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Fi's "killer app" is their seamless international experience for U.S. travelers. I travel outside of the U.S. at least twice a year and firing up my phone on the plane and being greeted with a "welcome X country" like I had just traveled between U.S. states is amazing.

Down the list is their relatively cheap service for undemanding users (people who use less than a couple GB of data per month). I'm pretty sure I could just go get a better unlimited plan for slightly more (with more phone choices) tomorrow. But I wouldn't really use the extra service and so I'm happy to get the extra $100/yr or whatever I'm saving.

That being said, I've had extremely mixed support from Fi. The support is responsive, human and polite. But for issues almost exactly like this one, Fi's support staff is entirely unable to cope. In our case, Fedex had even taken a photo of the delivery (which was the wrong house). Fedex needed some kind of shipping code from google to release the photo so we could prove it's not the same house (or at least figure out who had our new phone).

Not a single person at Fi could provide the code to Fedex.

We escalated 3 times and it took about a month to resolve, but in the meanwhile we were charged for a phone we didn't receive, and the clue as to where it went was readily available.

Fi did eventually send us a new phone and everybody was terribly polite, but anybody else would have just noticed the phone hadn't been activated, and sent a new phone immediately (and if the phone were to be activated contact local PD).

It took dozens of chats, emails, calls and so on, and each time the support person on the other end would lose the script and try to resolve our issue with some non-sequitur that wasn't solving the problem.

It's not the worst customer service experience we ever had, but it was down there. The only reason we didn't pull the plug was we were about to travel outside of the U.S. and having service that just "works" was a big part of our planning.
There has been the ghost of this argument floating around for more than a decade at this point, based on the idea that Google pays for youtube bandwidth (due to peering, they don't).

If Google was losing money on youtube they wouldn't pay out billions a year to video creators in the face of zero competition.
Google reportedly ends business with Huawei, will cut it off from Play Store
This article could be improved by including the Postgres EXPLAIN output so the reader could follow along the deductive process.
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How about getting some non computer based hobbies to throw yourself into??

Take up sailing, flying, hiking, tennis, golf, fishing, painting, poetry, archery...I mean seriously there is SOOO much more to do in the world than there is to do on Social Media! My motto is to “be a doer not a voyeur”.
This is fraud. As soon as any rep sees the evidence of the fraud and stonewalls they are engaging in a conspiracy to commit fraud. At that point the law should take over. "The policy says I must break the law" is not a defence. "The fraud was opportunistic rather than pre-meditated" is not a defence. You can't break the law because of a company policy, you're a human you have responsibilities.

Prosecutions need to happen for this kind of thing. They really do. Start with the frontline and work your way up the chain, ordering a frontline employee to commit a crime with a policy document is a crime for all who wrote and approved the document.

If a google customer engaged in fraud of a similar against google there's no doubt google have the option of involving the police and getting a prosecution. A corporation is people who are all responsible for their actions.
I wonder if this is because you used them, learnt from them, internalized whatever design intuitions you could from them, and have moved onto higher levels of understanding.

Expert bike riders disdain using training wheels, but only after they've learned how to ride using them.

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(please hn don't derail with "well actually"s about training wheels)
I'm not sure if I like the idea of using CTEs as an optimization fence. It means using implementation quirks that can be changed in future releases.
Given some investors mistook penny stock ZOOM Technologies for Zoom video conferencing, yes, they really can be.

https://www.ccn.com/zoom-ipo-stupid-investors-made-unrelated...
From my perspective Uber are taxis, and it seems very strange that they weren't regulated as such from the beginning.

(Regardless of whether the way local government regulated taxis was good or not)
Domestically within China, Huawei and other phones already use non-google-app-stores.

https://technode.com/2018/08/13/android-china-q2-2018/
I work for a tiny (remote work) startup that isn't funded so the pay is minimal for now. I lived in San Diego for most of my life but I couldn't really afford it anymore without giving up on the startup.

So I moved to Playas de Tijuana. The rent is hundreds of dollars less than the apartment that I had in the ghetto on the US side, but it's right on the beach.

I haven't owned a car for awhile so take Uber most of the time when it's too far to walk. Short Uber trips would cost about $6 in the US, and longer ones $23 or so. In Tijuana it is $2 for short or $7 for longer. Some things like many electronics seem to be similar prices to the US side, but other things like food are significantly less than the US. Normally to get groceries I walk to Calimax or Walmart. The private health insurance with medication was adding up to quite a bit and I did not want to lie and pretend I lived in California so I did not maintain that. The most expensive medication I have is the Advair asthma inhaler which costs $400 in the US is about $40 here.

Overall my cost of living is maybe 66% lower.

As far as the visa, I was honest when I initially walked across the border that I was planning to stay for an extended time, and they just had me pay $30 for a 180 day tourist visa. Then I actually screwed up and it was expired by a few weeks before I realized so I walked back across the border again and came back and told them I was going to stay for at least a few months more. I was apprehensive when I went to buy the visa again because it seems like they could easily track it via the computer when you give them your passport and purchase it. But the attendant didn't say anything and just gave me another one.

This leads me to believe that hardly anyone in Tijuana cares about the visas for Americans and that the official policy is to just keep giving 6 month tourist visas indefinitely.

If I did not want to pay the $30 every six months anymore then I could just lie when I cross back and say I was just going to party for a few days. It doesn't seem like there is any possibility of anyone besides me looking at the tourist visa while I am here. They only look at it when you cross back over and I rarely receive mail in my San Ysidro box so I rarely need to cross.
I'm an American that's been living in Mexico City for 2 years and don't want to ever have to leave. AMA
Costco jobs are an outlier in retail as I understand it.

$40k/ year in Georgia may be a liveable salary, and if this is an entry level job for him there’s probably the possibility to increase that salary by a 1.5x factor or more over 5 years if he can continue career growth (not sure exactly what a cybersecurity job path looks like, but I assume there is some upward mobility or increased ability to transfer to other higher paying tech roles).
> It's like their transport latency is so low

Reading this, I begin to scratch head hearing people complaining about factories being squeezed out towards boundaries of Shenzhen municipality.

I remember people thinking of that as some end of the world event.
These principles are the first thing thrown out the window for new apps. I've been developing for around 15 years and I've noticed the excitement of new devs on new projects who'll rush out and just throw something together quickly to solve the immediate problem. I've done this a lot too.

This gets you a long way very quickly, which is proof that none of these principles really matter. Development continues along this path at a cracking pace for 6 months until complexity spikes and your productivity is at a crossroads. Do you take a step back, refactor, restructure so the code can be built on with any degree of velocity?

Hell no! Everyone's expecting the same output as when you started, so now you have to start copy/pasting everywhere trying to keep up, but your bug tickets have started ticking in so you have to address those. But you don't have tests, so now each bug fix raises two more bug tickets. Uh oh.

Better get more devs. Now you have people who don't understand the system making changes. There's no real structure so they just squeeze code in where they can, but progress is slow because it takes them five times the amount of time to reason about what the system does and bugs are still going out. Must be bad developers. Better hire a QA team to stop all that.

QA is reporting defects with each release candidate, and puts it back in the dev queue. After a year each feature is taking months to go out. The business just wants some simple changes, why is that so hard?

Enter the hotshot dev. They whip up a quick MVP with the latest language/framework plus it's serverless! No SOLID principles but that doesn't matter because the latest technology will fix everything. Better fire the old team and start fresh.
Sounds like a very standard Google experience. To anyone stuck in a similar hell in the future - once the company has demonstrated that they aren't willing to help, there is no point continuing down that road. Escalate it to your credit card provider (with documentation) and they will clear it up pretty quick.
Old business proverb: "Never turn away a paying customer."

Also known in some circles as: "Shooting yourself in the foot."
I'm pretty happy with Ting. Been with them for several years. Their data isn't cheap but their customer support more than makes up for it.

https://ting.com/
FWIW, I've used Fi overseas in about a dozen different countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Service is usually better than in the U.S.

Phone calls I believe get a per minute charge, SMSs are free and data is exactly the same rate you pay in the U.S.

It's been flawless. Literally as easy as driving between states.
If you're comfortable with giving details, I'd recommend posting a comment at PubPeer on the paper.

https://pubpeer.com/

Plagiarism like that is far too common. Every paper a plagiarist gets away with helps their career and hurts other more honest folks because the number of academic positions is limited.
The dirty little secret is that trading on insider information is absolutely rife in the Chinese market among anyone who's above the bottom few rungs of society.
Oh, touchscreen controls are junk. I always use a Bluetooth gamepad.
Lenders say they thought medallion prices would keep going up, but I don’t see how that is possible. At the end of the day, a medallion is a license to charge a set rate per mile (or minute) in one car. There’s a limit to how much you can make from a medallion. Any lender who isn’t a moron knows that price can’t keep going up.
Great, looks like you have discovered "That one trick that all engineers hate!"

If all it took was some scafolding, some database columns and some html and sprinkle, you should be a millionare by now?
Plus, it goes on to indicate that's a cost savings over the old "roam around and pick it up by hand" approach.
This sounds like a great way to get your entire Google account suspended.
Sex strikes have always been about patriarchal power, not women’s rights
How many times do we need to see this repeating pattern of debt bubbles to address the rigged game?

Remember the concept of indentured servitude? Outrageous debt is the continuous (non-discrete) version of slavery. Yes, there is always implicit debt for many transactions. And yes, there is a level of healthy debt that allows one to purchase a productive asset which pays back its own loan, rather than needing to sharecrop it. But we're at the level of long term loans never intended to be paid back, rather to collect a steady steady of rent from those who produce. Facilitated because the capital being put up is ultimately not theirs (it comes from public markets because it has nowhere else to go), but the fees and a portion of the income stream is.

So what we're seeing is that anything that can be titled, abstracted, and traded ends up heavily financialized. As funny money bids up the underlying asset prices, more people are pushed into needing loans, furthering the cycle. And the people who've bought into the bubble want to see it continue to inflate - it's the only way their rentloan can possibly work out!

Until some underlying factor causes the whole thing to come tumbling down - limits of financial modeling, too many people going to college, or a hack to get around taxi supply constraints. By that point most of the loans have been sold off to dumb money investors, and Wall Street is already working on the next bubblelicious sector.

The straightforward answer for sustainability is to raise interest rates, significantly. This would reduce the amount of dumb money seeking any place to go, increase the ability to pay off loans early by making higher than the minimum payment, as well as shortening the timeframe of most loans in general.

We've been running near zero since Bush II needed a bunch of free money to act out his daddy issues. The fact that we're looking at banks paying a few percent as something novel really just demonstrates how warped our perspective has become. We're repeatedly told that rates must be kept low, and volumes of new money/debt issued, to assure inflation. Yet in a technological economy, we should be seeing natural deflation! But rather than the gains of technology, productivity, and outsourcing being seen by the middle class, they're being funneled upwards by this debt treadmill.
Congress' Latest Move to Extend Copyright Protection Is Misguided (2018)
It isn't accurate to describe it this way at all. The low-end versions have a smaller battery pack, a smaller inverter, one motor and differential instead of two, AND software limitations that do things like disable some of the speakers.

It's not a sound way of doing things at all, but it helps Teslas short-term objectives. Delivery takes a long time to Europe and China when the cars are made in California and Nevada. By limiting the hardware variation (but not eliminating it, as you seem to believe) you can make cars and ship them before they are ordered and be reasonably sure somebody will buy cars that match, perhaps with different software configuration (a different license, really).

As you say yourself, it wouldn't make sense to sell the lower-priced versions unless you've run out of demand for the more expensive ones. Why you don't conclude like everyone else that they have indeed fulfilled the demand for the more expensive versions is unclear. I'm pretty sure they have.

What's more, they now have the problem today their cheapest model is also the best. Model 3 is especially a much better grand tourer than the S or X, it's efficiency making it go farther and charge faster.

A company improving its products so fast that they cannibalise the old ones isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it works better if you've made back the investment you made on the old product first!

I really hope Tesla makes it through the storm (I own one, so it would be something of a catastrophe for me if they don't!), but it's much more important that regulators follow through and ensure EVs are adopted ASAP. They are good for the national economy as well as the environment, at least if you're not Germany.
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They'll clear it up by banning your Google account and blacklisting you for all Google services. Just be prepared for that.
I believe you got the D wrong. Dependency Inversion is not just about slapping an interface in between two components. It's about inverting the dependency. Let me explain:

Picture that we have two components, a main component "Master" and a subcomponent "Slave". What you seem to be saying is that we should have an interface between the two so that Master uses an "ISlave" interface that the Slave maintains (the developers of the subcomponent) instead of using Slave directly.
Dependency Inversion however dictates that you should invert this dependency so that Master dictates which functionality Slave should implement. That is, Master should have an ISlave interface (or an "IDelegation" or similar new name) that Slave (!) is required to fulfil. There is a small but very important difference between the two directions of the dependency arrow. One of the main points is that with Dependency Inversion it is the main component that is in charge of functionality instead of the main component having to work with the functionality exposed by the subcomponent.
Some code lives longer than you think it will, and some dies really quickly. The problem is that you never know which is which.
How on earth is google not being sued every day? It seems like once a week there's a new HN post about some kind of massive screwing they deliver to a customer.
How would you define A.I.? (5-10 minute mobile-friendly academic survey)
This is a deeplink to the image and is not giving a 451 for me: https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/tulsaworld.com/...
You mean a tool to organize society like castes were? Or a tool to organize society so that it produces enough medical care and has a large enough army? The first one really doesn't fit with how dynamic jobs are, as they can be created at any income level or sector regardless of the impacts to social class.
Trump using Huawei issue 'to pressure China over trade deal'
No warning, no opting out - that's a huge problem. It means you absolutely should not mix these two OSes.
Will Huawei still have access to TSMC, Samsung fabs etc? I think Hardware should be more of an issue for them than software. Chinese phones already use some alternative to play store iirc.
Fair enough, though I'd like to grab an actual C64 to see what the experience is really like with the C64's own hardware.

But like all things here it's a hack, everyone's mileage may vary :)
Agile shouldn't make developers more replaceable, but in my experience that's the effect of Scrum when wielded by many kinds of management. Stuff like "story points" rigged such that a problem that would take a week must be reduced to smaller--preferably parallelizable--micro-stories that have implicit context but no explicit dependencies so that the decision of farming it out to many juniors can be upheld.

I'm not saying that this actually works better, to be clear. But I would bet it works cheaper for the time horizons that the folks making those decisions care about.
It's a Google service. Want to risk your entire Google account?
nope, asking for myself. i see no reason to hide behind a constructed other just to save face.
Except legally, Youtube has no obligation to host these videos, and can take them down on a whim. So a lawsuit has no leg to stand on. While, on the other hand, they do have an obligation to take copyright infringement complaints very seriously - in fact, ContentID came from one of those "expensive lawsuits".

You need to change the law first.
thats a good summation, it's important to note that the "Made in China 2025" is the explicit
Official policy issued by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. So this is not interpretation or exaggeration.
The official policy of The Peoples Republic of China is to raise the domestic sourcing of essentially all high-tech high-value goods to 75% domestic production. And also export these goods into other markets.

They may not state it publicly but I think all the industrialied producer economies Fron the US to Europe and Asia are scared to death of the implications China 2025 has for there own high-tech high-value industries.
I know some fairly credentialed people in the same field. Their pay is much better, but the job security seems very tenuous--especially for something so joined-at-the-hip with the defense industry.
I don't think they're the same thing though. Touchscreen phones with high speed internet was an unsurprising goal, even if the pace of smartphone adoption has been fantastic.

Driverless cars... unless there have been some fundamental breakthroughs in AI tech that allows for such a fully unsupervised system, its hard to see how this can be a possibility.

Now, reducing the complexity far more... assisted driving tech is already pretty mainstream. Autonomous driving for predictable, long haul routes (inter-city trucks on US highways) is an exciting market too.
I believe the whole remote only or not is really about the process as you mentioned. I've worked in a company where we had physical offices, but folks would work remotely several days a week. When we did standups, everyone would hop onto Zoom on their computers. Everyone would also be very punctual to meetings and respect the time setting agendas and providing notes for those who couldn't make it.

Now in a company that operates as an in-office, but supports remote work, it functions very differently. Everyone in the office huddles around the scrum master's computer and the remote folks are dialed in. Often times the audio is incomprehensible since people are too far from the one laptop. Meetings are randomly canceled or moved without knowledge. There were a number of times I would sit in a meeting for 10 - 15 minutes waiting for people and posting on the Slack channel if the meeting was still happening. Dead silence. Any larger team meetings, forget about it; I'll have to catch up from the slides later or ask my colleagues what I missed.
a few folks like to use examples like this (and those in the replies here) as examples of auto-trading, actually.

someone noted that every time the actress anne hathaway trends on twitter, the price of warren buffet's berkshire hathaway goes up.
What is exploitive about uber/lyft?
It worked flawlessly for me everywhere, including Paris. This + 10 data SIMs is my primary reason to use Fi.
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Or maybe no one mistook it and they were buying because they thought other people did.
Google does not have the company culture or attention span to be an infrastructure provider. It never has and it never will. Google Fiber is dying on the vine as we speak. Google Fi will be dead long before they work out these problems.
Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump's blacklisting
The idea that the DOM is slow and that v-DOM makes it faster is completely ridiculous. V-DOM can only optimize user land code. DOM manipulation will always be at the mercy of the browser implementation.

Yeah, it is a better approach than badly optimized jQuery style code, no shit, but it's not really the fastest approach either as others like Svelte and Imba have demonstrated.
> China is already far ahead of the USA in terms of individual responsibility.

I would not call it individual responsibility. It’s called poverty.
> Why does a taxi driver need to take out a loan/risk to work?

This isn’t about a taxi driver... it’s about owning a taxi medallion. You don’t need a loan to drive a taxi. If you want to just drive the taxi, you can work for an existing company. But the company does need a medallion for your taxi.

This is much more like starting your own business. With a medallion, you can work your own taxi on your own time schedule - which is the main benefit to the owner. It’s also an asset that you can rent out to others when you aren’t using it.

So, taking a new job isn’t the right analogy. Think more like starting your own company (or more accurately, borrowing money to start your own company). There is significant freedom in that, but it also carries risk.
But isn't the hypothesis that it's not possible to predict because it's perfectly priced already?