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Why would this OS (or any OS) follow FreeBSD-current ?

This is negative because it just encourages the bad practice on the part of FreeBSD to release 2 or 3 or 4 stable point releases, based on the assumption that "anyone who wants anything should just use -current".

At some point there will be the (absurd) necessity to start bundling a "super current" release because there has to be a test platform, but at the same time everyone is using -current in production and you can't break it too badly.

Or I guess they can just break it badly one of these times and a lot of people get screwed.

There is a deep, deep cultural problem in FreeBSD that just doesn't ever go away and it can be summed up by saying: FreeBSD is an OS by, and for, FreeBSD developers.
The myth is: you can't build a startup with one founder. But who started this myth?

What PG said was: a single founder is a major reason for startup failure. So it is not recommended.

What this article concludes is: plenty of successful startups are single-founder. They don't provide any evidence on whether it is a major cause of failure.

YC does fund single-founder startups. But they will recommend you get a co-founder.
In the US, alcohol was illegal.

Also, cocaine and heroin were legal and have accepted medical uses.

Cigarette smoking causes cancer.

Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day increases one's risk of pancreatic cancer.
It works both way. The producers want to be paid for their work and they've said so many times, in uncertain words. Spotify is still at the point that they rely on new signups at the free tier. Apple doesn't do free, they pay better, and they are willing to give artists the white glove treatment.

As a listener you have a choice of pay now for access or wait until it's streaming everywhere else.
Great point, I never had a word for it (thanks for the link) but I've felt this whenever reading the high-level economic stories about things like interest rates and the market slowing, etc. The cynic in me just assumes that whatever the author is saying will fail or whatever they're likely shorting.
Smart phones.

I miss the time when I needed to charge my phone once per two weeks (I used it infrequently).
>warned that index funds might grow to the point at which new investments could be massively mispriced.

This situation will be easy to spot from indicators like P/E ratio. P/E limited index funds will be new hotness and active investors should get better returns.

There is bigger problem than index funds and it's closet indexing. Many portfolio managers that claim to be active investors secretly follow their benchmark index without exactly replicating it. This is fraudulent behavior.
Indoor bouldering has evolved over the years to "comp-style" indoor bouldering, favoring exciting moves, large, dynamic movement, etc.

I love climbing, know a fair bit about it, and enjoy watching. I just don't think it lends itself to spectating the same way a team sport does (I.E. american football/football).

One thing climbing DOES have going for it is the skill of the athletes is immediately visible. It's not like an endurance sport where, while we all know the athlete is better than we are at the sport, we can all go outside and run a few miles.

In contrast to the one-arm antics required for world-cup bouldering, etc.
>Why is there no middle ground?

It's odd that you view your position as "the middle group", when its seems very extreme.

The current situation is extreme - anyone who uses drugs gets whisked off to jail for 5-15 years, and then must combat their addiction after having lost so many years of their life. We did this for 20 years, and it clearly doesn't work.

The other extreme would simply be a complete 100% free open market for drugs, a world in which a supplier for recreational heroin could be a public company, - which no one in this thread is reasonably arguing for.

The middle ground is where we are trying to move to - less penalties on actual drug use, and more welfare for drug addicts to reduce to overall cost the "drug problem" has in society.

Lastly, its rather odd you view drugs as "evil". Why are drugs evil? Or do you mean people who use drugs, are they evil? Or do they become evil after having taken the drugs? To me, this is a dehumanizing view on fellow human beings. It's part of the psyche that lets us ignore their the deep rooted problems the drug war has cost us because we can all turn off our brains and just call them evil.
At 24, kids are a long way off for me. But when they do come to pass, my hope is that I can give them a childhood like the one I had: full of rocks, sticks, mud, and band-aids. Thank you for the reminder of how important that is to strive for.
> Well these are applications not granted visas.

From the data it looks like those are granted visas.
I have no disagreement with you about the scale of fallout. I just have less certainty about whether it was an act of terrorism. i.e. I'm far from convinced it was an act intended to kill at that scale. Whereas with 9/11, it's almost a certainty they aimed to kill even more than they managed to.

I'm still trying to work out for myself the extent to which intent matters when it comes to condemning an act, which is why I struggle to think of your statement as a fact.
Yes, 没办法 just means "what you want to do is impossible, though (often implied) should be possible."

FCPA applies not just to Americans, but anyone who does business in the USA, so even non Americans can be caught up in it, and many developed countries have their own versions of it.

I don't think bribes fly around so easily these days. At least nothing overt, though the Chinese partner they thrust on you is often just a backdoor bribe that looks legit on paper.
Full VPS backup should be standard feature of all premium providers...
Nitpick: Decoy would be a better word than placebo. (Interesting anecdote, though.)
I know the history in the US, which is mired in anti-Chinese, anti-Mexican, and anti-black racism.

Other countries, I don't know offhand. I'd love to see how many depended on having American-style drug laws for international aid or other diplomatic considerations.
Possibly because it's relatively easy to beat.
To be clear, I don't mean to dismiss the work of the real pioneers of the small-computer world. Just pointing out that there was only one Prometheus who brought the fire down the mountain.

To stretch the analogy in a different direction, Altairs and the like were never going to grow into anything that people would recognize as a computer today. They were important from an evolutionary standpoint because they inspired and helped educate a generation of technology developers and advocates, but they were also dead ends.

On the other hand, if you pull the covers off of any desktop PC chassis today, almost every major component will be recognizable to anyone who ever owned a piece of Woz's handiwork. The IBM PC engineers weren't inspired by Altairs or Simons, but by the Apple II. (Which, itself, was the product of the last fight anyone ever won against Steve Jobs. Woz gets credit for that if nothing else.)
> The person who possesses, uses, or trades contraband offends only the state

So are we pretending things that like DUI manslaughter, second-hand cancer, theft/robbery to pay for more drugs, etc. are unrelated crimes?
Where I work, engineers make the product. I'm noy sure what the other people do. I welcome the techno meritocracy.
Isn't active investing a zero sum game? Imagine a market with only two people and an average ROI of 7%. If then somebody has a 10% ROI through active investing then it follows that other one who also invests actively only gets a 4% ROI%.

With passive investing you invest in a stock because you think the company's value will grow in the future. They are building a new factory or entering a new market, etc... The added value will be represented by a higher stock price which you can sell to obtain your investment returns.

>The social function of active management, in a capitalist society, is that it seeks to direct capital to its most productive end, facilitating sustainable job creation and a rise in the aggregate standard of living.

What if an actively managed fund gives me a 10% return but a 4% fee and a passively managed fund gives me a 8% return but only a 1% fee? Wouldn't the passively managed fund be the most productive from the investors point of view?
I always thought that dark matter is a trick played by gravity. I wish we can get to these things faster.
I think the point is that while it's a minor change for classic aircraft (replace some flaps with a plasma actuator system because it's more energy efficient). In helicopters it is a radical simplification and will drop the price and complexity of the key flight system by an order of magnitude.
It has been tried, and works.

http://www.popsci.com/genetically-modified-mosquito-knocks-o...
FOIA request won't help since this is exactly the same data as USCIS gets from the company applying for H1B.
Funny they call themselves open exchange with the tag line 'stay open' and they are not actually open source.

edit: maybe they are? http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=SourceCodeAccess Why is there no link on main website?
This method works best for
young planets *that emit infrared
light* and are far from the glare
of the star.

In other words, if they are still swirling balls of liquid magma. So, NOT dark matter.
Anyone here who came down the EB-5 visa that can tell us their experience?
Two additional aspects:

1)
Twitch can leverage the core support network that amazon can build

Starting from aws - to prime video subscriptions

2)
amazon will go strong into tv top as soon as apple and google take it more serious. at that point the got one of the bigger kinds of content under control - similar w/ google and youtube
That makes absolutely no sense at all. In what way does a degree changes things in case of a successful entrepreneur?

> That said, the proposed rule might mean if one gets into YC/techstars, etc. they would be able to get a visa for the US easily.

Which is HARD and a very small pool. The executive could pardon those people one on one if they wished, as there are so few of them. Plus, if they are accepted by YCombinator, that's a very very strong case for a O1, just need to cross a couple other Ts.
There is a ton of YMMV with these things. dlmalloc works fine, and so do other general purpose allocators. My custom allocator is and will always be superior because it takes advantage of the fact that I only perform allocations from a very very small subset of known sizes, at very specific points. The allocator does next to nothing during dealloc, except at certain times when it can do things in bulk. I've modeled the allocator so it doesn't have to "be prepared" for anything else. I allocate a large chunk of memory which is never released to the OS so I don't ever have to worry about other threads messing up my memory region.
Owning a few percent of a Fortune 500 company will probably get you a board seat, and a 10% stake probably makes you the single largest holder (especially ignoring companies still held by the founders/family like Wal-Mart or Google). Vanguard's current holdings makes them the single largest owner of Apple, Microsoft, and Exxon (the 3 largest companies in the S&P 500, I didn't check further). And that's just one of the firms offering index tracking ETFs.

Vanguard owning 6% of the entire US stock market value is huge. You could reasonably re-title this "Is Vanguard Eating the World" and be right if it wasn't for Blackrock and other ETF firms being close behind them.

Sources: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/holders?p=AAPL and similar pages.
I'm imagining the post from a high up, non-white police chief saying he had been around police for years and hadn't noticed any problems. However he was truely shocked when they shot 19 black man to death one month.
More specifically, the Nixon administration wanted to put down the Yippies and the Black Panthers. It worked.

If your reason was controlling, then only addictive drugs would be illegal.

The U.S. influence over the U.N., and aid and trade leverage, along with China's historic political issues with opium, allowed them to induce ignorant governments around the world to wage war on their own people and create a vast criminal network. It was subsequently used to fund black ops by unaccountable intelligence agencies, and build the prison-industrial complex which has destroyed a generation of Black Americans.
Heh. Politics is never going to stand in the way of mosquito elimination. Mosquitoes are more unpopular than child pornography.
It's possible, but it's much more likely that our society's embedded and implicit racism influenced her perception of the man.
Funny enough, I'm watching a Starcraft II channel on Twitch just now, while reading HN. I don't play any games, not even the smallest, but I watch - although only caster streams, not player streams. Tastosis FTW :)

I have a cable subscription as part of my apartment package - but I don't use it. I don't even have a TV. Internet and streaming only. I find that if I had TV I'd be much more passive and watch too much, now I watch SC2 but not as much as if I had TV. I spend a lot more time with edX and Coursera and watch lecture videos instead. If I had a TV it would be much harder to turn it off than a game stream. I like the smaller communities, watching a TV production I am much more of a passive anonymous consumer than even a (very big) 50,000 viewer stream on Twitch, and even though Twitch chat is notorious, at least it exists. And a lot of streamers and casters react to what is going on in chat at least sometimes, in traditional media I am much farther removed from the makers.

Of various streaming services I tried watching Twitch in the end provided the consistently best experience, these days up to 1080p60. That alone is not sufficient to know how much data is flowing though, the data rate can be very different even for streams with the same resolution and frame rate, so with the same advertised resolution one channel can be much more crisp than another one, but some people may experience occasional buffering issues.

I just checked, currently there are about 650,000 viewers total on Twitch, rough estimate just to get an idea of order of magnitude. More stats: https://www.quantcast.com/twitch.tv#trafficCard

You can change the period on the right, the earliest to set "From" to is 23 March, 2012, to get a view of how Twitch's viewers develop(ed) over time. When I look at the last 365 days it looks pretty flat. I'm not sure about the data though, for some reason the "Rest of the world" (other than USA) is pretty much gone from one day to the next beginning of 2016. Does anyone have an explanation? I doubt that the "rest of the world" stopped watching Twitch overnight.

Looking at https://stats.twitchapps.com/ it's the same result though - no real growth any more for at least the last 12 months. Unless that's based on the same data, I don't know.
>with the best university system in the history of humanity.

While I don't disagree, you can only hire so many HYPSM grads - and many of these H1B's are getting hired from our universities.
Proposal for how to integrate Chef and Hashicorp Vault nicely
To a climber, climbing is fascinating.

But take a look at this video of Jain Kim winning the 2015 world cup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLp89uGq2s4

It is a masterful display of climbing prowess. But it is, unarguably, _boring_.

Nothing happens quickly, the rests strategically throughout, and exerts little apparent effort.

Please note, again, that I LOVE climbing, and have eagerly watched this entire video in real time several times. But this is not the kind of sport that lends itself to the average observer.

At least, I don't think. Maybe I'm wrong! Wouldn't be the first time.

Cheers.
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/outrage-follows-dea-ref...

Marijuana has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. Based on the established five-part test for making such determination, marijuana has no ‘currently accepted medical use’ because: As detailed in the HHS evaluation, the drug’s chemistry is not known and reproducible; there are no adequate safety studies; there are no adequate and well-controlled studies proving efficacy; the drug is not accepted by qualified experts; and the scientific evidence is not widely available.
This may fall into the category of "downsides of indexing in general", but even VTSMX, which is based on the CRSP index, isn't necessarily getting you the entire stock market in the U.S., which is something to be aware of, I suppose.

The criteria for inclusion in the CRSP index specify "a minimum total market capitalization of more than $10 million with a float that more than 10 percent of the total shares outstanding". So there is sub-micro stuff 'beneath' the index that's not included due to the $10M minimum, and others that aren't included because of the float requirement. Do you care? Probably not, but you might.

Also, I've periodically heard arguments against market-cap weighting, which is what indexes do (this is probably one of those "downsides of indexing" arguments). If you are not careful, with a couple of index funds you can end up really exposed to a handful of very large, and therefore highly-weighted, blue chips. But I can't think of another way of weighting within a whole-market index that would make sense.

The other thing that comes up a lot, mostly in tech circles, is that index funds (of course) don't give you exposure to the private market, and it seems that more and more tech companies are waiting a long time until they go public, such that at any given time a lot of growth is happening where most investors can't get in on it. The argument is that, if you are financially qualified, there are more opportunities out there for qualified/accredited investors on the private market. I don't personally agree with this if you're looking for an investment rather than a job as an investor, but you'll sometimes hear the argument get made.
Just choose the right country, if you want the "mind blown" experience the poster is talking about travelling to somewhere like Canada isn't going to do it.
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One downside of VTSMX is 0.16% expense ratio, compared to 0.05% for VTSAX (same fund, different class).
True, but PMs are gatekeepers and tend to set the agenda.
I've architected my life so that adventure in the woods is still a quick bike ride to the trailhead.If I have more time acailable, There's the National Forest, Wilderness and a National Park, all a few hours by bike. I can bring along a sleeping back and stay out indefinetly.

Without this access, yeah I'd feel a little dead inside.

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - E. Abbey
If everyone invested exclusively in index funds, and no one works to establish a market price for each individual component, the obvious thing to do would be to adjust indices to manage the portfolio based upon actual dividends.

All companies converge on the same P/E ratio, and the ratio of the index depends on how much investor money is chasing the overall productive activity of every [investable] company in the economy.

It wouldn't be the end of the world, by far.

But it is doubtful this will ever get even close to happening, because some investors will always be gamblers at heart, and if they learn that Coca-Cola is releasing a new beverage flavor, they will use the financial markets to make bets on whether it will be insanely popular or a colossal failure.
Well they do manage to destroy the lives of innocent drug users and their families, children. That's change.
I wonder what the thermal conductivity of this stuff is.

And what happens with it below 0 and above 100 degree Celsius?
Anyone here aware of tax implications of the parole status?

Usually, "us taxpayer" status is only triggered with a proper visa (H1B, L1, O1, etc.) or permanent resident status (green card). I've never met any mention of tax status on parole.

To someone who has any non-trivial financial life outside the US (which I expect to be true for most people who would apply for this), a us taxpayer status is a horrible curse:

You might get a call from your bank/broker/insurer back home, telling you that they have to close all of your accounts except perhaps a checking and 1 simple saving (and perhaps those too). If you accrued any benefits in your pension plan, you have to report them each year _and_ plan to pay yearly and/or dearly (because it is a PFIC[0]) for any profit made in that account, even though you cannot touch it for 30 years.

Also, if you own another business outside the US -- e.g. you had a previous startup, or operated through some kind of personal LLC providing services -- the "us taxpayer" status means that you have to start filing financial reports to the IRS as if those business were operated in the US (that is, according to US financial standards, regardless of where it operated - and that might mean double taxation despite any treaties in place).

Sure, you can just ignore it, and if your startup fails, no one will come after you. But of course, you plan to succeed, so be sure to read on PFICs, FATCAs, FBARs, and consult a US accountant that specializes in international taxation.

As a general rule, the US tax system assumes any financial dealings you have outside the US are an attempt to evade taxes, and penalizes that (whether by forms or by actual tax). Once it is assumed you plan to make the US the center of your life (green card, H1B, L1), those assumptions, through the "us taxpayer" status, affect you. If it is assumed you won't stay (e.g. F1 visa for studying), they don't.

So, what taxpayer status will parole put you in?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_foreign_investment_com...
No infrared. Already ruled out by earlier infrared surveys looking for Dyson spheres.
It sounds like you've got a point to make. Why quail at the thought of making it?
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> Why not extend it and prescribe alcohol to alcoholics and nicotine to smokers?

You can buy alcohol and tobacco legally and relatively inexpensively. Substitute prescribing allows addicts access to a safe supply of drugs without creating a free-for-all. Substitute prescribing massively reduces the cost to society of drug addiction, for the reasons mentioned in my comment.

If alcohol was illegal, people were being killed by bathtub gin and people were burgling houses to fund their addiction, I'd suggest prescribing alcohol.
> Resist evil at all costs. Even if it is expensive and takes a long time.

Oh FFS. Illegal drugs aren't "evil" any more than alcohol or caffeine are "evil". Drug users aren't "evil" any more than those who go to bars or coffee shops are "evil".

Look at marijuana. It's the poster-child for psychoactive substances that were irrationally restricted. It's not chemically addictive. It doesn't cause its users to become dangerous or violent. States are finally beginning to accept this and legalize it, and the sky has somehow refrained from falling.

Marijuana is not the exception. Drug users are everywhere. Your coworkers are drug users. Your neighbors are drug users. Your friends and family are drug users. Not all of them, but many of them. And you probably have no idea who is whom.
Some companies use Universities to hire foreign Software engineer with the title of "Research Associate", lower wage, same job. Then claiming that they are recruiting the best in the world while providing a very low wage (research associate prevailing wage instead of SE).
It can get worse, I have a friend that has been under a J1 for years, while he is not a student anymore. The company pays a student salary (2k/month) instead of a H1B prevailing wage.