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one presumes this is the US sending a message about its demands on Bagram via the Pakistanis who owe one to the US

hilariously, this will happen on or about when dictation is Wispr quality or better and you won't need your keyboard as much. I do second the Select All item, it's beyond frustrating.

if we are not going to export dollars, and we are going to make countries spend more of thier own money, then thier cost of borrowing will go up, they will need to rotate out of dollar assets and then traders who use the carry trade will need to unwind them as the source of borrowing (other countries very low interest rates) are no longer very low, as we now see in UK, Germany, and Japan—each hitting very fast highs for interest rates for their govt debt.

It's much more straightforward math then reading of political or vibes tea leaves.

Are employees at google not being paid for what they're risking?

An investor risks their post tax capital, and then when it works like google gets the upside and when it fails they get...shares in blackberry or IBM.

An employee risks their time, which they are guaranteed by law at least for the time they risk, to be compensated in cash and benefits.

An employee also risks their reputation and career opportunity cost for which they get...checks notes...options that go up/down the same as an investor.

An employee is participating in both value buckets, and one might argue at Google specifically, in the most compensatory bucket proportion in the history of all people ever.

Calendar, large plain text notes file, VA helping with things, travel agent

I have no knowledge of the deal and am not involved in anyway; this sounds like the 409A for the common stock came down not the preferred valuation. Valuations can't be moved without someone buying stock at a lower price to make the lower price "real". If there was no investment, they didn't Lower the valuation. 409As are different, happen every year to enable common equity grants to the team. What is probably happening is the team's option grants are at a lower price because the inputs to the 409A formulae (including how the stock market is doing) have come down.

- Cars don't have eyes which means that can't see you and can hit you.

- Feelings, names of them and distinctions, all are ok, what is and isn't an ok action to take because of feeling

- Animals have feelings. They also have eyes.

- How everything ever is part of a sequence of things

- The phases of the moon

- The location of the sun in the sky based on time (or routine item like wake up, lunch, nap, dinner time).

- Any recipe (sequences)

- Songs. Anything can be a song.

- Where things live/go/sleep/etc

I love the Apple Pay / fingerprint reader button.

Beyond that, I do my level best to avoid touching it. The volume and brightness features are nice but it would be better to not have had it as I mis-key it all the time and it exits me from where I'm working.

This article is an entertaining read on that considers some of the issues discussed in this thread:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/bitcoin-e...

There's logic in these arguments; however, they ignore securities laws.

If BTC is a security, which the regulators probably think it is, then yes—you have to have a mechanism to bring concepts like splits, tenders, dividends to holders of the security if you are going to hold them for their benefit.

Developers considering forks will likely be required to follow yet unclarified rules around how much, how often, waiting and disclosure periods, etc.

(It's useful to consider how rules and systems have evolved governing how often Apple can split its stock or how Facebook investors are notified about tender offers, etc.)

I try to routine-ize as many of them as possible so it's on autopilot. Sunday afternoons get time scheduled in the calendar to take care of one off items.

Thanks, @pier25 @jdhawk!

ASK HN: what's the service you use, ideally over the web, where you send a high-quality picture file and they return beautifully printed, large format, frameable prints?

Just contributed and need to send this files somewhere for printing and then find a framer. Thoughts?

It's really lovely. Thanks for doing this. I contributed and look forward to hanging it up once I figure out printing.

How long did it take?

Thank you, you've made my day!

Silicon Shore? of I recall what people were saying a few years ago..

Bob Lucky, who was one of the directors of research at Bell wrote a number of books and this one is a fun read.

https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Strikes-Again-Foibles-Engineers...

thanks for the correction. Long night last night :/

Even as Silicon Valley was still in its infancy, a group of organizations including Bell, MCI, GM, and others hired Fred Terman from Stanford to make NJ more like what Silicon Valley (NJ and SV share a ton of similarities, i did a tedx talk about it below [1]) but Terman was unsuccessful. He pointed to how Princeton was not focused enough on applied science the way Stanford was. East coast politics and stock market downturn also hindered his efforts.

Also, don't forget Fort Monmouth, which was across the county, employed an equal number of scientists and was responsible for nearly as many inventions as Bell Labs (much classified). It was the home of the Army's software and signal operations. Just like Silicon Valley, the military kickstarted the world's most productive innovation cores.

New Jersey had (and continues to have) the richest concentration of scientists in the United States. Monmouth County and the Princeton had, for a very long time, the kind of serendipity that makes Silicon Valley so special—that you can walk down the street and bump into a bunch of engineers and VCs while walking your dog and strike up a conversation.

State politics in NJ, unfortunately, doesn't nurture these institutions and the ecosystem has grown weaker. It breaks my heart that Bell Labs is a mall and Fort Monmouth lays fallow when it should be bid out to universities to become the Stanford of the East—the applied sciences university that Fred Terman dreamed about.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2LbuqoNGGI

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Monmouth

[3] http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2012/sep/06/...

There is no logic that justifies attempting to be "not another public company" if you are a public company.

Laws. Culture. Press. These things stand in the way of trying to be public while saying you won't act like a public company (by being a b-corp for example).

Public companies have functionally modular governance, which means if I don't like you (manager) and your ideas, my friends and I can buy enough governance units until you have to listen to us. It's not quite that straightforward but it's pretty much how it works.

In a way, it's similar to venture—you can try to escape the gravity of venture norms but to do that you need viral + network effect growth.

In the Market, you can try to escape the gravity of public company norms but to do that you need Amazon level revenue growth and the temerity of Jeff Bezos. Even then its an outside bet.

Rabois says startups should go public and I suspect his approach to the problem is he believes (im armchairing here) that the problem of founders hiding mistakes / making intellectually lazy decisions / not serving the financial goals / creating weird preference structures trying to raise money at scale from funds >> public market shareholders killing a geese for next quarters egg.

The Right To The Best Available Deal:

To have all applicable financial / tax regulations applied to you automatically.

This way you don't have to discover tax breaks/credits/deductions — they just get applied to you.

This is important and effects something like 250M Americans.

Outside of criminal and civil law, much of the US system of government is enforced financially through the tax code.

The benefits of the Internal Revenue Code are applied unevenly because richer people are able to develop the sophistication or acquire service providers who help them make sure they are getting the best available deal.

Can you imagine if hackers/coders got better deals on products Amazon then non-coders? It would be absurd to say "well, learn to code or higher an engineer and you'll save $1000 a year!" That's a pretty close metaphor—we say "get financially literate! The information is out there! get an accountant!".

Computers, tech, machine learning, and AI are great at making sure all Americans get The Best Deal Available.

Everyone who has options is likely still locked up.

First, Congrats! Second, as you likely know by now, your child is basically a meat computer. It runs pretty well other than it needs routine debugging. It will feel a lot like working through a bit of code you only wrote half of at 3am having not had a full nights sleep in 5 months with 115 decibels melting your brain as you try to recall important subroutines. Enjoy it though, its over before you know it. =]

An interesting solve here is structuring research grants for outcome replicability. The article implies a real % of grant money is wasted on results that cannot be replicated.

Could look like X0% of grant money is held for future researchers who work on replicating the outcome. And, wouldn't it be cool if Y% of the grant was held back to be awarded to the researcher whose results were replicated?

This spend, while increasing grant sizes, has the effect of creating replicable science which does more for Science and Society than small grants that end up creating non replicable results.

#3 feels analogous to saying: "I would never walk down the street reading a book without looking where i was going." (or something similar) Makes sense until everyone has a smartphone and then this: http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructur...

@wilozxc, thanks for this!

what did you use to A/B test, adjust, and track?

First, pick something interesting to you to work on. Really deep dive. Ask interesting people working in your area and adjacent to breakfast every week day to chat about your thing. Do half the talking. Rinse and repeat a few dozen times.

Then, see if you can engage people at a bar, first the bartender and then a random barmate. This is the test for whether you have storytelling, presentation, emoting, expression, vocabulary, register, eye contact, body language, and the other elements of communication in sync.

its called the Token Economy Problem. tl:dr; using tokens as an external motivation mechanism transfers away from buidling internal motivation. (e.g.,$5 for each book a kid reads gets a kid to read books for $5 bills and not for love of reading/imagination/thinking. $5 tokens run out? Kid stops reading.)

Check out Upstart, LendingClub, and Prosper for a quick, reasonably priced loan.

Seconding @robzyb. If the algorithm is out there then people and orgs can create their own implementations that help specific populations without having to license code from anyone or waiting for TurboTax or one of the majors to build a product around the algorithm that supports the needs of the specific population in question.