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Maybe he is an asshole, but at least Larry Ellison didn't build a company to spy on half the planet like Page & Brin.
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What specifically could he do?
That's the point, GP was wondering why some one would suggest nameing a sewer after Calhoun and found a quote from Calhoun himself (as opposed to some third party that could be accused of drinking haterade) showing him to be a human sewer.
Step 1 to ending your singleness: STOP WORKING SO DAMN MUCH. Seriously. You said it yourself, you don't have time for anything else. Stop giving your employer so much free work. Take your time back, and use that extra 20 to 30 hours for YOU, not to make some other asshole rich. Take up a new hobby or something, and get out and meet people.

This goes for everyone else, too. Don't feel you have to give your employer so many free hours. The work will still be there in the morning. No one is going to die because you decided to work normal hours.
This talk describes the "Acoustic" deactivation function in the Bosch ECU (SW+HW by Bosch, not VW), which detects the test cycle and stops AdBlue when it leaves the cycle.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7331.htm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLZLxzYCarw

This acoustic deactivation trick was given to several car makers, which do make heavy us of it. VW is not even on the top of the list of the affected engines. But VW has the most money and marketshare, so they went after the them.

Didn't check the update from this year CCC talk yet.
Ambiguous, leading statements allow a listener to assume the content in lieu of specifics.

In the spirit of the MSM's "Fake News" news lately, I submit a seemingly innocuous example: Of all of the "Supermoon" articles back in December(and priors), how many mention the fact that the closest full moonrise is indiscernable in size to the naked eye as the furthest full moonrise? Besides Phil Platt, I believe the answer is approaching 0. Yet, every MSM news site/channel promoted it as "the biggest in ~100 years", many webizens clicked the links, some even went out to watch it live and most now believe it appeared physically larger than any other full moonrise in ~100 years.

edit:added "in" to discernable.

swapped ~ for +/-.
There's also a fantastic recent album of abstract electronic music from Andrew Pekler inspired by this book:

https://andrewpeklerfaitiche.bandcamp.com/album/tristes-trop...
You're thinking of state medical boards, but the AMA is a non-profit that engages in extensive lobbying and, via the American Board of Medical Specilities (http://www.abms.org/about-abms/ ), exerts some degree of control of their profession. (I.e., you must join an organization and demonstrate proficiency to call yourself a "board-certified pediatrician.") The AMA calls themselves "more than just a union," and many members are self-employed, but I think it still constitutes a union.

You're right that the AMA has never threatened or carried out violence, but then again, neither have any professional unions I've ever heard of.

For the record, I've spent ~6 years in unionized workplaces and never heard the school teachers, university professors, or government employees who had union cards conspire to commit violence. I would recommend reading about professional unions before decided that they are violent based on "History?".
>That, and you also can't change your relationship status to married retroactively without Facebook notifying every person in your contact list.

Updating your relationship status to single doesn't notify anyone any more, fyi.
> It didn't achieve the popularity it sought

By what metric?

POSIX was never trying to be the universal interface for all kinds of applications, just some sane common interface for UNIX vendors, all of which do implement POSIX to a large extent these days.

You could perhaps make the argument that by the time POSIX saw enough adoption, software development evolved and that nowdays there are lots of interfaces that are not part of POSIX/not portable, but that's a slightly different issue.
Except that all of the Android code is open source and you could port its runtime or API to any platform you like.

The argument you're making is that Oracle is the only party who should be able to extend Java, despite their also releasing it under an open source license. Which, if they hadn't done, no one would have used it to begin with -- as seems to be the direction things are headed given their recent behavior.
Single lane one-way road you mean?
It used to be called Facebook Messenger. Not sure when it changed.
They originally claimed patents too, which is why this keeps going to the federal circuit instead of the 9th, who would have ended this silliness
>> Pensions are delayed payments for work already done.

That's your view, not mine. Bankrupt governments are a fact for the both of us.
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Right, but I don't know what happens when you are a "stateless" person. Are you ever allowed in ANY country? Are you deported from the US after becoming stateless? I have never seen a good explanation of what happens AFTER becoming stateless.
He failed to make half the world use his company's products, among other things.

BTW I'd appreciate if you gave an example of a highly successful and ethically impeccable company.
No, SF and tech companies are going to be socially conscious and Change the World.
Cool taxonomy, but are there really only four types? Let's try with some examples.

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut - imagines a future where mechanical automation and IQ-optimized hiring leads to mass unemployment, but extensive welfare systems keeps the mediocre masses well-fed, just demoralized and without dignity. Combination of Huxleyan with Kafkaesque?

The Handmaid's Tale - Orwellian with a pronounced patriarchal-religious emphasis

Anthem by Ayn Rand - generic Orwellian with a primitivist/preindustrial Luddite version of Phildickian.

(Actually, we run into a convergence there. Isn't Orwellian thought control simply the overt forcible version of Phildickian thought control, the latter is more indirect, subtle, and possibly not even enforced by the state but private actors and individuals? Both involve rewriting your mind to reject liberty.)

Fahrenheit 451 - similar Phildickian rewriting of reality through both Orwellian (the firemen, the unspecified war in the background) and Huxleyan (parlor walls, overload of useless factoids) means.

Atlas Shrugged - world/U.S. in the beginning is not totalitarian, but a generic degenerate socialist bureaucratic state in decline. Whether or not Galt's Gulch is totalitarian, and what type it is, can be left as an exercise to the reader.

Neuromancer, Snow Crash, other classic cyberpunk works- not totalitarian, but heavy on the Huxleyan decadent consumerist society coupled with Phildickian distortion of reality themes.

Brazil by Terry Gilliam - perfectly Kafkaesque.

Would appreciate classification of some other classic dystopian totalitarian works, such as We by Zamyatin or even Animal Farm. Do any of them express totalitarianism in a way that breaks the four-type classification system?
Disclaimer: PP employee--below opinions are my own and do not represent PayPal.

Things I have actually seen myself:

* Charging a fee to use PayPal that is not charged otherwise.

* Modal dialogs before PayPal describing PayPal as slower / riskier / less customized / etc.

* Disallowing PayPal for certain items.

I'm sure there are a lot of others. As patio11 mentioned in a comment below, this sort of boilerplate is common for Payments and I don't see it as unreasonable to ask for equal treatment to be given.
There is only one way you can get out of the grind, let go of the reward and just go and very seriously and scarily challenge yourself. I've made and lost a lot of money in my life.
The performance is really good for progressive web apps, I installed this polyphonic drum machine prog web app on my nexus 5x and it runs in airplane mode and performs as well or even better than a "native android" java app.
Paket makes dependencies a bit more reasonable, though

https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/

But I agree, even Yarn/npm is better than the current state of dependencies for F#
You know what they say about assuming, except that it's not true; you just make an ass of yourself.
The problem is what happens when that money runs out? It will be very hard to get back in the tech job market. Things move so fast you will be obsolete in 2 years.
> The should probably a more complex IPC layer on top or beside it. Something like DBus with schemas, names, groups, broadcasts, etc because otherwise people will reinvent it poorly.

People also tend to reinvent stuff poorly that they consider as "bloated" or "unnecessarily complex for their use case". I just say C++ vs. Java (Java was indeed also marketed at the beginning that C++ is unnecessarily complex; besides the famous "write once, runs everywhere"), XML vs. JSON, CORBA vs. SOAP (no, please don't start a flame war which of these is the better one ;-) ).
Overcomplicated?

Compare that to manual locking required for rust concurrency or c++ concurrency. Or the copying overhead you get with Go, which can still deadlock.

pony does not need any locks, just proper types.
And it can copy or share state in threads.
And it has nominal or structural types.
Old-style inherited or new mixin OO.

It is far advanced over rust.
Just distributed actors as in Erlang are not there yet.
It's probably not a good idea. Children don't tend to have the best judgement.
Ummm ... it's not? I wrote it myself.
You should move to Santa Barbara then. 2 hours north of LA, gorgeous weather, beaches, mountains with great hiking, etc... it's really nice. There are a lot of tech companies that have sprung out of UCSB.
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Many things that people do without it being "a job" have a significant impact on shaping society. To the degree that your concern is legitimate (and I think to some degree it is) it is a concern about automation irrespective of basic income.
One of the inefficiencies of embedding agents like this seems to be that they're subject to the same vagaries of chance as all of us.

What are the chances of an agent being hired and then promoted to have access to an SCI file you're interested in?

It seems a pretty poor bet compared to turning individuals already in relevant positions.
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> I think this discussion misses the point what "everything is a file" is about.

I don't agree. POSIX systems provide APIs to wait on events on file descriptors – select, poll, etc. I can use those APIs to wait on an event on a pipe, a network socket, a device file, etc. To wait on an event on anything which is represented by an file descriptor.

But what if I want to wait for a child process to exit? I can't use select/poll for that since processes are not represented by file descriptors in standard POSIX – FreeBSD is a notable exception, but FreeBSD's facilities are non-standard.

If I want to simultaneously wait on both a child process to terminate and a message to arrive on a socket, I am forced to use multiple threads. For example, I could have a thread to execute waitpid() and then have it write to a pipe, and have another thread select/poll on both that pipe and the network socket. If processes were represented by file descriptors, I could have a single thread doing a select/poll on both the network socket and the child process.

> In other words that mantra is about simplicity. Simplicity is what enables software to exist.

Yes, and POSIX fails to be simple here. By failing to sufficiently unify its abstractions, it forces application code to be more complex than it should be.
> This fragments the ecosystem and essentially allows Android to benefit from the works of the Java rightholders without making those contributions equally as useful to Oracle Java itself.

Java SE, Java EE and JavaME are incompatible. Java was already fragmented by their creators
Hell I think it's just barely hanging on in acedamia
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I don't think there is any support for me being antagonistic toward FreeBSD.

I've addressed openbsd elsewhere in this stream.
It is, in fact, more secure because is bigger. But that's not the only reason. See also: rest of thread.
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If you want to meet people, you have to free up some time. Even if you don't want to meet people, you should free up some time; that you can't figure out how to solve this suggests you have no energy for imagination and creativity.

Since you're working 60-70 hours per week, your employer probably expects that. So change jobs, and possibly change cities. You don't have to have your current job situation, and it's hurting you.

300K is just a number. You would probably do better to reduce your expenses (more time would allow you to cook for yourself, by the way, which has numerous benefits). Apartment, car lease/payments, subscriptions to stuff you don't use (cable?), all of that should go. Small apartment, small reliable used car, get rid of HBO, etc.

Save as much money as you comfortably can: short term cash savings, medium term CDs and the like, long term index funds and the like, and max out your 401K or IRA.

When you have enough FY money, tell whoever's in front of you to FY (politely), and spend more time working on what you like in a job/activity that allows that.

Live a life that's enjoyable, and you'll find someone that enjoys that life too.
Hell, even in academia people hate it =\
Check out http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40720/latex-in-indust....

I like the one about the Deutsche Bahn (german railway company) using TeX to typeset the time tables on the train stations.
This comment comes across as small minded and pessimistic without real evidence. Scientists and engineers typically help the world, with or without money. See Gates, Stallman, Page & Brin, Clair Cameron Patterson, etc
Sounds to me like you're unhappy with your personal life. I would suggest to focus on finding more ways to date women (e.g. dating websites, tinder, etc) and maximizing that first. Try to understand why women are not in to you, it might be because how you behave.

The first thing you should figure out is what you want to do in life, what you want to be and to achieve. Then, you will need to build a path towards there. If you plan on getting to financial independence, you need to plan it wisely.

The first option is to build a business. Some options are very safe but most are not, so it would be hard to find the right opportunity there. It is possible (I did it) but it's hard. By the way, if you don't want to do things that require front-end, you can do things like a paid API service or things like that.

The second option is to maximize salary by becoming a rare asset. Special skilled workers can bill 2k/day, putting you at around a 500k annual salary, even for doing things like front-end development. What you need to do to get there is to acquire skills that are considered to be in high demand right now in the market (e.g. front-end development, DevOps) and they don't ask you if you have a masters degree or not.

The third option is to become an executive, and that requires strategic thinking, and mainly showing your organization that they can trust on you. Plus - being super extra friendly to everyone would help.
You're saying that Windows async IO calls aren't async and in fact they will block on reading and writing? I've never heard of that.
This layer of support is also becoming thinner and older.

It's not about age(ism) it's that Oracle stabbed them in the back by pushing cloud over on-prem where these guys (and gals) were employed. Now Oracle's biggest supporters are re-skilling to Postgres et al and stopped recommending Oracle to their organisations...
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For an elaboration on your first answer, look up The Last Psychiatrist. Lots of interesting analysis of American society within the framework of narcissism. And to be honest I was convinced by a lot of his arguments, it's a very applicable framework.
I don't think that's true. POSIX was written in the 90s, when many of these frameworks didn't exist. It's still nice that I can run GNU tools on basically any POSIX platform and I think many (developers) would notice its disappearance.

User's probably won't notice, but they tend not to care about standards anyway.
The reality is that TrueNorth can use CNNs and be trained with backprop to achieve good performance with networks like ImageNet despite LeCun's comments [0, 1]

LeCun's primary critique is that binary wont work; "to get good results on a task like ImageNet you need about 8 bit of precision on the neuron states". There was no evidence for his claim then, and now this is clearly false [2, 3].

LeCun's post is based more in pride than reason; he spends most of the time talking about NeuFlow which at one point was a competitor to True North for funding. In the end, NeuFlow never became a chip, but True North did.

[0] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5862-backpropagation-for-energy...

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.08270.pdf

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05279

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02830
Biking? +100

Breathing that air? -1000

No thanks.
Again: the audience for these instructions isn't asking for explanations or justifications. If you have a concern with any of these instructions, write a comment detailing it, and someone will respond.
>ethically impeccable company

First of all this is moving the goalposts significantly and is also an impossible standard. I would say that Apple and Microsoft are more ethical than Google but the question is of course along what axis?
I don't think you are grinding. You have time to go to the gym :)
Pun aside, you should start enjoying life, socialize and forget about getting big bucks. If you are happy then who cares.
It's not that Ubuntu releases aren't production-ready, it's that no major OS releases are production-ready - hence Windows 8.1, and one of the reasons why Enterprise is still on 7. By using LTS, you get to skip that nonsense for years, and jump directly into a release which has had its kinks ironed out (or at least documented).

As for Debian security updates, what do you mean?
It reads like the kind of spam that will link me to a program that wants 8 easy payments of $12.99 for a few pamphlets by mail and a patented pheremone spray, guaranteed to help pick up women.
If you ask nice, I bet you could get Ari Lerner to give you getbeehive.com.

https://github.com/auser/beehive
Lying about fake news:

https://sputniknews.com/us/201612081048298376-washington-pos...

It's lies like that that legitimize Trump in the eyes of his followers.
POSIX mostly wasn't even designed to handle the things most of these frameworks do, so how it could be said that it failed?
Before I complain, is there anyway to save a post on fb? Every now and then I like something and want to get back to it someday...
> Scientists and engineers typically help the world, with or without money

Of course they do, the actual change has always been done by engineers and scientists, however, history only remembers the rulers and recently entrepreneurs
That's true, but the availability of OpenJDK (which, after all, Google have now switched to) weakens Oracle's argument on the "Effect on the market" factor.
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Don't forget that Planet just bought Terra Bella who has a fleet that can image at a higher resolution then Planet's
It was sometime in the last year wasn't it? I ask because I seem to recall a kerfuffle with Messenger and the new(ish) Google SMS app also called Messenger.
Realistically, I believe you will have to start your own business to achieve the level of success you want. The "system" is just not designed to get people to high levels of financial success by "grinding" working for someone else. The only real way to do that is to live well below your means, and invest your surplus income very wisely over a long period of time. But honestly, does that sound fun?

The problem with the "start your own business route" is that it's not easy. And success, while extremely possible is not guaranteed. OTOH, the nice thing about the business world is that you can try over and over again, and - as the old saying goes - "you only have to be right once."

I guess there are some people who achieve financial independence solely through trading (currency|commodities|stocks|derivatives|etc), but I feel like most of the stories you hear of wild success doing that are apocryphal stories, or - at the very least - impossible to replicate.

One other thought is to go into sales. The thing about sales is that you are basically in control of how much you earn (to a point). The harder you work, and the better you get at selling, the more money you can make. Sell enterprise software for Oracle or IBM or somebody, I am pretty sure some of those guys / gals are pulling down some serious dosh.

I'll also throw in a plug for watching Grant Cardone's videos on Youtube. He's a veritable fountain of advice on business/life/success.

As far as the thing with women goes... others have already said it, but it's mainly just about confidence. And it's also something of a numbers game. Honestly, I'd say jump into the PUA community for a while... not with the goal of becoming "a PUA", but just to reset some of your current beliefs about dating and women. Doing approaches using canned routines and what-not and having even limited success, can go a long way towards improving your confidence and help you interact with women in a way that is more productive. Just don't get overly caught up in that world.

Edit:

Let me add this: the very first thing you need to do is quit your current job. Working 60/70 hours a week and doing extensive travel is bullshit, especially for only $130K. You should easily be able to make that with a job with no travel, working 40 hours a week. Make that your first step. That frees up 20/30 hours a week that you can then use to advance yourself towards YOUR goals, instead of working to make the owners of your current employer rich. If you have enough savings, quit on Monday. If not, start contacting recruiters and trawling through job boards first thing Monday morning (or better yet, right freaking now).
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> I like to think I'm getting better at being generally skeptical and slowly layering together a coherent, mutually supportive set of usefully accurate mental models of how the world works

You may be interested in the Meaningness project: http://meaningness.org
I'm an EE, and you are totally correct.
There are two FreeBSD committers on staff (one second, the other ports), the author of the O'Reiley book on git, the guy who rewrote the GUI, and three others.

Several have really deep telecommunications equipment / router vendor experience.

Plus gnn, whom, as you say is a consultant. If we're going to include him, we should include Patrick Kennedy, who has done work on libuinet for us.