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> Did you receive the Genius Bar contract and training regarding moonlighting.

I did not, but if you did, I'd love to know more about what it says that I'm not aware of. If this was explicitly listed in your employment contract but not mine, that's a valuable piece of information to know for interpreting the context here.

> explained as mandatory reporting not active hunting

I did not get the sense that this was mandatory reporting, only that his manager had heard about it (potentially off-the-cuff or through unrelated channels), but will gladly re-read the article again when it comes back up.
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If that is the case it would be harder to get a FB account than to vote in some states...
They are generating lots of money with current launches, but are designing a next generation rocket. Rocket programs are expensive.

The best comparison for the rocket that Musk is building for Mars is to SLS. Per https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/11/nasas-sls-moon-rocket-is-2... we've spent over $17 billion on the SLS program so far, and it probably isn't as far along as Musk's SuperHeavy/Starship is.

Admittedly Musk is doing his rocket development for cheaper. A lot cheaper. But the baseline for what rocket development "should" cost is more than SpaceX has received in revenue, total, through all of its history. (Not profit, revenue. Nobody knows what its profit margin is. But given that SpaceX routinely launches at prices below what its competitors can afford, they probably aren't rich.)
Streamline the rockets, not the company.
Starship and other Mars projects will be large upfront capital expenses with a lot going in R&D.

I believe Musk would prefer faster returns to speed that up than wait a few years more patiently.
> You’re forgetting inflation and income taxes!

No, I'm "modelling" the wealth tax with the exact same assumptions as pg, save that I'm using a plan that was actually proposed as opposed to a "take 1% of everyone's wealth every year" strawman.

Also, this statement:

> I would have to earn 5% + 2-3% a year just to break even

only applies to your wealth in excess of $1,000,000,000.
Jetpack really needs to be way earlier in the tech tree, IMO. Maybe even as early as Tier 3.
I had a lack of motivation even in the office. It's gotten worse now that I'm remote. I've become disillusioned by the promises of the company (and the world in general) and don't see much of a future.
I'm tired of saying fuck Facebook on HN threads, but man, fuck Facebook.

If I ever move my racing sim rig to VR, it's definitely not going to be an Oculus.
I think the key is to make your knowledge base accessible from anywhere.

I have my tiddlywiki hosted on a server that I can reach from any computer ( work, home, phone, etc. )

So the only barrier to use it, is opening a new tab and typing some notes. The bigger the barrier between brain thought and writing something down, the lower the likelihood of usage.

To be fair, sometimes I'm even too lazy to open a new tab and add an entry in my wiki. I haven't solved this problem yet.
Right now we also support Google Search console and Google Ads.
Our vNext will include much more, such as Facebook, Segment, Zapier and other data sources.
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A lot of their recent launches have been for their internet constellation, StarLink. Given the nature of this constellation, they have to do a large number of launches before it is operational and can take paying customers. There is a large upfront cost.

Its a bit of a chicken and the egg scenario with launch services right now. The fact that these new internet constellations were coming killed demand for the large, expensive one-off communications satellites that was a large part of SpaceX's business. Fundraising like this gets them across the chasm.
What is the actual IPFS user base besides curiosity traffic and crypto speculators?
Exhibit n + 1 on why when you're acquired you're not in a position to promise anything to anyone despite any assurances from the acquirer. Or, from the consumer's side, why those promises should carry no weight.
Without assuming bad intent, I think it's safe to say people will tend to think in line with what makes them comfortable with the massive amount of money they are about to get.
Exactly. I deleted my Facebook account years ago. I have an oculus account. Really disappointing though, it means I either have to link that to my girlfriend’s account or sell the oculus within two years.

Realistically I’ll probably sell the quest, stick to buying steam games from now on, and buy a headset from a different company as soon as they get a wireless headset.
You're right about this. In practice, geologists are very used to providing asymmetrical or one-sided bounds on many estimates (not only time estimates; also estimates of quantities like the thickness of a rock layer before the top was eroded off and lost to history), and these are often linked to another event so they are sort of relative estimates.

We often say that some piece of evidence establishes the minimum age, or the maximum age, of a geologic event. Then we try to find another event that provides the other constraint. For example, let's say we want to know when a specific meteor hit the earth. The rock that are impacted by the meteor are 100 million years, so we know that the meteor impact was younger than 100 million years. Then if we were able to find a rock unit deposited on top of the impact crater and impacted rocks, that is not itself damaged, we can infer that the undamaged rock unit is younger than the impact. If we date it at 80 million years old, we know that the meteor impact occurred between 100 and 80 million years. (We refer to these relationships as 'cross-cutting relationships' because visually, a younger feature may 'cut across' an older feature and we find and describe these relationships to develop the geologic histories.)

In fact, the entire geologic time scale as it's commonly known (using time categories like the Paleozoic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, etc.) was basically set in complete relative terms without knowing the absolute dates. Then, when absolute dating based on radioactive decay of elements in earth materials became common in the 20th century we started to pin down the whole framework.

I think that there is a really interesting logical structure to the whole enterprise that is begging to be modeled using tools that are more familiar to software engineers. For example I think that a lot of the relationships could be represented abstractly and analyzed using graph theory. But I have not had time to make much progress with this as geology has so many little exceptions that formalizing it is a long and tedious process.
"You can't really properly hate a language until you're an expert on it."

So true. So very, very true.
I -just- decoupled Facebook from my Oculus account in preparation for deleting Facebook. I guess in two years I make a throw-away account, or better yet, move to Valve's current offering.

I'm super done with this company.
Why do you find it hard to believe that someone could be so naive?
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Thank you, that's a huge help!
> - Greytext types that are inferred are super useful. I do wonder how I'd do if the IDE didn't tell me what the types were. But it basically means you get all the benefits of type annotation without having to write out the types.

Actually the strong-type-inference plus greytext thing is one part of Kotlin where I'm not sure what to think about it.

When I first saw Kotlin examples on the internet with all the "it.something" I was "What is going on there?!? What is that supposed to do".

Then the first time I tried writing Kotlin myself everything became super clear due to that Greytext shown in IntelliJ. However 80% of the time I'm looking at code is not in an IDE. It's either on code reviews or in the browser (github, internal code browsers, etc). All the information is not available there, and one has to be aware again what the implicit types will be.

The challenge certainly also exists in other langues with type inference (auto in C++, var in Java/C#, inference in Rust, etc), but for some reason I found it worse in Kotlin. Maybe due to the commonly used methods which take a closure/interface as last parameter, and and the fancy builders.
It doesn't need to be a ringing endorsement, and it doesn't sound like some special Apple-case either.

Most companies (especially post-capitalistic American ones) are structured to provide maximum money for the company and/or the shareholders on either the short term or the long term. That's a monster we all created and fed for decades. That means that HR is your friend until they want to get rid of you. And the rules are made in line with that: plenty of options for 'legally' getting rid of people.

While I personally think that's just bad for humans, I don't think anyone should still be surprised that that is how it was designed to work.
He didn't, but with his donations to the DNC and the creation of Hawkfish, he'll have an inordinate amount of power in the direction of the party for years to come regardless because of his money.
Put in a data information request and see what they do actually know about you.

May well be insightful. Friends who have your email and phone number in a contact entry who also have FB and synced contacts - etc etc etc. May well have more information than just an email address and way to look at it is - would you bet a large sum of money that is all they have? Always a good way of putting perspective upon things I find.
Because the companies make a large amount of money on the platform. Look at Apple/Google/MS/Sony/Nintendo charging for access to the platform - either explicitly for online play, by taking a cut of sales on the platform, or in the case of the console makers - both.

As someone who prefers to play games alone, it's frustrating. The first five minutes after installing Steam is a constantly stream of "stfu and stop shoving game release/update/sale announcements in my face", "gtfo with the popup messages that a friend is playing a game", "wtf? why are you auto-logging me into the messenger", "no, I don't consent to you building a hardware inventory of my machine and using it for internal stats", and "jfc, please just leave me alone and let me play some games".

It's almost enough to make me buy a shack in Montana and support the post office.
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Obviously it's only part of the cost, and then there's the development costs for Spaceship. SpaceX could probably self fund Spaceship and Starlink, but with investment it will go much quicker. In the case of Starlink there is a limit in that they have to complete at least half their deployment before their timer runs out with the FAA / ITU Radio Regs. So cash flow is an issue aside from reuse.
From TFA: "Patterns are matched and measured with onscreen tools and cursors. Automatic artificial intelligence algorithms flag potential targets for the sonar operators to verify. "
I'd guess in this case nobody had thought about it as a real risk. People are often woefully unaware of the risks of accidental effects of unnecessary privileged.
I agree with you completely. However, try telling people you're vegan/vegetarian anywhere outside of the major western cities and you'll understand what I'm talking about. The reactions from complete strangers will absolutely shock you.
Why start full stack development with Python:NOW
It would be interesting to know what life is like for a developer on such a team. Is it like a full time job? A demanding one? Less?
Have a Rift S, left FB several years ago, now forced to go back in the future. I hate you FB. Will not buy Oculus again.
Sure an excuse, but probably for an equally petty thing.

Like speaking with another employee that it's kinda petty from apple to sue a small company with a peach logo which
doesn't even compete with Apple.

Or agreeing that the Ab store sometimes acts abusive (not because of the 30% cut but because of everything else).

Or honestly speaking about a customer about all kinds of repair related thinks (like telling them that data recovery is sometimes possible after water damage but apple just doesn't provide such service, similar with any proper efficient repair, apple only replaces components, which there aren't that many as everything is soldered on the main board).

Or...

What I want to say is currently there are a lot of things an Apple employee might not like about Apple and I wouldn't be surprised if a petty boss will try to fire you if you speak about them with other employees during your brake.
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How many people aren't voting because they feel their vote doesn't count. I'm not a US citizen, but my wife is. She usually doesn't vote or only votes because I talk her into it. Her reasoning is that our state will be carried by a democrat anyways. It doesn't matter if they win by 51% or 100%. Between electoral college and first-past-the-post it's no wonder few people vote.
Palmer Luckey was just kicked out of a Facebook game developer group, because so many people found his presence objectionable and threatening, due to his divisive political support for Trump, and his secretly funding the shitposting of abusive dirty false memes.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-nea...

>Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine

>Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/19/15366500/palmer-luckey-tr...

>Palmer Luckey reportedly hid $100,000 donations to Trump behind Chrono Trigger references

>Oculus founder Palmer Luckey donated $100,000 to fund Donald Trump’s inaugural celebrations through shell companies named after elements from classic video game Chrono Trigger, The Washington Post and Mother Jones report. News of the donation broke today, almost a month after Luckey announced he was leaving Facebook, but the money was handed over on January 4th — when he was presumably still under contract with the social media company.
Great, I can now attempt to sell my Vive Pro because this will surely drive up demand for it.
What does parse.ly do differently to account for this discrepancy in the analytics?
And there are multiple members of the Rockefeller family that have net worths in the billions. There is substantial swaths of land in this country that have been held by the same families since the 1700s.
Just make a burner Facebook account. You can do so with a burner email. Annoying, but not horrifying.
It might not hurt to try some new approaches instead of just increasing the magnitude of the same message. I don't disagree though, propaganda is the key part of the puzzle that needs solving.
I'm really happy with the synology DS418 I have. I recently attached a UPS as well, which I wish I would have done before (had a scare with losing my disk array). The system is incredibly easy to setup (once you decide on your volume strategy) and administer, and the one time I needed support it was extremely well handled.
> They just have an app that auto-updates drivers (and probably does a lot of data mining) but you don't need to use it to use the device

Uh, yeah, updating drivers for mice. Just WTF? I get that it makes sense to have a capability of correcting bugs, but that should not require an app.
BC is a counter example & does not help here at all.
Worst case they delete his Facebook account and he can create a new one.
Solar is no savior. VERY few people understand solar and how it works enough to even understand that power output on hot summer days like we're having now is one of the worst environments for PV performance. (PV cell voltage is inversely proportional to temperature because God said so - you make many times more power on a clear, cold day.). Don't forget that cheap Chinese $#!+ solar panels (virtually all you can get, now) only last about 10-15 years, even though PV breakeven is at about 22 yrs out of quality panels 25 year life. We will be waste-deep in toxic solar panel carcasses in another few years, and there is no economical way to recycle them. I joined the solar industry wanting to see it succeed, but it never will, except on islands or similarly remote areas where you have to ship in generator fuel otherwise.
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It was 6 years ago in 2014. Facebook has done a lot of stuff since then to reveal it's true colors.
AVIF image format is coming to Chrome next week
That is one convoluted solution. Easier:

Federate users to AWS using SAML https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_pr...
Not everything, look at other laptops and desktop computers.
You have Android and iOS that stick because of this 2 players not competing(they are happy with current market share and Google and Apple are pushing now on other fronts).

With desktop computers we can still replace parts without having to ask approval from someone, we can still install whatever we want and this is because there are more then 2 laptop or desktop suppliers. Also it is not about form factor, yes it is easy to replace parts on a desktop PC but for Apple phones they refuse to give you screens or batteries and they bully people that refurbish parts from broken devices and try to hide repair documentation and software(this is opposite of green)
My Razer mouse is basically broken (it's not that the sensitivity is too high, it's just...completely off) until you install and log in with their app. Only after you log in is the mouse movement fixed.

I would never buy another Razer product, specifically because of this.
I guess I know what company to not buy any VR hardware from.
For someone running a backup colony on another planet I wouldn't choose someone with as bad a pandemic policy as Musk.
We see this time and again but ... you SOLD, you're not the captain anymore.

If the new captain doesn't make the promise, you can't give it much weight, and if it is Facebook, probably no weight even if they did :(
I think your hate is misplaced. J was and is fertile ground for new array language features. In my opinion, not having to come up with a new symbol every time someone wants to try something new has its value. J is much more in flux than APL.
Elon Musk will be the first trillionaire. Dare I say, the first quadrillionaire.
Because Facebook needs your data.

And it's incredibly creepy. Movement just feels like an extremely intimate piece of data.
How about tooling/the ecosystem? Python has all the scipys, pandas, scikits, tensorflows, pytorches.
Bad intent was certainly behind his funding the shitposting of dirty Pro-Trump memes.
There are ex Apple employees here and on Reddit saying there’s no such policy, so either this manager made up a bogus excuse and risks getting fired themselves, or the author is concealing the real reason.

Surely the author must know this isn’t a policy violation though? Why not report the manager, or sue for wrongful termination? It doesn’t make any sense.
I'm interested in buying it from you if this is actually the case.
Fast isn't the salient metric. Efficiency is.
What happens if you were banned from Facebook (for example political censorship or other possible reasons I can't think of off the top of my head)? Is your Oculus device bricked and useless? I'm a fan of Oculus, but this is a bit of a turn off. But I guess if Apple makes their own VR headset, they probably require an Apple account but Apple isn't really a social network so feel less of a risk, same for Microsoft's Mixed Reality headsets too I'd imagine.

Then your purchases and stuff are lost too, I guess as WebXR matures though maybe there will be some great apps you can just pay directly for on the web, but I feel like if rumors of Apple making a headset they'll just skip WebXR and force the app store... I know other headsets including the Oculus supports WebXR but sorta feels like it's a conflict of interest to their own stores to me so wonder how much more advanced it'll get.
If there were no meaning outside of humans, then every human would be free to construct their own meaning. This then leads to radical individualism, since no frame of meaning would be truer than any other.
You say clearly, but it isn't clear. I would argue the existence of billionaires is a symptom and not the root of the problem. This country was founded with all people created equal under the law, but the system of kickbacks and corruption allows the wealthy to commit all manner of civil, financial, antitrust, and even criminal acts without any repercussions. How many people were charged in the financial crisis that wiped out half the wealth of Main St? 1 person? Google is larger than all of it's search competitors combined and yet Congress rolls over when Pichai says it isn't not a monopoly? Give me a break. It will only get worse, whether UBI and Universal Healthcare are implemented or not. There's a reason Big Tech CEOs are all card carrying Democrats. Modern Communism won't see the seizure of the means of production by the State. Instead it will consolidate the working class under a smaller and smaller group of larger and larger corporations that work in concert with politicians. Progressive regulation and taxation schemes support this. We even have on-campus housing for employees now so you can dedicate your whole life to a company. All that's missing is childhood education and you can be birthed into Amazon employment, get educated and trained, and live your life inside the bubble.

Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.
This sounds like a case of a bug in their software uncovered a huge gaping hole in their architecture.

Put another way, while they seem to have fixed the immediate problem, no word on whether they are putting real BACKUP plans in place to avoid a similar problem happening and whipping out everything.
How much does Epic demand to buy pretend money to by things in Fortnite? Why do I have to give Epic money to buy useless virtual goods?
Any suggestions for collecting server side logs via nginx pods in k8s?
Is there anything to stop you from making a fake Facebook with a throwaway email and use that?

Or do they verify accounts in some way now?
Which was not properly communicated to the user.
That was reported but I've never seen anything close to that even with all wireless turned off. This could be due to other power saving issues on Mobian... I just don't know yet.
That is a silly premise. :)
"A few billion" places his wealth in the top .0001%. It's telling that even in this far-fetched scenario where Amazon and Bezos' "real political power" are destroyed, he's still much more powerful than the vast majority of US citizens.
People will bitch and complain, but at the end of the day, there’s no better device for untethered VR that you can take and setup anywhere.
Honestly, the number of times an acquiring company has promised "we'll never do this" and then "done this" is so staggering, I think any acquisition promises should be codified with the FTC during the acquisition process as consent decrees or the like, and it should require regulatory permission to roll back. And then anything claimed not listed as such should just be assumed to be a lie.
A combination of his past successes with Oculus, Facebook's track record, and his extraordinarily high confidence that the thing lots of people were afraid would happen, wouldn't happen
When GDPR passed there was a bit of a scramble to understand it, and people had all sorts of different interpretations that they were sharing.
I suspect they do a lot to make you think you are the captain though to help get you to sell.
> The existence of billionaires clearly undermines the core principles of democracy which is that all people have essentially the same political power.

Why is this axiomatically good, though? We should not be maximizing adherence to some theoretical democracy, but to a more abstract idea of how to best organize a successful society.