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Same here. The prices in my local market are absurdly high. They're literally more expensive than a 2017 Macbook Pro, and more expensive than every Macbook Air on the market.

My OnePlus 5T was less than 1/4th the price.

The latest iterations turned me off the brand. Apple is still my go to for laptops, but the phone prices are a ripoff
Hopefully, Congress can police Facebook better than Facebook can police its partners.
I'm going to ignore the whataboutism and skip to your apparent core point, that Trump saying he doesn't want to get involved in war means something. Trump has made 5000 false or misleading statements so far: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/13/president...

Trump has an extraordinary ability to do and say whatever is to his momentary perceived advantage. He's excellent at creating scary distractions; note how the sinister migrant caravan, so dangerous as to require thousands of US troops on the border, became a non-issue as soon as the election was over.

There are many who have made the case that Trump is a clear authoritarian. Today there's a great thread from David Neiwart on the topic: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1062018162500153344.html

And authoritarians definitely love external threats, creating them as necessary, just as Trump did with the migrant caravan.
What is Foxconn’s name recognition and brand reputation compared to Amazon, though? Also an Amazon HQ means a much higher quality of jobs than a Foxconn facility.
Yep.

A company like Amazon will have some natural needs. No other city can really beat NYC for meeting those needs.

Not Chicago. Not Toronto. Not Raleigh. Not Jersey.

And certainly not Texas.

By air, land, and sea the best and most bountiful transport links to the rest of the US, or to the Europe-Africa side of the world, are out of NYC. Now maybe we can change that? But we don't seem to be working towards changing it. So as of today, and for the foreseeable future, NYC is the best hub.
> Amazon could literally locate in Mobile, Alabama and be able to recruit just fine.

This is completely detached from reality.

Amazon is fighting for top talent against other FAANGs and all other employers. If you can't also get an offer from the likes of Apple and Google, or at least other decent employers, Amazon doesn't really want you.

If you can get offers from good employers in good locations, let along from Google and Facebook, you're not moving to Mobile Alabama for no Amazon job. Certainly not if you're a young single guy.

Amazon wouldn't invest billions of dollars in this new office, compared to a few millions in Mobile, for no good reason. You may not like it, or Amazon generally, but they are known to do their homework.
> that have no real draw (in my opinion) for technical employees

3rd in tech patents after San Francisco and San Jose. 2nd or 3rd in total tech jobs after San Francisco and Seattle. This comment seems like its coming from some one who doesn't know a thing about NYC Tech scene.

> unpleasant weather,

8.6 Million people like here and lot of people prefer 4 season cycle.
I really thought the iPhone X price last year was so high because that’s what apple dows. They make the price outrageous but it comes down the following year. It comes down for a NEW model not the last year’s model. That doesn’t seem to happen these days.

And students. I remember that.
that partially explains why young people that grow up in NYC don't have driver's licences.
You may be referring to William Whyte’s book City. It describes how reducing a CEO’s commute is one of the major factors in the corporate relocations he studied[1].

Joel Spolsky also wrote about this 15 years ago:

> “My company, Fog Creek Software, is relocating. There’s nothing wrong with the brownstone we’re in, it’s just a tiringly long commute. Basically, we’re moving because of William Whyte‘s rule: virtually all corporate relocations involve a move to a location which is closer to the CEO’s home than the old location. Whyte discovered this principle after an extensive study of Fortune 500 companies that left New York City for the suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s. They always had big, complicated Relocation Committees which carefully studied all the options and chose, coincidentally I’m sure, to move to within half a mile of the CEO’s home in Danbury, Connecticut. Whyte also showed that these companies all tanked after the relocation. With, I believe, but one exception, companies that left New York City to be closer to the CEO’s house in Connecticut or Westchester had dismal stock performance compared to companies that stayed in Manhattan.”[2]

1-https://books.google.ca/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC&pg=PA93&dq=%22...

2- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/03/28/finding-an-office-...
s/Dallas/Detroit/ then.
>Taking the slider to the other extreme, you end up with company towns everywhere

Why would you go to the other extreme? There are hundreds of large cities around the US that could easily headquarter these big companies and not become company towns.
SAP’s Sales Army Still Doesn’t Justify an $8B Deal
Why must it be dangerous? Why are individuals not free to take inspiration where they find it?

It's true that much of the "hustle" advice is rarely actionable business strategies, but that's not much different from listening to music or having faith in a religion and finding guidance and support within. There's also endless amounts of education material for the people that seek it out, and if the push they need to do so comes from a cheesy video or quote then more power to them.

Is the judgement really necessary in all this? I find that much more counter-productive.
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> Israel is not bombing Syria to defend itself. Syria never had and nor will have the capability to do anything to Israel.

You're forgetting about the Six-Day War [1] and the Yom Kippur War [2]. Yes, there are controversies around those too, and Israel came out on top in the end - but let's not pretend that Israel the modern nation-state hasn't been on guard against being obliterated by its neighbors since Day 1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War
Yeah, it is greater than Ancient Rome, with a richer history than Paris, and more people than Tokyo
Unlocked Pixel 3: $799-899 (64GB-128GB)

Unlocked Pixel 3XL: $899-999 (64GB-128GB)

Unlocked iPhone Xs: $999-1349 (64GB-512GB)

Unlocked iPhone Xs Max: $1099-1449 (64GB-512GB)

I don't know if Google's Pixel phones are really premium, but by the price I'm assuming so. It seems Apple is adding about $200 over Google's price for the similar size and storage points.
In my market, the Google Pixel 2 XL is literally half the price of the iPhone X
Last time we got actual numbers from Apple (only a few weeks ago btw) the iPhone was selling just fine even at the record setting price points.
. Internet was still relatively new.

I mean, if your approach is "find problem, add Internet, equals solution" then yeah, you're probably going to find it a tough row to hoe these days. But I'd challenge you to broaden your thinking and be more imaginative. There's a lot more to creating solutions that "mix in some Internet".

Think about the staggering array of things you can do today, with almost no up-front investment at all, using AWS, GCE, Azure, etc., that would have cost millions 20 years ago. You can deploy a virtual super-computer running in AWS and throw it at a problem for crying out loud.

Consider too the range of awesome open-source / free software packages that are out there, and all the capabilities they enable. Consider cheap, small, embeddable single-board computers, inexpensive software-defined-radio, cheap webcams, accelerometers, gps chips, and other sensors. Consider all the Open Data that's out there already, and everything streaming in minute-by-minute (see, SDR and receiving satellite data right off the air in real-time).

Consider the 8+ billion people in the world who are mostly all potential customers given how interconnected we are with the internet and global payment systems. Look at how much easier it is now to get content in front of potential customers with Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, etc.

Consider that you can prototype a physical item with a cheap 3D printer, using Open Source OpenSCAD software, ship a prototype off to an injection molding outfit, sell your item on Amazon, using Amazon's warehouses and logistics infrastructure, and never touch the inventory.

Further consider how much more we know about the mechanics of starting and running a tech startup now. Ideas like "product market fit" have been formalized and are better understood, Steve Blank's Customer Development process is out there as guide, and there are tremendous resources like Startup School, etc. out there to consult.

One could go on and on and on... personally I think there's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur than right now. There is so much possibility and so much potential out there that it's staggering, IMO.

Here, try this on for size and see if maybe you can draw some inspiration from this guy (Alan Kay):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8VZlPBx_0

Even better, go off somewhere and lock yourself in a room with a bunch of books by Philip K. Dick, Greg Egan, William Gibson, Charles Stross, and H.P. Lovecraft - and biographies of Nikola Tesla and Charles Proteus Steinmetz - and devour that stuff for a while. That's practically guaranteed to get your mind running in all sorts of interesting new directions.
perhaps it is the common goal? less societal criticism/feedback, more top down determination of media?
Robots?

Trained via software updates and built under the guise of something innocent like 'gardener bots'
What I really don't get is people that will work themselves to death, 60-80 hours a week for products and market segments that I personally consider to be bullshit.

If you're under age 30 and working long hours building a dating site app, some iOS or Android game with pay-to-win mechanics, or writing software so that peoples' clicks on ads can be tracked better, are you really doing anything to improve the world?

There should not be an extreme sense of urgency and deadline-looming rush when what you're developing is a third rate clash of clans clone.

But I read all the time how the video game development industry pushes people like this, until they burn out. There was a huge scandal about the 3D artists employed by a studio which produced the animated comedy movie "sausage party":

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=sau...

With the benefit of age and 20 years of experience in the industry, I'm not going to go into "emergency rush" mode for anything short of an ACTUAL emergency.
You end up chewing on ideas you never would have considered, learning about industries you don't work in, and going places you never would have thought to go. It adds a nice splash of unexpectedness that life wouldn't have otherwise.
Google Chrome Labs releases open source, browser-based image optimization tool
It's worth noting that the primary result of this paper has only to do with the error on the training data under empirical risk minimization. Zero training error =/= a model that generalizes. For any optimization problem, you can always add enough parameters to achieve zero error on a problem over a finite training set (imagine introducing enough variables to fully memorize the map from inputs to labels).

The major contribution of the work is showing that ResNet needs a number of parameters which is polynomial in the dataset size to converge to a global optimum in contrast to traditional neural nets which require an exponential number of parameters.
apple is becoming a services company, selling high margin services. This seems to be what the market is missing.
And this is what the Socisl Credit System is trying to solve.

It’s also interesting how saying Chinese people are so different is widely accepted on HN. Can you imagine if the same comment was made about Jewish people?

I do hear others say the Chinese are the Jews of the East.

And “having dealt with Jewish vendors and mfgs for years that is a scary scenario. The whole culture of trust / fairness / honesty is very different from the west.”
Not to be "that guy", but I really do wonder whether there even were any serious "late stage" talks with any of these other cities?

NYC is so obviously superior to every other location that you have to wonder whether there was any serious chance of anyone else actually getting the HQ2 at all? I mean, sure, DC can play both the government card, and the "Bezos loves us" card. But everyone else has no credible argument to put forth that would entice Amazon to abandon the opportunity that is NYC.

(In the end, even DC didn't have a good enough argument. After all, they still kept half the jobs in NYC.)
I mean literally, what does it mean in this context?
The Alternative Influence Network thing is based on outright fabricated data by the way. Becca Lewis draws direct links between people who have never collaborated or appeared on eachother's channels (the criteria described for the linkages), to draw the absurd conclusion that Richard Spencer and Tim Pool are part of some conspiratorial "network".

Anyone who takes the AIN report seriously either hasn't verified the claims, or agrees that these people should be misrepresented and smeared.

Your view of YouTube is myopic, and ignores the immense cultural resource that exists there. You have no idea what would be lost if the EU chased it away, but you're willing to find out just to spite some people you resent; and you resent them based on false information you accepted because it fit your lens.
What makes it so interesting?
As others have said the difference is a few hundred dollars.

The other thing is that the premimum phones offer less than they used to over medium priced phones and that is where Android phones are much cheaper.

Apple devices hold their value better, but still the price differences between very good mid-range phones and iPhones are pretty big.
I'm more than happy with a slightly worse search in order to avoid being pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered.
That depends on if you think people are naturally rational and without bias.

In reality, people often have to be forcibly dethroned from their views. Having a judge say no thanks will not have the appropriate effect.

The issue is emotional commitment, not accurate assessment.
Totally agree, Money talks!
Sure, but that's my point: weigh the actual risks.

How big is the company you're working for? Could they have gotten that big in the first place without using these tools? Companies change as they scale and solutions that worked when they were young will almost always need to change as they grow, so I don't see that as a particularly bad situation. It's a cycle of constant change management and risk mitigation.

Usually the bigger company has the resources to make changes while a startup trying to plan for 100x future size usually ends up limiting its own growth.
Depth sensor? Other meaningful specs? Plthe difference between $800 and $1000 is abstract when you're financing or renting month to month
There are 17 sections of which 16 are technical and you complain about the “Hello and Welcome” ???
New Belgium is also owned by employees via ESOP. What is the practical difference between ESOP ownership and cooperative?
WNYC had a segment about this last week and claimed that there are 110k tech workers in the NYC area.
I self-published a book and sold $250k worth over the past year.

I cannot recommend getting an editor/typesetter highly enough. I paid mine something like $500 total and she absolutely saved my life.

I'd go the Gumroad + Stripe route (or maybe Kickstarter if you need some motivation) - Amazon sales have been negligible for me.
It was kind of inspiring to see Steve talk about the power PC CPU’s in a technical way. He would say “these things scream” and would compare constantly. He would talk about students and creatives. Professionals and home users in detail. Watching him bring down the prices was cool to see. The event in NY was a slap in the face. The new air might be great. But they increased the price by $100 without making it anything innovative.
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iPhone XS: $999

iPhone XS Max: $1,099

Pixel 3: $799

Pixel 3 XL: $899

So the new iPhones are now more expensive than the new premium Android phones. Historically, yes it seems like iPhones cost as much as the best-of-the-breed Android phones.
Could be one skipping off the atmosphere. Aero breaking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobraking) if you want to stick with the spacecraft theory.
Hot take: none of these are headquarters. These are just big sattelite campuses that every company has. I will also predict that hiring in these offices will be far lower than projected, especially engineering hires
I was on a beach off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka late in the night. I saw what seemed like a star dart around in the sky. I figured it was just an aircraft, but it moved extremely fast in a near zig-zag fashion, making sharp angled turns - something no aircraft can do.

I've been on a UFO binge lately, prompted by all the news about Oumuamua. So many credible and fascinating reports.

I've also seen less resistance to the idea of UFOs than there used to be. People claiming to have seen a UFO aren't outright dismissed as cuckoo anymore.
I mostly see what you're saying here

The thing is, if these things resulted in increased profit over the medium term, they'd probably have happened already.

So yes there's user-hostile decisions made that put profit over users. Like ad tracking.

But there's other things that I think convince a user to purchase a product, and purchase the next product from the same company (loyalty maintained) that may not be in the user's best interests.

An example is a larger battery. My current theory is a manufacturer could easily have a 2 day battery and it wouldn't make for a terribly unwieldy phone.

But they don't, because customers are going to buy the phone next to it that is sleeker and weighs less.

I think customers are more often than not short sighted when making decisions like this. When they're in the store they think "but this one's so much nicer, and the battery probably lasts enough"

I think purchases are often made emotionally, not rationally, and a phone with 7 extra switches and more weight or thickness just seems clunky and less "high tech"
Amazon Chooses New York, Northern Virginia for HQ2, WSJ Reports
They all stop in Wakanda to fuel up and see the sights.
I'm kind of disappointed that this isn't Go the programming language. I thought "that'd be really cool, porting android apps from Java to Go." But no, turns out there are only so many creative words you can come up with when "google" is your starting point.
And politics is economics. And economics is physics. And physics is chemistry. And chemistry is math. All useless statements in the context of this discussion.
Without devices to compliment its services. Why would someone use Apple Music over Spotify on android? Or appleflix over disneyflix or Netflix. Services are growing because of an established user base. Take away the hardware and they need to compete with many other companies. It’s a mistake I feel.
I'm not sure I agree. It's possible that some people will publish anonymously here and then later, if their work is sufficiently accepted by a large enough chunk of academia/society, they would come out from the shadows and claim ownership.

I agree that untenured academics need to publish papers they can put on their resume, but it's not a fatal flaw if most of the early articles are penned by tenured professors.

I'm not an expert in text analysis, but I think that if someone is trying to obfuscate their authorship they could probably do so.
I'm not sure the largest company by market cap has priced itself out of the market just yet.
It is possible they missed that, it is also possible that that assumption is already built into APPL's $194.17 share price.

A lot of Apple stock holders are speculators who have bet big on Apple continuing to grow and expand their device and service business to even larger heights, stopping or slowing won't recoup the current bets.
Yep. Doesn’t get more simple than a toggle switch.
Also Windings electromagnetic co in Minnesota.

https://www.windings.com/about-us/

> Windings is a leader in the design, test, manufacture and support of custom electric motors, generators and related components including rotors, stators, lamination stacks and insulation systems.

> Windings business structure was converted to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in 1998 and we have been 100% employee owned since 2008.
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"Tech workers" != programmers.

In fact, if there are only 110k tech workers, I doubt there are 92,350 actual programmers in NYC. They are counting all Product Managers, designers, beta testers, etc, as well as probably sales and administrative assistants in outfits like Google.
Apple just stopped releasing unit shipped data only revenue. Revenue grew but we don't know how many phones were sold.
Amazon picks N. Virginia and New York for its HQ2 after year-long search
It's a pretty pure example of Cargo Cult. If I shakalaka the 'hard work' stick hard enough, rainfall/supply planes/success will surely come.

It didn't rain? Must not have shaken the stick hard enough.
>Atlanta and Detroit, or two other lower cost large cities with convenient air travel to Seattle...

???

I think planners at Amazon were thinking more long term. I'm thinking that convenient and multi-modal access to the Europe-Africa side of the world played a big part here. East coast and west coast HQ's just make sense for a global behemoth like Amazon.
The most reliable estimate is for work you've already done and documented. Fifteen years ago I wrote my own timesheet system where entries can be directly linked to code changes. When I have to estimate I can interrogate this to get comparable (and sometimes identical) tasks from the past.

I do have to create proposals for new clients moving into my platform but, again, I have data from previous onboarding exercises. And all estimates have the clear and repeated caveat that they're based on the stated requirements; if the requirements change, the cost and dates change too.

When I was leading a development team through the estimation process for large and complex projects, I used the Wideband Delphi process, which is essentially a process of iterative decomposition; I recommend it.
Just curious... did you developed specific techniques or did you just sailed through without even thinking/planning?
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DDG is proof positive that the barriers to entry are extraordinarily low. It is incredibly easy to start a search engine. Now, to make one that is considered good relative to Google, that is hard, because if Google is known for one thing, it's known for executing in search. But if someone wanted to invest billions and billions of dollars, they could take a shot. Microsoft has been taking their shot for years, and so far it isn't working, but that's not because of barriers to entry. It's because they do not execute as well as Google does.

It's also hard to build a new car company, or a new chemical manufacturing conglomerate, or a new anything. That is not a defining feature of a monopoly.
I've seen planes travel long distances above me with their front lights on, then switch them off once they realize they forgot. Same thing.
Wait, what happened to just using a published Docker image? No need to hunt down dependencies.

I've found using docker-compose is a nice way to do basic orchestration for "self-hosted" type apps.
Assuming a restaurant can even survive in the first place to earn that star.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/dining/restaurant-economi...
There was union carbide accident in the 1980's a tragedy.