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angersockon California to become first state to require companies to have women on boards

This might not be so bad, since the board of directors doesn't have a huge impact on the day to day, usually.

Does it require the members have voting rights?

angersockon California to become first state to require companies to have women on boards

Who are we to say that a woman's identity isn't defined by her insurance rates?

The obvious biological markers are no longer requirements, so why not.

For folks that are curious, lurk on the site a bit and swing through the #lobsters IRC channel.

Be prepared to demonstrate some kind of technical competence (online code, writing, whatever), and please don't join to shill your products, projects, or spam news articles, content marketing, or political stuff.

angersockon Ask HN: What will make the market crash?

My money is the following:

* Final demise of Moviepass, leads to "wait, losing on transactions and making it up on volume doesn't actually work" and scaring investors

* Magic Leap dies because there's no way to recoup their investment at this point, scares off "Well, awesome tech will save the day" investors

* Uber follows close behind, scares off "Well, breaking the law will save the day" money

* Twitter finally dies because of lack of monetization strategies and general consumer backlash, may kick off general death of social media space.

This is my rough guess for how it'll play out.

angersockon Ask HN: Why/how Pornhub is free?

Netflix doesn't really have ads. Also, the viewing patterns and infra needs are totally different.

angersockon Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

You could even extend that argument to include "is there a need for people to live in a place where they can't grow enough food to sustain their population".

I wouldn't pull too hard on that thread here, though.

angersockon Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

It's a good port city in land (swamp) that is otherwise undesirable, so yes.

(I'm posting from Houston.)

angersockon Is Rails still relevant in 2018?

>How can a language be intrinsically compiled or interpreted?

This is a great example of an academic nondistinction that is completely worthless in practical matters.

angersockon Is Rails still relevant in 2018?

Javascript, Ruby, and Elixir are emphatically not interchangeable.

Elixir is compiled, the other two are interpreted.

JS is supported natively by all browsers and is at its core an event-driven functional language, the other two are not.

Ruby is probably the comfiest OOP language out there, and certainly the one with the best standard library.

These are not the same languages.

angersockon The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America

They pay that with taxes. Taxes come from citizens. Citizens come from babies.

If you don't have kids, you don't create taxpayers, and then society can't pay.

angersockon The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America

Baby belt?

angersockon Ask HN: What questions to ask to evaluate a tech lead?

How do you measure your team's impact to the business?

angersockon China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight

> It has to do with the purpose of this site—intellectual curiosity—being incompatible with tribalism.

"You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you."

More seriously, though, the highbrow dismissal of very real problems as tribalism on the same site that frequently has slapfights over technology and news/advertising spam of various forms seems a little much.

Like, if the answer is just "Hey, knock it off we don't want flamewars" that's totally respectable...but the other arguments you've used come off as really smug and out-of-touch.

angersockon China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight

You're doing a lot of damage control on China stuff since that partnership thing was announced.

angersockon How to Hire Your First Engineer

The sense of purpose is defeated if you realize you're really just generating value for founders who will never let you get a fair piece of the pie.

angersockon How to Hire Your First Engineer

I was engineering hire #1, and we had no insurance and pay was half market rate, but at least the founders were incompetent and abusive depending on the day.

angersockon How to Hire Your First Engineer

5-20% depending on how much you're using their expertise.

If you offer tiny or no equity, they have no incentive to align for growth. Also, founders are usually way less useful than the people they hire.

angersockon National prison strike launches over underpaid labor and prison conditions

Those people are spiteful twats.

angersockon Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal

The protocol explicitly has mechanisms for protected and non-protected.

If the owners don't want something public, it's trivial to lock it down--they might as well freak out when somebody uses the wrong door to enter the front of their shop.

angersockon Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal

The problem comes when we've normalized the idea of exploring public endpoints as "yeah, this is probably exceeding authorized access".

angersockon Don’t Do This in Production

"If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid".

I liked the post, but I'm not sure that I agree.

angersockon Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

Maybe they shouldn't have those devices then.

angersockon Why do women live longer than men?

No idea why you are being downvoted...this is true.

angersockon Amazon in Running to Acquire Landmark Movie Chain

The difference in strategy is why Apple sells toys and Amazon has an empire.

angersockon Software development requires servant leaders

To be fair, we can all totally ship incomplete and buggy software to good effect. Imagine a shipping system where users have to submit orders and then manually update the address zip code--sure it is buggy but the end user still gets value.

People are too concerned with perfect software.

angersockon YC China and Qi Lu

Dismissing links out of hand as you are here doesn't serve to help discussion either.

So, real talk, why do you think concerns over YC working with a government with super shaky human-rights record are unimportant or unfounded?

A valid answer is totally "Because we're gonna make money and nobody complaining is in a position to actually do anything."

What do you think about it?

angersockon YC China and Qi Lu

So, how much money is there in PRC contracts for surveillance and social credit software?

For reference, this is the market they're excited about joining:

http://time.com/5366225/china-uighurs-detention-report/

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/ch...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/13/china-cctv-bbc-reporter/

angersockon YC China and Qi Lu

Their job is to make money. Why people think otherwise is beyond me.

angersockon YC China and Qi Lu

Okay dang, have a link:

http://time.com/5366225/china-uighurs-detention-report/

A million Uyghur and Muslims in camps. That's a sixth of a Holocaust.

angersockon Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous

> I guess is the goal for everyone to join in some sort of majoritarian social contract? Being a lgbt person growing up I didn't interact in my local small community at all, because there was a damn good chance the local community would band together and mob me for being what I am.

Alternately, by removing yourself from your community you failed to give them examples that would've broadened their horizons.

Like, this is one form of problem with today's filter bubbles--they help polarize communities by preventing the natural mechanisms of discovery and compromise that are required for groups of humans to coexist in meatspace.