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>The most comfortable way to think about risk is to imagine a range of potential consequences that don’t seem like a big deal. Then you feel responsible, like you’re paying attention to risk, but in a way that lets you remain 100% confident and optimistic. The problem with low-probability tail risks is that they’re so rare you can get away with ignoring them 99% of the time. The other 1% of the time they change your life.

The other side of the coin for his implicit argument that you should think about these tail end risks is that they're everywhere and in everything we all do commonly, even in fundamentally non-irresponsible activities. Ie: driving your car daily for errands around town will 99.9% of the time result in errands completed more quickly. 1 out of 1000 times, it could result in you killing yourself or someone else, even if you're always perfectly sober when you drive. Thus, while long tails risks shouldn't be forgotten, giving them too much weight as a basis for decision making could easily paralyze one into forfeiting all kinds of activity or choices. It would become a very constricting way to live a life, very quickly. Magnify this possibility accordingly for people who naturally suffer anxiety issues about life.
yeah, I think what OP tried to convey is how that was stated before first iphone (29 june 2007) which was without a doubt 'the next big thing'
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I see you reject Shopify because of fees.

But if you take into account the engineers' salaries you'll have to pay, servers, having to be on call every time the site crashes, cost of not having a super optimized checkout, etc.

You'll realize that Shopify is an excellent candidate.

Let Shopify take care of the commerce part and focus on what really moves the needle: your product and marketing.
> Maybe the EU can stop this nonsense.

IMHO, they are the only entity that has the guts to do something substantial. I'm in the States. It's clear that DC doesn't care but some activists are trying to shift the public perception. It would be better served to focus on the EU's public perception as well (primarily).
Hi Peter, we have a small startup where our company is located in Bay area, but due to some family I want to reside in Nevada (give up California residency).

Is there any residency requirement for H1B ? if I am still being supervised and maintaining employee-employer relationship by reporting to the CEO. The worksite will be remaining same within a couple of 4 hours of commuting distance.

I have searched for the residency requirement but have not found anything concrete saying that you need to reside at the same geographical area as your worksite.
I'd love to see fraud/mis-click adjusted returns for various social networks. I'd wager a significant percentage of ad engagement is non-productive.
As with Twitter's announcement back in May for allowing their employees to WFH permanently, this puts pressure on other big software companies to adopt similar policies. Microsoft being as big as they are really pushes other similar-sized companies like Google.

We've seen Facebook follow suit to shift their workforce in a similar manner. It makes you wonder when we'll hear something similar from Google, Apple, and even a reverse course for Netflix. If they don't, then recruiting might suffer as a candidate would likely pick the more WFH-flexible company.
> With so few firsts available in life, take those that present themselves and have a crack, even if failure is always an option.

About two years ago I realized I was doing the opposite sort-of without realizing it. I'd want to do something given a set of constraints (say, create some app in some specific programming language or for some platform), google it, find that there was some loose chatter around the idea and I'd dismiss it thinking "well, 'The Internet' hasn't done it/doesn't think it's possible, so I shouldn't bother".

Maybe it's a form of imposter syndrome. For me, I think it's more complicated:

I'd reach a point in a framework/subset of "whatever stack/language I was focused on at that time" where I was running out of obvious "new things to try", so I'd Google and find the same list; 'The Internet' decided for me that there's really not anything else of use to do with these this framework, let's learn a new one.

I need to "do X with Y", I Google it and find "Y" nowhere, but find "Z" everywhere. It's a bad fit but that's how 'The Internet' does it.

The most common, and one I specifically guard against and it happens consistently with endeavors like this: I want to make "X" do "Y" knowing full well that "Y" is not designed for (or more frequently specifically designed to prevent me from) doing "Y". After wading through replies to countless other people daring to ask the question in a forum -- the usual: "You don't know what you're talking about, can't be done, you shouldn't try it", "Why would you even want to do that when you can get 'Y' for $.$$ on eBay?", "Google it" (I did, that's why I'm here after 4 pages of clicking). Lovely how every question has 3-4 unhelpful-non-answers in one of these categories.

I changed my approach more than a decade ago while trying to reverse engineer the obfuscation a large telecom vendor used for their mobile broadband password storage in the Windows Registry[0] and succeeded in writing an "obfuscator" in a day from first introduction to deployed solution. Ever since then, I trust my instinct when I have expertise. When I do not, I read a very positive signal when "a lot of are people asking if something can be done" IIF there isn't a good answer to why it "can't be done" and any reasons why it "shouldn't be done" don't apply to the issue at hand.

[0] I recall, at the time, most of the answers were some form of "IANAL... but..." -- our purpose was to assign a random password to a user's account, then install the client to the user's company-assigned laptop with that password pre-populated (I didn't come up with the idea, I just had to figure out how to do it). The remainder of the answers were variants of "you can't crack AES" and "IM L33t H4x0R - WiLl CrAcK 4U". It was very clearly not AES or anything resembling a hash. It took so little effort to figure out that I would have saved time by "Starting Before Googling". Nobody (searchable) had tried. Probably nobody had a (legitimate) reason to try. It was just surprising how many people had a reason to "not try" while also discouraging others from trying with either wrong information or no information at all.
Military supervision of young people used to exist in France. It was even compulsory. It was called the 'National military service'.

It was abolished 20 years ago but some people think it was actually useful to mix social classes, get young people away from mum and dad, teach some useful skills (people could get a driving license or a truck driving license as part of the training they got) and effort/discipline.

This proposal is just a re-hash of that and of the classic "send them to military school/bootcamp, that'll teach tem".
Yes, on the other hand a lot of misinformation tactics hook into built-in human tendencies and requires more than just general education to identify and be immune.
The final action dates are limited by statute (the limit on the number of green cards that can be issued) whereas the filing dates are really determined by volume and capacity. Unfortunately, while I think the final action dates will progress in the coming months, I don't this progression will be significant.
For those saying there is ‘no evidence of this’. The evidence is in plainly stated Chinese law:

‘Two pieces of legislation are of particular concern to governments — the 2017 National Intelligence Law and the 2014 Counter-Espionage Law. Article 7 of the first law states that “any organization or citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work in accordance with the law,” adding that the the state “protects” any individual and organization that aids it.

And it appears that organizations and individuals don’t have a choice when it comes to helping the government. The 2014 Counter-Espionage law says that “when the state security organ investigates and understands the situation of espionage and collects relevant evidence, the relevant organizations and individuals shall provide it truthfully and may not refuse.”’

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/huawei-would-have-to-give-da...
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No. That would not be a valid basis to deny.
I mean yes having principles hurts but leaving social media as it is doesn’t make you Rosa Parks.

We see a problem, we try to fix it.

They’re not unaccountable. This whole thing is about holding them accountable!

If they were completely unaccountable then they wouldn’t do any of this. Why is Facebook taking action against QAnon now when it hasn’t in the past year? Do you think they haven’t seen the polling data for the president, house, and senate races? They’re preparing to fight for their life as a conglomerated monopoly.

What does holding them accountable look like to you?
Well there was Lysenkoism in Soviet Russia, but generally I don't think there's much of a correlation between socialism and a belief in or skepticism of evolution. Although Karl Marx himself was a big believer in Darwin's theory and wrote about it in glowing terms

Funnily enough in modern America conservatism is very heavily correlated with creationism and Intelligent Design, through the Republican alliance with fundamental Christians and the influence of the Discovery Institute. Frankly as a British conservative who grew up in the Reagan/Thatcher days I look at modern US Republicanism with a mix of bemusement and horror, but that's beside the point.
I mean isn't that what ruby on rails is? RoR's minimum response time is WAY slower than most other frameworks. Getting a ruby on rails page rendering in under 100ms is work, while other frameworks getting it under 50ms isn't much effort at all.

Tradeoffs everywhere. If I needed to serve my pages to an area where downloading 1mb would take a minute and that was my core demographic, I will be making very different choices in tech than what most people have to write for.
"Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!"
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Right, but notice the poison pill: "... no notifications to customers about an external subscription service".

Protonmail has a free tier, subject to resource limits:

https://protonmail.com/pricing

What should the app do when those limits are hit that Apple could not choose to call a "notification"?
That sounds awesome.

Does the reduction have to be in blocks of days? or can you just work, say, 5 hours a day instead of 8 ?
I didn't talk about the failure of the Morsi government, that is highly controversial.

I am saying that they supported the coup before it even happens. They communicated with the military before the coup, giving them the green light to do it.

As I said, I didn't save the sources, but I know what I have read. But I can't ask you to believe me in that case.
I recently finished Sid Meier's Memoir! I found it fascinating and highly readable. If you like games you will like this book. Meier's inspirations and insights into what makes a game fun make this memoir well worth it to anyone who is interested in game design.
Seems not bad, but the free part is the rendered template with tons of inline `style='...'` bits all over. Not really a usable template.

As someone who just wants to write internal html email reports that don't look half bad in gmail, I wonder where I should be looking.
The vast majority of commenters have no problem following the rules. It's not as if it's hard to avoid getting banned here.
I'll admit to not having read the full article, but would a belief like this make the assumption that God's will could even overrule logic itself. Could God will 2 + 2 = 5? How would you rationalize this? Or perhaps the point is to irradiate rationality.
But that "professional developers" histogram is almost indistinguishable from "all respondents," so really your statement should be "the age distribution of StackOverflow developer survey respondents is different from that of the overall human population."

What's the sampling bias of this survey? How many pro developers over 40 were contacted for the survey but did not respond? Is StackOverflow usage higher among people aged 20-39 compared to 40-59, all else being equal?
That so many just assume this to be the case, without understanding the preferences of the individuals involved, is concerning.
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It's interesting to also think about why all these reasons are good/reasonable when making decisions.

Example: Incentives can tempt good people to push the boundaries farther than they’d ever imagine.

You often need incentives though to focus people in the right directionn.

Example 2: Tribal instincts reduce the ability to challenge bad ideas because no one wants to get kicked out of the tribe.

It's important to form a tribe, and to maintain its cohesiveness, otherwise you can't really get anything done.

And so on. It's good to consider both sides of each coin.
So what's the precedent for rewriting the textbooks to reflect this new understanding? The ones that come to mind are Mendel, Democritus, Aristarchus of Samos.
> So they're trading bandwidth for CPU load at either end

Given it's Nvidia I would imagine it's more likely going to be GPU load rather than CPU load. Don't underestimate the current computational overhead of existing lossy video compression.
Not ethnic diversity, but lack of a shared identity. Outside of the major cities, the people living in the middle eastern countries were more loyal to their tribe and village than whatever power happened to currently be in charge of the country. That's also why it seems like so much religious extremism comes out of the middle east; a shared religion is one of the only things in common among the people living there, so any calls to action normally use religion as common ground to bring people together.
adnauseam.io

i don't know how many people actually install this extension, but it is specifically designed to clicks ads so you don't have to :)
I am definitely not a lawyer, but am someone who has done multiple TNs.

It is really important to remember that the actual written requirements are one thing, but the interpretation of those requirements by whoever you talk to at your POE are arguably more important.

If you end up with a border officer who believes that your degree is not applicable, or your experience doesn't count, it is unlikely that you are going to be able to change their mind in that moment. NAFTA officers can be better (as the post writer above mentioned), but it still always feels like a bit of a toss-up of whether you get a "good" border agent.
I worked for 3 years on a TN visa with no degree of any kind. My job was a Software Engineer, and my TN was classified as a Scientific Technician. This was 2016-2019
The paper policy can stay the same, but the policy policy changes. Call it a norm if you like.
I don't use Facebook or Twitter as a serious source of news or foundational information. It's fun sometimes. If Facebook or Twitter disappeared tomorrow, society would not regress or be hurt in any way.

Anything that collects a mass number of likely untrained/uneducated people in a common space, where they can create a post record of anything with no restriction of content to the world at large, will never be a serious source of news or foundational information. You may sift through this and get something useful or interesting once in a while, but it is simply incapable of as a whole of being anything great.

The fact that these networks exist as primarily ad businesses is probably the best thing that can become of them.

The most useful/meaningful thing totally free/open social networks can do in a general sense is provide a venue for people to post raw media of events, such as crimes, etc. which can be useful if you are near that locality, but the comments and subsequent discussion have a very low chance of being anything but emotional expressions.

I am fine with whatever actions Facebook or Twitter take to do this if they feel the need. Facebook and Twitter are not government agencies. People choose to use them. People whine and bitch about how everyone they know are on Facebook and Twitter, but alternatives do exist and it is possible to use them. You can also just text/SMS your friends and family.
Same experience here. I've cancelled all subscriptions that use this tactic and made myself a promise to never participate in implementing such a system.

Whenever I subscribe to any service on Apple I will immediately unsubscribe. If I find myself wanting to use the service again after it expires it's a simple tap to resubscribe. I think I actually end up with more subscriptions this way, but at least I know I'm getting use out of all of them. I wish I could a similar setup for all subscription services.
And what did Obama say (then do) about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2013_Rabaa_massacre

I know that there are a lot of people in the west who are honest about their values. But we don't see that at all from the governments. So don't blame us thinking that the US never cared about their values.
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Bruce Shelley was on Soren Johnson's podcast Designer Notes (ep. 9, 2015). Sid Meier is in episodes 23—25 (2016).
Correct on all points, sir or maam.
True, and I’m sure that bias is part of their motivation for writing this, but does that mean anything in the article is actually incorrect?

I read the article and it seems like a quite clear enumeration of Google’s lawyer making statements that are contradicted by the court record.
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We need a broadsheet social media that is (relatively) healthy for you.
Signing up for shady services which clearly void the law is not the same as not having any rules.

The directives mostly concern draconian "send us a passport copy and cancellation letter" when you signed up online or via phone. Those are no longer allowed in most EU countries. If they do not comply you are free to cancel your subscription via the bank/creditcard by revoking their SEPA permission and reporting them to your local responsible authority.

edit: Both my mobile phone, internet and television service I can cancel directly online without problems starting next month. You cannot cancel yearly services unless specified in the first year but after that it is a monthly thing.
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If I'm starting a company, and I'm in a highly regulated but not well-defined space, how do i find good legal advice on what I need to do to cover my ass? Specifically for me, im trying to identify what's happening with telemedical and telepharmacy.
'no-one' verifying is too steep. Many people test many results from science all the time. I've personally followed and tested many papers because their claimed results were useful to me. Sometimes they aren't correct, or at least I am not able to verify them as such. More fundamental ideas are put to the test every time I design something, and they have held very strong in my experience. Equivocating religion with science by raising your standards so high they are impossible to meet in practice is disingenious, especially when one stands up to far more testing than the other. I agree that we need more critical thinking in this world, especially from the general public, but when you retreat to deciding nothing is verified because you have not seen or understood it directly and personally, you retreat in another direction which is just as useless and potentially harmful.
If you mean email newsletters generally, my own biggest is 172k but I know folks like The Skimm or the Morning Brew run into low millions of subs. A lot of it is down to how valuable and targeted the audience is and this guy is clearly winning on that front.
Yes it is. True, this isn't some sudden breakthrough; just the culmination of many years of slow and steady progress. That doesn't make it any less of an achievement though. This is the first time ever that fully driverless cars are going to be available to members of the general public who aren't under an NDA.

Waymo is taking a slow but steady approach to the development and roll-out of self-driving cars, and I agree with you that that can sometimes make the individual milestones they choose to announce along the way seem pretty minor. Milestones are arbitrary by nature after all, and Waymo has a long road ahead before driverless cars become ubiquitous. Over time though, this sort of slow, incremental progress is going to add up.

I made this same point a couple years ago, when Waymo first announced Waymo One[1]. The point where "self driving cars are here" is going to be a blurry line.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609982
There are often more restrictive laws against weapons that are not firearms because the 2nd amendment has been held to concern firearms, not weapons in general.

E.g., in Seattle any fixed blade is illegal to carry. Even chefs have to take special precaution if they want to carry their knives to and from work. Same for hunters/fishermen (fillet knives) heading to or from the wild.

In Oregon (and probably most states), it is illegal conceal most knives, except pocket knives.

Often, the same laws restricting knives cover brass knuckles, clubs, etc.

"any person who carries concealed upon the person any knife having a blade that projects or swings into position by force of a spring or by centrifugal force, any dirk, dagger, ice pick, slungshot, metal knuckles, or any similar instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of any other person, commits a Class B misdemeanor" https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/166.240
Or maybe, just maybe, it's a nuanced subject and I was acknowledging that there are people who do suffer from actual social media addiction while contesting the notion that the majority, or even a large minority, of social media users are addicts and not simply people who get enjoyment and utility out of the platform.
We'd be fine with migrating off of PHP.
This sounds a lot like the movie Surrogates, where at one point the protagonist notices the badge of a android surrogate is completely different from the human behind the surrogate (as printed on the badge).