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Make no mistake: this is Bobby Kotick trying to save his job. He may well succeed. I hope his head also makes it to the chopping block.

Firstly, Brack was only president for 2 years and a lot of these incidents happened prior BUT if you're in charge you're responsible. That's part of the deal that comes with that giant pay check. You don't get to say "it's not my fault". So Brack absolutely should go because he's seemingly failed to correct the toxic culture.

You'll note the email talks about "Blizzard", not "Activision Blizzard". This is how you can tell Kotick is distancing himself from this. It's "Activision Blizzard" when things are going well and "Blizzard" when it's not. Kotick is I'm sure busy selling this narrative that Blizzard is an autonomous unit. It's not. It's fully Activision at this point.

Activision Blizzard has squandered their most valuable properties. The only thing propping up WoW is a 15 year old version of the game that's quickly being ruined with the exact micro-transactions that ruined the game to begin with. Does anyone still care about Overwatch? Prediction: Diablo 4 is going to disappoint. This is the same company that brought you Diablo 3 after all.

As for the new co-leaders, ugh... this just screams PR. One of them is a woman of course. I'm not saying she's unqualified (although both of them are relatively recent hires, interestingly). But you know given the lawsuit that this was going to happen. But the main issue is that there's two leaders. We all know countries need two presidents, armies need two commanders, etc.

So what this suggests is that Ibarra had the confidence of Kotick and the board, she would now be president. So she's co-president because of the lawsuit. It may not be true but that's how people are going to interpret it.

To get out this rot it can't stop at changing the executives. Blizzard honestly needs someone to come in and clean house. This goes beyond the lawsuit, which is no doubt a relatively small minority. This is about half the company probably being useless.
This what I think is absolutely ridiculously nuts. Taxi services are typically heavily regulated and in major markets a permit (e.g. medallions auctions[1]) can cost hundreds of thousands, if not over a million dollars and are strictly limited in supply.

Thus, drivers are employees of a bigger company who manages every other part of the economic relationship. Kinda like Uber (and Lyft, etc), but because "you can bring your own gear" people are fungible (nothing stops you from working multiple companies either) and subject to agreements that:

- Expose minimum liability to the company
- Provide maximum profitability to the company (even w/ surge pricing -- the house still wins)
- Minimizes extra legal obligations to employees

In other words, it's a game of "heads I win, tails you lose". If all goes well it's steady, relatively straight-forward (just do what the app tells you to do) work.

The gig-taxi industry certainly doesn't stand alone and they have exploded over the last decade (and especially so in the last year). These jobs/companies do (and should) bring out a lot of strong opinions.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=new+york+city+medallions+auction&i...

Edit: to be clear, what makes this so unique is that there are significant safety risks inherit in the job (accidents, crime, drunk/offensive/dangerous/etc riders). They scale linearly with how much you do it and some times/places/events add multipliers to that.
I like battlegrounds but I've uninstalled their games and launcher from my devices.
If it was a powder extinguisher, I can totally understand this.
>why is it ok to give it to oil companies?

Why do you assume GP is ok with that.
First they came for 'taxes' then they came for 'guns' and then they came for anything they wanted.
Further color for folks who aren't familiar: he's also one of the most prolific and highly-regarded early-stage VC's in NYC (if not the most) with a longstanding and popular blog.

Not disputing (I hadn't heard that before) just adding.

Though I will note that the chances a good founder won't make a good CEO are probably higher at earlier stages, and getting "pushed out" isn't always the wrong thing for a founder who isn't a good fit as bigco executive.
> What causes different races to commit crimes at different rates?

It's about culture, choices you make and choices that are available to you (in ghetto, you may have no choice). The most memorable photo for me when those discussions appear:

https://twitter.com/elijahschaffer/status/127081025725892198...
I think the first typo is actually correct. They're saying that they stopped advocating for it because everyone treated them like they were crazy for doing so.
I lived in a city and had a roofdeck with full sun all day. Tomatos grew amazingly well up there, and the flavor of those ripe tomatoes was so amazing that we had them with nearly every meal. It also made buying tomatos from the grocery store totally impossible.
Minor counterpoint: My wife left a responsible position at an organization where she had worked for fifteen years or so, and gave a good deal of notice. People dropped her out of their calculations, and in the end she thought she might as well have given two weeks' notice. They did briefly bring her back for some consulting.
I am not a professional in this field at all, but my personal experience suggests that we need more smaller cities, more densely connected, or perhaps more and smaller "downtown" areas within a single city. Then people could have a bit more personal space (less geographic concentration reduces demand and price pressure in specific areas), while keeping density and interconnectedness high to support mass transit, walking/cycling, and socially connected communities.

I think this would make cities a bit more "pro-child" than they are currently.
Privacy (dot) com offers that as a service and you can use their extension to generate a card without leaving the page.
It is worth asking during negotiations, especially if company is pre-money and the strike price is under a cent. There is no measurable cost to it for the employer. Oftentimes founders are unaware that this is something they can even offer.
It will if it is embraced. I also hope countries take the opportunity to build new remote-first cities conducive to family life.

Otherwise, maybe the ‘modern city’ is where cultures go to die.
We had a leap second bug on the options trading desk I worked on that brought down our system. As market makers, we had an obligation to keep providing liquidity so this was a serious issue and exposed us to fines.

Our exchange co-located data centers used GPS for precisely synchronized timestamp generation but the firmware on some of the GPS hardware had a bug and failed to take into account a leap second. When that leap second was to be inserted, they became out of sync by a second.

We generated spot price feeds from each location and a component that consumed these feeds would check to ensure that they were not stale (any data more than 0.5 sec old could not be used as an input for pricing and trading). Well, a lot of exchange feeds started looking stale, and our system stopped quoting on said exchanges.

First there were some murmurs from the traders and within minutes the entire room hit a crescendo of panic. It took, I think, the better part of an hour to debug.
Some companies want you to list their products on your page (usually with some kind of affiliate deal attached) but don't have a tech team to implement a feed or an API. In that case you end up in a situation where you have to scrape the data yourself with permission.
> Law is code for society.

There are some similarities, but while this is a popular metaphor it is misleading. Government isn't a machine running code, its a bunch of people pursuing their own interests. Law is one means of establishing and communicating social expectations and consequences as a way of shaping incentive structure in society at large, including government, so that people pursuing their own interests act in “acceptable” ways, but it is very much not deterministic in operation.
Rice beans and nuts - OK not interesting food, but super healthy and cheap. Am I missing something here?

Here in the UK, it's often reported that the poor cannot afford "healthy" food (it never states what healthy food is) and instead they eat unhealthy food - one can only assume they mean stuff like McDonalds?. This never made sense to me, you can buy rice, potatoes, tins of beans, pasta for far less than a burger or a curry. There are YouTube channels dedicated to cooking meals using super-cheap ingredients.

Occasionally I'll just eat a bowl of porridge (with milk) when I can't be bothered cooking. Not only is this extremely cheap but also healthy. You can dried fruits and nuts if you're feeling adventurous. Peanut butter also works.

This whole "poor people can't afford healthy food but can afford unhealthy" needs to stop.
If you have a verbatim nontrivial snippet of a codebase, how does it matter whether it was copy pasted or copiloted? It can’t give “deniability” just because it looks like a black box.
How does any of that serve as a counterpoint to eBay’s horribleness?
Modern monetary theory, baby! We'll see if it collapses, but I guess it'll be fun to see it in action.
Thank you for pointing this out. I thought that a direct link to download the app will be better for HN users to try it out. It looks like I read it wrong?

Updated: I tried to edit the link but it's not allowed T_T
That chart is a crude snapshot of the Nikkei 225 from 1990 to 2009. Since then it's rebounded by quite a bit although it's still quite a bit under its Dec 1989 peak. But of course a stock market index isn't the full economy, so I would disagree that this chart by itself constitutes proof that Japan is stagnating.

Chart source: https://mebfaber.com/2009/12/20/japan-the-us-and-the-lost-de...
Games like Trackmania should have SERVER SIDE data input validation instead of pushing rootkits.
It is insane. But probably some ICMP is allowed too - otherwise TCP tends to break in subtle ways... it is possible to whitelist some/necessary ICMP traffic though.
Thanks for the really interesting reply!

I think this question of unemployment and underemployment is one that's simply going to get worse everywhere, and I don't see a non-political solution. I just don't see a realistic way to employ everybody, or even a majority, in a high automation society.

So my feeling is, the countries that will be best placed to tackle this are the ones that are able to push forward a political solution. I'm not entirely sure of how socialist china is, but there are certainly some socialists in the CCP who would be perfectly happy for everybody to be unemployed or underemployed, and to pay for them from the profits of highly automated industry.

I think it's probably a question of ideological flexibility. Because China is both officially marxist, practically capitalist, traditionally confucian, and pragmatically developmentalist, they have a lot of options open when it comes to political solutions that western countries don't. So they could, for instance, just pay everybody UBI, then point out that China is a socialist country if elites object. That would be a harder argument in officially capitalist countries.

I don't imagine they'll go that way, but I guess the basic point for me is that productivity, employment, and welfare are largely the result of political decisions. You can run the economy like they did in the DDR, where everybody had a job even if it was totally meaningless. You can run the economy like in Japan, where if you have a job, you'll probably never lose it. These things have different tradeoffs. The biggest challenges are usually how hardened the political discourse is around work itself.
Sure. Regardless of how wacky your definition of "functional" gets, it is possible and relatively easy to write bugs in Python, Scheme, Haskell, or OCaml; all of these languages confuse `x + y` and `x - y`. Idris, Agda, or Coq can catch that mistake, but still suffer "Boolean blindness" and other traditional problems.

There are plenty of bug classes which are trivial in any language; plan interference is a good example. Languages provably cannot avoid these bugs entirely, just make them less easy.
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Yes, eventually all currencies go to zero value as they are debased. The US dollar, for example, is currently priced at 1/20th of a 1900 Silver Dollar, and 1/87th of a Gold Dollar.

The billions of dollars flowing into Bitcoin (and keeping its value inflated) can be considered as a measure of faith that no such flaw exists.
Ghost never had the makings of a varsity CMS
Hi guys, I'm looking for a security provider for my bitcoins, a company that can recommend me especially that has a digital wallet for bitcoins, because a few days ago they passed me the one from https://www.bitcoinharvestltd.com/bitcoin-wallet/ but I do not like it, I want to find other options and then I would like something simpler.
Unfortunately Blizzard is done.

There's some debate to be had if that's a bad thing, but it's now a brand and IP holding company with some in-house development.
i don't really care - i love the plugin too much to uninstall it. it's saved me a killing.
> I am curious if we're entering a period where western governments must run deficits and central banks must purchase said debt at sub zero interest rates to keep the economy running.

I think that as long as the EU wants to keep the political Euro project going, there is no way around such policies, since having rates go up could cause Southern European countries to default and would cause the EU to implode.
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Yeah. The sad thing is, I've never used a single chatbot that was actually helpful. I naturally don't go looking for conversations with chatbots, but recently more and more companies decided to shut down their email address. So the only way to resolve an issue is by wither talking to a chatbot and then a person (hopefully), or by phoning them (and I'd rather not).

Some chatbots even refuse to let me talk to a person at all due to a bug (the dutch water utility service). Another asks you to write a message to the human representative and then discards it due to a bug (bol.com).
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> Amazon doesn't have a constitution governing exactly when it can and can't have an election.

Fair point, but I fail to see how it's not a situation of "let's have a rerun because I didn't get my preferred outcome". Case in point: if the vote was 70-30 in favor of the union, how much support will there be for a rerun?
I care, it sounds interesting.
Usually lowering a company's profits due to market competition produces value. Just stealing money does not produce value.
> This new way of thinking — progressivism is probably the fairest term — is far less tolerant than liberalism. Indeed, in its hostility to freedom of speech, its Manichean worldview, its suspicion that its opponents are fascists, and the belief that politics should be inserted into everything — from science to children’s books — it is closer to the totalitarian tradition.

So the American Left are totalitarians? The hypocrisy of this article beggars belief.

Have we forgotten that on Friday, the House oversight committee released notes of a 27 December telephone call from Trump to then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, in which Trump told Rosen: “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.” The notes were taken by Richard Donoghue, Rosen’s deputy, who was also on the call.
it really is a great challenge, because for example america will have to rethink its habit of paying for today's excesses by harvesting the labor of future generations. it's a completely different inter-generational relation than we have now.
Looks really interesting, thanks for sharing this.

I'm not sure whether I'll incorporate everything from C or just make it compatible with C and behind the scenes do things differently e.g instead of carrying const char */string pointers everywhere always carry the length of said data structure along with it. Or for instance push an additional pointer on the stack for memory zones, where an allocator is always present and knows it's context, sort of like __thiscall with class methods for this->.
You should mention this in your interviews. Keeping up to date with the state of the art is implicit for me. If I need to spend months retraining or up training because of company policy I expect to be compensated for that while employed.
> Companies are not people.

No, but employees and customers are, and they feel real, human costs as a result.

Just because a management team has underfunded security is not an excuse to cause pain on other people.
I'm a CS student, who is super interested in deep learning and ml in general. I've started playing around with pytorch a bit and got some stuff to work, but I don't fully understand the code I wrote.

So instead I started the fastai course and now I have the opposite problem where it feels a little too easy and I fear that that approach would fall flat the moment I want to do something outside of the things fastai can do.

So now I'm thinking about scrapping that too and going to the opposite side and just building something from scratch without any ml framework at all.

Would you say sticking with fastai is good idea, or is it more of way to just pique someone's interest?
Isn't the court system itself flawed already. How can one person win a case by hiring a "better lawyer". It means the other party can be proven wrong if you have enough money. Which means court system does not depend on facts as much as how lawyers twists words to fit a law.
Firing a scapegoat is meaningless. Bobby Kotick needs to be fired if any real change is to be done.
Bitcoin is a technology that improves individual freedoms. No institution can prevent you from holding or transferring bitcoin. When you buy a bitcoin you can remain confident there will never be more than 21 million btc minted, btc will never become diluted.

Claiming the BTC protocol is without utility is completely disingenuous.
> It's now rare for projects to properly audit their dependencies

In the Python ecosystem, it is at least pretty easy to limit yourself to a handful of developers you trust (e.g. Django developers, Pallets developers, etc.).

In the npm ecosystem however, for instance I just ran `npx create-react-app` and got a node_modules with 1044 subdirectories, a 11407-line yarn.lock, and "207 vulnerabilities found" from `yarn audit`. Well what can you possibly do.
I agree that we're never going to totally irradicate this, but the UK government has consistently opened up too much, too quickly and then responded to the wave of new cases too slowly. The goal of the lock downs wasn't just to prevent excess deaths due to hospital capacity, it was to prevent deaths due to COVID until we had the systems in spread to stop the worst of the outbreak - that is testing capacity, track and trace, and the vaccine.
So better then the US?
Matrix is not community-driven, it's linked to and driven by some shady company rooted in the israeli intelligence sector. If you want real messaging freedom you should consider xmpp instead.
You're confused. Section 1256 applies to futures, not forex. Spot forex positions are taxed as ordinary capital gains under Section 988. Under very specific conditions a high-volume spot forex trader who never takes deliver may elect to be taxed under 1256, but that's completely optional.

https://greentradertax.com/a-case-for-retail-forex-traders-u...
How the mighty have fallen.

I miss the days when they produced a solid game, charged a single fee, and let a community grow organically around it. SC was a league of its own. WoW was originally created. Let the community tell you what it wants.

It's sad to see institutions decay like this.
Don't sweat it. Make sure your manager understands that your velocity is limited by colleagues treating asynchronous communication as synchronous. You'll either be keeping up with all these Slack channels, or you'll be coding. I personally need about 15 minutes to ramp up when starting to code, and about 15 minutes to bundle unfinished work into a state that's easy to come back to later.

Also, don't let teammates underestimate the amount of work it will take to accomplish a task. I feel like there have been a lot of under/unreported hours in previous jobs, so if you're realistic you'll feel less productive than colleagues.
> How does that work? reddit speech is not worthy of being heard? Its too immature to be even worth experimenting with moderation?

I didn't say it wasn't worthy of being heard, I said it's immature and there's zero cost to account creation and therefore you have literal children going to that site and spitting nonsense. Moderating that site is like herding cats.

> If people are creating 5 accounts to create a narrative, well then thats the job isn’t it? Stopping those 4 fake accounts.
But that would be censorship.

Yup, banning them would. Did I say ban them? It was used as a reference to immaturity, because immature / crazy people create accounts to make a cohort that does not exist.

> So what is your solution for the problem you yourself have described?

In short, change the way these people are raised. Change what they're being taught in schools that enables this behavior. It's unacceptable to throw online temper tantrums when you don't get your way. It's also unacceptable to attempt to force those into your beliefs. So start by teaching children that instead of raising the entitled society that we have today.

For those, seemingly like yourself, who thinks the world will end if a group of people start believing the world is flat, I'd say learn to ignore people.

> Plus, If your first option is to choose a forum where you self select out of dealing with messy problems, then your experience is invalid for guidance on dealing with messy problems - no?
I can’t seem to see anything but a contradiction of your own purposes here.
Perhaps you see how these things are not contradictory>?

How about let me speak for myself and quit carrying the conversation forward using assumptions from yourself?
Argh I just learned I have only been subscribed to the email list since 2017, I don’t actually have an account.
Revisiting Prechelt's paper and follow-ups comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++, etc.
Add these to your hosts file and the page will load a lot faster, too:

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0.0.0.0 send.webeyez.com sec.webeyez.com
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A primary purpose of the 13th amendment is the preservation of slave labor through prison.
I Failed My Startup and Tactical Advice So You Don’t Fail Yours (2 of 4)
This is a reference to Mortal Kombat video games, Kuai Liang is the name of a character known widely as Sub Zero.
The "printer refill scam" was just an example of how a product is turn into a service. Funny to see the post being ignored just because people are so mad at printers.
The question to ask then is: after validation, what's next? How do they build their sense of self-worth? Fortunately, that sensitivity can dissipate.
Good luck when your security department starts running XRay and demands all your dependencies are at the latest versions all the time because every second release of a package is reported as vulnerable.
Bitcoin price dips below $38K, with bullish traders eyeing a new higher low next
When you maintain a form of slavery, like US does, it’s silly to expect companies to not try profiting on it.
By this logic, shouldn't Europe be growing at much faster rates than the US? Their social services are more extensive, I believe the minimum wage is higher, and they spend more on infrastructure.
I'm interested in the blip in people who met online in the early 80s. What happened there?