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School, and the socialization that occurs there, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Work is generally just work, it's not like your personal development suffers if you skip it.

This dude's stuff is incredible and I never heard of him before today. He should be famous!

I find that boredom is death for creativity, but tedium is a goldmine. If I'm not doing anything, I don't think of anything. If I have a tedious but active chore, I need to bring a notepad along with me to capture all the ideas.

Your analogy only holds if the customers to that pub were also supplying the drinks, the food, and handling the orders.

I believe the answers are CC-SA.

But the parent to your response has a point - knowing that the answers are CC licensed and knowing that the owners might have a ten-figure exit are different things. If the community were more aware of the latter, they might have been more canny about donating their efforts.

Not the person you originally asked, but an HOA is an additional layer for a start. Moreover it tends to have more restrictions, of a kind that would seem ridiculous at the level of local government (e.g. what color your curtains can be, in the case of the condo I'm currently renting.)

This was the same author that wrote about the Uber iOS YOLO recently [0], without cursing Travis Kalanick.

I somehow missed the second half of the title (with the word "quit") and I was worried he was again getting into a situation where he was doing a lot of heavy lifting for a company that was ultimately taking advantage of its contributors.

Glad to see he dumped Plato.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27267368

I don't know why you're getting downvoted, this is my experience as well. It's to the point where if it doesn't ship from Amazon, I don't buy it.

The last thing I accidentally bought from a non-Amazon shipper arrived in a semi-destroyed box, inside a too-small bubble-wrap envelope, apparently shipped from someone's condominium (I guess they bought in bulk and repackaged?)

People back then knew that "hanging out" in a public place was worthwhile.

I wish there was a model of public place where you and your pals could buy breakfast+lunch, or lunch+dinner, and occupy the table for the whole time in-between.

Bars let you stay for long periods, but after three or four hours everyone ends up hammered, which is a different thing.

I should have said potentially intrusive. Giving any extension permission to "Access your data for all websites" would give me pause.

I'm surprised anyone ever installs browser extensions, given how many malicious extensions exist, and how intrusive they are whether malicious or not.

Holy shit. I've never used Venmo, but thanks for the warning.

Because our happiness often cannot be contained.

> Not a good take. These individuals have the choice of where to go. What should we say? You can’t come?

The US does say "you can't come" to most people who aren't highly skilled, so this choice of where to go comes out of the aligned interests of the US and the migrant, not a general principle.

What's the point of Bitcoin if it has to play by the same rules as other asset classes? It's supposed to be resilient against attempts to control it.

Instagram should allow users to simply set the number of likes to whatever they want to have displayed, and let it increment from there.

If Instagram is letting people turn the feature off, then it's likely that they don't actually need "likes" for their data-collection purposes.

I'd prefer blatant product placement, e.g. Kermit the Frog emerges from Greedo's corpse in the "Han Shoots First" version of "Star Wars", looks directly at the camera, and tries to sell the audience cigarettes.

I'm surprised that "moral hazard" is rarely mentioned in these types of stories. By making their overtime effort available to the CEO as insurance against bad decisions, the engineers are in a way encouraging more bad decisions, since it's the engineers bearing the costs.

> Many cultures chastise sleepers as lazy, but every time you sleep, it's like a big reconstruction process in your body.

The morning alarm is society telling you "stop reconstructing yourself, start working on our problems."

Isn't proof-of-work intrinsically wasteful though, as a proxy for costing money (e.g. instead of paying money directly for the right to mine BTC, you buy electricity and burn it)? In any context other than cryptocurrencies it seems like microtransactions would be a better choice.

> ...shouldn't it be possible that these things will be avoided by confirming the validity of the code...

It would be better to build in a margin of tolerance for correcting mistakes, but that's contrary to the rigid determinism that smart contracts and cryptocurrencies, for some reason, strive for.

I think Musk just thought it would be funny to accept BTC, and didn't give any thought to the environmental concerns around BTC.

Eventually he either realized or had it pointed out that the environmental controversy would be problematic for an electric vehicle company.

A fundamental difference between trading and working for pay is that you're not risking your principal when you take a job.

Did he offload his Bitcoins?

Each pod in a Kubernetes cluster should register itself as a separate LLC and declare bankruptcy on shutdown. Free cloud deployments!

Yeah it's possible, but it makes more sense to think about negative outcomes before positive outcomes. With enough leverage, you lose half of your money if the market goes down 10%. With more leverage, you lose all your money if the market goes down a few percentage points, as your account gets liquidated on the spot.

Long Term Capital Management was bailed out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

I suspect there are few real-world examples where "you could just say X" actually works... but in this case the story is that a random "weed dealer" killed not a random person, but a specific person known to the "weed purchaser"?

Who would believe that story?

The subject matter here isn't "Websites you visit" in general, it's specifically Google, and whether the settings in Chrome (where users authenticate using Google accounts) should apply across their services.

> I buy that some consumers don't understand the separation between Chrome the browser and Google the website. But if ignorance is allowed...

When you "log into Chrome" with a Google account, is it really ignorant to assume that the scope of the settings in Chrome is the same scope as the Google account? I mean it's wrong, but it's wrong because Google is deliberately blurring distinctions and undermining common-sense assumptions.