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Networks, personal/professional/everything in-between, are not overrated. Anecdote but every job since my first one out of school came directly through people I had worked with in some capacity or other.

However, contrast with "Networking" with a capital-N in the giving out business cards like candy at some business networking cocktail party. It's probably a combination of how deep the connection is as you say and just the general attitude that tends to pervade those sorts of events.
I can read a few thousand characters (I pick up new characters by adding flashcards (using Anki) when reading novels written in Chinese). At this point I rarely encounter characters I can't read (but there are frequently words I don't know).

I can only write a handful of characters (probably less than 100?).

I probably would get the characters mixed up less frequently if I practiced writing them, but I don't think I would have been able to learn so many if I was doing that.
I agree with you on #2, but not on #1.

I think the correct reform of the corporate income tax is to abolish the "bazillion highly specific loopholes." If it was abolished entirely, I think you'd very quickly see corporations being set up and used purely to evade individual income tax, especially among the extremely wealthy.

That said, I do think it makes sense to not tax money at the corporate level that's remitted as dividends that would be taxed individually.
Analogies are useful for illustrating a thought, not for supporting arguments. And identity theft (where the victim can do nothing to protect themselves) is not analogous in the first place.

Using multi factor authentication, using long, difficult passwords, and don’t let your security questions be obvious. If someone knocks me out, uses my finger to TouchID into my bank’s app and transfer money, that’s the price I pay for the convenience of not wanting to login with my password. Same with using weak passwords and questions.
Fortunately, you can buy a dongle that will hold the airpods together if they do happen to fall out. You connect the dongle to the phone via a small wire that you hardly notice.
I would be fine with the American government actually putting American CEOs in prison too. ;)

But even without the international extradition type problems, there are still a lot of problems, as we consider most of the wrongdoings these corporations are committing to be civil violations, and no matter how many people they harm, as long as they aren't treated as criminal, we can't put someone in jail for them.

I do feel this is a major problem though, as CEOs aren't realistically punished for corporate misdeeds that can cause massive, wide-ranging harm. Even if the CEO screws up badly enough to lose his job, he'll get a job being a CEO somewhere else.
I am in complete agreement with you, but you know what? Let's not rag on the guy about his truck when he was trying to contribute to a conversation about the annoyances of Bluetooth. Someone daring to type the word "truck" is not our excuse to pile on no matter how far out of context.
Except a large portion of revenue does not go to workers, but to shareholders, who pay far less taxes then those who strain their backs in creating said revenue.
A lot of workers need a vehicle (or season pass on public transport), need a different location for their dwelling - both of these amount to a pretty hefty addition to a workers costs.
The trick is that you have passive cooling (a heatsink) in what could be a completely enclosed space (like a glass shade/globe on a flush-mount fixture). The heatsink can't be too big to occupy a similar volume to a 'normal' A19 bulb, or it won't be able to fit in lots of existing fixtures. I suppose we might see some bulbs try active cooling (with a fan on that heatsink), but people are already very aware of hums and buzzes from their fixtures, so it'd have to a quiet one.
I don't know how pedantic you're intending to be here; what do you consider a "campaign contribution". If you use the traditional definition of a "campaign contribution", that is, money given to the candidate to be spent on election campaigns, then this is completely false; lobbyists cannot give any more money to campaigns than regular people can.

The power of large lobbies is more closely related to the fact that they represent a large number of constituents who donate and vote (approximately) as a block.
Grab yourself a copy of Sam Halabi's "Internet Routing Architectures" (2nd Edition).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/157870233X/

It's likely a bit out of date these days, but it's one of the best books on BGP I'd read back in the day when I was involved with building an internet exchange point circa 1999.
He went to a top 5 public school instead. No idea what he did after.
How did you extract concerns from class components and reuse them previously? Easy and hygienic extraction and composability of concerns literally is something new enabled by Hooks that was not offered by class components.

You're also misrepresenting what the docs say about replacing class components. They're saying that you don't need to replace class components just for the sake of using 'the new thing'. However if there was some concern you wanted to extract from a class component that you could not previously, you absolutely could adapt it to use hooks, and then extract and reuse that concern in another component.
Fun approach! But I don’t think that’s it? Just not the same kind of zero-effort awesomeness right? Also uses the context API for something it’s not intended for.
Ask HN: How do you respond to a company asking for “homework” when job hunting?
Star topology
Yes. Endless story. What I see in many of my clients projects (I'm a freelancer, 23+ years in IT) is a return to some kind of "monolith" applications.

They surfed on the "everything must be Google-scalable..." trends. They built hundreds of interconnected micro/nano-services, upgraded networking infrastructure ($$), OAuth federation, ...

What they've got? Network latency/congestion/..., security and API versionning management nightmare, unresponsive applications (tooooo manyyyy APIs calls), performance issues, circuit-breaker, caching, ... Ok you see the big picture.

Now, the returned back to a more "monolith" design. They merged many services together in one application (services that wasn't called by anything else). Everything doesn't need to be exposed as a service. This simplified security management, reduce a lot the network usage and simplified bugs investigation/fix.

The difference is that now, their new monolith designs are more modularized than before. Everything is now in a clear module (call it jar file, lib, package, ...) with a clear contract/interface. This is what I like to call "intra-services" : clear services/features separation minus the networking/security moving parts (and all band-aid solutions to support it like circuit-breakers, distributed caches, ...).

If one day you are the size of Google, Netflix, Facebook, Spotify, ... you will probably have the money/manpower to implement it the "Google way". Until then, KISS!

Note: English is not my first language.
> Or we could elect people who can't be bought by lobbyists because they have principles

Don't see how idealism and fantasies of heroes is going to make our government better. How about we stop expecting mythical people to exist and come save us from the bad guys.
I know the ISPs are against it. To the point that Netflix essientially threatened to switch to a p2p model if the Comcast peering fiasco wasn't solved amicably.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/netfl...
The kick of the plot here is to not tip on Instacart as you're just handing money to VCs. Or maybe give the driver cash?
The fact that netflix lets you create an account without verifying you actually own the email address they are sending the token to is the real bug.

Besides, even without a magic link, they could still phish you into clicking a link to a malicious page that performed a login-csrf which would have the same effect.
your reasoning doesn't quite follow your assertions.

abolishing corporate taxes would be counterproductive to your goal of leveling the playing field. corporations would become even greater bastions of wealth shielding, not less. rather, equalizing corporate, capital gains, and individual income tax rates would go a long way to making things more fair. however, you have many other inequalities, like the corporate tax shield and carry-forward (-back) deductions.

and the capital gains rate is but one brick in the wealth accumulation firewall. the justification for lower capital gains rate is to encourage putting capital to productive use, not double taxation (as sibling commenter mentions), but it's a poor justification. as long as one more dollar can be made, (some) folks will find a way to make that dollar, with or without any external incentive. it's just a giveaway to wealthy patrons by politicians.
That's why they were the "liberal" arts - they were studied by free people, as opposed to vocational things, which were studied by slaves. To extend that to today, if you need the money from a job, don't study the liberal arts. If you can afford to not work for a living, then the liberal arts are appropriate for you.

Now, in a non-slave-based society, we think that all citizens should know something of the liberal arts (which I in fact support, and wish our education system was better at providing). But a degree? Only if you don't need the money.
"He just found a strategy that happened to work, was stubborn enough to stick to it through bad times, and used copious amounts of leverage to juice returns."

Which is anything but average.
>So charities and environmental groups can't lobby?

They could create form letters for their members to email their representatives.

Some charities I belong to operate this way.

Obviously Comcast could do this too but I don't think they'd be successful getting real people to lobby on their behalf.

>Furthermore, the fact that they have deep pockets is actually important. It means they reflect an important aspect of the economy, so ignoring their interests could also have detrimental economic effects.

The fact that they have deep pockets means that they can broadcast their message more easily so they have an inbuilt advantage. There's no reason not to compensate for that.
>why continue with such narrative? Why cause harm?

Because toxic masculinity exists, and it causes greater harm than wounds to the ego. Refusing to address the subject except through analogy only serves to create a false impression of the nature of the arguments being made, and to distract from the subject at hand. Pretending it doesn't exist as a systemic phenomenon only serves the status quo.

Even if using the phrase will only result in men being defensive and getting triggered by it. It exists regardless, and society if left to its own devices will probably do nothing about it, or the harm that it causes, unless confronted and dragged kicking and screaming into a more just and equitable future.

It is incorrect to claim that everything wrong with the world is caused by Muslims, but no one is making an equivalent claim about everything wrong with the world being caused by men or masculinity. It is incorrect to equate Islam with terrorism, but it is correct to equate toxic masculinity with male culture, because the two relationships are not perfectly equivalent, and not all analogies between them apply. And to cut to the chase, and what I believe is the intended implication of the equivalency you're trying to draw here, feminist critique is not equivalent to bigotry.

So if you disagree with me, as you seem to (and fair enough,) then perhaps you could address the subject on its own terms?
degree inflation means A degree is less valued by employers, thus jobs that used to require bachelors, now require masters (because there's too many people running around with bachelors), and jobs that used to only require high school completion now require bachelors.

I also want a highly educated populace, but you can get that from a book/library/continuing education courses/online courses, book clubs, etc: there's no reason you MUST spend 50K on it (unless employers force it: as with degree inflation). That problem is the institutionalization of education and their subsequent monopoly on it.
This. Hi! I'm one of the 100,000 people that happened to graduate from the same school that you did. Can you put in a referral for me?

Mind you. I am often happy to respond to a few questions in an email (or even a quick call) from pretty much anyone. Though a good percentage of the time, when I do that I don't get so much as a Gmail form "Thanks."
> is precisely the sort of company that should be paying its fair share of income taxes

This greatly annoys me. We have a massive federal budget already. Personally 30 cents of every 100 cents I own is taken from me forcibly.
Agreed. I've seen cases where you had niche subreddits containing people who are somewhat experts, but when the sub gets remotely popular, it gets bombarded by people who don't know anything but feel like they can post whatever useless crap they want that has been posted a million times before. Eventually the moderators give up trying to control quality due to posts and upvotes by beginners, the experts leave in disgust, and the sub devolves into dumb conversations about the topic because now it's just beginners talking to beginners.
power loss and price of copper is a good reason to bring 120/240vac as far as possible.
Depends where you live. I can most certainly attest to the rising popularity of "vanlife", and the associated downsides of long term unmanaged camping/squatting.

In my case there's a popular area for climbers on a fire road near a river close to me. Many of these folks just shit arbitrarily in the woods, and don't even bury it. It stinks, attracts animals, and makes it impossible to go on hikes. A friend's dog even ate some which had THC in it from someone who ate a marijuana edible. And let's not get started about the risk of forest fires in the dry season.

There are some that are better about managing their waste and overall footprint, but there is an outsized impact from the less considerate.

There are places where these concerns are real and are having actual and increasing impact. Dismissing these concerns is not helpful.
Netflix can also solve this on their end by sanitizing gmail addresses before saving them, stripping all dots and discarding everything after the plus sign from the account name.
Any attempt to submit additional gmail "dot addresses" would result in a violation of primary key constraint.
I like that, his unfinished thoughts could be quotes from kombucha bottle caps.
I agree. It’s difficult for poor kids to know what schools are a good fit for them. Least, that is my experience when I applied. I barely knew what colleges were out there.
Clojure was my first JVM language. It indeed was a nightmare. The java underpinnings affect everything you touch. Trying to use a library that didn't have a stable wrapper was terrible...you have to essentially learn two languages at the same time.
On the other hand, when a recent grad or otherwise distant connection-of-a-connection reaches out to ask me to coffee or a 15-minute call to “pick my brain” about my career experiences (a so-called “informational interview”), I almost never turn them down.
When I first encountered hooks about a month ago, I was absolutely confused about how the `a` in `const [a,b] = useState(...)` was just a plain JS object and not some magic proxy. It took me a good hour of researching before I understood that it was because React stores state that remembers the last time it called your component. I think a 20 second well-thought-out gif would clear this up for everyone who doesn't have an hour to devote to understanding this, and I strongly recommend considering it.
Same here: my girlfriend and I both use this headset every single day with PCs from ASUS and Lenovo, running Arch, Ubuntu and Windows 10, as well as phones from OnePlus and Xiaomi running different releases of Android, and it works very well.

I can understand Jabra's support if some vendors ship poor BT chips… I've had so many issues with BT in other products…
It's not really possible to burn down your apartment building if you fail at updating Microsoft Office, so that's one big difference for gas/electrical laws.
More than that, public companies have obligation to maximise profits for their shareholders as long as they are following the letter of law. There is not much choice here, they can't pay even if they wanted unless they can show this is somehow in shareholders' best interest.
They can do it by making operators register with the town and provide accounting of their ride fares quarterly regardless of whether or not they had any fares within the town (Just like businesses in my state must file quarterly sales tax returns regardless of whether they had taxable sales in that quarter).

It could be enforced the same way any other traffic-related law gets enforced: police can pull you over, and impound your car if you aren't registered. Sure, not everyone would get caught, but it would be a stiff enough penalty that drivers would either comply or avoid the town. I'm not saying it would be practical, but this is the sort of law you'd get if every town is allowed to make their own rules about such things.
Peer5 is actually a really interesting example of how the user experience can be improved using peer-to-peer, particularly in areas with less capable internet infrastructures - their technology _only_ kicks in if the user experience can be improved by using peer-to-peer, and it'll fallback to traditional CDNs if they can't improve the experience.

Despite this logic, they were capable of very impressive P2P offloads during the world cup. Their datasheet linked at the bottom of this blog post is worth a read for more details: https://blog.peer5.com/what-a-world-cup/ (email address needed)
Or do some bullshit accounting to move the money off-shore, like pay billions to use their own trademark to a country in which they bought off politicians to get low taxes; so they can pay out the money without paying in to the governmental system in the country in which the money was raised.
I could definitely see some type of declarative language + constraints being driven by a voice AI system.

This would let you rapidly prototype ideas
Our society wastes most peoples talents. At a time when we face problems that require a full mobilization of all human ability to solve if we are to achieve mere survival as a species.

The wasting of talent does not always look like someone languishing in a position below their abilities. Waste of talent can also look like someone expending their creativity pushing addictive services or building products for an audience of pampered elitists.

You deserve a better world.
What other vanity email providers besides Gmail implement "dot addresses" or similar systems for their email addresses?

Update: The table on this wikipedia page provides a list under the "Address Modifiers" column. Curiously, it doesn't mention dot addresses for Gmail, only plus addressing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webmail_provider...
A competing manufacturer can always offer a product that last longer and warranty it, and people might choose to purchase it depending on the price.

However, as the article notes, people may not be interested in paying a premium for a product that lasts 10y instead of 5y or 20y instead of 10y, since the tech can change or maybe it’s susceptical to other kinds of degradation.
I don't know, but I presume Google cross-signs APKs that are approved through the Play Store?
You can easily get banned for simply posting something in the wrong place.
Which are pretty much exactly what you think they are: more flexible, more comfortable. Without addressing or acknowledging any of the difficulties (a whole new set of distractions, lack of casual interactions with coworkers, narrower communication channels, pressure to never disconnect).
I've got one. OF, BY, AND FOR THE HANGED MAN.

https://www.amazon.com/HANGED-MAN-M-PFEFFER/dp/0960055118/re...
Downsides:

* No adult interaction daily unless you make an active effort on your breaks or work from a coworking space

* Possibly limited mobility and networking opportunities in your org (as someone else mentioned in thread, lack of casual interactions besides those you interact with on a daily basis)

* Wage compression due to larger candidate pool for remote roles

* Harder to disconnect/unplug from work comms, especially if your org "follows the sun" and is global

* Politics still exist (there is no such thing as "no politics" in an org)

* Video chat is not a replacement for in person body language interpretation

TLDR Contractor style employment without contractor style pay bump

I highly recommend remote work if it enables you to live somewhere without the role locally you're suited for, and you have a network of colleagues to fall back on for other remote work in the event your role doesn't work out or disappears, and you have a solid emergency fund. I do not recommend remote work if the compensation delta vs an in person role available to you is not substantial, or if you value daily socialization.
The outrage at Netflix is misplaced. If you don't throw in an extra $20K with your taxes yourself (which you can do, btw), then you'd be a hypocrite if you're mad at Netflix for not doing the same.

Rather, you should be mad at your elected representatives at the federal level and in the state of California in particular that they passed the laws that make this possible. Stop electing the same idiots for decades, force them to pass term limits, and _maybe_ something will change. Until then, enjoy Netflix's free ride.
That’s simple to solve via property taxes, gas taxes, yearly car registration fees, and even toll roads.
> I disagree, let the companies do the training. If it's so valued in the market, then surely they will be happy to provide that training.
>Why we let the companies push that externality on higher education is beyond me.

Welcome to the flip side of doing away with non-compete agreements. Why should a business invest so much money in training workers when they'll just get poached away by a competitor who is virtually guaranteed to be able to offer higher pay, not just for the value of the trained skill but because the competitor doesn't need to pay the overhead costs of training them? When new employees can leave their contracts at any time and for any reason, the expectations of employers necessarily shift away from training.

Now of course, reality is a little more nuanced. Training for long-time employees to keep them up-to-date makes more sense since they have so much domain experience internalized. A just law would need to allow for some exceptions to allow employees to break their non-competes in cases like toxic workplaces, and the law would need to set a maximum term for a non-compete to prevent workers from being exploited for low pay for their entire working lives.

But the notion that employers today should take "no-experience-needed" candidates off the street, give them 6+ months of full-day training with pay, and allow them to walk right out the door a week later to their competitor... is laughable on its face.
> Obviously Comcast could do this too but I don't think they'd be successful getting real people to lobby on their behalf.

You might be surprised; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing for the way it's usually done.