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From their perspective you're lacking three things: 1) credibility, 2) leverage, and 3) data.

Credibility: you're a technical founder, not a designer. Why would they listen to you?

Leverage: you do not have decision-making power on this point. The other people do not feel their position is at all threatened by your disagreement with their choice, otherwise they would not be handling this situation as they are.

Data: there's no data to support your belief; it's entirely subjective. This isn't like a technical decision where you can discuss tradeoffs like performance metrics. You could try to get data by getting user feedback, but given (1) and (2) I don't think it'd be worth it.

I think your best option right now is to realize your value to the company is not on the design side. If that's something you want to be involved in, then you need to build that credibility gradually (and be able to provide better feedback than simply "it disgusts me").

> if the debate was about ISIS propaganda?

Google recently deleted the entire account of someone who had videos of vehicles in the Middle East, claiming it was extremist content [0]. He was a historian who was cataloging how vehicles are used and modified in military operations across the globe. But google’s bots (which are probably pretty similar to YouTube’s) classified it as extremist content.

So I disagree with the premise of your argument — that we’d all support the automatic removal of “ISIS propaganda”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621412

> If she's performing better than them while getting paid the same, she would know that she's worth more

This is another area where pay transparency can complicate things. Jane may have the same experience and education as other employees, but much higher performance and work ethic. Unfortunately, this isn’t easily quantified, whereas the other characteristics are, which can create resentment among her peers who don’t see the other value that she’s providing.

This comment seems rather vague and general. Could you provide an example where you’ve used this technique?

> Perhaps the biggest lingering issue waiting to be fixed is the Windows store. Microsoft has been working on a new app store for Windows in recent months, and rumors suggest it will be a significant departure from what exists today. Nadella has promised to “unlock greater economic opportunity for developers and creators” with Windows, and the Windows store seems like the obvious way to do that.

My greatest concern is that Microsoft will attempt to lockdown their OS the same way Apple and Android have.

That would explain why they would release a new operating system when 10 was supposed to be the last.

They can and they do if you don't file, and they'll charge you 5%/month for the convenience. The IRS can even file a return on your behalf, which they do to tax protestors. If you don't even have an SSN, they'll conveniently create one for you.

This article talks about a program designed to fix the "root" of crime and homelessness. Instead of arresting people, they'd call social workers. "Success" was measured by how many people were arrested and so the program "succeeded" because they responded to 750 calls but didn't arrest anyone. But is arrest really related to how well a program solves the root of the problem?

It seems like a better measure would be something related to their actual goal. So why didn't they measure rate of property crime? Rate of homelessness? Poverty? Drug addiction? Supposedly these are the real causes of crime and homelessness.

If they did actually measure those things, I think their evaluation of the program would be different [0] [1].

>> "Denver saw significant increases in most types of property crime in 2020. In comparison to the average of the previous four years, burglaries rose 23% in 2020, larceny rose 9%, auto theft rose 61% and theft from cars rose 39%, Denver police data shows." [0]

[0] https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/15/denver-property-crime-...

[1] https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/05/20/aurora-homeless-campi...

> But economics works on incentives.

> The economics don't line up.

Suppose you're Google. You know what's cheaper than investing $100m in a new chip manufacturing company? Lobbying for the government to invest $100m in the chip manufacturing company.

This is why "the economics don't line up", and "the incentives don't align". No shareholder would want you to do the financially irresponsible thing of investing in a risky, capital-intensive venture when governments can do that for you.

As a result, companies have the incentive to invest in lobbying rather than actually fund the chip production themselves. Essentially the companies believe that chip production will result in $X/yr, but investing in it themselves would be $Y/yr, whereas they could just invest in lobbying for $Z/yr, where $Z << $Y.

> (there is also a button to remove all your data at a later date if desired)

Do you keep database backups?

The fact that youtubers with a small following and a lack of monetization don’t make any money is not the result of capitalism. Do you believe that a different economic system would actually fund the long tail of entertainers?

The problem is not capitalism, it’s that most of the entertainers are not popular enough to make any money from their viewers, and many still wouldn’t be able to survive if they received 100% of the money YouTube gets. Then where would the money come from? If not their viewers, and not advertising, then who? The government?

It’s not a US or capitalist problem, it’s a simple cash flow problem. Can you imagine the Soviet Union or China funding them? Even the 10,000th van lifer?

If you believe that's the case, perhaps you could provide an example of Scott's writing that shouldn't be allowed, and what you think the consequences should be?

Paywalled.

In general citation count is not a useful metric to determine research quality (separate from whether it applies here)

e.g. Brian Wansink's citation count is 33,969 and h-index is 85 [0]. Over a dozen of his papers were retracted after finding statistical anomalies:

"These problems included conclusions not supported by the data presented, data and figures duplicated across papers, questionable data including impossible values, incorrect and inappropriate statistical analyses, and "p-hacking". As of 2020 Wansink has had 18 of his research papers retracted (one twice), seven others have received an expression of concern, and 15 others have been corrected. On September 20, 2018, Cornell determined that Wansink had committed scientific misconduct and removed him from research and teaching activities; he resigned effective June 30, 2019."

[0] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ME4wxCUAAAAJ&hl=en...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wansink

This is one of the more interesting Slate opinion pieces I’ve read.

D.C., could you explain what part of this judgment you disagree with? Employees should have the right to switch companies and leaving a company shouldn’t bar employment in your field.

Hooked is relying on misrepresentation and vague notions of trade secretes — If there were actual concrete IP theft (or even something like customer lists or proprietary technology) wouldn’t their lawsuit have focused on that?

Italy is recording a death every four minutes. The annual flu doesn't even come close to that.

One of the things that bothers me about this study is the use of SafeGraph, which provided "anonymized" data that included GPS location, race, and income.

This seems to be in contradiction of other published results. Can you provide a source?

My predictions

Sometime within the next 2 years, Microsoft will release Word3D, which will be a text editor written in Electron and which will consume 100MB of memory to edit a 1KB text file.

> Some headhunters specifically try to identify high-performing sociopaths for top management positions.

[Citation needed]

I think you mean magnate; a magnet goes on your refrigerator.

YouTube used Polyfill for Firefox, which was 5x slower.

It worked just fine if you pretended to be Chrome by changing the user agent.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/91hbkw/youtube_pag...

In my experience, burnout seems to be a result of poor sleep, poor nutrition, lack of autonomy, lack of recognition, etc. This is especially true if working harder won't lead to greater rewards, like if you have a fixed salary or if your compensation is fairly independent from your actual work.

Many of these are more likely to occur when working at a big Corp, so working by yourself can help you avoid this.

> (All memory access is naturally linear in computing. Random access memory is an unnatural computing myth which comes at enormous cost and has to be hardware accelerated to be even usable).

Are you saying that the order of memory access doesn't matter? Because it's well known in the computer vision / graphics / game industries changing the order of memory access makes a huge difference, especially if you have a cache miss.

This is very obvious if you have a large object that can't fit into L1/L2/L3 cache. In that case, random access causes many cache misses, which destroys performance.

and https://i.reddit.com

It's probably 5x faster than the new mobile site, too

Or, the city could have the police put a boot on the truck tires.

I see that you're running this as a for-profit company. How do you plan to monetize it?

The problem is H1B employees cannot switch jobs easily, and so have greater trouble negotiating raises or seeking other opportunities that are a better fit for them. Employers take advantage of this and offer lower salaries. It's this property of the H1B program that results to decreases salaries among holders, which in turn results in lower salaries across the industry (since a citizen or permanent resident has to consider market rate). If anything, citizens should support increased mobility among H1B holders, since this would eliminate the "dual salary" bases between the two groups.

Typescript seems to be approaching C++ levels of syntax and expressiveness. The main difference seems to be the existing tooling, tutorials, libraries, etc for node.js and others.

But if compiled languages like C++ or Go had as many dedicated libraries for webserver management as JavaScript, would there really be a benefit to using Typescript?