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You don't even have to reuse to lower carbon emissions, just buy something durable. I have a shirt from RL that still looks new and I bought it in 2009.

I still run with a pair of Nike socks from 2012, although I bought a new pair just this summer and they had holes just after 2 months, so I guess quality went down while price went up for this brand.

Vote with your wallet for things that are durable. The market will follow. See Forever 21 going down the drain [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_21
Serious question: given the monstrous scale of softbank, the not so great quality of many of its holdings, and it's ties into multiple world economies, could softbank be a systemic risk to the entire world economy?

If Uber took a big write off at this point, not only would American and Japanese companies and Saudi Arabia take major losses but I would imagine big tech stocks in general would start to see a loss in confidence and a reversion to more normal P/E ratios.

I would imagine at that point softbank would be such a dirty word that it would have to firesale as well. And certainly no second vision fund.

And then you could go on and on about what would happen to pensions in the states and the rest of our systemically daisy chained over leveraged economy or whatever else if that happened.

Do I have an overly active imagination? Does anyone else worry about this kind of stuff?
Okay, my mistake for getting dragged into the archetypal HN argument. It's clear you cannot be convinced. Your original point - that depression has no biomarkers and is extremely subjective - has been proven wrong by a couple others and you've shown no gratitude or interest in this information. Only replying where you think there's an argument to be won.

Maybe you, some random person on Hacker News, are not in fact smarter than the medical consensus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
So who exactly came to the conclusion that they were worth >40B just a few weeks before? How does that math even hold up?
I think we might be talking in different time scales, and maybe different responsibilities. If you're looking to bring on someone to solve an urgent problem this month, you're going to need a specialist in the area. If you're bringing on an early hire to build a team, or another engineer to bolster your team with some specialists, you may want a solid generalist. There might also be some significant difference between organizational structures, if you're joining a team centered around building and supporting a product, or maybe a startup with only one or two products, a generalist might be much more effective. If you're joining a massive organization where there are highly specialized teams dealing with specific problem areas, a specialist makes a lot more sense.

As a sweeping statement, I'm better at solving "a problem" than a specialist. If you define the problem area tightly, they may be the right person for the job, but if the role you're hiring for has uncertainty and flexibility, the front end specialist probably isn't the right person to figure out why your database is slow, your load balancer isn't working, your build and deploy process is stuck, etc.

There are definitely roles that are much more fit to one or the other, but the generalist can handle a lot of things pretty well. All of that being said, we can probably agree that the best setting is having both.
I'm reading The Stranger and finding it very relevant to our times. It's a depressingly boring read, but it gives an accurate insight into the way most young people are experiencing life. Worth a read if for nothing else than to identify which of your attitudes are too eerily similar to the main character's. Also highly recommend The Trial for similar reasons.
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The time is also variable by location, even between proximate American cities. For instance, the yellows in Los Angeles seem to be substantially briefer than the ones in San Diego or Orange County.
Privacy is a big deal, but even when privacy is guaranteed it's still a problem that the public's ability to find information on the Internet is effectively controlled by two large tech companies, Google and Microsoft. I hope that eventually we have a lot more competing search engines.
When you are a large enterprise ordering from the likes of HP, $15k is a budget server. I'd see bills for "Hadoop nodes" that were $650k/rack.
> But that's already been happening for years.

I'm not sure what you're referring to.

The protests in Hong Kong have been going on for for at most 200 days and it is only recently that the situation escalated to where we are at now.
We should protect voters from all this confusion by eliminating democracy!
We have been struggling between the merge/rebase approaches with no clear winner in our minds so far. In principle the rebase seems to be superior, but I can certainly see arguments for using merge if it satisfies downstream concerns like traceability (I am still not clear on this stated benefit).

Perhaps someone has a list of criteria that can help you pick between the 2 approaches, or perhaps both merge/rebase are valid at all times, but there is a certain set of rules to evaluate when choosing which to use?
Their docs say it’s configured by default on EU servers?
Modern interpretations of that quote are way off the bead from the historical origin and intent of the original speaker. https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...

It's not unlike people misattributing the quote about the net, censorship, and damage to mean the internet, When it actually referred to USENET (a system that was, essentially, censored by collective action of internet service providers ceasing to store and forward its messages, some because they perceived it as obsolete, some because they believe they would have personal responsibility, morally if not legally, for the way people use the channel).

The simplistic interpretation of the Franklin quote breaks down very quickly when one observes that most of the Founding Fathers agreed significantly with Locke's social contract theory, which is very much relinquishing individual, personal liberties for collective safety.
Would love to read more on the topic of German/French-speaking Swiss, would you mind sharing some reads you would recommend?
Could you elaborate more? My use case is very similar between the two, and I don't mean workstation operation.
> but done in a way that would not impair usability, like anything with QR codes :-)

LOL, there was a whole lot of head scratching when someone came up with the QR-for-pairing idea. Also, wink wink, nudge nudge, when are we grabbing a beer?
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I have no particular love for any of the big-name "prestigious" VCs, but ISTM they haven't had much influence at WeWork so far. Instead SoftBank just handed the keys to a crazy dude, with the thought that he would make it rain. Maybe it didn't rain hard enough, but the firm is still in business and now they've gotten rid of the crazy dude. Maybe SoftBank just sees this as a slightly more intense version of the traditional transition from founders to "professional" management? It seems likely to feature a great deal of the equity dilution that founders traditionally suffer...
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I'm not familiar with that strategy (can you define it?), but I'd expect that certain strategies work better for some products but poorly for others. What market are you thinking about?
That reads almost like a George Carlin joke (I mean it in a good way).

It would be better if people thrifted more rather than always buying new. Thrifting is hit or miss though depending on where you are and what surrounding area the donations are sourced from.

Go thrifting in around a big city or rich suburbs and it's more likely to find "diamonds in the rough" like designer brands and basically unworn clothing.

But go thrifting in an area with a worse GDP (i.e. poorer), and the finds are a lot of stuff like ugly free t-shirts from random events and average clothes that are already >50% through their lifespan.
I personally love wearing kinda dumpy clothes I get from the thrift store. Some of my friends make shirts that I buy, or a local bar I frequent is selling shirts, but apart from that I just go 100% thrifting. I spend hardly any money, am more comfortable, and get to avoid all the signaling behind e.g. a patagonia fleece or other class-based clothing associations people have
Personally, I prefer to never use git pull, and instead use git fetch then manually merge or rebase as appropriate. It's one more command, but I find it helps me visualize exactly what I want to happen.
The problem is that you get hearing people go "well, there's a treatment, why should we change what we're doing to accept deaf people?"

When there's a (potentially invasive/experience-altering) treatment which makes people more able to fit into existing society, that society will often pressure people into receiving that treatment. This is, obviously, rather upsetting, and I imagine a lot of deaf people would rather the treatment didn't exist.
Whatever makes you happy as a user. If they make you think your privacy is respected, all the more power to you.

It really boils down to this: Can you trust a small company that chooses to grow via smearing campaigns, provides sub-par results, and _claims_ that it protects your data while sometimes feeding your queries off-shore, or the tech leader that tells you exactly what it knows about you, allows you to search privately and is widely believed to be the best search offering ?
"They want it to just work and be secure". - Says you, not "they". "Them" standard users do not even know what secure is.

As for "just work" - nothing "just works" in the software business. It is snake oil
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I spend a lot of time in Beaverton and have had quite a few close calls as a pedestrian. There’s something about the way they teach driving in Washington County...
Generally I think Zuckerberg is correct, Facebook is very powerful no doubt. But that power is vested upon by it's users.

There clearly was a lot of misinformation going around during the 2016 election and at some point we have to look back on ourselves and ask: "why are we so gullible"? There is a balance between Facebook moderating it's platform and controlling speech and I think we are near that line.

Labeling articles as misleading or doing some fact checks along with making sure that there are no bots and extreme hate speech is near the limit of my expectations of what a platform should do in terms of moderation.
> We want to send a message to all software patent trolls out there — we will fight your suit, we will win, and we will have your patent invalidated.

[...]

> Third: our counterclaim. We want to make sure that this isn’t just dropped when Rothschild realizes we’re going to fight this.

Good on them.

Patent trolls thrive on hoping companies will take the easy route out. It's the same model as ransomware. I don't hold it against people who find themselves in a difficult position and can't afford to fight, but capitulating to these demands encourages trolls to try again. I have a lot of respect for anyone who's willing to go out of their way to make a patent troll regret filing a claim.

In case people aren't reaching the bottom of the post, Gnome has a donation link up for legal funds: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gn...
>I feel very let down by Apple right now

And that is totally fine for you to feel that way. You are not, however, entitled to some kind of reparation for that and, if you wrote a diatribe that was comparable to the OP, I would also say that you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

Something being disappointing to you, individually, does not make it a massive failure for everyone.
To me, this looks like an email collection form. Do you actually have a product built, or are just testing the market?
Check dumpsters too. I've got a brand new $300 REI raincoat that way. Thank you anonymous Stanford student!
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Yeah, I was looking at the Note 10 for Linux on DeX. I first saw it at a Samsung developer conference and it made me consider Samsung a progressive company. Not sure I would use it regularly, but it would have been really fun to play with.
Simple, someone gave them money at that valuation (softbank). It doesn't mean the underlying value exists but it does give them that "valuation"
ehhhhh I would disagree with your statement that "basically-modern VR has been around since the 80s." It really seems like this phase of VR really began with the release of the Oculus Rift DK1. Sure there had been earlier prototypes floating around, but they weren't taken seriously.
Can you elaborate a bit more. Are you referring to SaaS services they offer like S3? EG: Host your own filestore on IaaS components only?
More importantly, voters need to have skin in the game. If they can vote themselves unlimited benefits without themselves being personally liable for the costs, then republic will fall.

My solution: you only get to vote if you paid net tax for the year, less wealth transfer payments.
Right after making 70B?

I don't think this quip makes any sense. It's like the reverse of a gambler telling you how much they made without telling you how much they lost.

Edit: For clarity, I think if you want to ask how much he made/lost in the dotcom boom, you have to compare his worth before the boom to his worth after the crash. Not his worth at the peak of the boom to after the crash. If you think that's wrong I'm interested to hear why.
> Your program will survive OS reboot. All variables are now.. like files?

Sounds like we will have to format the hard drive and re-install everything every week or even more often.
Yes it is. Those updates have been applied to it. It does not magically get worse simply because time passes. It does literally everything it did when I bought it and then some because new software came out after it was purchased. Just because it can't run everything else that's come out since then doesn't magically make it stop doing what it's already been able to do.
To grow faster and disrupt the market. For a while it was more than a simple commission: it was 100% of the revenue for a whole year. They were also offering one-year free rent to new customers.

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There's no shame in making public interfaces just for test access. You can change them freely, along with the tests, if needed, if you have given them scary names; or even delete them and the tests that use them, if warranted.

In the hardware world they call this "design for test" and reserve pins or connectors just to attach test jigs to.

I have encountered reviewers who were horrified at the idea, but I just laughed.
Thanks,I heard of index funds but didn't know what Vanguard was. Skimmed through the article,very insightful.
I have three primary objections, but otherwise you’re right, it’s not unreasonable.

First, signage is generally awful in Indiana. I often don’t know that I’m turning 300’ in advance.

Second, I’d prefer a rule that’s simpler to follow but still (I think) achieves the same effect for those sharing the road: start signaling at least one second before you decelerate.

Third, treating this as a money-making operation for the police is perverse.
I never understand why people ask questions like this. Just a raw, but likely inflammatory, question with no additional exposition explaining what it is they really want to know. In reality, without defining the parameters of what would constitute "success" or "failure" there is no real answer to this question, except a bunch of people's opinions.

So 30 or 40 people say "yes", 30 or 40 more say "no" and what new, actionable insight does anybody gain from this?
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-offer-415-million-to-...
It’s more than that... drive down STEM salaries, and the profits go to the top 1/10 of 1%, but the bottom 50% doesn’t even see that top 1/10 of 1%, so societal stability is preserved, even while the inequality grows even greater (when looking at the top 1/10 of 1% compared to everyone else)
I think of this issue in a much more mundane way all the time. When looking for product reviews, for example, the top results are, in my experience, unusable. A search for espresso machine reviews returns SEO driven results, and even the more genuine-looking results (sorry BusinessInsider, but I don't need your input) seem to exclusively list products which the site manager can get a referral link for. I don't mind the idea of referral links in theory, but what happens to the entry that would be #1 except for not being available on Amazon?

I don't know that there was ever a golden age of espresso machine reviews online, but I do think that my trust in the quality of information I find through general searches has dramatically fallen in the last ten years. I imagine there is a Facebook group that might have better perspectives, or 'Coffee Twitter', but neither of those are easy to discover through Google, and multiplying my search area across them all (reddit too, I suppose) gets burdensome quickly.

So I'm not sure that the internet of creation has disappeared as much as it may have become hidden. Either within walled gardens or by the professionalization of page rank by SEO pros (against whom Joe's coffee corner cannot hope to compete).

Either way, search suggests a much less creative internet than might actually be there.
>But back then, they also supported old releases for longer.

I don't think that's true. I've been an Apple user since just before OS X's release and the support level was always 2 versions back since like Panther.
Amazon could EASILY handle comingly to seller's products if Amazon added a seller id sticker to packages it receives... go ahead and comingle, when you get the complaints, you can tie the item to the actual seller, seller does too bad, permanent ban. Problem would solve itself out... Amazon absolutely refuses to do this, yet hides behind its' negligence with "we're a market."
And your point is? I've already acknowledged that. I'm pointing out that a disappointment for their individual situation doesn't indicate that the update is a failure nor does it warrant what they've written.
Yep. 100%. At the same time, torrent ecosystem is a lot larger than piracy and movies/TVshows and actively used to share big data among researches and individual "archivists".

r/datahoarder lives in torrent ecosystem (there are a lot more things there besides linux ISOs)

internet archive is also big with torrent files that have nothing to do with streaming.
Thanks. This should be the top comment for every Catalina rant posted here.
Well, good luck finding alumni as good as the ones from ETH Zürich anywhere else.

Not counting the MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UOT etc. that they have to compete with other FAANG for graduates.
Half the services you mention either

- require a phone and phone number to sign up

- lock you in

- will shut down next year unless someone buys them and bastardizes them to oblivion

- are services that replace services that were bought and bastardized (skype). they re bound to repeat the cycle

- arent as popular / dont work (ipfs vs torrents)

- lock content away from search engines

- are basically rehashes of the same idea with much heavier browser footprint for the sake of ... i dont know what really

- Are all platforms - they dont specialize, they force you inside an eternally septembered community . I Liked having separate accounts in separate forums - having many identities is a virtue - and good for privacy

- are Incremental updates. E2E encryption is the one thing that matters, for the rest, we had flash video converence in 2003, and it worked better than webrtc solutions today

- MOOCs are not a successful thing today either though. good that we have all that content, but it wasn't enabled by any of the aforementioned companies.

I m not sure i m convinced we have a fundamentally different - or better - internet today. Everythinig you mention is repackaging. (and we had job ads and lots of free webhosting too btw. You know neocities, they re even named out of nostalgia for geocities, craigslist is still a thing).
Just curious, what do you find lacking about Keepass in those areas?
Yeah the consolidation is the biggest component I've noticed. I find myself only going to a handful of websites on a regular basis
And again, I didn't say there are no biomarkers. I belive there are biomarkers.

The idea that I'm not coddling your victimhood/ helpless mentality is offensive to you, not any specific argument I'm making.
Most of my knowledge of the subject comes from Swiss friends, so unfortunately can’t recommend any books or articles.
>why can't the ability to extend the Mac desktop to the iPad be added to Mojave

Likely because there's a part of the iCloud stack that was set up by code that's not in Mojave. Additionally, that was never advertised as a feature of Mojave so I fail to see why there would be any expectation that this would be added to Mojave.
The message is coming from /bin/bash, no? I have /opt/local/bin/bash set as my login shell, so I never see it.
> For SMEs its the total opposite.

A cracking business opportunity: a cheap "personal cloud" for SMEs that just works? An extension would be an associated "public cloud", allowing customers to seamlessly move between their personal and the public cloud to cover short term scaling issues whilst they buy more private infrastructure.
What is your approach to UI? Elm Css, Elm UI or separated css files?
Wow, what a great story. Kinda makes me sad that most of us are busy chasing wealth instead of service to our fellow humans.
> Of course, to make them fully independent, you have to replicate everything, so you wind up buying several redundant copies of your system...

Yeah, and keeping around warm systems ready to failover in case of a zonal outage seems like a preposterous waste of resources.

The alternative... to keep around multiple replicas of your system in different zones, all ready to accept traffic and which do serve traffic, seems more practical and less wasteful.
Even worse, Chicago intentionally reduced yellow light times to increase the rate of traffic tickets to generate additional revenue.
> But most of the time, when it hits zero, it will go from green to yellow, then you have roughly 3 seconds left.

it depends a lot on the speed limit, at least where I live. the yellow light usually lasts a lot longer on a 45 mph road than a quiet 20 mph street.

I think having a countdown on the green light would be very helpful, but I worry that a countdown on the yellow light could lead to people cutting the red light even closer.

what I would really like to see in the US is a yellow light before the green so I know when it's time to put the car in gear. of course, this could also worsen the "drag strip" effect.
DDG does have a lite HTML version of their site that is much faster.

https://duckduckgo.com/lite
The first part of your post (seniority-based rules, certifications, etc) shows a lack of imagination in terms of what a union can be.

> With software, what do you think will happen if a union somehow manages, via Swiss law, to unionize one Google office? It's software. Google will leave and hire elsewhere.

Does Google hire the best people, or is it a "body shop"? If they just shut down their Swiss office and fire everyone, I'd imagine there would be some impact on whatever projects those people were working on. There's a gradient here... if they demand 10x higher salaries, then yeah it's probably not going to work out. But maybe 10% higher salaries would actually be cheaper for Google than shutting everything down and starting over.
amazon is in the tech of retail - and more. what tech does wework make?
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