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> Many cities have subsidized housing (and/or rent control). The net effect is these people can 'afford' to live in areas while making lower pay.

Many wealthy people who live in rent-controlled or property-tax capped housing benefited handsomely from the huge tax break passed by the previous Congress. Some of them have normal income but large inherited wealthbheld in securities like stocks, which also appreciated due to the corporate cuts. They can afford to live in places their income couldn't otherwise support. Your logic applies equally to that situation. You will always find people who you can argue unfairly benefit from a redistribution scheme.

At least with subsidized housing the program is government administered so it can be accounted for when considering UBI.

UBI doesn't erase the reality that some people got a better deal in housing, or life, but for a huge number of people who are scraping by, it helps put a floor under them.
Why would a WeWork object to paying Neumann's rent? WeWork is bascially Neumann anyway!

A CEO being the landlord strikes me as a big potential conflict of interest. For example, if the company needs to move to a larger space to grow, the CEO might want to delay to avoid losing income. Perhaps the company might have a prospective buyer who'd want to relocate everyone to their campus. In that case, there would be an external incentive for the CEO not to make the deal.

Why wouldn't levandowski just employ his own company to supply components he was procuring for Google?

The way this used to work, is that the employee would become aware of a market need because the current company had that need and would be a great customer, so the employee spins out her own business, then leaves to run it.
> It usually comes out to no less than $100 per hour

So the person works 10 hours a night?
I discussed this with my barber. Professional grade scissors used to cut hair are very expensive (over $1000). They have them sharpened regularly. They swap them out for another pair to take them off site to be sharpened but I believe they swap back after.
I don't think it was ever really intended for worldwide use by Linus, it was intended to exactly replicate his workflow and his alone. The real responsible party is github; I'm not sure how they came to dominate?
> It's amazing how often 'innovation' and business success turns into corrupt self-enrichment.

Isn't business defined as enrichment of the shareholders?

So (depending on who owns the shares) it really shouldn't be amazing, right?
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I know there was a way to "link" records, but do to do anything with them, you had to pull all the data back into your app and manually filter and process records.
Not for SMBs, but major retailers share the information keyed of CC# as part of reciprocity agreements, including Amazon.
I'd encourage you to learn a bit more about ADHD. Some of the things you described above are symptoms some aren't.

I have pretty bad ADHD and there's nothing that someone else could do to get me to address it. I have to decide to manage myself. Anything you do to mention it or bring it up to them is going to poke at the insecurity that they may have and likely worsen the problem.

That said, somethings to remember:

- If you are going to have a meeting with this person, try a walking meeting or something with some kind of other stimulus
- Avoid having lengthy conversations in open office settings or 'busy' areas (specifically with TVs or other people)
- Be ready to context switch when engaging with them and allow it. Chances are they are going to come back to that topic later on in the conversation.

I'm sure there are some other things worth thinking about, but def try to read some materials on what ADHD is, there's a lot out there.
I mean, they literally send you a video of your car running the stoplight. If you weren’t in Chicago, your car was.
When men spend money like that it generally increases their perceived status (the fact that they can).

You ought to watch out for your SO and this fella :P
If you only stay in Airbnb "bed and breakfasts" you'll likely have none of the issues described in these comments. Plus, I like to meet my host and have them make me breakfast.
I've lived in Germany and there are still clear race issues left in certain areas but I can't speak for police personally. It's all very hush hush as well which is one of the reason I dislike Germany and would not live there again. I live in the U.S. now and for comparison, there are some tensions here too but it's on the surface and in general much better.
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It's attainable if you are in a recognized higher social class, which often correlates with having much wealth.
The way to do it is bill $1000/night but pay someone $50/night to actually clean the floor.
I can't believe there aren't more responses to you saying this, but obviously you need to increase taxes. UBI advocates need to admit that that is what they are advocating. I certainly am.

...but this increase of taxes would not harm average people, because they would basically receive the same back in UBI as the increase.

Overhead would be lower than administering current welfare payments, since it's universal so they wouldn't need to do any eligibility checks - just making sure you're a real person so that you can't get it twice under multiple names or something.

Other than that it would be break-even for the government, and for the average person. It's just income redistribution. You're taking the money from the wealthy, and giving it to everyone. The average person will receive as much as they pay and will be in the same position as before. The wealthy will pay more in taxes and have less money after tax. The poor will pay less than them and will have more money in the end.

It's not that complicated, and it's not magic. UBI advocates are advocating redistribution large enough to support basic needs. Yes, that means taking money away from the wealthier people in society, but UBI advocates think we can afford this as a society.
I never suggested it should. I was simply commenting on calling this a "witch hunt" - I offered no opinion on how fair or just any of this stuff is.
I would have to take a look at that to see if resolves the issues I saw from back then.
This makes a lot more sense when you realise that Linus thought he was building a low level tool that people would build a UI on top of. The 'original' git command line was more a proof of concept and engineering tool than something aimed at actual use.
> Git’s workflow wouldn’t even be sane without the staging area. This is what allows you to fix mistakes and make your work presentable for remotes.

I did exactly the same diff/tidy/diff workflow when I used p4 and svn, neither of which make a distinction between "working directory" and "staging area".
I've been the incoming dev on a project like this. The CTO (a brilliant architecture guy who hadn't written code in a long time) built a proof of concept in a spaghetti of c# and PHP (drupal). It was an absolute mess, but it worked. It was actually impressive that he was able to build it all solo, and obviously with a team and infinite time he could have made the code pretty.

You have accomplished the same thing, which is building and shipping a whole app, which some of these incoming devs have not. Your job now can be to guide these devs in refactoring the individual pieces of the app while you keep an eye on the bigger picture. Think of a conductor in an orchestra...he can't play every instrument perfectly, but he can guide the individual musicians.
> Now, it's many slumlords just trying to make a quick buck rather than support the original community idea or provide a great stay.

This is basically the Etsy playbook. Have a good model that doesn't scale. Back yourself into a corner by taking VC money and end up having to do the opposite of what made your service good in the first place to keep growing your platform.

Just like there are only so many people making actual handmade goods, there are only so many homeowners looking to host guests.

Fortunately, there is a never ending stream of Chinese-made trinkets and garbage just as there is a never ending stream of slumlords (oops, property investors) looking to make a quick buck.
I've heard it said the effects of altitude on the brain are rather similar to those of alcohol. Maybe it's like having a couple of beers / sobering up?
calling this Popcorn Time for music suggests that this is very against artists' whishes
Wouldn't the benefit of path compression mean reducing the memory footprint of the data structure?

And regarding fixed-length: "This lets us optimize the lookup code." More detail here would be cool but it wasn't really the point of the article.
Because of laws stating you have to professionally steam clean kitchens/floors at X intervals, this guy probably is doing a few dozen restaurants per month on a weekly basis not the same one every night.

Normal non grease/kitchen specialist cleaning is ten cents per sq.ft per month or so for cleaners so even cheaper than having your own employees do it, with liability protection.
I read that headline and wondered if it's generalizeable to just about anything, and not just GM foods...

“This is often used to explain why many Americans refuse to believe in evolution and why so many Americans feel that vaccination is harmful to children,” O’Dwyer said. “It also figures into the debates on global warming and makes correcting erroneous beliefs highly challenging.”

Apparently it is.
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No way this can scale very much, right? Just start looking around for potential dead drop locations and find drugs.
> I agree, there is a loud minority who religiously criticize Electron while most desktop apps get written in it.

Current GUI programs running on my computers:

- StumpWM :: not Electron

- emacs :: not Electron

- Firefox :: not Electron

- st :: not Electron

- Chromium :: not Electron

- dunst :: not Electron

- redshift :: not Electron

- xautolock :: not Electron

- nm-applet :: not Electron

From my own perspective, 'most desktop apps' are not written in Electron.
fundamentally in a capitalist society that recognises no moral restraint on money and it's not illegal ... why not?

Capitalists are also concerned about conflicts of interest.

Anything less would be economically inefficient! /s)

Smart, far-seeing capitalists are able to see beyond mere legalities. Too much cronyism makes capitalism less efficient, because it starts to resemble centrally planned economies.
Anyone have an examples outside of Vegas and maybe the first two Connecticut casinos where bringing in legalize gambling actually derived on the promise of raising projected revenue benefiting the wider economy?
Why would anyone believe that an Airbnb offers the same security, privacy protections, safety, and comfort of a hotel? I have only stayed in an Airbnb a few times ever because I can never justify staying in one over a hotel for these reasons. The product is so unpredictable in the sense that you really never know what you're going to get until you get there.

From the host perspective, I am still amazed that Airbnb has normalized letting complete strangers into your home.
Agreed. Absolutely stunning how so many comments make insane claims with no knowledge about what they're talking about.

> I honestly would not be surprised if the difference in effectiveness of targeted vs untargeted advertisement turns out to be none

> What if I told you the NYT has been doing "untargeted" advertising for 150 years? Besides if you advertise in the NYT you ARE technically targeting people

> advertising is the art of fooling oneselves first about the source of success and then fooling others

> Why would any premium website even agree to ads that track users?
When you think about how 80% of startups fail because of founder issues, this makes a lot of sense. However, to some of the other points made here, investors like to see that you are able to convince at least one person to go all in with you.
Have you tried Google Play Music? I have never had a problem with them, after experiencing the same issue as you with Spotify. Much cleaner interface too.
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Sharing millions of users' personal data with a surveillance state notorious for civil rights violations is not a trivial matter, especially in any discussion involving privacy reputation.

If you think there are privacy issues that are more important than that then list them.
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> I wish people would name the company, especially when it does something this awful. Why be coy?

Agreed. The cynical lawyer in me believes that people who don't name and shame in these situations aren't telling the whole truth. If they named & shamed and the story wasn't true it's defamation.
But it was an earnings filing in which they did not meet expectations - this strongly suggests that the stock would have tanked anyway, regardless of timing.
==all the front-runners in the city’s Feb. 26 mayoral primary support some version of a casino, and some want to bring in video gambling as well.==

This is explicitly about video gambling which "some" supported. All of them supported a city casino in that particular forum. It's semantics, but the difference is meaningful as a casino would be a single location that also employs significant people and these video gambling machines are self-run and in restaurants, gas stations and bars.
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I'm interested in offsetting my carbon emissions for flights, commuting, etc. I know there are services out there that offer to sell offsets, but I don't know which are effective and reputable.
The knock-on effects from this poorly considered legislation are ridiculous:

The legalization of video gambling also triggered another shift in the state’s revenues, one that led to a drop in education funding. While the bulk of video gambling revenue goes to fund Illinois Jobs Now!, most of the state’s casino revenue flows into the Education Assistance Fund, which provides grants to public elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities for building projects and other expenses.

But when video gambling became legal, gamblers no longer had to travel to the state’s 10 casinos to place a bet. Between 2013 and 2017, state revenue from casinos in Illinois declined 15 percent, from $462 million to $393 million, as income from video gambling machines grew nearly 900 percent, from $30 million to $300 million, state records show.

The cannibalization of casino revenue contributed to a 22 percent decline in the amount of money going to the Education Assistance Fund between 2013 and 2017, leaving fewer dollars for the state’s struggling schools.
"Most doctors say it’s the level of paperwork and data input they’ve had to do since medical records went digital".

So before "digital" they didn't fill in as many records?

Checking the main article https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-lifestyle-burnout-de...
found:

"All that paperwork sucks all of the enjoyment out of being a doctor."
-Family physician

"Fear of litigation, bad reviews, and complaints make everything worse."
-Dermatologist

I can change the doctor words for any other profession and still found that any profession can argue the same thing

"All that paperwork sucks all of the enjoyment out of being a teacher / lawyer / policeman."
-Family teacher / lawyer / policeman

but being the most common reason (paperwork) and want to kill themselves?
CEOs are just hustlers in fancier clothes
Worked in an office with a hall overlooking a couple acre field.

Everytime the guy was mowing it, there would be someone taking a break looking out the window watching the guy. It was sort of our Koi pond.
> The real winner here, I think, is the Telecaster.

I don't know about this. Most "telecasters" I see in the wild are actually telecaster-shaped guitars with pretty much everything else altered.
With UBI people will stop using drugs because there will be no drug dealers to provide: the drug dealers will enjoy UBI and leave a risky business /s
I’m quite happy if the vast majority of people doing active harm to society by working for evil corporations just do nothing instead. Quite possibly a net improvement just that.

I also imagine that if vast amount of people suddenly had more time on their hands there would be lot less need for services now optimized to keep them employed. Day care, schools and such would perhaps change into something more participatory.
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I don't actually use AirBnB very often. But I do end up doing network maintenance for friends, family and at the startup I work at. Fing seems like it would be useful for that purpose - but not with this kind of privacy policy.

Also, just like it's not ok for hosts to put cameras in the properties they're renting out, I don't think it would be ok for me, as a guest, to knowingly upload data that I would consider sensitive to a third party. Treat others how you would want to be treated, right?
What's interesting to me is how quickly the solid body electric guitar reached its technological optimum. The Telecaster, Stratocaster, and Les Paul represent the iconic forms to this day (No offense towards metalheads, who tend to prefer pointier models). There have been many refinements and anti-refinements among the icons along the way, but in my opinion, no new form has become mainstream since 1960.
Positive and delusional are different things.
I think this one is pretty key. For the first couple years when AirBnB started, they were almost always cheaper than hotels, even for whole places. Of course, a lot of that was their fees were lower and they weren't paying taxes. I can almost find better deals at hotels now.
Unfortunately, it isn't possible to effectively use git without knowing something about the internals. You can do the basics taught more 'by rote', but sooner or later you're going to run into something unexpected, or something complex you need to do and you need to understand the data model in order to have a chance of sorting it out.
SSNs were never designed for, nor intended for, secrecy.

They're names, not passcodes.
You should discuss the code base with your contact and let them know the scenario. Also, if you don't tell them I doubt they'll fire you for you are the resident expert. If they let you go, they'll basically be just be status quo for a long time while the new hires fix the working "mess" and figure out how to tie in 2 new apps.
If these new recruits are for you to supervise, all the better. You'll be able to refactor the code faster and they will become very familiar with the system.
Good luck!
That's exactly what I thought. Conspiracy theorists like moon-landing deniers, flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, etc. have endless "research" to quote, but zero real knowledge on the subject. Obviously if they knew better they wouldn't hold that belief, but the bubble that they live in contains enough "data" for them to think they are informed.
Ya I was confused by it at first too, it definitely could have been more clear. But it's also been my experience with time series that more resolution isn't always better.
I did read it. I stick by my assertion. In practice, software cannot be proven to be bug free. This assertion has been borne out by numerous companies with nearly unlimited budgets who continue to find severe bugs in their software, despite extensive testing. While it's interesting academically that a single function could be tested and shown to be bug-free, it's not relevant in practice. It's the interaction of multiple functions and subsystems that leads to many bugs -- and inputs in edge cases lead to even more than that.
Or his profit margin is large enough he's never needed to actually consider his costs.

If that's the case, I'm guessing he learns a thing or two if he ever expands to the point where his margin gets compressed enough to need to be managed.
Capitalist governments promote enterprises, thus appears enterprise-related correction. Governments which promote the church will foster church-related corruption, etc. etc..

Governments which are the party will promote party corruption. [looks at China] Yup. Checks out.
WeWork is another Theranos waiting to happen.

- Unicorn status. Check.

- Douchey founder(s). Check.

- Shady dealings and corruption. Check.
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Doing everything by the book, or according to the guidelines some random person published on Medium last Wednesday is a luxury we don't all have.

You have the merit of having done all that, and it works.

Now, sure, don't we all, to some extent, want to change everything when we arrive in a new environment?
IMO, it comes down to a couple of things:

- Who make the choices of refactoring an app or not?

- What's the company roadmap.

To avoid being showed the door, I would advise you to support refactoring. Show enthusiasm and support.
You could be the guy with the knowledge on how everything has been done and why, and that is greatly valued if the decision to refactor some app is made.

Eventually, the decision to do so will depend on time and money.
How many high-growth companies came out of Kickstarter? The ones that jump to mind are Oculus and Pebble, but I can't think of others.
I disagree with the streaming video example. Netflix, Disney etc aren't facing any regulatory issues that's causing them to circle their wagons and create their own content pipelines and streaming services. They're doing it to maximize profit and be less dependent on third parties.
Radix Trees are used extensively at Akamai. They are very useful in dealing with blocks of network addresses. When I was there, they had 2 libraries which shared the on disk format. One was mutable and had all sorts of operations you could do on them. The other was immutable and optimized for very fast lookups.
Sure so insider trading is almost exclusively a creature of the executive branch, with the general antifraud provision under “Section 10b-5” used to prosecute it most of the time, a provision only the securities regulatory can pursue (in conjunction with DOJ for the criminal prong)

The legislature fails to have consensus on this topic and hasn’t weighed in since the 1980s (where it was only to add statutory damages if a conviction was achieved, but no clarity regarding how and when it could be achieved)

And courts strip or uphold nuances various of the agency’s sentiment leaving this to be largely unsettled territory, all while the people that staff these agencies have the same unclear and misguided (when courts later disagree) view on what kind of trading is or isnt prohibited

Other markets are completely exempt: Futures, currencies, metals, nike shoes, non-securities digital assets. I think this aberration for the securities market should be re-evaluated, as it is an expensive dragnet.
> Smart, far-seeing capitalists

I.e., no one running a company today
Bill Murray.

Netflix has a new release about him, named "The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man."

Highly recommended.
Market trade panics are positive feedback loops. The closure of the market and the release of data while the market's closed allows investors to digest new information and move with their heads, not their hearts, decreasing the risk of regrettable shocks.
The place I'm in doesn't serve beer at all. I can see that not being great for productivity.
They're never going to learn if no one ever says anything about a bad practice.
I once signed up for a course on "gaming law". I thought it might have something to do with gaming or gambling. I was wrong. "Gaming Law" was all about the relationship of native tribes and the US government. I still got the CLE credits.
> Among the statements the participants had to wrestle with were: “Ordinary tomatoes do not have genes, whereas genetically modified tomatoes do”

Yikes.
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