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> [...] illegal [...] barred under EU rules

My comment is more of a general comment about lifting society up rather than what has been made illegal or what is barred. Regulations have their place sometimes as do more open competition environments coupled with an educated populace, and it's often a case-by-case situation which to favor more and work towards harder. In this case (big-tech bogeyman), I think the latter should be favored but both can be employed of course.
Where is this business located? Our city has a real estate boom going on. The landlord night honor the lease rather than incur the cost of fighting it but would be unlikely to renew with that attitude.

Then again evicting a person is hard enough. I have no idea how hard it is to evict a company.
I can really only speak from my personal experience here. I learned Clojure on my own time in college, and it took some time for me to understand how to deal with things like immutability, laziness, and pure functions. After I did finally 'get' it, I was unable to convince any of my classmates that the initial effort was worth it. I love the language and its opinions, but JavaScript (another language I learned on my own time) was probably 10x easier.
there are alternatives like http://10minutemail.com
If this is your genuine question, I'm afraid you are ill-advised and your Google-fu is rusty.
They are quite different languages with similar names, like java and javascript
Did you ever go to such a meetup? What exactly annoyed you about the people?
Why do people who clearly don't know what computers are or how they work choose to write things like this? It makes them look like clueless buffoons.

> In fact, the logic of binary is inherently polarizing. You can either be a 1 or a 0 and you must pick a side. Pro life or pro choice? Trump or Hillary?

what the frick is this?
Thank you, I will add that to my wishlist, plus let my spouse know to look for that in 2nd hand form when she hits various booksellers.
Well. The law does not say that the reason for company to exist is to bring profit. In that you are correct, there is no legal requirement for companies to maximise profits. For example, in Delaware, company may be formed for "any lawful business or purpose".

Now, once the "business and purpose" of the company is defined to be profit for the shareholders the company has fiduciary duty to perform in the "best interest" of the company and its shareholders as defined by this mission statement.

As long as paying minimum tax serves the best interest of company that is brought for profit of its shareholders then that's what the company is bound to do.

As I mentioned, it is possible that pure monetary value is not the best interest in the company. That's why, for example, companies spend on image building, because it believes it is in the best interest for the company and the shareholder in achieving long term mission of bringing profit (as long as the mission is "for profit").

The company may build local school or feed poor children in Africa, as long as it serves the best interest of the company and shareholders as defined by its mission.

"In a famous 1970 article in The New York Times Magazine, Milton Friedman wrote that the “great virtue” of the shareholder wealth maximization norm is that “it forces people to be responsible for their own actions and makes it difficult for them to ‘exploit’ other people for either selfish or unselfish purposes.”" (https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...)

The way I understand it is US, the people, who decide what is in the best interest of the companies. We have power to decide that being pro-environment is in the best interest of every company and we also have power to make it in the future the best interest of every company to pay taxes. But now that the standards are set, at any given point in time, the officers of the company have obligation to serve in its best interest and we only have ourselves to blame for allowing this to continue be the best interest of the company.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19064069
You made me look up 'guanxi'.

(from ddg) guanxi: Guanxi describes the rudimentary dynamic in personalized social networks of influence and is a central idea in Chinese society.
Weird engines
Or do DOAs become more like our current political conundrum, where it's a popularity contest full of opinionated misinformation with people who don't have the expertise or time to become sufficiently informed.

With a DAG based voting proxy, there may be interesting applications within a business. Like putting support behind higher ups or something like support for RFCs. I'd expect anything applied to the wide population to be manipulated.
Part of the issue involved surrounding the whole content/censorship/etc controversy is that Patreon hosts content.

If they were strictly a pay-creators platform that took a percentage, it would be sustainable, they could run more efficiently, not spend money on content policing, etc.

If they still wanted to deny certain types of customers on their platform- that is their right, but their decision to also host content adds a level of complexity that when scaled, can become a problem, and probably a pretty costly one.

Now, I still don't know for sure that this makes the level of funding make more sense. Going the investing route is going to introduce a lot of expectations and changes in the way the business handles itself that could doom it- that could have been avoidable
In fact, I seem to care less and less as to what they are up to year to year, so that propriety thing is not also in play.
A growing number of types is a canary in the coal mine
They don't have fundamentally different jobs. They are there to represent their clients' interests and advocate for them.
> Why did NO ONE in any meetings when designing this "feature" or process say anything?

I think other commenters have covered the futility of speaking up internally (basically the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine in action), but the question I have is:

Why did no one blow the whistle? Instacart's tip stealing code had likely been in place a long time before any external activists noticed it. An ethical developer could have passed word of it and its implications to activists or journalists right as it went into production. That would not have exposed the dev to retaliation (as it'd be publicly observable in PROD), but would have likely torpedoed the feature before it could do much harm to workers.
11th and 12th grades should be for community college and starting to work. That is what kids will be doing!
Instagram's IP guidelines are a complete joke. Go deep enough down the rabbit hole and you're going to find a bunch of accounts doing nothing but reposting memes, images from video games, and video clips from TV shows.
Do you use products made in China? If so, you indirectly (or in some cases, directly) support Chinese government.

Are you going to stop, now that you think they are unethical?
Kieran Kunhya gave a good talk on related things at Demuxed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1R3QlaaaUA
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Well put. That's what's rubbed me the wrong way with all these networking events. A drink + a little small talk doesn't really deepen anything for me. One thing I've recently started that I've thoroughly been enjoying is throwing a "let's play a game over lunch" networking event.

It does a few things differently that I've enjoyed.

1) It's over lunch. it doesn't require an obligation that takes me away from my loved ones in the evening. I'm going to eat lunch anyways, might as well do it with a group of friends or strangers.

2) We don't have to small talk. There's a game involved. There's rules to that help us to talk to each other. It's so much easier to do so then.

3) Playing a game deepens these relationships. I can't even explain it. But it's this artificial conflict that's been creating these stronger bonds with these folks I'm playing a game with. I can't wait to play the next game with them and have our chats afterwards.

4) The game I picked was important. I picked "The Resistance". It's similar to Mafia/Werewolf where you're basically all trying to figure out who's lying to you. So the game isn't what most folks think about when they think a game with cards or board games. It's really just talking and learning how people express themselves.

So it really goes deep in examining people and having them examine you. It's a weird feeling to go through that type of process with acquaintances. But every time I've played a "lying game" like Mafia/Resistance with a group of acquaintances or new folks, I'm so much more comfortable talking to them about so many other things.

It's been fun. I've been told by some folks it's in their top meetups they've ever done, and it takes ridiculously low effort. Just email some people to show up and play a game. Don't need to shell out for food/drinks/speakers/other garbage.

(I'm in Chicago doing this. If anyone here wants to come and play hit me up.)
I think that is the big issue. It's ok as a payment scheme, but it's fraud to say 100% of the tips go to the Dasher if a separate payment is reduced based on the tip amount.
The bulb they link are listed as dimmable (flicker-free silent dimming) aside from the part they quoted.
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This is reporting that the BBC reported something. Please submit the source in such cases.

the source also already has a discussion, making this a duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095645
Just divide the economy into people with even and odd numbers of letters in their name and pretend they're part of different countries trading with each other.
I can't wait for the impossible burger to hit grocery stores.
I only buy Philips bulbs for this very reason, or from brands that advertise being flicker-free. With iphones, slow motion mode also makes the flicker very visible without the need to transfer to a PC.

Visible light impulses influence brain wave patterns (e.g. [1]), and it might not be beneficial to look at pulsed light with a frequency that is not well researched.

Same thing with screens, most LEDs are dimmed with pulse width modulation [2], so they flicker at most brightness levels except the very brightest one. Some iPhone X users claim they get a headache when looking at the phone at the lowest brightness setting (OLED is even worse in that regard than LED, IIRC).

1: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03657745
2: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1281013
You don't see this for the YC startups that have become very mainstream. Reddit is mentioned on a front page HN headline right now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087558) without mention of its batch.
It has nothing to do with corruption. See my other comment.
You hate it because you missed out on the gold rush. It's called jealousy. Simple as that.

I hate it too for the same reason but at least I'm honest about it.
So... It costs proportionally more to educate rich parents' kids? Why? Do they need to sit in Eames chairs to pay attention?
Because IQ and Intelligence are not the same thing.
What Australia is doing is worse, because the actions can’t be talked about.

What the five eyes do is normal espionage. They often get away with it, but when they are uncovered their illegal actions aren’t covered by gag orders.
What if they are applying a carry loss forward that year? To account for all the money lost in an investment last year? Should we stop doing that?
Never even thought about this problem, thanks for bringing it up
It is exactly how it works. Apple has been taxed on the profits that make up their giant cash balance. Once that is paid out to investors through dividends or to employees through payrolls, it will get taxed again.
> Make an intriguing film, build a useful product.

Ahh yes of course, that was further down on my list, i should move it to the top..

Competency matters, the problem is knowing that you are competent. I'm really good a recognizing that everyone else is incompetent, I have no idea when I'm being sufficiently competent.
Broad clickbait title when the article focuses on standardized testing amongst low-income minorities.

More than just minorities, the wasted talent problem extends even to the elite. Ivy League students aspire to work in investment banking and management consulting. The finance industry is one of the biggest modern-day brain drains.

The real wasted talent is in the modern day labor market. We need to invest more in the jobs we want to see - otherwise our brightest minds will continue to waste their lives making money for wealthy people instead of working on the important problems.
Yes, I have done both.

Thank you for your tireless work on improving Clojure and the surrounding ecosystem.
>oh come on. tumbler is aiming for sweet sweet sweet branding advertising dollars

Right, because with all the data collected about users, and all the data mined from all the pages, in the year 2019 it's still impossible to tell that a particular blog is NSFW to avoid showing an shampoo ad on it.

What is targeting for 5000.
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Most home routers already do this for you, it's a bit abstracted but there, just need to specify the network and have it in the list of networks to resolve for DHCP. Or you can DIY it on another box.

I find it's still best to defer to an upstream forward server vs. root resolution. Most of the providers mentioned have multiple points of presence and will likely be closer and resolve MUCH faster for most cases. DNS resolution time can be a huge factor in web responsiveness.
So you get your buddy to make you a low-ball offer on your property that you'll definitely refuse so you can pay less taxes. Then you do the same for them.

Meanwhile, that person you don't like? Make a ridiculous offer on their property to either force them to move or suddenly have to pay absurd taxes.
We're saying the same thing. Satoshi is a defacto central bank. The main difference is the money is already printed but that fact is essentially irrelevant.
Pushpin could be considered a “varnish for streaming”, and it doesn’t require 1:1 connections with the origin. This may get you close to low latency multimedia streaming with the right tuning.

There’s a live music example here: http://audiostream.fanoutapp.com (code: https://github.com/fanout/audiostream). It plays a song in a loop using GStreamer.
Six Linux Distributions Benchmarked on the Dell XPS 9380 Laptop
BS. in a comment about pricing "more" does not include complex concepts like autonomy - it clearly only referred to money.
Which was a shitty thing to do. On the other hand, it was right after they sent a crew to China to interview her, and asked questions about her relationships & sexuality after they had explicitly agreed not to. Which is also a shitty thing to do. But guess which of them lost most of their income, and which of them ended up as an editor at the New York Times?
So what happens if you don't donate? Do you still get to reap the benefits if you live in the school zone?
Are they going to put the former Volkswagen CEO in prison for the emissions scandal? Because the US would like to.
> Like most of Apple’s best products, AirPods simply work.

This hasn't been true for a few generations now.

I just bought a $3K Mac Mini. I'm a developer, and I wanted a big, beefy machine to replace my aging Macbook Pro.

It's a great machine. Very happy with it. But there are a lot of little annoyances that, five or ten years ago, I never would have expected from a Mac.

For example, the screens no longer shut themselves off after ten minutes. I've tried playing with the Energy Saver settings, but they just ... stay on. The screen saver never kicks in, either. This worked for like a week, and then just stopped.

My external speakers stopped working for a while, too. I rebooted twice and they came back.

I have two monitors hooked up to it, and MacOS keeps getting confused about which one is my primary monitor.

None of this is a deal breaker, but it adds up. Apple doesn't "just work" anymore. It mostly works, it's mostly great, but they aren't the magical, invulnerable products they used to be.
As pointed out in the article the LEDs just fade away. This means that if you define "lifetime", you also need to define how much you can lose brightness to still considered it to be alive.

Could it be that with the initial 100k LEDs the definition was different than with current ones? As mentioned, the industry is now using the 70% of brightness as the limit. Since such figure was probably not defined early on, maybe the vendors put the limit much lower.
He's also a good marketer. I have a mostly unsubstantiated theory that Buffet's celebrity 1) allows him to negotiate better deals than other investors and 2) moves the market after he's invested. Re: 2) if Warren buys something, other people will pile on and drive up the price, which helps drive his returns.
Do you know why I tolerate that extremely distasteful shit? The "Borat" meme?

That's because someone thought it was a small thing, then made fun of it, then persisted. I actually think that no other type of language can reach the people that are in that mode, and pull them in to what I'd call "get your head out your ass mode"
It's objective in the sense that some types of food and method of preparation are nearly universally unobjectionable, notwithstanding tastes. For example, few people around the world would ever find raw vegetables or vegetables boiled in a soup disgusting, whatever the vegetable or regardless of whether they liked the taste. For example, most Westerns probably wouldn't be able to tolerate, let alone enjoy, bitter gourd soup. But I doubt it would inspire disgust (i.e. revulsion) in many such people.

Disgusting foods tend to strongly correlate with certain types of preparation, like fermentation, involve animals or animal byproducts, exhibit certain kinds of textures (e.g. soft or mushy), or have certain types of odors (e.g. rancid). That's what I meant by cheese being objectively disgusting--all the characteristics of cheese fall into categories that strongly correlate with disgusting foods.

Obviously each person's particular tastes and preferences are highly subjective. But from an anthropological viewpoint we can make some objective classifications because there are near universal qualitative characteristics of foods that various cultures find disgusting.

Some types of disgust are likely strongly innate rather than cultural, but that's beside the point. For example, for all I know Inuit might be much more likely to find simple vegetable preparations disgusting, so that the objective quality of vegetable soups generally being non-disgusting might simply be an artifact of the dispersal of human populations. But that wouldn't make qualitative classifications any less objective. A factor doesn't need to be innate, it just needs to be common.
> Using Latin terms

Reductio ad absurdum is an English phrase. Derived from Latin certainly, but it does not require understanding Latin (a language which I do not speak) to comprehend.

> Name a single, unqualified societal benefit to a one year leave.

You are demanding I argue against my argument as evidence for my own argument? That seems to me the height of intellectual dishonesty.

A single unqualified social benefit is that people like me would be able to take many years off work, which I think would just be grand, because I'm rather lazy and other people paying for tathougies to play with babies sounds great! Is that a social benefit?
You might say the article is lacking data to support its claims. I guess it was too difficult to gather.
Yep, that's definitely a concern. There are different voting mechanisms/design systems that help deal with this. Definitely a work in progress though.
In SFUSD, there's a big debate around algebra right now - in particular, the decision to remove it from the 8th grade curriculum.

It's important to note that this is both a controversial and complicated topic, since it isn't entirely accurate to say that the course material for algebra has been eliminated from 8th grade math. However, it does mean that graduates of SFUSD now have to amend their high school path (summer sessions, private classes followed by entrance exams, or doubling up on math during one or more years of high school) in order to be prepared to take calculus in their senior year of High School. This isn't the case for private schools or public schools from other Bay Area districts, which continue to teach algebra as a formal standalone course in 8th grade.

Here's one link about it, but I'd recommend reading more extensively if you're interested:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/SF-schools-mov...

It's a more nuanced issue than pure "progressive" (or what the parent poster called "woke") politics, as this decision was also made as part of a push to teach math differently and less mechanically (common core).

https://priceonomics.com/why-did-san-francisco-schools-stop-...

However, concern over the racial/ethnic composition of 8th grade algebra classes in SFUSD was a stated concern of many of the people promoting this decision.
Is there something particularly insidious about Catholics as opposed to, say, Muslims?
> The owner of this website (www.computing.co.uk) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (RO) from accessing this website.
We've stayed in an airbnb in Bolinas, which has been a tourist spot since Bolinas has been renting out places since before the internet before the halcyon hippie days of SF. It seems like the town itself feels conflicted about tourism- they like the $$ of renting out their rooms and having patrons at their surf shops and cafes, but at the same time hate the feel of acknowledging their town as a tourist spot.
Eric Bauman is a great case study as eBaumsWorld has lived its full life cycle and he was one of the first 3rd party aggregation pirates that reached international success.
Years ago I locked myself out of my Amazon account. Since I really wanted to keep using the same email account (and I didn't care about Amazon history, nor did I wish to go through an official account reset) I resigned up using a +suffix. I'm still amazed the second account was able to be created, though it's possible it's no longer allowed since this was around 2005 or so.
Satoshi's pile of 1-million bitcoins acts as a centralized bank, whether he likes it or not. Satoshi realizes this fact, and that's why Satoshi has ensured that his BTC has never moved.

Speculation on cause is kind of stretching it. Satosh's identity is still unknown. Maybe that bitcoin is lost entirely, maybe "Satoshi" is going to liquidate as soon as he/she gets out of prison or maybe something else.
Please enlighten us on what is racist about the test. Then rational people will listen to you. Either it's scientifically correct and thus egalitarian since it'll deal with everyone objectively or it's flawed.

The test is in fact meant to discriminate between people, in a purely mathematical sense between those clever enough and those who are not.

So unless you can pinpoint where the methodology is flawed, I would recommend you to go and look up the story of "the boy who cried wolf", before running around and accusing everybody you don't agree with for hate-crime.
Not to detract from the gravity of the situation, but the main picture (and caption) are amazing.

"A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017."
Is Uber Eats or Grubhub (or PostMates) better than DoorDash in terms of how they handle tipping? Or can you even tell? I imagine the payments are so opaque it can be hard to tell.

I'm not using DoorDash anymore, not that I used them much before, but I feel ripped off. If I choose to use a delivery service, I'd at least like to know it's one that hasn't been lying to me. I realize that probably means Uber is right out :)