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WeWork certainly could end up being worthless in a few years, but there's also a very good chance that it's not. The current price of a company should be more or less a weighted average of possible outcomes. The only way WeWork would be worth nothing today is if it's guaranteed to go out of business, which is not the case.
Tech boom + permits for new offices + obstructing permits for housing = most expensive city in the world.

There's lots of space for infill housing. There are MANY one and two story buildings within a stone's throw of a train line.

The people really suffering are the ones on the low end of the pay scale that either commute multiple hours of their day or spend half their income on rent.
> and artists are very particular about even the smallest details of their work.

That's not necessarily true and paints way too broad a brush of artists and art. Art and artists need not necessarily be concerned about the smallest details. Particularly if it is an intermediate medium which never is shown to the art viewer/participant.
> This is the exact decision that was made and accelerated by our military during wartime. This is our playbook.

I think journalists publish these articles not because they're (consciously) following the playbook, but because it's what sells.

Maybe people want to read stories about Russian "enemies" more than they want to see stories about American "enemies".

Or maybe journalists have the best intentions and they know the privacy battle is lost against Facebook, Instagram, Amazon. but it's not yet lost against the Russians etc.
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People have written GCs for lisps in (non-allocating subset of) the target language
I don't get it, how do you warm the water? I know you can have an electric heater that keeps a certain amount of water hot all the time. But isn't that vastly more wasteful than just quickly warming the water you are using by burning it using gas?
It makes me think of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming
There's a bunch of "preliminary" apollo drawings at https://apollopreliminarydrawings.com/ They show the apollo command module designs that North American Aviation came up with before they were approved for a contract.
Little-known inventor has probably saved your life
> no one in their right mind thinks Google isn't a monopoly on search, I think that is more or less an established fact at this point.

"A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity" [0]. Bing exists so by definition, you are wrong.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Here's my litmus test: If you want to see how free Libra is, try donating to Wikileaks using it.
Directly from the article:

"""

The minimum-effort Loser Stanley tells him coldly, "this here is a run-out-the-clock situation." The line could apply to Stanley’s entire life.

"""

So either you are pulling your info from some more-original source than I am, or you're mis-remembering what the article says.
> but not true if someone manages to make, like, $100,000 doing it.

narrator: people make $100,000 doing it.

Your question? This one?

> How much are you going to pay for a script that lets you steal inactive Instagram accounts that you will then go on to sell on a grey market? You're

But this isn't what anybody is doing. Nobody is trying to do that. Nobody is lurking in the bushes for inactive accounts. People hijack ANY account they please, which usually has some nice level of attention on it. Assuming control of account properly leaves no trace of the account to the original owner. NOBODY would be able to distinguish a stolen account to a newly organically built meme account for sale. You nor an investigator would know if the current seller is the hacker too. Its impossible to answer your question for these reasons.

I'll try to answer it: I'd probably pay $500 because I don't really keep track of the dollar value of my cryptocurrency balances on Empire Market or Nightmare, since code and documents aren't illegal goods and Department of Justice has said time and time again that they aren't going after consumers even if my OPSEC was broken (I use Monero exclusively, not transparent cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin). I just kind of buy anything that looks somewhat interesting and somewhat exclusive. Otherwise I'd really just wonder why the code isn't on github already for me to just clone and move on.
So my moms parents had three children and my dads five. So not huge families but large. They grew up in a city in a third world country and frankly their childhood was a lot more dangerous than your imagined paranoia.

Also your ideas of children are way off. We have a seven month old and we read to her, take her to the library, go to space talks, etc. Actually we do a lot more intellectual stuff now. My wife has taken some online courses ans weve started re learning french. Parents who put their kids in front of the TV are lazy.

Parks exist in most urban areas and are perfect for kids to play in.

All the other dangers you mentioned are way overstated

I do not understand this paranoia that has gripped the American public. The way people act would have you believe things are worse today than in the past when all actual data (anf observation) say the contrary
I would like to welcome you to the formal study of complexity: https://complexityzoo.uwaterloo.ca/Complexity_Zoo
Isaac Asimov on creativity: “How do people get new ideas?” (1959)
How so? Considering aircraft are flying from state X, over state Y, and landing in state Z that sounds like the definition of interstate commerce.
I don't agree. First off, no matter how you or me may be enraged by the incident, this is not (and shouldn't be!) a "moral problem" for the Firefox. And, by the way, if you are not living in the Kazakhstan, it's not for you to decide "what is needed first and foremost in Kazakhstan", it's their business entirely.

From the point of view of the Firefox, this should be an extremely simple technical problem. There is CA that is known to be "compromised" in an entirely technical sense, i.e. it is known to allow MITM. So blacklist it, end of discussion. Allow the user to remove it from the blacklist somewhere in browser's settings: it's not for you (Firefox) to decide what the greater good is.

I assume, it would indeed be a problem for Kazakhstan to fixing the service if people are not using the internet, because their browser doesn't work (because it's both an economical and a social disaster, obviously). Or maybe it wouldn't, because Kazakhstan will send troops to every home to replace every browser by Kazakh-fox or whatever. And it may play out to the better in the end, as much as it can lead to massacre.

But (as a 3rd party technological company) don't play mighty and powerful, responsible for the lives of people in Kazakhstan, it's not your fucking business how they live. You see a technological problem (known CA allowing MITM) — you solve it (block the CA!). That's what you promised your users to provide, to fix technological problems, not to fix the political climate in Kazakhstan, USA, China, whatever.
It seems like the stagger goes in the wrong direction. This would put me in the middle seat behind my seat mates arms which now poke in front of me. And below their thighs which now flow on top of me.

Shouldn’t the middle seater be put in front of the aisle and window seats?
They are mentally filed away, so I don't have them off-hand sorry :)

But it was largely due to their lack of credibility on China that I had to unsubscribe. Open up any Economist article on China and you'll quickly see what I mean.
Yeah I’m referring to basically that, except it would be customized so that they’d be pay by 15m and put in public spaces or coffee shops instead of private offices. I have used them at companies I’ve worked for and they’re great, but thinking more about the remote worker or freelancer out in public (not at an office or coworking space) who might want to pay a few bucks in an otherwise loud public space for a quiet place to talk a call.
nope, you can be expelled from the country at any time with a 30 days notice when you're on adjustment of status.

Your driver's license will expire with your EAD card, the renewal of your EAD card can't be done more than 90day before expiration, but it takes more than 6 months to get a new one.

You can work 180 days with an expired EAD but not drive nor leave the country, and E-verify will be weird so you might lose your job anyways.
I care about privacy, but the state already knows my face, my fingerprint, etc. A private institution is, by definition, less hostile than the state of my country, so it's kind of pointless to try to hide my face.
I can imagine a better time: that of their home timezone. Perhaps it is +0400 where someone makes a commit, but if their home time zone is -0700, that is a bit different situation.
China's economy is planned to a significant extent and doesn't match that description. Of course, it is not a textbook example of a planned economy, but neither is the economy of any Western country a textbook example of a laissez-faire free market economy. The US economy, for example, is significantly distorted by an enormous amount of planned 'defense' spending. Real economies tend to be complex and have a mix of features.
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I think the pros/cons shift very quickly once the children get into their teenage years. when they are young and there are other children in the neighborhood, it is much easier for the parent to relax and let them go play together in the cul-de-sac. rough deal for the kid though if they don't manage to make friends on their street.

when they get older, they develop more specific personalities/interests and they are likely to go to a larger school and make friends that live further away. when I was a kid, I lived basically right on the border between the city and the suburbs. all my friends lived just a little too far away to walk/bike to their houses, and the streets were busy enough that I doubt my parents would have let me anyway. any plans I made had to be convenient for my parents, and they tended to be pretty busy.

this is just my opinion, but I think "real life" doesn't really begin until you can move around the world on your own. for me, this wasn't until I got my license near the end of high school (which represents its own danger; teenagers are terrible drivers). I suspect my friends who grew up in the city, taking public transit to hang out with each other, had much richer teenage years than I did, maybe even safer.
Sorry I meant the federal arbitration act. The other FAA clearly seems within the scope.
They sell into large companies with an enterprise support contract and some additional features. A lot of companies want to run their own registries for private modules & such. Pretty much the same market/business model as other similar tools (particularly Java-oriented) like Nexus & Artifactory.
>but it makes no sense for the state to behave as it is. The state is just looking impotent and ridiculous.

It makes perfect sense if you think looking incompetent is better than looking like you're supporting something that will lose you votes.
I wonder if this could be adapted to bootstrap the standard Go compiler on new architectures. Big if true.
It was how you did sessions before Cookies and JavaScript existed, and existed because it was a problem that needed solving. Converting forms to wizards and the first Internet shopping carts.
Are there any ad networks out there that do not track users?
As far as I’m aware there is no explicit holdout period on reads, however, on read you do need quorum of the range holders for consistency sake. The exception here is if you’re talking to the “leaseholder” of that data, in which case it can respond to you directly.

If you have a workflow that consistently exercises the same ranges, leaseholders will be moved to the nodes that you’re connected to, in a process called “follow the workload”.

If you run a load generator against a cluster you’ll see that - for the first 30-90 seconds or so it’ll have some latency, but after some period of time, the leases should be moved closer to your generator and you should see latencies drop.

When you’re looking at data access patterns and partitioning you should keep this in mind, as it can be a big performance improvement if properly considered.
We need a huge artificial moon in a close orbit to corral all the space junk into rings.
Sure, but realistically that money has to come from somewhere, I never considered that explicitly calling it a childless tax would be thought as punitive.

Free childcare is why I don't think tax exemptions for parents actully work or are fair -- because low income people don't really benefit from it, the costs of raising children are pretty much fixed at a given age.
Oracle products are outrageously expensive, but I wouldn't call their licensing complicated. Microsoft's model (with CALs) is much more opaque and they refuse to clarify it. I can't comment on IBM licensing though, unfortunately I know nothing about it.
Disgusting. We are all subsidizing spyware (mobile phones).
Toutanova, one of the co-authors of the BERT paper worked for Microsoft for 12+ years until shifting to Google recently.
It seems like the biggest innovation here would be bringing down the price of building a standalone studio apartment. These units probably cost cost $120k+ to build/install?

It would be neat if there was a (high quality) $50k kit homeowners could buy and assemble themselves, almost like IKEA furniture.
In which case the MITM will be unable to connect to the server because it won't have the certificate (that you sent via email or some other means), so the service simply won't work. That's the whole point, you either go through MITM or not at all.
Totally separate problem that I agree needs to be fixed.

In reality, being one BGP trick away from a mere dedicated individual or corporate owning certs for your domain is an actual risk today.
> Garbage collection is currently only supported on ARM microcontrollers (Cortex-M). For this platform, a simple conservative mark-sweep collector has been implemented. Other platforms will just allocate memory without ever freeing it.

Conservative garbage collection has serious problems on 32-bit. Stuck pointers happen quite often. The usual culprit is floats, which thankfully don't usually appear in embedded code, but by no means is the problem limited to floats.
Actually, I don't see the issue here. It is literally the same thing as corps intercepting the connections of their employees or visitors. In fact I trust my employer even less than I trust the government.

But I disagree with the response that says we should do nothing. In fact, corporate root certs should be blocked / ignored by the browser in the exact same way and for the exact same reason. The only exception should be certs issued for a limited number of domains that are only active in a specific developer mode that can be enabled by knowledgeable users.

Sure, technological solutions can't solve this issue 100%. (My employer can also fork a browser.) But acting as if everything is OK when the connection is being MITMed is wrong and browsers shouldn't do it.
I totally agree. I do drink but would prefer to do it less and frequently end up using it as a bit of a social crutch. Coffee shops are fine during the day but I really wish there were more booze-free places to hang out at night.
How is this different than gollvm? And how does it combat the problems from the Go FAQ:

> At the beginning of the project we considered using LLVM for gc but decided it was too large and slow to meet our performance goals. More important in retrospect, starting with LLVM would have made it harder to introduce some of the ABI and related changes, such as stack management, that Go requires but not are not part of the standard C setup. A new LLVM implementation is starting to come together now, however.
The biggest tactic I've seen is their inability to be consistent. In 2 years, I spoke to 3 Oracle reps and received vastly different quotes for the same hardware, features, processors/cores, etc.
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This is exactly what should have happened.

HSTS worked perfectly, your poor maintenance of certificates and your site lost you half a days worth of work.

Some people need to touch the stove and feel the pain...if you blame someone else for you touching the stove that is just willful ignorance.
For history noise, just rebase before merging and you won't get a merge commit. It's really easy and preserves the use of branches.

Our process is:

- create a branch for every change
- make commits relatively small, but complete; each commit shouldn't break the build our the tests
- request peer review when the code is ready to merge
- when reviewed, rebase onto team's development branch and merge
I dunno why you're so committed to not calling a ban a ban. Of course, I have theories. Call a spade a spade mate.
I'm terrified of meteors too!
yes for slum landlords which is all very well until you get busted by the authorities.
Japan does have a low birthrate, but it also has a rising birthrate. Since 2005 Japan has seen a long general trend of increasing birthrates since the ‘60s. This turnaround coincides with efforts to make housing cheaper and cities more kid-friendly. They’ve gone from 1.26 to 1.44.

It’s not a complete reversal, but the fact that Japan’s rising birth rate has defied regional and global trends and persists despite continued urbanization and secularization shows they might be on to something.
How about subjugating them to be wage earners, just to keep the banker/rentier class in clover?
Comcast has even published an informational RFC describing how to inject crap into HTTP requests:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108
When there’s an economic downturn I would think freelancers and new, small companies are probably going to get hit hardest. Seems like a tough position for WeWork to be in. Even leases on normal office spaces would be getting cheaper.
If you're interested in the topic of this comment and its replies, consider reading about the Vulnerable World Hypothesis [1].

I don't know how much credence to give it, however it's a fascinating thought experiment, especially the "Type-1" vulnerabilities.

[1] https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
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It'll "stop this attack" by ensuring that the app won't work through the MITM - so it won't be able to connect from any Kazakhstan users unless/until the pinning is removed.
If this is true then I’m increasingly surprised at how bad VC returns must be for them to think this is a good investment.
I currently live in SF and could not imagine having kids here. I’m sure some people do, and have a great time. But it’s not a life that I would want, nor would I want for my kids. This narrative captures pretty accurately why I would not want to raise kids in this city. Now, some other city? Maybe. Probably in Europe. US cities though are just hard places to be. Hard people. Aggressive homelessness. Dirty. Unfriendly. Generally just unpleasant places to be. I would want my kids to grow up with more community and green space and also not have them walk through human feces on the way to school.
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If this isn't reflective of an abject failure of local/state government and public policy to plan and manage the needs of housing and population growth, I don't know what is.

Tech companies now employ people, feed people, transport people, educate people, and now they house people. Pretty soon we'll be voting for which tech company governs our society.

All the while gutless local city council members afraid of losing their jobs cower before homeowners, the landed gentry, the rudderless symbolic issues of anti-gentrification and anti-neighborhood change, at the expense of everyone who had the bad luck of being born later and not having gotten theirs yet.
Paying money to ad companies to not show you ads is a protection racket. I imagine if one of the larger players actually tried it they would get sued. And personally, supporting companies I would rather disappear isn't going to get much traction. It is a lot more than $1 a day per person who believes advertising is a requirement of a modern, functioning society.
When they inevitably go bankrupt who ends up owning the unit? Will it be collateralized and sold off or revert to the original property owner?
Heheh coughUber*cough

Seriously where’s the vetting VCs are supposed to be doing? Used to be you had to hustle AND have a good idea to have a VC ready company. Now it seems like all you need to do is hustle and be in the tight geographical location (Sillicon Valley) and you will get money for stupid things like this damned Coworking company with free beers.
That's impossibly untrue. OS/2 2.0 had better DOS AND Windows compatibility/stability than Windows 3.1 at the time.

It still got its ass handed to it. Microsoft won because they got the OEMs.
| Parks exist in most urban areas and are perfect for kids to play in.

Minus the used needles and other debris that litter many of them. It’s a sad state that that’s the best place people with drug problems can go, but it seems they don’t have anywhere else to go.

It’s just not where I want to bring my kid to hangout.
I don't have a backyard, and nobody I know in my area that also makes six figures+ a year has one, either. This trend has been documented [0]. Granted, my cohort is all earlier in our careers. But with years of saving, much of it prioritized in 401k's, IRAs, and HSAs, I don't have enough left for a down payment on a single family residence.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/21/are-you-c...
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For one, that's just wrong. You need to be only above 1.0 children per couple on average in order to maintain population growth. You don't need 2 children per woman and mandating that sort of thing would be absurd, not to mention sexist (in the way that it reduces the autonomy of women and removes the choice of having children).

For two, humanity has no innate value that makes maintaining infinite population growth somehow good or even sustainable. We're more likely to go extinct as a result of unsustainable population growth and resource exploitation than a result of reversing population growth globally.

And finally even if that was the case, this is something that would be literally hundreds of years away barring some sort of global extinction event.
I might be misunderstanding here, but this sounds like it might lead to too much up front design, which is a trap I'm naturally inclined to fall into. Again maybe I'm misunderstanding. I found the example pretty opaque (granted I gave up trying to understand it very quickly).

I do think starting with basic architecture and design is a good idea, but it's important to jump in and test your assumptions before you become too attached to them. In my mind the ideal flow goes something like this:

1. Short design/modeling/architecture/etc session

2. Test assumptions by hacking together a quick prototype

3. Revamp design.

4. Implement more robust prototype.

5. Iterate as necessary.
Self sufficient may not be enough either. A rebelling colony needs guns, not just food
I love anything that creates more housing in the bay, but these are 30-year contracts! I can't even imagine getting into a 30 year contract with a company that might not exist in 30 months. What happens when the start-up goes under, or gets acquired, etc? Is the loan made directly to a third party bank?
There's actually lots of companies that sell these. Google "kit homes"
Can you talk about in general terms what you heard that makes you think SoftBank isn't that good at what they do?
The Techzing podcast talked about the origin of this several years ago, back when one of the hosts had a critical role in its creation. Good stuff.