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> Is banning discussion of religion in the workplace a political/religious stance?

(Please forgive any flawed logic below - I assure you it's an oversight. I'm posting this in good faith.)

I'd say yes, but basically in the same way Coinbase's band on political speech in the office is a stance.

Consider religious people whose theology holds that they should attempt to convert everybody in their circles, even their professional circles.

It seems to me that banning that is tantamount to saying either (a) their theology is wrong, or (b) it's not wrong but the employer is resisting it regardless, or (c) the business has no place for employees holding those beliefs.
Call the cloud managed data centers and you have your answer basically.
If anyone finds themselves in Seattle after the pandemic, the Living Computer Museum has a real live paper terminal connected to a mainframe running an early Unix (iirc) that you can actually use.

It's definitely my favorite part of the museum. It really amazes me how much was possible on such limited hardware.
Even deciding what is political or not is political. If you try to limit the definition to something putatively objective like "directly relating to the function of government agencies" a great many topics are immediately ambiguous: institutionalized racism? marriage? the environment? the economy?
The title on The Verge looks normal.
> I'm still confused whether it's appropriate to refer to actresses as "actor".

It is generally appropriate, and increasingly preferred in many contexts, but not yet generally considered the only acceptable thing. (E.g., "actress" is almost never considered wrong.)
not really. their client is under the apache license but not the implementation of the server, where the api is defined.

to use the client (boto) with a server you need to CLONE the api. even the headers which are named: "x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm" I doubt that oracle would need to call that "x-amz-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm"
He’s as “libertarian” as most people who identify as libertarian—which is to say, not at all.

The hypocrisy is easy to spot; for example: any Republican claiming to be a libertarian but who opposes women’s rights to self-determination over their own bodies is no libertarian. And that’s basically all of them.
>The breathlessness of these articles

What do you mean by this?
Also note that even for established patents, a ton of standards standardized patented technology, and implementing the standard requires a patent license! This is a huge part of how Qualcomm makes its patent revenue from 3G/4G implementors.
After all, the cloud is mostly a mainframe with a self service interface.
>you answer to your neighbors

Fundamentally, this is our disagreement.
Nobel laureate Jack Szostak toasts former student Jennifer Doudna
I prefer HAL Corp.
In my experience, stories like this are par for the course. While at Stripe, a few of my close friends and former co-workers were treated so poorly during the application process that I stopped referring anyone over a year before I left.
And yet Jack Welch somehow came to be looked upon as a management guru instead of someone who gutted the long-term viability of GE in favor of financialization.
Respectfully disagree. You're essentially arguing that they're not politically motivated in staying at/leaving their job. That's fair. Nevertheless their actions translate either support, inaction, or opposition. The implication which MLK argues is that inaction is harmful to the movement.
The 940-81 is Hakapella Damasteel

https://www.jerzeedevil.com/threads/benchmade-gold-class-940...
I might not be explaining myself clearly.

By doing "nothing", we gain other things such as financial privacy for everyone and making digital payments available for everyone. These are not insignificant things and if they're more valuable than the inefficient anti-laundering attempts then doing "nothing" would indeed be better.

Also we wouldn't truly be doing "nothing", we would only give up one traceability component and we can still chase crime in other ways, like requiring documents of where you got the money to buy this mansion.
> Every restaurant has the right to get rid of someone destroying their place, why can't Facebook?

In this case, the two are linked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ping_Pong

"The restaurant is the center of the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which has been discredited by a wide variety of organizations, including the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. One Pizzagate activist fired a gun in the restaurant in 2016, and another started a fire in it in 2019."
It's not about the names though. It's that when you look at playbooks for both teams you see that the names of all the plays are identical, and under the same headings! And you come to the conclusion that the second team must have copied the names from the first teams playbook.

Such a thing might be considered fair use if the second team's argument was they indeed copied the playbook because they had a recruited some players from the first team and keeping the names the same made it easier for them during practice. But for now the judge is suspicious that they've come up with this explanation after the fact.
The article sounds par for the course in grade school. I'm in my 30's now so my memories aren't so fresh but I do wonder what utopian school the writer went to, if this really is unfamiliar.

It does sound like, in the interest of making progress rather than perpetuating our own pains, that this teacher could use some support. Sounds like someone who wants to do well but is getting frayed by the difficult situation. Could a substitute take a couple periods here and there to give time for grading? Could there be some curriculum flexibility given the extra administrative? I don't know the answer but the nice thing is that it's a non-public school so they may have some autonomy to help.
> Removing the host's freedom to choose a non-winning door (and effectively help the player) changes the math.

As it does removing the host's ability to choose a non-winning door in the variant where "the host had just picked at random from the two doors, and it happened to show a goat". That doesn't work the same either because it's not the same game.
Yep.

And the value of Dell's business isn't in selling PCs, it's in other services around the PC.
Agreed. I think there are only two options for a company:

1) don't allow any activism in the company

2) allow ALL types of activism in the company

Right now, it seems most companies only allow liberal activism but not conservative activism. This is a recipe for problems because it's arbitrary and not democratic.
Literally the job of executives is to define mission, vision, and the cultural approach to pursue that mission.

Emergent mission, vision, and culture is a recipe for bankruptcy.
The difference on impact is interesting. Boeing is an important company because they are one of a tiny number of companies that makes the world's commercial airplanes. Arguably their transformation into a useless junk-heap of a company that can't build good products has been underway for a while, and that's a huge problem for aviation.

IBM is one of many, and their decline wouldn't really matter all that much in the grand scheme of things.
On a pure intelligence question the justices are likely top 1% or 2% among human populations. They also have disciplined minds that allow them to use their intelligence effectively.

It’s more likely the arstechniva writer failed to understand the point of the analogy.

Having just listen to the audio, it really annoyed me that Google’s lawyer kept saying “If we can’t copy this it would be impossible to write software.” And always left of the “in Java” part. Really fucking misleading.
Fragmentation is almost never a good thing and it's certainly not a good thing in this case. Allowing developers to use the same knowledge, the same interfaces, the se languages across systems means that consumers benefit. Having a de facto standard is good for everyone, and arguing that there is less innovation in programming because you don't own the rights to function names is ridiculous.
Is that a new thing? I have an older Threadripper and my motherboard definitely doesn’t support ECC (even though the CPU does)
xmonad? :)

Frankly, I did nit see people releasing proper desktop apps for some time now :( Electron apps do not count.
If the "Dev Team" upped the number of coins it would be a fork, none of the existing nodes would accept it.
I would make the argument that what distinguishes APIs from code is that APIs cannot be executed, they are not code because the computer cannot run it. And only code is copyrightable, code requires to be executable on some machine. Thus it is clear that only the implementation is copyrightable.

That said, at this point, I don't even care about the interpretation of the law, this issue has to just be addressed by the executive branch, truth be told, the rules should be explicitly stated, and I almost feel someone could make a case and sue the government with being so vague, allowing multi billion businesses to get built and a whole industry assuming they had the correct interpretation of the law, when in fact it gets interpreted differently. I don't know if this is possible to sue the government for, but like, how enraging is it if everyone for years clearly thinks they know the rules and all abide by some interpretation of it worth billions of dollars. Clearly the law needed to be revised a long time ago.
Yeah during the whole read I was like, why the fk do I care? This is your opinion, go enjoy FreeBSD if that's something you like. There are no objective arguments there.

Also claims never used the Dock once, I highly doubt that. Or maybe that's why he didn't like the OS.
Indeed. This was bad representation to the point that I'm wondering if it was intentional. Google might have recently realized that, as a monopoly, fighting for API freedom perhaps isn't in their best interest.
This happened to a friend too, got totally ghosted by Stripe.

This is generally how our industry works, though, which is that it's not worth it to go through loop for a job unless you were referred by someone on the inside.
IBM killed their own PC business by going with the MCA bus, and not allowing 3rd parties to make expansion boards without a license. And the PS/2 series was quite expensive at the time.
While this is true, in practice for the vast majority of applications this is a good tradeoff since the relative slowdown of L3 cache vs. the improvements in reductions of cache misses ends up being tiny:huge.

I'd expect the workloads that could suffer (all else equal) would be something like SIMD optimized matrix multiply where you're always able to prefetch the elements needed into cache effectively and memory access tends to be sequential. But those slight losses would likely be dwarfed by the improved core clocks, etc.
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Ask HN: How much did you invest before the seed round?
Hi founders,

Just curious, how much of your own money (or your friends/family/angel money) did you invest in your startups before reaching a seed round?

Note: The salary you paid yourself (if any) should not be counted.
The second-order effects that are described here around the "capture of upside" may be a little exaggerated. Credit cards and Stripe are common payment mechanisms for consumer, prosumer, and self-serve SAAS. I'm not denying there is a lot of money here, but I imagine the majority of B2B SaaS companies by revenue handle payment through annual contracts through checks and wire transfer.

I don't have any data here, but I'm thinking EHR, ERP, office building rent ("a SaaS company plus some glass and concrete") etc. If the service provided is annually worth 100k USD, theres probably
human-human interaction which facilitates the exchange of legal documents and money. Think Oracle, SAP, ADP, ServiceNow, Workday etc.
They appear to mostly support one candidate that is very pro bitcoin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianforde

"In recognition of his work, Brian was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and one of the ten most influential people in bitcoin and blockchain"
The article mentions that Google faced some tough questions on their merger doctrine argument (that because there was only one way to implement the declaring code Oracle can’t preclude Google from reusing it) but it doesn’t really mention the fact that Oracle faced much tougher questioning on their procedural argument that the Federal Circuit correctly overturned the district court jury decision.

Listening to the oral arguments I have a hard time counting to 5 either way on the issue of API copyright and Google’s merger doctrine argument, but I think it’s quite likely that there are 5 votes to send the case back to the Federal Circuit with instructions to take another look at fair use.

Essentially, the district court jury found in favor of Google on fair use and the Federal Circuit set that verdict aside on the grounds that no reasonable person could conclude there was fair use. None of the justices sounded happy about that.
It's about the same, we've stopped using Incredibuild some time ago because there were almost no benefits to it over Fastbuild and the cost was huge.
...or it could mean that we'd all still be writing COBOL on OS/360.

It's a terrible idea.
> the right of 'bad ideas' to be amplified by platforms ought to end before people who believe in those 'bad ideas' are turned into political weapons

Should a politician be allowed to Tweet that too many people from a particular minority group are moving into the country? (Perhaps the politician believes that these migrants are increasing crime or unemployment).

If someone reads that Tweet and then goes and violently attacks people from that minority, have they been turned into a political weapon by a demagogue?

With fists and noses, there are well-defined lines, but I'm not sure what speech or algorithms you are suggesting should be outlawed.
I’m surprised they’re arguing about which method annoys the drivers less. You’d think that if the goal was to stop us from speeding, wouldn’t the best method then be to annoy us as much as possible?

It’s purely anecdotal, but if my car made a large beeping sound while breaking the speed limit, I’d frankly be a lot less likely to continue doing so, but you’d still have the option for emergencies.

Not that I’m really for or against anything in the article, it just strikes me as odd that you’d want to try and nudge people. Maybe the carrot is better at preventing people from hacking the system?
Excellent start! Can't wait for V2.
It is not wasteful to use hardware to help interpret pregnancy tests
For non-US HN readers, or those not current on BLM:

- to unpack your superficial post would take a 200-page book because it touches on multiple overlapping and non-overlapping issues

- but the short story is that the US public, and peaceful protesters, agree with the concept of improving black legal system rights, but the organizers and rioters behind the arson attacks are Marxist fronts, apparently funded by the CCP.

Their goal is anarchy, not BLM reform - literally they want to make the US ungovernable so they can field their own political structure built upon the rubble they created.

- the original problem was police unions and captive DAs, which has been lost in the noise, and would take an extreme focus to fix even in the best of times. I don't think peaceful protests can solve a problem that entrenched at all, but neither can foreign-incluenced Marxists

We know now that the National Guard should have been called out in downtown areas, and arsonists should have been shot. Many moved from city-to-city, burning as they went.

Regarding your comment about web site banners, it's likely that when the Marxists started to burn downtowns, companies wondered what exactly they were supporting. They got a clue well ahead of the Democrats - it took Pelosi 2 months to denounce the riots, which really meant the party supported it.

You can learn more about the CCP involvement by watching recent Youtube NTD/Epoch Times channel videos. They have experienced China-watch reporters on staff researching CCP inroads into the US.
Something that fits that description as well is the Lenovo X13/T14/T14s

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_X...

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...

What I've yet to find is anything similar that also has a more than a 1080p screen. Frustratingly the Lenovo T14/T14s in Intel spec does have a 4K screen.
Is the primary use-case only for configuration secrets?

Would it be suitable for a use-case where we manage (hypothetically) 400~ API keys, secrets, usernames etc for different use-cases. Our main application would need to be able to grab the secrets for APIs which run periodically.

I'm guessing Vault is more suited for this.. and not Doppler?

PS. My very last post on HN last week was about secrets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24625934
Stripe likely has pick of the cream for open positions. It has been public knowledge for a while that they're a rocket ship, and that attracts top talent by definition (in addition to sharks and wolves [0] I'd presume).

[0] https://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/06/great-story-from-s...
That poster still hangs. There's a copy in the Annex also just down the street a little from Red Hat Tower (I took a picture last time I was there for training around this time last year actually).
Er... not the entire state. Just the governor.

Headline probably meant to say, "Federal Agents Say They Thwarted a Miltia Plot to Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer", or something like that. You can leave off the last two words, but if you leave off the last three, you've definitely lost something.
Not really, because they have no discovery mechanism. (And no, a search command that kinda sort matches on description strings doesn’t count)
This is an excellent question that I’ve never seen addressed. Replying just to call attention to it in the hopes that someone knowledgeable HN’ers can answer. It seems like cloud would quickly become a commodity but I have no special insight.
My friends accepted that Google Maps adding eg useful info about stores was a useful improvement. I guess we'l see if it gets ruined in the future.
They are indeed incompetent, since a large chunk of competent people won't go there any more. But what kind of financial voodoo is keeping them afloat? Is it another Sears in waiting?
Do the vast majority of jobs in these companies actually give you stock options?

Most places I know of do not
> This does seem to be the standard Libertarian worldview, but no matter how much you intend to ignore the world around you, it exists and you're a part of it, and you answer to your neighbors.

One clever way to deeply entrench a political decision is to convince others that it's not a political decision at all. If you're successful, you've erected a barrier against your opponents by interfering with their ability to even conceive opposition to your position. It's sort of like the concept of Newspeak.
Your thing of the MP4 patents.
I think it's like most companies, really hard to get attention unless:

- You have a referral

- You went to MIT, Stanford, Caltech, CMU, Cal

- You're coming from FAANG or similar

The frontdoor is a waste of time.

Even with the above odds are against you, but at least you have someone to ask about progress/move things along for you.
Can we get this edited to include the word "Governer"? Without that, this is a much different story.
Swift is faster than all three of those. Vapor is now a very elegant framework, and very easy to use if you already know swift.

I agree that it’s not a language to adopt yet if you don’t also target apple platforms. Primarily I disagree with you about it not being good if you are developing a server component for an iOS app.
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Banks are not allowed to hoard capital, and financially speaking, keeping cash in reserve means they're not making money from it.

Indeed, the regulations require the opposite of what you suggest: banks are are required to maintain a certain level of capital reserves to avoid collapse even though they would prefer to spend all of it on investments or making loans.
Same. The best I could find were models with 16GB soldered on the MB. Settled for a System 76 Lemur Pro (10th gen i7).
To restate my comment in more precise terms, users do not care which protocol of { HTTP/0, HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 } their browser selects and uses when communicating with the remote server at whatever URL they entered. They expect the URL to work, and they don't care how.

The Unifi issue you cite is due to a series of problems that are related to the http:// to https:// migration, most of which Unifi could have easily discovered and mitigated had they cared to. I'm really disappointed in Unifi here, but the browser is at fault, too.

First: Your browser's fallback process for handling "the user entered an invalid URI" is attempting http:// first, rather than https:// first.

Second: The Unifi is responding over http:// with a completely useless error page, rather than a redirect to https:// at the same port.

Third: The Unifi probably isn't setting a Strict-Transport-Security header on responses to https://:8443, which means that your browser can't learn a better default.

Fourth: If the Unifi's instructions tell you to enter "unifi.home.arpa:8443" rather than "https://unifi.home.arpa:8443", their instructions are clearly wrong. (If you're not following their instructions precisely as written, that would explain your discover of the prior three; I can't say I blame you — I would have left it off too.)
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was thinking exactly same thing
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Not really. The Bitcoin white paper focuses on financial institutions, never even mentioning the government.
There was a now-deleted comment about the CPU busy-waiting for the GPU, to which I had this reply:

Reviews/benchmarks of Flight Simulator by e.g. Gamers Nexus show that Flight Simulator is heavily CPU limited, running on a single CPU thread.
"Breathless" can mean exaggerated, over the top, absurd, etc.

I was referring to what I see as the silly, overly excited way this article (and others in this genre) is written.
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Interesting. I find 'salesperson' pretty easy to pronounce, and it has the advantage of not being homonymous with "cellar". Mileage may vary for your dialect and accent.
> We divested networking back in the ‘90s, we divested PCs back in the 2000s, we divested semiconductors about five years ago

Motorola followed that path. They sold off their computer business in the early 1990's. Analog electronics (On Semi), and then the semiconductor business (Freescale, now NXP). Finally, they split the government biz (Motorola Solutions) from the phones, and that was first sold to Google, and what remained then went to Lenovo.

Motorola was a gigantic powerhouse, and through mismanagement, is a shadow of what it was. Such a shame.
Qanon is a productive use of mildly schizotypal people to reduce the chance of an astroturfed color revolution (a la BLM) in the US being successful.
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