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> Main contribution is NVidia that had their earnings report, they told the planet flat out gpus aren't selling as well, so the gig that everybody is increasingly mining was called up.

So... you know absolutely nothing about Bitcoin, do you?

There is zero connection between Bitcoin and GPUs, except maybe indirectly via other cryptocurrencies, but then those would show the effect stronger.
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That doesnt match the training, approach, nor skillset of the lawyers I know. They advise on legal matters, the client decides based on the sum total. Lawyers would explicitly avoid confusing legal opinions and business ones.

Then again, my lawyer friends aren't google lawyers.
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You can get 8-way Xeon Platinum with tens of terabytes of memory that'll more closely mimic a mainframe. You probably won't be able to fit more than 3 in a rack and they will be hideously expensive (but, at least, will have hot-swappable storage and power supplies) and will be mostly air-cooled.
From my experience which is obviously different than yours, over time these pats on the back do more to divide than unite development teams. Others know who gets stuff done and who doesn't just like you likely know who gets stuff done and who doesn't. The slack pats on the back seem counter productive, almost as if looking for credit for doing your job. The higher up in the organization you go the less important it becomes that you refactored the code to batch load index data where the prototype might have inserted one record at a time. By the time the index is done, the people who use it don't really care how long or how efficiently it was built.
The commenter's critique of the authors handling of the situation demonstrates the lack of comprehension of the way things work in China.
> i - the lineage of the AS/400, which was a 'minicomputer' design from the 70's designed for multiple users, which came up with the idea of "wizards" for administration tasks before there was even a name for a "wizard." The "i" means "integrated," since IBM i is meant to require very little administration. [2]

That specific system was introduced in the 1980s, but it's even more interesting than that, because it's the last remnant of the Future Systems project which did date to the 1970s:

https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html

> The IBM Future System (FS) project was a design effort to succeed the IBM S/370 architecture that was adopted company wide in 1971. FS was based on a single-level store with automatic data management. The project is reputed to have cost more than $1B when it was cancelled in February 1975, but the single-level store idea was adopted by System/38, AS/400, and iSeries.

It had interesting effects on IBM:

> Most corrosive of all, the old IBM candor died with F/S. Top management, particularly Opel, reacted defensively as F/S headed toward a debacle. The IBM culture that Watson had built was a harsh one, but it encouraged dissent and open controversy. But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive."

Beware the Superproject!
it is both legal and moral to let people restart their cases rather than arbitrating, given that arbitration is a known dead end that companies use to avoid responsibility for hurting their employees.

edit: also it's fucking disgusting because it is Google shamelessly covering their asses to protect sexual abusers and a culture of sexual abuse and prevent real justice in a retroactive inquiry. that's completely straightforward.
>imgur, reddit, or any other site as an app

Except for the fact that both reddit and imgur have quite heavy handed moderation in place.

Mature content (even when marked) is often removed from imgur. Reddit will ban entire subreddits if NSFW content goes anywhere near legal questions.
I've been in the security industry since 1997. The last 13 years of that were spent building consulting teams --- amusingly, the first of which was one of the largest app pentesting firms in the country, and the current one is focused on "blue-teamers", as you put it. I have no idea what "regulations" you're referring to, and am certain that certifications --- very much including OSCP --- mean fuck-all in the real world.
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Yes. "Appropriate" consent simply means "legally defensible" consent. This is a reassurance meant for shareholders, not end users.
Good point baybal2. the only effective countermeasure is to avoid detection.
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I'm not sure how this applies here? This isn't about a retroactive change to Google's misconduct standards for its employees, so no staff are being held accountable according to a new rule.

It's also not about suits between individuals. It's employees seeking damages from Google, so there's no third party outside Google and the plaintiff who could be harmed by the switch. And the plaintiff shouldn't be harmed, because removing the requirement for arbitration wouldn't deny it to anyone who wanted it.

As far as "holding Google accountable for prior events under a new rule", that's pretty much what people were asking them to agree to in the first place. But even worse, Google's statement says all future claims - even about past events - will operate under the new rule. So Google is already going to be held accountable for past events under this rule, and this is just disadvantaging the people who already opened claims.
It is also missing Polyamory. Stranger in a Strange Land has the protagonist create a commune where free love abounds.
It is impossible to explain that feeling to those who had never been through it. Once they plant the seed of fear in your mind, it is very hard to get rid of it.
Why shouldn’t all negative externalities require restitution in proportion to their harm?

I couldn’t agree more that it is difficult to measure externalities. A good place to start might be to get a quote for the cost of undoing the harm - e.g. I’ve heard as low as $93 a ton to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Seems like a reasonable starting point for discussion.

By the way I don’t think making a better widget qualifies as a negative externality.
The prohibition against ex post facto law in government makes sense because they are ripe for abuse. But there are already checks against abuse in the private sphere, including potential litigation for wrongful termination and a desire to keep quality employees. Employees should not be able to get away with poor behavior just because it was not techincally against the rules. When my daughter exhibits a lack of judgment, I might make a new rule; but she's still going to be punished because she should have known better. Employees should know better, and if they don't, they should err on the side of not doing the thing.

Of course, that's not really what's happening here with Google. What's happening is Google stated that the would not force people into arbitration, but they're still forcing people into arbitration.
That completely ignores the belief that proprietary is unethical and immoral. 'I can't do the things I want without doing X' is not a compelling counterargument to 'X is unethical.'
In that story he was trying to go to the second floor from the third to collect his bag before leaving.

https://zachholman.com/talk/firing-people
I hope we start to realize the power consumption from crypto will contribute to global warming and take appropriate measures.
Hmmm...when I recently went to China, I talked to a bunch of people about Xi and heard good and bad things. We had very engrossing conversations.

Of course, I can speak Mandarin so perhaps that’s why they felt comfortable talking to me.

I’m also of Mexican descent, so that might be another factor.

The irony is that I feel more comfortable using a throwaway alt on HN for this comment because I’m afraid of trolls stalking me on my real account for saying nice things about my experiences in China.
I don't agree with this slippery slope of pornography somehow leading to cp. Tumblr is an image hosting site, any and all image hosters are used to distribute that kind of content.
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exactly how much to promise is an art form

over promising and under delivering isn't a sustainable model

under promising too much and you won't get the chance to deliver

there's a sweet spot somewhere in there, which can be sometimes tricky to find
> Wouldn't that be like a new zealander visiting the LA and doing something the Bloods don't like, and so the bloods barge into his hotel room on the night before he returns to new zealand and says "hey is anybody else here"? Like, what's the intimidation? He's about to be beyond their reach, and they didn't even say anything explicitly.

> If it's intimidation, it's both lame, ham handed, and ineffective.

The intimidation is that they've shown interest in her and that they can get to her. It appears that she may have been a Chinese citizen (her account is translated), and Chinese people who annoy government officials in China may eventually be disappear into prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/magazine/the-lonely-crusa...
It's almost like all of the responsibility is out on individuals, while large industrial interests are exempt from consideration. Strange how that happened...
Nobody is going to use software for anything critical that doesn't have someone "waiting around" to fix any bugs that appear, even if they are several years down the line from the original release (and yes, this happens a lot). So, what you call "rent" is, in actuality, the cost of keeping the lights on and the original developers around so that such long-term support can be provided. And yes, these same developers can and do provide new features (which can also introduce new bugs, thus restarting the clock) during that same time.

This isn't to say that software companies don't exist that just milk the hell out of their customer base. But, that's a problem with any industry, not just software, and is an economic phenomenon, not something intrinsically bad about proprietary software. Typically, it's a problem with a lack of competition and the ability of incumbents to erect artificial barriers to such competition.
Stranger in a Strange Land was always one of my favorite pieces of science fiction, but I never knew he was the author of Starship Troopers (1959) until a few weeks ago. Of course, I knew Starship Troopers (1997) as a goofy action flick when I was a teenager, but I just finished reading the novel this past weekend. The two works share little in common besides setting.

The novel is as relevant to geopolitics today as it must have been in 1959. It poses challenging questions about whom within a society deserves authority over others.
I get the gag here, but it's not a very apt comparison. The expected return from a roulette spin is really well understood: a loss of about 5% of your bet, albeit with high variance. The future of these investments is less understood. Again the variance is high, but its performance over time is also really good. Perhaps you have plenty of reasons to doubt the future performance of BTC, but it's not like it's a known bad bet.
The safest way is probably to sell futures on CBOE or CME (those are the exchanges, but you'd do the transactions through your broker). I say safest because you don't have to worry about counterparty risk from a sketchy offshore Bitcoin exchange. The futures are cash settled based on the price of bitcoin, much like SPX or similar equity indexes.

Obviously there's a ton of risk involved, there's no reason it can't double for a dumb reason and you get caught owing a fortune.
Spoiler alert: talking about your work is a big part of meritocracy.
I'm not sure if there was a need for the click-bait title?

The one in the link above wrote the name of the rocket (Starship) and I was still intrigued by it.
Yeah extreme opinions are large leaps whether their direction is right or wrong. If they take a wrong direction much of the time it may be because most opinions are wrong. There is a depressing tendency looking at history seeing someone stumble upon something groundbreaking, looking at it and saying "Nah that can't be right." and then promptly discarding it.

I think the late Justice Scalia had one such ironic moment with his dissent in I believe Laurence vs Texas when he derided a decision as saying under that logic it would lead to gay marriage.
Read a little about history of WW1. Especially the French generals ignored new developments in warfare like camouflage clothing or steel helmets. They sent probably hundreds of thousands of soldiers into death out of sheer arrogance. And yes, they lived in splendor. They liked to set up their headquarters in castles and other luxury properties. They didn't live in trenches or underground while artillery was falling on them. They ate well while their infantry almost starved and had no water.

I am German and I am aware of the crimes the Germans committed during WW1 and WW2. I just object to the tendency of making generals virtuous heroes while nobody talks about the foot soldiers. The German generals were callous assholes and so were most of the other generals.
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Lawyers only advise on the risks. In this case, they're advising on the risks management has created.

Removing an arbitration clause only opens you up to the risk of a lawsuit if you've done something to open yourself up to the risk of a lawsuit. Google has fostered a culture that has tolerated inappropriate behavior in the workplace. The legal "risk" is a symptom of poor management.
Why was it wrong to promote your colleague to manager instead of you?

You did technical work, but your colleague build relationships and manoeuvred politically.

So from what you’re saying, your colleague was a better choice for management than you. Because management isn’t really about having technical skills, even in tech, it’s about building relationships and getting the most out of them while you hold a steady course through corporate politics.

I mean, you didn’t even speak up for your achievements when you felt they were being stolen. And now you can’t come to terms with a new management structure. How do you expect to handle a management meeting?

That’s a little rough, and I am sorry, but technical skills isn’t really useful above technical leads, and those guys/girls rarely have responsibilities outside of technical direction.

I mean, do you even want to spend 60% of your time motivating other people, dealing with their problems, resolving their conflicts and helping them improve? Never writing another line of code? Because the other 40% will be spent in spreadsheets and meetings.
you make a good argument against usage based billing
I used to work at IBM, making x86-based appliances. Occasionally there was a push to use Power, but x86 single-thread performance was better and cost was lower so it never happened. What would have been nice is if they allowed us to use z's CPU, but in a 1U or 2U appliance. The marketing advantage would be that we could claim to get Z's reliability for our appliance (even if it was slower). I understand they wouldn't make a generic z low end z/OS server (competing with themselves), but this would have been a nice closed-system use case.

BTW, mainframe group takes reliability very seriously. Basically it must not ever corrupt customer (financial) data plus the fit rate must be as good as it can possibly be. I remember when they were making the zBx add-on (an x86 blade center for z which could run Java web apps), they tested the x86 in a cyclotron beam to get an idea of its fit rate- it was quite good (good enough), but not as good as z's CPU.
> There is crazy stuff sitting on Imgur, too.

But none of it's accessible unless you have a direct URL, and even then the pornographic crazy stuff is taken down quickly. The Imgur front page is pretty sanitized.
That's because restricting the use of software is restriction of user freedom …
>Company agents are employed by shareholders to maximise returns on invested capital.

Myth: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/myth-maximizing-shar...
> "We find that our parents are highly motivated to choose exactly what they want for their children. We, as a school, do not discriminate based on a child's medical history or medical condition."

Being French, this seems really mindless to me. If schools truly care about the children they are educating, they should require vaccination and explain to the parents why not vaccinating their kids is dangerous for them and the others.
School is a place to learn and acquire knowledge, it shouldn't be complacent with anti-scientific belief.
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> I keep hearing this with zero justification. Why?

I'm confident officials have neglected long term maintenance costs when planning and building all the various infrastructure of major cities. The modus operandi is always underfund the project, get people to rely on it (or at least make the case of not just throwing away the first $x when all you need is $y to complete it), beg for more funding.

Maybe the problem is NYC is an overpopulated crap-hole and there's no amount of money to fix it. Plenty of other real estate in the US that businesses and people can move to. NYC is obviously past carrying capacity if we have to resort to boring holes into bedrock to shuttle people around like rodents.
Let me start by pointing out that, based on your description, your colleague is not incompetent and your colleague technically did not do anything wrong.

Is it wrong to say "we did" for tasks given to your team as whole? No, because after all everything is team's effort. At the same time, it is also not wrong to say "I did" when it is indeed only your effort alone. It's just playing with words for one's own gains.

What is very apparent, however, is your lack of confidence and interpersonal skills. You should talk to your manager (or skip to the next level) to assert the relative contribution between you and your colleague, based on hard evidence (git commit, wiki edit history, interviews with other teammates). Also you should do it as soon as possible after your colleague plays the word game while the manager for both of you still have fresh memory.

But now it might be too late for any of these. Move on to another team or another company.
You’re right about that article — however when looking at all marine plastic pollution, the countries responsible are the same: most notably China and South East Asia.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/which-countries-create-the-most...

https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting...
reminds me of Social Roulette [1] which was also brilliant. this seems like a much more involved (and potentially life-ruining) version of that. cheers to making something interesting!

[1] http://socialroulette.net/
FOH with that tone policing
There is a difference between the two.
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Why do you feel the need to manufacture theories that are unsupported by facts when the reality, intimidation by police, is bad enough?
Yes, that's the idea, although it's not officially approved by the product management yet. And that link is correct.
I don't think you actually need FTA. I think you just need that an n'th degree polynomial has at most n roots. That might be better to show to a layperson, because if the layperson remembers their middle school algebra you can probably actually prove it to them.

For the part on leaking information, you can do the special case of two shares being required to recover the secret. You can then fairly straightforwardly show that if someone obtains just one share it does not help by showing that no matter what the secret, it is possible for that share to be a share for that secret. It's conceptually similar to how you show that xor with a true random key is unbreakable.

It's not the general case, but it can demonstrate how using modular arithmetic can fix an information leak.
I've been reading a book on nonviolent communication[1]. It's been helping me rethink how I approach work conversations and communicate what I want.

Putting it into practice has been tough, but early results have been good. I'm less likely to get angry, and while I still am not necessarily getting what I want all the time, I feel like I'm getting more clarity and direct communication around why not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
I'm really curious if somebody here could venture a guess about the reasons for the sudden drop

One could probably write pages on the topic, but here's my one sentence summary: reality didn't match the hype, and markets are coming to that realization. Corollary: hype-driven price goes up much more slowly than reality-driven drops.

Simplistic though it might be, it's the reason for most big drops in equities markets. That biotech that might be on to a cure for prostate cancer? Up and up she goes...until the FDA trial says it doesn't work. New battery tech company says they'll have batteries that can drive you SF->NY and a full charge takes 30 seconds! Buy, buy! Oh, BTW, the batteries will cost $10K/kWh. <effect: dying_PacMan_sound/> New way of paying for things that will eliminate cash, and all the geeky kids are into it? Those nerds know what they're doing, right? 'cuz I sure don't, and I don't want to miss out! Oh, all I can buy are illegal drugs of unknown quality, and I can lose all of my money if I forget my password or make one tiny mistake and the hackers get it? I bought in at $19.5K, why isn't it still going up? Be glad it's only down to $4500.
I couldn't find if the outbreak is also affecting people who were previously vaccinated. This would give details on how effective vaccination really was, i.e., if vaccination alone was sufficient to prevent some people from getting infected and how many of the unvaccinated was infected.
The first few years of Imgur data sits behind five randomly generated alphanumeric characters. Quite easy to brute force...
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> I simply don't understand why some people won't buy the product because it's not open source

Because we want the freedom to use it however we wish, to modify it to behave as we wish and to share those modifications with our friends. That's why I don't use proprietary software any more than I have to: I like freedom.
They used to provide a free z Linux guest OS available to anyone. I used it to verify that my open source projects worked on Z. It was RedHat 7.3 I think.