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I once worked at a place with lots of diversity, so no alcohol, beef, or bacon was allowed at official functions. It ended up meaning a number of us started our own private secret social gatherings which excluded those who had these restrictions. I didn’t want to exclude people but I also like bacon burgers with my beer.
I do drink, but sometimes I don't feel well enough to drink or I know I'm going to have to drive right after the conference.

In those cases I just order water. No one has ever shamed me or even said anything about the fact that I had a glass or bottle of water instead of a drink.

This doesn't seem like a very hard problem to solve.
Uh... what? How did you get that out of OP’s wall of text?
Most similar is Django/Python. Nothing even comes close to RoR and Ruby in similarity than Django and Python. The languages are very very similar to one another. The framework less so in smaller ways but very similar overall.
As you can see by my "99%" statement, my cut-off point is simply at a different point on that scale :)

You're right that there are cities that are worse than Mountain View. What's upsetting about it is not merely the blandness, but the fact there could be tremendous potential. A rural city of the same size, with a historically uniform population and a relatively small tax base, has very little choice. Mountain View does, and they squander it.

But even if they didn't, "it could be worse" has never been a statement that attracted me to a city ;)
I mean sure. Google certainly doesn't want wireless carriers to compete with them in advertising, and everyone having access to location data from smartphones just devalues Google's own access.

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...
I think the boundary is well-defined (tech companies are not the first companies to hire people): don't drink alcohol at work, don't smoke weed at work (even if it is legal), and don't come to work drunk or high.

If it is a social event outside the work place/hours, you can drink but don't get fucked up and vomit in a pint glass. If weed is legal, you can go outside and smoke like tobacco but, again, don't get fucked up and try to hump a pot plant or something.

Simple.
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You're right about the title. We've put the insane people back up there.

It still amazes me how deeply titles shape discussion. Most of what you read on the internet is by insane people reacting to titles.
Anyone know why he never went to see a speech therapist?
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It depends, as both front-end and back-end have large ranges of complexity. In general though, if you were to compare the most extreme case of back-end complexity to the most extreme case of front-end complexity, the back-end case would be more difficult.

The worst case of back-end complexity requires very in-depth knowledge of hardware, networking, distributed computing, OS internals, and then knowledge of a couple of languages and CS fundamentals thrown on top.

The worst case of front-end complexity requires learning and writing tooling to make writing desktop replacement apps in a browser a less terrible experience. Tack on UI/UX design, you are still not quite at the same level of complexity.

I don't mean to say that front-end isn't difficult or that it doesn't take years to master, just that back-end is even worse...
You're right, of course. Sometimes it seems that online "environmentalists" have feelings deeper than their knowledge or common sense... a momentary consideration of how energy is transferred in a food chain would disprove most of the speculations in this thread.
VC money is not free, there's a real cost to it, it's written on the term sheet.

VC money is relatively easy money to obtain versus trying to grind for the same amount of capital yourself, but there's certainly a cost to any transaction.
I stopped all fried food in my life about 15 years ago. I will maybe eat fried fish once a month when in Manhattan but otherwise no fried stuff.
Essentially they are both integral domains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_domain

The space of integers and polynomials have a lot of things in common. They have well-defined addition and multiplication operations, they have a zero value and a one value (for integers it is literally 0 and 1, for polynomials it's the constant function returning 0 and 1, respectively) that obey the usual laws (x + 0 = 0, x1 = x, x0=0, etc). They also both have no zero divisors, i.e. if a*b = 0, then either a=0 or b=0. From just those basic notions you can define divisibility and factorization in a way that applies to both polynomials and integers.

In a very deep way, any property or concept you define on the integers can (often, but of course there are exceptions) be extended to apply to polynomials. There might be some category-theoretic way to formally state that relationship, I'm not sure.
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Yep I was just going to say this. Google already sells your location data to advertisers, they are not the hero in this story.
Available for a few more hours there’s about 10 minutes on it, 15 minutes in:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0001jg7/digging-for-b...
The problem is, in order to operate as human beings, we have to assume the vast majority of our assumptions about the world are solid. For example, gravity will continue to push objects down in a fairly predictable way, the air we breathe will have a certain amount of oxygen, etc.

It's extremely difficult to operate, survive even, without making a vast number of assumptions.

So there's another, meta-level of thought that's required where we have to assign a confidence to each assumption. For example, I assume my car is going to start each morning, my laptop is going to power up each day, etc. But I also realize there's a nonzero probability that my car will break down or my laptop won't power on.

It's incredibly mentally taxing to constantly re-evaluate one's assumptions, so it's incredibly important to triage which assumptions I should question at any given juncture.

Most people give up and rely on their assumptions, which leads to a lot of social problems. Old age also severely impacts a person's ability to question assumptions. I don't want to get political here, but some people and organizations profit mightily from this phenomenon, much to the detriment of society as whole.
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Context is key, if you work in a re-rehabilitation center, you are not going to organise a nature hike.

Alcohol should not be a key factor for people to network and have fun, especially in professional spaces.
I still have an archive of other people's videos (which I'd guess are still on some web archive or youtube channel, but maybe not) from the earlier days of EVE. The videos are far more entertaining than playing the game was 99.9% of the time. I even discovered some music via player-created EVE videos. What you see in most videos took many months to years of character skill training, a long period of trading or ratting to get ISK, and dozens to hundreds of hours preparing for just the event seen in the video. Most of those requirements (except experience of how to use the ships and equipment you acquire) can alternatively be acquired by spending a lot of money (easily running into the $1000s, at least when I played, and some people would spend that, just to find the whole thing tedious and quit shortly after) on good characters and ships and stuff, but even then PvP is mostly boredom (masked and made "fun" by adrenaline).

Someone with the idea that they want to be just like one of those characters they see in a spectacular EVE video, or that they hear about in an EVE story, is like the kid seeing or reading about astronauts and thinking they want to be an astronaut. Except most people who grow up wanting to be astronauts never become astronauts, and same with any particular goal in EVE. And what happens in EVE stays in EVE. Even if you achieve something notable in EVE, something that requires a lot of effort... it's still in someone else's virtual universe sandbox that could be turned off or changed on their whim.

The chance that you'll ever be directly involved in corp- or alliance-level "big events", other than as cannon fodder, is almost zero unless you know ahead of time you have what it takes to join or build, and then run and manage that kind of enterprise at the equivalent of the c-suite level. Still, 99.99% of your time will be taken up with ordinary stuff. It's a job.
It's fine that you enjoy it casually, but the end game is what most people who are hard on the game care about. That's where they've had a lot of issues and it's the single most important aspect of a game like this. If your diehards don't enjoy end game then you have a problem.
Say what you want about Google, its one of the few companies with a moral compass.
As an aside (while I'm enjoying my morning cuppa), the Ottomans, via their control of the world coffee trade in the 1600s, served as the conduit through which Europe and India learned of, and began drinking coffee, both around the same time.

The full story is quite interesting, involving people risking death to subvert Ottoman attempts to protect their coffee monopoly's "Intellectual Property", which was fertile non-roasted coffee beans.
How dangerous is the hypergrowth mandate for startup that has product-market fit and a solid GTM?
WoW has a staggering amount of content. Destiny does not. They're not even on the same playing field.
Dragonfly.
Yeah, I was going to say... Of course Google made this demand. It's a no-brainer. Not only does it help ensure their competitors aren't profiting from the same data that Google does, but also its a beautiful PR stunt.

Not to say that they shouldn't be making this demand, but we should all keep in mind that they're not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts or because it's the ethical thing to do.
Zcash knew the problem of backdoor-able initial setup, they understood that it can raise serious doubts on the trustworthiness of their system, they even named the initial key material for setup as "cryptographic toxic waste". As an attempt to bring confidence to the setup ceremony, Zcash used a multiparty setup of 6 people, and invited prominent developers of the cryptocurrency community to participate. The setup was performed at each person's own undisclosed geolocation, and coordinated online. The rough idea was, if at least one participant during the setup was honest, properly destructed the secret, and wasn't hacked, the setup will be secure.

The prominent Bitcoin developer, Peter Todd was invited to participate, too. You can read his entertaining blogpost about the setup procedure at here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161114214233/https://petertodd...

The funny and alarming story is, after he finished the setup, he became increasingly suspicious about the security of the procedures, especially casted doubts on some technical problems that prevented reproducible build (!!!) of the setup programs. And he later had withdrawn his blogpost and all the claims of security altogether. To me, it's alarming, in the end, we'll never get solid security guarantees.
This is pretty narrow thinking. The #1 reason founders should be raising VC money is to grow faster than they possibly could without it. Could Uber have grown organically without raising millions of dollars? Yes, probably. Would they have been outcompeted by competitors with significantly more money to throw at driver and user acquisition? Absolutely.

You have to look at the high-growth startup market as an exercise in game theory rather than as a single-company market. It matters a large amount what other companies could and would do if you don't take funding and grow as quickly as possible.
I'm sure they do but I like the idea that it's spot coverage and not all over your face. I also think that some anti-aging products actually work, at least they seem to have an effect on me. I don't believe in super complicated skincare routines that require tons of products.
That sounds like a technology that will be extremely expensive, accessible only by the ultra-rich and used by the ultra-rich to further concentrate their power and influence. Yet another arena where scientists refuse to look at the historical context of inequality and thereby contribute to worsening oppression. I'm sad about what people want to do to the ocean floor but certainly not because of your argument
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Ah yes, a private police force for the copyright holders. What on earth is wrong with just letting them sue?
Laws are discriminating by their very nature when they apply the same price on something for a small company vs. a larger one.

Keep in mind that mostly we are ADDING regulation not removing with which means that existing companies get the benefit of not having had to deal with the same when they were small.

This is the real problem.
And that's why Laravel is opinionated by those of us that don't like RoR
Citation needed.

Google makes it pretty clear that they do not sell any personal information to advertisers: https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/
As a founder attempting to raise pre/seed in 2018, saying yes without much in exchange for funding is how I might have imagined fundraising to be in 2012-2014. Certainly not in 2018 or 2019 without relationships w/ VCs, in my personal experience.

VCs asking for order of magnitude ~$100ks ARR before a seed round in '18 and '19 makes total sense for VCs. Lower risk of failure with revenue as evidence.

If we get to that point of ARR, we are closer to being a free cash flow positive business and will consider forgoing VC altogether.
Do you have evidence of this?
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> I don't understand what the big deal is...

"When Lamson tells people that she's sober, they sometimes get uncomfortable, she said, and assume she's judging them if they choose to drink."

"Catherine Medici [...] avoids drinks because of medical issues. But refusing a drink at a reception sometimes leads to questions, which means disclosing her condition."

"...she didn't want people to assume that because she was without a drink, she might be pregnant. A mentor advised her that people could make that assumption"

> we should ban alcohol at these events because some people don't like it?

"These scholars don't want everyone to become teetotalers, or for conferences to ban alcohol altogether."
I think it's this case it was more of a case that they didn't stand to make money themselves from T-mobile and Sprint selling that data to others, since it's not something they could control.
Check out this podcast about the Zcash ceremony: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/ceremony
Dragonfly is a complex topic. The good part about it is that Google is still having a conversation about it and hasn't launched the product once it was publicly known.

Note that I was born in India and have different views than American citizens due to having first hand experience with what information can do to transform lives.
We use it in https://shields.io/ for JavaScript. It finds semantic bugs that are really hard for humans to find. I think it especially shines at finding problems in old code. Yes, old code is good code, though it may not be secure. Also unused code, like React state that is set but never read.

I used it for Nock, too, to make some quick fixes: https://github.com/nock/nock/pull/1301/files

In Shields we have the PR app turned on and it keeps us alert to problems during the review process. It's slower than CI, though usually problems manifest early enough in the review process that they can be fixed before merge.
I'm not sure what the solution would be for alcoholics who need to stay sober. But for others who don't like alcohol, but still like drinking something with a similar taste while chatting with people who do drink, nonalcoholic beer is a thing and tastes about the same. My colleague introduced me to nonalcoholic beer and I was amazed, I personally like it better than many other beers, though I suppose it probably just depends on the brew.
Different areas, different customs.
Body mass index (BMI) is associated with a reduce lifespan.

Compared to a normal-weight BMI, a BMI of:

40-44.9 leads to a loss of life of 6.5 years

45-49.9 leads to a loss of life of 8.9 years

50-54.9 leads to a loss of life of 9.8 years

55-59.9 leads to a loss of life of 13.7 years

Assuming a 445 pounds at 6 feet tall is a BMI of about 60, at about the top of the highest range. I think extreme obesity is a big enough health risk that it should be studied with more experimental treatments

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Well, this 100% depends on the cultural context. In many countries work and alcohol are fairly normal and not considered an issue.

Go to the south of France and get a job there, you’ll see a very interesting take on this topic.
another neat example of how assumptions about noise and functional forms can let you do causal inference is in an exercise in "Elements of Causal Inference":

consider a linear model. The true model is Y ~ aX + ϵ, X causes Y. you want to distinguish, using observational data, from the case where Y causes X.

if the noise ϵ is Gaussian, there's no way to do this: there are reasonable models going both directions.

if you assume ϵ is uniformly distributed on some interval instead, then it becomes really obvious which way is the correct way.

the exercise recommends drawing little pictures with error bars to convince yourself of this, which is worth doing.
Careful what you wish for, startups have people who will wear as many different hats as required to make it work. Corporate life may have had a really well defined job role, that may not be true in any startup you join.
I don't think so; there must be many other factors. You seem to be saying that people are more motivated by not being able to afford healthcare and college for themselves or their kids, and that seems bonkers to me. If that were the motivation, people would be getting jobs at universities rather than founding startups, as most universities have fantastic health insurance and reduced tuition for employees' children. On the other hand, if I have a chronic medical condition, I can't currently leave to found a startup without risking my health alongside all the money I'm risking by quitting my job.
Yeah! I wondered that too - humans will make a complex determination is the guy in front will not be moving anytime soon when it is not the case that traffic is just stopped. It is nice though that they seem to be recognizing hazard lights.
Let's translate PR speak here...

> "We have never sold Fi subscribers' location information,"

In other words "we never directly sold the info, but we never contracted them not to do anything with subscribers' location information". In cases like this, I'd say you are responsible for downstream data use. This isn't some API or hole, this is a large b2b contract and Google should have contractually obligated them to what they could do with their subscribers' data and then sued when they found out it wasn't the case. Why didn't they? Either leverage (Google has to rely on someone), ignorance (doubtful), or apathy (we don't care until the media does). I'm inclined to guess #1 and #3.

> a Google spokesperson told Motherboard in a statement late on Thursday.

In other words, we had to ask and get a small statement because being open, upfront, honest, etc is not their approach.

> "[...] as soon as we heard about this practice, we required our network partners to shut it down as soon as possible [...]"

In other words "we have asked, refuse to say whether they agreed, refuse to say when it will happen, and in general are as opaque as those we are deflecting towards".

Obviously the cell carriers are bad actors. But deflecting instead of accepting responsibility is bad too. Just admit you have no leg to stand on because you require them, or show us where, in writing, they promised to do this and when. Can't do that? Yeah, because you're not in control and/or your shitty business practices are all behind closed doors. And I don't limit this to Google, this goes with anyone partnering with these companies (especially the more traditionally reticent ones). Be open or get hate.
While I understand the sentiment of this comment, isn't it still a good thing to reduce the number of companies with this data? As the companies that track your location goes down, it becomes easier to argue against the other ones doing it. Plus in the very least less places that could leak the data, so it would still be some form of progress.
I usually lags behind the official Clojure implementation.
> No one has ever shamed me or even said anything about the fact that I had a glass or bottle of water instead of a drink.

That's nice for you, but based on the article it's clearly not universal.
The conversation usually goes "just deploy it now and we'll fix the bugs later".
Then how come in famine situations there is nobody for whom the restricted calorie intake and exercise does not cause weight loss? Nobody in those situations stays overweight due to 'some sort of fat storage rampage' do they?
This isn't a win for consumers, it's just the changing boundaries of a turf war.

Just like they made a big stink about getting everyone to HTTPS. It wasn't to reduce 3rd party incidental access to your browsing data. It was to retain their 3rd party incidental access while icing out ISPs.
It looks like there's nothing new here, making the title clickbait-y. One of the first things anyone learns about Zcash is that there was a trusted ceremony.
It's actually not so different from seeing Verizon lately "fight for user privacy" by lobbying for bills that would regulate "edge providers"-only, as opposed to lobbying for more general GDPR-style privacy bills that would also affect them. They actually did the opposite previously and fought to get the new FTC chairman to kill the broadband privacy rules "so that they can be on equal footing with Google/Facebook" (right before asking for regulation against Google/Facebook later on).

They're all just trying to take their competitors down a few notches. You can't take any company that wants to profit from advertising and data sharing/selling seriously in regards to "fighting for privacy".

Google was recently found to be illegally tracking Android users' location, once by "mistake" and the second time they were ignoring their location tracking opt-outs. I don't even remember their reasoning for the second one - but who cares, it was a lie anyway.
>Also, just in the basic rules of chess, your opponent can do whatever they want with their clock time.

This is incorrect. At this point I'd like to point out that I was (and soon will be again) a USCF certified TD [1], and have run my own correspondence site for about 20 years [2]. Abandoning a game has the unique distinction of being mentioned three times in the USCF rulebook, and carries with it the most severe penalty specifically mentioned which is ejection from the tournament (with more severe penalties are up to the TD and USCF). FIDE has a similar rule, though they don't mention abandoment directly where a player has stopped trying to win under the "normal means". Not all rule violations have to be intentional, specifically similar to your case is "annoying behavior". When you fail to finish a game, for whatever reason, it's annoying and an inconvenience to your opponent, and some punitive measure is warranted.

[1] http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtDir.php?12709934

[2] http://www.net-chess.com
>The most valuable thing I have is the remaining time I have in this life

Then why work for a startup? Most will demand a huge amount of your time compared to other jobs. Why not pick a job which demands a sane amount of your time and spend your free time on relationships and hobbies?
Conversely, this assumes one can get hired at a startup with a high position and equity to match fang comp, which is not true for many.