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If you're dealing in goods of non-obvious quality, where total supply volume >> total demand volume, markets get weird.

See: beauty products, wine, art

There are people who can discern quality reliably... but those people are an extremely small portion of the total market.

Consequently, things that are not quality (chiefly, marketing and price) start to become dominant features.
I once met a local winemaker from a tiny winery in a foreign country who was proud to say that their wine was being served a restaurant in the US. I asked them how much they thought the wine would be priced at given that it was their entry-level wine. The winemaker estimated $20-25. We looked it up--it was $60.
But there are just some 'small details'[0]:

> TechCrunch has found that the startup appears to also have investor ties to Russia

> ... Immigram, based out of the U.K. but run by Russian passport holders, directly violates any specific sanctions...

> All that said, TechCrunch has uncovered an investor in Immigram who maintains close links to Russia.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/slush-and-vc-pitch-judges-...
Interesting. Having some friends who write software/hardware for factories, always-on connectivity is definitely not an assumption. I had assumed it would be the same for AgTech but sounds like I'm wrong. What are some of the biggest pain points you've encountered?
Shit, by that metric for some of the jobs I have had the hire date and productive work ending date are the same.
I'd sign up for that in a heartbeat, as long as nobody was tracking the books I was reading.
"I like playing video games" would be analogous to "I like dining out."

"I like making video games" would be analogous "I like to cook."

Of course "I like making video games" might not mean "I want to work for an AAA developer", but the reasons why would probably be different than those you wouldn't want to make a commercial indie title / open your own restaurant.
> What is your company reporting to the financial press? What are you hearing internally about the prospects of the company?

From what I can see, they're very profitable. I can imagine that reducing the headcount would make sense with the decrease of new clients.
The entire zeitgeist is that people are more and more isolated and lack a support network.

We can put 2 and 2 together and figure out that physical isolation in environment where people live far apart from each other and drive everywhere is... isolating?

And by the way, there are studies that show that even for introverts, socialization (even forced!) is ultimately good.

We're not made to sit alone in a room in the middle of nowhere. We were born in caves filled with our tribesfolk, dozens and dozens of people living together in small spaces.

Also, who said anything about alcoholics? Alcohol is just bad for you. Anything except for very small amounts has a ton of bad side effects. It's just "grandfathered in" (just like tobacco) and seen as socially acceptable.
>... we strongly believe he is wrong. His flawed thinking implies that Indigenous people do not deserve credit for their cultural heritage.

The implication is racist regardless of Hancock's argument, it's anthropological and philosophical more than archaeological.

You had me at "Netflix".
The most likely expensive dud you're going to see is aged Burgundy reds. Many don't make it.

Very old red wine (e.g. 30+ years), if it's not fortified or a dessert wine, is also not particularly pleasant. I've had some very famous Bordeaux from some celebrated 70s vintage, a sip from Hedonism Wines in London, and it was very much not worth it; more than anything else, it reminded me of clothes in an old person's closet.

On the other hand, the same day I had a sip of something sweet from the 19th century - like 1898 or something - from Crimea, and it wasn't bad. It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad or undrinkable either. Might have been related to these batches - https://quillandpad.com/2020/07/21/the-massandra-collection-...
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When eating a dish, I can usually identify the ingredients and spices by flavour, but different wines taste more or less the same to me. Some taste different, but I can't say that they taste significantly better than others. Spending $50 more on the food in a restaurant is going to make an enormously bigger difference than spending $50 more on wine. In fact, I find that not drinking wine at all usually makes for a better experience if the food is good, because the super strong flavour of wine destroys your ability to discern flavours on the next bite. Not all that different from putting hot sauce on all your food, in fact.
Is Arduino considered a good steward? I have heard rumblings of dissatisfaction about them in the past, but I do not know if those have any merit.
Your main concern seems to be with ongoing maintenance, but my understanding is that the "hyperscalers" like Azure don't do maintenance. They assemble everything once and then let failed components remain in-place and powered off.

Google championed this over a decade ago. They figured that the cost of staff, spare parts, diagnostics, etc... outweighed the cost of the hardware. If you factor in the complexity of liquid cooling, it might not make sense to repair hardware even a single compute node costs north of $20K.
I'd guess cost of labor is a major factor.

If you buy any California wine, for instance, it was picked by a migrant worker. Times haven't changed much since Grapes of Wrath, other than it's typically Latino workers rather than Dust Bowl refugees.
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Is there a difference between Phil Schiller leaving because Apple is probably the brand that cares most in the world about "brand safety" and Phil Schiller leaving because he may potentially block Twitter the app?

There may be a be careful what you wish for if Musk fights this. Breaking up Apple's App store dominance would probably be better for marginalized apps but worse for dominant apps. I guess we'll wait to see which one Twitter is, but I imagine the bulk of people will still use Apple's app store, and Apple may be more rigid with their policies if multiple app stores are allowed.
Can’t you use induced demand to argue against building anything ever?
I have been through the same. No burnout in startups, then a period of boreout in a large company, then a political manager, then depression, and then resigning. Although my company did retain me in the end.

There's nothing worse than a clueless political manager.
I disagree. There’s a pretty stark difference between $50 wine and like genuine top quality wine.

The problem is that it’s just highly inconsistent for a variety of reasons, including the fact that even if you trust the label you have no idea if that 20 year old bottle was left in the sun for awhile, and so on. Plus there’s personal taste, etc.

So you can spend a lot and get something underwhelming. In short, it’s complicated.

With that said, having gone for a full day tasting at Mouton Rothschild, and a couple other similar spots like Caymus, Y’quem, etc, I can say with complete confidence that there’s a level of quality thats simply not going to be reached with $50 bottles.
Why would I buy those ridiculously expensive fake meat when I could just eat grilled or fried tofu? In Asia tofu is even cheaper than in US/EU countries, and ppl would laugh at those fake meat
> not because of social status. What? You thougth billionaires were taking all their texts seriously?

And it’s mind blowing to me that money can’t buy a better iPhone, they all have to deal with fiddling with the cursor on HN, even princes in the Middle-East, no matter the height of the tower they’re at the top of, they use the same apps as us.
Done that too. Scorecards could be sold to random number vendors.
It looks like modern quality control leaves no such thing as "shitty wine" at all.
Holy heck this is a bad one. That response from the security team is completely unacceptable. I wonder if there's a way to force this to happen, e.g. by modifying the file contents directly.
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I'm surprised that no one talks about how a certain wine makes you feel. Ever since I started partaking in cannabis, I've noticed that many of the labels describe the effects you are likely to experience.

Granted, wines aren't so different to reliably reproduce physical and mental effects, but maybe it's a new angle for marketing :)
This barely-an-article is just engagement farming of the worst "what's the best state in the US?" type. The author is assuming the voice of a caricature of an out-of-touch parasitic capitalist. If it weren't in the WSJ, I would assume this is left-wing parody of the WSJ.
I had another issue with iCloud and photo syncing being abysmally slow, and I ended up digging through LinkedIn and I found the director of engineering for photos at Apple. I messaged that person through LinkedIn, and ended up getting some very senior tech support people who helped go through my issues with me. I hesitate to post contact info, but just saying... it's possible if you are polite and can clearly articulate the issue to get someone like that to help really escalate the support.
Clearly Elon Musk should buy Amazon.
I would agree, however that's not my use case. I don't leave my property except about once per week. I do plenty of "truck stuff" without being in construction, though. I don't think you've hit all the use cases with "work in construction."
Also: Phil Rosenthal, the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond and current host of Somebody Feed Phil.
Yes. Ontario's production is less than 3% of California's.
Evidently you missed the entirety of the post where I have said my family member is Bob's confidant and intimate friend. And the example of his close, childhood friend betraying his trust. And you just said it yourself.. a literal gunman broke into the kitchen of the Buffet's residence whilst they were eating lunch, but it's the wealthy individual's fault for not trusting enough!?

Did you get lost on the way to reddit, or something?
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I'm a firm believer in learn-by-doing. Take a look at these stats:

Learning Retention Rates:

- Listening only
- After 3 hours: 70%
- After 3 days: 10%

- Seeing or Observing only
- After 3 hours: 72%
- After 3 days: 20%

- Hearing and Seeing / Observing
- After 3 hours: 85%
- After 3 days: 65%

- Doing
- After 3 hours: 95%
- After 3 days: 90%

As you can clearly see, nothing comes close to the amount of information you actually retain by doing. You should try to connect your passion to learning new skills.

For me, I did this by working on personal projects that used the newest web technologies that related to my interests (horticulture, education, biotech). I quickly became proficient in those technologies and became a resource for other developers in my organization. My career accelerated and I rose from junior javascript developer to chief software architect before I was 25.
Seems like they're the same thing, aren't they?
Of course, this is the guy that cleaned up Enron. Bankruptcy experts charge big money for their services..
Imagine getting still frames of somebody else's bedroom photos or kinky selfies sent to a partner or something similar rendered into your own video.

This could be very much like the technical cloud-based version of the fictional Tyler Durden splicing dick pics into single frames of 35mm film movies.

Based on what people use phones for these days some sizable percentage of icloud synced photos have to be something you really wouldn't want to get out there to random other icloud users.
When I was in graduate school, I printed out hundreds of pages of papers a week. I probably went through a ream of paper a week. I just can't efficiently read on a screen and taking notes on paper is much easier for me.
I've had some bad luck multiple times buying expensive wine that was on sale. i.e. mark down from $50-60 to $20-30... 2/3 times it was skunked.

Better off buying that $12-$15 bottle or getting the kirkland costco $8-10 bottles. Never had a bad one from those and they taste decent.
Looks like the website uses the free open source project on the backend
I am withholding my human capital at the moment, because the job that I worked hard for, worked well at, and enjoyed, was taken from me during the lockdowns of 2020-2021.

When I open Zoom and see shitty pixelated faces in bedrooms, I think - you fucked up the job I used to enjoy. I can't reintegrate into the workforce as a result.

This isn't a popular viewpoint here because most people here are on the other side of thinking WFH is the best thing since sliced bread. I imagine they see this as a personal attack or threat or something.

It just doesn't work for me, that's all. However well it works for you.

So I'm here, twiddling my thumbs and hoping that my investments are enough until I can find peace with this. I still have no idea what I'm going to do, I still can't accept that my career is gone.
> You're No-true-Scottsman'ing DeFi by excluding FTX after the fact.

You are trying to fit the square peg of scam otherwise known as FTX into the round hole of DeFi. It was apparent since the day of its founding that FTX is not DeFi nor trustless.
>Is it still a cult if it gets big enough?

To draw an analogy, if a street gang gets big enough and controls enough territory, is it a government?

The obvious follow up question is that if these phenomena only differ in size of membership, what makes one "legitimate" and the other not? Is there such a thing as a legitimate government and a legitimate religion, or are they all just another level of street gangs and cults?

For governments anyway we have an answer. Sure at some level the organization of hard force in the form of police is subject to the same practical considerations and constraints as the organization of hard force in the form of a gang, and will thus take a superficially similar form, but a gang does not give you a day in court nor does it set up a system of fair and impartial trials nor does it let you vote on its rules. A gang is fundamentally self serving. It exists for the enrichment of itself at the expense of those outside of it. A democracy, in contrast, directly contradicts the premise "the leader is above the law." So there is such a thing as a "legitimate government".

Existence and uniqueness of "legitimate religion" is left as an exercise for the reader.

(btw Trumpism is absolutely a cult. Just look at it, they had to invent the word "Trumpism" to describe the phenomena because it did not fit any other defined political philosophy and the only constant non-contradictory belief it has is loyalty to Trump himself. Seriously, try defining Trumpism in some way other than "agreeing with what Trump says no matter what." Its impossible. That's a cult.)
read "kitchen confidential"
Thanks Google for the artificial restrictions.
My wine is not fake. I make it myself. As it says on the label - It ain't fine wine, but after 2 glasses you'll think it is.
> If remote work was so great for productivity, all companies would switch to it?

It's not just about gains in productivity (profit/surplus value) for companies*. It would be enough for remote work to be a net benefit for the whole society. Take the reduction in car traffic, the time savings, the pollution avoided, etc, and subtract an hypotetical loss in profit for capitalists. Still worth it? Then we're doing it!

> My belief is that for remote work to gain mainstream adoption, you'll need a few trailblazer companies who establish a model of remote work

Sure, but we can't wait for a handful of capitalists to take the lead on this. If it's important and necessary, governments should act and enforce it. The same way as we did for work safety rules, the 40h work week, the abolition of child labor and so on.

All of the labor rights we now give for granted, when enforced caused a reduction in the productivity of labor. Still, nowadays it would sound insane to advocate for a return to child labor in order to increase profits.

* Companies are abstract concepts without a will, so we can't really expect a company to take decisions. What we really mean here is capitalists. Capitalists are people, they have a will and the decisional power required to change things. We'll just refer to them as capitalists from now on.
The savings from turning household heat down during the day aren't trivial, but they aren't very large either. You can keep your heat ~10-20°F lower during the day when you're not home and save energy, but then additional energy is needed later in the day to get the temperature back up. Typical estimates are that this lowers gas or oil consumption by 10-15%, and only in the colder months. Certainly dwarfed by energy spent commuting, on average.

Your comment on the second+ order effects is much more interesting, but also much more uncertain.
In my experience this cuts both ways. Becoming emotionally invested in a product you don't have a huge amount of control over is dangerous, but on the other hand, believe that your work is unimportant is depressing when you have to do it for a few decades.

For me the balance is finding some part of my work that I control, that I can also really care about. I can be proud of the quality of the code I wrote even if I don't care much about the product or the business.
I agree with the spirit of your comment.

> Linux is probably the most carefully constructed C codebase in existence and still falls in to C pitfalls semi regularly.

My guess is that it would actually be OpenBSD, but I'm not sure either way.
Why aren't photos and files encrypted in the cloud? I feel like it should be standard for cases like this.
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Sugar + yeast will result in alcohol. And yeast is literally everywhere. You can practically just open any fruit juice, let it sit for a while, and you'll have a pretty good chance of getting an alcoholic beverage at the end.

We go to great lengths to keep our fruit juices from fermenting. In fact, non-fermented juice is a relatively recent invention in human history.
> I really enjoy planning my life with a kanban, and executing my day from a todo list (scheduled). That’s hard to nail.

Well said. I pay for Trello premium solely for the scheduled checklist feature, but it’s clear that this is not a top priority for them to flesh out as you described.

I would love to find a service that combined Trello’s kanbans with Microsoft Todo and offered a tight mobile integration for reminders and widgets and the like.
“ Every (legal) job adds value, and if you slack off or don’t deploy your human capital and live up to your potential, you’re stealing societal wealth from the rest of us. That’s selfish.”

No it is not selfish as long as the contract is measured against output. If a factory increases efficiency resulting in idling of the machines for 2 hours thus decreasing costs, yet at the same time keep the prices of its output same - that would never ever considered stealing. Then why is the writer considering an individuals skill and experience increasing their efficiency and producing the same output in less time as stealing?? The time the individual saves is upto them to spend any way they wish including to slack off or take a nap. The problem is that management science has failed to invent the right metrics of productivity.
In theory this is meant to be one of the advantages of end to end encryption: no more "accidental" leakage of user data between users, leakage in logs, etc (remember Facebook's logging incident? [0]). as it's only available on end user devices. And if you look at Apple's documentation [1], they say that iCloud is end to end encrypted. This is obviously not accurate as Apple keeps decryption keys for themselves. But this issue is even worse: here, the end to end encryption was circumvented in such a bad way that this bug could surface.

[0]: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds...

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
I once found myself at a fast food joint where there was a self serve fountain with Diet Coke in the regular Coke dispenser. I hesitantly asked if that was the case and the counter person cheerfully admitted that they'd run out of regular Coke and figured nobody would notice the substitution.

I regret not asking how many people had, in fact, noticed and inquired.
To summarize, an abusive manager pays your rent and keeps you from dying. The only way to win this game is to be self-sufficient enough to walk away.
The best bottle of wine I've ever had was an $8 pinot noir.

My friends and I like wine and, at that point in my life, we went wine tasting pretty regularly. One weekend we all instantly loved one of the wines.

We found out they were trying to clear out old inventory, and were selling it for $8 each. We bought the rest of their supply (about 2 cases) and split it among the 4 of us.
> Some people say you can't tell the difference between Pepsi, Coke, and the diet versions of both, but I certainly can.

I feel sorry for people with such insensitive taste buds.

I can understand not having a preference, but being unable to tell the difference at all? I wonder what other flavors they're missing out on in other foods.

At the other end, yes, there are some sommeliers with very sensitive tastebuds that are ridiculously good at identifying wines.

But I would wager that at least 90% are faking it, or it's all in their head, and the blind taste tests expose them. It's like audiophiles and their need for HDMI cables that cost 4 digits.
Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Does the WSJ do plutocratic parody? Is this actually for real? That sounds like an old Dilbert cartoon where the perfect employee says that having a personal life is like stealing from the company.
Reminder: Photos and videos in iCloud are not end to end encrypted (just like your device backup that contains your iMessage "e2e" keys) and are always readable by Apple (and thus FBI et al).

Apple is required to hand over data without a search warrant over 30,000 times per year to US authorities.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
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> documentations are not a place for political statements

Our work is a reflection of ourselves. Some of us feel strongly about issues that affect us in a personal way. You are likely referring to social issues you do not agree with, and as a gay man I have this to say: I will not stop asserting my right to exist openly, and that includes in the work I do.
> and forgetting that's not a good thing to most people.

you are living in a bubble to assume that governments are always good and anyone bucking their government is a bad actor. Try to learn more about Venezuela, Iran, Russia, North Korea or Syria. Or even truckers in Canada whose accounts were frozen because of peaceful protests.

At this point, the best thing for crypto would be for someone like Trump to freeze all the finances for some people like BLM protestors. Then perhaps people will get out of "ye subvert yer gubmint? ye traitor..." mindset.
Apple does not claim that iCloud photos are end to end encrypted.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Why not neither? Why not just keep appropriate ideas in appropriate contexts instead of feeling the need to colonize and proselytize, only to be shocked at the backlash?
It is fairly common for a chef to team up with an investor for this reason - let the chef do the food, and the other party do the business stuff. If you're both trying to do both or have a too-personal relationship where you can't say no, it can get messy. That's not to say it never happens or can't work, of course.