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code release isn't always the most important. bret victor never released code to any of his prototypes, but the ideas conveyed in his interactive essays have inspired many hackers to come up with their own solutions, or to adapt his ideas into their systems. e.g.,

http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

good ideas live a lot longer than code.
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Of all the ways to influence an election, revealing true facts seems to be by far the best for the Democratic process.

Of course it would be better if hacking wasn't part of that. And you can argue that foreign influence in the election is a bad thing. But the American people really have no standing to complain about that, not with all the well known instances where the US meddling in other countries elections.
They say to never
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Well I have to tell you this that there are a lot of companies that want you basically re-engineer the whole universe and want to pay you peanuts while I can get a DECENT salary (eg. your 70-75k vs 100k) and have time for my family and hobbies doing less challenging job.

I won't comment on whether the guy was or could be a senior because I obviously did not attend the interview but there are many many incredibly skilled people that just suck at doing f2f / online interviews.
So how large do you think such a diagnosis effect may be? That other paper reported only 7% of clinical diagnoses were lab positive for measles in Singapore.

And yet another effect to deal with is that people used to spread measles on purpose:

“Before the introduction of measles vaccines, measles virus infected 95%–98% of children by age 18 years [1–4], and measles was considered an inevitable rite of passage. Exposure was often actively sought for children in early school years because of the greater severity of measles in adults.”
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/189/Supplement_1/S4.fu...

I think for these reasons it is clear the effectiveness of measles vaccines has been overstated, it is only a matter of how much.
The EU forbids its member states from reinstating capital punishment; if, for example, the fellow who attacked Parliament last week had lived and the UK wished to execute him it would be unable to.

As I recall, EU directives were behind the ban on traditional units of measure in the UK, although that may be incorrect.
> Who didn't know what the DoE did until after he was nominated?

Couldn't remember the name of it either, but was going to get rid of it regardless!
Well, this is a different war story.

We just received a new Mainframe from IBM. Big beast big power consumption.

My primary task was to be Sysadmin of LPAR/instances of Linux inside the new IBM.

The new mainframe was unpacked, and the power connectors had to be "modified" to the local standard. You know.. You ask your local contractor to read the manual in English and hope for the best.

There was two person on that day on that Data Center. Me and the IBM Tech Representative.

Well, I was checking some blade servers looking at the Robotic library, and I see him plugin it 5 meters from me.

I just heard a BANG. And for the first time, I saw an electric fire. Like a Dragon spitting green fire. I shout for him stop and move away. He by instinct unplugged it (I grabbed a chair to throw at him if by chance he gets stuck on electricity).

It stops.
And everything gets pitch black.
Lights on
He looks at me.
I look behind. And there are. 200 servers Down. all Down.
It even had broken the APS system.

I walk to the extension. Dial 28 to my co-worker and say:

"P.... come here. Serious! Get everybody here... Big problem.. BiiiiiiiiiiiiiG."
We had to start everything on its right orders (SAN storage, ADs, Servers, SQL) but we knew it.

8 minutes late the electricity company appears the IBM tech had to go to the hospital with cardiac arrest by the stress.

The IBM tech guy got lucky and is alive.
I got a good recommendation for keeping cool in emergency situations.
Curious if you have any sources on the number or type of jobs that are automatable but not yet currently. It seems like a ripe market for the right people. I know law is one I find particularly interesting.
There won't be a free market solution to land-based ISPs. After the government broke the telcos up, they just consolidated again. Now we have less than half-dozen large ISPs, and states are trying to ban local governments from creating co-ops! Maybe one or two entrants will come in (google Fiber, who stopped expanding), and only then, it will be from GOVERNMENT enforcing free use of easements.

Certain industries have a tendency to be monopolistic, or else have incredibly high barriers to entry. ISPs should be regulated to protect customer privacy. This is the equivalent of USPS, the public library, and the phone company selling your data to whoever wants it, and it's wrong.
Upgrading a library that has been statically linked isn't as nice as a shared lib + afaik the OS doesn't reuse memory for static libs.
> we have yet to create a system where you could simply explain the rules of Go and have it devise a set of steps to play Go at the master level

I don't play Go, but I don't think a human could do this, either. While we can grok a set of rules to get us started on a problem, to really master complex problems we also need examples and repetition, though far fewer examples than is needed by the current state-of-the-art in ML.
To be more precise: in 1966, France left indeed the integrated military structure, but it did not left NATO itself which is also a political structure. The goal of de Gaulle was to have all French troups under only French command (and not US or UK who were leading nearly everything then in NATO) and to have all foreign military bases leave France, so that France regains its full sovereignty. De Gaulle was very critical of the US wars led at the time actually and he wanted to have Europe independent from both the USSR and the USA (and as he considered the UK as the pawn of the USA and not reliable in their commitment to Europe, he was opposed to them entering the EU). A fun fact was that it was also a incidentally a smart move economically, even if those US military bases closings were hurting the towns they were in: because of the Mansfield agreements around precisely 1966, Germany which still had US bases was giving more and more money as part of participating to the defense of Germany (2 billions $ in the year 1971 alone for example). This is quite like what president Trump tried to reinstate very recently by presenting a bill to Angela Merkel, but Germany now is not the same as West Germany in 1966.
Something I read long ago (and can't find) was that privacy is a relatively recent part of humanity. In the past, we lived in small groups where everyone knew each other very well.

Now we live in big groups, which provide pseudo-nymity.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my head is a way to democratize the information collected about us. Right now, certain "people" (including companies and government organizations) have lots of access to lots of data and the rest of the population has very little access to that information.

Does privacy matter as much if we share observations as humans likely did in the past?
My experience has been that options have negative value. I learned this the hard way when I exercised options from a firm that has since gone sideways. I ended up with a $40,000 tax bill on stock that is worthless.

Nowadays I only look at companies that can offer RSUs. Until the re-write the tax code to stop taxing people on fictional gains, options are crap, especially with companies remaining private far longer than you are likely to remain working there.
Yes, but containers also provide more stuff that I might not want to deal with.
Except the data is cleaned of personal information, correct? The top comments on the reddit thread of this issue are all about how this is impossible.
I know all of these wonderful gentlemen and their businesses... how are you defining "rich"? In terms of personal fulfillment? At $500K - $1.1M in MRR per month, nobody is getting rich here (just yet).
It's Chrome only but "GraphiTab" might be of interest for you: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/graphitabs/dcfclem...
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Agree? I couldn't disagree more. Property is liberty. The government, at least in the form of the Constitution of the USA, exists to ensure & protect ownership of property. My whole thesis in this thread is that you can achieve complete self-sufficiency with little more than a few quite affordable acres, and that it is perfectly reasonable to expect every able-bodied adult to produce at least that much by some equivalent effort.

Go to zillow.com, enter a very low price range as search criteria, and select whatever state you like. Land is absolutely available to anyone who wants it. Should you buy land, the government exists in major part to precisely identify what land is yours, to defend it, and to provide at least minimal infrastructure (roads, mail) to facilitate it.

You are in no way forced to sell labor-power for wages, it's just a whole lot easier & more convenient & productive than tilling the soil the hard way. Capitalism succeeds precisely because mutually-beneficial contracts let people voluntarily leverage each other for greater mutual productivity.

I'm not sure how you construe "taking [property] is theft" into "property is theft". Polar opposites to me.

You're landless? you don't want to sell your labor-power for wages? For just $8000 (obtainable via gov't welfare or your own productivity) I can put you on 20 acres next week, with a comprehensive multi-thousand-page manual on how to live off it.
Seeing as the last commit was Dec. 2015, I think it's safe to say it's dead.
We are now getting pretty far down the rabbit hole.

Is this possible in theory, if your packets go in all directions (IPs) encrypted, not sure how you reassemble, but in theory, would the information then be whitewashed? I guess I'm asking, is it possible in principle, can you leak no information (including metadata) from IPv4?
Yes, it is. Fair points, good luck!
That depends on whether I was into celebrities doing that to me to be with them which quite a lot of women are.
Work is only meaningful for me because I get to create things that other people use and talk to me about. That's why I became an engineer - I was doing recruitment before, it was awful because I knew I wasn't adding value, just filling a gap. There was no creation or real feedback, just numbers and phone calls. The only fun part of that was the networking and learning from my engineering candidates.

I recommend trying out the Culture series. Imagine a universe where humans are definitely useless because hundred kilometer long spaceships are controlled by unimaginably intelligent AI "Minds." The humans find meaning by playing games, exploring the universe, but most consistently, being academics. They get on the ground and investigate other cultures and do that human thing - provide unique interpretations. The Minds don't lack personality - they can form their own opinions and interpretations - but humans get meaning simply by immersing themselves in the research and work itself.

I'm getting offtrack here, but funnily enough I often become frustrated because these books focus so much on the humans, when something very much outside their reach is occurring and is more interesting to me. For example, in one book, an object enters the universe seemingly out of nowhere, and is utterly inexplicable by the Minds. But Ian m Banks for some reason spends time telling a human love story in the midst of this - why should I care! Tell me more about what the Minds are doing about a thing they can't explain, a first in the history of the universe for them!

TLDR my rambling post - humans will find meaning, whether or not that meaning is also the means by which they are able to eat (salary work).
Well, it less insulting to say your work has to matter to somebody besides yourself. Living only for yourself is really a dead-end and arbitrary endeavour. I personally find it meaningless.

Not everything valuable is recognised or rewarded with money, I'll give you that.
Then I guess you are targeting the wrong pool of candidates. Do the candidates know how much can you pay (ranges?).
It often happens that I as a candidate have to go through several rounds just to learn that they can't afford me.
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Yep, he thought that the Department of Energy was responsible for regulating the energy sector.
yes, I think we should have the same capabilities in a language agnostic way.

Signed jars are a little painful to use (you can't easily bundle them), but that's a minor issue.
Now you are being over-optimistic about ISPs' sophistication. If I wanted data to target white renters, I can get it as long as I don't do it wearing a klan hood. A data set encompassing legislators is for the most part a data set of lawyers with some special characteristics. It could be a subset of data you can buy, or it could be assembled as a mosaic.
I felt the same after first encountering an app built with electron. The apps made with electron never felt native and just felt like they were another 'chrome apps'. Atom Editor never felt native prior to knowing anything about Electron.
It's very relevant, because a) we need to reserve enough area for people to live, and for growing the food we need, and hopefully for a few parks as well, and b) transmission and storage of electricity across long distances is not trivial. It isn't feasible to, for example, cover the entire surface area of Africa with solar panels and use that energy to power the rest of the world.
I think it can depend on the size of the operation, and your mindset. If I'm employee #100 at a well-funded startup, I'd tend to agree with you and value equity as a risk adjusting factor. But if I'm employee #5, I probably would take a pay cut in exchange for a significant chunk of equity - if I was even considering such a risky operation, I probably wouldn't be in a place in my life where job security was especially important to me.
...but could you have just done this with some basic free open source tools (e.g. a few lines of Python).

With too many of these "look what I did with IBM/Watson" the answer is usually very much yes and thus the challenge with IBM's long term value proposition with their platform. It's cool stuff, but you very much don't need IBM/Watson to do it.
>We don't think we directly compete with Unity.

Well, you should, because both C3 and Unity using a subscription model vs the one-time payments of many other options makes it the most direct comparison. Both concretely and psychologically a subscription model requires a much more serious commitment to the product compared to a one-time payment.

And beyond the payment model, I've long thought that Construct offers a serious alternative to Unity for serious development purposes if you're making 2D games, and in fact I'd say in many ways Construct has the edge over Unity in this space since it's built for 2D development from ground-up whereas Unity is a 3D engine first, which makes 2D development in it more cumbersome. This is why I was happy to see you mention in another comment that you intend to shift the marketing of C3 to a more "serious" direction, where C2 often gave the impression of a "toy". But that's just another reason why you should consider yourself as a serious alternative to Unity yourself.

I assume that the "direct competitors" you're talking of are along the lines of Clickteam Fusion and Game Maker. It's certainly true that these are both 2D-focused game IDEs, but both are sold as one-time payments, much like C2. As someone who moved from Multimedia Fusion 2 to Construct 1 back in the day, I personally think C2 has already been the king of this space for years, wiping the floor with the competition when it comes to both usability and performance as well as scaling to big projects. This is why I'm not at all fundamentally opposed to "going bigger" with a subscription model to compete against other subscription model game IDEs, because I believe C3 is very much capable of competing in this space, all the while having a lower barrier to entry. But again, to be competitive here, things should really change with the way the free edition is handled.

Ultimately right now Construct 3 falls into a very uncomfortable position where I would never want to downgrade to the likes of Clickteam Fusion (neither the current 2.5 nor the upcoming 3) or Game Maker Studio 2 (because they are both less powerful/performant as well as less usable on the whole and scale big way worse), but I honestly wouldn't want to use Unity either because while power-wise it's definitely capable I'd still be somewhat of a downgrade in terms of usability for 2D development (I have actually used Unity for a couple projects in the past, but I've stuck around with Construct 2 for this exact reason). As a professional programmer there isn't really any insurmountable obstacles to using any of these programs for me, so it's all about the convenience for me, and 2D development with Construct is where I believe the sweet spot lies in this regard. But as it is, C3 free edition is just too restricted power-wise and the subscription is too big of an investment. Because of this I also see myself having a hard time recommending C3 to other people in the future, where recommending C2 used to be a no-brainer.
If one is curious to see raw corruption on full public display, it's a sure bet to attend a state PSC/PUC meeting. It doesn't matter whether it's telecom or energy or whatever, if they're open for business then they are truly open for business.
Dunno if it makes up all the difference, but in U.S. vernacular, salaries are given pre-tax.
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Yeah, he's a smart cookie.

Quite a few people understand and articulate the technical aspects of the tech industry. He brings a much wider perspective into the picture which is always appreciated.
Alternatively you could have accrued the salary deficit as convertible debt that would roll into the next funding round, at a discount -- which is a bit more anchored than estimating a 1% chance of exit at $600M valuation (if you were serious about wanting the job, which it sounds like you mostly weren't).
For a long term solution you may be better served with a domain specific tool that fits your needs directly. In the mean time the Pretty Diff tool, http://prettydiff.com/, is language aware and offers a fair number of features that may provide what you are looking for. To see the options GUI just scroll down. You can also enter options and values as URI parameters. Just see the documentation for the options and their requirements.

If you are looking for something that isn't available please open a Github issue and I will triage it.
Difference is these memories are no longer forgotten. Embarrassing stories may fall by the wayside back in the day, but think, your grandchildren will be able to look up your cringey college Facebook posts long after you've passed away.
Try to tell that to UK farmers. Or blue collars. Or anyone working on producing things.
You say "share your wealth".
I say "no".
How do you intend to resolve this? likely by an escalation of force, via fines, incarceration, and (if I say "no" with enough force) siege or execution. That's how government fundamentally works: escalation of compulsion until submission or death.
Individuals are certainly able to do ok without work, as long as their basic needs are met.

However, I have doubts about the will of "society" to provide for their basic needs unconditionally.

Consider the type of arguments made in the US about healthcare, or the comments made by Europe's elite about countries wasting money on "drinks and women"[0]

[0] - http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/22/dijsselbloem-under-fire-after...
All these figures are subject to debate and would be more realistically modeled by probability distributions, but I was looking for a back-of-the-napkin quick estimate as a starting point for negotiation.

I also neglected to make explicit my use of the expected value of the exit in my calculations.

I hope this helps to clarify my thinking.
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I think that the only way to really drive home the importance of digital privacy rights is to craft a bit of targeted advertising that _only_ your senator or representative sees and that follows them _everywhere_ online.
> Meaning isn't something physical in the universe. Meaning is an emotion. It's what you feel when you're working towards something that you believe has some greater importance. With all opportunity to work towards anything taken away, life will become meaningless by definition, unless humans are left with some pseudo-artificial challenges to push against.

Although some minority of people derive "meaning" from work per se (work = something that you get paid to do), I would say that the vast majority of people can derive meaning from other things. For the vast majority, work is for getting money.

Therefore, there are still lots of things that you can use to derive meaning, such as: raising a family, caring of others, playing music, study different subjects for fun (philosophy, etc.), be part of your local community, do sports, do competition sports (if that fits your style), etc. etc. etc. etc.

Bottom line: do not mix work with quest for meaning...
Even if personal info is not filtered out, what's to stop the communication companies from deliberately excluding the information of certain legislators? Seems unlikely they would bite the hand that feeds them.
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What's the point of trying to have meaningful discourse with an obvious troll account? Grow a pair.
Them wanting people to believe that this will lower the cost of internet service is laughable. Have TV ads lowered the cost of cable?

We need to think of the internet as a public utility. How absurd would it be if every time you used water in your home, you heard an advertisement playing from a speaker in the faucet.
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He isn't admitting anything. You just think that of him because you already dont like him, but he isn't doing anything some of the people you admire probably haven't done either.

And again if the women don't mind they don't mind, just like some of them don't mind other rich men grabbing them as long as they can get to live the lifestyle.

The only one with a history of this as far as I can see was Clinton who pushed a cigar up an interns vagina.

In your "logical" universe this was assault too and today you could probably get away with adding white male privilege.

So either show some proof of him being a sexual assaulter or there is nothing not even theoretically that makes that assault.

Add in against their will and all that changes but thats not what you have.
Apple just made a historic and risky change to all iPhones – AFS
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Another term for "virtue for its own sake" is "completely arbitrary rules I feel better about myself through judging others by".
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Indeed, there's the Troubles on the horizon again, as various Irish factions start talking about a united Ireland.
That's not jut tangential to the point (whataboutism?), it's what every country does. The UK has a better negotiating position than Britain would have. The EU(28) would have a better geopolitical posture (thanks to UK's military, as the EU has a hard power problem) than the EU(27) will have. Geopolitics is highly competitive and mostly zero-sum, which is why you have "unethical" behavior like that.
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