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That's pretty terrible if true. Not sure how it's relevant here. I suppose the entire recorded interview with Zachary Vorhies could have been taken out of context, but it sure looks like that's not the case.
Tell me about it. I spend tons of karma absorbing downvotes in a losing battle correcting 'enormity' and 'epicenter'
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I’m very doubtful they were legit, anything labeled third shifts are almost always fakes. I can’t find any soniccare on alibaba (just a lot of clones), they have stuff on TMall, but all the prices are normal.
Exactly. This was true of Tesla back when they made only the S & X and blew their R&D dollars on Model 3/AP/Batteries but the Model 3's margins are incredibly bad with sky-high ops costs while they are digging a hole like a car stuck in mud. They are promising FSD (to paid customers), Semi & Roadster (To reserved customers), and a Model Y that will surely eat into Model X sales, meanwhile they are clearly reducing spend in these departments. Without a Model S/X Refresh (That Elon is repeatedly saying will never ever happen) or dramatic reduction in BOM / assembly (which, maybe the Model
Y is supposed to bring? maybe? Pigs can fly?) There is no route to profitability.
Thank you. That title was completely nonsensical to me and it's bizarre that it would be worded that way.
Also, everyone knows, only people break the laws, businesses never do.
I hate how the article waffles between "almost none", "virtually none" and "negligible".

There is a word with precise mathematical meaning that matches naive non-mathematical intuition: "almost all" / "almost none" (aka full measure set).

This concept is easy to explain to lay people: count up lengths of intervals, do some limiting process trickery to deal with the fact that the set cannot be written as a finite union of intervals. Alternatively, choose a real number uniformly at random from some interval, probability one will hit the "almost all" set and probability zero will hit one of the others.

"negligible set" is often used to describe sets that have zero measure and small Baire category. "Virtually" also has different mathematical connotations.

Upside is that it was well explained that the contents of the new result is "don't worry about overlaps between different denominators".
Uh-oh, don't break the narrative.

Obviously starting the Clinton Foundation with Epstein is where the true genius lies.
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I appreciate any opportunity to childishly make fun of Fecebutt. It improves the quality of any discourse! It didn't occur to me that someone might think I meant it seriously—that is, that I honestly think the company is called that by, for example, its employees. As I said the other day, there's a sort of Rule 34 of epistemological malpractice, too. It's not just for porn anymore!

It's true that there are people out there who aren't capable of understanding a serious point if it has jokes in it, but I'm not interested in taking responsibility for their cognitive limitations. I'm more interested in amusing other people who would like to childishly ridicule Fecebutt!

The truth of the (non-Fecebutt-related) point I was making is adequately clear to anyone who stops to think about it a moment. It's not some kind of abstruse theorem about linear-time sorting algorithms, or advocacy of some kind of
controversial economic policy or something.
There is no Evidence that the 10/3 month is more reliable.
Ghost starts at $29/month, it seems, and Medium starts at $0/month, so I don't see them as comparable.
I'm not 100% sure this is true, there are a few big high profile companies that will need to substantially restructure to achieve profitability, however there are loads of companies with lots of customers and growth that can be turned into profit.

I would actually argue that this recession is hugely policy based and we should worry that The Donald in charge of these systems will lead to more instability. It isn't tech being over valued that will bring the system down.

I'm not sure software will stop eating the world in a recession, the almost religious belief that more software will make your business better is something everyone has bought into. There might not be any other jobs however.
I'm not assuming the politicians are incompetent. Usually, they aren't, they're just working towards different goals then their constituents or what they promised them.

If you really think the average voter is competent at economic matters, I have a bridge to sell you...
eBay takes 10%. It’s customer support is just as bad.
Thanks, makes sense.

Well at least the explanation does, but the world is still crazy!
I have visited back-to-lander hippies, and stayed with them at times. There are certainly aspects of their lifestyle I admire, but I think you're romanticizing it more than is accurate. It's particularly off-base to think that hippie-ism prevents opiate addiction: drug use is rampant in that community, and while you might see a decrease in opiates due to their social stigma in that community, there's still an opiate problem, and there are full-on epidemics of issues with other drugs. The same is true for a few related alternate-lifestyle communities I've interacted with.

The responders pointing out that the back-to-the-landers often don't have adequate medical care aren't entirely off-base. Pharma is fundamentally broken in the US, and this places strict restrictions on the freedom of many people here: if you need medical help on a regular basis, you have no option except to work--the "rat race" as it were. Work itself won't make you happy, but I think for most people, dying of illness that went untreated because they can't afford care isn't happiness either.

But some of us are healthy, and I do have choices. In the past ten years, I've worked a rat race job, then actively chosen poverty and didn't have health insurance, and finally started a company that's successful enough that I have health insurance again. I don't think it's accurate to say that individuals don't have choices. And that goes for everyone. Certainly some have more choices than others, but we all have at least a small degree of agency in our lives. So I don't think it's entirely fair to think that everyone is unhappy because they chose a life outside norms (i.e. without health insurance).

The question remains though, whether choosing to step outside of the norms actually makes us happy. I think the answer to that is somewhat individual: we all have different things that make us happy. But for anyone, there's a certain amount of hubris in assuming that you know better than the norms. Often, norms became norms because they work for a lot of people. I think, for example, we have lots of evidence at this point that percentage-wise money does buy happiness--up to a certain amount, and depending on how you spend it[1]. But those are percentages, not absolutes--there are miserable and happy people at both extremes of wealth and everywhere in between.

I don't know where this leads us. I suspect the reality is more complicated than any of us understand.

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-mon...
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High-bypass turbofans, or just turbofans in general.

In the early days of jet airliners, you had high-velocity exhaust providing all of the thrust. With turbofans, you have much more thrust coming from low-velocity bypass. This is quieter in itself, but also 'shrouds' the high-velocity exhaust.

As bypass ratios get higher, engines generally get more efficient and quieter. The challenge in doing this is mostly engineering the large fans.
"Tech" is another way of saying "risk" in the eyes of investors. When the yield curve inverts, it means investors - as a herd - are turning away from risk in the short term. Tech being a manifestation of risk is going to take a short term hit in the form of more difficult capital raising.

It's probably too early to roll this out, but for those who didn't live through 2008, I present Sequoia Capital's "RIP Good Times" deck from that period:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2m3d0s0n2q8a23z/RIP%20Good%20times...
>it is almost guaranteed China, Russia or any other country will eventually break it and potentially use it for blackmail to get their hands on corporate or national secrets.

In fairness, this is pretty naive too.

The idea that a backdoor exists, and our intelligence community is not monitoring the proclivities of, say, Halliburton's chairman, is fanciful in the extreme.

I think it's safe to assume that everyone would be recorded, and some people would be watched in such a scenario. Anyone above VP level at Oscar Meyer, Boeing, Procter and Gamble, Booz Allen Hamilton, etc would be pretty high up on that "watch" list. Probably even anyone who knows the CEO at Boeing, or Intel, or whatever would be high up on that list.

I always look at it this way, the intelligence guys are at least as smart as I am, and if I had a back door, that's the minimum list of who I would watch. I think it very likely that we would have gotten to those guys and gals long before any Chinese, Indian, Israeli, or whatever nation's operative would.

This is part of the insidiousness of backdoors.
Nope. Life is not a movie. There are no drunken masters. Being president isn’t a kungfu movie, even though Trump voters probably think it is.
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Actually can you just email me instead? You're the only person interested in it and it'd be easier to just email you the details than to setup yet another blog post system.
As far as E, not sure you could do more damage than a box truck would do. If you tried to fly into a crowd somehow you would crash and probably only hurt people within a relatively small radius.
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It seems like a (cynical?) way to turn today's overpriced real estate assets into a stream of payments. Someone purchasing a home for DKK 300K with no interest may think they're getting a deal, until they try to resell that home and find out they cannot sell it for more than DKK 240K.
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At least your name isn't Virgin

Edit: Might as well leave a link for regular people https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/virgin-vs-chad
I think the difference this time around is that the largest tech companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, to a lesser extent Amazon) are generating healthy profits. So while there is likely an issue with a lot of the unprofitable unicorns, the industry as a whole won't collapse.
Relevant.

* Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE

Also worth noting that Australia already went ahead with their anti-encryption laws. Feels inevitable that we'll lose encryption to the nanny state. Really sucks, but I haven't got a clue how to convince the grandmothers out there why the cops shouldn't be trusted here. It's so frustrating.

* Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M

I think it'll be one of those things that society won't wake up to needing until it's long gone. Depressing as fuck.
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Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp?
I see like 2-3 posts a day about Lisp. What's so good about it?
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America is a country, not a project of universal human redemption. Countries do horrible things at times, yes. And these things should be studied. But it’s high time we abandon the gauzy religious rhetoric (“original sin”) when we talk about the United States. It’s a hangover from Lincoln’s rhetoric, and in many ways it’s not healthy, as it prevents us from taking concrete steps to fix concrete problems.
They did, but there was an integration with Verizon's stack. Maybe they will just keep that in place.

I'll say that they clearly don't run many ads. They have a native ad offering that I've never been able to spot in the wild.
So the us doesn't end up like countries such as Romania, where the government can easily subdue its population with a simple good beating. It’s harder to subdue an armed population.
So the normative comment should really be: avoid using "peruse" because it's ambiguous.
It's a lifeline for a lot of creative work that people will support but where there's no expectation that every content consumer can support it without transaction fees being insane and where advertising isn't a fit. Podcasts like Do By Friday, a wide variety of adult oriented artists, Youtubers who aren't viral, etc.

Patreon offers a way for people to use their money to say "I like what X is producing and I want to make it possible for them to keep making it available to the world."
Also, updates are not inconsequential. I've had it happen multiple times where my PS4 has between 2 and 5 update files that are each 5-15GB (sometimes as large as 20-30GB, but that's a rarity) queued up in the same day, and that can happen multiple times a month. Combine that with some 4K streaming, and the 1TB data cap Comcast has in my area looks tiny.
What on Earth do you think broken people, coiled up in self-pity are going to do to alleviate a crisis?

Who do you think the book is for? Successful, productive people who know why they wake up in the morning?

If you had nothing to learn nothing from his mass-market self-help book, good for you! Congratulations on being well-adjusted.
im gonna guess WHY, is to keep tracking pixels and other web bugs valid to follow your webviewing habits.

HOW is an other matter. FB plays ring around the rosie with thier page source so randomized labels and variables point to page elements so you would have to block each one [of millions ?] individually.

so then the difference between FB's inhouse block, and Ublock origin + noscript comes up.
FB uses thier tools for thier own interests kinda goes without saying. when you have FB scripts in your browser its open to FB for thier purposes.
Plus PayPal takes another 3.
Value is relative. If consumer spending drops it’s going to hurt a lot of services that rely on it.
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There is a bubble, it’s in the bond market. It’s has all the phases of a bible, including irrational exuberance.
From Page 199: "A majority of Adam’s awards are also tied to the Company’s performance as a public company, particularly an increase in our market capitalization that is sustained over a period of at least 60 days".

Seriously? just 60 days?
I presume he became less rich by becoming bankrupt rather than more?

If he could have been richer by not being bankrupt then that would indicate competence to me.

Also daddy gave him $435 million IIRC. If everyone on HN had got that I suspect most of us would have done better.
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How about perfectly informed and extremely malicious?
It's a bit different when someone is repeatedly bailed out by a richer parent.
"Strategy".
It is difficult to believe that McCarthy did not understand he was beating the same horse along with Church, Curry, Schoenfinkel, et al.
>I never understood the need to take away the ability for someone to truly run their own business and have freedoms and restrict it down to a corporate job, by law.

They obviously feel that it balances in their favor, in the sense that as of right now they are unable to "truly run their own business" while they are at the whims of monetization and censorship policies that seemingly change on a dime, with no recourse. On top of the copyright issues plaguing creators - they must think that unionizing will give them bargaining power to start to rectify these issues.
You just have to try to read around other people, until you can. You can't literally shut off your sensory inputs, but you can learn to hear without listening, and see without observing.

Eventually, you may reach the point where you won't realize that someone is trying to get your attention until they actually poke you with a sharp stick. Or maybe just tap your shoulder.
The Russians bailed him out and he’s been in their pocket ever since. In this particular case, that’s why the number of bankruptcies matter.

In general, I agree with you.
You may have failed to note the alternative sourcing link provided in my comment above. Or my top-level comment linking ICE, in this thread.
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The incentives still aren’t great, it’s true. But a lot of things are better. The Volcker rule discourages investment banks from making big directional bets with shareholder money, and the Fed stress tests force them to regularly consider and mitigate downside risks. Both of these things are gameable but at the same time have real effects.

Also, like, Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, and Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch both got sold at fire sale prices. Shareholders don’t want those risks, and even if managers are too insulated from financial consequences of a collapse they probably care about reputational risks as well.
"Classic rock is blaring from the speakers, but at this table, silence rings out."

Just what I want: classic rock while I'm trying to read something of moderate complexity.

If I want to be around people all reading their own books in silence, I can catch the Metrobus. (Actually, most days I catch the Metrobus willy-nilly; what with cell phones, the reading isn't as silent as it could be, but the bus gets me to and from work.)
Well, I never said it was a good sense of humor, Mongo.
That seems exactly how you would expect capitalism to work, isn’t it? Labor retrains when demand for it drops and chases capital in other industries which do need it.
The article you link is from 2010, granted it is ridiculous and does show how ridiculous PV is.

Still, would it be not wise to judge a book by it's contents than it's cover?

This particular person, Zachary Vorhies, is telling the truth, and the documents are correct could shed some light on the internal workings at google and potentially how they misinformed the public.

He was making according to his own testimony, $250,000+ (including the stock options). What would cause someone to just leave that and turn against the company?

I take anything from PV with a grain of salt, however to instantly dismiss something without actually looking at the contents is not very wise.
I wonder how much NPR's Planet Money contributed to the general awareness of the Yield Curve. That is where I learned about this and they speak about this multiple times on numerous episodes.
Systems engineering in its very nature is a huge task. You’re trying to balance the various tug of war battles between everything. Cost, performance, reliability, weight, etc... How light is this material vs how strong is it? What kind of tooling do we already have that can we use vs do we need to invent new tooling? Inventing new tooling is expensive. Inventing new tooling requires training on new tools. Training is expensive. The list goes on and on. Systems engineering is preventing deadlock.

I’m speaking in the physical world (aircraft) but the same concepts apply to software. If your system is small, sure you can do it all in your head. But if it’s large, you need to put a cohesive plan together that accounts for everyones issues, even if they aren’t going to get solved right away.

So yeah, you do need a whole team to do this kind of thing.
Not a big fan of caps as a concept, but 1 TB is quite high.

You're not gonna hit that easily with normal consumer use
No but Chinese companies will be happy to spin up assembly lines making a product identical to yours and undercut your product, while Amazon slaps on the 'Basic' brand and pushes it to the top of the rankings.
Tumblr already has conversations that you can read, but only everything up to the specific post you found up to a point (you can look in the notes for the reply but it can get messy). Unlike a forum which consists of all the posts, each reblog chain contains each post previously. It also means if you follow both parties in an ongoing chain, each reply will occur in your feed in the reverse order of their posting.
I think that ship likely sailed long ago.
I have a very unsophisticated eye, but it's difficult to avoid the feeling that a portion of modern VC is a pump and dump scheme. Particularly when taking into account recent equity moves by WeWork and Beyond Meat.
Sorry; but you are spewing misinformation on the equity market. But thanks, because bull markets need a wall or worry to climb.
History teaches us that methods used for access with a warrant will be abused to get access without a warrant. It teaches us that warrants will be obtained fraudulently. It teaches us that law enforcement personnel are no more trustworthy than any other person.

The instincts of these organizations is to vacuum up every bit of communication that they can, and figure out how to justify access to it later. In such a world, there is no true privacy. The only method we have to combat this instinct is widely-available and widely-used strong encryption.
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In addition to slavery, American businesses have been behind exploitation and despotism in Latin America and Africa. American capitalism has certainly been brutal.
Anecdata: I have CenturyLink gigabit fiber service with no data cap for $80/mo.
> "2+2=4"

$ ruby -e 'puts(ARGV.first + ARGV.last)' 2 2
22

Also, if we're using base-3 numbers, it's actually 2+2=11. If we use base-4 numbers, it'd be 2+2=10.

There's also the cases explained here:

http://virgil.azwestern.edu/~dag/lol/TwoPlusTwo.html

> "Humans require oxygen to breathe"

"breathe" is defined as:

> To inhale and exhale air using the lungs.

You can do that without oxygen. You might not live very long, but you can breathe.
> The FCC (federal government) is actually adding new rules to prevent state and city governments from pushing back against the caps.

Let's not beat around the bush. The FCC as a whole is not doing this. Republicans, who form a majority of the FCC's voting body, are. Elections have consequences.
I don't think that sane, cunning, or democratically elected are the same as intelligent.
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Completely agree with you here. When I was college age back in the late 90's / early 00's, there was a pretty big rave scene in my area. They started around 9:00 pm, and went until the next morning.

The vibe of those parties is completely absent from these middle of the day festivals. They're just...weird. A slammin' techno set at 3:00pm is so out of place.
Stupid question, why is it often written "_the_ lambda calculus" and not just "lambda calculus"
>Yeah, but that's completely politically infeasible. There's no way to get people to just stop using existing resources to improve their quality of life - or even to keep their quality of life at current levels - without any immediate tangible consequences. And of course, by the time the disaster arrives, it'll be too late to change.

So, to paraphrase, it's like we're on the Titanic, sinking, but there's no way to stop people from dancing and dining on the upper deck, and start getting on the lifeboats or helping close the rift.
and that it would be a trade war the US would lose because of the directionality of the trade

I expect the US to lose the trade war simply because China will have the fortitude to outlast it, but why would the direction of trade favor China in the trade war? Shouldn't China have more to lose due to being a net exporter?