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> Europe's language diversity is a trivial cost of business and does not impede tech companies.

This can't be serious. This is laughable by any stretch of the imagination.

Here's a list of how it impedes tech companies:

1. Localization effort for 20+ languages (for mainland EU). Every time a new feature that has some words included in it, it has to be translated. Screenshots in support have to be updated.

2. Training - if you have to train users, you need language specific training.

3. Account management - account/success managers need to be language specific.

4. Support - having support personnel that can speak different languages.

None of those are trivial and all cost significant money.
Sugar in isolation makes me feel lightheaded and a bit nauseous. Fat in isolation fills me up immediately. But together... yeah, I'll take that second (and third, and fourth) slice of cake.
I was on the web since AOL added it to their client

I was online before there was AOL, or a web, and before there was an internet, back when it was dozens of networks, with varying degrees of interconnectivity.

it was never as bad as you're hinting it is.

It was bad. You had to be there. (Think an e-mail from the east coast of the United States taking 10 days to reach Norway. For many destinations, snail mail was faster.)
One of the blind spots we have here is that I can't get people to think about the question "how long would it take to get a one-line code change into prod?"

That would mean looking at some things that people don't want to think about. So we try to feature toggle everything instead, and we dedicate extensive resources to keeping the old version of code as hot standby at all times.

These aren't bad solutions, it's just that they should be something we do in addition to being able to deploy quickly, not as opposed to.
It's interesting to note that this isn't just a difference in cause. The actual chemistry of tears changes based on trigger, which means there's an objective difference between crying from the pain of a hot pepper and tearing up as a physical reaction to it. (And this shouldn't be totally surprising; any mammal tears up at eye irritants like onions or dust, so humans obviously have some additional mechanism controlling emotional tears.)

In fact, we apparently have (at least) four different types of tear! 'Basal' tears that keep our eyes wet have much higher lipid levels than any other type, and a higher fraction of their lipids are nonpolar. 'Reflex' and 'flush' tears are similar, they're both responses to irritants, but there seem to be differences between tears produced to remove solid/physical and liquid irritants. And then 'emotional' tears (which include pain) come with a host of hormones and other proteins basically absent from the general tear responses.
Please dont do it. 1A is protecting you, but they still got guys with batons, tear gas and tazers. It is not about the letter within some law but rather how it is practised, by insulting someone strong enough, law might protect you but at the end you will still finish as a begger. And, me personally, I wouldnt dare to do it in states. Actually I would rather do it in Switzerland. Or maybe even Thailand.
>Under the phased agreement, high-volume importers of mail and packages would be allowed to begin imposing “self-declared rates” for distributing foreign mail from January 2021.

Does anybody have any idea what this means? Who is considered a "high-volume importer" and how do they set "self-declared rates"?
He allowed himself to feel the fullness of that suffering to expiate our just punishments, and to merit for us a portion in his strength to overcome suffering, and so that nobody could ever say "God does not know what it means to suffer like I am."
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"Don't be reckless" is simply not good enough when there's no due process, no standards for evidence, and no standards for guilt.

You can be very careful, and still end up on the wrong side of a baseless claim. Could be anything from a lie, to a dream, to mistaken identity, to a drug dog sneezing. Without due process, anything goes, and being careful isn't enough, because suspicion becomes guilt and by the time you sort anything out the damage is done.

And artificial versus natural does matter. It's the difference between misfortune and injustice.
> Of course, the change could reduce traffic to French news sites. Google says that if news sites want Google to start showing snippets again, they just have to give Google permission to do so.

> This isn't what advocates of the law had in mind.

Yeah... I think a bunch of us here expected exactly this outcome. Warned about it, even.

> Their goal wasn't to make European news sites less prominent in search results—it was to convince Google to start paying licensing fees. But Google is signaling that it has no intention of doing that.

Good for Google.
It's more complicated than that.

When you're the sole survivor, you have a lot of options. In Amazon's case, what they have is immense leverage over the whole supply chain. Amazon extracts higher margins from manufacturers, shipping, etc, etc. And they have enough influence that people pay them $80/year for the privilege of being a customer.
> This is a public health crisis.

No, no it's not. It's a manufactured hysteria which is now used by the government to squeeze tobacco companies by the nuts. It's the new 'ear sexing' that dem kids are doing. Its parents too busy to monitor their kids and schools stretched too thin to monitor their bathrooms and hallways. No amount of regulation will fix that. Remember when Marijuana was illegal? Yeah, the kids were totally not smoking it. Thank God for the war on drugs to cut down on teens getting high.
How's that? Horseradish effects last only a few seconds, unlike capsaicin, which can incapacitate someone for half an hour if present in high enough quantities.
There are two ways to get to positive margins: Either drive down costs (as Amazon did) or increase price. Part of WeWork's plan is presumably to increase prices once tenants are locked in.

The big question is how much lock-in they can achieve. The lock-in is largely caused by employee loyalty. Employees who like beer and camaraderie in the evenings may be hard to persuade to move to a soulless office park.

It's a micro version of the way a city gets lock-in. San Francisco office space costs 2-5x more than Sunnyvale, because employees will quit if you move your office from one to the other.
Not nearly enough tea in their tea bags. Here they were the first to reduce the weight of packs, and it hurt their blends. Hotels seem to like Twinings for some reason. Find a way to sneak an extra tea bag into the mug or pot. ;)

Their loose leaf are decent enough blends, but increasingly uncommon here.
Thanks for responding, but I quit my job a several years ago and even left the country so I think this is not easy to come by.
Put a bag of sugar in front of me, meh. Or a stick of butter, meh. Those sugar-butter coated cashews from Trader Joe's (or just caramel) and I'll eat half the bag.
What if there’s no way to know what’s foolish and what isn’t? The protection we’re talking about here is equal access to information which is a necessary prerequisite for an efficient market.
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horsepower was always just marketing bunk, with no actual work equivalence
My guess is that during the summer and spring, you see other people outdoor enjoying activities. If you are a lonely person, this can be discouraging that everyone around is having fun but you're not.

In the fall and winter, you have an excuse to stay in. Everybody else is doing the same, so you're not missing out on much.

Plus part of it is academic. For k-12 and university, you see your 'friends' and 'acquaintances' very often. During the non-academic season, you don't see people as much which can be isolating.

Plus summer and spring, has the expectation of "you're supposed to be happy". So if you're not, then this can be devastating. Winter everybody has this "we're all in this gloomy mood together".
I don't really find arguments like yours persuasive. Why should there be such a wide, sweeping law for something that's so obviously a corner case? It's not like there are millions of people being publicly "witch-hunted" every year… What's the everyday use case for this? Getting off of marketing mailing lists?
It’s not like treasuries or money market return acceptable returns for people’s retirement portfolio.
what a relief. of all the postal unions the USA could be in the global one is the best
So, would this apply to Europe too? I mean, it's insane that it cost me more to send a package to France than Import it from China.
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A lot of it is in older reviews on Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Mixpanel-Reviews-E406910.h...

(This doesn't represent the current CEO or company.)

There is a lot there about the CEO's arrogance, bullying, ego, micromanagement. I've worked with early startup founders, the part that bothered me the most was his wanton cruelty.

Belittling employees or their work. Watching people leave (with families) pressuring them to stay late. Making employees cry (regularly), firing without cause and showing no emotional reaction. Calling people and their ideas dumb in front of others. Telling an engineer about an idea then declaring "if i thought of that, what am i paying you for?"

Here are a couple excerpts from glassdoor:

"-CEO is a dictator.
-Fire as quickly as they hire.
-Work/Life balance is a joke.
-Culture is arrogant, stifling."

"One of my worst experiences ever. After someone was fired, management would send out emails to the entire company explaining why that person was let go (sometimes, for very superficial and even somewhat spurious reasons). While I'm all for keeping people in the loop, this sends a really poor message to current employees. What kind of email will be written about me when I leave or am let go? If I'm struggling with my own performance, should I expect the entire company to eventually hear about it?

It's a pretty well-known fact that Mixpanel treats their new employees terribly. I suggest anyone looking for employment at this company to keep searching or get a second opinion."

"This place is a revolving door. Every month the CEO has let someone great go.

Heartless management."

"- Horrible leadership: yes, he's young and relatively inexperienced, but the CEO also just treats people pretty badly"
I've had one of these for what feels like centuries. Sturdy. Machine washable. Inexpensive as hell. Along with my single-serving french press also from Ikea[0] some of the most value per dollar I've ever got.

[0]: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/upphetta-french-press-coffee-ma...
If you are going to run for president, you need some sort of residual income to make up for the shortfall of not having a job. Because not only do you not necessarily have a job, your family may not have health insurance either.

The fact that you're running for president doesn't legally prevent you from selling and profiting off a book you wrote. (Nor should it really).

I found this article in 2012 about Barack Obama. He got a $1.9 million advance for "The Audacity of Hope."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/how-barack-obama-made-his-fortune...
I am glad to find another religious person here! Think and pray more about Jesus and you will discover that he would not have allowed anyone to take his place, because as he said, "My soul is trouble, but what shall I say, 'Father save me from this hour?' No I tell you, for this purpose I have come to this hour." He would never escape it, and he would not allow anyone to take anyone from it.
Yes, but you can't prove why you never get a callback from a job application.
The CDO assets were money losing but in a much more obfuscated way.

They acted like a bet where you make a dollar if you roll 1-19 on a d20, but lose $50 if you roll a 20. And because they had higher-than-sp500 returns, short sighted investors flocked to them.

The one point where WeWork is similar to those CDOs is the stack of complexity used to obfuscate the fairly simple business financials
https://www.uspto.gov/patent/initiatives/third-party-preissu...
> Addicts become really shitty to be around, when they haven't had their hit for a few hours.

Oh noes the horror!!! Major public health crisis! An invasion of grumpy assholes. Basically like half of America in the morning...
What made you pick out the Terje Søviknes case over the Trine Grande case?
Yeah, maybe this product/service can see whether Stripe would be able to accommodate a kind of free integration and use. Maybe consider restructuring to explicitly (ToS, tax filing) fit into Stripe's philanthropic arm
I'm curious how it is that the bag of flour and the box of pasta ended up in the "unprocessed food" photo, but the loaves of bread ended up in the "processed food" photo.
At that point why not just LD_PRELOAD and hook the creation of all cert stores?
LPG is used in Poland because it's significantly cheaper than gasoline, so... yes?
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Colleges are crazy places and professors do all sorts of weird things. I’m not sure why.

I was in a student court for something stupid and it was kafkaesque. I had to sit and hear a professor accuse me. I was not able to object or ask questions despite the professor making factually incorrect statements about how the phone company worked. However, when I spoke the professor was able to object, cross examine and refute me.

It was so weird and professors just sat there in the jury tolerating it.

There’s a lot of fake BS in college besides the knowledge. I just avoided all that stuff because how they would make these unjust systems and be totally cool with it.

I ended up talking with the Dean and he said he wasn’t interested in whether the process was fair he just wanted to find out if I “did it.”

If anyone I know gets into a similar situation I’ll advise getting a lawyer and not speaking at all.
So what, we're just going to eat maggots, live in Podshare bunkbeds, consume content, and get excited for next content?

Is this really the best utopia we can dream up? Is it worthwhile to sacrifice quality of life on a grand scale - of which meat is a huge part, sorry vegans - just so we can have more and more humans packed into their kennels to produce code and consume content?
If you follow Matthew Stoller on Twitter (or subscribe to his substack), you'll find lots of specific content about those two. Usually he's snarky about people he's built a wealth of back story on.
> "Tea bag tea is much finer dust compared to loose leaf of the same brand."

Right, the "tea dust" is what goes in to your regular cheap paper tea bags. But the contents of plastic tea bags are usually more "premium", basically the same as good quality loose-leaf tea.

Some super-premium brands like TWG use cotton tea bags, which give you the same high quality tea and brewing without the dose of micro-plastics.

Regardless of any potential health effects, I think plastic tea bags are a pointless single-use plastic that should be banned.
+1 , this guy knows what's up. Relative estimates work really well, from my experience!
I get your point, but Ponzi would be an even better candidate, though.
59% people are against it, compared to 62% against Nixon's.

35% are for it, compared to 25% to Nixon's.

Those numbers are really close and should be included in the title. The title is formed like people support Trump's impeachment.

The main point of those numbers is America does not support impeachment, by far. The article and title do not reflect this point, it just wants to lead with "More Americans want to see U.S. President Donald Trump impeached"...
Ya, it is politically too difficult to ban menthol at the moment.
As you might know, peak oil is not about literally "running out of oil" (and the article I have linked expands on it), and my point is that we are in the very process of hitting peak (conventional+unconventional) oil - actually those attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure might mark this precise point... (or not, but we certainly don't have decades left...)
It has ~zero impact on wind patterns. They have a tiny reduction in wind speed, but the moving column of air is generally 10 to 100+x as tall and very wide. https://www.aviationweather.gov/windtemp

More critically they have zero impact on the forces that actually generate wind in the first place.
The original subject here was a about reversal of time.

I mixed the two subjects of Parapsychology and Optical Phase Conjugation under that heading. They have nothing to do with each other (as far as we know at the moment).
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I think that a lot of people who work on deadlines like this have learned how to incorporate this into their products overall structure. Think of games that have to be released on a proper timeline for a specific holiday season. Now instead of trying to meet those deadlines, game developers are putting out a minimum product and releasing updates, patches, and missing portions of the game in chunks after the official purchase/release date. Whether this is successful or not is up for question, but it seems to be one strategy for coping with amorphous deadlines.
Absolutely. Sure it may not be entirely possible, but we need to _try_.

Nothing short of a total war mobilization of the economy and research will even remotely get close to preventing the absolute worst aspects, but it may be possible to salvage parts of the planet.
This could be the next bubble. Hundreds of articles have surfaced over the past week on the board room meeting, internal tensions, IPO postponement and layoffs. People have already braced for impact, a post on Blind says they got emails and another article on Crunchbase says ~5000 layoffs are expected.
Or, it's just a t-shirt.
Just a reminder that DNSSEC doesn't do much of anything to protect Internet privacy --- all it does is sign queries, it doesn't encrypt, and the signatures are with keys effectively escrowed to the owners of the TLDs (most frequently, world governments).
> They control close to 50% of e-commerce which itself represents less than 12% of total retail sales.

Both of these numbers are surprising to me, can you source them? Particularly the first one, which I assume is a global measure, and I'd be interested to know what % of North American e-commerce Amazon controls. I wager I could walk outside my home and ask 100 people on the sidewalk to name one e-commerce site and far more than 50% would name Amazon first.
Yes, and in a prisoners' dilemma with thousands of players, someone is surely going to defect and sell their stuff cheaper to undercut the competition. I don't think I've ever heard about large scale collusion to fix prices in food industry, and I won't hold my breath for it this time.
A maximally-efficient market needs all the information. Equal access is probably less important.
The more our lives are guided by seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, the more we will find life to be empty and meaningless, and the more suicides there will be.Places with the highest "individual freedom" to pursue all sorts of physical pleasures, especially by changing laws to make unlawful immorality lawful, are the ones with the highest suicide rates.
I mean didn't the people of Belgium recently did the equivalent of gofundme to raise money for treatment for a toddler for the drug Zolgensma?
You are basically forced into the market if you ever want to retire. Where else can the regular guy get decent returns? Real estate?
It uses "connect on demand", at least on iOS, so iOS will block all traffic that doesn't go through the VPN (other than a few iOS services iirc).
I mean we're in the middle of an intetglacial period so yes. In geologic terms the last ice age is still ending. In an interglacial period, the northern hemisphere may lose all its glaciers as its done before.
It's not clear to me why any user of Mozilla would care about DNSSEC (which Mozilla doesn't support anyways). For that matter: while it's obvious why Mozilla users would want to choose which resolver they trust (Cloud Flare, or something else), it's not at all clear why they'd actively want DoT, whose only real "benefit" over DoH is that it can be actively filtered by network providers who don't want users encrypting their DNS queries.
My professor explained that when it gets used to the extent where people stop capitalizing it it's seen as a sign of respect. You won't see it capitalized anywhere really.

At the very least even with the knowledge that it refers to Abel they will still leave it in noun case.

Maybe it's just a post-rationalization of the phenomenon you're describing.
From a statistical standpoint, it's logical that the most extreme numbers come from the lowest populations. So if the lowest rates are also in remote rural areas, this says more about statistics than anything else.
I get your reticence. I think you have the hardline of it is done three years after submission with NO exceptions. No extensions, no derivative works. I think we are generally agreeing just that the law must have teeth or it will be bypassed or revoked. It is a fair point but we have to assume some partial rationality when proposing solutions or their can be none.
> I'm not sure we can safely say we know the long-term impact of vaping nicotine yet.

So we can't say if it's a health crisis.. yet. Right? We also don't know of the long-term impact of melatonin but we're not considering people consuming it when they have insomnia to be a health crisis, right?
Here's a summary:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/newegg-fought-it...
If he had ever made any attempt, written directly or otherwise, to apologize for his behavior firing, mistreating, and belittling close to 100 people, I would not feel compelled to name him.

Compared to those he mistreated, it seems he got away with it pretty nicely.
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What is an "acceptable" return? No one has a right to achieve any particular return.
Hetzner does. I guess it depends how much smaller is "smaller". DDoS protection I think is one of those things that demands a certain size.
Muhahahaha, best joke this week. GNOME gonna trample all over them in court and not only.
Oh wow. You get to decide how much time is enough to exonerate someone of all accusations i.e. 1 week ? You say that other accusations are "too old", this is precisely why victims are afraid to come forward in every such case. No one takes them seriously and in fact vilifies them more than the alleged perpetrator. Have fun being a "Knight of RMS", defend him on his most egregious qualities.
Why do people keep repeating this? First-to-file versus first-to-invent has nothing to do with the patentability of an invention. It concerns who gets the patent if two substantially-similar but otherwise patentable inventions are submitted for patent at the same time.
Even if tobacco use was decreasing, that doesn’t mean something else wasn’t increasing in its stead. It could have been ridlin, opioids, meth, etc...I’m not sure what the popular bad stuff between 2000-2010 was, perhaps some younger HN readers could fill us in.
There is an elite/political/ruling class in the US, and one way they maintain their status is through a false sense of meritocracy.

For example, GW Bush isn't just a spoiled rich kid and son of a former President, he went to Yale and Harvard, thus he can be marketed as smart and hardworking because those are the top institutions in the country.

Yet, no one ever accused GW of being a Rhodes scholar, and those Ivy League credentials are nearly impossible for non-elites, but essentially given to the ruling elite and qualifying these people for the best jobs, even being President of the US. Legacy Admissions are a fraud on the working class, and indicative why the US has the lowest social mobility of any 1st world nation.
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