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Every percentage counts. All of that is revenue applied to the company. Multiply it by 15 shows, you have residual income in the billions per year. That may be money to sneeze at, but at the end of the day, a billion dollars or not may be the difference between having the funding to launch 10 more shows or not.
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Why many people lost they are faith..are you part of they?
Equifax cannot afford to pay $125 to each member of the potential class. It's way above their revenue, let alone profit. So they would go bankrupt and whatever cash is on hand would be divvied up. The credit information would presumably be sold to the highest bidder.

How about the FTC instead agrees that identities cannot be stolen and puts companies on the hook for the money they lose by not verifying identity. You have an account with a bank and they give the money to a fraudster? Well, then they have to credit your account and go looking for the money. Someone opens a loan in your name? The company has to pay you for the time spent removing their garbage from the credit report and they have to go get the money back from the fraudster. Why not just remove the bite from identity theft?
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This. You don’t need to orchestrate mob-like behavior on Reddit, it’s already full of people who like mobbing. The most outside interference you need is (maybe) privately stoking a few radicals to action and letting them inspire the rest of the mob.
Amazon does co-mingle their own stock with marketplace stock, although exactly how often and for what items they do so is unknown. The board game industry has been hit hard by counterfeits (it's really not that hard to print a game), and there are many reports of people ordering games sold-and-shipped-by-amazon, and getting a counterfeit:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1983918/warning-seems-be-lo...

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1923659/amazon-counterfeits
I see it as a moat for their core e-commerce business. Competitors will be forced to offer a similar experience and will likely burn a ton of capital to set that up. So not a revenue play in the near term, but it's something that keeps competitors out.
Major publishers are already in bed with Apple News, which is preinstalled on iPhones and iPads. Brave is my goto mobile browser, but it's slow on desktop and its market share is practically zero.
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I kind of want to see Firefox 100
Pick one framework – any is fine – and finish the (or a) minimal version of a basic simple app.

I'd suggest minimizing, or even ignoring, JavaScript. A really basic CRUD app doesn't need any.
Curious if anyone here has evaluated any of these models? I’ve done a cursory search and haven’t found a source to play with. I’m curious to know what variables were included, what variables were excluded, how the future is being predicted, and to what degree the creators any of these models have been accurate in predicting the future previously.

Does anyone have a good explanation as to why it’s prudent to attempt to predict anything about anything 80 years in the future?

Also curious if there is evidence of predicting the future in any field. If so, I’m wondering what the accuracy rate is one month out, one year out, five years out, etc.

I’ve done some modeling with sales data, trying to predict demand in a given market based on a series of variables. The issue is how much weight to put on each variable. With lots of market research and historical data, we were able to get decent estimates a couple of months in the future. Beyond that? It was complete speculation. Especially if we missed an important variable, which is common, since its impossible to know what variables will (and won’t) be relevant in the future.

I imagine climate modeling is more complex than my sales models, meaning more variables that were included, more variables that were excluded (especially the ones that are unknown unknowns), and a much larger margin for error (especially as time increases).

I raise this as I haven’t seen any push back from the HN community on articles like this. Not sure if I’m missing something, if it’s political bias, or a fear of ostracized for questioning these reports. Either way, I’d be fascinated to see some deeper analysis on the topic from the minds on this forum.

Have humans ever created a complex model that has enabled us to predict the future with any degree of accuracy? If so, how far into the future and with what degree of accuracy? If not, what is the purpose of a model extrapolated out to 2100?

Trying to imagine when technology will reach X milestone (AGI, for example) reminds me that it’s probably wise to be less sure of our predictions. The last US presidential election reminded me of this too.
I think most people, especially in America, are very much for free speech. But inertia. And that inertia is especially pronounced when the mobs are going after somebody you don't agree with. Like the old poem goes:

- First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.

- Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

- Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

- Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak for me.

That holds very true to this day in America. I really vehemently disagree with Stallman's views in many ways. So it's easy to not say anything, yet I do believe he has a right to say the things he does without getting depersoned. In any case I'd much rather the people that do abide his views do so publicly rather than in secret.

But beyond this, I think he chose a reasonable hill to die on. He undoubtedly knew his comments would spark a mob in the zeitgeist of today, but they really are about as tepid as you could get. He was saying it was a bad idea for terms, even if legally accurate, to be used in general speech when they mislead people as to the nature of a situation. If that's the new standard for moving from words to 'let's get rid of this guy', we may not even have a standard. And I think that's a point that will resonate for more and more people. Even if these people might be afraid to speak out for fear of becoming the mobs' next target, it helps bring about a positive change in society.

An analogy I love to consider is Lincoln. Did Lincoln end slavery and direct society accordingly or did society reach a point such that the creation of a Lincoln was, sooner or later, inevitable - even if by another name? And I think things like this bring us ever closer to creating our Lincoln because solving the problems of social media is not something that's going to be done in a clean fashion.
On-premise hosting. This is so important to organizations that can't use internet hosted services, for all sorts of various reasons.
can you check which post was earlier?
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> How about the FTC instead agrees that identities cannot be stolen

Well, sure, if identities cannot be stolen, the whole problem is solved.
Personally, I don't like the chirpiness and faux motivation plastered everywhere. I don't need to be told by posters that my work matters or that "Thank God it's Friday!". I never wanted to be a part of that corporate culture which is why I pursued my own freelance career.

I guess some people don't mind that, but to me, it got too nauseating too quickly.

At my location, it also seems that outside of the dedicated desk area (which is where I sit), a lot of people are there just to get laid. Nothing wrong with that, but that's something I've only found at WeWork of all the coworking places I've been to.
There is definitely a bit of that. A decade ago, the provinces would even under report their numbers for various reasons. But no one can deny that China has had growth, and GDP added activities include things like tearing down a building and building another one in its place, or simply having the building appreciate in value, so GDP itself is not a great measure.
> If Stallman's position is wrong, we should be able to rationally come to that conclusion as a society. He should be allowed to be wrong.

I share this frustration, unfortunately with many HN discussions as well.

When someone states a position that the majority finds repugnant, IMHO the most productive (long-term) approach is this:

Step 1. Identify where the minority and majority views diverge in terms of logical justification. With majority-repugnant views, this may require going back to very basic assumptions. E.g., rape is morally wrong, it's appropriate public policy to prevent moral wrongs, etc.

Step 2. Starting from there, try to understand why the views diverge, and debate which side (if either) has better justification.

I think this approach fails at least half the times I try it, though. A few guesses why:

- During Step 1, people jump to the assumption that I'm advocating the majority-repugnant position, rather than working within this two-step process. Once my character / motives are impugned, reasoned discussion seems to end.

- Many people are unable to engage in logical debate regarding ethics. And in frustration, or to subconsciously avoid having to accept that gaps exist in their ability to logically debate some topics, they are unwilling to engage in proper debate.

- Something in my mannerism is off-putting, or I'm in a forum where few people are willing to engage in a debate lasting more than several minutes :(
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Global Standards can be included in that list, here is one example called Signalling System 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7#Protoc...

Caller ID uses a protocol used by dial up modems, which means the telecoms hardware supporting it, is in effect, a dialup modem which makes life easier for security services to remotely access systems once they have updated the firmware on telecoms hardware, for a persistent backdoor.
Since this was an op-ed with a half-assed mix of anecdote and cherry-picked stats, I'll add my own from one of the more rural Canadian provinces.

The small towns and smaller farms that are doing well are those that are within reasonable commuting range of the bigger centers. The ones that aren't, aren't, and are still undergoing rapid depopulation and farm consolidation into very-large commodity crop growers (canola, wheat, pulses, beef/pork).

The success of rural-heavy jurisdictions of North America are those that will give up on the losing fight to keep every small town alive and start investing in the job-creating urban areas. However, the Conservative/Republican parties that are often in power in these areas know they depend on their rural base and often do the opposite, spending money on highways and crop subsidies rather than transit and education.
There are tech jobs in the northern part of the state. Lots of government contractor shops around. Pay is... well... government pay, but the cost of living is ridiculously cheap. My girlfriend is from Moundsville, and she thinks of the Morgantown area as urban... so I guess we could be more rural.
We're talking facts (biological ones in this case), you clearly aren't. Edit: missing parenthesis
The sad thing about aging - the body and mind (metaphysical mind, not the brain itself) don't necessarily age at the same rate.
It's completely normal and human to want to be productive and contribute. About half of the work that gets done is paid work. The rest, parenting, diy, housework, cooking, volunteering, creative work, is not. This work is done out of a spirit of generosity and/or reciprocity. To exploit that work without reciprocity undermines society. To be generous to billionaires is insanity. Markets are great and all (competition can be fun, after all) but they aren't in accord with every aspect of human nature. Life is better for people when they feel like they express their creative and generous aspect without being a sucker.
The world wants fewer people justifying pedophiles.
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> statistically speaking on a global scale, being a woman is an obstacle

I think it's important to add the concept of "financial," "independence," or "power" somewhere in here.

AFAICT, these are the only things that matter to people, so it's a pretty big deal to have your sex/gender be an obstacle towards them. But the overall equation of happiness has a bit more variables.

Ultimately, I meet (on average) about the same amount of unhappy men as women, so from a happiness perspective it would appear that neither men nor women are winning and focusing on money and power instead of well-being is short sighted.

Like maybe we should quit arguing which gender gets the most money and try to figure out what makes a human happy.
For all things not purchased with debt, this is true. But look at the housing market. Or, consider industries with severe information asymmetry: see the healthcare industry. Raising prices is no problem for two of the most expensive line items in a middle class household's budget.

For everyone else, it's probably best to start with high prices.
The correct acronym is actually CPC (Communist Party China), but English speakers often use CCP to mean CPC.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China
Eh, I feel like if you were just trying to whitewash your reputation, effective altruism wouldn't be the way to do it.

You could get a lot more PR per dollar spending on something more emotional, less abstract, and more visible to the people he's trying to influence than the kinds of issues he works on.

He seems to spend more coherently with what you'd do if you were trying to actually do good than if you were just trying to optimize PR.
And there's nothing wrong with prostitution per se.
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I think a CISO or CEO going to jail would send a strong message to the rest of the business community.
I'm being pedantic here, but the reason I prefer pull is because it feels more general than a "merge," which to me precludes a fetch/rebase. I guess you could consider it a merge -ff-only, but in a mergeless-master workflow, "merge request" felt awkward.
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> Nobody is doing anything they don't want to do.

This is such a red herring. There are plenty of ways we can look at this situation that don't involve unreserved consent.
I don’t think that’s what slowdown means. They are still speeding up just accelerating less.
"In 2008, it was estimated 216,000[2] inmates were sexually assaulted while serving time, according to the Department of Justice figures.

That is compared to 90,479[3] rape cases outside of prison."[1]

Men are 92% of the prison population[4]

[1]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-men-ra...

[2]https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=317

[3]https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible...

[4]https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende...
Back when social networks were the new hip thing in startup land and dev tools were not, GitHub ran the tagline "Social Coding".
Because efficient is not the same concept as cheap.

It is not precisely the same concept as cheap, but I think you are mistaken about efficiency. Economic efficiency means that goods are produced at the lowest possible average total cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_efficiency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_cost

A wide range of economic goods have a lower average cost in rural areas. Anything from a 5 bedroom house to a case of Bud Light.

Urban areas are inefficient for most goods. They are popular not because of their general efficiency, but because they have better-paying jobs.
The irony of the parent comment and these three nested replies is that all four are "just like your opinion, man"

In Portuguese, we have a word for this, "achismo", which is a play on the word machismo and the verb achar, which means "to think" as in "I think ...".

It's all opinions all the way down.
> more men are victims of violent crime

This stat is skewed twice: first, by the larger percentage of men involved in bilateral violent altercations (barfights, gang violence, etc), and second, by the low reporting rates of domestic violence (women are more likely to be the victims, though there are male victims of domestic violence as well).

> more men are unemployed

This is only the case for a few age brackets (16-24, 55-64): https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/NEWSTATS/latest/unemployment.ht...

That doesn't help much from age 25-54 or 65+. Assuming beginning work at 16 and retirement at 65, the man is likely to have the advantage in an arbitrary year of one's working life. The aggregate numbers shift the other way because population growth puts more people in the younger cohorts.

> more men are homeless

Granted.

> more men commit suicide

Granted.

> fewer men go to college

I'm not sure this stat is representative, but I don't feel like doing any more research so I will grant this one.
What? I literally grew up in the ghetto, I can say from firsthand experience there is no lack of opportunity preventing anyone from moving up out of the ghetto. The only thing holding me back were others who wanted to stay in the ghetto.

I never said anything about laziness or unworthiness, don't lump my experience or comments with some other group you have imagined.

And lastly, I will not change my perception on anything. I have first-hand experience of having my life threatened because I was on the wrong side of the street at the wrong time, or I declined to do something for someone who couldn't take no for an answer, or I simply walked a certain way. These experiences won't be diluted so that you can co-opt them to influence others on your ideology.
The issue is that the girl was 17.

Who owned the island is not relevant, how much money they make is not relevant, and whether they're Stallman's friend is not relevant to either the morality or legality of the matter. Being wealthy or old is not a crime.

Stallman's controversial comment was:

> “it is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”

Whether you agree or disagree that is a reasonable statement to make.
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I see it as emblematic of weak people who don't want to ever be exposed to anything disagreeable. Why can't the whole world be sunshine and unicorns?
I mean... other than the obvious ones? (i.e. the same reasons which are why North American companies usually don't or can't request a photo...)
This would be a much better OP link than the one that was submitted. Thanks!
There is, I think, a fairly sharp line between you deciding you don't want to interact with someone in some particular forum, and someone else deciding you can't interact with someone.

That line is not the line between "good" and "bad", necessarily. I'm just saying it's a relevant difference that shouldn't be blurred away.
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The DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model is on GitHub: https://github.com/E3SM-Project/E3SM

Here is some analysis of how the predictions made by some climate models have done: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...

They have done a remarkable job since the 1970s.
Let me guess, you and your friends alone get to decide what "inexcusable behavior", "barrier" and "various groups" means right?
I certainly am! Unfortunately, it's too late to edit to show what I meant.
This isn't a valid comparison. Underground rail is vastly more expensive than above-ground rail. And a lot of the above-ground Crossrail rails already exist. I could just as easily say that the Central Subway in San Francisco is only $147 million per mile, because the $1.5B 1.7-mile underground extension connects to the existing roughly 10-mile K Ingleside/T Third line.

This blog post [1] has a better comparison. By this measure, Crossrail is less expensive per kilometer than the new subways in New York City, which are abnormally pricey, but significantly less expensive than the SF Central Subway for example.

[1]: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/05/16/us-rail-constr...
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How much do job applicants get paid to apply for jobs? How much effort do you expect them to put in, unpaid, to kiss your butt, specifically, when there are hundreds of companies that are just like yours? Many of those companies will simply ghost the applicants that put in extra effort to tailor the heck out of their resumes. There is no expected payoff for tailoring until after the company actually makes contact, using a real person, and by then you're already interviewing.

It would seem then that the best solution for the applicant is to create a program that reads in an advertised job posting and automatically tailors the base resume to it, so it looks like they put in effort for each company, but actually just did the work once and used the automated solution for everybody. That sounds like more fun than hand-tailoring resumes, anyway.

Given that none of us get paid to look good for potential employers, what sort of reciprocal effort does your company put in to tailor its recruiting to specific applicants? Are you saying that companies who don't actively recruit specific individuals from leads will likewise be overly passive when it comes to retention? Because that... seems accurate.

All you really know from an untailored resume is that the applicant didn't see tailoring to your company as worth the effort.
Stallman made a huge mistake: he forgot that he too is biased. Just like Lessig's defense of Ito damaged Ito and Lessig more than if Lessig had just STFU Stallman did the same for Minsky.

And Stallman being his usual amicable self he managed to do so in a way that a reaction was inevitable. If he wanted to do right by his friend he should have pointed out the flaws in the accusation, not to try to find some contorted way to argue that assuming it was true his friend should have walked without consequences.

Lessig falls into exactly the same trap, the fact that it is your friend who does something stupid or despicable does not make it any less so and in cases like that your friends would be better friends if they pointed this out to you. Preferably at a time that it would still make a difference.

Minsky may not be guilty of anything, and Stallman has shifted the debate over whether what he assumes Minsky has done should be legal or not (it shouldn't, let's be 100% clear on that) over whether or not it happened in the first place. And that is not helping at all.
By "power sharing" are you referring to Hizballah? I hope it's not too controversial to say that they don't exactly share American values.
This and https://pydriller.readthedocs.io have been very useful in extracting useful project metrics embedded in Git.
You get a lot of weird stuff from overseas resumes: photos, religion, gender, marital status, father's name, etc...
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the secret sits in the middle, and knows.
That seems like a bad faith accusation with no evidence or proof for an organization focused on catching child predators.
If neutron stars can spin that fast, it's good that they don't fling fragments of themselves. Although, if they did, those fragments would likely turn to dust outside the star's gravity.
Ah yes, I'm sure LinkedIn is a great barometer of candidate skill. Can't wait to add yet more arbitrary hoops for me to jump through in a job search...

... unless of course you know someone who can fast track your hiring process.

"Freedom for me and not for thee!"
That's frustrating. It was the last remaining hope I had for Amazon purchases.
Denying the settlement leaves open the possibility of a larger one. The court just can't order the subsequent negotiation have a specific result.
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Doesn't this just depend on the price elasticity of the good or service in question...?