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Do you think it would be possible to deliver the news well via robot? I don't believe so. The news could be delivered well or poorly in person, but it could only be delivered poorly via robot.

But it really doesn't matter what we think about the robot. It matters what that family thought, and they had a problem with it. To say it's okay is to ignore their voice, because in their specific case, they weren't okay with it. It seems cold and lacking in compassion to not allow even such a simple request for the sake of comfort for someone in such a difficult place.
I’m curious what people think this would mean for hiring? If all of a sudden there a 8 or 9 smaller, but still quite large, giants competing for talent, I could imagine competing for talent would hit fever pitch.
> More likely someone said "We don't want to put effort into testing Firefox right now."

The product teams should NOT have to test on Mozilla Firefox. We (disclaimer: I am not an Mozilla employee. Just someone who loves the web.) have a very robust Web Compat program https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/27435

and Web Compat is very interested in helping product teams.

I think what the Edge team was trying to say above was detect feature support, not browser vendor. In fact, I would say there are many professionals at Microsoft willing to help the Skype team use feature detection properly. or there is always the Mozilla Developer Documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Tools_and_tes...
It's funny how Microsoft isn't mentioned in the same breath as FAANG companies. It's in the top 3 companies by market cap, has a dozen billion-dollar businesses, does really well in enterprise, is aggressive in the cloud and hardware, has a large seat at the open-source table these days, and has a large set of older products that keep generating billions. If Apple is in there, why not Microsoft? Both are heavily concentrated in one area, pay similarly, have similar prestige. Is it simply because we don't know where to put the M in FAANG? Or is it because they aren't as big in the consumer space?
Why is eye contact and holding hand the right way? For instance I would prefer an email.

Honesty is better than empathy as a job.
Why is that persuasive?

If I showed you that a greater percentage of $BELEAGUERED_GROUP liked to go around without a shirt/shoes, would that be a convincing argument for prohibiting stores from having a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy?
Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9PyR71Aefk
> "as well as legislation that would prohibit platforms from both offering a marketplace for commerce and participating in that marketplace."

This sounds very fair to me, India has passed a similar law recently - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/technology/india-amazon-w...
Well said. This kind of tech seems fine for less severe diagnoses, and the time saved could be used to make human doctors more available for the severe cases. It's not even an argument about whether terminal diagnoses "deserve" a personal touch. Patients and their families may press the doctor about Hail Mary options -- having this argument over videoscreen-on-wheels might exacerbate the conditions in which the family/patient goes for the unreasonable option.
> Empathy is, in a word, selfish. In his bracing and persuasive 2016 book Against Empathy, Paul Bloom writes, “Empathy is a spotlight focusing on certain people in the here and now… Empathy is biased… It is shortsighted.”

Author understands empathy as a micro emotional transaction enacted on a personal scale. The empathic domain is actually "all things", and should include "all positions and considerations".

In short, the author should work through a few feelings that are biasing their perspective on this matter.
But would you necessarily expect the Dalai Lama to fly the most luxurious product? Seems out of line with his image.
Same result. 50% with four keys, 60% with just the two.

This is very interesting...
People complained about Mario run costing 10$ for the complete game. Quite frankly, i enjoyed it a lot and feel that 10$ was a good price and there was no grinding or waiting. It was focused on fun. But i think people are just not used to paying for phone games.
- Living off the grid

- Illegal presence in the country

- Concealing income from taxation/child support order
I don't wear shoes inside the house, but what do you do in this case where your bare feet are the shoes? Wear slippers?
What visa?

If I assume correctly that you're talking about US working visa.. What you said sounds much much more US-centric than anybody who ever said "don't need a degree".
Is it just me, or did I not catch any new solutions to the paradox in the article?
You should look into Seattle’s housing problems, as there are many.

Apartments are very expensive and most are not sized for families. The city is still zoned for single family homes, driving up the cost of the homes to near San Francisco levels.

Some people are sleeping in parks, which is a cheaper option, granted.
This seems to me like commodification of affection, or an attempt to "disrupt" the deathly loneliness of late-stage capitalism.
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That does sound low.
I started a junior role for a big company at 33k back in 2010.
Every year that jumped significantly for new hires.
I hear some java houses are still low balling though...
"Predatory pricing to push companies out of business is absolutely illegal"

It's impossible to prove in most cases because it may have nothing to do with intent.

Amazon's advantage in 'groceries' is inherently structural.

They can sell bananas for 10 cents less than Safeway because their opex may be subsidized, or they can transport cheaper, not 'because they are acting predatorily'.

The nature of this value chain overlap is inherently problematic.

The thought of 'putting grocery chains out of business using surpluses from AWS' never has to even cross Bezo's mind, or the minds of anyone in the entirety of Amazon. It can happen due simply to structural issues.

For much the same way, it's impossible to have a free trade deal with China, so long as they have political controlled financial system and currency. 'Dumping' will be an artifact of the system as a whole. Nobody even needs to think it for it to happen.
China tried this. SPOILER: It didn't work.
gcc copied most of its command-line arguments from older compilers, including -o, and the default value if -o isn't set was also copied.

So the command-line arguments and defaults are older than the ELF format. When ELF support was added, the question was: Should the default value for -o depend on other arguments? There didn't seem to be good reason to have a complicated default, and keeping the simple default provided compatibility with old scripts and makefiles.

cd tests ; for a in *.c ; do gcc $a && ./a.out ; done
We do! We have bootcamps and stuff like Code.org now.
Splitting up "monopolies" won't create competition, especially in the case of vertical integration. What would help competition is intellectual property reforms, deregulation, tax simplification, occupational licensing reforms, etc. But almost everyone weaving the "evil monopoly corporations" narrative explicitly ignores practical policies that address those.
„They fixed the bug and promised the data would be secure now.“ /s
Three things:

1) Part of the idea is to make work more pleasant, not endure a bunch of misery and then retire happily.

2) I'm alive now. Tomorrow, I might not be. The idea that we should be miserable in the present for a happy future doesn't sit well with me (I've already used up 35 of my years of life!). Around the time I hit 30 I was startled how friends started dying. Not loads, of course, but the rate definitely is creeping up. The mom (and baby) who died of eclampsia really struck home and reminded me that you do not save the best for last. Tomorrow Is Not Guaranteed.

3) Life is a series of closing doors, so they say, and there are huge chunks of life where picking up and moving to another country is completely impractical.

Got a husband/wife with a career already going? Hope you're ready to throw out their career or get divorced.
Got a kid in a school they like? Kiss that goodbye.
Already in a career and think sticking around a couple years will push you further up the ladder? Better just wait a while longer, than longer still, and longer still...

Also I graduated college in 2008 and it was a bloodbath. I couldn't get interviewed for ages, and I get plenty of interest now. For any young'uns it's hard to convey just how different (and awful) it can be. And I had it pretty good - at least I was employed. BUT it meant that I wasn't throwing away a career to move to Europe - I had a pretty mediocre job anyway. In a sense, I should be grateful I had the freedom to know I wasn't really losing much by leaving.
That was the case when Standard Oil was broken up and it's not a problem. The retail arm becomes free to get their cloud computing needs from others -- say Azure or Google. Bezos can't force them to get a worse deal at AWS simply because he owns the AWS. A lot of the arguments for breaking up companies come from this. It can make the components more efficient once they're freed from the shackles of being locked in. Likewise, the crappy parts of the big conglomerate can't coast on having a guaranteed customer. This is the whole point of capitalism. Monopolies are the anti-thesis of capitalism.
Could the fact that they spend so much on lobbying be one of the reasons their industry is still unregulated?
> The issue is that back in the late 80s/early 90s the cost of a new game was $60, and the cost of a new game today is... $60

You also mention in your comment that this is not an issue because sales volume has more than made up for it.

If the industry is just now becoming more mature and saturated, "inflation over decades" is not relevant.

Companies are moving to micro-transactions simply because it is now very easy to setup and a guaranteed way to increase revenue. And that's what companies do (optimize for revenue/profit), regardless of inflation.
> cash price at gas stations!

I avoid all gas stations that have a "cash" price.
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The only reasonable way to use ebooks is to buy the non-DRMed epub, drop it on your web server in a password-protected directory, and read it from all the devices you want to read it from.
This is a wonderful post. Video games are my favourite hobby, and I still love them even as I get older. The more knowledge the general public has on the harm of these methodologies, the better.
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This is why European universities are _extremely_ worthwhile, especially if you're a US student.
In my experience this salary is only available for team leads and only in some companies. Certainly not for 5 years of experience.

However sometimes there seem to be like parallel realities when it comes to salary.
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Not having LiDAR for anything over level 3 self-driving capabilities seems like a very bad idea...Computer vision right now just does not have the spatial awareness that you need for self driving capabilities. I wish Tesla would work on something similar to the Kinect v3 but for long range (above 20 m).
Will there be enough political will to get this done even if she becomes president? It seems unlikely that such severe measures would be able to pass unless the named companies help dig themselves deeper by not caring about the distrust and deep disappointment in them (Facebook for one doesn’t seem to care in the sense of really doing something better).

> He (Szabo) added that he also felt Ms. Warren is “wrong in her assertion that tech markets lack competition.”

That’s got to be one of those jokes that go viral. Most of the consumer facing services are heavily concentrated among less than a handful (considering specific areas, and not in general).

It’s time at least some of what she calls for gets done!
That's a really good point. Let's nationalize the ISPs!
I don't think the tardigrades are going to be able to respond.
It seems most people don't realise that "meritocracy" was coined half a century ago as a sarcastic term for a possible dystopia. One in which many people now find themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy
tl;dr it shouldn't take as long as previously thought to colonize the galaxy based on a simulation.

That's largely an irrelevant finding that adds nothing to the Fermi Paradox because the time it would take to colonize the galaxy is so small in cosmological terms that shortening it is irrelevant.

What's more the authors decided to modeled the suitability of star systems impeding colonization when this seems like it would be largely irrelevant because starfaring civilizations seem highly unlikely to be planet-bound as this is a pretty inefficient use of mass. The Dyson Sphere (Swarm) seems much more likely at which point the only thing of value is the star. The planets are just piles of raw materials ultimately.

Obligatory plug for Isaac Arthur who has a series of videos on the Fermi Paradox. Here's an early one [1]. There are 10-20 others that go into particular aspects.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDPj5zI66LA
Just leaving this here:
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You need to remember that android's customers aren't the end users of the phones, its customers are the OEMs. Spinning off android into its own company separate from Google wouldn't mean the end user gets a preference of which mapping or search app to install, it means the company selling the phone (either the phone brand or the cell network) gets to choose.
Yep, that was my very first Linux distribution, Slackware 2.0 with kernel 1.0.9.
Why we built our core engineering team outside of Silicon Valley
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I'd have to see the details, but I'm pro something like breaks up the talent monopoly that FAANGs have, especially in the Bay Area.

Early stage startups can't compete for talent in the Bay Area. If breaking up giants creates more competition for talent, then I'm supportive.
> A lot of companies - Apple, Oracle, etc - are more using it as a customer service and sales team base than for engineering, R&D, etc.

That may be how it was, but recently (especially in the last year), I've heard tons of anecdotes, in addition to my own experience, that engineering teams are slowly being moved (or started) out here.
usb-c cable is much slimmer than HDMI (important for my cable management) and the port is much smaller so it's easier to run through the wall. It would be nice to plugin the laptop or computer i have to the TV or projector without lugging around an hdmi port. A comptuer with a handful of usb-c ports would be preferred over one with a few usb-c, and hdmi, a sound port, ...
It’s common in the entertainment business, like it’ll be in the contract for movie stars, top producers, people like that.
I like Wasabi as a storage backend. It's incredibly cheap ($0.0059 GB/month) and has no bandwidth fees.
You have to look at areas where Comcast is the only choice, what the prices and speeds available are there, and the prices and speeds that are suddenly available when a competitor arises.

And phone service is not a viable alternative. Even 50gb (the standard cap it seems nowadays before throttling) gets you only 10-20 hours of video at high quality.
Kaiser is a non-profit in the same sense that the NFL is a non-profit. Funding for the "non-profit" is funneled to the for-profit wings. In Kaiser's case, the actual medical groups are for-profit.

Also, how desperate are you to drag politics into the discussion? For-profit groups are capable of making the same shitty decisions as non-profit groups.
“Don’t break userspace” also means that I should be able to run a binary that I recover from a tape backup made in 1992.
Only when:

1. We get real scientific input on whether or not it has to be women that stay home with children. And research leans towards two parents spending time with children as being good, not just the mother figure. Also, a safe and secure environment with decently happy parents helps - which seriously doesn't mean women need to stay home unless by choice.

2. When science can figure out whether or not a parent needs to be at home all the time. Right now, it seems that the reason a parent needed to be home was because keeping house took a lot more time than it does now. Parents spend more quality time with children and more time in general than they did years ago, though. Science leans towards "quality" time being important (which is leanient) instead of a parent always being there.

3. When birth rates actually correlate with women working. There are lots of reasons birth rates decline. Not enough security, money, access to medical care, and so on will make rates decline as will one person in the partnership working too much to have the energy for sex. Poor women have had babies for centuries, though, and worked outside the home for those centuries at different times. All that is really needed to make sure the work isn't affecting birth rate is to have decent policies around this and make sure folks can afford safe child care.
Merely a comment on modern online dating in which, each person optimizes according to their selection criteria vs what they can realistically get and ghost people if they find better matches. There are even terms describing phenomena of this bent like "serial monogamy"
I think so, absolutely. Consider how some people suggest reading 1984 or Brave New World to understand totalitarian societies, or how people suggest various reading science fiction or fantasy as a way of understanding some issue. What the quote describes is the empathy crowd's version of that.
You'd like an example of someone believing an obviously bad idea? To Twitter!

https://twitter.com/page88/status/1100441460934131717

In which we find a link to an entire book oin the idea:

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6675.html
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Yes, but about 3 hours of each day that man is reading HN, so I think they're actually working less time. I think they might be posturing longer hours maybe?
On 4, being unable to predict the business cycle, I have heard this as conventional wisdom for a while, but the long term graphs look pretty regular:

https://static.businessinsider.com/image/4c98a9bb7f8b9ab7325...

Expansions have been lasting longer and recessions are staying short.. that implies you should invest after one and take your money out before the length of the last one and will tend to outperform leaving money in.

Of course past performance doesn't guarantee future behavior, but all the points here are susceptible to that.
>The average young person moving to San Francisco today may no longer be a hitchhiker escaping a conservative town in search of art, free-thinking, and mind-altering drugs. Instead, they are more likely a recent graduate from a top college who has survived a five day interview process with a large tech firm, moving into a corporate sponsored condo in Mission Bay they’ll see 15 hours a week. The much hyped death of art and culture in the Bay Area may have led to many musicians moving to LA or Portland and artist collectives and shared spaces closing down due to an invasion of start up money and astronomical rents. But all of that hasn’t quenched the city’s thirst for getting off, getting weird or finding new ways to connect. Whether that be through cacao, eye contact, or cuddles, or some other kind of kink, the Valley—for all its known faults—isn't vanilla.

Rapacious capitalists have to do something when bored..
Apple could easily continue curating and vetting quality apps. The problem is that users buy a phone, own it, and can't decide what to run on it.
One of the problems I see with first class is the overpricing. As a frequent domestic flyer (~once per month) it's almost impossible to get enough points/credit to make it affordable. I'd even personally pay for a first class upgrade on a business flight if it wasn't $300+. A delta flight from Seattle or Portland to NY is roughly $450 depending on when you book. To then charge $300 for first class seems wrong.
It's true that it didn't matter who gave them the news, but a lot of what we call "communication" is non verbal, so I think the screen did not help. You can forgive someone for something if he's in front of you, i doubt you would forgive him the same way by SMS/Phone call.
>What a customer-hostile clusterfuck, these people ruined a totally good industry.

Don't be fooled. Most software is made this way now. Everything from upsells in apps to web services is the pay as you go model.

Racket or not, there's obvious economic reasons everything has been pushed this way and games did not lead the charge.
The problem is that 1. is better known as "Search + ads".

To put it differently, how does GSearch decide what and whether to show ads for a given search? Well, they could sell keywords by auction to parties interested in placing ads, and then use clicks and other user feedback to decide how relevant they are (that is, how much UX is lost by placing ads nobody clicks on top of results that users want). Whether they're selling to GAd or directly to merchants, or to SEM companies that act as middlemen in the current world does not seem like the important issue.

You could in theory separate search engine ads from site ads, but I don't think anyone is really complaining about the fact that Google owns so much of that business.
> The trend in broadband has been more competition.

In the past decade I've lived in three different cities, and in each one Comcast was the only provider available. Do we really not think Comcast has a monopoly?
The ridiculousness of the society we are building is moving from sad joke to an utter tragedy.
All-female team use muscle power alone to ski coast-to-coast across Antarctica
> Flint was/is such a big deal because it's an exception, not the common

Saw an interesting documentary the other day. "what lies upstream" [0] about water quality. No idea of the validity of it, as no further research was performed, but it had me convinced it is a serious issue.

Assuming the documentary was factual and not sensationalised , the issue is much bigger than Flint.

But as you mention at the end of your comment, I thought (before watching the doc) with the US wasn't water available on the country as a whole, but in specific areas, due to building in arid desert areas.

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[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5165878/
Was the doctor local? If he was an outside consultant, specialized in the disease, he may have been the most appropriate to break the news.

Really poor idea, though.
I see; how does this relate to a story about what happens when the selection criteria is decided entirely outside of the control of the dating parties?
Are there companies that give first class for normal employees? I know a lot of companies have a private jet for their C suite.
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On average, you're not saving money that way. The cash price reflects that you're not paying as much in bank fees.
>So it's more like one American's emissions in a year.

That still seems horrible to me.
There are quite a few non-US airlines that have a first class on much shorter flights, like Europe to the East coast or Europe to Gulf countries. Sometimes in single decker planes.

I know people who fly first class between say, Heathrow and JFK, mostly for the VIP hand-holding at both airports, that can save you a lot of time.
> Why don't doctors just get a newsletter?

Even if they did, that would literally be marketing, which is what you're apparently against.