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> If these agreements cut the rent the landlords could charge, they'd never sign them.

If landlords believed these agreements cut the rent the landlords can charge by more than they are kicked-back, they'd never sign them.

I'm certainly not defending this sort of thing. But, given a competitive rental market, it's not something to worry overmuch about.
This. Reading this and the original comment is really weird. "They tried to lock me in, but I showed them by locking myself in _faster_!"
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Isn't it true that originally Win10 previews logged a lot of things, but M$ pretty much stopped doing most of that with the release versions of Windows 10? I.e. people seem to be criticizing present Windows 10 by what it was before it was officially recommended for general population.
I refined my initial comment a little to not to sound so depressing. I do enjoy my work itself but the pursuit of success is not enjoyable when you don't get any meaningful results - Especially when the whole system feels like it is stacked against you.

I did change countries recently - I'm working remotely but it's definitely not a break.
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It's extremely important (and often underrated) to build up a good emergency fund to help in this type of situation. It's not the same as FU money—more of a security blanket of at least 3 months (hopefully 6 months plus) of liquid savings (checking, savings, CDs... not stocks, not real estate).

Ever since I finally saved that amount, it's helped a LOT with that feeling... If I lose my job today, I'll have enough personal runway to take a little time and find a good new job. I'm lucky in that I've never personally been laid off, but I know some people who have, and it's definitely a huge burden if you don't have even a month's worth of solvency.

Takeaway: do whatever you can to save at least 3 months' spending in a liquid emergency fund. Try for 6+, especially if you are supporting a family.
Symmetry can be broken spontaneously (see the first sentence in the paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01485), if the symmetric state is not a global energy minimum. (E.g. a needle standing on its tip on a table is in a state with rotational symmetry --- however, after it has fallen on its side on the table, the symmetry is broken.) The explanation in wikipedia seems be OK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking
Anyone getting a 50% profit on a deal is likely to attract competitors to even it out, it's called "arbitrage".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage

People are always looking for these sorts of things, and many market mechanisms have sprung up which have the effect of evening them out.
Something that I've been learning lately is that balance is vital to survival.

I'm a student, and I had a burnout a couple months ago. Thankfully, I was able to learn important things about myself, namely certain limits of mine (and I was studying limits at the time for calc class). I was far behind and yet I was struggling everyday to grasp the material. I ended up having to drop two out of three classes and managed to save the one I didn't drop.

I had been ignoring other parts of my life, like social interaction, and with my thoughts always running I eventually developed delusions(I have mental disabilities also). Since then I've put away social media and have been making time to go outside and around people to try to make connections, as well as yard work (can be therapeutic).

Now I see imbalances in my life more clearly than before. So, like a problem solver, I'll see what I can do about it. :)
> Obviously it's in the founder's financial best interest (at least on the very surface level) for employees to not have the option to leave the company with shares at all.

On the that same surface level, it's also in the founder's financial best interest for employees to work for free.

Fundamentally companies offer better terms in compensation to attract better talent. I spent 11 years at Google. I was recently looking around for new places to work, the lack of liquidity even in the face of success was a big deterrent for me to work at any early stage startup.
The article's conclusion isn't entirely correct. Mass on the wheels also affects braking (the reverse of acceleration), and handling (gyroscopes with less mass turn more easily). But otherwise, yeah, the standard line amongst racers is to upgrade your wheels before anything else (albeit racers do a lot more accelerating and braking that your average Sunday rider). Lighter wheels are like the SSDs of cycling: biggest bang-for-the-buck.

As a sidenote, the picture looks to be a late-1880s Columbia of some sort. Yup, same Columbia from whom you can buy a bicycle today (well, at least something bicycle-shaped; they haven't made good bicycles in over 100 years).
My parents media center pc did a forced upgrade despite the onboard graphics being unsupported. The result was an unusable output. After a few hours attempting to get the drivers to work until downgraded. Windows is still asking me to upgrade!
Oh yes please build a paper trail. This should be your no.1 job starting now.

Doesn't matter what the actual outcome will be, the paper trail is your only defense.
A few core reasons (im an urban designer and deal with this sort of thing fairly regularly)

Residential and modern office typically have very different floorplate requirements. So often dont sit comforatably over each other.

Mixing residential and commercial tends to make building operation an issue - who pays or chooses what to spend on when there are building wide issues (leaks, structure, lifts, noise complaints, etc)? What happens when the office owner wants a complete refurb? Office owners traditionally have liked to retain ownership to allow demolition and reconstruction in after 40 years or so.

Many high grade offices tend to be picky and not like looking out the window at peoples laundry in the opposite building. Nor have the lobby of low cost apartment housing in the side of the same building.

Adding more levels isnt always an economic thing to do for developers since time in construction (and hence time the developer has borrowed money but not recieved payments) is a key issue.

At a strategic level often true 'office cores' can be constrained and need to be protected from erosion.
That's often because the grew by incorporating existing villages and small towns into the larger city.
We should compare Manhattan strictly to downtown Vancouver, not to Greater Vancouver. If finding a cheaper rental means going to Coquitlam, well, gee, you can do that in "Manhattan" too, by going to Brooklyn.
I tried Windows 10, spent 18 hours tweaking and fine tuning until I went too far with disabling the hidden telemetry services (yes W10 has hidden services that you will never see in the MMC but run with an automatic trigger). Went afk which was apparently the trigger condition, two hours later I find my laptop completely locked and unresponsive burning the cpu in some infinite loop.

Have to give them credit tho, the telemetry that cannot be disabled does not bypass the software firewall in case you're blocking the ports, at least not from what I have learned in the span of two days.
Oh, but it's great! I can't browse most sites on my android because the LMK for some reason starts with the damn browser.
I love it! /s
That's fascinating! Can you share some resources for me to learn more about the subject? I haven't seen any quotes for his speaking fees or script consulting revenues.
My point is immigration is not an on/off scenario.

The U.K. could easily negotiate a visa for Shenghen area countries with reciprocal rights, at different levels for work or travel or retirement.

And yes, where I think he UK could thrive is by positioning themselves as the place to do business without having to deal with the EU red tape directly. If London based financial services are in the right Timezone etc but are firewalled from EU banks and the ECB, then it can easily grow even more. I was there when the Euro started and it was seen as the beginning of the end, but it has grown a lot since then. I think having an independent central bank and currency has been a boon.

And the international language of business is going to be English for a long time yet.

Essentially, my argument is that any country which lowers the regulatory barriers to business will do better. The U.K. Has a chance to do that and undercut other European countries who will remain bound by the countless EU regs.
> Sure, it was a "look&feel benefit", but it also significantly hurt discoverability and reduced the number of features available.

I think that the ribbon design itself actually helped discoverability, at the expense of familiarity for long-term users of the old interface (OTOH, I think that simultaneously with the introduction of the ribbon, they also made it so a lot of options that previously were on the UI required customization to actually have them surfaced at all -- which they also, IIRC, did in some previous versions without changing the UI structure -- and, IIRC again, they reversed some of the most egregious of those in 2010.)
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Usually in English it's not metaphorical.
And now let’s look at Europe.

This is an official map of the city where I live: http://i.imgur.com/N0X8HTh.png (Screenshot of http://ims.kiel.de/extern/kielmaps/?view=stpl&coords=3257435... with the layer for zoning enabled and the layers for PoIs disabled)

Purple are the areas for which any zoning restrictions at all exist – in the rest, no zoning regulations exist, as long as you follow normal building law, and get a normal permit, you can build what you want, skyscraper or single family home.

You can visit the specific plans for each area by going to , for example, http://ims.kiel.de/extern/bplaene/1008.pdf (this for the area marked as 1008 in above map).

Sometimes they look like this: http://ims.kiel.de/extern/bplaene/919a.pdf (Very restrictive new post-2005 development, only terraced housing, single family housing, and some small apartment buildings), or sometimes they look like http://ims.kiel.de/extern/bplaene/907.pdf (left half is "mixed use", right half is a shooting area), but sometimes they have no regulation at all except specifying "have around 40% mixed use, mkay?". Or even like this http://ims.kiel.de/extern/bplaene/919c-1.pdf where there are some dotted arrows with the label "foot paths", kinda showing where maybe someday foot paths will be made (IRL they were made completely differently, after demand has been evaluated based on where people walk the grass down)

This is probably a far better mix than the overly restrictive situation in the US – regulations are good when they help consumers, small businesses, or to keep the market balanced, but regulations to help developers make profit are often a bad idea.
A big reason lockin is bad is because they can screw you on price, right? So getting a fair price is, to some degree, beating lockin?
First, welcome to the community. Second, adding to the gentleman's comment at the bottom of this thread, I'm curious what your intentions are with this community after the pageviews stop. I noticed your account is brand new. Will you become a new member of the community outside of posting your own content?
People watch(ed) TV not for the actual content but just to pass the time. It was mostly channel surfing and once in a while you'd find a show that you wanted to watch all the way through. It was just something to do rather than actually consume a story line. Netflix has made consuming actual stories much much better and easier.
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I don't think that it's fair to say that everyone, or even perhaps a majority, of leave voters voted that way due to xenophobia. They were lied to fairly blatantly about the economic aspects by a sophisticated campaign.
Part of the point of A Pattern Language is that it wasn't revolutionary. The premise is that people have been building buildings for thousands of years, and certain common patterns appear without anyone calling them out specifically. So, Alexander set out to compile a list of all those patterns, and hypothesize about the problems they solve and why that particular solution is preferable to the alternatives.

To someone who is trying to make an artistic statement with their buildings, A Pattern Language might be uninteresting, since his advice is essentially the architectural equivalent of composing music in a major key according to traditional rules of harmony. If that's what you want to do, that's great, but if you want to make something deliberately dissonant or challenge traditional notions, it's not so helpful.

It's also worth noting that Alexander has some very strong opinions about things, and (just like any other area of human endeavor) there are architects who disagree with him.
I seem to recall reading that the Bravo editor stored the text and the formatting separately. So having the compiler read the text and ignore the formatting maybe not so mind-blowing after all.
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I believe the “plenty of people” issue is because graphs' vertical scale is not labelled, other than a percentage of the maximum, which says nothing.
I'd rather be betrayed by N devices than N+1.
Of course for a short time they will, because they do not want to be fired for bringing unwanted attention.

But yes, I believe that will be short lived. There are no real consequences to their actions, and the riot did not change that.

So if you think a riot and damaging private property for a short window of kid gloves if you are black from the police is a win, then ok.
[Ctrl][Up] works in Vista onwards to move up a folder. It's worth knowing.
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IANAL either but I would naively expect the gimmickry to be irrelevant and for this to be treated no different than having a telephone call with Snowden.
> "the EU is a more limited government than the UK"

That's how things stand now, but they won't for long. If an independent Scotland chose to join the EU they'd have to make some tough decisions about how much of their power to give away. For example, will they join the Eurozone? Even if they choose not to now, increasing consolidation of the Eurozone may make it pretty much inevitable in the near future, especially after 2025 when the EU Treasury is due to be set up, as the EU Treasury will almost certainly focus on the economic development of Eurozone countries.
>How do they solve the problem without requiring, at minimum, closing all of the user's applications and restarting them, then closing all system services and restarting them? (At which point, you've basically done a de-facto OS restart.)

But this is not what you suggested, is it?
Source: https://twitter.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868 ;)
And to be more clear, yes, if penalties came out of their pensions instead of taxpayers pockets, they would change their behavior long-term.
Yes - my point is that the title suggests that it's about rich people doing tax arbitrage. The article is more about companies.
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I thought you might have meant that a statute could not affect an existing contract. I had never heard of that before, but governments sometimes compensate people who suffer losses because of legislative action, so there might be something to it.

I don't want the government to interfere much at all in private affairs, and I don't think "there should be a law against" everything I don't like. I am not sure in this case, but conspiracies to prevent third parties (tenants and ISPs) from conducting business are pernicious. I would never enter into such an agreement myself.
I wonder if the EULA is enforceable at all, given the circumstances. "Accept or I'll break your computer for hours" seems like a contract accepted under duress.
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English is an official language of those countries.
What's your burn rate? That is, if you stop doing any income-producing activities, how long can you live off of savings? Considering burning through them all for a long period of no work. Or if you think you can manage for longer, try to get to the magic number where 4% of your investments (assuming at least 5% annual ROI) covers your expenses, thus making you 'retired'.

Recovery (at least partial) is still possible, but you might be at the point where the first year of recovery looks like a lot of doing nothing but sleeping: http://jacquesmattheij.com/dealing-with-burn-out
I've experience the exact same thing. It becomes a cyclical rut of feeling like you're not making enough progress on a project, then feeling guilty for spending time enjoying other things. Thoughts like "why should I enjoy my sunday morning in the park? I could be working feature x".

My advice isn't for everyone, but I got over the rut by realizing we're not going to be young and healthy forever. The term YOLO has become epitomized with young people making stupid decisions but some of us should really take it to heart.

I read a piece about making life decisions based on a regret minimization framework. Essentially you ask yourself which life you'd regret least when you're 80 and that's what you should do. I asked myself whether I'd regret never launching a successful product more, or never living a fulfilling life with adventure and meaningful relationships.

On a more concrete note, it's important for me to schedule time for exercise and fun. It helps by keeping me productive and my brain healthy, but also you won't have that voice in your head saying "hey, you should really be working on that other feature right now".
> It often hinges on what you count as success.

Agreed. However, even in a lifestyle business, I have a hard time imagining not working like crazy to get it off the ground.
I've tried starting a couple (obviously doing something wrong since I didn't succeed), but that's the way I felt I needed to work.
No. As is often the case, they think that because they do one thing dramatically better than anyone else, they must be fundamentally wiser and smarter in all things.

"A wise man is humble."
> Can't display that.

Probably a good thing. Do you want you're entire upvote history public?
Every single point he made is crucial for a startup to succeed. I know - I spent 14 years bootstrapping my software company (exited last year). I think this article is excellent.

While ALL his points are valid, I want to differentiate between two specific points he made.

1. "If you’re not talking to your users, then you’re simply guessing at what they need and want from your business. This is slow suicide."

2. The section called "8 — Building Too Much Stuff"

When you talk to your users, you WILL get that feature list one-mile long. If build that list, you'll end up with a product that doesn't have an opinion. Your product won't be targeted at anyone specific. Why should a customer pick you over competitor X?

So, to know what to build, you must talk to your customers and know them. But you must know yourself as a company - why do you exist? What kind of customers do you want (size - small/med/enterprise, industry, location if applicable).

For example, define your company as "Performance review software for medium sized US cities, counties and law enforcement" versus simply saying "We make performance review software". This helps you determine a focus and know which customers to target and which features help them.

Further to the "building too much" section, you only need so much to close a sale. After a while, the new features are great for reducing support or customer retention (both of which you should be measuring), but build too many and you risk having a complex product with training costs that are too high and even more importantly, investing in features that don't help you sell the next customer. At some point, move on to the next product.

Also a tip, we stopped building lesser-used admin features that required a UI. UI is hard to maintain and train people (and hard to kill that feature). Sometimes it's possible to simply have a script you can run that will make changes to the data model that customers would like to have. When customer call asking for something, you can offer that solution and have your dev team run the script.
I don't think opportunity is actually that difficult to describe, it seems to mostly be a product of labor markets. Either there's an untapped well of excess labor (like the post-war boom in Phoenix, AZ) or there are jobs in a high unemployment environment (like what's fueling growth in the bay area now).

In the case of Phoenix, they went from 99th in the US to 9th in about 30 years in large part due to the government building air force fields and pilot training camps. When everyone went back there after the war and realized they needed jobs, industry was happy to fill the gap because there was high competition among labor.

Similarly the bay has developed obviously because of tech, but for most of that early tech, the US government was the primary customer. Not just transistors, but before that, radio and telegraph research and operator training was done for/on behalf of the Navy.

That is all to say that the next step probably won't be fueled by some small-batch kickstarting program. People won't relocate en masse if they don't have long-term motivation. I think the best bet for inciting development of New Cities is mass investment by the government training people to do things like build and operate solar farms in the great plains, understand and combat coastline destruction in the gulf, etc.

If the government commits to buying clean energy and prioritizes investing in it's development, it can have a big say in where that happens and I think that's a great opportunity to rebuild dying old cities or start from scratch since so many people have abandoned those places already.
MPs in opposition still have power, though admittedly less power than those in a majority government.

Also, if Scotland was in the EU government the number of seats would be set roughly proportional to the size of the population vs. the population of all EU countries (though it apparently doesn't follow a set formula, so all the numbers that follow are just to help with guesswork).

Population of the EU, minus UK but adding in Scotland... 447 million people (approx.)

5.3 million people / 447 million people = 1.2% (approx.)

As far as I can see from Wikipedia, Slovakia has roughly the same size of population as Scotland, and if I've read the table correctly it has 13 MEPs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment_in_the_Europea...

13 / 750 MEP seats (would be 751 with the President of the European Parliament) = 1.7%, not too far off 1.2%.

So would you expect Scotland to have much of a say in the EU if it had so few seats?