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There’s a huge amount of selection bias here when YC itself is located in SV.
Signing in puts you at risk of getting sucked into pointless internet comment arguments though.
This. Was thinking that all the Reddit regulars of yester-decade were originally from Digg myself.
>Crypto is a compelling simulacrum of classical liberalism

hard nod

points to last sentence in profile

I'm one of those "get off my yard types" when someone comes along and (seemingly) blindly proposes blockchain in a discussion because blockchain is very good at what it does but what it doesn't do is 'everything'...

...but I'd take it a step further and say it's simulacra, the dollar became classical liberal econ simulacrum the minute we decided to start printing the things at will and standing well back[1].

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2AvU2cfXRk
'A company in Europe'. You're blinded by your bias that tech companies have to be big to be beautiful. Read the comment again. The poster is saying Europe has dozens of languages and national cultures. Several dozen local ecologies of companies serving local needs, in aggregate, can be just as valuable as one giant, or several giants.
From your link: "Infrared light may cause damage to eyes in very intense concentrations, but it is highly unlikely that this would occur in everyday life. If you are working in close proximity to infrared lasers, wear the appropriate safety glasses or take appropriate protection measures."

The tiny LED on the front of the iPhone is nowhere near what you'd expect from industrial infrared lasers. I'm not sure the article makes the case that the infrared light from tiny LEDs is harmful.
Some "smart TV"'s can phone home with TV usage data. I wouldn't be too surprised if there was a shazzam like thing in some smart TV's that can detect certain advertisements.

eg - https://www.cnet.com/how-to/disable-vizio-smart-tv-spying/

Once you match the public IP address of all your devices you can link up the identities and do fun advertising stuff.
> The lime scooter is a Xioami which weighs 26.9 lbs (12kgs)

The original was a Xiomi, but they have been replacing them with heavier duty versions. The latest according to [0] weighs 40 to 45 lbs, (20kg).

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/lime-scooter-gen3-design/
> Remove Sweden and UK from the the European list and you have needles in a haystack.

Remove California and New York from the US list and ...
In New Zealand you can gift “people for whom you have natural love & affection” any sum and it will not be taxed.

$1k, $100k, $100MM, any amount.

A recent (2011) policy change, remains to be seen how it will play out.
In my mind public/private partnerships are problematic from a simply on the basis of debt.

Government is great at borrowing money at good rates for capital purposes, while the cost of capital for a private entity is always higher.
Yeah, if all yellows in the nation went to three seconds it would probably be a wash in terms of safety. Well, first there would be a couple of years of bloody carnage, but after that most drivers would re-calibrate.

The attentive reader will note that that is not what happened here.
Would it ever be worthwhile to do this as a means of devaluing a company so that you could purchase it? In this case, if Apple wanted to buy Qualcomm, would this be an effective means of reducing their valuation?
I feel like that happened to some extent when the SomethingAwful forums lost their dominance.
Nice, I have to record a course next month and I read about Komposition on Twitter once, but I forgot the name and couldn't find it anymore.

I will try it, but I ha e the feeling that I don't have the patience to record audio and video sperately.
I’d argue that we should eliminate the step up basis at death despite having an estate tax. The estate tax after all only starts at $11 million dollars. Why should an estate with $10 million worth of appreciated assets pay no capital gains and no estate tax?
Or any actor-based framework.
The less state you share, the better off you are scaling-wise.
> If Chartalism was a valid theory then no fiat money -- which required to be used to pay tax -- would have ever failed.

That's...not a justifiable conclusion; there's at least two obvious failure modes consistent with Chartalism: withdrawal of the exclusive mandate for taxes to be paid in the currency, and practical failure of the State imposing the requirement. The latter, especially, is not a binary condition, and can easily occur in a mutual death-spiral of state and currency in response to some shock.

Most collapses (or even temporary near collapses) of fiat currency I can think of were that kind of mutual death spiral with the sponsoring state resulting either from war or internal crisis of order.
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> Amazon collects a very large amount of VAT, no? It's the customers who are paying, not Amazon.

Economists would say that who should be viewed as "paying" any indirect tax (the tax incidence) depends on the price elasticity of demand for the goods/services in question. For highly inelastic goods/services, buyers should be viewed as paying the tax.

For highly price elastic goods, sellers (who amount to the employees and ultimate individual shareholders of Amazon) should be viewed as paying.

In the middle, it's a mixture.

The "solution" the UK has proposed is another indirect tax, so whatever applies to VAT applies to that as well.
I dispute that. Google going to trial, exposing the victim to the public eye, and risking the possibility that the public remembers this episode as an example of harassment claims being weaponized by corporations is a worse scenario. I think people are really underestimating the last one of those. Would the metoo movent have even spread to tech if an there existed a public (or at least, what the public percieves to be) instance of a company using allegations of harassment to cheat employees out of compensation? Would it have even existed at all?
Great initiative! Extremely professional services and I definitely recommend them for reinforcement learning algorithms.
This is getting very hypothetical here, but I'll be glad to indulge your question. I'm unsure at this stage in my life whether I'll ever have the opportunity to have children of my own, but I would certainly like to. As I've spent some time in the foster care system, and seeing as it ended rather disastrously with me spending a good chunk of my HS years homeless, I'd very much like to get involved in being a foster parent. I'd certainly like to give my child, whether biological or adopted, many of the things that I didn't have growing up. First and foremost would be love, and safety, and the educational opportunities I didn't have. Travel would be the first of things I may categorize as "luxuries" that I'd like to gift.

As to a specific number, my gut feeling tells me $28K seems rather excessive. That's more money annually than I and most of my friends made in total yearly wages for a good chunk of our adult lives, and we all worked rather dutifully. I'm not entirely convinced that the creation of art requires such sums. And $28k could certainly help a lot of other children in need.

In any case, I'd like to think one of the most satisfying aspects of parenting is watching a child transform into an adult, I'm unsure whether a perpetual yearly stipend equal to the wages of large segments of this country is the best method to achieve that goal. But assuming my child was the recipient of such privilege, I'd hope I would have taught them the humility to understand just how privileged they were, and in general refrain from criticism based on generalities.
IBM just gave Ubuntu (Canonical) the biggest gift it can possibly imagine.

Now, will they be able to capitalize on it?
This is an unexpected move, perhaps Briar, Matrix and other distributed platforms are putting more pressure on Signal to show forward progress on the serious metadata issue with Signal and most other centralized platforms?

Its been a rallying cry/common complaint by those who are technically inclined and privacy conscious for years now, surprised OWS would choose to give credit to the problem.
I'll repeat the parent.

"The Republic of Ireland is not part of the United Kingdom "

The Double Irish arrangement refers to the Republic of Ireland, a separate country to that of Northern Ireland, both of which can be found on the island of Ireland.
That was a metaphor… New Age Zen Buddhists are usually not poor, culturally not related to Asia at all and often don't realize how their practice is a refurbishment of puritan cultural origins.
I thought WINE stood for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator'

https://www.winehq.org/about/
In what way is hosting Assange and allowing him to blog "incompatible with the functions of the mission as laid down in the present Convention or by other rules of general international law or by any special agreements in force between [Equador and the UK]" ?
This comment was hard to find... and also downvoted.

It is a super small sample, they do not even allude to what percentage of those votes were in the 18 - 29 category.

The provided pdf from the original Pewresearch article seems pretty bare -> http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/201...

I see this happen quite regularly on Hacker News, a bit strange for a rational/fact based community to behave.

Tweeted the researched -> https://twitter.com/ajaxdavis/status/1057046359218388992
If your spending $11,000 on boots and welding gloves, your getting a very bad price. Shop around.
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>You're ignoring the damage cause by the optics of such a lawsuit. Google being known as the company that used an allegation of harassment to try and cheat an exec out of his outstanding compensation would be atrocious for the company's image

That's not the case with Matt Lauer at NBC. Lauer sued and NBC has continued to fight back. It's also not the case with Les Moonves at CBS (the CBS situation is much more complicated because of the broader disputes between CBS, Viacom, and the infighting on the board of directors) -- in fact, CBS has been roundly criticized for potentially paying out $100m to Moonves (even if they withheld $80m in stock). CBS' business reputation is in the shitter b/c they have paid out.

>- and not to mention attach huge negative stigma around people who come forward with harassment campaigns against powerful people. It's easy to be idealistic when you're not the person or group who is at stake.

This stigma already exists. Refusing to settle doesn't make it go away or make it any better. Any person who goes forward against a powerful executive -- no matter how much proof they have -- is almost always fucked over. Going forward doesn't lead to someone winning. Financial settlements mostly exist b/c it's understood that the complainant will have an incredibly difficult time finding future employment.

And you're also forgetting that the person who is the alleged victim in this case could and would be protected in filings by shield laws (it's possible that someone on the other side would leak the identity, but that's legally not supposed to happen). This would be a civil complaint, not criminal. Moreover, I feel certain that there was already a settlement with a very strict NDA in place (and if either party were to violate the NDA, there would be substantial consequences).

The person who brought the claims against Rubin already has a stigma around her neck. Her life was already torn apart in an investigation by HR and presumably in whatever settlement was achieved. Please don't use the fact that those that come forward are often re-victimized as an excuse to PAY PEOPLE WITH CREDIBLE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THEM $90 MILLION AND GIVE A HERO'S SENDOFF.

People who come forward almost always lose in very tangible ways -- even if they win. That's why coming forward is so difficult and why those that do are so incredibly brave.
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There are big potential downsides. Blockchains are chains. They don't forgive. They don't forget.

But I still think it's a worthwhile endeavor.
>[Google] would have to prove that he [Rubin] acted maliciously (or whatever), which would've been hard (if not impossible) to do, given that the accuser said they were coerced (not forced).

my understanding (IANAL) is that sexual coercion is illegal under CA labor laws. And it would definitely be a clear violation of a policy in any corp i've worked at and i suppose Google has a similar policy as well.
Every platform has its Eternal September.
> that other guy who gives back rubs in interviews

Can you post some more details, a simple google search does not return anything meaningful.
Wow, that is a compelling endorsement! Thanks for sharing w/ this leve of detail.
/r/media_criticism has been pretty balanced, and nowadays has mostly political content.
> Not just any service. For instance, Apple refused to assist the FBI in unlocking the iPhone belonging to one of the late prime suspects in the San Bernadino massacre. Wikileaks is refusing to co-operate with the CIA. Microsoft is resisting the FBIs demand to conduct so-called 'sneak and peek' searches on emails held on foreign servers.

Oh, for crying out loud. These are absolutely apples and oranges. Apple refusing to unlock - wasn't about disclosing readily available data; in this case we're talking about public and payments data. Microsoft v US has been mooted by a change of the relevant laws. Wikileaks, wait, what?

> Bowers also had profiles on Twitter and facebook which were probably just as nasty, but we are not hearing any calls to shut those services down.

Yes. Their monitoring isn't great, but they do some. Not comparable.
Twitter is a publishing platform.
Different software companies have vastly different criteria for differentiating between "a patch update to the same product", "a new major version of the product requiring you to buy it again", and "an entirely new product."

For example: assume that at some point, Super Mario Maker (which is effectively solely an online service) is going to get a release for the Nintendo Switch. Like with the 3DS version, a hypothetical Switch version would probably get its own global level-uploads database, partitioned off from that of the Wii U version.

Let's say Nintendo then, eventually, shut down the servers for the Wii U version of the game, while keeping the servers for the Switch version online.

Under the "separate games" interpretation, the backend for the Wii U version of Mario Maker would probably become abandonware as soon as it was shut down. People could set up their own compatible backend to put their level data back up and keep playing SMM on their Wii U's, and it'd be entirely legal.

But under the other two interpretations, it wouldn't be legal.

And keep in mind that, even if the client was a complete re-write, the servers would likely consist of 99% the same code between the two "generations" of the game. You could say that the Wii U version's servers "became" the Switch version's servers. One "evolved into" the other, without the Wii U version's ever actually "shutting down." They just, at some point, dropped compatibility for speaking to the old Wii U client software.

Given that what you bought in this case is the client software... would the previous paragraph matter? It's entirely an implementation detail hidden to you.
> Just like there is no turning back for gaming. F2P elements in nearly everything including paid games!

There are plenty of paid games that do not include any kind of microtransaction. I'd consider the paid-games ecosystem to be surprisingly healthy these days. But to be fair, it's all console/PC. Mobile games are likely to remain a F2P wasteland.
A means, yes. Effective, probably not.

Existing Qualcomm shareholders would probably sue the heck out of them during the merger, and it would be difficult to close, raising the overall cost.
I would call this a downside: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-... , https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45326928 .
I always tried to decipher Alan Kay's notion of object oriented programming.

Erlang with its active objects seems to me to fit precisely his description.
Active objects = the objects themselves decide when to run a method = receive a message and react to it.

As opposed to java like oop where the objects just sit there passively and are woken up in a blocking fashion by callers from outside.

It appears to me that c++/java etc. flavour of oop uses objects just as a module system, but then has another module/namespace/package mechanism besides that. Two concepts for the same thing essentially, just making the language unnecessarily complicated.
> it's spent on lavish properties, club memberships, expensive cars, and tuition for their children.

All of that is trickle down to workers for those jobs

> it's tied up in businesses they inherited

That means the sum benefit to humanity is still going!

> Then that money generates enough of a return that their kids can inherit billions in turn and the cycle repeats.

I cant imagine someone who more deserves to direct the money after their death than the one who earned it. I'm sure many parents (not Buffet though) would rather their child have it than the government.

> If you have even half competent people managing your money an estate worth $10B

I'm sure those half competent people are well compensated for their skills. Shame that billionaires are so evil as to provide those jobs...
Or with old.reddit.com in the URL. There is probably a browser addon or JS for that.
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There are many underlying reasons for the ongoing deterioration of the fortunes of the "underclass" but one aspect that doesn't get enough acknowledgement is cultural change. In the 19th century society had extreme class divisions and it was a common sentiment among the upper classes that the lower classes were fundamentally (even perhaps genetically) inferior and deserved to be relegated to poverty. In the 20th century some of that changed a bit but then boomeranged back to an even more aggressively classist sentiment which started growing sometime around the 1980s and is now practically ubiquitous. That being something along the lines of "all is fair in love, war, and capitalism", the idea that the economy is a game and any behavior whatsoever is acceptable (within the law, -ish) so long as it follows from the foundational axioms of personal selfishness and greed it is seen as desirable behavior. Since the rich and powerful have all the wealth and the power this unequal situation tends to further amplify itself given such a values system.

Even more disturbing is that this values change has seem to be paired with an aggressive demonization of and heartlessness towards the poor and infirm, even compared to 19th century norms. Today it's very common to hate the poor, the homeless, and the disabled as well as those injured by institutional iniquities and injustices. If anyone gets ground in the gears of capitalism, well, they probably deserved it. Also, why should we help the homeless and the poor when their lives are full of so many problems and they are so dirty and disgusting? That values system filters up all the way into the workforce. The worker is seen as justifiably powerless, a pawn or a cog, and if they are taken advantage of, well, they had the "choice" to not be taken advantage of, right?

It's more than a little disturbing and disheartening that we've somehow managed to end up here.
No, they weren't. They were in a pretty much constant decline since the mid-70s, with shit really hitting the fan in the 90s and early 2000s.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/28/business/big-change-is-ex...
Does YC incorporate the companies in CA or Delaware?
I'm not aware of a free alternative for all US published caselaw. Could you cite?
I'd love to see a serverless product that could be paid for in cryptocurrency for this reason, with prices quoted in crypto currency (even if fluctuating based on exchange rates and actually pegged to fiat.)
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I find the directions the cloud space is evolving in completely fascinating. I suspect we're going to see some major shifts over the next decade.

Primarily: Azure is already super successful and I see it taking a solid #1 over the next few years. The main reason is that Microsoft is doing what they do best: offering a product in every category. Want Kubernetes? They've got it. Need issue management? Azure DevOps. Chat? Teams. Email and Office? 365. Once you're in that ecosystem you're just going to bleed into all of their products before suddenly you're a Microsoft shop.

Moreover, Microsoft has done an extraordinary job at revitalizing the user experience of many of their products. Azure DevOps and Teams has its issues, but they're miles ahead of the products they're replacing, and truly only maybe 10% behind the 'best in class' of each category.

Compare this positioning to Amazon: AWS still only competes solidly in the cloud space, without extending out into the rest of "development team support" that Azure/Microsoft does. They were also ridiculously slow to accept that Kubernetes won the container war, and even today EKS is a comparatively garbage product when lined up against AKS/GKE (no managed worker nodes, $0.20/hour for the control plane, reliance on eksctl to do anything easily which isn't even an official AWS product, etc).

Amazon will be fine, but I worry about Google Cloud's future. They're industry leaders when it comes to new technology, no one else is even close, but that doesn't really matter when its open source and Microsoft is so quick to implement everything they make directly into Azure. Why isn't Google Cloud more successful? I think its enterprise support and respect, which isn't something you can just buy especially with Google's lackluster history in that domain.
I’m not sure how cheap this computing is. I suppose maybe it is cheap in comparison to the electron microscope but I would guess that a large computer (but possibly not a supercomputer) would be needed to get some of these results. I guess that’s fine for universities though
The advertising fees would rise which would either increase the portion of the advertising budget or reduce the advertising scope.

That said there are limits to what can be passed on without harming profit margins given other constraints like price points.
I suspect that at a certain level, corporations must have accountability similar to nations. Right now corporations don’t need to be democratic, they don’t need to allow any type of “freedom of speech” and indeed have strong incentives/prohibitions against it in the case of no-disparagement clauses.

I think people may need to be allowed a vote in the companies they work for/monopolies that service them, and that freedom-of-speech rules for corporations, employees, and customers is likely to follow that of their host nations — not equally free everywhere, but that no-disparagement clauses would be legal in the UK and illegal in the USA, for example.
It almost like one should judge people individually and not by the groups they are a part of.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
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> Again, I'm sorry the US has the incredibly shitty first-past-the-post election shit, because that is the cause of the inevitable two-party system shit.

It's not just the US; it's every English-speaking country except New Zealand. Proportional representation doesn't really stop governments from manipulating their elections either--for example, the Russian Duma has proportional representation.
i'm not aware of an actual organized dataset, but you could start hitting up e-hentai.org and with the right searches (look for decensored or english, and then find the matching original japanese versions on there), you could get together hundreds or thousands of images in an evening.