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Living in NY for over a decade and visiting the Bay area often, I have to agree. I'd say the difference is even bigger if you look at Silicon Valley as a whole. I wouldn't be surprised if the ratio was more like 10:1.
Good point. Right now it's nearly impractical to have a family in the Bay area. I'd personally like to see a lot of improvement on the supply side in the form of high-density housing in urban centers.
If they are picking NYC, I see why Long Island City makes sense with proximity to Manhattan (and maybe Cornell on Roosevelt Island) plus its explosive growth, but still so much unused space.

I have to say I haven't heard from one person in Astoria or Long Island City (where I live and work, respectively) that's excited about this. And there has been a lot of buzz about it over the past couple weeks. The strain on the transit system and increasing rents that are already skyrocketing is definitely freaking out a lot of people.

Maybe it's a little selfish of me, but I'm pretty terrified of what it will do to our office's rent in particular...even though it's been expanding rapidly and getting more expensive, Long Island city has been a great place for cheapish space in old industrial buildings for new/small businesses. I figure we and a lot of the surrounding small businesses will be pushed out at the ends of our leases.

I am very curious to know where in Long Island City they are targeting. There are so many big industrial lots that they could build on or new construction that they could move into. I had heard they were looking at one of the Plaxall-owned buildings, but can't remember the source.
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> As others have pointed out, you just seem to be using a different definition than the rest of us are.

The Supreme Court has defined market power as "the ability to raise prices above those that would be charged in a competitive market,"(8) and monopoly power as "the power to control prices or exclude competition."

You can use whatever definition you want, doesn't make it right or useful. HN readers talking about economics is largely like economists talking about computer science.
Makes me wonder if there isn't really one single type of diet that is good for everyone. The best diet for a person might be more meat, more vegetables, or some other food group which is based on many different factors.
Obviously Amazon was going to get a great bargain and bunch of info to boot - they have massive bargaining power.

Not participating in the bid would have been suicide for the politicians of any major city save perhaps Kreuzberg, Berlin [1].

The amount of wealth creation and subsequent tax payments/land value boost that any FAANG company would bring with a new HQ is way too big to be ignored.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/09/fuck-off-goog...
> Washington DC, once described has having "Southern Efficiency, and Northern Charm"

This is so great.
Someone (I forget who) once said that New York’s real specialty is convincing twentysomethings that it is the center of the universe.

It certainly seemed that way to me for a long time.
This is both arrogant and ignorant at the same time. New York, I'm sure, is a great city, but it is not the end all be all of everything. The next time you sit down at one of your fancy Manhattan restaurants I would encourage you to humbly thank the people from where there are "stripmalls" who made it and most other things in NYC possible. Food, the literal materials for the buildings, the energy renewable or otherwise, basically all the support resources and services that make cities like NYC even possible come from the parts of the world you seem to hold in contempt. No wonder middle America hates the "coastal elites" with an attitude like this.
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Correct, no central server. It does use google's stun server to establish the connection, but you can swap that out with another stun server with the -s flag (it's easy to host your own and there are many free stun servers)

The -o flag makes things easier but uses https://10kb.site to do the sdp exchange

That shell script is cool
unlike another in this reply thread, I do not "disagree with advertising in general" - however I disagree with much of the online advertising industry. I wrote a comprimise suggestion post sometime ago, turn adblock into fairblock and I'll see your ads without a grudge.

I think end users should have more fine grained control over what they share and see when getting served ads.

I feel some basic defaults are in order which can be sliders and checkboxes for more control, relinquish of control for more trusted sources.

I don't want to see ads about alcohol or gambling, or games that profit from it. I don't want to see ads that move if I am not hovering on them. I only want ads that are self hosted, not third party injected. (don't punt the malware liability to third party, serve it yourself and be more responsible)

things like this are important for security and privacy, and not an issue with ads, but types of ads. If certain publications run certain ads I may not purchase them, or lose faith in them, they can't punt the blame for yesterday's ads.

Some things are limited by laws for billboards and such, I don't agree with all those regualtions, but indeed this is something that is important - and with the web it's easy enough to fine grain limit certain things from appearing in front of children, or people struggling with divorce, or all kinds of things -

So we have the ability to make ads better, in some cases I would gladly share more info than google allows to be shared currently (I don't care if most web sites get the page and keywords I used to find them, it may help them help me.

I do care if third party beacons and trackers share that info with lots of other people I don't know. I should be able to control this on a site by site basis with sane defaults.
> "greatest city in the history of world civilization"

Woah, hold on your horses. There are plenty of contestants there. Rome. Tenochtitlan. Cairo. Babylon. Etc.
Since I do not know the data he stores, and in which way (model), I can not comment on this. This is why I asked.

If I'd be to do something similar (actually, I do) I'd use an XML (document) backend, like eXist or BaseX along with XSLT, XQuery and REST.
New York doesn’t put Michelin star restaurants in strip malls.
I don't disagree that the majority of Hollywood is left-wing, but I take that as a function of the movie industry being nearly exclusively concentrated in America's most urban cities, and with theater and arts being liberal pursuits. With much of Hollywood hiring being based on who you know and who you're represented by (agent-wise), seems pretty obvious that an industry in extremely liberal cities, fueled by kids studying the liberal arts, is going to have a high concentration of liberals. That some of the few actors/producers who are conservatives are going to feel besieged seems, well, also obvious. A left-wing oil worker in North Dakota/Texas is going to feel similarly isolated, doesn't mean the industry is inherently and inextricably anti-liberal.

In any case, Harvey Weinstein has no relevance here. It's no big surprise that a scumbag acts like a scumbag, or that he tries to change the subject when exposed. No different than when Bill O'Reilly blamed far-left activists and "forces of evil" for ending his career [0].

0. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/350710-oreilly-...
I was one of those people. I moved to NYC in May. In a lot of adult sports leagues I'm meeting a surprisingly high number of developers who moved from the Bay Area to NYC. All for similar reasons. Its way more fun to spend your 20s in NY than it is in SF. Within my social circle, many more are planning on moving from SF to NY. This might be anecdata, but Google and Amazon might have recruiting data about candidates' location preferences.
This reminds me of Bob's Red Mill and their Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP):

https://www.bobsredmill.com/bobs-way-meet#ESOP
Then mandatory breastfeeding breaks for the first year paid by the employer.
>has avoided it.

While explicit declarations of war don't exist, airstrikes and threats do.

Trump has accelerated bombing rates over the Obama administration:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/donald-trump-is-droppin...

Trump has threatened Iran:
https://fox8.com/2018/07/23/trump-tweets-explosive-threat-to...

Trump has threatened North Korea:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-un-north-...
Oh - I'm sorry - I was looking at job openings in a specific software field and there were way more openings in NYC - I confused that with devs.

A summary glance indicates that the Valley and SF may be roughly on par with NYC but that the Bay Area has more than NYC, I stand corrected - though there seems to be scant hard data as it's difficult to define exactly what a developer is ...
Taking the slider to the other extreme, you end up with company towns everywhere, and there are a whole lot of burned out husks of civilization that are memories to that.

Until we truly solve remote, there will be some concentration. And there's value to that as an employee. If your employer goes kaput, or you're stagnating in your career, or you have an abusive boss, there are plenty of opportunities available, and enough of them that one shock to the system won't break the local economy.

Of course, the flip side of that is that real estate values go through the roof.
10:1 seems a bit too much, but yeah, I'm not sure where GP got the idea that NYC has more engineers than SFBay.

NYC was not historically focused on engineering or tech. Media, advertising, and of course - finance, banking, and investment banking.

Pure engineering or software work? Not very much.
News only twice a day? That sounds like a lot.
You can literally have a house with a backyard and a less than 1 hour commute from Manhattan.
Also 269 Canal Street. Not just another Chinatown jewelry shop.

https://makezine.com/2008/03/01/269-electronics-canal-str/

I hope they're still there, that link is a decade old. Once I went there and bought a cable or adapter (I forget) - the guy tested it with a multimeter before selling it to me to confirm it worked. Loved that.
> Academics who are frightened to explore controversial topics, in case it provokes a backlash, will soon have a safer route to publish such work.

Assuming any of this is happening in the US, it's an indictment of the whole system. This is what tenure is for.

EDIT: Oops, avani beat me to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18437414
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Implying that these "HQs" are going to be more than 10k employees. Both cities can easily absorb another few thousand highly paid engineers/business/lobbyists.
1. The Trans movement will die because of feminism/social justice.
I believe that we are moving towards a society where there will be no stigma towards sexuality, fashion, presentation, or any other expression relative to gender/sex. Once any gender can present any way freely, and not be 'emasculated' or 'defeminated' based on expression, I do not see how dysphoria would exist.

2. Abortion is murder and but that doesn't mean it it should be made illegal.
The government sanctions killing of others through acts of war, self defense, use of deadly force. The historical precedent of the economic, public health and social impact of banning abortion make banning abortion against the function of most governments. The government should not be morality police, but a hockey-style referee for economics and public safety.

I got tired of explaining my stance on the second issue to the point to where I just say that citizenship is issued on birth in USA therefore fetuses aren't citizens and prioritizing the fetus over the mother is a homeland security issue.
Perhaps go into work with a different outlook and mindset instead of resorting to the nuclear option immediately. It is easy to forget how degrading the job hunt can be when you have been working comfortably for a while.
Whoa. Bezos indeed has homes in NYC and Washington DC. (As well as Seattle, Beverly Hills, and a ranch in Texas. [1])

I can't find it now, but years ago The Economist ran an article about a study that said a key factor in corporate headquarter moves was where the CEO lives. Disappointing to see it play out like that on such a grand scale, and after such a pretense of a nationwide search. Yet another thing that convinces me I'd never want to work at Amazon.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-owns-five-massive...
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The newest Above Avalon podcast makes the case that Apple is embracing secondhand markets and key to that is increasing device longevity.

If it’s true they’re thinking about devices as likely to have multiple owners it makes sense to take precautions against hardware backdoors.

https://www.aboveavalon.com/podcast/2018/10/26/above-avalon-...
>New York is literally the greatest city in the history of world civilization and the planetary capital of finance, media, business, fashion and culture. It’s easily the largest city in the country, and iconic globally.

So, I mean, I generally agree with your point, and if you said the American, or maybe even Western, I might agree with you completely. But, uh, there's some pretty amazing cities out there. There's not much I like better in NYC to Tokyo, for example. And hell, with how much better the Tokyo metro and JR lines are than the NYC subway system, you can live cheaper and still get into the heart of the city faster.
haha greatest city in the history of the world? You obviously don't get out much at all.
The endless cycle of analysts manipulating AAPL with spurious reporting about supply chain shifts continues apace.
Doubt it was a factor with Bezos. The guy is rich enough to live anywhere, and has houses everywhere, as you also observed.

Somehow the office didn't land in Beverly Hills or the Texas ranch.

I expect the fact that he already has homes in NYC and DC is related to the fact they are in fact important locations for his business.
I don't think this can be understated. My friends and I don't even TALK about tech because not all of my friends are in tech. I have friends that are in completely different industries, like media, theater, urban planning, education, finance, journalism, etc. You meet people who are making it as artists or going for their PhD. There's a vibrant Meetup scene. And if you live near a friend, you can literally just walk to their apartment and hang out.
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The person you're talking to didn't say they were having trouble understanding "why people might want to live" there. They said they thought it was a bad choice on Amazon's part for cogent reasons, all of which you ignore in this reply.
Hey do you think about websites in this regard like this https://dogsease.com/doodle/sheepadoodle/
> they have massive bargaining power

Wouldn't call it "massive" in NYC. The office size is projected to employ 25,000 people in total. Nice number, but not "massive" for a city of 8,623,000 people.
Yes. This exactly. Or, if not ability, then experience and wisdom. Or relevant skills. Or connections. Or discipline. None of which you can manifest by sheer force of will.

I always tell my Jr. Engineers that if you have to work THAT HARD to accomplish your daily tasks then you need to go back to school or go for a more newbie-friendly position.
Well I did disclaim except for their paid content. Yes you won’t find the full movie on YouTube but I did a search for Kill Bill and scrolled the first hundred results and about 80% are illegally pirated scenes, the full kill bill volumes 1 and 2 soundtracks were available in playlist form, hell there was even the family guy kill bill parody (another illegal copyright violation). With all the songs that’s easily over 100 copyright violations but be damed if you take away from YouTubes Movie subscriptions.
I find the OCAML-inspired option types in F# and Scala more aesthetically pleasing but the author mentions in a previous post why C# wouldn't implement them.
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nyc is a terrible place to live for a lot of people. i personally can not stand it. dirty city, terrible weather, and rude people.
It's really quite jarring just how many of them there are. sure the east has strip malls, but they just don't seem to take up that much space.
Northern Virginia is a hot mess of congestion. If they're smart, they'll go west of Dulles, or at the very least, not go further east than Reston. Better to stay out in Ashburn or something.
> will not void your warranty for security research *

That's incredible!
How i need to more about is as i do seo and is should know about it i run website called https://dogsease.com
Which framework is this? Material-what? What is Google's Bootstrap alternative?

It does not look like Angular (which is a J2EE all over again), at least.

Update: I did some research

cd material-components-web-codelabs/mdc-101/complete
grep version package-lock.json |wc -l
943

No. Just no.
A few comments.
1) kindle KDP is good, but you need to read up on format issues for print on demand. fine detail around gutter and margin needs to be understood for a high quality product. The specific DPI you render cover artwork in, and sizing has a huge impact. Kindle can be a bit arbitrary on what they accept and what they reject for print.

2) Kindle ePub demands a different set of outcomes. Do your print hardcopy first, then modify it to make the inputs to upload. I used calibre to do all the mods, but people swear by sigil. How you index makes a huge difference. Remember ePub is flow text. All those pagerefs have to be re-calculated into logical offsets and marks, not literal paper counts.

Again, the submission system can be a bit opaque.

If you want PoD hardcopy in Australia.. Avoid kindle. The amazon trade war with Australian taxation has hit hard and they have no local printery.

I recommend Ingramspark, who can do PoD, and manage epublishing into kobo and nook and the like, and who have an agency status in amazon to sell your hardcopy. The PoD rates look competitive with the KDP ones, once you factor US delivery costs in.

(Amazon are pretty cool for worldwide rights)

Ingram demand really tight conformance on the PDF ISO specs for final output. Adobe, craptacular code though it is, will emit the legal form. Sigil and (yay!) libreoffice seem to also do this, but ymmv. Again, the DPI of your images make a huge difference to submission here. Some stuff demands 300, some demands 72 (for eprint covers)

Employ a professional editor/proofreader. They make a huge difference. Seriously, its money well spent. Some of them index too.
Show me a single Michelin Star restaurant in the entire United States located in a strip mall. And besides, if they put Michelin Star restaurants in strip malls, they probably wouldn't be the marker of not much going on that they currently are.
The amount of hate in the us political discord is a feature. A beautiful result of convincing one side that the other needs to be killed (and that is darkly literal). At its core it's all about distracting the populace and getting every last dollar to the top.

The SF libertarians that always show up for these threads think they'll get swept up with the tide of the elite despite not comprehending that even with their wealth the majority of them are orders of magnitude off from the even most basic of antes.
It's actually not uncommon at even medium-large companies. Once you're spread among large or even not-so-large campuses, you might almost just as well be in different cities anyway. They don't tend to be called HQs but they are effectively divisional HQs.
>Not participating in the bid would have been suicide for the politicians of any major city

I find that pretty implausible. Foxconn didn't save Scott Walker (and I don't think that's because his would-be supporters later realized that it wasn't such a sweet deal, either).
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>>If some extraterrestrial being came to visit, why make itself known? And in such an obviously unnatural way, too?

Playing the devils advocate. If the Zoo hypothesis is correct. They are probably thinking the same about us.

Like.

"We get so close to them, and they sometimes see us too. Just imagine how stupid they must be to not notice us or become aware of our presence."

>>One immediate counterargument I can think of is that it's good camouflage.

No one I know who ever went to Safari in Africa wore a camouflage. Why should they do it?
It didn't even occur to you to simply Google "michelin star" "strip mall"?

Of course there are starred restuarants in strip malls.
> Because you don't need everyone vaccinated, you need most

Have you researched different vaccines to find out how their effectiveness falls with the percent of the population that is not vaccinated?

Genuinely curious if you have.

I suspect you have not.

> Forcefully vaccinating people is against the practice and principles of medicine, and against common decency, if not morality.

You're right. People who refuse to get vaccinated should have to get insurance to pay for the damages of the illness and death they cause, right? Or place the money in escrow?

And if that insurance is prohibitively expensive, and someone won't pay it, then we can just send them to prison, right?

If you cause me harm through your behavior, that's against common decency, too, right? If not morality?

And if it's hard to determine who caused me harm directly, then the "pollution" is an externality, right? Tragedy of the commons?

You're literally polluting the environment with a virus.

Of all of the topics Libertarians have an interesting position on, I am by far least impressed with their efforts to describe how they think we should protect the environment. Shedding viruses everywhere you go falls pretty well into that discussion, don't you think?

Also I'm quite sure that medicine allows for quarantine, against your will.
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Some sites are doing this. I logged into my Slickdeals account on vacation and they had an automated system that locked my account and forced me to affirm that I didn't live in Europe or else they would close my account.
It's possible because a world power doesn't need to completely annihilate another to win. They just need to remove their ability to compete on the global stage.

The supply chain of American (and most modern countries) isn't fortified against any sort of large-scale attack. It wouldn't take much to know out food, fuel, and power supplies for most Americans. Once that happens, a little bit of propaganda will incite major riots which require police intervention.

There are enough "militias" in the country waiting patiently for their time to rise up. Should they decide to "protect" themselves from the "looters," the country's leadership will probably have to redirect their attention an resources homeward in order to stabilize their power.

That alone is enough to set the country back several decades. Especially if the educated class seeks refuge in a more stable, foreign country. Like what happened in central Europe after WWII.

The future of warfare is against world powers is probably a long-term sequence of small scale attacks of this nature. Disrupt supplies, push propaganda, and create power vacuums which need to be filled.