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In fact, they often get upside when the company fails (what was Marissa Mayer’s exit package?)

Marissa Mayer got a nice compensation package because she did well by Yahoo investors: she managed to trick Verizon into paying real money to buy the hulking wreck of Yahoo.

If you start out thinking that Yahoo could ever possibly have been saved in any alternate universe, you can get all-kinds of angry or disappointed in Mayer's performance. But if you see Yahoo for what it was, you realize she really did arrange the best possible deal that Yahoo shareholders could have hoped for.
Apparently the CEO of Renault Nissan while compensated fairly compared to Hapanese counterparts, was unhappy that compared to NA and EU auto companies he wasn’t so set out to set up another unofficial compensation mechanism to bring him closer to the global pay scale.
Any arguments like this are immediately nullified because we have real-world examples of blockchain doing astounding things which can't be done without it. E.g. cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

Can you transfer value across the world without Bitcoin? Yes, you can use banks, you can use wire payments, you can stuff gold in your butt and hope it doesn't show up in Airport scanners.

Can you verify that goods have been delivered without blockchain? Yes, you can insert to write-only dbs, you can hope that everyone in the supply chain is honest, etc.

There being an alternative to blockchain for a task doesn't mean blockchain isn't highly suitable for that task.

These same anti-Cloud-hype arguments were spewed throughout the 2000s, yet look how the world has changed because of it.
JOKE OF THE DAY.
And passes the savings onto me.
Oh man that’s a good one.
I'm actually really interested in this addition. I'm just going back to 'big' days, such as financial crash. When I started HS when I finished HS, when I started College. A few articles are interesting, it's definitely better than bumbling around Algolia.

Edit: One great link is this one

> Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook [1]

[1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1653702)
I was giving it some thought and was about to post something similar.

I also remember a quote— by whom I forget—but probably one of your selection: “I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, but it worked for me”.

Take that one with a grain of salt— maybe it worked for humanity.

There’s something to be said for the ones who stared into the abyss and reported back...
It's defense through deterrence - i.e. the opportunity cost of forcefully acquiring control of the largest-GDP nation is quite high.

In a post-nuclear world, this is incredibly complex so it usually ends up playing out in different theaters (Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Syria, etc.) rather than the shores of the U.S. as you pointed out, but the total reserve and reach of that force is still just as important.

The argument can get slippery though when trying to justify allocating resources, because with deterrence it's hard to know exactly how much you need, especially when gaining that knowledge usually comes through defeat of some sort.
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Ask HN: What Is the Point of Moving to the Bay Area?
I can anticipate the blowback from this question. But I’m seriously perplexed by the constant sales pitch to entrepreneurs to move to the Bay Area.

I moved a couple years ago. I had a business that was growing, not a unicorn by any means but it made enough to pay Bay Area rents.

Weather is nice generally, the cost makes no sense at all. There’s a ton of pretending & competitiveness that’s just absurd. Everyone is miserable. Even the “succesful” people.

Interactions are generally superficial. Employees cost orders of magnitude more than other places and aren’t necessarily orders of magnitude better.

I’ve even attended YC stuff and it honestly feels like a hazing ritual for geeks to break them in so they’re “presentable” to VCs.

Maybe you’ll run into VCs, but I know only 1 & I met him in a conference in LA. There does appear to be a lot of con men around. And there’s certainly “groups” that can accelerate your path to success, but you’ve got to be on the “in” crowd. From that perspective, you might as well be in Namibia, it doesn’t make a difference.

I’ve built multiple businesses that can grow to millions in revenue without doing. I read the blog posts from Steve Blank, Paul Graham & others extolling the virtues of Silicon Valley. But the moment all that came crashing down is when Geoff Ralston was interviewing Paul Graham & Paul asked “Would Steve Jobs get into YC?” & Geoff replies “No”.

The people however are cold. The houses aren’t just expensive, they’re uncomfortable & shitty too.

I recently got a place outside of the area where I’m building out a team (after realizing how much of a competitive disadvantage hiring in the Bay Area is for smaller business, even if it’s “funded”)

I’m finding it refreshing to commute out of the Bay Area where it’s easier to build a team. Better camaraderie in and out of the office & a better chance at winning because I’m not stuck paying 3x for everything vs my competitors.
What am I missing?
Not before 5 or 10 years.

Patches and fixes have accumulated in response to strange edge case and bugs you wouldn't believe if told.

The organization and the problem space have shifted somewhat over time. A few things could have been done differently in the new environment.
Moral is fine, people are very engaged in their own project and turning out good work. Company is huge and projects have potential to make a large splash across divisions.

That's the conflict I have is: Do we all save time with more isolated and focused meetings at the cost of not know what the larger team is doing?

The overlap on current projects is non existent, but team members have occasionally partnered with other team members in the past (essentially swapping sub team members out) and there are rare occasions where someone complains about how they're blocked and one of the other sub teams has helpful advice or can pair with them.

Your last points about switching to Kanban and weekly updates is good advice, this is likely the correct answer.
I never used the word tolerant but on that note, I don't think morally wrong views should be tolerated.

What are morals is the obvious counterpoint and that's fine - I'm not arguing people should be jailed for it, or physically harmed. I'm saying the worse that should happen to a racist is that they are ignored. We aren't China, in that sense.
I work for a company in the legal recruiting industry (https://hireanesquire.com/) and we've been trying to tackle some of the biggest issues with recruiting -- albeit specifically for the legal industry.

At the end of the day, our goal is to create successful job placements. We've learned that there is surprisingly a lot of science in I/O psychology behind predicting job performance based on personality traits [0]. We've been developing an assessment system with a behavioral psychologist to measure personality traits that could predict a successful job outcome. To be honest, I'm surprised this hasn't caught on with the recruiting industry already. It's been working out well for us and I would expect to see more of this across different industries in the future.

[0] http://jwalkonline.org/docs/Grad%20Classes/Fall%2007/Org%20P...
I have read Sarte's comments (at least I think I have - no link, so I'm not sure).

Look, I'm glad that racism and genocide are banned on HN, and that I don't have to wade through the garbage. CW wasn't trying to be HN, though. It had moderators, but they had a different set of filters, and they let a lot more through. That was by intent and design.

Then some people decided that, because it allowed stuff from the far right, it was supporting the far right, and that wasn't OK - any forum that allowed it at all had to be shut down, even if they allowed it from the far left as well.

From what it sounds like from the article (not an unbiased source, I know), the CW moderators were doing pretty well at their intended task, and a pretty interesting community was flourishing there. But some outside people decided that their definition of "odious" should be the one enforced, and threw various increasingly dishonest hissy fits until CW shut down.

Is that really a good thing?

Is it really a good thing if more than one group figures out that they can do it?

The urge to censor viewpoints that we consider odious is strong, but I'm really not sure it's the most righteous course (especially as it was practiced here).
I believe the speechlessness is at the idea that anyone is surprised Facebook can see your data if you aren’t signed in. As though it’s just a live feed of what you’re doing now or something.
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I suppose that's where I'm going to disagree, the idea that these responses are 'hollow' by daring to ask such a question. Maybe it's because I had the honor of living at a time in the US when certain behaviors were not only deemed socially odious but were codified in law as odious until enough people stood up and asked "who are you to say sending my daughter to a segregated school is odious" or "what is so odious about my mother choosing to sit at a certain place in this eating establishment" that sweeping legal and social change (with much room for continued progress to be made, mind you) came as a result of such 'hollow' and 'relativist' inquiries-as you call them.
"Looking at the numbers, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti delivers around 37% more performance than the GTX 1060 6GB at 1440p, and a very similar 36% gain at 1080p"
Are you referring to the US as a "Christian nation?" If so, I think you're sadly mistaken.
yes, but, do you think that there are some personality types or people who are more likely than average to be bad then good at being a manager? Don’t you think that autistic people might possibly be on one end vs the other?

Also, don’t you think having to “emulate” things reduces your throughput compared to a “normie”? Wouldn’t this imply that you might be worse than other people at managing people because your pipe is saturated?
I think plenty of people don't actually like the pre-existing incentive programs either. I certainly don't. And the mutual race to the bottom across jurisdictions that makes them a requirement to compete doesn't justify them either.
It’s a leap the writer is intending people make, despite the writer not actually knowing the reason.
Nah bro I just hand it to my paas and the magical unicorn make it work awesomely quick and faster then competition dollar for dollar eye roll
My inference is that if Apple does no business in that jurisdiction, with the recent ruling about patent holders not being able to choose where to file, the patent trolls will have approximately zero chance of that district being approved to weigh in on the patent trolling.

It also serves as a detriment to the city, particularly if any other companies follow suit, depending on how much the eastern district earns directly and indirectly on these lawsuits.
It does prevent them from reading too: "Domains classified as trackers are not able to access or set cookies, local storage, and other site data when loaded in a third-party context." (emphasis mine)

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/23/firefox-63-lets...
This is overstepping.

Yes, anti-vax is not well founded, and yes, YouTube is a private entity that can do what they want, but this tells me YouTube is willing to get involved to push an agenda.

And that gives them a lot of political power.
You seem to be interpreting "yet somehow" as disingenuous conspiracy-theory provocation. But the author was responding to another comment, and from that context (and the lead-up in the comment itself) it's clear that "yet somehow" means "in spite of the ethnicity-level setbacks and targeting that Jews experience", as a counterpoint to the parent comment.
People in here aren't the norm so it's irrelevant whether we click on ads or not.

As for the rest, sure it's time consuming if you want to target 50 individuals. If you're aiming for one or two it's 10 minutes work.

Here's a relevant thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17110385
yes, they access to personal data
People will make bad arguments on all sides. This is not a surprise, and is not really related to my point.
Yes. And they have to use the same e-mail with the one you know.
The big issue is that we are trying to make technology as the solution to a uniquely human problem, when at most it would just shift some factors around. It's pretty telling that nuclear superweapons have somehow managed to do more for (forcing) peace than all those other technologies mentioned above
I am sure that apple has its big reason why it could be done. I guess, Apple has new plan growing their market ..

Regard
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True enough, but it's not just about making anyone happy.

Even thick-skinned people have a hard time with another type of negativity:

"Negativity" doesn't only mean high quality criticism, or pessimism.

It also refers to low quality, demanding, draining, and often competitive and repetitive discussions where critics are full of it.

Sometimes there is also bullying, always talking over, making out that coworkers are stupid, taking credit for others work, not pulling their own weight, trying to trick people, manipulating people to their disadvantage, insinuations, word-twisting and game-playing, that sort of thing.

That sort of negativity is draining. It's negative in an energy and morale sense.

That's not about hurting anyone's feelings, and it's not even about sadness and happiness.

It's just that some ongoing interactions drain everyone's energy without giving much back in exchange.

Everyone does it occasionally. Some people do it a lot - those can destroy a team and a company.
Bukowski's poetry is particularly sublime on the toilet.
I enjoyed being able to see my grandparents’ region from the sky above Derry and County Down (N.I.) before they moved here.

I’m happily anticipating what’s to be seen around Largs and Fairlie Moor (Ayrshire) as well as Uphall/Broxburn/Kirkliston (near Edinburgh) for my other grandparents!

Thanks for posting this!

Edit: typos/grammar
eigen3 is header only isn't it?
This is false. We actually live in the most peaceful times in human history. The current situation is the result of small scale proxy wars fought between the USSR and the US. These wars were fought instead of a global all out war involving exchanges of nuclear weapons. So if the alternative was global conflict, how can you say these countries are war mongers?
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And to clarify, no net energy is expected from such a device.
I'd prefer to not having a dominant block at all .
Take it one step further, and move the switched-over value to the top:

((o) => o[expr_to_switch_over()])({
opt1: () => {
stmts();
},

opt2: () => {
stmts();
},

opt3: () => {
stmts();
}
})
“we demand a say in how our work is used”

you already have a say 100% it’s called freedom to decide where you work
We have UC in California too. And yet we lag behind other countries in Ag tech and Ag automation.

In California, we are so attached to the teat of cheap manual ..often migrant..labour. We have 45-50 billion dollars in revenue so our Ag is an industry. It’s like a factory industrial complex. And yet, without cheap labour, the thin margins would become thinner. Worse, if that labour is cut off, we can’t replace it with other manual labour because no one wants their kids to work in farms.

New farmers need new tech they are familiar with and there are no new farmers learning new tech.

This is my observation and that’s why I feel the need for Ag tech universities. Focusing on AI and automation...which means robotics, not drones. Predictive systems and not sensors that tell us how much inches of rain was accumulated or something like that.
It's not like this is their first.

And yes, companies like these have too much political power. That's something we all know. The question is how to fix that.
Or it could be spent on the top 10% and make a huge difference in talent retention.
Thermonuclear bombs work on nuclear fission not fusion, just to clear up any confusion. Nuclear power plants also achieve power from fission, which is the breaking of nuclear bonds.
>Conversely I've also been called a racist/bigot for claiming white people didn't invent racism/slavery, or that statistical differences in social groups shouldn't automatically be attributed to oppression,

Hmm. That sounds like it can be frustrating, but I can see how it can happen. For example - what's the point of claiming "white people didn't invent slavery?" I can't think of any reason that doesn't involve a blanket statement about either white people or some other race, which would be prejudgement/prejudice by definition. Hence, smacks of racism. Similar for statistical differences in social groups - dangerous territory as it is what "rational racists" try to do all the time. I use those statistics all the time though to demonstrate that it's impossible to prove that a group of people have a certain average IQ or some other grab bag trait because of race, due to noise from other variables like socioeconomic status, local culture, local healthcare availability, local government policy, etc.
> The whole point is the cases where it's not.

So your argument is that blockchain is only useful for international trade with tiny businesses?

> Even for higher margin transactions, higher overhead is no advantage.

Most people consider low corruption, high rule of law countries ideal places for business, with the higher overhead...
You were making $500k a year, that isn't normal, regardless of what you tell yourself.
Benchmarks start on page 5.
The extra $3k might not mean a lot, but knowing your CEO gave $28m back to the workers at his or her own expense? I'd argue that kind of thing is great for retention.

The challenge, obviously, is that CEO pay is a market and the current, insane pay scale has emerged from it. The only way for it to change would be a) regulation (good luck to the enforcers), b) a global moral awakening among CEOs that causes a sufficient majority of them to abandon their salaries willingly (ha), or c) labor unions, where extortion over pay becomes bidirectional (rather than the traditional CEO->Worker shit flow).

In any case, people tend not to care much about CEO pay until the company stops paying workers' bills and keeps padding leadership's massive fortunes. People will accept insane wealth inequality so long as it doesn't come at the cost of their personal livelihood. Easiest way for CEOs to keep making idiot money without political costs: lead well enough to keep your workforce employed and reasonably paid. Literally the bare minimum expected of the title.
Can't say I noticed many ads of any kind (either pro or anti) on YouTube in the past 2-3 years.

I demonetized all of YouTube a long time ago.

Whatever ads do play or recommended continent appears, I distrust them and never click on it because as other comment said, they have an agenda. ZeroCredTube.

Notice that antivax side doesn't have a "product" to sell while provax does. Guess which one makes more money for The Evil Boys
Yeah. For a $10,000 loan, assuming a $100k salary when you're done, you're looking at a $1,250 monthly payment/a whopping 139% interest rate[0]

[0] https://www.calculator.net/interest-rate-calculator.html?clo...).
Due to a recent (2017) Supreme Court decision, you can now only file patent suits in a company's home state or in a district where they have a physical presence. So now companies can simply leave the Eastern District of Texas to stop patent trolls from suing them there.

Expect to see more companies leaving the Eastern District of Texas.
Yes, it was sarcasm. They're more entrenched than you'd like to admit. They have a monopoly on social networking, they control a huge portion of digital advertising, and together with Google, they've bought a huge swath of Washington D.C. (see McNamee's new book). The results aren't surprising: regular abuse of customers, exploitation of human psychology to cultivate addiction, the peddling of a harmful product to minors. They're a consolidated version of the cigarette industry. Free markets ain't working—we antitrust action and regulation.
Maybe link to the paper this is based on instead?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178
What would you rather have them do?
Fk them. People who endanger other people's lives and do it intentionally, have no place on YouTube. Thing is, if anti-vaxxers were not pushing their propaganda, I wouldn't have any issues.
isn’t all of hollywood unionized tho? They’re freelancers and they all belong to a guild/union that sets the wages from what I’ve heard
The main argument is a logical fallacy: just because some trust is still required doesn't mean there's no value in minimizing it.

The land registry argument is the best example of this fallacy

>the regulatory authority can make its own record and thus rewrite yours, which means that blockchain doesn’t work.

No, the value is precisely the fact that it's the regulatory authority that forcibly changes ownership, and not you. Deed fraud [1] is a serious issue. Blockchain would protect against it completely: forging a signature or a will would be impossible. Rather than a document of dubious provenance, the will's hash would be stored along with the property record.
Very likely in many cases of deed fraud the clerk changing the registry knows it's fraudulent and changes it for financial gain. That would become impossible also.

The only way to forcibly take the property would be a provide a cryptographically signed court order.

That's only for the security side of things. Tokenized real estate would make things that are currently very hard to do trivial, like using 1% of your home in country A as collateral for a rented car in country B. It's theoretically possible right now, but arranging that would require so much effort nobody does it. With a house record on the blockchain you would first tokenize it (transfer the ownership to a smart contract with tokens) and then transfer 1% of tokens to a car rental smart contract.

Same for every kind of possession. Own google stock and want to use it as collateral for X? Why not. Want to sell 1% of your rental property to an investor in another country? Easy, no paperwork needed.

Maybe it's never going to happen, but I think it's going to. The blockchain revolution would do to finance what internet did to information. Everything that's being done online was technically possible before it - theoretically, I could have written this exact post and physically mailed it to everyone who's ever going to read it.

[1] https://www.lifelock.com/learn-fraud-deed-fraud-losing-your-...
I'm actually OK with that. Those people are endangering themselves and the ones that can't get vaccines because of several medical conditions.
Achieving fusion beyond breakeven isn’t super hard either. It’s far from trivial, but it was figured out almost seventy years ago and produced on an industrial scale. The hard part is doing it both breakeven and in a way that lets you send the power to a city without destroying that city.
Besides working conditions and pay, one symbolic issue that's come up from game devs being exposed to these unionized parts of the industry (especially voice talent) is that the unionized people seem to have fairer rules around credits. For example, if you do a voiceover for a game that ends up in the shipped game, you're going to end up in the credits, full stop. For programmers, by contrast, companies have done shady things like leaving people out of credits as some kind of "punishment". For example, if you leave before the game ships, you sometimes get retroactively taken out of the credits even if you objectively contributed large amounts to the final shipped product, because there are no binding rules around credits, except for the actors.