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> not sure if I'd call it terrorism unless the goal were to terrorize other people

One of the things we've been working on in our office is learning empathy. So we take the characters in an incident narrative, reverse/flip all persons/locations and then see how it changes our perception of the incident. So in this example, if we reverse everything, it becomes: "An Indian man shouting "Get Out Of My Country" in a bar shoots and kills two promising young American engineers working in India.". The effect that has would naturally be to make Americans afraid of going to or being in India, hence: terror alert, terrorism. So I can empathize and understand why the author of the article described the murderer as a terrorist.

> Assuming the facts of the case are as reported, simple second-degree murder to me

Second degree murder is: 1) an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable "heat of passion"; or 2) a killing caused by dangerous conduct and the offender's obvious lack of concern for human life.

Most articles state the equivalent of the following, I'm using the one from The Verge: " Purinton has been charged with one count of premeditated first degree murder, and two counts of attempted premeditated first degree murder. "

> Why does the race of the parties involved matter to you?

" A witness said he yelled “get out of my country” to two of the victims, reportedly saying the men, believed to originally be from India, were “Middle Eastern.” "

That's the description of a hate-crime as he had no prior interaction with the victims. He picked on them precisely because of his perception of their skin color and mistakenly assuming they were his intended target out-group.

"Srinivas Kuchibhotla, died of his injuries in a Kansas City hospital. He is said to have left behind a wife who is five months pregnant. ... His bereaved wife and his family are trying to raise money to send his body back to India for his funeral. "

I'm terribly ashamed of the state of our shining city upon on a hill.

> So he yelled that and then shot them? Nothing else was said? How sure are you about that?

Because most news sites are reporting that the police have stated that Adam W. Purinton went out that night with a plan to murder brown skinned people. Didn't matter that Indians aren't even Middle-Easterners or that the victims weren't Muslim.

" The Olathe Police Department and Johnson County DA say Adam Purinton is charged with premeditated murder. " https://twitter.com/41actionnews/status/834886804121747456

> Ah but did you witness it?

I am curious about your question. I read Fowler's post, and then subsequent posts,articles,tweets,comments by other women and men indicating that the observations approximately matched their experience at Uber as well. Even in this thread, I see: "I've been with uber for nearly 2 yrs and most of the article content are valid. Employees voicing out genuine concerns will be met with severe rebuke. " . The article this thread is about is from Mitch&Freda Kapoor who are also stating the same.

I'm wondering, do you believe that Fowler's claims are faulty or false in some way and that the issues raised about Uber are similarly faulty/false or are you speaking about other cases/companies?

> I find it kinda lopsided to read an article that only mentions the good things without giving a proper/full picture.

Did we read the same article? Here's some points the author made that seem to contradict your claim.

1st paragraph: "boy oh boy, there have been major changes"

That implies change, ie: it was worse before.

2nd paragraph: "There was obviously major corruption going on behind the scenes, which prevented this improvement from happening for so long. "

"In bigger cities like Kathmandu and Pokhara, the hotels have always been a bit hit-and-miss"

"Visa regulations in Nepal are a little stricter than in Thailand"

Having re-read the article, I'm glad the author took the time to present this.

> Some people might not really understand what it's like in a 3rd world country.

I'm not sure your description of an entire country as a "total dump" is accurate or helpful to people like me who genuinely want to understand what it's like in a 3rd world country.

Luckily, there is a broad range of independently captured data on Streetview, even of the Annapurna trail, Kathmandu so folks can evaluate conditions for themselves without bias.

> It's also a total dump. Very disorganized 3rd world country. Thailand in contrast is an order of magnitude more developed, especially Bangkok.

> before you all go Woah, Nepal is so awesome

I am curious what triggered you to write such a negative comment. The article did not give me the impression of a nationalistic rag or a puff-piece trying to hide flaws. Rather, just as the title says, it is about "Remote working in Nepal: What it’s like now in 2017". The author gave useful and balanced descriptions and comparisons as far as I can tell.

I've never heard someone intelligent dismiss an entire country as a "total dump", let alone a place that's well known for scenic views like Nepal. Even a novice traveller knows that developing countries have infrastructure issues like trash management and that one's quality of life will not be equivalent to Palo Alto. That said, even our own "premier" cities have spots that are trashy. Heck, it wasn't that long ago that Coyote Creek near San Jose was pretty much a dump. I'm curious what useful data you wanted to contribute to the conversation.

" Occasionally, problematic managers who were the subject of numerous complaints were shuffled around different regions; firings were less common."

Same strategy exhibited by certain religious organizations. Problematic individuals were transferred to developing countries or disenfranchised communities where more distinct power imbalances enable the crimes to go unpunished.

> I'd also surmise that they're just as prevalent (if not more so) outside of tech/startups in the Bay Area.

I would agree with you that certain industries and areas would have equivalent if not higher prevalence. Investment banking comes to mind.

> The problem is that there seems to be a terrible, unbelievably toxic culture pervading nearly every department at Uber.

I wonder if such things are limited to Uber or more widespread than we believe it to be. I have a fear that these incidents are more common than I believe them to be and that because we have our heads down and focusing on an end-goal, we don't notice that some of our colleagues are being traumatized by people we admire/put in positions of power.

> will not be enough of a problem for the most-polluting humans to care about

I live in the country that pollutes the most per capita. I'm ashamed to say I haven't significantly changed my behavior and consumption patterns. But I look around myself and nobody else has either. Heck, we even voted in someone whose team wants to take actions that accelerate climate change. So this party will keep going until something terrible happens that actually impacts the folks at the top.

> topped $15 million last summer. UC’s, paid by Caribou, have passed $5 million.

So a $20 million boon for lawyers and who knows how many hours the researchers lost being distracted by legal issues. One wonders how we could rework our legal system so that that kind of funds and that kind of time don't get wasted like this and instead reward both the researchers and the implementers that get it into practically usable form.

I agree that it is very likely to be the third. Just have a read of some of ESR's articles. Eg:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129

" American blacks average a standard deviation lower in IQ than American whites at about 85. And it gets worse: the average IQ of African blacks is lower still, not far above what is considered the threshold of mental retardation in the U.S. And yes, it’s genetic; g seems to be about 85% heritable, and recent studies of effects like regression towards the mean suggest strongly that most of the heritability is DNA rather than nurturance effects. "

ESR's famous melodramatic-response to having his CML2 ("Eric's configuration markup language for kernel building") patch rejected by Linus is also quite telling about his self-perception and his perception of other people and his interaction with anyone who would have an opposing viewpoint to his.

> The Linux kernel is at the very heart of Android's update problem - not because of "modularity" but because it lacks a stable ABI.

What are you referring to when you say the Linux kernel ABI is not stable? I ask because the A in ABI means application, and Linux has maintained a consistent ABI for decades.

I have a suspicion that you're trying to suggest that in-kernel interfaces be kept rigid and unchanging to satisfy some unspecified number of out-of-kernel driver developers. The simpler solution would be for out-of-kernel driver developers to get their code up to quality and merged into mainline so that they'd be ported automatically whenever there's an in-kernel api change.

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."

That's an odd thing to say given our history of how we treated (and currently treat) the only truly non-hyphenated Americans: Native Americans.

> the USS Vincennes incident took place

Summary for those who like me didn't know about the incident. Our guy shot down a passenger flight, murdering 290 human beings, we gave him a medal but we then paid USD$213,000 in blood money per passenger to Iran without ever admitting fault.

" Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai. On 3 July 1988, the aircraft operating on this route was shot down by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes under the command of William C. Rogers III. The incident took place in Iranian airspace, over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, and on the flight's usual flight path. The aircraft, an Airbus A300 B2-203, was destroyed by SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired from Vincennes. All 290 people on board died

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As part of the settlement, the United States did not admit legal liability or formally apologize to Iran but agreed to pay on an ex gratia basis US$61.8 million, amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims.

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Commander David Carlson, commanding officer of USS Sides, the warship stationed nearest to Vincennes at the time of the incident, is reported to have said that the destruction of the aircraft "marked the horrifying climax to Captain Rogers's aggressiveness, first seen four weeks ago".

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In 1990, Rogers was awarded the Legion of Merit "for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as commanding officer ... from April 1987 to May 1989.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

> non-immunocompromised person will fight off basically any upper respiratory infection without a problem.

I am curious if this is true, ie: does medical science hold above as an accepted fact by general consensus?

I ask because my understanding is that the 1918 flu (aka Spanish flu) which was an H1N1 (upper respiratory infection in humans , intestinal tract in birds) predominantly killed young adults, ie: healthy non-immunocompromised people. Here's the wikipedia remark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

"the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults."

"a rapid progressive respiratory failure and death through a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system). It was then postulated that the strong immune reactions of young adults ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths among those groups"

But there's some conflicting explanations: "special circumstances (malnourishment, overcrowded medical camps and hospitals, poor hygiene) promoted bacterial superinfection that killed most of the victims typically after a somewhat prolonged death bed "

> It just sounds bizarre and German seems to be the real victim.

I have no idea since both stories seem plausible. That said, this portion stood out to me:

" In January 2016, a postdoctoral researcher reported that German asked her to perform a tedious task, which she believed was disrespectful, leading to a dispute. German was “red in the face and shaking with rage,” she said in her sworn statement. "

Reading the docket NO. 1681CV01640 shows: " The Lab Manager, LaLonde, who would have seen German daily (until May 21, 2016), described plaintiff as "odd sometimes in his behavior, but nothing requiring immediate action, no danger to himself or anyone." " " how they should treat him better and how he deserves things other people should not have. This behavior has lasted for a while. "

That makes me question exactly who is the real victim. There doesn't seem to be enough evidence to know for sure. I've seen both types of things. I've seen advisors sabotage their pupils. I've seen pupils blame their advisors when things didn't go their way.

I'm sure we've all heard how Robert Openheimer tried to poison his tutor at Cambridge. Unrelated, but still worth mentioning is also a suspicious suicide of a former lover of his.

Openheimer got out of trouble, despite the attempted murder because of his parents influence at Cambridge. It is interesting that this article mentions German was with his parents as well. That swayed me a bit against believing that German was the real victim.

> purportedly in the interests of promoting innovation in the pharma space

Why the purportedly? Do you have reason to believe he has any ulterior motives?

I didn't know anything about this guy before this so I googled him.

http://online.stanford.edu/instructors/balaji-s-srinivasan

"the co-founder and CTO of Counsyl, a genomics startup"

Ok, so he clearly has some experience as a biotech innovator.

> He's described it as the big enemy for any biotech innovator to overcome.

Seems reasonable.

The current market in biotech and rate of innovation seems underwhelming. Would you agree?

The current level of legislation in biotech seems to favor too-big-to-fail type companies? They sure seem to get away with egregious crimes. Eg: bribery [1] , knowingly selling HIV contaminated blood products , even moving such sales to Asia and Africa after it became public in the US [2] , numerous other ethical issues [3]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-30/glaxo-to-...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24785997

[3] http://ethics.harvard.edu/pharmaceutical-industry-institutio...

Seems to me the current system isn't working properly. Is there reason to believe a guy like Baraji shouldn't be allowed to try to reform it?

> I'd be very impressive if they got an e-ink screen to redraw that fast.

There are loads on youtube, some as old as 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na3EkqhOa-A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53X_XlqBdfM , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v34WzX1rqs , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kw9vxtY5pI

> A quarter of the entire US population didn't suddenly catch a disease and become obese.

Please explain how your statement of fact is true considering that this cited paper is stating that there is such a disease and possibly some portion of that population obesity is a product of this disease.

"Adv36 causes obesity in animals. In humans, Adv36 associates with obesity both in adults and children and the prevalence of Adv36 increases in relation to the body mass index."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4517116/

Would be nice if we could find out what percentage of the total Linux Foundations donations, payments from member companies and members actually go to the people making useful contributions to Linux developers and related technologies/tool developers, as opposed to "management retreats".

I'm not sure the Y axis in either chart gives any truly meaningful implication. The first one gives USD$ millions spent and the second gives just the number of publications. Lets look at the first one. Lots of article state that the efficiency of capital use (ie: how much return you get for putting in $1) in China is much lower than that in the US. Googling even shows that China's capital efficiency, because of the lack of transparency and a command-control government-economy, is even lower than competitive developing countries like Vietnam, India and Thailand. [1] , [2] .

The number of publications, I'm going to have to search to find backing statements but I believe that it is not reflective of true contribution.

[1] https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-outlook-beyond-capit...

[2] http://foreignpolicy.com/2003/07/01/can-india-overtake-china...

> we rolled our own FPGA based driver and were able to get small region update down to about 20ms.

That is very impressive. 20ms latency from the time a pen hits the display to the point that a pixel is drawn on an EPD is twice as fast as an iPad Pro is able to do it on an LCD! Any links to your project?

> I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant that for pretty much all current e-paper devices you aren't able to get access to run your own code unless you find a security hole that you can exploit to gain access.

Ok. That helps clarify things.

But on your website, you do not state that your device will permit flashing "your own code". Your website somewhat implies the opposite, it says:

" DO YOU PROVIDE THE REMARKABLE WITH A SDK FOR CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT? The reMarkable will not initially ship with an officially supported SDK. We might however release an unsupported SDK for best developers. "

Could you clarify what "might" and "best developers" means? In multiple comments, you somewhat imply capabilities and features of the product with terms like "hackable" and "run your own code". Perhaps you could put an explicit statement on your website clarifying your position to match your comments.

> it's an i.MX6SL, I thought we mentioned that on the web page.

Your website only says: "Processor 1 GHz ARM A9 CPU"

> Two from freescale for the imx6 and imx7

Ok, but you are using imx6.

> There's also another one written by lab126

Nope. That's the same driver from Freescale. You can download the kindle source to verify. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

> then you have the u-boot drivers.

u-boot just draws a splash screen.

> you have the 5bit waveform support, which is a whole other story (with iffy GPL implications for some vendors I won't name).

I don't understand what you're trying to communicate. Why would a EPD waveform have any GPL implications? An EPD waveform is not software, it is a set of timing values and that's it.

> the display was designed based on our requirements

I'm having difficulty understanding what that means. It sounded like you were saying E Ink designed a panel for you, but maybe what you're saying is just that E Ink had a panel that met your requirements.

> we don't intend to release the magic sauce that makes the latency goes down.

Ok.

> what I meant with hackable is that I've wanted an e-paper device which I could run my own code on, without having to look for security holes in the software running on it.

If your software is closed source, then I don't understand how anyone other than you effectively (or practically) would be able to solve or fix any security holes.

> we're not going to release the gerber files

You're setting up a strawman there. I was not asking for your hardware design or even mentioning it in anyway. I was pointing out that you are contradicting yourself when you say your product is hackable to software developers and then 30s later say that there will be "magic sauce" in software that will be closed.

> no, we don't use Android, unlike pretty much everyone else.

Most companies making EPD products use the base OS provided by their SoC vendor. Based on your spec which says 1GHz ARM A9 , I'm guessing you're using the NXP (formerly Freescale, now Qualcomm) i.mx6 SoloLite since that's the only 1GHz ARM A9 with an EPDC controller on the market. Freescale gives you a Linux EPD and an Android EPD Linux BSP, both of which use the same epdc driver with pretty much the same latency which is definitely pretty high, much higher than 55ms for sure.

> EPD is designed by e ink based on our requirements, e. g. the size and high DPI

Are you claiming that E Ink manufactured a custom 10.3" panel just for you?

You wrote:

> really interested in how we have solved the latency problem, and we don't want to help them.

But just before that, you also wrote ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072333 ):

> One of the issues I personally want to solve is the lack of a hackable e-paper device.

So which is it? You want to make a hackable (I interpret that to mean free and open source) e-paper device where you let everyone see how you solved the latency problem? OR do you want to make a closed source thing where only you and you alone have this magical device that has the lowest latency E Ink panel by a factor of 2?

For those feeling the impulse to empty their wallets, I urge caution. I just got done being burned by the kickstarter for the goodreader equivalent. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade...

I see no evidence that the team behind this "remarkable" product has ever completed anything of this scale.

Some of the claims are very suspicious. https://liliputing.com/2016/11/remarkable-10-3-inch-writing-...

"reMarkable says the screen has 55ms latency for quick response from pen input"

55ms would be impressive for an LCD. Even the iPad Pro has a latency of 60ms [1]. So a 55ms claim for an E Ink panel? Should raise one's alarm detector.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9766/the-apple-ipad-pro-review...