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What New York City do you live in? I have never been offered, nor do I know anybody who's been offered a month's free rent on signing a lease. Places that do this are overcharging and driving up rents. Your comment may just be emphasizing the fact that there are multiple "New Yorks." And I suspect the New York that Amazon HQ2 would benefit would be the New York that pays too much to live in a glass tower and gets offered a month's free rent.
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A lot can change in 10 years.

What if Amazon decides they only need 10k employees in "HQ2" after 5 years?

Better bird in hand than two in the bush.

NY needs to focus on improving infrastructure now, which is the only guaranteed thing that will promote growth in the long term. And to do that, NY needs to be 1. less corrupt and 2. not give giant tax breaks to corporations that already have offices in the city.

Yes, maybe Amazon HQ2 will be a net positive 10 years down the road, but NY should focus on fixing its broken subway system and other structural issues so that the city can actually support 10 Amazons in 10 years. And HQ2 literally did the opposite of that (increasing ridership while decreasing revenue in the short term is not how you improve infrastructure, surprisingly).
I take it you don’t read the BBC regularly.
> These false ideas about gender have been thoroughly debunked by science.

As much as I wish that were true, it's not. And not only does claiming it to be solid science not change anything, but also it weakens the standing of the person saying it. And by extension, the rest of us who live as we feel we need to live, but not at the expense of truth and intellectual honesty.
Sure, I just don't take their word. If they point out something that I was genuinely unaware of, and I can verify it, then of course it's in my interest to consider it.

But as a general rule, I hope that I don't have to ask the salesman for any information.
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Hopefully seeing someone (even as well off as NYC is) push back against showering taxpayer dollars on a company of Amazon's stature will lead to a reevaluation of taxpayer subsidization for corporate relocation/expansion.
As of early 2016, with the GCC port at that time, RV32GC was as dense as Thumb, and RV64GC was denser than AArch64 and every other major 64-bit ISA, including AMD64. Though RV64G (no C) was in some extreme cases up to 50% larger than AArch64 (due to inlining memcpy and memset, which are a bit larger without compressed instructions), but usually around the same (except MIPS64, which is way larger than the other 64-bit ISAs, probably because of exposed delay slots). [0]

There's some indication that density should have increased somewhat since then, but I haven't looked at it myself.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Ii_pEXKKYUg
Civil suits are the main route regular people have to get compensation when abused by corporations. Or just small companies that get abused by big ones. Citizens almost always lose against companies in the executive or legislative branch - it’s only in the judicial branch where we have any hope of prevailing.

The most aggregious frivolous lawsuits make big news, or at least the ones that look frivolous when portrayed from the right perspective. You hear less about the day-in, day-out work the civil justice system does in keeping people honest and holding society and the economy together. There is a reason companies from around the world sign contracts with one another stating that their disputes will be settled in US courts - because it’s the legal system they trust to make the most consistent and fair choices.
Why not add the plan of attack to the issue in the issue tracker?
I have freely ignored these agreements in the past without any consequence. Once I got a "talking to" by a VP about my level of commitment. I also had one employment agreement claim I was not allowed to have any sort of side business. I disagreed, and actually sold services to my current employer while I was there. Many employers don't even know what is in their own contacts. It's boiler plate.
We wrote it. Everything is derived from proto for us. Some of that is hand-written tooling, some is off the shelf. Mostly you have to be aware at design time of what this approach entails.

Proto is not elegant and the data model and implementation (especially the very poor performance of maps in the Go implementation) can leave a lot to be desired, but it's a thing that pretty much supports everything. It has good enough performance without headaches. Lowest common denominator can be quite useful and so can constraints.
This is an interesting perspective. People usually say "You shouldn't quit your job until you've validated your idea and you have enough MRR, savings, or freelance work to support yourself." You don't often hear people say "You shouldn't quit your job if you enjoy it." I think lots of people are working on side projects because they really don't like their jobs, and would prefer to have freedom and passive income.

I've been working on FormAPI [1] for about 18 months. I was able to work on it full time for about 3 months while I built the MVP. I've still needed to do some contract work over the last year, but now I'm able to work on it full-time. Part-time contract work has been really great, especially while living in Thailand. I probably couldn't have done it if I had a full-time job. If you're building a product that has paying customers, you need to respond to support requests, give product demos, do sales. Part-time contract work is a much better fit so that you can always be on call.

I don't know if I would call myself a "maker" for FormAPI. I started the company because I wanted to make money, and it wasn't because I wanted to build a fun project or learn something new (although both ended up being true.) I do love making things though, like little games and websites, electronics projects, etc. Actually now that my side-project became my full-time job, I have to find more time to build some fun projects.

Sometimes I just do everything under FormAPI and write a blog post about it. For example, I had an idea for a little CSS game that I wanted to build. I was building a Bitcoin puzzle as a marketing exercise, so it was a good excuse to build that CSS game as well [2].

[1] https://formapi.io

[2] https://pixelperfect.formapi.io
Lots of companies that you've never used collect data on you. Look at the amount of junk mail you receive from people you've never done business with, and all of them have data on you.

This part isn't fixable. But by having an FB account and actively using the service, you become part of the problem. FB would not have nearly the market value that they do if no one used their product. Actually, they would have zero value.

Is there something in your life that requires FB so badly that you're willing to continue being their product? No, there isn't. You can still phone your friends. You can still text your family. There are plenty of other methods of communication without FB.

FB is not a communications tool, though they pitch themselves that way. They are a data gathering and advertising tool. If you agree to be part of that, that's on you.
Yeah the results aren't amazing on their own, but if you treat them similarly to how they do over at Botnik -- with some human curation involved-- you can find some interesting sentences.
You keep focusing on the criminal part, not sure why. That wasn't the point at all, from what I can tell.
I mean, the ideas are there. The scope of the project is probably too big to reproduce for now, but eventually it will be accessible to your average spammer / scammer. We will get there. We won't be able to get these tools locked, make them exclusive for a certain type of responsible AI specialists. Someone will spill the beans, the models. People with bad intentions will reproduce these results. To me, the real deal is how we will manage these outbursts when they happen.

I assume discriminative models will solve the problem for a while, but as with Generative adversarial networks, you will be able to train models that are harder to discriminate against. I posit we're in for a big societal change (maybe more a content crisis) sometime in the next 10 years. Pretty sure we won't be able to keep it from falling in bad hands.
I can see how that makes sense. Thanks for explaining!
Patent trolling is unethical, it's basically a racket and extortion scheme.
Animal cruelty isn't a great analogy.

It's not a vocal minority, it's a vocal subset of the majority.

A vocal minority is when the opponents of a popular viewpoint are louder than its proponents.
I was a fan of OpenFirmware, which AFAIK was royalty-free and cross-platform (with a layer of Forth abstracting between software and hardware)
> Lsof is Unix-standard

lsof is pretty common, but I don't think it is actually standard in any way, for example it is not part of POSIX or SUS which arguably are the two most influential UNIX related standards.

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html (ctrl-f lsof)
I would, but then I'm the only one that knows the tone it was said in (at least in my head), which wasn't condescending, but more bemused sarcasm.

And that's the fundamental issue with moderating rhetorical devices. You're assuming you know how the other person intended to say something.

Moderating personal attacks is easy. Because that's not a rhetorical device and it's intent is quite clear.
Lots of things are worth applying some automation to, but not worth enough to pay someone to provide as a service.
False, clickbait title. The sales ban isn’t mean to ban all iPhones - only those with the parts whose patents are in contention.

Selling another version is not ‘skirting’ anything.
> Moreover, I’ve always found it strange how people like to put things neatly into boxes or associate with a single label. …

> Before jumping in, I should clarify that these views are my own and don’t necessarily represent the views of Toptal.

Indeed.
I'm sorry, did you just describe the core advantage of a new RISC CPU against incumbents as smaller code size? Where am I, and what is happening?
I think Microsoft was actually a force for standardization here: they didn't want to make multiple versions of Windows for multiple IBM PC implementations. So everything is designed in a way that you can have one OS image that boots on a wide range of hardware. Now compare that to ARM :). Here basically every device/SoC family needs its own linux build.
"To really achieve maximum results, we had to push our people hard so they were constantly out of their comfort zone."

Sounds like a great way to increase burnout/turnover...
You comparing apples and oranges. Subsidies are a direct transfer of wealth, whereas Amazon's investments would remain assets of Amazon.
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It's certainly possible, but as you say "You just have to make choices with your time management". You end up sacrificing what little free time you have to more work. If that's the most important thing to you then you do it, but for most it is not.

I only have one child. I get about 2.5 hours / day to myself (after his bed time, he's only five.) I could certainly spend that time programming, but at this point it's just not what I want to do. I'd rather learn something else or just be a lazy bum.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. It's all doable; my mother worked and went to law school with two children. But it's hard, and most people who say they want to do X but don't have time simply don't want to make the sacrifices doing X would require. People do the same with all sorts of things. Exercise is a big one. "No time" really means "I don't want to spend 30 minutes working out."

We all find time for the things that are important to us.
I'm not sure the people doing the actual work would agree with the CEO, author of this train wreck of an article. Not that anyone would tell that directly to his face.

> Our team are ambitious. They want to learn and grow quickly. By not pushing them we felt like we were letting them down as well.
And they knew it too.

Yeeeeeeah, I'm just going to go ahead and disagree with you there, Rob.
FYI, you don't need the backslash if you end the line with a pipe... it's implied in that case.
Now they're turning that all away. It's such an irrational decision that if I were Amazon, it would raise a big red flag for me as well.

Why even pick NYC in first place ? That place, and other 1st tier cities, are red tape hell. Amazon should have known this.
I thought Google didn't receive any subsidies for opening in NYC?
Exactly. I'm not that old, but I've seen this dog and pony show so many times already that it's no longer surprising. The latest example being the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin. The increased tax revenue from that plant may never[1] recoup the investment Wisconsin made to bring it to the state.

[1] https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/technology/430953... (The estimated recoup time is 25 years, which means the plant will be obsolete before the state sees a dime of net revenue.)
Durrrrr what is a salt
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That isn't entirely the purpose of defense attorneys. They are also responsible for ensuring clients get the "correct" punishment for the crime. If they weren't present there would be no check on heinous sentences for minor crimes.
This. If you think of startup investments as market probing activity, then the lean startup model is an optimized version of this for specific kinds of markets.

You aren't going to make a new storage company or a new ASIC-based company in the lean startup model (though you can certainly be _lean_er_ than companies tended to be in the past or the lavishly spending mega-investment-level companies on the spendthrift side of the capital wall like Uber) but you can do a lot of probing of the consumer marketplace this way.
You'd be surprised how many problems are 'solved' but only barely. I use software that I hear people complain about every day. They have pretty sales webpages but the software itself is buggy, slow, hard to use, and support is unresponsive. Just make something 10% better and you would make a killing.

I'm avoiding mentioning a product or category not just to avoid throwing someone under the bus, but because I can think of many examples of this. None of the software (or any other kind of product) that I use today was the first of their kind. They learned the lessons from the earlier versions, and did it better.

Even if every problem you can think of has been solved (and I'm skeptical of that), I'm sure you don't think that all existing software is already perfect. Pick something that's terrible, and do it better.
> I doubt we can code for 12-14 hours a day steadily for a long period of time.

For me, it depends on what I'm coding. If I were to go home and work on something practical or "planned" - yeah, I might not like that much.

But if it's for something fun, or just "playing around" - then I can do that all day long. I don't know about you, but when I was a kid, I recall just "futzing around on my computer". Now, granted, this was in the 1980s - and my computer was an 8-bit TRS-80 - but I played.

That's what I like to do today. I'm not there to make anything revolutionary - but rather just to play around with an idea or concept. Maybe one day it's Python with some OpenGL or QT; maybe another it's maze generation algorithms in Javascript; on another day it might be some kind of sound generation code in QB64!

Just all for fun - for myself. Not for a business, not for anything else much except maybe learning something new, and having some fun!

Being a kid again, in a way; I'm 45 years old, btw.

This could really be anything; you could do the same with hardware - an Arduino project for fun, or maybe Lego (you could combine all three - fun coding on an Arduino to control your Lego motors or whatnot)...

The key is that it isn't work - it is instead play. Just because you're an adult, doesn't mean you can't play, or that you shouldn't play. That's a lie that society wants you to believe.

Instead of thinking "I need me time to make a business" instead just say "I need me time to play" - sure, it won't lead to you becoming rich monetarily, but it will make you happier, possibly healthier.

Call it a hobby, call it playing with your toys, just don't call it work - because it shouldn't be.
Do you have a link to those VMs?
Do you realize that the NYC Subway is controlled by Cuomo, not de Blasio?
Parody or satire, comical for its earnestness none the less.
"Store front" always makes me squint at garages, driveways, sidewalks and front doors.
Ok, but those people were wrong, since Amazon ended up pulling out of New York. New Yorkers have an extremely inflated sense of self-important and think Amazon just has to be in New York, when that’s clearly not the case.
Yeah I can see that. Maybe the term "PR" can lead to misuse with things that would be better off integrated. I wonder, Perhaps a better name that does not imply that use case might make better sense.
Smaller cities will, which IMO is a good thing. We need to be spreading the tech ecosystem, not further concentrating it in SF/Seattle/NYC.
Much of Europe has free universities, walkable cities with good public transport, and culture and climate where a date can just be a picnic on the beach or in the woods.

Europe is not notably more full of successful makers than the US.

(As for growing food - it would take you a lot more time to grow enough to feed yourself than it would to earn enough to buy the food you need to feed yourself)
Which is exactly what happens whenever there's a leak of NSA or other foreign government 'hacking' tools. As soon as they're public, ransomware authors and other shitty actors all deploy them to steal as much as possible before systems are patched.

Case-in-point:

Wannacry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack

NotPetya:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petya_(malware)#2017_cyberatta...
How / when will public blockchains achieve better UX / friendliness than say Venmo, Robbinhood, or debit cards?
The uptake will be great however, what doesnt sit well is the 2008 12Billion bailout. As the same actors will be the nodes that are privileged to write to and maintain the ledger, it has yet to be seen how immutable these transactions will be.
> But what about "bigger" systems? Laptops or desktops or servers? Do the pareto analysis on those systems, compare an ARM SoC to a RISC-V one. The costs are in memory, support chips, PCBs, tooling etc. Not the CPU license.

But it could be a step towards a "GPL for hardware" type of shift. Someone puts in the work or the money to do a core which is competitive on some important metric (power, cost, etc.), and licenses it at no cost but under the terms that if you make changes you have to publish them and under the same license.

Then some people use it because it's good enough and free-as-in-beer, but if any of them improve it then it gets better. So then more people use it, until it's the Linux of hardware.

Moreover, if you have to publish the changes then you have to document the changes (equivalent of releasing source code), which means hardware that isn't a black box will gain a competitive advantage over hardware that is.
I've had jobs where there's an expectation that you'll do 8 hours of work a day, but they'll also put 4-6 hours of meetings on your calendar. Most people end up staying late or getting in early to try to get some time to do uninterrupted work.

This to me is a toxic culture.

I hate to use the old adage "work smarter, not harder", but I've seen so many places where people are working hard--but not really making a lot of progress. It's almost like you have to take the good parts of Taylorism and religiously eliminate waste.
To clarify this is read-only view of the sheet right? Is the plan to make something more CRUD capable?
What's the debate about animal cruelty?
> Migration is the other way round

Migration meaning what? Immigration within the US? That's been a hot button topic since the first Bush nationally, and has been the source of propositions in California since the my first memories of the early 80s. Interestingly, the more the internet was adopted, the more high profile the immigration debate became, nationally. Clinton talked quite a bit (even after his presidency), Bush Jr ignored it, and so on.
Don't do it all by yourself. It's better to own 10% of something big then 100% of nothing.
“The data set spans 1700 to 2018”, amazing that’s even available anywhere.
In 10 years, content written by actual humans will be a premium niche, like tailored suits - reserved for the elites.

The rest of us will be force-fed with machine-generated garbage.
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>Until 1959, when China cracked down on Tibetan rebels and the Dalai Lama fled to northern India, around 98% of the population was enslaved in serfdom. Drepung monastery, on the outskirts of Lhasa, was one of the world's largest landowners with 185 manors, 25,000 serfs, 300 pastures, and 16,000 herdsmen. High-ranking lamas and secular landowners imposed crippling taxes, forced boys into monastic slavery and pilfered most of the country's wealth – torturing disobedient serfs by gouging out their eyes or severing their hamstrings.

Sauce: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/feb/10/tibet-...

This was just the first google result for 'dalai lama slaves' (no quotes). The West wants to think that Tibet is the the good guy, since China is _obviously_ the bad guy, but it turns out that history doesn't have good guys and bad guys; it has humans, and humans at the top of large-scale traditional hierarchies tend to be cruel to humans at the bottom of those hierarchies. So it goes.
Thanks, this is super clear. But what prevents a double spend in this situation? I assume at some point the new owner commits the hashes to a blockchain under their own key.
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I think this feature is meant to be a good middle ground rather than having one issue and one PR ticket. DO you want an issue with added patch set power, or a PR with better collaboration? They'd look pretty similar either way. They went with the latter.
Borges is amazing! I just recently finished reading "Fictions" (a collection of short stories) and was blown away by all the references and topics he manages to cover in sometimes just a few pages. Sometimes I kept googling authors, philosophical concepts, etc. every few lines while reading.
Absurd media from Tim & Eric to Reddit's surreal memes. Dad jokes and intentionally terrible puns. Sometimes just the humor of the situation (usually when my day's already terrible and something else bad happens. Just gotta laugh it off).
more closer would be a Saudi prince agreeing to become a US citizen in exchange for a personally reduced income tax rate. Would you support it?
I literally saw someone ask for this feature on Twitter last week. VSTS/VSO/DevOps/? already has something similar.

This seems like the kind of feature that probably takes longer than a week to build and test, so I'm guessing it was already in the works.
So, if it were your preferred language, and someone implemented the feature in the same way, you still couldn't tell? It's not like what was done was part of the language.
Yea, somewhere in between the released model and the model they presented, the deep net has learned narrative structure.
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May not be exactly what you're looking for, but I find being exposed to abstract ideas quite helpful. An easy way to bring this sort of novelty into your life could be to watch a ~10 minute Ted Talk daily.

Ideally, you would then become more responsive to problems and have a wider solution set that perhaps doesn't just involve software.
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