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e9··on Evan Spiegel’s Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success Until Users Fled
I don’t think he wanted to retain them. Pretty sure his logic was that the company is grown up and it needs new leadership.
e9··on Ask HN: Where did you donate money in 2018?
https://teamrubiconusa.org/
e9··on Facebook is the new cigarettes
I have same problem with hacker news after I quit FB lol
e9··on Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem
I am off the grid (no social media, scrubbed basic internet mentions, etc) and with every breach there is more and more PII that I can find online about me which is insane...
e9··on Snapchat CEO’s leaked memo on survival
2 -> you can download the video and post it anywhere but yeah it would be nice to have it directly saved to phone rather than snapchat then save to phone
e9··on Time to break up Google and Facebook, says New York attorney general candidate
you are misunderstanding, break them up meaning separate them into multiple independent entities that together still provide all the services. Here is a good summary: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/c...

edit: link to full article https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15895746/bust-big-tec...

e9··on Time to break up Google and Facebook, says New York attorney general candidate
Not the same. There are many wall street giants so competition is there vs there are basically no competition for tech giants
e9··on New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas
India has more applicants than all other countries combined times 2.5

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them are fraud and legitimately rejected

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...

e9··on The Data Transfer Project
That looks pretty scary actually. If mishandled, it will enable someone to steal all of your information from all the platforms.
e9··on What to Do When a Loved One Is Severely Depressed
+1 be careful, even if they don't use violence they tend to go on conservative side and put your loved one in 72h hold and if it's late night or proper mental hospitals are full then they will end up spending those hours with crazy people they pick up on the street. It will be more traumatizing (especially for females since they will be surrounded by crazy males from the streets).
e9··on Ambulances Were Called to Amazon Warehouses 600 Times in Three Years
You didn’t actually read the article: “ambulances have been called to Amazon's UK warehouses at least 600 times in the last three years“

There are way less warehouse workers in Amazon UK so your calculations are off.

e9··on Nicotinamide riboside effects on aging similar to caloric restriction
That's interesting. Glad that you are experimenting! Everyone is so different that experimenting is the only way to find out what works and what doesn't for anyone :). Just curious, what other supplements did you find working out for you?
e9··on Nicotinamide riboside effects on aging similar to caloric restriction
Just use high quality niacin/nicotinic acid/vitamin-b3. "niacin supplementation increases cellular nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) levels"

reference: https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-b3/

e9··on Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Video-Game-Console-Design/dp/06...
e9··on YouTube’s fake views economy
"pushes ridiculous conspiracy theories", can you give an example?
e9··on Ask HN: What information should be in any job description page?
I had great results with this company http://www.bincsearch.com/
e9··on Trump administration cracks down on H-1B visa abuse
H1B is not meant to bring smartest engineers. O-1 visa is for that purpose. H1B is meant to bring generic engineers who have Bachelor's degree or above.
e9··on Trump administration cracks down on H-1B visa abuse
Disclaimer: I've been on H1B for 8 years and transferred it many times to big and small companies.

My observations:

1. USA has plenty of talent and they don't need generic engineers from other countries.

2. H1B workers are not underpaid

3. Only reason tech companies praising H1B is because their hiring process is broken. They select arbitrary interview questions and determine competency based on them. This is total bs and they end up passing on super intelligent US citizens then make bs claim that there are not enough tech talent in the USA.

4. USA does need specialists but they would come on O-1 visa anyways so H1B is not in picture here.

e9··on Trump administration cracks down on H-1B visa abuse
+1 I absolutely agree with you. I've been on H1-B and saw a lot of abuse from both big tech and startups (most abused were people from countries like India because a lot of them will do anything just not to go back). In big tech I saw people being indirectly threatened by not proceeding with their green card so that they work on weekends etc. I wouldn't take that crap so I kept leaving and transferring H1N but others were too scared and it really affected my view of H1B. Startups are also a problem, but more because of ignorance rather than malice. Once I transferred my H1B to a startup who really sold me on everything from being stable and funded to growing fast etc, so I moved my family across the country and on my first day CEO said they have 1 month of money left in the bank...
e9··on Lift Weights, Eat More Protein, Especially If You’re Over 40
over 40 your main concern is to make it sustainable and avoid injuries. A mix of moderate weights couple of times a week and HIIT couple of times a week would work best.
e9··on Integration tests are a symptom of poor design
I am on the same page with you. In my personal experience, biggest problems occur between interaction of the modules and not so much within particular module. Without integration tests there is just no way to catch these things no matter how good of an architect you are.
e9··on Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242593/ In section "Genetics and long-term effects of caffeine" it goes a bit into details but here is relevant excerpt: "The finding of lower COMT activity with higher risk of myocardial infarction points to involvement of circulating catecholamines in caffeine’s effect on cardiovascular system, with the implication that slow-metabolizing individuals could be at increased risk due to decreased ability to handle the stress associated with caffeine-induced catecholamine response."

if you want to know more about caffeine in general this place sites all the studies: https://examine.com/supplements/caffeine/

e9··on Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”
We all have gene in our liver for making enzyme that breaks down caffeine. Due to small genetic differences, some of us have enzyme that breaks down caffeine quickly and others that breaks it down slowly. If you win genetic lottery and produce enzyme that breaks down caffeine fast then you flush out caffeine and end up reaping benefits of antioxidants found in coffee beans. If you have enzyme that breaks down caffeine slowly, caffeine hangs around longer causing health problems. That's all there is.
e9··on Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago
Peanuts are composed mostly of polyunsaturated fat (mostly omega 6 and very low omega 3) and macademia nuts are mostly monounsaturated fats. If you care about your omega 6 to omega 3 ratio in the diet then macademia nuts are probably better for you.
e9··on Boring thieves had tunnel visions (2009)
great read, but reading title I thought it had something to do with Elon Musk's Borking company and it's tunnels lol
e9··on Vitamin D and cancer prevention
Well, to be fair it's poverty and cheap processed food that drives higher caloric intake in southern states. You can buy a cheeseburger with 600 calories for $1 or you can buy 50 calories worth of organic foods for the same price. If you are on minimum wage the choice is pretty clear.
e9··on Show HN: Fx - Poor man's serverless framework
I pay $2.5 per month here: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=7195281
e9··on Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads
I hope there are no fake banking apps like that...
e9··on Ask HN: What is your preferred tech stack for web apps?
meteor.com, it's all-in-one and works out of the box. For example, no need to install/configure DB to get started(it spins up configured one locally for you). If you want to go live to production, it's single command to deploy and they offer hosting service that's reasonably priced.
e9··on Ask HN: Salary increase from Seattle to Bay Area
Think twice about it. Moving from middle of nowhere or from place where there is no tech is no brainer, but Seattle is a different story. First, consider that there is California income tax (unlike Washington where there is no state income tax). Second, if you want to live in decent place it's way more expensive than you'd be led to believe (check out craigslist + apartments.com). Third, consider that even if you join company and love your co-workers, those co-workers are most likely to be gone within 1-2 years. Engineers constantly switch jobs in Silicon Valley and average tenure at a company is pretty low (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-tenure-of-a-softwa...).

Having said that, at a bigger company you can reasonably expect what you are looking for. But at a startup it might be a bit harder to negotiate to that level, also consider that if you don't perform within first couple of months then they'll most likely let you go.

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