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How is that “evil”? Isn’t that the crystallization of the teleological purpose of a company?

The ideal company works to maximize shareholder value. And not just short-term value, but the amortized value of the company in perpuitity. This in turn maximizes employee value and customer value.

Let’s take a company that has great products and gives away everything for free. In the short-term, this might look like maximizing customer value, but soon, the conpany will go out of business. You could construct a similar example in which employee wages were maximized.

The ideal situation is that the company pays employees as little as possible and charges customers as much as possible. In this way, the company is on the efficient frontier. Companies then compete on employee wages and product cost. This creates a Nash equilibrium in which no party can benefit from doing anything differently.

This is the highest and most noble calling of the markets and creates the abundent and efficient markets of today (unless of course, the government steps in to fuck everything up).

PS: I know I am going to get downvoted, but I would appreciate a comment instead of a downvote.
Yes, if you buy it standalone. But what about in the computer box? I've opened a lot of MacBook Pros, and I can't remember seeing any labeling.
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the web browser is the only thing for me that is not shell-based... maybe Firefox will come through and create an alternative.
The reason why banks refuse some categories is almost always that they've seen high rates of fraud, chargebacks, or money laundering in those categories.

The auction category sees high fraud rates, because it's easy for crooks to set up fake merchants to launder money from stolen credit card numbers. They also see high chargeback rates, because there will be people selling crap. Also, they get in trouble with federal regulators if they facilitate drugs or weapons purchases.

eBay is the way it is (high fees, strict rules for sellers) largely because of these forces.
My Uncle gave me a hardback copy of The Band Played On in 93 shortly before he died of AIDS. I’ve read it every 5ish years since his death and I cry every time.

Technology is rewriting the future of this virus and I can’t help but to think what might have been different had he contracted HIV in a different time.
That's what happens when you let a company grow organically instead of trying to bootstrap yourself all the way to global dominance with VC funding.
I use a couple.
I have nordVPN, and have been using it for a few months now. I'm pretty happy with it, it has a lot of features, and tons of servers.
I have a smaller VPN called crypticVPN. They have a pretty cheap "Lifetime" deal. Although I've heard "Lifetime" deals are controversial. It has a small amount of servers, but the big upside is that they allow for port forwarding.
I also have a openVPN server that I made with a cheap VPS, that I just toy around with really.

Also, for those reading this, I'm slightly curious. One of my friends told me that PIA is better than NordVPN, but couldn't really explain why. Do you think this, and why? (also could compare with other VPNs).
are ads only sold cpc these days? no cpm ads?
Ernest Scared Stupid is a total gem though, I can see how that led to marriage immediately.
Climate change can only be fixed with smart people coming up with smart solutions. The dumb aren't going to save the world. And intelligence is almost entirely genetic. So no: I'm not going to engage in dysgenic fertility.
Your comment at the end made me think of a story I read a while back.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInRussia/comments/9sbeqy/...

While the story doesn't mention an "obligation" of the elder generation's children, I think it brings out a very interesting point. Unlike the US/ Western Europe, in Russia, and likely other previously-Soviet countries, there isn't a noticeable divide between those with rich parents and those without. No one has rich parents.
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I think your comparison to building gas chambers is hyperbolic and ridiculous.
Agree… but also, why isn't anyone making optical Thunderbolt 3 (or USB-C for that matter) cables? :(
Uber already has a pretty strong track record of doing poorly by its emplo-- er, sorry, "independent contractors."
I would _love_ if firefox handled lots of background tabs better, my biggest complaint is how the browser UI lags with lots of background tabs open. This seems like its a scheduling issue, operations in background tabs should be lower priority than foreground tabs and should be pre-emptable so the user interface never lags. I'd be ok with manually pinning tabs I needed to run javascript in the background.

This is on a high spec dual 8 core xeon workstation with 164gb of ram and a radeon rx480 running latest kubuntu. Less than 100 tabs open, most of them basic references. If there was a bit of hardware I could buy that would fix browser lag I would.
Just to give some numbers:

Ahead of World AIDS Day, UNAIDS has launched a new report showing that access to treatment has risen significantly. In 2000, just 685 000 people living with HIV had access to antiretroviral therapy. By June 2017, around 20.9 million people had access to the life-saving medicines.

http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleasea...

For anyone who doesn’t remember what that period was like, see contemporary works like the movie Philidelphia or the documentary Paris is Burning or the musical Rent. (Those are some that spring to mind anyway after all these years.)
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The ad network needs to trust the website to not only deliver the ads reliably but also to report back correct data (impressions, clicks, etc). We are talking about quite a lot of money here.
My "gentle" java introduction came by using GWT (java -> javascript). Also we had just one module, so it took quite a long time tom compile :)

At least most of the unit tests were run under java - e.g. the "business" (ui) logic.
It still has to be readable.
> Also I have "security.webauth.u2f" enabled in Firefox but Facebook is the only U2F service I use that doesn't work in Firefox so it falls back to the SMS / OTP methods on login.

I noticed this as well. I was able to add my security key via Firefox, but for some reason Facebook decided that you need Chrome to use U2F when logging in.
I'm almost certain he isn't
One criticism, from a philosophical angle, would be that you have foundered on the is-ought problem.
That's true; a few cents of chip and a couple of cents more complex assembly, propagated through the supply chain. (there's a little bit of handshake for PD, billboard etc but I agree with your point that the cost will be pennies).

Once they become ubiquitous I imagine the usual forces will drive the cost way down so we'll end up with something like the current mix of good and crap cables. Hopefully nobody will advertise 100 W over 30 gauge wire, but probably...!
It's not big enough or fast to stop Google in China.
Uber has among the worst customer support policies I have seen - but alas they are a monopoly and there's no end in sight. I think they should be regulated.

Recently, I raised an issue when I got billed twice for the same ride. In India, they have no phone support, just email. Instead of checking transactions on their end, they wrote back to me asking me to submit my bank statement so that they can verify. I was quite surprised that customer support could just ask for people's bank statements.
Is keeping shareholders happy so much worse than keeping venture capitalists happy?
Conversely, their vacuum everything approach could have landed them additional evidence against Russian hackers.
The government (or sufficiently powerful corporations, which effectively take on some aspects of public governance) sets up the framework that the market operates in. Corporations operate in a society which may break down if sufficient pressure is applied to people (e.g. employees, customers).

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I think from a tax and accounting perspective, “hire” is probably the appropriate term.
One satisfactory solution that had existed in the early days of Firefox was the use of group tabs that you could access at a click of a button.
They were an excellent solution that I wish could be reimplemented.
Sure, the motto by itself is just words. But like all mottos or mission statements ("free software" is a familiar example) the interesting thing is who else uses the phrase and what they mean by it.

Prospective Google employees saw what Google meant by "Don't be evil" by seeing how Google behaved (and specifically how other Google employees behaved) and decided it was worth following. They didn't just see the three words and think that sounds great.

And I disagree that every group of people thinks they're noble - the comment I replied to specifically says that companies are better when they do not see themselves as noble and only see themselves as profit-seeking.
> What’s harder for me to forgive is that, when asked later in life whether he felt any guilt for his participation in the bomb, he always said no. It seems to me that, when called to account for pain that we’ve caused — even indirectly, and even before we had full understanding of the pain we might be causing — we should take responsibility.

Expecting someone to profess guilt for the greatest accomplishment of their life is asking quite a lot. I think that Oppenheimer’s other actions demonstrated his remorse, even if he never said it.
Lets say Canada passes legislation saying >50% of MPs must be women.

That would be an extreme abuse of democracy. If only 50% of ridings have a woman running. It would mean those riding automatically go to those women. Those ridings don't get to vote.

So yes, political empowerment only goes so in far as women having the right to run. Not confirmation bias; I simply believe in democracy.

I also note you never commented on the other points which were much more egregious and clearly make things appear much worse than it actually is.

I also go back and recalculate Canada's score. We are the MOST equal country surpassing Iceland and Rwanda by gigantic strides it also makes the study look pretty stupid because our equality is perfect and yet we have a large wage gap still.

This is because the gender wage gap isn't discrimination. It's entirely based on decisions made by women.
>So lets say I have a new country. The laws are 100% equal and there's absolutely no discrimination against women.
But an election occurs and there's not a perfect representation of the people. Only 25% of the elected MPs are women. But there's no actual discrimination happening.

Its very easy to think up improbable, and even impossible, hypothetical situations. This is one such hypothetical and it adds no value to this discussion. We live in a world with discrimination. What you're suggesting is as fantastical as imagining a country where everyone can fly and then asking what we would do for the car companies. It assumes so many unrealistic things that its not a good faith attempt at conversation.

Or another way of putting this is: I claim that your situation will occur with only some miniscule probability such that it is indistinguishable from impossible in practice. You're welcome to prove me wrong. But to be clear, I ask for a proof, and the burden is on you, to show that in a society truly free of discrimination, both de jure and de facto, that things would be as you claim with any regularity. Put plainly, such a feat isn't possible. So your hypothetical isn't worth spending time pondering.

>Was there discrimination? I'm sure there is still today.

Then it's not a 1.0. The WEF report is measuring discrimination, which you just said still exists. By your own admission, this shouldn't be a 1.0.
Very soon gene drive eliminating all the mosquitos will save many more lives than a mosquito net can save at the fraction of cost and effort.

But we would not be able to find it if we were only spending resources on things that save the maximal number of lives in the short term.
I suspect that most of the staff who's actually developing the product are in China. The way things worked while I was at Google (which spanned the period when they pulled out, though I'd left by the time they decided to get back in) was that the bulk of development for google.cn would be done by Google China staff, and they would get some consulting support from engineers on critical serving infrastructure (eg. the webserver, the search serving stack) for parts where it needs to interface with the rest of the codebase.

The thing that's come back to bite Google now is that they have a culture of being very open internally. So for example, all the design docs, technical mailing lists, org chart, and source code repository for any work on Dragonfly is open to all Googlers. The article said that it's Googlers who do not work on Dragonfly that have been monitoring the source repository and leaked this to The Intercept; they may be American workers with American cultural sensibilities, but that doesn't mean that they're developing Dragonfly.

If this were Apple, they'd farm out all the human rights abuses to Foxconn [1], and the rest of their employees wouldn't know about it until it shows up in the press. I suspect the result of this is that anything Dragonfly-related is going to be designated HIP (High-value Intellectual Property, the category of source code where access is restricted to specific engineers) and all design discussions and mailing lists related to it will be locked down. That, IMHO, would suck for Google's culture, but I don't work there anymore so at least it doesn't affect me.

[1] https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/apple-has-been-using-teen-labo...
All good, I've been using 15 years too. Unsung hero.
This is an amazing piece of software and thanks for creating this. We heavily use Tile38 for all our Geospatial needs in production.
Possibly.

Although if I have to guess, the new crimes it enables are less destructive than the ones it catches. As an example, a mugger has a risk of killing or seriously injuring the person. On the other hand, someone who steals surveillance data for blackmail purposes will not cause nearly as much harm.
Precisely because Uber's trajectory is unswervingly evil, they will eventually arrive at good upon traversing the universe's hypertorus.
We all have stories. I can tell you a dramatic story about micro decisions and events that led to me founding an infosec consulting firm. We just magnify these stories in really successful people. That’s the thing. Most billionaires don’t have stories that are much more interesting than the average persons. There are a lot of people that risked everything and lost, many of them lost despite making better decisions than many billionaires. That is just how luck works.

Most of the interesting stuff about how companies grow come down to a relative small period where some key decisions get made (in the tech world at least). Anyhow, this is normal and people love to try and parse the lives of the wealthy to see if any of it can be applied to their life to capture some of that success. There are a lot of things to increase your luck potential, but it still takes grit+luck.
Biometry for service login is about the worst idea ever. The problem of biometric attributes not being secrets has already been mentioned by others, but what is at least as important is that I want to be able to use computers, and computers don't have biometric attributes. I want to be able to task my computer with watching my bank accounts, for example, and for that my computer needs to be able to log into my bank account. Using biometric authentication essentially means that corporations get a monopoly on using computers to scale the work they are able to accomplish, while they force me as an individual to do everything myself, or at best to have another corporation run a computer on my behalf.
> they are a monopoly

In India, don't you have Ola?
The second one reads like a Buzzfeed article...

> What 99% of programmers don't know about memory... number 17 will shock you!
There are many places where we know that a free market doesn’t properly function. Specifically, there are certain types of goods that end up priced wrong: those with externalities (positive or negative). So if all a company cares about is maximizing shareholder value over time they are drawn away from products with positive externalities (like a public park) towards those with negative externalities (like cars that pollute)

Note: I use these two examples because they are classic cases of positive and negative externalities but they are so well known that the government has already stepped to make public parks and tax or regulate of the externalities related to the pollution from cars.
I don't think anyone's using that excuse to justify working for Google, I think they're just saying that a small number of people quitting Google isn't nearly enough to stop them.

Google employs at least 20k engineers. I'd be shocked if 100 quit over this news.

Google could be murdering kittens to cool servers with their blood and you could probably find enough competent engineers to keep 10 Google's fully staffed. The vast majority of people do not give two shits.
Yeah, we actually looked at that today, and I'm impressed by how it repairs what it tore apart in "88" mode.

We might change things up and I might be OK with my 'black life after all.
This is a pretty good time to remember Ryan White, who is a fairly under-appreciated contemporary hero. They called this the "gay plague" at one point, and in a derogatory way. To all of our collective shame, it probably would have killed far fewer if people didn't think it was exclusive to gay communities.
At the very beginning of Uber it was the inverse, their customer service was top notch. I would reply to a receipt saying the driver took a longer route for instance and they would reimburse me. Now their customer service is basically inexistent.
True that. Hobart is where it's at.
Dennis Ritchie passed away in 2011.
I see some people experimenting and achieving more Mbit/s with their separate async thread host

https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc/issues/110
I've recently started using 3DC and find it to be a wonderful creative tool. It's super intuitive and easy to use on the go, on a mobile device. I look forward to using it more in the future.
> There are many places where we know that a free market doesn’t properly function. Specifically, there are certain types of goods that end up priced wrong: those with externalities (positive or negative). So if all a company cares about is maximizing shareholder value over time they are drawn away from products with positive externalities (like a public park) towards those with negative externalities (like cars that pollute)

Sure, but that simply suggests that those externalities should be priced. Problem solved.
You need only look at South Africa to see what could have happened if it came 20 years earlier.
Google will learn from the Chinese implementation and come back to President Trump in his second term (or Bernie) for its implementation in the USA
I agree with the positive sentiment, but disagree that AIDS should be forgotten. The bigotry and petty vindictiveness in th 90’s was disgusting and in some quarters it lives on.
The earlier days were worse as I understand it, and there is a lesson in it all.
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Only US actually.
I built an extension for chrome called Lovely Tabs about 10 years ago that allowed snoozing (amongst other fun features). What I found was that while very convenient, I over-relied on it and just continued to resnooze over and over again. It built up to the point where it was unusuable.

The real issue is that (many) people are bad at managing state, particularly for things they want to theoretically read later but never will. Giving them an unlimited snooze mechanism is not the answer. Either it must have constrains to force clean up, or another “solution” should be attempted instead.
Maybe the "Chinese-feeling-friendly" ads is a growing requirement in Western markets. No chinese wish to see their country is a shithole from AdSense.
This might be the silicon valley bubble here though.
> My theory is that even if Chinese government was toppled, the replacement would still have same characteristics because that is the expectation that people have from their government.

Taiwan is a counterexample.
Replace google and execs with chinese authoritatians and workers with citizens
That wasn't just a rumor.

First, if we take "public toilets" to mean the location rather than the plumbing, that is a location where people inject heroin (sharing needles) and sometimes fuck.

Second, if we take "public toilets" to mean the plumbing itself, the seats may be contaminated with fresh bodily fluids of all types. (mainly blood for women or semen for men) You could rub against it with your cunt, open sore, dickhole, prolapsed anus, or eyeball. Some seats even have splinters/slivers to jab you in the ass, or in the ballsack or tongue or whatever.
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The devil is in the details. Often it is very hard to price the negative or positive externalities. And sometimes companies are far and away in the best position to make an estimate of this.

For example, if you believe that Facebook played a large role in electing trump and that trump is bad how would you even begin to price such a thing. If those things were both true how could we ever find out.

Purely shareholder value is an overly narrow way of looking at the world or making decisions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_Worl... and onward?
I live in The bay area, can i pickup? And what is the cost for a Kg of CNTs?
Rust doesn't use a runtime so how is this relevant?
Inspired by a Black Mirror episode? :)
"The police who found the writing examined the connection record of the Internet and guided it on the 4th."

Should be:

"The police who found the posting examined the logs, and placed the girl under protective custody on the 4th."

"In addition, I suspected that he wrote the same address on another bulletin board, he also searched the house of each man's unemployed man in Yamaguchi prefecture, an unemployed man and a man of a 47-year-old construction worker in Kagoshima prefecture."

Rather:

"Also, on the suspicion of having posted the same address to different bulletin boards, the police searched the respective residences of a 39-year-old unemployed man from Yamaguchi Prefecture and a 47-year-old construction worker from Kagoshima Prefecture."
Sadly, the translate didn't quite make clear the nature of the arrest.

Did the student in question merely share the code, or did they execute the code on a machine intended to display useful information? If the latter, it's basic vandalism and completely arrest-worthy.