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I’m in the US and know it exists, but I don’t know anyone who uses it. It seems like it’s used predominantly by women to collect and share photos taken by other people (e.g. photos of clothing, makeup, fashion models, crafts, weddings, food, etc.).

The fact that I don’t know anyone who uses it does not imply that Pinterest is unpopular. I just know so few women.

‘U.S. companies must realize that in doing business with China, "they are automatically required to have a cell of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in that company and that it's going to lead to that intellectual property from that company finding its way to the Chinese military," Dunford said. "There's a distinction without a difference between the CCP and the government and the Chinese military."’

The argument is that the Chinese government imposes conditions that the DoD could never get away with (at least not easily and publicly), and Google is playing into their hands.

I didn’t mention vindictiveness. I mentioned that dealers are allowed to break the law in the open without consequence. Vindictiveness is how you’ve chosen to interpret that.

Not to mention our Stanford-educated biomedical entrepreneurs. Or our USC athletes.

Nordic countries have low crime rates to begin with, which allow them to build relatively spacious prisons and allocate more treatment resources per prisoner.

It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem we’ve got. We could just not prosecute many non-violent crimes, like our District Attorney chose to do in San Francisco. But that didn’t pan out well and we now have the highest non-violent crime rate of any major US city.

I see. So instead of the SATs, we could administer a psychological test to detect antisocial tendencies. We’ll send the worst of the bunch straight to the Ivey Leagues. That will teach them.

Marijuana arrests account for 0.7% of the prison population.

It would be interesting to see the figures for other types of arrest.

I think I see what you’re saying.

We should send all criminals to Harvard. We’ll save money, and they’ll become productive members of society.

Because the drug policy is one of San Francisco’s overarching social failures?

The city hands hundreds of millions of dollars to outreach organizations that operate with little oversight and offer no results. We hand out 400,000 needles a month to IV drug users, and the dirty needles end up in the streets and sidewalks, putting everyone at risk. There is human feces everywhere. We allow open use in broad daylight. In some neighborhoods, we allow open dealing in parks and street corners. Police don’t bother to make arrests because the DA wouldn’t prosecute anyway. More and more homeless drug addicts move here to take advantage of the de-facto deregularization. The city reacts by throwing more money at the problem, without oversight or results, and the cycle continues.

The large number of homeless who are mentally ill or addicted to opiates are unaffected by the housing costs, because they couldn’t afford a house at any price.

Of course. After 9-10 years they probably make tremendous salaries. I guess they could take a pay cut and go somewhere else, or even retire, but that’s not for everyone.

Facebook forgot that “change the world” isn’t the end goal. It’s to change the world for the better. At that, they have failed.

While working in defense R&D, I did my most interesting work and met some of my best colleagues.

Eventually I moved to SV and its greener grass: a better salary and a clearer conscience.

The truth is, I miss the interesting work, the competent managers, and having an office. Working to keep people addicted to their screens didn’t do wonders for my conscience or the state of the world.

Money.

They pay many people salaries that they’d have trouble getting elsewhere. If these people stick around for the dream even after the money dries up, then I’ll be impressed.

The sentiment I’ve heard so far is “let’s wait this out, and hope it goes back to business as usual.”

The ethical have likely left already. Those who are most talented and in it for the money will likely be next out, if things don’t turn around. Then they’re left with the untalented and overpaid, who will cling on for as long as possible while the ship sinks.

I deleted Facebook, and it’s still finding ways to annoy me.

For the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBFXzyp3sks

Not sure why you're being downvoted. There has been a brain-drain from industry and academia because FAANG and the Bay Area have been providing software engineers with much better compensation, even with the cost-of-living factored in.

Some companies can't compete, and many others just refuse to compete.

It's a dumb way of phrasing it. The author likely tried to reduce ambiguity, but ended up increasing it.

My guess would be that "currently ever use the service" means "currently use the service, even if just sporadically."

As you say, "currently use the service" would have been sufficient.

Of course the Bay Area is actually diverse. But I’m skeptical that tech companies actually care about these communities. They care about close proximity to a large population of engineers.

"Diversity" in this context is a politically-correct way of saying there is a large community of well-educated Indian immigrants on H1-B Visas living in Silicon Valley and working in the tech industry. Not San Francisco as much, but the South Bay (Santa Clara, Cupertino, San Jose, Sunnyvale, etc.).

Local markets aren’t different products, to start.

The person can rationalize playing 10,000 hours of CoD in their parent’s basement all they want. But I guess we can disagree, too, and suggest they don’t give up on life yet.

Maybe our perspective is that of someone who was in a similar place, and is now looking back on our lives with the benefit of hindsight.

> it is written in a very haphazard fashion

I felt the same way. Knowledgeable authors, loads of information, but quite poorly written.

That said, I don’t know of another book that’s as up to date or comprehensive, so I guess we’re stuck with it till something better comes along.

Most of the world's population can not afford access to this information.

All while they charge authors, charge readers, soliciting volunteers to do the work for free, and publish academic research paid for by taxpayers.

It's shameful.

It seems like they keep (every decade or so) coming across single specimens. So I’d guess there are more, but they’re elusive.

I know the point you're making, but I don't think it's very convincing.

First off, OP is talking about a trend in the community to favor shorter and shorter names. He didn't say you need to code that way, but there is an increasing chance that the programmers you work with, or the libraries you depend on, will have adopted this convention.

Second, unless you are coding in a vacuum or starting a brand new project, you're usually expected to follow the conventions of an existing codebase. These were likely influenced by conventions in the community, which often are set by conventions in the standard library, which have much to do with the language.

If you’ve seen any amount of Go and Java code (starting with, say, the standard libraries), you’d know these communities take very different approaches to variable names.

Who knows, maybe we’d go back to valuing face-to-face communication.

I interviewed onsite a few weeks back and got bad vibes from five of the six interviewers. A few seemed to hate being there, and the others seemed like nightmares to work with. One guy was cool, though.

That’s true. Even as a citizen, I’m hesitant to provide negative feedback about a manager because I’ve seen it backfire way too many times.

Easier said than done you’re on an H1B visa and HR hangs you out to dry.

Just to be clear, MIMO is not a new feature in 5G. LTE has MIMO. Old Wi-Fi routers from 10 years ago had MIMO.

5G is upping the number of antennas per base station. Theoretically, this allows a linear increase in capacity, but linear scaling is not always achievable in practice.

The advantage of the higher frequency bands is the larger bandwidths available there. Conventional cellular bands typically have 5, 10, or 20 MHz bandwidth, sometimes 100 MHz. 5G's millimeter-wave bands support bandwidths up to 400 MHz. Information rate scales linearly with bandwidth. That said, there are many practical challenges to operating in the millimeter wave bands that might limit real-world performance.