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> IMO those of us who invested in the DAO should lose our investment. We fucked up and we deserve the loss, and if people see that real money was lost, perhaps they will be more judicious in the future with their investment decisions. I certainly will be.

This raises an interesting question. Bitcoin is (IMO correctly) fairly widely considered to be a commodity by regulators. So what's DAO? In my mind, it sounds a lot like a security. This is all speculation on my part, but, if DAO is a security, then in the US, shouldn't securities law, including Reg D, apply? Securities law is, in large part, about protecting unsophisticated investors.

I know even less about German law, but, if I were slock.it, I'd be nervous.

(Securities law isn't the only thing I can imagine causing problems. What if DAO ended up being regulated under ERISA?)

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I also am not giving legal or investment advice of any sort.
Here is a good starting point for the discussion about, Rust increasing contributors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11156478
Yes, that drives residential density. (Of course, it doesn't drive felt density. I guess I was complaining more about a sparse look.)
No if people are willing to live by "worse is better" instead of shell out money to support those selling their tools.

You don't see this entitlement to free tools in other professions.
Here are a bunch of photos from the place: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2349761/Little-boxes...
> * Because your metrics might not be good enough to actually discriminate low performers from high performers

I think this is very true. For many complex roles you land-up with all sorts of indirection to create 'metrics' which are often some input with a lot of opinion. I've seen lots of situations where you look through performance review data to see employee ratings bouncing all over the place as they (or whole teams) shift from manager to manager. That's not to imply that managers are negligent, it's just that in many roles it's perfectly possible to have a different view of performance (and everything else).

> * Because such a policy encourages rivalry between employees instead of cooperation (not in the benefit of the company)

See stack ranking!

The other issue is that an organisation can develop a reputation for being too fast to pull the trigger which can impact retaining talent and hiring new people. Given that metrics aren't clear, every 'low performer' situation involves friends and colleagues who don't think that the individual was a low performer. Plus the person leaving is unlikely to be positive about the organisation whatever the compensation is.

That may be fine from a management philosophy perspective, some people think it's good as "only poor or average performers will worry".
I'm sorry if that is what you get from this. Believe me, we have more than enough of our own Trumps over here too and there is absolutely no distinction between our own neo-liberal heists and yours.
You sure can do all of these.
Yes, but on the other hand lots of people are unhappy stock trading, and that doesn't mean these trades are invalid. Just because something happens that you didn't anticipate, doesn't mean you were stolen from or defrauded.
Funny that you choose Frankfurt. When I was living around there for an internship, I had exactly the same complaint.

Thanks for the other street view. I still thinks that's pretty sparse---there's lots of space between them.

But, hey, I'm used to Barcelona or Singapore by now.
You don't have to overwrite the old header. Concat any zip files you want and feed them to conforming deconpressors and they correctly extract only the last headers files.

If you didn't only look at the last header then you'd have the issue that I can store fake headers as uncompressed content (type 0) and your unzip util would screw up
Great example. 4 paragraphs of utter nonsense!

They mean nothing in practice because of bizarre narratives like that.

Before taking power, the Nazis caucused with the National Conservatives, the Free Conservative Party, and the German Conservative Party.

German leftists were first to the concentration camps under the Enabling Act of 1933. Under the Röhm Putsch, the Nazis killed and outlawed the left-leaning faction of their party. Under the Commissar Order, Hitler prioritized the death of leftists in conquered land. Socialists, leftists, liberals and communists got their own special badges at the death camps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge#...)

The USSR and China are autocratic state-run corporatists. They are conservative in that they are effectively industrialized reactionary feudalism with integrated propaganda to prevent populist revolution.

And finally, some may enjoy calling an intentionally plutocratic state liberal, but it's essentially autocracy without coronation ceremonies.

The confusion here isn't that the ideas themselves are confusing. The historical record is abundantly unambiguous. However some don't like it so they do revisionism and taxonomy hand-waving to try to confuse people. But that's the nature of power.
Oh, I didn't know that you could make recursive calls on the DAO! Gosh, to me plain for loops (what people call Turing complete) itself looked a bit too much, from scaling point of view. I wrote my thoughts on the same 23 days back, when there was an article on CoinBase praising Ethereum in comparison to Bitcoin[1].

I have no axe to grind against Eth vis-a-vis Bitcoin. Infact support both. But, try to look at parts of the former skeptically which I think are over sold, without being looked at critically.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11772397

edit: minor rephrase
These all seem like pretty heavy-handed interventions. I'm sure funding could be found for some targeted assassinations, though.
It's not clear to me that there was any legal cap; from what I can tell, it was set by this order.
Interestingly, I found this post to be full of answers and opportunities in the restaurant space.

-> "replace the paper menus and give restaurants full control over their online presence"

This isn't a task of selling to a restaurant. Restaurants don't make their own menus, they go to designers. Designers are the customer for new paper menus. They are currently being threatened by Canva, which is making it easier for non-designers to get a better product.

->"[restaurant owner] doesn’t have a spreadsheet estimating how many people show up on a Tuesday night"

Uh, HUGE opportunity. Machine learning across what is going on in a city and how that would affect restuarant sales. Network effects (if you're getting data as well as selling answers) and you get to sell the same product again and again and again.

I'm maybe not so sure they were looking at the opportunities enough.
Which is why they keep buying the latest cool
But we do consider this a human rights violation, we have been considering it for 30 years: https://www.hrw.org/news/2000/06/13/human-rights-violations-...
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[in thin voice]

Freeeee Tibet!..
My sentence wasn't very clear. When I was talking about Trump and Sanders, I was referring only to the idolization of the rich. Both Trump and Sanders spoke out against the wealthy elite controlling politics. Trump even rejected partisan campaign financing until recently.
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That's just rationalization. Had the city population been 4200, the cap would have been set at 4k.
When I see properties like this that have been abandoned, I often wonder what the story is...

UK: Someone (and I'm trying to find a source now) worked out there were something like half a million empty houses in UK because of developers going bankrupt, owners dying, abandonment &c. There are some legal tools to get housing back into use. And you need planning permission to change things sometimes.
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I think it's largely the same everywhere in the world (it's not "American anti-intellectualism") - as an example, people in rural Syria haven't neccesarily heard about my country (Poland), but they've heard about our best footballer (Lewandowski). These fields serve as entertainment for the masses - no wonder people get more excited about it than about other stuff they don't necessarily understand or care about. Watching people sing or perform extraordinary physical feats have always (since the ancient times) moved us on a deep level.
That's also the base salary. Yearly bonus can easily be 100% of the salary. Partners at decent firms are of course clocking ~2M or more.
Yeah facilities managers will love it. They won't even have to buy cubicles anymore, because with VR we won't notice we're packed cheek-by-jowl at long tables.
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This is exactly what most companies do. They hire in house counsel for their baseline, routine legal needs. And then outsource to biglaw for peak law stuff (litigation, big transactions).

In house counsel salaries are way less than those at a top law firm and you don't have to pay the difference between the firm's billings and what an associate--who's actually do the work-- gets paid.
Newborns can't swim in the sense that they stay afloat. A baby will drown if dropped in water.

They do have some reflexes related to swimming, in that they will hold their breath and work their feet, but those reflexes disappear with time and have to be re-learned.

It's fair to say that swimming is a learned practice.
I don't think the GP meant to say that Trump isn't smart. It's that the policies he suggests are meant to appeal to feelings, not rationality. They are thus more likely to attract voters who don't think through what those policies could mean, were they to be implemented. (Not saying those are all of his voters, there are other motivations as well. Also not from the US.)
Or friends of any of those. Which in essence renders the whole UN useless.
Matt is one of the nicest, most ethical people I have worked with, so I have no doubt his work in Washington will be for the benefit of society. Also, he's an expert on fighting abuse, so should be able to make some interesting contributions.
That's just like an opinion, man.
Isn't that the idea, though, that if I go to America to work under an H-1B, I go home once the employment ends?
They have not figured out how to diversify (in any way that makes the company safe from a decline in search ads), thats their failing, they make boatloads of money.
Selling Android isn't generating revenue, but that makes sense because Android is adware and also a platform. Google doesn't want to sell it directly and harm those revenue streams.

Many (most?) people primarily search from their phones now, so I imagine Android generates a lot of ad revenue. Android is even more important because most people don't know how to block ads on it, whereas desktop ad blocking has become mainstream.
Along those lines, Amazon is a much more dangerous competitor to AdSense than Facebook is at the moment.
If the code is the contract, then the loophole that allowed the DAO to be drained is even more hidden than a note in the fine print: the plain code of the contract would appear to forbid it, and really careful consideration of how the code interacts with Etherium as a whole is required to spot the problem. (Even the Etherium team themselves may have missed it.)
Until they don't. The past is an unreliable predictor of the future[1].

The only people who care about being on a fashionable network are young people, and Facebook solves that problem by buying whatever platform young people are using.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
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>Just because something happens that you didn't anticipate, doesn't mean you were stolen from or defrauded.
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>doesn't mean you were stolen from or defrauded.

Just because it doesn't imply it (in all cases) doesn't exclude it as a possibility.

The intent of the DAO is clearly not for a hacker to misappropriate all the funds into their own pocket.

Perhaps you can argue that the DAO specifically allowed this to happen (thus it is not theft).

Yet at the same time we recognise this act as morally reprehensible.

If we find it morally wrong then do we not have a duty to correct it?
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you're not required to have a licence to do whatever you want in your home as well.

you can make your own chairs, furniture, oven, whatever...

its just easier to share your homemade products/code with the community over the internet, which makes software development look less regulated.

and you sure as hell won't be able to get a job outside of startups/web development without a license either.
What about Diplomacy? Increased recognition of Tibetan leaders and activists, sending diplomatic missions to problematic spots, etc.

It would also not hurt to stop with the constant demonization of "China" as a whole, which just serves to downplay criticism as bigotry.
With 5k BTC?
> It seems like you could hire a couple broke lawyers to fight patent trolls, and the cost wouldn't run into millions when your attorney books a ton of hours.

That's approximately like saying you could hire a couple of broke developers to build a software package upon which much of your company's success will depend. Both the 10X-productivity phenomenon [0] and the FizzBuzz Problem [1] can show up in law just as much as in software development.

[0] E.g., http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/179616/a-good...

[1] E.g., https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
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Credit card fraud is the highest in the US compared to any country in the world.

Probably because it is so easy to swipe someone's wallet and then go on a spending spree without having to know a second detail.
- Stop publicly promising salary increases altogether. Promote people based on their ability, not an artificial loyalty policy. Some people deserve 10%+ raises, some you'll find are overpaid. Use a basic job ladder and put the burden on managers to justify comp changes.

A guarantee of annual salary increases is problematic for three reasons:

a. An increase of 3-5% is going to increase salary costs rapidly as it compounds. He mentions that salary is 80% of cost, so it means that costs are going up for doing the _same thing_ by 3-5% every year. Employees aren't a fixed unit of production (particularly in a tech firm) but there's not unlimited new productivity either. It's fine if your prices are also growing at those rates ... but I don't think many people are in those situations at the moment.

b. It takes away the meritocracy
Salaries have to keep up with inflation, but beyond should be a mark of performance.

c. It's going to suck when they have to change it
Things happen, this is an example, and employee morale is a sensitive matter.
Hmm. From my understanding, a person's chances of getting an H1-B are substantially higher from a large corporation as opposed to a 5 people startup because the large corporations' lawyers submit multiple applications per person (through the subsidiaries)

My brother has to leave his job this month and move back home, after 4 years at UIUC and 3 years in the Bay Area because he chose to work at startups (instead of the large tech companies) and both years the lottery system failed him.
Ad blockers are probably an issue, but people blocking ads probably weren't clicking on many ads, either. Other theories might be the economy starting to dip (which would be reflected in trimming of marketing budgets) and competition.

Competition is interesting. In 2005, there were tons of online stores, and users found them through Google search. Nowadays, most brands seem to have an Amazon store. If a user wants to buy something, they'll just go straight to Amazon and bypass Google entirely.

As Amazon accumulates more stores and more buyers, Google is increasingly cut out of that search/purchase loop, and stores have less reason to buy Google ads at all.
Under what legal authority does that cap exist?
I didn't know you could do that...
looks primitive though
It's not theft if others have given the money and you take it according to the contract agreed in advance. Otherwise, is gambling theft as well?! "But I wanted to win!!!"
> I think the way to get the best out of people is not to pander to them to make them the happiest people but to expect high standards from them, to expect everyone to give their best, work well and hard and be proud of what they do.

This is an impossible demand masquerading as common sense. Nobody can be at peak performance all the time, and a sane work environment shouldn't expect you to.
Hi,
Just came to know about this interesting work. I found it very useful for evaluation. Will it be possible to have those buggy applications available to test other tools (fuzzers) or source code of LAVA to create buggy applications?

thanks
Law is relatively cheap to teach compared to the hard sciences and engineering. You can charge students a lot so it is not surprising that universities want to keep the lawyer production pipeline open and gushing.
can making variables be considered hacking ?
Is it possible to go to Europe, where law is usually taught at undergraduate level, in public universities, and in some countries, with very cheap tuition fees, and then pass the bar exam back in the US?
China : Tibet :: Israel : Palestine, they are analogous in many ways. The human rights groups talk about the problems, we recognize it is bad, the weaker ethnic community suffers and is oppressed, the more powerful ethnic group makes slow but steady progress in exerting its wishes, and no real changes are effected by the international community.
It is ultimately a human system, but human systems can include an element of rule based order. Humans can decide to have one process for making the rules and different one for enforcing/honoring the rules.

So the best way to proceed, in my view, is to honor the current version of the contract (which equals the current version of the code including the "exploit") and then change the rules/code so that the same thing cannot happen again in the future.
> in your home

That's why I mentioned "distribute".

> without a license

I don't know any software engineers who have a license, or that a permit is required, or government approval of any sort.

You can bake cookies for yourself all you want, no problem. Try and sell them, and you need to get permits, inspections, etc. Try and cut hair, you need a license.
I think internally, Google has already seen this coming and are trying to steer the company towards AI-related verticals. Search revenue is going to be always under threat because of the rise in mobile devices and also ad blockers. Interestingly, installing ad blocking is harder in the mobile though (requires a separate browser), than in the desktop browser (just another extension).
I actually think they have found tons of ways to diversify. Google Glass, Voice, and Wave could have been truly revolutionary if they had polished, simplified, and mass-marketed them properly.

Google's problem is that they're terrible product designers and they never truly focus on a product the way other companies do. Are you genuinely delighted by any Google product these days? I'm having a hard time thinking what they create that even could be delightful (that regular consumers can buy, anyway).
Good catch! I am a little pedantic about quotes, but still get attributions wrong :-)
It's pretty obvious and simple. Because they want to run away with your money NOW. Ethereum had money already so they could survive while waiting to scam you even more.
Yes - also important to remember that Facebook has Instagram too, which is a nicer (imo) ad format and self selects for more affluent users.
In my environment (Netherlands) I'd say that WhatsApp is now the primary social networking tool for most people. I wonder how that is going to work out for Facebook.
Am I the only one who stops reading an informative English article when the word "because" is used to begin a sentence? Maybe text does deserve to die.
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The money Google invested in loon can be argued to be less than Google would have paid to buy in the tech. This puts a nice lower bound number on the lost opportunity.
if thats not what it was intended to do, yes
Off topic but I'd love to read a post about the underlying technology of this SaaS, as an amateur-ish developer coding some side projects...

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I don't think my experience will be helpful to you because it has a lot to do with my biology, work flexibility, and lifestyle, which aren't necessarily identical to yours.

What I will say that's universal is this: get enough sleep, even if you think you can function without it. Choose a consistent bedtime, and stop using any screens 2 hours before that time. Take those hours to cook, clean, run errands, call family/friends, read, or whatever, but reserve them religiously. Then get as much sleep as your body needs (probably 8+ hours for most people).

I can't find it now, but a study recently came out that people operating on 6 hours of sleep per night didn't feel impaired after 2 weeks, but they were just as impaired as people who had been awake for 24 hours straight. That is somewhat consistent with my experience.
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Yep. TV was revolutionary for advertisements and marketing. The passive viewing makes us more susceptible to them. TV ad revenue is still 10 times the amount for online ads world wide.

I have always assumed that all social nedia want to be the new TV.
Can't EVE currency be bought and sold for "real" money?

That would mean that real money is still at stake.
> Facebook is TV. It wants to be TV.

It's a great comparison. TV, in many ways is an obsolete medium, and yet it is still efficient and remains popular despite the advent of streaming and other media offering.
Lots of terrible people are still very smart. He could incite riots at the same time as thinking Trump is smart.

I'd argue that, to capture the attention of hundreds of millions of people around the world using so little money, someone would have to be pretty smart.
Facebook has social data. Google knows a whole heck of a lot more than that. Adsense, GMail, Analytics, and hosting fonts for a ton of websites, for example are sources of data that provide a pretty good deal of insight as to who you are and what you are insterested in.
I think many find the same thing. Don't prove the teacher wrong. Too smart in a few subjects or suddenly figuring stuff out? Accusations of cheating. "You are too smart for your own good" the adults say. "Yeah, they are smart, but smart people don't have common sense and it shows" (which is really more noticing that the kid acts just like other children due to maturity levels or that they are thinking outside of the box).

And it carries over into adulthood. One of the unfortunate things to learn is that sometimes, one just has to not say anything. Don't be smarter than the boss, nor too independent (yet not too clingy or stupid). Always a balance. Fitting into the mold actually goes further than actual intelligence.
If you keep your keys on a smartcard, you'll need a number of cards that grows linearly with the number of keys.
From what I've seen, women tend to pick "fun" (literature, art etc.) careers more often than men. My understanding is that they're aware of availability of the backup strategy of marrying some guy who makes more money than them (and thus avoiding near-poverty life associated with those degrees), which makes them less risk-averse.
UN is A joke.
One of the things I found interesting is how much pressure supermarkets exert to reduce the size of diaper packages. Thar shelf space is expensive, and any company with a technical advantage that allows them to fit more on the shelf (and thus sell more) will do well.
Now on Tap does that for pretty much any application though, if you've got Marshmallow.