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> It's clear that you didn't get that and thought a SAT score + straight As should be enough

Where exactly did I express that? The other MIT admits from that year I know that aren't privileged sailing athletes from Connecticut, got 2350's on their SATs and performed at Carnegie Hall!
> ... there's no escaping the fact that this is dysfunctional.

It may be "dysfunctional" but it is how things get done in many places.

Even in places where people pretend to follow a strict "Agile" methodology, there's often a level of management that is brokering deadlines and promises for the "completion" of the whole damn thing.
It's definitely a scary situation for sure. Especially considering that having due process is something that's been drilled into our heads since a very young age. From a practical perspective I just don't see any personal benefit from implementing these sorts prophylactic actions, given how rare these occurrences actually are. Being shot in America is certainly a very dangerous reality that we live with, and depending where you live it may be more likely than not. Given this, I don't go around wearing bullet proof plate armor in public to minimize my risk of being injured by a shooter. I think that the best defense against these sorts of outcomes is to engage in public discourse, and correct bad & unfair policy outcomes as they become apparent. Participating in the dialog and talking about it with friends and family I think is enough action for me. Hopefully I'm not unlucky.
Do you think that companies would give you a raise equivalent to what they were paying on your behalf for healthcare? I suspect not.

I mean, it's one thing if we moved to a single payer system, which would be great, but just moving out of the employer's hands and into the general public seems like a disaster. (Also, I am not a fan of the employer healthcare model.)
> This is a big topic in business school

I could be wrong, but "network effects" is a recent phenomenon and business schools haven't really taught students about it much. Either way, we have very little history for assets that appreciate in value the more they are used. Traditionally it's been the exact opposite. In fact, this concept basically doesn't exist in finance other than translations into FCF...but depreciation does.
How exactly was Malthus wrong about population growth ?
Plans jumped in 2017-2018 because insurers had to factor in the possibility of Obamacare repeal.

Last year saw a drop (down 1.5% in the 39 states using Healthcare.gov), and 2020 looks small thus far as well. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/03/obamacare-rate-hik...

I, quite frankly, trust my state more than my employer in a fight against my insurer. I obtain coverage via the NY exchange.
Cause they'll sell more units if they put sugar in it. Economics 101: Step 1) take healthy food Step 2) add sugar Step 3) Profit
Perhaps it's that easy, but rms is referring to comments made about the GPL (which is definitely aligned with free software, not open-source) and which were made a year or two after the OSI pinched/borrowed Debian's Free Software guidelines and came up with their initial definition.

So, at the time Ballmer was a) definitely talking about free software by mentioning GPL, and b) probably not particularly interested in, or aware of, the split by the 'open source' proponents.
I used to do it most of the time during the summer, living 2 miles away from my workplace. (Now I work from home, so "going to work" means rolling out of bed and grabbing a laptop, modulo getting the kid ready for daycare.) I'd highly recommend it - aside from getting exercise & outdoor time, feeling refreshed each time you get into work, avoiding all the rush-hour traffic (in my area, getting over the Shoreline/101 bridge in a car could take as long as the entire bike ride in), and not needing to find parking, you also feel like you're doing something good for the environment, and my workplace had a program where they donated to charity every time you biked/walked/scootered/rollerbladed in.

Like many other "nice to have" things, it's a matter of making it a priority. I'd had an hour commute when I worked in downtown Boston, and when I moved out to Silicon Valley, I told the realtor that was showing me around "No more than 15 minutes away from work." He was like "15 minutes? That means Mountain View, Palo Alto, or some parts of Sunnyvale. It'll cost you a lot." I said "I'm prepared to pay."

Would be nice if cities were built in a way that not just a select few high-earners could walk or bike to work, though. Right now, every person that moves into bike commuting distance of the major employers tends to displace someone who needs to move further away (oftentimes much further away); only way to avoid that is with more density.
Looking at just ride sharing is too narrow. Some companies are already talking about ”mobility as a service”.

I need to get from A to B. The best way can be a combination of transport methods. Like sometimes it would make more sense to start with electric scooter, then jump to Uber. Or maybe take Uber, then train and Uber again. Or train one way, car share vehicle back.

I assume in future I will have an app that handles all this, without me making the separate bookings or checking time tables.

I’d likely pay extra for the convenience of doing everything through one company. Or maybe their monthly subscription plan is just too attractive.
Statutory damages are not related to how much money you made out of the violation.
The recent Netflix documentary "Inside Bill's Brain" has an episode on Gates' attempts to build a safe nuclear reactor. It's been blocked by political opposition, not anything technical.
Return by itself is meaningless. If you want to discuss retirement then you have to account for the other variables: consumer price inflation, risk, contribution levels, lifespan, etc. For individual workers the most practical suggestion is to save more instead of expecting high returns.
That's the official Saudi line and it doesn't take a genius to see its BS:

This whole mess escalated when houthi rebels tried to stop ISIS from taking over the government. Where did those come from? What did the Saudis do? At what point did they started bombing civilians??

Do you see the red line?
And you thought refactoring a code base was hard
In Robert Sabbag's excellent book about marijuana smuggling in the 1960s and '70s, Smokescreen (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1841953792/ref=dbs_a_def_r..., published in the US as Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana Trail), much of the story revolves around the same being true of pot.

The smuggler at the center of the story discovers that his Colombian suppliers are routinely packing all different strains of marijuana together, with a single bale containing everything from low-grade weed to the Santa Marta Gold that American potheads would pay top-dollar for. To the Colombians there's no difference between one strain of weed and another, but the smuggler knows to the American buyer it can mean a huge difference in price. So he works with them to start separating the different strains and buys every bale of Santa Marta Gold he can get his hands on, becoming the first smuggler who can bring his customers a consistent, reliable supply of the Good Stuff. Which of course makes him a fortune, and which of course leads to all sorts of other problems.

(Sabbag's book is a fantastic read, I recommend it highly. And if you want a shorter-form introduction to the story, here's an interview with the smuggler in question after his lawbreaking days were over: https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/allen-longs-days-as-an-...)
...and I guess Uber's main innovation there was, make the drivers independent contractors, so you don't have to pay them for the time they're idle. :\
> My reading of the article was that you should put yourself in the shoes of your customer, and that will help you make better business choices. Small details matter.

I agree about that part. You're right I was reading this thinking "who is this for, how many people from Ohio are reading Hackernews to surface this kind of article"
What's the alternative?

The people and companies opposing green initiatives have entrenched industries and money. They have been waging media and lobbying campaigns for decades. If it takes some people pushing their green agenda for profit in order to save the planet, so be it. At least their businesses are moving us in the right direction and not holding us back.
This honestly. I've considered getting my parents a Chromebook because they're not technically literate (by their choice) enough to manage a Windows install. Non-automated updates is part of how we got into supporting IE7 forever. If updates were optional, they'd be on the same version I originally installed for them. This non-technically literate demographic is much larger than any of the vocal minority on HackerNews.
I loved my health insurance before Obamacare. I had a nice catastrophic coverage plan that was perfect for me. Now those are illegal.
Many of the "meal box" companies make the cancellation process very difficult, and it's one of the factors I use when deciding not to do business with a company. However, I agree that I am likely in a very small subset of users, and the vast majority are too lazy or not knowledgeable enough about these tactics to care
Another great post. Does anyone know what software this blog is published with that creates the hypertext bubble where the content can be extended in a little pop up?
health insurance != heath care
"Sure, meal portions today are larger, food more abundant, and many of us are eating more calories than people did decades ago. But with temptations so plentiful, almost all Americans could be overeating—yet a good number do not. That, Hall thinks, is the real nutrition mystery: What factors, for some people, might be acting to override the body’s inborn satiety mechanisms that otherwise keep our eating in check?"

1) everything they listed, 2) food tasting good > "my body is adequately satiated". This is not a mystery. We just don't want to admit that our food is very tasty, we're serving our people too much food, and that we have no self control.

The body may have an "inborn satiety mechanism", but that doesn't mean it rules our brain. My body sends me pain when I run too much and my knees hurt. Do I stop running? Not if running makes me feel good.
I don't know if I'd agree that it's best to just not help. I've been in situations like the one you describe, especially with regard to monetary help, and found that it isn't really all that hard to disengage if that becomes necessary. I start that process with what some might call a "come to Jesus" talk, where I explain that I can't just keep giving money away to what looks like no good end, and lay out what I need to see - concrete steps toward leaving an abuser, getting treatment for substance issues, whatever - before I'll be willing to consider doing so again. Where I can, I offer resources that might help, even if that's just best guesses - which is all too often the case, our society mostly sucks at helping anyone who really needs it - but I offer whatever I can. After that, I just say no or don't respond, unless I see what I said I needed to.

I mean, yeah, it sucks to have to do, but you're not wrong that some people will just bleed you dry if you let them. Some won't, though, and in my opinion they're worth taking the risk, because sometimes all someone needs really is just a hand up to where they can start climbing out of a hole on their own.
I generally agree with this, but:

1. Pensions are diversified for exactly this reason and VC isn't usually a large % of the fund.

2. This should be exerted through other pressures at that LP level: political, regulatory, etc...not at the GP level.
Lots of comments seem to miss the point of this article. The point being made is to put the concerns of the customer first before yours. I see the opposite happen all the time in software development. You have two systems that somehow don't talk to each other. Instead of implementing some kind of connector between them, you make the customer log in twice and transfer information between the two systems. In this case, the maker has prioritized their convenience over that of the user. This is the wrong approach. Before someone gets pedantic, obviously, if you have analyzed the costs and decided it makes sense, then go ahead and do you but don't just make default decisions to benefit yourself at the cost to your customer
New frontier in health fraud – Genetic tests of the elderly
> The rates for shipments from China will go up

That's normalization. Instead of shipping a cog from 1 state over for $5 or China for $.05, it will now cost China closer to the same rates everyone else pays.

The argument want never that shipping domestically was too expensive, it's that shipping from China to domestic was cheaper.
The articles is about employer health plans getting more expensive, the comment was about employer health plans getting more expensive...whats the alternative to an employer provided health plan? An individual private plan, I thought it seemed relevant those are increasing in cost too (at a much higher rate).
Thanks for these. I've been looking for an alternative to https://www.rareteacompany.com/ – which also supplies great tea, but seems to have issues (reliably) shipping internationally.
The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital (2015)
Fine, but sitting on a metal seat/floorboards propped up as the highest point on a grounded big metal object is basically a human lightning rod. Comparing that to a car isn't compelling.

That's different than laying in a ditch or sitting in a car. At least in the car, the body is higher off the ground, and a lower resistance path than you. Perhaps a convertible, open top, bare metal floor with a flat tire might be comparable.
I've considered that too to get better tea at work, but for me the biggest blocker so far is that I'm so doubtful of some random chinese bags from ebay, considering how steeping in my view feels very adept process of extracting any harmful crap that the bags might have and this is something that very much would give repeated exposure. Am I just being too paranoid?
The advertisers funding Greta Thunberg's autism troll
Oculus Connect 6 Keynote (Mark Zuckerberg)
It's worth pointing out that for the vast majority of people doctors != insurance. The payer is not the provider.

The refrain of "people like their health insurance" deliberately conflates the two. People like their doctors, not their insurance. Doctors accept multiple insurance companies.
1 - If my company buys health insurance for me, its tax deductible(pre-tax), if I buy it myself it is after-tax. Now companies are can just gross-up pay, and don't have to compete on healthcare...

2) Pooling remains an issue, but as it stands now, consumers have little to no choice, one would imagine that once a 125m households start shopping for insurance there is going to be competition on price...

in most circumstances
Sure the employer negotiates the plan, but they are not negotiating on behalf of their employees, they are negotiating based on how much the employer is willing to spend. When the squeeze happens, the employer pays the same amount for a slimmer plan and the employees pay more in the form of wages and deductibles.
This is key:
"The goal of Son, and increasingly most large financiers in private equity and venture capital, is to find big markets and then dump capital into one player in such a market who can underprice until he becomes the dominant remaining actor. In this manner, financiers can help kill all competition, with the idea of profiting later on via the surviving monopoly."
I drink tea over coffee (for digestive reasons), and I assume I am missing out on really good tea. Any readily-available loose-leaf tea recommendations?
I think another thing about employer-based healthcare that few think about is that if you work for a large company then it is almost certainly self-insured, meaning that you or your employer is paying premiums into a fund that it is managing itself.

How crazy is it to think that not only does Apple or Ford or Trader Joe's need to manage it's own business but that it is also hiring actuaries/insurance specialists/consultants etc to manage a complex insurance program for all of its workers? I'm not sure many people that work at large companies realize that their employer knows every diagnosis, procedure, and prescription you've ever picked up, and actively trying to incentivize you to use as little healthcare as possible.
While that might be true many people still use the hosts file today to override dns resolution.
Their influence needs to be kept in check. The alternative, which is an oligarchy, is un-American.

There are millions of tax paying, patriotic, and effective citizens that did not get into HYPSM schools and are overlooked in the media in favor of a few thousand people who have the virtue of a HYPSM+ degree. [0]

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/shut-up-about-harvard/
I was under the impression that it was people with "en_US" locale.

What if you're in UK/CA/AU/NZ and running that particular language variant instead of the "correct" one?
During World War II wages were frozen to focus on the war efforts so employers used ancillary benefits to attract workers. Then things carried on from there. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
OK, so when we take the most hyperbolic example-- mailing from China only costs slightly less than a special rate for DDU/presort to a nearby post office, when you use a special service with volume and account and marking requirements. It's still an absurd result.
Then you're back to where they have to trust the operator. The purpose of this exercise is to reduce the number of parties that have to be trusted, not increase them.

Ideally iterative resolver - autheoritative nameserver traffic would also be encrypted, then we wouldn't have to "hide in the herd" (as much).
> You actually have the whole thing about the value of rigidly preserved freedoms exactly backwards in your claim about Hitler and free speech.

Not my claim, it was the GP's claim and I was also disagreeing with it.
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I've tried to switch from Ubuntu+Unity to OSX, and OSX feels so clunky in comparison. A year later, the mac still feels unpolished. Tiny but significant things:

- Unity puts multiple dots next to an app on the dock when you have multiple windows open. On the mac you have one dot even if you have 10 windows.

- Clicking a dock icon on unity when you have multiple windows and the app is already on top, does an expose' style selection; On a mac, you need to use expose (among all apps), right click the dock icon, or find the "Window" menu on top -- and that's assuming you know that there are multiple windows ... see first point.

- I have unity set up to make the active window 5% brighter than any other window (or dim the others to 95%, don't remember). Hardly visible, except you instantly and intuitively know which window is active, even if it's on another screen.

This is a kind of polish that OSX is missing, and that once tasted, it is painful to go without. On the other hand, when I occasionally have a chance to use Unity, there is nothing from OSX that I miss.
>It wouldn't explain why places that haven't been trampled on by Americans would have high suicide rates. South Korea and Japan both have pretty high suicide rates for example.

I wasn't trying to say anything about anywhere else.

>Also, a large chunk of the suicides are young people who didn't leave through the eras where oppression occurred. I am not sure why somebody would commit suicide because something happened to their ancestors.

Oppression still occurring, thanks.
I'm in Iowa, which people often confuse with Ohio :) So I guess maybe at least one.
Depends a lot on the tax situation where you live.
Many years ago, when I took some friends to an Indian restaurant, this guy decided to eat a spoonful of lime-mango pickle. He tried to be cool about it, but was clearly in some pain. I tried to tell him to start mild, and ramp it up gradually, but he just wanted to go for it.
Faster if oil prices go up, certainly. The problem with estimating time is there are too many factors. We might only be "one big disruption" away from a surprisingly quick transition. We might just continue a gentle slope transition.

I think there are some interesting possible big disruptions on the horizon:

- Oil prices go up (as this article is about)

- EVs become the cheapest powertrain option for any new vehicle. VW's ID.3 is already cheaper than all comparable Golf models, and most of the other German manufacturers expect to hit that switchover (due to efficiencies of scale) for almost all their models no later than 2023. (Chinese manufacturers seem to have mostly hit the switchover point already. Most other Asian manufacturers aren't far behind. Traditional US manufacturers GM and Ford are idiots and lagging everyone else again.)

- Somewhat similar to above, a small disruption in the complex web of internal combustion engine supply chains could potentially domino to greatly increase new ICE vehicle costs, and even potentially have similarly drastic consequences to ICE vehicle repair/maintenance costs. Internal combustion engines (especially compared to EV motors) have a lot of little, very specialized parts. Even just one supplier pivoting could have fascinating consequences. (With perhaps the only counter-disruption being something like 3D printing hitting certain machining specifications that seem currently unlikely.)

The middle one is definitely happening. The article here suggests the first one is maybe closer than people expect. The third one is one I'm amusedly watching, and I think is going to be a quick accident after the middle one happens. If German manufacturers move to certain sales benchmarks, that definitely affect global suppliers that are Germany-based such as Bosch, as just one example of many, and GM/Ford certainly have plenty of Bosch pieces in their supply chains, whether they admit it or not.
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That would be nice. Unfortunately, in some areas such as Seattle where I'm currently located, you would have to live hours away from any major cities to find anywhere where you could open a business and purchase a house walking distance from your business without a million plus dollars
It breaks down, when you write an API to solve a task, rather than when you write an API to expose resources and then let the consumer of the API define the task.
That sentence doesn't say it's the kids' fault! It's a list of things that make morning dropouts stressful: being late, kids not being co-operative, last-minute hassles with toys etc.
The solution implies that it doesn't ignore it. At least not generally
I would posit that at least some of your feelings are due to the nature of information dissemination by today's highly connected, revenue-driven media. Saying everything is fine, or at least not terrible, has never brought as many eyeballs to a story as claiming the sky is falling.

Not saying the sky is or isn't falling, just that we have so much ready access to so many sources of information, each with a vested interest in getting you to come view their content - and what better way than highlighting the doom and gloom? - that there is the real situation of bad news overload. That, in turn, makes things seem worse than they are.

It's no wonder the suicide rates are increasing.