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> The wealth of the mega corps does allow most goals to be accomplished, at great expense, with Just A Job workers, but people that have experienced being embedded with Really Care workers are going to be appalled at the relative effectiveness.

I think the problem is actually deeper than that. I've spent much of my career avoiding megacorps, or even just corps, because I find them pretty frustrating. I have though worked at a couple of larger companies - one of them very large - as much to see what I could learn as anything else.

I sit somewhere on the spectrum between "Really Care" and "Just A Job", and it's varied quite a lot depending on what I'm doing and who I'm working with.

The problem with big companies is the "Really Care" gets beaten out of you: if you show any initiative whatsoever to try to get ahead of a situation or help another team you pretty quickly get shut down and told to stay in your lane.

Big companies tend to fragment and specialise responsibilities, if not actual skills.

Related to this hardly anyone has any decision-making power which means that any change requires a combinatorial explosion of interactions between individuals and teams to happen regardless of how competent or committed those individuals are.

It just favours mediocrity and coasting, along with a high tolerance for boredom, because there often isn't a viable alternative course of action for many employees no matter how good (or bad) those employees might be in another context working for another company. Sometimes you're in the right place at the right time, or have a conversation with the right person, to make something happen.

Another related issue: the vast majority of employees at big companies have no concept of the value of time, which manifests itself in all kinds of ways, but ultimately results in the performance of large quantities of BS/non-value adding work. If you're employed by a smaller company working in partnership with a larger company the asymmetry in understanding of time's value becomes particularly stark: you can often find yourself wondering why these people at the larger company feel so free to waste so much of your time asking you to do things that aren't valuable to the partnership or to the success of either company, or asking you to have the same conversation over and over again with different groups of people.

Back on point, the corporation has to "make do" with "Just A Job" workers because, in large part, the corporation creates them regardless of their initial state of motivation.
Firefox reports this site's certificate as being invalid. I didn't investigate but I've been seeing this a lot lately with sites using shared certs.
Maybe it's how it's "supposed" to work in principle and by the books they're doing something wrong, but on the other hand, have why haven't other patented technologies ended up in such a limbo state? Lots of tech has been patented, some by ruthless and litigious companies like Apple, and yet somehow there don't seem to be that many broad technologies like electrophoretic displays that have ended up like eInk products.

What makes these displays so different?

(Edit: to be clear, I don't mean to sound snarky or rhetorical, I'm genuinely curious since these displays seem to be in a pretty unique situation)
I am not sure that is how patents are supposed to work. Few people would object to eInk getting profits from their inventions. But the problem seems to be the strange ways eInk markets their products. It seems to be that they are not encouraging more companies to use their products an rather hold back their technology.

Patents were created as an incentive not only to do research but to publish the results of the research. So that many companies would have access to the technology and can license the patents when producing products based on that technology. That is not quite aligned with a company reluctantly marketing their technology.
>Except as soon as it becomes a remotely feasible action (with simple instructions) for the general consumer, a bunch of businesses will start requiring their users to disable "default Grandma mode".

Android already allows side-loading and i don't think any popular app out there is asking users to enable side-loading to install their app. Why do you think the situation would be any different with iOS app store?
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Tetanus does not transmit person to person and so is a poor example. In particular since the coronavirus vaccines do target the pathogen.

Likewise, it is not surprising that injecting a live polio virus can cause an infection. That is a different claim than saying a vaccinated person will get infected and transmit later once immune. Further, the coronavirus vaccines do not use live viruses.

Whooping cough is the example people love to bring up. I’ll paste in full my prior comment on this. The worst case example reduces transmission at least 30%! And probably more: it was completely sterilizing in 30% but may well have reduced transmissibility in other groups. And that’s the very worst case vaccine.

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I looked into this, and it does seem the vaccine reduces transmission. It just doesn’t stop it entirely. The paper below is Wikipedia’s source. Upon a close read, in the daycare there were three groups of vaccinated children:
* Those positive for antibodies but pcr negative —> had been exposed, cleared virus without infection
* those pcr positive but asymptomatic
* those pcr positive and symptomatic
About 30% were in the seropositive group which didn’t have pcr positivity. So it seems like transmission was reduced at least 30%. It’s also possible the other two groups would have had lower transmission rates than if they had had no vaccine.
If you have a more precise source I’d be interested to see it, but if this is the worst case it’s pretty good!
> We used PCR, EIA, and culture to confirm B. pertussis infection in two highly vaccinated groups of children in two day-care centers. Three (10%) of 30 2- to 3-year-old children were seropositive for recent infection; one had nasopharyngeal colonization and a clinical illness that met the modified WHO case definition. In the day-care center for the 5- to 6- year-old group, 9 (55%) of 16 children were IgM positive, 4 (25%) of whom had nasopharyngeal colonization. Of these four children, three had nonspecific cough, and only one met the modified WHO definition for pertussis. None of the children in our study, including those who met the WHO definition, had been examined by a physician before our investigation.
>Children who were seropositive and re- mained both asymptomatic and PCR negative probably had sufficient immunity from vaccines or natural boosters to protect them against persistent colonization and clinical disease. Their seropositivity could not be due to vaccine because the children were tested more than a year after having been vaccinated.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627963/pdf/109...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25903787
In principle yes but in practice it's very difficult to postulate an accurate null hypothesis sampling distribution from which trades are drawn.

In a roulette game, each outcome is drawn from the same, well understood distribution, so we can easily calculate the probability that a sequence of outcomes is observed when the null hypothesis distribution applies.

In trading this is much harder, given the null hypothesis distribution is unknown and hard to estimate, and trades aren't i.i.d. since regimes come and go and therefore the luck of a specific style can be autocorrelated over a number of years. Trades are also correlated in the cross section through betas.

I'm going to go ahead and say that it's an impossible task if we're dealing with 10-20 year timeframes and the fund had a low frequency style. It's just way too easy to be lucky over a course of multiple years. All you really need is 1 lucky call combined with index tracking on the remaining capital to outperform ("overweight AMZN").
A game console and most peoples' primary computer is definitely an apple and oranges comparison. I don't know where the line is exactly but it's pretty clear where each of your examples lie.
Re: There's simply no way to "avoid" it.

100% avoidance, not. But skipping provocative clothing at work HELPS. It reduces the wearer's risk. Do you dispute that?

A motorcycle helmet doesn't prevent 100% of head injuries, but it reduces them.

Re: What they need for you is to help support them when abusive men are identified...

I'm NOT saying that bad behavior should go UNpunished. I don't know where you are getting that from. It's not either/or.

I'm only saying women have some responsibility. Not all of it, just some. Some.
There is an argument to be made that privacy is just a polite euphemism for (mostly white-) privilege that is really an anti-democratic shield from accountability for propagating hate and intolerance. In democratic societies that put equality and diversity first, the only people who could have something to hide are sexists, racists, homophobes and white supremacists, because we live in an open society where we have fought so that historically oppressed people no longer have to hide who they are.

If that statement is uncomfortable, this is the level of criticism that anyone building a new, divergent, or privacy focused technology or platform can expect from mainstream institutions in the current political climate. We can rail and write screeds against how insane it is, or we can write the code that gives people the tools to preserve the human dignity and freedom that individual privacy makes possible. (mods, please delete if this crosses the provocation line, it seemed important and topical enough to take the risk.)
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The 4% number is a cover. This announcement represents a new fundamental limitation to FB's capabilities. Normal people can no longer share anything on FB.

Previously FB sharing was limited with regards to specific taboo movements and it was called censorship. Now it's all news, even good news and great content. It's not censorship this time because FB is no longer "the place" where you share and connect.

FB is no longer a universal platform. Now it's just a website. This is a good thing.
Or you could buy scratch-offs and be an instant loser.
The studio was shut down because Stadia isn't making money. Stadia as it exists today will almost certainly shut down this year or next. They may not just stop operations, though. They might transform into some kind of cloud service in a more general capacity.
Huh? No, ot doesn’t depend on who anyone is, or their account usage patterns. That’s another thing - literally anyone can open a bank account as long as they have a mailing address. There are no requirements, and you get the same service.

Instant transfers are not supported by every single bank yet, and there is a limit to 15k€. As a fallback you have electronic wire transfers that are usually free (or 0.25€), and have a guaranteed delivery of one working day (usually sooner).

You can literally 1M€ for 0 fee, and it gets delivered within 2-4 hours if you send it before 3pm, and if later - by 8am the next day.

After my first date with my gf, she wired me 15€ paying back for dinner, and I wired her back 7€ saying that 15€ was too much. Yes, you can literally flirt with wire transfers - that’s how cheap and common they are :)

As for having money that nobody can touch - sure, it has an appeal. I won’t argue that. But for person to person transfers, most of the world has already figured it out.
I have one already.

But there is a network effect in play here, that pretty much disallows a new platform to emerge without compatibility. If I were to create the very best hardware with top notch OS on top, that is superior in every way to every android and ios phone out there, noone would buy it because phones are integral part of our lives with many areas of it requiring applications that are only available on these two platforms. Windows phone pretty much lost due to it — it was not worth the effort of companies to create a third port (even with the big funding Microsoft tried), and without a critical mass, it died off.
Have you done time or know folks in tech that have?
Four years ago, after completing YC, I launched 70 Million Jobs (1st employment platform for folks w/records). We had great success, helping thousands land jobs. 2 months ago we launched Commissary Club (1st social network for this population). We also began a virtual meet-up/podcast, Tha Yard, where people with records re-experience conversations they had on the yard in prison, talking about big/little things, laughing/crying, etc. Very powerful stuff, very humanizing. I'd love to get a few people as guests who are from the tech world.

You're all invited to check it out, every Thurs, 5-6:30pm PT. Go to www.bit.ly/ThaYard (no charge)
"75% of office employees report that they want a hybrid in-office and remote schedule"

massive, massive citation needed here
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26166759.
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Ask HN: Framework/Platform for API Documentation
Do you know or have experience with a framework, that allows building such docs with code samples on the right as, for example Stripe does - https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/integration-builder

or React Router - https://reactrouter.com/web/guides/quick-start

Many thanks for your feedback!
In the UK, the only place I could find with no cell sites is the Scottish island of Eigg.
I do basically have a problem with patents altogether, but even in the current patent system, the way eInk is doing business is regressive and prevents innovation. They're far more concerned with maximizing their bottom line than actually pushing for adoption of the technology.

Even the founders of modern capitalism warned us of rent-seeking behavior like this that is actually counter to the goals of markets.

It's perfectly fair to condemn this, as well as the patent system that enables and encourages it.
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I'm not sure that the value of the art was the supposed justification. Not an expert, but I thought they were just arguing for freedom, that children ought to be free to consent to things, not just that great artists deserved a break.

The ongoing Duhamel scandal makes it sound like there was quite a lot going on, in certain elite circles, everyone knew and nobody talked:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/france-begins-...
All I can say is good luck to you and hope you land something awesome!
HTML5 is a thing. Innovation of open standards occurs.
If you say something offensive to someone, even in private, it's pretty much expected in any setting that the other person will tell all their friends what an idiot you are.

People love gossipping, and they always have. It's just that offline the news won't spread as quickly and the rumors wont reach your boss quite as easily.
Please see my reply on your sibling post.
Facebook begs to differ.
Most devices that I can go and buy are covered by patents. EInk does not really have many devices I can go out and buy. I doubt it's due to patents. They just seem to have a strategy of not wanting to sell their products to many people.
Facebook already got caught doing this. Apple revoked their enterprise cert and all their internal iOS tools stopped working.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...
Without that 4% Facebook runs the risk that users migrate to another social media platform, which could have a huge impact.

Milk might only account for 4% of a supermarket's sales, but a supermarket that doesn't sell milk is at a huge disadvantage to one that does.
This is one guy making assertions and then using his own assertions as evidence of his assertions. It’s a junk one sided accusation.

I don’t know what the full context of their conversation was because it isn’t included. But I find it really offensive when people pretend that intelligence and athletic ability amongst a whole host of other things do not exist along a spectrum and are not genetically influenced. Their implication is that it’s a moral failing. Someone with say an IQ of 80 is going to have an extremely hard life through no fault other than genetics and the harsh environment that we as a society give them.
I think one aspect we're not mentioning is the nature of the projects themselves.

This spectrum of Really Care vs Just A Job isn't entirely accurate. A lot of projects are honestly just hard to "really care" about. The technical work is uninteresting or the mission itself isn't interesting. The monetary goal of success could be the most interesting aspect (i.e. your startup makes it big and you're rich), but the day to day could just not be that compelling.

Over enough time, you will naturally go from a Really Care person to a Just A Job person given the right project environment. The novelty of a job will wear off.

There's no nobility in trying to really care about everything you are paid to do.
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Just look at what's been done to Yemen.
I know what it's like to care for family full time due to disabilitys plus work. Hang in there! I hope you can find something that you enjoy and it pays the bills! Best of luck!
> A century ago, the Chinese were indeed oppressed by foreigners

and now, the Chinese are simply oppressed
We've been paying particular attention to California, since minimum workplace contact tracing standards and workplace COVID exposure notification were signed into law with AB-685 and SB-1159.

The other part is getting people to do all the things needed. Mostly that's making it easy to do, which is where this kind of put-it-on autopilot approach to set an office schedule helps, and making it really easy to go into the office for a day.

It's not machine learning and sensors to make sure people are wearing a mask and staying 6 feet apart, but it does meet the bar for most companies.
Unless sending people up to mess with a sat costs more than launching its replacement, which would be true of everything short of massive weapons stations. And from day one everyone realized that sending men up to intercept wasnt practical, especially if the target didnt want to be intercepted.
>then you basically have a problem with patents altogether

That's correct, I do. Patents should protect the rights long enough to bring a product to market, not stop all competition in an entire field of technology for decades
It don't see how it will make a difference to the quality of the results, as long as good scientific method is followed.

With a strict reading of the hippocratic oath, physicians would rarely advise a patient take part in any phase 0/1 medical trial ever (see Theralizumab). In reality, trials need to be carried out to advance medicine and doctors do assist with them alongside researchers.

Let's not forget that doctors are present during executions in the USA to give medical support, because the alternative is that people who aren't doctors will have to give medical support. And doctors would never elect to do unnecessary cosmetic surgeries and give ladies very big boobies.

I think more benefit comes out of a doctor assisting with a challenge trial than putting even bigger breasts into Cardi B.
This sounds very interesting to me as my team has had some real struggles figuring out how to deal with things like authentication in Next.js. In one case, we've rolled our own oauth with a completely separate express api. In another, we still haven't quite decided. I've been on the lookout for a sort of Node equivalent of Rails.
In this particular case, I don't think the problem is patents (thought I do have a lot of problems with patents as a concept), rather poor business decisions by eInk.

They are indeed using patents as originally envisioned: They have an effective monopoly on epaper displays. However their poor business decision of ultra-high pricing has prevented a serious market for their product from forming. Had they lowered their price per display, or done some kind of affordable licensing scheme with manufacturers, it's totally possible for them to have made tons of money while still allowing epaper displays to flourish in the market.

But that's not what they did; who knows what kind of money they're actually making, but the fact that the epaper market is basically on Kindle life support isn't the patent's fault.

(Edit: Perhaps Amazon had a hand in preventing wide adoption of epaper, in order to more effectively squash Kindle competitors?)
Here’s my advice which is worth hopefully at least twice what it costs you.

Focus on achieving some initial level of “proof” that you can perform in an entry-level software (or help desk) role. If you can’t ever visit the office, you’re competing against a worldwide set of candidates, but you can still bring something that distinguishes you. That you work in US time zone and make it easy for someone to employ you are surprisingly strong benefits to an employer who has so far only employed US people.

If you want to break into programming, go after that rather than help desk or sanding body panels. If your next best alternative is moving far away, renting a place there, and doing auto body work for minimum wage, you can probably come out after-everything even by staying put and doing a mix of online learning and even terribly paying gigs on fiverr/ upwork/ etc.

Once you get to the point where you have the basics down and are the equivalent of a boot camp grad, you have more options for full-time employment. Even at bootcamp grad level, most companies are losing money on you for a year, so before that point, it’s a really tough sell.

Maybe consider Lambda School as well. They’ve got a repayment program that scales with income, so if you don’t manage to make the turn and break into coding somehow, you’re pretty much off the hook after some time. (Obviously read their terms, don’t rely on my summary.)

I applaud your focus on your family; I’d keep that out of the interview process. If I’m hiring an entry-level remote employee, I don’t want to worry that they’re taking care of a family member most of the time and trying to fit my work into the gaps. If that’s what is happening invisibly behind the scenes, great, but it’s irrelevant or negative to the interview.

“I have strong ties here and am only open to remote work” is all I need to know as an interviewer.

Best of luck; once you hit the “I am at a boot camp grad level or better”, we have remote-only positions available (as do many companies). Provided you’re in a state where we have the ability to hire, I’d be very happy to have you apply.

Best of luck on your journey!
Definitely a vulnerability there exploitable in concert with the error in the domain name check.
Do you have any QA experience?

Feel free to shoot me an email with your resume or Github/LinkedIn, and I'll send back a few openings I know of right now if it seems a good fit. My email is in my profile.

Wishing you well on your job hunt!
I'm still here matey. While I am still here - would you care to share your POV to add something to the discussion?

I don't mind being wrong.
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> The amount of income you write off as losses is based on the rent you were _previously charging_. IOW I have no incentive to rent my unit at a lower cost if it's basically acting as a tax shelter for my other properties.

$1 in income is worth significantly more than $1 in tax deductions.
And there are real questions about the enlightened part of "enlightened consent".
For GitHub, I looked at projects that interested me, but not necessarily having the skills to contribute code. So I would pour through the docs and find errors, typos, mistakes. These kinds of things. Cleaning up. Sometimes added documentation that was missing.