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> it's something China has been doing to great success and the Asian tiger economies (primarily South Korea) did as well.

When india imposed duties against chinese steel, the steel sector grew but soon the Real Estate sector accrued high input costs and real estate became expensive.

Same happened to automobile sector in india, yes few people gain from protectionism at expense of others.

I'd go on 1 foot and tell everyone, quality of skilled labor in india is bad not because of lack of quality education but because they are not able to afford quality tools which international market has to offer. Primary reason for that is those tools are only available to you if you work for big companies, goverment has put lots of taxes/tarrifs/duties on that which is HUGE relative to what people make there.

India has taxes duties more than europe but doesn't offer its citizen as much benefits as europe does.
Thanks for all the feedback, all great points that we're planning to get to! We figured we'd launch this initially to let people play around with what we had so far.

We're planning to improve the layout and include more information from our benefits section [1] of the site. Still working out specific cases as you mentioned around Amazon, ByteDance, and a few other companies with varying stock / vesting programs.

[1] - https://www.levels.fyi/benefits/
Still surprising that they have managed a ~3x exit. They were raising money at a 1.3b$ valuation as recently as 2018 and to me it seems like Postmates is further behind it's competition in terms of growth and market share than it was 2 years ago.
I'm surprised someone on HN since 2012 would learn about the demoscene today! Then again, it's true that the demoscene "keeps to itself", it's always been quite the bubble. I'm not sure how that community could do some outreach, but I believe a lot more people would find it interesting.
Oh, I read it. I also lived with Nortel gear during this timeframe. They were not great at much of anything. They were more often the only game in town, and they knew it. Canadian schools and government agencies bought their gear because it was canadian not because it was any good. Those touchscreen tablet controller things? Does anyone remember how bad touchscreens were in those days? Give me a blackberry with a mechanical keyboard.

>> In 1999 the co-founder of Corel Corp., who’d gotten his start at Nortel’s precursor company, threw a gala at which his wife showed up in a C$1 million leather bodysuit with an anatomically correct gold breastplate and a 15-carat-diamond nipple.

That was the attitude of people running nortel at the time. Some consider it the canadian enron: the unicorn that ate itself.
Distraction and probably an excuse why they have high liabilities.

I don't see the difference, personally.
How old is the smoker? And you? What type of care does the plan for the pool you could both be in cover? There are risk pools of less than ten to over one million to choose from in private hc market currently... But the best argument is cost.

A single payor system would likely cost you much less overall for the same level of hc coverage as current options. If you have to subsidize *more* smokers than you currently for a plan (risk pool) to be economically feasible but the cost of care is lowered enough that your overall cost is reduced it would save you money.

The reduced cost of care would increase the social and community improvement we see from a baseline level of charitable healthcare we as a nation have already agreed to subsidize.

A functional single payor system will likely require larger risk pools but greatly reduce cost by mitigating the current market forces that drive our ever inflating cost of care. Providing better charitable care for our sick is a noble and ethical goal to target as a society and you *being open to the idea* of subsidizing *more* smokers healthcare helps us achieve that so thanks for asking the question.
I've been using UASP SSD drives in Linux for ~ 5 years, the main issue I face is not performance related but w.r.t monitoring.

S.M.A.R.T doesn't behave well with UASP, so not all Smartmontools's feature work[1]. Especially, LifeTime of the SSD don't and they are crucial. I had to resort to calculating remaining life of the SSD manually from the reported lifecycles and negating it with the manufacture's MTBF if they're reported.

I've faced this with devices from varying price range [USB 3.0/3.1] - MyDigitalSSD(OTG), Samsung T5, various ORICO USB SSD enclosures with Samsung EVO/Crucial SSDs on host systems of different architectures(x86/ARM).

How are you all monitoring the life of your USB SSD on UASP in Linux?

[1]https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/USB
In my experience, code dedupping without shared requiremeots hurts you over time. Nothing is keeping the code focused so as requirements change, you either fork it or add "one more flag".

Focusing on abstractions is what helps me in dedupping with a focus on requirents.
I'd love to discuss this in some other context somewhere sometime (: I believe the internet is facing a type of identity crisis, so to speak and there's got to be a middle ground between a giant mass of anons and a polite dinner table gathering. But I'm not sure what the right balance is or the exact mechanisms we're lacking.
Sure. And maybe Im fixating on the meaning of "paid" next to the use of "salary." But I dont think the individuals existing assets or capital gains really have anything to do with the common misunderstanding of how equity based compensation is taxed.
> why consonant chords that are mathematically slightly dissonant actually sound much better than chords with perfect mathematical consonance.

Probably because we're used to hearing music in equal temperament, so we associate it with "correct" harmony, whereas something like just intonation sounds a little weird and off (but I ultimately find myself preferring it? Wtf?)
Canada has federal and provincial VATs. They are not regressive, because low income people get a tax refund, quarterly.

VATs are good.
Nortel also got a bit larger than RIM by sales. Nortel's peak was $22.2 billion in fiscal year 2000, with $1.7b in operating income.

RIM peaked at $19.9 billion in sales in 2011. Amazingly they tripled in size from $6b in sales in 2008, in just three years. Then lost 85% of their sales in another four years after that.
Regeneron wasn’t paying ‘kickbacks.’ It was helping people pay Medicare copays
Lol, that's me and AMZN. Bought at (split adjusted) $1.50 in 1997, rode it up to $86 in 1999, held all the way down to $6. Finally sold at about $20, still thinking I was brilliant.

I have to laugh about it cuz I can't bear the alternative.
> “When I chucked out Coca-Cola in 1977, I made the point that 90 percent of India’s villages did not have safe drinking water, whereas Coke had reached every village,” the late Fernandes said in a 1992 New York Times article, adding “Do we really need Coke? Do we need Pepsi?”

Between 1977, when India kicked Coke out the country, to 1993, 16 years, when Coke reentered the Indian market, India's GDP per capita (adjusted for inflation) increased 65%. During the next 16 years, from 1993 to 2009, GDP per capita increased increased 267% (multiplying by 3.6x). In the next 11 years, GDP per capita doubled again.

Had India not engaged in a multi-decade dalliance with central planning and pursued economic liberalization off the bat, India's per-capita GDP would be twice as high today.
That would be awesome, thank you! I’m particularly interested in any front end work that I might be able to get ideas from (still a React noob).
Grubhub is mostly big in NYC. Doordash has the most marketshare at around 45% and good coverage in the US. Postmates and Uber Eats were battling for 3rd place. Postmates seems to have more restaurants on board along with branching out into drinks and convenience stores, and I believe general shopping in certain regions.
Fuel costs are well under 100% of transport costs. Well, well under. This says 20-40%, and ship costs are not the only costs associated with transport, so it’s an even smaller fraction of total cost.

https://www.morethanshipping.com/imo-2020-and-oil-prices-in-...

Moreover, the total energy being transported is surely much higher than the oil burned. That’s the key feature of oil....it is energy dense!
Increase network, decrease spending to beat out a competitor.
> Postmates raised $903M since 2012 ... Not a 10x exit.

I suspect that many of the investors are just happy to record a profitable exit.
Grapes (and especially grape juice!) are probably not much better. They wouldn’t have the carcinogenic alcohol, but they have enormous amounts of sugar, which causes its own large set of health problems.
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OP succinctly summed up the exact reason universal single-payer healthcare will never be politically viable in the USA. The “why should I pay for something that also helps other people” attitude is pervasive and unstoppable here. People here won’t even do so much as put a piece of cloth over their faces to help keep others healthy while they buy their Ranch dressing and chow down on Buffalo Wild Wings. You think they’re going to put up with paying a little more in taxes for universal healthcare?
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True, I could see them going down the route of heavy discounting / price promotion.
Market cap is a measurement of how other people, stockholders, think of your company. It means little on the ground. A stock can double, or half, overnight. That doesn't mean the company is suddenly double or half its former size.
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GrubHub (and seamless) are popular in most urban cities. Sure NYC was popular when they started but I don’t think it’s solely NYC or even solely US.
But surprisingly enough, both have similar revenue. And I guess Uber didn't want a bidding war over GrubHub after the very generous Just Eats bid (7.3b$). The difference between Uber's original bid and Just Eat's is almost the entire price they paid for Postmates.
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The author has some relevant blog posts (in GitHub issues) too:

https://github.com/a327ex/blog/issues/35 - BYTEPATH Postmortem (2018)

https://github.com/a327ex/blog/issues/44 - One Year Sales Data for BYTEPATH (2019)
I am bullish on this as a recent shareholder. We are now in the consolidation phase of delivery service where fewer companies mean less competition, more efficiency and better economics.

This is where Dara’s strength is. He has a history of great dealmaking and acquisitions. I expect Uber to thrive as the industry consolidates.
I see what you did there.

Great blog, and you're into aerials! Always exciting to see someone else here who gets their invert on.
It's alright, no matter how bad that feels, it will never be as bad as all of us who missed the BTC boat when it was a little baby a few years ago. People spending it frivolously and treating it like it was worthless toy money since it was pretty easy to get. Then look at it now...
Any such initiative in India will have hard time because of factors like

- Many a times, kids school has nothing to do with quality of education in that school but the stature of the school. Parents in India use this to flex among their peers.

- Non-involvement of parents.In India, the parents who actively take part in their kids schooling are a minority. For most, its more like "paid school fees" and just make sure that the kid is doing homework, that's all.

- Regulation. Once you try to open a school, you will come to know that there is no way you can get your school registered without paying hefty bribes to the education department if you dont have bureaucrats(IAS or IPS) or politicians in the family.
The CEO is a banker. Naturally he sees M&A, not innovation, as the company's future.
The mistake is creating an abstraction because of seeing duplication.

DRY is not a good guiding principle. It is an anti-principle.

Abstractions should only be created when they have a clear purpose and create a simpler architecture by encapsulating a single concern.

The reality is that all code is duplication. The reason we write code is because it is the most concise language to specify the intended goal in the current context.

What is unique is not the code that we are writing. The unique part is the code in the current context and each level of abstraction separates the context from the implementation - so that abstraction must be beneficial in organizing the overall solution into individual logical components of singular concern.
I'm interested in getting sequenced but I have a few requirements:

- I want the full (98% +) sequencing, not just the exome

- I want to download the full sequence and keep it for own future use with no restrictions

- I don't want my sequence to be used for data mining or sold to third parties without my permission.

- I'm not willing to pay 5 digits for this but I don't expect it for 3 digits either.
Recently, Virtuaverse used Demoscene as part of a cyberpunk story.

https://www.gog.com/game/virtuaverse
Don't worry people, according to the Chinese media, It's all western media lies.
https://www.jfdaily.com.cn/news/detail?id=261301
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgjed/chn/zt/xjfk/t1767376.htm
Unbelievable. The internet is chock full of pictures of people making the 'ok' symbol. Obama is one.

It's not ok to hype up racist symbolism to stir people up. Don't let them call thumbs up, or Kermit the Frog, or whistling, or clicking a pen, or ANYTHING ELSE racist. Even if some real, live racists use some gesture, we should TAKE IT BACK.

Kudos to the LGBT community for doing this with 'that is so gay'. They just didn't allow it. The same technique should be applied.
The current version of raspian comes with ublock origin preinstalled in chromium.

Both of these choices surprised me.
We also have the Pale Blue Dot shot from Voyager.
My stock comp for Google was $400k/4y in SF, so it's definitely not outside the realm. Once I started to look around I was amazed at how much I'd been leaving on the table.
A more cynical take on this might be that it's hard to actually turn a sustainable profit in this market unless you have monopolistic pricing power, and hence, consolidation. Less of "the strong get stronger" and more of "the unprofitable become few enough to become profitable"
You can’t have causation without correlation.

Not saying that’s that case here, but people like to casually throw around “correlation is not causation” as if pointing out the logical fallacy is itself a sufficient rebuttal.
Julian Assange originally became famous after getting caught hacking Nortel back in the early 90s.

I guess Nortel didn't learn from that lesson and secure their network.
It would be great if I could autopopulate the default values by entering a Level/location
I’m working on a way to design free standing domes using mortar-less bricks. The idea is to build a cut-list for each brick, such that when stacked, there are no gaps, and the entire thing is held in place with just gravity (maybe the first layer is permanently attached to the ground)

I’m looking for a good framework to simulate the physics and visualizations.
From your response I get the feeling that you might have mistaken jacquesm's contributions as mine? Or perhaps that me continuing down his path constituted tacit appropriation of his/her choice of language—which I assure you I do not.

It's noteworthy that the Hacker News community never shows concern for slurring religious ideas when the context is Scientology or the Westboro Baptist Church—to give two clear but by no means exhaustive examples. These topics do occasionally come up and the community is given free reign to slur these groups in ways that would make any of my contributions here look decidedly tame.

While I do appreciate the perspective you are bringing, from my perspective I fail to see how criticism of ideas can ever be inappropriate. I consider societal deference to the most tenacious of ideas to be unhealthy and intellectually unbecoming.

Nonetheless I shall endeavour to restrain myself to the HN guidelines in future.
You wouldn't end up with this:

s:sub(0, #s)

You would end up with:

s:sub(0, #s - 1)

Which demonstrates the off-by-one error.
With Google Spreadsheets you can run js code periodically, including making http calls.
The main problem with that decision is that every discussion having anything to do with Lua always devolves into repetitive bikeshedding about the 1-indexing.
It'd be nice if the government banned preexisting condition consideration. Extremely possible; it would take one law. It'd change the economics of the market, but would it actually change them enough to make a business model where people hand you money, for free, while they're still alive unprofitable or merely less profitable?
And it stirs political waves. It's disgusting that this happens, it makes opportunities for 'sighting racists' and for another way of virtue signaling.

It's just a way to divide people.
If we replaced existing taxes with VATs, and did a prebate (e.g., Yang's proposal), that'd be a lot more palatable.

Although I'd be curious what this would do to housing prices -- e.g., if you buy a house, is a VAT applied to your purchase price?
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Personally I’m happy if the company realizes it makes good economic sense, and also makes me happy.

Too many companies will not provide food or overtime.
Why can't it be mutually beneficial?

I really dislike this "us vs them" attitude. Sure the company has free food and sure you can have lunch with your colleagues and sure that's more likely to happen than if you had to find your own lunch but...

- you don't have to have lunch with your colleagues

- you don't have to eat at your desk or work through lunch

- you don't have to have a short lunch

I love the food simply because it's something I don't want to have to think about. I'm certainly not going to make my own lunch. It's not even about the money of going out and buying lunch. I just don't want to think about what I want for lunch today, where should I get it from, when should I go, how long will I have to queue, will it be a pain getting out of and back into the building (eg elevator queues) and so on. I just eat whatever is on offer that day.

So while the company may benefit from you being more likely to eat with your colleagues and that undeniably helps build culture overall, it's also of clear benefit to me and many others.

Why does this have to be a zero-sum game?
>> One young friend of mine recently expressed that they want to get sick

I am hearing this more and more. Whether it is for future "immunity passports" or just to get past all the fear, many young people see COVID-19 as inevitable. Better to get it now during lockdown than after everyone heads back to work/school.

One thing that is cropping up is the fact that young people really do not appreciate old people telling them what to do with their bodies. Grandma telling you to disinfect your hands is one thing. Grandma telling you that you aren't allowed in the same room as your boy/girlfriend for the next year is another. Listening to the police talk about the parties they break up, they sound like chaperones at a school dance trying to enforce a no-touching rule.
I'm neither rich nor powerful. I'm also not comfortable with broken/crippled/backdoored/otherwise false encryption.
My original Google offer (as a new graduate) in 2013 had a stock package of about $250,000 (this was back when they awarded units instead of a dollar amount -- it was 500 post-split units).

The offers have only gone up since then for both new graduates and more experienced engineers. At L6, the market is closer to 800k - $1.0MM.
This is quite the caricature of what's happening in that thread.

> The truth comes out.

The truth was never hidden. It's all laid out quite plainly here: https://julialang.org/legal/data/.

> If providing usage statistics is something that the Julia developers already know the vast majority of users do not want to do

There are three reasons someone might not opt-in: they don't want to, they don't know about it, or they simply don't care. To ignore the latter two is simply disingenuous.

> The rest of this discussion devolves into "Everyone else is doing it". The lone dissenter finally gives in to peer pressure.

That's certainly not my read of the 200+ post thread.
Same here!

SQL, Lua, C++, and HTML all around 2006 to host private World of WarCraft servers.

Great talking point at my previous interviews.
Not sure you can do the division like that without knowing what percent of the company the contributed capital represented.
Who shall decide who are bad/horrible people? Such things seem far from clear to me, in no small part due to the massive number of variables involved, coupled with the unfortunate reality that people's perception of reality tends to be so fundamentally error-prone, and no error correcting mechanism seems to exist.
The Provo event didn't "come on the heels" of the vehicle plowing into protesters in Seattle.

The Provo event happened June 29. The Seattle event happened early morning July 4th.

And what in the links you post show poster to which you are responding is objectively wrong?

At this point it appears you are disregarding facts all together and arguing from some type of religious fervor. Something like a young earth creationist. I don't mean this in an offensive fashion but just as a reality check for you.
The major tech players have been consistently growing for decades. The major tech players before them likewise grew for decades.

It's hard to know if you're joining IBM in 2010 or Google/Apple in 2000 though. You can simplify the problem if you're comparing 150k in equity from a top-5 tech company by market cap with a 5+ year history of > 15% YoY stock growth vs. 150k in startup options. How much money are you potentially leaving on the table by not working at the large company? What does the return rate need to be on a 4 year time horizon for the startup equity to be worth it?
For anyone who is unaware, the above post is a direct quote from the 1979 comedy film Life Of Brian, which is the context from which "Judean People's Front" is derived. The quote is speaking about someone whose name is Brian and is not a reference to any actual religious figures.
Thanks, I’ll take a look!
It won’t be released immediately, that’s the point. It will be “released at some point in the future and definitely not during interpreter shutdown”.

A “with” statement ensures the release happens deterministically, which it turns out is a desirable trait to have.
and also effectively binds them to this process because now you are making people fly domestically or internationally on very short notice...and will look ridiculous if they cancel that a week or two later.
Please do not insinuate or ask if someone read the article. You may not have noticed that this is against the rules.

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.""

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That fancy attire really doesn't look that great :
http://www.geocities.ws/cityofottawainfo/celeb_m.htm

Proof that you can't buy taste. For everything else, obviously there's Mastercard.
My father-in-law lived in Mexico and had his home custom-built. He was fond of brick domes (with mortar). I can remember being in my wife's room with her staring at the ceiling when we went to bed wondering how the hell they managed to make that roof without the whole thing collapsing.
That I/random users use it.

Why? I don't know. They were early to the game and I stuck with it I guess