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If dollars are the only thing you're counting. But I said nothing about money that in my comment.
In other words, you agree completely. Grandparent never said that following the pragmatic path in this case would be morally defensible and almost certainly believes that it wouldn't be (except in the sense that the human capacity for rationalization is nearly infinite and so a person stuck in the situation would likely manage to convince themselves otherwise). I get the sense that the grandparent post was complaining that by allowing insurance companies to exclude events like this we've created a terrible moral hazard.
I live in Ballard, a neighborhood of Seattle, which is right on the ocean. If and as sea levels rise, every single person here would be better off running away from their homes, abandoning everything they own and starting from scratch somewhere inland.

For each of us, even this would be better than abandoning industrial civilization, which is the thing that gives us hospitals, abundant food, clothing, shelter, clean/hot/cold water, and everything else needed for a good human life.
On one hand i can understand this. Occasionally i need to wind down from coding brain to people brain when i've been in the flow.

Gotta admit though that putting myself in that state intentionally sounds amazingly horrifying to me. 1984 comes to mind.
The one I've heard is "work flows downward, but responsibility flows upward."
The article is about what people lose when they work from home, and I was pointing out a few critical things I would lose if I worked from home. Feel free to disagree with me, but my response was not even close to being off-topic. Anecdotal, sure.
“If the office is going to become a collection of employees not working together, it essentially becomes no different than a coffee shop.”

The horror! You mean the office might degenerate into a quiet work environment where people focus on getting things done? How will these companies possibly recover? Especially while all the employees of their competitors are escaping their noisy, interruptive offices to get work done... at a nearby coffee shop!

What might happen if these offices started offering perks of the best coffee shops, like actually good coffee, fast wifi, and comfy chairs? How could they possibly survive the revolts from their staff, not to mention the decline in productivity?!
I also found these statistics helpful: http://www.pd.infn.it/~dorigo/autism_organic_foods.jpg
What about the Chinese?
The withdrawal penalties can be anywhere from 6 to 30 months interest for a 5 year CD. 6 months seems pretty rare with only a few institutions offering it.
It's a tough choice between being a scumbag and paying two years salary[1] out of pocket for something that was not your fault and that the insurance apparently doesn't cover because they are scumbags too.

[1] The median wage in the US per person is $26,695.
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I would think Insurance companies understand their business better than most industries < you loose a lot of money fast if you do risk wrong.

They don't expect profit from all their accounts, not a priori. However they choose to do business only with those account which they believe will be profitable. If They expect to loose money from an account, they'll choose not to do business with you.

We can debate if this is moral or not (some religions state it's not, i.e. the Amish as it is a form of gambling and discourages charity) but that's the game.
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Over the past 5 or 6 years I've gone from working from home a couple days a week to working from home 100% of the time to working remotely on a distributed team and, most recently, to working from an open plan office every day.

And I have to grudgingly admit something: The people who are trying to dial back on the working from home have a point. I maintain that I absolutely work harder and am less distracted when I'm working from home, and by a pretty darn appreciable margin at that. If we're only considering me in isolation then my opinion on the subject has not wavered. But over the past few years I've come to see the forest for the trees a bit more, and I'm realizing that while all the individual components of a distributed team might be higher-performing, the overall system wasn't running very efficiently. A lot of time was lost to redundant efforts, efforts at cross purposes with each other, stuff like that.

I'm not prepared to throw the baby out with the bathwater - I still think there is a place for working from home and working remotely. But I'm also prepared to concede that it's not all kittens and lollipops, and that there are valid reasons why a company might decide that co-location better suits its needs.

Full disclosure: I still ended up leaving my job over it. Among other reasons (none of which were really about the office itself), that daily commute would have eventually ground my sanity into nothingness.
PG really summed it up well - Maker's schedule is quite different from Manager's schedule: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html.

From OPs profile he is more of a manager than a maker.
Open plan offices are not always about cost. Microsoft has famously had private offices forever, but many younger employees have indicated that they would prefer semi-shared space. I agree that the "football field" plan has no redeeming qualities.
I'd love to have a part-time full-time job so I had time to work on various passion projects.
When you get used to working remotely (or with people who are remote), I've found you learn to try to avoid being bottlenecked by questions. It doesn't always work, of course, but I think it's an important skill to have either way. And for questions that are urgent enough, a phone/video call is about the equivalent of walking up to someone and asking, and doesn't take any more time.

Edit: typo.
Yeah, it costs a lot to hire inspectors to go out to every property and determine that it was the water in the air, not the wind itself that destroyed the house so they aren't covered.
> Plus, most of my job involves meeting with people, and that tends to be more effective and efficient face-to-face.

That is only barely remotable, if at all. Bringing that up in a conversation about fulltime remote working is off-topic. It's as if you'd written "i work on a construction site, and let me tell you, moving those metal beams is hard via my ipad".
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I hate to agree because what the insurance company did is nasty. But you're right.

Which is why I'm skeptical of the AMA requirements to cover certain recurrent health services (annual checkups, contraception). If they're unavoidable than its not insurance!
My argument is that fossil fuels and industrial civilization yields positive externalities, including longer lifespan and resilience against the impacts of a changing climate.

If you followed the link, you'd see that the raw data for many of the figures, including figure 1.9/5.1, comes from EM-DAT (http://www.emdat.be), as well as other sources including the World Bank's World Development Indicators (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator), and even Scripps! (http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/data/merged_ice_core/merged_ice_c...)

Your response to this is to make silly jokes. Nice.
7. Compressed air energy storage can't get here fast enough.

Batteries are great, but they have to be replaced. Tanks can last for centuries and the materials are way cheaper at scale (CAES makes no sense below the MWh scale).
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There is no need for personal attacks when someone is expressing their genuine opinion.

Collaboration requires courtesy and both parties should respect each other's train of thought for it to work, regardless of the venue, be it office or remote.
I used to play with those (mercury blob mazes) at electronic/junk shops when I was a little kid. Currently I've got a small collecting of mercury switches and rather large jar of mercury in the basement... It's neat stuff.
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If you're in the middle of Kansas and a big hailstorm comes up there isn't much you can do. There's nowhere to hide.
Just gave this a try on my project, it was surprisingly painless and the build file is really tiny and readable. Very interesting.

Hope this takes off, I'm ready to migrate away from Gradle.
Remote doesn't necessarily mean at home. I know a few guys who work remotely from coffee shops and other areas with free wifi, for this reason.

Personally, I love being able to run to the kitchen and make myself a snack if I need it, or take an hour-long break and run to the gym if my brain is fried (and not have to worry about all the logistical issues of doing this at the office).
Just install Linux on it?

I've run Ubuntu on a variety of Mac and non-Mac hardware since 2007, and the experience has only improved over that time frame.
>>It's not being evil per se, but being an economic leech of sorts.

I'm not sure from where this kind of thinking arises. Any investment is supposed to be a vehicle where your money increases without you having to directly work for it.

By that definition, all investments are wrong.
Isn't SPDY deprecated for HTTP/2 though?
There are many ways to characterize numbers, but in the 2015 budget the US spends over $600 billion on the military, an enormous amount. The nation spends amounts of the similar magnitude on Medicare, Social Security, etc.

I'm not sure grouping line items into arbitrary categories like "entitlements" is meaningful for analysis (it's more for ideological contests). The questions are, what do we get for each investment? Is there a better use for that money?
I've observed the same issue of remote teams being not very efficient at times. However this is almost always the result of sub-optimal team management, for example things like using only a bug tracker, or using a bug tracker software for both that purpose AND for task planning. In other words: Yes, it may become an issue, but is easily solved by using the right tools and policies.
> I find it very interesting that Apple is now the "default" laptop and Windows is the strange alternative that people are worried about switching to.

Only in a tiny minority of wealthy dev/artist types.
Print The Legend was a pretty interesting documentary that showed the development of Makerbot and form labs - but it made Makerbot look like a complete disaster and the original CEO seem terrible (along with what I think was Amazons invester arm)

Not surprised things aren't going well. Seems like the vision died long before the sale.
Elemental Mercury isn't especially dangerous though. People freak out over the word "Mercury" but forms like that aren't bioavailable for the most part and are reasonably safe. I wouldn't go breathing the fumes for extended periods of time, but holding a pool in your hand in science class isn't going to kill you.

That's why it's a bit frustrating to read stories like this where the cleanup crew goes overboard and racks up tens of thousands of dollars worth of bills for a simple spill.
Ah, but now that your argument is based on decreasing returns we can just do expected value analysis.

Fortunately, many people have already done this, including Betterment: https://www.betterment.com/resources/personal-finance/safety...

Weighted by the probability of happening, you are better off investing all your money. Period.
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man, there is no argument about importance of industrial civilization and fossil fuels that brought us here. There is a reason why the term "weaning of fossil fuels" is used as the time of fossil fuels has passed, and now their usage only slows down the development of our civilization.
No offense taken, and I can tell you are not just parroting political blogs which is refreshing. I do see your point, but as I will explain later, for a meta-study I think they did the best that they possibly could have. It says that only .07% of the abstracts reject AGW. That is a huge signal. This study shows that climate change isn't controversial within science journals as it is made out to be in the news media, which is the only reason people think it is controversial. If its not controversial among scientists then it must fit within the scientific consensus. Also, There is a problem with fixing the study in the way you mention. If they categorize scientists as "hard" or "soft" then the study becomes prone to be rejected during peer-review because at that point its results would hinge on their ability to make that distinction without bias.
I strongly disagree with this article and these are my arguments:

- it's not true that people are isolated when working remotely, you're more then well connected over the Internet

- it shouldn't all be about the high productivity at all places all the time, sometimes life and work should be about people and family and friends too

- once again extroverts are trying to enforce their point of view on introverts, why not let people choose if statistics are showing that the productivity still stays the same or even gets better?
I agree. Fossil fuels have definitely had benefits in the past but now we have to ability to continue with those benefits, increase them and remove the negatives.
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Oh in the 80s you say? Might want to check to see if you have polybutaline pipes in there. That's another one that's expensive to repair and not covered by insurance.
I've done this a lot, usually as a consultant. Works great. I haven't found that I wanted more time for the startups - in fact, the consulting work has been a good counter balance to the startup work.
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I don't think anything is lost at all. Organizational habits are important here: if you don't have a good set of communication tools and people who know how to use them, you may very well think that you're missing something. Hallways conversations—at least in my own experience—rarely or never amount to much. But if I do get a sudden brainstorm, and I can jump onto a quick google hangout or otherwise run it by someone, then I haven't lost anything. Physical presence is a distraction; good communication is what's important.
I have been trying this out the past year. More like, get a contract gig for a 3-6 week period working on the startup stuff at night and then taking 4-8 weeks off to work on it full-time. It's a tough balancing act. I know personally for me the context switching with shorter time periods is difficult. There are so many times I want to complete a piece of functionality or fully fix a defect and not leave it in mid-stream to go work on something completely different.
Why not ask the whole world to slog themselves to death and serve you for free?

If they refuse to condemn themselves to such, you can always call them evil.
I guess what I was really wondering was why so little has changed with respect to multiprocessing, modern filesystems, resource quotas, virtualization, etc... since '08.
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That article says that the democrats are getting a growing share of their funding from wealthier donors, while Republicans are getting a larger share of their funding from obscenely wealthy donors.
you actually get 4 gigs per process, so you could have 64 spaces of 4 gigs each, with the 256mb of physical ram mapped into those spaces as needed.
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Holy strawman. Taxing fossil fuel now equals abandoning industrial civilization?

But I agree on one point. When (not IF) the sea level rises, some people are bound to end up better off, by taking opportunities and exploiting all the other people who have to find new place to live.

Some people will do absolutely anything to make money, and don't care how their action will affect people living now or a generation from now. Human nature.
> The difference is that the software... will work

Lots of software doesn't work. Is there a substantial difference between putting an overfitting model in production, and putting a poorly tested program in production?
For some reason I just don't buy Michael Fassbender as Jobs... Unlike the portrayal of lesser known Mark Zuckerbeg in "The Social Network", we have all been exposed to Jobs, his unique look and mannerisms. I will reserve any further criticism until after viewing the movie, as I do enjoy Sorkin’s work.
> there was a dusy little puddle

what's a dusy?
It really depends on what innovation is about. And in the wild, you can do whatever you want in a shorter time frame. In a more structured environment, there is higher possibility to enjoy having innovations that requires longer time frame. As someone said, all systems will be gamed. By looking at what we can achieve in the wild, it's a good refresh to push for a better system for innovation.
OK. So the issue is the GPU then. That same scenario with data that could use virtual memory would be a non-issue, since you could mash the available fragmented phsyical ram together into whatever size blocks were needed using the MMU.
Really I think its main weakness is that it is a meta-study.. which always tend to have issues like you mention. I find it compelling enough though.
By raising energy prices, which will soak the poor? Not everyone can afford to shop at Whole Foods, drive $100k electric cars, and live in LEED-certified houses (not cheap here in Seattle!)
Insurance in my understanding is good for catastrophic events. If house burning down happen in 1 of 10000 homes in a lifetime, and all have taken insurance. For a small sum, you have ensured that you'll not be homeless, instead of each 10000 owners saving enough for a new house.
Musk is drawing a clear line in the sand between the new school and the old school... I guess Apple is now Big Blue and Musk just threw a sledge hammer at Tim Cook on the screen?
I wonder how much mercury is emitted from a broken fluorescent bulb? I'm very glad to see LED bulbs as an alternative, I've probably bought my last fluorescent.
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What's the economics behind many tech companies sharing their tools?
Any tools you can recommend?
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I love working from home because....

1. In an office full of fellow developers who I become friendly with I start to recruit them for my startup. Mostly my bosses(lol) which that never works out very well and I end up having to find another gig.

2. No traffic!!!

3. Work and get stuff done anytime of the day or night.

4. Work from anywhere there's an Internet connection.

5. No high school. ..bs office politics. Judged by your work only!

6. Wake up, roll over and start working...did I mention not having to deal with traffic?
Truth on the kernel. I'm used to working in an environment where we own the OS, the board design, and the design of many of the chips ... which means we can make it do whatever we need (downside is, you have to maintain it all too). However, our needs are unique enough to justify it -- computing is hard in an environment where atmospheric radiation can flip random bits for you (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_event_upset).
Wait, so the property management company (which would be responsible for facilitating the mold remediation at the very least, or paying for it if they own the property or were liable for the issue in the first place) told you that mold was no big deal and your upstairs neighbors just need to caulk a little more around their bath tub (also the responsibility of the property owner) and that calmed you down?

Mold and fungi can certainly be harmful to humans. The interests of your landlords and property managers are not aligned with yours in this case.
Yup and it's only "free energy" if you would do exactly the same exercise but waste the energy as heat. Otherwise you're going to need a lot more calories in your diet, which I bet alone are more expensive than more traditional solutions. And that assuming the cost of the machine is also lower than those solutions.

None of the projects seem so innovative or compelling; save perhaps for the geothermal concept. I particularly don't think a bunch of guys fooling around with tools can come up with great solutions for those basic problems (energy, desalination); the disregard for scientific more basic research seems myopic. That approach works best for niche problems that were overlooked. If there were a silver bullet of energy or a simple way to desalinate I'm pretty sure we'd have found it already. Just looking at the basic physics (thermodynamics, minimum energy to overcome osmotic potential) would give a hint. If they do come up with something useful though, all the better.
It often attracts talented engineers; tech companies are always after talented engineers.
It occurs to me that a mischievous person could easily write a Firefox plugin to (over)write that header with random garbage. If enough people used the plugin, it would render Verizon's data useless.
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In all fairness, that's pretty atypical of a standard CS degree. In my anecdotal experience (knowing people that went to Stanford/Berkeley/MIT/CMU), most people take at most 1 probability class, 1 linear algebra class, and maybe 1 AI/ML class. Info theory, NLP, numerical analysis, optimization, etc. are not at all common.
If what he is saying is true (which is about as likely as me getting pregnant), that would be far, far worst than cheating for a test: he is saying two people can put a chemical storage, undetected, and release it according to a complex plan, without any tester, QA, manager finding about it.

If that blatant lie even makes sense to him, he should not be let near an anything industrial.
> The expected value of insurance is not automatically negative.

I'm curious how this math works. In my (quite likely incomplete) mental model of insurance, there are only a few terms: premiums, payouts, profits. It would seem that they have to balance. So if you pool risk, you are summing the payouts. Those payouts are covered by the sum of premiums. Any profit is the sum of premiums minus the sum of payouts.

Profits = Premiums - Payouts

Is this right so far?

Because then it seems that the expected value of insurance to the customer is the negated value of the expected profit of the insurer. Put another way: if the expected value of insurance is not negative, shouldn't the insurer raise premiums or exit the business?

Again, I know next to nothing about insurance and I'm asking to learn.
One way to address the crisis of climate change is to wean ourselves off of non-essential commuting as soon as possible. Obviously, many jobs require workers to be present at a job site. For so-called knowledge workers, however, online collaboration tools are making remote work very practical. There is no reason why a software developer can't work from home and still participate on a project team. It just requires a little imagination.
Removing the function keys wouldn't necessitate a brand-new layout, and I suspect the num keys get used more than function keys.
You're parsing wrong here. It means people don't have that much liquid. As in saved.
It's different. In ML the model, the analysis, and the insights, are the product. In general software engineering, your compiler is not your product.
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