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> Contracts that include illegal activities, such as theft, are unenforceable. If the hacked funds get released the whole of the DAO would be legally invalid.

> As a lawyer I have called the DAO snake oil[1] from the beginning, but mostly because it sold itself as something new legally...which it is not (of course I was downvoted).

I'm very curious as to the grounds for your assertion that the DAO's terms and conditions would be considered a 'legal' contract, rather than say the equivalent of a software license - in the case of the later it is common (and legally valid) practice for the terms of the license to indemnify the creators (and in this case probably other users) from any consequences stemming from the use of said software.
Sorry I wasn't being clear in the first post. I meant argument Ruby with Rust.

Yes the Choice is pretty much something to replace / use instead of C. Which Swift as well as Crystal can be used in here too.
It's not clear what Facebook is thinking here. Video is useful for showing what you did, but not useful for communicating what you want to do. Maybe this reflects that people don't plan trips on Facebook any more; they use Instagram for that. One could interpret this as Facebook abandoning communication in favor of being a collection of public scrapbooks.
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I learned when I was a child it was dangerous to be the smartest person in the room. It's much safer to appear to be the village idiot, or at least less bright that the brightest.

I do disagree fundamentally with the concept of the evils of merit - merit is so much more than smarts and formal education, its a mix of capacity for the role, agreeability and eagerness, productivity, effort expended, grooming and appearance, and a dozen other factors, most of which are intangible. You don't have to be information work level of smart to achieve these qualities either.

The problem is a belief that certain kinds of education make one more suitable for a role. I'd take someone with 4 more years of real world experience over that college degree any day.
I just bought a few thousand ether its far too low now. Perfect time to buy
Yeah, it's the perfect storm of automation and an industry that assumed growth would go like gangbusters forever. And by "industry" I mean law schools - law schools were (and maybe still are) big profit centers for universities, so they were expanded as quickly as possible.
The Rise and Fall of the DAO
A Chat with Anonymous Africa After They DDoS'd Political Parties
For those who count themselves among the intelligent, we should not doubt that in a generation or few, our skills may also be automated away.
Well obviously nobody's going to be doing that.
Videos can be made to be extremely entertaining and take very little effort to consume. It makes sense that video will be increasingly important for Facebook.
It's tempting to counter by citing the "lucrative" special case: The top 5-10% of T14 law schools who receive entry-level associate salaries of $160K/year base + bonus.

However, pricing power appears limited, creating a ceiling on wage increases. To this point, Vault100 firms have recently trickled out pay increases to $180K/year for incoming associates. Clients have laughed and said, "Good for your employees, but you're not passing those costs onto us!" [0]

[0] http://on.wsj.com/28LIgM6
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The Convergence of Bird Flocking [pdf]
Dual licensing is missing?
It's like any other platform choice though. PC vs console, gameboy vs PlayStation etc.
The post doesn't mention the Green card diversity lotery. It's a long shot and like don't rely on it but the odds are slightly higher than zero. I got it on my third try, my friend on the first.
I don't know why the article intentionally hides the address of this place. Annoying. It's 1027 Waverly. Here's the trulia listing, if anyone is curious (like I was):

http://www.trulia.com/property/3236376439-1027-Waverley-St-P...
Video is good for showing falling people (or naked). When I look for information - news, tutorials, knowledge - I avoid video like a plague. Three words: Low Information Density.
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Why are lawsuits so expensive if there are so many broke lawyers aching for a job? It seems like a company could pay them a middling salary of $70k/year to handle ongoing lawsuits, rather than the $300-$700/hour that other lawyers demand.

Obviously not for your big Oracle vs. Google lawsuits or where the entire company is riding on it, but for anything less than that. For example, every public company gets sued by opportunists every time there's a merger or acquisition, or every patent troll expects nobody to fight their case because it's so expensive. There's lots of little things that come up where you just need someone to do the paperwork.

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.

I've considered using paralegals to write up paperwork to be reviewed by an actual lawyer. But it seems like there should be a 'cheap broke lawyer' option in between the two, who would probably do a fine job.
dat land though.
How much have legal costs to the client been reduced due to this increase in efficiency?
I don't think so; for example, back in 2004, a poll showed that way more people considered Kerry intelligent compared to Bush. Yet Bush was seen as more decisive and made more people "feel more optimistic about the future".

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2004-07-14/poll...
You think of civilization as a kind of nihilistic growth machine that is totally devoid of meaning.

Oh, ho! Look who's showing up, projecting some biases! Excuse me, but would you please point out where I said that we were nihilistic or devoid of meaning? Please provide a quote. Well, you can't, because I didn't. I was implying that our current civilization is obnoxious, not nihilist. There are many children who are obnoxious, but I wouldn't say they are without meaning, beauty or potential. A child can have all of those and still be annoying as frack.

progressive efficiency, combined with an almost regressive reverence for the past

You can eliminate the "almost" from that.

And this notion you have that planet pollution is the only way to exist is very sad.

I never said it was the only way. More projection? Again, my point is that in a galactic context, there are good arguments for why 21st century human civilization might come across as a chav.
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I agree, but I'd add that the amount of money people are willing to pay for that quality will fall dramatically if technology provides a cheap alternative. The cost of education will have to fall in accordance.
More researchers and less doctors sounds like a good plan to me!
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If you are referring to the definition of "FAAS" as described in the article, then no, GAE is not serverless (or FAAS) because it is not stateless (though you may use it as such) it can keep things in memory, such as a local sesion cache (from what I recall), though you probably shouldnt rely on it as such.
A lot of what's been going on at the higher end of the legal services industry is greater cost control by clients. Expensive, elite law firms had a long run in which they were able to justify heavy pyramid-like staffing of matters based on a pure billable hour model. Those days are basically over (though major litigation work has probably changed the least in this respect). That change has had some effects on the amount of hiring done by the elite firms and also has had some effect on salary structure. Pressure at the more elite end of the profession has ripple effects downward to the less elite end.

One paragraph in the article gets at what's been happening: "With big-firm jobs drying up, however, many of these graduates began competing for lower-paying spots at midsize firms, which also downsized, and certain government jobs they wouldn’t have sought in an earlier era."

I don't quite think of it as the American economy actually needing fewer lawyers than it used to. Rather, for a period of maybe a couple of decades (I think beginning with the 1980s business boom, so roughly 1985-2005) the biggest law firms enjoyed unusual success with the business model I refer to above. I think we're seeing a kind of correction where the legal profession is starting to look more like it was before the 1980s.

In some ways I think there may be more interesting opportunities for lawyers now. I see a lot of lawyers with a few years' experience establishing solo or boutique-firm practices in specialized areas that I don't think would have been as viable a couple of decades ago. Someone commented that you should only go to law school if you go to 'Harvard or Yale', but I am not sure that is what I'd take from recent developments. However, if your goal is to get a job in a big elite firm after graduating from law school, opportunities for those who didn't go to one of the top national schools (not limited to Harvard and Yale of course) are no doubt more reduced than 10 or 20 years ago.
I think you've really just made the case here for starting your own company, rather than working for someone e.se
Ask: How do you decide when to take a break?
The question mostly directed at developers that are working for themselves either as a consultant or an entrepreneur. There is no shortage of work to be done when you are working for yourself, so when do you decide its time to take a break?

What are you working patterns within a day and a week? How long do you work before you decide that its time to take a short break or even a holiday? And does this decision strategy change when working on different tasks?

I am just curious how other developers decide.
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You can create systemd units using the D-Bus API instead of files, though I'm not sure those can be socket-activated.

As for having more users than sockets, is that really likely, considering there are 64000 available ports?
Note that Matt here claims he's taking a "leave from Google" to join the Defense Digital Service at the Pentagon. This is in addition to the recent announcement three months ago that Eric Schmidt would also be taking on a job at the Pentagon... also while he still works for Google.

Google's partnership with our current administration has me increasingly uncomfortable. Before this year, it was generally limited to former Googlers in DC, or former government employees at Google, but this year, we have two major, very high level Google employees working directly for the Department of Defense.
I came to the same conclusion, that cancer is a side-effect of mutation, and is inseparable from evolution. The billions who died of cancer had an essential contribution to our evolution. Species, such as crocodiles, that don't have cancer are also stagnating, and if the environment changes, they will disappear instead of adapting.
> Picture says a thousand words.

And what we suppose to see in that picture?

> "As the Sun ages, it will gradually become a red giant as its hydrogen fuel begins to run out. Its surface will expand to approximately 100 times its current size as its core shrinks, and the inner Solar System will be engulfed."

Apart that the Sun won't become a supernova, are you aware of the timeframe involved?

It will happen in 5 BILLION years. If you say that global warming alarmism is related to that you're very disillusional.

> Apart from the fact volcanic activity stepped up during the last event.

Correlation is not causation. If you're so sure, you can provide any paper studying it.

> Read the book by Professor Fagan. Its a long read but worth it.

So, no single source, you're made it up.

> The IPCC were hacked and exposed.

Do you really know anything about what you talk? Apart that the IPCC has never been hacked, the ones hacked were the University of East Anglia and nothing was exposed.
I'd like to see a bit more demonstrating progress this project has accomplished already. I see an animated video describing the technology they intend to create, but I'm not seeing anything explaining what's been accomplished here that's novel, makes this possible, and demonstrates the likelihood that the GuardDrone will actually become a reality if funded.
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You can use the promo code LAUNCH for $5 of credit. Server locations look like they're currently limited to Canada.
He did respond and gave a clear real-world analogue to this scenario. The DAO is an investment vehicle, so he compared the use of the DAO code to abscond with the funds to the following financial contract example:

> Say I raise investment under contract with all my investors, and I included a little provision no one reads that says I can appropriate all or part of the investment. Wouldn't you know it I absconded with their investment. My investors sue me and I file an affirmative defense of No Breach of Contract and introduce the Contract which expressly states I can appropriate my investors money as I see fit. That contract will not be enforced, are we in agreement?

Personally I don't understand the people acting like "smart contracts" exist independent from an existing judicial system (or systems) just because there's computers involved. I guess the same people excited for cryptocurrency are largely the same people who don't believe in government so the whole point is to somehow be independent of any legal jurisdiction.
IBM datapower relies heavily on it. They are basically an API gayeway which can do soap to xml transformation for example.

As far as I know there is nothing similar for json. The closest thing to xpath for json is jsoniq.
i've dreamt up a few possible explanations for dreams

currently my favourite is for converting short term to long term memory

my most vivid dreams are when i experience something new, or have an unexpected reminder about something i last thought about years ago

i imagine the surreal nature of the dreamscape is some consequence of developing neuronal paths

storing a new idea about a boat forms a path to a neuronal pathway referencing fire and your dream has you sailing across a sea of fire
AFAIK the hardware block was only partially worked around. It doesn't let arbitrary Rift apps work on Vive.
There's no reason that a doctor can't be a murderer. See Harold Shipman. That speaks to the core problem here. A less intelligent but more diligent and trustworthy person can be the better employee.
I can't be done with doing a 'lottery' to work in the US.

I got offered a senior position (distinguished engineer) with a large San Jose networking vendor, and looking into the H-1B circus put me off.

Perhaps when I was freshly graduated I might have tolerated it, but as someone with a family and lots of very good opportunities already here in Europe (and being able to re-locate with minimal fuss to another EU country (unless we vote ourselves out)), its a nobrainer to stay here. Add to that the whole potential deportation if you were to lose your job, and an average family home in the valley costing well above $1 million, nah, I think I will leave it thanks.

I guess the above is why so few Europeans comes to the US now, and 88% of H-1B's are from India.
Yes.

"J for Haskell Programmers" - http://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/haskell/jfh.html

Talking about data analysis

"Data Analysis using J" - http://csilo.com/static/DataAnalysisWithJ.html

J for IPython - https://github.com/Synthetica9/JMagic, https://github.com/adrian17/jkernel

and there's https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/
Lack of education, low IQ etc.
I run S3stat (https://www.s3stat.com) and Twiddla (http://www.twiddla.com) by myself and they combine to bring in a nice living.

I built both with the stated goal of bringing in recurring income while minimizing the amount of time I actually spent "working". As such, I had plenty of time along the way to bootstrap via consulting work and to travel and otherwise lead an interesting life while the product businesses ramped up in the background.

They're both ticking away nicely now, to the point where it's Officially Silly to continue working for anybody else, ever. As a result, "work" hours are defined as the ones where it's raining, the kids are in school and I've been mountain biking recently, or it's been sunny for a week and I need a rest day. Even with those constraints, you'd be surprised how many new features get shipped.

I mention this side of the business by way of convincing anybody sitting on the fence that it's probably worth giving this whole SaaS thing a try. It really doesn't impact your life in the way a "startup" would, can be done while still doing gainful work for others, and doesn't take much in the way of capital investment.

But if and when it starts paying dividends, it does in fact get as good as it seems it should.

Good luck!
Hey thanks for all your explanations in this thread. You made some good points and I learned a lot.
TVs are all nearly the same. Currently VR headsets are not. If you disagree then I suggest you head on over to the reddit Oculus or Vive forums.
Blame the schools if you want, but I went to law school in the US and I blame the students. Once upon a time the typical law student had a useful undergrad degree. The JD was something valuable over and above the undergrad. But today's typical law student has spent the last four or five years carefully honing their undergrad to maximize GPA. Law school was always the goal and so everything else, everything useful, was skipped.

(Hint: Good law schools don't care about GPA. Do well on the LSAT and all is forgiven.)

Want to get a job? Law is all about selling knowledge. You have to show that you actually know something beyond the bar. Sit down and become an expert on something. Publish a few papers. Get your name out. That's what worked for me. Becoming a recognized expert in a very narrow law+technology field opened doors that were firmly shut to bare-bones law grads.

And.. learn to speak properly. Too many law schools are letting grads slide through with poor grammar. It might sound trivial but is really important when you are claiming to actually know something.
lucrative is also a relative term, since they are often working 2000 billable hours a year (which, depending on type of work/attorney, may be 60% to 90% of actual hours worked per year)

In biglaw, i have friends who easily work 2500-3000 hours a year to make their billable hours requirement.
So these salaries are not exact as great as one would think anyway
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> It also helps to pluck them only when they're most ripe.

And to eat them well before they even catch a whiff of a refrigerator.
Wasn't there a paper from facebook where it says 80% of videos are watched without sound?

Doesn't it mean that most of these videos are watched with subtitles?

How is that taken into aaoumt with the "death" of text?
Its hard to feel sorry for people graduating now. The lack lawyer jobs has been known for 5+ years, well before these students enrolled.

I wonder if there are any stats on the wages of law professors? Seems they would trend down? Do recent grads teach first year law classes?
He says no strings attached.

I just wonder why, with his stance, he doesn't apply just one string: a sort of "non-exclusivity clause" where the devs agree not to sign any game exclusivity contract.
"good" drm where if they decide to ban you for whatever reason you cannot access the games you have "bought".
I think that, in part, the article is misleading since I did not take away that Facebook thinks there's no purpose to text or that it will vanish entirely, and likely they share the same opinion as you.

The counterpart line to the "text is dead" idea is the following from Facebook in the article:

>“The best way to tell stories in this world, where so much information is coming at us, actually is video,” Mendelsohn said. “It conveys so much more information in a much quicker period. So actually the trend helps us to digest much more information.”

To me, this says less about "text is dead" and more "our users are choosing to share experiences with video, and they're doing it off-platform." Similarly, they continue with the following:

>"But Mendelsohn went further, suggesting that stats showed the written word becoming all but obsolete, replaced by moving images and speech."

I think 'text is dead' is Facebook's segue to bloviate about an upcoming set of features surrounding multimedia, which in turn is pretty much just a "stop uploading videos elsewhere" gambit. Facebook does do a pretty good job at making videos uploaded elsewhere work seamlessly with Facebook. I'd have to imagine that the next natural step is just to get those on Facebook in the first place.

So, I don't get the impression they want youtube-cut videos to replace the textual Facebook arguments; I think they're just trying to build up hype for FacebookVid or whatever they decided to call their next set of multimedia features.
I mostly invested only in bitcoin. I knew already that they will win at end anyway. I think I invested around 10% in dao / ether. More for fun then anything else.

Seems like I was right.
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Yeah, GOG Connect is pretty awesome. I got half a dozen DRM free copies of games I have on Steam. I guess most of the ones they introduced initially were temporary, but they claim they'll add more over time, as they can make arrangements with developers.

Honestly, I wonder if they may have suspended GOG Connect during the GOG Summer Sale. Everything is still up at gog.com/connect, but nothing's available.
As much as people like to consider Google revenu sources very diverse or dream about future of other Google bets, Google is mostly an advertisement company heavily relying on their search business.

It's obvious that Facebook has a better position for growth and adding new channels for their ads business. I can see Facebook share of online advertising grow in the next couple of years.
An isolated network isn't enough, IPMI controllers often listen on all NICs.
This is why 3D holographic projections will have a massive impact on house markets. Not right now, or for the effect to take-hold over the next decade+, but soon (in terms of properties for a retirement plan). Because we'll be sitting next to each other despite potentially being very physically distant.

Investment property is places with high connectivity, nice external living environments (some like cool, some like warm, some like mountains, some like all, I'm agnostic to what is 'best'), low (current) prices, easy transport access when absolutely needed - not local, but flights or other rapid transport.

This is a great long-ball investment.
just you wait... if pitched properly, with higher resolution (so gen2 at least) and office apps developed with VR in mind it can bring added effectiveness (although probably impossible to wear 8 hours daily).
It is, but it is a lot of tooling and knowledge overhead for a problem that can often be solved using whatever backend framework you're using. Or even no framework at all.

Laravel for example, it is very easy to only include JS files you need on a given page and make them modular using even vanilla JS.

You can even concat and minify it all, and it's all cacheable and idiomatic to the framework.

I guess the main issue is if I am spending more time on tooling and configuration of all the different parts of a build process then I lose the efficiency gains. For something like webpack there are no efficiency gains to begin with, as you can write modular JS without it.

It definitely has it's place and I am sure if I were exclusively a frontend dev I might find it more compelling.

But I can achieve clean, modular and reusable JS without it so it's one less tool I need to worry about.