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I found it quite well-written. Why so?

Which is?

Attention spans on mobile are atrocious (notably, the fulcrum is screen size having a neurological impact on ability to pay attention - this is a biological fact) – very little real reading takes place.

If you have any further reading on this please share.

n=1 with exception for scientific papers I do essentially all my reading on my phone and I do not experience any attention difference. I also have my phone on perpetual DnD so notifications and other distractions are not a thing.

I don’t get why’re being downvoted. Without doubt a series of governments were looped in on this decision - naively assuming one or several did not initiate it in the first place - to ensure alignment on current matters and there is no chance BP did not take the opportunity to ensure alignment on future matters.

No, I’ve had stock options too but they’ve turned out worthless.

I don’t know what your seniority is and what you’ve seen but I can assure you it exists, and it’s not unique exceptions. Maybe a good opportunity to interview if you’re feels it’s unattainable where you are now. Plenty of US companies hiring remotely too…

Absolute majority through RSUs, which is why I’m objecting the GP’s claims. The vested stock I’ve reinvested through an ISK in a somewhat broader portfolio over time.

There are no stories like this one where I live (in Sweden). Absolutely none.

Swedish tax rates on income makes this two to three times as difficult (approaches 60% plus 30% social paid by the employer this includes RSUs as well, plus 25% VAT) but it’s nonsense to claim this doesn’t happen. I am Swedish and have made significantly more in tech than the author. So has many of my friends.

With that said, the only reason I’m still in Sweden is family. The public sentiment about the future is uncomfortably racist and increasingly hostile about fortune making. If you have the mobility my advice is to move. Good luck.

Probably, but for Coinbase to even manage to steer the conversation in this direction it’s a victory. They are the best positioned in the industry to even attempt it and if they’re rejected they are first in line to provide the infrastructure.

They’ve produced an uncanny cgi to illustrate the eVTOL vision[1]. While intrigued by some aspects of it (self driving cars, seemingly clever AI assistants and seamless identification across devices - it’s inevitable) I can’t help thinking it’s a dated perspective of the future of work.

1. https://youtu.be/DsRkzNzxwvo

It's quite easy to extrapolate this and in a few steps end up in a boring dystopia.

First it's iPhone photos, then it's all iCloud files, that spills into Macs using iCloud, then it's client side reporting of local Mac files, and somewhere along all other Apple hardware I've filled my home with have received equivalent updates and are phoning home to verify that I don't have files or whatever data they can see or hear that some unknown authority has decided should be reported.

What is the utopian perspective of this which counterbalances the risks for this to be a path worth taking?

Who did he upset for this to blow up _now_, 14 years after the fact and almost 3 years in his role at Google?

To reinforce the notion that you’ve made the right choice and keep you as a long term loyal customer. This is an expressed part of car ad strategies.

For medicinal products I’d be keen to see research on whether a treatment group being re-targeted would report better efficiency of a treatment than a non-retargeted control.

Don’t try to equate Shopify’s app distribution to Apple’s. They’re not the same.

Apple charges commission for your paid application regardless of distribution form because there is only one and you have to use it, the AppStore. Shopify has an optional distribution platform for apps which they charge a fee for. You can distribute your app on your own and avoid the fee.

What could Facebook possibly do that would harm Apple more than it would harm Facebook?

Yes, and that’s what they’re doing through education with Chromebooks.

To me, following modern MS research progress is as exciting of an inward journey as space exploration is an outwards one. In fact to the point where I have considered leaving the tech field within the next 5-10 years to partake in it so it's fun to see this here on HN.

Just 20 years ago the first disease modification treatments were introduced. These were recurring injections of interferon-beta (1b/1a) for a 18-38% reduction in relapses and annual relapse rate (ARR) of 0.256[1]. Today there are about 20 different options, with Rituximab and humanized variants indicating an annual relapse rate of 0.044 for RRMS patients with a well understood safety profile[2]. On such medications an MS patient can expect a relapse every 22 years vs every 2.5 years unmedicated.

My pet theory is that MS research will ultimately lead to significant breakthroughs in longevity research. This is based on the morbid view that the disease is serious enough for risks to be taken in understanding auto-immune responses, crossing the blood brain barrier and remyelination.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5474703/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109942/

Interesting but why would it not apply the same shifting within the green light spectrum which seems to be quite stabile?

https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2020/07/Plants...

Neat project! The example photos in Drive are a bit wonky on mobile and only one of the files is accessible. Consider adding a few example photos in the readme. What’s the licensing and usage rights of the produced images?

Unlike Windows and MacOS Linux gives you options

I’d rather say Linux gives you choices. Choices that you have to make, rather than options with (sensible) defaults. This is a big reason for why I’ve been unable to switch from macos to Linux as a daily driver every time I’ve tried in the past ten years.

Ironically, it’s simply too costly. Macos has been degrading over the past 6-7 years, but it’s still pretty good at standing out the way.

I’m gladly proven wrong if you can point at a path I’ve missed.

This is off topic, but it's proving hard to google. What's the significance of the hand gesture the women in the video makes at 1:13 and again at 1:39?

This looks technically very interesting. What would be some use cases outside of telemetry?

Good luck. Sweden is a country which in large has an overwhelming trust in it's government and its intents. There is no part or cultural aspect of Sweden, which inherently believes it needs to arm itself to protect itself from its own government, and even less so as part of its constitution (grundlag)[1]. When told to behave in a certain way, Swedes will follow suit.

Separately Sweden is also a country with an extensive social safety net, where every citizen has the right to free healthcare and every employee will receive 80% of their salary for two weeks without a doctor's note at no cost for the employer[2].

Time will tell if the Swedish approach was the right one and even if so the Swedish case will end up being dependant on rather unique constraints that simply will not map to the US, at least not on a national level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United... [2] https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1130&langId=en&in...

IMF says 500 million people worldwide who were out of poverty will or have returned to poverty because of the recession.

It's a relevant perspective, but I can't seem to find any source for IMF claiming that. Do you have one or are you referring to research publicized by Oxfam[1]?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52211206

This seemingly goes further than Google’s travel restrictions[1] and it’s safe to assume more tech companies will encourage reduced or even restrict travel. How long until these companies start to encourage remote work to reduce transmission or has any major tech company already done this?

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-tests-positi...

Not claiming this is the result of, but this article is the wet dream of Facebook lobby groups. Facial recognition won’t go anywhere, that ship has sailed, but regulation might restrict which data you’re allowed to use for it and oh boy would Facebook love monopolizing their throve of data and use regulation to fend off any threat to their leading ability to profile individuals.

In the topic of restricting access to others the author says:

But I ask myself: How difficult can it be for a billion dollar revenue company?

Pretty difficult when the law prohibits you[1]. Hopefully that forces regulation to cover the weaponization of technology not access to data. Right now this comes off as; you’re not allowed to enrich uranium, unless you own the land.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...

To the author, your blog platform outputs an invalid canonical url for your content. It omits the `blog` subdomain which makes your canonical url point to a 404.

Arguably the biggest concern with React Native is that it is controlled by a single entity, Facebook, and that they are not one of the leading mobile platforms who from a business perspective have strong incentives to ensure the future of their respective app eco systems.

Facebook's incentives with React Native are somewhat unclear. This is a big, yet often unspoken, reason companies are vary of depending on React Native for their mobile stacks. With more large companies such as Microsoft, and now Shopify getting behind React Native those incentives will have to please a larger group and should become much more aligned with mobile developer communities at large - and not just Facebook's desires.

If Shopify manages to play an active role in the development of React Native and expand the project beyond the sole control of Facebook then React Native will become a much more viable option for companies who for political reasons have refrained from using the technology.

I don’t know if you do this intentionally or if Hanlon’s razor, but you intermix source backed claims with made up ones. Nature does not claim the mortality rate is 11%. They do make a comparison to SARS’ mortality rate which was about 11% and argue that Wuhan coronavirus is lower in that regard[1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00166-6

Both to those making claims or asking about the severity of the Wuhan coronavirus The Guardian offers a sober perspective of the current situation.

We don’t yet know how dangerous the new coronavirus is – and we won’t know until more data comes in. Twenty-six deaths out of 800 reported cases would mean a 3% mortality rate. However, this is likely to be a overestimate since there may be a far larger pool of people who have been infected by the virus but who have not suffered severe enough symptoms to attend hospital and so have not been counted in the data. For comparison, seasonal flu typically has a mortality rate below 1% and is thought to cause about 400,000 deaths each year globally. Another key unknown, of which scientists should get a clearer idea in the coming weeks, is how contagious the coronavirus is. A crucial difference is that unlike flu, there is no vaccine for the new coronavirus, which means it is more difficult for vulnerable members of the population – elderly people or those with existing respiratory or immune problems – to protect themselves. One sensible step to get the flu vaccine, which will reduce the burden on health services if the outbreak turns into a wider epidemic.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/24/what-is-the-...

You’re setting yourself up for some future and potentially hard to introspect problems for yourself and your users with this setup. There are good reasons to keep those endpoints separate. As an example, the anycast solution you’ll rely on on that host, while great for short lived tcp sessions (https) will be problematic for your long lived sessions (ssh) which will be disconnected during routing changes in cloudflares network - ddos or operational changes. That is unless you establish sub flows for those sessions using a unicast IP address but now you’re accumulating additional complexity for the sake of wanting it all on a single hostname.