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>Even more directly, "White privilege" is simply a variation of "bourgeois privilege". The whole idea of "bourgeois privilege" however rephrased and antiquated "counterrevolutionary elements" as something that should be purged wholesale from society is something that goes at least as far back as the Cultural Revolution in China; knowing that, it's incredibly scary that anyone in the West is still taking these notions at face value!

Your comment seems to imply that the premise of "white privilege" should carry a connotation of "white genocide," and that anyone who accepts the former likely desires the latter. I certainly hope that was not your intent, if so you are very mistaken.

White privilege simply means that white people benefit, however implicitly , from a society which was founded on white supremacist ideals. Or more abstractly, that the descendants of the people who stacked the deck of Western civilization in their favor may enjoy privileges that those against whom the deck was stacked may not.

No sinister overtones of purges or mass murder need by applied, except by those with an agenda.
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
But I accounted for all the things you listed there?
No, not literally a smoking hole (though I believe arson was a problem for a time?) But as close to one as you’re going to get in the USA.

I can’t disagree more with your majoritarian arguments. You (and I) would probably object when, e.g. California voters ban gay marriage. But you cheer when slim majorities attempt to saddle others with heavy economic burdens or interpose themselves in others’ contractual arrangements. I find most democratic decisions illegitimate; how hard is to to just keep your nose out of other people’s business?

The founders were aware of urban/rural tension from the beginning. The system was designed to make it difficult to force obligations on fellow citizens. That means majorities are being thwarted in their efforts, and that’s a good thing.
Dude "earned" ~1.5 million exercising his stock options and acting on insider knowledge. He gained $500k and sold before the stock fell. He has to pay back about $175k and go to jail for 4 months.

Am I reading this right?

Keep doing what you're doing, Ying.
Many people fear of being forgotten. Who cares what the name of the institute is if it helps people?
It the same with universities and their donors. Donors essentially give millions to get a building or college named after them. For example, at the University of Texas, the business school is named after McCombs, someone who didn't even finish graduating. And the med school is named after Dell, another dropout.
> Unfortunately this modification didn't lead to an immediate crash, but opened up a hole where the contents of the score line could do things like give you 100 extra lives (e.g., die with the low digits of your score being "50" and you'd be able to play for free for hours

Was this intentional is order to make the pirated game not make money at the end customer?
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Nope. It is impossible by design. They believes not allowing it would bring a better security. Huh.
There is nothing perfect, but EU is much closer to proper market than US. I'm far from being anarcho-capitalist myself, but I think that all the america's troubles are from the terrific centralization of power, and from how this power is controlling everybody's lives, while being controlled by so few entities.

That's why I warn any american of any sort of increase of gov's presence. It will cause a great calamity, because the centralized power can never be controlled by many.

It's fine if you have a small/local transparent government controlling and regulating. But when you have a big opaque one, you end up in a crony/fascist state.

EU is very different in that regard: EU parliament is a very weak political entity, the states' governments are much stronger, and the govs of local provinces are even pore stronger, so the whole political system is very healthy. US seems to be just the opposite to that.
Sure, Berlin used to be crazy cheap, now it's just cheap. Rents are increasing, but that's happening everywhere. For large cities, Berlin is still the least expensive (compared to Western Germany, Eastern Germany is a different thing), by far. If you're looking at Hamburg, or worse, Munich, be prepared to pay two or three times the rent.

It's been my impression from the two or three times a year that I'm in Berlin for a few days that it just works very differently, there's a trade-off between cost of living vs convenience that people accept when they move to Berlin. It's dirtier, a bus or train may just break down, people are generally a bit more rowdy, and you don't expect much from the administration, but then again: you pay a lot less, so it's worth it, like a hostel compared to a hotel.
Please don't do personal attacks on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I know it's a plea deal, but:

Reward: $1,000,000~ Profit

Potential Cost When Caught: Restitution $117,117.61 + $55,000 Fine + 4 Months Jail Time

Odds of Getting Caught: ?

I feel the ? part is probably pretty low. Like single digit low.

Seems like pretty bad disincentive. Especially when compared to how we disincentive petty things like shop lifting. How much more egregious will our legal system get?
If politicians get to call the shots in any way, it's going to run way over budget. Pretty much every single time.

My son talks a lot about a study that showed optimists badly underestimated how long a project would take. So did pessimists, though their estimates were less egregiously wrong.

Basically, if people are involved, you can assume that budgets and time estimates are hand-wavy, ballpark guestimates at best.

Life will get in the way. Even people who truly understand that will fail to accurately predict just how much life will get in their way.
>Americans invented the telephone business and until recently dominated production and research. But in the last 20 years, every single American producer of key telecommunication equipment sectors is gone.

So qualcomm doesn't exist?
Or we could wait for Hurd, and it is not a joke.
The ROMs wouldn't an exact match so you have to convince the layman jury that the differences are meaningful. The best way it to show something totally unexpected in the pirated code like your own copyright.
As pointed out in the article, I'd opt for a definition about a visual, interactive feedback loop running in real-time and wouldn't care about the method used to display the visuals. E.g., if you were displaying Space Invaders on a neon matrix on your mainframe's control console, I'm fine with that. (This is also, why I didn't dig into the claims or the verdict of the court case.)

However, things worked out a bit different in the Magnavox lawsuits. Notably, Ralph Baer didn't understand, why lawyers would concentrate on the analog vs video side of things. To him, it was all about a principal claim about detecting object collisions between a human controlled screen object and one controlled by the machine. (Compare his view on these legal matters as in "VIDEOGAME HISTORY: A little matter of record keeping" [1].)

From this angle, there is no intersection with Michigan Pool, since the positioning of the cue stick isn't of any relevance to the program, only the angle as chosen by the knob, regardless of the on-screen position of the cue stick. So there's no collision detection involved for cuing, and when collisions are subsequently detected, these are all between machine controlled objects.

[1] http://www.ipmall.info/sites/default/files/hosted_resources/...
>London is 9673 km

Closer to 15k via ocean hence the 100ms theoretical. The other 60ms is gear overhead.

But yeah if you could lay the cable as a crow flies then closer to 66
If I was a CIO of a large company, I would not spend 4 months in jail just to gain $500k extra. Not worth it.
> I wonder if some extreme events could have kicked up enough microorganisms that some even went to the moon!

We could fit 56 planet mars in row in the distance between the moon and the earth, so... not. Really unlikely
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A neighboring school to my high school actually was a women's prison before it was repurposed as a high school.

That said, the architecture was actually quite nice, with lots of natural light and open space.
Thanks! I'm not sure how exactly I arrived at it, this is mostly the result of my own observation, I think - I don't have much background in organizational theory. My primary training is in population genetics, which also deals with notions of information flow between individuals in a group, so I think this is where some of that thinking emerged. The rest came mostly from my experience (working for a large university) and my wife's experience (working for a large corporation), where both of us observed similar dynamics over the years with regards to communicating with management (supplemented by observations from friends in tech and elsewhere). Both of us also have a significant problem with authority, which has caused us to avoid management positions and maybe be skeptical of their utility, which might lead us to this kind of analysis.

In particular I observed early on that there was a nominal organizational structure, based mostly on control of funds, which often had little to do with the operational structure, based mostly on the need to coordinate work. This separation led me to pay closer attention to who was often doing the actual work that made projects succeed, which often required communications outside of the official management channels - because these channels were simply insufficient to the effort, not through any malicious intent but simply because of bad design.
It’s off-topic, but such a great question you asked. My view is that its “horses for courses”as they say in the UK. Some people will optimize for high income because that’s what makes them happy - and may be helped by a predisposition for high focus. Other people will optimize for a life in which they cultivate many interests because that makes them happier than staying focused and earning a lot of money.

For what it’s worth, I started out in a high focus, high income career (law) but quickly realized the level of focus required left me feeling a little bored with life. So I reworked things, did a masters in environmental economics and now have what I’d call a portfolio career in which I can do a variety of things, allows me to travel a little and satisfies the curiosity itch. Which if unscratched - I realise - makes me feel unhappy. However, this does give rise to an inner tension. I live in a culture which associates money with status. I’m not rich like my old law school friends, and I feel lower status for that. Because I am (probably like most people) not unaware of status, I get some negative cognitive feedback from my choices,
but on balance feel it’s better for me that I pursue a diverse livelihood than get rich and bored.
4 months!? The sentencing of white collar crimes in the U.S. juxtaposed to drug offenses and crimes of desperation should make us all question the legitimacy of our legal system.
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He surely learned to be more careful next time or risk getting a slap on the wrist again.
I like that - I think that's about right. Working on the business as a machine, not only to drive the machine (the CEO and his staff), but to optimize the internal architecture of, and to optimize its various inner workings and component-to-component linkages, is a thing.

But - it's a machine made out of people. Whom are inherently squishy emotional things to build a well-oiled machine out of...
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>Five fabs and an R&D center, outage was after the batteries also ran out.

For perspective, the batteries at GF's leading fab can run the 1/3 of the systems for only a few minutes. That's the scale we're dealing with.

I think before we do all sort of conspiracy theory, we need to look into reason for why was there an outage in Yokkaichi.
The artist was a communist. Surely he wasn't celebrating it. In fact, unless I read the article wrong, it's clear that he was critiquing it.
Chromium doesn't match with this description. It has a ton of forks and derivative works, both open source and commercial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browser...
The difference to selling his options after the data breach was only 117k, though. That was the profit through insider trading.
"not really a team player, for some reason didn't want to be screwed by stock reappropriation when he was recovering from cancer."
I think the most important thing to optimize for is time. Move closer to work, get a roomba, buy a second monitor, etc. For me anything I can do to get extra time is a huge payoff because I'd rather spend my time learning something new, cooking, traveling, or cycling/running.

I recently switched jobs and am moving next month to reduce my commute. I'll have an extra 7 hours a week to do whatever I want and I cannot wait.
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I'm fortunate to have enjoyed similar freedoms; my guardians would throw me out the door until night time and on weekends I would disappear without communication. Luckily the only thing they enjoyed more than controlling every aspect of my personality was pretending I didn't exist.

It was weird spending time with friends whose parents generally let them develop their own personalities and interests unhindered but who would have to check in or get permission every time we changed locations. Once I was out the house, I never felt the need to check in because neither did my guardians. Honestly I'm fairly certain they would hope I wouldn't come back one day. And I definitely had quite a few close calls.

As for my own children, I plan to do the same; their time is their business, as long as they stay out of trouble. Hopefully while at home I manage to drill some sense into their heads.
Do they actually work though?
Passing dependencies in the constructor is the only acceptable way of having stateful dependencies (like a database or some external services). I am assuming you are against passing things like Math libraries by creating an instance, which I would agree with.

The only reason dependency injection gets a bad rep is magical frameworks which obscure the actual wiring and end up causing bigger problems.
Maybe it's just me, but it's always been my experience that it's a better career move to A) always avoid using fancy business-isms outside of meetings, and really whenever possible and to B) try to get information from people first by making them like you as a person and comfortable around you, then asking.

It's been my experience that most people find "HR speak" to be scary, pretentious big words, kool-aidey, or just hard to decipher. But I don't work in FAANG so I just wanted to put this out there to see how everybody else feels.
It's not a silver bullet, but is it not better than PGP? Is it not good enough?
Should anyone be permitted to skywrite anything they want on the sky?

Free speech says “yes”, but if you find a way to stably write sentences on the sky, you will quickly discover that the majority of people do not agree that free speech applies to writing in the sky.

There’s a nuance that we as tech haven’t explored properly between “you have the right to speak unhindered by the government” and “you have the right to impose your speech upon an unwilling audience”, which relates to why street speech generally can’t use PAs or bullhorns without triggering a local government response. Similarly, this is why coordinated protests must be super careful to block their rowdier elements.

Setting up a system of global commentary that “grafts”, “appends”, “overlays”, “applies” a collection of third-party uncontrolled speech onto a non-consenting website — so, literally, the addon linked by this post — could very well be considered “coordinating and imposing your speech on an unwilling audience”. This, then, is the ethical and social policy question.

Does this addon hinder free speech by encouraging and enabling unwanted, uncontrolled speech to be inserted into - using DOM overlays or browser sidebars - someone else’s controlled private forum?

For whatever reason, tech in general seems absolutely terrified to consider this question. I suspect that’s partly because it is a nuanced consideration that violates two popular tech precepts:

1) “uncontrolled speech is an inalienable right”

2) “anything that can be done technically must be permitted to be done”

Neither of those principles is true in general society, and so I hope someday tech confronts this dissonance and resolves it - rather than simply pretending that “this addon isn’t illegal” is sufficient to defend ignoring the wider ethical issues of its effects.
OTOH insider trading while "unfair" doesn't necessarily hurt anyone.

(not that the crimes you mentioned necessarily hurt anyone either)
What do you mean used to be, how far back do you want to go?
What about the Nobel Prizes they were established in 1895.
What about Rockefeller and Carnegie?
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? and violating the site guidelines?
For example, the guidelines include: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." The comment I'm replying to here broke that, as have others you posted, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20299823 from yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Linux is the last GPL component of Android. Dropping it would enable Google to close up Android source whenever they want.
> if you love screen tearing, slow window redraw when moving

Really? Do you even experience them these days? The hardware nowadays is powerful enough to make them neglectable.
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C++i is excellent when you have a large code base.
But if you have a large code base for a driver or a stack, you have already lost.
It can be very tough to get ahead in science/academia without that laser focus, unfortunately.
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4. At least VMWare Workstation is broken when you're using WSL 2. That's pretty annoying.
Remember when Gates and Ballmer tried to screw Allen out of his shares because his productivity had gone down due to cancer?

https://www.cnet.com/news/paul-allen-gates-ballmer-tried-to-...
On the bright side, the children have had a front row seat to an important lesson about society. But I wonder how many were truly paying attention.

Almost 15 years ago I saw a similar situation unfold in Dover PA. I know at least some of the kids in that school district learned from the dumb shit those adults were up to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_Schoo...
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He cashed out $1 million in shares not knowing if these shares would become near worthless shortly after selling them. Considering it was a $175k fine, he eliminated serious risk to his personal finances.

Many rational people would do what this CIO did given this minor fine and brief prison sentence.
I meet many people in the younger generation who cannot find skilled work even with STEM degrees.

There is a real human toll that comes with these decisions, in that so many talented individuals that work coffee shops and service jobs, unable to score a technical job without X years experience because their genius and talent is simply not valued by companies.

At least, not at the wages these companies have come to demand.
It's not. This thing:

https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d695...

is not an 'expression of confusion', it's an attempt at offtopic shitstirring and mockery. It's kind of dumb in the gist - keeping it up on HN (where it's sensibly forbidden) is worse.
> If you always give the contract to the company that offers the lowest price, don't be surprised that it eventually gets too low to cover the real costs.

It's a known problem no one seems to care about. The Swiss do it better: They throw the cheapest and most expensive offers out and pick a contractor from the middle price range. Seems to work well for them in most cases.

> 80k for a project that likely consists of months of filing for permits, coordinating tens of people and machines?

It was a small bridge for pedestrians and cyclists that was closed about 5 weeks before they took it down, which took the crane just a couple hours.

It was a project as simple as it gets and they still went way over budget while also leaving half the bridge standing. I just wish I could say this was an outlier, but it's commonplace around here.
This is doubly ridiculous. As CIO he ought to be held accountable for the loss of millions of people's personal data. Instead, he gets what amounts to a slap on the wrist for insider trading.
We know it is censorship because they're spending $600k to ensure they totally destroy it forever.

If it were merely about choosing what kind of art to show on the wall, they could simply paint over it for $1k.

That's $599,000 that could be used to pay teachers instead being spent to ensure this mural is never seen again.
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> "Because the question isn't what the art means!"

Of course it is. You've got a bunch of hysterical people saying the mural is in support of slavery and genocide. How can you say that the meaning of the art isn't relevant? The beliefs the mob have about the meaning of the mural are central to the story, you cannot abstract them away.
Nine straight hours. Holy crap. I'm sure we've all had marathon sessions from time to time, but maintaining enough composure to keep the livestream going for that long (without breaks?) sounds extremely challenging.
It's still too centralized. You and I can't run our own compatible public Keybase servers, or our own private servers. Understandable, as their investors expect them not to give away everything for free.

The client is open source so reverse engineering and improving the server architecture is far from impossible. I think Keybase is making great strides on exploring how we can utilize asymmetric E2E encryption for communication, organization, storage, and everything in between. I think they've made tremendous progress in making E2E cryptography accessible. However we need a 100% FOSS system.

See: https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/6374
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Theoretically this could mean that children born in nudist colonies would have a reduced risk of learning disabilities, which would be amenable to statistical analysis.
Rocks expelled and melted after a collision. If i'm not wrong, none alive or organic would survive on magma. Not even prions.
Is this really the best way they could come up with? I do understand the problem though. And why did they change the pattern between firmware versions? Were they getting false hits, or was it just too hard to do?

This is a lightbulb! Who is the intended audience. The Internet of Things really isn't ready for the general public.
Hmmmm, isn't that an inherent property of any for-public-use database? By your definition, any public pki (keybase.io, keys.openpgp.org, etc.), social network (Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, etc.), and more are vulnerable to someone just writing a script and bloating their database.

What mitigation strategies do other ecosystems use? Why can't they be tried in the keyserver pool?
Right, but maybe even go a step further, and be like "Hey Josh how you doing? Busy day?" They'll likely elaborate, and if they don't want to then it means your question is overbearing in their eyes.
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