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Only if there is no easy and well known work-around which in the case of WSJ articles isn't the case. Without being hostile, I suggest you try reading and understanding the FAQ rather than just quoting.
Are paywalls ok? It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds
AFIAK other than an IA link there are no 'work arounds'.
I experience what is known as 'Survivors Guilt' (in other words I wonder those exact same thoughts as you do except from the other side of lens with respect to the those that were 'able to / vs. not able to lens').
Those that can - survived, those that couldn't/didn't - died.
In terms of natural selection (for want of a better term) it often leaves me puzzling that very same thought late at night sometimes before I'm brought back to reality by the shrinks that relate it back to those that made the major league vs. those that faded into obscurity.
[Edit]: Sorry, the above comment makes war and death seem like a game of baseball which it very much isn't and trivializes the needless suffering of entire populations on behalf of the vagrancies of politicians across the globe.
YMMV.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
I have been in true 'life or death' situations (in other words, I'm alive because others were slower or less able to draw their weapons and fire).
In those sorts of situations time truly does slow down. I replay those times endlessly in my dreams/nightmares but either way it seemed like both at the time and in my mental replaying of the events that time slowed down to a crawl.
During endless sessions with various mental health professionals it seems that people involved in car crashes have the same slowing down of time. Based on what I've learnt, the time differential boils down to muscle memory (much like a batter hits a fast ball) that can and does initiate a response before the brain processes the event and that the mind catches up afterwards and is able to replay the events in a somewhat coherent way.
And of the twice (now thrice) that it happened to yourself? Who profited? Was it yourself?
To quote your reply "If my wife loses her job or I lose too many clients we will have a problem." Ask yourself this - Cui bono? ("to whom is it a benefit?")
(I presume the 'guys flinging themselves from buildings’ refers to the Black Friday 1869 Stock Market crash?) [From Wikipedia] The crash was a consequence of an attempt by financier Jay Gould and railway magnate James Fisk to corner the gold market and drive up the price.
Perhaps it was a reference to the 1929 Wall Street Crash? If so perhaps a quote would help - "How can a very serious Stock Exchange collapse produce a serious setback to industry when industrial production is for the most part in a healthy and balanced condition?"
Consider both points and wonder whether or not the people like yourself are being played as pawns.
[Edit to update]: When I refer to the global elite I don't mean any particular race or religion because at the end of the day the only true global religion at this point in human history is who has the biggest bank balance. Consider this - Elon Musk's top position has now been displaced by the CEO of LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton). In every single recession the profits from luxury goods has increased. Ask yourself why.
Q) Where do you hide a tree? A) In a forest.
While I applaud the release of the information, the sudden and massive release of meaningless drivel likely hides a few smoking guns amongst the +13k files.
It will take a dedicated person many years to go through all of the files and follow / research all of the mentions within mentions only to come up against the wall of [redacted] and then to file freedom of information requests that may or may not ever succeed and by that time the impact will be so diluted that we may never know the full truth of what happened on that day.
The whole time there remains the question about how many shots were fired and from where the ultimate answer to the question will remain shrouded in mystery. After all this time there is no valid reason to withold any documents and yet, many still are due to ‘National Security’ considerations.
What possible national security issues remain so many years afterwards?
My prediction: The Rich will continue to get richer and corporate profits will continue to skyrocket while the poor continue to get screwed over because the global economy is in recession while in fact the global elite continue to profit at the expense of the common man.
Ok, not much insight there (aka ‘same as it ever was’) but I am always fascinated about how easily human behaviour can be moulded, moderated and distracted simply by reducing the amount of crumbs left on the table to create infighting and disharmony instead of focusing attention on where the money is going and to who.
I mean, I get it - When the choice is between paying the bills and keeping a roof over your head or fighting for social justice and equality then the choice (on an individual level) is an easy one but I'm always disappointed that the populace are so easily distracted and divided by the creation of artificial scarcity and that they/we/us continue to fall for it every single time.
I recently watched a documentary on this incident (but can't find it now) but here are some further links (with slightly more information that includes the various 'he-said-she-said' nuances).
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/07/03/the-forgotte...
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-shadow-of-war-t...
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
https://web.archive.org/web/20070518142130/http://www.histor...
https://web.archive.org/web/20190702033213/https://www.usni....
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
And for those that prefer YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ElU38kipk (Ted Koppel report. Gosh I mourn for proper investigative journalism!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShruhRkOPsU
I don't want to be 'that guy' buuuutttt can you turn down the hostility a few notches please?
I understand that HN is a multicultural place and that people across the globe express their opinions in different ways however, a quick look through your previous comments before deciding to down-vote or flag made me take a look at your previous comment history before deciding whether to down-vote or flag it.
We are all new to HN at some stage which is why I've taken the time to write this in an attempt to be kind, gentle and guiding.
Indeed. Or you could arrange for waste (water, effluent, waste food) to be dropped down over a pre-selected area for ground crews to pick up). In other words something like thick mylar bags dropped via drogue chutes as the journey progressed with replacement mylar bags (or similar) carried on board. Just pure spit-balling a day after your reply but a mid-point replenishing stage for food and water (for the passenger flights) would make sense especially for something like an 'Across America' flights across the US diagonal from the Atlantic North-East side to Pacific South West side (eg depart Boston destination San Diego or New York to Los Angeles).
North to South because the air would go from colder to warmer rather than from warm air to colder air if done in the opposite direction and the reasons for a diagonal course is because it would cover a lot more 'interesting sights to see from the air' for a multi-day 'air cruise' type cruise (best way to explain that is a literal air-cruise as in a sea-cruise).
For a passenger trip it would have to be an extremely HNV costing (passenger cost/ticket price paid * weight able to be carried) but do-able for say 4 - 7 passengers but Cargo would be the way to go for the bread-and-butter stuff because A) The weights and destinations are pre-known and optimised and B) Going on a diagonal route would beat road and rail delivery speeds and provide some financing to the back-haul of getting the (now empty) air-ships back to the departure point.
[Edit To Update]: Ughh! you can tell I'm not a pilot because cold air is better than hot air in terms of aircraft lifting capacities so South to North would be better and maybe a change of route from Miami to Seattle would also work out ok in terms of shipping ports that intersect with cruise ship ports.
[Double Edit, Sorry]: On second thoughts, North to South for passengers and South To North for cargo is better because cargo is low margin so would need the greater lifting capacity. Or not.... Like I said, pure spit-balling!
An added advantage of using that approach is that as you drop off cargo (or use up food, water and fuel supplies for multi-day passenger trips) you can siphon off some of those cells to power the propulsion motors and thereby increase your effective range.
I was interested to read that there was a patent on 'non-round Compact Disks' but when you go to the actual patent application (https://patents.google.com/patent/US5844757) the patent states "...The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reading and writing information on a stand alone magnetic card or disk typically adapted for use in standard three and one-half inch computer floppy disk drives." Note: I highlighted the magnetic part since Compact Disks are optical rather than magnetic. Not a patent lawyer but I'ld take my chances on not paying any royalty fees.
I guess that's why these days patents tend to be so broad and use language like "any and all means (present and future) of doing thing 'X' "
Did none of the comments in the original submission not show why (at least some) thought it to be click-baity at the time of you posting this 'Ask HN'? That's not snark btw am just confused about your reasons/motivations were in posting this Ask HN.
Do you feel it an important enough breakthrough that it needs/deserves HN's input and or perusal? If so, again, email DanG and ask for it to be put into the 'second chance pool'.
Again, HTH but bear in mind that my words are just random guesses from some random internet forum user and are worth exactly double what you paid for 'em!
[Edit to Update:] I took a quick look at the original submission and although as said I'm not a domain expert but any news release that links back to
Data availability
The data that support the plots within this paper and other findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
And
Code availability
The code that generated the plots within this paper and other findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Makes it tough to validate the claims made especially when the original paper is behind a paywall. Maybe an internet archive link in the comments section would help so that others can read the full paper rather than just the abstract?
Normally it is best to email Dan to ask something like this but based on the comments in the x2944 post many considered it click-bait (either the article or the headline).
Considering that nobody vouched for it - maybe it is, maybe it isn't (I don't have domain knowledge sufficient to judge if it is or isn't).
HTH.
Thanks for the link. There are some real gems in there and also made for an interesting read as a non-cryptonite (in other words I have no dog in the fight, skin in the game etc).
"He only gave himself a 20 percent chance of success, but, in his mind, SBF needed extreme risk to maximize the expected value of his lifetime earnings—and, therefore, the good his earn-to-give strategy could do. The fact that he was, by his own lights, overwhelmingly likely to fail was beside the point."
I guess that the whole mess boils down to a few old chestnuts - #1) Don't bet money you can't afford to lose (investors) and also that #2) you can only run at the red-line in terms of pharmacology for so long before it bites you in the arse.
Can anyone provide an alternative source please? I've done a quick search and can't find any other sources reporting on this apart from 2x New Scientist links which are both pay-walled (as is the single Internet Archive submission) so my b.s detector is in the red on this one.
If in fact the BBC did do this (and that's a BIG if) that would be a huge story and a major breach of the BBC's editorial policies.
While I'm more than prepared to keep an open mind on the subject, this is either a joke (in which case - Whoosh!) or a "0/10, Needs Improvement"
I even went as far as following and reading all of the links that eventually led to https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0087175 and had to double check that it wasn't posted on the 1st of April.
YMMV and I appreciate that my response is precisely what Agent Smith of the Matrix franchise would say but there has to be better and more lucid ways of forwarding the conjecture/theory than this p.o.s.
This is a duplicate submission of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33717757 submitted by yourself yesterday and also includes the typo of 'insigh' vs. 'Insight' as the tongue-in-cheek comment pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33717905)
This reads as a straight-up advert for Cloudflare (which I know it isn't because heck, they don't need to advertise this way) but the TLDR boils down to ... I migrated to Cloudflare and all my problems were solved!
I'm confused - Do you mean you were asked to work/be on-call 24 hours per day, seven days per week? If so - hell no. Hopefully I misunderstood what you meant by 24x7! [Edit to update] If that is in fact the case, I would suggest you ask for all of the Directors' cell-phone numbers and call them at 2am or 4am etc and if they don't answer then ask them why they expect you to do something they don't do themselves but I honestly think I must be misunderstanding the 24x7 bit
PTSD is a condition that usualy occurs after exposure to a single traumatic event. C-PTSD (Complex PTSD) is a condition caused by exposure to repeated events that you are unable to escape or avoid so perhaps the better question to ask is - "Is Burnout a Form of C-PTSD?". Although it might seem a nit-pick sometimes it is important to label things correctly to avoid the confusion about 'how can being shouted at by your boss cause PTSD?' vs. 'how can being shouted at repeatedly by your boss cause C-PTSD?'
At this point I would normally quote from the DSM [1] but since they have yet to differentiate between the two conditions (although they will do so shortly) I will instead quote from the ICD [2]
QD85 Burnout: Problems associated with employment or unemployment: Description: Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterised by three dimensions: 1) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; 2) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and 3) a sense of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment. Burn-out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.
6B40 Post traumatic stress disorder: Disorders specifically associated with stress: Description: Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop following exposure to an extremely threatening or horrific event or series of events. It is characterised by all of the following: 1) re-experiencing the traumatic event or events in the present in the form of vivid intrusive memories, flashbacks, or nightmares. Re-experiencing may occur via one or multiple sensory modalities and is typically accompanied by strong or overwhelming emotions, particularly fear or horror, and strong physical sensations; 2) avoidance of thoughts and memories of the event or events, or avoidance of activities, situations, or people reminiscent of the event(s); and 3) persistent perceptions of heightened current threat, for example as indicated by hypervigilance or an enhanced startle reaction to stimuli such as unexpected noises. The symptoms persist for at least several weeks and cause significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning.
6B41 Complex post traumatic stress disorder: Disorders specifically associated with stress: Description: Complex post traumatic stress disorder (Complex PTSD) is a disorder that may develop following exposure to an event or series of events of an extremely threatening or horrific nature, most commonly prolonged or repetitive events from which escape is difficult or impossible (e.g. torture, slavery, genocide campaigns, prolonged domestic violence, repeated childhood sexual or physical abuse). All diagnostic requirements for PTSD are met. In addition, Complex PTSD is characterised by severe and persistent 1) problems in affect regulation; 2) beliefs about oneself as diminished, defeated or worthless, accompanied by feelings of shame, guilt or failure related to the traumatic event; and 3) difficulties in sustaining relationships and in feeling close to others. These symptoms cause significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-11
[3] QD85 Burnout https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/e...
[4] 6B40 Post traumatic stress disorder https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/e...
[5] 6B41 Complex post traumatic stress disorder https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/e...
I think you might have a misunderstanding of what is under discussion - to quote from the filed complaint
"To increase adoption, starting on June 15, 2021, DPH worked with Google to secretly install the Contact Tracing App onto over one million Android mobile devices located in Massachusetts without the device owners’ knowledge or permission" which is very different from installing an app!
Feedback on the site:
"Lucky you — you can try this feature for free!" <puke and an instinctive f* you response because, no actually 'Lucky you' for me taking the time to click and try it out but, Whatever>
Next: 'Upload photos of yourself' with no clear and easy to find privacy policy, nor an explination of if your are sharing uploaded pictures with third parties nor any easy to find way of ensuring any uploaded pictures can be deleted.
With all of the above - Why the heck would I even take this for a spin? A hard 'nope' from me.
Is it a face to face or an online one?
If it is face to face - do a trial run on the route so that on the day you don't have the worry about where to go and how to get there. This reduces the source of stress with one less thing to worry about.
If it is remote - make sure that you can connect and see/hear/be heard. Most offer a test facility. Making sure that everything works on your end reduces the stress of trying to get things to work on the day.
Do a quick search on the company and glance through the Glassdoor / Fishbowl reviews.
Get a good nights sleep beforehand (as hard as it may be).
Knowing where to go or knowing that you can easily conect up for the remote interview allows you to focus on the important stuff (i.e. selling yourself and your abilities!).
Good luck, I hope it goes well.
I think the intent of the question was - How was x Billions invested in his company. Perhaps you misread?
As a side note - the original quote isn't in fact 'money is the root of all evil' rather the quote says 'it is the lack of money that is the root of all evil'.
A subtle difference I'll grant you but one that makes a huge difference to understanding and empathy imo.
[Edit to Expand] The original Hebrew text says it is the 'desire to possess money' that has somehow become mistranslated into 'love of money' rather than the original meaning of 'scarcity of money'.
Something that I think might sort of provide a starting point of exploration is this 2019 article "Hollywood Films Funded By the Pentagon" https://www.liveabout.com/pentagon-support-for-war-films-343...
Depending on how in depth you want to go you can also take a skim of this https://web.archive.org/web/20011107151615/http://www.guerri... for some search terms for a deeper dive.
While this is fun, trying to decide if a clip is fake or real based on a 1 or 2 second clip is almost impossible unless you use the audible 'clicks' that appear (mostly) on the fake ones. Maybe that is sort of the point but to me basing a yes/no decision on anything less than about 4 seconds is pointless because even if the clip was fake - what possible advantage would a deep-fake message that was only a second long be able to convey? A much fairer comparison for humans vs. AI detection would be at least 10 seconds long.
I am a gray/grey beard and have seen this cycle time and time before and it boils down to this - Mega-Corp announces lay-offs which means a short-term profit gain over the next few quarters.
Hedge funds hop on the rise because why not? and the mega rich throw their weight behind it to bolster their own head-count reduction drive because after all, what looks better on your CV when jumping a sinking ship than saying something like 'I drove a profitability increase of X%' with scant regard for the fall-out afterwards once the systems and staff are driven in to the ground especially when other companies are trying to increase revenues during a down turn and are desperately seeking Cxx people to come up with ideas.
Time and time again, rinse and repeat. I honestly can’t understand why people fall for this play again and again. It’s almost as if those old enough either develop amnesia or have committed suicide so that the collective wisdom is forgotten.