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Web 3.0 and its complex nature of on-boarding the non tech savvy ones. A tool like this is indeed needed.

I just remembered I saw this once on steemhunt too, a Steem based product curation platform.
Uber is distorting the market on a scale far beyond any traditional taxi company.
It's not necessary, but efficiency makes prospering easier by lowering the required effort. If efficiency weren't important, nobody would every bother to optimize (aka. plan) anything.

Also note that planning and central planning aren't synonymous. A central planning process makes more efficient use of planning resources, but that doesn't help if the plans it produces are themselves inefficient because they're based on five-year-old statistics someone faked for their personal gain. So far, decentralized planning seems to be more robust overall, and the additional decision-making overhead is small compared to the cost of actually moving things around.

In that sense, it's not even the case that food distribution is currently unplanned; a great deal of effort goes into determining what quantities of various foods should be transported to warehouses all over the world in order to meet future demand. The problem is just that the planners are optimizing their own profit, and keeping the largest possible number of people well-fed isn't profit-maximizing currently.
If there is in reality a glut of drivers, then repeating that there was a lack of drivers would bring in more drivers in spite of the glut, depressing wages.
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Make sure you understand the (at least in the US) tax implications an offer might entail. For example, when your stock vests, you owe income tax on the value of the stock on its vesting day, even if you don’t sell it. (Tax when you sell is capital gains.) You will probably find yourself paying estimated taxes as a result.

(Not an accountant, just someone who’s spent time trying to guess what the stock in my husband’s company might be worth at vesting for the coming year in order to figure out what we might have to pay in estimated taxes, and to figure out where that money might come from as you might be in a position where you can’t sell it to cover the taxes!)
Can we please update the title to reflect that they're still deciding whether to ban them.

Original title: "Trump Administration Weighs Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes"
> but there's a level of taxation that will drive demand down to near-zero.

Tell that to all the people who are still buying weed from dealers in states where recreational is legal (and taxed highly).
No one needs to mix their own juice yet. The difference is when there is no longer an option in the market for pre-mixed juices, amazon will be flooded with various flavouring oils.

Just like how the vaporizers are often sold as for 'potpourri'.
With that mindset yes it’s impossible.
Startups in non big VC states (WA, NY, CA) tend to not have signing bonuses. Every company I'd apply for has some sort of signing bonus, FAANG and not-FAANG.
That depends, do you consider SOAP to fall into the latter category?

If so, no.
High taxes won't stop many smokers from smoking. They just switch to cheaper brands, or buy them through illegal channels. That's how "loosies" became a huge business in poor neighborhoods.
Anyone else remember the voicemail scandal?
> The land of the free, where the government decides what adults can with their own bodies.

I have found that such black-and-white sentiments are common here in the US, and surprisingly missing a lot of very importance nuance.

So... you will never use publicly funded (often emergency) healthcare? Do you really understand the risks that you are taking? Are you sure that the risks have been accurately and understandably explained? Are you sure that only adults will be targeted? Are you sure that commercial interests are not lying or exaggerating to you?

I remember analogous arguments in the late 70's / early 80's regarding the use of seat belts. "It's my body! I know the risks!"

It is the role of a functioning society to find a way to help protect its own members from non-obvious, long-term harm. We can argue if government regulation is the proper outlet, and we can argue about efficiency and details, but... no no sane world does a "I can damned well do whatever I want!" attitude build a safe, equitable society.
Post tax, that's ~5 k$/mo, which is (by choice) roughly my monthly spending as a single/no kids 28-year-old in NYC. It's not a bad lifestyle at all. I personally would feel uncomfortable spending that much if I wasn't also able to save on top of it, but if you disregard that, it's 100% doable
I was about to make the same call. The same thing happened here in Canada when it was shown that the flavoured versions were drawing in kids.
They share a great grandfather, Swiss rabbi Isaac ben Jacob Bernays.
Yeah you’re right, I just multiplied by 7 days. Then again you don’t work 5 days every single week (depends of the location) but 80k is definitely closer to the actual figure.
I was a system administrator with similar responsibilities for several years, and it was quite clear who the system architects were and who the maintainers were. It's a minor point, but speaks to Mr. Snowden's reportedly inflated self-importance.

It's up to all of us to take this report, and news reports and autobiographies, as seriously as you think they deserve. This provides background information not commonly known and is a valuable counter balance to Mr. Snowden's account. How seriously should we take an autobiography written by the person who perpetrated such (in)famous actions?

There is "selective reporting" on all sides, it's up to us to take it all in and form our own opinions. For example: read the report, note Mr. Snowden's length of service at each job, his age and experience, and consider how likely it was that he was a "senior advisor" or a more junior system administrator.

I understand this may be a lost cause, but I'm simply advocating for balance on this issue.
This was all in response to being outside the big 5 being terrible for immigrants, which is clearly wrong.

People go to Vancouver relatively infrequently. It's a hour and 45 minute ferry ride, but then there's basically an hour on each side getting to the ferry plus waiting in line for the ferry(which can be a very long time if it's busy). It's not something people here do regularly. I fly elsewhere more often than I go to Vancouver.

Also lol to town.
Shades of office space! I'm calling it... the crack coder screwed up the instructions files! Instead of redirecting fractional pennies from each employee to his pioneer bank account, he redirected the whole shebang! boom! ruh ohh!
I pay $421/month for health insurance that has a 20% deductible, meaning that I could still be bankrupted by a major surgery or a couple of weeks in the hospital. I would much rather put that $421/month into taxes and have Medicaid or something similar A) keep costs down, and B) ensure an acceptable quality of treatment.

You're likely paying something similar whether you realize it or not. When I quit my job the COBRA cost of the insurance was like $600 or $700/month. It's just that your employer is hiding that cost from you and giving you "free" medical insurance. And when you quit your job, you lose your medical insurance after 6 months. That means you lose access to your doctor and you may have to change who you see. Sometimes the new doctor is way worse, and there is a very real cost to you in terms of their standard of care.

So it's pretty disingenuous to argue that this would be a new tax. And making it illegal for employers to offer health insurance while also expanding Medicaid to all Americans would actually remove a major barrier to quitting your job and EG starting a company or working for a small company.
> HIPAA is a joke because it is perfectly legal to combine other data with the HIPAA anonymized source to identify the individual.

HIPAA may be a joke, but not for this reason.

If information can be re-identified as PHI in any way (including matching phone numbers, birth date, IP addresses, patient account #s, etc.) it doesn't meet the de-identification standard.

Section 164.514(b)

You must remove the 20 types of identifiers, or receive a certification:

"A person with appropriate knowledge of and experience with generally accepted statistical and scientific principles and methods for rendering information not individually identifiable:

Applying such principles and methods, determines that the risk is very small that the information could be used, alone or in combination with other reasonably available information, by an anticipated recipient to identify an individual who is a subject of the information;"

Moreover, your information can only be used for research if you give written permission (Section 164.508). If you have given this permission, you may revoke it for the future.
I claim there isn't a teapot. You claim there is. Who has to provide evidence? What happens when one applies this to claims about an organization?
> I don’t think we are arguing the Pro is nicer, right ?

I didn't watch the entire presentation, but didn't seem very different from current high end phones, except for the camera.
Hi, I'm a technical lead on Procella.

You are correct that Artus shows a significant benefit over Capacitor primarily for point lookups and where indexes can be used. However, we also see better scan performance with Artus today for a few reasons:

1) general purpose compression is used only on disk, not in memory. This decompression cost is then paid only at cache miss time, not on every scan, at the cost of larger in-cache sizes.

2) tighter integration with our evaluation engine allows us to, for example, directly use the on-disk dictionary and run-length encoding at evaluation time rather than just for pushdowns. This could be addressed as we continue to work with the Capacitor team.

3) Artus offers a much wider API surface (beyond just #2 above) and many more on-disk encodings (to some degree, forced by #1), allowing for more optimization opportunities at the cost of increased implementation and client complexity.
Probably not. Demand for investment goods just varies very strongly with economic cycles.
Whenever I hear one of these articles about idea exchange and location's impact on innovation, I always wonder if indie game development is a notable exception. Indie success stories frequently suggest one lone developer (like Stardew Valley's Eric Barone) or an extremely intimate team (like Celeste's Matt Thorson). It seems like breakout hits happen in completely random cities/locations and no one area is the definitive "epicenter of game design".

I highly doubt game design is some notable outlier - it's simply a union of software development and creative industries. I think the only reasonable explanations is that the vibrant community and exchange of ideas happens through the internet. If so, I think there are lessons for other entrepreneurs/industries to follow so they can be less geographically bound.
Hah, that's an interesting trap to be in. It's not dissimilar to pushing wages down in order to qualify for high ACA subsidies. The way the system is set up, there's quite a tax cliff...especially for older people (the difference between $0/month and $1200ish for an individual).
I have been exposed to the argument that prohibition was actually reasonably successful - alcohol abuse and liver cirrhosis hospitalizations went down, crime rates overall did not go up, and there was a net gain to public health.
Isn't that example nearly zero-sum (ignoring the spread)? If the spot price for milk goes down later, Starbucks loses a bit of money. If it goes up, the farmer has effectively "paid" for an advance.

My point is that futures are by construction zero-sum (ignoring spreads) or negative sum (including them). Thus, any analysis that averages across market participants' P&L will conclude that futures trading is unprofitable[0], except for the market makers. This is true regardless of the savvy of market participants.

[0] Obviously, it doesn't capture non-cash considerations. Starbucks and the farmer both might be thrilled with reduced risk. But paper doesn't consider those factors either.
Whoa, that's bad. Fixed now. Submitted title was "FDA Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes".

NYT is known for changing their headlines; did they get this wrong in the first place? If not, the submitted title broke the HN guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It might also discourage other companies from getting into the fraud/scam sector, which would be great.
I agree that there would be a small black market, but it would be just that: small.
I can tolerate the empire that I am a part of because at least I know I can criticize its evil deeds without having them censor every little thing about them... which can potentially convince them to change, not so for the CPC.
> The difference is when there is no option amazon will be flooded with various flavouring oils.

Which is highly likely to increase the percentage of vapers using unsafe ingredients and exacerbate the current health crisis. Hooray for progress!
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(In spite of what I said yesterday,) the reason why a policy change is made is important. I might agree with the policy specifically, but the context matters.
I just left a 4am part time delivery job. The constant interruption and sitting then walking then sitting was hurting me more than daily half marathon or power tools injuries + full time car repair work. And it's slightly below minimum wage. So your health is torn, and you're not even able to plan long term because you earn so few. I can quit (it was a planned interim thing) but my colleagues can not. And they have two jobs.

Since that, I consider any job with a desk a god damn luxury. Bonus point: you have your own toilets.
>Current average diets for wealthy countries are driving climate change that is reducing the ability of less-developed countries to reasonably plan for crops and build their own sustainable food sources.

One of these days we will face the unpleasant facts that:
1. Not all cultures/societies are equal
2. Some cultures/societies are incapable of sustaining themselves due to multiple _internal_ factors, and end up in a vicious cycle of population rises and violent decreases.

Blaming the Western culture might do well for your goals of re-inventing the Western society according to 19th century economic theories, but it won't help anyone in the real world. All the problems of unsustainable societies will stay firmly in place, but you sure will be able to inflict damage on your own societies.
Could its failure actually create opportunity? I'm not quite sure what and what level of failure is necessary, but if WeWork is the market leader and its influence drops, that would make space for innovation?
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This article can’t seem to decide whether it’s discussing ivermectin - an old antiparasitic derived from the avermectin produced by streptomyces - or bacteria.

It vacillates between “ivermectin effective” and “bacteria killed parasite,” which are in no way equivalent. The latter suggests something like “strep killed plasmodium, so maybe we can find the compound used and use it for malaria.” The latter suggests, well, ivermectin is the compound.

God, science journalism from scientifically illiterate rehashes of press releases is always such garbage.

The actual trial they are discussing doesn’t address using bacteria at all. It is directly the question of “if we repeatedly give ivermectin (the drug) to a population, can we reduce malaria transmission?” ( https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... ) studied in 8 villages for 18 weeks during peak malaria season. With approx 75% participation, malaria incidence dropped around 20%.

Please let’s change the link to the Lancet article.
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Absolutely, but that requires advanced fine motor control, understanding of how the instrument lays down color and what multiple layers of color look when on top of each other, and so on.

The naive way to use the instrument, is to run the instrument over the area one or a few times. The simplest way to do that in terms of motor control (e.g. fewest turns) is to run it up and down the longest axis one or more times. That's exactly what a child does.
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Yeah, I came here to say this. The title here suggests that the FDA just banned them. They have not. Misleading at best, straight up lying at worst.
30 years might not be enough for fundamental social change as you describe, but it’s more than enough for China to become a major economical player.

While I of course admire the idea of the west standing up to China, the reality is that the free market is large, and doesn’t necessarily care.

In the end I think it’s mostly important to get rid of our “addiction” to cheap factories and production in China, as it proves problematic long-term.
Don't all of these work equally well on the non-Pro version?
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Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20929796

From recent months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20535474

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717697

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18716016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17968645
It's worth mentioning that Altria was previously known as Phillip Morris. The Phillip Morris you're referencing is Phillip Morris International. It was split off from Altria in 2008. So as far as egregious mergers go, this isn't it. This is getting the band back together.
They are employees now they don't like the shift they get fired.
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How does the law prevent you from working under your own LLC?
Google wasn't in Austin when I left three years ago, and Amazon was fairly small. I can't comment on what the market in Dallas looks like now.
I disagree. A well-rested mind is almost categorically different than a 5-hour-a-night mind. It doesn't matter how hard you work if you're unable to have the insight that the thing you're working on doesn't matter or you need to make some other strategic change.
Is it just me who thinks really weird the idea of "working" without producing anything?
These are separate issues - there is a clear close corollary to flavored e-cigs which is conventional cigarettes - the flavored versions have been banned. Banning other flavored stuff might be a good idea but is entirely beside the point.
Probably indication for the OP that such groups are still out there, rather than leaving it open to interpretation that reddit has finally absorbed the last of such groups.
It could be like Macau. Which has a really high standard of living and quality of life. Hence no protests there.
Even faster and more delicious in a pressure cooker.
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1. No, there is no way to visit other branches.

2. The benefit is that it's a very direct translation of the math into concepts. If you actually build the mathematical model, the "other worlds" are right there in the model, as the other half of a superposition.

It doesn't go away. You just can't get to it. Nor can you ignore it, because it's sitting there as a term in the equation, persisting as you evolve it over time. It just becomes smaller and smaller without ever becoming zero. That's why you observe a classical universe even though it's really quantum: the odds of the other parts of a superposition having an effect are on the order of Avogadro's-number-to-1 against.

Copenhagen works by just arbitrarily defining that number as zero, which is easy to work with but conceptually incomplete. MWI keeps it there in another "world", which is more in keeping with the math but unedifying because it sounds so unfalsifiable.

Hope that helps. (Which is always code for "... but it probably doesn't", I'm afraid.)
Lest anyone leave confused, this only applies for privately-held companies.

If you are entertaining an offer from Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, etc., when your shares vest, the default option is usually "sell to cover", which means they will automatically sell shares to use as a tax withholding. Everything will be on your W-2, no estimated taxes needed.
His blog also mentions that he's ghostwritten a few hundred letters to various financial institutions in order to resolve errors in credit reports (https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...).
One final step: Cachet is cancelling all of the reversals so everybody should finish up with their usual pay. Of course, this leaves Cachet with a $26 million problem, but this seems to be the least worst short term solution.
What water? None of it leaves the planet. If you want enough clean water, build a nuclear reactor and hook it up to desalination plants.
Something like 90% of adults consume alcohol. Banning tobacco would not have the same effect as the 18th Amendment.
He's suggesting e-bikes which won't go fast enough to get you where you're going, not to mention that there's very little infrastructure support for biking.

E-motorcyles maybe, but they're not comfortable at all.

MicroCars (they already exist in india: The Tata) are completely illegal in the US. There's so much regulation on car companies these days, there's very little room to innovate, especially with smaller cars which are pretty much illegal these days.
The salaries for the FAANG companies are dramatically higher than even other large Silicon Valley companies. Over four years ago my first job after graduating with a MS in computer science was at an old-school Silicon Valley giant. My offer was $100,000, roughly $2,500 of stock that vested over 3 years (with a one-year cliff), and I negotiated a signing bonus that was a little less than $4,000. While the salary was about at par with what FAANG companies offered at the time to those with similar credentials, the rest of my compensation was a far cry from the offers I've heard of from the FAANG companies.

Given the large differences in compensation (which makes a big difference when trying to save for a house in this area), I wonder how older Silicon Valley giants are able to compete with FAANG companies? Startups can justify lower compensation since there is the possibility the startup would be very successful. I wonder for giants if the difference largely boils down to interviewing processes? I do know that getting into a FAANG company is difficult and requires many months of grinding LeetCode, whereas not all Silicon Valley companies have difficult interviews.
I don't find that 'dissatisfied' or 'discontent' imply a previous satisfaction or contentment.
Same here. As a... let's say, cinema-newbie, I found the Every Frame a Painting channel simply fascinating. I devoured every chapter in a short time. To me this kind of channels is a triumph, what YouTube can be and should strive to be.

I think they did overreach with some conclusions. For example, his "obvious" conclusion about the story told by the edition in the clip with the father and the two young daughters wasn't at all obvious to me (and judging by the comments on that video, a lot of other viewers didn't get it either). I suppose it's part of the subconscious knowledge someone in the industry has which someone outside doesn't.