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If I may ask, what is your last name, Dan?

It would be nice if YC had a site (similar to triplebyte) searchable and sortable highlighting their startups, what they do and so on. For example I didn't know about your company until I read your profile. I would probably take a closer look if I knew you were a YC company.

"It's a wonder they're as big as they are."

Not really. Part of getting big is not sweating small details like this when you have a constant stream of customers coming in the door and using you (to make up for the unhappy ones who never come back).

So that's great but then you are doing part of the work that airbnb should be doing.

"just that people need and deserve more income"

You may be aware that there are people who specifically choose not to live in a high rent place such as San Francisco or Manhattan (as only two examples) because it is expensive and they can't afford it. And they know it and understand that is part of the "life is not fair" theme. Not everyone will make enough to rent or buy in those places and there is nothing new about this either. That it impacts startups is an entirely different issue. And startups are the reason the rent is so high obviously in San Francisco, right?

Where I am located it's impossible to get anywhere near the quality of labor that I might get if I was located in San Francisco, NYC or really any large metropolitan area. Obviously I have made a choice (for many reasons) to be where I am (as have many others). Everyone makes choices. If you move to San Francisco to take a job you have to factor in the cost of housing when you make your decision to work there. As far as the legacy people who live there and are impacted in a negative way that is truly an unfortunate situation.

Ah yes. Operation "me loves you long time".

Ref: Full Metal Jacket (link is a nsfw video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tce-THLUE

Interesting theory actually. And so simple (and as academics say "elegant"). You have to wonder why the US isn't raining down "propaganda porn viewing devices" instead of leaflets. (I'm serious a self contained unit with an LCD and enough memory and power to play some porn..perhaps with solar charging to boot.)

Of course the reason they would never do this has something to do with how porn is viewed by mainstream folks and how an aghast media would present this even if it was an actual practical solution to a problem. Would seem to be worth a try.

To pass the paywall:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

This is actually pretty scary. It's as if they are stretching the truth for their own political purposes. Kind of like politicians do all of the time. Kind of like Rolling Stone does when playing loose and fast with the facts. It's unfortunate (assuming you and the gp comment are correct I didn't read the documents) that EFF is doing this type of thing.

"But to a broke college student, anything that costs more than a few hours of minimum wage =/= free."

With all due respect to a college student today there are so many things you can do to make money that your professor couldn't do back in his day. It doesn't even come close. And back in his day (if it's the same as my day) if you hustled (which I did for example) you never ever earned minimum wage. I did (as I am sure many people did) many things on the side in order to make money. And that was back when I have to say it was a bit more difficult than it is now.

A multi user system that I bought in the mid 80's held a max of 4mb of memory and a max of 144mb hard drive. I think the memory was something like $4000 (in 80's dollars, that's close to $9000 today) for 2mb of memory. So that was just the cost of the memory. On that system by the way you could hook up 26 Wyse terminals. We had maybe 12 terminals hooked up with 2mb of memory and a 72mb hard drive. No graphics everything was pretty system. It ran accounting and job scheduling systems (some of which I actually wrote myself as a non-programmer). At the time I think dinner for two was about $35 for a nice place. Healthcare was $65 per month for the best possible plan. IIM I was a few years out of college at the time.

Thanks - I will but not just yet (a few reasons for that actually).

Was through a barter exchange.

So in other words the restaurant barters meals and gets "trade credits". The other participants barter either the products they are selling "plumbing supplies" or services "lawyer, accountant" and so on. They get trade credits. The barter exchange keeps track of how many credits a business has so they know what they can spend. Typically people who sell services or perishable products are big winners. Losers would be businesses with low margins. For example you wouldn't find any Plasma TV's typically on a barter exchange. You might find jewelry though because that has a big markup. I actually was able (and this was some time ago I have to add) barter an apartment for myself as well as apartments for some of my employees. Other big items are perishable products such as hotel rooms, travel and so on. Magazine or newspaper ad space are other examples.

Use it or lose it to the vendor. There is an active and most likely a separate channel of travel barter that operates independent of any barter exchange. (Billboards for radio time let's say. TV for travel expenses.).

I want a way to be able to use this with ssh rsync scp and so on to preserve legacy backup routines that are now in place. (Including on systems that you will not be writing b2 clients for like old versions of Solaris).

This mirrors somewhat my experience many years ago with bartering. The places that were bartering were doing so because it was some low hanging fruit way to increase business and it was easy to to. And they were places that weren't particularly popular on their own (restaurants let's say) so they would do bartering to bring in customers on Monday nights but not allow it for obvious reasons on Saturday or Friday night. There is always a feeling on the part of small business owners that barter dollars are not real dollars (even though there is value in many cases) and barter business is not real business. A place that isn't doing that well to begin with (and once again I realize this is a generalization that is not true in many cases) is not going to have the best employees or the best attitudes because they are running short on cash and can't pay the best wages or have the best working conditions. So it's an entire ecosystem of mediocrity that you (in your case or me in my case) might end up experiencing.

So I guess in theory someone taking groupon (or barter dollars) should just be a regular business that is doing well wanting to increase business. But in actual cases it might more often (from my experience at least) be a marginal business that is trying to fix a situation with marketing that isn't exactly going to work as planned by bringing in groupon dollars or barter dollars (that will end up being used by the owner to go out to dinner with his wife (and yes that is what happened)). Valuable things (in the case of barter dollars) that a business needs are not typically available with barter dollars. What you get is a bunch of things like dining, travel or accountants or attorneys (and how many of those do you need).

For http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ your thoughts on why that is better than using rsync ?

Edit: I am now noticing this tool isn't even maintained anymore.

I use rsync. Question for you (or any expert here). Is there any possible way that rsync can alter the source file (unintentionally I mean, by accident or bug)?

And what happens to an rsync file that is modified while in the middle of a transfer? [1](I haven't been able to find satisfactory answers to these questions hence the question here).

[1] Say you have a 1,000,000 line file that you are rsynch-ing and you delete line 50000 and insert at line 750000?

Thanks for that. But for some reason both that and the save comments seems incomplete. Hard to believe those are all of the stories I upvoted I upvote everything I read typically and upvote (from memory) more comments then "saved comments" indicates. Also "saved" should be "upvoted".

Feature request: Along those lines, I was trying to find an article (using algolia) which discussed different names for AWS service names confusion and it was useless for that purpose (given search terms I tried). Since I always clear my browser history I couldn't see the links that I had visited.

A nice feature would be if there was a way to note which article links I clicked on or which comment threads I have visited. (If I comment then it's easy to find but I read more than I comment). That way I could just browse back that history and could have easily found that article that I was looking for.

While shocking people have to keep in mind that pricing relates to more than cost but more importantly value. The fact that a particular product or service was priced a certain way for years is not as relevant as it might seem on the surface. I pay a very low price for a generic drug (copay doesn't even matter) but the value to me of the drug is much higher. The non generic version is priced perhaps 10 times as much but still provides value at that price. Perhaps these prices in the article are super inflated but my point is the fact that a drug was priced at $5 per tablet and now is $50 per tablet is not a non-starter in itself. Who cares what the % increase is? The question is does the drug provide value at $50 per tablet? Also a particular person's ability to pay doesn't really factor into this. I am sure the drug companies would love to be able to charge some classes of people more (Larry Ellison) and some less (jobless). But they are not allowed to do this. I know people's automatically will think "ripoff" (and maybe it is a "ripoff" whatever that is) however a price increase in itself does not indicate a ripoff.

"Cycloserine, a drug used to treat dangerous multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, was just increased in price to $10,800 for 30 pills from $500 "

Right and I don't take any drugs that even cost $500 for 30 pills (let alone $10,800). So this article could have just easily compared the pills that I buy 30 for $10 to 30 for $500 and written a similar article.

Maybe those with non-conforming views simply decide to keep their mouths shut for fear of some kind of retribution which could be either written or downvotes by the majority that are reading a particular story or comment thread.

I think that (rejected from KFC) is a variation of the "humble brag". A way of attempting to relate to people that are not billionaires as if to say "hey keep plugging away you could be me one day!".

The fact is we don't know if the story is true first or why the KFC manager rejected him. Perhaps the KFC manager spotted that a guy like Jack was not simple enough or was to motivated or intense to stay for more than a week at that job. Not unusual for any company anywhere to reject people they feel are overqualified for a particular job for any number of reasons. Just because you tell Apple or Google you would be happy to start sweeping floors with your masters degree in computer science doesn't mean they are going to offer you a job doing that even if you would do a damn good job cleaning those floors.

"They are nothing for entrepeneurs. (sic)"

Well the exception to that is that having an elite university degree can definitely help getting taken more seriously when fund raising, hiring employees, and gaining customers (as I have found out from personal experience).

It's kind of funny how people who have made it as big as Jack Ma are still obsessed enough with Harvard to mention almost as a badge of honor that they were rejected from Harvard. As if to say "see Harvard was obviously wrong here". Harvard or any top school in no way can accept anywhere near all of the applicants that are qualified to attend those schools. As such there will be people that will be rejected and accepted almost arbitrarily at the whims of the admissions staff and or quotas of one type or another.

Lawsuit for what? Hire an attorney to go after the miles and pay them and hope that he wins? Do you think a major corporation (who must handle simultaneously hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits over everything and anything) really cares? And almost certainly no class action (assuming in a country that allows class actions) how many people have this same issues? Public shaming? The opposite. Great free publicity better that it is made public and then they rectify it by giving him what he was denied in the first place. (And like you say to kids "all better now"). Do you honestly think an ordinary person will think the company should allow this type of thing and that this guy isn't obviously taking advantage of them? It's like someone taking all of the free plastic silverware at a restaurant most people recognize there is an implied limit. 37 rentals for this purpose kind of speaks for itself.

Often, "to complicated" simply means "no time and no patience to RTFM".

In the early 80's when I graduated Wharton, Stanford wasn't even on the radar at all at least from my recollection.

Stanford picked up steam post Internet because of it's relation and proximity to Silicon Valley.

If that wasn't the case, they wouldn't have to raid to attract talent now. You don't see Harvard or MIT raiding anyone in the fields that they are dominant in after all.

Not sure I agree with the "warm analog sound of tape". I do agree vinyl has a nice sound. As someone who grew up with high end cassette decks (denon iirc and Ohm speakers) (with dolby which always muted the highs for me) there is really (in my opinion) nothing nice about the sound of a cassette to my ears.

"We mourn people we feel a connection with, because of the pain we feel at losing the connection."

Large groups also mourn because (for lack of a better way to put it) a crowd effect. There are people who are impacted for sure but then there are people who will come along for the grief ride that really wouldn't care if their friends didn't drop the idea and the importance into their head. Or if there wasn't a great deal of media coverage which stokes the grief.

"Steve Jobs never raised a hand against his wife. But, he did treat subordinates very callously."

Part of it might be simply that people don't recognize mental pain as being as bad as physical pain. [1] The truth is mental pain can last a great deal longer and have much greater impact than physical pain but that is often not the way the world sees things.

[1] Not that getting hit by a spouse doeesn't cause mental pain of course.