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Fireside Chats on Seed Investing with Alfred Lin, John Doerr, A16z, Vinod Khosla
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Next year in the "life plus 50 years" countries (including Canada): Walt Disney. I hope people in those countries make a mockery of mickey.
Patented? Is it also proprietary and un-auditable?
In all of these situations, one of the "people" is an abstract legal entity already operating under the protection of a set of legal codes that provide advantages to the actual (human) people who set it up. It seems reasonable that as part of those codes, they work with/employ actual "people" (humans :-) in specific ways.
What does it even mean to say someone's flaws are "insignificant compared to the magnitude of his thought"? Those two things don't seem like they can be put on the same scale in order to compare them. What are you two disagreeing about?

I kind of feel like it's "he had flaws, and he thought well; I like him" versus "he had more flaws than you make it sound".
It looks like those shorts are some sort of modern reproductions. Originals, which I personally like much better, are here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/OldVintageTimes
The 'lost boarding pass' puzzle: efficient simulation in R
Maybe I'm biased but I wish Computer Science was more of an integral standard of education instead of an afterthought.

With all this discussion about Common Core, we're still at the point in my state where MAYBE a Computer Science can be applied to the Math credit requirement for graduation.

I just feel like so many schools view it as an optional afterthought.

Source: Physics teacher who has been begging his administration to add this course. Right now I have over 40 kids who meet after school to learn programming and scripting, but can't find it to be added as part of the official offerings.
Then a bulk of the value will go to the investors.
There has been a lot of work in the past in terms of doing chemistry in a strong magnetic field. As far as I know, no one has actually seen any difference.
Blind Willie Johnson's song "Dark Was the Night" was among those put on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 and launched out towards interstellar space.
Exactly - the OP says he knows no math at all, so a video talking about derivatives is way out of reach.
My #1 recommendation is http://beginningofinfinity.com/ by David Deutsch. I also recommend his two TED talks, especially https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain... which makes clear why induction is simply wrong and explains how science actually works.
If it was transferring wealth from drivers to shareholders, they wouldn't do the job.

They chose to do the job, so it is at least better than the alternative options they could do.
Best i recall the Amiga IP and the Commodore IP is at this time separate.

Never mind the AROS project that aims to be API compatible with AmigaOS.

http://aros.sourceforge.net/

If you still want to chase down the Amiga IP, there seems to be two entities to talk to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga,_Inc.

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

The former holds the trademark and other IP, while the latter seems to be working on further improvements to AmigaOS4 and producing hardware to run it on.
A link to the data: http://results.myconnectome.org/ -- pretty interesting, IMO!
I'm constantly divided between two options.

1. "Tapping into the zeitgeist and participate proactively is great." As you put it so eloquently :)

2. The alternative is to follow your own curiosity and read whatever you really have a hunger for.

Time is so limited it can get hard to choose reading material sometimes.
Well, how does it work for taxi drivers employed at taxi companies in Germany then?

Mandatory minimum wage, mandatory health insurance, mandatory retirement funds, mandatory unemployment insurance, etc.

Yes, in the end they usually get nothing for doing extra work (just their wage, plus 0€/mile), but that’s most definitely better:

The risk is gone – you don’t have to worry about medical stuff, or anything anymore, even as McDonalds fastfood drone you still have insurance, etc guaranteed.
HTTP server in Swift, running on Linux
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Why not let people use drugs? For the same reason we don't let them drive drunk or refuse to wear seatbelts.

The Japanese legalized heroin in occupied China in the 1930s, as a way of encouraging the Chinese race to die out -- and heroin dependency isn't a pretty way to go. Marijuana is less potent (although modern marijuana has been bred for potency), but what's true of heroin is true of other hard drugs (and persistent hallucinogens) as well.
Sports Direct are a vile, abusive organisation. I'm not sure how the owner can sleep at night knowing that his riches are the direct result of exploiting desperate people.

This is the story that the parent comment is referring to:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/09/how-sports-d...

Their shares rose 4% after the Conservatives won the general election, because the market didn't expect them to reform zero-hours contracts. (It seems the market was correct).
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/election-201...
See Flexicurity in Denmark.
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Maybe we have different visions of the future.

I don't think there will be robots to do all the housework for everyone. And there are many areas in the world where it will just not be worth it to automate many things unless you have robots that are as cheap to make and run as humans, and want to exist there by their own right, and also behave like biological beings in the face of environmental influences (sea spray, I'm looking at you).

So take away the hard work in large-scale agriculture, production, research, medical care..., and you are still left with a large amount of things to do.
Also, there is a lot that just gives satisfaction from doing it yourself, like making clothes, a house, or cooking. I don't have to make the best meal ever to find it worth it.
Is copyright - or a novel legal structure as you suggest - really necessary to "protect" Micky Mouse? Isn't trademark enough? If I understand correctly, the expiration of copyright of Disney's works will bring the individual works into the public domain one at a time, but the trademark on the characters still stands as long as Disney enforces it.
It depends on how you slice it. You can sometimes get away with paying contract workers less than a w2 worker at minimum wage. Don't include expenses, lot's of wait time is 'off the clock' even if they can't leave etc.

Many employees also don't realize just how many benefits they are giving up. New Uber drivers for example often drastically overstate what there earning are.

PS: I fell into this trap even as a w2. 52$/hour and zero benefits is significantly worse than I initially thought.
So...AOP for web calls.
As Zoidberg would say... "Can't it be both?"
Someone was on the America's Test Kitchen podcast discussing artificial flavors. He said that on the one hand the chemists and food scientists have been making their flavors better so that artificially flavored things are more irresistible than ever--potato chips, corn chips, etc. On the other hand, on the fresh side, the scientists engineer the food so it is easier to ship and can stay on the shelf longer, making it less flavorful. Bad confluence.
Go Running on the Rumprun Unikernel
It was not until I started a ketogenic diet, that I learned the difference between hungry and thirsty. The signals are very very similar, at least for me.
There is? I can go to the store and get about twelve different flavors of seltzer water.
A 1920s millionaire set off a race to have the most babies
Valid for what? You have no obligation to eat what your ancestors ate. Our ancestors certainly didn't, which is why they didn't eat like single-celled organisms. If what you are thinking were true, it would be true for them as well.

Not to mention the fact that your food has evolved as well.
Therein lies the risk / reward for investing in a startup that isn't generating profit.
To the top !
Why on earth would a state do this? It makes absolutely no sense.
"Anybody could put anything they want on the web -- doesn't make it true". Seriously, that is the response I got. Glad I'm not at that particular company any more.
... but will then break up into three independent publicly traded companies, one focusing on agriculture, one on materials, and one on specialty products.
> something Sheldon Cooper would write

One might view this as a style/personality jab rather than an issue with rigor.

All I'm saying is Sheldon Cooper types have moved things forward for the rest of society more often than people realize.

Also, it would help to hear why you're so dismissive of the underlying arguments. One of their core ideas is that technology (specifically AI) can grow to surpass human level intelligence and pose a threat to the civilization. This is not a vacuous statement or a lunatic's fantasy, we have seen many other types of technology develop to a point where they pose an existential risks (e.g. nuclear weapons). If anything, the dismissal of AI-related risks reveals very clear blind spot / lack of rigor in most people's reasoning. "Because it hasn't happened yet, it must not be a problem we should worry about."
They are stupidly corrupt, and require bribes to get anything done in goverment. So the actual tax rate is a lot higher.

Probably country like Hong Kong, which has low corruption and a incredibly low tax rate.
>>> the whole thing was initiated by a European non-profit that contracted the WVU back in 2013/2014.
The EPA ignored the results for a full year.
The VW CEO already resigned in April, several months before the EPA went crazy, due to it.

You can join the dots now.
These are back-door negotiations and arms-twistings, Neither Obama nore Merkle would publically admit to you in your face of these things. But we the public remain foolish to dismiss such an evident corelation as conspiracy. Or do you think we live in a utopian world where every official action is guided by altruistic motive? Well if yes, you may ver well see what's happening in Syria, the whole of world's major power are flighting their airforces, just to defeat bunch of terrorist? who are anyway financed by oil smuggling to countries part of the coalition .... give me a break.
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> Actually, as the name itself suggests, it is about devotion to the nation not the state

Nations are called States commonly. Sometimes even referred to as "Nation-States".

The USA is unique in that we have states within a nation, rather than a single nation state and/or provinces.
Despite the severity of this finding, it still doesn't qualify for the empty "break our crypto" contest that Telegram put out.

STOP USING TELEGRAM!
Regarding your comment on the upward transfer of wealth: that's the "gig economy" for you. In reality, the gig economy is a feature of late capitalism's final race to the bottom wherein information technology has enabled businesses to access previously untapped small private capital (cars or whatever else) to be utilized by the owners as an adjunct/prerequisite to selling their labor.

Thus, the small private capital is requisitioned at large scale for the purposes of the large capital business owner, allowing them to avoid paying the cost of actually onboarding and maintaining the small capital purchases. The labor bought by the business owner is expendable and limitless, thanks to information technology; the entire venture is only possible by trading a pittance of labor costs and getting both steady labor and the use of small capital items in return.

The gig economy allows the rich to take value from the small amounts of capital that are readily and equally distributed among the working class in the form of their cars or whatever else. Paying for the labor and getting both labor and capital is brilliant, but people don't realize that they're consenting to an economic situation that looks a lot like robbery.
2 years is going to be a long time... who knows if they would follow through on that aspect of it.
Eh, I don't care a whit about Mickey Mouse. I do care about all of the post-1923 literature that is really hard to find because it is locked up under copyright, but not profitable enough to get reprinted by the rightsholders[1].

I'm also concerned about all of the film, television, audio, and software that is in similar copyright limbo. There's a lot of stuff out there that there simply is no legitimate way to get access to.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-ho...
Drivers get punished if they don't work certain hours, and they don't get to set their own rates. Sounds like an employment relationship to me.
My family tried to do this in China. They donated a flock of sheep to a rural village. But they were tricked into paying high prices for an inferior breed. Keep in mind, my family is in China.

So how do we help foreign countries without losing our donations to swindles?
Encounters with the Infinite (Ramanujan)
How well does NPS predict rebooking?
Seems pretty recursive to me.
Even from the point of view of Uber differentiating in terms of customer experience. Any driver at the moment who gets too many 1-star or 2-star ratings will be cut off. That's a great thing for customers; it means you can expect a usual experience that's really good. From an employment perspective, it would seem less certain. For example, are customers being fair & balanced, free of any racism, sexism, and so on in their ratings?

Being able to fire drivers due to low ratings seems essential to keep high standards, but there's also the possibility that it allows for customers who are not fair to cause drivers to be cut off through no fault of their own.
"it's actually only happening in three cities: New York, Chicago, and Washington"

Where do you get off making a statement like that? You just decided you were going to talk out of your ass and tell us that this is fact? What is this based on? I can tell you that its happening in many metropolitan areas - parts of L.A, New Orleans and Nashville for starters. Anyone that lives in one those areas would tell you the same thing. You must live under a rock or out in the sticks.

You are the type of individual this puff piece of pseudo-journalism is intended for.
fantasy football is a game of skill, NOT a game of chance
> That's great for China, but I wonder if a Xindayang car would meet US or EU safety standards.

Hopefully the new ones will be safer than these Chinese cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTxbbvCf3zY
The drugs that helped President Carter has a 33% success rate for people in his condition. It's only been around since 2011 and brought the survival rate up from near 0%. That's some real progress.
One of the more genius aspects of Tesla was transforming perceptions of electric cars from oversized toy cars, to objects of lust and desire.

Selling a 100k (actually, more like 150k for the initial roadsters) was a necessary part of this.
A Chromebox/gaming console hybrid?

Thing about Amiga was that it was the last of the micros, where the state of the computer was blanked with the flip of a switch.

Any game has the run of the place, and you didn't have persistent storage beyond the floppies it came on. Thus if the game blew up, it could only take it self down, it could not ruin your spreadsheets or the monthly report.

The closest you get to that today is a Chrome-book/-box. This because very little is stored internally, and nothing the user does can touch the OS side.
Do you imply a single landline provider, a single mobile provider, and a single ISP wouldn't be considered a monopoly?
Yes, I use it via vim-go.

You can also use it from a local godoc instance: https://golang.org/lib/godoc/analysis/help.html

And there's Pythia: https://github.com/fzipp/pythia
Variants of modal realism and quantum immortality did this to me. There are some good reasons (human mind is finite, universe may be infinite or very, very, very large, finite patters recur in infinity) to expect something like modal realism, Egan's Dust Theory or Everett's many worlds to be true.

These are neat ideas but not helpful for my sanity.
There are basically 3 buckets of enthusiasts (I know, because I fall into across two of them).

1) Retro-nostalgia game geeks, mostly from Europe but some in North America as well, just vastly fewer. The Amiga sold better in Europe than comparable consoles like the SNES, Genesis, etc. I compare it to consoles because that really is what the Amiga offered to most folks - console quality games in the guise of a computer. Disks (lots of disks) versus cartridges. And some hand-wavy productivity stuff, like the C64 did (it's OK mom, this is a computer and will make Jonny better at school!), that a few folks used.

2) Antiquated video toaster tinkerers and hardware geeks. These folks like to play with hardware, especially antiquated hardware, and see how far they can push it for the novelty of it all.

3) Old Amiga OSes vs Amiga OS 4+. I think Amiga 4 is really for the folks who want to turn the brand into something usable and modern, but in all honesty, I think Amiga - if it were to ever rise from the ashes - would need a complete reboot much like OS X was compared to OS 9 and earlier. OS X was a total rework, and allowed some backwards compatibility for a little while but ultimately divorced itself from the old days. This is the only way it could ever succeed. Amiga (and, ultimately, Commodore) will always be thought of fondly by past customers, but to get a new market Amiga/Commodore would need to reboot. That's my opinion, anyway. And focus on innovation. The brands are currently zombie brands, owned by various firms that simply license the logos to any Tom, Dick and Harry that want to slap it on a Chinese mobile phone, toaster, teapot, whatever. Those days would have to stop.

I personally started in bucket #2 above. I own a never used/never sold Amiga 1200. And as soon as I got it, I cracked it open and installed an accelerator board (they are easily purchased from Amigakit in England) that pushed its RAM from 2MB up to a whopping 9MB. I also installed a 4GB compact flash hard drive (the original never-used hard drive was a dead brick, naturally). As a result, I can load virtually anything I want onto the machine and use it relatively quickly (see bucket 1). Currently I'm on Level 3 of Eye of the Beholder. :) Yes, I deal with PAL vs NTSC issues at times, among other things, but overall it's a pretty nifty setup. Next year I plan to get it on my Wi-Fi - because.

So, from a hobbyist standpoint, it's quite a lot of fun. And it's vastly more enjoyable than an emulator. But it's not for everyone. And my pipe dream about a renewed Amiga/Commodore brand is really, frankly, never going to happen. If a company could create a vision like I described, they wouldn't anchor it to a dead zombie brand (that I love).
Are you aware, that the german prosecutor you quote works across the hall of the biggest share owner of VW? Thats right, the ministry of the sub-state that owns most of the shares and which is not completely independent is what? Somebody here should be prosecuting his own boss.
People are usually the most limiting factor. What is the machine utilization? Just one shift? How long do the workers take to setup each piece (zero each block, etc)?

You may find this semi interesting:

http://mmstopshopsexecsummary.epubxp.com/i/552707-2015
The Sonny Bono (Mickey Mouse) Copyright Extension Act was in 1998. It extended copyright by 20 years. It's now (almost) 18 years later. In the next 2-3 years, the next copyright extension fight is going to happen.

Hopefully we have a more educated Congress these days (though I kind of doubt it). But at least we need to try to make it an issue in the 2016 election cycle.
If a particular address was known to consistently receive cash in the mail, wouldn't that make it a target of theft?

As someone who lives in the Bay Area and has seen car windows smashed for the change in the cupholder and a friend's motorcycle knocked over to get the flattened soda can that was being used as a stabilizer, yes, that's a security concern.
The "wealth" that is getting transferred is a bit more abstract than money going directly from the worker's pocket into the shareholder's. Instead, it looks more like the worker's personal vehicle being worn down over time by work done for the purposes of the company rather than personal purposes. The worker's capital is depreciating more rapidly than during personal use, and the profits generated by this erosion of asset are going to the shareholders, not the worker. The worker receives pay for his labor, but receives nothing for the gradual depreciation of his capital that results from the terms of the gig labor.
>DuPont said it expects 10 percent of its 63,000-strong global workforce will be “impacted,” and the company is budgeting for $650 million in “employee separation costs.” Analysts also expect layoffs at Dow, which employs 53,000 worldwide.

>Dow chief executive Andrew Liveris also called it a “seminal event for our employees.”

Seminal indeed.
The resulting 3 companies would be in separate industries, and therefore have no direct competition between them. Therefore, I would say that regulatory approval isn't certain. Probably it will be approved, but with a long list of caveats and provisions. Among them will no doubt be some environmental concessions that DowDupont would never bother following.
They're modern, but not reproductions. They're all brand new material, and quite good.
I went through the videos of a coursera class for Programming Languages with Dan Grossman. https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang

He starts teaching programming with ML and then moves to Racket and ends with Ruby.

I had tried to teach myself Haskell several times but it always fell flat. I ended up loving ML and Racket (Especially Racket) the 1ML does look very interesting. Racket is pretty amazing for me. I learned a ton and was able to really improve my code in Python and R.
Not really. An eBay seller negotiates their own price with the buyer, independent of eBay. Uber/Lyft set a price, and the driver has no say in it.
Maybe only in trade classes where original-style Mickey Mouse is not asserted as trademark.

You can make derivative cartoons with Steamboat-Willie-era Mickey Mouse, but you can't distribute them in commerce without a few legal precautions, as Disney asserts the Mickey Mouse image as a trademark with respect to int'l trade class 41 (entertainment). It's no longer a copyright violation, but a trademark infringement.

You can't do it in such a way that creates the possibility that someone might confuse your derivative work for a genuine Disney-branded entertainment product. So it might be as simple as plastering a disclaimer over the intro to your cartoon that informs all viewers that the following is video is derived from a public domain work, and is not associated with Disney. But don't count on that saving you from the flesh-eating lawyers.
Undoubtedly there are ties. But you'd have to extrapolate to all media in all countries being in on this for this purpose. The VW scandal has been published widely outside the US. Even if the US government had simply fined VW and left it at that the thing would have been newsworthy.