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> I've never understood the appeal of jumping immediately onto the corporate ladder when you're young, limiting your upside and constraining your options. It seems much more sensible to take the risk of your own business, with a much higher upside, and a downside that allows you to either start another one or join the corporate ladder anyway. If you're good enough to raise investment, there really is very little personal risk.

I think a lot of people understand this, but there are significant financial barriers for most 20 year olds (or even older recent MBA grads) preventing them from starting (or buying) their own businesses. Where are you going to get the initial capital? Your typical 20 year old has negative net worth, so nobody is going to loan to him. Speaking of debt, all that debt you took out to get that MBA (not to mention the undergrad debt you're still paying) needs to be paid back--you can't just tell the bank "See I'm starting a business so I can't pay you your $2000 a month". So get outside investment? From whom? Most 20 year olds do not have access to the investor class, and even if they did they're unproven--who's going to dump a few million onto them? As for your "MBA network," most of your newfound MBA friends are all broke too--they're not going to be able to help.

Most of the people I know who started businesses young were already financially very well off. They did not have to go into debt for their education, and could afford both the initial bootstrapping, AND had a cushion in place in the event they failed (family money).
Interesting, if a bit vegan shaming :-p According to the research referenced a vegan diet is about 1.8x as efficient as a normal american diet. Seems pretty good for humanity.

Limiting meat consumption by ~50% would have a similar sustainability impact to a vegan diet.

W.K. Kellogg funded the research. Their grant: http://www.wkkf.org/grants/grant/2009/02/foodprints-and-food...
It doesn't matter: it's a hit piece. Maximising 'the number of people that can be supported by existing farmland' is not the be all and end all of 'good for humanity'.
I first heard of chemtrails in the 1990s, so 20 years.

As your link points out, "By 1943, it was clear that the Soviet Union was attempting to penetrate the project". That was a year after the project started. http://www.mphpa.org/history/espionage lists "eight major spies who revealed secrets of the Manhattan Project." It wasn't a secret from the Soviets for very long.

John W. Raper published an article about Los Alamos in the Cleveland Press in 1944: 'Forbidden City - Uncle Sam’s Mystery Town Directed by “2nd Einstein”'. http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/09/20/worst-manhattan-pr... . That was two years after the project started.

It was an open secret in D.C. It did, after all, require a huge number of people and money. As http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/03/29/narratives-of-manh... points out, the mystique of secrecy around the project is different than the actual secrecy. Quoting it:

> "In the 1940s there was something of a small industry of articles, books, and clichés regarding how secret the atomic bomb was kept. Of course, the irony is… it wasn’t really kept all that well, if you consider “keeping the secret” to involve “not letting the Soviet Union know pretty much everything about the atomic bomb.” (Which was, according to General Groves, one of the goals.)"

So, the Manhattan project was secret for about two years, under its own operational goals of what "secrecy" meant.

It was public to the world by 1945, after the bombs were first used, so no more than a few years of secrecy under that standard.

The Soviet atomic bomb was in 1949, so still less than 10 years.
Reading the actual study, I can't help but think that the authors are being intellectually dishonest. Their logic is thus:

> Cropland in perennial forages included hay crops and grazing on land which could be cropped but is used for pasture.

A: Perennial cropland is used as pasture for animal agriculture.

> Perennial cropland requirements were zero in the vegan diet.

B: Vegans don't require pastures for animal agriculture.

> The ovolacto- and lacto-vegetarian diets used about half of the cropland restricted to perennial forages, while the vegan diet used none of the restricted cropland.

C: Therefore the vegan diet wouldn't have any use for perennial cropland.

This would be true if perennial crops for humans didn't exist, but that's just not true. For example, we can grow perennial sunflower (!), grain (!!) and rice (!!!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_crop#Example_crops
Talk about a strawman. The world is no where near 100% vegan. The fact that all of humanity being vegan isn't the most efficient use of our resources has no bearing whether it's better for you, today, to be vegan.

100% of humans being cops is bad for humanity. Does that imply being a cop is not good for humanity?
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I switched from Riot to Vue, and am glad I made the change.

Biggest things I noticed:

1) Getting stared with the basics is about equally easy in both frameworks. Both have a very simple and clean API and component system.

2) Vue has more advanced features -- dynamic components, easy two-way binding, watching variables, custom events, routing, etc, all of which I have used at some point as my app has gotten bigger

3) Riot seems to have more open bugs, including one major issue where even when an "if" statement evaluates as false in a template, the component still gets processed. This is supposed to be fixed in the next big release, but who knows when that will be.

4) Vue seems to be much more active -- more users, more commits, so I think it is a better long term bet.
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I've been studying Japanese for a little under a year now. Outside of Kanji, I've found the language at least as easy to pick-up and learn as Spanish. Additionally being an English speaker seems to actually be an advantage, as there are numerous "loan words" that are basically English. This (elementary learning) song is illustrative of that: https://youtu.be/dBGD4guQdME?t=2m38s
If I am reading the original paper correctly, there is a bottleneck with the vegan diet that essentially requires you to only use cultivated cropland to get enough of a balanced diet.

The vegan curve never flattens out, because it is entirely dependent on cultivated cropland, unlike the other diets:

https://images.elementascience.org/611000.elementa.f005.PNG_...
At the same time crank turning is a job where you need to do little else than show up, freeing your mind to think about things other than work.
Land is not a problem if vegetables come to reign, hydroponics and aeroponics will easily substitute the inefficient land-use.

Tom et al. (2015) [1] also show that in the US the switch to a vegan diet would be less efficient. But it's natural, from an economic perspective, that existing processes are optimized for efficiency and low costs and given the high demand for vegetables and fruits there would obviously be a huge incentive to optimize the production processes and lower the prices.

Vanham et al. (2013) [2,3] show that EU would benefit from a vegan diet when it comes to water usage.

Overall, it's quite obvious that the medical costs of today are extremely large mostly due to overconsumption of animal products. It is unfortunate that they can be easily overconsumed and thus cause health issues. Diet that includes animals is much more destructive when it comes to dead ocean zones, rainforest destruction, species extinction and water pollution, being the biggest factor in mentioned issues.

[1]: Energy use, blue water footprint, and greenhouse gas emissions for current food consumption patterns and dietary recommendations in the US http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10669-015-9577-y

[2]: The water footprint of the EU for different diets http://temp.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Vanham-Bidoglio-2014....

[3]: Potential water saving through changes in European diets http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412013...
What got me started in a jiffy was just looking at their live demo, http://riotjs.com/play/. Sometimes code is it's best documentation.
A quick Google suggests Scalajs has had developers paid to work on it (EPFL lab and Lightbend): http://scala-lang.org/blog/2016/03/14/announcing-the-scala-c...

The Haskell community has achieved great things even though most contributions are done in people's spare time. That is determination.
Citation? Why Do I see .gif in most animated images then. Or the lack of a video player thing when I click them.
Well, this has nothing to do with having an MBA. Understanding most of these concepts isn't really hard. You just need access to the capital, which has a set of challenges in itself. Any entrepreneur who might or might not have an MBA can do this if (s)he has access to the capital. The hard part is making sure you can keep the business running so you can service the debt.

The company that Kellogg guy acquired, which sector was it in?
I something like this available for other languages, say, for French and Russian?
the pull for me to japanese culture is their culture of design. people like sou fujimoto and fumito ueda are very inspirational in their wholly unique approach to design in their respective fields. i feel design in japan is such because of their tendency to be fascinated by futuristic ideas but at the same time have a wealth of history and mythology to draw from.

i am not into anime or other such things but have recently picked up my first manga: all you need is kill, solanin, and pink. but i would say i am interested in other cultures just as much. it typically revolves around design though. haha. and i a not even a designer in occupation.
Do it once or twice? Now you're talking a small percentage multiplied by a small percentage!
Going vegan isn't supposed to be as good for humanity as possible -- it is supposed to be as good as possible for all conscious beings, including non-human animals. It would be rather surprising if the best diet for humans would also be the best diet for humans and animals taken together. On the other hand, it is encouraging that these two goals do not conflict for the most part: The paper only finds pretty minimal land-use efficiency gains if one mixes some animal products into a plant-based diet.
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> Throughout history, private military forces are the tool of tyrants.

<evil person> drank water, so we shouldn't drink water.
I think the fascination comes from an early introduction to Japanese culture, even if we're not aware. Japan probably has the largest cultural footprint in America for Eastern countries. A lot of cartoons I watched growing up were Japanese anime. Then there was Pokemon. And Nintendo. And Playstation. And the Mario Brothers. The list goes on for geek entertainment. I think the question could be juxtaposed with "Why do other countries have a fascination with Western culture?" - Hollywood, our entertainment industry. Or why is Soccer/football the most popular sport in the world? - people have access to it all over the world starting at an early age.
One advantage of Latin characters (shared by Cyrillic, Greek, and even Arabic) is that the featural elements of glyphs are few enough that you can make each individual glyph small. You can clearly read Latin text even at 6-8pt font sizes, whereas the need to distinguish multiple parallel lines in Chinese characters makes it barely legible at a standard 12pt font.
That sounds like a nice, collaborative work environment, but I would not file it under any definition of "pair programming".

Edit: 99%? So you spend less than five minutes collaborating per 8-hour workday?
It's not that mercenaries may revolt. It's that people are less likely to support war if it will affect them personally.

The is a spectrum for military participation: conscription -> volunteer professional -> mercenery. With conscription people will be more vested because it can affect their families more personally even if they don't support a war. With a mercenary army not only is the death of strangers easier to ignore, but deaths are not always made public. Look how often we had stats about army deaths/injuries reported daily vs how often you heard about Blackwater deaths during the Iraq war/occupation.
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Serious question...isn't that YCs neighborhood? Like right next door? Does Mountain View have the same sort of problems?

Are they doing anything to help, given their connections?
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I recently started reading again and I was looking for some good tech blogs to read. I tried Mashable/Gizmodo/zdnet but their junk to good read ratio is really high. I'm looking for something more like the old new thing [1], but I've come to really enjoy.

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
Try right-clicking on the .gif and select "show controls", if it's there. This works for me most of the time. It doesn't work at all for real .gif files, but it's true that most ".gif" files are actually auto-play looping videos with no sound and hidden controls.
Don't know why land use would be the determining factor for food access. If the goal is to maximize access to food, that seems like a food distribution problem, and not a production problem. Hungry people need cheap markets, not farms.
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why the downvotes? such a welcoming community. I seem to have replied to the wrong parent.

well, I'll leave then :(
To "encourage" means to openly advocate.

Never ever have I seen active encouragement of poor programming discipline. You are correct in that's what jQuery was about, but it had no opinion on how to go about that task.
I'm glad it's worked out for you. Not convinced this is really the "bootstraps" narrative, though -- isn't that more along the lines of "quit and get the job you want"?
That's a really great example.

Generally you're going to find very, very, very few people that are willing to have a facts based conversation on the topic. The popular narrative is to pretend that private prisons have driven the population boom - having a single digit share of the total prison population 15 years ago - despite the fact that it was overwhelmingly the government prison system and government employees that pocketed all that money the last 40 years.

Anyone here want to run rough numbers on how much combined income the millions of government prison and related workers derived in the last 40 years? Or tally how many millions of government jobs were created over the decades by politicians by putting millions of people into government prisons (and keeping them there)? It's trillions of dollars that the government has paid to its own workers, between the government employees putting prisoners there, and the government employees that keep them there. Accordingly, nobody could possibly have a larger vested interest in the prison boom than the government.
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The author Martin Thompson is one of those rare breed of developers who understands the sheer inner workings and the effects of his programs from the source to processor.

http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/
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Having a wife changes the formula a lot, as does having a support structure in place.
I'd say that if Vue.js is like Rails, then Riot.js is like Sinatra. It's an even more simplified version. For one, Riot doesn't include 2-way binding, which is how I like it, since I like having more control over the DOM of when and how to update it. Also the syntaxes are cleaner and less verbose. I also appreciate it's style of creating and mounting components.
Complexity for the sake of complexity has badly tarnished the Java ecosystem's reputation. I feel like the community has countered that phase by creating new, smaller tools, more modular tools, similar to what exist in other ecosystems, but the foothold of bloated, overly complicated crap is still strong in the enterprise world.

A simple rule of thumb is just don't use anything with the word "Spring" in it, and you're well on your way.
I meant; buy a business, run it for 3-6 years + pay off debt, and sell it off. And then do it again, if you still feel like it. It doesn't even need to grow a lot (though that is obviously preferred). If you do it well, you can sell it for a similar amount (or higher!) you bought it.
It might not have a explicit opinion stated anywhere but in any library or framework, the API provided influences how those APIs are used.

By having the central unit of work start with a query selector is one such influence which I feel implicitly encouraged DOM manipulations.

Taking a look at the original jQuery website on web.archive, this is the introduction to the $() function:

"The functionality of jQuery centers around one central function: $(). Everything in jQuery is based upon this, or uses this in some way. The most basic use of this function is to pass in an expression (usually consisting of CSS or XPath), which then finds all matching elements and remembers them for later use. For example:"

And then goes to show a DOM selection followed by a chained mutation.
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This issue puts most people in direct conflict with their own cognitive dissonance: objectivity goes out the window.
I have no objection to canabis or those who choose to enjoy it, but the idea that I might need psychoactives to handle the work environment -- even when I'm doing something I'm widely considered to be pretty decent at -- is repellant.
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I agree, the government-education complex is as much a threat to liberty as the military-industrial-contract services complex.
Another fine example of US intelligence putting their hands where they don't belong, and ultimately putting the entire planet in jeopardy.
Some important browsers still don't have a good video image story, and most SMS/chat systems are even worse.
We generate animated gifs for our 3D animated emoji and stickers.
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Clearly real numbers exist. I just don't believe you can have the set of every single real (they are unlimited).
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The idea of the vegan diet being "good for humanity" isn't solely about land use which this article focuses on. It's mostly about use of energy.

Vegan diet: food from land -> truck -> grocery store -> my mouth.

Meat/dairy/what have you: food from land -> truck -> animal's mouth -> truck -> grocery store -> my mouth.

And when it comes to meat it means years feeding and water etc. until the product can actually be sent to the store. That's the idea behind it being "good for humanity". A lot of energy/pollution/water use is going into something we simply do not need in such large portions. If we ate less meat (like humans have been doing for most of our history) things would be a lot better for the environment and therefore humanity.
And once again you're accusing people of racism without evidence.

Merely for questioning your agenda you've compared me to people who were against interracial marriage, and now to people who believed in racial inferiority.

I don't think I'm entitled to your time, but I do think I, and this officer, are entitled not to be the target of baseless insults.

But calling people racist merely for questioning the BLM agenda has become such a cliche, I'm not surprised at all.

Personally, I believe all victims of police brutality deserve justice, regardless of race, even the white victims.

And I think it's disgusting that BLM doesn't care (or at least, doesn't protest) unless the victim meets their racial requirements.

They ignore nearly 75% of all people killed by police simply because of their racial agenda. [1]

Do you?

1: According to http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/0... 472 of 1800 people killed by police in 2015 and 2016 were black.
I'd be happy with "ability to color arrow heads based on the arrow line color."
A pretty weak article and omits any new developments in the future of food production.

The main argument of the article appears to be that some farm land won't be used (perennial cropland) when people are on a vegan diet. Well, then use that space to build some aeroponic or hydroponic farms [1]. You'll get produce all year around.

Other studies have shown that it's not sustainable if we'd have to rely on meat to feed the world. The only reason why we keep eating meat is because it's cultural, traditional and pleasurable. Our society doesn't need meat anymore to survive, plenty of other protein sources available that doesn't involve killing other sentient beings en masse. Even some high performance athletes are relying on a plant-based diet only - making the argument 'you need animal protein to be strong' moot [2]

The future of food is going to be plant based [3].

[1] http://aerofarms.com/
[2] http://thediscerningbrute.com/more-vegan-athletes-rise-to-th...
[3] http://beyondmeat.com/
This project is still in its infancy but I was frustrated that I couldn't find a Slack Bot library in Python that was more than a single command-response framework.

This is a first pass at allowing stateful conversations.
Hope you like it! Please feel free to contribute questions, comments, or code!
So can they add 5% more propellant to the rocket, or perhaps lower the weight of the rocket a bit so for the same propellant - more is left when it lands?
The wikipedia article on search funds says they are typically service or light manufacturing outside of high tech.
Making modifying stuff a felony still just slows down peoples' efforts, unless there's a reliable way of enforcing it, which is... not really possible.
If you look at the graph Octave is getting like 6k. That is like 3 matlab licenses. There are a lot of people who use octave.

http://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing/?prodcode=ML
I always felt that working out was a hassle. My parents tried forcing me to work out with a trainer multiple times and it never worked out. Then one summer I worked out with a friend a few times and that got me going to the gym a few times a week for about 2 months where I abruptly stopped. Fast forward 3 or 4 years and my parents, being worried about my health, got me to start working out with a trainer. What was different this time is that I built a friendship with the trainer, and I was paying with my own money and didn't want to waste it.

I don't care much for socializing while I work out, but knowing people there and having friends who I can workout with, discuss weightlifting with, and do competitions like warrior dash and tough mudder is what really made the difference to me. It wasn't an easy start and required a lot of self discipline to show up. But if you have the discipline and can motivate yourself to get in the routine and make friends while doing it, it becomes much more enjoyable and the chore quality goes away.
There's also a lot of variation in how that job could satisfy various psychological needs.

Is the crank well-maintained, or is it continually catching, grinding, or breaking down?

Are you rewarded for turning the crank more and provided with high-quality feedback about that reward, or is there merely an unceasing open-loop demand that you turn the crank "as fast as possible"?

Do you know the function of the crank and see value in it, or is it an opaque component of an inscrutable black box?

I'll bet one set of answers leads to a lot more burnout than the other.