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Allbirds is a luxury brand. Retailers offer cheap versions of luxury brands. There's little surprise here. Should Ray-Bans complain that Walmart offers sunglasses that look nearly identical at a tenth of the price?

Amazon has plenty of dodgy business practices, but I don't think this is one of them.
That sounds to me like virtue signalling. Shutting down both coal and gas is wishful thinking. Those gas plants are needed as an energy storage mechanism.
Does this put drivers at risk in two party consent states?
for a funny and informative recap of Adam Neuman's life leading up to the formation of WeWork, check out this episode from the Grubstakers podcast. Really, really wild the stuff this guy pulled and the bull it took to do so.
https://soundcloud.com/grubstakers/episode-95-adam-neumann-w...
> I don’t really see why it’s his fault investors over valued his company

> he believed in his own spin

It's his fault because he accepted the price for his business! He was in numerous conversations where people wanted to invest in WoWork and he told them that the valuations they were investing at were not just reasonable, but under the real market price - which is why venture buys into companies.

> none of those events actually materially impact the value of the business

> overnight, investors just came to their senses about what kind of value this type of business is worth

These things seem like they contradict each other. If Neumann's actions are not material, why did his removal reveal the true value of the company? Material just means it changes the value of the company. There are lots of "material" events that don't have anything to do with business fundamentals.
Good point, also remember they have their own internet cable ruin through the globe.
Red bull tastes better than a lot of others.
Not everyone can easily find a new job whenever they want.
> You took a general explanation of a scenario ("guy talks to women with great success") and assumed the worst, that this guy must have made women uncomfortable by approaching them, as if discomfort is an intrinsic part of human interaction.

I find this whole mindset to infantilize and encourage shitty women to lean on that. Not all women are massively scare to communicate with men.
Microsoft is the real competition, here. Look into xCloud. They have the network, the technology, and a deep first-party library alongside third-party relationships.
Don't forget the menu with a picture of your face on it (probably).
If they had all those metrics and that many test users, how could such obvious backtick issues exist?

Even simple dog-fooding by their own internal coding team should have revealed that issue.

If they had a test group, it was definitely a group that didn't use those features to begin with and basically didn't use them in the new UI either. Meticulously tracking the wrong sample group simply leads to reams of bad data.
> if you define a market simply as a mechanism of wealth transmission from dumb people to smarter

Who defines a market with that kind of cynical, silly definition? I don't think most of us want that kind of "market". And if that's the only way to make Neumann look good, then maybe the reverse is true.
Probably because Regus is more interested in running a business and not advertising to potential investors how cool it is.

Just my guess.
> The only people I know pushing .NET Core are .NET people, not Linux people.

Miguel de Icaza would probably have an issue with that statement.
I don't see what you've said as a criticism of Stadia. Stadia was never meant to do what you want and never claimed to either. I personally would rather Google managed my game library because I can't be bothered to download a 10gb game only to play it for 10mins before deleting it. If Google can let me jump in and out easily then it will make discovery much easier for me.
Ballet is mired in tradition. Startups are all about changing the things that people never questioned. It's almost an oxymoron to try to run a professional ballet company as a startup - at some point you may have to pivot to not being a ballet company, and then you're no longer a professional ballet company.
> So if we're making our 20 year plan for, say, the next generation hardware platform that we're going to invest many millions of dollars and thousands of engineer hours to build, then which PQC algorithms will we select to be built into our platform? It's very unclear at this point.

We've deprecated SSL 2.0 (2011), SSL 3.0 (2015), and TLS 1.0 & 1.1 (2020). We've gone from "use any >128-bits cipher", to don't use SSL CBC but RC4 is okay (POODLE, BEAST), to RC4 is not okay (Bar-mitzvah, NOMORE), to only use AEAD ciphers.

All in the last ten years.

If you have to add support for crypto acceleration in your products, perhaps look into FPGAs?
>How about the 10's of millions of their citizens being poisoned or dying from pollution related illnesses?

Before you saying this, please update your source. Sorry, India is the most polluted country, and China is much better than lots of Asia countries, dear!
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Yes, was looking for this post. I rarely used the markup in the previous editor, but the new editor is so buggy I keep looking for an icon to switch to markup.
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In that case it’s absolutely incorrect, not merely misleading. It definitely should not be between FSM and CFG. It should either be equal to FSM (regular expressions) or it should be much more powerful (if you have backreferences, like PCRE does, you can encode SAT problems in your regexes, and this cannot be done with CFG, but recursive languages are strictly more powerful).
I mean, the law itself doesn't say only Coca-Cola can use the coca leaves.... they just have an exclusive deal with the only company that is licensed to import it.
I've seen similar on a 100mbit line that was actually a faster line throttled to that speed, the effect was particularly upstream rather than down. Essentially some content (or more likely content from some locations) is allowed to bypass the throttle.

This might be deliberate but not malicious: through Netflix's Open Connect program ISPs can host a local cache of Netflix content to reduce their peering costs while still offering full service to many concurrent users. If the main throttling effect you are experiencing is applied topologically close to their peering lines such that it would apply to the Open Connect equipment too, rather that the Open Connect kit setting between the throttle point and the peering lines, then to make it useful in the case of new or otherwise not recently accessed data the traffic shaping rules would need to let Netflix traffic (including your speedtests) through relatively unhindered. The path between the Open Connect equipment and your line is unlikely to need throttling because that will be an internal matter with very different cost dynamics than external peering.
So, you're cool with wasted resources?
Signals and slots compile into plain C++ functions. The input language (the unnamed Qt superset of C++) has a notion of signals and slots, the output language (C++) does not have any such notion.

> I am saying that this point does not make sense - else every library which has some concept not perfectly transmitted by raw C++ code (for instance : a library function whose correct execution / lack of UB depends on the programmer calling another function before that) would be problematic.

My point does make sense, you're just missing it.

First of all, my point is that Qt is a poor developer experience--that its interface is bastardized is merely evidence. Further, even if it were not bastardized, it would still be awful because it's C++ (insane build tooling, no package management, poor error messaging, no memory safety, enormous feature matrix, etc etc etc; all of this has been covered elsewhere ad nauseum, no need to repeat those arguments here). There's a long tail of additional issues with Qt that contribute to its unpleasantness, but there's no point in diving into them here.

Secondly, your stateful library functions example doesn't fit my criticism because stateful functions are part of the C++ language spec while signals and slots are not.
I agree with everything you said, but most especially this:

> Personally I don't think it can be fixed not because the software is beyond saving, but the community surrounding it doesn't actually want it to be an experience for regular non-technical people

The community behind Linux Desktop is, by far, the biggest reason it is as unpopular as it is.
PDF gives you all the tools to make sure that doesn't happen. No one prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot by writing a bad PDF that doesn't adhere to common good practices. For example it is technically possible to make a PDF with text without embedding fonts. Doing that is a bad idea.

By your argument, any programming language, no much how safe it purports to be, fails because they allow you to write bugs.
Amazon has copied 50,000+ items, some open source, some proprietary SaaS, they surely weren't all garbage undeserving of success. Predatory platforms might be the actual problem.
Remember, for years, Xbox One has allowed for local streaming from Xbox One consoles to Windows 10 PCs via the Xbox app over LAN, which gives Microsoft's Project xCloud the benefits of:
* significant experience with the fundamental technology,
* no new special hardware required (they can tweak existing Xbox One hardware),
* a much larger library of games currently available for download (for consumers who want to switch to a local console), and
* an existing Netflix-of-games program via Game Pass (for consumers interested in pure subscriptions)

As-is, Google just happens to be first-to-market in the current generation of on-demand game streaming options. But we've seen this technology before, and I could get the same results with a high quality VPN set-up to connect to a Xbox at home.
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> Well if you define a market simply as a mechanism of wealth transmission from dumb people to smarter people...

Does anyone?
Trump raised and slaughtered the cows himself, so it's all good.
Okay, but that's hardly what most would consider innovative. Applying their large scale is more of an evolution of or improvement to the established cloud gaming idea.
Well. allbirds has serious supplychain and production problems. This is their own fault
> I don’t really see why it’s his fault investors over valued his company ... This was not like Theranos where he was straight up lying about a product working

Hell of a low bar you're setting.

Self dealing is fraudulent. It sends a message to con-artists of the future to do exactly what Neumann did for a potential big payout.
I couldn't figure out how to select a portion of a message and copy it. My only option was to copy the whole message. Made it a bit of a PITA. This is working better: https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet

(not my code)
Google Suggest is low latency, and required a huge effort, driven from the top.

Cloud gaming needs even lower latency. I don't think it's possible, but if google is doing the serious datacenter work, it must be a testbed for something else, because gaming isn't worth it anyway.
Did I read that correctly. The margin on coke are thin?
Apple Arcade is great, it cuts through the skinner box horrors that the mobile gaming market has devolved into. However, nothing that runs on my phone will come close to the graphical fidelity and depth that a full blown AAA console/PC title can reach.
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Not only that, but the pre-orders for Stadia were so intense that they couldn't hit day 1 deliveries with orders that were placed within hours of going on sale.

So clearly there are plenty of people who want this and are even willing to risk it being total crap at $130 each.
I'm a designer and I do user testing for every feature in the app I'm working on – usually using Sketch or Framer X for cases where better prototypes are needed, and in mostly all cases the design changes because of it. It's very hard to get it right in he first try, and I can't believe I'm the exception here.

Funny thing too: because I usually do the implementation of my own designs (react-native app so not so big of a barrier), I usually discover limitations of the original design and have to tweak it to better fit the medium.
These are the two I miss the most as well. Inbox was such as breath of fresh air compared to the Gmail app when it was first launched. And Reader really for me is the best way to follow news/topics/people I care about without too much noise and distractions. Still use RSS readers to consume a lot of my content even to this day.
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>His problem was that he always tried to do what would be best for Microsoft and not the customer

What on earth is this doublespeak? If he always did what was best for Microsoft, we would not be discussing what his problem was in managing Microsoft. That's not how "what's best for Microsoft" works.
This is especially true in the fashion industry, and even more especially true in the shoe industry.

Amazon isn't the only company that makes shoes that look like Allbirds. All the shoe companies rip each other off.
Right, so, in that period, IE stagnated, and so did Mozilla. But IE was the dominant stagnant browser and not Mozilla or Firefox. That's somewhat on the monopoly.

In much of those days I used Netscape 4.x and it really wasn't much worse than IE. Then I used pre-1.0 Mozilla and various forks, and early firefox, they were all pretty acceptable for the time. The big issue was that all the content was authored for IE and not tested anywhere else. Monopoly.
Honestly, i cant even name one google hardware product that had a typical industry longevity..

Smart watches were here and there long before Apple jumped in and made it main stream, and just like iPhone they made an industry out of it.

Google should stick with what it does best, like Android model (even wear OS model). Let the market for a new product starts maturing, then use the its software&services to beat the crap out of others.
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Being laid off gets you unemployment. Quitting doesn't.
And what is that? From the front page, "Plaid is the easiest way for users to connect their bank accounts to an app." Why would I want to do that? This smells like an attempt of bringing the concept of a credit score to Europe, is that what it is?
Yep, as weird as it would be for me to see it, if its in unicode who cares, a glyph is a glyph.
Wow. You do realize most engineers have to work at far shittier companies and environments than FB? And for a lot less money.
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Even Excel isn't as productivity enhancing as Excel is. Microsoft has been trying to get people into .net macros for years but a lot of places are still using VBA.
How about statehood for DC and Peurto Rico? Oceana too. As far as Cali goes, i think the plan would be to break Cali into as many pieces as you could with each new state retaining a major city (Sacremento, San Fran, San Diego, LA, idk Cali cities that well beyond those but you get the point). to make it a perfect plan, chuck in mathematically defined congressional districts to avoid the stupid game of gerrymandering.

interesting extra piece, i believe Texas has gone on record saying that if California ever broke up, it would also break up into smaller states. goes along the logic of maintaining what Texas lawmakers believe to be republican constituencies in senate. how that would play out considering texas has been purple AF recently is anyones guess. but in general I also support the idea of breaking up states into smaller bodies.
Do you know if there's a "rust2c" tool?
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The people who make up the corporation are people. They need to be motivated, and they no not mobilize immediately.
I think much of this has been solved with systems like appimage and snap. While they are not super Linuxy or in the spirit of the community, people have come to understand why companies with a huge investment into proprietary IP like Adobe would only invest in Linux with something like these available to them.
I always found fascinating the "scoot" or "scooterman" (or similar) service, in the UK some cities have it.

You call them and someone will arrive on a foldable scooter, fold it and put in your car, drive you home with your car, then get his/her scooter and go away.
It always gets justified with some ideal examples then within a year or two the original rationale is forgotten and it’s being used broadly under pressure from various special interest groups inside and outside the organization.

This sort of thing needs to be black/white which is impossible leaving it full of grey areas where abuse and false positives without due process is a worse trade off than the original intention.
We encrypt them with a secret not in the repo itself - part of our deploy decrypts them as-needed.

edit: scripted in python via pynacl...
> This is “moral grandstanding” — publicly opining on morality and politics to impress others, and so to seek social status.

This is much better known under the name "virtue signaling"...
I wonder where you live, because I don’t feel like this is the case for me at all. It could also be a thing that depends on the age of the person.
The specific flavor/process of coke is protected, but you can get pretty close outside of that. Their other products are often indistinguishable (e.g. sprite/sierra mist). The value there is the brand, not the specific flavor.

The special dispensation for Coke works on a branding level: "we have a special process dating back to 1890".
I don't think verification of sender is the problem (see PGP), it's that email was built such that anyone can contact anyone without setup ahead of time. I can give my address to some guy I meet at a conference and he can email me later with no issues, we don't need to agree ahead of time that we know who each other are. If he uses PGP, I need to accept the first communication is him, which means anyone can send me anything claiming to be anyone. Unfortunately, as soon as you solve this part of the issue with technology, I think you've just reinvented social media.
Disney has a (poor) version of this idea. They project an animation onto wedding cakes at their resorts. They're pre-rendered though, rather than dynamic like this. It'd be fascinating to see what uses they could come up with for this stuff.
The worst thing about the Phoebus Cartel is that for something that lasted just a few years (and didn't really work), it is constantly cited as the quintessential example of 'planned obsolescence' and therefore one of the evils of capitalism. 'Planned obsolescence' itself, is an overstated and overrated concept that is frequently conflated with common practices like making a product cheaper through the use of lower-quality materials.
As corporate datacenters migrate to the cloud, the distinction between internal and external will fade.

Additionally, with cloud email/office becoming the standard, there’s powerful levers to incentive cloud adoption and shifting of compliance standards.
This is the thing I don't get.

Who precisely is this concept even marketable to? People with high speed internet, that also can't afford a gaming console?

But can afford a device capable of handling all of the inputs & playback of the video.

So lets low ball and say a $140 chromebook.

+ the cost of the games.

How many people is this? Genuinely.
Interesting parallel story about Sun's "Sun Blade".
https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1196557401710837762

Summary: they solved a technical problem without a clear user story, and were ultimately too early. Sounds a lot like Stadia.
Yeah, the trick is basically many things chained together. First is to pass a object to a function instead of position-locked arguments. Second is to default to a empty object. Third is to destruct the object in the function parameter directly. Fourth to supply default destruct values. Fifth is to set the values in the current instance of that class.
Confluence/Jira is the worst product suite I've ever had the misfortune of using, I can't fathom how it became popular or who finds it useful.
Watching people argue about politics, or even watching people get into politics, reminds me of people arguing about their favourite sports teams. It always comes down to the other team is bad and immoral or whatever, our team is the best, go chosen sports team, you can do no wrong.

Honestly, the way people have been dehumanizing each other over politics kind of scares me. It reminds me of the way propaganda dehumanizes 'the enemy' in war time. It's not a good way to look at other people, especially not over which political party they voted for.
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i believe the only NLP/ML stuff we really had was at the level of positive / negative sentiment analysis for social media posts, which as far as i know is pretty basic and mostly just involves dictionary checks for +/- words. the elasticsearch aggregations & indexing was not ML/NLP based at all.
More importantly, how many start ups are already in the field that go out of business because Google uses their resources to undercut or out-advertise the existing start up, only to abandon it after the competitors have all been killed?
Most "wealth" is just government regulations. Property is the prime example.

Imagine you own an empty block of land. If it is zoned that no building is allowed, it is almost worthless. But if you are allowed to build a house it worth much more. The only difference is government regulations.

If you are allowed to multiple homes or an apartment block then you land is worth much more.

Tk : DR - Over 80% of real estate value creation is changes in land use.
I’d argue that the definition of “right” is highly subjective.

If the goal is “get big and be profitable”: they are big and profitable. Ipso facto, they did it right.

Whether of not many of the things you mentioned are right are wrong is a matter of debate. For me, I wouldn’t consider the following “wrong”:

> They broke hospitality laws.
> They broke licensing and employment laws.

Several of the other points are ambiguous to me because I’m not terribly familiar with Airbnb’s history.

More to the point... to some degree, skirting and even blatantly ignoring law and regulation is celebrated in our industry. We call it “disruption”. I’m all for that, but whether it’s right or wrong is - as I said before - a matter of perspective.
Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21595493
The Nintendo Switch only “just works” if you have no USB-C peripherals and no more than four costrollers. Other than that, it’s pretty great!

(Yes, in my book, the official dock counts as a USB-C peripheral that doesn’t “just work”. I’ve used to of them, and one is severely janky.)
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