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> The only way I'm able to understand how ANYONE can believe everything would be hunky dory without labor laws is if they haven't been educated in the history of this country (or any other country).

This is because you argue in bad faith. Apparently you already do understand the point I was making, namely that slavery is outlawed by the 13th amendment to the constitution, not the labor laws regulating consensual employee-employer decisions which the parent poster was talking about.

Fyi: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> The company will be around next month if they don't contract you. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you may not be. Thus, you're not meeting on a level playing field and these rules are built to prevent you being taken advantage of.

This is only true if the employer is a labor monopsony. Otherwise you can still refuse them and go work for another one, and they have to be the high bidder to receive your labor. You may have to work somewhere but you don't have to work there. Even the software engineer has to work somewhere.

And if the employer is a monopsony, fix that.
I think my reaction stemmed from

> You cannot believe the view I will defend in this book. I therefore will not be able to convince you that this view is true.

This appears as a concession that the truth about the topic cannot be determined. In which case, from a philosophical point of view, what’s the point?

That being said, I often prefer the presentation of “Here are some interesting things I’ve observed and thoughts I’ve had. Do what you will with them.”
“Are the social sciences merely dressed up pseudoscience?”

https://www.quora.com/Are-the-social-sciences-merely-dressed...
If you work at Facebook you are knowingly contributing to damaging the fabric of society for a pay check.

No one at Facebook is innocrnt, you are part of the problem. If you have a Facebook account, delete it.

I really think the world would be a better place without Facebook and twitter etc. Knowing what we know now about Facebook and how damaging it is, if it didn't exist you couldn't reasonably make an argument why it should be created. It needs to die.
Why not just let contractors chose to be employees if they want?
For content where readers arrive from other web properties, it also helps to be frank and upfront about what the theme and content of the article is.

TFA is called “read me”, which is a term many technical people connect with documentation. It starts of talking about Reader retention on the web and changes into a deep dive of what typography is and the history of web and digital typography.

Of course you are going to lose readers who expects an article about documentation, or readers who think this is a meta article about web content.

For content, where readers mostly come from within the web property, you can be more certain that readers will read the article because they trust the sender, not because the theme interest them and for such a medium, I think there is more room to play with introduction and themes.
I used Firebug even after Firefox added devtools and Firebug stopped it's development. It truly shows how powerful XPI add-ons really were. I still stick with Firefox and the dev tools are quite good, and features like flexbox and don't helpers are quite useful.
There's something relating the depth/quality/density of experience there.

You do less but you feel more, is that right ?
> China and most Asian countries are ethonostates.
In America, if you suggest that we should be an ethnostate you would not only be called a white supremecist, you'd likely lose your job. In fact, today to even suggest reducing immigration (like Trump) you get called a white supremecist. That is just a reality.

Xenophobia has gradients and degrees:

What I am talking about:
The number one reason why the US was able to be so dominant technologically for such a long time was because of multiculturalism and innovation/frontier/development mindset, regardless of a human's background or origin.

That attracted the best foreign minds (including best Chinese minds) out of China and they became US citizens and their children probably do AI at 3-letter institutions for us.

We put the barrier on smart people coming in. They went to the next best place, in China's case, that is China. They are innovating there and their kids are working in 3-letter companies in China. This is freaking the crap out of USA and it shows with so much news about China bothering so many people.

But we are to fault ourselves. Out of xenophobia, not only did we stop encouraging smart people from coming to the US and building businesses or innovation here, we also ourselves don't go out to other countries too much because "we numbah 1".

What you are talking about:
Problems with multicultural society. You hold a very narrow view of multicultural societies. America has NEVER been monocultural in its history. It was always anglos vs dutch or protestants vs catholics or Irish hate or Italian hate or Polish hate and of course slavery and xenophobia.

America was a great success until recently, fighting through past civil wars and hard earned unity, until recently where the leaders abandoned our strengths for political gains (and I'm going to call out Republicans here for racism).

China, India and EU are large successes in multicultural societies themselves. People in China might look the same to the western eye but they are all different peoples, from different tribes and different cultures. China has been working to UNITE its peoples, America has been working to DIVIDE its peoples. And I say this as a patriot who hates PRC.

A united America will always be better than mono-China. But China unifying its peoples to interact with the world. And America wants to go back to civil wars era. These two forces together will ensure Murica numbah one is pretty much dead.

An open America will crush the xenophobic China that you refer to. But a xenophobic America has more to lose.
59% of the time, that doesn’t seem very interesting at all. So ~10% of studies where results are strong enough to be replicated also have predictable outcomes (presumably these are just simple, obvious situations), the rest are a coin toss.
Clarify: do you think the Game is about spite?
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Can we please stop posting nyt articles here?

1) They are paywalled.
2) nothing to do with startups or tech.
3) every single article is highly partisan at best if not straight up propaganda/misinformation.

This is hackernews not highly partisan covid news.
We seem to disagree about the seeking extreme clarity issue -- I believe he was intentionally obfuscating, or at least have that suspicion.

As for suspicion, from the article:

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At one point, Thomas Penfield Jackson, the judge hearing the case, chuckled, too. When Microsoft lawyers argued during a closed-door session that the deposition was turning into a side show and government lawyers should be barred from showing any more segments during the trial, the judge denied the motion, saying: "If anything, I think your problem is with your witness, not with the way in which his testimony is being presented." Jackson continued:

"I think it's evident to every spectator that, for whatever reasons, in many respects Mr. Gates has not been particularly responsive to his deposition interrogation. Everybody at your table has reflected skepticism as the testimony is presented."

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I'm characterizing the "whatever reasons" as suspicions. I suspect the judges did come to a conclusion on those reasons when it came time to deliver their opinion, and those reasons were damaging.
Anti-short hysteria has been bugging me recently. It seems to be a recent trend and when I try to think who might have triggered it, I come up with one clear answer...
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I don't say the part about meritocracy, I don't believe that's a jump that makes sense, but the rest is correct, yes :)

I see meritocracy as an ideal we would like to be able to tend to, not something that has been achieved in the past or current time.
> completely unaware of Gandhi’s sleeping with children

I was unaware, and searching suggests you are referring to him sleeping naked in the same bed as a 17 or 18-year-old, without touching them, supposedly to test his celibacy.

Which is, quite frankly, hilariously innocent compared what "sleeping with children" implies, particularly in the context of being contrasted with Epstein.

> None of the women who participated in the brahmachari experiments of Gandhi indicated that they had sex or that Gandhi behaved in any sexual way. Those who went public said they felt as though they were sleeping with their aging mother.

If this is horrible enough to outweigh the good in his life, hell better make room: we're all coming.
Several of the claims should be fairly straight forward to dispute. For example, they should have some video of the truck driving under its own power as opposed to coasting down a long downhill. Certainly in this day and age they have plenty of documentation of their vehicles during testing and development.
I have no insider info but leaning to believe that at least Hindenburg Research's report is partially correct based on a few things:

1. I listened to Nikola founder Trevor's interview on Jason Calacanis's podcast, and was sold on the advantage of Hydrogen fuel cell over battery for long haul trucks. Such a huge market! And then Trevor said Nikola, a 400 people company, are also working on the an electric pickup called Badger to be more consumer facing. This makes no biz sense to me at all and I realized they are probably just chasing the trend.

2 At the time Nikola doing the first Earnings call ever, Trevor was on a 6-day vacation in the Bahamas, while bragging about having a $13 Million airplane. Trevor is no Elon. No matter how much you hate Elon, he works his butt off, and that gets my respect automatically.

3 I understand Nikola want to protect their trade secrets and go through SEC first, but in their press release [2] they have shown nothing to prove that Hindenburg Research's report is wrong.

[1] https://thisweekinstartups.com/e1090-nikola-founder-trevor-m...

[2] https://nikolamotor.com/press_releases/nikola-refutes-allega...
Hey, not that many people are flying private, and housing tends to be as environmentally neutral as possible here. If not inititially, then by retrofitting, with subsidies.
Just go see the latest papers in CS - https://arxiv.org/list/cs/recent A lot of authors have Asian names (Chinese and Indian)
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It's also important to consider that until the fall of the iron curtain the US needed western Europe to be strong economically and now does not care about Europe that much anymore, so they use industrial espionage, etc. like against the rest of the world.
We've used Elixir at our company for several years. Overall I've loved it, but I hope some experiments are done with a type system.

(I don't find dialyser that strong in terms of performance and code editor help.)

I think Typescript would serve as good inspiration because (1) it's a type system for a dynamic language underneath (javascript) and (2) it uses structural typing which fits well with pattern matching.
They may have successfully knocked some fish off of a trawler.
> But I would still have to have both of those in my pocket.

At the height of the Pokemon Go craze, people were carrying large batteries around in their backpacks, with a long wire snaked out of the backpack between the zippers to the phone in their pocket. Not the most practical thing, but it worked.

It's kind of funny; the next season after that, many backpack manufacturers re-introduced the flapped-seal cable pass-through port that had previously gone out of fashion (it used to be a thing for people who were feeding their headphones into their bag to listen to music from their walkman or discman — not pocketable devices, for most definitions of "pocket.") But by the time the backpack makers did this, the craze was already over.

While we're talking alternatives, another alternative is to activate your smartphone's "Battery Saver mode" permanently, and then disable things like Wi-fi (so it isn't searching for a signal when you're out and about); Bluetooth (I assume, if you're okay with the Nokia, you aren't a Bluetooth headphone enthusiast); and — if you really want to go all-out, and "people phoning you" isn't generally a thing — find an app that will automatically disable the cellular radio whenever the phone's locked/asleep. (Which would wreak havoc on battery life if you woke your phone up all the time, but is great if you only wake it up a few times per hour at most.)

I've been able to pull a good few days of battery life from some rather old phones this way.
I would respectfully suggest that you're letting your opinions on American politics color your perspective here, because "my country number 1 and foreigners suck" is a pretty universal style of xenophobia. I don't know enough about Chinese culture specifically to say for sure, but I'd be very surprised if they don't have nationalists in that vein, since every country I'm familiar with does.
"U.S. Xpress had only $1.3 million in cash on hand last quarter."
Amazing! I wish it didn't end in the present.
> try posting some "conservative" opinions on HN sometime and watch the downvotes fly..

I can't see your post, where'd it go :]
I, of course, don’t have all the context of your wife’s situation. However, it seems like she could register a company that provides writing services - and, therefore, be unaffected by this law? If a person is actually engaged in a business independently, they won’t have to change their status. Lyft and Uber drivers don’t own independent businesses.

“The person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed.”
Same. I remember what an epiphany Firebug was, and I felt bittersweet later when quality dev tools started being built-in, just because it seemed a little sad to think Firebug wasn’t going to be needed anymore.
According to the blurb they have 1 million indexed.
This is genius. Congrats. Such a simple yet powerful idea.
This. At least from my understanding Bell Labs and PARC published papers continuously (I’ve read many over the years, not sure how much got published vs not).
A lot of people have stocks, mortgage deductions, credits, etc. that cannot be computed by your employer and filed automatically.
> 3. The person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed.

My reading of this is that publishing a Doing-Business-As notice would qualify as independently establishing a business, and you would be ("is", not "has been") customarily engaged in that business as soon as you start operating it. I wouldn't trust a judge not to willfully misinterpret this if they had a reason, though.
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It's tectonic plates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics).

You can currently see continent splitting in Island and in Africa : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift
That particular video may have been an implicit lie, but the Hindenburg report reveals explicit lies from Nikola too. Particularly the adamant and explicit insistence that their fake truck was 'not a pusher', claiming it was a functional prototype.
I'm in a fairly rural place and I'm often in places without 3G coverage, so streaming anything is right out. I doubt that another podcast app would handle the storage any better, but it's true, I don't know that. I was using Antennapod.
The problem you mention is why we have references, which you’re asked for when you apply to any job or use a recruiter (at least, a good one). Those references should be coworkers who can testify to their productivity, ability, and team fit.

If at least two people who worked closely with someone like them enough to give a referral, they are probably worth hiring.
China is an ethnostate that is actively committing a genocide. If that is not xenophobic I don't know what is.
By preorders, you mean an email list of people who said they’re interested, but left no deposit whatsoever.
I'm not a US resident so don't know if it's true or not, but the page for the 1040-EZ form says to not use it since 2018, so hopefully you're using something else now :)

> For Tax Year 2018 and later, you will no longer use Form 1040-EZ, but instead use the Form 1040 or Form 1040-SR

https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1040-ez
The plan still does not make economical sense without massive reductions in the cost of hydrogen or massively more valuable carbon credits. However, if carbon credits become more valuable, synthetic gasoline will become economical as well.

Those are all big ifs. As far as I can tell, Nikola is bringing nothing to the table but hot air. No breakthrough in hydrogen production nor batteries nor engines, nothing that existing car makers do not already have.
He wasn’t being sarcastic.
> Smearing his current company based on his past makes the short case less trust worthy

So you'd invest in Elizabeth Holme's next bio-tech startup?
I don't think you've updated that lil morsel of trivia in a while.
How do you implement DI and Interfaces(Contracts) & Implementations on Golang?
I’m newbie gopher and I know there is no inheritance in Golang so how do you accomplish above purpose??

Thanks.
> I never saw a single manager who likes WFH.

You never saw them because they were WFH :D

But seriously, I've had managers who were happy to WFH a few times a week, though that team was pretty much self-managing on a day-to-day basis with the manager mostly there to make organisational decisions and to provide cover from above.
If everyone gets vaccinated within the timespan immunity lasts, the disease will be eradicated.
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Legal action? Did they lie (libel)? Did they fail to disclose their position?
That article doesn't seem to contain a point relevant to this particular issue.

If I ask you "How can you attempt to get the answer to this in under a minute" or "what's the first thing you would do" and you don't say "search for existing solution" (it doesn't have to be Google), you fail. You don't have to read my mind; I want to know where YOUR mind goes first. And if it goes to anything more complicated than "I'll try to look it up" you just simply fail; I can't afford to have you wasting any more of my business' time.
I didn't know about the time resolved stuff, and thats the type of thing that big expensive projects seem much more economical for. Presumably we will learn foundational (previously theoretical) information which will have wide, lasting effects. The project is so staggeringly complicated that when I've talked to people involved, they knew very little outside of their own minor field (for instance, microfluidics to time droplets with pulses).

The way that the project is being sold from the structural side is that you won't need a crystal, which is obviously huge. However, there's the issue of scale, and also the classic issue of... We can't refocus diffracted X rays so we're still limited by protein we can express in a selenium doped media, since you need the selenium signal to determine phase data from the diffractions. The list of proteins that are soluble but won't crystallize/can't be resolved by Cryo-EM is pretty small, and so it's an incremental upgrade no one will have access to, at best. At least, from the structural side.
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I don’t think we should subsidize anyone, neither China nor India, but only pointing out that a carbon tax doesn’t prevent us from doing so if we wanted to.

Ultimately I still don’t understand why you’re claiming that we depend on China and India to implement their own carbon taxes in order for us to be successful. If all wealthy countries implement a carbon tax with a border adjustment, China and India will either have to invest in greener tech and practices to compete in the wealthy first world market or be content in a less valuable market where pollution is allowed to be externalized.

> This is not accounting for the havoc it would wreak in international trade obviously, hurting China's exports is never hurting them alone, because trades not only go both ways, but also through; meaning depending on a lot of Chinese intermediary goods that we export affects US's GDP, and also worlds GDP.

Of course it’s going to hurt our economy. We’ve been living partly off of unsustainable environmental debt, and the whole point of a carbon tax is to reckon with that. Economic pain drives us toward greener solutions so we can enjoy a sustainable economy. The only “trick” to a carbon tax is deciding what the carbon tax rate should be at any moment in time to balance economic pain with necessary environmental goals. We should want to avoid an abruptly high carbon tax rate and prefer an initially low rate that rises gradually to allow our economies some time to invest in and implement green technologies, but waiting longer to implement the tax means the carbon tax rate will have to grow more steeply which translates to greater economic hardship.
I'm not trying to say that orcas aren't intelligent, they certainly are. We can cooperate with them, and they understand things, much like other dolphins do. If they weren't, you couldn't train them.

I don't believe they're "if you eat that guy over there, the navy will come and hunt us down" smart though.
"One person, one vote" also has the obvious problem if similarly situated people constitute 5% of the population and it takes 51% to effect a change in policy.

This also provides a reasonable explanation for why existing policies are so ineffective -- politicians still want your vote (5% is 5%), but they also don't want to lose the votes of the other 95%, so if they can convince the 5% that they're getting something when they're really getting nothing (or worse than nothing), they get elected again.
America is under-investing in technology and investment because the US is increasingly filled with people who aren’t American, and don’t ever aspire to be American – they just want what Americans have. The social and cultural values that allowed America to become the light on the hill, to generate the sort of excessive social capital that allowed the Apollo program, now needs to be diverted to support those who just want the lifestyle that living in the US economic zone enables, without the responsibility or cultural ownership of the values that made it possible.

America was a success before the Immigration Act of 1965, what diversity has delivered to America is division and destruction, as imported people and cultures predictably demand their values and needs be attended to in primacy to all others. Instead of investing in STEM to build the next epoch changing era of technology, we are investing in social sciences that specialise in division and enjoy pulling apart cohesive societies like a psychopathic doctor pulling apart wounds with tweezers.
I think Apples research is seeing what happens when you sit on a quarter of a trillion dollars. Without veering far off topic. I don't think apple really has a culture of innovation anymore. Each rectangle looks the same. Remember when nokia had all their crazy feature phones. Taking a 30% cut on apps isn't that.
Yes, I claim that almost all humans partition humans into completely imaginary classes. I'm going to define a bigot as somebody who makes such partitions. Note immediately that there exists a partition of bigots from non-bigots iff non-bigots exist. Note also that, simply by being able to recognize the above statement as true, both of us (and any other readers) are bigots. It follows that there must only be finitely many non-bigots at most; almost all humans are bigoted.