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I appreciate you not challenging the fact that he espouses the belief that some ethnic groups are genetically good slaves.

However, you must be really confused (or just not thinking very hard) if you think that people are trying to change Moldbug's mind.
Contract enforcement is a government activity, though. To enforce a contract, you ask the government (via the courts) to force the other party to give you assets, or not to work somewhere, etc.

By the same reasoning, if I sue you for defamation for calling me a lamebrained chucklehead, courts refuse to entertain the suit because the government won't restrict free speech. You're entitled to express your opinion, and the government won't assist me in suppressing your speech.

In many states, the government is happy to assist employers in restricting job-hopping.

I take your point that this government activity has its immediate catalyst in private actions in the free market, and that's different in important ways from other government activity. But still.
True, I agree that contract law's existence in the first place depends on government enforcement. The same could be said for property ownership, at least state-enforced legal forms of property rather than direct possession (e.g. absentee land ownership proved via deeds and land registries, and enforced via trespassing law).

Within the context of the U.S.'s current economic/legal system, I think it's more in accordance with common usage to think of the existence of private property and contract law as being the basic substrate on which everything else happens, including more specific government action. For example, to continue with the property analogy, we typically think of eminent domain as a state "taking" property, even in cases where a person's "ownership" of a property depends on the government in the first place (someone owns a deed to land they don't actively reside on or use, but since it's legally recognized as property, the government choosing to build something on it is legally recognized as a taking of property). But point taken that this whole contract/property system is itself created and enforced by the state, not some kind of naturally occurring phenomenon.
Mysterious mutants: 13 masked people should have devastating diseases but don’t
Both "worst car accident" contenders here have bigger death tolls than Chernobyl and Fukushima combined:
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/9856/which-singl...

This doesn't really matter though since it's a meaningless safety measure to compare "worst accident per machine" between a single car and a power plant serving a million people. By this measure biking is much safer than train riding.

Here's some more useful stats and trivia about death tolls and power generation:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5783526/what-is-the-worst-kind-of-pow...

By "death toll per single machine", hydro would be the worst energy source, beating nuclear by 3-4 orders of magnitude.
You could seek out a company that would accommodate such a setup, although that might be tricky to find. If you were a big name in your field, it'd give some weight to your application, but if not, why would the company hire you over someone else willing to work the regular work week?

The main reason why a company would not want such a setup, regardless of your productivity, is because other employees would still be working on the weekday(s) you have off. What happens if a coworker really needs you to merge their code in but you're off that day? etc.

You probably already know this, but the simplest way to get where you want to be is your own boss, whether the means freelance/contracting or building a company whose goal is not to scale and become the next Facebook, but rather to give you a comfortable life.
A lot of my work is in music videos. I've got hundreds of millions of views on vevo and even a VMA winning video under my belt. There is almost no one in this industry who works for a single artist. This week, for example, I've got a video coming out from a big artist from a major label, a brand new band a major label decided will be cool, a major YouTube star (top 10 YouTube artist), a tiny artist on a tiny label, and a totally unsigned rapper (busy week). You'd be surprised how close the paychecks for a lot of these are.

Point is all of us work with dozens or hundreds of artists because outside of maybe ten mega artists you can't depend on a single "brand" to support you. Granted this applies to video more than other areas, but even agents and managers will have a few to several artists they work with.
Does Jack and Jill fuck your shit up?
I think the bigger question is: why would I want to converse with software? Is that actually a good interface? People imagine the computer from star trek, but that was a plot device. The character was talking to the viewer with the computer as a proxy.
This is another reason why defined benefit pension plans are a bad idea and ought to be discouraged as a matter of public policy. Pension fund managers tend to take excessive risks in order to meet unrealistic return targets. They have little personal stake in the outcome and if they fail then employers and taxpayers are forced to cover the gap.
As a thought experiment, consider what would have happened if that money had instead been in defined contribution retirement plans utilizing low-cost index funds. I think that would have reduced the severity of the financial crisis.
Plan 9 was a research OS that was sort of intended to be a "next generation" Unix. The Golang project is led by at least one person who worked on the Plan 9 OS, and overall it seems to be heavily inspired by Plan 9's design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
Atlanta proper is super gay(I am a gay who grew up in the south), I think a few years back it was the highest percentage of any city in the country. The issue with Atlanta as others have said is it is hugely sprawly and the actual city doesn't account for that much of the 'metro area.'

State politics aren't really liberal, they just almost passed an NC style 'right to discriminate' or whatever law, but were smart enough to back down over the threats of the film production companies(GA has become a major film state of late).

The city is very racially diverse, but I dunno what the social politics are really like in general(tho I think the pearl clutching about living around ~conservatives~ is a bit overblown having grown up in that area of the country(TN)).

Plus Georgia Tech is there, so lots of smart computery folks around(from all over the world) in that part of ATL society.
The ROI on the buildings wouldn't justify it?
Shoefitr was acquired by Amazon last year. Duolingo is from the area as well.
Consent on both sides is an important difference. It's not everything, but maybe important enough that it's misleading to talk around it.
Thats assuming that this flaw exists, and that the FBI is telling us the truth...
Just saw your reply below, so I'll just pretend you've posted the same reply here. ;-)
"2. what annoys me is that these "unsuspecting investors" were professional buyers. It is people who's job it is to do their homework and understand these products. We are not talking about selling complex products to grannies. These are highly educated, highly paid finance professional who simply did not do their job of vetting what they were buying.
Now if Goldman made misrepresentations (i.e. lied) on the nature of the assets, then there is clearly fraud, and by reading quickly the DoJ announcement it seems to be what Goldman is accused of. But in my opinion investors bear a very large part of the blame for this credit bubble. It's not a case of nasty Goldman vs nice unsuspecting investors."

Well, it's a combination. Goldman packages up crappy mortgages as bonds, then has the rating agencies rate them and magically transform them into Triple AAA instead of junk.

The due diligence required of the investor, even a profession investor, is rather extreme - and having the rating agencies in your pocket only makes that worse.
Err, what exactly are you against?

You said:

> I'm of the exact same dietary philosophy as yourself. I derived it through reading and experimentation before paleo was even a thing, as it appears Jack Lalanne did as well. Most people who attack a simple sensible diet like this are really just exposing their own insecurities and desire to not give up the crap they injest themselves.

> a good rule of thumb is that the less processed a food is, the more likely it is to be better for you".

The things you have just named are processing - so it may make more sense if you actual clarify what exactly it is you are against?

What does it mean for a food to be "less" processed, then?
Spark || Storm?

Your take, guys?
Hi johnsoncreek,

Thanks for your question, it gives me the ability to nerd out on linguistics a little bit!

As mentioned, the hallmarks of a successful language learning curriculum are engagement and immersion. I misspoke when I said that "nothing does engagement and immersion better than video games." One thing does engagement and immersion better than video games: VR video games.

VR does other things better than video games too, and a million times better than textbooks. For one, VR excels at spatial conceptualization. This is important because one of the many obstacles Korean speakers face when learning English, believe it or don't, is spatial reasoning. Consider the following sentence:

The teacher is in front of the whiteboard.

In Korean, a literal (machine) translation looks like this:

Teacher whiteboard in front of is+polite participle.

If you parse this incorrectly you will focus on the "whiteboard in front," and in instances without contextualization, get the objects' spatial relationships completely backward.

Here we're working from English to Korean but believe me, the confusion goes both ways! Ask any native speaker teaching in Korea, prepositions wind up being the longest, most frustrating modules there are. Sadly, they don't understand Korean sentence structure and so they haven't a clue as to why. They simply repeat the book's lessons louder.

By standing my students up and having them orientate themselves according to prepositional imperatives, they were better able to understand the spatial relationships, and by extension, English. Again, this isn't something that can be accomplished in a book.

It can only be accomplished (mass produced) in VR.

Thanks again for your fantastic question johnsoncreek (let me know if my answers have/haven't been sufficient)!
I don't doubt that GS is worth our scorn, nor that they peddle in influence (I'd go so far as to say that we should in act laws to limit that influence peddling).

But, punishing GS for an act we don't like that another actor did (the government underwriting a private insurance company) is not how the law is supposed to work.

I for one, am very uncomfortable with punishing an entity for not understanding the technical aspects of their business nor for using made up numbers to justify why a punishment is just.
What's reasonably accurate mean? A straightforward way to do it would be to naively convert to sentence case and then run the text through a spellchecker with a corpus of proper words you care about.
> literacy may have been far more widespread than previously known in the Holy Land around 600 B.C., toward the end of the First Temple period.

Interesting correlation to the Book of Mormon, which originates ~600 BC in Jerusalem. In fact, page 1, verse 2 says:

> 2 Yea, I make a record in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.

And further discusses how Lehi "hath written many things which he saw in visions and in dreams; and he also hath written many things which he prophesied." Lehi was of a priestly order, of which there were at least hundreds, if not thousands, of members, which also correlates well to this finding:

> But if the literacy rates in the Arad fortress were repeated across the kingdom of Judah, which had about 100,000 people, there would have been hundreds of literate people, the Tel Aviv research team suggests.

So anyway, the linked article and this source seem to corroborate each other.

Edit: Okay, lots of down votes. How does this comment not contribute to the discussion?
Well, this is the opposite of "substance":

> improving our margins by 12 percentage points in Q4 2015 (non-GAAP)

i.e. not "Generally Accepted Accounting Practices," i.e. "we made up two numbers, and one of them was 12% larger than the other."

The rest was pretty standard damage control lip-flapping. Here's another good bit:

> When people were fired did you actually call it a graduation? Unfortunately, yes. In certain groups we used the term graduation to describe the event when someone was leaving the company, either because they resigned or we let them go.

The curse upon the undead creature which wrote this would not let the words "Yes, we called firing someone 'graduation'" pass its fingers.
It's a numbers game--keep meeting with people and telling your story, particularly if you're in a large tech center.

You're not old, either!

You mentioned applying to larger companies, and it's probably more common there to skip the whiteboard and brainteasers (and 80-hour weeks).

Good luck--you don't have to be 10XT1P to find another job.
[[ something ]]? No, thank you! Jsonnet [0], yes, please!

[0]: http://jsonnet.org/
I think this is the best executed plan in the world! One book to rule the world and it worked. Thee amazing this is that it was pure imagination!
Not even close.

Very few people/companies get rich by not caring about their users or customers.

Most "greedy" corporations are actually improving the lives of their users or customers at least from the customers' perspective.
Let It Crash
I don't understand what "unverified" means, then. If you can just edit an unverified key into including the right email address, what's unverified about it?

Are they trying to say that the @keybase.io email address has not passed email verification as associated with the account? What's the point of that?

If I compromise someone's git repo (e.g., I trick them into pushing commits they shouldn't have pushed), I shouldn't be able to cause my own key to show up as "verified" as the victim's email address. If the victim needs to approve that key in GitHub's web UI, then what additional benefit does "verified" bring?
None of this has gotten me anywhere because I am not a 10x top 1% engineer who loves whiteboard coding sessions and brainteasers and wants to change the world by working 80 hours a week, rather a (slightly above) average one who can get things done in an editor and just wants to earn a living doing what I’m good at.

If that's the frame you're taking into the interview, I can see why they don't think you're a culture fit.

Try this frame:

"I'm a proficient programmer, have leadership qualities, who delivers."

Maybe show them a link to your github with some good code as an example, it will help especially since you say you're weak on whiteboards.

"I can be a bit nervous and don't perform well with whiteboards so I would like to send you a link to some of my existing code demonstrating my skills and ability to perform as a programmer."

And the other comments are right - a month is not long ago, and one interview a week is quite solid. Keep steaming ahead.
can you elaborate more on zhongan and micro-insurance? thanks! is it basically just chatting with an agent over weixin instead of chatting face-to-face or over the phone?
I'm not a huge name in my field, although I get the regular barrage of recruiters. I suppose I could start asking them if they'd be amenable to such a situation.

I've been on teams where a person worked on another project (albeit one for the same company) once or twice a week, and it wasn't so bad; we'd just know not to expect them to be available on some days. That's why I think it could work at a regular company.

Perhaps I'll investigate freelancing/contracting more seriously, although I've heard that can result in more hours worked rather than fewer hours.
This. If I was in a transaction and Goldman was on the other side I would assume they were trying to screw me. But the reality is that for many large bank transactions there are very few players to go to - and that actually only got worse post-financial crisis with the consolidation of the banking industry.

That being said, I can't think of a company outside of the world of finance that can repeatedly screw over their "clients" and still exist.
Depends on what you're there for.

Our ratio of sports to population is really high. The Cultural District is really vibrant, particularly if you happen to be around during a gallery crawl. If you're at Point State Park at the right time, you might wander into a big event (arts festival, regatta).

Downtown definitely gets quiet after a certain point, but I've seen some take that as a point of pride - we're a "city that sleeps."
>> 5 in person interviews isn't that much

It's not that little, either. Your parent comment has around the same number.
Yes, I know that. But I don't understand the implication that Go came magically from Plan 9. I recall reading Kernighan stating that the first Go compiler was written in C++ before bootstrapping.
Yep, we actually see perf benefits overall with ART. Starting with redex-optimized bytecode actually helps dex2oat generate faster/smaller native code.
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I tried to learn "modern" C++ style, and watched many, many videos from cppcon, but I just don't feel like I understand how to do it. I started a C++ project, #included <vector> and all the rest, and tried to do things the way the experts recommend, but I had no confidence that I was doing any of it right.

I know all the copying and moving and whatnot is supposed to "just work", but as far as I can tell, there's no easy way to verify that your program is doing what you intend. There also aren't any compact guidelines -- "follow these N simple rules and the STL won't explode!". With most other languages, I can at least think through the program to figure out if it is going to do what you intend, but the way that the STL is implemented to support all the modern C++ behavior requires a brain the size of a planet to understand.

I'm sure Stroustrup and the committee can write Modern C++, but I sure can't. Not with any confidence, anyway.
They used to have paid plans, but since being bought out by Facebook everything is free.
Are the characters in our dreams sentient? They surely seem so and many of our dreams are elaborate and seem to obey natural laws.

Then there are some dreams where the natural laws seem different. I can fly and fly well in those and observe well as well and be observed. What do I make of those. Are beings sentient in them?
You don't. But investors tend to invest a big chunk of their money locally (they don't like to travel for board meetings...)
It's not a money problem, it's a marketing one. I work alongside the music industry in the code world (won a VMA along the way) and see how labels really work. The problem isn't so much about album sales and streaming money going straight to the creator (though not enough does by a long shot) but rather that if you're not signed to a label and have access to their marketing engine then no one will ever hear your music.

There are plenty of places like bandcamp where you can find great music and buy it directly from the artist with them taking most of the cut, but the numbers of people buying are so low it doesn't matter. With labels, I've literally watched them take a nobody band and decide they're going to be the next thing. They finish their album, label foots the bill for a big music video, PR team call$ pitchfork or world star or whatever site is genre appropriate, band gets a frontpage feature, radio play start$, and next thing you know album sales are way up, tour tickets are sold out and label made bank.

The problem is discovery and curation and ethereum doesn't fix that.
> In our case, we had pushed the limits of the largest EC2 box we could find. We have to keep up with tens of thousands of events per second, and do non-trivial amounts of CPU processing on each of them.

I understand there are many reasons for sticking with AWS, but looking at reserved instances[1], I find: r3.8xlarge which has 32 cores, 244GB of RAM and 2 x 320 GB SSD storge, for $2.66 per Hour -- or just under 2K a month.

For just a little more (USD 2099/month, no minimum term, no setup), you can get something like:

Dell R930, 4x Intel Xeon E7-4820v3 (that's 40 cores at base frequency of 1.9 GHz), 384GB DDR4, 2x480GB SSD HW RAID 1 (although I suspect 6x120GB, possibly in raid0 might be better) with 1Gbps Full-Duplex and 10 TB of egress bandwidth
included from leasweb: https://www.leaseweb.com/dedicated-server/configure/22651

Granted, one might want 10Gps - and managing your own server isn't free, even when the hosting company takes care of the physical hardware (not that managing an EC2 instance is free either). But I'm curious if you tested on dedicated hardware as well? 10.000 events at 4kb/event is "just" 300 mbps (call it 1 gbps including overhead). I'm certainly not claiming it's easy to any kind of processing at a sustained ~1gbps -- but I'm curious if the kind of workload you're discussing could be handled by a single (relatively cheap) dedicated server?

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#reserved-instances
What would happen if an employer in Massachusetts offered me a job and asked me to sign a non-compete clause, and I said I wouldn't take the job if I had to sign a non-compete? Do you think they would back down? Or do you think they would say "too bad" and withdraw the offer?

My gut says that most of the time, they'll back down and take that off the table. But I guess it depends on whether you have a huge legal team backing you up...

Personally, I'm not in the habit of signing my rights away in return for a paycheck. I'll look around for another job, thankyouverymuch.
Cool trick. It starts to fall apart at higher speeds (at c, the approximation produces 1/2, when it should be 0), but it looks like up to 0.5 or 0.5 it's decent.
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You don't have to match against MAC addresses, although there's virtually no documentation about how to do it any other way. In the pre-systemd past I've successfully created udev rules that match PCI slots so that the configuration does not depend on MAC addresses. It looks like the same thing should be possible (with trial and error) with path globbing in systemd.
In an era of outsourcing and globalization, gig-economy and minimum wages that don't guarantee a living above the poverty line, it is stunning what politicians will do for support from rich lobby groups ( read corporations). About time the federal government intervened and banned what amounts to a non-free market for job seekers.
> what company wouldn't try to kill a book like this?

Perhaps you mean what company wouldn't kill for a book like this.

All publicity is good publicity, yada, yada, yada. I'd never heard of HubSpot before all this fuss, and I'm sure there are plenty of others like me.

I'd be surprised if the whole thing didn't generate new customers for them.
Relevant Ars article: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/04/now-you-can-wait-out-bi...
> Within the context of the U.S.'s current economic/legal system, I think it's more in accordance with common usage to think of the existence of private property and contract law as being the basic substrate on which everything else happens

This may have been common usage through the 1920s, and it may be common usage for people who wish the New Deal never happened. But even then it would be a stretch. This country's legal history is a lot more nuanced than that. What you articulate is probably best described as a minority vision today.
Do you know to what degree the data is anonymized?