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> Why Laugh at Quibi's Failure?

I'm laughing because it was an obviously stupid idea. I first heard about it pre-launch on an NPR spot, where the CEO was interviewed about their proprietary technology that'd allow videos to be watched in both landscape and, get this, portrait mode. That means all shows had to be filmed with multiple cameras for a feature that no one in the world wanted or asked for. It reminded me of Tommy Wiseau from "The Room" insisting it be filmed in both digital and 35mm [1]. It was an obvious waste-of-money gimmick from the get-go.

but I guess according to PG, I'm "just a hater." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room#Development

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html
You can also use external enclaves/smart cards for key storage.

The specific feature you're now describing doesn't really exist in any browser, mostly because it kinda negates why people'd use PKI for.
Paris is actively working on becoming a "15 minute city"

https://www.smartcitylab.com/blog/governance-finance/paris-1...
Dupont made more than $30 billion profit selling Teflon for almost 50 years, polluting the environment by dumping untreated toxic waste from the manufacturing process into virgin West Virginia landscapes the whole time.

In February 2017, DuPont settled over 3,550 lawsuits for $671 million.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAOuhyunhY
Outdoor dining is a new thing for a lot of restaurants given the current circumstances. That said, colder weather meals is only going to make a difference at the margin of whether people eat outside.
> With a buyback, you have fewer shares after the buyback.

Not sure who "you" is but the company will have fewer shares outstanding, investors who don't sell will have the same and those investors will also now own a greater % of the company as well as a greater earnings per share.

> If you "reinvest" in the company you give up all the proceeds you received to buy back the shares that you just sold to the company

I am 100% not saying that as that would eliminate the benefit. The benefit is to long term investors who buy, hold and reinvest dividends and reinvesting dividends to buy more stock is key as that is where the historical exponential returns are because it increases your ownership share and future dividends.

That is where my example numbers come in because you can only reinvest to buy more shares and thus your ownership % the dividend amount minus tax amount whereas the company can spend the entirety of a dividend buying shares to remove them from the outstanding market. The difference between those two numbers (1.05 and 1.04 in my example) then compounds and effectively goes towards increasing share prices which do eventually get taxed but they get the benefit of compounding while the owner holds.

Also, while you need quite a few shares, you can estimate and sell the percentage of shares a company is buying back in order to keep the same % ownership thus acting like a dividend so I myself would prefer all companies I invest in to never give out dividends and only do buybacks unless their P/E ratio is truly absurd.
>startups create Gemini clients with a lot of new features starting to turn impossible for new implementations

I don't think this is going to happen. We're pushing very hard for a culture which embraces the limitations of the protocol. Anyone who even thinks about extensions has the fury of the mailing list wrought upon them as soon as they propose them.

And Gemini is so simple that it's difficult to monetize. There's not much corporate incentive here. I think that corporations will continue to use the web, because the web was basically hand-designed for corporate needs - even going so far as to do so at the expense of the users.

>You can make a Gemini client in two weeks?

Two afternoons. And a stated goal of the specification is not to add substantial changes.

We can decentralize the internet and serve Gemini over our new, decentralized space. We can work on more than just one of THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEMS™ at a time, you know.
> I'm not sure it's reasonable believe that drivers would get kicked off the platform for answering "Ok". In fact, I think if you asked almost anyone, they would say that's a totally unreasonable belief.

You've clearly never been involved in any sort of union push if you think that employers are so above something like this. Even if they wouldn't do something like this, there are often behind the scenes conversations about how to create the perception that they would - because that is equally as effective.

In that context, repeatedly pinging drivers asking if they support the legislation (with yes in bold/highlighted) could definitely be a calculated move to create that environment.
Pasteurization via heating the entire machine to a high temp and holding for some time is likely the simplest you can get. No need for cleaning solutions, flushing, etc. Simply heat the thing up for a few hours.

As for duration, that's a function of temperature and desired safety margin. The higher temp you go to sanitize, the faster you can sanitize, but if they're heating the ice cream mix as well, there's likely a limit to how high they can get without damaging/altering the mix. So the other variable is time, and that's probably what leads to the multi-hour sanitize cycle.
>Ignoring the other arguments about comparing this to other basic human rights, if his politics are bringing a bunch of hate onto the company then it does impact his ability to do his job effectively.

That's a fair point.

I'd only say that I find it illiberal and deeply reactionary and regressive to hound someone professionally because of their private actions (in that case, a monetary political donation).

As much as I believe that all of us, regardless of ethnicity, melanin content, chromosome configuration, religion, or any of many, many other "differences" should equally benefit from the rule of law and equality under those laws, whether that be loving who and how we choose, agency over what happens to/with our bodies or any other human/civil right, I also believe that we need to extend that to those who disagree with me.

Because if we are only free to live/speak/believe as we wish as long as other folks don't kick up a fuss about it, and along the way destroy our livelihoods, is that really freedom?

And if it's okay to do so for those who hold "vile" beliefs, who's to say that beliefs we hold won't be considered "vile" next week, next month or next year?

As such, by all means call out those who espouse hate and discrimination. But destroying someone's livelihood because you don't like what they think or say is antithetical to the ideals of liberty and equality.
I feel like a lot of people laughing are just expressing the feeling that they could do much more if they were given 1% of the investment Quibi had. It feels unfair when people get opportunities to pursue their startup based on who they are rather than the merits of the company. Of course, that's the way life works, you can't do anything about it and complaining is a bad look. But when you're proven right and the investors get burned for investing in a bad idea based on notable founders what else are you supposed to do but laugh? I generally agree with the sentiment that it's bad to ridicule people for failure, startups are hard and risky and ridiculing people for failing discourages people. I think when there's this much hubris involved though it's a little different.
Ha ha, sounds like a cool app idea. Will check it out.

I had blogged about my own favorite music for working by:

Music video: Sitar - Vilayat khan - Rarely Heard Ragas:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/10/music-video-sitar-vilaya...
How to Tie a Necktie
> Is outdoor dining and cold a new thing? Doesn't this happen every year at winter?

It’s a new thing. You’d normally never eat outside in the winter in cities like Chicago, Boston, or New York, but because of Coronavirus people will.
> "having the coleslaw tub be much wider at the top, or putting everything in a wide plastic skirt so the box is 20% bigger than it needs to be"

These days the trend seems to be to reduce the packaging, at least here in the UK. "Same size - less packaging!". So it seems like reduced packaging and distribution costs, and perhaps fitting more onto store shelves, outweighs any extra sales from customers who are fooled into thinking the product is bigger than it really is?
I hope TypeScript community will come up with something as powerful as py.test soon. Fixtures keep your wrists agony free when writing tests. Asserts are joy to read. Decorators make everything readable. Plugin system has a solution for everything.

Meanwhile in the JS land I.cannot().keep.guessing().what().crap().to.chain.or.not().
> This is free market for you.

2 vendors, Microsoft and Apple, have almost 100% of desktop OS market share, so no, that's not a particularly free market.

> Please realize that the lack of agency is the principal component of the price you pay for the polish and cleanliness in the walled garden. There is no known other way to run it.

This is completely false, because Apple has radically changed how they've operated the Mac in the past 20 years. That's my complaint. Apple keeps getting worse and worse, year after year. I was quite satisfied with the Mac years ago.

In the past, the Mac was more open. Believe it or not, there was a time when code signing didn't exist, and you could modify your system however you pleased.
Start by reforming the justice system. It is badly broken at all levels. It's slow speed, incredibly expensive interactions, and hard-to-understand system of laws need a big time upgrade. We need relatively simple laws that ordinary folks can understand, and a much faster time-to-judgement. It is really the complexity and cost of the system that leads to so many of these unjust outcomes, because hardly any actors in the system actually want to present their case and hear a verdict out of a judges mouth, because to get there takes years and millions of dollars.
Pipelining is something that helps everyone other than the gigantic new breed of "single page web apps" that are actually just single gigantic JS files.

We should definitely definitely definitely be trying to help pipelining. Unless you send only one resource, pipelining is probably a huge win.

And it definitely, from the server side, makes things way easier. As you can get a bunch of requests & start satisfying them in whatever order works for you. This isn't like HTTP 1.1 Pipelining, which was in order: now connected systems can out of order send whatever data they have, without having to buffer it & wait for the first asked for data to clear the pipe.

This is massively massively helpful tech we are creating. Attaching it to "very bloated webpages", & implying this is something "we should move away from" is a high level of shade that is not at all in any way deserved nor fair nor accurate.
Have you tried Dhall? Static types and enough power to provide the tools you need, but deliberately not enough to allow full on arbitrary computation.

I've played with it briefly, along with the Kubernetes plugin, and it was a nice experience.
That sounds like quite an accomplishment. At this point I don’t even think I would try.
Just in case you haven't seen it, you can follow my comment to bootstrap apk.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24862764
Agree. The notion that this is just free market rewarding business people providing some market need is beyond the pale.
As someone who uses both (irregularly, only as necessary), legal thc / CBD doesn't even remotely compare. I have to get so high to even approximate the pain relief from an opioid that I'm completely nonfunctional.

I had my first back surgery at 18, my second at 25, and I've been staving off 5 separate herniated discs since. I'm in a good place now (barring literally today), but I can't stress enough how useless you end up being, mentally, to take enough thc/cbd to relieve your pain enough to be functional. Really, I just trade my disfunction of one type for disfunction of another type, which is only acceptable because sometimes you simply can't handle the pain.

OP: I've had a lot of luck finding relief with tramadol. It may not be sufficient for your pain or work for you, but it's a schedule IV instead of a schedule II - my doctor can even call it in. In my experience, doctors don't treat you as a drug seeker if you suggest it - they almost seem relieved that you're not asking for the radioactive stuff. Just throwing it out as a possibility.

For myself, for the rare times each year I need it now, it has been wonderful: most of the opioids were almost putting me into a frenzy - not really the right word since it wasn't as strong as the word frenzy implies, but I would get pretty amped up and anxious. Tramadol offers me relief but I stay fairly even keeled - I can even keep working, for instance, something I can't say I can accomplish when I'm using enough THC/CBD to achieve relief. I wouldn't drive on it or sign a contract, but I'd put it on par with having a couple of beers at lunch.
> Lye dipped pretzels are a thing! I didn’t know that thanks!

Lye-pickled fish is also a thing (lutefisk)!
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This kind of comment and attitude don't work. Full stop.

The world is not black and white. We should do our best to work constructively with those around us to improve the world. That often includes tolerating ideas and beliefs that you may personally disagree with.

For what it's worth, as a die hard card carrying liberal - I find your attitude cancerous to both society and democracy.
The Uber Eats order I placed recently (in CA) felt more like a political campaign than a restaurant delivery service. It didn't exactly drive me further towards a Yes, no pun intended.
Gender Bias in the Tech Industry
> The fallout people keep missing is the loss of tax revenue. Either the direct property tax as values drop to in some cases income taxes shifting to other locales. Throw in the reduction in spending at local associated businesses like restaurants and stores which also results in lower sales tax revenue and eventually staffing. It is quite the cascade effect that will happen.

I think we might see the opposite in some subset of small towns - probably the ones in and around areas of natural beauty, or hot-spots for hobbies like rock climbing or skiing. I'm guessing some places are small enough that it wouldn't take a huge number of well-paid remote elite moving in/nearby to boost local government coffers, and possibly make some businesses viable that weren't before.
pytest is awesome, but I wish pytest were more like rspec. In my opinion, rspec is THE BEST testing framework out there.
Programmer Rejects $6B, Gets Fired from His Own Company
Not to mention number of people with sufficient income and actually pay taxes is also minuscule. Ok couldn’t find a proper citation for this.
Nitpick: when she created the thing.

That's not unreasonable, but she started transitioning over 50 years ago. I think it's appropriate to refer to her as Wendy now, as Wikipedia and all the online music stores I just peeked at do.
Goldman Sachs to pay $3bn over 1MDB corruption scandal
That's the assumption. Alternatively, the ransom is changed to "change the law".
If you start with the web but less, you're never going to shake the web. You're still fundamentally buying into the same ecosystem. I don't want to be a subset of a broader ecosystem which I hate. I want a new ecosystem.
I highly disagree. Uber's platform is heavily gamified for drivers to encourage the driver behaviors that Uber wants. It is reasonable to expect them to gamify this piece too.
You had a "clear head" on opioids?

You've got to be kidding, right?
They don't have to be compatible, but if they both require the same account, I hope that means a single account will be valid for both. Someone with Java Edition would also be able to play Bedrock Edition.
“We’ve had instead a collapse of the old reader-author agreement that novels are mandatory texts for the culturally literate.“.

I signed no such agreement, and I am an old reader. If there is a signature on file, I disavow it. Letting someone else control the narrative of your mind for the length of time it takes to read a novel, with the plausible deniability of it’s all just fictional, is just asking for trouble. People start living in the constructed reality of the novel in their mind in real life. The collective hunch of reality is strange enough on its own.
I would go with a headline more along the lines of

Chefs Forced to Change Menus due to Government Restrictions
The one and only reason I feel like that's not _such_ a bad thing is that once you do that, you know more people will drop tons of code samples in posts making the discussion a lot less easy to browse.
Hate is good to wash down with some Juicero(TM).
Between promotion and more free time to do side projects, hobbies, families etc which one do majority of people choose?
Why do you think it's awful?

Many successful startup ideas initially seemed like bad ideas. Many failed startups also initially seemed like bad ideas. Many failed startups actually were bad ideas. (Some were bad execution or just bad luck.) But it's hard to tell, at the beginning, whether the idea is bad or just looks bad. Often you have to try it to find out.
You're interpreting from my comment a viewpoint, but I'm really just answering the exact question. The police do need to be held to a higher standard than civilians.
But it’s more than just hitting cmd-b, isn’t it? Doesn’t the text that you want to be bold need to be selected first?
haha self-owned
The best ideas are ones that sound stupid to most people at first. Can you honestly say that you didn't think Airbnb or Uber sounded like a stupid idea?
> I don't think it's gatekeepy to say that not everything has to be attractive to literally everyone.

It really is gatekeepy to keep something that is only attractive to a very select group of people.

> Those that grew up with mailing lists naturally find it more comfortable for them.

Yeah, which is exactly why I called it a massive red flag. It's the unwillingness to suffer short-term discomfort over long-term benefit of new contributors and overall better user experience and accessibility.
>The point is that you seem to have left out some rather relevant context.

FYI user disown is not using the 1834 article as their source. They're disagreeing that the 1834 article was when Whewell coined the word.
That's not true. You can change the lockscreen shortcuts on Samsung phones for example
Facebook would like to see money from WhatsApp but it was far more important to them to block off a potential competitor.

WhatsApp could have provided services like Facebook or Instagram but cost a small amount of money each year. Maybe it would be per-user or maybe it would be a sponsorship, like what Discord is doing. Sponsor the local neighborhood group for $25/year, your high school class forum for $100/year (so you can show everybody "you made it big").

The key to doing something like that is network effects, which WhatsApp had in spades.

Probably it's inevitable that they would have descended into advertising and tailoring the site for advertisers instead of users.
Because it's one extra feather on the scales of increased cynicism about what you see online. Clickbait culture is toxic
This. Plaid is very convenient in what it does, but please, just let me OAuth with my bank like literally any other organization.
What is some good intuition around matrix inverses?
Again, a false dichotomy.

Now it’s “angry mob” vs “no police accountability”.

Nobody else is talking about either of these.
Maybe try https://github.com/debauchee/barrier instead of a KVM?
Surprised that a parent of a child lost to opioids hasn’t put a Lapua Magnum in at least one of these guys.
Bitumen: A History (1984)
have you ever heard of... trains?
> Apple made their product. As so, why shouldn't they have the right to make their own terms?

The issue is not legal rights. I have the legal right to be a complete jerk to other people. As a businessperson, I have the legal right to be a complete jerk to my customers. Normally, in a competitive market, I wouldn't be able to get away with that. But if the market is not very competitive, I can.

Apple has choices, legally. My problem is that they keep making the wrong choices.

Apple didn't always make the right choices under Steve Jobs, but they generally made much better choices than under Tim Cook, at least as far as the Mac is concerned.
The only thing the public wants is a scapegoat. An evil face to jeer at, some one or group of people to blame for a problem before moving onto the next hyperbolic issue. Otherwise perception of a problem is too diffuse, complicated, and nuanced to process in an iota of thought. Don't bother considering the fact this company acted in good faith with the law, or the blind faith people put into a medical system fundamentally designed to profiteer from peoples' lives, and dismal support for the mental or physical health of our nation's poor and struggling. Because if you look hard enough for someone to blame and it'll eventually come full circle, because we collectively decided to co-opt a society based purely on self-interest.
"For more information about the crack spider's bitch, contact the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa."
No restaurant that I can think of has outdoor dining in the winter. I live in Georgia, and our winters are fairly mild compared to northern states. Even so, outdoor dining in the wintertime is very uncomfortable.

Winter is going to be very difficult for restaurants. If they don't adapt to serving meals outdoors, they may not survive.

They're going to have to change a lot to create a comfortable environment for patrons. Fire pits, heaters, warm dishes: soups, stews, ramen, pho, pastas. Warm drinks and heated cocktails. All of this while maintaining safe social distancing.

I've already seen a number of restaurants and bars make the attempt. It's pretty ingenuitive.
Yes, absolutely. I think this is despicable and should not be tolerated. However, it's the scale and widespread nature that differs. Most Americans will never be confronted with or even know people who have been confronted with this sort of abuse of authority. Unfortunately, this is not the case in many countries, and this difference should not be dissolved to make a point. I think the US should be able to do better, although not because it's inherently better in some way (what country is?).
No no, they still have the money, they just didn't want to pay a big fine so they paid a small one instead.
Caren Act: City of San Francisco makes it hate crime to call police
Should someone who has to be in the office to have their work noticed be promoted in an organization that depends on remote workers? Do they have what it takes to be responsible for remote works and work smoothly with them? They've self-selected themselves out of that pool, so it's a question worth asking.

I won't be surprised that most companies won't ask it, and thus in-person people will have an advantage, but I still maintain it's worth consideration.
> It has the async/await syntax except it's extensible to any kind of coroutine semantics
Interesting, I didn't know about this.

> You're also not forced to use it when it is not a good fit.
But like all language criticisms that contain this sentence, it's better when the language makes it somewhat tedious to go outside of the norm, where the norm is defined as the 99% use case. C++ is the opposite; you have to go out of your way to use the generic, safe features like smart pointers or create copy constructors.

Rust's syntax takes cues from ML which means that things like switch statements (matches), if's, and even return are also expressions, which makes it nicer to refactor and allows you more choices when structuring your code.