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What makes it a hack, but amending the Constitution isn’t? I agree it feels like one, but it is entirely above board. I’m sure the authors of the Constitution didn’t anticipate states choosing to allocate their votes this way, but they didn’t bother to specify how they could or couldn’t do it.

From the Wikipedia article, the only question I see is whether the agreement requires Congress to approve it or not. There seems to be no question that the agreement is allowed and would work.
Valve is free to define their own scope, but as a user, I'd expect them to place a big fat warning if it means any user on the system with Steam installed could get root. Their currently defined scope goes against user expectations of security.
You could try to sell them on a secondary market if your company allows you to (it's clearly written in your stock option agreement). That of course assumes that there is a market in the first place.

You can certainly look for major red flags (e.g. weird clawback clauses in the contract, ...) but at the end of the day, even if the contract is completely clean and the acquisition is a success, the value of your equity will mostly depend on whether the board and investors will decide to screw you or not.
I think Sapolsky's Behave also had a good insight here (not his, just referenced) about the importance of the general culture of a region -- namely whether it's a Collectivist or Individualist. This simple dichotomy can explain a great many misunderstandings, talkings-past-each-other and (interestingly) quite a few differences in moral judgements.
In my post, I specifically call on proc-macro support (syn and quote) plus rand (not all of rand though, just the "give me a random number" functionality that comprises 99% of the use cases but 10% of the implementation complexity) to be added to the Rust standard library. But I feel these are particularly justified because they're already present, just not accessible. Overall, I think Rust's "batteries not included" approach is a good tradeoff.
The National Popular Vote (NPV) initiatives website has a lot of good info and background on the issue, and takes on the myths around it.

- https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/

Explanation - https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation

Myths - https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/answering-myths

As for the compact being a partisan issue, losing the presidency despite winning the popular vote can happen in either direction:

A shift of 59,393 votes in Ohio in 2004 would have elected John Kerry despite President Bush’s nationwide lead of over 3,000,000 votes.

Edit: C-SPAN interview with NPV co-founder John Koza from March 2019:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?458502-6/washington-journal-jo...
What is so incredible about it?
There is a lot of nuance there. Some soldiers were killed by protesters, but it wasn’t the student protesters rather beijingers who were pissed about the PLA coming into town (the PKU students were already mostly back in their dorms by this point). The soldiers also weren’t armed, this being early and back then they were afraid to just give the soldiers weapons (not all of the PLA agreed with the crackdown). They eventually brought in troops from further away garrisons fully armed that were less sympathetic to the protesters (local garrisons back then were staffed with soldiers from Beijing).

So your colleague wasn’t completely lying, but the truth belies a lot more intrigue. I think this is all in the wiki article.

The biggest problem (at least from the CPC’s point of view) is that the PRC completely lacked non lethal riot suppression capabilities. They literally had nothing in between just standing there unarmed and full on military assault. Afterwards, they built up the PAP (people’s armed police) very quickly, and you can see them often practicing in Beijing.
I think this is kind of the point. If Google’s broad portfolio of products are so coupled together that they massively leverage data/technology from their other products to the point where no startup can meaningfully compete with any of their products, they should be broken up.

I’m sure it was really inconvenient and difficult for the once-shared infrastructure of Standard Oil or AT&T to be broken up among different companies, but it was necessary. Google can’t hold the market hostage because it’s “too big to be split”. Changing the status quo is difficult, but that doesn’t mean “too hard, just leave a monopoly, oh well!”
> Is there anything an early startup employee can do to safeguard against this? Is the only viable exit for a non-C-suite going public?

> Can options be traded / liquidated legally outside of the stock market?

There are secondary markets but many options have provisions forbidding unauthorized trading.
I've always thought the fact that parametric polymorphism always results in monomorphised code is just a temporary deficiency in the language/compiler.

I think if a problem can be solved with either, the default choice should generally be parametric polymorphism rather than subtype polymorphism, simply from a logical point of view.

Haskell is often described as passing around "dictionaries" corresponding to class instances. Presumably Rust could add the same functionality depending on how a type parameter is declared (eg, `fn foo<T: Foo>() ..` denotes a monomorphised function whereas `fn foo<%T: Foo>() ..` could denote a non-monomorphised function which at runtime takes arguments specifying the size and alignment of `T` as well as a vtable corresponding to the `Foo` trait). This would also make polymorphic recursion possible.
I don’t want to be repetitive with my other comments, but I think a good example is environmental regulations CA passes for automobiles effectively setting standards for the country.
> They called for a complete withdrawal of the bill, the withdrawal of the “riot” characterisation of the June 12 protests, the unconditional release of all arrested protesters, the formation of an independent commission of inquiry into police behaviour, as well as universal suffrage.

Which of those things would make you worry, and why?
It's relevant because the numbers could be updated, while still giving the smaller states an entry ticket, while eliminating the only valid arguments against the whole policy (high multiples which are completely disconnected from population - not only when necessary, even among the big fast growing states like Texas).

The other stuff about battleground states would have only a small connection to the electoral college, as even the small states would (still) only have a small amounts of votes, and have more to do with regional political trends.

Of course there will be push back from who ever most benefits currently. But I'm sure the political machines will learn to adapt and adjust for their new markets. There will always be enough moderates to swing both ways. Each only has to focus on the important ones, so changing who is important shouldn't hurt the parties unless they don't like having power.

Re 1850, thanks I updated my comment, I should note that doesn't change the fact they're not static.
"Our" Federal government is currently imprisoning hundreds or thousands of children in squalid conditions. Some of these children are being held in California.

This policy was enacted by a President that lost the popular vote in California, and lost the popular vote nationwide.

That is tyranny.
I have the same concern. I preordered the device but to be honest, I'd be impressed if it shipped by the end of the year considering the final specs were just recently announced and we have yet to see even one completed retail device.
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> Who's getting screwed?

SWE's who do not get hired at all because there are so few competitive ecommerce, search, online advertising, and social networking companies.

From a politician's perspective, it may be a far more powerful vote-getter to have policies where 3X people are employed at $70K than one where X people are employed at $210K.
I wonder what a person from Taiwan might think
> Technically states can secede, mlor form a separate union if they so desire.

Technically, they can't. There is no provision for secession in the US Constitution.

Practically, well, the one notable attempt didn't work out, so not that, either.

> That's also why Senate representation is _NOT_ proportional to population. I suspect that'd be the next thing to be dismantled if whoever is pushing this actually succeeds.

Well, you can't do that through coordinated state action.

Or even a Constitutional amendment. Maybe two amendments, because the provision prohibiting amendments which alter the equal representation in the Senate isn't itself explicitly protected the same way. Of course, small states can easily block a Constitutional amendment, so that's not going to happen unless they are on board.
Hard to make that as a blanket statement. I don't know that I've seen two different teams assemble the same pieces for a React stack.
I bought my place at a ~5% interest rate for 3% down (about 20k). I'll have PMI for a few years but...well, it's nicer than renting.
Otherwise "smart" people can be completely boneheaded politically if they actively choose to be unread about politics, current affairs, history, the arts etc.
It doesn’t look too bad now - but you can tell it’s going to wear pretty quickly
The firebombing would have brought the war industry to a halt but wouldn't have resulted in surrender.

The alternative would have been Operation Downfall, a conventional invasion expected to cause up to 10M casualties and involve chemical weapons.

For scale, the atomic bombings killed ~200K Japanese while the Japanese occupation of China alone killed 20M
Yeah, I'd previously only heard about Zuckerman in passing, but that post really gave me the impression of highly empathetic and considerate person.
First, the number of House reps is no longer proportionate to the population. Second, the layer of indirection as it exists today does nothing. Electors aren’t free to choose a president. They in most cases must elect the person they pledged to elect and if they don’t they instantly get replaced by a new elector who will. What purpose does that serve? Seems to me like we should either buck up and actually allow these people to elect a president, or abolish the whole institution as it currently is a farce.
> It’s definitely hard to explain an idea like SVM, it’s applications, and how it works/what it does without a background in some linear algebra.

I don't actually think this is the case. The basic idea is that you can represent data as points in n-dimensional space and draw decision boundaries in that space. I think most people should at least be able to understand this geometrically for n=2/3 and then accept that it possibly extrapolates to n > 3.
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Why is cannibalism the ultimate taboo for humans?
Why the down votes? Which statement is false?
If this actually happens I am surprised to have not come across a lawsuit about it.
That's how democracy works. If a region wants more say, they should have more people.

No one complains that Lost Springs (population 4) has a "very, very limited say in who becomes the head of the executive branch" of Wyoming. It's same really. It's just lines on a map, nothing to do with state or national identity.
A better choice would be enterprise titans like Java and .NET, more bases are covered. Go's GUI story for example is just endless fragmentation compared to e.g. Java.
Why? None of the demands violate the Joint Declaration or Basic Law.
The thing that many people in the West do not realize is that exposure to Western media actually hardens Chinese perceptions. There are many examples of Chinese students who lived many years in China whose perceptions of their homeland is far different than what they see is being portrayed on CNN/Fox, etc. The reason why this occurs is not that CNN/Fox are factually incorrect but that they tend to focus on sensationalist/negative stories about China.

Therefore it is somewhat naive to think that bringing uncensored information to the Chinese will somehow change their mind. Just look at the inability of people to change pro-China posters in this and many such posts on HN, who presumably have access to uncensored information, and who are often suspected of being "shills" or robots that are part of a Chinese disinformation campaign.
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> I bet most of my beliefs are baloney too, but I have no idea which ones they are.

This is waaay off thread-topic, but this is very very important to recognize and learn to internalize at deeper levels that you probably recognize. I just wanted you to know that I know that you just made a very important first step (and it never stops).
A citation for a decent source about this would be appreciated.

In general, this would be a breach of the board's fiduciary duty to all shareholders.

There may be terms on past financings that ensure a minimum return for investors before common gets paid, but that's different.
Ask HN: Recommended way to store financial time-series based data for trading?
I've been studying and experimenting with this as a hobby and want to get more serious now.

I've been storing using flat files but I now want to experiment with scaling out my ideas and infrastructure to collect my own data raw 24/7 across the globe.

I see various time series databases to use but this doesn't seem clear to me on a winner. I looked at influx, timeseriesdb, and various others. Most of them have material geared towards IoT and not much financial.

I've been considering a stack built entirely on GCP that looks roughly like:

regional injestor (compute) -> pub/sub -> Dataflow -> pub/sub -> firestore and BigQuery

The idea is to allow clients to subscribe to prebuilt aggregation metrics from dataflow/beam and optimize for latency cross-regionally. The automated rules at the most would need to react in seconds not milliseconds. I would be more than happy with a guaranteed rolling window of 5-15 seconds for my most time hungry decisions.

Basic aggregations: OHLC, stdev
Advanced aggregations: values based on custom strategies that would be injected into the feed for a client (automated trading app) to consume and act on.

Is it crazy to do all the rolling window / strategy calculations in the airflow piece of the architecture or does that make more sense in comparison trying to compute it per client?

Visually I am imagining various signals/strategies would be separate airflow templates and a client would subscribe to whatever strategy it wants to use.

Thanks.
"Remove both barriers"

How do you train a neurosurgeon? That level of specialization comes from maybe a few hundred in the U.S. With that level of scarcity (and demand), their time is going to be priced accordingly.
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What if Congress revoked all (or nearly all) implicitly and explicitly delegated powers to the Executive? The jockeying over who runs for President and how we elect them always seems to miss the point that the modern Executive is much too powerful.

Make the Presidency weaker, and then let's have this discussion about how we elect them.
Why can't you imagine anyone do better?

It is easy to see all the good things that happened in China in the last decades, and see the things that work. But I can very easily imagine a better government in China, much like I can do so for the US and in EU countries.

The CCP is running literal concentration camps, is suppressing free speech, using (possibly) questionable economic measures, strongarming other independent countries, censoring and even harvesting organs of prisoners for profit (probably for political elites). And most of those things on a scale previously unimaginable. Furthermore, one might argue (and I am not saying this is black and white) that the process of raising people out of poverty has as much to do with technical progress, foreign trade and China's geographical and demographic makeup, as it has to do with actual policy (and one could therefore imagine even better outcomes!)

I think it is indeed very easy to imagine things going better in China!

That's the entire point, I think. Citizens should be willing and able to be unhappy with their governments, and be able to express this without disappearing. That you can not imagine anyone doing better in China is what the OP was talking about.

Edit: Just to make this clear, I do not want a discussion on the merits of the CCPs policies - everyone can have their own opinion on that - much like for any other country. But the worry is the well rehearsed narrative that China is somehow unique and requires, basically, an iron fist rule. This I have seen many times in discussions with Chinese - saying that all these criticisms may be good and well for other countries, but not for China. And this in the end amounts to unwillingness to question the CCP in any way. And that, I think, is not good.
There is evidence that some additives enhance addiction and that others suppress the side effects from smoking (coughing, burnt throat, feeling ill, etc.) so that when someone quits smoking they have essentially stopped treating themselves for all these side effects, which then appear and make the person feel miserable. Smoking instantly relieves symptoms again (for a while):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2040350/

"Our findings indicated that more than 100 of 599 documented cigarette additives have pharmacological actions that camouflage the odor of environmental tobacco smoke emitted from cigarettes, enhance or maintain nicotine delivery, could increase the addictiveness of cigarettes, and mask symptoms and illnesses associated with smoking behaviors."

So it appears that although nicotine is mildly addictive, commercial tobacco was engineered to suppress the side effects of smoking which essentially made it much more (technically) addictive. Hence quitting tobacco is much more difficult than quitting nicotine because you are also quitting the additives which are suppressing cough and hiding the feeling of illness smoking causes.
Is space-time known not to be quantized? Or is anything?

Does a slide rule or an abacus store information, or does it just "sit there"?
There are numerous folks who openly demand a fully independent Hong Kong, one of them actually ran for Legislative Council[0].

I don't think the reason for people not mentioning independence is because they worry about their personal safety.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leung

edit: full -> fully
Anti-vaxx reasoning can be repackaged for any circumstance. In this case, they look for rare, tragic outcomes in teenagers the proper age for the HPV vaccine, look for temporal correlation, and blame it on the vaccine.
> Murder for cannibalism is unacceptable always. Kafkaesque totalitarianism is unacceptable. Shouting-down opponent speakers is unacceptable. Child rape isn't acceptable because it's "their culture."

I think that almost all cultures would agree that murder and child rape are unacceptable, but "Kafkaesque totalitarianism" and "Shouting-down opponent speakers" is certainly more controversial. [0] The west values democracy and free exchange of ideas, but even in the west failing to uphold those values is not similar to murder.

I am certainly not an expert in Chinese values, but maintaining order and obeying social structure seem to be core values in China. I personally don't think they are worth sacrificing the freedoms the west focuses on, but they are worth trying to keep if you can. Those values would not disallow "Kafkaesque totalitarianism" and "Shouting-down opponent speakers".

[0]: I think wrapping the much less clear cases in between murder and child rape is at worst bad-faith arguing and at best revealing of intense biases.
First, the number of House reps is no longer proportionate to the population.

Yes they are. Each house district has about 750,000 people. You get a bit of deviation because states don't necessarily have a precise multiple of 750k people. Also we only redraw districts every 10 years, so things have drifted a bit since 2010.

But it's pretty close.
Most news focuses on sensationalist or negative stories about anywhere. Otherwise why would people watch it? It isn’t like 7pm in China when all tv stations are playing news about what uplifting things Xi said today.

PRC Chinese have been conditioned into a certain mindset about news that doesn’t exist anywhere else.
Consider this: Every day that Tesla, and the electric car/solar future is delayed, is another $5 Billion of revenue for the oil and gas industry.

There is a strong incentive to spread every possible bad news item about Tesla for all the people in that industry which comprises 2-3 percent of the world's GDP.
Reminded me of the Jobs/iPhone plastic screen story: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/9/20687299/plastic-iphone-go...

Of course, in this case it shipped with the “plastic screen”...
If you removed only California from the popular vote then Hillary lost. The share number of people there still cause Hillary to get the popular vote. Is it fair that 1 state has a controlling share over every other state?
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I think a GUI app in 6MB is hugely impressive.

Windows 3.11 required 4MB of RAM and the whole install took <20MB of disk space, and that's the entire OS with all of its utilities and libraries.

A typical smartphone ships with around 10,000 times this much storage capacity and enough RAM to hold it 100 times over.

The fact that it can hold that much does not make it right to waste resources. To contrast, video or audio is a good use of the space it takes up in general, because there has been and continues to be research in compressing that data, and it's pretty close to being as small as it can practically be. Apps are not a good use of space because we know roughly what the lower limit is --- and the current average is a few orders of magnitude more than that.