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So i work out of a competitors place here in south east asia (indonesia to be specific), for the guys here from the region they probably know who im talking about. This coworking space was initially funded by a local VC but then low and behold softbank just invested, wework is also here in indonesia. I (last year) had to downsize my startup because some areas of business didnt do so well so i moved into this coworking, decent building , upper class part of town and i have 4 rooms next to each other probably 5x3 meters each. Each room i pay 300$usd a month, got it at a 60% discount cause it was just opening and locked it in for 3 years ! But at say ~$700 a room per month full price its still a dam good price, cheaper than anywhere else by far in the area. Wework is charging 3x that amount ... i have no idea what SB's strategy is here with wework and this locally invested competitor, specially with regards to cannibalizing each other and specially in a price sensitive market, maybe things will go the way of uber and grab where the bigger more international son of softbank will leave the region so the local son can dominate. But honestly, other then cheap rent, there is nothing special about these places, i dont see any tech, auto bookings, elastic rental or anything, i came here cause i had to downsize , needed interent , place for my guys to work, strategize and refocus. Its helped us save on costs over the last year and have brought back the startup from near collapse to doing very well again. Also at the price im getting it i have no idea how they make money, even at the full price its hard to understand as i know what a floor in the place im working at actually costs ... there are also many empty rooms ... i mean its like uber to me, im using it cause its cheap and its convenient, but should a cheaper one come out in the near future, ill simply ask my guys to pickup their laptops and move next door, there is really no added value for me to use one or the other just like all the ride hailing companies ... whos cheaper will get my business, if this is the way these SB companies are going to roll over the next few years and there really is no added value, they in for a lot of hurt. But after saying that, i thank them for cheap rent and helping me get my startup back on track :)
Exactly. Instead of ETL, start writing your own Perl and various logical, reusable components. Roll your own ETL, however you want it, in a terminal. So what, you have to learn vim, big deal! Mouse driven interfaces are a huge part of the dysfunction.
>> "just a mass of humans who care more about drinking bottled water than medical research."

> just because I drink coke doesnt mean I care more about drinking coke than spending money on NASA.

In your specific example, you can't easily give money directly to NASA, so it's a bit murky.

Just because you drink coke does mean you care more about drinking coke than spending money on animal shelters, the red cross or cancer research.

I, personally wouldn't feel bad about it; everyone, excepting a few weirdos, is like this.

"Action is distilled intent"
Capitalism. America is addicted to credit. Hook 'em while they are young and financially dependant. You are either a producer or a consumer. The power is with the producers. The market decides on the winning company, until the other companies catch up with competing offers ("the first hit is free!").

Credit card companies make money from transactions and from people going late, but still paying up. You can get them to pay up, by threatening to nuke their credit score (this threat becomes stronger as more producers join in on this Moloch). You can get them to spend more by easing the process and offering cashbacks (which is like offering complementary bread in a restaurant and adding 10% to all prices).

It is not what consumers want, but it is what they "deserve". Producers get rich when middle- and low-class families don't have any money saved up to replace the broken fridge, so they have to rely on even more credit, forever casting them into financial serfdom. Consumers with credit card debt have zero leverage. Consumers who never default/go late, don't care, or turn their craving addiction into support of the system (nobody wants to admit that they, or the people they care about, are getting played a fool).

Removing these bizarre credit building plays, requires a change in law, a huge credit crunch/economy crash, or a cultural change. My money is on the economy crash. However, the entire credit building system proved futile during the home loan crash, so I am not holding my breath. After all, America is still a first-world country where contracting cancer can bankrupt you, while producers keep dumping toxins in the water and get off scot-free. It is ruthless. But you too can prove you are a good consumer, by building up your "social credit" score, starting with your teens.
NYT does itself no favors with regard to its already questionable credibility by spreading anti-tech propaganda.
Based on the numbers alone, that's about a 20% return for the MIT group, for an annualized return (not considering compound interest) of less than 3% per year. Does this suggest that those trying to game the lottery should just turn to investing in the market? It's amusing to see that the market, which is less structured in probability and more volatile, outperforms the lottery in this aspect.
I think this piece is a great example of smug, establishment romanticism which grossly overvalues form over function. A political cartoon hasn't made me laugh, think deeply, or--most importantly--change my worldview in years. It's the most self-satisfied, pretentious, and outdated medium I know of. The author's notion that the loss of political cartoons is a serious loss of visual political culture is a self-absorbed joke. Visual political memes have become a massive and persistent grassroots social phenomenon with far more influence and engagement than too-clever-by-half political cartoons... not to mention certain animated shows with extremely sharp political and social satire. I don't think the author really regrets loss of political discourse. I think he regrets no longer being considered part of the political chattering-class establishment, even as that establishment loses its influence in a world of democratized information flow and opinion-sharing.
The problem is that once you’re over a very low level all companies will be politically connected: those are jobs in someone’s district!
Not sure. Here is a archive.is mirror: http://archive.is/Fhnb3
OMG, this is an amazing idea! Thank you so much. Something like this would get me the inbound links I need. It might involve some sort of a pivot, but definitely worth investigating.

I do have one unique feature in that the reviews are linked to proper professional critic's reviews in the natioanl newspapers, rather than anonymous commenters.

To be fair also, I have put in a signficiant amount of work, adding all that content for 500+ restaurants, their menus, reviews.

I also do have a monetization strategy but was trying to get eyeballs on the site first.
> In the private sector, they'd have been fired and probably legal action levelled against them

Tell me again one meaningful action against a data leak in the private sector. I'll wait.
I think you can remove the "think".
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> The article refers to a "free/open source business model". Even there the terms are used in a somewhat identical fashion.

This is not true.

The word 'free' is used six times in the first paragraph to emphasise the point being made, then they really spell it out for you :

"This freedom is what makes the GNU GPL license so powerful and it is why it’s much more than 'open source'."
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> is the platforms-vs-publishers relationship top of mind for you?

More that the press does narratives, which are often the creation of, or strongly influenced by, long-term PR campaigns.

My very fuzzy understanding is, atleast after the Microsoft-Google nonaggression pact some years ago, the largest interest pushing the anti-BigTech narrative has been Hollywood, wishing to regulate the lawless internet and reduce tech industry influence.

One thing that's puzzled me, and I'd appreciate any insight, is how Microsoft got dropped from the Big Tech set.
maybe fear of non linear growth ?
The drastic step of eliminating all political cartoons carries a very specific and misleading implication, if one assumes that the NYT is impartial. Which they are not:
https://nypost.com/2019/04/30/anti-semitic-scandal-at-the-ne...

With that in mind, ceasing publication of all political cartoons evidences extremely poor editorial discretion at the NYT. What, they are incapable of excluding Palestinian propaganda? Apparently: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/world/middleeast/christma...
It's really a whole working methodology that includes an Object model, which one would call backend.

Did I mention its a nasty fugly POS?
If they actually made more by learning how to maintain their own streaming platform and offering that knowledge to less technical folks, nobody is stopping them from doing so.

I suspect such an industry does exist, but it's quite a bit smaller than both the number of people profitably creating content on YouTube and the number of employees of YouTube itself, which tells me that maybe the risk-adjusted returns of it aren't as great as you think.
It doesn't imply that security is irrelevant - it's just that you shouldn't really expect to succeed in preventing all attacks (since noone does), just reducing their number.

This implies that in addition to reducing the likelihood of breaches, you should also focus on all the other aspects of security, especially detection and mitigation; and for databases one of the main ways of reducing the impact of breaches is to avoid storing sensitive information as much as possible. In this particular example, was it really necessary to store pictures of license plates beyond a very limited period of time? A breach can't leak what you don't store, and you will get some breaches.
The US relies on China more than any other country for its critical minerals.[1] I wonder how much this plays (or should play) into the current US-China trade war and all its noisy politics right now.

After China, the US is most dependent on Canada for minerals. Canada can't supply everything (lithium comes to mind) but at least that seems to be an alliance the US has a better chance to preserve.

See page 12 of the linked USGS report in the article: [1] http://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/...
Sorry, I really need to study some grammar... English is not my main language.
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> The APR is required to be prominently displayed so consumers can do their due diligence on deciding on a card.

On applications or solicitations (the latter being restricted to firm, no-application offers, not advertising for applications.)
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In the case of Charlie Hebdo the intention was clearly to mock Islam indeed. But I am mystified that we are questioning in 2019 the right to blasphemy in a modern, western, free, secular society.
PowerShell syntax is too verbose (That's why I hate Java and .Net). Also, UNIX' composability and parallel execution (no pun intended) wins over objects.
This is how I see it too, things like the Covington kids create a backlash against the newsrooms that promulgate them. And NYT gave them too perfect of an opportunity when they published a remake of a Nazi propaganda comic that could easily be portrayed as antisemitic.
Something that has changed since 2008 is that Standardized languages actually have atomic types.
The 99%PI podcast does a little simulation:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/vox-ex-machina/

Scroll down "Below you can hear an example of what a SIGSALY communication would’ve sounded like"
> I don't know what country you're in, but here in the UK "building credit" is very much a thing; I'd be very surprised if it had no impact whatsoever on your creditworthiness in your country.

In Finland Luottotietolaki ("Credit Data Act", https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2007/20070527 - no translation) limits the allowed data in credit data registries to specific types of negative entries, such as debt adjustment, failure to pay within 60 days, attachments, etc.

So you can't really build credit as such. 90%+ of people have zero entries in credit data registers.
Where this becomes "bad for society" is when the customer _has to_ take on debt for the sole purpose of building a credit score. Some of us would prefer not to utilize debt at all, but if we want to (for example) rent an apartment we may be _required_ to have a credit score. Even if we offer to pay the full term's rent up front. Source: Experience.
This doesn’t explain the contemporary South American observations, or the dendrological or viticultural data showing global cooling during that period.
AND it was relatively easy to see that that was what was really happening, i.e. that they had the the choice to be profitable much earlier.
Na. Roll your own and munge text how ever you want. Don't cede control to bad GUI/web tools.

If you are good, you aren't "scripting", you are making a rad MVC system.

Salesforce puts all the MVC together in nasty, nasty ways.
> You ran WHAT script on your machine?!
Do you know another species that can do something to fix the climate issues?
[1] says "the encryption keys are also stored in China, raising the possibility the Chinese government could gain access to it"; nothing even close to "Apple has given the iCloud encryption keys of millions of Chinese users to the Chinese government" (my emphasis).
"good debt" credit used to buy productive goods (ie stuff that brings money in) that you could not afford otherwise, these are extremely rare if you are not a company, hence you can't really "build a credit" on "good debt".
To take the same thought one step further, why place our desire to preserve nature as something alien to nature? If we’re worrying about the wrecking of the biosphere perhaps that’s also what we are meant to do.
The landing page is neither an application nor a solicitation under the applicable federal regulations, so isn't covered by the prominent disclosure requirements.
Specific app needs have killed dozens of potential third party mobile OSes. I suspect that PWAs may finally help with that.
https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die...
Funny how I was just reading another article about this this morning..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/10/your-fa...
Secured cards work exactly like non-secured cards, the only difference is the bank holds onto collateral, usually equal to your credit line. You still have a bill to pay, minimum payment, due date, you can pay the minimum and carry a balance, rack up late fees, etc.

The collateral is only returned to you when you close your account or upgrade it to a non-secured card. You don't use the collateral for the monthly bills, just like if you rent an apartment you don't use the security deposit to pay the monthly rent.
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Security is not irrelevant, but that doesn't mean that everyone won't be hacked. There is a saying in the security world: "there are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that just don't realize yet that they've been hacked".

Of course we shouldn't just 'give up' and stop trying to improve our security, but the unfortunate truth is that breaches are practically inevitable. In addition to constantly striving to improve our security, our society also needs to start investigating ways to make it so that breaches are less impactful (for example, stop using SSNs as any type of secret identifier, so that if an SSN database is breached, it doesn't matter).
In my limited experience -- there's a lot of corporate "innovation groups" or SWAT team kind of things that get put into a WeWork.

It's very rational -- if you are an "intrapreneur" and wanting to break out your team from the mothership, it's probably easier and faster to get your office space at a WeWork. Plus, you get a recruiting / lifestyle / hipness benefit from getting to be downtown with exposed brick, instead of out at the suburban office park with the sea of landscaped parking lots.

But my sense is that it's a high-beta customer base. When times are good and there's lots of corporate cash for high-urgency, high-concept stuff like innovation teams and new product skunkworks, a $25k/month WeWork bill is peanuts. When times get tight, that's going to dry up fast.

Similarly high beta on VC-backed startups. That cohort is pretty cyclical, though it won't disappear completely. I predict a similar % of Series Seed/A startups would still opt for a WeWork in a venture downturn as do today (but there will be many fewer of them).

Much lower beta on satellite offices and smaller professional services type groups -- they'll still show up to work, as it's a primary office for their primary business.

Wild card on the bootstrap / solo / freelancer stuff.

Also (IMO) sort of a wild card on the larger corporate buyouts of an entire floor or location. In crowded cities it really can be worthwhile to pay for the branded facilities management as the locations WeWork acquires are quite good.

However, and here's the big however. My understanding is that We's leases are LONG term and tend to have escalator clauses (they owe more rent to the landlord in the later years, faster than inflation). Which generally means their supply / cost structure is as good today as it's ever going to get. If the topline gets hit, which in a recession it surely will, the bottom line will take a double whammy as the escalators kick in.
Yes. For example, the ratings (stars) and reviews are separate "widgets" in the product page. Search, of course.

- https://thenewstack.io/led-amazon-microservices-architecture/
Fair compensation to those whose biometric information has been compromised should, at the very minimum, include free plastic surgery - in similar situations where social security numbers have been offered the government has provided new replacement social security numbers, so there is precedent. Seriously though, this highlights the danger of databases of biometric information, there's no way of remedying the damage because there's no credible way of altering one's personal biometric markers.
This is kind of tautological, because if you're keeping databases of this size you are necessarily not a small business
Good to know (though I have a subscription to the NYT).
From a purely scientific standpoint: there is no purpose. Fundamentally, life exists because it can. It reproduces because only life forms that reproduce survive. Wrecking the biosphere is "hard coded" in the sense that we, are a species, are selfish and short-sighted. We just happen to be more capable than other species, we have technology, and the means to radically transform this planet over relatively short time spans.

Over a longer time horizon, the strategy we're employing might backfire on us. As every other species, we'll have to adapt or perish. Overpopulation and the destruction of our own habitat are not viable. I'm hopeful because solar energy and battery storage technology is improving rapidly, while also getting cheaper. We are definitely causing some damage, but ecological awareness is also improving. We have a decent shot at reaching some kind of equilibrium where we take better care of our planet, so that it can sustain us.
Everything you write, I cheer.

Massive customization, and then you are bound by this broke ass Object model in which to get it all done, between Apex and VisualForce nauseating crap.

I don't want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the right to do write database driven web pages.
But if you can only fault the headline, then I don't think you read the article very thoroughly, because the writer explicitly states it was rape multiple times throughout the article. I'm not sure how you rationalize stating falsehood as any kind of "acceptable journalistic practice", but nothing else matters if the writer is making false claims. And if the cop-out is that this is "storytelling" and not "journalism" then it's a whole other issue of duplicity in publishing this clickbait with false information under the buzzfeednews.com URL. But I suppose this is the difference between Buzzfeed and legitimate journalism.
I don't either. It is, however, crazy to expect a bank to tolerate you granting a third, unknown party access to their data systems by sharing your personal credentials with the third party.

Your business with the bank entitles you, and only you; barring certain exceptions at their discretion, access to that data.

They do this to minimize risk and culpability in the face of a large number of adversaries that could extract value from possession of data on your personal habits.

It isn't sexy, but that is just the way it works. I've banged my head against the financial industry looking for ways to improve it, but at the end of the day, a lot of the rules and restrictions they put in place actually do make a frustratingly good deal of sense.

Think about this.

Suppose you and 1000000 other people hand login credentials for financial service X to company Y.

Company Y is basically a shell company wrapping a money laundering operation. Your combined set of login credentials becomes an ideal way to wash money into the financial system until everyone else in the financial network catches on. Then that company disappears, and sets up under a different name.

This stuff happens; and even if only some people don't notice, that's all it takes.
... which is an argument for why this shouldn't be a regressive sales tax, but as something along the lines of a parcel or income tax, both of which tend to remove most of the burden from more financially vulnerable folks.

It's not at all an argument for not doing it.
The device must continue working after being repaired though.
The Register reported the Perceptics breach on May 23: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/23/perceptics_hacked_l...
Unfortunately, based on how the devices are supported by volunteer work, supported hardware has large gaps.

My Samsung galaxy S6 (march 2018 patch level) wasn't supported the last few times I checked, but older galaxy models were.
Meanwhile, traditional news media is currently lobbying congress to make news organizations and online publishers exempt from anti-trust law in order to secure a better negotiating position with tech companies. [0]

I don't trust them to report on tech companies objectively one bit. And why should I? They have a vested interest in presenting negative coverage.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/09/media/house-of-representative...
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To all the folks saying, "how did the State not know the odds?", a lot of gambling games come out without anyone running the odds. A great example is blackjack switch [0]. The game was invented by an ex-gambler and he never really knew the odds of the game. He just convinced some casinos to try it and would advertise what their average take was. Because most people are bad at math and wouldn't play well, it was always bigger than the actual house advantage anyway.

It was only years later that someone finally ran the numbers and figured out the actual house advantage of the game [1], but no one cared because everyone who had a table was making money on it. Even with regular blackjack, the casinos always make way more than the statistical house advantage because people play poorly.

It was probably the same deal here. The State didn't care what they actual odds were, they just cared that they were making money on it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack_Switch

[1] https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/switch/