise phrasing. SpaceX stock is illiquid. Tesla stock is liquid, but if Tesla is having financial difficulties its stock will go down. If Elon can sell Tesla shares, Tesla can sell Tesla shares.

> I'm sure he could sell SpaceX stock on the secondary market quite easily

Not "quite easily". One, he's a super material insider. That makes the process more complicated for everyone involved. (It would be difficult to avoid giving everyone else the right to participate on the same terms.)

Two, he's a super material insider. The fact that he's selling will scare away many buyers.

Three, he's a super material insider. His selling SpaceX stock to prop up Tesla screams that nobody is willing to finance Tesla in the open market. It would immediately lead to a rout.
My company runs its entire backend on Sinatra, and has since 2011. We do ~200K requests/min on AWS c5.4xlarges and r5.2xlarges, so we are a fairly significant deployment of Sinatra/ruby.

As the sole and still primary maintainer of our production infrastructure, I've been very happy with this choice of tech. I think our problem was made much simpler because, as a mobile app, we basically were building an API. We did integrate ActiveRecord/Support, and today have a massive suite of tests we run in rspec (it's pretty cool, Jenkins will spin up ~50 concurrent EC2 instances running docker, run the tests, and report back in about 15 min).

To this authors complaints, I suppose I feel that every framework has idiosyncrasies that you just accept and figure out, and many of the issues cited are felt only once and then not again. Today, running at scale, the main challenges have to do with building and supporting new tests, which rspec is amazing for, and handling application complexity, which we have been addressing using Service Objects.
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It's a chicken and egg thing. You don't have a known problem until you have victims.

Providing a means for victims to report isn't dumping responsibility on them, it's enabling them to take action to prevent the behavior from happening.
Not the OP, but Brian McCall J.D was the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at a law school in Oklahoma. He had to resign because of a book he wrote on Catholicism, even though his track record was impeccable by any standard.
20% is roughly the same percentage of women that report being sexually assaulted during their four years of undergraduate college from similar self reporting surveys of a much larger slice of America.
I've noticed this as well, and on a few occasions it's caused me to cut down on my participation here.
Your point is true, but internet technology is now certainly proven, and money has been instrumental in proving it.

Blockchain technology is unproven for use cases beyond speculation or fraudulent/illegal activity.
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> Absolutely, but that requires me to implement and set up long-term maintenance for a software system, and then train non-technical people in its use. Not gonna happen.

You'd have to train people how to use versioning even if versioning was baked into the file system itself.

> The other thing is that the model has been the basis for software's approach, in a way that has too much inertia. For example, Word documents that are drafts are saved as individual files. Why? If the filesystem enabled it, programs could save deltas and have an interface to freeze a draft.

Those temporary files are there as a volatile backup of the running state of the program. It's not really the same thing as a "draft" so shouldn't be treated the same. That is unless you're literally talking about unsaved documents in which case I'm not really sure how you expect the file system to predict what you want to do with a file that even Word - you're exampled running application - doesn't yet know what the user intends.

So what you're asking for there doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. That is unless you're trying to describe an auto-save feature - in which case Word does have literally that feature already bundled as part of it's default set up. Of course you do still need to save the file once to at least nominate where to auto-save to. But saving your drafts is good practice anyway (particularly on Windows).
Sexual harassment & coercion impacts more than just women.

All the sexual harassment I've received over my career was based on women in senior roles, in positions of authority over me.
So...

If you haven't already read this: https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero.

So - the science tells us that plastic is killing us. The news stories say it's in our water supply and food. The keyboard you are typing on is probably made of plastic (mine is). And that's only one of the many things that is currently set to wipe out the human species due entirely to our own stupidity (climate change being another one, but AI/automation and it's affects on capitalism could be another).

In my own humble opinion, the human race was better off when were not so smart, although we may not have been so comfortable. If you have children that are under the age of 10 they'll probably be old enough to fight in the wars that are coming as a result of food shortages and mass migration that will probably happen in the future.

Think about that a minute. In all likelihood our children are going to fight and die because we are too short sighted to stop buying so much and throwing so much away. Humans are a disgusting species.
The point is that the military that the person claimed should be counted in the energy expenditures related to the USD does far, far, far more than "protect the dollar", and even if we all moved to Bitcoin, we'd still have to have the military.
There is no evidence that fixed width fonts have any advantage. It seems to be a matter of just what you are used to.
Your edit says:

>Edit: If you disagree with the Zizek statement and have never listened to him speak, you may wish to look him up.

This is extremely uncharitable. Zizek is a serious philosopher, and people take him seriously. Just because you don't understand the points he's making (or don't agree with them), it doesn't mean he's purveying nonsense. Very few (if any) of his critics and fellow philosophers accuse him of being nonsensical. He frequently talks about topics I can't even attempt to understand, but I'm sure high-level physics can sound like nonsense to people too. He has 164,015[0] citations counted by Google Scholar, and along with Althusser considered important in the philosophy of ideology and socialism. He's by no means a hack.

[0] https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=qzuup1UAAAAJ&hl=...
I am not trying to troll. And I know women don't run around eliminating men but you can't dismiss the low % that do that and even give them a tool to do that easier.

And about escort/sugar daddy sorry, I thought that people here are more progressive. There are women who do this and as long as they chose to do this more power to them.
Don’t sweat these. Every HN salary thread, people come out of the woodwork to note that their sister’s roommate’s brother works at Facebook and makes $300k, therefore all tech workers everywhere in Silicon Valley make that much on average. For some reason, people here love to take outlier employees at outlier companies and hold them up as averages.
Anyone who has purchased a home in their name has it in the public record. Your name isn't considered private.
What are you using it for? Is any of the work publicly available?
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Just like the US
I am not a professional programmer, I'm an amateur who can code python and JavaScript for small tasks. It took me many years, but finally things got better when I understood that programming is the skill of decomposing problems in small, manageable understandable taks.
Once I got that, it became much easier to write my solution in my language of choice. Syntax is easy to Google for.

TL/DR : for me programming is a way of thinking with a problem solving attitude, making sure to simplify the problem as much as possible.
There's an argument out there that the leader(s) of the US govt is/are amoral.
I recommend you read "The Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker. It is at length a book on death anxiety and how humans attempt to cope with the subject.
You misread those posters. It's fine to come in/out with more than $10k. You're required to declare it.
> policies that do the opposite of what’s needed...

The jury is definitely out if democracy can actually “do what’s right” with regard to social issues, the environment, income inequality, etc. In fact it is mainly showing the opposite - that those with $ can buy elections using “weaponized” mis-information directly targeted at emotional humans using Facebook and then do whatever they want.

I am rooting for a real Mr. Robot to take down Facebook et al.
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I think just about any woman knows, 20% is very low (and unlikely). From my own personal experience I'd be shocked if it wasn't clover to 60%.
I hope you get burned really hard and spend your days on r/wsb/ for being a fucking dummy.

Disclosure: I've followed both bulls & bears for almost 6 months - and I've got quite a little in long positions.
Imagine a pair of augmented reality glasses, capable to filter all ads shown to you. A layer to end all layers.
given there is no real "you" to begin with, who is it that falls somewhere in the middle between "afraid" and "indifferent"? :-)

I understand what you're referring to though, and assume that the very few that have actually fully realised this (and not just on an intellectual level) are not really bothered with death, and not due to lack of awareness of it.
The bizarre thing that happens when A.I tells people their fortunes
A subway is a high latency, high bandwidth carrier. A bike track is a low latency, high bandwidth carrier. That is in a subway all "packets" (people) need to wait for the next opportunity to depart, whereas in a bike system all packets move more slowly, but at a more continuous pace (set by the maximum speed of the transport).

A lot more people can pass any point in a biketrack per hour than they can per subwaytrack, and they can often take a more direct path to their destination using bikes than they can by subway. That also means that a bike system is better suited to a city where both the departure and the destination are diverse among all "packets".

That's not even starting to talk about how biketracks scale much better economically since they are much cheaper to build.
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Oh wow, that article explains it's a much bigger change than the headline says — all of Course 6, plus CSAIL and several others will move into the College.

But it's also not a "College for Artificial Intelligence" — it's a "College of Computing".

> A: The founding of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing is the most significant structural change since 1950, when MIT established the Sloan School of Management and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. But this is much more than a restructuring: With this change, MIT seeks to position itself as a key player in the responsible and ethical evolution of technologies that will fundamentally transform society.
The note due in March is convertible. They can cover it with cash, issuing stock or a combination of the two. It should be a concern for stock owners because it might mean dilution of their position but shouldn't be a concern as far as being a company ending event.
This much memory is useless without ECC. You're practically guaranteed to encounter a flipped bit at some point with 128 gigabytes of memory.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but the pay gap is real and getting on the right side of it after years removes so much stress. Go apply.
This makes complete sense to me. Product Managers are more in tune with the domain, the customer, the business, the design, and the product marketing.

As the level of abstraction rises, I believe people will move towards a role that looks more like a Technical Product Manager with design chops.
"I am still not sure how often women simply consider sexual interest to be harassment"

There are lots of ways to address this, but I'll limit myself to probably the biggest issue involved: Power dynamics. If your boss expresses sexual interest in you, it puts you in a very difficult situation if the interest is not mutual. See result #4 in the article, and read through some of the comments here for examples.
This hardly comes as a surprise. How many companies, especially startups, really need to tackle tough technical challenges? On the other hand, how many companies desperately need product talents to figure out what is valuable to produce?

In addition, engineers have commoditized many technical solutions that used to be challenging in the past 15 years. Scaling used to be a tough challenge, not any more for many companies. In fact, part of my daily job is to prevent passionate engineers from reinventing wheels in the name of achieving scalability. It's not because we don't need to solve scalability problems, but because the infrastructure is good enough for most of companies. Building and operating so called "big data platform" used to be hard, not that hard any more. Building machine learning pipeline used to be hard, not that hard any more for many companies. Of course, it's still challenging to build a highly flexible and automated machine learning pipeline with full support of closed feedback loop, but many companies can get by without that level of maturity.
OK, so what part of that needs a smart contract and blockchain rather than a cron job?
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But this is Facebook we're talking about, they'll just use that for creepy advertising targeting and not take the harassment seriously.
The author here, after noticing a large number[1] of XSS-exploits in sites rendering markdown on the internet I decided to create a library where you have to explicitly opt-out of security instead of it being opt-in as in many markdown implementations.

[1] https://github.com/Hultner/safemd#markdown-xss-exploits-foun...
Thanks for mentioning DAI.

I mentioned DAI today in comment and essentially got banned for doing it.

In comment I provided link to interview with Olaf on blog.ycombinator.com where MakerDAO was mentioned.

So I got banned as spammer in HN for providing link to blog on YC.

It tells a lot about the level of average HN reader.
Looks like it's the other way around — Course 6 will become part of the Schwartzman College of Computing. Does that make it an organizational peer with the Sloan School of Management?
We should make it free and then immediately exchange 1:1 with new immigrants who want to come to the U.S.
China is creepy and Huawei is not reliable.

But, for Canada, being overly dependent on the US is much worse. I don't want this country to become a Northern Puerto Rico.
There are other examples. Off the top of my head, firearms law has a few instances of this. The ATF publishes a list of FFL holders[0]. This includes gun dealers, pawnbrokers, and even holders of "curio and relic" licenses, which are collectors who do not do it as a business.

Many states also publish lists of concealed carry permit holders. A few years ago, the Commercial Appeal published the entire list of permit holders for Tennessee on their website, searchable by ZIP code. It seems to be a dead link now, but there are still articles about it out there[1]. There was a lot of concern in the community that this would lead to targeted break-ins by people seeking to illegally obtain firearms, but I don't recall seeing anything solid about it happening.

0: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/listing-federal-firearms-licens...

1: https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/tn-newspaper-publishes-co...
I'm curious about a messaging system where the cost-to-send is inversely proportional to your anonymity.
Thanks for the facts.

You state that he can't buy out Tesla, which is true. But why does he need to buy out Tesla to cover their debt? On the contrary he would need to sell some of his Tesla (and perhaps SpaceX) stock and give the cash to Tesla to cover their debt.
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No one is dismissing concerns, this article was simply made to point out that there has been a never ending cascade of negative stories about tesla and a lot of people want it to fail.
Other than the invitation list to demo day, YC doesn't "control access" to founders. Founders run their own companies. They get on planes and go to conferences and meet customers and investors and potential employees. YC gives them information, but they make their own decisions.

The kind of people that make great founders wouldn't sign up for having their access to anyone controlled.
I've observed some behavior from older male teachers toward young female students that seemed inappropriate and clearly unpleasant to the recipient from a sideline (male) pov. My belief is that these guys somehow convince themselves that their attentions are welcome. Alcohol seems to help them do it. The same fellows did it again and again, it was often reported, but repercussions were a mild slap on the wrist at best, nothing at worst. I believe this dynamic increases with the position of power (and imbalance).
> Do you know any examples of people being fired from their jobs for criticizing the Iraq war in 2004?

Phil Donahue's popular show was cancelled and he was therefore fired from MSNBC, because of Iraq war opposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program

Ashleigh Banfield's career was derailed at NBC news and her profile lowered. They didn't fire her but what they did was truly shitty. She said:

> I was office-less for ten months ... No phone, no computer. For ten months I had to report to work every day and ask where I could sit. ... I will never forgive him for his cruelty and the manner in which he decided to dispose of me.

She eventually quit and joined CourtTV(?) because of it.

And Chris Hedges at NYT maybe. Wiki:

> Hedges was an early critic of the Iraq War. In May 2003, Hedges delivered a commencement address at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, saying: "We are embarking on an occupation that, if history is any guide, will be as damaging to our souls as it will be to our prestige and power and security."[24] His speech was received with boos and his microphone was shut off three minutes after he began speaking.[25]

> The New York Times, his employer, criticized his statements and issued him a formal reprimand for "public remarks that could undermine public trust in the paper's impartiality".[26] Shortly after the incident, Hedges left The New York Times to become a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, and a columnist at Truthdig, in addition to writing books and teaching inmates at a New Jersey correctional institution.

Not fired fired, but perhaps kicked out, or leaving before the axe came. A little more here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/american-patr...

I'm sure there are other journalists I'm forgetting who were fired or had some level of career destruction because of their criticism. 2004 was a truly bad time to have interesting opinions plus a career on the line. And it feels like that again to be honest, though in very different areas.
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The "metaverse" . Where you can be what you want people to see w/o others knowing what you are

That is a nice idea but I'm not sure it will work because consider Stack Overflow: most users there are little more than a number and a geometric shape, as far as what others see, and yet they still felt they needed to formalise a code of conduct based on survey results that certain demographics felt unwelcome.
Except credit card companies don't want to touch porn sites (they have to pay a huge markup and go through other middlemen) or pot companies (who accept cash but it's not digital).

PayPal froze the donations to wikileaks. That's not possible if you donate using Bitcoin.

The corrupt government in Venezuela may deem it illegal but it's not immoral to want to flee the country with your wealth. This is much easier with Bitcoin as you can just remember or write down your seed.

The point is cryptocurrencies does this all better. And your definition of "pretty trivial" is for the most part ignorant.
This is like suggesting obesity and inactive lifestyle can be eliminated by "education. That reptile brain can simply be dominated and put in it's place by rational educated part of the brain.
I'm sorry, why do you think how these things are categorized matters in this context? In the workplace all of these things can be inappropriate, and should not be taken lightly.

Catcalling is an inappropriate way to show sexual interest, especially in the workplace. Sexual harassment is a legally defined term in most places, and is not just showing an interest, it is harassment. I hope we can agree that sexual demands for career advancement is not just sexual interest, and neither is rape.

A person's sexual interest is theirs. When they chose to share that interest with another person in the workplace they better carefully gauge their position of power, and the appropriateness of the context. They should also respond in a mature and appropriate way if the interest is not appreciated or reciprocated.

You should also be careful how you throw around the term "hysteria" https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-h... as it is a loaded phrase
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(was a product manager, now a project manager but could move back to my old role pretty easily)

I came over to the dark side from software development. Was tired of implementing other people’s bad ideas and convinced product leadership at my company that I could be an idea guy myself (along with all the other footwork and juggling you need to do as a PM). So it was an internal transfer. I think the good PMs have strong hands-on “actual development” backgrounds. I realize this is a self-serving opinion, too.
I don't mind the skeuomorphic look. However, it almost always went hand in hand with skeuomorphic behavior, which I detest. From the article:

> Unfortunately, the apologists fail to recognize that there are two likely consequences of this approach: (1) the user is unable to transfer his or her existing knowledge of computer interaction, and (2) the software becomes needlessly subject to the limitations of the physical device.

I remember the bad old days where the Mac calendar would only let you flip between pages, because that's how real calendars worked. All your contacts were grouped by first letter, because Rolodex. It was a death by a million cuts where nothing worked as well as it could have because it had to exactly emulate the crummy real world thing it looked like. No thanks - that's the aspect of skeuomorphism that gave it such a horrible reputation.

If you want to make my calendar look like it has leather trim, fine. So be it. Just don't make it act like an old-fashioned desk calendar instead of the special purpose database it really is.
"All the hysteria".

You might want to look at the etymology of the word "hysteria", and think about it in this context.
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The available tools for game development are better than ever and widely available. The problem is that users expect AAA title quality, and that's a big job.

If you want to develop inside an existing environment, there are the virtual worlds - Minecraft, SineSpace, High Fidelity, Sansar, and Second Life. Even 3DXchat, which is supposed to be porno but has enough building tools that people are using it for other things. SineSpace is very developer friendly right now. Few users, but nice tools.
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