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Well hello, Dan! Nikhil here. It’s always nice to get a reminder that the internet can be a small place.

(Dan and I were at RC concurrently for the second half of his batch.)

I’ll echo the sentiment: RC is a really cool and unique place. I was somewhat atypical, I think, in that I came in with a very defined and niche project that I wanted to work on (hacking on gccgo), but the RC format is flexible enough to be amenable to that. It’s nice to be surrounded by a community of folks united by a love (or at least appreciation?) of programming, even if you’re not actively working on a project together.

I’m a bit sad that I missed out on some of the more social/collaborative side of RC by focusing so heavily on one project, but I’m told this is a common sentiment: it’s hard to strike a balance between being people-driven and being project-driven.
High cost (fees are proportionally much more expensive), shady practices[1], accounts frozen by creditors.

Poor people are making completely rational decisions when choosing not to trust banks, and it's patronizing to assume they simply don't know better.

[1] banks re-ordering transactions to maximise overdraft fees.
I am annoyed by the article's use of Bill Gates to exemplify the "fortuitous circumstances that figure into every success story". Bill Gates and Microsoft is not "every success story". I would be surprised to find even a hardcore believer in an ideologized meritocracy who thought that tail events like Bill Gates and Microsoft didn't have a huge luck component.

Meritocracy-as-strong-just-world-hypothesis is a weak-man argument.

I am a believer in meritocracy. But, I note, I'm not a believer in any ideological big-M Meritocracy. Rather, I think meritocracy is the best practical way we know to organize things. In a liberal society, rather than get everybody to agree on the latent virtues they love the most, I think it makes sense to have demonstrated capability as a common ground evaluation metric. As another poster in the thread suggests, what do you want from your surgeon if not demonstrated capability?
Obviously a lot of people give a damn about the most reliable service for voice calls. WhatsApp calls are still unreliable, Google hangouts is semi-decent.

As for public usage, if you watch YouTube, Derek from Veritasium always uses Skype to call scientists.
A quick search for a local restaurant shows yelp as the top hit. Google shows a info box to the side with their own reviews. I don't see a problem with this, and I can't imagine it being illegal. Companies are allowed to cross-promote between their services. Changing this would go far beyond tech companies.
I've heard this a lot. You've spent time on something just because it was interesting to you and not because you saw the benefit of the investment. Naturally, by wasting time solving a problem you never truly had/wanted to solve it's easy to come to a conclusion that it is a waste for everyone else too.

However, I did the same thing as you did and I still use a tiling WM and CLI programs without touching (95% same) configs in the last 5+ years. I am (anecdata I know) faster than anyone who has worked with me and uses a touchpad while editing. All that while being hardware/location independent because I can always replicate my setup easily.

As a related side-note, using a tool properly is a huge productivity booster. I've seen people go from editor1->editor2->editor3 spending significant time learning each tool and still repeating that writing a few config files is a "waste of time".
But that also means conglomerates like GE, or Raytheon, or Lockheed Martin...

There is a place in the world for massive technologically focused organizations.
What is also common is to live at the border in one of those or France/Italy and cross the border every day. That way you take advantage of the higher wages and lower living expenses respectively.
There are millions (billions?!) of bacteria in your mouth, bathroom, kitchen sink, asshole, etc. Every time you release a fart you are spraying countless bacteria into your pants.
They have freedom of movement. Unlike quite a lot of people on earth.
give what I could consider private (credit card habits, gmails, fb messenger conversations) facebook having my credit card habits would be the least of my worries. maybe they could target me with more relevant ads.

i agree fb is terrible at promises or treating people like they matter, but the only thing they ever do with the data collected on people is make them targetable demographics to advertisers. use an adblocker if you dont want to see them.
Best Buy, Sears, K-Mart, and Jet (Walmart) have or had the same functionality.
If lunchtime at my tech workplace is any indication the opposite is true.

Lots of variety. Few regularly bring a lunch and those that do don't seem to bring the same thing regularly.
There's a difference, at least on paper, between the government and corporations: the government is big and powerful, but (in a republican society) is accountable in some way to the people and society as a whole. Corporations are also big and powerful, and (in a capitalist society) accountable only to a majority of their shareholders.

So there's a reason to believe that you cannot have corporations serve the public interest without either breaking them up to limit their power or fundamentally redefining what it means to be a corporation, but you can have government serve the public interest while remaining big and powerful. If the federal government followed the views of the American public to the detriment of career politicians, we'd say, "Great, you're actually doing your job." If Amazon followed the views of the American public to the detriment of career managers, we'd be very confused.

(That said, breaking up the government sounds like a fine plan too, I just don't think it needs to be first)
I use it every day with my remote co-workers.

Still better than web based solutions like Google Meet, Appear, Slack, etc. Specially for group calls and screen sharing.
This is the infamous Duck-Rabit illusion, right? The classifier seems to be doing a good job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%E2%80%93duck_illusion
But presumably if other companies in the US got as powerful as Facebook/Google, they'd just be broken up too, for the same reasons, no? And if they weren't that big/powerful, they'd lack the economies of scale to do what Google and Facebook are doing now. So any other country with giant technology companies (which in practice right now is just China) would have an advantage.
Er, what is the place in the world for them? Defense contractors should be ground to bits.
Blue Apron failed?
> Places should be forced to accept cash until everyone can go cashless

Places should be forced to accept cash AND I'd suggest people never go cashless.

Once people surrender the right to anonymity, we might never get it back.
Many people have pets in their home. The home is a bathroom because the animals will shit in it from time to time.
I think talking about "the just world fallacy" is a tiresome straw man. It's one side of a false dichotomy, and not something that people should debate any more than "nature vs. nurture".
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> ... the first large entity that we should break apart, is the government.

If you're talking about the United States of America, it is already broken apart. By design we have three distinct branches, due process, and free speech/press.
There's plenty of oil in the world. Why do we feel the need to go after every last drop in the United States?

It'll still be there in 100 years, if we need it.
Who said anything about private industry? Give parents their school money to spend at the school of their choice. Maybe if I call it “universal basic school income” you would like it.
That is true, but at least he said: "you don't need a college degree to be successful _but_ education is very important", because lazy students around the world and hypocrite-people who don't have university degree _& actually want to have it one but unfortunately can't_ will use his words as an excuse.

Cook has to remember, without academic research there will be no cutting edge technology like chip or processor that support hitech company like Apple. He should be wiser.
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If Alaska isn't a good place to live for humans but great for other inhabitants, the humans should move. If my choice is between a polar bear or a town in Alaska, I'll pick the polar bear anytime and move the town. We don't need to turn every corner of the planet into a place serving our immediate human needs. In fact we've already done that to too many places and are ruining the planet for everyone while doing so.

On top of that we shouldn't be drilling for oil anywhere. We likely have already turned the planet into a uninhabitable wasteland by burning too many fossil fuels. We need to have a hard cut on our fossil fuel dependence and not sorry it further.
Yeah, I forgot to mention that; I have no doubt that the top student from Harvard or Yale is dedicated to learning new things and at some level wants to be there. However, the bottom 25% who graduate probably are doing it simply to obtain the piece of paper and the letters "B.S." or "B.A." after their name.
So there's an opportunity it sounds like. Why are no services stepping in to capture all those potential customers?
I might have a different perspective since I live in Norway. Amazon is not as dominating here as in the US.
All these people moved to Alaska because of oil and now they're addicted to it. Sad really. Hopefully an income tax will cause some sort of exodus. A smaller population can be sustained on tourism and fishing.
Heavily contrasted things such as a janitor and a surgeon are not what is meant a meritocracy. What is usually meant is within an organization of surgeons ranked based on talent, effort, and achievement. Fact is all of those things are based on politics, perceptions, and in some cases luck -- especially the higher up the hierarchy you go as individuals may get credit for efforts of people below them and all of that is attributed to their efforts.

The most competent surgeon may seem the most competent because she only takes easier cases. A good surgeon might work 36 which might be worse for his patients survival than if he works 12 hour shifts. You might get individual surgeons that are very lucky in terms of their success rate, not for any other reason than survivor bias. You might get a team of surgeons where a leader takes credit but it's the juniors that are actually really good at what they do.
> Facebook's earnings/advertiser's spend coupled with demonstrated user behavior very quickly put your logic to rest

I don't follow your leap of logic.

I could just as easily say those earnings reports proof how effective psychological warfare is at exploiting the weakness and insecurities of humans in order to part them from the fruits of their labour.
If you read his quotes, this isn’t what he is saying. He’s saying you don’t need a college degree to be useful, with an emphasis on coding (in fact, maybe coding is all he is really referring to). This is pretty obvious. But the fact that Apple, but not most others, are willing to accept this says nothing about your likelihood of being successful even if useful.
Public restrooms, private restrooms, my kitchen, your cook at a restaurant wears them in the restauraunt's kitchen.

I guess the real question is, who wears shoes under their bed covers?
Also immigrating from another EU country just means to move there and register with the local authorities. Also works for Iceland and Norway, but there you have to get a job within 3? months to be allowed to stay.

Although we're currently having great fun (/s) at the lower end of the German rental market due to all these new young people working here and of course wanting to live somewhere as well.
So I guess all those store brand groceries are anti-competitive behaviors?
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yea but they dropped out of ivy league schools... that's not the average dropout
We do. It seems to work better than other solutions for group calls and screen sharing.
I do something similar and after 7 years I discovered I was severely Vitimin D deficient. Thanks to an article that was posted recently about UV not penetrating glass.
When people say things like that, what I hear is that "the scale on which things are ranked should be opaque and only understood by the elect, i.e. the people I prefer", not that there is an alternative to ranking things to choose between tradeoffs.
Just off the top of my head, maybe FB Markeplace and Messenger get split out into their own companies? Maybe their Live feature get's split off into it's own thing too.

That makes me think that Amazon might have to give up Twitch too
I'm currently traveling through the UK.

I went from Hamburg to London via Antwerp by blablacar.

I so far stayed at two places through couchsurfing.

and I'm now heading towards my third Airbnb place.

sharing economy is certainly not a scam.
What the college attempts to teach is still mostly just writing and reading comprehension and math. It's just higher level than before.

You should have the ability to write 20-30 pages well structured text to show that you can think, organize your thinking and communicate your thinking to others in your field. Many people graduate without this ability, but at least they have had some practice and can write 5 pages better than when they started the college.

You should know about the things in your field even if you don't master any of them yet. Being smart but restricted is not substitute for college degree. For me the value from higher education came from mandatory classes where I had to learn stuff that I was not particularly interested in. I was interested in algorithms, machine learning and low level programming. I would have never studied database design, computer networks and software engineering as methodologically on my own.

You can avoid learning most of the above when you go to college, but you learn at least something. If you don't have a college degree, you should try to learn on your own. You should have completed large projects that you can demonstrate your grit. In many ways college degree is showing for others that you can delay gratification enough to graduate.
Oh there are, all those cheque cashing places for example, and they're under-regulated, so not too great either.

Still paying a larger fee to cash a cheque sure beats having all your assets frozen entirely.
Avoiding Amazon would also mean avoiding all aws services, not letting your data hit their infrastructure.
"Im yet to see one that works as expected"

it might be wasabi wallet. not 100% though
Why are we still doing for oil anyways?! We are about to kill everyone on the planet with our fossil fuel addiction.
At this point in the campaign, I think people are just throwing out ideas to see what sticks. If this idea becomes super popular on, say, twitter, then it will probably enter into the rotation of things she talks about at rallies and become part of her platform. If it doesn't really catch on, I could see it not being brought up again.
We're going after that oil too. Venezuela is coming up next. The thirst for oil, and America's willingness to take it by force all over the globe, is limitless
The thing to do is to work in the US for a while making a much higher salary, but living as cheaply as possible and banking all that cash. Then go move somewhere where you can enjoy quality-of-life.
This seems based on the assumption most parents are too stupid to realize whether or not their kid’s school is good or bad.
"Things can get better if we want them to — through regulatory oversight and political pressure"

aka Regulatory capture. Raise the bar high so no other social network startup can succeed.
Something that cost $50 in 1993 would cost $87.74 now, according to the Consumer Price Index inflation calculators.
This would require a level of vision & planning we're not likely to see from political leaders, but I agree this is the best take here.

If the goal of antitrust action is to keep the free market competitive, I think a better way to achieve this than enforcing a breakup of big companies is by legally requiring standards for open protocols that allow for competitors to interface with each other and compete on their service quality rather than their network size.

How this would be done is a hard question without an easy answer. But breaking apart Facebook from Whatsapp isn't going to make it any easier for a new social network or a new messaging app to break into the space. Typically new social products can only enter a saturated market by targeting a niche and then expanding (e.g. Signal on a privacy/security focus or Discord on a gaming focus). Enforcing some level of open protocol makes it possible to try a new product without customers giving up because "oh but my friends aren't on here"
It's a little bit different though, because Amazon has 2 streams of how they get products: Amazon can buy branded from vendor and control price and selection, or those same vendors could list directly on Amazon (as FBA) and the vendor controls price and selection.

Pop sockets got in a fight recently with Amazon, because they wanted to stay FBA in order to have better control of selection and pricing, but Amazon was trying to force them into a more traditional vendor role.
I've been coding for a long time. All that has changed is your perspective. It used to be that the "real" developers were working on "real" technology, like satellites and mainframes. This whole messy website muck was chided.

So those companies hired people like me and trained them. I was 14 working nights, weekends, and summers.

Now, the web is Serious. It has enough pro devs to make it nothing but a waste of time to drag along some high school kids. But there are still high school kids getting recruited, you're just not in the same low-standards part of the industry that they're in. Motivated kids these days are building weird shit in VR and hitting bug bounties. If anything it is not a problem of training and mentorship, it is a problem of getting people interested in programming in the first place. When I got my first computer at 4 years old I had to use a CLI to get around. Most of my games were in QBASIC and could be inspected and changed, which I would do when I was bored. It's harder to get the spark these days, but once it starts it is so much easier to learn than it used to be. I was struggling with pointer math at 10 years old.

Kids these days use JavaScript and Swift.
I don't get it, doesn't this just say that more rich/educated people live in the suburbs than urban areas? How is that an economic advantage or 'outperforming' urban neighborhoods?

I thought it has been shown that suburbs cost a lot more per capita in public services like roads but this is heavily subsidized by more the efficient urban areas.
Or give both Youtube and Google ownership of the affected code, and let them develop separately from the split.
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That sentence seems odd. NYC was about to go bankrupt during that period. Boston was losing population and employers into the 1990s. The current new urbanism renewal is mostly overstated and applies to a thin slice of demographics and locations but it’s also very recent—less than 20 years old for the most part.
Ok, works as intended.
That's not how antitrust works. At all.
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"Let them be satisfied with a mere loin-cloth. In our climate, we hardly need more to protect our bodies during the warm months of the year." - Gandhi advocating the boycott of foreign clothes.

Source: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/printrelease.aspx?relid=149833
Isn't a.out the default output format of gcc? I think if you type "gcc myfile.c" you get an a.out executable.
It is indeed hard to strike that balance. I've not properly written up my return statement but based on my experiences I would recommend not trying to do a hugely ambitious project, expect the experience to be social, and, if you're already a senior programmer, expect do to mentoring.

RC is definitely a cool and unique place! One thing people might not recognize if they're not keeping track is that there's usually about one item by a Recurser on the front page of HN.
I don't know exactly what you mean by slowing down, but I'm going to assume you mean innovation, like you say later. There I agree because not much has changed. There was a funny phone commercial a few months back where they pretty much admitted nothings changed since 2007.

It makes sense that stagnant progress leads to open solutions because as hardware advances, alternative technologies become less challenging to implement. I'm sure as you know, there was a time when running a real time OS like Unix on a personal computer was impossible, now it's on our routers.

Back to this Librem Phone, it seems the only selling point for it's massive price tag is being libre, and non-surveillance. But for a modern smartphone to be functional it's gotta be connected to a cellular tower which is definitely using some type of monitoring system.

What exactly do you mean by Linux is ahead of its competition?
> Fact is all of those things are based on politics, perceptions, and in some cases luck

Says you. Even an average talent can identify an excellent talent. People who stand against meritocracy are the people who have never even reached average talent.

> The most competent surgeon may seem the most competent because she only takes easier cases.

That is the kind of trick you think works when you are a child, but actually doesn't work among peers.
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I'd argue that the government is already broken apart and is in fact a cautionary tale of how doing so can lead to waste and paralyzed decision making. With the House having a Democratic majority, and the Senate and Presidency being Republican, no-one realistically expects anything is going to get done. Add to that mix the layers of state and local government before it gets to the road outside your house that's in need of paving... I think that government is broken up more than enough already.
Perhaps not the government itself which exists within strict constitutional boundaries, but the same logic should apply to the major political parties with hard caps on the amount of incoming donations over which they have to "structurally separate" from the electoral process.

Whatever that means.
If you convert Pi to base 2 you won't be penalized for those long sequences of odd numbers. Mapping the decimal digits of Pi to a parity function collapses a lot of the entropy.
In my experience, even with that VAT, everyday stuff in Germany is still significantly cheaper than in America. Plus, all the prices in Europe include the VAT, unlike America where the taxes are secret and unknown until you get to the register and your bill is higher than what was advertised.
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Try this extension, as soon as a site use obnoxious js just hit the toolbar button and it disables all js. Works like a charm.

https://github.com/maximelebreton/quick-javascript-switcher
First-class air travel is in decline
Same thing with AutoCAD Web and probably many more "Web apps". Enterprised devs have a duck syndrome, nothing new.