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Agreed, this article really rang hollow to me. I think part of it is that (as he admits), he has/had a lot of self-esteem/self-worth issues, and his (monetary) wealth got mixed in with that. Because of that, I wouldn't be surprised if he looks at money with a negative bias ("having money made me feel worse because it didn't fix my self-worth issues, so it must be bad") to some extent.

I wouldn't call myself rich, but I also don't need to worry too much about money for the moment. That means I don't have to make a budget, fret over whether or not I should pay more for a flight with a more convenient itinerary, or be constantly anxious over whether or not I'd be able to pay for medical bills if I unexpectedly injured myself or got very ill. There are so many people in this world that don't have that comfort, and I think it's very easy to forget what that feels like once you've achieved a certain amount of wealth. (Hell, it's hard for me to really viscerally remember what that feels like.)

I think that the "basic needs met" thing is a bit of a fallacy, though I suppose it depends on how you define it. If you have a steady job that pays your bills and puts food on the table for you and your family, you might think you have your basic needs met, but also be stressed out because you don't feel like you have enough time in the day to split between your job, family, friends, and hobbies. Or you might feel anxiety over job security. Even having a full year of salary in the bank as a buffer (hardly rich by conventional measures, though sadly most people can't manage this) can ease those worries greatly.

His comments on fuck-you money were a bit weird, too. I think most people get that fuck-you money isn't about being able to literally say "fuck you; fire me if you want" to your boss when you don't like a decision he/she has made. It's just about being able to easily walk away from a job that doesn't make you happy -- for whatever reason -- without the pressure of needing to find another one immediately.

And then there was the bit about having to hire people to do things for you, and manage your money and possessions, and how all that is a full time job... well, no, it isn't a big deal, if you don't go down the conspicuous-consumption route. I don't have to hire people to take care of my things now, and having more money wouldn't magically make that a necessity (or even desirable).
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I'll just note that this entry was posted 8 times by different accounts. Someone wants you to adopt an opinion.
You aren't going to get kernel updates, even if you get major Android version update.

It's kind of like with RHEL - the fixes are backported in the old kernel vesion and that's it. It has nothing to do with your operator, you can thank Qualcomm and other SoC manufacturers, that they are not willing to make platform support packages for newer kernels for a given chip.
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In my experience there are a small percentage of customers, bullies basically, who are toxic and have the ability to ruin the experience for your good customers by taking up an inordinate amount of resources in money, time and employee mental state.
Maybe part of the reason they are cheap is because they don't pander to this type?
Ok. Let's look at Mark Zuck. He and his facebook plan were going to succeed anyway. If he had said, I need 10 000 devs working right next to me in Managua, Nicaragua, that is where they would be today. He didn't do it, but Zuck could have. Doing Facebook out of Managua would have worked, just like doing Skype out of Talinn, Estonia today works perfectly-well too.
Vague memory hanging out with these folks while they were working on this that a lot of speedup was due to well placed inline assembly
You may be under appreciating how much effort goes into good old hacking in games, to make things look "natural" but with minimal HW footprint :) Cutting corners.

Especially back in the day!

It's more of an art. Applies to graphics, AI, audio...
Thats a good thing. Reviews should only be from actual customers, not people using it to post anything - good or bad. Best thing you can do is mark the negative comments about the app not working as helpful as those will be surfaced higher up.
And how is it any different from what everybody else uses?
I disagree.

Prohibition transforms capital spent by drug users into income for drug cartels. Under full legalization, drug users would have as little incentive to buy their drugs from street vendors as alcoholics would want to buy their liquor from some guy standing on a street corner.

The great news is that we are entirely responsible for this mess ourselves, so we can fix it if we want to.
Current amateur here. I feel like there's only one important thing to consider when comparing Tesla and Ford as investment opportunities: is their value likely to increase?

With Tesla, there's an obvious path for potential massive growth. It's not guaranteed, but the potential is obvious.

With Ford, it's like any other auto manufacturer. What surprises are we expecting? What new products or innovations? Does Ford have any path, even hypothetical, to massive market share growth relative to its current position the way Tesla does? It seems clear to me that the answer is no. Even if their Bolt is a success, they're not about to dominate the market, double their sales, and double their stock. They don't have any Model 3 type event on the horizon.

So all these comparisons of financial metrics on current value, to me, seem pointless. This is the only thing that should matter (along with whatever analysis you want to use to gauge whether Tesla is likely to be able to execute on its plans, which is a more complex question-- but performance so far makes it clear that they are experiencing steady and dependable growth of production and sales with clear, well-defined plans for further future growth.)
AI hasn't moved on because multiplayer world has exploded in the last 10 years
I think you mean Colombia, not Columbia :)
I think it has solved the problem for me, but still is not a good solution for anyone who would answer "What's a terminal?"

I love having a terminal with bash and use it constantly, but I don't think it should be needed for the system to just go on working.
It might not make you feel better, but Holland's gun death per 100,000 is in the 0.5's compared to the U.S.'s 10's and Mexico's 10's.

You're 20 times more likely to get killed by a gun in the US or Mexico.

Note that in the whole of Holland there are 50 gun homicides per year, so you were actually pretty unlucky to experience that. Your experience is exceptional and not a common occurrence, especially as I assume most Holland murders are not widely reported spouse killings, etc.

Mexico had 18,398 gun homicides in 2011, for comparison, Holland, 60, US, 11,068.
Absolutely and I know I could rely on the rest of you to show solidarity and boycott Ryanair, right?
Google was just realistic at the time. ARM boards do not have platform services at firmware level, nor plug and play buses like PCI. If Google required that in 2008, Android would have market share similar to Sailfish or FirefoxOS.

Have look at Redhat, how far got them requiring UEFI at server ARM boards. That's market, where the buyers have much more impact on the design than mobile.
> If the type of development work you're doing can be easily done remotely

All interesting types of development work can easily be done remotely. Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, name it. The unicorn billions are all things that never needed face-to-face spitting.

It is therefore probably the other way around. If the type of development work you're doing requires face-to-face spitting, you are not doing anything interesting anyway, and then it does not matter anyway, where exactly you are working on your next failure.
some years ago they called it the "american dream", just believe in yourself and everyone can make it. I hope everyone knows that it's utter crap, don't fall for the same package with another slogan every time. If you want to find answers and raise questions for yourself, start reading philosophy books, they work on that topic for centuries. Example: https://www.amazon.com/Have-Be-Bloomsbury-Revelations/dp/178...
> I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that since 3 years ago Cyprus (among others) 'sells' EU permanent residency permits to rich foreigners.

You know, the solution to "problems" like that is to abolish visas altogether.

A visa is essentially a permission to exist in a certain geographical area. Why exactly do you need one?

Yes I know governments won't let you in/out without one, but what sense does it make?

What possible moral justification is there, for preventing you from moving freely when you're not harming anyone else?

You've heard of people "misusing" their visas, right? But how crazy is the idea of "misusing" your permission to exist in an area?

How crazy is it that visas come with a list of activities you're allowed to engage in?

For example, if you're on a tourist visa, you're not allowed to work in exchange for money, nor sell your company's product to someone.

You might think it's because governments need to keep track of who owes them taxes and how much, but um.. what sense does that make?

Say you were born in England and lived there all your life. Then you fly over to Thailand on a tourist visa, and you fix someone's bicycle in exchange for a small fee.

How/why is Thailand's government entitled to a cut of the money you made in doing that? If you believe in the Social Contract, does that get temporarily passed from England to Thailand, for the duration of your stay?

Or did you perhaps unwittingly sign a new one with Thailand, by entering their territory?

Would sitting on a plane that happens to cross some specific unseen line on a map constitute agreeing to a binding obligation to hand over some of your income to the organization "in charge" of the area you entered?

Of course not, but that's what The Rules say. But why/how are we bound by The Rules?

Well, we're not. Not in any objective, moral sense at all. But we all obey the rules anyway.

Why is that, besides to avoid being punished for disobedience?
I don't think there is a process for updating them, other than in the interest of adding new features or when they break. Recently I saw a green-screen CRT ATM in use by a bank in the UK. Maybe the internals have been updated, but it seems unlikely that they would change that and not the screen.
Right so for Tesla to make sense, it has to make the iPhone of cars with Ford analogously in the position of Nokia. It looks like that's the expected level of disruption priced in right now.

(Personally I have no idea whether this is likely or not).
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Belief is by no means a sufficient condition, though. You either need money, or people willing to give you money. The latter of which generally requires education and connections, or more luck than most people have.
Naturally, my choice would be something I do not know or wish to learn more. But at the same time there can not be an entry into some course module if you do not have the requisite basic degrees in the field you want to study. Eg, I want to study Astrophysics/ Aviation by my qualifying degrees are no where near the field I wish to study. Whatever is hot, especially in disciplines such as computer science or IT can be learnt through self study. But when the choice is something beyond available technology can offer? Good question! Made me reconsider my aspirations & dreams versus my capabilities & priorities.
I agree with this sentiment. The other week I was speaking to one of the guys behind mookh.com, a Kenyan mobile payment startup and he said underbanked people needed solutions which catered to them in their current context.
Also in Scotland. Soon to be the case in England & Wales, if the government doesn't blink in the face of outraged letting agents.
"European city center".

But I know, it's a broad definition.
Note that for example in germany (and I'd guess in other parts of the EU also), there is a law that limits what "standard contracts" can do to a consumer [1]. I.e. whenever a business has one contract that it uses for more than one natural person, then that contract is considered an AGB thereby greatly limiting what kind of clauses would be considered valid in that contract.

As far as I understand, many clauses will then be automatically invalid if they are too one-sided for the company. Also maximum durations of contracts are greatly restricted while certain standards for contract cancellation rights are enforced.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGB-Gesetz
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The best things in life are free.
I've had two jobs (including my current one) where I've been what you might call an "industrial analyst programmer". That is, I'm on site at a place that isn't service oriented or financial, the IT team is tiny, and I have to be the BA and the Programmer all in one. One involved me working at the maintenance department of an international airport, and the current one I am attached to a small factory and distribution centre.

It's a lifestyle I quite like, though I'm not sure how common such opportunities are. With the incredible wealth of information and communication options on the web I really don't feel like I'm some isolated backward village person who can't possibly know the same stuff someone in a city can.
A better comparison would be with a TV that doubles as your main communication tool and work instrument while it serves you addictive contents, ads, and spies on you.

Rings any bell?
Well, then they essentially become above board legitimate businesses competing on their ability to provide a service in the market.

Legalization implies regulation of some sort (e.g. like alcohol). You could also have a government-run monopoly.

The point is to remove the billions of dollars in black-market profits which give rise to criminal organizations who cannot depend on the law to resolve their disputes and must therefore "make their own law".
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He did publish it on arXiv

> Not knowing LaTeX, the word processer of choice in mathematics, he typed up his calculations in Microsoft Word, and the following month he posted his paper to the academic preprint site arxiv.org.
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really excited to hear that you guys are working on fractional scaling. can't wait to see it happen so I can install Fedora on my laptop again. keep up the good work.
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And yet you won't find any shortage of people who will call you a terrible, terrible naysaying pessimist if you dare to voice the prediction that an efficiency jump like from incandescents to CFL or from CFL to LED won't ever happen on top of state of the art LED.
I read the stuff in the link, they 100% blocked the device because of the two review he wrote. What are you even talking about?
> Tried Okular?

Not yet, but I might. I'm trying to stay on the GTK/Gnome side of things.

Re: the email client, I'm no longer an emacs user unfortunately :)
The 6 second thing is a little bit of a mistake that sensationalizes the story. He actually ran off course for 2 miles and missed some of the checkpoints - full text from the race director below [1].

Obviously this race is pretty hardcore and the people that participate are freaking awesome! The race should be sensational based on that alone, but alas journalists need to add a little more spice...

A message from the RD of The Barkley Marathons #bm100:

i wish i had never said 6 seconds...

gary had just come in after having run off course
and missing the last 2 miles of the barkley.
that is, of course, not a finish.

i do, however, always record when runners come in,
whether they are finishing a loop, or not.
so, i had looked at the watch,
even tho there was no possibility that he would be counted as a finisher.

so, when someone asked if he had gotten in before the limit;
i foolishly answered.

i never expected the story to somehow become that he had missed the time limit by 6 seconds.
he failed to complete the course by 2 miles.
the time, in that situation, is meaningless.

i hate it, because this tale perpetuates the myth that the barkley does not have a course.
the barkley is a footrace.
it is not an orienteering contest,
nor a scavenger hunt.
the books are nothing more than unmanned checkpoints.

the boston marathon has checkpoints.
and you have to show up at all of them or you can be disqualified...

that does not mean you are allowed to follow any route you choose between checkpoints.

now, the class with which gary handled this terrible disappoinment
at the end of a truly magnificent performance...
that was exceptional,
and is, in and of itself, a remarkable achievement.

but he did not miss the time limit by 6 seconds.
he failed to complete the barkley by 2 miles.

laz

[1]:https://www.facebook.com/trasie.phan/posts/10212547374898805
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The entire way the U.S. military does procurement is wrong. It's based on politics, not merit. If there was one area of government Silicon Valley should disrupt it's this.
Boeing / Lockheed / etc have no special insight that should make them a preferred no-bid contractor. They just hire engineers like everyone else. Procurement for any new tech should be outsourced based on a type of hybrid elimination / round robin tournament between companies. If a company develops some standout tech on their own, but falls short in other areas, then they should make a law that other companies in the tournament should be able to license that tech.
The graph states lumen per watt, not percentage efficiency.
There are probably millions of people who had just as strong belief as musk, or jobs and failed. You just don't hear about them.
you mean the XPS 15 ? this is pretty much what you described and you can buy it right now. You missed on thing though - NVME SSD compatibility. Its the only innovation in hardware that can get you performance gains for the next couple of years.

I gave up the 2 ram slots in exchange for a single removable NVME SSD slot for the ultra thin XPS 13. The integrated graphics card is powerful enough to play Bioshock Infinite.

And it runs Fedora brilliantly
You missed the important factor... "to get help".

The monster would run then find bigger monsters and all of them would come back to kill you. Often killing every low-level player in the area.
Sorry from the homepage I don't understand what it is. How does it differ from conventional "read it later" services?
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This computer looks like it comes from 90s.
It is not that simple. Do you remember one of those bear toys that were sending the recordings of their conversations with children to an exposed MongoDB instance? I bought one of them for my daughter a few months before. And I am a software engineer who knows what an exposed MongoDB instance is. My voice and my daughter's voice are now in the leak. Thankfully, the toy was only used with my supervision, so I know what was said there.

The problem is that is was advertised as a Bluetooth-powered toy to communicate with your child via recorder messages. "It's fun" -- I have thought, so I bought it. Only later I realized that it forwarded everything that was said to their servers via their "cloud app".

OK, I have thought, so they have the recording. But at least do they have some decency to not share it with the public? And that, indeed, turned out to be a little naive.

The toy became "broken" a few weeks before the leak when I was finally fed with it, but the damage is done.

Now I have similar worries about my NetAtmo devices. They do look cool and measure CO2 content in my rooms, which is the reason I bought them, but they also contain an always-on microphone for measuring "noise pollution", and I am not sure at this point if they don't transmit everything I speak in my room to the CIA, NSA, Russians, our reptilian overlords, or whoever else needs to hear the shit I say at home.
I think these images are called "Lissajous Figures".
They might be designed to withstand magnitude 9.0, whether they actually are built that way is a different question.
A dishwasher and travel bookings are not basic necessities.

When I had no money I did not have a dishwasher at all, but washed by hand.
My travels where in the woods nearby, very relaxing and enjoy full at no cost at all. No booking required.

Reading stoic philosophy help me a lot more than money.
Im currently trying to decide whether to scrap my gps heatmap website and move on, or redesign it with better features -

http://www.gpsheatmap.com
I remember that in Chrono Trigger there is a part in the future where you need to input a specific button sequence, and in one of the early version of ZNES it wasn't working, it was maddening at the time :).
European married to a Mexican woman (From Monterrey) here as well.

She realises that there are bad things in Mexico, but sometimes she actually feels more scared here in Europe due to the terrorist events that have happened lately. Though there has been only one in my country, she really hates going to Brussels.

As she tells me, it is worse with terrorism because it involves civilians minding their own business, whilst most of the terrible news from Mexico actually happens due to narcos and not to random civilians on the street.

As I have not lived in Mexico, I can't really compare the two. But by the sounds of her and her family, it's not as bad as the news would have you believe. (Or, alternatively, they happen to live in a good part of Monterrey / Mexico).
Not sure which came first, but I remember trying out a SNES emulator, VSWC (Virtual Super Wild Card) on my 486 before Nesticle. It was discontinued in April 1997 https://web-beta.archive.org/web/19990223191448/http://inter...
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