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No problem. Masayoshi Son (the founder and CEO of softbank) has lost over 70bn in the Dotcom bubble, then rebuilt everything from scratch as Vodafone Japan KK fucked up so badly due to their incompetence and arrogance in the early 2000s.

https://marketrealist.com/2019/07/softbanks-masayoshi-son-ja...

What do we learn?
- social capital makes you economic capital - know rich and powerful people and you will be rich and powerful
- Western people suck in Asia when trying to localise
Argentina? People have been recommending Payoneer (not a bank) or Dukascopy (online bank). As far as I know Payoneer still ships cards, I'm not sure about Dukascopy. You can open an account 100% online with both of them.
Solidarity is a principle of social justice [0]. It's very simple, and related to tragedies of the commons. When there is some common resource, solidarity is the idea that we should all adopt common attitudes towards that resource.

I can afford to pay my rent. I have no problems doing so. However, if I were to learn that my rental management group were facing a large rent rebellion, that I believed that the rebels had legitimate complaints, and that the rental management group could survive the rebellion by evicting all of the rebels but only if I paid my rent, then I would consider not paying my rent.

Therefore, I can imagine a situation where I would not pay my rent despite being able to afford it, and be expressing solidarity by doing so.

I don't really care whether or not you're sympathetic right now to this particular cause, but you should consider the principles behind the actions that people are taking, and spend some time putting yourself in everybody else's shoes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity
The UPSP seems like a good thing to keep going.

I don’t find arguments that Amazon paying a lower mean wage than other tech companies means Bezos is the “meanest” CEO.

Amazon employs many people in jobs that are not tech jobs.

Whether there is something wrong with their wages, I don’t know. But that argument makes no sense.
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I wish this post had included more context. The way its currently written it directly supports ending the shutdown without any contingency plans in place.

Merely putting the following disclaimer does not absolve the author of irresponsible writing.

"This post does not deny the effectiveness of social distancing or quarantine for COVID-19. I am not encouraging people to suspend these practices before official determinations have been made public. This post is to help physicians, thought leaders and public officials understand and weigh the risks and benefits of extended lock-downs versus more measured and earlier return to work measures."

Words and writing are important tools for spreading information and misinformation, so without context such as "Lifting lock-downs without adequate testing and hospital capacity would lead to a lot more pain, suffering and death" this is just misinformation
You love the word Pavlovian don't you?

I'm not making an argument to authority. I'm saying you are dismissing, without any valid argument at all, years of reasoned academics and experienced and careful engineering.

So what's your argument? You're level abstract is "better" because it just clearly is. And you're tired of hearing another viewpoint?

I think you are very naive and I don't see you how will gain experience if you don't wish to listen to anything you don't already understand!
Those are garbage limitations that lower the skill ceiling of the game so low as to not be remotely enjoyable
I'm not sure what you mean by disingenuous.

I can understand folks being concerned / upset that SCOTUS wasn't involved, and they can too still recognize that the question maybe wasn't really posed to SCOTUS.

I suppose anything 'could' be a voting rights issue, but the important thing is to actually talk about what that anything is. Limited polling places, being required to wait hours, risk your own health to vote ... to me there is an argument to be made there.

I'm not at all sure what your comment about judges deciding are... a judge(s) did decide already.
I see lots of praise for TransferWise here and I regret not trying them out earlier.

For what it's worth, I can add my two cents regarding PayPal. From a customer experience perspective, PayPal is pretty great - the UI is smooth and I like being able to pay with my PayPal balance online.

Having said that, their fees are nothing short of exorbitant - for international transfers, if I'm not mistaken, the fee is 4.4% + a fixed price per transaction + 2.5% on top of that if you also want to exchange currencies. A $1,000 bill paid to my PayPal account by a U.S.-based client can easily become $930 or even less by the time it reaches my bank account. I've stopped accepting payments via PayPal for that reason.

Furthermore - this isn't personal experience, just word on the street - I hear PayPal Customer Service can be pretty atrocious to merchants, which is another thing I'm not too happy about when it comes to their service.
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i was asking about OP's "another artwork"
This take seems similar to inferring intentionality from evolution.
Agreed. I can understand folks concerns, but also everyone should understand why the thing happened.

One doesn't preclude the other.
Quoting from the SSC policy:

>Recognizing that nobody can be totally sure what is or isn’t true, if you want to say something that might not be true – anything controversial, speculative, or highly opinionated – then you had better make sure it is both kind and necessary. Kind, in that you don’t rush to insult people who disagree with you. Necessary in that it’s on topic, and not only contributes something to the discussion but contributes more to the discussion than it’s likely to take away through starting a fight.
Why would you advertise if no one is buying? Unless your maintaining brand recognition you're just wasting money.
Be rich to get richer, as usual.

For certain risks you sadly need a certain financial security, same for launching startups. I'd love to be a founder, but I need a stable income for two.
HUGE use in really niche spaces. FPGA development uses it because of really embedable/flexible syntax, and a lot of software integration testing uses it for things like Expect (whose Tcl implementation is still far and away the best).
Cue the jokes.

And when you do something with your project they didn't anticipate their response would be: 'When in Rome...'.
I (might) sound arrogant but never understood this industry, the value of it (other than financial). Feels quite embarrassing to me.

Would love to hear opinions.
It is sort of comparing apples to oranges. AsciiDoc is a markup language for documentation. mdBook is a tool that uses the Markdown markup language, and adds a bit of structure so that you get something that appears coherent.

> What advantage does mdBook give you then?

If you prefer Markdown to Asciidoc, then mdBook would be a better fit.
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I think the implicit benefit to doing it this way is that it will just work because there are likely few options and all combinations of those options will likely be tested and supported by the developers.
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Querying history(values of attributes in time) is very very slow in datomic. It is meant for auditing/troubleshooting, not to be used for your application domain.
Lower circulation too - a friend is an editor of a major UK magazine, their subscriptions are up massively, but not enough to offset the drop the copies normally sold at airports, railway stations, service stations and local shops, let alone the massive drop in adverts
restaurants can and do increase their prices on grubhub to recoup the 30% commission. unless the restaurant is prohibited from having different prices vs takeout, it doesn't really matter whether the service charges the restaurant, the customer, or both.
What I'm surprised to not have seen more often is attempts to preprocess a map, group points of it into larger sections and then perform pathfinding on those sections - e.g.:

- split a map into convex polygons
- use pathfinding to find out which polygins you have to traverse (either by making each polygon a node in the pathfinding graph or by selecting points on the polygon's edges and using those as nodes)
- move in a straight line inside a polygon.

It seems, especially for "almost convex" maps, this could move a good deal of pathfinding computation into the build phase.
> What's all this data about me worth to Google? It can't be that much. I've never bought something from an internet ad in my life.

Just spitballing here, but it seems conceivable that information about you could help them improve their behavior modelling and consequently help them advertise more effectively to other people.
Who is going to maintain all of this in a few months or years when Facebook has moved on?
Almost, because the page failed to load with cookies blocked. If it is so obvious, why did the article need to be written in the first place?
it's amazing how the media takes the bait on silly things like this every time. I would like to understand how the profession as a whole hasn't had a moment of realization about trolling and how they're being used. They're our societies overaggressive immune response.

It's not happening, it's not going to happen. It's a distraction and nothing more.
GPS isn't very accurate indoors.

BLE only has a range of 20 meters or so indoors.
> Your answer is for the rent payer, with no economy, to "suck it up".

You miss-read me. First of all, I did not suggest any answer. I suggested that people put more thoughtfulness into their analysis.

What I am saying is that there really is no one person to "suck it up". The furloughed school cafeteria worker is going to take a double hit because the public employee retirement system probably holds REITs.

Scapegoating landlords is the tactic of leftest South American dictators. Landlords are middlemen, earning a return on providing housing liquidity. They take on short-term risk in the form of their tenants potential inability to pay, and long-term risk in the form of long-term loans collateralized by their properties. The system doesn't work unless someone is willing to take on that risk profile. Stop scapegoating landlords.
From some napkin math and googling, a 6502 has 4.5k transistors, which at 13 ms per gate is about a minute per cycle, divided by how many gates there really are per transistor.

How does your implementation compare?
You ought to look at the in my spam box. Yet it keeps coming in, it's relentless. Even crazier, someone is actually paying out of pocket for the resources to send this stuff.

Have you seen how horrible those Nigerian scam things are?

WHY would they do such a thing!??

ROI maybe? They are bringing in a slice more money from the ads than they are spending?

Not everyone works the same as you. As an HN reader, I bet you dig data like many of us do. And I bet a lot of people working with Google Ads can show you data which show a positive ROI.
It's not intuitive to me as a JS dev too... Are you guys gonna re-implement typescript for example? Where does 'no deps' line get drawn?
Hm, so currently they just "service the debt", they can issue bonds and just pay out over 50+ years. I don't see why they don't plan for the long term with this.

They are relatively a prosperous state. (Good GDP per capita, good income after taxes - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Median_h... , though life is accordingly expensive 34th overally affordability - https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/opportunity... - better than Florida, Washington, NY, CA, etc. 2017 "PPP" is 112% of national average, close to NY's 115% and CA's 114%.)

Though they should just ship pensioners to a cheap-to-live state, eg Florida or Pennsylvania.

Okay, okay, armchair policy recommendations are always very nuanced and great (not to mention useful), especially on random internet forums! But the level of dysfunction due to braindead leadership is always surprising.
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There are good arguments for big chambers as well, so we need to consider both sides. Cooling of bigger chamber is easier, as we have the law of cubes-squares (volume growth against area growth with growth of the size). We have less parts, so less things to fail. Also potentially better mass efficiency (thrust to mass), as some elements can't be scaled proportionally to smaller sizes.

For big rockets, where such chambers would be appropriate, we don't need particularly fast control system. Saturn-V could even be flown with manual control, and astronauts were trained to do that.

Of course there are advantages with smaller chambers and smaller engines too.
Try a host that doesn't charge for bandwidth. Dedicated servers at Hetzner and/or OVH doesn't charge this imaginary fee so you can sleep well and just pay a static sum each month.
You should write a blog post or something, because there's no way I'm responding to this so deep into a thread nobody is reading.
Hmm. I dislike this development. Let me explain.

Amazon already has enormous market power and with the current pandemic, it is probably one of the few companies that will survive this largely unscathed; it may even be able to benefit. I am not completely sure as to why that is the case. My recent order says it will be delivered at the beginning of May. But then, they will pick up a lot of business from all the places that will have gone under.

Still, how do you buy anything on Amazon, when it has a month wait time for things you want/need?
I may have come across as a bit condescending there.

Really, if you wanna do path finding, a dog park will give you tons and tons of food for thought.

Some dogs are very clever. Others dumb as a post.
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Maaaybe there's a longer window for brand awareness advertising, but for advertising directed at clickthroughs (most retargeting), advertising that doesn't end in a sale is a wasted ad.
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I agree, but there's one more twist: Problems are different. Languages are chosen for ease of writing specific programs, not for "general programming".

I think, then, that FP is great for certain kinds of problems, and not so good for others. If you've got an FP problem, reach for an FP language. If you don't, don't.

What's an FP problem? Someone here (I wish I remembered who, I'd give credit where due) said "if you can think of your program as a pipe", then FP is appropriate. If the nature of your problem has a lot of state, FP probably isn't the answer. (Note well: problems themselves can have a lot of state. It isn't always just the implementation - the problem itself may demand it.)
Fully agree! I just wanted to emphasize that what makes a language the quickest and easiest for a given task is typically more due to ecosystem or platform integration than to the "geeky qualities" like advanced language constructs.
It's a common story: monolith or microservices? Linux do one thing well or holistic cohesion? Mega repo or many small ones? There are pros and cons. Nothing in the universe is currently more fragile than a modern js toolchain tho.
There company page says they're located in Russia

https://soshace.com/company/soshace
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So what? It is part of the deal, and as I wrote, I would sign an NDA only for a good reason, that is usually a paid job. Also, the NDA concerns only the specific task and not other things I am doing at that time or later.
As noted in the article, the headline is misleading.

The population obviously hasn't quadrupled since Yosemite closed to visitors on March 20th. It is remarkable though to see how quickly wildlife is willing to re-enter areas that have historically been overrun with humans!
> I feel like delivery companies are "double dipping", they charge delivery fee and they charge 30% to the restaurants as commission. That's unsustainable.

They absolutely are double dipping (or maybe it's closer to itemizing?), but I'm not sure why it's wrong or unsustainable. Finders' fees are a thing.

There are 4+ companies in this space, so if there were really that much room to cut prices, one player would.

The other huge issue is that this is SF implementing public policy with private money. Normally we'd call this a tax, but doing it this way has fewer safeguards and doesn't share the tax load fairly.
I agree, as a competitive fps player, I welcome this. Cheating was so bad in CSGO that people made a whole business running custom servers and private anti-cheat. They took the advanced steps that Valve wouldn't.
I have similarly been bitten by them. I tried to test the service by transferring $40ish or something small like that that from one of my accounts to another, and they told me they're not doing it and are shutting my account permanently, but they can't tell me why.

This was my first transfer on my first ever account with them, it's not like I had any prior history with them.

Woo.
His plan was to exempt such goods from VAT, so it wouldn't be regressive.

That said, I wasn't entirely convinced by the Freedom Dividend and wish it hadn't been the centerpiece. What I was more interested in and really appreciated was his overall approach and focus on problems and solutions. An actual problem solver and uniter, not someone perpetuating the WWE reality TV show that is our politics.
I’d like to add another pitfall: obsessing over optimizing or eliminating intermediate layers when one should be focusing on meeting business requirements in higher layers. I’m prone to this one myself. This one is tough in the current move-fast-and-disrupt-things environment of startups, or even teams within larger companies that are trying to be nimble like a startup.
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Guidelines say, assuming good faith etc. but did you really read my comment to the end? If so, what is your point?
It says "No Third Party Dependencies" but 95% of the code is written in TypeScript, so it isn't even JavaScript and the entire thing is built on top of one big dependency.

Would not be a problem if it didn't sell itself as "zero third party dependencies" while being built on top of one that is not even JavaScript... Might as well built the tool in any other language that would have been better for the task.
Delivery times clearly vary a lot. I have admittedly not tried to order any "quarantine goods" like webcams but I think everything I've ordered has arrived in two days.
a regressive tax used to fund a progressive policy can be either net regressive or net progressive. if rich people buy enough stuff that they pay more VAT than they receive in UBI, the whole system is still progressive.
If you're using my GPL code, you never 'left my house'. In fact, you're still inside.
> I appreciate the context. It's probably wise to abandon Signal interop.

> Olm/Megolm could otherwise be a great cryptographic design with or without his approval.

Could you (or Arathorn) expand on why Olm should deviate from the Signal protocol, instead of trying to reproduce it as closely as possible? Which requirements are different?

I understand that the Signal protocol is the state of the art in terms of E2EE for 1:1 conversations (and small groups). I understand how Matrix wants to address big groups and thus need Megolm. Where does this leave Olm?
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Zoom ranked #1 in the App Store in just 90 days
Side question: are the car insurance paybacks not a canary that they’re hitting their max possible profit? Aren’t they doing extremely well?
Starting a new JS project these days can be a huge hurdle for many users because they have to manually set up all the compilation/linting/testing/formatting etc infrastructure, each of which have multiple possible libraries, versions, and non-trivial configurations. You could spend a week configuring webpack alone to get code splitting, css compilation, etc to work. Projects like create-react-app and next.js have helped remove some of this fatigue, and you can see by their adoption just how much of an impact this has. Seems like Rome should be similarly beneficial without being inherently tied to an application framework like create-react-app or next.js – the challenge will be avoiding a confusing mess of 1000 configuration options to fine-tune each subsystem.
Sure, but that's a different problem than the one about UX for E2E encryption, no?
For more information about the name, the README elaborates:

> Rome gets its name from proverbs such as "All Roads Lead to Rome", "Rome wasn't built in a day" and "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". This refers to the expansive scope and the desire for conformity across the project. It started as a joke at the office.

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome#history
What you say is true. I can see it both ways. There's also the issue that Linux is "only" the kernel, so all software is third party software. There is no differentiation between "core OS" and "third party" like you have on other platforms.
I would like to hear your thoughts on why you would think they were wasted.
> What about the massive increase in views from people being stuck at home ? wouldn't that lead to a higher ROI when people eventually spend ?

Not when you're paying per impression? The way to think of this is good old supply and demand. There is a lot more supply of ad slots, and a general decrease in demand. Both of these directly mean lower ad rates.
No, once people have time to really look around they discover many of the channels they were subscribing to are not that great. They them move their viewing to more and other channels.

Also I noticed a number of the youtube channels I use to watch because they have useful information and I was learning from them have now reached the end of their knowledge. Thy are now posting fluff to try and get me to keep coming back, but I don't want to waste my time watching a 30 minute video to get 5 minutes of useful information.

One channel I watch use to only post about 1 hour long videos, now they have cut back and often only post a 5-7 minute video so I keep coming back. One the other hand another channel used to and still posts 1-2 hour long video, I don't bother going there anymore. The host is smart, but he takes too long to get to the point of the video, I have other uses of my time.
This is all expanded on in the README:

> No external dependencies. This allows us to develop faster and provide a more cohesive experience by integrating internal libraries more tightly and sharing concepts and abstractions. There always exist opportunities to have a better experience by having something purpose-built.

See more of the technical reasons behind Rome here: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome#technical
You have a business or a product that no one knows about. So you need to make people know about it. Enter - advertising
Just a reminder that the bill that destroyed the USPS finances was backed by both Democrats and Republicans in 2005. It required the post office to fund pensions and health care 75 years in advance as an intentional way to screw up their finances and make it insolvent.

It passed unanimously in the Senate and every Democrat in the House voted for it. It’s truly been a bipartisan effort.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll430.xml

The USPS is a vital service, note “service”. It is not a corporation designed to make money. It has mandates to deliver and pick up mail from every home in the US no matter where they are 6 days a week. It is a part of our infrastructure as much as the military or coast guard or national parks service or so on.