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The statement you made about google issuing more shares has nothing to do with my logic and is completely irrelevant.

You are right that Bezos selling shares does not change the amount of capital Amazon has.

The fact that nobody has enough money to buy all of Amazon from Bezos is also completely irrelevant.

You are right that Bezos exchanging stock for real estate doesn’t reduce his wealth unless the real estate is overpriced.

When you buy something with money, the same thing happens - the amount of wealth held by both parties doesn’t change unless the goods are overpriced or are consumed.

You haven’t refuted anything I said in the previous comment.

Bezos can use Amazon stock to buy whatever he wants, the same way you and I can use money, and the corporation has no control over this.

Bezos’s wealth is exactly what it looks like. He can indeed use it just like money.
Is running regressions machine learning?
Did you read the original vice article? The airbnb scam is much more harmful than an erroneous classifieds listing. If someone lies on Craigslist and you're smart enough to find out they did you walk away and all that's lost is time. The scammers on airbnb were promising a better place and then had them stay in a place that might as well be a squat. Wasting time, money, comfort, convince, etc.
This is a good report. Looks like Dart is finally climbing on the back of flutter and nice to see Rust growing as well.

Java with all the controversies around licensing/build/release and C# with more open .Net Core will probably come closer in terms of adaption. Personally what I see is traditional Java shops are either sticking to Java or exploring something like golang but rarely move to C#. Same is happening for .NET.
Oh very interesting. Weirdly enough my initial response to you has been upvoted and then downvoted. I don't want to turn this place into Reddit with all the meta talk, but interesting things are afoot.
It would seem to me as a casual observer that GraphQL is more an alternative to SQL than it is to HTTP2. No?
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We're selling fintech to Enterprises and they insist on us having E&O and Cyber Liabilty Insurance. Any good recommendations for insurance companies?
What industry do you work in? I do software and can quit and find a new job within a month no problem, 10k is more than sufficient...
Not sure about VSCode's implementation, but Atom's teletype uses this: https://github.com/atom/teletype-crdt
> So given how possible it is without any real downside to you

I would lose money.

> boils down to "i don't care about them".

Exactly, I don't care about the poor. The only reason we fetishize them is because of Christian influence on society. You go to Japan and Singapore and we always praise them for clean streets. They don't treat the poor well.

If we raise taxes I don't think the people I would be giving money to have similar beliefs or values as I do, I don't think we would ever be friends and given the age we live in, I don't think they are part of my community, even if we live in the same country. Given we have so little in common I'm more sympathetic to people living in abject poverty (that don't live in the US) who truly have no chance of succeeding in this world without help.
I really wish you all the best jmstfv !
The website is obviously great but I love the fact that you have shared such great tips at https://tryhexadecimal.com/costs for solo founders/ small business owners.
Would it be smart for companies like google and twitter to publish how they vet people for these roles? That’s a seriously tremendous amount of power. I almost think it needs to be regulated like heath info. I get that that would make it more expensive to handle this data at all, and would serve as a significant barrier to entry for startups ... but data breach after data breach is pushing me in the regulation direction.
Exempt status means that you may not be paid for overtime. It doesn't mean you can't be. I haven't tried to push that point in a negotiation but I'd be curious to see how it goes. It could backfire on you, for sure, but who knows the balance until one tries?

And while I haven't negotiated for it, I was paid overtime on a contract gig once. Pulled in ten thousand dollars a week. That was a wild summer.
It always comes down to violence and that argument makes me less sympathetic not more. I'm not interested in paying off what amounts to a rabid unproductive population for some hope of safety. Also, I'm not particularly scared of people that can't manage to find some success in the modern US either.

So if you argument is that we should increase taxes so another Mao doesn't exist, I'd rather just kill Mao.
> The system recently passed impact tests, where it prevented a 7,200kg lorry travelling at 32kph from penetrating less than five metres.

That does not sound great. 32kph is slow and 5 meters! easily crosses entire sidewalk/roadway/whatever who wanted to keep vehicle out of.
Exactly market cap of AMD is 35 and Intel is 250. Even if AMD can only manage to steal half of that they will do phenomenally well.
>But Michael Worobey, head of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, who was also not involved in the recent study, is more sanguine. Worobey says it is not a surprise that there are a diverse number of HIV strains in Central Africa, which is where the disease originated. Identifying a new one does not add much to the knowledge of HIV, he says.

> “It’s actually misleading to describe genetic diversity from the [Democratic Republic of the] Congo as a new subtype,” Worobey says, “because the only useful meaning of the term ‘subtype’” would come from identification of a lineage of the virus that has spread significantly beyond Central Africa. Guidelines for classifying new strains of HIV were established in 2000. The recently discovered subtype belongs to the most common form of HIV, group M, which accounts for more than 90 percent of all HIV cases, Rodgers says.

The amount of press that this has gotten, seems to me like a submarine marketing job by Abbott.
Insider risk is not limited to "spies", there are lots of actors that may act against the best interests of the company in regards to how the access and use the data. There are procedures (basically layered security, auditing and monitoring) that can be followed to actively manage this. So yes, there may be "spies" at any one of those companies, or just people doing things they shouldn't do, but to me that's logical and not surprising in any way, any organization has to face this issue.
Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

- GK Chesterton
Having done similar to your last point: I just used GVoice and turned it off for vacations. Little bit easier. ;)
I tend to use VSCode for markdown as it gives a preview, though I also use Vim for it as well. I pretty much exclusively write any kind of documentation in Markdown these days. Including my own notes.

I tried this Markdown editor. But very quickly decided I didn't like it, I felt handicapped not seeing the markdown and losing Vim bindings. But partly it's because I don't actually really need the visualization of markdown. I'm happy looking at the raw syntax of highlighted markdown. In Vscode I'll open the preview just to check I haven't done something silly. Also, the rendering of markdown in VsCode seems nicer ( perhaps more familiar )
This feels like a weird, socially awkward humblebrag
How are you validating my credentials as an applicant?

The whole reason behind referrals is cheaper, easier, trustworthy validation and prescreening. As an employee when I refer someone it's because I have a good understanding of their person, character and ability. This platform has none of these, in my opinion. I don't know the person and my vouching for their ability is based on their claims rather than what I actually know about them.
Are they just advertising the companies directly? There are cases where advertising even in a "saturated" area makes sense.

If FB feels like features like facebook marketplace or facebook dating are not reaching as big of an audience as they should, advertising to get the word out about those particular products the company offers is logical.
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Considering the aforementioned one second "got a weird result, wait and see if it goes away" system, this seems highly likely. If everything's an alarm, nothing is.
Apologies, I'll try again. At both ends of the human spectrum you have people who are so basic human life means nothing to them. In both respects these people want power over others. I suggest the least intelligent are the serial killer types but the most dangerous are the rich and powerful. Wiki commodities brokers.
Are those equity numbers annualized or for the entire 4 year vesting period ?
How do those titles sound different to you? Seems pretty similar to me.

Anyway, from the article it seems at least some of them were groomed after becoming Twitter employees, so it wouldn't be quite accurate.
The IPFS folks also have an excellent compilation of resources on CRDTs available here: https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT
Increasing the GDP is really easy, the government can pass a law adding a zero to all measures of money (so $10 becomes $100). Reducing inequality is also easy, confiscate people's wealth.

The real problem is "people are not secure in their lifestyle" which is not addressed by the first solution and is probably exacerbated by the second. People getting antsy about inequality as a final problem instead of a symptom of another issue are not going to find their way to solutions that increase prosperity.
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Nope.

You could have just Googled "twitters largest stockholders" but the answer is:

The largest stockholders of Twitter are all US mutual funds. Vanguard owns 10%, Morgan Stanley owns 5%, BlackRock owns 5%, StateStreet owns 4%, Fidelity owns 2%, etc.

Really nothing comes to close to the index funds. Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street own 20% of pretty much every company.
This was last week. It seems like the same mechanism though, if the phone is still tied to their Apple ID.
Inequality is a tricky word. At first I disliked it because, for me, it's a non-goal to have everyone equal.

I know there are some people who are willing to work harder than me, and I don't mind if they have more wealth. I also know there are people who don't want to work as hard. (This isn't meant as judgement, I'm just saying I'm somewhere in the middle.)

But let's not be black and white about it. I'm OK with some variation, but with some kind of limits. It wouldn't be reasonable for someone to receive a million times the reward for working twice as hard.

And although I'd prefer a better term, many people seem to use "inequality" as concise term for that. I don't love the choice of terminology (too prone to misinterpretation), but I can handle it.
This is an old old discussion. I'll defer to Churchill who can speak to it far better than I:

> Nothing is more amusing than to watch the efforts of land monopolists to claim that other forms of property and increment are similar in all respects to land and the unearned increment on land.
They talk of the increased profits of a doctor or lawyer from the growth of population in the town in which they live. They talk of the profits of a railway, from the growing wealth and activity in the districts through which it runs. They talk of the profits from a rise in stocks and even the profits derived from the sale of works of art.

> But see how misleading and false all those analogies are. The windfalls from the sale of a picture -- a Van Dyke or a Holbein -- may be very considerable. But pictures do not get in anybody's way. They do not lay a toll on anybody's labor; they do not touch enterprise and production; they do not affect the creative processes on which the material well-being of millions depends.

> If a rise in stocks confers profits on the fortunate holders far beyond what they expected or indeed deserved, nevertheless that profit was not reaped by withholding from the community the land which it needs; on the contrary, it was reaped by supplying industry with the capital without which it could not be carried on.

> If a railway makes greater profits it is usually because it carries more goods and more passengers.

> If a doctor or a lawyer enjoys a better practice, it is because the doctor attends more patients and more exacting patients, and because the lawyer pleads more suits in the courts and more important suits.

> At every stage the doctor or the lawyer is giving service in return for his fees.

> Fancy comparing these healthy processes with the enrichment which comes to the landlord who happens to own a plot of land on the outskirts of a great city, who watches the busy population around him making the city larger, richer, more convenient, more famous every day, and all the while sits still and does nothing.

> Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains -- and all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is effected by the labor and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist, as a land monopolist, contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived.

http://www.landvaluetax.org/current-affairs-comment/winston-...
> in a tech company there's always going to be a significant number of people with direct access to the raw data.

Why?

I've worked for a few large tech companies that handled very sensitive customer data, and they didn't allow unsanitized access to it by a significant number of people. Typically (on the dev side, anyway), there was a small designated team (less than 10 people) who were the only ones who had such access. Any dev work that absolutely required access to that data -- which was very rare -- was performed by that team.
I used to be able to just remove the bios coin battery and have it reset to default. You'll lose all setting so decide if it's something you can do without making things worse.
I think you're a bit burnt out from physics, thus this rather cynical view of physicists' approach to an important economic problem.

The mathematical models you find in the works of many highly regarded economists are even more simplistic, more vulnerable to criticism.

"When you have such hubris and make such simple mistakes..." that pronoun "you" should be the economists!
And the Silicon Valley ref was about how they get away with it.
http://archive.is/byhRv
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> Now in Windows 10, User32/GDI is deprecated and obsolete for high-performance applications (and it’s really slow too after they axed GDI hardware acceleration in Vista), but there isn’t a single replacement, instead there’s like 5 of 6 - all incompatible with each other. While it’s true that it shouldn’t matter because OLE objects were rendered to their own separate hWnd, consider that the new UWP system doesn’t use hWnds, and frameworks like WPF have “air gap” issues with rendering their content overlaying another hWnd and often resort to hacks using window content blitting which drastically hurts performance (as you need to blit to/from RAM, instead of keeping it all in VRAM).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21450112
The French Revolution and Russian Revolution might like to have a word with you on that. You can only push inequality so far for so long before the rich lose more than just their money.
A little off topic from the actual post, but I wish that there was an actual service or program that was a "re-licensing sentry". That is, given some list of open source projects, it would email me if any of the projects changed their license.

Many dependency managers just grab the latest release of an open source project, and you as a software developer may not be aware that one of your open source dependencies has changed their license in a way that affects what you can do with your project.

It seems a lot of projects are starting out as true open source projects and then once they have built up a user base, are changing their license to something else. It would be nice for me to have a better way to monitor this for my dependencies than just checking the front page of Hacker News.
Albert Einstein did much of his greatest work in isolation, and he was quite proud, too.
I doubt it's possible. I think Google uses the device browser (SFSafariViewController) to do OAuth, so users aren't asked to sign in in every application. No doubt they think this is a feature. Why not simply use Google Maps in an private browser window if you're looking to improve privacy? Or even better, check out OpenStreetMap.
I need to keep exactly two instances running (in separate AZs) and will never need to scale up beyond that...is it still worth investigating spot fleets in this case?
You are missing the forest for the trees, they were not surviving, they were living.

Do those $35 a week get you a healthy meal? Or will you eventually develop malnutrition? I live in a mid-sized city in UK, and back in my student days I rented a room for ~$300. It had rats, mould, and a leaking roof.

Those people raised a family while working 20 hrs/week. Are you going to feed and house your kids with that part-time service job?

Maybe you can, but that's not the point. After 4,000 of progress, the difference should be so vast, that the two experiences are totally incomparable.

Since those barbaric days productivity went up over 10,000%, I should be able to survive working 2 hours a year!
Yeah. The advantage of GraphQL is that you can bring the exact data you need with a single API call instead of querying against multiple endpoints to assemble whatever data you need.

That's completely independent of the protocol that you're using. I understand that there's a performance consideration when you have to make fewer calls and how HTTP2 basically can help with that. But I honestly have never thought about GraphQL as something that would improve performance.

For me, the advantage of GraphQL is not that it reduces network roundtrips but the fact that you can get the data you need in the exact structure you need it.
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Same here.
That's why I got their mini USB C key so it's barely noticeable.

Solokey is also pretty good.
Planning can be helpful when it comes to writing code
The insult was in your later, snide reply. “What was yours?”
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> the first 4-6 classes were brutal

I’ve also been thinking about this a lot lately as I play piano more consistently. When I first learn a song it’s agony. I’m straining my brain so hard to figure out a reasonable fingering. The first week or two (assuming practice every day) is likewise quite tough or draining. And then muscle memory kicks in and I’m amazed that I’m able to play the song faster than expected. I feel like this process is way more applicable to learning in general than I used to give it credit. For some reason piano just makes the entire process crystal clear.
Someone needs to build and maintain the audit log software.
Those are for four years - I'll edit the text to explain that.
When will Airbnb ban hidden cameras?
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Anyone read the updated article? Clinton applauds twitter for banning political ads and encourages facebook to do the same.. All this does is shift all of the power to those that can buy the mainstream media outlets
At no time in the past were we in danger of reaching the limits of our planetary resources. There was always somewhere else to go, some other resources untapped. In the future that will no longer be the case, unless we manage to settle among the stars.

Past performance does not guarantee future results. The story of our society was not written with a fairytale ending. Whether we succeed and create a better future for all or destroy ourselves or create a hellish dystopia, there are no guarantees.
Is Cardboard still being used? After the death of Daydream, I'm assuming Google is pretty much entirely out of VR at this point... although I may be completely wrong.
They are of course proficient at worthwhile acquisitions (Marvel and Lucasfilm come to mind) but they also still make movies that rake in the cash. Their recent remake of the Lion King had a box office of 1.655 billion. It is of course debatable whether or not these remakes are as good as the originals or whether they maintain the creativity and originality that Disney has become known for, but it doesn't seem to be debatable that they are successful financially.

Not to mention, Disney is excellent at marketing. Top of their class, I'd say.
There's a difference between performance and brand marketing. Bart advertising by Twitter/ Facebook is mostly brand marketing (not really tied to anything). A lot of marketing is about reminding you that a company exists.
That would really exacerbate the lock in effect
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Doesn't it? How would they block WA generated from Rust? Or identify it?
since humans are on average a terrible organism, at least in relation to the values we espouse.

Surely you recognize the irony in stating this here, considering the pieces of shit who create these startups are responsible for making the world worse at a large scale, purely for their own gain, right?

It's obscene to me how you've written this. These startups ignore major laws, break numerous consumer protection laws as well, purposefully provide mechanisms intended to hurt anyone but themselves, erode societal trust, and even kill people, and yet you're blaming the people these vampires feed from?
Interestingly enough, Heemeyer has some kind of a cult following in Russia. I believe that Russians think that it is far more likely that he was a victim of a corrupt government.
I find this interesting because it goes to show how differences in personal experiences lead people to have wildly diverging interpretations of the same facts.
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But all humans of sufficient ability (except those with extreme mental handicap) have innate means of production. Even those who have lost use of their limbs have an innate means of production via their minds in the form of intellectual property. Honestly, even many with mental disability but physically capable are capable of producing value from relatively little.
Just because it's not a cash asset doesn't mean it's not an asset. There are myriad of financial instruments to work with.

Increased property values translate to increased borrowing power.
That wouldn't be Markdown though?

A better question might be, what flavor of Markdown serves your purposes? Find this, and then look for an editor which supports it.

Adding anything non-standard would be creating a new flavor of Markdown. I want for all the features I use in an editor to be fully portable. If it's not standard, then it's not portable.

NOTE: In this case, by Standard, I mean widely used.

I get what you are saying though. You want the full versatility of HTML at some point. My method of dealing with this is to come up with a set of scripts which converts snippets and turns the doc into HTML. The Markdown file would be the source and the HTML would be the view layer. The scripts are a build process. Of course, this takes time which not everyone has. It's impossible to cover the use cases for everyone though. And I find so often that when I get a feature I think I can't live without, it still falls short because I didn't think through my problem well enough.

Otherwise, it might be best just to use HTML from the start. Or you could ditch Markdown and try Asciidoctor. The issue there is that you're limiting your editor options.

https://asciidoctor.org/