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> It is how many in the industry make a living

Industry makes a living on technology progress. If someone makes a living on pushing lock-in (MS), they are doing a disservice to the whole industry. It has nothing to do with FOSS - it's about progress in general (lock-in is the opposite of it).

You didn't disprove what I said above. Duplication of work costs more money, and no one likes to waste money, especially when reasons for that duplication aren't even technical, but are caused by crooked vendors who force that extra expense on others with lock-in.

> Professional game developers don't care

They care about their budgets. Your idea that duplication of work is welcomed is complete nonsense.
Love the fact that it is written in Clojure
Thousands of people built very successful businesses selling services, plugins and themes for WordPress users. Shopify as a platform shares many of the same qualities -- it's developer-friendly, with lots of small business users, and the opportunity to sell everything from custom development to prepackaged apps and themes. The user base, your potential market, is growing rapidly, and it's still young enough that there are thousands of niches to fill.
you probably sign a license agreement: there's no "As long as you understand"
Wow, thanks for sharing! I have no idea how I've missed this for so many years. Lie-Nielsen (https://www.lie-nielsen.com) also makes beautiful (and expensive) hand tools, for anyone interested.
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You think the only possible reason for a woman to lie to you is because she is a spy?
you must work for shopify, si? Volusion is pretty good too.
The common theme is "publicly visible sex stuff that traditionalists and conservatives persecute". LGBT covers most of the people interested in a coalition against conservative sexual mores. The BDSM/kink scene is something that is much easier to keep private, and polyamory is small/private enough too. Heterosexuals interested in per-marital sex have basically won their fight, so they're less interested as well.
The main issue, as I see it, is that going from upper middle class (or even mid-range middle class) to mega rich is easier than it is to go from poor to lower middle class.

Most rags to riches stories we have these days, are really a relatively well off to riches stories when you look at them. The only exceptions are people who won the celebrity lottery.

It's surprisingly hard to accumulate wealth when you're struggling to keep the lights on.
Do you know, were they ever profitable?
I used to wonder why Midtown Manhattan had so many bank branches, especially the redundant branches a mere block or two away. How could that be the highest and best use of prime commercial store frontage in a competitive market?

I figured out in 2009, when I was working at a hedge fund trying to bid on the assets of bankrupt banks post financial crisis.

Basically, every branch loses money to gain depositors. All the fees on monthly accounts, safety deposit boxes, ATMs, cashiers checks, etc. do not offset the cost of the office and employees. However, if the loss is small compared to the volume of deposit money the branch attracts, then the bank headquarters has "borrowed" money at a very low cost.

I think a typical suburban Countrywide or Washington Mutual branch was losing about $100K/yr but had deposits of $20M; not bad at all considering Fed Funds had been around 5.25% until fall of 2007, and that having the capital was the life blood necessary to do all the profitable operations (originating mortgages, credit cards, student loans, EDIT: meet regulatory capital requirements, etc). In Midtown, those numbers might be multiplied many fold, so very few retail stores can compete and stay profitable.
Good luck with the unicorns, then.
This is my post. Something I didn't talk much about: cost.

Some referral programs are for apps that lose lots of money. Others, like Uber's driver referral program, spend lots of money but are very efficient relative to their alternatives.

For SAAS, there are support costs, but referrals usually make a lot of sense for how efficient they can be. Plus they make your paid acquisition more affordable.

I'm happy to answer questions around this stuff! ivan@yesgraph.com
Why? Why is it better to compare yourself to the guy down the street than to compare yourself to your past self of 10 years ago?

I've usually tried to compare myself vs. who I was 10 years ago, not to the people around me, and I suspect I've ended up significantly happier (and quite possibly wealthier) because of it.
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No way... I bought a Macbook Air for $700-$800 that runs extremely well as a development machine. Most of my long term storage is online anyways. As long as you get a decent HDD, there's no issues. You don't have to buy Parallels unless you plan on running Windows concurrently for some reason.

I own a Macbook Air, a Macbook Pro, and I have a custom PC that I built for gaming. After looking at all the ins-and-outs of what you get with a Mac and using them for a while now, it's well worth any extra cost. To suggest that that cost is $2400 minimum is nonsense, though.
Rather than comparing to GDP it's probably better to compare to net worth which is about 70 trillion dollars. With an expected lifespan of ~80 years that's roughly 875 billion passed on in any given year.

Let's assume that all inheritance taxes are paid by the top 1%. They own about a third of total assets. So that's about 290 billion being passed on.

19 / 290 = 6.5% being paid in inheritance taxes. To high? To low? I dunno, but that's my best guess back of the envelope math.
I'm pretty sure people understand that "everything is a list" doesn't mean there are no primitive literal types in the language.
That they're providing a distributed LDA implementation with and O(1) Gibbs sampler is a big deal. I haven't played with it yet but the numbers they are reporting relative to cluster size is orders of magnitude improvement.
>some rants about the Protestant work ethic.

The person I was replying to was literally telling the successful son of immigrants how hopeless everything is for immigrant families. It isn't a rant, its a anecdote to counter his pessimistic worldview. Its amusing to be told that you don't exist and your experiences are false.

Also, I am not diverting, I am suggesting that a conversation about wealth inequality focus on places that have real wealth inequality. Instead its endless college identity politics circlejerking about how the US is the worst nation ever. How nations fall into total political disrepair and terrible economic situations are better conversations to have about places like Russia and Brazil than the US. That is if you actually care to discuss the topic instead of just regurgitating the usual anti-US crap that gets uncritically upvoted here.

Its also worth mentioning that the EU nanny/welfare state or the Russian/Chinese autocracy are really the only real alternatives to the US system, so its important to weigh their pros and cons in general when talking about economic systems. I didn't pick those examples willy-nilly.
The judiciary doesn't pass laws. The judiciary can choose to nullify a law by choosing "not guilty" for anyone charged under a law that's unjust. The executive can also just not arrest people seen walking their dogs on Thursdays. The legislature could just revoke the law that made it illegal to begin with, then the executive and judiciary have no right to arrest or convict under it anymore – even if the previous precedent was considered sound.

This is how the government works. Yes, transition periods may be sloppy (people may be arrested for walking their dogs), but it will equalize.

Legislature makes an unjust law
The executive can choose to enforce or not to enforce
If the executive enforces, the judiciary can choose not to convict

Let's say for this specific scenario, assuming the surveillance isn't Constitutional (big assumption):

1: Executive begins doing something that's not Constitutional
Judiciary chooses not to convict
Law is nullified and executive will stop enforcing (what would be the point?)

2: Executive begins doing something that's not Constitutional
Judiciary chooses to convict (the law is now officially Constitutional)
Legislature disagrees with convictions and can pass specific laws outlawing the original executive actions, OR revoke the original law which allowed the unconstitutional interpretation

This is all by design. This is how it's meant to work. Just because you don't think it's working in your favor does not mean it's broken.
Weirdly enough banks don't seem to like 0% interest rates. We'll see if this is true when the bank driven FED raises interest rates with the next session.
If the branch is on valuable enough land it will show up on the bank's balance sheet as an appreciating asset with a net gain in value even after subtracting out wages, depreciation, amortization, taxes, etc.
:) Here he is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meaningness

While sleuthing a bit on Google I realize he was also a contributor to the "UNIX-HATERS handbook." Weirdly, that was really fascinating literature to me as a ... 15 year old, maybe, in like 2004? In my Swedish teenage room full of messed up Linux and OpenBSD boxes, reading everything I could that seemed interesting and intelligent. That handbook, the C2 wiki, various mailing lists, Usenet groups, IRC channels... I attribute a lot of my personality and interests to this nerdy/literate heritage.
I don't understand how can they not be. I mean, compared to stuff like Snapchat or whatever which has dubious monetization schemes, Shopify is solidly built and offers a service that so many are willing to actually pay for. Maybe it's the costs of building things in the beginning? I really think they'll be fine... until at least Amazon or some other big player gets in their turf.
Black Friday is a baby in comparison - just $1.35b
Ah, I've been playing around with UE 4.9 this week and was missing the VS2015 support. Good to see it added. The blueprint graph node alignment feature is rather neat as well. I've found myself spending far too much time dragging nodes so they are all "just so."
The ideas of social credit definitely have some merit, though I think it's important to flesh out how it would be implemented, as there are clearly risks if it's implemented poorly. For example, how would you guard against over-consumption?

Would be interested to hear your thoughts on the Positive Money campaign, I believe you'll be interested in it.

http://positivemoney.org/
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The good old "Bill Gates the bootstrapped college dropout" argument. These myths never die.

William Henry Gates the Third had a trust fund before he was born. His downside risks for anything he chose to do in life were completely nonexistent. Same with Zuck. Same with Spiegel. Same with 99% of the entrepreneurs HN idolizes.

Here's some light reading:

http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-...

http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/

EDIT: Removed potentially inflammatory line, which went as follows: "Just a bunch of rich kids trying to prove a point to their parents".

This is definitely a personal opinion, but one that has merit if you examine the evolutionary psychology of parent-child relationships. The conversation is a bit in depth, but please understand that I was not trying to simply fire off an ad hominem. I was instead trying to hint at the incentives which drive an already rich child to strive for more wealth. For the vast majority of us who have to work for a living, such behaviors seem confusing. Only upon deeper analysis do the pyschological incentives for such individuals begin to make sense.
> That's not much higher than $60,000 Which means that about 35% of workers get "sweatshop" income of $60,000 or less.

Three things:

1) Many of those 35% are living in rent controlled housing which is a maybe $20k/year subsidy.

2) Its also about more than just income. Working 70-80 hours for $60k is very different from working 40 hours for $60k. (Or in the case of retirees working 0 hours for $60k).

3) Many of the working poor in San Fransciso are working in sweatshop conditions. Having to work 3 jobs, having to work 80 hours weeks, having very little job security or savings etc, just to get by is horrible.
I think you may be confusing Atlas Shrugged with reality my friend.
I'm in San Diego, it started flaking over 3 hours ago (around 9:00 AM PST), then around 10:00~10:15 AM PST I just got "We're experiencing some technical difficulties..." message.

My account is being sent to us-mg4.mail.yahoo.com , perhaps not all sub-domains are down ? Weird some people are not having this problem.

Edit: Seems to be back now at 12:19 AM PST.
Relevant Monty Python:

"...rigged the market, made a cool forty million, payed off the Lord Mayor, and put the lot into diesel-powered nuns."

"Which is where he went wrong, eh?"

"Exactly"

"When's the funeral?"

"Oh, he hasn't killed himself yet."

"He hasn't?"

"No, waiting 'til April the fifth. Some sort of tax dodge."
I wish it had better 2D support - the choice between Unity and Gamemaker could use with another solid option.
The papers I referred to have not been retracted, and there have been other studies which back their conclusions. So they aren't false ideas.

The changes described are the result of people being infected after birth, and not the result of damage to foetal nerves.

I'm not sure how a protozoan could be said to do anything "on purpose". What it does to rats is, however, clearly adaptive behaviour which enhances its chances to complete its life-cycle. This doesn't work when people are infected, as we are are a dead-end host, but it's thought it affects human behaviour via a mechanism similar to the one which works well in rats.

The behaviour of people infected is in no way similar to that of B-movie zombies, I'll grant you that.
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Which means it will be up to the general populace to ensure the small guy wins. And Obama as a person doesn't believe that.

Now that is the real question here. We as people do not think surveillance is bad. We clap for Batman and worry about Jack Bauer. That is the real insight here.
Certainly that is part of it, but I think a bigger part of it is that finding a group of people you'd like to live with a space that enables communal living is really hard. Therefore developers build for the plug-and-play self contained dwelling.

Stated another way, the prevalence of independent living is more a consequence of high "coincidence of wants" costs and not of preferences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence_of_wants
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Well true, I did have access to an old coal furnace and I hammered out the basic shape. I bent the tang to follow the shape of the handle, flattened out the burrs and shaped the blade. Not sure if it was essential to do this all hot, but on the other hand I didn't have a bench grinder or much else, so I was going to have to get the final shape by hand.
The Great Gatsby curve [1] suggests that increasing inequality may lead to lower social mobility. The further apart the rungs are on the ladder, the harder it is to climb.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve
Not every firm in a capitalist / free market system is "for profit". There are already a wide variety of non-profit corporations, collectives and cooperatives, and a relatively recent trend is the rise of the "benefit corporation". All of these represent ways that operate within the context of our existing economic system, without necessarily having to obsess about "profit first".
And yet the irony is that some of the freest countries around with high HDI and GDP are constitutional/ceremonial monarchies. And then you have luxurious and prosperous microstates like Monaco and Liechtenstein which are both democratic yet retaining monarchs who actively exercise their executive powers.

Then there's the controversial question of whether a monarchy's efficacy may in fact be greater than that of a republic, a topic that authors such as Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and Hans-Hermann Hoppe have explored.
It's a neat hack but I just can't wait for spinning media to have the same kind of nostalgic feeling to them as CRTs do.
Why would you raise $120 million on the public stock market and then go on and post a profit?
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Oh, absolutely.

Families are interesting because you have the generational laziness issue - All you need is one person in the chain to lose the wealth, and it's gone.

Disruptive technologies, social changes, and legal changes could be considered forms of "periodic, non-violent revolution".

Dis-economies would then be built-in inflection points where you don't need an out-of-context solution (aka, laws) to create a sub-critical point for wealth growth. Interesting, didn't know that happened. Can you point me at some examples?

Re: Disruptive - It may have become startup corporate jargon, but it still makes sense. Look up something called the OODA loop, and note that according to it, a "good maneuver" doesn't have to be one that's successful or further your goals, it can just be one that changes the playing field faster than your opponents can react.
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>the annexation of Austria was not a Nazi invention at all and had much more historic roots.

like many things attributed to Nazi. Even fascism itself wasn't a Nazi invention. Or "Drang nach Osten" - since and even before Teutonic Knights ...
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Jeez, I remember in college in the 80's we were wondering if there would ever be decently-performing Ada on an MS-DOS machine. Now it's compiling to a watch :)
Rather than sounding like it, that's actually what they are. I'm inclined to agree with the rest of your post, although there's certainly room for people to expand their knowledge. Death Waltz is an interesting exercise but definitely overplays its hand in a few parts and adds too much to the song, when Zun's compositions already err on the side of doing too much to begin with.
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It's interesting to see the humble beginnings of some popular projects.
I get what you're saying. I don't think it's contentious to say genetics influence intelligence. One thing that I strongly disagree with about the way intelligence research is done is that it seems highly based on tests of individual intelligence. There's no IQ test for groups of people.

We know that selection happens at the level of genes, not individuals. You can't measure the fitness of genes by evaluating their effects solely on individuals because their effects may involve ensembles of individuals. Since humans are highly social beings, I'd expect our genes to be selected for intelligence at the level of cooperating brains as well as individual brains. There doesn't seem to be much research on measuring this aspect of intelligence.
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Good. It's too bad that this same stance can't be taken for other aspects of this industry. There just isn't market capacity in even semi-large cities for multiple convention centers so there is literally no competition at that scale and thus nothing to prevent predatory pricing and restrictions of all sorts. Also there is a tendency at the smaller scale for hotels to horizontally integrate so as to form a micro-monopoly on a 'full solution' for their building, meaning that you don't get to pick and choose different providers for different services, you only get to pick at a whole package (and availability) level.
From the relevant wikipedia page:

"After its convention in early 2011 mid-way between general elections, the FPÖ had a support in opinion polls of around 24-29%—at par with the SPÖ and ÖVP, and above the BZÖ. Among people under 30 years of age, the FPÖ had the support of 42%.[61][62] In June 2015 the main part of the federal party section of Salzburg split of and formed the Free Party Salzburg. [63]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Austria

Presumably a fair chunk of those voters would describe the situation as the GP quoted. Not hard to believe at all.

(And 'under 30' is definitely not 'old people')

Painting yourself as the victim is a tried and true strategy of nationalist parties. After all, someone else has to be blamed for whatever is wrong it would not do to seek fault with yourself. I'm sure they were taught different in school but that won't stop people to believe whatever it is that supports their desired outcomes most, even if that goes contrary to their education.

I don't like the generalization to all Austrians, that makes absolutely no sense. But some Austrians, quite probably and with 30% voting for right wing nationalists quite a few of those would be under 30.

We have a similar dumb thing going on here in NL with a guy called Wilders. He's managed to enlist the young people with his brand of scapegoating and populism and most of what those people believe would leave a student of the run-up to WWII horrified. That doesn't mean all Dutch people are Wilders followers or fans but I would not rule out any demographic from being his supporters.
Or Bach's concerto for four pianos, or Vivaldi's

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Are there any swaps or other tools that provide a reasonable mechanism?
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it really is phrased perfectly, and i agree completely about the challenging tension of that question. i feel it distinctly, especially as i am expecting my first child in just a couple of months and i do not come from money.

i feel like the moment selling out became okay culturally coincided w/ file-sharing decimating the music industry and we all unconsciously thought, "well shit musicians have to make a living somehow" and then pop/indie/classic rock was in commercials and everyone was generally cool with it. and i don't have a big issue with it, and absolutely want to live in a world where artists can have sustainable lives through their craft and don't want certain avenues to be off-limits because they seem cheaper than others

but played out to the nth degree it just all becomes overwhelming and dispiriting. anyway, just wanted to say i really appreciated reading these two thoughts. i very much agree
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"That close" can be up to 30ft. like, across the bar and most people won't "make the move".
Embarrassment in a social situation, not enough time, not the right place - so many reasons. We're experiencing missed opportunities everywhere. We came up with a fun solution.

The guy you saw in the restaurant and smiled to is sitting with his parents. He's not going to come over to you and you (most likely, you might be the minority who actually does it) won't go over to him. Why miss the chance to talk if it takes 1 second?
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And don't forget the hypocrisy of bashing money-worshipping, when Kickstarter (which is now a for-profit corporation, by the way) is run by profit-maximizing algorithms. Strickler sounds like the typical caviar socialist.