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Tinyyyon New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore

It’s not. You’re pretty much stuck on a static OS unless you want to spend hours dealing with various problems each update.

Tinyyyon MacBook Pro

Would a full touch screen provide functionality for your daily workflows? I think the touch bar has more potential uses, no?

Tinyyyon The Best Way to Not Get Tenure

Here’s a (albeit small) sample of his students’ opinion of Geoffery.

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1626392

A common criticism seems to be that he has a huge ego.

Tinyyyon How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages

You wasted my time reading a comment that is meaningless and highly politically slanted. I want to save that time for future readers.

Tinyyyon Man Posing as Delivery Person Hides Resumes in a Box of Donuts

Here’s the .epub, do support the author if you liked it though.

https://instant.io/#a7f829dadaea43160bac71dbda4d0f7c4998d22a

Tinyyyon Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products

I do understand your point of view, but I find it kinda ironic how HN doesn't allow us to delete our old comments that could contain private information. Does that mean they subscribe to the philosophy of 'as long as it's posted on a public medium, its public information'?

Tinyyyon Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products

He did post it on his Reddit account with the same name, so it's publicly available already.

Tinyyyon Apple's response to the WoSign incidents

I’m just curious, what standards did they violate other than circumventing SHA-1 deprecation?

Tinyyyon Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

I'm not trying to be dismissive of his impressive project, but from my perspective, or from a business point of view, it doesn't make sense. While I have no doubts that this was nontrivial to create, history has shown that raw technology alone is rarely enough. Isn't trying to gain some form of lock-in an oft repeated point on HN?

Also, could you elaborate? I do wish to understand why, if I was wrong.

Tinyyyon Why I stopped reading biographies

Just to clarify, who is Marcelle Reich? Is March Rich a typo? (Marc?) Is the biography you're referring to the one by Daniel Ammann?

Tinyyyon Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

I don't understand how this can survive in the long run - what's stopping someone else from setting up an identical service at lower prices? There is literally no lock in because users can sign up for multiple services and potentially pay a lower price (depends on which one snags the domain).

Or is the technology behind that unique?

Tinyyyon Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box

Hey I don't care if you downvote me, but can you at least respond so I know why?

Tinyyyon Investigating a malware sample which sometimes fails to behave maliciously

If the malware attempts a CPU test that maxes out the host CPU, will it be obvious that the system clock is sped up?

Tinyyyon Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box

Their pay is what it is because of economics. And they will get replaced if they keep up with the poor service, because of economics. The worse your service, the easier it is for a robot to replace you. It's not possible for a individual, a corporation or even a government to go against economical forces.

Then again, don't get me wrong, I do think that the government needs to do more wealth redistribution.

Tinyyyon Google’s lawyers are asking to find Oracle’s lawyers in contempt of court

You complain about the status quo and then cite the status quo in your argument?

Tinyyyon Google’s lawyers are asking to find Oracle’s lawyers in contempt of court

I don't see how tax is a valid point. 99% of individuals and corporations do not have their spendings - that's not only the net flow, but also the breakdown of revenue and costs - revealed to the public. To imply that they might be dishonest, and that dishonesty will not be caught by the government, would mean that everybody has to release their spendings to the public. Mark Zuckerberg could be cheating on his taxes. You could be cheating on your taxes. Surely you don't want to cause financial harm to the rest of us?

Tinyyyon Why billions of dollars of goods are stuck at sea

People lived without medicine for a long time too, I'm not sure if we want to live in those days though.

Tinyyyon The Ethereum network is currently undergoing a DoS attack

>People who run this organization appear to be ruthless and amoral

...

>Going as far as talking about a DDOS attack on Twitter

Also, that G8 article you linked has a full page MTGOX ad on page 8. Kinda ironic huh?

Okay, enough with the low hanging fruits, now some serious stuff.

I don't see how Bitcoin enthusiasts can trivially brush off the criminal activities connected to Bitcoin. The public at large doesn't care about your shiny little toy - but they do if it's used by criminals. The article specifically mentions child pornography. Now how can CP be distributed? Tor and hidden services. But how is someone going to pay / profit from it? There was no easy solution - then comes Bitcoin, and suddenly people can be absolutely untraceable on the internet. You cannot simply ignore this. You have to acknowledge it, and then a) provide some form of solution (kinda contradicts its principles) or b) argue that it isn't as important compared to potential benefits of Bitcoin.

Tinyyyon Hedge-Fund Son Thought Hedge-Fund Dad's Trades Were Fishy

I’m going to elaborate here because I can’t edit my comment anymore.

I’m not arguing about whether there should or should not be regulation, but about the purpose of regulation - it’s rarely about ‘ethics’. If you look at the SEC enforcements, most of them are about fraud or about a breach of duty. Fraud - you’re not allowed to lie, that is pretty self explanatory. Breach of duty - someone else places trust in you to act in their best interests, and you violate that trust. This is broad and can be applied in variety of ways, but a duty has to be established. Other than these two and some other exceptions, you’re free to do whatever you want - and that’s to maximise your profits.

Financial regulation is not and has never been about ethics. It’s about providing a market for exchange, without fear of being lied to, or worry about your agents[0] not acting in your interests. If you’re looking for equity or want to solve problems with corporations, you need to do it somewhere else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem

Tinyyyon Hedge-Fund Son Thought Hedge-Fund Dad's Trades Were Fishy

Matt Levine is a great writer and he often brings insights into finance, about what the rules are exactly, and why they are that way (even though they go against our intuitive judgement). I hope that people here would read 'Money Stuff' so we can avoid the inevitable morality bashing whenever a finance article is posted.

The whole point of finance is maximizing profits; I think that people need to understand and accept this for us to have a meaningful discussion.

Tinyyyon House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

http://correctrecord.org/about/

>Correct The Record is a strategic research and rapid response team designed to defend Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks.

Tinyyyon House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

Why is this getting down voted? There's no place for these accusations on HN. Using them to silence discussions is very arrogant because you're implying that people disagreeing with you are not capable of independent thought.

Tinyyyon iTunes will never work well

Yea, I do think that they are wild speculators. Just because I believe in some of their causes doesn't mean they can do no wrong. I think that they tend to go to more of an extreme than I'm comfortable with. But I think it's understandable because when they fight for freedom and what have you, they face opposition from people and businesses that shapes their opinion of them. This means that they become more partisan and fight against these 'rivals' instead - which is not wrong - but it's too political for me.

Tinyyyon iTunes will never work well

It's kinda disingenuous to make wild speculations like that.

Tinyyyon YouTube Community goes beyond video

Care to give some examples?

Tinyyyon A Soviet scientist created tame foxes

It says so in the article.

>If the cubs continued to show aggressive or evasive responses, even after significant human contact, they were discarded from the population – meaning they were made into fur coats.

Tinyyyon Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth’s mantle, relocated

Oh...

Tinyyyon What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea (2015)

What about this?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x7xNgfhbbWo/TLxegWcfLTI/AAAAAAAAAx...

Tinyyyon What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea (2015)

Well firstly, China is not locating nuclear warheads on those islands - that's an exaggerated and irrelevant point.

Also, using US as an example is incredibly hypocritical since they have a large military presence all over the world - in way more regions than China.

Why is the US doing this? Could it be to 'protect trade'?

Tinyyyon Chinese Billionaire Linked to Giant Aluminum Stockpile in Mexican Desert

That's true, but won't that apply to Liu Zhongtian (the billionaire in question) too? He probably didn't start out rich, and even if he earned his wealth from this grey-area arbitrage, many rich people in the US do that too.