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Part of me dislikes the title "Blood Unicorn" for being sensationalist, but part of me really likes it for being completely accurate and even a little bit poetic. It kind of feels like all titles should strive for this balance, but I also kind of hate it. I'm sure there's a German word for what I'm feeling!

Atlanta thrives on Delta, Coca Cola, UPS, Home Depot, and others. Far from "destroying livelihoods", it's in large part due to the "giants" that Atlanta is a major economic hub in the southeast.

No more or less than the back of a bus I imagine. People seem to prefer windows there while being driven, and I don't suspect removing the driver changes that.

What's missing from most articles (this one included) is any kind of analysis of whether tax breaks make sense for the states in question. It bothers me how it's presented as the state giving $5B of its own cash away to Amazon, as if that money could go to the homeless instead.

Presumably there are ways to estimate the economic effects of 50,000 jobs + tax breaks. Is there a reason they're not mentioned?

Agreed on not holding British schools up too high, but as an American, I have to agree with the author's swipe that any US facility that intentionally provided bricks on a playground would be in for a world of hurt financially. It would not end well.

I would be surprised if a majority of new projects with a JavaScript library weren't using jQuery. I personally moved on a few years ago and I suspect that's the case with many people who respond on HN, but there are still plenty of valid use cases, particularly when JS needs are simple and backwards compatibility is really important.

If you're doing projects with light functionality and already know jQuery cold, you really don't gain much from React, Vue, et al for that project. You may gain something personally (career path, different way of thinking, etc), but that is a different topic.

For anything slightly above the basics, I'd recommend Vue as a great alternative to jQuery. No build tools required and it's easy to stay in the realm of plain HTML, CSS, and JS. It also "progresses" really nicely if you have more complex needs later on -- that would be a main benefit over a tool like jQuery.

Can you maybe flush this question out with some context?

This is such a vaguely worded question and spec that I doubt you'll get anything out of it. All three are fine in the right context and not even mutually exclusive.

Maybe do some basic research first, then ask with more details on your setup and what is important vs not important.

> If your ratio was greater than 2.9013 positive emotions to 1 negative emotion you were flourishing in life.

I cannot fathom how honest, intelligent people end up thinking they've "solved" for something like happiness or flourishing in a mathematically meaningful way. And to 4 decimal places!

*Alcohol abuse is largest risk factor

> Most reviews point to a possible beneficial effect of light-to-moderate drinking on cognitive health... By contrast, heavy drinking seems detrimentally related to dementia risk, whatever the dementia type.

*Abusing alcohol is strongest risk factor

> Most reviews point to a possible beneficial effect of light-to-moderate drinking on cognitive health... By contrast, heavy drinking seems detrimentally related to dementia risk, whatever the dementia type.

It's a fun idea, but I really hope we don't have to sit through a multi year cycle of people using the term "Web 3.0"

Terrestrial planets usually means inner 4 in our solar system, and "earthlike" elsewhere

> The real problem is that the engineer’s mindset, wherein one weighs the available evidence, and accept and incorporate new evidence even if it contradicts what you previously believed, has never been more rare.

This is the author's premise. It would have been nice to get some discussion around why that is the case (or even that it is true), but alas the article simply states it.

Ironic to provide no details given the subject matter.

Serious question: are you typing out colon-smile-colon yourself every time, or does HN convert emojis to text automatically?

What it is:

> Wikipedia Zero was created in 2012 to address one barrier to participating in Wikipedia globally: high mobile data costs. Through the program, we partnered with mobile operators to waive mobile data fees for their customers to freely access Wikipedia on mobile devices.

I can see how the author views this as company mismanagement, but I'd offer a possible counter:

Online is killing retail, full stop. High touch sales models everywhere have lost profitablity due to "showrooming" -- curation and upselling aren't profitable for B&N, and they won't ever be again. To adapt, management needs to move to a lower touch model based on thin margins, web sales, and simpler stores. To do this, they need cash and they need to make staff cuts.

Everything in the article fits perfectly with this course of action.

Comparing the level of customer care at a bookstore with that of an Apple store is pretty unfair. Apple makes hundreds or thousands of margin dollars per customer; a bookstore is probably closer to $10.

I like that they started with comparison to other animals, with humans being born "sooner" in the development cycle due to our larger brains.

To me, this sets up a nice mental model for the first ~18 months of parenting: your child is still developing the extreme basics, in particular its brain, which is forming pathways based on your actions. So set to work forming those pathways with lots of talking, face time, and letting your child observe the world. After all, it came out to get an "early" start!

Therein lies my skepticism. It's an industry that seems to be full of "oops we lost your money, trust me" problems. Malice becomes a lot more likely when life changing sums of money are involved.

The referenced post [0] came to the same conclusion as my first thought: this was very possibly an intentional security hole to allow someone on the team to get away with something.

[0] https://amp.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7wonkf/the_...

One of the best things about the internet is the potential for searchable comments like these 20+ years from now. I look forward to seeing how the same things get repeated over and over and over at the onset of each new technology.

This means there is an especially good chance that whatever you write and vote here will be eventually piped into Mark & Sheryl's eyes & ears. Time to unload those pent up opinions!

> They shouldn't be held to a feature because some salesperson promised it to a customer.

This is taking the most extreme end of the spectrum as a baseline, and suggesting the polar opposite (sales & marketing get no leeway) as a response. There are benefits in the middle of these two extremes, where you can have sales & marketing discussing potential features and also have a well defined strategy from PMs.

This approach is cutting off a major strategic artery. Sales & marketing can do much more than just pushing what they're given; they should be a valuable pulse on the customer, and the truest feedback you can get for an upcoming feature is whether or not someone will pay you for it.

Particularly for larger or more advanced features, it makes much more sense to run engineering partly in parallel with sales & marketing (with feedback between the two) rather than in serial. Product and innovation cycles in the company are much tighter that way, and more accurate.

> Tip: Your marketing and sales teams should never be allowed to discuss features “in the pipeline”

Probably unpopular here, but this is a misguided, engineer-centric view of a business. Sales & marketing should absolutely have some leeway on unreleased features, as they have very close relationships with customers and can get early feedback in the realest way possible: "Will the customer pay for it?" Cutting off this avenue is popular for engineers (myself included) but not necessarily good for the long term health of a business.

In theory this is a much better approach than Earth satellites: the farther away an object is, the smaller its motion will appear. With hundreds or even thousands of "fixed" data points incoming, it should be possible to develop an incredibly accurate model for position in space.

Not to nit too much, but working class people certainly can afford to not eat fast food. In fact, it's cheaper and faster to cook simple meals. I believe you might have meant "working poor" instead.

I used to love, love, love Heroku. I would tell everyone about it, and at one point I was probably running 20+ projects on it.

I can't quite put my finger on why, but I've gradually transitioned everything off it over the past few years. I think it's been a combination of the ease of AWS, along with Heroku's changes to their Dyno pricing, but I never actually sat down and did the math. It just started to feel a little less controllable and a little more than I wanted to pay. To be fair, their database tiers were pretty pricey, so this article is nice news.

I'd be curious to hear if others have had a similar experience?

Late to the party, but just wanted to comment that I appreciated the namesake spelled out by social media icons in the footer. Some people put thought into all angles :)