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> this is an extremely privileged take, or at least naive take, on what these loans do

> For many underpriv'd students, that network-buy is life changing.

I think that the belief that federally subsidized student loans need to /not/ go away is in and of itself a naive take -- about as naive as believing you can "buy" access to a network. These students you are talking about are not buying a network -- they are buying a signal and a brand. But the signal and the brand don't necessarily unlock access to the network, nor the presumed career opportunities that should unlock.

And why should it? After all, if universities wanted explicitly justify the expenditure in careerist terms, they'd offer the ISA-style funding arrangements that most reputable code academies offer. But they don't. You should ask yourself why that's the case, and why for many of these underpriv'd students you mention, this is a very expensive lesson they learn the hard way. You should ask yourself what happens when the student slips through the cracks and ends up with no job and a ton of debt. You should ask yourself if the whole thing is a scam -- because if this scenario doesn't make you imagine it might be one, I don't know what will.
You need to account for the "Mrs" degree. Someone goes to school to find a spouse, get married and has no income.

Although "Mrs" is specific to females, my personal experience includes more males that have done this than females. The sexism is used to make the point easier to understand, and but its reflection of reality died around 1950 if it ever was one.
I exercised 8.5k shares for $25k right before Company raised at a “unicorn” valuation to avoid paying AMT because I had no idea where the FMV would end up.

Strike price was ~couple dollars, preferred shares from the round were high teens, and the FMV ended up being a little more than double my strike price.

I’m happy I’m an owner, but probably could of waited until the next round if I knew the FMV was going to be lower. IPO hopefully coming in 18-24 months.
Imho it only showed that many eyes cannot find all bugs, just like corporations cannot guarantee their software is 100% free from security bugs.
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I'm definitely not an expert on options contracts, but the examples of clauses I've seen are:

(In the options exercise agreement): "All certificates evidencing shares purchased under this agreement shall bear the following legend: "The shares represented hereby may not be sold, assigned, ..., except in compliance with the terms of a written agreement between the company and the registered holder...""

(On the share certificate):
"This certificate and the shares represented hereby are issued and shall be held subject to all ... bylaws of the corporation, to all of which each holder ... agrees to be bound"

Either of which seems to give the company the ability to unilaterally reject any transfer/sale of shares.
Leaves OSS out of all their lenses. That's what they do. Annoys me that the best fast prime for my sony A6100 (sigma f1.4s) won't work for video because of this. I'm stuck with the far shittier sony f1.8s...
You're right for the short term but (in the hypothetical case it becomes deadlier) once we are aware it has becomes deadlier, our behaviour will change and reduce transmission.
Insurance and hospitals basically do bulk deals. Insurance is probably paying for the service one way or another, so they don't care much to whom the record is attached. And if you're not out of pocket, doesn't matter much to you either.
I can’t see what this has to do with Apple yet, other than Apple has hired them to contract out some of their work. Is Apple in charge of what all these Winstron employees get paid or do they interface with leaders of Wonstron who then turn around and write paychecks?
I had to go into surgery last year and had to sign a "I will pay whatever my insurance doesn't" form. I wrote in a clause saying that any out of network elements (persons, etc) must be personally approved in writing by myself or my proxy before they can do anything they bill for. I don't know if it would have held up in court, but it made me feel a little safer.
It's not an arbitrary behaviour if you want a well behaved result from it. Same with Python dictionary keys which used to have no intrinsic ordering.

Especially when dir() is more used in interactive applications (and sure, sometimes programatically like in plugin architectures, etc)
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Apple could obliterate the pro video and DSLR market with all it has learned about sensors and image processing in the past decade. It would only need to release a pro body like Red, Black Magic, etc, supporting different mounts (Nikon F, etc) and an integrated workflow with Final Cut.

It has already done that for the consumer market and part of the enthusiast market...

My guess as to why Apple hasn't done it yet is because the the pro market is peanuts (for them). It also wouldn't look too good. It's one thing to compete with Samsung, and another too put many beloved brands (Arri, etc) out of business with the snap of a finger.
Microsoft patented the feature (but has not implemented it, AFAIK).

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
Not really a myth, more of a way to underpay people who aren't in the know. Another facet of the "old boys club".
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Consider the debt burden on society, whether that burden is borne by the students themselves, or by the government, may be roughly equal. If anything, the government pays less interest.

My thought is that in the future, privatizing higher education will seem like a quaint historical anomaly, like privatizing health care, both of which have made themselves at least twice as expensive as necessary.

If we can't force private colleges out of existence, we could concentrate on solving the education funding crisis starting at the level of state and regional colleges and trade schools. Preferentially direct research funding toward those schools, to build or expand on research institutes in areas where a few extra jobs would be welcome.

Ironically I believe we could destroy the private colleges by eliminating all government oversight of the admissions process, and letting them compete with one another with no restraint.
wow. this exact argument is used against persecution of torrenters among others. i seek stuff like torrents because i cannot afford buying and that is the reality for most of the world. simply counting downloads of a song times $.99 is not true.
if i had the money to pay for netflix, i would rather spend 9 bucks than muck around in torrents, hosting sites, ads, malware, etc etc.
I think it falls under capital gains.
You've made a claim. Perhaps you should make an argument.
Hmm, I'm not sure - how would I tell if they're classified as ISOs?
Lab costs are outsourced, and they charge separately from a doctor's bill. Biopsies are completely separate as well.
Sigma makes some of the best and highest quality lenses (compared to competitors), at least that's my experience with a Sony E mount aps-c camera...
The so-called by many, Father of Capitalism, Adam Smith, only defined market in terms of a free labor market.

He also wrote that whatever type of government existed in a nation, it would likely need to enforce equality of condition to avoid what we’d call monopoly of labors agency.

He was openly hostile to extreme division of labor, paraphrasing, it would turn humans into the dumbest creatures to ever exist.

Labor hardly seems free when Fed policy has been to tighten screws on workers, growing worker insecurity, to keep them circling back to that cubicle every morning: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

Look at that. Hundreds of years ago humans realized exactly what humans are capable of emotionally and warned against it.

Reminds of me of the ancient Greeks who, again paraphrasing, wrote they hope the rubes do not some day realize there are no gods atop Olympus. Just men on thrones manipulating their fears.
Krita is good software, but it is lacking usability. How could I sell ist against Acorn or Pixelmator? The latter is at 20$ and has superior benchmarks due to M1 support. It is available for the Mac and the iPad as well. It has the perfect UI, whereas Krita has a UI that would weird out everyone who learned graphics in the "Adobe" school.

LibreOffice, you probably know that Excel is one of the biggest software platforms out there. So, I can see a chance here, when you sell script/macro development, but I wouldn't know why anyone would want LibreOffice. It's just in use because nothing else is available on Linux.

Blender is probably very good, but people who need such stuff don't necessarily look too much on price. Performance is more important there.

I don't know enough about music production to comment on Ardour.
Are there DSLRs with image processing features like Google's "Night Shot"? Where you can take a very long hand-held exposure and it will never be blurry?
Thanks for the explanation. Given my impression that the standards committee places very strong emphasis on backwards compatibility, I didn't expect there to be a policy to allow for breaking changes.
Knowing what it means, I can translate it word-for-word in Dutch:

van schade wordt men wijs, maar zelden rijk

It seems other European languages only include the first part in their variant:

- Door schade en schande wordt men wijs (dutch, "through harm and shame, one begets wisdom")

- Durch Schaden wird man klug (german, "through harm one gets smart")

- Dommage rend sage (french, "stupidity breeds wisdom")

- Quae nocent, saepe docent (latin, "what hurts often teaches")
If building a bicycle out of bamboo is not utterly, utterly brilliant -- then I don't know what is!

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That is true. The big problem is that employees are paid to find and fix bugs, but unpaid volunteers aren’t. The flip side is that there may be more volunteers than a corporation would hire as employees. The best of both worlds would be being paid to work on open source software (such as Linux).
Yeah it's Rust to WASM with JS for the startup.
> but on the other hand Putin wants people to know he was behind the assassination, otherwise he wouldn't have used Novichok

Imagine how many things should have gone right for him if his plan all along was to let people know he was behind the assassination:

- Navalny had to survive the poisoning or die under very suspicious circumstances — something that couldn't be attributed to, say, anaphylaxis.

- His relatives had to request that he be transported to a country that had the capability for testing for those substances, and the permission given. Alternatively, had he died, someone should have requested for an independent forensic examination in such a country.

- The discovery of novichok poisoning shouldn't have triggered any sanctions from the Western countries, specifically there shouldn't have been any consequences for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. I don't think anyone would argue that sanctions against Russia are somehow in Putin's interest.

This is the level of sophistication in planning and execution that nobody, let alone Russians, is likely capable of.
I almost considered getting a Mac mini, but while the performance gains are cool, the lack of any sort of upgradablity with the new M1s made me reconsider.
One thing I'd really like to know from folks is this:

Surely the startup salary was less than what most medium to large businesses would pay. So what return did you need on options to break even compared to other jobs you could have taken? Has anyone actually reached that?
1. Exercised my ISOs at small company A when I quit, because the options were buy-within-90-days-or-lose, and they were cheap, and I felt the company had decent odds of being acquired. They were acquired a couple of years later, and my $300 of stock turned into $15k. So an amazing ROI, but a small enough amount of stock that it didn't really matter.

2. Exercised some NQ options that company B, a customer of company A that I worked with, gave me. They got acquired by company C and the stock zoomed, I sold all, then the acquiring company went bust. Most employees of company B never made any money because their shares were locked up during the period that company C was worth something. I was lucky I was a contractor and not locked up, so I cashed mine in. Made about $60k, or about 4 times what I made from Company A who I actually worked for. The moral of this story is that if you have a lot of restricted stock in a company that's worth a lot of money now but might not be worth anything later, don't assume it will be worth anything.

3. I was an employee at company D when the got acquired by a big company E and all our stock got cashed out. This was a riskless exercise-and-sell transaction, and I made about $20k for my small amount of stock. Not bad, but not life-changing.

4. I was an employee at a pretty big famous public company F that gave us RSUs, and the RSUs roughly doubled in value when I was there. I sold most, kept some, and then the company got bought by bigger more famous company G, causing my remaining shares to turn into cash at another premium. Good deal but I didn't have enough stock for it to be life-changing. I think I made about $40k all told.

5. I was an employee at another big famous public company H, that gave me a significant number of RSUs, and during the term of my employment the stock went up and to the right a lot. This one was life-changing money: I can now afford to retire.

6. I'm now an employee at another big famous public company I, that gives me a decent number of RSUs. Like most of the market, the stock went down a lot back in February and March due to COVID-19 and is since up a lot.

The takeaway? Big company RSUs > startup options, in my limited experience. Of course it really comes down to how the individual companies do, but there are so many more ways employees can get screwed with private companies.
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Imagine having to do this every time you change jobs.
I exercised some in 2012, and lost money on them when the company forced me to sell: https://www.jefftk.com/p/stock-options
I generally try to quantify TLB latency and DRAM latency separately. The M1 chip has quite impressive memory latency around 30ns, assuming you aren't thrashing the TLB.

Desktops tend to be much higher latency, like say the AMD ryzen 5950X. In particular the R per RV range benchmark uses between 1 and 32 pages in a sliding window. The M1 gets around 30ns (which I've personally verified with code I wrote) and the Ryzen 5950x gets around 65ns. Intel does a bit better than AMD, but nowhere close to the M1.
Totally unrelated, but what's the connection between your name and the famous Muay Thai fighter Yodthanong Photirat, better known as Yodsanklai Fairtex?? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodsanklai_Fairtex
Maybe buying Arri and bringing them in house would be their play.
When was the last time you encountered a situation where only one thing was varying?

I don't have a problem with the idea on it's own. It's a great way to understand all kinds of things. But data to support explanations of that sort is hard to come by.

What I object to is the belief that all explanations that can in principle be put in terms of cause, must in practice be put in terms of cause--otherwise they're useless (which, I think, motivated a lot of unnecessary handwaving in the bbc article, and probably in the ones that it references too).

Researchers should contribute useful data so that others can reference it to make decisions. That data becomes less useful when they have incentives to skew things so that they can meet the awkwardly high bar of "supports a causal argument" just to be worthy of publication.

It ought to be ok to say: "these things go together. Here's the evidence. It might not be possible to untangle the causal web between them, but if you try one I bet you'll see the other," and leave it at that.

Not to say that untangling the causal web isn't worth doing, but sometimes it's just not in the cards, and demanding that we search for it in the cards is like going hungry because all of the carrots left in the grocery store are strangely shaped.
>Or perhaps some of us already knew

Come on now, we've all known this for decades, anyone who didn't is incredibly naive and sheltered in my opinion.
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I've seen "1. European-style folders with elastic bands at the open corners" used once in the US before. Whether or not it was imported by an individual, a store, etc, I have no idea.
At $14k/test, they could nearly afford to buy a used but functional GSMS system system just for you(!).
I don't pay surprise bills ... (and I don't think it affects my credit because I had a couple in the last year and my FICO score is still at about 800) ... I'm not going to pay a random bill that comes 3 months after a doctor's visit that they never told me about and I already paid $400 for the emergency 30-min visit (not sure what the insurance paid)
The thing here though is the wage Apple thought they were paying was a good-ish wage, its lack of labor protection that allows the contractor to corruptly reduce it.
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I’ve been getting on the privacy and anti-tracking bandwagon big time recently and am looking to replace gmail. What are good email services that allow you to use your own domain name?
If that is your preference, I think you are living in the wrong country.
>Doing great things with 10X less light is impressive, but at some point, you need a big sensor and good quality glass.

This problem is basically solved already by taking multiple exposures and blending them in software. Once we're at the point where stacking 10 exposures works reliably even in challenging conditions (and we're pretty nearly there with the latest phones) then many of the advantages of a larger sensor are moot.

As far as glass "quality" is concerned, smart phone manufacturers benefit hugely from economy of scale. I wouldn't necessarily assume that smart phone lenses are manufactured to lower quality standards just because you're paying less for them.
The site is engineered in a way that makes it useless for any sort of expert information. If you know less than the average Redditor about something, it's GREAT, but otherwise it's best to just steer clear.

Everybody gets an upvote button and a downvote button from day 1, and they'll downvote to oblivion anything they don't instantly resonate with. It turns every large-ish subreddit into an echo chamber pretty quickly
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/profits-interest.asp In some detail.

There's one thing that some of these articles claim that isn't quite right. Because this arrangement technically makes employees in a partnership, per the IRS this means they have to pay their own side of social security and isn't entitled to e.g. health insurance. It turns out the department of labor has issued conflicting guidance: if I am, for all intents and purposes, employed by a company, then I am to be paid as a W2 employee and am entitled to benefits. My company has chosen to follow the department of labor's guidance.
Hire someone to complete that task for you. Pay a 30% of what you will be paid.
A lot of 20 year patents on FDM have expired within the last 5-10 years. Technology that was only affordable to R&D labs and university have made it to the end user and experimenters. More hands in the pot means more diverse ideas. Expertise isn't cloaked in NDAs but published in wikis.
You're probably thinking of fuzzification and defuzzification, which are engineering steps.

Mathematicians have continued to make hay with the family of "monotone measures", of which probability, fuzzy logic, belief functions and so on are particular members.

That I can express a problem geometrically or algebraically doesn't make one of them less useful or inspiring.
Let this thread be a lesson to all of us: stock options are monopoly money. If a company wants to screw you, they likely already have the language in the option grant agreement to do so. It is not reasonable to pretend like you can fight hungry investors and executives who want to screw over tiny employees.

I've never taken options seriously. That isn't to say that I haven't taken them, I just see them as worthless, and I am fully supportive of negotiating all other aspects of employment as if they are worthless. There are too many horror stories to see options as anything but. Congratulations, greedy leaders, you are ruining the very mechanism that keeps an employee engaged and "bought in" to the company's success!
Erm, Samsung is just as bad, if not worse. Hell, they don't even have a great rep with their own countrymen. They just don't attract the same amount of clicks here when their dirt is exposed.

This paper is from 2017 but their promised pay is much less than what Apple's supplier here originally promised (and then reneged on, which is likely a large motivator for the rioting): https://goodelectronics.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/...

You can also easily find articles about Samsung's factories in Vietnam if that suits your fancy.
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That would be according to one moral theory, but another (critical) approach elaborated upon by 19th c. thinkers rejects it as a "mere pretension", just as with the system's laws and rights.

In the wrong conventionally, according to our morality developed in the system it works for? Sure. But on a matter like this, I'm personally more than happy to take another look. Many moral systems that serve the current structures we are rightly critical of - the moral system that had no problem with slavery or marital rape, for instance.

I imagine the people destroying property might just feel the same way about Apple's right to property, and the system which provides it.
Automate more of the manufacturing process or send those jobs to companies with higher labor standards.
He was my inspiration for the name, first name that popped to mind when I chose my HN user name :)
I guess that actually is a tad shorter--and the preferred route Google Maps gives you. A lot of people would be inclined to cut down to Market though because it seems more direct. (Google does give this as an alternate and the two are basically the same distance.)
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Interesting, especially when usage patterns emerge. I wonder for which countries, cities and neighborhoods this ends up being used mostly.

I guess usage relates to safety.
I exercised 3700 options at 28c shortly before the company let around 25% of staff go. Found out just a few days ago that the company is being acquired with shares at $1.20. Pretty good for what I thought was going to be worthless.
I only make money on this in the case of a liquidity event, or if the company decides to start paying "dividends" or whatever the appropriate finance word is here.
> Insider trading doesn't take money out of anyone's bank.

Still hurts non-insiders though, which is not just an elite minority of investors, but includes anyone with a pension for example. It’s illegal for a reason.
At least a web of trust could to some extent address the issue of loss of trust. At some point Apple, being just a company with shareholders, could start behaving like Microsoft, Amazon, Google or even Facebook. Where would you go then?
I owned one of the later models of the Asus EeePC and let me tell you, Gnome 3 ran like a old dog on it. Totally unusable. I don't know how you could use it. The processor was awful, the screen resolution tiny, while Gnome was a CPU hog and wasted screen space the eeepc simply didn't have with spacial bloat of interfaces evidently designed to be fat fingered on touch screens the eeepc didn't have.