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> The point is not about subscription

Then why have most of your comments explicitly said that you (implausibly, given the site content and how explicit it is) didn't realize it was a subscription? If that wasn't relevant, why keep raising it?

> It is about they only send email after it's impossible to cancel orders.

If your complaint is “the subscription plan that I signed up for which has a default option and a choice to actively select or pause doesn't remind me to actively select or pause if I don't want the default selection”, then, sure, that's suboptimal UX, but hardly “dirty tricks”. And its definitely not the same as “fabcricating an order”; you made a recurring order.

> Regarding subscription, I updated my article to explain how I got tricked. Perhaps I'm not as careful as you are to read through terms.

It's not a matter of being careful. I’ve looked back at their website on the Wayback Machine through several changes back through the beginning of 2020; it has always blared, everywhere, that what they are selling is subscription plans. There is no plausible way to have engaged with that site and remotely reasonably mistakenly thought you were making a one-time order. Its not a matter of something that presents what you’ve described as an Amazon-like ordering interface with recurrence and default selections hidden away buried in FAQ text and T&C; those are front-and-center prominently-marketed facts about the product.

> Regarding "I caused negative influence to a company due to my own stupidity or whatsoever" in your other comment: it is my freedom to express my opinion,

Indeed you are, just as those to whom you express your opinion are then free to express their opinion about yours. But when the fact claims you make to try to get people to share your opinion seem at odds with the readily verifiable facts, well, its worth noting that you are not, legally, free to cause harm to others’ reputation with false fact claims.
The money that could have been redistributed among the shareholders - in the absence of this agreement, it would have been dividends or company cash i.e. share price, not redistribution to other workers. And it's not something that Cook took, it's something that was given to him 10 years ago as part of his compensation package (and at the share prices of that time the stock grant would be $75m so $7.5m per year which doesn't seem that outrageous to me).

The money was distributed among the workers - which include both people behind the counter and executives like Cook - as the shareholders chose and agreed. Arguably they chose to allocate it like they did (which workers to incentivize more and which less) because they consider that it maximizes their own profit by attracting good workers and motivating them, and they chose to offer Cook a deal that (especially in retrospect) looks very lucrative. Perhaps it was worth it and perhaps it's just gifting him undeserved money - but in any case it's their right to do as they wish even if they spend their money stupidly and randomly give it to someone and not someone else, since all of it (i.e. Apple, it's assets and profits and the value created) belongs to the shareholders, and workers - both people behind the counter and people like Cook - get only what they agreed with the company and thus it's owners/shareholders.
These aren’t developer choices being made. They’re product choices by product managers. I bet there are plenty of JS developers that would be interested in picking up C++ or something like Rust but don’t have the option.
This reminds me of that Xzibit meme:

"Yo dawg, we heard you like bloated interpreters, so we put a bloated interpreter in your bloated interpreter".

I would love to see benchmarks on this.
Pretty big compared to the old RNA secondary structure prediction tools judging from the abstract. Wish someone put it on Sci-Hub… Maybe someone from HN will!
No. Firefox is chasing chrome though as they think everyone wants chrome.
As a comment already says, this was due to meeting targets agreed 10 years ago.

Now a lot of that is due to share prices, and my opinion is share prices are not set by the market any more, are massively inflated to make the US government look good, but that doesn't have much to do with Cook, much like Tesla's share price doesn't have much to do with Elon Musk (I'm serious, the guy is good at marketing, but that only takes you so far).

There's been low interest rates for almost 2 decades now. One of the primary effects of that is inflated share prices.

So, to say the least, this is a complex situation. Comparing Cook's renumeration to a chinese worker is just silly.
> My question is: how is Tim so productive that he does roughly 160,000 people’s work, or 1/8th of Foxconn’s total workforce? [2] /s

Nobody has been making these productivity claims to begin with, but leftists commonly use productivity vs salary to ridicule CEO compensation.

CEOs are paid for numerous reasons, for example board wants to trust the person with billions worth of assets which makes it sensible to pay certain amount just to guarantee greed doesnt take over, for example. Productivity is one factor but I doubt it is always the most important thing.
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> but that it appears likely that it will be remarkably difficult to debias these systems

They are not using the term bias correctly. If the model learns these different modes, as opposed to a mean between the modes, it means the model has low bias.
Which 5k monitor are you using? Been thinking of upgrading recently and 4k scaled to 1080p doesn't cut it for my 1440p loving needs.
Except people don’t live on land. They live in homes. There’s plenty of empty land. But to house people you need to make the deep capital investment of building housing on that land. Capital accumulation requires capitalists.
Yes, money is geographically bound, which is why they need to wire it to Nigeria. But once cryptocurrency is bought with Nigerian funds, there is no "sending" it to Lebanon. That part is misleading. Sending is done not from one geographic location to another but from one owner to another.
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When will we learn to stop making these silly calculations about "productivity" and understand that people are paid not by the value of their work, but by their scarcity?

Any factory in China can replace most of their 160k employees overnight if they wanted to. How many Tim Cook's do you have lying around?
To define this behavior as "redirection" is pretty questionable from a UX perspective. This was clearly invented by someone who is so smart they don't even realize how much less smart everyone else is. That, or it was just the easiest way to do it back then...
Most of these countries finances are based on direct unavoidable taxes as they are already struggle to collect taxes the western way due to low compliance.
>The children have had the advantage of a strong network of technology experts to call on for advice and help - but he is extremely proud of them.

Strange addition, a little defensive there BBC? Something something coal miners and programming
+1 for Yast. Dont expect a pretty UI, function over form here, but is pretty nice to only enter your password once and be able to administer packages, docker, VMs and their tooling, btrfs, network services and so much more.
In unrelated news, Apple Stock went down a sharp 11% when the company announced that it would hand out $750M to workers at its factories.
That boy is to be commended, regardless of what one thinks about the NFT hype.

What a former Christie's auctioneer thinks on this (as quoted by the BBC here) is _especially_ irrelevant, as they are of course partially disrupted by the NFT hype. Like asking a telco company in the 90s about the internet.

Strong Demis Hassabis vibes (DeepMind founder who did Theme Park at the age of 17)
Rich people spend money on charities they like. They change society the way they want it to change that does not necessarily make society a better place nor is it necessarily what most people want.

If he had to pay all of this on taxes, society could decide how to use that money and it would be just as much, if not more "a better place".
Being charitable, Duck Hunt is a well know game and this might be considered a tutorial for the software's use using a simple problem. It does look like an advert blog post, but simple examples let people get a feel for the code.
> First, how do you use cryptocurrencies with limited access to electricity?

With a mobile phone. Unless network communications are also down...
Margin too small?
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In Japanese, the character sake (kanji: 酒, Japanese pronunciation: [sake]) can refer to any alcoholic drink, while the beverage called sake in English is usually termed nihonshu (日本酒; meaning 'Japanese alcoholic drink'). Under Japanese liquor laws, sake is labeled with the word seishu (清酒; 'refined alcohol'), a synonym not commonly used in conversation.
Thing is, with O365, there's always the desktop app.
The blog post itself quotes Edward Witten, a Fields medal winner, as saying "String theory is the only idea about quantum gravity with any substance". It quotes David Gross, Nobel prize winner, as saying "Loop quantum gravity is total BS". Then it seems to shrug and say, well, too bad they're all so wrong.

What am I missing? What are the priors for trusting the author of this blog more than the seemingly universal voice of these authorities?
Father works in traditional finance, someone pays an incredible amount of money for his son’s NFTs. Hmm.
> I do these kind of sites (tables, lots of things to select, lots of data) almost exclusively and so I am always looking for more solutions.

How do you deal with displaying a table with 10-20 columns on small screens? It compares similar objects across different metrics and a single column is either a grade (A-F) or a number.

The best I came up with so far is collapsing rows into cards, but it sucks when you want to compare them with each other. For example finding objects with grade A or B in a certain column.
There is some evidence of this - if you can log in to app store connect (need a developer account) there is this page:

https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/apps/pricingmatrix/1539646...

It shows the tiers from 0 (free) to 87 (USD 999).

Then come the party tiers: 510, 530, 550, 560, 570, 580, 590 which are just repeats of the other tiers, probably for some good historical reason which I'm not aware of.
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From the article:
"Benyamin's father, Imran, a software developer who works in traditional finance, encouraged Benyamin and his brother, Yousef, to start coding at the ages of five and six."

I view NFT's with a hefty dose of skepticism, although I have a very talented ex-colleague that has been creating 3d artwork and made a few thousand.
My view is that there's a chance his father etc was already invested in bitcoin and wanted to put it to good use...
Maybe if you are selected at "random" then you will always pick the extra cookie because you know you don't deserve it

Whereas if you "highest ranking" person you think you are deserving and expect more grace from yourself
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What is the point of grabbing surpluses and then handing them back?

Re: the note above about Foxconn workers, Cooks money comes from the market power developed by Apple which they can leverage on everyone in the system, consumers, workers, suppliers, distributors etc..

So he can leverage against Foxconn workers and then give $1B to charity - or he could not leverage, and double Foxconn workers wages. And that's just his comp, not everything else.

Now - maybe there is a theoretical greater efficiency in his charity work, and of course it's spent on 'his interests' not others, etc..

But the notion of 'giving it away' doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless that giving is frankly more effective than otherwise.

I think Gates Foundation for example is reasonable - a lot of philanthropy is effective in ways that governments and regular private corps are not - that makes sense.

But from a purely charitable perspective, it does seem a little bit odd to accumulate in one column on the ledger in order to put it back in the other column.
Today's currency is all digital and is just a number, yet we say "we're sending it". You're taking the metaphor too literally.
Can we just let Apple shareholders decide for themselves how they want to spend their money?
Given that Apple's stock price is up about $2.2 trillion since the award it doesn't seem to out of place for him to capture 0.034% of that value.
.. and how many Ballmers!
> Don't understand people that can justify that.

well, the owners of apple (the shareholders, via the board) decided that it is justifiable, and fair.
Other people, unrelated to this commercial agreement between Cook and apple, have no real say. Nor should they.
Wait-- so paying large amounts stops greed from taking over? I wonder how that is working for them.

though you have a valid point, CEO pay isn't about CEO productivity, it is about corporate productivity.
Lebanese issue is that it is being held hostage by a militia (Huzb Allah). No amount of money is going to help until these militias are disbanded and a national independent military is put into place.

Besides having a giant diaspora, this diaspora still has strong ties to the motherland and many of them are also very rich. Lebanon could then come back quickly and reach western levels of development and wealth.
I just simply cannot agree with anyone who believes that 10 years of work is worth $750 million. Even if the thinking is that doing the correct decitions is worth much more to the company, I will still just simply refuse to accept that this level of compensation is right on the larger context of human society.
> If you want to live in the eighteenth century so bad, why don’t you get a horse and buggy while you’re at it?

As someone who lives in the country, who does share our back country roads with horses and buggies as well as cars, trucks, and farm equipment... our local community works just fine with many different people making different choices about how much technology they choose to bring into their homes.

I believe thinking about such questions and making your own decisions is an extremely healthy habit, no matter where your final decisions fall.
You are justifying someone being paid $750m. No one needs that much money. No one. Why are you defending this? It's obscene.

Really reminds me of this https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/147/150/e2c...
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Put it this way. In the last 5 years Tim Cook has created $1900 b in shareholder value. If you divide that by 160000 you get $12 m. Now I don’t know how many phones a foxconn worker can make per year, but I do think it’s fair to assume they do not each create much more than $2 m in value annually.

Or another way to see it. While creating 2 trillion dollars of value for shareholders, he has been paid about 1.5 b. As a shareholder I think that’s very fair compensation.

So relative to value creation, nobody can claim that he’s overpaid. A deeper questions is if it’s reasonable for anyone to own a billion dollars. I don’t think so, but Tim Cook has deserved the money more than most.
I would have been much more shocked if they suddenly stopped lying about everything. That would be really unexpected.
I think that this title (100 Salesforce employees work in its 61-story HQ) represents the reality more accurately (ie: this is not a successful return to the office when there used to be thousands of employees in that building).
> by their scarcity

By their perceived scarcity

Chances are that anyone other than Tim could have done just as well.

Still, this is over 10 years, and Apple shares have increased in value by 1900%.

If they were still the same value he’d have gotten 40M, for about 4M per year. Which is much more reasonable.

I still think it’s high, but in line with what others get.
So maybe once we can detect dark matter this experiment should be rerun somehow? Seems like dark matter/energy could essentially be an ether that was undetectable using the Michelson-Morley approach.
No it won't.

There is nothing to say that a company must derive their revenues from a single source. It has always been like that, or at least it has been like that for a very long time. Newspapers derive their revenue from both sales to readers and sales of advertising. If you subscribe, they also sell the subscriber data. The same thing can be said of warranty cards. You don't see them as much these days since it turns out to be far more reliable to force people to register their product when they first turn it on, but it was always a way to get marketing (and marketable) data.
> When will we learn to stop making these silly calculations about "productivity" and understand that people are paid not by the value of their work, but by their scarcity?

You do realize that it's possible to disagree with that, right?
For starters divide everything by 10 because this was for the last ten years (first line in the article). I think your suggestion that pay should be closely tied to productivity is kind of correct, but it’s missing a “value” component— and Cook provided a lot of value to a lot of people, 100s of billions. Pro rata he’s just getting a small commission. It’s not like you can hire 1600 workers and replace Cook with them.
Nope, 5% means the black market is quite efficient. Black market operates on high-yield since they are illegal, hard to circumvent and usually monopolized by a few.
He is only making society better if the value he is creating is larger than the value he is extracting.

You can build a regular home, get paid $5 million for it, the net act was probably negative for the system.

It's the same for companies turning profits: it's entirely possible to make profits in a system while actually shrinking the overall pie. This is common when certain activities are externalized (i.e. pollution).

Capitalism, broadly, does create a bigger pie, but it's a very uneven process and the true value creation doesn't always happen where the value is created. Value capture happens where the power is.
Of course no one needs it. But the discussion here was if he had earned it, and he definitely has. Relative to value creation, I bet he’s very low in the CEO compensation league.
As far as I can tell the escape is run dumpcap on the host and pipe the results through a fifo into the sandbox. Frankly that's pretty ridiculous and makes the flatpak nigh-useless. I'm not sure why flatpak is unable to support the ability to just not sandbox the application at all to allow for this sort of thing.
i would expect such reasoning on tabloids but on hn?
From this it looks like "April May June July 2021" are almost back to the "normal" number of deaths, and not too much excess.

Wonder what that means. Maybe that everyone who was gonna die from COVID-19 exposure already did. Maybe something else.

We can be sure that "December January February 2022" will show some excess.
Adding two _trillion_ dollars of net worth sounds pretty productive to me.
Can donate you old unused RPI for testing
I remember taxi driver in Moscow literally trying to sell me OneCoin.

Those were the days.

Now they all moved to DeFi and NFTs.
I'm not sure what you mean, why wouldn't the BBC mention the children had advantages others don't? Isn't that just responsible story-writing?
People made the same claim about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and yet their companies greatly increased in value since they left.
> sometimes make me actually want to buy the product

Yes this is why we dislike them (other than time wasting)

I don't want to be manipulated into buying crap, I'm good enough doing that myself
Open classes are against SOLID principles (O stands for - classes should be extendable, but not modifiable). So, a big no in some circuits. Aside from open classes, ruby also have instance_eval and class_eval taking to violating that principle to whole new level.
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> which are just repeats of the other tiers

Those are the price adjusted tiers. They look like repeats in USD, but if you look at other currencies you’ll see they’re different. They’re designed to allow you to offer price points that are scaled according to the market (i.e, 99c in the US, but considerably cheaper than that in India or China).
Because it should be about productivity. People are highlighting a moral failing of society.
The way it's phrased, I don't see how. You can disagree with the acceptance of it and work to change how things are done.
Same boat. I can retire from my current position, had the notion of putting my papers in here, collect my pension, and work someplace else. Jobs I applied to where I'm 100% matched for, I get nothing but crickets back.
> In the last 5 years Tim Cook has created $1900 b in shareholder value.

That's just obviously not the case unless Tim is the only person working at Apple. All employees contributed that and it's perfectly reasonable to discuss how these rewards should be distributed, even if they should be distributed to shareholders at all.
I'd expect a few groups to have a person who passed on the cookie, leaving two each for the others.
Then put forward your counter argument.
> This is calculated into my salary

Well there it is. You are at work and compensated for it.
Not sure why it doesn't summarize the entire article
Who are buying these things? The only plausible explanation to me is that the NFT exchange owners are selling to themselves using sockpuppet accounts to drum up media attention.

The article even mentions that they are keeping the profits as Ethereum, which would be necessary as he can't cash out since the money isn't actually his.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/comments/kyhgcv/ar...
So the fact that Apple's share price has increased 1,200% since he took over is just a coincidence?
It just goes to show how deeply the capitalist narrative dominates our entire society, that we have people defending this so earnestly.
I’ll personally take the risk of being reinfected with COVID.

Either way, at a <= 1% risk of re-infection, I’m no longer a real liability to society so please just leave it for me to decide and don’t force me undergo any unnecessary medical procedures.
If the actual video URL is somehow grabbable from the API you might miss whatever triggers a +1 view from the website in theory
Sorry, but your question is something I would expect a kid to ask the first time they become aware of inequality. Compassionate but extremely basic. The problem obviously can't be distilled to such a simple and shallow question.
From the article “In previous versions of Windows, the scheduler had to rely on analysing the programs on its own, inferring performance requirements of a thread but with no real underlying understanding of what was happening.”

Does anyone know what is meant by the scheduler analyses the program?
This is an insightful comment.

Very long working hours are very often associated with inefficient companies that are built on micromanagement.
What I find interesting is none of the outlets who are currntly proclaiming that there is a worker shortage ever mention the executive shortage. The executive shortage has massive impacts on firms, imagine how much value could be generated for the shareholders by the 750 million that was just blown on compensation? We should create tax incentives for firms to offshore their executives, as well as immigration programs that shackle executives in a job with fears of deportation for them and their families should they dare ask to be compensated like their domestic peers in order to improve the fitness and agility of the US economy.