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The behaviour that your co-workers claim Google engaged in sounds pretty exactly like the AMD-Intel antitrust case where AMD alleged that Intel's C compiler was deliberately crippling performance on AMD processors to help Intel's processors compete. If true, Microsoft should sue Google over it - not just out of raw corporate self-interest, but because this sort of conduct is evil and should be stamped out.

If this case hasn't already been run up to Microsoft's lawyers, start running it up to them. You'll be doing the world a service.
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Thanks! I basically checked how other embeddable companies are doing, but you are right, I think it could be simpler now, thanks!
What do you mean by "this"? Because special restrictions on buildings with perceived historical significance seems to be something done in most countries.
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So basically there are two possibilities here:

- put pervasive face recog databases on the big majority of the US population in hands of huge multinational companies (because America) so an opulent Joe The Programmer can feel a little extra safety over his stuff, because Those Scary Plebs can steal their Juicero juicer

- work on societal problems, reduce the inequality to reduce the risk of robbing and accept whatever risk is left because the societal cost of pervasive corp surveillance is just too high

The fact that sizable number of people feel that the former in any way preferable is pretty damning.
Maybe. $10/month times 1 billion people is $120B a year... that should be enough to run an entertainment industry.
I think, given who he's choosing to be photographed with there, it's -probably- not the "crass idiocy" option there.
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Wait what? You are your own devils advocate.
>did not have a drug problem, although he was aware that his son took drugs recreationally.

"recreationally", good luck with recreational weed, Americans.
Slightly off topic, but it's not the only thing fishy about the article. In the "Backstory", he talks about his first (failed) venture and this really stood out to me (emphasis mine):

> We were kids and we were selling virtual server space for games like Counter Strike or World of Warcraft to other kids.

Blizzard has never sanctioned third party or self hosted servers, if you're hosting WoW on a private server you're breaking ToS and risking a hefty lawsuit. I have to wonder if that contributed to the failure of his first company, or if perhaps it was just a poor choice of game title to embellish his story. Either way, it smacks of dishonesty.
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Over time, in my case, I've seen that there's a certain threshold for eating (refined) sugar. Once I go past that, flare-ups start.

After years of trying this/that (including UV), tetracycline was the first thing that helped -a lot-. So there's an infectious component. Sebacious blockage (humidity is one factor) followed by infection seems a likely culprit.

I've also noticed something I've never seen mentiond: facial eruptions are often symmetrical on the horizontal. Maybe that's hygiene-related.

Acne sells a lot of product; maybe that's why there's been little resolution (apart from treating the symptoms instead of the cause) in decades.
I am sorry to tell you the rest of the world also uses slash with dates, it's not just a US thing.
But with same field order.
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I was thinking on the same lines, although are they still mushrooms in that case?
Plus there precedents for very tall flowering/fruiting spikes
> do developers still refer to their job as "IT" in some places?

Probably anywhere that is not a "tech company" and where the software being developed for internal use. A large fraction of developers are building custom back-office systems for insurance companies, department stores, shipping companies, engine manufacturers, etc.

Most of those developers don't read hn, know or think about functional programming or anything more modern than Java 7, etc.

I think most of us on HN are probably in the same bubble.
How does addiction run in a family? Are people with specific genes more prone to addiction than others?
This is really helpful, especially in getting feedback from the team and using those feedback to improvise on things which are already implemented.
antibiotics usually help - once. They also nuke a lot of things with them. And I recall a study showing they literally make you dumber - although I'm not certain on that.

I think acne has been 'solved' with isotretinoin mostly
The price per person goes down if everyone pays.
Insinuating that anybody disagreeing with you must be corrupt (I. e. have a financial interest) is the sort of assumption of bad faith that destroys any serious discussion.
Thanks for heads up - will look into that right away.
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> Let's say you have a historian who believes that historical group X were terrible human beings. How likely do you suppose that this historian would be open to new information that shed new light on group X, with some positive and possibly redemptive qualities?

Pretty much all historians face that whenever analyzing WWII. Answer is partly in historians not making direct moral judgement in their historical work. The goal is not to decide whether people were "good" or "bad". That is for philosophers and fiction writers.
I've never played Powder Toy, but I do remember playing something called Powder Game. Are they related in some way?
Debt always matters when it's that large of a sum. If he borrows $10b over six years against $65b in shares, he would have been dramatically better off liquidating $10b worth of stock over ~18 months when it was worth $125b-$145b and having zero debt. He's 54, has been at the helm for 24 years and isn't going to run Amazon forever, the market isn't going to freak out if he sells a few points more of stock.

Is Amazon heading toward an 18 PE ratio against $20-$25 billion in profit? $360b-$450b market cap, versus a $778b market now (already down ~$250 billion from the highs). At some point in the near future will their profit growth stagnate, Microsoft or Intel style, for most of a decade; and will their multiple compress over time with that stagnation? Historically that's the very likely outcome (or far worse).

The stock market goes down with the next recession, the very high S&P 500 / market multiple gets chopped down to a more reasonable historical level. After several years pass and the smoke clears, Amazon's AWS growth has slowed considerably, its online retail growth is single digits, and the market awards it a mature slower growth 15-20 style PE ratio.

There has never been an exception in the tech world, when it comes to multiple compression. The compression monster comes for everyone. Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Apple, Facebook, Google, etc have all suffered it. There will never be an exception. Amazon isn't going to get an 80 PE ratio on $20b in profit, the market will squeeze it perpetually down. It's very likely the party top is already over (the next time we see such absurdly low market-supporting interest rates, it'll be because of a recession, and stocks will have plunged accordingly).

When it comes to the cost of funding Blue Origin (which is very high), I think he will have wished he sold more stock while it was on the moon during this stock market bonanza, where even very low growth stocks like Intuit are still fetching hilarious 50 PE ratios.

And these are the reasonable scenarios. The dangerous scenario, where you're nuts to borrow $10 billion against stock, is where Amazon is disrupted (AWS particularly), or the economy gets really bad and Amazon gets a 16 PE ratio against $18 billion in profit (still not actually a bad outcome even then). In that case, Bezos is now borrowing $10b against ~$45b in shares or less. Non-trivial leverage, even for that much wealth. Or you could just easily evade all the major risk scenarios, sell off 1.6% of the richly valued Amazon stock - just 10% of your holdings - and fund Blue Origin debt free for a decade or so without concern (hopefully to the point of self-sustainability). And you do it while the market is bubbly, precisely because shareholders are far less likely to care then.
Not to downplay the addiction angle but I suspect that this incident, like a lot of drug-related deaths, contains an element of hubris: I'm successful, I don't have a drug problem, I can handle this.
Antibiotics make you dumber?

I think I need a source for that.
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Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction#Genetic_factors
could you explain this comment?
Decriminalisation or legalization would mean no fentanyl in the heroin supply and therefore many fewer unnecessary deaths.
Biofuels come accross really badly by their measures.
Genetic factors and certain socio-economic demographics are also more susceptible to addiction.
22 years, how ambitious !
The use of oil-based products is important because it's part of the entire logistical/shipping system.

Oil "won" because of its multifaceted abilities and thus could be embedded into the larger market whether nation-states and private businesses and for private usage.

I don't see anyone arguing against wind and solar. I am just saying that they are by no metrics able to cover the energy usage we have not even close. Currently, we are talking around 1% of global energy needs and the places that rely on it heavily need support both from oil, coal and nuclear as we saw this summer where Denmark needed the Germans to fire up their coal to support as there was no wind because of the amazing summer they had.

The point I am really making is that nuclear as a base clean form of energy is where we should be focusing our efforts and then use wind, solar, gas and oil as supporting in various situations. Unfortunately, the current political environment pushed by the environmentalist who claims to be against CO2 emissions yet are against nuclear, makes it an absurd and fruitless discussion.

Focusing all this effort and money on wind and solar when they will not be able to actually support our current or future energy needs is exactly the wrong way to go and is my primary issue with this whole discussion.
boiling some water was pretty much the first thing I tried too! was disappointed.

still great though.
> some are great

A little OT but how do you find the great ones? Netflix teasers just don't cut it and in most cases make things worse.

Surely people craft reliable curated lists... somewhere?
My impression was that they mentioned the obvious risks (and by obvious what the public and pundits might fear), and then immediately went on to say why it's not an actual risk.
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I've never worked crazy hours. Never more than 50, sometimes more like 35.

But if you work on a product that the business depends directly on for it's income, you should expect on-call time. If your team has it's act together, they might have a rotation where you're pageable at all hours for one or two weeks per month.

Compensation is mostly dependent on your ability to negotiate your salary.
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This submission contains useful and relevant information about VR. It fully complies with the submission guidelines on HN. If we choose to blacklist certain authors simply because of their political affiliations, then we are no better than any number of dreadful totalitarians.

I do not agree with Luckey's political views - indeed, I am vehemently opposed to them - but they are in no way relevant to his opinions on VR technology. To argue otherwise is tantamount to Lysenkoism.

One of the great strengths of the hacker movement has been our exceptional commitment to diversity and inclusiveness. We don't care what you do in your private life as long as you make a useful contribution to our community. It would be a tragedy if that vital strength was sacrificed in the name of ideological purity. You might believe that Luckey's views make him dangerous, you might even be right, but he would only become more dangerous if he is marginalised by the hacker community and is forced to find other allies.

Evangelical Christians at least maintain the pretence of "loving the sinner while hating the sin". We should show a degree of civility to those who hold political opinions that we find unpalatable; we may one day rely upon that civility ourselves.
Some people don't need the drugs. You're clearly delusional. Good luck my friend.
Neural networks are actually in the list (1970)
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Tufte reproduced one diagram and the accompanying text as an example in one of his books. It might have been "Envisioning Information" but I'm not sure.

If I remember correctly he had lots of praise for the visualization and said that appart from the font it had a very contemporary look despite being from the 19th century. Tufte also showed a variant that added colored labels, but I don't remeber if he recommended it. Another thing I remeber is a sidenote about how complicated it was to get the colors right in print.

EDIT: I was wondering if Tufte's book was the inspiration for this but couldn't find a reference at first. The making-of blog post mentions Tufte's work:

> Byrne’s work was largely ignored and criticized at the time of publication but it has gained renewed interest in recent years in part due to a mention from Edward Tufte in Envisioning Information and a reproduction by Taschen.

[..]
> Inspiration

> I can’t recall when I first learned of Byrne’s edition but it was likely from Tufte or seeing Taschen in passing.

https://c82.net/blog/?id=79
Also, once someone is on the wrong side of the law it becomes easier to rationalize (or safer as there is no one they can turn to) breaking other laws. Human trafficking and guns use the same routes established and initially funded by the drug trade.

EDIT:

This also occurs at the street level. I've read stories of people not wanting to talk to the police about a murder because they are afraid the police will find some weed and arrest them instead.
This brings to mind a game that many people here might enjoy once it gets released – Noita: a magical action roguelite where every pixel is physically simulated.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/

(Disclosure: it's being developed by a bunch of my old co-workers.)
“All you can eat” movies for $10-20 per month is unrealistic. These movies cost tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars to make. I’ve got 3-4 subscriptions for $10 per month or so, and that covers pretty much everything. Occasionally, we’ll rent or purchase something on iTunes, where the prices are completely fair.

As an industry development Netflix and Amazon Prime have been great. The problem with Hollywood was not the price, but the fact that it was releasing total crap. The streaming services have created real competition on that front.
Genetics, but also environmental. Children of addicts, IIRC, are close to an order of magnitude more likely to become addicts themselves (as compared to children of non-addicts)[0].

[0] Sorry, I can't cite that source ATM, just something I recall from foster parent training.
The way Bill Gates is doing it makes sense to me, and I imagine many of the super rich probably find a similar model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Investment It financially does not make sense to have all eggs in one basket, the risk is inordinate. This has been mathematically proven over and over again. When you're smaller and aiming for big returns, go for it. When you're bigger, your universe is a bit different.
Resolution needs to be quadrupled at least to make this feasible :(
Yes. See, for example, this overview of studies of identical vs fraternal twins and other lines of evidence shows that an average of about 50% (up to ~70% for cocaine) of the variability in addictive behavior can be explained by genetic variation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506170/
If I understand your description of the rules correctly, it sounds like that removes any sort of strategy from the game (manipulating the board and the rack), making it a sequence of Scrabble puzzles instead with no between-player interaction. That's not necessarily a terrible thing, but I think it would remove a lot of the interest for many people (me included).

I have read about Nigel Richards, the New Zealander French Scrabble champion who doesn't speak French, and I think that the game he is the champion of is "regular" Scrabble (with French vocabulary). For example the Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/21/new-fre... talks about his "pretty rotten draw of letters".

Edited: Ah, I see from his Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_playe...) that he has won both Classique and Duplicate titles.
this poor man lost his life to hippie Devil Weed! Where will it end!? Oh... oops, wait, it was actually heroin and cocaine.
Cheaper than their previous office, but seeing this type of money being dropped on office space blows my mind.
I hate to break it to you, but physical magazines are somewhat linked to their internet equivalent. If your local papers’ website is offline, “I’ll just by buy the physical paper” might not actually be a workable strategy, for obvious reasons.

In the best possible light, you may be saying that Peoples’ willingness to pay for content will increase as that content b comes rarer and rarer. In this scenario, you are already operating on the assumption that independent publishers will further dwindle, and I’m not convinced that whereever the swee spot will be, it will anywhere close to the vibrant media landscape a civil society needs for survival.
This actually happened in real life to Steve Cohen (the person Axelrod's character is loosely based on).

After being banned from managing outside capital, SAC Capital Advisors transitioned to being a family office called Point72. Only recently has it begun to to manage outside capital again.
My train of thought is: addiction is one of possible symptoms of a certain method of dealing with stress; this method is learned behaviour; you learn from your close surroundings, i.e. family.
Please mind that you may not be talking to a native or fluent English speaker, and your comment just comes across as rude and unwarranted then.
Short answer: no. Hereditary has nothing to do with it.

Long answer: if you’re white, under the age of 65, and live in suburban America — then yes, you are more prone to addiction because of your geographic make-up and likely have access to healthcare options that predominantly over prescribe opioids.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/podcasts/the-daily/opioid...

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/3/16079772/opi...