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I have played the game for about 9 months and spent just under 16k. During that time 2 glitches ( which ) happen OFFTEN cost me to loose all my playing tools and have to rebuild, in turn, spend more money to rebuild. I sent messages to the customer service, and the replies were auto replies, and did NOTHING! They send out more building blocks only to get the bigger accounts to suck up the power, but to get it, yes,they must pay to buy the games packs at $99 a pop, plus fees. And when you complete the new updated challenges, you can rest a sure that new more challenges will be issued that the costs quadruple to get than the prior, and that continues throughout the time I've played. In theory that's all business runs in I'm kind of OK with it however, when these new challenges come out the cost of doing it more than 10 to 15 times cost of the prior challenges. That is the problem with the game. In between these challenges with technical problems never get fixed. The game of war is a game of two cities that battle and kill all troops and get points for that. But the problem is the game legs, shuts off, kicks you out, and leaves your city defenseless while trying to log back on and getting error messages. Constant gaming problems while trying to log back in and CAN'T!!! All while you are being zeroed by active players on the game. And when you send a message to customer service about just what happened they pretty much tell you there's nothing they can do and in the fine print of their terms and conditions say any technical problem is not their fault. Zeroed by active players on the game. And when you send a message to customer service about just what happened they pretty much tell you there's nothing they can do and in the fine print of their terms and conditions say any technical problem is not their fault. So with that being said,they pretty much tell you to bad and they know they have others that will spend the money that you don't & if you stop playing another will be there to fill your void. I hope people will take this into heart and not play the game of war or mobile strike the same game just different icons. Their customer service has to change and get more responsible and more importantly take care of the paying players. Well good luck everyone.
I liked it better when Y Combinator was giving this kind of money[1] out to founders who could use it to build a business. Old text: "In 2005, Y Combinator developed a new model of startup funding. Twice a year we invest a small amount of money (average $18k) in a large number of startups (currently 82)" I note that $2k/month for 12 months is $24k, so that's more than their old investment size.

Meanwhile, now, it's calling its investments of $120K a "small amount of money"[2], while calling this kind of money ($24K for a year) a basic "income" and not actually treating it as an investment. This bothers me.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20120614131411/http://ycombinator...

[2] http://www.ycombinator.com/
There might not be a UK by the time the exit is finalized, that is the brutally honest subject of this thread.
That sort of support doesn't just go away. It just stops being free. These guys will happily help you run 2.3 and 3.2 for as long as you want:

https://railslts.com/

Again, this usually holds for any reasonably popular stack.
And 65.3% did not vote to stay in the EU. Your statistic is intentionally misleading.
I wonder how much the intention behind Brexit matter in negotiations with EU.

Britain probably wants to negotiate similar deal as Norway has. Not in a EU, but member of EEA (European Economic Area ) and EFTA (European Free Trade Association). In the end Brits obey EU rules but they don't have a vote.

If Britain starts to negotiate that kind of deal, does Brexit crowd rebel against it too?
GNU has a page about the problems of SaaSS ("Service as a Software Substitute") going into the problems you mention.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
I personally don't see anything "wrong" with silos - they are the partitions of the distributed systems of human society and are going to emerge anyway partially due to Dunbar's number in a "flat" organization. The issue I see is that managers are unwilling or very slow to understand new lines of division of labor ("What do you mean that sysadmins should also be developers? Why would we want that?" - direct quote from a customer) because it doesn't correspond to what their information systems management textbooks from 2002 told them how IT labor is divided. Then comes issues of training managers and telling people why this re-org is so much better than the last 10. This is why the "devops" movement in enterprise is cheap business consulting labor to me - it results in a re-org in most places, and that's the equivalent of developers showing up at a new shop and suggesting refactors as a newbie.

Furthermore, most IT managers have such poor data from the organizations they run that the only things they can track are money spent, not money saved and such. And showing that a CIO doesn't know wtf his company gets you kicked out of meetings permanently in most (typically dysfunctional) organizational cultures.
Past behaviour somewhat predicts future behaviour.
London was a banking capital long before the EU existed. And Hong Kong became a banking capital under British governance.

Look at it another way. Europe has been unable to recreate Silicon Valley. What makes you think it'll be so easy to recreate the City?
> But.. 62.5% of British voters did not vote for leaving the EU.

And 100% of British voters did not vote for joining the EU.

Ideally the EU would require member states to hold a membership referendum every 15 or 20 years. That would be an honest and democratic way of self-checking the state of the union. As it is, many of the older former-EEC nations have never actually asked their populace whether they want to be in a political union.
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Indeed, and I think it's particularly necessary for them to improve the messaging around basic income in order for it to be politically successful.
It might skew it, but YC is probably trying to answer a more fundamental question. If people are provided a minimum lifestyle what will they do? I don't think anyone really knows if it will be a golden age of entrepreneurs and self improvement. Or if people will just sit on the couch, have kids till they can't afford them, become addicted to drugs.
I'm getting the impression that D is a failure. Is there any bigger project written in it? If not, why would it fail?
I know a lot of people really like shadowing. I obviously don't. GHC has an option to emit a warning and if Rusts compiler adds one for it as well (maybe it has one by know? I don't know) I guess I'm okay with it.
Let's just say that Norway did not leave the EU slamming the door after decades of being the difficult child. I'm not sure this kind of agreement will be extended to the UK.
Maybe not so amusing! As far as I know, you’ll need to take the machine apart to reflash it, plus special hardware — because when a firmware password is set, a Mac requires the password to choose a different boot disk.

with this feature, Apple HQ can give a service center the ability to clear a particular firmware password without giving them a universal backdoor (hardware or software).
At $3 a pop there isn't much margin to pay for marketing either.

Leaving higher ARPU (free to pay) or viral customer acquisition. But yeh it's a tough market.
The EU, to me, is basically the Fourth Reich. Germany failed to rule the continent militarily, so they did it instead economically. The Euro is backed mostly by the strength of the Deutschmark, the ECB is in Frankfurt. They are dominant on the continent politically and economically.

Well, ok, so what is the US then? It may have a few centuries of a headstart, but it's the same thing, with 13 colonies invading the rest of the continent. You just overlay the Third Reich onto the new union.

If the other 20-something nations are ok with being basically ruled by Germany, that's fine. But no way in hell would Britain want to play second fiddle to Germany. Ever. They have always seen themselves as slightly more separate, more different, more "special" to the rest of the "the Continent".

The UK is as important as Germany. But they didn't want a closer union so they just stayed out there while Germany played a more active role. So did France, by the way, but they're looked upon as losers so that makes Germany the "ruler" in the eyes of people.

And yeah, UK was special over a century ago, maybe they need a few decades to realize they're not anymore.

But there's no way the UK was not a vital part of the union. 5th largest economy, a very strong military, still large sphere of influence outside of Europe. Losing Greece is one thing, but the UK...I don't know.

It was. Greece is too, but they can also leave if they want. It would just completely destroy them.

The entire world is moving in a direction I don't like. Populist policies, protectionism, "us-vs-them"....that usually leads to war.

Always been like that.
Currently a lot of fincancial products can be created and managed in London, since once approved there, they are automatically approved in all other EU member states, too.

This of course will have to change once the UK has left the EU, making the people involved in these processes one of the first to be moved to Franfkurt etc.
I don't think the world needs any extra ageism.
One aspect that I've not heard discussed is the likelihood that a portion of those being granted a basic income will be exploited for their new-found cash. Has this been considered at YC and if so, what are their approaches to minimizing it?
Thanks for the link. I didn't know Cantrill basically imploded. His gripes on Pike's comment and industry mimicked my own. He's way overstating how much people ignore the system level as there's active projects handling it funded by NSF, DARPA, and EU with a practical focus. Most practical being ones with defense contractors (esp Galois) or actual engineers partnered in. Quite a few going from software to firmware to hardware with some to the gates. He could possibly enjoy himself and do some good getting hooked into one of those groups to cover pragmatic, real-world aspects plus spot opportunities as development goes on.

"beleive nix* (as in e.g. NixOS) could be a silver bullet here"

Come on, now. Try to avoid that trap. You need to look at what the market needs in compatibility/legacy, production worthiness, talent to aid deployment/support, security, and so on. Always consider these plus target markets when evaluating any software platform. NixOS at first glance appears to fall short in quite a few.

Now, what I do like about NixOS is its declarative, transaction-oriented packaging. That's great if implemented well given my Linux distro's screw that stuff up to this day when I install an odd package with one incompatibility in it. Irreparably breaks system or appears to. (rolls eyes) Source-based is debatable but allows site-specific optimizations. I'm barely in the debate but lean against systemd, which Cantrill's post mentions incidentally, as it's too complex to be in critical position it inhabits. Critics pointed out a simple thing in its spot plus less privileged services doing management or whatever. Consistent with best practices from high-integrity & high-security engineering going back decades. So, I see it as a weakness albeit a small one in larger picture.

So, there's my two cents on that link and claim.
One year is too limited in my opinion. If you want to see what people will do with basic income, you have to give them the feeling the money is near infinite. One year looks to me its not enough to drop everything, as you will know it will soon come to an end. The paychological barrier for me would be at least 5+ years.

Then again if I know it will come to an end in xx years, I will feel more inclined to work harder. It's like a deadline.
I'm very interested to see the overall outcome of this research. While the intentions are good, my initial expectations of this are not very high. I look forward to be proven wrong.
One thing is for sure: UK won't be acting like a spoiled brat anymore, as it did while it was in the EU. So they'll probably take whatever deal the EU throws at them. And if the EU people are smart, it won't be a great deal either, otherwise it could encourage other such exits.

EU's #1 priority right now is to stop other countries from exiting, not ensuring a "smooth landing" for the brexit (for either UK or the EU itself). Those two goals are actually in complete conflict. The harder the brexit will be on UK, the easier it will be to convince other countries not to exit. The opposite scenario is also true.
I got another one (a bit more complicated): find a function f that verifies:

- f(x) = 0 for x <= 0

- f(x) = 1 for x >= 1

- f admits a derivative of any order

The last condition rules out functions like f(x) = 0 if x<=0,x if x in [0,1] and 1 if x >=0.

(Note: piecewise defined functions are still OK)
I should also remind, that radare2[1], which is free and open source reverse engineering framework and can run also on Linux, *BSD and OS X, supports connection to WinDbg/KD[2]. So you can use your favourite operating system and debug Windows kernel in virtual machine or via debug cable.

It's also notable, that this year we're running Google Summer of Code[3] and hosting our own Radare Summer of Code[4]. And for the latter we're fundraising[5] the money to pay our accepted students.

[1] http://rada.re

[2] https://github.com/radare/radare2/blob/master/doc/windbg

[3] http://radare.today/posts/gsoc-midterm-2016/

[4] http://rada.re/rsoc

[5] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/radare-summer-of-code-201...
Heh, just buying equipment from Germany does not make it some conspiracy of them supporting Russia.

Military industries need to sell stuff. France, Belgium, the UK, and others do the same.
I know of a lot of British people who do not want Scotland to be part of the UK. They get more funding per head, their own government and then complain they are unfairly treated.
Politically whiny, want the independence but keep the £, have a lot of preferences already etc.
this is it right here. police can't launch a manhunt for petty property crimes (sorry about your car, but that is what this is called). card skimming is a hugely scalable crime that can tear the fabric of electronic transactions.
he didn't find the pin camera though ;) This is a two part skimmer, no? There should be a camera somewhere collecting PINs.
I can vouch that it was at least as of Windows 7. But I hear the Windows folks now have a proper shell and some scriptable package management!
Should've just left things as they were, right?
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This looks pretty neat. Congratulations on your launch!

Looks like it also monitors uptime, which feels like a more feature-rich alternative to Pingdom, which just checks for HTTP 200 responses.

I'm not sure I understand why the focus on "production APIs," except that they're more easily accessible from the internet. I would expect many enterprises would love to be able to run this in their own private data center, sort of like an on-premise solution, against staging API's or pre-release API's. Why focus all the marketing on "production," though? Isn't it just putting test data in production? How is this better than putting the same test data in QA and testing before you release to production?
> That's the last thing they will do because then it would encourage every EU country to hold a referendum and do the same thing, which would kill the EU easily.

If that would kill the EU then the EU probably deserves to die. Otherwise it suggests that it only persists through the inability of its consituent populations to challenge the status quo.
Agreed. I'm a broke developer who would love nothing more than a small living stipend to work on my own projects and contribute to open source. If I had just enough to get by and be able to code all day I would be so happy.
SDNs add complexity, and are only necessary because of limitations in the networking protocols.

They add extra failure modes and reduce throughput by decreasing MTU. This is almost all because people want virtual networks with their VMs, rather than just embracing IPv6.
I understand this, but ignoring what I mentioned means the question becomes, "What would people, who are provided a basic income in addition to basic government services, do?"

For example, an important question is if the implementation would require disbanding Obamacare, reverting to the old system, etc. The ability to obtain healthcare can sway a lot of outcomes. I might have pursued a more entrepreneurial path in the past if I had an option of basic income in addition to healthcare.
Immigration was the main argument because that is what people wanted to hear, and got the opportunists like Boris a shot at more power. In reality it is not going to happen.

1. When have politicians ever followed through with a promise they made?

2. Not even the Brexit bunch are stupid enough to intentionally cripple the economy, especially as immigration was an issue for a demographic of voter the Tories actually care nothing about.

What the UK could do is put more restrictions on migrants without a job and what in work benefits they can access.

Reforms to benefits for migrants were a part of the deal Cameron got from the EU earlier this year -- which is now void -- so Brexit really changes nothing there. Maybe the UK could be stricter with migrants out of work and still get the trade deals.
"Adaptability and efficiency are opposing priorities." Great summary. Means I don't need to reach the OP
YC is still making these investments, they are simultaneous working to save the middle class because without that group of people we will have a lot less startups. I think what they are trying is important enough to risk some cash on and I'm eager to see how it pans out over the next couple of years.
In the 90's, when the unification process between West and East Germany were ongoing, West Germany paid many billions to help the latter because its economy was tanked. In total, two trillion euros or so. The West Germans mostly didn't complain.

A few years ago, they were asked to contribute a few billions to Greece's economy that also was (and is, I presume) completely wasted. Most Germans complained loudly and politicians like Angela Merkel made it a point not to give them more money than absolutely necessary.

Why did they complain so much in Greece's but not East Germany's case? Think about that for some time then you see why the EU is doomed.
Underestimating the soft diplomatic skills of the English. It has always been their strength, not treaties. In no time you will see London be an Asian financial hub. They didn't need to be one before because they had it easy with the EU. But when they lose that business, they'll get to work in Asia. The distance won't matter.
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What, against immigrants?

Seems like it'd be easier to get illegally directly to England, than go through Scotland...
With a 60K salary you can live anywhere in Berlin (I'm 2 minutes from my office, in the most expensive part of the city). Many people mention London in this thread and even assuming a 60% raise (not impossible but not so easy either from what I've seen) I'm not sure I could live 2 minutes from work in central London. When I interviewed with Palantir they were offering 700 GBP/month to people who live within 15 minutes of their office, and that's probably going to barely cover 1/3 of your rent.

That being said, I'm all for higher wages in Berlin and happy to see that some companies (like mine, SoundCloud, Zalando, ...) are paying quite a bit above market average to attract talent.
I find it incredible how they consistently out-do themselves with every single release. There's some real magic going on in that studio.
> Aside from the fact that it's incredibly arrogant and disrespectful to have people vote until you like the result. I suspect this line of thinking is partly why people wanted to leave.

This petition was started on May 25th, well before the referendum occurred. The original intent was that these rules would apply before voting started (the deadline is November 25th and all petitions run for 6 months, therefore the petition started on May 25th).
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So basically you are one who would benefit from a basic income. Why is a "living stipend to work on [your] own projects" better than a basic income which too would allow you to work on your own projects?
The former. The latter is a racist caricature of welfare.
Whoah hold on, are you saying you had an actual known heroin addict at your place of work long enough for you to deposit hundreds of dollars in quarter increments? The casual delivery of this left turn is comedy gold.
if it were making such investments in the same spirit as before, it wouldn't also call $120K a "small amount of money" on its front page. I think what I object to is the silent change from investing an average of $18K to investing $120K and still calling the latter a small amount of money. It's really not.

also let's be clear: from an investment standpoint, investing $12K instead of $120K means that startups can do ten times worse while still being a free investment. put another way: a tenth as many need to succeed to be free. People behave very differently under such conditions of risk!

Also investing $12K made them an investor of first, last, and only resort for startups that needed that. sorry, anecdotally this is actual fact.

granted, this does not describe most startups, just a few.
> Does that clarify the scheme?

Sadly no. I'm sure your explanation was good, but my familiarity with GC and low-level memory management is nominal at best. Thanks for trying. :)
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There is a huge problem that the EU and IndyRef questions are mutually dependent and cannot be fairly resolved by asking independent questions in sequence. I believe the nuance of the situation requires multiple questions to be asked at the same time.

Given we have already had IndyRef1 and EU1 the defaults are that Scotland is part of the UK and that there will be a Brexit. There is something wrong about repeating referendums until an irreversible result occurs. I believe Indyref2 would be fairer as two questions:

1. "If Brexit, should Scotland be a separate country?" for Scots

2. "Should we still Brexit if there would be a Scexit?" for the whole UK to vote.

If the answers are "yes and no", then we get status quo.
I uncovered a SYM-1 6502 microprocessor kit and power supply. I'll have to check to see if it still works. Back in the early 1980s I recall writing a few programs and storing them to cassette tape through one of the interfaces. And I think I upgraded the memory to 4K! It was quite a lot of fun.
Since it's likely that every apple care center can perform this unlock there is a very good chance that there is a machine in virtually everyone of them that also has a service lab that makes these files.

The number of people that can unlock it is probably quite high, this isn't that different than removing an apple id from the device you need to go to the apple store with the device and proof of purchase and they do it for you.