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> As you read this example, I think your tendency may be to think that its statements are obvious.

Not to me. The statements suffer from a common math problem: using single letters. if the names were better, maybe they would be obvious. But instead I have to keep back referencing former definitions to remember what they were.

I have to do something similar with p(1) and p(2) - I need to make sure my memory is correct on which data is in which place. If you could reference them in a more obvious way that would help.

I also have to make an assumption from the very start - what "t" refers to is only obvious in definition 3, when it was used in definitions 1 & 2.

It's ironic that the article recommends thinking in math and writing in code when they have thought in math and written in math.
Low income for a family of four IIRC, not for a single person.
I’ve been playing around with the idea of building on demand phone booth conference rooms (the ones you see in coworking spaces) but reservable in 15m blocks that open with a code from an app. Could partner with coffee shops or even cities for people who need some sound proof time while out and about to take a call, zoom into a meeting while out in public, etc.
"WeWork clearly is worth >0% of its current mark-to-market"

I don't think that's at all clear. They own very little, so what they are "worth" is largely in the form of goodwill. They already have a lot of debt, and the viability of the company for the near future hinges on their ability to continue take on more debt. There are multiple plausible scenarios where the company's value goes negative, including the debt markets turning against them for reasons specific to WeWork or for some more global reason.
It doesn't have to be low rise housing. Look at Singapore for an example of how high density, high-rise housing can coexist with plentiful public spaces.
because green cards take 1.5 years, EAD cards take more than 6 months (I have anecdotes of more than a year), and that's on top of the 7 months to get a K1 visa.
The cold war went private.
This sounds like a very American view of things, most of the world has different city structure and different suburbs structure.
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Can someone more familiar with the Bay Area housing issues and this company’s approach to increasing housing explain or analyze this for a non-Bay Area audience? I ask because this currently is Bay Area only.
Does anyone have ideas, who is the tech vendor?

Russians? Chinese?
Not sure subjugating women to be home makers is going to win a lot support for your point. The problem is that there is no support in the U.S. for working couples who choose to move away from family for economic opportunity.
That is, assuming that your downloaded copy of Firefox contains these root certificates and not some different ones.
It's women, not technology, not anything else. I know this might be downvoted to oblivion, but I have to say it, so at least the truth is where it needs to be.
How does iOS Vision + Core ML compare?
Or maybe this shift was planned from the beginning.

They couldn't possibly expect any other reaction from regulators.

I think they're planning a long game.

Bottom line: they are more powerful than many governments and probably think a currency is their right.
I'd imagine most stacks get written to almost immediately on the first function call.
There is a huge gulf between wanting your customers to pay what they owe you and this sort of "audit".

I make a serious point of doing what I can to steer my employers away from any outfit that believes adversarial relations with their own customers are ideal.

Screw that; I want to compete with my real competitors, not waste money on lawyers fighting my own supply chain.

So yeah, I want to see if they go full-Larry Ellison here, but I likely longer recommend anything Redhat and will look at moving away from the things we do use.

Sad, really.
How does that happen being "assume a miracle"?
Literally everything you said also applies to the suburbs though.
Google's branding is the worst, however. They had to buy YouTube, in part, because Google Video was such a failure. Nobody saw Google Video as something to put video INTO; everyone assumed it was a search engine for online video.

They haven't improved. Google's app store is still called "Google Play," which doesn't tell anyone it's an app store. It sounds like something gaming-related, and that's it. Google Plus... need we go on?
Windows only became successful because of msdos backward compatibility
From the specific items in the article:

>For example, private equity firms often sell off a company’s real estate — and then lease it back from the new owners. While this may seem an odd maneuver, the practice allows the private equity firm to distribute a quick real estate profit to their investors. The Warren proposal would block such a maneuver for the first two years after a company is purchased.

>Another piece of the legislation would essentially block companies from taking “monitoring fees” or “transaction fees” out of the companies they buy. These fees simply force companies to turn over money to the private equity firms.

>Finally, what may be the most critical piece of the proposal would rein in one of private equity’s characteristic methods of investment: They use a lot of debt to buy companies. That debt often becomes a burden to the company and has played a key role in many bankruptcies. The proposal would make the use of debt far less attractive for private equity firms because it would hold the private equity firms — and not just the company — responsible for its repayment.
Is this written up anywhere? I'm not about to watch an 85-minute (!) documentary.
The rules of the race are that you can't cut corners from inside the track. Going out of the track is a natural penalty, so it's allowed. The car actually slows down a bit.

The ML algorithm being used is called behavioral cloning (and it's cloning me). It's just that I am a pretty rusty RC car driver :)
How about defining specialty job as paying at least 8x minimum wage, or in the top 25% of paid employees of a company whichever is higher?
You don't need "low rise cohousing communities" to have families in cities. Japanese cities are extremely dense, yet people raise families there just fine. On my trip to Japan, I was really struck by how many children I saw in the middles of cities (moreso in some districts than others, of course), whereas I never see children in downtown American cities.

Of course, Japanese cities don't have enormous parking lots, everyone driving cars, etc. They have taxis of course, and some cars (not a lot really, given the population), and work vehicles, but not the huge amount of vehicle traffic we have. And of course, there's tons of trains and buses, so it's really cheap and easy to get around by public transit. On top of that, there's bicycles: tons of people get around by bicycle, and the traffic level and speeds are low enough to make this very safe, plus there's no culture there of being aggressive towards cyclists or pedestrians the way America has.
Two person conference rooms with a fee would be in demand at any urban coffee shop, since tons of people meet and even do job interviews there.

The big question is real estate because most coffeeshops are already maximizing their space so you’d be limited to the bigger ones.
In my opinion, SoftBank is a below average VC firm (I used to work for one of their companies and was actually a fly on the wall for some of the strategic fundraising conversations). They just have way more money than everyone else, which is important. But I'm pretty sure they're going to lose money in aggregate. Don't forget this guy famously lost more money than anyone in history.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/how-s...
It's a moral panic, at least in part. Panic explains why due process is ignored and why accusations are considered unassailable. But questioning accusations is not the same as denying them. And while reliving trauma is a risk it can be mitigated by using an intermediary like a lawyer or therapist.

Another piece is the increasing insular nature of some institutions. Ideas ricochet within the walled gardens of higher ed, gain momentum, and lead to results that appear zany to the outside world. Focus is needed to study; but insular practices are creating campuses that are worlds unto themselves.

That's not to say we shouldn't agitate against bad practices in society. Real progress is being made in the real world to combat sexual assault and sex crimes.[1] But it's hard to see how campus protestors are having any positive impact outside their hallowed halls.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2019/07/nati...
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It's a common meme that users will click "yes" to everything, but I'm not sure people realise just how far that goes. Look how it looks when Chrome marks a site as malware:

https://www.removemalware.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/the...

Wait until you're doing forensics on a cryptolocker outbreak and you find not only did a user do that, but multiple users helped her through it and the management then praised her for overcoming technical barriers even after it was found to be the cause of the incident.

Unfortunately nothing about warnings makes anything a solved problem.
Thats why I suggest web browsers blacklist this cert that is not apporved by the websites affected.
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Good. If they draw out money and then the company soon is in financial trouble that basically proves the drawing out the money was unsound. Yet they do that sort of thing again and again.
Guido is the one who accepted the idea and stepped down after he was attacked on social media for accepting the idea.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20465256
Alright, drama queen, so you're saying that H1B holders can't take PTO or even unpaid time off? If so, I have empirical evidence that disproves your point ;) What you meant to say is you can't be in between jobs, but even then, you're allowed up to 60 days.

GC backlogs suck. Kids aging out is just evil and wrong and needs to be fixed. But don't blame the backlog on country caps. If there were never any caps, you would still be backlogged, just by 1-2 years less, and the rest of the world would be backlogged as well.

The root of the issue is applicants like the person mentioned in the article taking up space in the backlog, regardless of the job that they do or their experience. You can be a fresh graduate or a seasoned professional with decades of experience, but be in the same EB-2 queue. Looking forward to seeing what the White House bill will look like, but the US definitely needs to more merit in its immigration system.
It’s rare to find a founder being the one who is fleecing the investors instead of the other way around.
I don't see why the government should be levying increasing taxes on something as personal as having a child.
1TiB of CDN egress at market rate for large customers is less than a cup of coffee
I can understand not wanting a founder to protect their nest egg and play it safe.

But at 700M the founder, his children and his children's children can live a life of luxury and will never need to work again.

That seems like it's a little beyond hedging the normal startup risks.
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India, China, Mexico, Philippines and a few others. But the vast majority of the applicants are from these countries.
Yes in my back yard!
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A per-share valuation would be more appropriate, I think. Otherwise someone shorting could lose even if WeWork raised a down round.
Everyone who claims the EU has free speech does not get it. Free speech does not exist in Europe! And for those fools who claim its the same as in the US and argue with hate Speech let me quote Wikipedia for you:

"The United States does not have hate speech laws, since American courts have repeatedly ruled that laws criminalizing hate speech violate the guarantee to freedom of speech contained in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."

And this is why the US has the best laws for freedom of expression because hate speech is just a pathetic excuse to ban speech the people in power do not like. Its way to bread and gets abused all the time. That is why the EU has not free speech. You can not claim there is free speech when you at the same time ban everything that is deemed "hate speech" punishable by law!
No, you can't blame your wife for that method.

It was my method first.

She must have stolen it from me. ;)
It's already happened, they purchased a 20,000$ laser gyroscope, measured the spin of the earth to be 15 deg / hr. And quietly hit the results. They aren't after truth. They're about furthering the lie, and profiting off merch / etc.
Thank you for saying how it is and now just blaming on "racist country caps". We might abolish caps tomorrow, but you'll still be as backlogged as you were before.
Humans are resourceful. Any metric can / will be gamed.
Being caught out using software you did not correctly license is not the problem. That would be fair enough. It is the burden of proof and the time it consumes when you have done nothing wrong.

It would be like the police turning up to your house and demanding you have a receipt for every item in your house. Any item you do not have a receipt for is assumed to be stolen and you have to pay for it. The burden of proof is placed on you to prove you did not steal it. Normally the burden of proof is on the police to prove you have stolen, suddenly it has been turned upside down.

Can you prove you have purchased every copy of every software instance on every computer in your organization? Maybe you can because you have excellent record keeping but most are not so efficient. Maybe the invoice cannot be found because it was not forwarded to the right person. Or a paper invoice has been filed incorrectly and nobody can find it. You KNOW you paid for it but cannot prove it. Sorry, but you are guilty and have to pay $10,000 for that server license again. Try explaining that to your boss.
Sustainable as in 2.x births per woman if you want to keep a population steady, or a lower number at first, but eventually you will want that 2.x births per woman because otherwise we go extinct as a species.
Yeah, they're not so bad overall; I think he was more upset with the fact that they took the office away from him more than anything else.
> "WeWork is a weird company because it is a real estate company that thinks it’s a tech startup; [...]"

This quote reminds me of something that was said in the movie The Founder (2016).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4276820/

(Spoiler alert, possibly.)

“You’re not in the hamburger business. You’re in the real estate business.”
You really think so? That doesn't match my experience. I have always felt the most bargaining power before accepting the position, where the company feels they have to sell themselves. In both companies I mentioned, they were quite happy to show me my (respectively private and shared) offices when I was considering joining. I just want to lock them into that attitude. After I've been there a while, there's a real personal cost to leaving, which hurts my bargaining position, and they know it.

The same as if I really cared about any other accommodation (like a salary). I wouldn't trust my salary to a handshake deal.

Edit: I'm not at either of those jobs anymore, but I think if I had tried to negotiate for a shared office after the company had moved to an open office plan, I would have been laughed out of the room.
They don't own any of their property in fact a lot of it is owned by the CEO.
Oracle makes their licensing model intentionally impossible to be compliant. It's not just "you run x number of instances you owe us y dollars".

It's "you enabled x feature on your database times y users oh and use this handy CPU core count chart to calculate how many cores you're using. Oh and you're running your database in a virtual machine with a clustered hypervisor so you owe us for every cpu core in your cluster".

Then they tell you how much they owe you but "it will all go away if you migrate some of your stuff over to our 'cloud'" and the process starts all over again in 2 years, or less.

Fuck Oracle.
"Sufficiently clever" has historically been more expensive than difficult.

For example, in order to scale less expensively, the Great Firewall is architected such that it need not actively be in the middle of the entire flow of traffic and need not actively proxy. Historically, they didn't need it to do so in order to achieve their goals.

Now, however, the advancement of a combination of new technologies is finally closing that gap.

In order to maintain historic blocking capability it becomes necessary in the long run to actively MiTM all the connections.

But that can be made to scale and there are nations who can afford it.

How do we know? Because the job is not significantly harder than serving up all that content. (At worst it's a little more than 2x the work.)

And today most content is served up from a handful of privately owned infrastructures. If a corporation can build it, so too can a lot of nation-states.

The incentives to build this have changed.
I'm not sure there's a good guy or bad guy, but anecdotally, I've been in a lot more poorly-run Subways than poorly-run McDonalds, which is maybe the point the OP is getting at?
Payment up front = scam. But... if they want 10% of what you get, that sounds reasonable to me.
> Same-sex couples also became legal, adding even more two-income households.

I'm no expert, and it seems likely that women joining the workforce in large numbers would increase housing prices due to increased purchasing power, but this seems like a bit of a stretch. unless you go back to the times of wide-spread lynchings, wouldn't same-sex couples have lived as "roommates"? also forget about couples, two or more acquaintances sharing a housing unit has been legal and common for quite a long time now. I'm skeptical that this is a significant cause of shock to the housing market.
There's two double-standards at play:

- victimhood hierarchy - prioritizing obscure identity attributes over the person.

- elite apartheid - celebrities, rich, popular, beautiful don't have to play by the same rules or receive the same punishments as everyone else. Also, the very bottom of society receives far more punishment than the middle.

Furthermore, there are several ambiguous, likely unknowable by anyone else, situations in the case of rape, because it's often a s/he-said situation due often to a lack of unbiased witnesses or solid evidence:

- Whether there was force or not

- Whether there was explicit, implicit or no consent

- If there was consent, was it later revoked or not, explicitly or weakly

- Is the allegation for actual harm or ego-/guilt-/remorse/-alleviation/revenge/enjoyment/attention

Actual rape isn't good, but an unfair/unnecessarily unpleasant process to suss-out what may/may not be possible to discover doesn't help either. It's very tricky.
Can you explain how is anyone supposed to convince a US company to spend 2 years and tens of thousands of dollars to sponsor a candidate for an immigrant visa WHILE THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY?

For real though, name me a company that hired someone knowing they couldn't start for 2 years, while they get PERM, i-140 etc.
A common thing in Singapore. Almost everything since the 60s has 99 or 999 year lease. HDBs in places like matter which are over 50 year old have low property processes even though it is a few stop to the down town.
The github registry may be another reasonable alternative... not to mention linking git hashes directly, but that has other issues.
How did you get 'subjugation' from staying at home?
Subway has other ways of getting rid of people when it suits them. There was an article posted here recently about the underhanded methods Subway regional managers have used to shut down competing franchisees within their territories. [1]

McDonalds is a much stronger company just based on their ownership of some of the most valuable real estate across the USA.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20307988
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I don't see how much different this is from suburbia, but with even more car intermediated isolation from other people? I hated suburbia as a child, since you were stuck in the house and needed your parents to get you to anywhere.

With rural areas the isolation is even larger if your on a farm that is miles away from any other human beings. You have a nearby forest to explore, but that isn't exclusive to rural areas.

I think what your complaining about is culture, and you're conflating it with the form of housing. It's how you can't let kids go out and find other kids to play with in the local neighborhood like you could in the 70s or earlier because it's illegal and enforced quickly.

You can do that in a city (see berlin: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/travel/berlin-family-holi... ), suburbia or a village but it's all dependent on culture and law.
A raw file? Well, it's really more a lump of metal, until you start putting some teeth on it and you're ready for the tempering process.

/s
My wife is sterile due to having cervical cancer. This isn't my or her fault. Why should I pay more taxes in this situation to support your offspring?
What's the purpose of keeping our current population steady? Is the goal just to never drop below a certain amount of people since we already reached that number?

Is there some sort of universal duty to have a certain amount of people alive at the same time? And if so, is it based on any sort of science?
This isn't answering any of the questions I asked, except that you think "you won't get caught because nobody will take this seriously enough to investigate", which is true if nobody makes more than a couple thousand dollars doing this, but not true if someone manages to make, like, $100,000 doing it.
Likely, but we don't know. So you can't just brush it off and say nobody is overreacting to downed drones, clearly one very important party is.
I would not describe these women as 'subjugated'. First of all, most can work if they choose, because they are all college educated. In at least one family I know, the wife is college educated and capable of earning more than her husband. They just choose not to, and their families take whatever hit that means. I mean, I tell my wife all the time she should work if she feels like it (she is a software engineer actually, and, for when she was working, a quite well paid one I might add), but she doesn't want too, and that's okay by me. I also don't want to work, because it'd be more fun to be with babies all day and make more of them. Ultimately, the most precious gift you can give a child is both their parents at home most of the time, but in the absence of that, having one parent home is good.

I don't mean that out of some disdain for families who cannot do that. My own parents (immigrants to this country) could not, and I wish they could have, and I am happy we can pull this off. To be fair, they made up for it by accepting jobs that let them be home more. Like my dad refused promotions so he could be home with his children more often, and my mom became a teacher to spend more time with us. The value of such a gift is incredibly understated in modern society, as is the joy of children.

> The problem is that there is no support in the U.S. for working couples who choose to move away from family for economic opportunity.

There is a lot more than their ever was (governmentally at least), and people are not having children. The issue is we've abandoned all community institutions, but this is due to the aggregate choices of many people, not a social policy, IMO. Speaking of the families I was talking about, we rely on each other for many things you'd rely on family for, like babysitting.
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