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"Becoming a billionaire requires creating massive value where millions of people willing pay you."

There have been a number of articles posted to HN and elsewhere which argue that luck plays a great role in success. Furthermore, the rich need not be providing any value, as they could simply be ripping people off (with extremely egregious and famous examples like Enron or Madoff, but there are plenty of others, most of whom don't make the news), exploiting the poor (see Amazon's treatment of its warehouse pickers for another famous example that's pretty close to home.. or the use of sweatshop labor to build products the world round), or they could be bribing politicians to grant them favors in the form of laws that are beneficial to them or just outright government contracts which they don't deserve, or they could be manipulating consumers through advertising to buy stuff they don't need and otherwise wouldn't have wanted and that might not work anyway or have a variety of deleterious effects (like the endless list of quack cures throughout history which made their sellers very rich but the patients very sick)... the list goes on and on.

"Nobody complains when the entrepreneur goes bankrupt from a failed business. Is society going to absorb those debts too then?"

Remember the government bailouts of banks that were "too big to fail"?

"Wealth is power, but raising taxes is transferring it to politicians who already have political power. It's only being further concentrated, and that's a dangerous precedent that we can see from state-controlled economies like Russia and China."

I am against the concentration of power in the hands of politicians as well. There needs to be more, and more effective direct democracy in the US, rather than buring our heads in the sand and leaving up to the political class to worry about politics. That needs to be done hand-in-hand with a greatly improved education in civics, history, ethics, and reasoning, so people aren't so easily manipulated and mislead. In any case, there are lots of problems to solve, and the concentration of wealth is just one (though a critical part) of what needs to be done.
The ban applies to nuclear propulsion too. Excluding a large amount of Navy vessels off the bat. The rest being excluded because Navies tend not to advertise which ships are nuclear armed. The great irony of that being that those same ships protect a lot of water that NZ exporters rely on for shipping.
This example is bad because it shows two things at once: the "do" comment is impersonal and more descriptive. I somehow interpreted it as "describe the issue better", which is generally good advice, but not exactly the point they are showing.

Anyways, I think that "you" has a place in comments. It is when the comment is addressed to the person. Obvious but let me explain.

For example if I know that some developer is particularly good at optimization, and I see some approach that looks slow, I will say, "why did you use this approach?". This is, in a sense, a mark or respect. "this approach appears to be slow" puts you in place of the teacher, but in some cases, I know that the person I am reviewing is better than me and I'd rather be the student. "why did you do that?" means "if it isn't a mistake, please enlighten me".
Calculating opportunity cost for time spent based on wages is pretty meaningless for salaried jobs. I might make $X/hr at my day job, but I don't actually have the ability to work an extra hour and get an extra X dollars.
Define “theft”.
Attractive land/houses in big cities are safe investments, even if everything goes to hell you still have a nice house.
Chars had his jaw wired shut during the games after he broke it.
>(no way we can keep up the current rate of increases even 20 more years without an actual, honest-to-god revolt

Why would you assume the rate of increase would keep increasing at the same rate?
It's magic, but I'm actually pretty good at it. Pretty much every time I'll say the number, my boss will be unhappy and get me to say a lesser number, then it'll be what I predicted. I have a method, but I'm pretty sure it's just magic.
I think a better way for him to make the argument is that we should all try and push ourselves a little bit. I share your sentiment. I use enough mental energy during the day that often it's hard to choose something that isn't passive.

There have been a couple times where I've pushed myself to read a great work of literature. Something within the canon. My preference is to read cheap, dime store crime novels from authors like Kendra Elliot. I decided to tackle War and Peace (had I been less ambitious, I could have chosen an easier and shorter Tolstoy novel, or something from mid-20th century). I hacked away at it for months on end, and I will forever be grateful for that. There are things I learned about myself, descriptions of people and places, and ideas about the world that will stay with me till I die. There is an order-of-magnitude difference between the novels I read to relax and ones like War and Peace.

People should absolutely fill their time with the things they find dear and refreshing. This is compatible with the idea that we should try and push ourselves a bit too, if only for our own sake.
Is 1cm accuracy part of Galileo system already operational?
If so, why our phones and other devices cannot utilise it yet?
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Still working with my 2012 MacBook. It’s the last Macintosh I will ever own, there are far too many negatives and pitfalls with the new models.
> Yes, but height is influenced by hundreds of genes, each with a minuscule influence, which will make it all but impossible to create a model that predicts height accurately.

Not at all. The current PGSes for height already predict ~40% variance (or r=0.63): see https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/19/190124 or https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/07/24/375337

> Additionally, since all the embryos you can select from are from the same two parents, models created from population samples are going to be a lot less useful.

No? It's all genes. The genes within a family are the same as across the population. The PGS is reduced by half* simply because you are comparing half-related embryos (siblings), so they will share many of the same genes and there are no differences to select on, but that's the nature of it. You could do selection on unrelated embryos if you really wanted to, but few people seem to want to...

* between-sibling PGS reduction is sometimes more depending on other factors like 'nature of nurture'; this is something that affects EDU more than IQ, but other traits like BMI or height appear to not be affected

> So I guess you won't be able to select for tall sons, at best you might be able to pick the larger of two embryos with slightly higher than random chance.

It'd actually be 65% with the current height PGSes (upperbounded at perhaps 71% as WGS can recover the full heritability: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/588020v1 ).
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The NZ anti-nuclear movement was mostly (but not completely) seen as a success against the US forcing their nuclear armed warships upon us (sailing into our harbours) during the cold war, and as a result making us a potential target.

In the end one of the right wing party's lawmakers voted with the left wing party, enough to pass a law, the right wing party used this as an excuse to dissolve parliament and call a national election which they resoundingly lost (the reasons this happened had more to do with the right wing party lying about the state of the economy and getting caught - but a mandate's a mandate) - we don't get nuclear weapons sailing into our country any more
That is part of the false narrative promoted by the anti-ads crowd. If you understand the history of the internet, then you can only disagree strongly with that kind of thinking. It is basically just sawing off the branch we are all sitting on.

The user does not become a product because Facebook run ads, and they are also not entitled to part of the profit. It would be minuscule anyway.

No, actually, there is no real product, except the reach and engagement Facebook is able to create through the ads.
FWIW, the Eiffel Tower is cool as hell up close. I find it really neat to be able to see the structure of a fairly large building up close. TBH I was more "disappointed" by the Arc de Triomphe.
One thing to keep in mind is that some of the assets being used as repo collateral may be negative interest government bonds. In that case it’s possible that other banks may not want that as collateral thereby locking up a lot of supposedly very liquid assets
Wow thats a crazy way to look at it...
You may be unaware that this position was enshrined in legislation that has remained untouched in the last 3 decades including by conservative governments.

A couple of interesting facts: 1) the galvanising moment for this was the “Rainbow Warrior affair” in which French intelligence agents were caught after having sunk the Greenpeace vessel of the same name; 2) the nuclear-free zone act does not prohibit use of nuclear generation in NZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_nuclear-free_zone
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The real irony is that the UK government has just killed the pensions of an entire generation of older women by raising the retirement age without notice.

So going after small businesses to enforce an onerous rule change is entirely hypocritical.
That's a good point. I just wanted to demonstrate that the wording could be tighter.
It costs me $2500 or so to fly to Europe and stay for a week. Maybe $4K in a high week.

I can steer or create a significant multiple of that value by visiting my teams for a week. There’s massive financial incentive for me to take that trip.
One the one hand, that is technically true. I'm sure there do exist some videos that demonstrate that fact.

On the other, across my 53+ years of living on this planet, I don't think I have yet met a single female who would try to participate in that kind of activity. And I've met more than a few males who would actually be entertained by that outcome.

So, on the weight of my own personal experience, I would have to agree with the section you quoted and responded to.
Well if it’s all loaned out and invested away you can’t exactly conjure it back home every night. But yeah, essentially the Fed is trying to stay ahead of this issue they were the cause of.
It is QE
On being sane in insane places (1973)
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This "relative deprivation" concept, to me sounds like a more elegant way of speaking about "envy". "The grass is greener in our neighbor lawn". Perhaps I'm very minimalist in my needs and therefore I cannot empathize with people that feel that relative deprivation, and that's why I question it.

From the article:
> Relative poverty, an important but often neglected policy target, is measured by the resources needed to maintain the social and economic lifestyle that is widely accepted by the society in which one lives,

Who is "the society"? This sounds like saying that people feel bad when others have something they don't have, even if they aren't poor. Should everyone have the same? Trying to achieve that never worked. That may work only when thanks to technological advancements we reach a post-scarcity economy, I believe.

From the article:
> A large empirical evidence base for most countries suggests that low socio-economic status and resulting feelings of relative deprivation lower both objective and subjective well-being, as measured by indicators such as health and happiness.

Feeling envy lowers well-being, yes.
I haven’t seen the magnetic failure, but the cable quality thing is just Apple looking at form over function. The company has an aversion to cable boots.
It's not a controversial stance within NZ these days, nor seen as particularly partisan there. Other countries (especially the US given what it meant for ANZUS) might find it more so.
If you're looking at your feet, you're gonna get run over, no one in the NHL looks at their feet.
Thats a great example, because there is no beer out there that is "closed source". Meaning you can duplicate almost any beer you taste given enough time and effort. However what has happened in the market is the exact opposite of what you just described. The micro breweries are selling beer for $3 that the big companies could make for $1. So why hasn't the big brewery put all the small players out business? It turns out that even if you can make beer really cheap there are so many variables in the brewing process that there is no way you would be able to do all of them at a very high quality at the same time, and even if you could under the covers the big beer companies operate at a scale that isn't cost effective in small batches. So the big beer company pretty much makes all their money off that one style beer that is fairly popular, and even though they could make other styles there is so much nuance in the brewing process that it wouldn't be a broad success.

The real problem you have is lets say you are that craft brewer and you are doing really well with your $3 a bottle beer, so well in fact you want to expand so you can prep for your big IPO. Well it turns out brewing beer at a large scale is fairly hard, but lets say you figure that out because your an awesome brewer. Its even harder to run a national distribution network, and you have no clue how to do that. You will quickly learn that the reason Big Beer Company is doing so well has very little to do with the taste of their beer. Yes they do a lot to make sure their product is great, but mostly its to make sure the product is uniform, and reliable. The real magic is the business side, they have suppliers, an distributors who can get their product into every store in America. Their product isn't beer their product is beer distribution, you can't compete with that, because your a craft brewer not a logistics expert.

This is the same thing going on with the big cloud providers, if your product is just a logging system you will loose to the company who can deliver that service to users at scale. The product is the service not the software.
Whatever tickles your fancy. To each their own
Somebody having their own position on an issue that you believe impacts one ethnic group more than another is not racist. Having a position on an issue that is motivated by which ethnic group you believe it impacts is outright racist. I guess these days I probably shouldn’t be, but I am shocked to see openly racist rhetoric on HN.
Interesting writeup! Thanks for sharing.

>Seems easy right - it's a CLI - just document every option and you're done in half a day. That's what I thought too.

>But then you realise that each individual option is its own thing that requires thought to explain, and crucially, interacts with all other options. It's not enough to explain it in isolation. You need to tie everything together. You need examples. You realise from doing all this that there's a simpler way to name or combine options, you go back and make that change and have to update all the examples, explanations, etc.

You question whether your MVP at that stage was viable, but when I read this, I wondered whether it was actually minimum. Is it possible that you added too many options and your MVP would have been easier to ship if it had been more limited in scope?

>The product did not look like something anyone would want to pay for

One pitfall to look out for is that you probably can't accurately predict what customers pay for until you talk to a real customer. Maybe things like aesthetics that seem important wouldn't actually be important to a customer if your product solves their problem. A designer gave you feedback, and they no doubt have valid expertise, but they're also not your customer.

I had the experience of shipping too late last year:

https://mtlynch.io/shipping-too-late/

tl;dr of my takeaways:

* Even if you've been warned about startup pitfalls a million times, sometimes you just have to make the same mistake to learn it.

* The goal of the MVP should be to get something in the customer's hands ASAP so you can hear their feedback. If you focus on polish and design, you might be polishing something that nobody wants.

* Question whether your "must haves" are actually just ways of delaying scary conversations with customers.
In NSW it is illegal to ride a bicycle on public roads without government issued photo id (normally a drivers licence).
Still using my 2013 Air, but the touch pad is getting finicky. I really need to thump it to get a click. I don't know is this is fixable ...
> If we had embraced nuclear power 2 decades ago, we would have been in much better shape with respect to CO2 than we are in now.

How would New Zealand be better off with nuclear power? Keep in mind our environment. We have lots of water, plenty of sun and wind and some regions have earthquakes, including big ones in areas previously thought safe. Down here ‘we’ are doing just fine without it.
I'm super careful about exposing Disney content to my kids. The especially pre-2000 era Disney content is absolutely damaging and well documented in the academic community for that. Disney content gets created to increasing shareholder value, not for the long term well-being of your child. This means anything that can get kids addicted on easy entertainment sudar and spend more money on toys, books, trips is a good thing. In addition, I've become very averse to starting subscriptions given how hard they are to get rid off and stay underutilized. I already have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Xfinity and now I also have to do individual networks and studios? This is one reason I don't think newspaper, magazine and more subscriptions are going to fly as long term business model. People will sonner or later realize that everything cost same as cup of coffee but we are just being forced to buy way too many cups.
Stanley Black & Decker is trying to resurrect Craftsman through a partnership with Lowe's. The tools themselves are probably as good as any other mid-range tools targeted at DIY customers.
Untrue. The nuclear-free zone act specifically does not preclude nuclear power generation. The fact that it hasn’t happened is no different from most other places where it hasn’t happened. A combination of fear, nimby, cost, regulation and easier options.
I'm interested to hear what kinds of filesystem semantics you think might strike a better balance!
what sort of effect do you expect this to have on BTC/USD? has it had a consistent effect previous times it has happened?
>There's a slight problem with this idea: how do you deal with people giving each other money? People frequently "inherit" money from their parents before they're dead, sometimes long before. If parents pay for their kids' college tuition, do you want to tax that as "inheritance"? What if they set up a trust fund? What about the money parents pay while their kids are under 18 just for their living expenses? What if parents buy their adult children a house? With today's housing market, a lot of Millennials and GenZers can't afford decent housing right out of college, so sometimes their rich parents will buy a house for them.

That's not a real problem with the idea of an inheritance tax. That an inheritance tax alone doesn't result in perfectly equitable wealth distribution doesn't mean there's any problem with it - it would certainly be more equitable than not having inheritance tax.

>The only way I see a high inheritance tax not being really cruel, and also not being rejected by the voters, is if it only targets truly wealthy people. Jeff Bezos's kids don't really need to inherit all his billions if he gets hit by a bus. If an inheritance tax takes 95% of his wealth

I actually think that's a class where a high inheritance tax would be most problematic. Do we want the government to suddenly gain controlling interests in Amazon or Google or any other massive private enterprise?
> But the type itself doesn't say that it must return the first element.

Sure, I didn’t say it does. That type isn’t a full specification of head. This blog post isn’t about proving literally everything in your program correct, which is impractical anyway because if you did that it would be as easy to prove the wrong thing as to write a bug in the first place. Some functional tests are still needed.

> Okay, what about more complex cases? E.g. how do you describe type "such value doesn't exist in the db table yet"?

I’ve addressed that kind of question more generally in another comment[1], but for that specific case, I think it probably isn’t worth proving, because a database lives outside of your application, and it’s the database’s responsibility to manage that kind of data integrity, not your application logic. That’s one of the kinds of “execution-phase failure modes” that I describe in this paragraph of the blog post:

> Parsing avoids this problem by stratifying the program into two phases—parsing and execution—where failure due to invalid input can only happen in the first phase. The set of remaining failure modes during execution is minimal by comparison, and they can be handled with the tender care they require.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21478427
I've gotten pretty close with two 4 months projects this year (2 weeks off in both cases). It took two weeks of planning, research, and understanding roadblocks to get to that point.

It's doable, really, and it feels an awful lot like waterfall when you're in the moment. The most important steps were:

1. Write it down
2. Don't keep it to yourself

Everyone else is smarter than me and provided immeasurably good feedback.
> the left’s irrational opposition to nuclear power

This is nonsense. In nations where opposition to nuclear power is strong (like mine, Aus), there is not a left-right divide amongst the general population. People just don't want it, end of story, irrational or not.

There is a huge divide regarding electricity supply in general here - ie. the right wants coal, the left renewables. But neither want nuclear. There have been some pro-nuclear political elite lobbies, and there is a slight rightward slant there for sure, but this is entirely ignored by the general populace, left & right alike, that just doesn't want nuclear.
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Hollywood popularized Han Solo, Clint Eastwood, and the likes as the Stoic Male archetype which recently became the poster boy for toxic masculinity.

Shame though, because Stoic derives from Latin for porch. The Stoics sat and shared their ways of a happy life on porches.

Stoicism does not subscribe itself to the male gender - it is a pursuit, much like Taoism or Buddism, to reach peace within the Logos, or rather the grand chaos that is the universe itself.

Anyone of any descent or gender may become one with the Logos.
Yeah I remember it. Basically, compare-and-swap to enqueue an operation. In contention threads will cooperate to help threads finish operations. With this you bound the blocking and achieve wait-free concurrent operation.
This whole situation really makes me wish that there was more transparency at the Fed. I want to know why they're doing this, because if some of the linked articles in this thread are correct, it amounts to nothing more than a bailout of people with ridiculously leveraged bets.
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Trying to play attack with no pocket is a fool's errand. I honestly don't know how they manage to play.
They already sold off the craftsman tool line. That was literally the only reason to go to sears.