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Inflation is up, Fed is suggesting rate hikes. Both of these are major hits against growth stocks.

The question for investors is the so called "Alpha", that is, what is Spotify's price movement against its "benchmark" (and benchmark can be somewhat arbitrarily chosen).

S&P500 is a common benchmark, but that represents the general stock market, particularly large-caps.

QQQ (Nasdaq) is another, representing tech firms. But with Microsoft and Apple as established companies who'd likely benefit from rising rates and inflation, maybe that's not the best.

ARKK is hyperfocused on high-tech growth stocks like Spotify (and includes ~5% of ARKK is Spotify). Is that the proper benchmark to determine alpha? Also, as a hyper-specialized ETF, there's a bit of "tail-wagging-the-dog" effect, where ARKK is down, which causes the underlying (like Spotify) to go down. So despite being so similar (even consisting) of Spotify, it can arguably be the wrong benchmark. (Or, ARKK is down because 5% of it is in Spotify, and the whole Neil Young / Rogan thing is weighing ARKK down)

Maybe Russell 3000 (small stock index) is what we want to compare against? Small stocks are almost entirely of the growth style, and you've got enough other stocks in the index that you won't have the tail-wagging-dog effect.

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Lots of benchmarks to choose from. Its not about how a stock does individually, but how a stock compares against its peers. The discussion should revolve around picking the right peer group.
Yes, pyramid of hell. I said it "can be typed", I didn't say it's "pretty"! :)
It’s not. People in rural America removing a book from the curriculum because of nudity and violence is innocuous. Yale censoring political speech is important.
This reads like Warner Bros has an interest in tanking Spotify.
Some governments, like Sweden for instance, have an official stance which matches the one made on JRE's show regarding Covid, ie: "no need to vaccinate children".

Will those artists ask for their songs not to be played in all those countries ?
English is one of the easiest languages to become "understandable" in. Presumably because of how many people invaded England historically. When another culture invades, some of the language rules are adopted, but they are universally the simpler rules, and the more advanced rules aren't integrated.

Spoken English, with it's reliance on word order, lack of genders, relative lack of verb conjugations and noun declensions make it ridiculously easy to be understood in comparison to other languages. You won't be Shakespeare, but you will be able to communicate.

Written English, admittedly, is much harder (mostly because of the early standardization), but enough natives also have trouble spelling enough words that you can still be understood.
Thanks these are good news.
I’m not sure why you think that this would invalidate anything.

I’m just making a simple observation that this hill in particular is a weird one to die on.

And you know, perhaps, if someone chooses to die on this particular hill we can rightfully wonder about their commitment to other, much more meaningful causes?
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> What's strange is that Dacias are extremely reliable.

I'm Romanian and I was very surprised seeing this chart because, yes, relatively speaking they are pretty reliable. I think this part of OP's comment explains it best why that happened:

> TÜV is where people go who want to save money by skipping the dealership. Most people who do this drive cheaper cars. That's why cheap cars are always having much worse numbers in these statistics.

As Dacia are some of the cheapest models on the market that would explain this chart.
That sentence is being taken out of context. So, I clarified the context.

Moreover, the team in question -- I have spent countless hours working with them -- and they know exactly what I meant. No one ever complained about this blog post or this particular sentence. They knew exactly where I was coming from.

If Glassdoor is a benchmark for the effectiveness of leaders, then might as well vote for whatever Russian trolls tell you to vote for.

People are free to make their own judgments.
The general rule of thumb for such fundamental breakthroughs is that unfortunately for 99% of the really huge ones we'll only know they're revolutionary when the inventors get Nobel prizes 5-15 years after the fact.

99% of these articles are trash that never gets talked about again after 6 months.

Maybe this one isn't, I can't tell. Time will tell, though.
In fact Karl Marx was against "open borders", exactly because it's pro capital by depressing local wages:

https://aussiesta.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/karl-marx-on-open...
It is much more applicable to countries with the first-past-the-post election system though, typically Great Britain and its former colonies. This is because that system tends to converge to very few, very large parties (really only two in the US), which then need to stay relatively close to each other so they can still compete for the "middle" voters. Stray too much and you will lose that middle group, so the big parties must stay relatively close together.

In countries where this system is not in place, you tend to get many more parties with a much wider spectrum of political ideologies. For example, in the Netherlands there is currently a party (with only 1 seat atm) in our equivalent to Congress that exclusively focuses on the interests of farmers (a group consisting of <2% of the labor force). Also while all parties have some opinion about immigration, there are also more single-issue parties both for and against the topic.

I'm not saying either system is better than the other (multiparty systems tend to have a much more difficult time forming governing coalitions than FPTP systems for example), but it is not an issue relevant to all countries.
If I may abstract your question to "Why start with a podcast instead of a rapper?", it does make a bit more sense to me to start with a podcast.

At least to me, a podcast has a more informative feel to it than songs. To songs, I listen 100% for entertainment. Could be different for different people, I guess.
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But if one tab crashed or hung up, the whole browser crashed or hung up.
I really hope Neil Young and Joni Mitchell (and any other artists of their ilk who think it should be basically illegal for people to hear anti-establishment opinions they don’t like) follow each other into removing their names from all news article headlines as well.
Manufacturers could alleviate that by planning for battery pack upgrades. Offer customers an upgrade path, transition the old batteries to utility storage until the end of their life and then recycle them.
There's Powerline ethernet over AC. Imagine a 'radio' plug instead of RJ-45 doing double-duty.
Dozens of states side with Epic in Apple App Store appeal
Maybe they use the space for effectively that packing all those 18650 into the pack.
I wonder what the life of the battery is going to be in the Dacia and how much it will cost to replace. If in ten years it can only do 20 miles and a replacement is £5K then that car is leaving the market. The ICE equivalent will be fine as a cheap run around.
Spotify has been trending downwards for some time. I doubt Young has anything to do with it. This is really shoddy journalism.
Wait, where are you getting 25TB for $40/m
No.

I'm just saying that the cost of the average app developer team is likely offset by the income Apple makes from the average app developer team.

Whether that's how they spend the money, I have no idea.

I don't need to know how they spend it to guess that the costs and income probably roughly balance out.
Ask HN: Alternate Email hosting to G Suite
I have been using at Suite with custom domain for my email since 2010. Now google is shutting down g suite and forcing a paid Workspace subscription. I only need to keep my email and domain. By accident, I deleted my g suite but still have access to admin console and the domain registration.

Is there a recommended email hosting I could simply transfer to?
Cockroaches or CockroachDB?
My Tesla disagrees with your Tesla.

Also, when something breaks, you have to put up with Tesla’s abysmal service and the black hole that is their customer support.
We're not talking about a global context. We're specifically talking about US politics.

Just one believer in Jewish space lasers elected to Congress is far too many, and we have notably more than one. All from the same US party. And then there's the state level, all from the same US party.

Random folks believing in crazy notions is worrisome but viewable as a marginal percentage of the population, but we're not talking about them.

We're talking about elected individuals with real power who vote on real laws that affect us all. Some of those Congresspeople believe in Jewish space lasers, and all of those delusional folks belong to the GOP.

We can discuss whether it is sanguine to have Congresspeople make stock trades with a clear conflict of interest/insider trading. We can argue about what the top marginal tax rate should be. We can debate the merits of expanding or contracting the social safety net as it regards health care or parental leave or pre-K education/day care.

We're talking about elected officials—and an associated constituency that either support them or don't consider it a deal-breaker—who believe in Jewish space lasers and Democratic pizza parlor child sex and mutilation dungeons.

You can scream "free speech" all you like, but if you cannot see the substantive difference, free speech will not save you.
You just gotta etch the block into the foundation. Then it's physically part of the house. Maybe make a radioactive label and bury it on the property. That way people now the property they're standing is on actual property.
So far, only 4 providers have contractually agreed to abide by Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) program's policy requirements.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy#Confor...

Maybe it's better to choose one among the 4

CIRA Canadian Shield

Cloudflare

NextDNS

Comcast

I think you need to use the specific DoH URL in the above link to get the contract benefits, but maybe I'm wrong
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> At least Google is funding Mozilla out of pity.

This is absolutely not why they are funding Mozilla.
Doesn’t seem to work on an iPhone?
I agree that Tesla Stock has been vastly overpriced for a long time, the markets overall are highly irrational at the moment, and Tesla/Musk are some of the biggest winners in this. The thing is, that with the stock prices being what they are, Tesla can probably outright buy a good car maker, including the factories and store networks. Given that they do still have a pretty sizeable technological lead, they should be able to become a major player in the auto industry in the coming years. I highly doubt the company will ever be worth as much as it is priced at now though.
You warranty is void if using a 3rd part battery pack...
> if a garage presents your vehicle for inspection.

That's the key. Many people don't bring their cars to a garage for inspection. Especially if they don't have annual maintenance intervals which typically end on the same month as the HU intervals.

> The price for the check is fixed. You only fail the check, if there are crucial safety issues or oil leaks

I don't doubt that. The question is whether the dealership will inspect your car before your official inspection or not.

> You do also insult any inspector (DEKRA, GTU or TÜV) by promoting such implications.

???
I am only saying that dealerships are inspecting cars before official inspector sees them, and the rate of pre-inspected cars differs from brand to brand. I don't blame DEKRA, GTU or TÜV for faulty inspections. I blame them for not disclosing the bias in their statistics.
Where else can you go purchase the rights to the work of an artist you like as a consumer?
I don’t get the “firewall” argument. You can use the firewall the same way with v6 as you do with v4, only allow incoming traffic on specific ports, just minus the NAT which makes everything simpler and better for everyone
I don't think what you're describing is actually different from the popular approach of comprehensible input. There's just a step that needs to happen before most input is comprehensible, and that's understanding the meanings of the most common kanji.

One simply cannot read most Japanese content online without understanding at least a few hundred kanji. It's like if you wanted to learn the English language but had no understanding of the alphabet (ignoring kana for the sake of the analogy). You've got to bootstrap with some rote memorization first, then go start learning new kanji / grammar in context.

Lucky, this doesn't take much time at all, and one can memorize the first few hundred kanji and vocab meanings / readings with a spaced repetition tool.

And in parallel, there are resources one can start with knowing only the kana / furigana, such as these graded readers: https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/
I have a sprinter van for business and a Tacoma for a normal driver. I drive more than some due to distance, not frequency. I also explore remote back/off roads.

The sprinter is more susceptible to wind and driving surface variation.
No, it's the worst possible outcome, it is totally obstructive to the will of the people, and appears to be exclusively in service to the donor class who fund their reelection efforts.
Ha, the best way to optimise your code is to post about how another language can do it faster.
Let’s say that’s the manager’s only job. But “communicating requirements in a written doc” is serious hard work, the same way “typing code in a text editor” is a lot of work. To do the former requires negotiating with other teams, understanding the limits of the audience, estimating effort, and basically developing a rough sketch of the solution in your head to make sure the request is reasonable.
Seems to work for me on mine.
I'm curious how you'd come to that last conclusion from that article, as the historical Greek languages/dialects have the noun and verb forms therein (except for the ablative case, which fell into disuse by the classical period, and prepositions taking ablatives took genetics case nouns instead)

Greek has more forms as well, having a dual number (in addition to singular and plural, a middle voice in addition to active and passive, the aorist tense...

Now, I never studied Latin, only Greek, so I have a very basic understanding of the terms as I learned them from Greek, but I've always felt like Latin was way more regular and consistent. It's a much "younger" language, too, at least compared to Attic and Homeric Greek. But, I really don't know Latin well, so I'm not in a good position to compare...
Electric cars won’t “make a dent” in carbon emissions until most of our electricity comes from renewables and nuclear. At least in the USA, we are many years away from this. BEV uptake is unfortunately not the rate-limiting step.
Wow, what a load of anti-analytical sensationalist crap from someone that obviously hasn't spent any real time in the ecosystem to see what is actually happening. The fact that more people are paying attention to this is a statement of ignorance rather than actual thoughtful discussion.
So, exercise, fasting, and being cold?
Correct, all modern storage media perform plenty of internal ECC. That's basically what "bad sectors" means: the drive wasn't able to correct the data on that sector using ECC. The drive will never return the actual "raw" data -- it's either valid data or a bad sector. This means that if you want to add your own application-level ECC, it would need to be enough to correct an entire sector's worth of missing data. For most applications this would be a prohibitive amount of extra overhead.
I have a blast being a senior data scientist, and I've recently turned down a manager role precisely because of the points you raised, despite the better pay. Your comment made me glad of my decision.
I'm a fan of both artists but I don't think Joni Mitchell or Neil Young are even relevant to Spotify and their bottom line. Most folks under 30-35 probably don't even know who they are.
Spanish is the most commonly spoken non-English language in all but a few states, not just the sun belt.
You're not alone. The EU generally has underground wires and where it doesn't yet have them it's actively planning to move them there.
Please point me to a musician who has created a private company and sold shares in order to compensate investors for royalties from their work.
Microsoft: Windows needs at least 8 hours online to update reliably
Not at all, but it's totally beside the parent's point, which is the hypocrisy of scapegoating overhead lines to restrict public transportation options, while simultaneously letting them proliferate unchallenged for residential electric delivery.
My understanding was that the stimulus checks and child tax credit were not remotely a majority of the money spent; that most of it went to corporations.
Most pinball machines have two tilt sensors, one is the regular one that, in modern incarnations, chides you for tilting and if you do it too much will end your current ball. There's a second, the slam tilt sensor that mostly detects kicking the coin door, etc, and reboots the machine (ending the whole game and maybe dropping any existing credits)
Your counter-argument to my examples of worthless work is "well, actually, that work is valuable!" The reason why you use this argument is because we are so conditioned to believe that money is the same thing as value. Thus, by definition, every work is valuable because someone pays.

Try and think of it from a utilitarian perspective. Is some aaa game creating or destroying more happiness? Is it a net positive for society? For some games perhaps the answer is yes, for others it is no. Children getting obese from sedentary lifestyle and not socialising with friends is certainly a large cost.

> If that were the case all of these “useless” jobs would go away and we would then ask farmers to give us food in exchange for nothing at all?

Sure.
500K to parse options is frankly too much...
While I respect Celery, it is complicated (some amount is intrinsic to the problem space). I used to use it, but it felt heavyweight and debugging errors was so quite challenging. Have since switched to Dramatiq - which may not be web scale, but works fine for an internal service.

I love the idea of re-using infrastructure "for free".
I would use Google if they didn't consistently behave poorly and provide a poor privacy. I did use them for a long time. I'm not opposed to ads. I'm opposed to their behavior. Once Brave starts behaving poorly I'll stop using it.
You might want to check out the Katakana and Joyo Kanji courses then!

https://libre.study/courses/7/

https://libre.study/courses/29/

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Any specific examples? I've seen people say the opposite.
Why does the IRS even think they need this? I feel like this was developed from an incident at a stripclub after a ritzy dinner, which was then proceeded by hookers - and less to do with practical scrupulous enforcement of the tax code.
Terrible take entirely divorced from reality and filled with hubris. Just because you are not personally witness to it doesn't somehow divorce you from the animals that sustain your life either directly or indirectly. Like it or not, you are a predator.

Also, for many people especially in the southern hemisphere, hunting is still a necessary part of life so not everything is about your narrow clearly American conception of purely recreational hunting.

You can make valid arguments for veganism or vegetarianism from an ethics standpoint but claiming meat is categorically "terribly healthy" is nonsense. Veganism is not even nutritionally complete without supplements and there hasn't been a discovered hominid species as of yet that have not been omnivores.
How do we know this is Apple?
Personally I’m glad Apple doesn’t force devs to support devices that have been discontinued for a couple of years. It’d be such a PITA for app devs. I do wish they unlocked the bootloader tho.
Try flicking the ringer on. I had to do that, even though I usually do not when playing something from safari
The timing is suspect given the profile of the disease has diminished and continues to fade.

I wouldn't be surprised if a gruntled woke faction inside Spotify is trying to get out of the Rogan contract and that's what this is all about. Lust for money and power over the past two years explain all the headscratchers like this for me.
N95 is just a filtration standard. You can't really tell whether the mask satisfies it from the outline alone.
Yes, and then the internet took another 20+ years.
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> The variability of an aging phenotype is not that high. We all loose bone density, loose teeth, hair turns white, memory degrades, wrinkles appear, etc.

People age at different rates depending on a wide variety of factors.

Progeria, over consumption of alcohol, too much stress, too much radiation from sunlight, etc.

The things you point to are measures of a biological age, not a wall clock age. While they do correlate, they're not 1:1. Some people age faster.

> But there is an alternative explanation: aging provides and evolutionary advantage for a species and hence is predetermined.

I don't buy this. We don't have a pre-programmed death. It's rather that we haven't had any genetic pressure to live beyond our current lifespan as it doesn't increase our offspring's chances of success.

There's little pressure from competing with children for resources. Look at how many people there are in the world today - the world supports billions of humans. There are far greater pressures being exerted in other ways.
Thanks, that is more what I was looking for.
There is a continuum between "I run servers in my basement" and "I pay mid 5 figures monthly to have autoscaled autofailover hotstandby 1s-interval backed up cluster across three AZs".

I use AWS, DO and Hetzner (bare metal) for (different) cases where each makes sense.

In the past few years, maintenance burden and uptime between AWS and Hetzner hosted stuff was comparable, with the cost being an order of magnitude less for Hetzner (as an added benefit, that machine is more beefy but I wasn't even comparing that).

> People on my time would rather be developing software than doing sys admin stuff.

I am not surprised software developers would prefer doing software development :-)
Agree and would like to add that you may want to disable ipv6 tunneling for streaming services. (Google it) because they consider it a “vpn” thus you must be a copyright thief. (Yet any other “real” vpn will stream just fine lol)
No - Putin is currently dictator for life. A more or less immortal dictator would be an entirely novel, and truly weird, situation on the world stage.
Does anyone do gamedev using FreeDOS? I'd wager a low power machine running FreeDOS and running "dos-like" games would be pretty niche, kinda like a demoscene thing but building games on FreeDOS always kinda was something I wondered about.
And this article from a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29920920 [The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study]
The AMA is not a union, nor is the American Bar Association, nor is the Society of Actuaries. These are professional organizations. They aren't involved in collective bargaining and they don't call strikes (putting aside for argument's sake the ethical issues with doctors going on strike).

Here's a document from the AMA itself stating their stance on unions (implying they don't consider themselves a union): https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/advocacy-issue-brief-p...
2 days per week I do a coffee and beer only fast. I can guarantee no toxins survive the resulting torrent. I like to know I'm starting the week with a totally blank slate.