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The big problem, at least in the US, is that we don't build things anymore. The homeless camp 2 blocks from me is one glaring proof.

The lack of power generation, power transmission, and pretty much any infrastructure you can think of is another.

I agree that there is some conflict of interest between humans and untouched nature, and I am firmly on the side of us, humanity!

What side are you on?
Question on part of this. He skips over it in the article.

How do 2 locked down phones that have not done so before do a facetime call? As neither one will accept the others call.
Wow, you are very lucky if you've never had really bad fries. I've been to places and had undercooked fries, burnt fries, fries with almost no potato in them, soggy fries. McDonald's fries are very okay but they are always okay. They are very rarely hot though, usually quite old, but at least not stone cold like KFC fries (in the UK and Europe we have fries instead of mash with fried chicken). The fries in Belgium are by far the best, but there are some great ones here in Germany.
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Why not simply hold it?

What happens if he buys back the same number of bitcoins today?

He is in exactly the same position as before except he now has a $189 million loss to declare on his taxes.
I don't know where Santa Monica and Pigeon Forge are. But traveling around Asia... McDonalds doesn't taste the same between Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand.

Infact Thailand burgers are VERY salty...
What are you talking about? 50 basis points is 0,5%.
There are annoying things about all aspects to life.

Your solution is to add more and more annoying things unnecessarily in an effort to side-step the problem.

I think there should be an examination of the root causes and more post-mortems to actually understand what went wrong and why the solution didn't work either.

You want to keep piling on in a rather psychopathic manner:

Phone tag --> SMS --> Email --> AIM --> MySpace --> Facebook --> Twitter --> Instagram --> Snapchat --> TikTok --> ???????

You even do this in other posts, defending the idea of the suicide prevention hotline before even discussing wtf might be causing people to be suicidal. [0] People like you are why we are rapidly shedding any semblance of progress in the Western world.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121231
Amazon also acquired Whole Foods while expanding Amazon Fresh. It's easier to acquire a bunch of existing locations and customers than to bootstrap them.
> The counterargument is that they'll switch sides and either join the Republicans or simply caucus with them to retake the majority (eg like Tom Daschle did with Jim Jeffords). Let them.

When Tom Daschle was Senate majority leader, Democrats held both Senate seats in South Dakota. Virtually all of Democrats' economic achievements of the 20th century were built with a coalition including socially conservative midwestern and southern voters. Obamacare was passed with the support of voters that went over to Trump in 2016 over social issues. If you kick those people out of the coalition, as Democrats have been doing, you're left with a party that can't actually muster the votes to deliver on their economic promises to working class voters.

> Remember that keeping Roe v. Wade enjoyed wide public support (eg 64% according to [2]; I've seen other figures as high as 70-75%).

The majority of Americans don't understand the actual legal effect of Roe. They also support a 15-week ban on elective abortions--like the Mississippi law in Dobbs--which was prohibited under Roe. https://www.wsj.com/articles/support-for-15-week-abortion-ba....

More importantly to this conversation, a big chunk of the people who support legalized abortion are Republicans. https://news.gallup.com/poll/246278/abortion-trends-party.as.... The 2010 Democratic coalition that enacted Obamacare included about 30% folks who identify as "pro life." Continuing to kick those folks out of the coalition is a great way to do exactly what Mitch McConnell wants.
>>"Even though the ruling occurred in a U.S. federal court, Judge Tse said he made the ruling based on New Zealand law, as Zuru intends to sue in that jurisdiction. Therefore, the court's ruling was decided based on New Zealand law's definition of defamation, and not the U.S. legal definition."

that's confusing.
GD is joke. I worked at a company that would relentlessly take down the negative reviews. Once hired, they would butter you up to get a positive review so any negative reviews they couldn’t remove would be offset. That’s when I lost all trust in GD.
Top 10 tricks to survive the depression and why it starts with block chain.
seven months? "Don't hardcode price into order_spec.js" for $438.40? Michael, are you hiring?
I don't know where you got the idea that this agency has any experience in design conversions or building funnels, but I won't dismiss your comment entirely.

From a design standpoint, my biggest gripe is with the first two sections on the landing page design. I mean, it quite literally looks like either the site is reselling (drop-shipping) or it's a knockoff scam. At no point did I get the impression of "brand identity" or "this product looks trustworthy".

Which means that the primarily source of sales for this product is word of mouth (reputation), and to be fair I wouldn't be surprised if this agency just realized that themselves and exploited the whole idea.

If reputation is how you get sales, then why give a shit about building a brandable design. A design that actually converts and is possible to measure in long-term.
To be fair, Zendesk was founded in 2007. Ruby on Rails was new and hot back then.
More like the sum total of promises that've been made is greater than our collective capacity to deliver on them.
> I would think giving it to some federal parks/wildlife agency would come with stronger protections than an NGO could provide.

Not really. Federal agencies sell parklands from time to time. It's easier to have an NGO that won't sell the land for a long time.
So you get your money back, and then you use it to buy other land. Same same?
- https://community.frame.work/search?q=trackpoint

- not yet .. but this is ~ Open Design .. so I hope some 3rd party company will create.
> I believe the much more aggressive rate hikes by the FED, multiple already, validate this point. It's not done nothing to reduce inflation.

It's way too early to make this claim. Fiscal policy such as setting interest rates has been studied and projected to take anywhere from 9 months to 24 months to see an effect on inflation metrics such as CPI. We won't know if what the Fed has done will have its desired effect until much later. We can only do what has been observed to have worked in the past and hope other secondary inflation drivers (i.e. supply shortages, commodities crisis) continue to die down.

[1] https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/ecajt/inflation%20lags%20m...
Google Play is reinstating the app permissions section
For context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31698148
There’s a good summary of Germany’s military procurement problems done by an Australian defense economist on YouTube - search Perun.

Essentially, weapons manufacturers aren’t able to do business with Germany because Germany isn’t able to fund projects that take more than one year to deliver. That leads to horrific procurement problems like showing up to NATO exercises without enough tents, or spending 10 years evaluating a helmet for German heads that the US already uses.

Without overhauling their government, he concludes that the best Germany can do to help NATO is to give funds to other countries that have more capable procurement processes.
It's fascinating how whenever I bring up how actually terrible for the world this SaaS shit is, people get very defensive about it and end up resorting to personal attacks.

It's as if people had never before considered that what they are doing is actually very toxic for the world and our planet. It's as if you hate being reminded that people that support Slack and Microsoft are basically the devil incarnate.
> it seems that we can call 120 million person PIGS and nobody think is a bad thing

I do think it's a bad thing because it needlessly creates a North/South divide. If these countries are in trouble, the whole Euroblock is in trouble.
But no ad block...
Former Coinbase Employee Charged in First Ever Crypto Insider Trading Scheme
That's why humans should insist on competing with AIs in our world not theirs (simulation).

When it matters, the playing field will be stacked heavily against the human who will not have direct access to the informed encoded in the virtual world. Putting it differently, any AI in a simulation is in some sense indistinguishable from the simulation itself (or at least, you should assume so).
>I believe private business won't weld me into my own home

Lol, you should look up mining towns and how corporations treated their miners in the 1800s.

A corporation without a government to beat it into submission will treat you as a machine, to be used up and discarded and replaced. Come on! We've seen the bad side of unregulated business here in America, and it was extremely dark.
The current trend has to been to increase the value of any win, with things like 3 points for a win and only 1 point for a draw. In my opinion increasing the points based on color is an interesting idea, but it's unlikely to be seriously considered because of the fact that it would disrupt the "symmetry" in chess both the sort of abstract fashion, and also in the specific - such as requiring tournament pairing systems based on score to be completely reworked.

One tie break system, armageddon, does break the symmetry by giving black draw odds (he wins if the game is drawn) but less time in a blitz game. But it's very poorly regarded and generally only used as a this-game-MUST-have-a-decisive-result last resort.
First of all Glassdoor has, in my experience, been full of useless information. From seemingly intentionally depressing compensation information to observing employers frequently having email campaigns soliciting "positive reviews" (and positive ones only) to jump on Glassdoor "because it helps our hiring!" (you're part of the in group, right?)

This kind of suit is particularly concerning because:

1. How could an individual ever expect to stand against a $400M ARR company? (presuming there is a positive correlation between legal spend and outcomes)

2. When companies do this, they're siphoning off profit created by labor, to silence and suppress labor's best interests such as freedom of speech, transparent views into what it's like to work there, freedoms/rights of action and behavior outside the 9-5/cubicle (figuratively speaking).

The machinations of working class control working as designed.

Edit: but I do recognize this is also part of incentives. Companies pay glassdoor, not reviewers. Perhaps we stop using sites incentivized to destroy us?
> the "decentralized" block-chain is pretty reliant on centralized exchanges.

...for now
And if the manager can't fix it? And if existing colleagues are repeatedly complaining about the quality of the new person's work product? If people are having to repeatedly stay late or cancel vacation days to re-do the new person's tasks?

Idealism is great, but most of us work in the real world.
Quidditch Is Changing Its Name to Distance Itself from JK Rowling Comments
this is unironically my solution
We've seen battery life be roughly the same for the same workload (MobileMark) on i5-1240P, i7-1260P, and i7-1280P. It's unclear where the major difference comes from in that video, but I would guess the laptop maker has other hardware or software differences between the two laptop SKUs.
In this day and age it’s worthwhile to assume that any data can be linked presuming that someone is motivated to do so.

Glassdoor would probably be ordered to reveal ip address, and email. To block this the reviewer would need to use a one time anonymous email, and anonymous vpn. In turn, you can’t really trust either of those parties not to reveal your identity (although it might take more time). If I was to do something sensitive on such a site - I would use as many layers of indirection as I thought the companies legal team would be willing to expend in time. After 3-5 such proxies, it’s likely they would give up or at least have to expend 6 months to a year of legal effort to get to your actual identity.

Note that in the above, financial contracts with email providers/etc will be a second method to de-anonymize you, and they are much faster to trace and much harder to avoid.

Your best bet would be to get the free tier of every such service, and use a library computer/public Wi-Fi which does not require authentication and doesn’t have video recordings :shrug:
Or the other parts of the war on X franchise.
OP, I hope you aren't rethinking it. You'd certainly be justified in doing so, but I think it would be a mistake. There are most definitely people out there that fit your description:

> I have a different philosophy when it comes to hiring in that I assume the people working with me are honest and they're motivated to do their jobs well. I'm paying for their time, and I assume they'll use their time effectively. If they can't use their time effectively, I terminate the hire, but I don't try to fix it with different policies.

I've worked with many of them. I myself try to live that way as well, often costing myself non-trivial time and money to ensure that my client gets what I sold them.

Of course there are people who are not, but I've seen multiple times a pessimistic approach becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Most people will reflect back your expectations. If you expect them to be dishonest, slothful, etc, then they will become that. Conversely showing trust/faith will often inspire a person to live up to the ideals. Between reflection and confirmation bias, lowering your expectation of people will lower your results. I've also seen it become a vicious positive feedback loop that ends in extreme distrust, paranoia, and misanthropic misery. Not worth it.
what i like to do is work with agencies for a limited trial period. i give them a couple of easy, medium, and hard tasks, and see how they fare. based on their performance, i hire them or move on to someone else.

This helps me test the hypothesis that this is the right group for the job.

That said, I don't know if that would have helped OP. It seemed like timing (End of year is always a slowdown due to holidays, and Feb-April are when other clients start ramping back up) was not on their side, but breaking things down into more bitesized work could have helped. Most of the work I saw was mockup/design work, which is more creative/subjective than your typical "Make button do X" kind of task.
> -By the way, it seems that we can call 120 million person PIGS and nobody think is a bad thing.

I've had this convo before on HN: under the guise of brevity, it's an example of literal casual racism. But folks here refuse to accept it, even when supported by the fact that all serious mainstream publications have forbidden its use in print.
"This is good for Bitcoin"
Nope.

At least not directly. Similar to how a carpenter might learn stuff during their 9-5 that helps them be a better carpenter, the work I do during my 9-5 informs what I do outside of work.

If I were to spend time on personal projects, I'd never use my day job's resources. Early in my career I left an employer to start my own company. That former employer tried to sue me, saying that because I came up with the idea while "on the clock" that they could claim some or all ownership of my new company.

My former employer had no case though. I never used their resources, never even jotted down notes about the idea I had, never even talked about it to other employees. The idea itself was one that wouldn't even compete with my employer - two totally different industries/markets.

That said, my lawyer at the time said that if my former employer even had a single email I sent that hinted at the idea, or scrap of paper with any reference to it, they might have been able to get a case in front of a judge or arbitrator.

For those considering working on side projects, and you want every chance of protecting those side projects, it wouldn't hurt to talk with a lawyer about how to protect yourself as early as you can.
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> This inarguably happened.

Hubris. This is not what happened in the slightest.

Oil is traded on a global market, the little impact domestic production has on the price of oil is due to its contribution to global supplies.

The only domestic industry that has an impact on local capacity is refining.

Here is what happened: the fracking boom that began in the early/mid 2010s led to an oil glut as OPEC kept production high in order to drive out domestic US producers from the market (the shale producers had a higher cost structure and needed +$60 oil to break even). This strategy worked even before Covid, and once Covid hit, oil traded negative for a short period.

During 2021 oil inventories slowly drew down. Yet, given the experience of the latter half of the previous decade, US producers have been understandably hesitant to invest. Obviously the Biden administration did not disabuse them of this notion, but the effect of their actions is consistently overstated. Shale companies had been failing since before Biden even declared his run for president.

The war in Ukraine was then a precipitation even for oil prices to spike, but the biggest impact on gas prices has less to do with oil production challenges (though that was impacted) and more to do with refining.

Crack spreads (the difference in profit between refining a barrel of oil into gasoline vs other distillates) hit record highs this year. The value of refining diesel and jet fuel was higher than refining gasoline, when it is usually the reverse. This can be pretty clearly traced to, on the one had, a rapid rebound in air travel, and on the other, shifted supply chains from Europe where diesel is the primary fuel for passenger vehicles (though I’ll admit that the latter is more speculative on my part).
If IATA made a standard for the it'd be worth it. Lots of airlines have done pilots but they aren't intercompatible so kind of a waste unless you always fly one airline
It can be. 50bp is always equivalent to 0.5pp, but only sometimes equivalent to 0.5%. A % increase is dependent on relative change. The increase from 0.25 to 0.75 talked about in the article, for example, is a 200% increase, a 0.5pp increase, and a 50bp increase. The difference between 0.75% and 0.25% is not represented as a %. That is now how % is calculated.
I'm a janitor not a miracle worker.
It's because the furor over AI replicating human artists already played out over earlier AI iterations. Remember when thisfursonadoesnotexist.com was flamed for stealing furry art? Turns out that many artists shared an extremely generic style that the AI could easily replicate.
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In the US we struggle to protect the land that is already owned by state and federal agencies.

For example, each year we spend billions on fire suppression on public land. And most year more acres burn and the cost increases.

https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics

5,510,675 Acres
Year-to-date Acres Burned

FY 2021 suppression cost $4,389,000,000

Conservation his hard especially in a landscape where we fail to manage fire effectively.
It's kind of strange that it wont let you join the waitlist if you are logged into an existing openai account.
Yikes, this takes YT videos and rehosts the audio on Anchor. I'm sure OP thought this was a nifty productivity tool, but this is also an easy way to automate content theft. I'm in the podcast biz and it's a big problem that really anyone can just download and rehost content with their own ads layered on and there's no easy way to stop them.
Well, that won't do. You are not thinking at scale.

It requires training people that do not have the resources to acquire training.
To use your phrase, all cryptos are shitcoin casinos. The difference between bitcoin and all the others are just one more shitcoin. The Lightning Network is fundamentally flawed and broken anyway [1]. If it actually did work in any capacity, it would still be nothing more than a poor bandaid on top of a broken system. The bitcoin developers have the ability to fix scaling problems by taking various measures (like increasing the block size limit) but refused to do so because doing so cuts into the profits of the miners. They don't want it to be a usable payment system. The community has shown repeatedly that they'll resist all efforts to do that because it reduces the amount of money they can make. Actually the design of bitcoin means that the miners profit much more from forcing people to continuously make useless transactions, not payments.

To be honest, payment systems are well-known for being a difficult, risky and low-margin business that are the front-lines of defense against fraud and malicious bots trying to take advantage of any tiny bug they can to swipe someone's funds. It's really not surprising that the crypto promoters have washed their hands of any responsibility about this, passing it around like a big game of musical chairs to whatever project makes the most empty promises it can about being a scalable solution (but still having no answer to the problem of massive fraud and bot attacks).

As for your second item, illegally circumventing capital controls in favor of a risky, unregulated offshore bank (that repeatedly denies they are a bank in order to avoid being shut down, because they couldn't possibly comply with banking regulations) is not actually helping anyone store or accumulate wealth in a developing economy.

[1]: https://blog.dshr.org/2020/01/bitcoins-lightning-network.htm...
The awe disappeared once I started to get good enough at it and I saw the "magic" for what it is.
this seems suspicious. generally you seek out foreign courts when you want to set a precedent or touchstone for a favourable outcome in your court, or you want to cherrypick a legislative tome thats favourable to your case. this strongly suggests that had Zuru just litigated this in New Zealand, they would have lost.
> He was adamant that he wanted to see butts in seats, across the company. Engineers? Not special. (We were working until the early hours of the morning, nearly every day).

He might see my butt in a seat that week, but he damn sure wouldn't see me working past 5, and I'd be looking for a new job.
Most people here probably know this already, but Glassdoor sucks.

They do all sorts of things to hide bad reviews and make companies look better than they are. This includes:

- altering the weights of reviews

- applying filters that hide unfavorable reviews

- excluding reviews from the rating score altogether
IDK.. What's the advantage over say, HN's ID system.

The problems here aren't technical. These are legal issues. Issues with Glassdoor's business model.
I agree it is quite likely also a scheduling challenge. But it doesn't matter how difficult it is to compute, my take is, that there is so much variation in the intermediate steps which have a mutual dependency, that an elaborate schedule wouldn't last for long. Like a truck with sand arriving a few minutes early or late to the site. So the construction workers will dynamically have to deal with the situation. And at times step aside and wait for that truck with the sand dump it into the pit they are working in.

And of course, beyond what was said about the workers needs for breaks, it might be most efficient to have reasonably large groups of workers which are needed to work together to perform a task efficiently and then that group having short breaks between the tasks instead of trying to have schemes how to increase the utilization per worker.