My first thought was similar. Although those questions are appropriate for teams that work on search problems that are deeper than: "just query postgres".
The best part of this is that you have to drive a Tesla 400k+ miles to totally offset the carbon it takes to manufacturer the vehicle and to generate the electricity to operate it.
You probably have to drive this hummer 800k+ miles to offset the carbon to manufacture and operate.
His family became wealthy during apartheid, they were beneficiaries of state sponsored racism, I'd say he is at least indifferent to it as long as he is not suffering any consequences.
It's a logical leap to suggest that indirectly benefitting from something means one is indifferent to that thing. We're all beneficiaries of child labour in the third world; it doesn't mean we're all indifferent to it. Most of us at least disapprove.
Errol Musk claimed to the New York Times that he belonged to the anti-apartheid Progressive Party at the time. Elon Musk said in his biography that he did not want to partake in South Africa's mandatory military service because it would have forced him to participate in the apartheid regime.[1]
I understand that this an emotionally charged issue, and I would never expect the wider public to behave differently, but I'd at least expect this community to engage in more critical thinking -- to not make logical leaps, and to be honest about the facts at hand. We're not going to reverse the world's social progress because the nerds on Hacker News decided to pause for thought.
> Elon Musk said in his biography that he did not want to partake in South Africa's mandatory military service
The children of rich people deciding they don't want to participate in the draft isn't a moral stand. It's not a unique thing, nor a condemnation of the country.
Yes, and that's why I asked if the intention of limiting the scam to people 28 and above was about filtering people unlikely to be able to pay for them
Anecdotally, I had 20000x more money at 22 than 28. If I remain employed for the rest of the year I might be on par by the end of it. Graphing my income over the last 10 years would look like a memory leak
I'm hoping the same. Regarding 401k please remember that employer matches do not count towards the contribution limit, always calculate your deduction so that you max it out without the employer match. The employer match is the cherry on top.
My income potential increased quite dramatically actually. But after multiple burnouts, and struggling with symptoms of ADHD, it doesn't really matter what you accomplish most of the time if you miss enough morning standups to piss off the manager. So I've really struggled to maintain _any_ employment, and therefore I had literally zero money going into this year. The memory leak analogy was due to working every so often enough to bank a few tens of thousands, and then losing that job and just gradually draining mt entire bank account while looking for a new one.
If you sent a personal friend 2 twitter DMs, then 2 emails, and then 3 text messages and they don't reply, I don't think they are a friend. My inbox gets pounded as well but if a personal friend emails I skip all the other emails and reply to that one first.
Yeah my friends know how to reach me, doesn't matter how busy my work email is. I'd be really surprised if the CEO of Uber didn't have a way for his actual friends to reach him that was unrelated to his 100,000 new email work inbox.
Absolutely agreed. I think the parent article is decent advice for cold e-mails, but for personal interactions not responding is a good way to lose friends over time.
It could be very uncomfortable for microsoft, politically, in the US, if it turns out they are applying Chinese-appeasing policies in the United States, to US users with their locale set to en-US (or even zh-US!). That's what I want to know; if somebody can prove there are blacklists checked into config files, I'd be very interested.
The work is quite interesting to read (having been on the other side of systems like this) but it uses statistical techniques like fisher tests in a fairly naive way. My next complaint is that they use the term censorship. I prefer to use the term "suppression of legitimately interesting results to further a political or business need".
At some point the paper devolves into speculating abotu the complex serving systems that produce suggestions at runtime (they are a function of thousands of feature variables). Probably the best readers of this paper would the (US-based ) technical lead and product manager for Bing, who should read it in detail and plug all the obvious bugs that were found.
I was trying to find pre-made hand railing mounting plates, I thought to try and use google shopping because I didn't have an existing part number.
I enter my search term hit enter, for a split second I can see the exact products I want to browse but those results are quickly swapped out for a bunch of unrelated products.
