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rdslwon Where's the Proof That Mindfulness Works?

That google guy who wrote the book disagrees:

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Ach...

p.s. book is worth read IMO.

rdslwon A Pre-History of Slashdot

goatse.cx trolling under cloak of redirection...

ah those early days...

rdslwon Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America

Yeah, yeah, Amazon is doing it because they love us.

It's for sure simple mistake they specifically asks to calculate all this intangible things and reduce it to money amount they gets from citi.

So how about..... NO!

Quote from RFP: "Please provide a summary of total incentives offered for the Project by the state/province and local community. In this summary, please provide a brief description of the incentive item, the timing of incentive payment/realization, and a calculation of the incentive amount"

rdslwon Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America

It's good not to forget the toplevel posts, which quotes that Amazon ASKS specifically for money amount.

"Please provide a summary of total incentives offered for the Project by the state/province and local community. In this summary, please provide a brief description of the incentive item, the timing of incentive payment/realization, and a calculation of the incentive amount"

Read their RFP for more.

rdslwon Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America

> The choice is between amazon + tax breaks and nothing.

You're completely wrong. Amazon WILL build HQ2. This is a zero sum game from citizens/cities perspective. No city in the US should offer such taxcut, and then, surprisingly, this money is spent by amazon on taxes and effectively given to the citizens in one of the cities.

If you allow this, you put in place scenario I described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15193611

rdslwon Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America

what a year do I live in that governments must bow to corpos and politely submit RFP document asking for tax money .... reduction.

There was once a story on hackersnews why this (demanding tax cuts) its unethical on much larger scale than race etc. It went like this (forgive my memory, english, and feel free to correct it):

There were two states, neighboring, with similar budgets and number of people. They werent rich, there werent many benefits for citizens in each state, yet people managed to get by. Then one day, a company came to them and asked, who can give me corpotax subsidy ? I'll build a factory there and employ maaaany people. State A objected, while state B agreed. That was a 10 years deal. A lot of people from State A migrated to state B in search of work. 5 years into the deal, company thrived: no taxes to be paid = most competitors in both states are killed. Company is building another factory. Again asking both states of tax subsidy. This time, due to loss of population, being on verge of collapse, state A had to offer super deal. Company built second factory there. The pendulum is swinging the other direction. The rest of the cycle is left for the reader.

Because population is relatively constant, allowing this shenanigans is effectively allowing corpos to be tax free at the expense of states^H^H^H citizens. Because states or nations are WE, and asking for such reduction is a zero sum game.

This gains of capital because of amazon HQ2 WILL HAPPEN no matter what or where. Asking for tax deduction is abuse and effectively reducing total citizenhood wellness/capital in benefit of Amazon, payed by all other states where HQ2 is not built.

The best policy for all states and cities in USA is saying: no matter who will you choose, we will NOT give you a subsidy. And if you want to talk about offshore outsourcing, let me rephrase it: all countries in the world should show the A a middle finger in unison.

rdslwon Facebook recruiting and Unix systems

Commenting just to let you know. You did nothing wrong.

Never forget who reached for who. It's FB in desperate need that they pick workers from students these days.

Also, trying to (yuck) trick you into providing names of others companies - hahaha - it's like you asking him: what's the maximum salary FB can offer or similar questions. Disgusting simply because any sane person (your friend e.g.) would suggest you never provide that to counter negotiating party. Asking for this info is not far (in effect) to asking about age/race etc. This data is intended to have more bargaining power on FB side. Unethical.

And NB: it's the recruiter who introduced 'UNIX-like' into conversation.

Take your time, they all (companies) will bend. It's an employee market.

You did a great job!

rdslwon Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C

I'm also shocked. About two things: by the pure speed, and for me being surprised how fast it loads.

Being surprised about webspeed in 2017 sounds like heresy.

rdslwon An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

Interesting third argument. Based on work by google and published papers, monorepos have some advantages. Of course not always and not everywhere.

But here, reddit connects it with service oriented architecture. Somehow i dont get it.

rdslwon Doomsday planning for less crazy folk

Can you share your location +-300km ?

rdslwon Show HN: Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records

you are selling and marketing simplicity 'just 2 records'. if you want to stick to the 'simplicity' audience, provide it to them without asking them to configure.

rdslwon Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet

Who sit on the left side of rows?

rdslwon IPv6 Performance Revisited

Few charts to look at:

20% ipv6 adoption worldwide: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

and per country data (Greece at 33%): https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...

rdslwon Typing with pleasure, and low latency

TL;DR of very good while long ;) article:

Use a responsive editor (makes the most difference).

* Use a low-latency keyboard, if possible.

* Choose programs that add global keyboard hooks wisely.

* Turn off unnecessary “image enhancers” in you monitor.

* Enable stacking window manager in your OS (e.g. in Windows 7, 8).

TESTED EDITORS RESULTS, Average latency, ms

    IDEA-zl     11.9
    GVim	19.0
    Gedit	23.9
    Emacs	44.7
    Sublime     52.1
    Atom	90.0
    Netbeans	119.1
    Eclipse	133.6

rdslwon ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

I would use OVPN. It supports bitcoin [0].

You can check quite recent truly and honestly made (!) comparison of VPNs here: https://vpnreport.org/

Disclaimer: There are no affiliate links in this comment.

(!) not shown within first 10 google results among the usual crap for 'best xxx services'

[0] https://www.ovpn.com/en/blog/complete-guide-for-using-bitcoi...

rdslwon U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data

No, they did tell then stopped on 5th product.

LIN gives this information (product price) for first few questions, then if you ask about 5th price they say: 403, no more for you. WHILE IF at the same moment, different person (or you in proxy-ip-disguise) comes and asks for 5th product price, LIN happily (and publicly) gives this information.

And if the person comes wearing googlebot tshirt, LIN drops to knees and give a ..... full-db-dump-job ;) Bing/Baidu thsirts also fit. Source: www.linkedin.com/robots.txt

HiQ simply says: that's unfair you can't decide who is good and whois bad. Effectively LIN bans any google competitor (documented case).

rdslwon Introducing the Keybase filesystem

The menu bar, or rather UI problem is really annoying and in fact is cross platform.

I reported it [0] for Windows few months ago, and not a reply :(

[0] https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/6541

rdslwon Google’s native ad blocker for Chrome shows up in Android developer build

In other news: thieves declaring to provide monitoring solutions recording they work.

rdslwon How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security

Its not that simple.

Its true that push2factor have some disadvantages, but it has one really strong advantage above pure TOTP: phishing dosnt work as the 2factor is send directly to the site and cant be mitmed at your terminal. Read about it.

rdslwon How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security

In fact you dont.

I use dell xps 13 for half a year and I have 3200x1800 resolution. When buying a xps you have two screens to choose from.

rdslwon Google launches Hire, a new service for helping businesses recruit

So yeah, she got 30m tax reduction and spent 150m. net "loss": 120m.

and you consider it bad because she could have chosen paying those 30m taxes and keeping the rest (instead of donating it) ?

rdslwon Terminal and shell performance

As far as I keep fingers crossed for your efforts, you will not achieve pure text console speed (or even be close to it), linux one the people can easily compare to iterm.

There is a lot of reasons, mostly: font rendering, unicode handling, all effects, while pure text is simply copying memory areas and nothing more.

full answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41225/can-a-termina...

rdslwon Terminal and shell performance

I recommend this to every terminal user.

I'm a fast typer, but this is 2017 - computers are fast, right? Nope. On newest, maxed dell xps there is a HUGE latency difference I feel if I use pure linux console vs any graphical one (is it gnome/windows or mac).

Typing and working with pure text is really fast and you INSTANTLY feel and see the difference. Try it.

rdslwon Ask HN: How does one overcome the need for instant gratification?

This is very good book teaching about mediation in a geeks way: https://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Ach...

Highly recommended.

rdslwon Facebook relicenses RocksDB under Apache 2 license

Does it mean that the whole megathread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779881 didnt notice it, and toppost there is wrong? ;)

rdslwon Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license

LOL facebook, move fast and break things.

this one was FAST :)

rdslwon Disneyland raised prices to shorten waits

Can you explain reason behind annual pass? I've seen it once. Enough for 10yrs, maybe a lifetime.

P.S. I do understand hobbies ;)

rdslwon Hire a former SoundClouder

BTW what are notice periods for Berlin and London based SoundClouders?

For SF it's 2 weeks I assume?

rdslwon I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program

For me, number one takeaway is, "he has a worker paid 600/700 usd per month (superstar)" who I suppose is generating much more value than 7% (700 of 10000).

rdslwon Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says

UserAgent is still top culprit (16 bits of identifying information) followed by browser plugins (12bits) then WebGl (12b), canvas (9b), language (if not english nor chinese) and then fonts at 5bits.

Total is around 20bits (due to overlaps).

YMMV.