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It's weird that you describe the headline as "overwrought" and call the person an "employee" when the headline is more accurate than you.

This was an executive, not just an employee. That's a huge distinction and I can't help but think you intentionally downgraded his position to cover-up his behavior. "Just an employee" "Not a big deal"

But when you read the allegations, they seem like a very big deal that an executive was spying on users, giving their information to the Chinese government explicitly for oppressive purposes, including folks who are not in China, and went out of his way to personally censor non-Chinese groups meeting to discuss the Massacre-Which-Cannot-Be-Mentioned.

I would say the headline understates the gravity (it's very much a 'by-the-books' headline that you KNOW went through ten levels of Legal), and that your hand waving here feels much more dishonest than the headline.
Not quite what I meant. A lot of startups are trying to find market fit and selling customers on a vision that is not yet realized. They will pitch new features and say that they can deliver if there is a contract. However, these features take longer to develop then anticipated, and are rushed on top of bad tech.
> The primary goal of a union is to ensure safe and secure working conditions, the best compensation and benefits, etc.

No, that is the primary goal of the unions you are familiar with.
> If I Google “bibliotik download” the first page of results has a link to download. Calling that “not easy to obtain” is absurd.

You're right. Then why do you exclude so much else that meets the same criteria?

If I Google “[insert dataset here] download” the first page of results has a link to download. Calling that “not easy to obtain” is absurd.

In your definitions, you exclude vast swaths of things meeting that criteria in a seemingly arbitrary manner, which is why it's weird.
> And if you're saying that according to the legal blah blah blah of the SLA that this isn't technically "down", then there might as well not be an SLA.

I am because Ive had these exact conversations with cloud hosted providers/products. Never once have we been refunded according to the SLA in our contracts. Never really down (according to legal).
There are many reports of issues with ec2 and console on down detector, doesn't surprise me that aws status page is still green.
Very strange to be so upset by an accurate and concise statement, while offering an alternative that isn't even factually true.
Aaah the wonders of not having to be PCI or SOC2 compliant...
Nice glad it fits your case! It’s solid, we have been using it for a while with no issues on the eng side - only issues on the marketing side mainly around ecosystem and WSIWYG customization.
But employment is still an asymmetrical relationship where employees are submitting themselves to the authority of employers. And if you're putting yourself in a situation where you're under another's authority, wouldn't you want to maximize your own autonomy underneath it, via democracy? Even in "freely associated business relationship" you seek the power to negotiate and maintain your own preferences. In-n-Out has a customizable menu. Contractors negotiate their contracts for flexible terms.

> Even the largest companies in the world can be avoided by someone who doesn’t want to do business with them. The same is not true of the government.

There's still the right of exit, as the libertarians call it. One can switch citizenships, or choose to relocate themselves to the few remaining frontiers where governance is minimal. Changing one's residence can be very difficult, but how is changing employment any less so?
For a product that is so simple, there are no good self-hosted alternatives. Mattermost and RocketChat are written very poorly, reliability and getting your data out is impossible.

Slack goes down so often we're thinking of writing a very boring clone that uses ActiveMQ and MySQL, just because chat should be boring and needs to "just work".
Great for you if you can. Many of us have a harder time doing so and end up doing things which we end up regretting. For one I think I spend too much time on HN. I did a few detoxes and eventually sucumbed to it again.
Artificial version was denied by the FDA I believe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/31/crab-blo...

Unless it has since been reversed?
The fantastic educational YouTuber CGP Grey did a video detailing why working from bed is a terrible idea

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck
It is so much easier than stocks. In the US it is relatively easy but in most countries you can't just download an app and start trading. Anyone can buy a bitcoin with a credit card.
Please reconsider using or supporting Zoom in any way. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/technology/zoom-china-tia...
Not really. GP’s remarks about software quality are spot on.
I'm the same. I've been WFH for a while and I need to get up, take a shower, get dressed, and go to my desk or I never really get going. Sometimes I'll do some work on a laptop on the couch, but it's the type of work where I'm more casually looking up information. Or I'll print out something I need to read and go to the couch. Otherwise, I'm so much more productive and engaged when I'm at my desk with keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

My wife is the polar opposite. We're lucky to be in a situation where we can both have dedicated home offices at this time. We already had a desk for her, but her work let her take home a good chair, and two monitors with a stand. We set up a really nice office for her, but I'd say that she works from bed or the couch 95% of the time. In fact, the only time she uses her office is when she has an important video call.

I don't know how she does it, and I still believe that she would be more productive/efficient at a desk. For me, just having the extra screen real estate and a keyboard and mouse are enough for me to want to be at my desk.
Whenever I see someone blindly assume everything is worse in China which just reached its goal of eliminated poverty for its massive population, I realize that person is a Trumpster
If a big company has million customers and the big company experiences an outage per quater, then a million businesses suffer every quater.

If a thousand small companies have thousand customers each. And these small companies experience an outage per quater, then a million businesses suffer every quater.

As the end-user-business, is it better to suffer the outage at the same time as other businesses? Is it worse?

Surely there are valid arguments against relying on big companies, but I don't think this is one of them.
It wouldn't surprise me if Indeed has most of its usage during the workday.

https://downdetector.com/status/indeed/
Designing your city in a way that allows traffic to flow (and takes advantage of traffic alternatives such as the myriad of public transit options you can design and build) is one of those "meaningful challenges" that you're supposed to play through. That's kind of the point.
> If most of the US is vaccinated

These vaccines aren't all going to the US (or at least, not that I've heard about). I've been hearing 600,000 vaccinations (granted, this is from politicians, so ready your salt) this year in the US.

> ICUs will start clearing out and lockdowns will start coming off

In which case they'll fill right back up (as is being aptly demonstrated in the US right now). It's not just the elderly who are filling those beds - slightly over half of the hospitalizations are under 65, pretty consistently throughout the pandemic.
Should they still endeavor to avoid this adversarial relationship if the alternative is to not be treated well, or to see the company they work for do immoral things.

If the alternative is to sit down and shut up, I think it's time to be adversarial.

EDIT: just saw your reply to another commenter and it seems you are pro-union if needed. It didn't come across that way to me when I read your initial comment.
So has Coinbase and Gemini. It certainly sounds like you're not even familiar with the process.
For some people, maybe. For others, it's merely recognizing and stating that we've gotten through bad or even worse epidemics than this. Often without the sensationalized hoopla. Eg,1968.

I'd argue it's the people saying it isn't comparable to a bad flu season who are the ones less familiar with the flu's devistating history.
I agree with you to a point.

I'd just say that there are more reasons to unionize than just local monopolies. You unionize whenever there's a major disparity between cooperate profits and worker benefits. You unionize when work conditions are bad and management doesn't care. You unionize when you feel you are being treated unfairly.

For example, construction companies are often places where there's both lots of work available and union outfits doing a lot of good.
Other than it being days of slow news, with top stories seemingly pinned for days now and boring, no ;) you know, where Slack being down is considered newsworthy (yawn).
And how much does it cost to same-day deliver a gold bar to the other side of the world?

Also the fees are in bitcoin - if bitcoin is worthless, the fees are nothing.
HR works for your employer, they are not your friend and are not on your side; this should be common knowledge.

There are organizations that provide legal services to labour which do not require one to be a member of a union. It might be better for all if the money spent on dues was instead contributed to an organization that doesn't discriminate.
Just because something is acceptable doesn't mean its preferable

Recycling is clearly the preferable option
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It's great that people are doing things like this to reduce their carbon footprint. But one thing that seems to get neglected is that changes in behavior and lifestyle can also significantly reduce your impact.

What if you moved closer to where you work so you wouldn't have to drive as much to commute (or could even walk to work)? How about buying a smaller house to reduce the energy you need to heat and cool it? These 'sacrifices' can often have more impact than spending $90k on solar panels and heat pumps.

And we often ignore less direct costs. The arstechnica article seems to ignore the energy used to make those solar panels and batteries (which is not insignificant). Some of these things also result in behavior that undoes any benefit. For example, recycling causes most of us to think we can use and toss out cans and bottles without any impact because they are 'recycled' instead of using reusable containers. We ignore the extra energy required to recycle these things.
This should actually be part of your Disaster Recovery plan. You should have at least some plan for the loss of all of your service providers. Even if that plan is to sit in the corner and cry (j/k).
I'm actually more confused after reading that. I assumed that you meant that tested in production on purpose, but it sounds, at a skim, like they do non-prod testing environments - in fact, it looks like they've gone to having multiple beta environments of every service?
Cult-like conspiracies like the QAnon stuff are not harmless.
Comparing them to criminals is warranted, at least after the
incident where one of them attempted a mass shooting.

But still that quoted sentence is quite weird. Banning someone
from an online platform is the standard procedure for policy
violations, not just for the "worst in our society" no matter
how you define those.
More like digital gold. Calling it a currency is really not an apt description.
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hoo boy. I hope you aren't counting on an inheritance.
It's neat that you are in such a position, but many aren't.
Couldn't someone achieve the same goals with fractional share investing which also comes with many more legal protections than crypto?
Oh yes, that's such a easy one that I'll give you a few.

BLM: People at the bottom of our society are pooling their political power and changing the conversation about policing, police budgets, racism and racial divide.

Me too: Everyday women are being heard and taking down men of wealth and power.

Gay rights: a small minority has won equality in the eyes of the law and public opinion.

Occupy: Raised class consciousness and set the stage for political movements such as Trump, Bernie, and the Tea Party.
Work with, not say "just handle it". The CEO is playing golf.

The federal government funds states. States like KY and TN for example are a net negative money-wise for the USA. They take in more money than they produce in tax revenue. States like NY, TX, and CA fund their operations. Moreover, the federal government can use its resources to physically drive the vaccines around, help set up vaccination and testing sites, etc. In your worldview, what is the purpose of the USA as opposed to 50 separate countries?
I was talking about 3-month volatility in 2020, you are talking about daily volatility today.

But even on daily %-change in 2020, BTC doesn't look different to other stocks: https://imgur.com/a/mE7bSI4 (the green one is TSLA by the way).

Since we are talking about a company putting $400M of BTC in their balance sheets, I doubt they are worried by daily volatility.
I disagree with most of this thread but this is a common sign that you have missed the boat for entering a market.

By the time you see a thread on Bitcoin going up 10% this week, you have failed to secure a position.

I've made some decent cash by shifting some money into Bitcoin on a Monday and cashing out my positions by Friday during these rallies to the tune of 30-70% profits but it's not for the faint of heart.
Working for bedroom is already is nightmare. I can't imagine the kind of destruction working-from-bed is capable of.

Strong physical separation between distinct aspects of life is critical for me to get anything done. Covid has disrupted things enough as it is.
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These HN anit-coiners have no time for your FACTS. They hate Bitcoin because (1) they missed the boat (2) they don't understand it.

As the years go on the HN hatred of Bitcoin went from funny to sad as they try harder and harder to justify their ignorance and this article getting to the front page is a perfect example.

The article (for example) says that Bitcoin is not a good medium of exchange because, why, it is hard to use. When I pay in Bitcoin (Bitcoin Cash) I open my wallet (enter password), copy paste and address and send. Compared to typing out a CC number, exp. date, secret code AND my home address and real name. Bitcoin is FAR easier to use in comparison.

Starting from zero it is STILL way better. These insincere people will usually already have a bank and credit card, then try to compare using that card to starting from scratch with Bitcoin. OF COURSE that is harder, but starting from scratch with both OR starting with an account, Bitcoin is better every time.

It is bizarre to see the same non-sense narratives pushed in this forum over and over. Volatility is another one. Yes, for a few days every couple years Bitcoin seems to spike upward then come down to half its high value. Until literally this morning EVERYONE that had EVER bought Bitcoin was better off then when they bought it. Hows that for stability! What other asset can say anything close to that. But they will STILL scream about price swings.

When I do talk to otherwise sensible people in day-to-day life about Bitcoin it comes down to people not understanding it. That's harder to judge on-line when people make short comments that superficially seem like legitimate concerns. I bet if you could talk to most of these guys it would come out they really don't understand what Bitcoin is or how it works, so they get scared and angry when they see it doing well.
What makes it greed, and not enlightened self-interest or rational economic behavior?
At 12:00pm EDT on a workday:

Minecraft official server: 190k online users. | Fortnite official server: 180k online users. | Valorant official server: 170k online users. | Jet's Dream World (community): 130k online users. | CallMeCarson server (YouTuber): 100k online users. | Call of Duty official server: 90k online users. | Rust (the game) official discord: 80k online users. | League of Legends official server: 60k online users. | Among Us official server: 50k online users.

Their scale is insane. Even with their usage spiking during after-hours gaming in major countries, their baseline usage at every hour of the day, globally, makes it one of the most used web services ever created.

Slack's DAU and MAU numbers are probably pretty close to one-another. Discord's MAU/DAU ratio is probably bigger than Slack's. That just means that Discord is, again, solving a harder problem; they have much bigger (and more unpredictable) spikes in usage than Slack. Yet, its a far more stable and pleasant product.
> the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE/SoV

This is the (imo) fundamental intrinsic value of Bitcoin, and something that very few people seem to understand (or understand the value of).
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If you'll accept a Wikipedia link, this gives a basic overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money#Prehistory:_p...

In short, while bartering likely did exist in some forms, it was not the primary means of commerce. Within a tribe or group of people, a 'gift economy' was generally used. This makes sense, as an average pre-historic tribe had like 50 people, making a complicated economic system unnecessary.

When civilization started to form, primitive forms of money came along with it. There was never a time when you went to the market with a handful of wheat and some furs, and hoped to trade them for some salt and fruit. That idea was popularized by Adam Smith in the 1700s, who was an economist, not an anthropologist.
> If one comprehends all the competing and confounding factors involved in the actions of the CCP, for example, then they would at least be as sophisticated as the CCP, by definition.

> Of course it may be that no human is intelligent enough to actually comprehend all the dynamics within an organization of 100+ million.

"The knowledge of some principles easily compensates for the ignorance of some facts", a.k.a. you really don't need to know how shit tastes to keep away from it, you just need to know what it looks like.
That’s some really good thoughts on DR planning. I have never thought DR to be to such an extent.

How many companies really plan for an event where their entire infrastructure goes offline and their entire team gets killed? Does even companies like Google plan for this kind of event?
Yeah... I bought about $250 worth of bitcoins two years ago on an exchange. The exchange went bankrupt and the bitcoins are gone. At least with a stock broker your account is insured by the government up to a certain amount.

Yes, I know, run your own wallet, don't leave your bitcoins on the exchange... Except again, with stocks, you don't have to worry about that. I was personally hoping that a bitcoin exchange would have better security and backups than my home PC. As far as I'm concerned, storing bitcoins on your machine, with no insurance, is not much safer than storing gold bullion in your closet.

I'm just happy what I was wise enough not to put more money in bitcoin than I could afford to lose.
My back hurts just looking at the 4 images at the top of the article. Also the positions in the upper-left, upper-right, and image further down the page cause lots of elbow strain. I had several months of numbness in my hands from spending too much time resting on my elbows like these photos.
I agree and it all comes down to power and monetary gain in both cases of Third Reich and British Empire. I didn't know that trigger for Second Boear War was the discovery of diamonds and gold in the Boer states. [1]

[1] https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/boer-war-begins-...