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That's interesting. I was digging around, and this piece[1] goes into detail, but early on they summarized the rationale for insider trading laws.

"One objection is that it violates the fiduciary duties that corporate employees, as agents, owe to their principals, the shareholders (Wilgus 1910)."

That supports the theft formulation.

"A related objection is that, because managers control the production of, disclosure of, and access to inside information, they can transfer wealth from outsiders to themselves in an arbitrary and hidden way (Brudney 1979; Clark 1986)."

Again, supports the theft formulation.

"The economic rationale advanced for prohibiting insider trading is that such trading can adversely affect securities markets (Khanna 1997) or decrease the firm’s value (Haft 1982)."

This seems like the fairness argument, though.

[1]: https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/InsiderTrading.html
There are five groups in play.

The 115th Senate, the 116th Senate, the 115th House, the 116th House, and finally the President (who didn't change).

The 115th Senate passed a CR. The 115th House failed to pass the CR. The 116th House passed a CR, that the 116th Senate is failing to pass.

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In any case, the 115th Senate passed a CR with OVERWHELMING support: 71-Aye, 21 Nay, 8 not voting. That's both filibuster-proof AND veto-proof (if the bill were to come back). A huge portion of the country wants the CR to happen (ie: Keep government open while the debate happens).

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Its hard to blame the 115th House (they didn't want to embarrass the President), or the 116th Senate (McConnell also doesn't want to embarrass the President). But it is clear that Trump's actions on the last week of December rallied the Republicans to support the wall more vigorously.

But those 71 Senators who voted "Aye" for the late 2018 December CR : where are they now? They heard the President, and have decided to change their minds on the issue.

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Ask yourself: why is the Dec 2018 CR dead? Who killed it? How can a bill with 71 Aye votes in the Senate eventually die?
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I was curious too, and I found this paper discussing the effects of a 2.5 week shutdown in 2013: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a589972.pdf

(8 pages, I haven't read it all yet, but does seem to have some insights).
The goalposts are moving. Yes to "worth considering" but that's not what I was responding to above ("is likely an alien device" ... "certainly seems to make that claim").
I get the due diligence part, which is where lawyers and inspectors come in. Not convinced realtors have to be the middleman facilitating those necessary transactions, let alone showing a home, making sure offers get to the seller, generating a list of comps from a database, etc., and charging huge fees to do it.
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Where do you want me to start.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, animals, forest fires, bad crops, flooding, undrinkable water, tornados, storms I could go on.

It's really quite fascinating just how many people which I assume are normally rational thinking beings have decided to throw out any sense of critical thinking when it comes to nature and climate.

It's like Scientology. Lots of talk about science and then when you dig into it the actual science does not lead you to conclude what is claimed.
each with their scrotum. forming an svastika. at least is raibowy.
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Been recently putting together a homelab and it's done wonders to help make some of these more abstract things like routing tables and CIDR mentioned a lot more concrete.
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Wait, no source code?
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Good reason for that: Congress controls the purse. The House already passed legislation that all Senators in December passed, so most of the Senators still there voted in favor of the bill. Congress doesn't need the President's approval, either. They can override his veto. The Senate has the votes for that already based on votes for the same legislation already.

The Senate could take it up for a vote again, and pass the bill they already passed, but they won't, purely for political games.
Is there a reason you didn't do the deal without an agent and specify in your offer that you wanted the entire 3 points rebated back to you (which is kind of silly accounting, but whatever)?

Certainly this would have been possible.
What sales number? This car isn't even on sale yet.

The Z4 is a convertible that costs $15k more. The people who complain the loudest about this car are the ones who don't buy new sports cars.
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People complaining about performance since ever?

Solution:

Let's spend loads of money on a new logo!
We're keeping track of which movies / series are doing well and then receive requests from subscribers too. Every week we'll be releasing more of the titles!
And it causes misery and costs lives. Personally, I don't find "it won't be a mass extinction event" to be a convincing argument to ignore climate change.
It's not just Berkeley, but the entire UC Library system including fairly large university campuses, making it one of the largest university libraries in the world.
For the public subnets where the NAT gateways are, you can use 1 route table for all public subnets together.

Besides that: nice article
It did start before they had power. It's completely a political play by the GOP. The Senate literally passed the same budget bill last session that has now come back to their desk, but they refuse to vote on it.

Yes, the Democrats could in theory stop this by allocating money for the wall, but much like giving your lunch money to the bully while he's beating you, it's not really a good idea.
Ignoring the actual shape/design - they went from 11 colors to 4 (+1 if you consider the text itself). This isn't much of an improvement because printing any swag/tshirts will require a full 4up press (or four spots, depending on how they choose inks) - which is still quite expensive.

The old ChallengePost logo used 4+ colors, which meant every shirt we printed came at a $2-5 premium over a single color.

When we rebranded to Devpost, we came up with a 2 color design (so we could do spot colors), which was an improvement - but I still wish we had gotten down to 1 color.
Also if it bothers you, you can just turn it off. It's just difficult enough people can't simply put some screenshots on a webpage to work around it because they are too lazy to code properly.
The global retreat of mountain glaciers has been well documented by climbers as well as geologists, and is one of the most obvious and easily understood confirmations that the average temperature of the lower atmosphere is indeed increasing.
Not really. I don't see why it'd be any harder to overcome them though, especially for known classes of effects like "what about waste?" I'll defer to the engineer quoted at the end of that article that at least for the issue of brine it's probably not a problem.
You misunderstand I'm talking about the actual policy remain is easy there's no negotiations to go through so the government's actions are known. Leave though involves 2 (or more if the UK pushes back the date somehow) of negotiation with the EU so it's impossible to know what was actually going to come out of it.

On top of that there's a whole spectrum of brexits people could have been voting for so even the government doesn't know what people actually want out of a leave vote!
Does anyone have thoughts on the theory that after 30 days of shutdown, it's easier to remove otherwise protected employees? The source I saw doesn't seem particularly trustworthy (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/omb_issues_guid...) but the argument seems plausible enough. The idea is that a fast-tracked "Reduction in Force" reorganization plan intended to permanently downsize the government could be backdated to the beginning of the shutdown, thus giving Trump considerable leverage over Congress. Is there anything to this argument?
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going through a "rebrand" is not something most companies undertake lightly.

> I'm reminded of the Philip Morris rebrand to Altria

IIRC that rebrand was done to distance the company from cancerous associations with the name "Philip Morris", whereas the only reason I can think of for Slack to do this now is to give them a quick short-term publicity boost to make them more relevant to "retail investors" -- that is, this corroborates rumors of a public offering later this year, and imho means that it's going to happen sooner rather than later.
With enough funding the developer can invest in a team, adhering to their standards.
Patient-perceived quality of care isn't the right measure. Patients don't like being told that they need to exercise, lose weight, drink less alcohol, rest.

A large part of a patient-perceived score is whether they get what they want. This often isn't in the best interest of the patient. With patient-score focused medicine, you get over-prescription of pain-meds, adderall, antibiotics. You also incentivize doctors not to challenge patients with dangerous views like anti-vax.
And ABB— that logo has been burned into my brain
Impressively small generator data too, given how realistic it reads: https://github.com/Lokaltog/baba-grammar-git-man-page-genera...

but maybe that's due to the low bar that it's being compared to.
Indeed. If you want to compile the binary yourself/don't want to upload source code, we have a serverless containers product currently available as an early preview (sign up at g.co/serverlesscontainers). This would allow you to compile your binary locally, write a simple Dockerfile and then build/deploy the resulting container.
I think we’re talking past one another. Nobody is saying Airbnb must demonstrate compliance with laws they are not subject to. Instead, I’m saying they might be required to demonstrate compliance with existing laws (not special new laws) if various city-led lawsuits against them end up revealing that Airbnb had been subject to various types of regulation all along (despite Airbnb’s insistence to the contrary).
Not just one branch, but one part of the branch: The Senate. The ball is literally in their court. McConnell already passed the bill. He voted for it. That he's not voting on it again is shameful.
Be careful, how long could you short Comcast and United Airlines?
I lived in Capital City / a Central Illinois for a year, and I was blown away with how many establishments hosted gambling video games. Granted, most bars were divey, but even the ones that weren't (i.e. the nice bars in town) still keep a little section in the corner that looks like a degenerate's arcade.

I should also mention that housing is _cheap_ in this area. I'm talking 2br1ba house with garage and front/back yard, one mile from downtown for $600. So, renting a large commercial property was likely cheap as well.
"The electorate" did not choose Donald Trump or his promises.

The electorate chose the other candidate by a count of over 3 million.

The Electoral College and the electorate are two very different things.
Yeah, I've been struck by this possibility while reading a lot of the rebuttals here. "Targeted ads work because otherwise why would they be so prevalent?" or "targeted ads work because x, y and z." There could be a kind of meta-advertising at work here, where adtech is often actually marketing towards the ad market itself. Would that mean it works? In a way--clearly lots of people are buying into it. And people wouldn't necessarily notice the scheme, because after all even if targeting isn't as effective as they claim it's still a form of advertisement and would generate some sales as dumb ads regardless of whether the targeting is really effective. We'd have to measure how much above that baseline the ads are driving actual sales somehow.

But I've yet to see some actual controlled evidence showing clear data in terms of sales that we can be reasonably sure were generated by targeted advertising. I think such evidence probably does exist, I'm not saying I don't believe it just yet. But all the arguments here seem to confuse science with scientism--what we have is a lot of reasoning and academic explanations of how people think it works, which is just not the same as evidence. It doesn't matter if something sounds like the way it might work in real life, we have to make observations to call something data. I haven't seen much data here.
Discussion about the SSPL and the DFSG: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915537
But we are better at dealing with extreme weather. More people survive extreme weather than before.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats/resources/weather_fatali...

I would really encourage you to stop for a minute and start digging into the data. You will be shocked when you realize how little is based on actual facts.
The migration of a few thousand people from Central America to the U.S. border was treated like a national crisis last year.

Imagine what the social and political reaction is going to be when millions flee the equatorial regions due to heat and sea level rise.
To your first point, look to the other comments, which clarify this beyond what I was aware of. To your second point, yes you are correct; I didn't feel like getting into that was necessary, but it's apparent in the image I put on the blog post.
It is [1]

> If you put a lower-case "x" to the right of a capital "E" (Ex) you can begin to see a hint of an arrow, though it is clumsy and extremely abstract. I thought that, if I could develop this concept of an "arrow" it could be promoted as a symbol for speed and precision, both FedEx communicative attributes. [...] Once I decided to refine the concept of the embedded arrow, I found that, to make the arrow more legitimate and identifiable, one needed to actually reconstruct the letterforms in order to make the arrow happen.

[1] http://www.thesneeze.com/secrets-of-the-fedex-logo/
> No one wants the house next door to them to become an Airbnb, so why do we support its practice by using them?

Well, my next door neighbor in my building rents his apartment on Airbnb about 8 months a year (he travels a lot for business so is not often there). Honestly, I don't really mind. There's been a few noisy guests but those are few and far between and apart from that I've talked to and met some nice guests of his.

That said, his apartment is a great apartment since he actually lives there part of the year. It's totally different from apartments that were built for airbnb and tend to be really bad with crappy furniture. And, since the guests are happy, they are more likely to be respectful I think.
The National Border Patrol Council, a labor union with over 18,000 members and represents the US Border Patrol, fully endorses congress funding the border wall [1]. It's the solution that the people who are actually there, on the ground, are asking for.

And in terms of money, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 spent $831 billion since it was passed. The border patrol is asking for a pittance of that amount.

[1] https://bpunion.org/featured/why-congress-should-fund-trumps...
It's simpler to just write code, rather than have to try to set up a container.
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There's a potential chance of you dying if you play Russian roulette. Does that mean you'd like to ignore the concerns because of them not being certainties?
Why is a raw legal document better than an accurate news article simplifying it for lay folks?

Dropbox's value is derived from it's ability to make something like rsync more human for non-tech folks.
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When I tried fasting I did 36 hours every other day for two months.
> Also, they didn't define success.

It's mentioned in the paper. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898

> First, we examine continuation of business operations at the time of the survey (The options were: “Still in operation as an ongoing for-profit business,” “Still in operation as an ongoing not-forprofit, artistic, or other type of endeavor,” “Still in operation, but acquired by/merged with another organization,” “Not operating as a result of being acquired by/merged with another organization,” “Not operating, temporarily stopped operations,” “Not operating, permanently stopped operations,” and “Not operating for another reason.”)

> We also used reported non-crowdfunding revenue based on a 12-point categorical scale ranging from none to over $10 million, using this as a direct measure of company success.

> The first model is an unconditional model, and reveals that solo founders do no worse with respect to average income than teams of three or more.
I'm looking forward to his answer to this. But I would guess it's something along the lines of:

-Society spends 2B gambling

-Govt receives .7B tax revenue and spends it poorly

-Game owners pocket 1.3B which disappears forever

-Cost of increased social safety net, suicides, etc.

VS

-Society spends 1.5B on goods and services rather than gambling

I don't think it's fair to count the venue, staff, etc., if the same money would otherwise be spent on other goods and services.
Characters from legacy computers and teletext were just accepted into unicode
He's helped me to become resilient too ... resilient to the pseudo intellectual BS he peddles.
>There are much better solutions.

Like what?

~400,000 people are apprehended at the border each year. That means they have been captured after successfully entering US territory and must now go through legal deportation procedures. This overburdens our immigration court system to a degree that makes enforcing existing laws, much less any reforms, impossible. We have no idea how many evaded apprehension.

The existing fence built for the Secure Fence Act of 2006 is inadequate as well as costly. In a 5 year period alone the fence had been breached 9,287 times at an average cost of $784 per repair.

There are plenty of examples from around the world of walls and heavy duty fences reducing illegal crossings up to 99%.

So, specifically, what other solutions can be implemented that:

1. will significantly hinder illegal border crossings and force significantly more immigrants through legal channels
2. wont simply be neglected by a future administration, as we have witnessed with our existing laws and policies for the last several decades
3. provide long-term relief from the enormous expense and manpower of apprehending, holding, processing, and deporting those who successfully cross the border illegally.
Your Senate works weirdly, why a 60% majority is needed for budget allocation? Do you have a link that explain that well (if possible non-partisan link)?
OP here.

Yeah I agree, maybe I should have said if it's not in your "Top 3"

I think it also depends on your resources. If you're a solo founder then it can be hard to justify much time on social media.

And I also think you can have both. You can automate some posts, and also do ad hoc stuff. In my use case I publish articles on a consistent basis, why not automate the social media side of that?
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> Serving John ads for roses, chocolates, and vacations will be more effective than serving those ads to a random person.

That statement makes sense intuitively, but what we're discussing here is whether our intuition reflects reality. It may seem to self-evident to you, but do you have data?

All of your examples "make sense" from the same intuitive perspective, but all assume the subjects are positively influenced by the advertisements more than a randomly selected subject would be. That's an assumption.

Please don't condescendingly remark that I "don't understand advertising" when you've missed the point entirely. This isn't about how the ad industry works—ad companies are clearly economically successful—it's about whether (as another commenter eloquently put it) that emperor is wearing clothes.

> Correlation is the whole point. If someone who is single and goes to the gym is correlated to certain purchases or behavior, you can advertise those.

The point is that the correlation we're talking about here is a proxy. If a lot of people buy a product and are single, but most aren't buying that product because they're single, it means they're buying it for another reason, which may or may not change relative to their relationship status.
I didn't know "whatchanged", thanks! However, look at the description: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-whatchanged
“Every now and then we find an object of artificial origin.” Did he just admit we have found aliens before? What other artificial objects or origins have we ever found?
That works both ways. Sure, if someone has all they need to succeed, the distraction of a co-founder might be a problem. For the rest of us, we need the balance, challenge and questions of a peer so that we have to listen and justify decisions.

Questions around skills, again, depend on the scenario. I might be an engineer but I sell online and don't need "sales skills" so don't need a co-founder. In other companies, the need for certain skillsets which I don't have needs a co-founder who can give your business the bandwidth.

I can't honestly see that either way is always preferable - depends on the person, the company, the market etc.
The 1933 Securities Act, 1934 Securities Exchange Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 all directly address insider trading.
This is also exactly how male countertenor singers produce a female-sounding voice, by making the vocal cavity smaller to adjust the formants upward. If you don’t do that, it just sounds like a male head voice or falsetto.
The only flow in the logic for me in the multi-founder scenario is that if the other person is non-technical, they are automatically considered sales etc... by default. So you can get anyone who is not technical and meet the model; regardless of their skills. It's harder to prove someone is not good at sales vs a technical person (more relevant in younger founders).

The only argument I can think of against what I just said is that the other person is not heads down building so they have more time to acquire those skills.
Have you considered starting this up as a business? Surely there's a market for it, and the claims data alone would make you a valuable acquisition target.
It's a pretty big opening for the hotel industry to be able to fight back against AirBNB by saying "stay at a hotel, it's safe, you won't be robbed, given a bad review, or spied on by hidden cameras".
Some of these seem difficult to predict. If you knew in advance that Github would acquire, WYSIWYG over markdown wouldn't have been a priority. You couldn't have known that, however. Developers know markdown, web creatives know markdown, but does anyone else?
I understand why distributions are dumping projects due to licensing changes but haven't seen any (incl Debian/Fedora) to ever dump a project for severely violating basic security[1]. kudos though to Debian for displaying a giant warning in case you wish to continue running minissdpd[2].

[1] I would like to be proven wrong though!

[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/155154/i-stopped-mi...