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> I'm assuming that you don't think risking making no money is enough to entitle a founder to their entire employees wage. How much does it entitle them to?

The amount they mutually agree upon. The employee wouldn't agree to work indefinitely for no pay.

The high compensation of successful founders is actually one of the things keeping salaries up, because any of the salaried employees has the option to quit and found their own company. The existing company has to pay well enough to compete with that -- because if what they're paying wasn't actually competitive with that alternative given the relative risk between them, why would anybody accept the salary?
That may have been true once, but I don’t think it is true today.

Scale effects and negotiation power means large companies are able to reach structurally lower costs per unit than small ones, which creates an incentive to grow big. This also makes them slow to respond to change, so normally upstarts push them aside. But in the modern VC-backed ecosystem competitors are bought out without having a say in it. The upstart becomes part of the big player.

Even if companies thread that needle and grow big, shareholders love mergers (for reasons I still don’t understand), so over time you get fewer and fewer big players. The regulatory capture is just icing on the cake, but I think you would get market concentration anyway, unless the government took a stronger stance against mergers and acquisitions.
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The danger of a monopoly lies in its ability to exploit a market, not in its longevity.

Markets can change in ways that destroy monopolies. For example, if in 1900 you had a monopoly on horse-drawn carriages, that wouldn't have prevented you from being put out of business by the advent of the automobile.
I'm sure that it's all the lack of regulation and not the fact that there wasn't any software more than a few decades ago whereas cars and planes are twice as old as electronic computers.
Yep, nowhere in the post does he suggest regretting chosing "." to denote the current working directory.
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> The main non-governmental one is economies of scale, but that has a hard limit.

For anyone interested, this concept is called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_optimal_firm_size
Imagine if there were no governments. Big companies could hire mercenaries to enforce their contracts, but small companies would have no means at all to protect themselves.
I think the key distinction is capitalism vs corporatism. Corporatism is feudalism wearing a capitalist mask. The elite companies in the top do operate in a free market, but the story for the rest of society is radically different. I think in the US today we have a corporatist society. Your kid wants to setup a lemonade stand on the lawn? Get ready for a visit from the police. A multinational corporation wants to produce and sell a product that involves a real possibility of poisoning the groundwater? Sure, we're all about capitalism!

It's a really ridiculous system and it's the consequence of the fact that regulatory organizations have started to become a tool for multinationals to exploit at their whims, rather than a tool to effect positive change in society as a whole. So it ends up in a system where individual to small business capitalism is hyper over-regulated whereas big business and multinational capitalism is regulated on paper yet laissez faire in practice.
Yeah bit of an odd request for me to send you my business contacts. It really is being in an industry long enough to build a reputation to get things done. And these are enterprise projects, there’s no sexiness here. This is webforms in .NET type of stuff. Learning to ignore that the codebase is imperfect and will never be reasonable is one of the reasons I get calls.
Do any immutable open source databases exist?
The aggregator might lack some targeting options of the native platform, the UI could be different, it would be a new point of failure and I would need to trust my money with the intermediary.
> Maybe in 15 years time when Desktop Linux still doesn't work correctly you might get wise to the myriad of reasons why it will never work.

Yet, here I am, having used Linux on the desktop for over 15 years. Unlike all the years I used Windows, I've never had to reinstall Linux. No BSODs, booting into safe mode, restoring registry backups, manually installing cryptic INF files, anti-virus software, etc. Works For Me. Sorry that you didn't enjoy it. Hope you have fun back in Windows land.
I used that $7 amount for 1M invocations. I trust your math, you're passionate and it sounds like you have first hand knowledge.

The economics are laid before us like a golden fleece.
A few points...

Eating asphalt was a consequence of user not knowing the scooter has a rear foot brake. We also don't know exactly what happened except for a 63yo rider decided to scoot down a hill on a rental, and claims brakes didn't work.

Without knowing the full story including the exact condition or problem with scooter, you can't just believe everything you read. This is particularly true when said "victims" are no doubt hungry for compensation claims.

A 63yo is less able to take evasive action such as using foot to brake at speed and maintain balance before it's too late.

So yes, until evidence proves otherwise, I'm blaming the 63yo for the accident they had. We can't "Nanny" the world at every micro-step. Take some responsibility.
A guy posted his Shown HN: here that was hyperlit-meets-DnD game/engine that was exceptionally good and worked very well on mobile. I wonder what happened that, I was super super impressed by it. It was very good at scope.
Where can I find the "wat2wast utility" mentioned in your article?
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No worries, same here :)
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> i think that's why plot-rich video games are so popular as an alternative means of storytelling - they're based around really good writing, but also involve some core interactive mechanics that keep the audience engaged, challenged, and empathetic rather than distracted or frustrated

I'm not sure I agree here. The power of a medium is not in its ability to tell a well-written story, because such a story can easily be made good in any medium. Instead, it is in the ability to make what is a mediocre or fairly cookie-cutter story into an engaging one.

For video games, that feature is essentially interactivity, or the ability of the player to feel that they are actually causing the story to move forward. Ōkami is a game whose story boils down to an anthology of Japanese mythology and folktales with a loose framing device, but is widely praised for the fact that its core mechanic (the use of calligraphy to attack) is tightly intertwined with its graphical display and underpins the framing portion of the sory it tells. Return of the Obra Dinn tells a story reminiscent of any urban legend of a ship's disappearance, but what makes it interesting is that you experience the story backwards and only short snippets of it as people die.
I love these posts ! Once or twice I was lucky enough to have had a somewhat similar intense debug-puzzle's to solve myself. Wonderful times :)
strace is a god send !
> and people do want it to reflect well on their profile/CV.

Ah, there you have it. It's not related to Open Source.

The problems so oft complained about usually show up when what you really want is to be popular. Popularity takes more work, and different kind of work, than just delivering software with open source.
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More to the point, foreign carriers are literally not allowed to fly US domestic routes. Plenty of international competition would love to (and foreign governments might even subsidise those flights!) but trade protection keeps them out.
I edited my comment a few times after I posted it. I hope that you are responding to the most recent version, but your response leaves some doubt in my mind that this is the case. I am certainly passionate about recognizing that there are no perfect tech solutions, including DigitalOcean and Lambda.
I have essentially zero knowledge of how all this stuff works but I wonder if this is from something going on much deeper in the Earth, like perhaps the very core itself just gurgled on a chunk of Earth that fell in or something.
As a former TA for one of the "bad" professors, you can somewhat rescue your rating, but you basically have to be a hero, and the professor needs to not be malicious (if the prof wants to fail everyone, not a lot you can do).

You have to attend every lecture (I did anyway), redirect / fix during discussion / lab, help them learn what they need to know to pass the exams, and if you have time, what they should remember when the term is over for their future academic / work careers.

Only bad ratings I recall were from students who only attended the last discussion section; it's hard to teach 10 weeks of theoretical CS in 50 minutes.
Thiel's monopoly comments seem to provoke a lot of confusion; they make more sense if you replace the word "monopoly" with "a position in the market such that customers are willing to pay significantly more for what you sell than for their best available alternative." Some examples:

* Apple is able to charge a premium on iPhones relative to the best non-Apple alternatives because a lot of people are willing to pay it. (Do they have a monopoly on smartphones? Definitely not; there are loads of companies selling good phones. But they have a monopoly on their smartphones.)

* Fast food joints are forced into heated low-margin competition with each other because they're pretty interchangeable. If McDonald's starts charging too much, people will just shrug and buy basically the same food from Burger King.

* Classic monopolies are extreme cases. At one point if you wanted telephone service in the US you either paid whatever AT&T was charging or you didn't get telephone service.

When people hear Thiel's comments they tend to think of classic monopolies, but most of the examples he gives are of companies that have plenty of competitors -- and a durable advantage that they can use to maintain decent profits margins without customers jumping ship.
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Bicycles powered by humans are "helmets only" mostly out of necessity. You're generating a lot of heat, and things can go really badly for you if you're working up a sweat in full motorcycle gear.

Well, talking about the weight of the vehicle is a red herring here. With the exception of getting hit/crushed by the vehicle, the human component of going down is all about speed, fleshy weight, and ride-height.

I'm also not expecting people to ATGATT while on the scooters, but without doing that, injuries are definitely going to rise with increased use.
The bottom of the article is “99.9% just noise and 0.1% it’s something” and says no one knows. Sounds like not a very big article
The twitter exchanges between the geologists mentioned in the article are great.

They talk in real life how hackers talk only in movies. Very jealous.

https://twitter.com/matarikipax/status/1061590953876582402

https://twitter.com/ALomaxNet/status/1061637338709790721
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> The technology to submit and receive votes on proposals is only trivial until you think about the details, especially those required for security and authentication.

This is a major problem for country-level populations. For corporations it typically comes pre-solved by the corporation itself, because each employee would have a company email address or Active Directory account etc. that could be used for authentication. (In theory the corporation could illegally tamper with the results that way, but the tampering would be immediately obvious to the person whose vote was changed.)

> If the losing side in any of those could have just said "nope" to accepting the result, they would have.

Because they're using the union for the wrong stuff. A lot of the votes would be for things like accepting a policy that gives raises to only senior people. No doubt the junior people being screwed over by that policy would strenuously object when they're the 49%, especially when being in the union deprives them of the opportunity to negotiate something else as an individual.

But how many Google employees have that kind of personal stake in a question like whether to censor search results in China?
Hey, I’m the author of the article. Despite its age, it’s still accurate and up-to-date.

> these features aren't entirely new

Depends on what you mean by that. These features are still not universally supported by all modern browsers, for example, so I can imagine they’re still new to a lot of developers.

Chrome supports all these features (except for String#matchAll, which is currently at Stage 3). Other browsers don’t yet support the full set, but they’re all working on getting there.
I think it's obvious that the smaller and less dangerous something seems, that the more risk people will take and the more injuries will occur. The fact that people use them on the sidewalk is bad enough.
I make sure to keep the article up-to-date. It correctly states the status for each of the features. They’re all part of ES2018 with the exception of String#matchAll which is currently at Stage 3.
This descends pretty quickly into politics, but Nationalised infrastructure should be managed by a government organisation who's goal is to deliver a quality product at (or slightly above) cost.

These organisations in turn report to the executive government of the day, who's interests should be aligned with that of the citizens they were elected to represent.
This appears to be a slightly reworked extract of

https://www.xda-developers.com/cheetah-mobile-ad-fraud-andro...
I believe the rental scooters can not be folded. They install a collar around that part to prevent them being folded up and stolen. Or perhaps it's just to reduce any risk of them not being unlocked properly from folded position.
I am not sure if the FOV issues has been solved but it is being improved a lot in the next version according to patent filings https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-found-way-double-hololens-...
Unsurprisingly, the article provides zero details as to how a blockchain actually solves any problems here. Frankly, it's very obviously useless for all "supply chain" related ideas. If you're going to do something illegal why would you record it in a blockchain?
Nothing? Unless use drops because of the news/awareness/users injuring themselves, capitalism demands that they offload the costs to the public, minimize their liability, and maximize their returns.
Nicely done - excellent presentation. I hope this becomes a thing in Visual Studio Code.
Your viewpoint makes sense if you see the US Armed Forces as a incorruptible benevolent force.

Take a look at police forces who claim to "serve and protect" while summarily executing random citizens (sorry, wrong house SWATTING) or racially motivated (black kid with toy = imminent threat).
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We actually never got our bugs solved. My particular favorite was CLJ-1741, which made reloading code with Cursive basically not work in our code base. Opened in 2015, effectively abandoned to its fate in 2016.
microsoft mentioned earlier this year that it would release the new version in 19
Capitalism lacked a single intellectual backing in the way that communism did (speaking in general terms). Wikipedia also says differently on the etymology of capitalism - Louis Blanc was apparently the first person to use it in the modern sense [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Etymology
> I've wanted to create a marketplace for "80% done" projects

But you have stopped working on it when you were 80% done? :)
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I mean, they have been solved. With the exception of String#matchAll (which is currently a Stage 3 proposal), all these features are part of ES2018 and shipping in Chrome. Other browsers implement some of them already and are working on shipping more.

You can view the implementation status of the various features here: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es2016plus/#test-RegEx...
just because software exists on layer(s) of abstraction means nothing. It still requires hardware to run on - and still adheres to the laws of physics. I don't take much stock in your clean argument at all.
Are you misunderstanding that the ‘medical devices’ I was referring to are just like the Epi-Pen, and pre-filled with epinephrine for one-time use? I assume your reference to inhalers was to drugs similar to albuterol that include aerosol delivery ‘devices.’
Thanks for changing my mind on this, I was looking at it in an overly simplistic way
This is very cool but I found the color shifting highly disruptive to actually soaking in the text...
https://www.jamesyu.org/hot-spot/

And then the text moves. Nope.
In this case the argument is that Congress never actually explicitly legislated the original Muscogee Creek reservation out of existence.

The examples you listed don't appear to be similar.
Problem is that big money, aka capitalism, has been winning from government froms like democracy, and communism.

You can see this in rusia where after 1990 communism has been replaced by big money government, not democracy. In china same thing, communism has been replaced with big money government, a capitalist economic system.

And you see the same trend in the US where a democratic government has been replaced by a big money capitalistic government, only interested in serving the needs of money making.

And without a government system making rules to minimize the negative impact of the economic system, we can see all the negative aspects of capitalism. Exploitation of humans, winner takes all.

Capitalism is winning even at the level of government, and this is what it looks like.

Just like we see the need to separate state and religion, we should also separate state from the economic model. Democracy and capitalism aren't one and the same thing. Democratic governments have multiple economic models to choose from, depending on the problem they want to solve.
No stupid questions time, but given all languages, would an array based language like J be a decent choice for building a database from scratch?

I mean, tables seem like doubly indexed arrays.

In my mind it wouldn't be readable but it'd be maybe less lines of code than other languages?

I have never thought about building a database that takes into consideration CAP theorem and ACID compliance, sounds super tough. I'm usually happy enough when I learn something neat about Postgres.

I thought this would be neat but it's just a kv store in JavaScript.
To this day I want an older 16:10 thinkpad to run xubuntu on. Happy with my 2013 mbpr, however.
For what it's worth, if a private company held a monopoly on the roads in this country I would bet dollars to donuts that we'd have flying cars by now.
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The great thing about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad thing about computers is that they do what you tell them to do.

The world is very complex, and it's often hard for the programmer or even the person training the AI to foresee every corner case of a complex system. The good thing about humans is that they can react on very small data, by knowing things from experience. They can think about what they're doing.

If we make advances toward a general AI this gap could close. Except in the media hype cycle I haven't seen any evidence that we're any closer than 50 years ago.
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They've become more stringent over time because there are more flights now, and had they not become more stringent, then we would have daily crashes and fewer people would be willing to fly.
This article is from October. A recent unmanned launch of Soyuz went well and the next manned launch with ISS crew is scheduled for December 3rd.
Wait, why is this site in English? According to Google, only 10% of the Indian population speaks English.
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There have been incidents of people cutting the brake lines on the bikeshare bikes that are scattered all around Seattle. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these scooter accidents are from similar deliberate sabotage.
There's one important nuance here. Those machines are playing against super human defense. In human chess there are countless positions that computers can easily defend whereas even the best players in the world would lose nearly every time. Finding only moves in very complex positions is not really that hard for most modern programs. Doing this over and over for humans, let alone with limited time and with mental fatigue a very real issue, is just not possible to consistently do.

This position hadn't reached that critical of a juncture yet, but that's largely because Magnus just started winging it long before the final position. His position was much stronger earlier on. But even in the final position he was very much the attacker and Fabiano's clock was starting to run low. In practical chess, Fabiano definitely faced an uphill battle to try to draw that position.
What if we would train computers to compose same way as we teach composition students: renaissance counterpoint, fugues of Bach and harmonic structuring of classical era (sonata form)?
What were in is not capitalism, uts crony capitalism aka not capitalism. The question is, if every form of economy/government is bound to be corrupted, is this form of fake capitalism the best option? Or is there an untested alternative?
What were in is not capitalism, its crony capitalism aka not capitalism. The question is, if every form of economy/government is bound to be corrupted, is this form of fake capitalism the best option? Or is there an untested alternative?
In fact, Google has been actively trying to migrate their code base to C++17 compatible status for several years. It just took much more time than the initial estimation.
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I fell off my bike going downhill after hitting a pothole going roughly 30mph. I wasn't wearing a helmet. Yes, it was exceptionally irresponsible of me. The accident looked so bad, it stopped car traffic all around me and I heard a driver saying, "Oh my God, he's dead" because I wasn't moving and had blood all over me. When I got to the ER, the doctors said I'm lucky to be alive with the head trauma I suffered (remarkably, only a concussion). I walked away with horrible road rash (and a bald spot) on the back of my head. I got several cuts on my face that made me bleed profusely. My arm looked mangled, but it was just really scratched up.

What the fuck do you mean 25mph isn't fast on a bike?
Our money system is not a government institution.
Like Google employee Facebook employee would have done something, if they were any good.

Sorry for being harsh.

Reference: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/27/read-google-employees-open-l...

Hanging more good quotes in the facebook's office wall doesn't make you any good, you are part of an organisation that creating more problems in the world, you are the reason. Unless you act and do your part.
This is a quote from someone on the investigation not the author of the article.

You should read it all, it's a somewhat interesting read.