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I think it's not unusual for companies to be forced to accept such risks if their competitors have already done so and that's enabling the competitors to win.

Governments can intervene to keep the playing field level, while protecting the national interests.

If it's true that the US has a dominant position in this space, then it's true that the US government has an opportunity to prevent the US companies from shifting manufacturing to where it's likely to result in IP theft in the process of competing with eachother in the manufacturing costs deparment.

If all the companies in the space are forced to ignore the cheaper manufacturing option, that self-destructive avenue of competition is off the table on equal terms. However there's still the threat of foreign competition undercutting on manufacturing, if they catch up in the IP department (which IP theft certainly accelerates).
What I'm saying is, giving someone assistance doesn't undo their status as being in poverty. True, that assistance might lead to some net positive over the long haul. For example, being able to eat helps your health and your performance at work.

That aside, to answer your interpretation of my statement, I would sight the article as a starter source.
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IANAL but I believe the US government considers access to superior Silicon a matter of national security and regulates it as such.
True, but you can get thousands of dollars a year in benefits if you optimize it.
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I'm sorry but this does not always apply in the real world. Someone getting everyone onto a blockchain is a one-time project, perhaps with an annual maintenance fee. Running an industry organization is an order of magnitude (or two) more expensive. Trusting someone to build an (open source) application is not the same as trusting them to centrally host it.
But what about the Emerging CD-ROM Industry? (I want to know more about Bill Gate's goat!)

https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-6501528/microsoft-s-thi...

The 1988 Microsoft CD-ROM Conference held in Seattle in March, attracted about 2,000 industry insiders. The tone and ambience of the conference reflect a definite change in the industry. Most companies were represented not only by top management, but by their marketing personnel. Few blue-jeaned engineers or techies were found in the crowds. CD-ROM appears to have arrived.

FINDING A PATHWAY TO THE FUTURE

In his keynote address, Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder and chairman, reiterated his goat of making computers affordable and attractive enough to be "on every desk, in every home." Gates reported that less than 50,000 CD-ROM drives are currently in the marketplace. These are either in very narrow vertical markets, such as libraries, or are being used by the industry itself. The problem of low drive sales is compounded by the high cost of developing a multimedia product. Gates estimated that it costs $1 million for each disk product, an investment that many companies have been unwilling or unable to make.

The lack of a "rich standard for audio-visual" components of CD-ROM development, and the limited tools available to developers today, are two other important reasons Gates cited for the slow growth of the CD-ROM industry.
It is not rare. Overwhelming majority of married women changed surname and remember "fun" that came with it.

Women are half population and while marriages go down, they are not rare at all.
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Fantastic writeup. I especially enjoy the explanation of how speeding up training makes you a more effective researcher- because it exploits your memory better.
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Pretty awesome!

Reminds me of the cisterns underneath Istanbul (Constantinopolis), built by the romans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_Cistern
... yes?

A user perchance manages to discover this game's Steam Store page and sees that its reviews are Bad; I would certainly expect that they would remain incredulous to the prospect of playing. Whereas if the reviews were Very Good or better...

Moreover, it's in Steam's interest to keep bad games from being discovered. They don't profit more by exposing their customers to a deluge of poor product. Reviews ought to influence discoverability.
I 3D printed my bride.
I can believe he and his team wanted to make Hangouts better. Seems nobody else was on their side though.
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He makes me not care about character development, the science is so titillating on its own.
Today I learned I lost at least $60,000 playing Sid Meier’s Civilization...
This is a legally dubious argument. Consider that the patent system is one of the only tools which puts all parties on an even playing field. Surely, deep coffers convey great advantage to large players, but that power is not absolute. Solid prior art will ultimately limit or destroy value in a patent regardless of who owns it. It is essentially a meritocratic system, even if distorted by money. Without a patent system, it's a fully autocratic world in which money rules over all, and large players will use their market dominance to steal all innovation. It's a worse situation, any way you cut it. Any unfairness or inequality you can identify currently would only be exacerbated by removing patent protection. So, I support your cause for more egalitarianism and meritocracy, but I think doing away with patents will only make it worse, not better.
My take: we need to stop incentivizing "innovation" where everything needs to be rewritten every couple months just so someone can "disrupt" something.

You know what it really is? It's a bunch of product people, all of who want to be Steve Jobs II, looking at the handful of innovative products Apple made over the last couple of decades and trying to achieve something similar results every single quarter.

The problem? We've raised a whole generation of people who think that's not how you make products people love. We've have a whole generation of people who focus 100% on the ideation phase and 0% on the nurturing and responding thoughtfully to user feedback.

This fits into a larger theory I have that basically disruptive startups are the weeds of the ecosystem, but they aren't old growth trees. Call me old fashioned but I'm looking forward to the day "disruptive" companies based on "growth hacking" are replaced by some giant redwood trees that will stand the test of time as they (slowly) soar into the sky.
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I use all-weather tires, which essentially behave the same as winter tires, but don't require a tire change for different seasons. You can, of course, buy winter tires here.

However, AWD / 4WD address different problems than winter tires do. As I understand it, winter tires are useful for traction on ice or packed snow, but won't help significantly in unpacked snow, where 4WD helps immensely.

Around here, it's hilly and there are many streets which won't get plowed immediately. This makes 4WD pretty vital for getting around sometimes. Plus, 4WD helps with vehicle control at speed in slick conditions.
For the benefit of others who have adequate reading comprehension skills, I'd like to explicitly point out that I never wrote anything about genetically heritable traits. I chose my words carefully precisely to avoid this misunderstanding. To be clear, there are many traits that are not, as far as I can tell, genetically heritable, but still statistically more likely in children when their parents have them. Attending an Ivy League university, due to legacy admissions, is just one example.

The rest of parent (and subsequent replies by same) is clearly undeserving of a response.
It might decrease the chances for outsourcing shops. But it also decreases the chance for everyone else who has not studied in the US. E.g. myself (european degree, with various jobs at leading tech companies in their field) would have an even worse chance than it is already at the moment.
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I'm just 6'2" but I like to sit up straight. I need to see upward to read signs and watch traffic lights. I don't want to injure my head when it moves to the side, for example by impacting a grab handle or the edge of a roof window.

Worse though, are my tall kids. One is expected to be 6'10" soon. Does he just have to buy a bus? Getting a car would be preferred.
I think that raises an interesting problem - if you want to look back 1000 years the sources are scarce, and largely composed of the thoughts of the educated or the wealthy - people who could read and write and store these items.

500 years from now we're going to be faced with a totally different problem - if a user wants to learn about the year 2018 where do they start? Official documents will appear to be stored beside the thoughts of Kardashians besides trolls. It'll be very hard to parse through any information to get an actual sense of what was happening.

I mean, it's the same problem, using the primary sources to try and figure out the truth, but it'll be the opposite problem as we have now.
The problem is the cheap ones are bad and the good ones are quite expensive. Cryptocurrency made it even more expensive, since the minimum graphics card is still several hundred dollars.
Can a serious project really succeed with a .lol TLD?
Google Duo would probably replace Hangouts
I started out in customer service making that rate, and I've also done sales and billing adjustments at the company for the same rate of pay. Those roles are more like "internally advertised", whereas customer service is externally advertised because of the high need for these roles and the relatively high turn-over rate in the position because of the type of work (shouting customers who are angry about price or tardiness of service lol).

My half of the rent and utilities is currently $1000 a month. A car payment, phone payment, insurances of various kinds and some food and entertainment spending cap out at about another grand per month, so $2000 total. With no overtime and after taxes, you start out at about $2200 a month in post tax, very reliable income. If you are willing to do 10-12 hour days, you can pull in about $4000 a month with no college degree and, to my experience, no crazy office politics or externalities.

It might not be enough to support a stay at home spouse, 2 kids, 2 range rovers, a large mortgage, vacations and shopping, and a robust family medical insurance plan, but it is definitely enough for a normal apartment in a normal suburb, driving an older vehicle and enjoying some westernized habits like eating at a restaurant or doing lots of christmas shopping :)

Thanks for asking, because I actually left tech sales completely for this field instead and I am pretty happy with the forced change of industry so far (oracle laid me off!!!)
That's simply not true. Just because there are examples of examination being imperfect doesn't mean that all Examiners are doing is confirming biases. Also, Examiners don't care about formatting at all.
I didn't read so much judgement in that comment, but trying to understand why neighbors are engaging in seemingly self-destructive behavior. It really is hard to understand if you haven't been through it yourself, or at least been very close to someone who is going through it.
But my example is that I'm paying less upfront than my neighbors.

Not if their phone is their only computing device.

name brand cereal

Sometimes when you're struggling, affording yourself some basic pleasures keeps you from giving up entirely.
It's just law. There's also a practical side to this. You could go ahead, and then if a copyright holder emerges, you have to settle it with them somehow. That could end really badly or it could end up being not much of an issue.
Came here to post this. Now I know where they got their inspiration! Though, ironically enough, I always got the vibe that that city from the first game was more like Singapore.
Maybe someone serious can improve XMPP and deploy that.
How much time would be appropriate? What do you base it on? What information do you have that the USPTO doesn't have? Propose a real alternative.
Does intel even have a CEO now?
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Interesting. ObjectBox does NOT use os.File.Sync. This stuff is done by a low-level C layer. We'll verify next week, thank you!
I know it isn't necessary--just pointing out that pride often goeth before fall with these things, and since people who are otherwise financially successful are unlikely to admit to these kinds of problems, it's easy to have a skewed idea of how common they are. I know people who are financially savvy, business owners, etc., but still have had debt troubles at various points in their lives.
You could say the same about outsourcing in general. It was a giant trend that everyone hopped on, and now it's affecting the entire US economy and transferring know-how to locals in other countries that are now starting their own competitors with government backing. The markets and businesses can be very short-sided.
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I chose the word insecure because insecure is the best way to describe them.

They're not really "angry" that LGBT folks, Hispanics, and Muslims are able to vote, for example. A better way to think of it is that the root cause is fear. Does that result in anger? Sometimes... but they're insecure insofar as they believe their way of life, their financial independence, and their freedom is on the verge of being taken away. They see prosperity and opportunity as a zero sum game where the Hispanics are here to either not work at all and force the whites to pay for them and the ones that are willing to work are only stealing the opportunity from the "real Americans".

Before you respond - this isn't a topic of debate.

I mean, I'm revealing conversations I've had with these people over dinner in their home. This is what they believe, from their own mouths.

At the end of the day, these are people who I consider family, even though I almost violently disagree with their views and believe they have been brainwashed.
> Attending an Ivy League university, due to legacy admissions, is just one example

You make my original point for me.
For some reason Delta prints GAVINJ as my first name on all tickets even though the J is the first letter of my middle name. When I book flights this isn’t the case, either directly or through a 3rd-party; I assume they have some master record in a mainframe somewhere that was created by some other system incorrectly and I’m stuck with it forever.

However, I’ve flown hundreds of times and nobody who has checked my ID has ever been bothered by this, which is a little worrying.
Wikipedia lets you change its look. It has six themes. Plus you can add your own CSS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...
It is surprising to me that people are so dubious of ADHD when for people with the disorder who metabolize caffein normally diagnosis is remarkably simple: give a six year old a cup of coffee. If they settle down or go take a nap, they quite likely have ADHD. Give a neurotypical kid a cup of coffee and then live with the results because no way are the parents going to thank you for helpfully demonstrating how normal their child is.
I figured most of us knew this by now? Abstracted server infrastructure would be a more appropriate name, imo.
Adam Smith observed years ago that cost of housing tends to eat up most people's pay raises. Which is to say if you can afford more you get more.

Of course there are limits. Everybody has a point where their house is big enough for them and there are no better areas to move to (or the better areas are out of reach). Then they improve it for lack of anything else to to with their money.
Amd also gave away the GPU farm when it made a similar deal with Intel. Both are shortsighted.
A useful term here is "Nakamoto consensus," which I think refers to the proof of X thing you're talking about -- consensus schemes that are resistant to sybil attacks among anonymous validators.

And I think you're right -- adding Nakamoto consensus to private blockchains makes no sense, because by definition they don't have arbitrary validators. And without Nakamoto consensus, "blockchain" is just rebranding of old and boring tech.
I really hope they called it 'Deadpool'.
Ask HN: Tech people, What advises do you have for recruiters?
I have friends who receive 1 linkedin message per day with job openings. I am somewhere in the middle: I have several friends who are recruiters, including my sister. I am a Software Implementation Consultant and i started receiving more similar messages likes the below mentioned more often. 2-3/week, not the same frequency. And now I wonder that recruiters advise us to do when reading a message like this.
if I understand both Merkle trees and their short description, they would be better served by using a Merkle tree than their scheme.
It's big, but I haven't seen any information about how the capacity of the system compares to the capacity of the rivers feeding into it to generate water. Would the system survive a Harvey-type event? Or is it meant to deal more with seasonal fluctuations to prevent runoff causing flooding? 100 tons per second doesn't seem like a lot to me, compared to runoff that can be generated during spring thunderstorms. It's impressive and no doubt Tokyo will benefit from the infrastructure, but really the main chamber does not look much larger than a dig for a large skyscraper.
That would simply be murder, not a just or reasonable response to someone stealing your TV. In any case it still doesn't involve any state action, so we appear to be in violent agreement that, contrary to your original assertion, the state is not the only thing stopping other people from taking your property.
Although I think it's unfair to call out the CEO for his age, the notion of people behaving according to the laws of the system they live in, despite trying (and occasionally succeeding) in raising themselves above them, was noticed as far back as Ricardo and and only really put into perspective by Marx in the 1867 preface to the German edition of Capital:

>To prevent possible misunderstanding, a word. I paint the capitalist and the landlord in no sense couleur de rose [i.e., seen through rose-tinted glasses]. But here individuals are dealt with only in so far as they are the personifications of economic categories, embodiments of particular class-relations and class-interests. My standpoint, from which the evolution of the economic formation of society is viewed as a process of natural history, can less than any other make the individual responsible for relations whose creature he socially remains, however much he may subjectively raise himself above them.

The preface ends on a wonderful little note that hopefully everyone can agree on:

>Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome. As to prejudices of so-called public opinion, to which I have never made concessions, now as aforetime the maxim of the great Florentine is mine: “Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti.” [Follow your own course, and let people talk – paraphrased from Dante] Karl Marx, London. July 25, 1867.
This x 100. There have been enough Steam data leaks to calculate that as a genre narrative games are extremely niche compared to the wider market. Then combine that with a VR market of 1% of gamers and good luck making any money at all.
The key problem is that the visa is given to the company, not the person, leaving the employee at the mercy of the company, leading to abuses like underpay and overwork in even direct jobs. If you lose your job, you lose your green card application if it's not past a certain stage and may have to leave the country immediately in case of layoffs, being fired. The rules are byzantine and a bureacratic nightmare with long processing delays.

The Trump administration even tried to make it so that if you're working legally while waiting on your extension visa(can take more than 8 months) and it happens to get rejected, they will report you to ICE for deportation proceedings calling the period you worked legally as being illegal, creating a Catch-22 where you're accruing illegal stay after you have to stop working, but cannot leave the country because you're waiting for a court date, since not showing up in a court is another new crime in itself. You have to live without a salary and being able to work at all, and the immigration courts are overloaded and once you accrue 6 months of illegal stay, you can be banned from entering the US for 10 years on any visa.

If you think that sounds too ridiculous to be true, read this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/07/11/new-u...

This is the reason that many talented folks prefer to work for companies on a contract through a staffing company that holds the visa that allows for easier job hopping without losing your chance of getting a green card, or getting fired on Friday and accruing illegal stay starting from Saturday. Otherwise, why would you give away 40% to >50% of your hourly rate to a middleman?

In this new environment, if you somehow get caught in an ICE raid while selling your car for pennies and puting all your belongings that dont fit in luggage in the dumpster or whilepacking your bags, you might get shipped to jail inspite of not violating a single law before you got fired.

The companies oppose these fixes because they will less leverage over their employees on visas and they might job hop more if underpaid or overworked.

Fix these problems instead of creating weird custom rules against staffing companies and the problem will fix itself for the most part.
Ok, so every accused infringer alleges independent discovery. How do you prove or disprove that fact on either side? I think therein lies the reason why this whole line of argumentation is set aside, even if it is logically appealing.
> This is fairly niche, perhaps 1% of all interorganizational database applications, but there are certainly cases where it is the right solution.

So I personally think DLT is going to be one of those multi-quadrillion dollar technologies that come around every few hundred years. The real benefit of DLT is that it enables new types of human relationships. So thinking about it in terms of what percentage of your existing databases should be replaced by it isn't going to give an especially impressive result, because by definition your existing databases are going to model your existing relationships.

Think about what percentage of the stuff in your house you would own without the invention of double entry accounting. Unless you happen to have some veggies from the farmer's market or a sweater one of your relatives knit you, the answer is probably 0.00%. It simply isn't possible to manufacture things like the iPhone without double entry accounting, because without double entry it would be impossible to form the sorts of human relationships needed to produce such a complex product. And if we asked someone to take a look at all the stuff in their house a couple hundred years from now, I'm guessing that a similar 0.00 percentage of the stuff they own will have not have been created as the result of DLT.

The fact is that once DLT becomes ubiquitous it will no longer be cost competitive to manufacture and distribute products using only the sorts of relationships and techniques enabled by double entry accounting. And if anyone even tries it's going to be like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Can you please give a more specific example to illustrate the case?

From my perspective, blockchains are suitable for two things: People who want to misbehave(therefore they don't have legal recourse, independent of the morality of the extralegal actions) and people at war with each other that still need to have a relationship with each other.

It's kind of the perfect technology for a collapsed civilization or the revolutionaries and criminals in the current world order.