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Yeah, the thing that one should know about Orwell is that he was a socialist. Just a couple of quotes from Wikipedia:

> He wrote to Cyril Connolly from Barcelona on 8 June 1937: "I have seen wonderful things and at last really believe in Socialism, which I never did before."

> In Part 2 of The Road to Wigan Pier, published by the Left Book Club, Orwell stated that "a real Socialist is one who wishes – not merely conceives it as desirable, but actively wishes – to see tyranny overthrown." Orwell stated in "Why I Write" (1946): "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."

> According to biographer John Newsinger: "The other crucial dimension to Orwell's socialism was his recognition that the Soviet Union was not socialist. Unlike many on the left, instead of abandoning socialism once he discovered the full horror of Stalinist rule in the Soviet Union, Orwell abandoned the Soviet Union and instead remained a socialist – indeed he became more committed to the socialist cause than ever."

After all of this, it's hilarious when people continue to argue, without support, that the ‘not-anti-communist’ interpretation is mistaken.
Exactly. I could go download the source code (or at least something like it, I'm not sure how much the github repo matches what is in production), and plenty of sites exist which have done this, but without the users it is meaningless.

If you really want an alternative, convince Musk to do it (or bless yours) and tweet it out. Even then I bet it would take years to match Reddit, and it may or may not ever actually exceed it.
The Genius Bar is beyond a joke these days.

I went in a month ago and they quoted me >$1100 for repairs for a broken K key (the device was under warranty, and I had AppleCare+ - another $500 on top of the device cost) and I threw a fit because I felt it was absolutely ridiculous that a $4650 computer could "reasonably" lose function entirely within a half year due to a faulty butterfly key mechanism (within a YEAR!) and the guy said (no joke, brace yourselves) "I'm now terminating this interaction." He seriously said that after I responded to his initial cost estimate with absolute dejected disgust. Naturally, I felt compelled to respond with "Ok T-9000 kindly relay to SkyNet that I'm interested in communicating further with the grid."
They literally prey on people that don't know better and try to extract as much money as possible unless you aggressively respond. If people knew better, they wouldn't be able to get away with this kind of behavior. It's disgusting.
Eventually I was able to explain that I will literally never buy another Apple product again unless they completely fix the upper case or whatever the current terminology is for free. I was very vocal and unforgiving about how bad the design of the upper case is. What's hilarious is they actually started a keyboard replacement program for all models BEFORE 2017, even though after 2017 is when they took the butterfly keyboard model a step further. It's insane. Literally gaslighting with regard to what they are trying to "solve."

I got lucky - I got the issue fixed for free. It's sad that I have to fight to get decent repair service on a product that cost a small fortune, on top of a $500 repair warranty (that doesn't protect against water damage).

Either way I'm probably never buying an Apple product again. They are a shadow of their former self, and while Apple shareholders are probably collectively pissing themselves watching daily gains, they are moving to this cloud services model that I feel will eventually fail to catch on. It's just so expensive when you compare alternatives. Probably will take around a half decade or so, but eventually it will be felt. And if they can't move toward "larger plays" like autonomous vehicles (also certainly oriented as a service based model), the cloud pure play won't exist forever. It's just too expensive for the every day citizen.
Hmm, I'll check that Darwinian Fairytales out. However, I must say, I've read Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology, to see what critics of Dawkins and evolutionary psychology had to say, and found it rather poor.

So, for now, my considered view is that Dawkins has many interesting insightful things to say, while his critics are often attacking straw men.
You are wondering how you put your children through a private (paid for) school, whilst the employee might be wondering about feeding and accomodating theirs. Your children's well being is at a much higher level than those of your employees I am sure.

How do you propose to make it right? You already flout the existing laws, it's not like you would voluntarily enact something. So your proposition is to what? Get rid of maternity/paternity leave laws entirely? Make it fair by not letting anyone have parental leave?
I prefer neither. I enjoyed the web better before the big sites took all the traffic away from small forums and passion-project, personal websites.
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life by Wayne Dyer

Although it sounds like a self help book, it’s actually a fascinating interpretation and explanation of the Tao de Ching which was written 2500 years ago by Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu.

It really helped me understand the wisdom of that text, which without the accompanying interpretation by Dyer is a bit like reading Shakespeare without the notes.

I think about this book almost every day, and it truly did change my life. highly recommended.
Seems pretty pricey, smallest container is about $70/month for each region and each instance
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz was one of the most profound books I've ever read. It combines cognitive behavior techniques with cybernetics (developed by Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann) to help manage ones minds and to cultivate a healthier, more beneficial thought garden. Upon further reflection, this book is steeped in stoic principles and practices.
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Right, but your definition of 'fair' employment laws might make poor countries unable to compete and thus stay poor.

Example: poor countries can't afford the level of worker safety that rich countries can. So do you not trade with them? They then stay poor and work as subsistence farmers, something a lot worse than working in a sweatshop.
Some stats from where I am: 30% of parental leave days are used by men (was 10% in mid 90s). A clear majority of dads do go on some leave, and of course almost all women do. Of 480 days to share between parents 90 days are reserved for each, meaning it’s a typical minimum for the father to do at least the 90. A more normal division is 12 months for the mother and 4-5 for the father.

Of course the stats say women leave more days. But importantly men take enough leave that it’s starting to not make that much difference e.g to an employer.
> That $.5 notepad can handle all 3 of your talking points, and it comes with privacy.

Except that notepad can't tell you in semi-real time what is going on.

A proper tracker can tell when "Hey, this period is likely to be short." or "Yo, go get checked, something is very weird."
Newton Mail is back from the dead
How about just favorite tasty spots for us locals...
> In October 1994 Mavrodi managed to win a by-election to replace Andrey Aizderdzis in the State Duma, and with it immunity from prosecution.[17] Mavrodi claimed to be the victim of jealous bureaucrats, and that MMM shares would regain their value if he was elected.[18] During the campaign he was supported by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who hoped that Mavrodi would provide him with future financial backing.[19] After being elected he appeared in the State Duma only once, to vote against an attempt to strip him of parliamentary immunity.[20]

This is after the bubble collapsed.
It's not so much a question about would they honor your subscription contract or not. Assuming they would, would you rather pay explicitly, or just continue with the current "free" model.
What is the point of aggregating so much traffic into a single account when it is not really a single person? Too easy to notice, too easy to block, why wouldn't someone paying to have content posted use many different accounts?
My argument is more that people would prefer to not be on a platform where they are at the mercy of organized miscreants or one that is known for lots of illegal activity. So centralized platforms provide a layer of safety that people want. It's really hard to make a platform that allows broad speech, is actually decentralized/p2p (ie: rather than just federated), and is safe from organized abuse.

As for the government, I believe the government is fallible, corruptible and that privacy has value. The government can keep up but in doing so you tend to lose more freedom than you had before. For example, Australia's new laws on encryption which would, combined with mass traffic surveillance, lets them know everything you say. So I'd prefer the government not care enough to actually solve the speed regulation problem because doing so puts dangerously much power in it's hands.
Experience tells me this is also a really good way to test how essential your essential employees really are. If you're fundamentally redundant or your job can be replaced by a 1-year temp people will take note.
Ask HN: What would you recommend to invest time as a research/development topic?
It's sometimes doable sure. 10-person company is 5x bigger than mine though so it's way easier there. It's also the case that some areas require specialized knowledge and some don't. If I hire someone even very competent it will a few months till they are productive because we work in a very niche area. If you need someone who programs a CRUD website then yeah, it is easier.
Just because something is doable in your 10 or 15 person company doesn't mean it's doable for others in their <5 people businesses.
I buy live dungeness crabs from Asian markets. They are hard to kill. They fight back. Eventually, I figure out ways to kill them faster. Longer suffering is more traumatic. When I was a kid, I saw my dad killed chickens. He was skilled enough to save blood to make blood cubes in soup. But not everyone (men and women) can do this.
If I remember right, you couldn't see any content on Imzy without creating an account. I assume that instantly turned away over 90% of the users. Then, their design was extremely childish, and it looked like a safe place for kids, rather than a site for adults to socialize. I think they did a really poor job at understanding the market, and I'm not surprised they failed.

https://i.imgur.com/9uzaciS.png
In Germany you'll get up to three years right-of-return.

The employer doesn't pay you a dime. First twelve months you get approx. 60% of your current income from the government (BTW the same coverage people get when unemployed). You can expand those twelve months into 24, halving the amount of what you're paid. You can also apply for additional support (e.g. there's a fixed amount per kid you'll get until it reaches adulthood).

From the feedback I've gotten so far 3 years sounds bizarre to most people outside of Germany. It certainly sounds like something guaranteeing a manifestation of gender-pay-gap. But it is in my experience actually the women here, who mostly want those 3 years. And equally bizarre: how shocked many are to hear how fast mothers return to their jobs in say France or Switzerland.
> paid for by social security

This seems to be the key in countries with similar policies. You wouldn't see that system grow in the US as it stands, because companies pay for leave.
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> I'm now terminating this interaction.

Reading what you said to them I am surprised Security didn't throw you out.
Does the due process protections of the US constitution apply to foreigners stuck in visa limbo like this?
Yeah, it's really unfortunate when someone cares more about raising well-adjusted kids than the Company.
> Last time I checked this is technically correct.

It's correct, but manually managing the RAM rather than letting the OS deal with it is almost always a bad idea. iOS will kill apps when necessary, and by killing apps you're requiring them to be relaunched when you try to use them.
I didn’t know about it either, but clicked through all the rooms thinking maybe it was misfiled, then ended up at the Readme. Glad I didn’t skip it as it had the relevant info!
I'm considering a Nokia 6.1 or 7.1 as my next phone, but I'm concerned that it's allegedly killing background processes so that IMs don't get delivered. Can you comment on that?
Given the current situation, which would you choose? I understand the desire for the web to be like it was in the late 90's and early 00's, but we are here now, and some of the services are incredibly great compared to the previous generation of websites.
Ayn Rand's two tomes should be read and then, after some more reading, recognised as simplistic garbage by every teenager.
no offense taken, I'll claim the always forgivable "not-a-native -peaker" ;-)
Robert Anton Wilsons Cosmic Trigger had a lot of powerful stuff about combining technology consciousness and creativity.
Quoting article:

> "The combination of a non-technical, female founder operating in the consumer packaged goods market with a mission-driven company was an anomaly in the Silicon Valley of four years ago"

Um, yes, it's an anomaly in Silicon Valley.

However, go sit on the parking shuttle bus at MD&M West and just listen. Everyone is basically trying to find a marketing angle to sell the same undifferentiated consumer products.
This is not the first time Atrient has been sloppy with the details of their NDAs, nor the first time Jessie Gill has gotten in trouble for being a touch too eager to get physical.

https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180828d81
If someone leaves I can find a replacement and hope they don't leave. If a women has a baby then I will either need to hire a temp which is more difficult than to hire for full time position or suddenly have 2 positions open (I need to have that when my first employee comes back).
For a small few people company having 2 positions open instead of one is often unreasonable cost.
The way that works best in my opinion is to over communicate and lock them in on a decision. Once that happens things like requirements/scope changes cannot happen as you already established this in writing and it will be binding.

For instance for any work outside of the scope, you politely inform them of the service of work that they agreed to and that any other work outside of that will cost them money because it takes up your time. These are standard and should be outlined before you do a thing with/for anyone.

The clients importance will determine if you adhere to what I posted above. If they are toxic as you defined, when you have those initial conversations and contract negotiations they will be put off by the rigidity and not want to work with you :).
I think GP's point is more that there are many more surrounding countries from which immigration is easier, than in the U.S.
I'm in my late twenties and increasingly worry about things like this. I sometimes wonder if my best "thinking days" are already behind me. Business sense and practicality (i.e. "wisdom") still seem to be increasing with time, yet I can't shake the feeling that understanding highly complex or novel topics is going to become vastly more difficult over the next few decades. For instance, if I wanted to learn homotopy type theory, would this have been easier five years ago, or will it be easier five years from now? It's well known that the number of neural synapses in the human brain decreases by almost an order of magnitude over a lifetime. I can accept that my body will degrade physically, but psychologically, I have a hard time stomaching the idea that my mental faculties are likely to erode as well. Hopefully exercise and eating well are enough to at least delay this as long as possible.
A few things that need clarifying to make a fair comparison:

In Canada, the government pays the benefits, and they are capped at $60,000 per year (and you only get up to 75% of that at the best case if you take a lower amount of time than 12 months).
Additionally, it's 12 months split between the mother and the father, not 12 months each.
On top of that, you are taxed on the income from those benefits, at your marginal tax rate.
As far as companies go, many will hire and train a replacement if they anticipate a 1 year leave, and, particularly in the private sector, will often times restructure or abolish a position when it's convenient. The labour laws on this are well defined but not often upheld and there is a lot of room for maneuvering here and only government positions really respect this to the T.
I'm not getting involved with the broader debate, I'm just saying that the idea that you're meant to have redundancy for all your staff is not a norm.
Someone running a small business is usually most concerned about survival, not individuality. And if you think small businesses first priority should be substantial organizational preparation and planning then it's clear you've never tried to start a company. The main focus for most entrepreneurs is survival in face of the market. Fail at that and you are doomed to fail. I'm both a parent and a small business owner and I think 1-year parental leave is ridiculous.
The burger has many more layers. It's significantly more complex. As someone who spent some time working in Germany, my coworkers were obsessed with hamburgers. And mayo on everything.
Reading these books and changing your perspective is by no means a cure-all for depression. For me, it's been a necessary catalyst for taking the actions necessary to combat feelings of depression, though. And it has dramatically reduced my feelings of anger and irritability.
"Your Erroneous Zones" -- Wayne Dyer.
> previous versions of x265 removed film grain/digital noice

I noticed it as well, glad it gets fixed.

Do I need to toggle/change any particular parameter, or just use defaults on newer versions to fix it though?
Group chats?
But kids don't like bitter things (like cabbage), to stop them eating potentially poisonous things, that's what I understood anyway.

Plus try and get a 2 year old to try new things.

Is this something you've observed on teething children? They tend to chew things to ease the pain.
I'm not sure where your perceptions come from (such as if you've ever worked at an Apple Retail store) so I'm going to give you my perspective and only on a couple of your points because I can't speak to all of them.

I worked in Apple Retail under Ron Johnson and John Browett.

From what I recall, the original intent of these stores was to have them be "gathering places" for people -- similar to a town square. This concept's as old as the first of the stores.

During the ten months John Browett was in charge, the store I worked at saw significant attrition due to cut hours, an increased emphasis on offering more support than we had the resources for, and a very obvious push to attach multiple accessories onto each sale.

Those "Today at Apple" rebranding you're talking about? They were essentially gutted to quick, useless Q&A sessions when Browett worked there.

I really don't think Angela was a problem. If anything her hire was a breath of fresh air for them.
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This is exactly why I urge companies to have CS be part of marketing. And then hire a marketer who understands how good CS is the cheapest marketing they do.
The first 5-10 years of Apple Retail were like the movie Empire Records... help the customer and have a fucking blast doing it. Rules? Not really. I worked there for almost 2 years and had a lot of fun solving unique consumer tech problems one on one with the customers. It was a very personal experience, customers knew our names, came back sometimes just to chat or bring us baked goods... maybe we’d go have a few beers on lunch break, smoke a little weed. Now when I walk into an Apple Store it feels like Best Buy.
For me it’s the app drawer, moving the typing cursor and previews (notifications, messages etc).
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For me:

* Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

* The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

* Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman

* Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation by Mitch Horowitz

* Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

* Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

* The Culture novels by Ian M. Banks

* Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

* Not a book, but Gene Roddenberry's vision in Star Trek shaped who I want to be and the world in which I prefer to live.

Although, I would say that it's hard to choose because just about everything I read changes me in some way. Here I've tried to stick to the ones that changed me for the better, rather than sending me off on an amusing if useless rabbit trail, e.g. Real Magic by Isaac Bonewitz, Illusions by Richard Bach, The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, H.P. Lovecraft's works.
I think many people contribute to Linux because there are all these extra distros. People have different needs, and gather around a different itch to scratch. If there wasn't a distro focusing on Rasberry Pi, performance or security, they wouldn't be there.

It's like saying there should only be 10 programming languages. Vast majority of programming languages never takes off, and many are very niche. But you never know which are going to take off and when.
Towards a sustainable solution to open source sustainability
> I think you have to separate the admins, who are reddit employees, and the subreddit moderators, who are mostly not.

Admins created automod which delegated shadowbanning to moderators. Who's to blame for that? The mods or the admins? It's an age-old question whether kings or peasants are to blame for humanity's imperfections.

Some mods probably would have scripted something themselves, yet admins helped them and others along. You can go in circles trying to assign blame. I'm not sure there's an answer except to continue to try making it better.
There are patterns that humans can't easily discern that correlate with everything from ovarian cysts to endometriosis

That's the thing: us from the outside don't know this (particularly men, but I'm guessing many women as well). But we do know that over-engineering is an endemic problem in our industry, including in the healthcare area. So the question seems fair, because we don't want to see people's health being exploited by selling them useless stuff. Because those abound. It's always the makers/sellers' job to show that their thing is useful.

A pen and paper seem to work just fine... We all know how that story turned out.

No, not all of us know. People - even those in the logistics space - still ask that question today. As someone who helped develop such solutions, educating people was part and parcel of our business.
They ought to receive overwhelming congratulations and support for testing the idea

How do we create a culture that totally celebrates the process of experimentation even if the results from the result test aren't the pie in the sky we hoped for?
> I will either need to hire a temp which is more difficult than to hire for full time position

We're still talking about programmers, right? Because it is way easier to hire a part-time contract programmer, than it is to hire a full-time programmer. If anything, the best devs are often already freelancing/consulting anyway, and would prefer you hire them this way.
A good approach to this is to start small. Apply kaizen on small things, get the "kaizen culture" ingrained in your team/company culture, and slowly move on to bigger things.

Not gonna lie, it's very hard
Wow. I would almost never work. I'm having my 12th kid soon, and my wife doesn't work. At 390 days (roughly 13 months) per kid, I could pretty much just not work.

Why don't people do this in Sweden? There are so few kids!