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My answer about the economics of nuclear people is if it were as cheap as it's boosters say there is absolutely no way a bunch of dirty hippies would have able to stand in it's way. There was a big fight in California over PG&E's plan to build two dozen reactors. The dirty hippies won based on economics. Later off the record PG&E executives admitted the company had been saved from certain bankruptcy.

The bad economics isn't a new problem. Washington Public Power Supply System planned to build five nuclear reactors in the 1970's. They managed to finish one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNP-3_and_WNP-5

It seems to me nuke plants only get finished when corners are cut or everything goes to plan. If there are any problems at all the costs and issues spiral out of control. That says to me that these things are barely within our industrial capabilities to build.
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How is this not the same conclusion as other studies that find that index funds out perform others?
Chinese programmers work like slaves in Cambodia
Love the idea and the implementation! I am living in Dubai and have the exact same struggle with finding an appropriate vegetarian meal delivered that is healthy and not a salad.
I'm a software engineer too and would love to help out with the tech if you need.
The public employee ones your taxes backstop and guarantee 7% returns despite only getting 3-5%
So, a light year is the amount of distance in a year that light can travel in a vacuum.

So the, it clearly has the word “year” in the name. Which is a measure of time.

But it’s also a measure of distance, because the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant, and the distance it can travel in a year is also constant.

So, why not both?
If they think rates are nearing a bottom, and will go up from here it obviously makes sense.

Check out projections of US interest on debt expense. In a few years time it may exceed all other spending categories. Much of the US government borrowing is short term.

What happens when rates rise? So, it makes sense to lock in as much borrowing they can at low rates.
> it is "saddling future generations with debt"

Can’t comment on the other parts, but this argument is nonsense. The debt is saddled when the money is spent. 10y rolled over 10x or 100y is irrelevant.

As an analogy, the length of time a dollar spent on a credit card will take to be paid off has nothing to do with the card’s term. It’s purely a function of spending and balance settling, the latter being a function of discretionary income and fiscal sense.
I'm genuinely curious, mind you I haven't read much about Wework.

So, I can understand how a company like Theranos is fraud, because they are lying and have no product.

But, I've used wework successfully, I know a lot of people using wework successfully. They have a product that works and that people pay for. How can such a company be a fraud?
You’re disregarding brand appeal.

Starbucks has no real competitive advantage over Local Coffee Co. other than great location, decor and brand appeal too. Thats what OP argues were the deciding factors for them. To attribute nice decor as being nothing more than a sunk cost is erroneous at best.
My company offers a pension, and a 401(k). But then, I'm not in SV.
> well, that and moving large sums of money isn't quite as easy as say changing email providers

In what ways? If you close your account they need to give you all of your money at the time of closure.

Having worked at a bank, I can tell you that they are scared by how mobile millennials are with their money. They will literally follow the interest rates. With most millennials using credit and not debit/ach, it becomes even easier to move to a new banking provider.
Async/await and futures/promises (and before that, stuff like Java's Executor abstraction) are being added to a lot of languages because it is very difficult for even experienced developers to manage threads in a bug-free way.

I've seen a lot of people try to manage complex programs by working with threads directly. Whatever they come up with is very unlikely to be as correct and reliable as the abstractions provided by the language. Even when they get it right, programs written with those techniques are difficult to modify without introducing new bugs.

Manual management of threads is becoming like manual management of memory -- it is discouraged by newer language features and you should only do if you really need to.
I think you're missing part of the author's point. In the bash script, each command and flag being used does something and what they do is not obvious to anyone who is not well-versed in those commands and flags.

The JS example is closer to english or pseudo-code, which makes it inherently more readable. It is not as terse, but it is also not esoteric like the bash script. Someone who doesn't know bash or JS will probably be able to understand the JS version more quickly.
Longer time to maturity implicates larger interest rate risk. But with rates near zero there seems to be only one way to go. In higher interest rate environment Treasury might repurchase bonds with discount. So this is free money.

On the other hand if US goes Japanese for next decade or two it might be last chance for holding gov bonds without paying for the privilege ;-)
sounds interesting, is the development of that something joe public can look at? :)
More for me :)
Could not agree more about coding. These days I am doing more architecting and code reviews with coding as time permits and the less coding I do the less I’m able to stay ahead of pathologies developing in the codebase as the codebase scales. Right now I’m trying to get the engineers I lead to be more self sufficient on code reviews among themselves and self directed in terms of what to do next so I can spend enough time coding. It’s hard to do if the team is growing and the number of inbounds demanding your attention grows.
Yeah, the UX on IH frustrates me sometimes, too.

Courtland has said before that he regrets going all in on making it a SPA instead of a more traditional back-end MVC. But he wanted to learn Ember and I can totally get that.
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Total nonsense, Fukushima was designed in the 50s only around 15 years after we first invented nuclear power and then started construction around a decade after that using that old technology. It is like using a Model-T as an example of why cars are too dangerous to use. Or judging flight safety based on wood and canvas planes.
great service do you deliver to Palo Alto
> They have a product. How can such a company be a fraud?

Fraud, put simply, is lying with material consequences. If Apple said their iPhone can fly you to the moon, and you bought it on that basis, you were defrauded. That the product does a bunch of other useful things is irrelevant.

That said, I agree with you in us having insufficient evidence to label WeWork a fraud. They’re aggressively disclosing their weaknesses. No evidence of deception.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Don’t toe the line with fraud.
My challenge with software architects is that the one's I've worked with aren't strong communicators. I've yet to find an architect has both the time and inclination to break things down for the devs in manner that makes sense. That might reflect my lack of experience on building systems large enough at a company that a architecture communicator would find attractive, and no judgements are intended. I'm just saying I have yet to work an architect that could "break it down for me".
This is true. I’ve asked shadow-cljs creator directly and he recommended using leiningen for library creation.
Why and what is coming for them?
WF got caught opening mass numbers of accounts for customers who didn't ask for them resulting in fees as well. They didn't get in trouble for that either. It was systematic corruption. You don't get that many employees doing it unless it is approved.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/investing/wells-fargo-creat...
... so it's perfectly acceptable that they don't get any funding from the US government, but only from donations by people who presumably are okay with their various religious beliefs.
chipotle for indian / vegan/ vegetarian food is the holy grail
In what way are they faulty?

In what way are the people with these licenses the ones that should have to be inconvenienced by having it confiscated?
This is exactly what we have in Seattle in 3 areas so far. It's a last few mile official transit van. You can go from your house (in about a 3 mile radius) to a park and ride, or from the p&r to your house. They have an app that is like lyft. They scan your bus card. If you ride the bus before or after this it's just a free transfer. The vans hold up to maybe 8 people but usually just have at most 4 or 5.

The main precious resource they are saving is parking at the park and ride centers. In Seattle the p&r sites fill up ever earlier, and inability to park when you get there means you face driving to seattle and paying a large amount of money.
I think I might be the only person on HN optimistic about WeWork.

Remote work is on the rise here in the US. Startups and entrepreneurship continue to grow. Finding traditional office space sucks and is a massive waste of money, and probably always will. Co-working spaces make sense, and it’s baffling to me that it wasn’t the default way to work in 2010, when I started programming, let alone 2019.

I feel like if somehow fast food hadn’t been invented til now, and MacDonalds just got started, we’d be reading pessimistic threads about how it’s a real estate business masquerading as a food business and is destined for collapse.

But like, it actually does work, as a business, to provide some necessary service (office space, food) at scale with a big central marketing apparatus. The fundamentals here seem sensible to me.
What benefit do you provide over the Indian place down the block with similar or even cheaper pricing? These prices are absurdly expensive even for us overpaid tech folk.
Great idea, a couple of comments.
- please let us know how you source your ingredients. Spinach is one of the more pesticide ridden vegetables. And bad quality dairy may do more harm than good.
- Seitan and tofu are not particularly healthy. Gluten and soy are known to be inflammatory foods and cause a lot of side affects. Would love to see a dairy-free, gluten-free, soy-free, organic version of this. Then it’s a truly hearty meal that I would order
I'm with Wells Fargo and I'm not planning to leave. I don't think any of the other banks are morally superior -- Wells Fargo is probably just a bit more inept at covering things up.
is there a saag vegan version / no sugar, no butter no animal products?
I’d like you to expand on your first point further as it’s not trivial.
Possibly also select for more problematic houses?
This is java, it would be

-D-XX:VerboseRuntime=true
What inspired you to make Armored Commander?

I remember playing this way back when, after finding it when looking around for fun open source games. I still think I have a portable copy in my Google Drive somewhere.
You are considering only one aspect of a complex decision they have made. It costs real people-hours to maintain any software. Is it the best use of the time of some very capable people? Like, they might develop some software instead that will save your life a year from now. Then you would think differently.

We should stop telling others what they SHOULD do. (Crap I just did.) Anyways, why not contact Google and offer them to pay the costs of maintaining every piece of software they ever decide to deprecate? Or just go on and build a better browser if you can.
Is there a reason why almost every single comment you've made in the entire year history of your account on a tech news website involves China politics? In fact, almost every post you've replied to has the word "China" in the title. Almost like your replies are semi automated.

I'm going to guess somebody is paying you for it
Unrelated to the article, but related to the title: I'm a firm believer that there's real geoengineering which I think is a valiant effort and could be beneficial, and then there's the capitalist geoengineering which I think will have huge negative effects.

What's the difference? What I'm referring to as the capitalist is you take a model that scientists have created, you apply as the contractor for a geoengineering solution using these studies to back a real approach, then after getting the deal there's revision after revision made where corners are cut, things are done half-assed, and plans aren't fully followed, which can include anything from (for example with artificial clouds) changing the particulate substance to one that wasn't recommended/studied, patenting a particulate/procedure so nobody else can implement this, reducing or increasing particulate amounts deviating away from the recommendation, incorrect particulate dispersion timing, incorrect particulate dispersion weather, etc, etc. Not to mention overcharging and bureaucratic nonsense that will delay implementations and potentially throw off results/effectiveness.
I didn’t realize this. Cool, thank you for the information.
Because I'm a huge noob too I googled these terms:

* EBITDA or Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization. It's pretty much the net (before-tax) income of the company (per year), but after expenses that are easy to calculate (like employees' salaries and rent).

* DJIA or Dow Jones Industrial Average. It seems to be an index of the stock market, meaning a number calculated from the price of a selected number of stocks (in practice, 30 large US companies).

* The Flywheel Effect. I guess to understand this one you need to understand what a flywheel is, it seems to be a pretty heavy wheel. The metaphor here is that building a successful company is like pushing a massive wheel for a very long time until it catches some momentum and roll by itself?
(In case future readers are confused, the original HN title had odd nested double-quotes, and the innermost quoted part was something like "how I tricked my employer into using Racket". Which seemed like terrible PR, giving the impression that this is something for irresponsible fringe fanatics.)
pls add daal as a service
Nice one! Did not realise the market for vegan cooked food in the bay area is this big.

How are you planning to scale saag as a service?

I am tempted to ask after looking at your profile, is the cooking/portioning/packing done by a robot? is that your secret sauce behind scale up possibilities?

All the best! looks tasty...
Relax - we live in MMT era ;-)
It would require enormous resources to combat pirates. I'd look at the comment above about whales & efficiency as a better explanation than I can provide. Piracy would be more like terrorism than a traditional war. Extremely asymmetric costs & predictability.

As for oil prices, the Iraqi war did disrupt Iraqi oil production for about a year. In 2004, oil production reached pre-war levels and has been growing steadily since.

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/iraq/crude-oil-product...
until you can't roll it over anymore
Where I have worked, the architect is the person who helps the key implementors work together smoothly, shares knowledge about the design, gives advice, and brings in other teams he knows can help.

It takes a lot of "tribal knowledge" about the various teams involved in a project to do this kind of thing well. The most successful architects I have worked with are the ones who have a lot of experience at the same company. They don't design the architecture -- they convince all of the participants in a project to collaborate on designing the architecture.
You might not have the option to work from your office. My workplace is oversubscribing a new location in downtown $Big_City with the simultaneous requirements that all seats in the downtown office be filled each day (to get the tax breaks $Big_City offers) AND that, since there are not enough seats, everyone will have to work from home on some kind of rotation.

And, have you worked from home on any kind of permanent basis? I don't have a family but I still like to get out sometimes. If you have no room for a dedicated office, or if you have pets/family that can be a distraction from work, a collab space is desired.
> Do you expect a trading strategy that harms a market to be reliably profitable without risking fines, banning, or imprisonment?

Non-trader here, what do you mean by a particular trading strategy "harm[ing] a market," how would you actually measure harm to a market by a given trading strategy, and would whatever metric you decide on for that not just be a dressed-up subjective argument?
The first time i encountered really long names (on purpose, as opposed to java-gone-wild frameworks) was with objective-c. It shocked me at first, but since the parameters are spread along the method call, just like in a regular sentence, it really didn't matter, and actually made the code really nice to read. This style is nowaday pretty common with named parameters in function calls.
That's not correct. Starbucks has incredible economies of scale and purchasing power at this point.

Clearly Wework has at least some economies of scale, but as for purchasing power not so much. The mass importation, distribution, and sale of a perishable agricultural product is a whole different kind of thing.
Throwaway (but at least the name is apropos).

I worked as a software engineer at WeWork for a bit and no other startup or tech company has come close to the cultishness that Neumann is trying to cultivate there.

Some highlights from my brief time there:

- mandatory spiritual guidance at a company summit where the “guru” enforced the importance of one’s place in the organization

- mandatory attendance at “Summer Camp”, a weekend long music festival with excessive drinking

- mandatory attendance of a talk led by Neumann and transferred to Deepak _fucking_ Chopra at Summer Camp

- the Meetup founder displaying a picture of the twin towers, post plane crash, on a giant screen at Madison a Square Garden during a company summit

And these were just the noteworthy events that rose above the background noise of “What insane thing will Adam Neumann say this time?” each time an all-hands was held.
In every company I've worked at, the "project manager" is the person who does secretarial duties in IT projects.

They're not called "secretaries" to avoid social stigma.
We do! If you have trouble ordering or can't find your zip code on the drop-down, email me at soham@pashi.com

By the way in re. your comment below -- the Saag Tofu is vegan and free of animal products.
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Generally yes but off the run issues have much poorer liquidity and spreads can be much wider.
Minor technical thought - IMO have potential users customers enter their zip code allows you to see where potential future demand is.

Other than that, the site looks great!

Bonus points for simplifying down to an MVP, and S(pinach)aaS has a really good ring to it for the SF HN crowd.

Am also looking forwards to non-spinach options! (I'm allergic)
Wirecutter is well-known for using referral links, and yet still giving you their best unbiased opinion on the things they review.

For technical things, they’re better than Consumer Reports.

If you don’t already know this about Wirecutter, then this says more about you and your ignorance than anything else.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted -- the person who wrote the code shouldn't be deciding how readable it is, as they're clearly biased.

I had to deal with this the other day. I approved a PR, with a comment that 5-7 lines of the logic were unreadable and convoluted. I left a more concise way to write the code as a suggestion.

When I saw the merged code in master a few days later, I noticed that the convoluted logic was still there. When I asked them about it, they just said "well, to me, it's readable, so I decided to keep it".

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lesson for me: Don't approve PRs if I don't feel good about the quality of the code being committed.

Lesson for my coworker: If someone strongly disagrees with you, get a second opinion, don't just merge your code into master.
I can tell you haven't actually done the calculation. There's only been about 20000 hedge funds in total over history. The odds of random chance producing Medallion's track record with that many draws are actually very low.
Everything with Lisp is developed is a bit of a stretch. This isn't the way e.g. Racket is usually developed IIRC.
The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure
Should the US consider selling perpetual bonds, with no maturity date? I know Britain used to do this (the bonds were called Consols). Is this form of finance now discredited?
Over the next generation fiscal policy will regain it's place (see post war era) as the primary growth tool as opposed to monetary policy. Monetary policy has led to a glut in capital that has no idea what to do with itself: it's led to huge asset bubbles as seen with housing and start up evaluations.

The US should absolutely lock in these low interest rates to fuel green infrastructure and technology. Debt used to fund infrastructure and technology is the most effective use in our current environment.
not sure who you're refering to.. i certainly don't like many aspects of the go language. goroutines and the "go" keyword isn't one of them.
Only if by fundamentals you mean the fundamental idea behind coworking spaces. Sure, that makes sense. But the WeWork company fundamentals are out of whack. Nobody is arguing that coworking spaces are a bad idea. WeWork is a company that turns 2$ into 1$.
From 2015: "Virgin Media stores user passwords in plaintext?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9492006
I spent so long wearing pain. But What if happiness was simple?
Got confused looking at treasury direct a while ago. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ebonds...