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Can someone please update me on the controversy surrounding Damore? The facts I know (which may not be correct, I'd like correction here) are that he circulated a memo which effectively argued against affirmative action (apparently without looking at the arguments for or against it, since he didn't cite anything to that end, not even the SEP article[0]) and justified this by saying that the distribution of preferences and abilities is due to biological differences between men and women, and used some pop-sci articles to bolster the claim.

But the content of the memo isn't really concerning (as much as it should be discussed), I'm more interested in the grounds for firing him, since it's also clear that what he claimed to be doing ("just wanting to start a discussion") could have been accomplished in a myriad of other ways, and the way in which it's done is quite detached from the content of what's being said; it may be true that someone is stupid, for instance, but it's another matter to actually be saying it. It's also inappropriate, for instance, for a teacher to solicit sex from a student in exchange for better grades, but it may be appropriate for the teacher to publish in a news article saying he doesn't think there's anything wrong with sleeping with students in exchange for grades. If the mode of presentation was inappropriate (and seemingly misaligned with what he claimed to want to do), was he screwed over when he was fired, or could it be justified?

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/affirmative-action/
What is it that makes the real estate valuable though? A mall with a big hole in it doesn't seem like a good investment. If Sears couldn't make a go of it it's hard to see how anybody else could.
The APA is not raised at all in any of my points and this is a state level matter so the 14th governs. I've linked the brief where you can see that this is a municipal affair in Virginia.

But regardless of the jurisdiction of the clause, the point of highlighting that targeted protection against capricious behavior lies elsewhere is to note that the de jure rules in one are are the very principles animating another. We could have the same discussion talking about how elements of German public law are reflected in this case, if we wanted. I'm sure you've seen cases where the judges have asked in oral "But aren't these two tests the same thing?" or "But aren't these two tests the same thing when condition x is satisfied?". Here, x is the forum requirement.

Maybe I've missed the point of your post here? Please let me know if I have.
I was trying to be polite and didn’t push it too much, but it was similar to descriptions coming out in the press. They want to run schools, housing and all aspects of your life but as a digital experience.

The gist though was that these were all just existing needed but boring businesses with low valuations. WeWork’s strategy seems to be “but we can run an elementary school and it should command a wild valuation because it’s not a school it’s a WeSchool.” It wasn’t a convincing argument.
That's my point. I don't have any "good" ideas because they're meaningless without the ability to execute. I know my limits, and I know that I can't tell if my ideas are good without intimately knowing the intended market.

There are certainly things that I suspect there would be a huge market for. That, I suppose, is my "good ideas" list (or, because I'm not an oracle, my "wish list").
Properly explored idea is basically a business plan backed by a market research. Clearly as worthless as a random morning coffee brainfart.
Is he cynical about human progress?

I've never seen SV. After I was assaulted over an iPhone project and complicated living situation, my ophthalmologist urged me to watch it. I actually stayed in a place billed as a "Hacker Hostel" when I first got to San Francisco. There is indeed a lot of fodder here for someone like Mike Judge.
In my case it exits the shell upon loading ./v6. I compiled it with gcc 4.2 under OpenBSD 6.4. In happens the same with clang6.
> And thinking about it some more, a register-based bytecode is less flexible and future proof.

The flow analysis that modern JITs use to extract an SSA form from stack-based bytecode is just as easy to perform on register-based bytecode. This SSA form is then optimized, instructions selected, and CPU registers allocated.

From one perspective, you have a continuum from (essentially) infinite register machines with SSA (LLVM bitcode, SafeTSA) or memory machines (such as Inferno's Dis VM) to 256-register VMs (LuaJIT, Lua, others) to 16-register VMs (Dalvik, maybe others) to stack machines (JVM, p-code, FCode, etc.). From one perspective, stack machine bytecode is a compact representation of code for a register machine with 2 registers. Register machines aren't any less flexible than stack machines.
Self-hosted Apache Roller[1].

[1]: https://roller.apache.org
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Even with Prime, the couriers Amazon uses to service some areas take long enough to deliver that most other online retailers are preferable.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but this is technically true for any sort of business. Software, Restaurants, anything really. I quickly learned growing up that doing something you love means doing it as a hobby. Doing it professionally means you don't mind doing all the other responsibilities instead of doing your hobby.
That the key. Plus their stores are warehouses, so maintaining the store is pretty much keeping product on shelves and keeping the floor clean.
And once again the open source tortoise reaches hype-town, before the last building is a total hare-down.
>For a very long time, due to custom printing, you could get semi-permanent Sears URLs to rather vulgar images on shirts, pillows, blankets, etc.

I'm not sure I understand that, could you please elaborate? Are you saying that they provided custom printing, then some users printed vulgar images, and could pass on URLs for others to print another batch?
This is fantastic. Can we use this as a proxy when we input RSS feeds into our podcast apps? I use Overcast on iOS, for instance. I'd love to remove all audio ads from Overcast, both dynamically inserted and normal "live reads," which are also fairly toxic.
But it obviously would have been a major component of any "Internet" basket at any date after its IPO in 1997. But 20% major? Perhaps not.
I hate this advice so much. I've been burned as a developer so many times by people selling products that don't exist and then expecting the dev team to just make them happen by some arbitrary deadline. It's a garbage experience for pretty much everyone.

But I'm not going to argue against it right now. It's too deeply ingrained as startup wisdom to fight it. So instead, I'll offer this compromise: if you're going to sell first and build later, at least build some basic things up front that you are guaranteed to need and that most startups don't build until long after they should.

1. You already know what your programming language strengths and weaknesses are. You can make decisions for your first product iteration already. Are you going to start with a web app? You probably already know what language you want to use. Choose your frameworks, and choose frameworks that address the OWASP top 10 at least. If you are storing data, you have a responsibility--even as a sole founder--to take security seriously. You can think about that and make decisions while you are selling, so do it. You can also make a decision to not store data or store as little as possible and choose frameworks and plugins that help you do that.

2. Along the same lines, if software is involved you have to have a way to deploy it. Set up your DevOps pipeline. If you listened to the first point, you've got somewhere to start. Take your app framework and your plugins and set up a pipeline for deploying/rolling back/backing up/restoring the very basic "hello world" version of the app + plugins. Use a service if you aren't already into DevOps personally--most of these things have a free tier. If you are looking for a native app of some kind, navigate the platform's app store at least once so you know what you're in for. Or if it's cross-platform how you will get the latest version to your users. None of these decisions matter right now in terms of what decisions you make, just that you do make them and learn how to use things.

If you are going to commit to selling first and then building, you are already shortchanging the amount of time you have to deliver after the product is sold. If you haven't made any of these decisions, the time between when you make your first sale and when you deliver it is going to be absolute shit. Give yourself the ability to use that time 100% focused on building the product confidently because you already know how you're going to build it and how you're going to deliver it.
my favorite by far was the very first thread on the Snowden revelations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5830633

comment by comment you could sense the earth shattering awareness slowly setting in, or how the HN crowd suddenly went from unquestionable faith in big government to "oh lord what have we done".
Not every product can get to MVP in two weeks. If you were building a new kind of airplane, it better take more than two weeks. Our software is quite complex and there isn't going to be an MVP in two weeks, lol!

I do think that building a UI prototype that you can click through is a good first step for complex software.
Did violence invent the Apollo guidance computer or the Saturn V? Did violence build the SR-71? Did violence design Teller’s hydrogen bomb? Did violence build Apple or Google or Facebook or Amazon?

I think if that is the answer you want, you will be able to find enough examples (slavery, et c) to support that conclusion. But many countries had slavery; only a few could build planes to outrun SAMs, land on the moon, index the entire internet, or create the modern smartphone/tablet.

Creativity is much more important than violence. Violence can only be used to perpetuate the status quo; you cannot beat someone into invention or value creation
Not knowing what your business is, those are probably minor things you don't need a co-founder for. Just get an accountant/bookeeper on the financial side, you'll need on anyhow. Do some online reading about cookies and GDPR if you have concerns there and don't stress about it - nobodies going to hunt you down if you're very small fish. If you have serious money coming in you can have a more serious look into it - those issues are not fundamental.

If you need to hire people, open an office, write up contracts, deal with immigration lawyers, deal with tricky shareholder stuff, manage customer accounts ... then maybe you need someone to help.
Agree wholeheartedly with everything you said except:

> They didn't build the other pieces they needed for a 120-year business while they had the protection

I would argue they did with things like AWS.
When life imitates art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
TBH, I think there's a much better case to be made for Sears doubling down on some of its core assets and creating Home Depot before Home Depot did. Its store footprints weren't right, which is no small thing. But they were already a significant home improvement and major appliance store. They probably had a window when it was clear that discount retailers (and some high-end stores) were the future of "department stores" and if they couldn't go there--which they probably couldn't--their future lay in focusing.
Perhaps this is a good reason to use Google Voice and not give anyone the underlying real phone number with cell service.
Completely fair. I was just curious because looking at so many of these types of companies that on the face look just like another real estate/cab/hotel (WeWork/Uber,Lift/AirBnb respectively) company but are convinced "no we're %synonym laden description of what a cab company does%", I start to wonder how thoroughly convinced of these descriptions your non-C-level employee is.
The virtual watch crown in combination with Apples haptic engine would be awesome.
why I need to tip in restaurant? any other countries have such policy?
> Tech allows a company like Uber to allocate rides vastly more efficiently

It's more accurate to say that venture capital allows Uber to subsidize rides more aggressively. I see no evidence that Uber is substantially more efficient (when you include the driver's costs) than traditional taxi companies.

Edit: Uber has also managed to skirt a bunch of labor laws by claiming their employees are contractors. I guess that's a kind of "efficiency".
I really hate these wiki-articles. (Not Wikipedia, articles like this one.) The conversational back-and-forth gets confusing when it goes for a while. And the article goes on long wandering digressions that make it hard to see any actual points that the article had.

If you want to actually say something, don't do it like this.
Amzn (adjusted for splits/etc) had a peak value of $107 in 2000 and a low of $7 in 2001.
Would you say the same about FreeBSD gaming then, given the PS4 runs FreeBSD?
I'd love to hear more about perceived opportunities in legal tech. For some reason, the legal industry seems very averse to change, but I'm sure that's not always going to be the case. (Lawyer here).
Agree completely. I've never heard of a major company founded by someone who couldn't sell. Those people make products, not businesses, as Mark Cuban says a lot on Shark Tank.
As a remote employee, I liked that my data usage was paid for. I worked out of East Africa and SE Asia and the data rates were fairly expensive. Being able to set your own hours within a certain frame was nice. I prefer to work 11-7pm as I like to exercise in the morning and have breakfast with my wife.
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I disagree. People pseudocode in algol style if they are used to program in e.g. python, or discussing about an imperative algorithm, or communicating to algol-style programmers. But if you pseudocode in a lisp context you write s-expressions, the same way that if you are discussing SQL you may draw an ER diagram, or if you are talking math or abstract topics you write mathy things in a declarative style (such as writing sigmas or inverted As and Es). No one writes imperative pseudocode if you are going to program in prolog.

In sum, using pseudocode is just temporarily liberating yourself from pesky syntax adherence in prder to better quickly iterate over an idea, but in that discussion you always have the target in mind from the onset.
If that happens, I don't think the problem will be perceived as "Amazon" — people will say "online shopping" is untrustworthy, like how "social media" is responsible for the world's ills, not "Facebook".
I disagree with your analogy. You're equating a highly regulated and complex profession like medicine with unregulated, emotionally charged profession like politics which routinely attracts the worst possible humans to participate (not the voters, but those who contest in elections). Tell me honestly - how much effort and time would it take for a British voter to read up the basics of Brexit, and then take 30 mins to think through it, the day before the vote?

Compare this with cancer or some other problem for which I go to the doctor to - it is not an easy task to understand the nuances of various drugs and treatments. Still, at least some people spend time and learn as much as possible before putting drugs into their bodies. But there is an implicit trust in doctors, because bad doctors don't last long in their profession. But bad politicians? It is almost a given that if a politician isn't a crook to some degree, he/she isn't gonna last long. By this time, the electorate should have learned to view everything that comes out of any politician's mouth with distrust, the opposite of what they (generally) do to a doctor.

Also, one doesn't need to learn the finer points of macroeconomics - Brexit is a bad idea for Britons, from every angle, even without understanding the depth of the issue.

We can blame the politicians all we want - but in the end, we vote for these politicians. Until we keep doing it, what right do we have to complain?
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> The documentation is clear and caters to the common usecases.

I wouldn't quite say that, but I'll agree with your other points. :)

(More than once the docs have been out of date, or just flat out wrong, costing me many hours of development time...)
Software does evolve - as we’ve seen many times in the past projects to do a wholesale replacement of large projects tend to fail spectacularly (the Netscape example being the most prominent).

Large projects do evolve - new parts are added over time, old parts are dropped, and individual parts are rewritten, generally in a piecemeal fashion.

The environment selects for some features (say memory protection, which won - OSs either evolved it independently or died out), and select against others (OSs with builtin adveetising struggle to survive). Having misfeatures doesn’t necessarily kill off sufficiently “fit” software (humans have objectively weird/terrible anatomy - sinus construction, that nerve that goes from left to right side of your neck via the heart), etc.

Article should be “artificially evolve” software.
What's the financial incentive they had to keep costs high in 2010? You're making an extraordinary claim: health insurance companies are deliberately making themselves liable for provider costs in order to somehow benefit on the backend. You should have some kind of evidence?

What's the trend line since 2010? Since the 80/20 rule went into effect, has the rate of provider costs increased or decreased or stayed the same? If it hasn't increased, does your hypothesis actually explain any empirical observations?

If not, are you concerned this might be a just-so story?
The grammar is perfectly correct though I think?

Perhaps this portion is what confuses you: stores electricity as heat in "the form of a combination of a" high temperature molten salt and cold in a low temperature liquid. This would be an explicit wording which might help to clarify things, but is not used due to redundancy.
Don’t hate me for saying this but try powershell or pwsh
Yes but the Medicare plans are private insurance, the same insurers for the “commercial market” as you call it. You can’t separate the insurers dropping providers from networks and buying practices/hospitals from Medicare plans to non Medicare plans.

In other words if you aren’t a Medicare patient and are insured by UnitedHealth for example, you will be subject to the same networks of doctors/hospitals as their Medicare plans, so private is driven my the Medicare plans, because Medicare rules are driving the consolidation of the market.

And yes everyone will tell you star ratings are about “outcomes” not price, but if you knew/know anything about the star rating metrics it’s obvious “outcomes” is marketing/PR for cost cutting. Otherwise I’d ask to point out any metrics that increase star ratings that don’t lower costs, whereas it’s easy to point out the metrics that result in better “patient outcomes”/higher star ratings but lower quality of care.
For me at least (speaking hypothetically, since I haven't tried this), that seems like it would fly in the face of "get your work done so you can play without it hanging over your head." And it means that (if I have a fairly hard work start time) I am watching the clock the whole time I'm using discretionary time, whereas doing it after work means I can just go until I'm tired, without really worrying about the clock.
As someone who has been selling all my life, I'm not sure it's a teachable skill. Yes, everyone can learn to improve, but some part of salesmanship has to be in your blood.

With developers routinely making over $200k in Silicon Valley now, if you're a "product person" and not a salesperson, you can probably earn more as an employee than an entrepreneur.
That smells like Hollywood accounting to me. Or at least abuse of tax law that locks away a potential asset for someone else in order to be able to get out of paying a tax.

Admittedly, I'm still working on wrapping my head around the entire accounting thing, but in general, any material you acquire should be acquired with intent to do something with it. Unless this is some sort of economic "fallowing" technique. But I'm still not sure I'd buy any logic that tried to paint that behavior as anything other than glorified "domain squatting" on a community.

Interesting food for thought though. Good post.
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The incomplete protein thing is a myth [1]. The amino acid profile of single ingredients is almost never a concern in practice, because meals nearly always contain complimentary proteins. It's actually really difficult to avoid complimentary proteins if you have anything like normal dietary habits. Furthermore, it's not even necessary for every meal to provide all essential amino acids, as long as your diet isn't chronically deficient in any of them over time.

Wheat protein is easy to complete. This is acknowledged at the link you gave:

> when combined with other food proteins such as legumes, oil seeds or animal products the proteins of wheat exhibit excellent nutritional complementarity.

Lysine is the limiting amino acid in wheat protein. Lysine is easy to find in other places, and wheat protein can be made fully complete using half as much pea protein, for example. A single 20 g portion of wheat protein similar in size to one impossible burger contains over a quarter of the RDA of lysine [2]. Nearly any other protein you consume in a day will easily provide the rest, even with sensible vegan diets.

1 - https://www.forksoverknives.com/the-myth-of-complementary-pr...

2 - https://www.nutritionvalue.org/Wheat_flour%2C_whole-grain_nu...
Right. I once worked for a company that was trying to perform a business “matchmaking” service. We considered, as part of the implementation possibility-space, scraping people’s connections from LinkedIn in order to enhance our results. But LinkedIn has many advanced anti-scraping heuristics in their backend; this is just one of many. So we scrapped that option (before ever getting around to considering the ethics of it.)
You need to be buying enough to make it work out. A single person often doesn't benefit from Costco unless they're also a small business owner.
Perhaps "attempted to gain" might be better way to put it. The first thing he did was have Sears take on a huge amount of debt owed to financial service companies that he controlled. Then sell real estate to companies that he controlled and have Sears pay rent to them. This list goes on.
Chewsie sold for $3.35 billion recently...
We(are the)Borg

Lower your firewall and surrender your data. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.

Resistance is futile
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IMHO this is one of those cases where the idea is pretty simple: move our catalog online, but you can't do it because it would undercut your existing business. The idea that someone else is just going to do it instead is always lost on these big businesses. They always want to protect the old way of doing business because it is tried and true, but that is only safe if the world never changes.

That said, Sears could have stuck around for many more years with better management and not being sucked dry by wall street.
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