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While I think Elena would agree with you (having said "a book, once written, has no more need for it's author" though I'm probably paraphrasing), she isn't trying to stay out of the public eye.

Despite refusing book tours and interviews, she has done many interviews-by-email. She has a regular column in The Guardian, which frequently discusses exactly these issues of gender and authorship.

I think if you want to stay anonymous but keep your public platform, you're welcome to try, but it won't be easy. And I think it isn't wrong to try to understand the people with platforms making public statements and influencing large and important discussions.
We frequently need to update our mental model of the world (e.g., how are things in country X? what can I do there? is it reasonably safe to visit? what happened yesterday at place Y?). However, mainstream news usually gives me little information and whatever it gives is skewed by that channel/journalist political affiliation. I do not know of a general solution. Sometimes it is talking to neighbors; sometimes doing your own research; sometimes reading three sources at war with each other. But to be useful I have to start with specific questions, not open my brain to random sources peddling outrage.

This "updating the world model" can still include reading news, but for me those should be level headed overviews and not emotional appeals. And they do not need to be real-time: reading news 2 weeks later works just as well and cuts down on "you would not BELIEVE what just happened" type of coverage.

> I cringed when reading "I Hate the News" because it came across as very naive.

To me, this is simple, might be a bit simplistic, rather than naive. Which is good -- erring on the side of simplicity is better than giving such a "nuanced" approach that one cannot get any actionable advice from reading something. I may agree or disagree, but I prefer opinion posts to have clear advice (maybe this is just my preference).

> It's the same logic young people use to justify not voting

I see no problem there. When voting offers two choices, both of which unattractive, it is OK in my book to abstain. I grew up in a place practicing one-candidate votes (i.e., you choose between "in favor" that in the end will show 95+% and "against" with no alternatives) so acquired immunity to "citizen votes solve all problems" mentality.

> Find new sources, find your news. While today's news doesn't effect you directly, it might tomorrow, or it might effect your friend, loved one or neighbor.

The news should not affect my family or friends. Change in the real world could; but I think "news" is not a great source of information to detecting such changes. Just my 2c.
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I would bet if you actually look another layer deep you'd find out it has nothing to do with "the media," ad-supported or not. I think you'd find a lot of people have little use for (and little interest in) the truth, and therefore voluntarily seek out a fun us-vs-them worldview with a group to hate (on both sides).
Yeah, to me he seems like the gullible victim here. In addition to anyone who buys it, I suppose.
Why didn't AOL, Yahoo then succeed in the same way in USA?

I'm very curious if we shall see the `minitelization` of the Internet, ( `minitel` service popular in France pre-WWW? )
That is absolutely not the case
They do have a music app for subscribers which is much better.
Maybe they’ve discovered a unicorn. Maybe they have a fusion powered internet. How do you really know? Bottom line is we know labor is getting screwed. The rest is marketing.
which if you want to go down that route I think it's important to note that many of the policies meant to protect against the specter of voter fraud in the US drastically increase the cost of voting on a segment of population that the propagating party (Republicans in this case) does not consider to be a part of their base. Sure, this could be accidental, but with the number of times it has happened in separate places with separate policies by the same party, I don't consider it particularly likely to be an accident.

The reason I bring this up is because in the current US system, I would posit that the harder it is for a person to vote, the more likely it that your vote is important given the political capital and effort expended to make sure it is hard for that person to vote. (again, this is predicated on the belief that I do not consider this phenomenon to be accidental in any way)
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Here's a more reasonable question. If you ask 10,000 random workers from various tech companies if they'd be willing to leave in exchange for more than a year of salary, + benefits, + a bonus. What percent would say yes? We can only imagine, but it's going to be huge.

If you don't want to leave, don't apply. And on that note - yeah people did have to apply, and some were rejected.
Yes, you can still go to the wilderness, although even that is disappearing fast. But in 1985 you didn't have to retreat from civilization to be far from home. Today you do.

I travelled to Europe in 1985. When I landed in London I quickly realized that I had vastly underestimated the cost of living and I didn't have enough money with me to last to the end of the trip. Today that problem would be fixed with a trip to the ATM, but back then there were no ATMs. Dealing with contingencies like that was a big part of the experience. When you travelled in 1985 you did it without a net (pun intended) because there was no net. But you didn't have to leave civilization behind. Today you do.
Judging by the posts on this layoff board, most of the layoffs are older, more expensive folk, so it seems like Verizon is going to bring on younger cheaper labor just ahead of its rollout of 5G...we'll see how that plays out. Also it sounds like 44k people were offered the voluntary severance package and 10k accepted...almost 1/3 of the organization was offered a VSP? Insane:

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/WynLh8d#replies
Hell it surprised half the people internally that got fired using this
Politically, I agree with you, but your comment is akin to when republicans blast global warming when a snow storm blows in. Pointing to a single data point as a summary of something super complex is always silly.
While big pharma does do internal r&d, de facto, new drugs and drug strategies largely come by letting the government fund researchers (typically professors at large research institutes), encouraging these professors to do a spin-off (I deliberately don't want to use "startup") to absorb the scientific risk, followed by an acquisition for IP.
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>You don't have permission to access /business/article/Scooter-mechanic-once-homeless-says-cheap-rides-13448873.php on this server.

is anyone else getting this 403 error?

EDIT: Comment is at -1 now and i'm still getting the error. Could the downvoters comment on why this comment is worthy of downvotes?
Hate speech is subjective though. For example saying “men aren’t women” is hate speech and will get you banned from Twitter. https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/hilltv/rising/42003...
> I guess one can pocket more rewards once your patent is proven to be more valuable to the company. The question is how much and in what form.

I doubt most companies are going to further compensate employees for this. And Qualcomm doesn't strike me as super loyal to their employees but I might be wrong.
You seem very certain.

"Future survival of our own species"? Nah. The last human being will eat the last cockroach. We have made technology to adapt to living on the moon. We might make things painful for humanity in general, might even break civilization (although I think that's unlikely). But survival of the species? We haven't yet invented technology that can wipe out humans.

As for our "evil", "obscenely inflated population levels"... well, what do you think we should do about it? Because the only "solution" I can see to this thing that horrifies you is what the Nazis called a Final Solution. The global population is what it is, whether you like it or not. If you had Thanos' infinity glove, would you use it? Would you use it, knowing you're just knocking the population back to 1965 levels?
Most real shutting down announcements are titled with some spin that makes it sound like the opposite though like: "The next chapter of advancing Y-Combinator"
I know man, I feel you., I've spent my whole life trying to get down to people's level so they don't think I'm making stuff up. And you know what? It made it worse. It made me feel fake and closed. It led me to failed friendships and broken hearts.

Some time ago I just decided fuck it. I'm not gonna do it. And my life has been way better - the more I decided to be "me" and less "me disguised as an average person because I don't wanna scare everyone off and end up alone" the happier I was. And now I'm just like "okay whatever you wanna believe". (Unless it's work related, then I lead them to the conclusion by asking questions that will hopefully "connect their dots")
> At no point was that ever insinuated.

Then when is the meaning of the parent comment?

> why are they doing the opposite of what the tax cuts were supposed to do?

I'm curious what news you're reading or consuming.

Wages are up 3.1% YoY (biggest increase in 10 years) and unemployment lowest since 1969: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/31/wages-and-salaries-jump-by-3...

2.7 Million more full-time jobs since January 1, when the tax cuts went into effect.
Debt default.
Actually that was a trick they used in Windows 8 betas. They put a weird puzzle watfermark on it, except they were all exactly the same!

However I guarantee this was real, but hasn’t been a part of the Xbox experience for yearrrs
That is certainly not the same as "sold by Best Buy". It is sold and shipped by CC Trading Bridge. IANAL, but I would suspect the fact that this is a 3rd party seller that is not even using Best Buy fulfillment centers would provide Best Buy a certain level of protection from legal ramifications. This isn't much different from EBay.
Partner at a VC fund generally means you have a proven track record picking winning deals or bringing on investors and have been given a seat at the adult table by the other existing partners. Usually it involves putting up some of your own money so you have skin in the game. Doesn't necessarily require startup success of your own.
Not really. They offloaded those data centers to 3p controllers. They refused backdoors publicly for the US, so likely they'd either exit publicly or create an "Aussie iCloud" like china.
Sounds like empty political rhetoric and speculation.

That's exactly what it is...which is why it is currently the top comment. HN never disappoints.
Brave is based on Chromium, how are they able to claim "loads major news sites 2 to 8 times faster than Chrome/Safari on mobile and 2 times faster than Chrome on desktop"?

Just simply by running an adblocker?
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> At no point was that ever insinuated.

This is the parent comment, in its entirety:

> I'm so glad we passed those corporate tax cuts that created all those jobs and helped provide for all those raises everyone got....

If that doesn't count as insinuation, then nothing does.
Biologics do not contain living organisms. For example monoclonal antibodies are considered biologics and are not alive, they can also easily be made “generic”.
Nonsense. You were producing shit people enjoyed reading, how is a number indicating this not a measure of your value to others?
Thanks for open sourcing staffjoy by the way. That was awesome.
Two companies in two weeks have announced 10,000+ layoffs. Rumor is Ford is about to as well.
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I can imagine one of the reasons it might be useful is if you have a badly written argument parser that only accepts single-dash commands, but you need to pass a long argument (that gets shelled out). However, it's entirely opt-in so I imagine this is not practically useful for most programs.

Notably, GCC's -W<foo> works the same way. You could do "gcc --all" if you wanted to.
Why isn't it a distance squared relation?
That's normal, as the default mindset is the scarcity mindset, part of the survival instincts. I've had this for as long as I can remember, although for me it definitely starts to fade with age.
Can't speak for the OP, but saying you are able to live without working is no the same as saying that you won't work. When discussing financial security and financial worries, being able to survive and fulfill all your obligations until your death without holding a job is the point where you are "free" from having to worry about finances. It doesn't mean you won't work, and many of us would continue to have a day job in such a case, it just means that we wouldn't have to worry about how to take care of our family if we got fired.
And what if Qualcomm had lost this lawsuit?

I’m sure there would be people saying, “This is a political move against an American company. No way would a Chinese judge rule in favor of an American company right now.”
Yes but it's not an exhaustive test. There are many illnesses that are very expensive to screen for and some that are basically undetectable.
People have said Intel contracted out fab capacity that is competing with the 8700k, because they expected to be moving to another node and having excess capacity on that one but now they don't.
You've listed the names of various fallacies. Logical fallacies. But what logic are you saying is fallacious in the parent comment? The commenter has their own set of biases and hueristics for choosing what to spend their limited time in.

Unless they follow it up with, "and for these reasons, these are the correct books to read" then there is no fallacy.
>But after I get enough rest or flu passes, puff, my obsession with trauma is gone. So I'm not quite sure if traumas are often the cause not just symptom.

That is true for the most part. However sometimes there are ongoing stressors that aren't easily resolved (such as a problematic relationship or job). In those cases the stress is ongoing, and can lead to detrimental health effects.

And even when the stress has been removed, sometimes the illness can continue (as happens in CFS, which I suffered from myself). In these situations it may be the stress and depression from the illness itself that leads to a vicious cycle.
I'll second you on agadmator, the explanations are excellent.
If carriers let outsiders buy cell tower data there is literally nothing you can do except switch on airplane mode.
>If you are correct and you vote, nothing happens.

Or you get into a car accident, or just waste some time and energy getting to the polling station, or waste a stamp if voting by mail.

>If you are wrong but you vote, you help make change.

Not necessarily a good change. You could be the one that enables bad things to come about.

Pascal's wager was always a bad argument because it assumes there's no cost to living as though there is a God. You made it worse by assuming that your vote will necessarily make things better in the situation where it does anything at all.
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There's a pretty solid evaluation of the new system in terms of the old ones at: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/wiki/Evaluation...

Indeed maidenhead seems to be the strongest of the previous approaches, they rejected it because it can include words.
> Why aren't you asking this of all the comments in this parent?

I don't need to ask everyone in the thread, polluting the thread. I'm asking why you have made several statements in this thread insinuating the corporate tax cut has benefited the economy, with no evidence. My comment includes citations. Bring data, not feelings or unsubstantiated opinions.
Corporate taxes are about 11% of total Federal revenue. If they were cut to zero, that would be bad, but it would not cause the collapse of the dollar or a war.
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Well probably all of them - otherwise they would have done it differently! :)
Or Melbourne, Québec, Canada?
The US is structured as a representative democracy, specifically because following politics and making reasoned decisions on all this stuff is a full time job. We elect people who we think will do a good job researching, reasoning and governing.

I started my academic career in political science, I thought I wanted to be a journalist. Ultimately found that computer science had problems that I was better at working through.

Different people have different strengths, there's nothing wrong with outsourcing your news consumption and analysis to someone who represents your interests.
Except he's probably getting paid...
You're thinking Voyager 1, which left the solar system in 2012. This is reporting on Voyager 2.
Neil Postman has a lot to say on this topic, which he terms the "news of the day" throughout Amusing Ourselves to Death. For example:

"This idea — that there is a content called “the news of the day” — was entirely created by the telegraph (and since amplified by newer media), which made it possible to move decontextualized information over vast spaces at incredible speed. The news of the day is a figment of our technological imagination. It is quite, precisely, a media event. We attend to fragments of events from all over the world because we have multiple media whose forms are well suited to fragmented conversation."

“How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise have taken, or provides insight into some problem you are required to solve? For most of us, news of the weather will sometimes have consequences; for investors, news of the stock market; perhaps an occasional story about crime will do it, if by chance it occurred near where you live or involved someone you know. But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action."

"You may get a sense of what this means by asking yourself another series of questions: What steps do you plan to take to reduce the conflict in the Middle East? Or the rates of inflation, crime and unemployment? What are your plans for preserving the environment or reducing the risk of nuclear war? What do you plan to do about NATO, OPEC, the CIA, affirmative action, and the monstrous treatment of the Baha’is in Iran? I shall take the liberty of answering for you: You plan to do nothing about them. You may, of course, cast a ballot for someone who claims to have some plans, as well as the power to act. But this you can do only once every two or four years by giving one hour of your time, hardly a satisfying means of expressing the broad range of opinions you hold. Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into—what else?—another piece of news. Thus, we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.”
Not more than pre-tax cut trend. The critique was always that companies aren't hurting for cash so a tax cut is pointless and will only balloon the deficit. That's exactly what has happened. We gained nothing but a shorter debt bomb fuse.
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Public auctions are one way that this chain is broken. Must have been from the old days when movement of objects was more difficult, but something put up for a public auction can be inspected and claimed by someone as stolen, but afterwords people get to keep what they bought. Thus auctions for lost luggage, police stuff, car auctions, etc.

Also there is a special rule for cash. Stolen cash is not treated this way, so if a bank is robbed and has all the serial numbers, they can't take the money from you if you happen to get one of the bills in a transaction.
Retaliate by awarding an American company a favorable judgement and enforcing American IP laws?
It's comments like this that keep me coming back to Hacker News. I sometimes find myself in political discussions with people and feel that they aren't playing fair for whatever reason (fair in the sense of good natured truth-seeking). Your counter-example is the perfect, non-snarky retort.
it's tough to declare later that you have made nothing of value and will close shop.

It's not that you've made nothing of value or that there was no need, it's simply that you weren't able to build a viable business from what you were doing. It doesn't even mean that nobody could build a viable business, it may be that your definition of viable is different from someone else's (e.g. minimum required growth numbers, desire for an acquisition, etc.).
When Aaron died, I cried. First and only time I’ve cried for anyone’s passing.

The world lost a great one that day. Thanks for helping us remember him.
Here's a quote from the link you sent:

> The health effects of LCS are inconclusive, with research showing mixed findings.
I had no idea that anyone on earth felt this way.
> At no point was that ever insinuated

Are you serious man? Why be so dishonest? It's clear as day that that's what you were insinuating. Why lie like this?
Thanks I didn't know that. For those interested, here are the top 5 results I found from searching "apache 2 license software patent" on duckduckgo.com:

https://opensource.com/article/18/2/how-make-sense-apache-2-...

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1881/against-...

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Patent_clauses_in_software_licences...

https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

http://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html

Edit: looks like Apache 2 is compatible with GPLv3 but only in one direction. So if an Apache 2 work is derived from a GPLv3 work then it must be distributed under GPLv3 as well. Personally I've always preferred the MIT license over the GPL because I feel that the emergent effects of the spread of free software are more important than any incentive to create free software, but I might switch to Apache 2 now.

I wonder if there is any precedent from other cases where a company sued a competitor but the case was thrown out because the plaintiff was ruled to not really be a competitor (because it never sold anything).
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You are correct. Since the profit or capital gain in a ponzi scheme is stolen money, the fair thing is to return everyone's principle as much as it is possible.

Of course this will come as a relief to the late investors and it will be heartbreaking for the early investors whose profits are clawed back since those profits are stolen property.

I do commiserate with the early investors who had to return their profits, but stolen property is stolen property whether they knew it was stolen or not.

I can't imagine booking profits for years or decades and having to return all of it. As you noted, the opportunity costs are immense for these people.
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What makes you think he isn’t just interested in video games, discovered emulators and liked the product and saw that it wasn’t being marketed to his audience?

Are you familiar with the ways musicians, particularly in hip hop, diversify their business portfolios by selling product lines?

Are you familiar with Fenty, Beats by Dre, etc?