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Yes but you haven't said anything tangible. This does nothing for people suffering from lack of fundamental necessities. How much hubris do you need to completely skip our planet and get right to fantasy? I'd get it if we were all so smart we solved everything we needed to but we can't even solve our own planet.

Your casual philandering with space exploration doesn't put anything on anyone's table but your own, much like how lots of minds are wasted crunching pointless numbers for data startups.
Obviously because the utility provides the somewhat important role of actually transmitting and distributing the power in question.

Magic faeries don't hand out rights-of-way, substations, 150kv switchyards, transformers, capacitors, conductors, pole provisioning, pylons, transfer switches, and the maintenance of all of the above for free.

Net metering is stealing from those who provide the distribution infrastructure, full stop.
True, though I think you're oversimplifying things: "changing it drastically" is fairly vague.

WOW has changed lots in every version. There are plenty of holdouts that think it's gotten too "easy" since the first expansion, a flaw that has been repeated by every expansion after. Yet WOW has thrived (yes, their numbers peaked, but I've not seen any convincing argument that they have been better off not making the changes they did.)

And that's just one example. In my limited experience, EVERY game that is maintained over time gets changes to make it more accessible, and some portion of existing players always bitch.

In some cases, they are right (thus your above examples). In others, the masses decide these changes WEREN'T so drastic, and are content. (Or they decide them like them, which automatically makes them non-drastic). And those many examples simply fail to stand out over time, skewing your perception.
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This is a huge problem for residential real estate too. Among other things, a felony in a town where a real estate company controls nearly all of the cheap apartments is basically a condemnation to homelessness. While private landlords are often willing to consider the circumstances of the felony (being young and dumb, having been addicted to drugs or alcohol, etc.), corporate landlords won't. Credit scores are another problem -- a private landlord will often accept proof of income in lieu of a credit check, but if you have even one bad item on your credit report, you'll never get a place from a corporate landlord. And of course, they jack the rent prices all the way up thanks to a monopoly or near monopoly. If you're poor or you did something stupid when you were young, you're really fucked in these towns.
I would love to be and live in their society, Our world is too Man'ish. Everything about our world ends up in war and money.

Men always killed and conquered in the whole history, at the other hand, women are the root of peace.

People mind is so divided to bad/good ridiculous argument they are incapable of understanding there is no bad and good. There is only nature.

p.s. I know women has done some brutality in history. But I am talking about the broader idea than history. The nature of women is compassion. The nature of man is toughness.

Read OSHO, He explain these topic beyond what I can do with my broken language.
What sort of problems are those non-technical people trying to solve w/r/t JIRA. I.e., what do they find daunting, how badly does it obstruct their workflow, etc. (I've written a decent amount of JQL but it's hard for me to imagine what a non-technical average user of JIRA would be trying to accomplish.)

Off topic but I've used a lot of ALM's, never Smartbear. A few sentences on how you like it compared to other products would be great!
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All closed technology, on some level, exists to perpetuate coercion. This is the thesis of the free software movement.
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I'm not convinced. First, there are plenty of things that people are interested in that do not improve their social status neither satisfy their basics needs. Like movies. Secondly, social status is fractal in nature, each subculture considers different things valuable and you can belong to many subcultures at the same time, so it isn't necessarily a zero sum game. You can be a lowly janitor at day, but the lead player of the company of the football team at night.
It's interesting how these tools pretty much ignore the issue of source maps. If you want your code minified and tree-shaken no problem, but if you want to the source maps split into an external map and still have your debugger actually work, well, good luck.
From a position of power, of course. But the article is about jr employees who don't have much of a negotiating position.
Gosh, I'm surprised and impressed at how non-traditional Bloomberg's digital content is. I've never seen a big name increasingly take these kinds of liberties on a continuing basis.
Transpiling is here to stay... there is no acceptable ROI for 'move fast and break things'. It's for organizational and economic reasons, not technical ones. Even if the browsers catch up, it can still take a year or more for roll-out updated software in many companies. It doesn't seem like you're aware of the fact that in an enterprise, 99% of users aren't allowed to install and update software on their own.
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It seems like a grey area. In a market where buyers intentionally overpay above market prices to get the house of their choice and if everyone involved is aware and understands what they are getting into and more critically has options to negotiate a deal that is best for them, perhaps it makes some sort of free-market sense.
If somebody is off-grid and not using the electric utility, they aren't paying any electric bill, so the variable rate is irrelevant?
From your own links, the monarch has a rights to encourage and warn. How would a monarch go about encouraging or warning about a course of action without forming, and then expressing, an opinion on that matter?

My understanding is the monarch must not become actively involved in government... thus declining to vote, staying out of European Parliament, etc. That's not quite the same thing as never expressing an opinion.
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For certain industries, that statement is equivalent to "never get a job."
Wikipedia article is far more informative and far less spammy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko
How is there not? Worst case scenario it makes the app feel a bit more responsive since it's consistently less out of date.

How could this be a bug?
Blanket non-competes undermine the creative destruction process in modern economies. They will end up hurting the companies using them by making it harder for successful firms to expand quickly and keeping less successful firms afloat longer. The problem is individual companies lose little in the short run by putting them on their own employees.

The answer is to make non-competes unenforceable across the US in the way they are in California, which makes them generally unforceable but adds reasonable exceptions for situations like selling a company to an acquirer.
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"Arguably this is already happening in the consumer IoT market. The default assumption is that a product will spy on you, be uninteroperable, insecure, and vulnerable to remote-bricking by the manufacturer."

Maybe that's why the Internet of Things market isn't taking off. The Nest smoke detector isn't a reliable smoke detector, because it can be disabled remotely. The Samsung Internet-connected refrigerator loses functions because Google changed something and nobody takes responsibility for updating the refrigerator. The home IoT crowd is selling into a market where things are expected to work for 20 years. The startups are totally unprepared for that. (The classic HVAC companies, such as Honeywell, might get it right. The Honeywell Lyric smart thermostat has a 5 year warranty.[1] Nest, 2 years. Honeywell's WiFi enabled thermostat is round. They're not copying Nest. Nest is copying the famous Honeywell Round, from 1953, designed by Henry Dreyfuss.)

[1] http://yourhome.honeywell.com/en/faqs/lyric/lyric-thermostat
Yeah, it's a really sad culture. Who could've guessed that "move fast and break things" results in lots of broken things?
> Is anyone looking to replace existing project management and issue tracking software with something else?

I think lots of people are, or could be, but the deciding question is what makes what you are thinking about different? What's the unique benefit you plan to offer?
I would love to see Elm added to the list.
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It should be noted that in the U.S., there are really 50 individual jurisdictions. Contract law is a state matter. Some states may be better or worse at upholding non-competes. California in particular is known for disregarding non-competes.

Also, many non-competes go totally unenforced. It's rare that a suit over a non-compete is actually filed for low-level employees. In the linked article, the writer wasn't fired because her old company sued her for competing, she was fired simply because the new company found out she had signed a non-compete and presumably wanted to avoid any potential lawsuit-related shenanigans. It's also possible that the company is trying to establish a precedent for voluntary, pro-active enforcement of competitors' non-competes within the industry specifically because they know the courts are unlikely to uphold them. If all the employers just agree not to hire someone who worked at a competitor within the last 2 years, then they don't need to worry about what the court thinks (though they may have to face the DOJ in a wage-fixing scandal, like the computer animation industry has).
>Interesting here is that it's the new employer firing an employee for non compete

She wasn't technically fired for non-compete. From the article:

> On the application there was a question asking me to check a box acknowledging I wasn’t subject to any restrictive covenants that would prohibit me from doing my job at Reuters. I checked it.

[...]

>I was technically fired for “dishonesty,” because of the box I had checked.
Yep. I just see cities and states as a special case of organizations. And the same central planners you're talking about exist also in corporations, unions and other organizations. If you want to let the market drive innovation, the same forces apply within these organizations: if the platform is freely installable by anyone and the barrier to enhancement is low, then it leads to better quality and more freedom for everyone.

The same reasons that most people prefer to "just use" gmail, facebook, amazon etc. are the same reasons that people prefer to "just live in" a state and not figure everything out themselves. So the libertarians who envision a world where people pay competing rating agencies, security agencies, firefighting companies etc. face the same challenge as those who want people to use OSS software instead of hosted platforms developed and supported by big companies. The smaller stuff will always be more rinkydink, but the competition will drive expectations of freedom and quality up for everyone, even those using the states / corporations.
> buyers intentionally overpay above market prices to get the house of their choice

If buyers are willing to pay a certain amount for a house of their choice, isn't that the definition of market price?
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Paper has become a worse and worse business since electronic media has taken over gradually.

But the "turn factories off" was a bit of a joke. Though Nordpool does have its spikes and it indeed makes sense to sometimes turn off factories. Depends on your process.

Nowadays they run data centers in some old paper factories here (since the electricity is cheap).
So in a sense the old industries are gone, from lack of demand, and new industries have gone where there is cheap power available.
I did. :)

The liability would not exist if the non-compete were unenforceable as it is in places like California.
What I don't really understand is what's fundamentally wrong with ZeroMQ to warrant such forks. The project has a large user base and is very established. What's unfixable about it?

It was pretty obvious to me that nanomsg had very little chance to thrive. For an outsider what's so radically different about any ZeroMQ competitor?
The comments in this discussion seem to be focusing on the fact that rent seeking is problematic in highly skilled professional fields as well as lower skilled fields.

While we clearly need to ensure that bad doctors stop practicing medicine, that crooked accountants can't take advantage of people, and...that loud librarians can't be librarians anymore (or something ;)), perhaps this is a better role for the government than a private professional association that is motivated to engage in rent-seeking?
Non-competes are mostly unenforceable in California. But you definitely shouldn't just sign one and assume it won't be enforceable in your case.
Non-competes are immoral, and anyone who uses them deserves to be ruined so bad they have to live under a bridge. I hope her employer gets sued into oblivion.
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I installed opera mobile and use it exclusively for FB and use incognito mode while on desktop.. that said some how FB ads still picks up on my amazon shopping trends.. need to dig through more.
The history of net metering comes out of the fact that for many years, smart meters for electricity were very expensive, and not widely deployed. As such, net metering was a natural solution to the billing problem. A user who over-produced for their needs would just run the meter backwards during sunny days, and forwards at night, creating a net metering situation.

It's only with Smart Meters that the utilities can accurately measure per-house production and consumption separately. It's certainly possible to create new billing plans that take advantage of the Smart Meters, but with the capital nature of solar investments, there's a lot of legacy installs to deal with, and those people get angry when they deal they signed up for is changed without grandfathering them into the old way.
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Stores access the cache too. When you initialize your newly malloc()'d memory, ignoring the previous data, you still benefit from having the cache block present in-cache.
There is a still a noticeable difference in performance of a `goto`-based FSM implementation and a switch-in-a-loop one.

And there is a huge performance difference between a computed `goto` implementation of a VM vs. a switch-based one.

Break is not a substitute for any of this use cases.
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Being part, as in also being controlled. It's really absurd to think that Finland is somehow responsible for actions of some empire, when the history is more about the country being target of imperialism (by neighbouring Russia and Sweden).
The conventional wisdom is that rooftop solar stresses the grid, and therefore net metering at retail prices amounts to a subsidy extracted from non-solar customers to the benefit of rooftop solar owners.

This, however, is a myth (reinforced at every turn by the incumbent monopolies). Rooftop solar tends to overproduce on the hottest days, which also happens to be the time when the grid is overloaded by air conditioners running at full throttle. In effect, rooftop solar is at maximum production exactly when the grid needs it the most, thus providing very valuable load smoothing. This greatly benefits utilities, since they don’t have to spend as much on peak-generation capacity.

There is ample evidence that utilities underpay for these benefits [1], while their profits rapidly increase. Three major Nevada casino operators “have expressed vocal criticism of NV Energy for generating huge profits over the past years and not lowering rates for customers of Nevada Power. [...] NV Energy’s profits increased 27.7% in 2014, yet the supplier has not introduced any electricity rates breaks to its customers since it was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway.“ [2]

Over the short term, the incumbents will get their way by flexing their political muscle, but this will only delay the inevitable. Electricity spot prices are at their highest during daytime, while people are at work and their solar generators put power into the grid. Utilities want to pay wholesale for this power, then turn around and sell it to non-solar consumers at the top rate. People return from work as their solar generators become inactive, so they will have to buy power at retail rates. For now, utilities will win both ways.

But what this means is that as storage prices drop, it will be more economical to invest in storage capacity in order to capture the valuable power during the day and use it during the night. This will deny utilities the demand-smoothing services that they currently enjoy, so they will have to increase their capex for peak generation, leading to higher rates for everyone else, which in turn will encourage _more_ customers to install solar and storage, etc. Soon after, people will start disconnecting from the grid altogether; welcome to Uber Energy.

Tectonic plates accumulate tension slowly, but they rearrange quickly.

[1] http://cleantechnica.com/2015/09/01/review-of-net-metering-s...

[2] http://www.casinonewsdaily.com/2015/11/26/major-casino-opera...

[reposted from a previous discussion on the topic because the thread had dropped off the front page when the comment was written]
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I agree with you about this, just noting that the benefits aren't as automatic or as universal as we might expect due to compliance problems. But it seems that more often than not it works as designed.

(I guess another question is to what extent there are people actively scouting for useful stuff to merge upstream; are there kernel trees with useful fixes or enhancements that are published never merged into the mainline kernel because nobody notices?)
This. Also, the emails taper off after you ignore a few.
The "just a formality" line really bugs me. I once contracted for a place that asked me to indemnify them against all fines or taxes due against them in relation to my contract with them. So, I asked them to amend it to include language that excluded cases where they are informed that they are breaking the law, where they agree to a settlement with a third party, where they refuse to defend an action, where they fail to notify me immediately after an accusation is made, etc. They refused, saying it's just a formality.

I can understand why their lawyers were keen on having people sign it, as they were so clearly abusing their relationships with contractors, but I don't understand why so many of my colleagues did.
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That's the problem they're trying to fix with this change. As the wealthy, higher consumption customers move off grid, they system as a whole is loosing the subsidies for the poor. Even if you have solar, they power company still have to maintain transmission lines to your house and to the houses of poor people, which was being subsidized by they rich's usage.

So they are trying to stem the tide of the rich leaving by making them continue to bear the cost of subsidizing the poor.

Instead of playing games with those on solar, they should just straight up call it what it is so it is more explicit.
Just wondering how you deal with all the extra noise in the diff. What happens when multiple people are working on the project, are you not constantly having to deal with merge conflicts? I feel like checking in the build directory makes the diffs pretty much useless.
It's funny you say that. In my 2nd example, at the startup, the culture initially was similar. We would go out to lunch as a team and expense it. We would go for drinks after work and expense it ("team building"). As we grew the culture shifted to a "frugal" one, but it was rewarded more with raises and bonuses. Executives sold it to employees not as "cutting costs" but as a gain for employees. At the time we were planning an IPO (this was during the first bubble) and we were sold that if we could show less expenses, more revenue we would end up with higher stock prices thus there was an incentive for us.

For the most part though employees were not upset by the transition from spending freely to frugal. I learned from my first job doing expenses that the majority of employees, given simple controls/policies, will abide by them. Some may push the limit from time to time, but blatant expense fraud can be overcome, in most cases, with minimal time/effort and some basic oversight. Having a system of checks/balances (thresholds and management approval limits) along with a final accounting review prior to reimbursement prevents most cases.
I bet this guy feels a lot better now!

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If they still serve video via Brightcove, seems like a big win for the Zencoder acquisition, which included the video.js player. I do see video.js in the source.
They don't need Flash to track us. Google does it just fine without it.
Yeah I see your point, but what I mean is that when so much of the current value of a company is based on future events, fear unfortunately is never irrational.

And for New Relic the expectations are really high, could still turn out to be a great business story (and I also think it will) but not necessarily a good investment because so much of this future success is already embedded in the price.
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At work, No, I don't want another one, I just want to be able to interact with JIRA from chat without having to open the damn thing.

On my side project I'm using Trello, and for the issue tracking bits, it's not perfect, but it's fine, if there was something better and free I'd use it, but I like that it's SaaS and I don't want to install a native app.
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Walmart is releasing OneOps. It's supposedly their internal platform to be cloud-provider agnostic. I've not used it (yet) and haven't heard of anyone else using it but it sounds like a step in that direction.

http://www.walmartlabs.com/2015/10/walmartlabs-oneops-open-s...