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This is called vowel harmony and it's a fairly common linguistic feature:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_harmony

...but it's notably absent from the Indo-European languages.

But what if your business is ransomware or selling narcotics, and it's hard to find a trusted intermediary?

One thing I rarely see mentioned is that it's pretty common to have situations in Minesweeper where you need to guess, but the probability of each square being a mine is not the same. While each individual square has the same probability of being a mine in isolation, the numbers leak information: eg. if you have a set of numbers that could be fulfilled by one or two mines, it's statistically more likely that the one-mine solution is correct.

One example: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2511421/correct-pro...

Give me a break. Lots of teams in Google have restrictive travel policies and never see the pointy end of a plane. Massages cost money. Holiday gifts ceased to exist years ago.

I'm also quite surprised by your wage comment: a common aphorism is that Amazon cheaps out on everything except real estate and compensation.

I think you mean Datastore, not Bigtable?

Better unreliable wiring than stolen wiring?

While that juices the numbers conveniently, aren't the vast majority of India's roads still two-lane? And as the article notes, building 4 lanes costs more than twice the price building two lanes.

So much ranting, yet not a single example of a GCP product that Google has actually killed. Got examples?

I mean, there's stuff like Python 2 support being sunset on managed services, but as Yegge himself points out that's on Guido, not GCP.

But rendaku rules are extremely complicated and often unpredictable , eg 中島 can be Nakashima or Nakajima depending in how the person chooses to pronounce it.

Imma need a citation for that. Yes, Amazon could do that, but the cloud providers are usually very clear about drawing a clear dividing line between their hosting businesses and consumer businesses, because enterprise customers are extremely sensitive to the slightest suggestion of their data being mined.

It's not, but perhaps it makes an even deeper point: that it is genuinely impossible to use the Internet without Amazon, Google and Microsoft, because so much of the web relies on the three giants, and every click you make adds a fraction of a cent to their hosting revenues.

That said, I do agree that madness lies going too down the supply chain. Is using any device with a lithium-ion battery inherently immoral because they contain some cobalt that may have been mined in exploitative conditions in the Congo? Where do you draw the line?

Except that it's literally impossible to distinguish between a "lost" bitcoin (no private key) and one sitting in a cold wallet (private key exists offline).

No HN thread on car sales would be complete without a mention of this classic: http://www.dougsrepublic.com/PDF/carsalesman.pdf

(I'd link to the original on Edmunds.com, but it seems to be hopelessly borked with 404s all over the place.)

...and in case you were wondering just how bad an idea this was, it's been conclusively linked to Parkinson's: https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/2020/05/14/parkinsons-linked...

This is anecdotal, but during Singapore's lockdown, one of the many services cut for about two months was curb maintenance. Being deep in the tropics, all green spaces immediately turned into jungles of flowers and weeds, and the butterfly population consequently exploded:

https://mothership.sg/2020/06/grass-cutting-butterflies/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52960623

On the other hand, mosquito populations also increased and there were lots of people stuck at home as bait for them, contributing to Singapore's worst dengue outbreak in years:

https://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/three-more-dengue-deaths-s...

So at least one lesson here is that, if given an opportunity to bounce back, many insect populations can and will.

If built, it would compete directly with Etihad Rail, which is building a regular rail network throughout the entire UAE and already has its first phase operational:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etihad_Rail

This focuses primarily on cargo, but is built with passenger trains at up to 200 km/h in mind. And most Hyperloop business plans also seem to rely heavily on freight.

So altruistic Good Guy Underdog Uber fighting in good faith to stick it to Big Bad Government is not delusional?

Also, the legal wrangling over this started long before Covid.

Or maybe the state is acting in good faith on behalf of gig workers, and it's the gig companies tying themselves into knots trying to avoid legislation who are acting in bad faith?

Wait what? I had no idea this was a thing, can you explain?

If they move to China, they'll have access to more modern finance than the US, all of it well beyond the reach of US sanctions.

Working for a foreign company that's paying you in a different country is a grey area. Many countries have business visas that allow "business" but prohibit "work", with the main (but not sole) determinant being whether you're paid locally.

Some countries are also starting to offer long-stay remote work visas: https://www.traveller.com.au/countries-such-as-barbados-to-o...

Green Eggs and Ham is a great starter book, but IMHO the greatest of Dr Seuss's many great books is Oh, the Places You'll Go!. His mastery of "simple" English is stunning, kids find it enthralling, and the messages are surprisingly deep.

Here's the text, but the original illustrated version is so much better: https://www.poetrygrrrl.com/oh-the-places-youll-go-by-dr-seu...

Yes, but that's largely because they serve different purposes. Mozilla's announcement is a press release for external consumption. Carta's post is internal and for employees, and I'm sure there was one of these for Mozilla as well, but we're not privy to it.

"Could"? We're already in a bubble. Most notably, the Bitcoin price rally coincides with Tether printing out $10B of their "stablecoin", fully backed with what very much appears to be nothing at all.

Here's a primer from HN's very own patio11, from back in late 2019 when they had only printed $4B: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

Kueh lapis is delicious, but by local standards eye-wateringly expensive due to the effort involved, even when it's just "regular" layer cake and not further remixed like the Sarawak variant. With a minimum wage of RM 1100/mo, that RM250 cake is a week's income.

Some well-known local chains if you're even in the region:

https://lavender.com.my/

http://www.bengawansolo.com.sg/cat_signature_range.aspx

In the spirit of HN, perhaps there's room for a startup to automate the process with robotics and 3D printing...

> the water on the surface is 20% carbon by mass

Sorry, can you explain what you mean by this? Are you using "water" figuratively for all liquid, as opposed to H2O?

Ever worked with an enterprise company?

I've worked on a project (in a peripheral role, fortunately) where the entirety of the CIO's mandate was to "use AI", full stop. So the team was tasked with putting together a data warehouse that would collect random logs and app metrics, and then sprinkle AI fairy dust of their choice onto it to generate Insights(tm).

This kind of thing happens all. the time. in large companies where everybody involved wants either money or bullet points for their resume, and the actual outcome is nearly irrelevant.

My take from the article is thay if Uber were to currently offer its "driver-partners" benefits like health insurance, they would legally be considered employees, which neither party wants.

There are no stats published, so this is all anecdotal, but it's generally suspected that they operate on some kind of quota basis. The Chinese quota is large (but no longer infinite, esp for mainland Chinese), the Indian/Other quota is small, and the Malay/Muslim quota is nearly zero.