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I don't understand. Anyone can invest in the market. There's no minimum income barrier. In fact, the bottom 90% should be investing in the market for the long term through 401k and IRA plans. Putting your savings into a relatively safe index fund is a responsible way to save for retirement.
one single actor < a few large actors you can choose from < lots of actors to choose from < medium size organizations can and do often run their own < individuals can ran their own (Email Is Here) < individuals commonly run their own

Let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good.
So your investment strategy is trying to time the market?
I don't really understand your comment.

> Most investors have poor returns because they defer to their self-defeating cognitive biases, they don't take the time to understand investing, and they often naively believe they have a simple "system" which will outsmart the market.

The article you cite directly contradicts this. It claims that investors who have the best returns are those who specifically don't take the time to understand investing, and that there very much is a simple "system" that works, namely, forget about your investment account entirely, or at least let it sit dormant for a few decades and do nothing.

More to the point, your comment smells like justifying the wealth disparities, and counters the WP article ("If you start out with wealth, you don’t have to be a financial genius to tap the miracle of compounding and end up with real money.") with... nothing but a vague claim that smart investors can make a lot of money.
All of the concerns you mentioned seem to be based on managing people's time instead of their output.

Except the first one, 5-10 minutes is a normal break, so it wouldn't be anything notable to me how one chooses to allocate their break. They'll produce better results overall vs not taking an hourly-ish break.
I would prefer my employer to offer more liberty than they do. What's the point living in a liberal democracy if my most local of governments, the corporation, is a bunch of Nazi dick bags?
Even macos autolayout subsystem (cassowary solver) can break constraints based on priority as part of regular operation. It is a linear/logical problem, strange that scifi robots fail in it. Probably scifi authors are not aware of non-strict problems.

No-lie should have minimal priority possible, otherwise HAL breaking TLoR is only a matter of time.
I'm fairly sure the Tenderloin doesn't count as a good area for most people.
Well, of course. It's just a common pattern that I've observed (mostly in the npm packages and linux cli tools).
>>I am a Londoner, but I’m a little darker than many Englishwomen because my father is originally from Eastern Europe.

for a reasonably "scientific" article this is an odd statement. most R1A eastern european crowds - polish, ukrainian, belorussian, latvian, lithuanian generally look "whiter" then their "western european" counterparts.
Although, in the longer term, it is unlikely that these tools and pipelines will remain stable, and the interdependence between them often causes you to have to update one to update the other (especially the more dependencies you're dealing with). I realize that most package managers have a way to deal with this (and via semver/good version practices), but sometimes finding the right stable combination of versions of dependencies is like finding the magic incantation.
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I don't understand your last point. Are there employers who are leaving critical-to-them skilled manufacturing positions unfilled because they won't offer a competitive wage?
Well yeah, but then you're living in Atlanta (and after 5 years there, I'm not moving back)
Except (maybe) all of quantum mechanics
And sadly, in the race to stay competitive, it's all too common.
Exactly. I've seen this article and similar ones pop up on Hacker News and Reddit before, and lots of people make comments similar to those in this thread. Literally anyone can invest in the market.
You said the fact that it is illegal makes access unreliable, unsafe and expensive. If find it hard to believe that reversing that situation would not increase usage at all!
Boston area seems to be +50% to +75% in 10 years, like role to like role. That's a CAGR of 5% to 6%. It only takes a CAGR of 7.2% to double in 10 years.

It would be easy for someone who was 2-3 years into their career to now be making double at 10+ years' experience, a couple promotions, and a 50-75% overall salary inflation figure.
No, they're not even close when accounting for inflation. The top 5-10% do earn significantly more than the rest though.
I thought they had removed it entirely. thanks for this
Check out Google Tone:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-tone/nnckeh...

"Broadcast any URL to computers within earshot.
Google Tone turns on your computer's microphone (while the extension is on) and uses your computer's speakers to exchange URLs with nearby computers connected to the Internet. You can use Google Tone to send the URL for any web page, including news stories, pictures, documents, blog posts, products, YouTube videos, recipes—even search results. Any computer within earshot (including over a phone or Hangout) that also has the Google Tone extension installed and turned ON can receive a Google Tone notification."
>Because everyone at MIT has authority to make press releases.

Well, if they don't, that's still a SINGLE organization to my eyes.

Just because some people there might disagreed at the time, it doesn't absolve the organization.
He presumably used checkout on a file with uncommitted changes.
Great, so we're done then!
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from OP,
> chooses heroin over treatment instead

Until people realise that this is a rational and sensical decision there won't be any solutions for these problems and these cases.

The US drug "treatment" / "rehab" industry is notoriously awful and is dominated by pseudo-religious ideologues obsessed with abstinence (to the point that "cult" is often an accurate, non-hyperbolic term) and whose practices are not based on any medical evidence of what reduces deaths. It's a fucked up industry that loves to use degradation, isolation, and humiliation on its "patients", loves to make people withdraw suddenly from their drug use and force them to endure the withdrawal symptoms, and isn't even particularly good at helping people not die from heroin/opioid use.

Given the current state of the rehab industry, and given how ineffective the "treatments" it offers are, it can alas be a rational decision to avoid it.

here's some reading that is relevant:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irr...
http://theinfluence.org/the-rehab-industry-badly-needs-to-cl...
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/28/do_12_step_programs_lead_to_...
http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/dying-to-be-free-heroin-t...
Not much of a leap. At some point you either take a stand, even if it's against the official stance of the organization you work with, or you are branded with its decisions.

"I was just following orders" and/or "I disagreed, but I was in the minority" is not an excuse.
My white buddy got stopped and frisked traveling around Europe with me every time. He has a legit beard. They even asked if they could put their hands inside his pants (inside the waist band). Beards are suspect these days no matter what your background.
I don't think you're going to find an exact, repeatable, cookie-cutter approach to this, because if there was one, somebody would already be using it (and they probably wouldn't share). But while there isn't necessarily an answer, there are plenty of answers to be had, some of them trivially obvious.

So break it down... who do you think has problems? Well, businesses for one. So think about businesses. What do businesses need? Well, they usually need more customers. Or maybe they need to reduce costs. Or both. So think about how the technology you're familiar with could be used to help a business find more customers, or operate more efficiently.

Of course doing this in detail is going to be easier if it's a domain where you have personal experience, but if you don't, just come up with an idea, and then go talk to people about it. If you feel really strongly about it, maybe build a prototype to show off. But be careful of spending tons of time building something before you know if anybody wants it (note: I haven't always followed my own advice here. Also, never take advice from me.)

Another element is: read books. Lots of books. Preferably books about business (sales, marketing, promotion, operations, organization design, strategy, etc.) This will help give you the understanding needed to link technology with business problems like "find more customers" or "reduce costs". What you read in books will always be somewhat non-specific though, so you have to - again - loop back to "talk to people. Lots of people."

If a particular industry interests you, read up on it specifically. Subscribe to the trade journals in that industry, and go to the conferences and trade shows that people in that industry go to. Talk to people there.

Read The Four Steps To The Epiphany by Steve Blank.

Use LinkedIn to find people to connect with and talk to. Favor having actual conversations with people over doing surveys using SurveyMonkey or the like.

If you do enough of all this, at some point, you'll probably come up with a pretty good list of possibilities.

Note that while this is pretty simple, it's not easy. People won't return your phone calls or emails, or will agree to meet you and then not show up. You'll come up with what you think is a great idea, then start looking around and find that 375235028372512.7 other companies are already doing something in that space. Or you'll fall in love with one of your ideas too early, spend a ton of time building it, and then find out that that A. nobody wants it AND B. 375235028372512.9 other companies already built something similar. Etc., etc., etc. Don't get discouraged, just keep plugging. Read this essay by pg: www.paulgraham.com/die.html
If that were indeed the case then this shouldn't have been called an MIT award.
Thought this was going to be about Chinese subcons a la Foxconn and friends. A different kind of tech worker but maybe not such a difference in lifestyles.
The first word in the award: Disobedience.
Cash was the wrong choice of words.

Usually really rich people have more known downside risk from taxes. Lots of municipal bonds, treasury stuff and cash. If the money is tied up in company stock they often live off lines of credit.

Remember that top X% of wealth isn't the same as income.
Looks like someone's already on it: https://github.com/brhs/nomouse/pull/2
I've never understood the sentiment that using a mouse is bad. I see blog posts all the time about how a programmer's job is more thinking than writing code and/or writing good programs is also about taking out just as much code as you put in. So if writing programs is a deliberate and methodical process that - I'd argue it's also slow. Why then is there antithesis that mice slow you down and you need keyboard shortcuts to be faster and more productive?

Maybe I'm just an old-schooler?
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Oh. I'm fully aware of the differences between the novel and the movie (and also the fact that they were complementary and simultaneous works). I'm just arguing that in the movie HAL may actually be insane.

As an aside, I liked the movie better. It is a timeless work of art and (to me) the measure of every non-space-opera space movie, whereas the book was ok but not memorable.
The correct form of that is that if someone says that they are under pressure, it's not your place that they aren't. However people both can be and are frequently dishonest with themselves about WHERE pressure is coming from.

The challenge with Steve's rules is that people have to fight defensive behavior within themselves. If you believe that Steve will use your actions against you, it is really hard to follow his rules. If everyone follows his rules with trust that things will work well, following them is easy and things work well. If you can't trust him, then you don't belong in that organization.

But given what I know about him from years of observation at a distance, he means what he says and says what he means. I do not believe that he will use people's actions against them. And it would quickly not work out for him if he did.
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In most cities (not limited to US) it now takes 20 or 30 years of rent to make up the price of a property.
Wealth disparities will always exist as long as information takes time to distribute and is not public. This is, I think, what the GP means when an "average investor" thinks he has information or a system that the market doesn't and trades on it. If that trade succeeds, it reinforces his behavior. If it fails, something else must have gone wrong but he keeps letting his system drive his money until he can't take the losses (or he makes a bunch of large trades successfully and quickly retires).

It's the equivalent of poking the market with a stick with a pavlovian response when there's several academic fields that would explain a great amount for you instead (which was expensive before the internet).
Not if this is code for Roma.
I keep my own work hours and schedule my work around deadlines. If I have a deliverable Friday afternoon and I'm going to sleep in the morning, I have to get it done Thursday night. The beauty of this for me is that I know what my productive hours will be and I can work during them, rather than shoving work into a specific time frame regardless of my circumstances.

Things like going to the store I can do any time of day, pretty much. With things like doctor visits or work meetings that happen in the daytime, I'll stay up late or get up early as necessary. I can usually get back "on schedule" very easily just by going to sleep when I feel tired and getting up when I'm rested. I'll usually go to bed and get up close to when I usually do because of where my circadian rhythm is, and even if my schedule moves a few hours one way or another, that doesn't have a detrimental effect because I'm so used to the lifestyle.

It's pretty consistent. I used to track it on a sleep app but I've gotten out of the habit (it's not been necessary). I don't think there's been a month recently where I haven't completed a full rotation. Back when I was tracking data, I have graphs of my sleep schedule making a diagonal pattern across the month. It's very reliable.
If 'the 99%' owned the robots it could help
I think Trump will go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever elected. Still happy that my retirement account is doing well, though. The two facts are almost totally independent.
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Under a certain light SF is a company town, especially when you define the 'company' as the collective of Venture Capitalists that have profit interests in every tech shop here.
Hello world! in PHP is simply:

Hello world!

People forget PHP is still a template language for the web.
Making you less unproductive to theoretically eventually make you more productive somewhere down the line. Love it!
Actually, the correct way to write it is "Daylight-Saving Time" [0]. I strongly suspect that had it been commonly written this way from the beginning, people would have understood how the phrase is constructed -- it means, the time that saves daylight -- and the whole "daylight savings" thing would never have gotten started. Consider that the hyphenated form also suggests a different pronunciation, with the primary stress on "day" and secondary stress on "sav", rather than the other way around which is how most people pronounce it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Compound_modifiers
1900$ is ridiculously expensive. Even in Manhattan you can get a nice private Bedroom in shared apartment (3 to 5 BHK) for significantly less than that. At 1900$ you can get a bedroom in shared 2 Bedroom apartment physically next to the Google building in Chelsea.
Given how capital is taxed, no.
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Respectfully, I disagree with

> The cost of housing reflects the opportunity you find in the area.

The cost of housing reflects the market for housing which is driven by many factors, including local opportunity.

Again, with all due respect, the tone deafness isn't on my part (and I don't ask for 5x salary).

It is on recruiters calling me up, telling me how wonderful it is there, then offering salaries on par with, if not below what I am making or being offered elsewhere. I have to help them understand the very real aspect of opportunity cost, the huge negative impact, and that if they want someone like me to view this as an attractive offer, they are going to need to think about these issues.

Put another way, the symptom I alluded to is one where you wind up pricing pretty much all of the talent out of the area. Which, as the invisible hand of the market often does, fixes the problem for you.

Are some people willing to lower their quality of life, live in a dorm with N other people, in a space they cannot call their own, for exorbitant rates? Yes, of course. The article was about that.

Is this a stable scenario? I doubt it. I could be wrong, but I've seen too many of these cycles to buy into "housing prices always rise." Or, "the reason it is so expensive is due to opportunity."

The reason it is so expensive is due to rent-seeking behavior, driven in part but not in whole by opportunity. At what point will people say "no more"? That is the question I find interesting.
Thanks, I guess I could just have some special key that triggers pry-remote (E.g trap ctrl-D or something)
I'd vote for Swartz or Snowden any day. But IMO voting for Swartz would serve mostly to shame MIT. Voting for someone else might make a difference to a live person.
jeez. I was going crazy trying to figure it out. thanks :)
You probably would've made more money with some bond allocation and re-balancing
Maybe not, but buy-and-hold of low-cost index funds and dollar-cost averaging investing has historically resulted in above-average investment returns and easy paths to retirement.

If your goal is to get rich or a significant share of the market then just be like Buffett: brilliant at risk estimation and a real eye for spotting value in the market. Of course, that experience takes years to acquire.
Except for a lucky few (who get all the attention as if they've cracked a secret code to producing wealth), no one really gets rich from investing.

There are two ways to get rich: (1) be smart and work your tail off, or (2) get lucky.

Path #1 involves a bit of #2, but not as much as some people might believe. Also, "working hard" doesn't mean going to work and putting in a lot of time/effort day after day; it has more to do with constantly seeking to improve skills that are of value to the world, expanding your network, and doing more with less.

That last bit is important: too many people do improve their earning potential significantly over time, but never feel "rich" because they imperceptibly scale their lifestyle and spending patterns to match (or surpass) their increased earnings.

At the end of the day, investing should be regarded as a way to simply stretch the money you do make farther (on a long-term scale). That's not to say it can't significantly contribute to one's wealth over time, but without extraordinary luck, investment returns are usually more of a slow and steady multiplier to your own earnings.

If you're investing to become rich, you might as well play the lottery.
You should only go into the DevOps world after you have also gained systems engineering experience too which is the Ops part of DevOps. This would involve the capability to setup from scratch a Linux, Unix and or Windows server which would include securing and setting up the security, web, database, mail, and networking services (IIS, Apache, NGINX, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MariaDB, Exchange, Sharepoint, sendmail, postfix, etc.) in a secure manner remotely using only SSH and or PowerShell depending on the environment you are in.

You would also be expected to be able to setup disaster recovery COOP (continuity of operations plan) and backup setups for the site along with testing and executing them on a regular basis if the site requires it. You should also have a very good understanding of virtualization technology (VMWare, Xen, AWS, Google Cloud, Citrix, KVM) and orchestration technology (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, VMWare Orchestrator, etc.) Basically you are also expected to be at least an intermediate level systems engineer with experience in systems automation that can also do secure software engineering.

It is not hard if you have been doing both for 5+ years, but will take some time especially if you have never had a full-time job as a systems engineer building and tearing down information systems from scratch for local private and public internet facing systems, along with automating. If you have had experience as a full time systems engineer I would say go ahead as it would compliment your software engineering experience of web applications along with the testing that you have done to make a pretty good DevOps Engineer.
Seems like the "cure" comes when you get the sleep deprivation from waking up early, not staying up late. Well it's a little more complicated since they start with a day of total deprivation, but the days after are focused on waking up early. Something I might try.
It does if we're living in a simulation.
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Person, no. Family or institution very much yes. All it takes is for something to never sell stocks an always invest dividends as cheaply as possible, then wait. Sure there is going to be pressure to use that money for something, but someone can seed an organization whose only goal is to grow.

Suppose a long now charity whoes goal is interplanetary colonies once it hits 10% world resources it starts spending dividends.
Are you sure you're allowed to print other company's logos on stickers and sell them?
Completely agree. I remember the primaries thinking wow... the scary thing is one of these people will be president.
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Why would anyone want to implement their own DST? Why would anyone need to trick themselves by changing their clocks when they can just decide to get up at a different time?

And what was going on before DST was invented? Chaos?

And where people ignore this idea? Is it chaos there?
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The discipline of thinking before typing is one that requires experience.
I suspect that many young developers are stuck with not knowing what to type, and try to find solutions to their apparent lack of productivity (a guilt-free way of procrastinating).

I jest, mostly ;)
Give it to the white helmets. They disobey their basic human survival instincts everyday.
I think the idea is that there are times when using the keyboard is faster than using the mouse, whether it's using a certain editor or knowing the program's keyboard shortcuts. There's also the time taken to switch between using the keyboard and the mouse. It's kind of a micro-optimization.
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Exactly. I used to be one of these hardcore guys typing fast and never taking my hands off the keyboard; then I got RSI and learned to appreciate value slow methodical approaches.
I can tell you that candidates from outside the bay area made all the same arguments in 1989, the year I moved to Cupertino from a very low cost state. And yes there were several booms and busts since that time.

So go ahead, place your bet.
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