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I'm currently dealing with a MS support case, and it's one of the most painful support cases I've ever opened. I'm going on (hour long) call #3 in a few minutes, and MS still won't even admit there's a problem.
It is owned by a union in a communist country https://www.baldingsworld.com/2019/04/26/making-sense-of-hua... How independent from CCP is that institution in practical terms?
Consulting isn't product dev and pricing!
I assume you're proposing that the cause is 'low' wages. So let's say drivers earned an average of $50/hour. This would put them in an income bracket such that they earn more than 95% of Americans. Do you think that people would not then exploit a legal angle to bump their earn up to let's say $70/hour, if they found out a way to do so?
> I dont see how Lyft gets off calling this fraudulent.

The workers are "defrauding" Capital out of greater-than-substance wages. It's bullshit, and they'll try to re-frame in in terms of customers, but that's essentially their view.
There are studies that show that welfare increases entrepreneurship.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/welfare...

So providing more people with safety nets increases entrepreneurship. Having a strong safety net is a form of privilege.
From a developer perspective, the Google Play Services are so damn convenient, and they work well.

When it comes to push notifications in particular, I don't know of an alternative which works quite as well as Firebase (if there is, please tell me!)

It seems like developing apps without the Google Play Services will take longer, and be more expensive. Maybe that's just psychological, but it's risky to decide not to use them, especially when you are time constained/on a budget, and you know how to use them etc.
So the rich kids get to have their startup and kids. And that definitely tilts the balance for a lot of people.
I think the response was reading more into the meaning behind what pg said than the actual words he used. This makes sense to a degree, since what pg actually said makes little sense unless you read more into it. When people say startups are for rich kids, they probably don't mean you _have_ to be rich to succeed in startups, since there are plenty of examples to the contrary. What they mean is that your chances of success are significantly higher when you already have means.

So pg arguing that startups aren't for rich kids probably isn't just a claim that you don't need to be rich to start a startup, because that would be a response to a claim no one is making. I think this is why it's reasonable (maybe incorrect, but reasonable) for some people to infer that pg is trying to discredit the underlying notion actually meant by such claims as he referenced, which is that building a successful startup is often less of a meritocracy than we'd like to believe.

Of course we could argue all day about the nuances of each argument, and what was said versus what was meant. But we all know this is the problem with any claim made on Twitter; it invites inference, since abbreviated excerpts don't allow for proper context or dialogue.
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The whole point of surge pricing is to get more drivers on the street. If they decrease it that quickly, then there is zero incentive for a driver to leave their house and get in their car and get out on the street, because by the time they do that, the prices are back down.
Not many antiques need a room the size of a small barn, air conditioning (or is it water cooling on this model?), and an industrial three-phase power supply.
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Let's not forget that Graham has also publicly written he would be loath to choose any woman as a startup founder "who had small children, or was likely to have them soon." The man has a type, and the demographics of YC reflect it.
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It seems only natural to me that the exact opposite is true. What does "confidence" mean, in your view?

Assuming a dictionary definition, "the feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something", such a feeling or belief rooted in absolutely nothing is just unrealistic. It's still a form of dependence, the only significant difference being that instead of depending on a demonstrable fact, you depend on an unrealistic fantasy. The latter easily breaks down with a simple reality check, unless deeply rooted in religious conviction. Self-confidence without ability is plain arrogance.

Even if you truly don't tie your self-confidence to your abilities, chances are that you judge others by different standards. I don't confide in others on the basis of their bare existence as persons, and I try hard to judge myself by the same standards that I judge others.

The more important concern is choosing which abilities you should hinge your self-confidence to, and learning to appreciate them and judge them fairly.
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The reality is that money lets you "take risks," and money gives you options (in this world).

To be honest, I don't think that starting your company with the "risk" that you might move back in with your parents if it fails... is at all a meaningful risk.
At what point will tesla marketers tire of hn? This company is beyond tiring. Great drivetrain, shit quality, dystopyan user rights. The sooner their tech is normalized and divorced from elon the better.
Well - frankly I price this at "free-fiddy" because I hammered this out in 5m (just drop it into your console):

https://kopy.io/sAgzt

Yes it's jQuery (and I know everyone on HN hates jQuery!) - a vanilla JS version would be just as trivial! Wrapping it in a Chrome manifest w/a simple "enable/disable" browser button-type interface would be about 20 minutes I guess.
I'm amazed that such a central space can be simply abandoned for decades.
You're applying a healthy dose of rationalism to this. I don't have the answer but I think there's a possibility that you can't expect rationalism when you're asking people to walk away from the major pattern in their life which puts food in their kids mouths.
Copyright is enshrined in law. You don’t get the choice of picking and choosing to abide by it or not. The artificial monopolies (they’re not artificial btw) are guaranteed by those laws.

Should an artist want to not register copyright for their works, they are 100% free to do so.

They won’t make any money, but that’s their choice.

You may not agree with the system, but it’s the law.

In this single case, this is actually the system working as it should.

https://twitter.com/roomieofficial/status/113018091135248793...
It does not seem like that to me.
Yeah that’s super tricky... how does LispWorks deal with such things?
> And it only works as long as all of the drivers in an area agree: one or two drivers who don't join the scheme, and it doesn't work.

That's much easier to organize at an airport than elsewhere, since all the drivers are required to gather together in an airport waiting area.
Tubers like potatoes have been eaten since forever, those starchy foods that only humans (through cooking) and very few animals digest have been a staple since forever. Also, wild grains were consumed before that.

Yes but northern europe is only a tiny fraction of mankind, I believe most africans, asians and native americans are lactose intolerant.

This means that digesting milk is something new enough that the majority of mankind is not adapted to it. Also, lactose intolerance comes in various degrees and gets worse over age, so even people that don't have it might develop it.

I don't think that there is a mainstream backslash against milk, but if it would I think it would be scientifically based more than anything.

There is just so many scientific links between excessive consumption of cow's milk since birth to all types of illnesses.

Yes, some of us can digest it, but is it healthy food to be consumed every single day, under the form of yogurt, cheese, etc.?

Besides the high hormonal and fat content, it contains casomorphines that are addictive and are meant to keep the calf constanly next to the mother.

I think the idea that we were sold that milk is one of the best foods available and that it makes strong bones (it's actually linked to osteoporosis) is just pure marketing.

The food wheel we were taught growing up was in many places made by the food industry themselves, which I hope would be forbidden by now.

The official recommendations are adapting, did you see the latest food wheel from Canada? https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/
It was an interesting read; do you know which company the author is talking about in that part :

> I am thinking of one high-profile Internet startup in San Francisco right now that is extremely promising, has great technology and a unique offering, that did two big deals early with high-profile big company partners, and has become completely hamstrung in its ability to execute on its core business as a result
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Does it really mean anything?

The PS4 and Xbox One use very similar hardware. In fact, other than DRM, neither is that different from a gaming PC.

It seems you'd have no trouble running PS4, PS5, Xbox One or Xbox Two games on the same hardware box that would be racked in an Azure data center.

For that matter, Microsoft has Azure data centers all over the place and very good networking for those data centers. A few years back I noticed that the nearest Azure data center had 35 ms latency to me compared to AMZN's us-east-1 which had 50 ms. (Maybe that is why AMZN built us-east-2 across the street!)

I don't see any reason why Sony should build a whole bunch of data centers and struggle with second-best networking when MSFT has already made the investment and is continuing to make the investment in a great data center product.
> self-driving cars.

Why not just "cars"? Teslas with or without FSD capability already use Internet connections for OTA updates, maps, audio. Other manufacturers will likely follow sooner or later. That's a good outlook for any global Internet provider... I'd offer maps, audio services to other car makers in his position, wouldn't you?
It's not current security issues they're worried about it's future potential security problems at the point where we are utterly reliant on Huawei.

Nonetheless the NSA is trying to pretend that Huawei is currently installing backdoors.
Perhaps the potential profit stream of operating an appstore is also an appealing reason?
This seems like it could also torpedo their Contractor vs. Employee argument.

Contractors get to set rates, employees don't. So you can't say they're contractors AND accuse them of committing fraud when they try to set their own rates.

Now if only someone would develop an app that does this for entire cities. The app could be their version of a union.
> My biggest realization about doing hard things is that I needed to let go of my intellectual entitlement. Just because something is (or seems) effortless to others, doesn't mean it will be the same for me.

The movie Goodwill Hunting has a scene that describes this [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKu_QQVHJLA
Typical tech industry nonsense. People stuck in a job because they need the health insurance? People saddled with massive debt because you’ll have a hard time getting hired to manage a McDonald’s without a college degree? Rent increases eating up disposable income? Meh. But being told by some rando on Twitter that you need a safety net to take a risk on a startup? “Incredibly dangerous”! Because if some people who might start a startup instead choose a conventional career, I guess the world will end.
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Bernays was very proud of the work of Josef Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda mimister. He considered it the best kind of use of his work, steering the ignorant masses to support of a Great Man's ideas.
You don't have to quit your job.

What is the product/service you want to develop? Do you have a defined potential customer (friend/family)?

It's something you can create putting 1-2 hours per day?

What is the minimum amount of work you need to put in to go and show it to someone (even if it is a mockup)

How many customers do you need to break even?

You can do ALL of this and more without quitting your job.
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Automakers will say and probably rightfully so, it was never about the software it was about the nuts and bolts of making large amounts of vehicles and the act of actually selling them to dealerships. It probably turns out automakers do it the way they do it because it is the best way to make money and not because they are stupid.
Hey I don't remember all of this being in Telsa's original secret master plan.
always choose the mentally hard option, when faced with two options, choose the harder one, your life will change.
Note that the US is huge, there are parts that get just as much snow as Norway and others that never see a single flake.
Twitter is one of the worst social media sites, in my opinion, and it makes me concerned how much it's caught on with American politicians (no, I'm not just referring to Trump). It limits discourse and incentivizes "outrage culture" by design. I see more racist and outright intentionally false information content on Twitter than any other social media platform and its only gotten worse with time. They've shown very little to no initiative in preventing this.

I get the impression that the only reason Twitter isn't as heavily scrutinized as Facebook is because their executives are simply more likable, which isn't a high bar to pass when you look at Mark Zuckerberg. I think the same applies to Google, too.
Psychologically this is not true at all. It's much easier to take risks when you have nothing to lose.

How many 18-30 year olds do you see having a swing at it and trying something, vs 30+ people with families and savings to burn?
You can do something like this in a few lines of JS.

https://kopy.io/sAgzt

Yes I know it's jQuery - hate all ya want. Vanilla JS would be just as trivial. Drop it into a console and ctrl click to hide stuff. VERY easy to pull this off!
Graham said you don't have to have a certain class background, and then cited the example of three people with that background. Read the entire exchange. He's talking specifically about upper middle class kids—his words.
A few points:

1. This is a great way for Catalyst to get a potential rising star some operational experience in a low-risk situation (lots of other Catalyst people apparently involved, short timeline, etc.)

2. She said she was involved with the company since their investment (which, if it is PresenceLearning as others said, was 3+ years ago), and has been a board member either since that time, or for a while.

3. Senior leadership probably all knew her or at least of her, given her involvement as an investor.

4. I think the waitress line is a throwaway to try to be humble and build rapport with readers. Working in VC/PE is useful for keeping a company going from an operational perspective.
They should just form a union. Contractors can form one - they don't get all the privileges (for example, the employer isn't legally required to bargain with them, and can retaliate against strikes) but it'd probably permit this sort of short-term work stoppage.
Can we please stop referring to these services as "sharing"? Lyft actually started as a company that coordinated the sharing of rides, i.e., no money was involved. But the "sharing" pretense has long since past for all of these companies.
Anybody claiming to own the copyright. It doesn't matter if the claim is legitimate; "safe harbor" means the time and effort wasted on copyright problems is limited to hiding/restoring videos and forwarding a few legal notices between the claimant and alleged copyright infringe channel. The expensive parts like defending against potentially frivolous claims happens directly between the parties involved.
My favorite regular reason for mine cutting out and skipping is when I turn my head to the right.

These were an inexpensive model, but were nonetheless very well-reviewed on many tech sites, and often recommended as one of the top budget options.
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How does tone policing the author offer any insight into the argument at issue here?
There is already "vertical integration".
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This is just ad hominem.
This is all true.

But.

My Model S has a worse Bluetooth implementation than my Chevy Volt did.

Tesla’s software is objectively pretty terrible.

Sometimes my center console reboots randomly while I’m driving, which means I lose all audio, and the climate control shuts completely off for several minutes.

Tesla has not yet achieved Apple quality polish on their software.
Graham is making a different claim, that you don't have to be from the middle class. Read the entire exchange.
Alpine is great. I have nothing against systemd but Alpine stands on it's own for containers and VMs. I haven't given it a try on baremetal but I imagine it does just as well there. Not really desktop focused but if you want to run it with a GUI on a laptop it's technically possible.
Fuck the rich kids. And I'm not saying this as an insult. I mean it as "good for them". In terms that I'm 38 years old and I have enough maturity to know that:

1-Life isn't fair
2-Some people start the game 50 tiles ahead of you.

None of these reasons are going to stop me (a poor entrepreneur) to build the company I want to build.

I think PG's comment is idiotic, but I think he is very smart.
While it's certainly true that Linux does much better on servers than laptop/desktops, I don't think it ever got to the >90% market share that Windows had on laptop/desktop (although admittedly that depends on whose estimates you look at). But servers certainly do differ in regards monoculture in important ways, relative to laptop/desktop.

It's also possibly significant that Linux on servers is split between Redhat and Ubuntu and others, who have some non-trivial differences in regards to security updates, etc.

None of which means that Unix-based OS's don't have inherent advantages in regards to security, just that not having a monoculture target on their forehead also helps.
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In excess, it's the number one predictor of heart disease, the number one killer in a lot of western countries for example.

Our bodies already produce all the cholesterol we need just like any other animal that doesn't eat dairy, we don't need to eat it every day and often multiple times a day.
When I save a page with SingleFileZ, I can open it again from my downloads folder, or from the browser's downloads list.

I'd like to, somehow, be able to choose between the archived version and the real link when opening a bookmarked/previously saved page.

Another thing: Currently I'm unable to save pages when in Reader View mode, is there any workaround to this?

Congratulations, great job!
Do you really think someone's ending point as an adult is largely limited to their "brains"? Like, how are you going to completely exclude the upbringing environment and the scarcity and struggle for resources that some folks face.
Why "or"?

Tesla and Musk do a lot of things. Some are clever, eg: Tesla gets marketing that other car companies can only dream of, for free. Other things are insane, eg Musk's "secured" bid of $420 for a company that today traded unter 200, less than a year later.
Well, yes, that's the conversation of intersectionality. It's important to recognize that the 'lone genius' narrative is largely false in order to have the discussion that empowerment is necessary in the first place. Otherwise the overarching narrative may be that people who suceed do so purely under their own power and therefore there is no systematic mistreatment to address (which perpetuates systematic mistreatment).

It's true that a wide variety of things contribute to someone's success, and many of them are outside of their power. Being able to acknowledge this can be taken to the extreme, but all of your statements are entirely valid assessments to make that have real effects on how realistically difficult a task may have been- or if the task was possible at all.
I've actually tried it on my new notebook a few days ago, it runs quite nice: https://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/alpine-linux-on-the-hp...
SystemD definitely spurred some controversies years ago but is it that bad in 2019?

All major distros adopted it and even some that are listed there as "no systemd" in reality just give you choice (e.g. Gentoo).

I'd gladly hear the opinion of distro maintainers why did they switch to SystemD if it's as bad as it looks like in people's perception.
My trajectory might not be "normal" but for me I have been more inclined to take risks as I've gotten older.

There is a sense of urgency (e.g. if I don't do it now I won't get another chance) that counteracts the feeling of "nothing to lose")
In fact I am surprised it reacts as fast as the article describes.
The usual roads are probably very easy, they have wide markings. The problem there arises with repair works which mess up the markings and lane width in all possible ways. During summer they are very frequent, and I bet they were the cause of human interventions in those old experiments.
Would be interesting to study the evolution of the organisms contained therein over very long timescales.
Psychiatrist is normally a protected title that requires a professional qualification and a registration, so it's not unreasonable that people are told that this is an alias.
> This is the difference between Google and Amazon.

No it's not.

I've started to receive Spam & Phishing on the email alias I exclusively use for Amazon shopping. The emails include my full name as written in my Amazon account. I've informed Amazon support about this and asked them when, why and with whom they shared my account details. They replied, saying that they had their "specialists" look at the email I had forwarded, and that it was phishing (it wasn't, it was an "invitation" to join an amazon-review-for-free-product site) and that I should ignore it. I once again reached out to tell them that this wasn't what I asked, and that they apparently had/have a data leak. Guess what: no reply.

Amazon doesn't care either. Now, that might be different in the US, but Germany's Amazon support is terrible. I get that hiring people in Germany is expensive, but it's just annoying when you have to communicate with people that don't have a solid grasp of the language / use some low quality auto translate to handle your case.
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It's okay to call yourself a feminist if you're not okay with biological males demolishing female sports records. It's okay to not go down the infinite intersectional/deconstructionist rabbithole to the point where it's normative for 8-year-olds to dress in drag and do sexually suggestive stripteases while men throw money. It's okay to retain your common sense.
Model S from what year? I have not experienced this with my Model 3.
Love this!

Notice that the text about slackware sounds a bit "pessimistic", as if it was a somewhat legacy distribution. Nothing further from the truth. We run a small farm of virtual machines with different up-to-date distributions, and slackware is typically the one that follows upstream packages more closely. For example it had gcc 9.1, bash 5, etc. a few days after they were released.
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