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Naval is such a genuinely nice and caring guy. So many investors say they are entrepreneur friendly, but hardly any of them live up to that when things get hairy. Naval is a guy who absolutely lives the mantra of putting entrepreneurs first and goes above and beyond to help them out in so many ways. There is a long story about the stuff he went through to get where he is (when he was at epinions), google for it- its worth a read.

I wont get into it too much, but I owe alot to Naval for where I am today. The help, advice and just conversations he gives to entrepreneurs is completely 'no bullshit, no fluff'. All in all, its very refreshing to see that AngelList has risen to the top and has helped disrupt the 'old boys / sand hill road' way of doing things.
One little thought:

By including political loyalty in credit scores, you basically outline your political pain points. Which are usually hidden - in closed societies by censorship and pressure, in pluralistic societies by social conventions.

When you go from "pain points are not known" (to a layperson) to "pain points are known but avoided", it's a step back.
Yes, vocal minority now faces some pressure, instead silent majority now knows what topics are there to be careful about and gives them some thought.
> Rather, I think the problem is, the professional/business world as a whole rewards and values masculine traits (competitiveness, talking highly of yourself and accomplishments, etc.) much more than feminine ones.

Exactly. Masculinity is all about taking risks. Capitalism is about risk. So of course men lead the way.
Public prisons have the same problem. Where I live the prison guards donate enough to politicians new prisons are always built in lieu of sentencing reform.
The author (I assume he's the one in the video) singlehandedly increased the price of already sparse IBM Thinkpads by $1.
Anyone else surprised by Blue Apron and Hellofresh making the list?

I can't imagine there are two multibillion dollar food recipe delivery subscription companies.

Is this as crazy as I think it is?
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I've switched to a Mac 3 years ago. After about 1.5 years I said to people who were curious about my experience with it: "When I started the Mac was great but it seems like I switched at the worst possible point because the experience gets worse with every update". Which is basically saying I switched when Mac peaked.

I for one have lost hope that I'll be able to switch to Linux for my everyday work, simply because most crucial apps in my workflow just run on proprietary systems.
I guess Star Wars and (much of SciFi) has no strong tie to a computer class except for a certain subcultural influence not shared universally (and so they don't _need_ to be part of the class room).

But if the computer class isn't just a editor/spreadsheet/media class (which is okay, and maybe even important, but not "computer"), having computer parts and tech magazines around (within reason) provide a relatively realistic representation of what the field is about.

To me that paragraph read as "computer class is okay when it has nothing to do with computers" - which I think is sad.

But then the description is so non-descript, that it's hard to tell what kind of images they provided. If the "computer parts and magazines" version looked like http://moo.acadiau.ca:7000/865, that may indeed not be very attractive.

(Also: coffee makers in class rooms? yuck. I wouldn't want to be in a class that smells like coffee all the time)
And some perspective in case that doesn't sink in

Vietnam : 92m people, 72m scooters, 400% tax on car ticket price.

The Vietnamese people I talked to when there said they desire a life where they have a car, what they don't seem to think of is where all the cars are going to go.

This is a typical Vietnamese city street :

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/NHA+Trang,+Khanh+Hoa+Pro...
I do strongly feel that people have varying natural aptitudes. Some types of problems or challenges will come easier to some than others... I think the key is not being afraid to lose/fail. To get back up, dust yourself off and keep going.

There's also knowing when something really isn't right for you... Some people really can't grasp certain types of concepts essential for certain jobs... Given, these are mostly outliers, they do exist.

Just the same, drive and effort count for more in life in terms of actual results than anything else, next in line probably being chance/luck.
I think the OP's point is that when the VC money is gone, they might have to go towards adverts in some way if they struggle to monetise otherwise, so it's too early to say that they are not ad-supported
I still think that 30 watts idle are way too much for at-home equipment. At German electricity prices we're still dealing with $75 a year just for electricity. What I want to see is a reasonably powerful machine that is <5 watts idle (for the board, CPU and RAM) plus the power of the installed hard disks.
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From the docs:

"It's important to note that When rendering with these infinitely-tiled images, the mapping that is rendered is actually the inverse of the function given. This is because it is prohibitively expensive to compute images of the function itself. (In fact, we are rendering a kind of "pull-back".) Specifically, when rendering a pixel in the image, the location of that pixel in the complex plane is passed to your function, which produces a complex value. That transformed value specifies a location in the original image. This procedure is fast, but plots the inverse of the function given. So, if you want to plot e.g. log(z), then you should instead put in e^z."
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Sure, but I personally don't like my devices and appliances making decisions for me, so I suppose by definition I don't like "smart" technology. No one said devices with IP addresses have to make decisions and thus be smart, so a lamp with an SSH server is still a device in the Internet of Things. It's sitting idle until I design software on my own to control it.
The best way to access such news sites is to search for the article title on google, and then click the top link from the results page.
Programming can be done very easily by yourself, but when you actually want to get something finished or do more than 30 person-hours a week it's best to go find some other people to make a company with.

If you want to see it as a job, compare it to other businesses where you have to write things on a schedule, like writing a newspaper. There's more conversations with strangers involved in that one and it sounds a little friendlier.
I wonder if you would have cared so much if the previous "elected" president were German national socialists? Because the previous "elected" were Muslim Brotherhood rats.
Because I'm sure these governments will spend the extra $250 billion/year so much more productively than the companies they're taking it from... (not.)
Entry-level Xeons are ridiculously cheap and powerful nowadays. Our infrastructure went from $5000/server (Netburst era) to $1200 nowadays.

And even for smaller purposes, x86 SoCs are getting good, like PCEngines' 6-12W APU boards that serve nicely as routers/firewalls.
> Alcohol is far worse because you can become dependent on it in a way marijuana doesn't really allow.

Well, I've seen more people become dependent with hash/pot than with alcohol. I'd say that's because it's much harder to be functional drunk than stoned.

There might not be physical cravings or withdrawal but when someone starts hitting the bong several times a day, all this talk about hard and soft drugs is bullshit. And once they want to stop, the biggest difference is that they don't have the excuse of being in pain physically.
On the other hand, many newer diesels have cam chains instead of belts, which will just mean the big service at 100k miles (say) is a DPF service instead of a cam belt service. Costs are comparable (This is assuming the cam chain is trouble free and lasts forever, which isn't entirely true of course).

Even if the DPF is abused by short trips, there isn't even a scheduled inspection until over 100k miles, so if there are no noticable issues with it, it might just do a worse job for the environment but not incur higher ownership costs.

Over half of new cars here (Sweden) are leased by companies, and bought with very strict CO2 emissions guidelines, but no other guidelines. That means you either have to buy a hybrid or a diesel, there is basically no way you can get under 120g/km otherwise. Since there is of course also a price treshold, the hybrids are usually out of the question and the end result is that most new cars will be diesels.
Google the exact title and you will find it. There is no paywall when you enter from google.

This usually only works for me when I google English language newspaper articles, though. When I google articles in other languages, Google somehow allow the newspapers to apply their paywall.
Surely gathering performance metrics and analysing them is the method of avoiding the backfire? Surveying downstream faculties and see how they like the results is another way to measure and move forward from a system of cronies with a low risk of degradation.
The inside of a business is a socialist command economy. Capitalism only exists outside the office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
Tor, software for mesh networks, tunneling hacks, and encryption packages serve to fight control and privacy invasion. For example, Facebook Tunnel (https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel) hopefully should never actually be used, but it serves as a statement for network neutrality.
What's interesting to me is that it almost seems like VW fooled themselves: they aggressively pooh-poohed alternatives (hybrid, electic). BMW and Porsche (now a WV subsidiary, I acknowledge) have been working on both those options, chasing Toyota in the former.

VW seem to have convinced themselves that they didn't need to look at other ways of achieving clean(er) engines. Which suggests an element of truth to the idea there was a "climate of fear" under the now-resigned CEO; it would be typical of a couple of companies I've contracted to, where phenominal amounts of money were pissed away because it was career-ending to tell the truth about a particular strategy not working.
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Note that you can apparently use the `t` variable to express time.

Ex: t*z
Palantir takes regular enormous infusions of VC money. My guess is that they are in expansion mode still, but aren't profitable (or not profitable enough to bankroll their own expansion).
This also bugged me:

The state is undermining the work ethic: most
people enjoy a 37-hour working week, and three-
day weekends are common.

Sounds like a good idea to me. Why do people need to work 50 hours a week exactly? I imagine there are long term health, social and psychological benefits to a more restful and less stressful life?
The problem is that a batcholers in computer science doesn't actually mean anything from the UK, you can learn the course material in six months of study- and employers know this.

so when employers are looking for applicants, they look for CV buzzwords and then test the person applying.

Pass the test? great. you're in.

a degree for software/systems engineering really only helps later in life when you're going for a leadership or management role.

the UK is also guilty of denying education about how computers work for a couple decades, opting only to teach microsoft office with a few CCNA college courses which inevitably get cancelled. So computer science students are really learning how computers work when they first go to university- and that's just mental.
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I just started using VIM. But, I got stuck when I was working VIM along with `tmux`. How do we configure it well with `tmux`, for example?
I'm surprised that none of them found it more effective to simply wait a day or two before burying someone who had fallen unconscious for no obvious reason.
I recently set up an HK corporation and bank account with HSBC and had no requirement for a minimum balance. I think there is a monthly fee if your balance is below some low amount, but that's it.
Right now you'd need NUC-style nettops for that kind of wattage. I'm not sure the performance qualifies as "reasonably powerful", though…
Small correction: VMware isn't a spinoff of EMC, it's a subsidiary. VMware was originally founded in 1998 and acquired by EMC in 2004.
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> They were PROUDLY claiming how they were not wasting money on R&D but rather simply churning out boxes of computers as cheaply as possible using innovations developed by others.

Yep. And the downward spiral of companies like HP was chasing them down that path.
Running of DC is how Telecoms Exchanges (central offices) have run since the year dot.

So this is not exactly a new discovery.
The problem is the price. When they first launched, the price was starting at $120,000 NTD. You can get a cheaper, gas scooter for say $30,000 NTD. In China, you can get an electric scooter for around $40,000 NTD.

Once the electric market catches on here in Taiwan, the flood of cheaper eletric scooters from China will be Gogoro's biggest challenge.

Gogoro has recently (3 months after launch) reduced their prices and introduced more models - with the light model (no battery plan included) starting at $88,000. And even with cuts from government programs (up to 3, depending on your location in Taiwan), it can be reduced down to $62,000.

I haven't seen a single Gogoro out wild on the streets since it launched in Taiwan 3 months ago.

I think a better strategy would've been getting people to buy into electric scooters first before pushing an 'Apple' E-Scooter with such a irrational price tag.
Q:"I have found a small hard lump in my arm pit. What should I do?"

A:"Go for a walk in the woods."

Q:"I've come up in a rash. What should I do?"

A:"Go for a walk in the woods."

Q:"I need to pee all the time. I'm very thirsty. And I sleep a lot."

A:"Go for a walk in the woods".

It's an inappropriate response to the situation. The question was not "What things can I do which will protect my mental health?" but "I think I have a mental health problem, what should I do?" ("See a professional" should be the answer)
Over the years they refined it - the official birth of what is really the modern Lego came in 1958, when they added the hollow tubes on the underside to help with interlocking -, but the design remains taken from Kiddicraft.

Seems like a pretty key fact. The hollow tubes are what makes Lego lock together so nicely.
Meditations is the usual go-to read by Marcus Aurelius. Then if you are still interested check out the writings of Seneca, Epictetus, etc.
Food is pretty important in people's lives.
I suspect he found those exams easy because of the quality teaching he got from the man...
"Computer scientists and engineers are going to be designing the future that everyone inhabits. We need women and minorities to enjoy an ambient sense of belonging in those professions if the future they create is going to be one in which all of us feel at home"

Oh how tired I am of this tech ignorant BS "argument" - "women use tech too, so we need women designing tech for women" or "women need representatives in politics too!"...

Listen crefully - technology is created so that everyone could use it without man/woman distinction. If product is created specifically for women by 100% man team then they WILL CONSULT WITH THEM WHILILE ON IT OR GET FEEDBACK LATER. You know why? Of course you don't - not doing what your target demographics want is suicide. That hawing said - women are majority so their influence is huge on tech. Same woth politics - good polititian doesn't just represent one group, they strike ballance to help everyone.
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That's great and very concrete, thanks. It's funny, at those levels is also where more friction starts to get introduced, because suddenly the system rears its ugly head and tries to co-opt it. If you were to regularly bring in $50k, suddenly the university wants more than half of it and it dawns on you that you don't quite need the university as much as they need you.

The extreme is a Jack Horner type who would eschew academia (but oh, the creative control he has!), but the thing I like about the size that we are right now is that we're flying under the radar of the tier-1 schools, and we're just funding and seeing lots of cool stuff. I'll happily duel university administrators in the future, but for now we get to focus on small pockets of really impactful science.
makes sense. their money is in cross connects and then power, at a distant second.
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I'd start with "Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca, then read "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius. If you're looking for a modern interpretation of these thoughts check out "The Obstacle is the Way" by Ryan Holiday
Yes, that's an absolutely viable option as "connected device" but that is not how "Smart" works.

I believe that the next big thing in computing is the removal of unnecessary screens and interactions. The next paradigm is a device that is able to seamlessly do for you the routine/predictable tasks you usually do.
Replacing a wall switch with an iPhone app doesn't fall under that paradigm.
The three best-known literary products of Stoic culture and philosophy are probably:

- Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (make sure to get the Hays translation! By far the best). Aurelius was an emperor of Rome; Meditations are his musings to himself in later life. It's interesting to reading the internal grapplings of a man who was, to his countrymen, basically a walking god.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

- Epictetus' Enchiridion, which translates roughly as "handbook" and was assembled from the teachings of Epictetus, an exiled former slave, to those who traveled to live and study with him.

I strongly recommend all three. If you're interested in more modern interpretations of the above, a couple good jumping off points would be A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine (which was mostly pretty good) or The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot (which studies Meditations). Ryan Holiday also has a book called The Obstacle Is The Way, though I didn't enjoy it as much as any listed above, to be honest.

A personal favorite gem which, found several years ago: http://stoicletters.blogspot.com/. This blog bundles Seneca's letters into a modern style of prose and is much more accessible while conveying much of the same meaning as the original letters.
I think it's largely a business decision.

You need to find a balance between really heard and appealing to more niche audience (resulting in a relatively high game price). Some games like KSP went fairly mainstream, but they did a ton of work to be appealing to a wider audience, not only space enthusiasts.

At the other end of the spectrum, you have easy games which appeal to larger, more casual audiences but like you've said are a bit shallow.

In this regard, C:S hits a good balance.
I really don't know. My accountant recommended Cater Allen, and they seemed pretty on top of things when I phoned them up. Unfortunately I couldn't satisfy their paperwork requirements though, which is why I went with Lloyds in the end.
Well.. yes? Isn't that sorta, kinda the point?

Additionally, exactly the criticism could be made for this list.
"Should congressional testimony and expert witnesses be banned and private funding of research prohibited? Eliminating private funding will leave research completely in public funding’s hands. It will not eliminate the bias; it will simply tilt it in the direction of the government."

This is definitely a fact.. look how long it took for the lipid theory to be seriously challenged... years of research in support of what the government would fund. The food pyrimid is probably the best example of the results of this.

As long as business and politics are so intertwined, putting government in charge isn't a viable solution in and of itself. It would be nice to see some efforts put towards pure/directed research... Unfortunately that's a hard sell to a lot of people who simply don't see the value.
I think the recent technological development of the modern diesel is pretty impressive. Environmental policies set the bar at 120g/km and all the manufacturers promptly delivered on that. The engine power inflation didn't even stop (on the contrary, it continued) so now we drive super-efficient and super powerful small engines. 200hp, 300Nm and 5L/100km would seem like sorcery 15 years ago. Now it's par for the course.

This would seem like a massive success for environmental regulation, and then the VW scandal broke. To me it just seems that the regulation wasn't good enough: all it would have taken was to have strict regulations for all emissions (Particles, CO2, NOx, ...) and realistic test cycles.

At this point we should probably just tighten the regulations: set the bar at 100g/CO2 and also tighten the other emissions values to whatever a modern 1.4Litre petrol engine emits today. Then tighten the regulations every year. If manufacturers can squeeze diesels down to those levels, great! If they can't, hybrids and EV's will take the place of these cars that consumers will likely find underpowered under the new emission standards.
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There's a certain temptation to ascribe it to a cynical desire to convince people they shouldn't try to change their lot.
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Hellofresh is a Rocket Internet clone, so not too surprising that it looks exactly like Blue Apron.
Weirdly the first image in this piece isn't Russian, it's Czech. It says "long live the world's first female cosmonaut"
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Humans have basically been doing this since forever, via models like J.S. Mill's social tyranny. Here in the West we already do it to some degree through upvoting/downvoting, Facebook likes and Twitter followers, Tinder, Hot or Not, and Peeple, among others. It seems less like a new form for evil government oppression so much as one we will gladly push on each other ourselves - another evolution of using technology to streamline age-old human interactions.

"Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself." -On Liberty
How can it not.
> Very clever, China.

But is it, really? Introducing arbitrary, statistically irrelevant incentives into the rating only goes to undermine the rating's effectiveness: gauging the financial risk. In the end it is a penalty imposed on Chinese banking and overall economy.
Considering most of this untaxed money sits idle in some Caribbean virtual bank, yes, even using it to dig holes would be a more productive use.
Divide by 30 for US$ prices.

In Taiwan and China people are willing to spend near US$1000 for an Apple smart phone, so $3000-$4000 for a cool 'Apple' E-Scooter still sounds attractive to me. Unlike a car, you can park this thing directly in front of the stores, so everyone can see it/has to climb over it ;-)

I am not their target market, but next time I am in Taiwan I would rent this scooter, even at double/triple the cost of a regular one. I actually wanted to rent an e-scooter before, but everyone advised against it: "Too slow"

So for me the key question is: Does Gogoro feel like a real scooter, even with two people on it? Does it do to e-scooters what Tesla did for e-cars?