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e9··on In Defense of Cultural Appropriation
the stupidest case I saw recently on this topic is this: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article153143034.ht...

should we not allow talented Latino chefs cook us french food because it's not their culture? this is just dumb

e9··on Petya: “I Want to Believe”
"It has a vendetta against Kaspersky Lab. If this malware finds running Kaspersky processes on the system, it writes junk to the first 10 sectors of the disk, and then reboots, bricking the machine completely."

lol

e9··on How much should I pay for a domain?
Think of it as a full-time marketing employee. Would you give your best marketing person 5%? Probably not, but $2000/month is probably ok for a good domain.
e9··on Social Cooling – How big data is increasing pressure to conform
Sort of, political parties have profiles for most voters based on their public profiles etc, they compile all info and predict your stand on various issues and when those databases leak..... and they do: https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files you are no longer protected, your best bet is to not have public facing anything at this point in time
e9··on Sony’s New Toio Wants to Inspire a Future Generation of Robotics Engineers
yep, seems like robotics engineers should switch to autonomous car engineers for upside, I would assume a lot of knowledge transfers well between the jobs
e9··on Former Silicon Valley CEO Indicted for Allegedly Defrauding Employees of StartUp
Good question. Hopefully they were able to figure it out. I had bad experience at startups on H1B. On my first day at the job on H1B, in the first 10 minutes I walk into CEO's office and he says the company has 1 month of runway in the bank. Imagine my reaction after I just moved my family to Silicon Valley. It turned out fine for me at the end but after that experience I feel that it's immoral for startups to hire H1Bs.
e9··on Former Silicon Valley CEO Indicted for Allegedly Defrauding Employees of StartUp
on my first day at the job on H1B, in the first 10 minutes I walk into CEO's office and he says the company has 1 month of runway in the bank. Imagine my reaction after I just moved my family to Silicon Valley. It turned out fine for me at the end but after that experience I feel that it's immoral for startups to hire H1Bs.
e9··on Former Silicon Valley CEO Indicted for Allegedly Defrauding Employees of StartUp
definitely the same person: https://www.forbes.com/sites/womenatforbesfiles/2016/10/12/p...
e9··on Thursday night Mountain View power outage the result of a drone crash
Interesting how they call this illegal because airport is within 5 miles. Airport is almost unrelated to this particular situation but I guess it's a concrete way to make person liable.
e9··on Ask HN: Investor wants access to Google Analytics/MailChimp/Quickbooks etc data?
If they are doing this much due diligence then they are good investors and if they invest then it's a good signal that you are doing something right. If they don't invest then it's a great opportunity to learn from them as much as possible as to why they think you are on a wrong path and how to fix it.
e9··on ‘Ghetto Tourism’: New York’s disturbing new trend
This is not really new. It is no different from touring San Francisco neighborhoods, there is even local guides for this: https://www.vayable.com/experiences/187-scout-for-street-art
e9··on Ask HN: Kicked out of Trader Joe's for photographing nutrition labels?
They probably think you are scouting for competition. It's common practice for grocery stores to send people to look around in competitor's stores and record prices etc so that they can figure out what kind of sales to start, what new products to put on shelves etc
e9··on India, Once a Coal Goliath, Is Fast Turning Green
I am just stating that more pollution per square foot will destroy that part of earth more and therefore damage environment more. So objectively speaking you are correct, social issues aside, Luxembourg should be considered an abject failure of environmental policy. But the issue of pollution is complicated and involves social issues so my perspective is not very helpful when you make policy decisions or include fairness towards people, etc.
e9··on India, Once a Coal Goliath, Is Fast Turning Green
ok, seems like we are looking at this from different perspectives. You look at it from fairness to people and I look at it from fairness to earth. I argue that because pollution is so concentrated within the area, it destroys that part of earth more, this does not include anything to do with fairness towards people. But you are absolutely right if you look at it from perspective of being fair towards people. I am not at all against helping people though, I totally support destroying parts of the environment if it reduces overall suffering and progresses wellbeing of individuals in need. But my initial argument was that, social issues aside, looking specifically from environmental impact, per capita is not a good way to judge impact of the country.
e9··on India, Once a Coal Goliath, Is Fast Turning Green
per capita is pretty good measure of efficiency but environmental impact is probably better measured by emissions per area of the country? am I wrong?
e9··on India, Once a Coal Goliath, Is Fast Turning Green
I agree with you, but can you talk more about this? Is there an article or some other resource that talks more about this topic?
e9··on 1 in 9 TX Students Here Due to Illegal Immigration–Cost Texas $7.87B Annually
But that was my exact point, if life of American is equivalent to life of Honduran then there should be no borders. I am all about that, I would be more than happy with open borders because life is equal. But current immigration laws are treating American lives above anyone else's lives and therefore by current laws Honduran in your story should be dead and by current law it would be fair. This brings me to the point of laws and fairness, I am not ok with unfairly treating honest people trying to immigrate through legal means. It is absolutely unfair for legal immigrant to suffer through the process just to find out that illegal immigrant skipped all that and his/her kids got same rights etc. It is also unfair to people who don't have courage to commit a crime (illegally immigrate). Open borders would solve those issues though.
e9··on Ask HN: What single book is the best intro to your field for laypeople?
The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing By Steven W. Smith, Ph.D.

http://www.dspguide.com/

http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

e9··on $13.4M in Ether lost by bug in Quadriga's smart contract
another hard fork coming? or maybe hard forks only allowed when founders of the coin are involved in the transaction?
e9··on 1 in 9 TX Students Here Due to Illegal Immigration–Cost Texas $7.87B Annually
no xenophobia here, I don't know where you got this from. I was genuinely interested in knowing. This stuff is not obvious and what you provided is not evidence but your opinion. Please provide some articles/research/concrete numbers. I am genuinely interested in knowing the impact.
e9··on 1 in 9 TX Students Here Due to Illegal Immigration–Cost Texas $7.87B Annually
It all comes down to either you value each life equally or not. If yes then there should not be borders at all. Until this happens it's very unfair to encourage illegal immigration. If I break the law and rob a bank and give 1M dollars of stolen money to my kids, I will go to jail and 1M dollars will be taken away from my kids. I broke the law and kids should blame me for money taken away. This is no different with illegal immigration, if you come illegally and break the law you and your kids should be deported regardless if they were born in USA. This is only fair and kids should blame their parents not the country.
e9··on 1 in 9 TX Students Here Due to Illegal Immigration–Cost Texas $7.87B Annually
Please provide evidence for this claim.
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