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How would they be overthrown? Would someone write a letter so harshly worded that the ruling government would decide to step down and allow some presumably better government to take their place?

If you're talking about a place with a functioning Democracy then they could be voted out, but virtually every other form of government pretty much requires a coup, disaster, or outstandingly benevolent ruler to step aside. And when a ruler is benevolent nobody is really clamoring to change the government, it's only when total assholes are in charge.

Worse, power vacuums tend to attract the most opportunistic and corrupt. Rarely do they have the public interest in mind. Any time you see a leadership ousted by a coup you know it's only going to get worse in that country.
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South San Francisco and Brisbane are also pushing higher density residential housing, with most new residential development in South SF near BART. If places like Palo Alto and Belmont did their part as well, housing inventory would be better. Palo Alto went as far as taking steps to proactively limit their local economy in order to preserve the status quo, and even forcing Stanford to expand into Redwood City instead of at home.

These little steps help, but NIMBYism is still holding back potential housing inventory.
Read Frank Dikotters 'Tragedy of Liberation' and you might have second thoughts. There is a sizable historical precedent--with measured success--for these kinds of indoctrination tactics in China.
I find it interesting that the author of this blog post does not openly disclose that they write/own a service that effectively does mass mailing, scraping, bruteforcing of email.
Firstly you shouldn't reward significant work achievements with a cheap book. That's tone deaf no matter what the book is.

Secondly if you do pick a book, you can at least try to make it relevant to someone's actual professional competence - something useful, but not insultingly peppy.

Thirdly if you're going to do that, you can ask them what they want, in a way that indicates you value their competence and opinion.

Gifts and rewards are all about social signalling, hierarchies and statements of relative value. The messages are understood whether or not you're aware you're speaking that language.

If you get it wrong, it's not just demotivating for the person, it's demotivating for everyone else too.

And no, you don't have to be super-serious about it. Jokey gifts are fine, although riskier than something straight. If the culture can take it, they're a good choice. But you have to be very sure that is the culture.
You could just try not hating people.
Better then no integration measures like in europe- just have them live in there parallel worlds, speak there own language, have there own justice systems and drag some "model" citizens in front of the camera every month for a rainbow photo.

Then watch the social justice warriors return to there gated communitys for another month of ignoring or fights with white "trailer park trash", that is more diverse and in touch with economic reality then the people yelling at them.
Just bought it. Anybody that can build a successful search engine on perl probably has something useful to say. :)

If you want to increase sales you should get some reviews up there on Amazon. If you have a mailing list you can offer a limited number of free private ebooks to beta readers and encourage recipients to leave an honest review. That's standard practice on Amazon. The only stipulation is the review has to be voluntary and honest. Ideally you'd already have that in place on launch day but it's not too late.
> they can't freeze your wallet if you're not using theirs

This is false. The wallet just reflects what's in the ledger, and the ledger is controlled by Facebook('s consortium). They can absolutely freeze any addresses they want. Furthermore, they control the currency peg and thus the value of the coin; they can make any address ineligible for redemption and thus worthless. And they certainly will, in the name of preventing fraud and crime and terrorism.
Would have been more interesting to take an old el camino and convert it to electric. Also way cooler.
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No. Support for anything below i686 was dropped in 2010. Which was annoying as I both owned i586 hardware and worked for Canonical/Ubuntu at the time.
> These aren't companies run by incompetent people.

It's not about incompetence, it's about not willing to introduce difficult changes and admitting they are wrong. See: open plan offices.

There's tons of successful, fully distributed companies.
Your points are very well taken and appreciated.

Two things:

First, we are going to continue to slowly decrease the price per gigabyte, as we have these past 14 years - and as always, existing customers just get grants, or gifts, of extra space so that their price per GB always drops to match our current pricing for new customers.

Second, just to clarify: "And you have to buy the storage up front and pay for it even if you don't use it." - please note that:

We can increase the size of your filesystem at any time, with no downtime involved - so there is no need to overbuy in anticipation of future usage.

Further, you are granted a +10% grace at all times, so you always have some room to grow.

Finally, the system automatically emails you as you get close to your limit, so there is never an unexpected filling of space.
“Libra”? Should have named it Cancer
No, they just declared housing to be affordable (in the $20/month ballpark region) and people had to apply 10 years in advance to move to a larger apartment. This is my parent's experience in east Germany, should be similar to Soviet Union.
For a long time we excused China in the hope that integration of our economies would lift China towards Democracy and respect for human rights. We/It failed. For all the things I disagree with Trump about, the trade war is not. I hope the tariffs are increased over time so that the supply chain begins to exclude China. There are other countries that will do it for almost as cheap, and do not abuse the U.S.'s good will so thoroughly.
In some cities that would absolutely be an issue. However in this specific case I don't believe Berlin will ever lack for real estate investment. In other popular cities we've just seen the type of investor change, from opportunistic to activist.
“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability and constants, about similarities and normal and kinds,
about magical transformations, quick cures, simple problems, and final solutions. Yet the world we try to symbolize with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths, interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem.” - Wendell Johnson
That very much depends on the area. E.g. Chicago suburbs may not be quite as cheap as "get an acre of land" but you can absolutely have significantly better access to cultural, educational, academic, etc. opportunities than anywhere around SF for significantly less money. Pretty good career-wise, too, and the difference in salaries is less than the difference in cost of living.
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North Korea has been mass incarcerating and torturing its people in concentration camps for many decades now and America has done practically nothing about it.

I've always wondered the same thing. Why Germany didn't get away with it, but North Korea does? My only guess is because Germany started invading all of Europe and posed a legitimate threat to American interests, whereas North Korea doesn't. Added bonus of defeating the Nazis is we freed everyone in concentration camps, but I guess that wasn't why we mobilized the American war machine. It'll take more than crimes against humanity.
Perhaps (and perhaps not all of them). The fall of the USSR also includes places like Germany, though, where it's been a pretty clear benefit.
Cleanly isolated work that can be shipped anywhere in the world is like making plastic widgets, it's a race to the bottom in terms of wages. So as a general rule it's the messy, on-site, highly iterative and negotiated work that pays the kind of money no one is willing to believe on HN.
That land is also protected so good luck. There is a lot of land on the coast too, but good luck getting anywhere. The East bay may be a better option. Build a Google multiplex over there and then a push for transbay Bart or something.
There's no more space for more single family homes anyway there, so that's not even an option.

What IS an option is changing mandatory single family home areas to allow for "missing middle" housing, thereby reducing economic segregation currently present on most of the residential land. A lot of people prefer the current level of segregation, though, so it's a hard sell.
I would argue that the causes in SF are more complex than you portray. For example, race relations and racism are a factor, which is why NIMBYism is so strong in the Mission. There's even a "no-fault eviction map" that is depicted on a mural there:

http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/combined.html
https://www.antievictionmap.com/mural-in-clarion-alley

I'd also recommend looking at Janet Delaney's photos of SoMa from when it was a predominantly black neighbourhood. 3rd, 4th and 5th Streets have been rebuilt, but at the expense of pushing out the people of color that used to call that neighbourhood home. Delaney's work has been on exhibit at the SFMOMA, and studying local art in SF can help one understand the factors that lead to local opposition to housing development.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cam-sfmoma-...
https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/janet_delaney/

This announcement isn't going to affect the overall narrative around housing in SF. It's just "let's build some houses next to one of our south bay campuses", which Facebook already did a few years back.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/08/facebook-unveils-new-...

Google's has also previously submitted plans to the city of mountain view that include houses on its land (not sure if any of these count towards the 20k number):

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/09/google-mountain-view-dev...
https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/planning/activepro...
And AFAIR was overtaken by US private CCTV monitoring about 10 years ago.
Either this currency will fizzle out or Visa will regret joining it big time.
Lately I've been telling people who question me about this, "I know some people who work there. They won't say why because of NDA, but they tell me it's better that I don't have an account. They say they wouldn't have one if they didn't work there. I trust their judgement."

That's worked so far.
England let a lot of its colonies go peacefully, I don't know if that counts.
If we apply the USSR model to China we'll be bombing African countries a few decades after our proxy wars are done.
"Fifty Shades of Emacs"

I'm not going there.
Doesn't change that both are artificial.
The problem with these types of price controls is that it’s inherently unfair. If you’re on the inside and lucky enough to get a rent controlled apartment, you win. Everyone else loses.
The Nazi extermination camps were just one of the types of concentration camp they ran, and the most notorious for obvious reasons. There were also the labour concentration camps, and the Work Instruction Camps that are most comparable here - they "re-educated" Poles to accept their new life as slavic slaves.
> Sometimes it was [..] water ice

...what?
Even if it was sooooo what? people are able to leverage the property and earn more money on it, because it's worth more because somebody is going to pay it. Of course they are going to do that one way or another despite regulation. And they should they are creating more for the economy. If you can't afford to live/work somewhere that's life ? Why on Earth should somebody else subsidize your costs to live there.

That being said I'm sure there are some anti competitive laws/regulations creating problems but the solution is not more bad regulations.
Over in the s-f subreddits, this novel gets so much love. So I feel left out that I - like you few here - really hated it.

My big thing was that the science is just wrong.

Most fundamentally, it's not a three-body problem, there are (at least) four bodies: the three suns and the planet.

And the real world isn't going to follow any theoretical solution to TBP anyway. There is atmospheric drag, microscopic gravitational perturbations from the rest of the universe, decreasing solar masses as the stars age, and so forth.

In a system as chaotic as was described, any of these things make the problem intractable.

That said, I did enjoy the description of a digital computer implemented with "people" acting as the logic gates.
I bet you have to buy them with good old dollars.
Nope. Just like physics is exactly not how an atom bomb got dropped -- in an extremely important distinction between physics and atom bomb dropping -- there is a very important distinction between government intervention and going to war.

In a complicated world things will correlate. I hope this neither makes a generalised case against physics nor government intervention.
OK, then look at NYC in the 1970's. Severe rent control resulted in crumbling buildings. Price controls are bad policy.
FWIW I think it would be illegal if Google tried to make the housing exclusive to its employees in the same way that the buses are.
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Not sure why you're getting downvoted - it's the argument from NIMBY's that keeps getting pushed aside and needs to be properly addressed if this issue will ever get resolved.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: you don't have to live in California.

For $1B, you could probably build enough houses for every single Google employee in a place like Detroit, or most other states (Arizona? Nevada? Colorado? etc. etc.) and then have those employees live there on campus. In fact, with the savings on cost of living and the like, which would mean those workers don't need as high wages, you could probably do the math that this would _save_ you money in the long run.

(...then again someone probably _did_ do the math and determined that the investment in these 20k homes, with current market rates increasing at a crazy pace, would probably be a higher return, but I digress.)

People can complain about NIMBY's / supply side all they want, but the fact that the demand side (the labor market) refuses to correct itself more strongly (there is _some_ growth in places like Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Boston, etc., but not enough) is bonkers to me. And if I owned a home in the Valley, my incentive would be to never change that market dynamic.
"Our goal is to take a person who's on the edge of committing a crime and return them to normal society as a law abiding citizen"

Even the official party line is horrifying. Shows just how out of touch they are with the Western world if they think this message will be well interpreted.
Having nukes, and a nearby country's capital in shelling range helps a bit.
But economic sanctions do produce outcomes, and economic effects are why some areas of China have the freedom they do.

At the same time, it seems hard to imagine that economic effects alone are enough for the core of a government to change, and even if it did, at what cost to its people?
Move them where? Is there some mystical place somewhere in the US that has laws amenable to running a tech business, decent weather, good universities, infrastructure (roads, fiber, transit, etc.), and is agreeable to at least another company so you can get some agglomeration effects? And then how do you convince tens of thousands of employees to move? How do you no just end up with the same problems, or crazy sprawl like Houston which has its own problems?
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My uneducated hope is that Xi Jinping will consolidate too much power, then die, and the previously distributed One Party system will instead have become a One Man system that collapses before someone else can become that One Man. Hopefully the existence of rebel Chinese cultures like Hong Kong and Taiwan can spur this.

My pie in the sky hope is that the PRC collapses utterly and the ROC begins to rule the entire mainland as well. One China indeed...
Shouldn't you also count the absence of the state income tax (at least for Dallas) and lower prices for pretty much everything else?
So long, my Atom D2500 homebrew router.

Say, what's the state of fanless dual (or even triple) NIC boards these days? Intel network chips please, the CPU can be whatever. It looks like I need one that does 64 bit before 18.04 runs out of support.

Edit: x86_64 CPU please, not ARM.
It's scare.

Yes.

It's a rock trading card that people have been trading for thousands of years.

The industrial uses exist, but it's a vehicle of Economic exchange.

This is why I find Bitcoin useful. It's nuclear chemistry proof.
Selling large amounts of dollars to buy gold should devalue the dollar against other currencies, right?

Isn't that what Trump wants to happen anyway? (Looking at his attacks against the fed [1], for not dropping rates or attacking the ecb for planning to do so and thus devaluing the euro:

Mario Draghi just announced more stimulus could come, which immediately dropped the Euro against the Dollar, making it unfairly easier for them to compete against the USA. They have been getting away with this for years, along with China and others. [2]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/white-hou...
[2] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11409356202919649...)

Why is this a good move in the trade war then? What am I missing?
Functions are a thing. Interfaces are a thing. I have literally never, in 6 years of full time go development, just copied and pasted code for the purpose of making it work with a different type. Nor has anyone I have worked with in that time (to my knowledge). I have seen two or three libraries written that use interface{}, but these are by far the exception.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/climate-change-d...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/06/world/climate-change-terroris...

> As described here, water and climatic conditions have played a direct role in the deterioration of Syria’s economic conditions. There is a long history of conflicts over water in these regions because of the natural water scarcity, the early development of irrigated agriculture, and complex religious and ethnic diversity. In recent years, there has been an increase in incidences of water-related violence around the world at the subnational level attributable to the role that water plays in development disputes and economic activities.

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/WCAS-D-13-0005...
It's wild to me that americans point at China for this when they:

1) routinely bomb muslims to death, destroying entire nations, I guess gesturing towards vague notions that being murdered is better than being brainwashed

2) have their own immigrant concentration camps, going as far as to reuse the same infrastructure for japanese internment camps (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/migrant-...)

the main difference is that the victims of abuse in China are Chinese citizens, whereas americans draw their borders in such a way that their victims live in their "backyard" and not america proper.

American exceptionalism is alive and well!

edit: lol I'm a lily-white Canadian, for all of those claiming China is somehow "my side".

also, the completely reflexive, kneejerk way in which posters deploy accusations of "whataboutism" to avoid any critical assessment of what they're witnessing, is truly spectacular.
> Build too much…

Thankfully, that's not a problem anywhere in places with skyrocketing rents.
> I guess you do have the right to wander into the forest and build yourself a fortress out of pine cones and moss..

Is there anywhere where this would be legal? Certainly not in Germany.
So far as I know, the rmb/usd rate is still pegged within a range by the chinese government?
In the long run they'd be as productive (or more, since the commute would likely be better). The problem is it would take months or years to move, and a lot of people don't want to or can't move, so they'd quit and find a new job almost instantly.
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Anecdotally, I know multiple people that have turned down better paying (and arguably better for society) jobs because they would have to move but don't want to give up on their current rent-controlled apartment.

What seems to always end up happening is that new residents subsidize the rent controlled ones, which creates this weird lock-in dynamic because people can't afford to move into equivalent housing literally next door. Rent control also gives landlords an incentive to encourage older residents to move. Sometimes they do this with big payouts to people that are willing to leave (I know someone that got offered $10k to leave his current place, but I've heard of payments as high as $50k). Less scrupulous landlords try to accomplish the same thing by letting the living conditions deteriorate to the bare minimum level that code enforcement will tolerate (or lower than the bare minimum, because they know that certain groups of people such as undocumented immigrants are reluctant to contact the authorities).
This is the reality of offshoring your business infrastructure to the cloud. Yes, it can fail, and when it does you will have nothing to do but shout into the wind. You have no control over anything that could cause an outage, nor do you have any ability to fix it.
China owns a considerable amount of American debt. If they sell it off, the result could be a major drop in the US dollar. Combining this with tariffs we could see Russia in the 1980s style shortages (ie: nothing on the shelves). Countries which have been blockaded (ie: Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, etc) always have their economy drop. Doing it to ourselves is, in my opinion, self injurious.
Show HN: A corporate card for life science companies
Hi HN,

Henrique here from Brex. We just launched a corporate card specially tailored for life sciences companies (https://brex.com/industry/life-sciences), and every time we launch something new we get a lot of questions about how we chose to prioritize this feature or product, so I thought it’d be interesting to share here with the HN community. While I’ve previously posted about launching our initial tech startup card (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418813), the decision to launch Life Sciences was much different in that we already had two existing products in the market with their own long list of improvements we wanted to make to them.

Here’s my blog post going into much more detail (couldn’t fit it here): https://brex.com/blog/how-we-chose-our-third-vertical.

Would love to get your thoughts and feel free to ask any questions you might have.
i386 is a architecture. Really they should be calling it IA-32 which is the real name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32

i586 / i686 are later iterations of IA-32
It's moot because they'd lose so many employees immediately that it'd be economic suicide. Google can't instantly conjure 5,000 more high quality engineers out of nowhere in SLC.

The most you'll see is something like what Amazon (sort of) tried with creating a "second HQ".
No- they just told you to read Jeffersons musings on the topic of central banks.