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The average American has more wealth than pretty much everyone on Earth. You can't seriously think that it's because Americans are all genetically smarter than everyone else?

I don't use Snapchat, so correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those relatively new developments? From a quick Google search, it seems that the acquisition of Looksery and the launch of "Snapchat Lens" didn't occur until September 2015. By then, Snapchat already had at least 80 million daily active users. While their current real time computer vision stuff is definitely not something the average engineer could make, it does seem like they started out as a cookie cutter app.

To be fair, that has more to do with everyone now having mini super-computers in their possession distracting them than with speed limits.

This isn't limited solely to vegetarians/vegans. Any diet that goes against your social group is difficult. Take keto/low-carb diets. It's amazing how snacks and foods I've been offered from friends and family that are just pure sugar.

>If you own an apartment building and rent it out, you have to pay taxes on the income it provides.

Which is why the most common advice among long-term real estate owners is "buy more property".

Wealthy people don't have a higher need for milk (or any basic necessities) than the average person. So why would they need to sell any significant portion of their wealth? As someone said elsewhere in this thread, the problem is we don't tax wealth directly, only when it's transferred.

>Some people (like me) think that effective tax rates of roughly 50% (US, California, Marin County) are too high.

Wealthy people aren't getting taxed 50%. You're thinking of income taxes. Wealthy people don't make income. Genuinely wealthy people make their money from land they own and rent out and from stock they invest and hold.

I personally use an app called TapeACall. You could also just put your call on loudspeaker and record it with another device.

The problem is that Google and Facebook aren't ISPs. One doesn't have to use Goog/FB to use the Internet. There are other search engines and social networks. One can log out of their Goog/FB account. For most Americans, only one or two ISPs are available where they live.

It's actually extraordinary how many "Yelp extortion" claims I've seen without a single bit of proof. It's not at all difficult to record a telephone conversation with a Yelp representative.

I've seen some thoughts about this:

- Some of the businesses claiming "Yelp extortion" actually deserve their bad reviews.

- Some of the businesses claiming "Yelp extortion" posted fake positive reviews. Unbeknownst to them, Yelp bots automatically detected and removed the fake reviews. Later, after rejecting a call from a Yelp rep asking to advertise, the business owner decides to check their Yelp page and sees that their fake reviews are gone, incorrectly deducing that Yelp is extorting them.

Would they have to? The USA has a GDP (PPP) per capita around 3x that of Mexico. The sheer magnitude of the difference in purchasing power would make patio11's claim true, even if they were hypothetically, in our president's words, sending us drug dealers, criminals, and rapists.

>It's in the bottom right.

Not in OP's video. There's literally no way to escape the full-screen without pressing the escape key. You can't even double-click. I'm actually impressed by how user-hostile that video is.

A pretty small percentage, obviously. The top grossing movies of 2016 were Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Finding Dory, Captain America: Civil War, The Secret Life of Pets, and The Jungle Book. All of these movies would be impossible to do without CGI.

Viewers want movies to be spectacles. If we're watching something in a theater, we have high expectations of the production value. Otherwise, why even waste the time and money going to a theater? We can watch the "good", low production value movies at home.

>the real problem is something else

Would you like to elaborate or give examples of that something else?

>First: actually read the resume and letter. Learn about the experience this person has.

>I don't use challenges, homework, riddles, quizzes, etc. anymore.

Unless you don't get many resumes, I find it hard to believe that this is a good hiring flow for you at all. A lot of people who agree with me will often say that nobody has time to be reading hundreds or thousands of resumes, but I'll take it one step further: unless you are rigorously verifying the information on resumes, resumes are basically useless.

It is way too easy to lie on a resume. I don't mean mere embellishment or exaggeration. I mean straight-up lying. I looked at your profile. You have an impressive resume. What would stop me from copying your resume and submitting it as mine? Your impressive positions would be harder to fake, so I'd just lower all the CTO, head, VP, and chief titles to lower level titles.

Let's take this even further. Let's pretend that you actually call the references for the positions on all the resumes that you read. What's stopping an applicant from giving you a friend's number and having them pretend to be their former manager/employer? One could argue that the same sort of deceit works for challenges, quizzes, etc., but there's the additional barrier of at least knowing a decent enough programmer who can take the challenge or quiz for you.

I'm struggling to see how that would even be true. ABP literally allows companies to pay to get past their block.

It's just another example of the "distorted bubble the typical HNer lives in" comment I made a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13112407). 95% of people can barely use a computer and I'm supposed to believe that anyone can write an ad blocker?

Anyway, thank you for your work. uBlock Origin is literally the first extension I install whenever I use a new browser/computer. It's lightweight yet powerful and your default lists remove a lot of the work involved in deciding what nonsense to block. Whenever I don't have it installed, I'm amazed at how user-hostile the web has become. We may have gotten rid of pop-ups but advertisers have reached new heights of annoyance with popovers and ads that push down the content you're currently reading. It's absurd that people actually endure 30 second video ads to watch a 1 minute YouTube clip.

Links like this illustrate what a distorted bubble the typical HNer lives in.

I've lost track of how many times I've seen a product or company posted here and HNers will say "I can already do that myself." For instance, I still chuckle at the "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially" comment in the Dropbox HN post nearly a decade ago.

Not him/her, but I suspect he/she is referring to:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bwgjf/riam...

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3cuk3y/what_i...

No, but Wikipedia's sources usually are. I feel like there's a world of difference between a well-sourced encyclopedia entry and a comment on a somewhat anonymous forum.

Right underneath the article's chart:

>Note: Those who grew up in one state, went to college in another, and then moved again are counted as migrating from the state where they attended college.

Also, I'd imagine that this methodology doesn't affect things too much, considering that around 70% of high school graduates go to colleges in-state.

Individual budgets for individual shows sounds like a big TV network convention. Netflix isn't selling ads against each show; their subscription revenue is shared between all their content.

I just read elsewhere that experts estimated that "Fuller House" attracted over 10M viewers. Even if every single one of those viewers cancelled their subscription after binge-watching the show, Netflix might have made nearly $100M in one month from that show. "Fuller House" probably funded several shows that you or I love.

Apologies for my crappy math. Already edited it.

>The networks are gambling big in a risky industry where only the most prominent shows survive. While top-rated hits can garner millions of viewers, FX research found that the bottom 20 percent of shows averaged around 380,000 viewers, a daunting prospect for networks that depend on big audiences for ad revenue.

Only the prominent shows survive in the ads business model that currently governs these networks. If an Amazon or Netflix show gets 380,000 viewers and this show convinces the majority of those viewers to keep their subscription, then the respective streaming giant has already accomplished their goal. That's another $3.8M (or whatever the average subscription amount is) in monthly subscription revenue. They're not beholden to advertisers. A typical "Black Mirror" viewer might not overlap with a typical "Marco Polo" viewer or a typical "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" viewer, but, as long as each viewer has a reason to stay subscribed, Netflix doesn't care if said shows were to have a low average number of viewers.

The whole concept of war requires civilization. Civilization is human organization. War is conflict between organized groups of humans.

I've been thinking about buying a YubiKey. Could you elaborate on how U2F protects against MitM and phishing?

Isn't the problem here that they don't know what the issue is? Or that there are a multitude of issues? I've yet to see a statement from Samsung that wasn't vague or unconvincing.

(And in at least one case, it seems they're more concerned about covering up their incompetence than explaining their incompetence: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13215728/samsung-galaxy-no...)

The whole point of medical insurance is to hedge against the risk of medical expenses.

If you're a relatively healthy person, of course insurance is expensive. If you're someone who needs monthly prescriptions, multiple operations, or frequent emergency room trips, it would be absurdly expensive for you not to have insurance.

I haven't activated my FB account in years now, but can't members still add you as a family member even if you don't have an account?

I avoid FB more out of principle, not because of some deluded idea that I can avoid FB having my information. The solution "stop using Facebook and WhatsApp and other software" is harmful at worst and flippant at best.

Unless you never get your photo taken, your face is on FB and any other social media service your friends and family use. Unless you only have friends and family who never use FB, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, etc., your name, phone number, and email are on those services.

The idea that not using these services stops them from getting your information is fanciful, because your friends and family have no problem giving your information.

I'm pretty his/her intention was not to insult you. Since you won't even consider the possibility that you're not a great engineer, perhaps you're just bad at finding decent jobs and contracts? Or you're bad at negotiating pay? I'm honestly a little confused because my impression is that contractors and consultants make more money than full-time employees.

I tend to look at the percentage of ratings. Literally 1% of the book's reviews are 1-star reviews. Saying that 1% of 1-star ratings is "more than a mite worrying" seems overly negative to me. I'm genuinely interested in what you buy online if 1% of 1-star ratings immediately deters you.