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'Everyone deserves everything'

Does this include bonobo monkeys, sharks, dogs, snails etc. ?

'We live in a society...'

No. You(member of homo sapiens species) live on planet Earth with many biological organisms, like bacteria that's on your hands right now. Actually, even that is too specific. You live in 1 galaxy that has 100s of Billions of stars and other clusters of matter in it. That galaxy is just one out of 100s of Billions of galaxies in the whole universe.

'make sure poor people don't get to have anything'

What? Why would some homo sapiens automatically deserve something, just because they happen to be born as one?

'Work is not a moral imperative'

Do you have a method of determining what a moral imperative is? You know, people at CERN have built complex machines to detect certain particles. So, you're saying that work is not a moral imperative. How did you find that out? There are people who think that it is. How are you going to convince them they are wrong? Who is dictating these moral imperatives? Is it God?
> ...and a few values such as false, true, and null.

when are we going to learn from our past mistakes?
> Also, median detached house price in Toronto is just over a million, so if they got a couple of million

Be careful, the Canadian real estate industry always publishes average sales prices, not median prices, and not median valuations.

Which is why the numbers are rubbish: Their numbers are biased toward by whatever turns over more, and by a small number of high value sales.

It's the same reason why average income is a farce. The average of 4 unemployed homeless individuals and a $250k/yr lawyer is $50k/year. The median is zero and more representative of reality.

Once the industry starts publishing the average valuation of a 3bd 1.5ba home (detached or not, there's not a lot of detached inventory left!), listen to them. Until then, ignore their self-serving statistical butchery.
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That is a great question, but it kind of takes the shine off don't you think? :-)

One of the things I look at from time to time is what sort of burn rate I'd be willing to tolerate while 'retired' (which is code for just doing what ever the hell I want without having to fit it into other agendas). And, because it showed up here on HN once, ran the numbers on a missile silo. The one I was looking at was less than a million dollars to purchase but my brother in law, the civil engineer, gave me a list of things that would have to be vetted/fixed before occupancy. Since it was a vertical silo I was thinking a 10 story living arrangement built inside the silo itself, with floors going down from the circular top floor and an elevator in the middle.

We figured that construction, retrofits, and infrastructure would cost about 3 - 6 million (depending on how much corrosion and toxic waste cleanup was required to remediate). Power for pumps to keep it dry during the wet season, insurance, maintenance about 7K a month (it costs a lot to pump water up a 100'). We figured you'd have to start with about $10M to exit the other side with a "self sustaining" environment you could live and work in (but a seriously "fun" environment to hang out in. You could pay someone $12K a year just to come out once a week and restock the larder with consumables.

The school looks like a much simpler setup.
I personally don't see that much difference which is why I challenge anti GM people with the question: why do you see targeted gene mutation as being more dangerous / worse than random gene mutation?

Still waiting for a decent response to that.
It's not a "claim". It's free advice. Take it or don't take it.
I think you misunderstand. It's not a legal issue. It's whether you provided adequate service. And Goldman didn't. And bankers are almost never liable fyi because of the language baked into engagement letters.

It's also not about forensic accounting. A 5 person deal team is quite tiny especially if they're mostly junior. The acquiree should absolutely have access to internal documents in an all stock deal; your future is at stake here. Something like already factored receivables somehow requiring payments to be made in future periods makes no sense and would jump out immediately to anyone half competent who bothered to look.

Not showing up for a meeting is not the same as saying after the fact, 'ok guys let's close this'. I can guarantee you Goldman signed off on it. You don't sign merger documents at the meeting itself. GS likely said "fuck it all stock it is". They get paid anyway, in cash.
Does the basic income prevent people from doing work? Or from doing work they hate?

A correctly designed study will attempt to teach the participants to (1) have basic spending/expenses that match their income (2) procure the basic income from already-available sources (e.g. food stamps, subsidised health care, social security...) and (3) form income-pooling groups that provide/insure a basic income for their members. All three have already been done at a small scale. 100s of people in the United States currently practice #3, e.g. Federation of Egalitarian Communities. 1000s of people practice #2, e.g. Puna Hawaii or your local trailer park.

I think basic income would have the effect of insurance, to allow individuals to take bigger risks and follow their dreams more.
I understood your comment just fine, but the opinion you had formed was based on false assumptions, so I was trying to correct it, that's all.

Personally I try not to form strong opinions about things I haven't actually learned or understood yet.
So, a generation of entitled?

Me - I stay with a job (or side project or consulting) if it is fun and I am learning something. Pick and choose accordingly.

From the article -- "I write test automation to test the front-end" -- there were potentially interesting things here maybe some years ago, but he put himself into a position that frequently gets off shored and doesn't have a lot of room for growth/creativity.

Really, all these entitlement 20-something posts are basically the same in general content.
He's essentially admitting two things:

1) I hate my job... but!
2) I do it because I need it

Ok. That's fine. Just shut-up if you need the job. No one needs to hear about your woes and whinings if you're conscionable about the contract you're entering in to.

It's downright childish if you don't reject/quit a job if you don't want it.
I agree with this. It's not about peering though, it's about limiting the bitrate of the video and music content.
i'm not familiar with options trading - can you confirm if this is the right intuition?

he basically sold an option on the high end to cap out his gains and used that money to buy an option on the low end to ensure a profit, which guaranteed that he ended up with stock that was guaranteed to be worth something?

i.e. he traded away an unlimited upside in order to gain a protected downside?
@tptacek is some dude on Twitter that spends a lot more time thinking about his abs than I do. I'm @tqbf.
Don't forget that once you get enough saved up, you can live off the interest alone (i.e., retire). So at your rate, 5 years gives you 15 years of expenses. At 7% return on investment, that money will never run out.
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Well, you seem to work with web applications. So no wonder. In my opinion, in terms of fun, interest and challenge web programming ranks slightly above Cobol, for exactly the reasons you state.

You mentioned you wrote a game. Game programming might be something you like and not every place is a sweatshop, although you have to be discerning.

Embedded/low-level programming is cool too. I used to write router firmware, and I also worked on a sql engine for a time. Neither job had anything to do with "like" buttons or CRUD.

So maybe the issue boils down to equating "programming" with "web app".
I like your post and think it's valid, but I would say that coding in high school/college doesn't prepare you for the real world at all.

In high school I was hacking on silly personal projects. In college I was solving cool algorithms, puzzles, and games. But in the real world most programming roles are pretty menial / not a super exciting domain / consist largely of process, code reviews, QA, debugging.
Sometimes I think its test automation that should be automated :-)
Work is called work because it isn't supposed to be fun. If your's is remotely tolerable, only requires your time from 9 to 5 and pays you enough to cover all your necessities and even some luxuries you are better off than 95% of the world. Life's a bitch, then you die. At least you make enough money to not have to do it past your 40s if you don't want to.
Just look at programming jobs ads. When it comes to degree requirements, ads can be divided into 4 cases:

1) No degree required (not mentioned).

2) Stated that you need either a degree or show some code you've created.

3) Stated that a degree is required. Here you could contact them, show them samples of your work, list all of your experiences and offer to do additional tests if you don't have a degree.

4) Stated that a degree is required and they will only hire you if you got a degree.
Alright, fine, we don't deserve anything. We don't deserve to be treated like children. We don't deserve to have the majority of our productivity either stymied or taken from us and bastardized. We don't deserve to be told "do this for us and we'll take care of you" and that turns out to be nothing. Yeah, there's a lot we don't deserve.

I'm owed what I was promised. I was promised "pass these tests, you can get into any grad school or company you want." That didn't happen. I was promised, "finish this project, and you'll get a raise and to run the next one your way." That never happened. I was promised a lot of things, and because I don't have a rich daddy to threaten people with a lawsuit for breaking those promises, I get told it's my fault for expecting anything.

As I said before. Eff. That. Noise. Your rules suck. I choose my own.
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Cool! Any chance you could ask him to open-source SoundJam MP as well? That was my favourite C&G program, for copying music onto my old Rio 600.
I left out the grep by Blue because Teal is close to Blue.
Selective breeding is a form of genetic modification by humans, this is not rhetoric but simple fact. Domestic dogs are not wolves and they would not exist without humans having created them. The same goes for basically all edible tomatoes we eat today.

The term Genetically Modified Organism or GMO is thrown around without much thought to it's meaning. Why is selective breeding "natural" and therefore ok? Targeted gene insertion not? What about marker assisted breeding? What about directed mutagenesis? These all lie on a continuum but all are most definitely modifying genes based on human intervention.
Happiness is not a right. This kind of thinking will perpetuate your misery.
Absolutely true. I basically slept through a grad level machine learning class and picked up an A.
That said, I've met a few developers where it's just their job. They aren't passionate about code they way I am- their passions lie elsewhere, and that's fine.

Being passionate about software development can help you be a better developer- but it's not a prerequisite by any means.
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I can't understand why people argue about this. Just put some safety measures on it already. Or at least change the rm option to "--brick-my-motherboard"
I graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering and decided to quit my job to learn programming at home. Took me a year to get to the point where I'm comfortable and know my way around.

However, just because I taught myself doesn't mean that it was free. I had a year of lost wages which is about 65K, so all in all it costed about the same amount for me.
Googled your name and found your Linkedin page. Rspace is getting pummeled by AWS and Azure offerings, never work for a company that is going down and has little or no innovation.
Its far easier to just close the ticket and tell everyone to piss off.
This isn't bad, per se, and it's good to think about, but I want to throw it out there that the only reason 20% time works decently at Google is because of Google's culture. By virtue of empowering employees to find problems and solve them, and being supportive of career dev & internal transfer, and making boatloads of money, it makes it easy for the org to tolerate the slack this forces in defined teams. Almost none of the kinds of things that encourage 20% projects at Google typically exist in large enterprises, and when those companies try things like this it typically ends up being much more forced and much less organic, for better AND for worse.

I'm glad to read this post. I tried instituting 20% time in my previous job and almost no one took advantage of it. They just didn't have an adequate level of trust in exec mgmt that diverting their attention from core responsibilities wouldn't cause adverse personal reactions down the road. So sad. :(
True, but there was a big to-do about US spying on German officials a little while back. If it was that horrible and offensive for us to spy on the German government, it's also just as horrible and offensive for us to spy on the Israeli government.

(My personal view is that the US should definitely spy on every government in the world, and they're welcome to try to spy on us if they want, because it's dumb to pretend that it's not going to happen and then pitch a fit when what everyone knew was happening is revealed to be happening. But under that policy it's not better or worse to target Germany as opposed to Israel.)
>We live in a society that is capable of creating a post-scarcity economy (and in many cases, such as media and software, has)

Media and software are not examples of post-scarcity economy. They require hardware, which requires infrastructure, which runs on the expenditure of fuel and calories, and is built oftentimes with slave labor. The music needs to be composed, the movies need to be filmed, the games need to be designed. Storage media needs to be replaced. Programmers need to be educated generation after generation, and then everything rewritten in new languages when no one cares about the old ones. Factories need to keep building new models and old models keep filling landfills. The digital world is very much tied to scarcity of resources. Every bit flipped contributes to the inevitable heat death of the universe.
> liberals and conservatives represent two different species

That is most definitely NOT what I said. What I said what that it might be the beginning of a species split. It will probably take at least a few hundred thousand years for that to play itself out.

And I also advanced a specific causal model: that genes and memes are competing for a common resource, namely, human bodies and the brains they contain. The human brain is the phenotype of both genes and memes (hence "nature" and "nurture") and so it is entirely plausible that they could compete with each other over this resource, and that this competition could result in a species split. Whether the split between conservative and liberal is a reflection of this or not is speculative, of course, but it's also testable. For example, you could see if political affiliation had a genetically heritable component, much like you can test if homosexuality has a genetically heritable component.

Sure, this idea is pretty far out there (this is an HN comment thread, after all, not a submission to Nature) but I think "vapid" is going a little too far.
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>Besides, "reddit" isn't a single entity.

It's almost as if reddit is made up of millions of users and you can deduce the "average" or aggregate opinion of reddit by examining voting patterns.
The method seems interesting from the "help people be aware of what's out there and how other people are working" perspective...However, personally, I get lost on one major point in two ways:

- Organized 20% time

First, for me, twenty percent time is that thing I work on when I'm blocked on something, have an inspiration, or just need a distraction from my major project.

Second, I can respect the organizational aspect and helping people understand how to contribute, etc, but really formalizing it in a table / chart and meeting to discuss it?

Maybe I am taking too strict of a view, but 20% time for me is that thing that is fluid and fills in the gaps or gives energy when I need a break from the day to day tasks.
But he really isn't. Woodward isn't remotely near the outsider status he had in the 1970s. Its hardly "rude" by any standard.
"which always spied on each other mainly because US interests in the middle east almost always directly oppose the ones of Israel"

True. And it's rather sad that they do, given that Israel's interests in the middle east are generally about not having their citizens murdered in the street.
Programmers are generally very well paid in the U.S.

The issue is, they hit pay-ceiling very quick, unless they go into management position. And really, who wants to be an IT manager? It's probably the second worst job in IT after IT project manager. chuckles

A 30 year old sr. software engineer will be paid not much less than a 40 year old one, even if 40 year old is much more talented, and deserves to get paid twice as much.

I suppose the same issue exists for pharmacists. Out of school, you're expected to make $110k; pretty much the same exact salary as RPh with 20 years of experience.
The key words in my post were that the friends tag them, and the tags are not seen by default. After a certain number of "categories" are added, they wouldn't need any more.

It'd be a messy solution for Facebook but an awesome and nonintrusive solution for annoyed users once it's working.
That sounds like a sign that the filesystem may be the wrong abstraction for this.
Both of those factors are Amazon's choice. I really don't see how Amazon would be any more "screwed" by not getting H1-B employees they won't pay a competitive salary to than they are in not getting US citizens they won't pay a competitive salary to. In fact, if they find the prices too high, they could always hire locals!

They could also expand their presence in their SF office, if somehow an area costing a lot to live in would become an advantage. Unless there's an assumption that Amazon has some sort of unalienable right to hire foreign workers at less than local market rates, there really isn't anything unfair about it.
Same in Ontario. You might even get paid more for working in a rural area than one would in the city. Plus no worry about insurance paying or whether your patients can afford the co-pay (that's all someone else's problem).
All good haha
Okay, I read the standard and you're right, they are supposed to install to a vendor specific location, so my apologies. Boot's an additional place you can put it, but not the regular place.

As an aside, goddamn is UEFI ugly. BIOS it was easy -- set the partition you want to boot as bootable, and away you go. here you have to copy the bootloader file, and then write to the firmware what file you want to boot, which feels even more fragile and confusing if you decide to wipe a hard drive to put a new OS on it unless you do everything just right.
A little robot that would patrol a beach picking up small plastic bits 5mm - 15mm in size would be amazing. There is so much of that crap on our beaches. It's crazy. Also making a robot move on sand, rocks, pebbles, keep out of the way of people and dogs. Navigate sand and rivers and the tide. It's hard for people to do, we see people fall over, or get wet feet from a big wave washing up the beach or get cut off by the tide quite often.
Work is work. But you can learn to self motivate, and even learn to enjoy the boring bits. However if you think that it's out of your control, what you enjoy and what bores you, it can be hard to improve your enjoyment.
Not hashtags!!!! More like "categories" that are also added by friends
My friend has a HR degree where she got to study psychology and organizational principles and how to motivate people and run a business, and now she does paperwork all day managing employee sick time and vacation time and making sure all their certifications are up to date. I'd be surprised if any degree fully prepares students for just how much menial work they'll be doing, partly because those bits don't require a university course to learn.
I've never met anyone who has this luxury, quick poll:
Do you have 20% time?