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Another critical voice: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601499/basic-income-a-sel...
Windows VM, or if you are a daredevil you could try and install PowerShell 6 (which will be crossplatform) on macOS from here: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell (do note its currently in alpha state)
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Get into Project/Program Management. Do it as a discipline rather than as a "I just ended up doing it because nobody else will" Look for certifications in Management that your company or field cares about (PMP/PMI etc.). Very quickly you'll find that you can end up working on an infinite variety of projects and can dip into countless fields (just remember to let your actual SMEs do the work).

After a few years you'll find a groove in PMing that you may like and you can try to scope your world to that (certain project types or sizes, etc.).

My background is CS, but I've ended up in this kind of role and have worked in everything from helping out with Sales and Marketing to Designing Genomics algorithms...just dipping in to fill gaps where needed and dipping out again when there's somebody else who can fill it.

Generally the smaller the company, the more hats you'll end up filling and you'll learn more skills that way, enabling you to generalize better.

I personally tend to bounce between very small and very large companies and the ability to transition between skill sets has definitely been valuable in the larger corporations...I usually find myself starting in a discrete role and rapidly end up running a group or a department. When that gets boring I go do something very hands-on in a small company. When I want more focus, I'll go work in a large company.

The tradeoff is that I'm not highly skilled in any one field, but I can usually fill in for lots of foundational stuff to get something off the ground. I've worked in tons of fields, but would never really call myself a specialist in any of those fields, the people who are dedicated to those fields are far more skilled than I.

One bonus is I can usually take an idea and get some legs under a project very quickly, then flesh out real needs and start to fill those with specialists as needed. I've found that to be a very productive way to do business.
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Apple needs Windows because next to nobody depends on Mac OS X to do anything. Meanwhile, 90% of the world uses Windows.

Microsoft doesn't need Linux desktop barely anybody runs it.
Thanks, I like how you broke this out. Looking back, constructive tasks were things I rarely did on bad days, but the accomplishment really helped.
The issue is why can't France even attract engineers and investors from WITHIN the Eurozone, these people don't need Visa. The issue is elsewhere, not in the pool of engineers. France can't even retain its own engineers.
They don't use stilts because of property ownership, but because of terrain and traffic. There are hardly any stilts between Beijing and GZ, for example, because it is easier to just tunnel under hills rather than do both.

I assume the U.K. is rather flat and you wouldn't use stilts at all.
First, a tip -- if you genuinely want to learn more about something, don't start by saying it "seems bogus". Not the best way to open up a discussion.

On to your question: It's hard to pin down the exact root cause, but it seems (in my case at least) to stem from being an outsider -- a y in a sea of x's. When everyone else doing your job has a specific attribute that you don't, you can start to wonder whether you really belong in that role. The literal feeling is, "One of these days, I'll say the wrong acronym in stand-up, the rest of the team is going to figure out that I'm just winging this Agile Scrum thing, and that will be that."

That can mean being the only physicist in a company of CS grads, or the only woman on an all-male engineering team.

Being in a job where you're always learning, received no formal training, and where the expectations are fluid can amplify the feeling, since there's no yardstick against which to compare your performance. If you're a fast learner, it can be hard to believe you've gotten as good at something as people who had years of training/have been doing it for years.
"Swatting is the act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police and 9-1-1 response team to another person's address, based on the false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage-taking or other alleged incident."

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

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Data driven decisions please, all others are opinions and emotion.

If there is a greater (measurable) net benefit to society with Universal Basic Income vs. our socialist agenda of getting into peoples lives more directly (food stamps, healthcare, low income and child subsidies)... then who gives a damn?

If you are unaware, or lacking a deep appreciation, of what money is (fractional reserve banking) then you have little, if anything at all, to contribute to this "debate"
i highly doubt it, especially if you speak english.
No real "news" here.

AIP does many nice studies of where physics PhD's end up.

One of the hardest challenge as a Physics PhD in industry is finding interesting problems. See fig 2.2 for reporting on that: https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/statistics/phd-plus-...
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You can program and you have a degree in fine art. Why aren't you looking for data visualization gigs? It's a lucrative specialty that few people are well suited for.
>>I've had a similar problem and the advice that's always given to me is "The term 'expert' is mostly about perception."

Not sure I agree. I work for a consulting firm. One of our main revenue sources is clients who hire us to fix the mess created by "experts". The difference is that we actually are experts in our problem space - as in, we have lots of experience and technical knowledge - so we can actually add value to our clients' operations.

Don't get me wrong: perception is definitely important. But the worst thing one can do is sell oneself as an expert when they actually aren't. If one is a generalist, they should figure out ways to package that in ways that will resonate with the clients they are going after.

Starting small is good advice, though.
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Don't go there. The limit of freedom of speech is real and can block you. Even when you run a startup that has nothing to do with local politics or anything controversial. Plus, we are still in "state of emergency", that gives the state more rights than the patriot act. Go to the US, Canada or New Zealand.
Just mentioning a Nazi does not invoke Godwin's law. You have to compare the person to a Nazi. The implication here was Nazis were hated in occupied territory but didn't travel in bulletproof bubbles, not that anyone who doesn't travel in bulletproof bubbles is a Nazi.

There was no invocation of Godwin's law here.
> Clearly you have your own unorthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics

None of these ideas are original with me. All of them can be found in the literature. My only contribution (if I've made a contribution at all) is pedagogical.

> and you are quite emotionally attached to it.

Yes, I am quite emotionally attached to the truth. And yes, it does annoy when people promulgate the myth that QM is hard to understand or contains intractable mysteries when I know it isn't true. It particularly annoys me when people say this and simultaneously ignore the incontestable fact that entanglement and measurement are the same thing, in the same sense that space and time are the same and matter and energy are the same. Yes, all of these things are weird, and yet all of these things are true, and none of them are intractable mysteries or even hard to understand.

> I suggest you seek some like minded collaborators and a peer reviewed outlet for your ideas.

Like I said, these aren't my ideas. But I did submit my paper to Physics Today back when I first wrote it in 2001. It was rejected on the grounds that everything in it was already common knowledge.

> As a former member of the physics community I can tell you this is completely false. Everyone is aware of decoherence

But obviously not everyone is aware of its implications. Your challenging me on this is manifest evidence of that. And for 25 years I have been stumping card-carrying physicists with the EPRG thought experiment. Heck, it took me ten years to find anyone in the physics community who knew the answer! (I even had a chance to pose the question to Freeman Dyson, and he didn't know the answer!)
The UK has a similar visa for senior engineers: http://www.techcityuk.com/tech-nation-visa/

"This specific visa can be used for talent coming from anywhere in the world. As an example, we are aware of a recent senior hire from the US that got his visa returned to him in his passport exactly 28 days from submission. This specific visa puts an individual on track to Indefinite Leave to Remain and Citizenship with no need to stick with a particular employer."
> Which means chains are a little thinner

As I understand it, chain stretch is not due to the links stretching. Instead it happens because the rollers wear down and get thinner. And I don't see any reason the rollers need to be different on 10/11/12 speed chains. So if newer chains wear faster, isn't it something else like materials?
Does the 33% corporate tax rate and ~30% personal income tax rate (at a €30k salary) apply to them?
Yes and another ignorant one that presents little evidence for its position.
Physical consumer goods with orders in the $30-$200 range.
New York driver groups push for a ban on autonomous cars...for 50 years.
Does new parent status still happen five years in...?
If that were the sole motivation, I doubt they would leave the raspi accessible as in the picture.
I guess at their scale and the business they're in, it's cheaper to dedicate a few engineer-hours/days/weeks to implement an overkill wiping procedure rather than arguing with potential customers that "no, it's not really feasible to extract usable data with an electron microscope despite what you have read on the interwebs". Or even worse, losing said customers if they're not persuaded by your arguments.
I'd add that the best PMs I've had can code and occasionally did (writing things like QoL scripts or database/ORM stuff for metrics gathering), but it's definitely not part of the day-to-day job.
I studied physics, with intention of becoming a developer (which I did). I didn't have much appetite for a CS course and felt the physics would give me a broader set of skills.
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Right? The price difference between this and a Pi Zero or Omega2 is huge!
Like some of the other commenters, I also enjoy having both a desktop and a laptop. The laptop is of course nice to have to work on the go and in the living room/on trips, but sometimes for more intensive work and graphics (and games), you still can't beat a desktop.

Also, building a desktop is an enjoyable process, and can last you a long time, especially with upgrades. I have my 2500K build from 6 years ago, and it still runs everything including games perfectly (updated video card from a 560ti to a 1080 gtx).

Especially with the price of mid-level components being reasonable these days, I'd highly recommend a desktop in addition to your Thinkpad.
It depends on what you mean by component. Reagent components (ie UI widgets), I agree. Components should be self-contained and as re-frame agnostic as possible. So instead of subscribing to the data they want, they could take in a ratom as an argument (because the subscribe function returns one anyway).

But if the component is larger (that is, not just the view, but also the handlers and subscriptions -- I'd probably call it something else, a service maybe...) then its a bit less simple because not just the view, but also the handlers and subscriptions need to be aware of the "instance" they are running. There's no well defined re-frame solution for this yet.

My favourite solution right now is to have each instance have its own ID as explained here: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame/issues/264#issuecomment-260...

That is, by convention, subscriptions are always [query-name instance-id <other optional data>] and messages are always [message-type instance-id <other optional data>] by convention. This way works quite well, but has the downside that it is by convention and there's no guarantee that other code will do it the same way.
Haven't read yet - only open in a tab, but I thought I'd add it to further the discussion :-)
Trump has a plan that solves all the problems with Obamacare: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vows-insurance...
My copy of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations still has economics written as œconomics.
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Real question for me is that how good french people are at speaking English? If I go there, I wouldn't be able to speak any French on day 1, so It would be nice if there is a decent percentage of people speaking English so that I get by until I learn Essential French.
I disagree. I've heard this from people here, however after living here for some time, I believe the reality is that if you don't speak fluent French, you will be at a severe disadvantage.
In my experience, it depends.

With me, in Berlin everyone would speak English.

In Warsaw and Wroclaw, if I was brought in by one of the group, the whole group would speak English to not be rude. If it's random people, they wouldn't. Single guys or girls not in a group will speak English to you if you're hanging out with them.

I think it largely depends on who it is you're dealing with.

"uneducated" people and the elderly will be less likely to speak or wanting to speak English (cashiers are the worse, in my experience). Most young people will speak English. Programmers and startup people all speak English. Doctors speak English, etc.
> The average annual income for tech industry workers is about $100,000.

Does anyone know what "tech industry worker" means here?

> If the basic income will pay you $30,000 a year to do nothing, and that subsidy goes away as you make more money, so at an income of $100,000 your government subsidy disappears, you are paying an implicit tax rate of 30% on top of the taxes you are already paying to support everyone else's basic income.

The fallacy here is that not all taxes have to be on someone else's income.

> Officially, the poverty rate has only declined from 19% to about 16%—but by the admission of the War on Poverty's own defenders, "If government benefits are excluded, today's poverty rate would be 29 percent." That's what it means to make the poor more secure in their poverty.

Uhm... what? I think the author has a wildly different definition of poverty than I do. In my book, poverty means "not having enough money to afford the basic means of living and participation in society and culture". It's quite irrelevant if that money comes from a state subsidy or from a loan. It just means that I'm dependent on the state rather than on an employer. But for him, state money seems to be non-existent as far as poverty is concerned.
Definitely not a problem with French investors. They're business people who will of course speak English.

The real challenge for a non-French speaking founder would mainly be in dealings with local authorities. You can't expect public servants to speak any English or have any English-translated documentation / forms available.
Freedom of speech issues in France ?? I'd say a good reason not to come here is bureaucracy and taxes, but not issues with freedom of speech... Do you have some facts you'd like to share ?
The American Physical Society maintains numbers on career paths for their student members, and less than 5 percent end up with a Physicist job title. Most end up in the career paths you list.
So no children? It only mentions the spouse.
A large chunk of that capacity will be for private use, not for the capital-I Internet. 280Tbps is about right for interdomain Internet traffic, it lines up with Cisco's predictions/measurements: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-pr...
I don't necessarily disagree, but citing a few references regarding the current state of freedom of speech in France might help your case here.
What limit to the freedom of speech would cause problems to a startup? Do you have any example?
The fact that you're reading an article about a paper Google just published suggests it's not as closed as your doomsaying might suggest. Also the paper notes that Google is one of the largest contributors of bugs and CVEs to KVM, which is a security tide that will raise a lot of boats.
I've said this before in another relocation thread: I'm an expat working in Paris in tech. Sure, everybody at work is able to speak broken English, but most don't enjoy it. Of other expats I know, the ones who went to the effort of learning French, even just the basics (and are working on improving it), are happy here. The ones who came without intending to learn French are miserable. Many French people aren't exactly welcoming to people who don't show effort. If you work in a startup, your ten French colleagues won't happily switch to English during lunch breaks just so you can follow the conversation. (As opposed to Scandinavia, say.)

You're welcome to come, it's great here. But don't come without wanting to learn French. You'll be unhappy.
Human brains are wired to soak up languages. Anybody immersed in another language making a minimum effort, will be fluent enough in six months.

People who say they have experienced the contrary typically go to great length to speak and read their native tongue. It doesn't matter how much you tried at home with a book etc... Once you're immersed and have made the decision to understand and speak the local language, it's like your brain goes on steroid. It is difficult to imagine until you've experienced it.
Not only do I find this fascinating, I also find it fascinating how many of us here at HN find it fascinating (as witnessed by the number of comments and up-votes).

I'm loving the discussion, too!
Does signing the cookie with secondary information such IP or UA help? I know they can both be spoofed, but it's an extra layer...
A book, for which previous editions can often be acquired used for not much money: http://www.ronmartblog.com/2008/04/review-learning-to-see-cr...

Not quite the same as an online course.
I get 7% on several "robo-advisors" (financial advisors that use algorithms instead of people. It's not unheard of... not even uncommon.

As another posted mentioned, if you invest it is widely considered what you should have as a target for your average (some years better, some years worse)
> The bigger point is that it's unreasonable to paint all people who buy used bikes without papers as supporting bike thieves.

It's absolutely accurate to portray them that way; sure, there are some used, no-papers bikes that are not stolen, but people willing to buy such bikes are what creates financial support for bike thieves, since all stolen bikes sold meet that description, and if people weren't willing to buy bikes in that condition stolen bikes couldn't be sold.
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Yeah, well, you can blame the "risk aversion" mentality though. It's a true waste of talent for the country.
> How do you automatically shift everything over?

I use a combination of a home NAS and Syncthing, both of which play nicely with the Windows/macOS/Debian systems I have deployed.
This is definitely a more technical solution than the average user might use, but I've had some great success with network wide adblocking via the Pi-hole package for Raspberry Pi, and setting my DHCP server to point to it as the primary DNS.

It runs a local DNS cache that blacklists ad domains (so basically how uBlock Origin works but utilizing DNS instead of just dropping the elements on the page).

There are a few sites I've had to whitelist but in general I don't even think about it running anymore, but all devices on my local newtork are ad free.
Why put this out prior to French elections?
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> How do you automatically shift everything over?

I'd like to know if there's an easy solution for this as well. I have a laptop and a desktop that I snagged at a university auction [1], both with Ubuntu. I keep a portion of my work in Dropbox, but I'd really like to build a "local network dropbox equivalent" for large directories. I don't have the knowledge to do so.

[1]: http://www.publicsurplus.com/
Because those of us in say, Berlin, are doing our damnedest to encourage them here, where we need them for our engineering teams?
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You are painting agencies with overly broad strokes. I used to help lead the paid search group at a top search agency. Rest assured we did not try to pass off clicks as anything but that. Occasionally we had clients with branding goals and we worked with them to make sure we were adding incremental value, but most were direct response (ie. "Show me the money or you're fired").

A percent of media model isn't perfect, but if a client isn't seeing results, the relationship won't last long, and word gets around.

Now, there are scammy agencies out there, but it is hardly the norm. I loved stealing business from them because it was shooting fish in a barrel with all the problems on those accounts.

Be careful about making such broad, and highly inaccurate statements... They really don't help paint you in the best light.
Most people do not take their hands away from the mouse, and will scroll with the mouse wheel. People are unable to do those things without moving the mouse in some way.
Of course, there are a lot of jobs that aren't done because they're economically unviable - from dance to ministry to full-time parenting. The author is working from a hidden assumption in most economic discussion - that all value can be measured in dollars. If you can't put a dollar value on it, it has no value.

That is, of course, bullshit. But it doesn't stop them.

Beyond food, shelter, health care, communication, transportation... what are our needs, exactly? What problem do we solve by having most adults devoting the majority of their waking hours to something they actively dislike?
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Paris is great, grew up there. You just have to be comfortable with the fact that more than half of your money get taken by the government for taxes and social security.
Germany offers a special visa for people who want to be self-employed. [0]

Additionally, if you have a Bachelor/Master degree in STEM, you can easily get a Blue Card if you receive a contract paying over 50,800 EUR/year. [1] Lower salaries would still enable you to obtain a regular work visa (which is specific to the job title and company).

I've heard Germany is a difficult country to establish a company (GmbH). I can't speak as an entrepreneur, but as an employee it isn't difficult at all to get a work visa from the government. I'd say the only difficulty is that you need to have every document prepared, with a spare copy, and make sure you've provided all the necessary information. German bureaucrats are especially irritable when things are missing/incomplete.

Germany is desperate for skilled workers. You don't even need to speak German to get a job in a big city like Berlin or Frankfurt.

As someone from North America, I'd highly recommend you consider Germany if you'd like to work for a start-up. Berlin is the start-up capital of Europe, and there are so many companies looking for talent you can quickly climb the corporate ladder/salary by moving companies every 12-18 months. You won't be paid as much as in Silicon Valley, but rents are sane and I'd say the quality of life is higher than in the US.

[0] http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/for-qualified-professio...

[1] http://www.bamf.de/EN/Infothek/FragenAntworten/BlaueKarteEU/...