skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a stone-cold take right there. That might have been the case in maybe the early 90's at the very latest, but things have changed since then.

Not the part about executing dissidents and selling their organs. I don't know a lot about the organs, but they're an authoritarian government and they always have been. That ship sailed when Nixon decided to stop pretending that the Nationalists were the legitimate government of China. (Except Chiang Kai-Shek was still alive at that point, and he was also an authoritarian dictator who executed dissidents, so...).

And yeah, in general, I'm on board with the "let's not trade with dictatorships that kill dissidents" idea. Except the US tried that, too, with the embargo on Cuba. The US even agreed to unconditionally take in any Cuban refugees who reached the dry land of Florida. Did it make a difference? No. Would it have made a difference if Canada and Western Europe joined the embargo? Also probably not.

But the part about "shipping jobs out to cheap Chinese labor" is extremely dated. Chinese manufacturing isn't a cost-cutting alternative anymore; it's, in some cases, the global state of the art. There is no country on earth that can match China's capacity for manufacturing or construction. Putting an embargo on Shenzhen at this point would be as crippling to Western economies as putting an embargo on Silicon Valley. Possibly more. It's not just that it would be more expensive--the infrastructure doesn't exist, and even if we built it out again, we wouldn't do as good of a job at it.

To make matters worse, China has the most population, the most industrial capacity and the ability to construct infrastructure more cheaply and efficiently than any other nation on earth. If you embargo them, you immediately do two things: you remove any incentive they have to maintain friendly diplomatic relations with literally anyone else and you free up much of that industrial capacity for military uses. The population factor is even worse than you'd guessed based on raw population count because they have such a high ratio of men to women, particularly among military-age age cohorts.
It could also mean the demand for these items is very elastic, so manufacturers will have to eat the tax or higher manufacturing costs.
They verify your liveness and identity documents while opening an account.

Disclaimer: I work for the company that provides this service to revolut.

Side note: It's actually surprisingly difficult to verify that a document isn't fraudulent, and traditional in-person banks that accept documents in person are more susceptible to fraud than you might think. Is the average account exec trained as a border control agent? Do they read the MRZ lines?
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Yeah, but how are rich Americans supposed to feel superior to poor Americans in an 1800 sq ft condo? Ridiculous. That's just for plebs. /s
> That's the latest line since transaction costs of bitcoin have become out of this world.

You should update your FUD. The average cost to have your transaction accepted in the next block is currently about 31 cents. If 1-2 hours is acceptable (6 blocks) then you can reduce that to less than a quarter. There was a period when the transaction fees were much higher (because the network was undergoing DOS attacks) but that passed some time ago.

Bitcoin is vulnerable to hacking, hardware failure, or fraud by exchanges in much the same way the USD or EUR or any other currency is vulnerable to theft, physical destruction, or fraud by exchanges (or banks)—except that Bitcoin offers ways to protect yourself against theft or hardware failure which are not available for physical currencies, and there is no particular reason to maintain a balance at an exchange. People have no problem accepting that it's unsafe to carry around large amounts of physical currency but won't take simple measures like using a hardware wallet with a PIN to store their private keys. Don't blame the Bitcoin protocol for people failing to take obvious and recommended security precautions.

I'll grant that it's more volatile than most other currencies, but that's hardly unexpected for something new and experimental. It's less volatile now than it used to be, though, and that trend is likely to continue.
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You also have to worry about bankruptcies, where even if the company is not liquidated, the shareholders are usually wiped out and the company recapitalized among debtholders. Texaco went bankrupt in 1987, for example - while it's part of Chevron now, the people who actually owned the stocks that were purchased were largely the bankruptcy creditors. Western Union went bankrupt in 1987 and 1991, Citigroup nearly went bankrupt in 2009 and was recapitalized with the U.S. government becoming a major shareholder (and diluting the existing shareholders).
Works for me now.
https://isup.me reports that it's working as well :)
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I've always been annoyed by this, but now that I know the term "classic style", it annoys me even more.

For those who haven't heard of it, "classic style" is explained in the recent book Sense of Style by Steven Pinker, and there's a nice diagram here:

https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2014/09/stev...

It's in opposition to academic style, legal style, self-conscious style, etc.

One distressing thing I've noticed is that some of my adult colleagues write in "high school book report style". They seem to want to fill up a certain number of words rather than getting straight to the point.
>The CEO is (over)compensated for vision and so everyone else is exploited, from the Executive Vice Presidents down to the receptionists.

The argument is not that employees are exploited because the CEO is over-compensated for vision, but rather that it follows naturally for such relationships to work at scale. Nevertheless, it's useful as a thought experiment, since it ought to make people consider the nature of modern work and life in capitalism. Indeed, some philosophers do apply this to all employment relationships[0], the most extreme argue that they are exploitative, the less extreme only inquire to the nature of our desires in the employment relationship[1].

If that's where the argument leads then that's where it goes.

[0] John Roemer, Yoshihara and Veneziani, Marx

[1] Frederic Lordon's Spinozist anthropology
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Time to short Lyft once it goes public.
I have very little knowledge of this, but I will say chemicals have different properties. For instance the solid of H2O floats as opposed to sinks in its liquid form.

I suspect we can narrow out options for the formations. However, we will never be 100% confident (but maybe 80+% confident) in what has occurred.
I'm mildly amused by comments about the "militarization" of the Internet given its origins.
It isn't, but it is not exactly legal in light of the license for the debug build.

And handling a multi million dollar suit is nobody's idea of a good time when there is no payoff.
One other suspicious bit is that the article mentions that it's expensive, but strangely doesn't say what the price is. Perhaps they were told that a price change was possible, and not to list it? Not trying to be too cynical, but it did stick out to me that they omitted the price, which is something that one typically includes in a product review.
It appears that Uber has some toes in fleet management: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubercab.fl...
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I'm not sure where you are from, but it sounds really ignorant to put two completely different countries in the same bag. I don't even know why DOJ would need to be involved, but if that ever happens Poland is likely to comply as a member of NATO with vested interest in maintaining a good relationship with the US [1].

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Are all those creatures helped by climate change? What about the environmental devastation caused by coal mining and fossil fuel burning? Just putting up a bunch of panels is a lot lighter on the ecology of the area.
Good point. Maybe it's more of an educational thing. I'm currently trying to reduce the amount of meat that I eat and until someone told me, I honestly didn't realize that rice + beans = a complete protein.

I know this sounds dumb, but a lot of the difficulty I'm having now is figuring out how to structure plant based meals when I'm used to the structure "a piece of meat with some vegetables on the side or as toppings". Its not so much that I miss meat as much as it is that I feel like my meal is missing something and I'm not sure what non-animal thing should fill that role.
For me, the most significant change is:

> For C++ applications running on Windows, PDB now load in a separate 64-bit process. This change addresses a range of crashes caused by the debugger running out of memory when debugging applications that contain a large number of modules and PDBs.

Now we can use local symbol files to debug our program without bothering with symbol servers.
There's also the chance that the longer route taken by the cab driver was for a reason. He knows about construction, or it's busy near there this time of day, or whatever. He might be doing it because it's safer. Of course, yes, he might be doing it because he's trying to bilk you out of a few bucks.

Unless I take a cab all the time or something, I just chalk it up to the "cost of doing business" and go on with my day.
Personally I view given example of antivaxxing movement as a side effect of lacking research on rise of autism in kids. Muting these people is immoral and will backfire badly
Honestly, it seems worse.

I suppose the idea is that in a largish group chat, refuting a post is personal while adding the bot is a general change. But most of the examples look blatantly targeted, and even absent that it's an implicit declaration of "you people are full of it and need correction".

Contradicting people can at least be done tactfully, picking battles and making sure you're definitely right before starting them. Adding a "nuh-uh" bot strikes me as emphasizing insult instead of accuracy; it's on the same level as rolling your eyes at someone's comments but refusing to actually disagree with them.
Wasnt socrates more of about challenging others or proving them wrong rather then cooperative searching for solution? Discovering solutions together would require both parties to take risk, propose ideas and have them challenged. Afaik, there was no such symmetry.
See some of the AWS fees mentioned in the top comment on this thread. $300MM over 3 years is not a small amount of money.

Not to mention the salaries you need to pay to stay competitive in the bay area, they seem to have a sizable headcount (~1600 from a quick google search)
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> Who will define "bad"?

That's why I put it in quotes. "Bad" in this case depends on what a company thinks makes you high-risk or otherwise undesirable as a customer.

In the case of health insurance, it may be when Google or Facebook classifying you as having a sedentary lifestyle. In the case of banks it may be if you take too many trips to Vegas. In the case of the NSA, it may be posting negative things about the current administration. Because it's distributed among many actors, it will be like the existing credit score system - mostly opaque and unaccountable. Good luck convincing an insurance company that Google misclassified your behaviour.
> I think there's an assumption that generally a good company: "treats their customers with decency and respect."

I disagree. Companies' are top-down in nature, so their values are set by their owners. Large companies are almost always owned by a multitide of entities (investors) that do not care about anything else than profits. In such case, maximizing profits is the only true value, and whatever else they might say is smokescreen.

On the other hand, if the company has a single person or a small number of people in charge, then, depending on the values of these people, company can care about other things than profit. However, large companies controlled by individuals and not mobs of investors are rare.

To summurize, the stock market is a mixed bag for me. It improves allocation of capital, but it also creates the disconnect between owners and their companies which makes the companies greedy and egotistical.
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You mean in the 2% or less that do not use iOS, Mac OS, Windows or Android, right?
In the context of a startup, a pure "idea guy" (someone who took part in coming up with a business/product idea, but doesn't materially contribute to the execution/iterations) is very much like a patent troll.

p.s. I didn't read the article.. it's 504ing.
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I found stoicism to be stepping stone to buddhism for precisely this reason.

One of the things that drove me away from Christianity is that, among other things, I felt it put a lot of emphasis on how I should be and live, without offering much of a practical path to get there, resulting in a lot of guilt.

Stoicism was incredibly refreshing in that it seemed to focus primarily on actual living, but what bothered me after a while was that 1) it was practical to a fault, as in it didn't provide me with much of a broader framework of ideas and beliefs about reality, and 2) it ultimately still wasn't really all that practical, but rather seemed to be more descriptive: this is how a stoic does things. go and be that way.

While definitely a step up from Christianity in the practical realm, it was only when I came across (zen) buddhism that I felt that I had found something that not only scratched my theoretical itches (I'd probably have been a theologian or monk had I remained 'in the fold'), but something that was , often frustratingly, focused on practice. Every book or article or lecture would regularly interrupt the wonderful thoughts that tickled my brain with some annoying variation on "this is just words, and they're useless if you don't sit and practice".

The very fact that I find myself struggling more than ever with putting the buddhist-but-stoicism-compatible stuff into practice is a huge step forward for me, because it means that I'm actually engaging with these ideas, rather than just mentally masturbating to them.
I work at a company of 10.5k employees.

Even considering global offices, there are ~5k employees here on campus.

The problem is that every single team, organization, every executive and the functions that roll up to them, are of course different.

The best advice is what others have said here: go into the interviews bright eyed and try as hard to get a sense of the people who interview.

Are they good people? Is there a good mix of people who are task oriented vs relationship oriented?

At the end of the day, looking at things like Glassdoor, LinkedIn, will only give you a very high level picture so the interviews are your best bet.

Also, if you're anything like me, I value money quite a bit over other conditions, so asking about salary up front is a must.
Take a look at GhostBSD while you're at it.
I wouldn't recommend OpenBSD for normal day-to-day usage....
I get really annoyed at a few co-workers who live out in Haymarket and commute to Reston. No shit your commute is awful. There's a reason I live in a 1500sqft TH across the street and not a 2800sqft McMansion 20+ miles away! Yes, they cost the same. But, is the extra space really worth the commuting headaches???
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I'm not sure on-chain transaction rate approaching new highs is cause for celebration. Last time the rate of new transactions exceeded bitcoin's capacity, confirmation times became erratic and fees unpredictable. Why do you think this won't happen again?
> As a scripting language I'm pretty impressed with it, but as a shell I find it an annoying place to be in.

Couldn't agree more. The syntax is fantastic for scripting as it has good support for objects, but it is not good as a shell due to the different return types and polymorphic behavior of some functions based on the type they are operating on. In *nix land this isn't a problem as everything is text.
The lawsuit about Bluetooth comes to mind: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/06/broadcom_csr_blueto...
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When we make large purchases from HP, Dell, Microsoft, you're damn right we negotiate the rates and get discounts. If you're making a purchase that is a large percentage of your budget, you'd be stupid to not try.

When you're buying one laptop, of course not. You're talking a $3000 purchase vs a $40,000+ purchase. You negotiate on cars, because getting a thousand or two off is a huge deal for a lot of people.

The "No haggle" thing that Tesla is doing works fine for their $60,000-$120,000 cars. People spending that kind of cash on a car are probably not going to bat an eye at an extra thousand or two. Anybody spending that much money on a car isn't buying it because they have a limited budget, and are not trying to maximize their value.

I don't think it's going to work as well on their lower priced cars. People who don't have a $50-60k budget for a car don't have tons of money to throw around.
Are there externalities to coal and other fossil fuel extraction and consumption?