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> What's audacious is that Ben thinks Apple hasn't considered the antitrust implications of the above hypothetical.

Why not try it? Worst case they have to loosen requirements, and have to pay a tiny fraction of their cash reserves as a fine. Antitrust hast lost its teeth a long time ago. So there is a potential huge reward with low risk.

Not saying that that's moral and should be done, but that seems to be the sad status quo.
Strange to see the writers describe the revolt as being bloody given that the only bleeding is by the investors banging their heads against a brick wall. Everyone knew about this share structure when they bought into FB, essentially choosing to be passengers on Zuckerberg's yacht. Well, they can always sell their shares if they want off. I'm no fan of Zuckerberg, but investors put greed ahead of good sense.
Sort of. It's called a Wells Notice[1] and it essentially means that (barring some really excellent lawyering) charges are imminent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_notice
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> But it's kind of sad that the place where I can get the most value is seemingly the place where my skills will be utilized the least. It just seems... strange.

Think of it like this: The kinds of lawyers who get a lot of "on retainer" type work are the best ones. Because those people will not often utilize those lawyers, but they want to make sure they're available when needed, because when needed, they need the best of the best and they need them now.

Google is treating you the same way. They want to make sure they best of the best are available for them when needed, and not available for anyone else. By paying you $MAX_COMP, they ensure that you're there when they need you, and its a cost that is worth it to them. They hope that you do some great things for them in the interim.
I think for many people, in particular people who are looking for personal development rather than just compensation, the difference between 200k and 400k is probably not meaningful.

Personally, I don't think I'd ever give up a software engineering job for a managerial position even if the compensation was higher.
I think this needs to be added to the guidelines as a flame-bait topic. Every single CockroachDB post devolves into bickering about whether it is a good or bad name, and I can't stop thinking about that one episode of the Dilbert TV cartoon[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Gdu0OBXX0
Are you informed by any general work on using relational algebra + one or two other things (recursion via CTE and environments, I guess, in this case) as general purpose programming languages, or did this mostly start by thinking about hacking your way to the specific goal of an interpreter or fractal generator using postgres facilities at hand?
I think from a practical perspective this makes sense but having to change their licenses makes me sad. I don't want to see licenses change from "you can do whatever you want with this" to "you can do whatever you want with this unless you are competing with us".
The thing is - at the end of the day - there is no much difference between default Firefox and Chrome. Regarding data being sent to Google.
ICO is a fancy word for "Kick Starter" or crowdfunding. That's why all the crypto people are disagreeing with you.

Are most ICO's scams? Yeah sadly.
Are there lots of scams on Kickstarter/indiegogo/etc? Yes sadly.

But an ICO itself isn't necessarily a scam (although I concede 99% of them are)
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This makes more sense, thanks. I just realized I mistook cockroachdb for timescaledb.
This is well thought-out. Thanks for the clear line.
"Climate change is bad and should be avoided" is a political opinion, so this is obviously an impossible request.
From what I hear, Nvidia won't allow Apple to write "bare metal" drivers for their cards. I don't know enough about GPU programming to know exactly what Nvidia is allowing and what they aren't.
They confused two companies in Toronto that are both caused C7. It's an easy mistake to make, and one that was corrected in just a few days.

You just posted a link to a blog that rates NordVPN as it's #2 rated VPN, and hasn't even reviewed TorGuard yet, so that source is not credible at all.
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To be even clearer, these two planes were designed with the goal of having the smallest radar cross-section possible. The lack of aerodynamic stability was worth the trade off (esp. since it could be compensated for by flight computers).
The author, Barbara Rose Wade, has a website (a copy of story with the same artifacts is there), and a twitter account. Might ask if the has a copy or scan on the original. (I'm not on Twitter.)

https://twitter.com/BarbaraWadeRose
I agree with @pryelluw's comments about strategy. Developing a clear strategy that maps to current market conditions, competencies and is defensible is hard. I haven't read Art of War yet, but plan to now.

Regarding advice on successful execution, I recommend hbr.org.
It has lots of business advice, how-to's, case studies and even document templates. Although there much of their content is free, some require purchase. A quick search for "successful execution" (https://hbr.org/search?search_type=&term=successful+executio...) has a few intriguing results:

* https://hbr.org/2017/11/how-the-most-successful-teams-bridge...
* https://hbr.org/product/crossing-the-chasm-leadership-nudges...

Please update us if know if you find other resources that help.
600+ comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20087315 yesterday
That's doubting the currently accepted explanation for how evolution occurred, not the fact of evolution itself.

The standard response to this sort of doubt inevitably seems to involve a lot of huffing and foot stomping and irrelevant accusations of creationism, as it isn't currently possible to respond with an actually persuasive and non-speculative account of, say, the evolution of feathers via random mutation and natural selection.
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This is not the best way to compete with Amazon. The believe that their feature set is enough of a differentiator is probably delusional. CockroachDB does "massive scale SQL without manual shading". BSL won't hinder Amazon offering those features too.

If CockroachDB remained OSS, there would have been a chance of Amazon offering Elastic CockroachDB eventually, and at least make the Cockroach brand more popular. But now it will likely be an Aurora feature.

If you want to compete with Amazon, do something Amazon cannot do.
Once you code for long enough, every language begins to look the same and it becomes easy to switch. I have worked full time with PHP, JS, Java, Python, Objective C, and C++. That's at both multiple startups and at a FAANG.

In fact, if you choose one strongly typed language and one weakly typed to know in depth (eg Java and JS) it's really easy to move to others.

The trap that people fall into is that they focus too much on learning the ins and outs of a framework and not the important concepts. Or they are stuck in a problem domain that's very thin on CS concepts, like web dev or frontend dev. You don't learn concepts that make it easy to transition.

From my own experience, focusing on CS and math (esp. stats) and systems programming have made it really easy to move around.
Given that it's a toy solar system, it's entirely possible that there's no stable configuration for Jool's system with its full set of moons :/
Adafruit Circuit Playground.

https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-circuit-playground/ov...

This thing is quite amazing, very pretty visually, self-contained, and can interact with Bluetooth modules.

If you have the skill to program it, it will be impressive and bright LEDs will show well.

Make a LED level, for example, using the accelerometer. A sound meter using the microphone, thermometer using the temp sensor, light meter with the photo sensor etc.

As for the finishing touch, I would show that I have been using my free phone as a full desktop computer to both conduct this presentation and control the device. That should blow everyone's mind when they realize they have unrestricted computers disguised as phones in their pockets. :)
Claiming that a monopolist is the good guy because he eliminates his competition by lowering prices is like closing a great novel halfway through. It's what happens _after_ all the competition has been killed off that's interesting: it's difficult to resist the temptation of raising prices significantly once there's nobody left to compete with you.
Looking at the price now, it's has a market cap of $18 million.
It reached $987 million at one point. Quite the bubble!
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kin/
You can make wrapping writes look contiguous by mapping the same memory twice, one after the other. This is done in slice-deque such that the entire buffer can be viewed as a contiguous slice, regardless of the start/end positions.

https://crates.io/crates/slice-deque
Lost Art Press is great, but not exactly for the beginner. I'm a huge fan of The Wood Whisperer aka Marc Spagnuolo (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheWoodWhisperer). He has a lot of content on YouTube that's significantly higher production quality than everyone else, and most importantly he's very good at teaching.

He has two books that are great for the beginner:
-Essential Joinery
-Hybrid Woodworking

https://www.amazon.com/Hybrid-Woodworking-Blending-Quality-F...

https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Joinery-Important-Joints-Wo...

While he has a ton of free content on YouTube, his guild site offers even more at a modest price:
https://thewoodwhispererguild.com/

His Shaker Table project was my first "real" piece of furniture that I built. I've since graduated to designing and building my own furniture. Highly rewarding, and I owe a lot of my skills to Marc's wonderful teaching methods.
Coding - kind, software engineering - wicked.

Coding is something you can learn on your own with a tool, some books or manuals, and time. The compiler provides a lot of feedback, debuggers and manuals give you a lot of information to develop your skillset. A few books on algorithms and data structures and specific domains (like graphics or network) will get you to a solid point as a programmer.

But developing systems that are high quality, multi-component, interacting with other complex systems, and sustainable is another thing altogether. It is costly, tradeoffs are sometimes non-intuitive, and you probably need to have a mentor or a good work environment to really get skilled at it, or the right kind of analytical mind. But you'll still have a lot of failures along the way and need to develop a lot of different skills.
> BAT

If one of your examples is a charity fraud scheme masquerading as a crypto-currency start-up [0], I'm not sure you have a very good argument.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
You hit the nail on the head there. Many people don't care about ethical situations like this as long as they are getting paid. Its not that its wrong, its just that it may not be ideal if we want a society that works for all people. But to be fair, Wisconsin and Silicon Valley have different value systems.
So the open source community is about giving free labor to Amazon?

I've been an OSS user and contributor since the middle 1990s and I very much welcome these moves. SaaS has been getting a free (in the unfair sense) ride without contributing in any way.
If people want to vote they can sell their shares. I never understood this.
If you think the WhatsApp situation is sad, start thinking about Skype and Paypal.
Have you considered an insanity defense? Just tell yourself the thought of traveling to an exotic location temporarily reduces your mental capability to that of a six year old. If you cannot comprehend the consequence of your action then you're not guilty. Actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea.
How is Apple a monopoly? They don't even have a majority of the US market.

I do agree they have incredible market strength. But that comes from a large base of loyal customers with deep pockets, not from monopolizing the market.
For the hard way, look at Bruno de Finetti's Theory of Probability:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97811192863...

Jaynes is certainly very deep and some sections are harder than others. It's interesting regardless of your level (this is a book worth rereading several times).

For a less technical, but full of insight, introduction see Dennis Lindley's Understanding Uncertainty:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97811186501...
Further evidence: Windows 7 wasn't even that much of a change from Vista. The main differences were 1) software had adjusted to deal with UAC and 2) new laptops were more powerful. But most of the good new architectural features had premiered with Vista.

I think they did improve the UAC situation with Vista SP1, if memory serves.
the wireline operators are mature companies, amazon is investing heavily in growth. this is an obvious distinction. courts and regulators constantly apply this sort of informed judgment and nuance to their analyses because it's required for their jobs.
Mostly yes.

Apple has traditionally been the computer for creatives. In recent years, they've let their pro hardware and software lines languish and I think they've lost quite a bit of ground since you can buy a windows computer that runs the same editing software for quite a bit cheaper.

Pro film and audio production people also have huge budgets, as evidenced by the $43000 reference monitor they compared the new display to in the keynote.
That's us 200 years from now. No matter how "woke" you are or how liberal or progressive you believe your attitudes to be: either civilization collapses, or you're hopelessly - even dangerously - conservative and reactionary 200 years from now.

I knew a young woman in college who was extremely homophobic. I witnessed her bonding with a gay activist over soap operas and changing her mind. People change and adapt. Also, if you look back at history, you'll find people more "woke" than you.

if you can extrapolate political mores forward 50-100-150-200 years

Human history doesn't really work like that. We may be going beyond human history with AI, and it would work quite like that either.

Remember: we have a word for what happens when a single cell reserves resources and prolongs its own life at the expense of the larger organism: cancer.

A single alien AI that controls the resources of an entire solar system would likely see our civilization in these terms.
I wonder what kind of life you lead in which it could be meaningful to imagine having a "lifelong relationship" with any given medical practicioner. That just isn't... I mean, my health insurance situation changes often enough that it's a new network almost as often as I ever have to go see a doctor.
Eh, maybe/maybe not. This implementation requires a family big boy CPU with a really MMU; I'd be willing to bet that most of the extra latency of the divides are hidden in the memory access latencies.
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How does this move disqualify CRDB as a dependency of other open source projects?
Correct.

This is the issue with the tech giants. Under current law, you need to find actual anticompetitive practices. Some way that Apple harms able competitors. Like maybe something they do to force people to switch to Apple phones. (Note: I did not say "entice", I said "Force".) It's anti-competitive if people would be obliged to buy Apple phones. Or if Apple controlled some essential component of mobile phone hardware and jacked up the price on that component for anyone who wanted to make an Android phone.

It has to be something like that. Something Apple is doing, which is at once negatively affecting Apple's competition and entirely dependent on Apple's market position. That's what an anti-competitive practice is.
I don't buy this argument from Kik for a second. The SEC might not always get back to you immediately but they sure as shit aren't going to lob charges your way when you're in the middle of working with them. In my experience they're very reasonable and willing to hear you out _so_long_as_ you're respectful, patient, and open to reaching a compromise.
Thanks for the links. I will read them during the upcoming days and hopefully find some time to write a blog or something. This looks pretty cool.
You don't know there isn't a government official placing a secret camera across the street from you, watching your computer screen through the window, neither.

Eventually, you have to just get on with your life and trust people.
Its not about me but about the system as a whole of course. Likewise, it isn't about you. You are not the one paying for everything, we all do. If we optimize for lack of purchase power there will only be economy of scale for necessities.

It just struck me that we might be that we are missing the most important part of the topic.

You are not just saving whole cents left and right but in the process you will also be required to emotionally detach yourself. On the large scale the choice is really between engineering empathy vs psychopathy. If we minimize cost and maximize what people have to pay we cant be all to concerned with peoples well being.

I've had lots of other jobs, I can easily earn twice what I get now. I just one day had the rather silly realization that doing a lot of cycling to improve my shape is a lot of work. Its not work like a job, you have to push yourself until you cant do any more if you want to make progress. It seemed odd to do work without getting paid. It clearly is possible to be both productive and physically active.

You can imagine what it looks like, without a money driven thought process I do 2 times the work one could expect from an employee. You would think it is enough but that is not how the system works. There are other employees who are suppose to get more work out of me, they have no idea about the work, are really unfit and earn a lot more. My effort doesn't make cleaning cheaper or result in better cleaning. They just scale down the number of workers, get larger bonuses and the owners of the company make more money. With 2/3 already going towards the bureaucracy the 1 cent extra is really a joke.

For the people in those jobs to feel productive they have to emotionally detach themselves. I have to buy cheap products made by wage slaves who are probably much worse of, they might not be able to sustain themselves. I'm similarly forced to not overthink it.

Its not impossible for the animals I eat to see some daylight. Its not that if we abolish child labor or slavery the economy collapses. People are just making a lot of money telling that story or they need to tell themselves that in order to cope with the system.

If you can spend 1 euro extra and double a hundred peoples salary the money is the least of your concern.
well if they made excessive profits they would be met with overbuilders and/or regulation
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> The underlying issue here in this one is that people (apparently so far!) want to use AWS/GCP/etc more than they want to use mongo, redis, cockroach, or any particular technology.

> No license change will fix that.

Well, perhaps not a licence change, but if it's good enough that it's The One the provider wants, but it can't offer it under the terms of the licence, then paying for it under a separate licence could be a win for both parties.
AF447 went down primarily because of bad training, bad communication, and bad reactions by the pilots. Active sidesticks may have saved them as a last line of defense, but it isn't the primary reason the plane went down.
Is it? When countries modernize their economies, the birth rate plummets to near-replacement rates over the course of about two generations. Take Iran, for example. In 1980, their birthrate was around 6. Today, it's lower than Europe. What population growth we're seeing today is mostly due to increased lifespan, not high birth rates.
Stealing an open source project would be like saying stealing quick sort. You can't steal something if it was given to the public domain.
I think L1 / L2 is private per core, but I'm not 100% sure. I "retreated" by stating L1 cache, because I'm 100% sure that l1 cache is private per core.

I know L3 is external to the core, and L1 is private. L2 is that iffy spot in my memory that I'd have to read a few manuals to remember exactly where it is... lol.
> If you want to compete with Amazon, do something Amazon cannot do.

... run it somewhere other than Amazon?
I'm lucky to have avoided BART last time, choosing instead to rent a Nissan Maxima. BART was on strike.

To me, that is a bit like the air traffic controllers going on strike, and you resolve it the same way. Strikes by government employees should not be a thing. Critical infrastructure must keep running at all times. Downtime had better be justified by something major, like a fresh new volcano opening up in the middle of the tracks.

Since there is a history of strike, and there has been no change in the law to disallow it, one has to be a risk taker to even consider using BART.
Is there a way to encourage AWS/GCP to contract major project maintainers for support? For example, could GCP set up a platform where maintainers of Postgres, Redis, ..., could sign up to be paid monthly, and perhaps to prioritize GCP issues when doing maintenance?

This would have the benefit of allowing GCP to continue offering all the open source databases, which is great for gaining customers who already use these popular tools.
The believe that their feature set is enough of a differentiator is probably delusional.

If their feature set isn't a good differentiator from other databases, then their company isn't going to succeed in any situation.

This strategy is CockroachDB doing something that Amazon cannot do.
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Let's take an example of Google being sanctioned and regulated for anti-competitive monopolistic practices abroad, but not broken up.

European or Asian (broad rhetorical buckets) regulations have no direct impact on US domestic regulations. Meaning that even if the EU held Google accountable they could continue to operate at home without changing their practices. While the argument can be made that regulation is likely to follow domestically I don't think that can be held as a truism under current geopolitical landscape.

Even if domestic regulations followed there would undoubtedly be a gap, during which companies would leverage that imbalance. Google would be pressured to make the most of its advantage in its shrinking monopolistic market while smaller companies would press their advantage abroad where they have better access to the market, investors, and customers.

Domestic inaction would be a net loss in the face of foreign regulation.