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Shortcuts is not just "skip the useless parts", but also cheat, lose subtlety, lower quality (as in "take shortcuts"), and so on.

In this case "read[ing] articles before commenting on them" is not "wasting their time on potentially fruitless pursuits with no joy in the journey", it's the very basic prerequisite for responding to an article.

And yes, there was a time when this happened less. In the mobile and social era, people are skimming more, jumping around from text to text more, and do focused reading of articles and books less -- this has been studied and written about several times (e.g. here's a high level article from a book author on the subject: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-goog... ).
I read it on Kindle, oops.

Edit: "What's the second word of chapter 4" would work better but that's assuming harassers can't source an ebook and share it around... it'd prevent pre-release spam like this but so would disabling reviews until the book is actually released
Layer 2 is essentially an application layer abstracted on top of a blockchain. Among other things it is a way to allow for better scalability.
Higher speeds does not necessarily equate to a more dangerous trip.

High speed delta to predominant flow is the more accurate metric.

Your fatigue comment is well received, but not a given either. A person may feel driving in a fatigued state is more acceptable for a short trip, but enforce more rigid limits on behavior for a long trip from home.
I work with CNC and 3D printing, but I still enjoy my chisels and plane. There's something satisfying knowing the tool you're using is one people have used for thousands of years (with minor incremental updates to the technology) and it's still the best tool for the job.
I wonder what are the downsides of this. The Supreme Court refused to take a previous case, but I think the composition of the court was a little different then. Given that this court is even more in favor of stronger private property protections, does this lawsuit make it possible that it could eventually make it to the Supreme Court, and that the Supreme Court could strike down the entire California coastal access law as unconstitutional.
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It's interesting. There has been lots of ways to explore Word2Vec, but maybe this helps people get an intuitive understanding of the strengths and weaknesses better. (hint, the farther the words are from the target, the more meaningless the distance comparison becomes).
Were it just one individual. Unfortunately there's a whole lot of people who adhere to the general mindset from which Khosla derives his sense of entitlement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
I'm not saying it necessarily applies for life-saving treatments AFAIK, but not everyone agrees on what medical care is. For example, in the U.S. it has been shown that state abortion restrictions hit the lower-income segment much harder precisely because they cannot afford to travel to states which have more liberal laws concerning abortion.
here's a recent thread discussing goodreads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904549
... along with how to write a good search query
My own observations of the Bay Area dating culture is that:

1. Lots of people in their early to mid 20s who aren’t interested settling down.

2. Lots of people who are career focused and not interested in settling down.

3. Lots of people who are students and not interested in settling down.

4. Lots of people who are already settled down. Long term, stable relationships are very common. Marriage, less so, but not uncommon.

5. A higher than average population who will have their parents arrange a marriage back in India.

Honest the whole social situation feels like an extension of college - not much opportunity for match making.

People don’t move to the Bay Area to find a spouse. They move there for career opportunities.
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Agreed, what's the point, indeed? My wife and I have just forgone buying gifts for each other entirely, unless one of us happens to think of something that would just be perfect for the other, without any calendar restriction.

But we no longer feel like we have to buy something for the other on some arbitrary date looks like a birthday or holiday.

It's so freeing. Bonus: we have less stuff in our house.

Trying to implement this with my extended family. We still but gifts for the kids though, they enjoy it.
Makes sense, although that might end with that player getting pissed off from being repeatedly baited :)
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how much of that is government subsidies?
> has the power (both politically and financially) to see this battle through

It is absolutely infuriating that a rich individual can get the type of "justice" that the rest of us can never hope to achieve, in the legal system. Or as Peter Thiel put it when he bankrupted Gawker: "If you're a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to our legal system."

Unfortunately, this suit is unlikely to make any difference in the above, and it doesn't seem like anyone cares about fixing the above problem. Maybe I'm just being a fundamentalist who's blowing it out of proportion. But my sense of fairness is constantly outraged by how ridiculously hard it is for any layperson to get justice in today's legal system.
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Well, it's more that the ADA (and related regulations) specifically excludes conditions resulting in "antisocial" behavior from coverage under the Act. Narcissism and psychopathy would be in the same boat as, say, kleptomania.
Actually, uploading to Bitcoin is tantamount to using the NIST randomness beacon since the NIST randomness beacon is injected into Bitcoin: https://github.com/opentimestamps/nist-inject
Page 93 of the Kindle version? The hardback? the paperback? or the large print version?
Yes, but:

> The solution is to fix the voting system

How do the people posting positive fake reviews do that? They're responding to fake reviews in the only way they can, by offsetting them. Yes, there's a better solution that Goodreads can implement, but only Goodreads can implement it; not any of the commenters you criticize here.

Since they can't fix the voting system, and absent any motivation from Goodreads to fix it, is it really bad for them to respond the best way they can using the only tools they have available? After all, if the voting system is widely abused by everyone to the point where it becomes a dumpster fire, maybe that will force Goodreads to care.
Plus, Microsoft also has K8s support, so not only can they can "lift and shift" the existing dark matter applications, but they can also offer a conversion path/greenfield path.
Does the $300 a month pricing kick in at the first instance of 3,001 unique site visits in a given 30 day period?
Instead of chasing to be the best at some one skill, its more rewarding to be great at one skill and good at another semi-related skill.
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All of those individuals are infuriating - they can be examined in isolation as grouping them together will lead to fatigue by volume.

> If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics.

Let's just focus on the one for now.
Solid idea actually! Can you think of a way to wrap this as a product?
anti virus is way more likely and I agree (been in a hospital setting before) that a terminal/ssh-based system would be better for most stuff.
Actually while ClickHouse does not have all features of RedShift, BigQuery etc it usually is much faster than them. It can be slower on some workloads on GPU powered systems, when all data fits in GPU memory but it is not the use case it targets.

ScyllaDB is amazing when it comes to OLTP performance but not in the Analytical ones.

I think they took pretty mediocre Analytical Workload results and shared them as something outstanding.
Yeah, having an open, easy to verify standard is part of what makes a “proof” a good proof. No need to reinvent the wheel here.
Best way to handle that is at the grocery store. Due to the prevalence of EBT cards, all cashiers are going to know how to process multiple cards.
Perhaps if you consider "regulations" like the DMCAA, "intellectual copyright" laws, patent laws and a host of other laws and regulations that criminalize the repair or alteration of machinery or other items that have been purchased you might garner a better understanding. If farmers weren't prevented by law from repairing or altering the equipment they've purchased this problem largely would not exist.
How can a law be simultaneously in effect but also not finalized? What rule is anyone supposed to follow?

(I realize the fact it's not being enforced makes this moot, but...)
Like the that your hobby might be opening Rust code, searching unsafe just for the thrills :)

Edit: Jesus kids, learn a little chill it was a joke. Someone didn’t like this so much they went through and downvoted all my other posts they could. Wow... that’s real serious.
This may be the single most important information security problem worth solving on our planet. This is not about who gets to see the latest movie at what resolution, it is about vendors and farmers fighting for control of the plant, in this case the tractor, and indirectly its yields. I think the world needs an open source tractor, or else am hoping the right to repair movement addresses these difficulties.
I wonder how many presales a company would need to collect to make it worthwhile spinning up a tractor manufacturing plant.

Deere would need to decide whether to drop DRM to prevent your presale campaign.

If they do the consumer wins, and the new company can refund the presales and walk away.

If they don't you get your tractor manufacturing setup build and are then in the game.
Two thoughts of mine.

A twofold improvement in capacity would kill gasoline cars dead. That's 300 miles of range out of a 600lb battery. Adding up the weights of various components the electric car would weight about the same as a gasoline one.

While the failure modes of metal lithium anode batteries are terrifying that's probably okay for grid applications. Difference between a cell phone stuffed under a pillow and a battery in a concrete vault at at substation.
I know multiple people who could not have attended a bootcamp if not for ISAs. I also know one who could afford to pay but still chose to go the ISA route. They are all happy-to-thrilled with the model. I would love to know your reasoning for describing them as "just as bad if not worse than predatory student loans". I can't conceive of a worldview where that would be true, so I think I'm missing something in your perspective.
Well... yes and no.

I'll just go ahead and be less coy about it: they were so far off base when it came to same-sex marriage that it casts doubt on every bit of reasoning they claim. The arguments were absurd. They lost the fight and none of the evils they claimed came to pass.

It's not the most important issue, but it's one in which they were so obviously and overwhelmingly wrong that I think it justifies my claim that they may be similarly off-base on many other issues. I am, of course, wrong about many things myself, but nothing so egregiously and demonstrably incorrect as that. There are other issues that aren't as massively a slam-dunk, but I've seen enough egregious propaganda repeatedly refuted that it's clear to me that they're not listening.

That said, no, I can't be certain that I'm not just the victim of propaganda. That's why I put it as I did: if I'm wrong, then I'm very wrong, and it will be impossible to convince me otherwise.
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I did not claim they were bad. From their own words, some of them evidently believe they are not just morally superior to the people posting fake negative reviews, but vastly morally superior. It is not obvious that this is the case.
I am confused, how you can prove the date and ownership ? Does IPNS have some kind of timestamp?
I'm admitting I don't know what a rational voter looks like. I've been fooled too often by the campaigning so believe there's enough information there to make an 'informed' decision.
I heard somewhere that the greatest innovation (the most impactful at the particular stage of our evolution) was the bicycle, because, it enabled human cross breeding over much larger distances at a much faster rate than possible before.
> Or as Peter Thiel put it when he bankrupted Gawker: "If you're a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to our legal system."

Which is amusing since the lawyer that Thiel used is constantly suing on behalf of single-digit millionaires to stifle free speech all over the country (including threatening to sue the NYT for reporting on Harvey Weinstein's crimes). Not a whole lot of principles in that group.
Thanks for doing this, was actually looking to use Stripe Atlas for my side project but I'll support a fellow founder!

Being $400+ less expensive with more options also helps lol
Just to get to the point on what will happen to their open source projects:

> So what will happen with these projects from now on?

> For the Elixir programming language in particular, José Valim and the Elixir Core Team will continue developing and maintaining the programming language in the same capacity as they have been doing over the last few years, independently from Plataformatec and Nubank. We are in touch with the Elixir Core Team to transfer all assets, including the existing trademarks and the Elixir website, to their control.

That's all folks.
Can somebody tell me where the guy gets so much of his temerity?
I like my RPGs crunchy enough to not be a barrier to role playing or abstract enough to not be a barrier to role playing. I feel like I've never been limited in what I can do or what I can create in GURPS. Games like D&D are the worst of both worlds for me. Not abstract enough to do what you want, and not crunchy enough to have rules for all you want to do. To me D&D is more like playing a board game than a role playing game.
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I really wonder why he's choosing this hill (err I mean beach!) to die on and how he doesn't see what damage this is doing to his public image. Even if he does have a point this makes him look absolutely horrible and it's not like letting a few people on the beach is going to impact his lifestyle in anything beyond the most trivial way.

I just don't quibble over minutia like that. I don't get people who do. This seems like a gigantic waste of time and resources where even if you win you lose.
Could you not simply copy the 40 year old tractors almost exactly. Any patents should be expired.
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The individual parts have been getting more reliable, but they keep adding more points of failure.

Like airbags. First, there was an airbag on the steering column. Then, there was one added to the passenger-side dashboard. Then they added side-curtain bags for head and hips. If you move the air bag reliability from 95% to 99%, but then add six more air bags, that's a 93.2% chance none will be bad. And if you cut the price of one airbag to 30%, but then add six more, that's still spending twice as much on airbags total. In some cars, an airbag deployment event totals the car. Cheaper to buy a new one than to replace all the air bags. Never mind the body damage.

If you made a car with 1980 features out of 2020 parts, it would be lighter, cheaper, and more reliable. But it would also have 1980 gas mileage and safety features, and you'd be back to hand-cranked windows.

Some of the newer features are worth the weight and complexity. Others are not. There could definitely be a market for a $5000 new car that requires little servicing, that can all be done at home without special tools, and 30 miles to the gallon--not from complex engine designs, or tricks like shutting down 2 cylinders in a 6 cylinder engine, but just from being lightweight with a good engine design.

Anyone else remember when the car radio only had one speaker? When you could see around the A columns without moving your head? When the automatic part of the transmission was just pneumatically controlling the clutch for the paddle-shifted manual?

We have the technology now to make a crapbox deathtrap that only needs to slow down to under 15 mph somewhere near a quicklube every 15000 miles, in order to last 500000 miles. The stripped-down car concept is explored by Polaris with the Slingshot, which is legally classified as a motorcycle, in order to build to a lower passenger safety standard. You're going to wear a helmet in your car, right? [wink]
Yes, it's certainly a tricky one. But note that deregulated markets not only allow harmful race-to-the-bottom style behaviour, they all but require it, because "good apple" companies will be outcompeted by those cutting corners.

I think it's worth considering the effect that political and social narratives have on this. Reagan-style politics not only deregulates markets, it pushes a moral narrative that it is righteous to exploit the market as far as you possibly can, even when that means taking advantage of market flaws and externalities such that you are causing a net societal harm.

Their ideology is such that this is "capitalistic" and therefore good, and so we should not attempt to curb, regulate or otherwise discourage such behaviour. This has no basis in economic theory, and it's causing huge harms to our society (and economy).
...duh? They just had WeWork blow up in their face and naturally they're going to pump the brakes. There were probably a lot of in-process deals going on.

Coming from someone who worked in a company that received Softbank investment, it's a huge hassle. The ONLY reason to take Softbank money is to get a huge sum of money at a huge valuation and reduce your "cost" of said money. But for me personally, the costs aren't worth it.

First, there's the inflated valuation. It's a great MO for Softbank - they get you by stroking your ego and flashing big (exaggerated) valuations. But does anyone ever think about the next round? No one else after is going to invest at that valuation + extra, unless you really knocked it out of the park, so you are stuck with them for future rounds. Or IPO (Hello Uber). Startups are hard - why are you making it more difficult for yourself to succeed?

Second, the ongoing effort. You don't have one or two guys at a VC firm you are working with, you have a bureaucracy you are working with, in a completely opposite timezone, with a very different working culture.

Maybe it makes sense for a company who is on their last round of funding before IPO, just needs one last cash push to get everything there, and can pay a bunch of people to deal with the BS. But that's not most startups.
IIRC, his argument is that the path that leads to the beach is actually his property, and he is effectively being required to pay to upkeep/monitor/secure this area on his property on his own dime.
I found this provided an interesting window into Vinod Khosla's style. He didn't exactly answer the question asked https://youtu.be/HZcXup7p5-8?t=2618
There are definitely use cases where software engineering can bring about harm if done poorly/maliciously, but they're outnumbered by ones where it really won't/can't. How many people are working on those things you list above compared to say, websites or CMS plugins or video games or marketing banner or emails or what not?

That's another huge difference between software engineering/web development/coding and something like medicine; there are few parts of the latter where screwing up won't have major consequences, and many parts of the former which won't.

In that sense, I guess you could say tech is less like a 'field' or 'industry' and more like part of life that a bunch of different fields or industries depend on. It's like how 'writing English' covers lawyers writing documents for use in court, teachers teaching students in schools and colleges, authors writing novels and businesses writing copy for their websites/brochures.

The former two cases would have some sort of licensing because they have actual consequences if someone doesn't know what they're doing, whereas the latter clearly wouldn't.
Given the rulings around LinkedIn and public data, is it feasible for a competitor to scrape some of that information? Would they get sued to oblivion if they tried?

Not needing to start from scratch would make building a competing service a lot easier. Sites like Stackoverflow have reasonably open licenses on user data, so you could theoretically use that data and build an alternative if the site fell apart. I'm guessing that's not the case for Goodreads though, at least for things like reviews.

But even pulling in basic category information would be easier than starting from scratch.
> I might give a gift card for your favorite restaurant.

Wouldn't the much better gift be to take them out for a meal at their favorite restaurant?

> The cash might just be used at the gas pump or buying groceries.

If someone gives me some money and I spend it on gas or groceries, then I clearly need the gas or groceries the most at that time. I don't see the problem with that.

But my main point, really, is that both cash and gift cards are (generally speaking) terrible gifts because they don't have the one thing any great gift needs: to indicate that the person cares about you enough to put some thought into the gift. The actual gift isn't the thing itself, it's the time and attention put into the thing.

But between the two poor choices, I consider cash to be the better option.
They seem to be equivalent: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Being able to prove that a certain webpage exists locally at a given date is rather useless. The only utility there is if the page contains confidential information and you want to prove that you had that information at that time, but you could do that just as easily without saving a whole web page in the process.
What is the morally correct action if fake positive reviews outnumber fake negative reviews?

Should we then post more fake negative reviews to offset the fake positive reviews?
> I used to think that highly competitive markets with low prices are the best

They probably are.. but it's probably not wise to consider a market dominated by three players as "competitive."

> Maybe an oligopoly with high profits and strong unions

I also don't think "more monopoly" is the sensible conclusion.

> and that it is not a simple answer.

Why is "more government regulation" not even a part of your consideration? The article itself even hints at this, before deregulation a company like Boeing could exist and be profitable, but after deregulation it becomes beholdant to Wall Street. It seems pretty clear what the solution is.
These studies are annoying and just smell like envy by the most average parasites in this industry.
How about you focus on adding value and setting the right price for yourself.

Some are grateful with 100k and others 500k. You can negotiate your price because you're an adult.

If you can't, then grow up.
The public should tear down his signs and simply refuse to acknowledge any ownership on his part.

If he complains, take everything else he has.
If a company gives me a gift card (some thing at a tradeshow, filling out survey, etc.), Amazon's basically what I want. I enter it into my account and it's basically right there effectively like cash.

I don't give gift cards but I guess they're OK if the person knows I shop somewhere semi-regularly for fun type stuff. e.g. REI for me. Maybe it will lead me to buy something that catches my eye but I don't need so I'd otherwise pass on.

Red Lobster I would be thinking "I didn't know you hated me so much." :-)
Cash that’s usable to invest in the business is different, and worth more, than cash that’s locked up due to liabilities. Interest rates are low, so earning < 2% on the float isn’t the best way to deploy capital.