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>Its lack of a strong homeland defensive posture on infrastructure has emboldened regional powers like China, Russia, and Iran to assert themselves over local NATO allies without fear of US retaliation.

First, calling these issues "homeland defensive postures" makes no sense.

I don't understand how you can view the current situation as "regional powers asserting themselves." NATO now borders Russia and the US effectively controls two states bordering Iran. The only bold moves any of those states has made was Russia's move into Crimea, but even that was Russia preventing their port from switching over to NATO.
His recent book, "The Peripheral", describes a world deeply affected by climate change and other problems.
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I push all our spending through a 2% cash back capitalone business visa. Can't find a better cashback rate, though you could run multiple cards through different vendors with their own credit cards, but you get diminishing returns. If you are a big amazon spender (products, not AWS), it makes sense to do an amazon visa, and then the capital one for everything else.

It's really easy to believe the deal when you look at your interchange rates. The Capital One that I mention above has 2.3% interchange rate, so the merchants who take it get hit much harder than other cards. Capital One, stripe, amex etc are all still making a killing on these cards, they just do it on the backs of the merchants who accept them.

Based off our business spending on our card, which isn't extreme by any measures (18 employees, bootstrapped and cash flow positive, doing fairly decent), it probably beats that stripe card even with the processing fee bump.
If your cities immediately turn into "tribal warzones" when they lose utilities, you've definitely made some governance failures well before the cyberattack.
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"I'm not a fan of all these moves to treat drivers as employees for one simple reason: you can drive for more than one company at the same time."

The reality isn't because of Uber and Lyft, it's because of Pizza Companies. When a company like Papa John's spins off itself and makes a company called "Red Delivery Guy" which they claim you're an independent contractor for, and then uses that company to rip off its employees (this actually happened with the Papa John's on Chicago Ave in Riverside, CA, illegally taking employee tips, classifying them as IC when they're in fact employees, etc.)

Ubar and Lyft are just following that particular scam started by pizza companies. Hit the pizza companies instead of Uber and Lyft and you would see this practice disappear almost overnight.
I was totally surprised. I figured all Tesla batteries would be made of interchangeable Lego-like modules.
The reasons people end up with medical debt(being underinsured, etc) are absolutely not a state issue and directly related to industry lobbying.
Sometimes the EU can be a bit too strong on consumer rights. For example, while charging excessive "processing fees" for accepting payment by card was a common scam, cards often do cost more to process than various other forms of payment here, and under the EU's latest PSD rules all surcharges for card use have been banned, even those that really did only cover the additional cost of the transaction.
ZH does have a lot of conspiracy type articles that directly state that major world changing events aren't really and that we are being lied to about them which makes me question how much they of what they produce is based on facts and how much is based on their conspiratorial way of thinking. It makes it hard to trust what they are saying sometimes.
from the air that it takes in, just like lungs do
On a side note, I've been forced to install The Great Suspender[0] extension because so many non-active tabs will simply take over CPU usage in Chrome.

When a single tab spikes my laptop's power usage from 14.9W to 35W+ there is something terribly wrong with the design.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...
NeXT was making money at the end, and powered OS X for a lot of years. Taligent released a framework and died. I love Be but it wasn't in the same league as NeXTSTEP, and I had both at the time.
> a time of strong regional powers rather than global hegemony

A.K.A. a time of war, like the ones that rocked Europe and the rest of the world through the 19th and early 20th century, as regional powers struggle to become the new global hegemony.

Those who desire an end to the Pax Americana, be careful what you wish for.
Can you explain what makes handling cash is so expensive? honest question.
On top of that, Tesla has ridiculous 0-100km/h. Especially compared to most boring slow heavy SUVs.
The dependency array is the single most important improvement that hooks bring over lifecycle methods.

You're component gets rerendered when the array changes and not when you got the right mix of lifecycle methods going.

But yes, it's not always obvious what changes you really care for.
This feels like a simple strawman. The problem is called global warming, not global deoxygenation.
Are they better off if Uber and Lyft go out of business and they have no jobs? Presumably if they had a better option they would be doing it.
Mind to extend your comment?
My guess is that Brex is more geared towards Silicon Valley VC funded startups - they look at how much money you have in your bank when setting your credit limit (it’s essentially a charge card if I’m using the terminology right - your credit limit is basically what’s in your bank account). The rewards are also more appealing than this iteration of the Stripe corporate card - 7x rideshare, 4x travel, 3x restaurants. Again, my guess is that Stripe is aimed to businesses that don’t fall into the traditional VC startup model - but maybe the rewards will become enticing enough that they will be competitive with Brex in that area in the future as well.

You also can’t discount Stripe’s Connect API - could see this being used in tandem with that for some interesting ideas

Edit: taking a closer look - they also integrate into services like Expensify and if you use their card, first $50k of payment processing is free so that’s also interesting. If you’re paying sticker price, that comes out to something like $1500
Stripe has been receiving a suspicious amount of praise from HN. Really beginning to wonder if this is all organic at this point. Obviously lots of employees in the comments which they are not hiding that fact. But still makes me want to dig deeper than the surface (as everyone should).
"Noticing". Thanks.

I feel weird saying I've "discovered" or "found" something that's merely new to me. I left "uncovered" untried, because I don't consider myself that clever.

I'll try "noticed" and see if it flows better.
I agree. It took me a long time to learn that I'm interviewing them as much as the other way around. I learned a lot watching football (soccer) and the behavior of players with respect to their contracts. They are paid up front for services they are expected to provide. Sometimes their salary is low but they agree to high performance bonus. In the past my attitude was that I just want a job that pays the most money. I was taught in school how to interview. But, I learned that there is more to it.
>> whether it’s through phishing emails or data breaches

>A VPN won't protect you from those, at all.

They aren't claiming that when you don't take it out of context:

>There are many ways that your personal information and data are exposed: online threats are everywhere, whether it’s through phishing emails or data breaches. You may often find yourself taking advantage of the free WiFi at the doctor’s office, airport or a cafe. There can be dozens of people using the same network — casually checking the web and getting social media updates. This leaves your personal information vulnerable to those who may be lurking, waiting to take advantage of this situation to gain access to your personal info.

They are trying to claim that public wifi is another threat alongside phishing and data breaches, not that this product protects you from the latter two.
Yes we fall for it. We have people setting up LLCs (essentially"disposable" shell companies) to buy up real estate. Then to avoid real estate taxes they sell the LLC, which avoids triggering a "sale" of the real estate property. This is perfectly legal. Every landlord I've rented from in California has done this.
If average temps go up 5°C (the current fear is that 2°C is the deadline, and at 3°C we're experiencing CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE including major loss of breadbasket regions, mass famine leading to mass revolt (think Arab Spring x 100)) then we are long, long past the current idea of modern civilization, billions of humans etc. At 5°C I bet 75% of world population has died to either lack of resources or wars over scarce resources.

https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-3/

I'd link more to IPCC but their website appears down, so sorry.

I will say that the 5 degree scenario is called the "RCP 8.5" and is basically the worst disaster scenario published here https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-011-0149-y
I'm really pleased to see Django is still going strong. I started using it since version 0.96 and have been in love ever since.

I'm currently supporting two major business applications built on Django (custom ERP/CRM software) and the speed with which our teams can develop new features is astounding.
Any software in the modern era that isn't upgraded for new OSes or security patched is dead.
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Epstein Was a Known Sex Offender. Bezos, Musk, and Brin Dined with Him Anyway
> WeWork could cut the valuation for its IPO to under $20 billion and may even postpone the offering, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources. The company had been valued at $47 billion in its last fundraising round.

> According to the report, SoftBank is concerned that if WeWork goes public at a valuation much lower than its private-market valuation, it might hurt the firm's ability to raise its second Vision Fund, hence its choice to pressure the company into dropping its IPO plans.
Uber and Lyft could not feasibly maintain the scale of operations if everyone driving for Uber worked only for supplemental income.
There’s literally no risk for them. It’s yet another vertical business that isn’t addicted to the fees and they know you’re going to continue to use them for payment processing so the CAC for a corporate customer at ~$1500 or so is dirt cheap for the LTV that they(you) provide.
@mods or whoever we need (2014) added to the title.
If I recall my bio class right, the oxygen in the CO2 goes into the production of carbohydrates. The oxygen released as waste comes from split water molecules (photosynthesis requires both CO2 and H20.)
I've met plenty of people who respond like that without it being a joke, so if you're going for over-the-top you're undershooting the mark quite a bit.
That seems a bit unfair.

There are some weird edge cases with useEffect, no question.

I don’t think they’re bad enough to want to go back to using classes... but I think the OPs post was a bit more specific than you’re giving them credit for, and they stuff like useAsyncEffect exists because it is a common pain point.

For example, this useRef / useEffect combo mystifies me even now: https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-ts-zhvuha

The behaviour is weird sometimes; just because you can use the trivial use case easily doesn’t mean you won’t stumble, and if you do, good luck trying to understand what went wrong.

> ...they're very simple to understand...

They’re not simple.

They just superficially appear simple, which is good enough most of the time.

I think it’s entirely fair to complain that’s not ideal... even if you still think there’s a major benefit to the trade off compared to classes (which I do think is true too).

...but I’m very sympathetic to people hitting edge cases.
It's unlikely you start writing Hebrew or Greek someday.

And even so, that minification can be automated.
The story here is about innovation, employment contracts, and rights to one's own creativity as an employee.

The text here doesn't do full justice to the interview, I strongly recommend listening to the podcast episode if you can:

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/1... (MP3)

The subject of the interview is author Orly Lobel (https://www.sandiego.edu/law/faculty/biography.php?profile_i...) and her book You Don't Own Me (https://www.worldcat.org/title/you-dont-own-me-the-court-bat...)

There's an earlier New Yorker article by Jill Lapore, focusing on both the social and feminist aspects of Barbie, and the intellectual property elements of the story:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/when-barbie-we...
Biggest lesson I learned here: Long-lived TTLs for MX records seem ideal to prevent an custom-domain email takeover.

The bigger risk these days is how easy it is to lose your phone number, which seems to be the trendy way to break into accounts. Using Google Voice for SMS 2FA seems like an OK workaround until companies get a clue that phone numbers are barely tied to their user if access to the user's account is desired.

Welp, I wish Cloudflare would add Yubikey support now too to make it easier to lock down account.
If you're going to post comments like this, please at least make an effort to read some of the content of the thing you are arguing against. In this case it is very clearly explained in multiple places that the proposed bill utilizes the ABC test to determine whether a person is a contractor or employee.

Furthermore, working for multiple companies has absolutely nothing at all to do with whether you are an employee or not. There is nothing preventing a normal W2 FTE from working for two companies, provided their employee contracts allow it and they're able to sustain the hours.

You also seem to be making the argument that since some rideshare drivers only work a few hours a week, the ones who drive full time should just suck it up for less than minimum wage and no benefits.
Isn't worrying about he wrong thing is their historical track record? Whenever they aren't actually measuring something directly intelligence agencies seem to rely on their paranoia, which makes for a poor tool to extrapolate with.
The vibe I got from WeWork is that the CEO was phony but not fraud, and he joking admitted his ridiculous plans, and investors said yes assuming all the financially ridiculous stuff was a joke. Or it was an attention play where he got as far as he could by betting investors wouldn't read the fine print until they had too much sunk cost and had to pray for a miracle exit.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Innovation and healthy competition in adtech space is a problem; the industry needs to die, not grow.
I work at Stripe. Prior to doing so, I fed my family out of a Stripe account for 6+ years.

We're keenly aware of the importance of not messing with our customers' finances in this fashion, not the least because startups are both a core customer segment to us and the heart of what we do. Our policies are tuned around the realities of startups; we get launch days.

If anyone on HN ever feels like we’re slipping, I will do anything in my power to fix that; my email address is my HN handle at stripe.com
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400 comments when it was originally announced last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20886972
Probably, but the care the Fortran folks take to not break anything but still evolve a modern language is amazing.
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Some are motivated to hyperbolize about the wildfires in Brazil in order to craft a narrative that Bolsonaro is ushering in the apocalypse. There’s wildfires in Bolivia but no one is blaming socialism (Evo Morales).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/02/bolivia-evo-mo...
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The problem seems to be that there's quite a bit of nuance in the article, but most people won't remember that if they even manage to read through it. They might however remember and pass on the clickbaity headline as it conveniently fits their climate change denial agenda.
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The tax is only on the gains of the worth of the spend Bitcoin. If you buy a Bitcoin and immediately spend it on something, there will be no gain, so $0,00 taxes.

If you bought a Bitcoin when it was $5000 and you spend 0.2 Bitcoin today (now they're ~$10000 a piece) you would need to report $1000 of capital gains.

You could argue that would make your 0.2 Bitcoin / $2000 purchase cost more, because you have to add the tax. On the other hand, if you sell those Bitcoin later, you would have to pay those capital gains tax anyway.

The story does become a bit more complex when you factor in long-term vs short-term capital gains tax.
It says he was offered $50k USD for it, so that's how he's valuing it. They can prohibit transfer in writing, but not much they can do about it.
Don’t forget the weird cultish vibe of WeWork, like the forced summer camp, etc. This alone tells you something is very wrong.
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Not to sound like a jerk but I cannot help but think this dude is whining about very petty issues. I read the article and found it to contain very weak arguments.

I totally can relate to the frustration when learning new stuff, especially when you have done things one way for years. Personally, the first month or so that I used hooks in react, it wasn’t pleasant, mostly due to me being uncomfortable with the additional load of learning this new convention.

Suck it up buttercup ;)
> Governments will become less and less powerful.

And why would governments accept this?
Right. I never heard of Regus until I needed to work from home. Then I searched for co-working space and voila Regus name on every building I found.
I am disgusted with society and the way they want ban everything for sake of alleged safety.
If someone is driving for ten hours a day, they're ten times more likely to be your driver than someone who drives for five hours a week. So your two represents around twenty part time drivers. That's a significant number of people you're booting out of having a supplemental income.
Rare? Regus was widespread in this space before WeWork was a twinkle in Adam Neumann's eye.
Not really, Raynor said: 2/3 of people who don’t have Medicare

So he was excluding some but not all people who received government funded insurance. Which is why I was pointing out that was a very odd way of counting.
>it all piles up on the narrative that the consequences of climate change are really not that bad

Does it? I read the article to be saying "you should be much much more concerned with the burning of fossil fuels than a forest." I read the article to be an attack on sensational journalism distracting people from the crux of the discussion. Its further point is that being concerned about oxygen and not temperatures rising is a logical error.
Agreed; this is excellent news! A highly competent and principled government should be a considered a good thing regardless of where you stand on the whole "big tech" debate.
What are you talking about? Django maintenance policy is clear as day, extremely mature with predictable deprecation cycles with plenty of heads up.

Code is alive and needs maintenance. Period. You cannot expect simultaneously a modern framework with eternal backwards compatibility and security gaps.
The car thing is another big one. Almost every car, truck, or SUV made in the past few years has a cellular connection, either for tracking purposes or infotainment. A determined attacker could probably just shut down 10-20% of cars in the country, a number which is increasing every year.
> Who doesn't want that? Of course you want that.

If you only have a couple of servers you probably want to think of them as individual machines rather than abstract resources. A lot of equations simplify when you set x to 1.
I didn't know that, thanks. That is probably where she has got it from. She's English, however her partner is French but grew up in the UK.
>They have never lasted because balances of power shift

This is often the result of one side claiming everyone is about to attack them and massively increasing their military budget.
Not the parent, but one reading of that comment is that the concern is not that the truth shouldn't be shared. I think being truthful is important, but the spin of the article minimizes the impact of climate change.
> having the earth temperature go up 5 degrees would kill most phytoplankton

See... but this is the kind of thing that leads to this kind of both-sides-ist article in the first place. In fact there are innumerable species of phytoplankton and other primary photosynthesizers, lots of which would be very happy to migrate toward the poles as the oceans warm. The planet may be warming rapidly, but it's been warmer in the geologic past and the microbial ecosystems did just fine.

Obviously bigger organisms are going to be terribly disrupted (and for bigger fauna the beginning of a mass extinction already seems to be under way). This is, y'know, outrageously bad.

But predictions of the end of life on earth are just feeding the right wing meme that liberals are irrational and opening the door for journalists to push this kind of "It's not so bad"[1] article as "balance". We need to be serious with our criticism. Urgency doesn't require sensationalism.

[1] To be fair, not having read the complete thing yet: the text of the article seems really quite good. It's not whitewashing anything I can see. But the theme and headline are still a variation on "environmentalists are idiots".
Yep, 4 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20888817
The radical transparency is refreshing. WeWork became We because it doesn't work.
We're slowly refactoring our class-heavy React app to functional components with hooks.

One thing we haven't been able to replace, though, are classes that depend on refs. How to do this, since there's no instance with functions like there are with classes?
Actually they did publish a functioning app, on their own site. Which was taken down after Apple contacted them.

https://justgetflux.com/sideload/
If you handle enough of it, you probably wind up contracting with an armored car company to come collect it. Some gets lost or stolen, coins have to be rolled up for deposit, etc.
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Did you actually serve the full two years? That would've had you getting out pretty recently.
C++ is easier than C
> having the earth temperature go up 5 degrees would kill most phytoplankton, and that would end the oxygen supply (eventually)

The global average temperature has been higher than that in the past, and there was plenty of oxygen in the atmosphere.
It's not, though. Hence why if you're more intelligent, you're more likely to be liberal. "Liberalism" is a set of values.
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