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> Startup work is not any more meaningful or everlasting than work at a big company

That wasn’t my intended point. I want to be a profit center, not someone you keep busy because you can.

At Google, for example, I’d wanna work on search, ads, or data mining. But I wouldn’t wanna work on chat.

At Uber, I’d wanna work on the driver orchestration machinery, not on some opensource side project they have.

I find at startups it’s easier to get to work on the company’s main core thing. And that’s where I like to be.

If the whole company ultimately proves meaningless, that’s just life.
We wrote a similar lib and use namespaces:
https://quma.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#running-que...
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I think at some point you might be able to detect lying with high accuracy given a DNA sample, a high resolution/high fps camera pointed at the person's face, and a vocoder-generated questioning regime.

However, it would be very expensive to develop the training data for such a system, and it might not work on rare ethnicities. Or other abnormal people, like autists and evil geniuses.
The more people invest in ETFs/indexes/passively, the more opportunity there will be for active traders (indices by definition are adjusted to average and leave underpriced assets in the index), and so I don't think it's that surprising we're seeing more people try.

What to do with money is kind of like politics - people have different risk preferences/processes/deep rooted beliefs on what is right. And like politics, there is "no one right answer" but instead what compromises one wishes to make and what is relevant to their specific situation (ex. gun holders in middle of nowhere farmland vs. anti-gun urban dwellers).

I think Robinhood is net positive and kind of like political voting in that way - it empowers people to do something they couldn't before, and allow them to test their value systems in the real world.
Yes the arbitrary labels and specific numbers can be quibbled with, but the point stands that there will be massive migration.
How do you get a dozen violists to play in tune?

Shoot 11 of them.

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That's not true, if the lawyers wanted to set up a pathway for that then it could happen via various legal entities and hoops. Mozilla doesn't want the community to have that much say and they don't want to lose that much control and be dependent on users. The problem is they keep losing share of the market. I'm not sure how they can fix that since google is always a little bit ahead because they essentially dictate which way internet technology goes these days because they control 80% of the browsers out there via chrome.
i'm reading piketty right now and have to say, some overwhelmingly clear and rigorously collected data in this one book alone convincingly contradict this ill-informed statement
And you chose the alternative - problem solved.
>About 2 weeks later I was approached by my boss. Someone told him that I had helped a friend with his computer. I told him that yes I had in fact helped a friend with a data transfer (something Apple does for free) and that I had helped him on my own time. He told me that I had just admitted to a major conflict on interest, and that an official investigation in to my actions would now start, two days later I was suspended.

It's a very weird story. What normal co-worker runs tattling to their boss that so-and-so had the nerve to help an elderly neighbor that weekend? And major conflict of interest? Was borrowed equipment perhaps involved or...? Yes, I'm sure even Apple retail is sucky but something that he may genuinely
think is unimportant seems to be missing from this story.
I ran into this example recently by some startup in Las Vegas, job said junior flutter dev at $80k plus corp apt paid oh BUT no relocation expenses paid you have to move out their with just your clothes on your back and yet they are still looking past their Aug 1 deadline because they thing they will find a senior flutter dev on those terms..
That matches my understanding, but the terminology is still (IME) common.
Wow, this software is amazing. The results are great. The moon landing videos linked there are remarkable.
It is not a political view of reality - it is an argument against the current reality. I'm suggesting subtly that we tax the person, not the wealth. That is only accomplished in one of two ways: Tax everyone the same, a high amount due to a costly government. Or lower the overhead cost of government and services until everyone can pay equally - as I believe it should be.
One of the many dangers with this line of thinking is that on some level you're letting other people define you if you don't define yourself.

A lot of people are awful, so the definition you are given will be one you may not agree with and one that doesn't match reality.

A sort of sunk cost fallacy combines with an illusory truth effect to reinforce the narrative created about you.

Eventually it won't matter what you think about you, it will only matter what other people think about you.
Mouse doesn't freeze here. Bugs on Windows exist that were in Windows 2000 and still are in Windows 10.

Just because your personal situation has issues doesn't mean the product has therefore be bad in everyone else's situation as well.

At the same time: if you don't like the product, then why buy it? Just get something you like instead of complaining on how it's not to your liking. General problems should be repaired, but personal tastes are unlikely to get pushed out to everyone else just because you feel it must be a 'bug'.
Yes. Herd immunity doesn't mean that the disease is eradicated, just that outbreaks are self-containing. We don't see cases where the existing coronaviruses spread suddenly across an entire city, and they're deadly enough to at-risk populations that we'd notice if it happened.
Oh nose. What will we do without IE11?
Apple already has special rules for Woz. Jobs was never fired for all the times he broke company rules.
If your company is structured such that there's no recourse in the event of squabble between a manager and his reports, then your company is bad. If indeed this was just a personal issue with the manager: that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of apple either.
I do work in my office on my 34" monitor. I put that system to sleep a d go down for dinner. I do pleasure downstairs on a 13" MacBook. Sometimes, if I need the space, I'll make an exception and do pleasure on the monitor. It works for me.
I'm not sure what you think you know about Microsoft but I think you're off base here.
Hey Andy, many thanks to Backblaze for putting this together. Your stats are the first thing I looked at when looking for new NAS drives.

Since you mentioned cost, do you have data on average price per GB, both acquisition and electricity cost / year? With how many drives you guys bought there should be enough datapoints for a pretty neat graph.
> we start to sustain life there

Then you just have WW4 and we all die. Wars have been started for far worthless things (when you compare it to the game changing thing that would be to have a place in Mars), something like Mars would cause a lot of deaths way before humans get there and it would probably remove any motivation to actually fix human-caused problems in Earth because hey, thanks to Musk we can just leave to Mars. All those rich people that are now building bunkers could collectively purchase Mars (whatever that means) and leave Earth when it is beyond repair (right after squashing every resource out of it). I don't think humanity is anywhere ready for it even if the technology was ready right now. Our social systems are fragile and tend to centralization and authoritarian forms of governance
The reason why long term capital gains tax is taxed at a lower rate is to index for inflation. Inflation on short term income is negligible. As a matter of tax policy, it is much simpler to reduce the rate than to compute a very large inflation deduction.

> the wealth tax likely never will.

It also requires a Constitutional amendment, because the Constitution only allows the Federal government to levy taxes on realized income (16th Amendment).
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So I have read this is why they didn't implement deletion support before. With that said, I would still think that 1) It should be possible to guarantee that a particular object is not being actively served by a node on the network at any particular point in time and 2) If all the node software supports deletion, then even if you couldn't provide a 100% guarantee at least it would provide some mitigation.
My monitor, mouse and keyboard don't require any accounts (yet?), why does a device with two monitors and motion sensors require it?
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Yeah, there is just no way a trillion dollar gigantic company can be evil, they must have a real reason somewhere!
The top 20% of US households have around 90% of the wealth. The top 10% have around 70% of the wealth. The top 1% have about 40%.

Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
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Another question I would like to see discussed w.r.t. Switzerland is whether they are, in crude terms, dependent on other countries not being stable.

An example would be the South African originated company Compagnie Financière Richemont SA. Apart from economy of scale reasons, the reason why they moved to Switzerland is absolutely the stability of that country. South African citizens, many pensioners, now pay tax in Switzerland on dividends. (Yes, you have a DT treaty that allows you to go from 35% dividends tax to 15%, but still paid in Switzerland. And yes, probably they spend tax money much better than the SA government.)

LVMH by contrast doesn't have to move around, but in theory could have moved to Switzerland if it were the only stable country around.

So, to be Devil's advocate, is Switzerland a well performing country when considered critically or do they get a lot of money that in practical terms is or was historically generated in other geographic areas?

Conversely, if you don't have any stable countries at all, and you're left only with an option like South Africa, then there are countless examples of companies that simply could not survive. By the way, South Africa's taxes are getting quite high and there is absolutely no correlation between tax rates and service delivery. My personal opinion is somewhat more focused on practical terms. My first question about a country is not about taxes, but about the poverty line and buying power; and then about environmental issues. South African's don't have much hope for governments making any kind of sensible decisions.
> Giving people a single way to log into Oculus — using their Facebook account and password — will make it easier to find, connect, and play with friends in VR.

Ugh. I guess Facebook is making a play to become the Steam/XBox Live of VR. Why can't we just have gaming peripherals anymore without some kind of platform tie-in?
I don’t know if I completely agree with this. I’ve suffered from depression and anxiety my whole life, and maybe sometimes this is a response to something in my environment, but most of the time I just feel sad for not reason at all.
>The idea is that it's a technology to unlock the free space on the hard drives you and I own, which we're currently not monetizing at all

Right now backblaze b2 charges $0.005 (half cent) per GB. This is probably an upper bound on what decentralized storage services can charge. I sampled some computers on bestbuy and found that most of them come with 1TB storage (this excludes computer with SSDs, which have less). This probably translates into 500GB of free space that the average person can rent out, which works out to... $2.5/month. If we factor in a modest electricity consumption of 30W for 24hrs/day, 30 days/month, that's 21.6kWh, or $2.16 in monthly electricity costs (assuming 10 cents per kWh). So best case, you're going to be making $2.84 per month per computer, which doesn't seem worth it. In reality it's probably worse because sia's currently paying $3.68/TB, which works out to a loss of $0.32/month.
Being self made is irrelevant, all that matters is society benefited from the value that Microsoft produced, and he was enriched accordingly. It's not complicated. Who cares if he had a leg up. Should we think any less of SpaceX because Elon had rich parents. Progress is hard, we need to welcome it how ever it comes, and reward those who produce.
The marginal value of that money, in terms of lifestyle changes, when you already have $145B is much less than $43 billion. Probably closer to 0.
"but the mass die-offs we're seeing are because the world's coral reefs will be dead by 2050"

I've argued this point before here but I don't believe that will happen by 2050 at all.

For several reasons, not the least of which is there are fossilized reefs from epochs with much much higher C02 levels (and temperatures) then we will see any time in the near future.

I was in Mexico last year. On the reefs. Diving. They were in good shape with lots of young corals and very little die off. Sunscreen and human activity are a threat.

Not getting into the whole debate on warming (I believe something is happening) but this coral die off claim I do not believe at all. Particularly the 30 years bit.
So if I don't have a Facebook account and I buy an Oculus Quest after October, does this mean I may have to submit a copy of my driver's license just to set up a piece of consumer electronics?
Not just northern, try "central" Canada -- still pretty dang far north compared to other places.
Server-side tracking is what everyone started off with. There is a reason client-side analytics won in the marketplace. They just have a better balance of advantages to disadvantages.
>If you’re an existing user and choose not to merge your accounts, you can continue using your Oculus account for two years.

At least this gives me enough time to sell my Oculus and buy from another company.
If those devices were invented in 2020 you can be certain they would all be "platforms" with monthly subscriptions. They would also have nonstop rabid defenders on social media.
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Hmm. "NPP in the center of the city."

What could go wrong?
I think a more accurate way of phrasing your original statement is "if a wealth tax was implemented and I myself were wealthy to the point where it applied to me, I would renounce my citizenship".

Because you don't speak for rich people, as there is no evidence that they would, in fact, leave America.
I use 5+ daily during web development. Most people I know use a combination of Safari/Chrome/Firefox/Edge, pick at least 2.

I use separate browsers for work/play too, due to overlapping SSO domains.
Are you asking from the perspective of the entity providing or receiving the capital?

Though having thought about it some more, I don't think micro equity makes sense from either viewpoint.
While I support nuclear as part of the mix for clean energy, it's very important to understand that nuclear is NOT failing due to "propaganda" alone. The problem is the cost, in particular the capital cost. You see similar costs globally, even in places where environmental opposition to nuclear is basically a non factor like China.

Given current costs (check the Lazard decks) and likely trends, it's pretty possible that nuclear would lose out to renewables + storage + CO2 capture even with a global carbon tax forcing CO2 neutrality.

I also don't think it helps our cause to cast all opposition to nuclear power as ignorant paranoia. While the impact was thankfully minimal, Fukushima should have never happened in the first place. I personally changed my views on how much we can trust governments to properly regulate this infrastructure as a result.

Basically it's left me hoping that some of the more novel new nuclear concepts work out. I'm definitely cheering for NuScale.
You can issue removal commands all you like. There's still no guarantee that the client performs the operation.
They should shape the Oculus Quest like an Alien Facehugger.

https://www.getdigital.eu/Alien-Facehugger-Plush.html
Well, IANAL, but in GDPR if I recall Well, you have to list all the subcontractors that will have access to personal data. If they are listed and the user accept it in the middle of the 40 pages licence they are opting in.

Again, not a lawyer, but that’s how I interpret it. And there’s a good chance they have good ones to prevent mistakes.
> Like how the waltons use their great creative power to extract taxpayer money in the form of underpaid workers on assistance?

That's mostly returning, not extracting, taxpayer money, since employment by WalMart reduces those workers’ eligibility for means-tested, and where it doesn't (e.g., moving up EITC eligibility) the recipient of additional taxpayer money is the worker, not WalMart. Calling this extracting taxpayer money by WalMart, the Walton family, etc., is ludicrous in the extreme.

Are the Waltons’ under taxed, sure. But if they were taxed more to provide broader aid, that would increase the share of their employers receiving some kind of public benefits. Which is a good thing, not a problem.
There is an implicit assumption in your post that a foundation would have governance over the language itself. The Rust project is already organized with a pretty de-centralized team structure; the language team gets to decide what's in the language, and nobody else. I'm on the core team and I don't get to make these calls!

So, I don't think you have much to worry about there. :)
You need to submit a copy of your driver's license for a FB account these days??
How would Bezos continue to have power if people stopped using Amazon? Most of his wealth is in Amazon stock. Sure, he'd have a few billion left over, but his real political power comes from his companies, not his money.
That's fine they can give us back the money for the infrastructure we built and compensate us for our time.
I log in as two different users on the same computer (but not at the same time): one for work and one for free time.

The work account only has work-related things: "TODO" text files, a calendar, e-mail, slack, documents, source code etc. When I log in, it's easy to get an overview and continue where I left off.

I also use https://github.com/cgag/hostblock to block all news/video sites while I'm logged in with my work account. It's pretty great.

This setup is the best yet, for me. It makes it easy to focus while also making the switch from work to free time almost as instant as physically leaving a workplace.
This has been one of my largest mental blocks on all of this. Per the main reports we see about how this can spread, it feels like that nothing that has worked, should have worked.

Such that I'm sceptical of pretty much all coverage on this now. And I don't think that is a healthy thing to be. :(
I think the growth part can be the case in some instances, but not all. I don't think it's a fundamental restriction, but maybe more common in the private world.

The voting rights don't necessarily come with every share, nor are they evenly distributed. So you could raise capital through non-voting shares and retain the ownership.

Another thing to point out is that the size of the company based on the market cap and share of S&P500 doesn't really have an influence on the capital they raised by issuing shares. You have companies that have 100s of billion in market cap that only raised one or two billion through stock offerings. Private companies are also able to raise that sort of money too, like SpaceX recently did. With this in mind, how does staying private restrict growth?

Even if you required a buyout of the majority or minority (10%+) owners, you still wouldn't solve the problem. In fact, you could create a bigger funding issue because you aren't using the capital raised for expanding the business but for paying out. For example, you might want to raise $100M, but if the buyout requires the owners to sell a substantial postion, then you might need to raise $400M.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-and-google-had-one-th...
Sure, but I think that's conflating two things.

You're welcome to take a hit to your wallet when you don't want to enrich a certain business leader. What you shouldn't have to do is take a hit to your wallet because you don't want to politically empower a certain business leader. This is especially true as there's less and less competition, and a few huge players control a disproportionate amount of the market (which is an issue on its own, albeit a separate one).

The idea behind a democracy for better or worse is one individual gets one vote. When you start having to figure out how you're voting by proxy through the leadership of each company you do business with, I'd wager, that wouldn't be within the spirit of the system.

Companies should compete for individual walletshare by merit, and it really should be apolitical. It won't always be, of course, but I think we're better off if we try and limit it. Conflating the two weakens both imo.
I guess there are still other brands who sell headsets :/
Plenty of commenters express skepticism about self-driving cars and/or about Tesla while staying within the site rules. I'm sure you can too, if you want to.

Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style, and especially please stop snarking on HN? I realize it's an internet tradition, but we've all had lots of opportunity to see what its systemic effects are when it dominates the culture, and we don't want those here.
Well, if you assume that an Apple Store cares very little for it's experts, then the story makes sense. Which isn't implausible, right?
OK, thanks for explaining.

To be clear, I don't have any real concerns here, it just seemed a bit inconsistent; the foundation sounds like an important new phase, and I am a very happy Rust user who is somewhat amazed at the extent to which I have come to feel that I can not only use it in places where a compiled language obviously makes sense but that it is convenient enough that I could actually replace some of my prior usage of dynamically typed/interpreted languages.
> I don't know exactly what the author's job was (can't find it on the site), but if their job is servicing Macs, it's very normal for their employment contract to forbid making money servicing Macs outside their job -- it's literally having your own employees compete with you.

It still depends. Even if it's in the employment contract, the extent to which anti-moonlighting, non-compete, and other kinds of anti-competitive clauses that attempt to control the employee when they're not at work are enforceable varies drastically from case to case and jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Conflicts of interest and potential IP theft can affect the decision, but even doing the exact same job just outside of your normal working hours is not necessarily grounds for a breach of contract.
>My monitor, mouse and keyboard don't require any accounts (yet?)

I take it you don't have any Razer devices.
I made an FB account just for Oculus apps that need it. It has no personal information about me except email address.
That's one of the simpler theories. Mentioned to a co-worker he made some extra coin over the weekend helping a neighbor. The co-worker, for whatever reason, spilled the beans. Maybe he was on thin ice for other reasons...