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This is annoying for all the reasons typically cited...but what if amazon (or someone big like amazon) actually dove full-head into leveraging/supporting the matrix protocol as the foundation of their messaging product/service? And before anyone replies with "but then amazon wouldn't get their intended walled garden/controlled silo"...i beg you to ponder the notion that amazon has AWS - basically servers/services for hire - but that didn't stop microsoft, google, etc. from starting competing (similar) services. Imagine a future where amazon creates "chat as a service" based on matrix. Sure some firms/individuals won't need more than their own self-hosted instance...but enterprises - already experienced with aws - can add on pro hosted chat (a la matrix protocol). Amazon could even contribute to the mattrix project, even if only to feel like they're helping to steer the software updates to benefit their company. Overall everyone wins:

* Amazon doesn't need to develop a new chat system from scratch.

* They can make plenty of money hosting matrix instance servers for private individuals and more importantly enterprises (read: cha-ching!).

* By contributing to matrix project, amazon can "feel good" about to contributing to open source.

* Amazon gets free on-boarding of potential new customers. Use-case: small business sets up their own matrix instance...eventually outgrows that, then turns to AWS, and voila, they migrate their instance to the official/supported AWS matrix instances.

* If matrix - like email - were to eventually become a more widespread de facto messaging/chat protocl, AWS would be leagues ahead of other competitors.

* There is also incentive for the competion (microsoft, google), if Amazon starts this, because like AWS, the others would compete with their own chat/messaging platforms, but enterprise customers would have an easier migration curve - because all chat/messaging would be based on matrix...not unlike email platform migrations today.

Maybe my thoughts above are pipe dreaMS...but beyond the feel good aspects, i firmly believe there are possibilities for businesses to make good amounts of money in this space...and all due to a very good default protocol.
True, and studies of how fashion works do show that exact trend, of people who are prominent enough that they can do that and be perceived in the way they desire. But it's better to do that knowingly, and be confident of which end of the spectrum you're on. If you're trying to climb upwards, it sure can't hurt to make your path smoother. If you feel like you're already on the top, and you can take some risks, then feel free to choose different strategies to cope with your success. :)

Know your audience, and make sure you're sending the signal you think you're sending. If you don't already have all the reputation you need, fashion matters a lot more in establishing a baseline.
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the work-from-home employees were reportedly not just more productive and happier, but also physically healthier

One of the key advantages I've found working from home is that when I want to take a break, I'm inclined to get out of the house & walk around the neighbourhood. I'd often choose to work from a park instead, getting sunlight & fresh air. When I was doing that earlier this year, I was getting up to 16,000 steps a day, and that level of walking significantly improved my health.
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Epidemic:
"a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time."
I can't see how drug addiction can fit in this definition.
If one of them sneezes I don't immediately feel the urge to put some shit in my veins.
I think that if someone doesn't want to be saved then maybe after a while it doesn't make much sense to try to save him.
I remember Ron although I was unsure about the name. Fair winds and following seas.

Unless it's in your background and in your DNA, it seems that angel investing will end in tears.
>Something of an Achilles heel to pragmatism is that it can lead those that follow the principle concretely to never seek to take the long jumps in innovation or product design... those pragmatists are doomed to incrementalism.

That's why I'm in favor of real-world-ism.

In the real world and actual practice we are Rational, Empiricist and Pragmatist in various degrees, not one or the other. We can also be totally irrational or visionary or whatever.
Summary: beginners almost never invest well.

And it is the same for stocks, many people think they will make money by investing in a specific company because their logic says it is good idea.

Investment is a job, and to win you need experience
I too prefer the 21:9 for my desktop. I do notice that you really should mount it higher than I would normally to make feel more comfortable. About 2x what an iMac has for height.

In laptops, I miss the 4:3, and find 3:2 acceptable. I guess I want more square inches of screen. I keep seeing these laptops with 16:9 with a friggin numeric keypad interferes with proper centering.
> Just because all of the senior management enjoyed aggressive debating and sussing out of ideas didn't mean we could use the same language and approach when talking to other employees.

I'm guessing a big part of this is how secure each person feels. Someone in senior management already has a highly successful career, they could probably get another decent job pretty easily, and their income is high enough to where they probably have a fair amount of money saved up in case of a rainy day.

For lower-level employees, this is frequently not true. Savings are more often minimal, many would not be able to easily get another good job. So naturally they will feel more threatened by blunt or 'harsh' language.
It has no predictive aspects.

While economics has issues, this is an unfair assessment. Entire nations base economic policy based on much economic theory. That is as predictive as you can get, betting with real stakes. Some nations succeed. Some don't. There is fairly solid agreement as to why certain countries perennially have extremely poor economic performance while others are not bad. There is fairly certain agreement as to why Germany experienced hyperinflation. Choosing good or poor economic policy results in predictions either way.
That about seals the deal for me.
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UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and almost all other English speaking countries except for the US and Canada, I believe.
It's common in New Zealand as well.
While it obviously does run, it's still so broken it's hardly usable. You basically have a 'mobile PC' rather than a laptop/notebook. There is no suspend/resume, hibernation is slow, video not really supported and the touchpad doesn't fully work. Basically, it's fine for when you want a 'mobile server', but for desktop or human interaction via the local console this is just as bad as a cheap windows laptop: things are there, but they don't really work well.
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What about telling another poster on the internet about their typo? (discreet, not discrete)
This creates its own headaches as a fix for the next Heartbleed becomes not "upgrade this one shared library", but "upgrade these dozens of individual programs when an update becomes available".
There's also birth control. In theory, condoms are ~98% effective, but in reality that figure is much lower due to improper usage. That also doesn't take into account the number of times couples say "just the tip". But birth control gave women the option to spend decades not having to worry about finding men who are husband/father material. I'm not saying that's a bad thing at all, in fact I would prefer that women have this option than go back to a pre-birth control age. But an unintentional effect is that women may be less desperate to settle down until a certain age when reality begins to hit.

Frankly speaking, women and men also need each other far less than they used to on a practical level. Automation allows for men and women to exist separately from each other and live comfortably; as a man who doesn't have a girlfriend, I have been doing all the chores, shopping, cooking, and cleaning on my own without breaking much of a sweat. Again, this is a great thing and I wouldn't want to give up the kind of automation that both men and women benefit from, but yet again, it's far less of a reason to get married and have kids at a younger age. If you don't have to compromise fun for practical utility, that's way less pressure to "settle down".
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Someone should add a [pdf] to the title
Upgrades can be less manual these days if you follow the release (not current): syspatch will apply binary patches for the errata. If you are prepared to trust M:Tier, they provide a script called openup that will also patch packages for the current stable release.

But each to his/her own.
Well, cleanroom re-implementation if you prefer.
I think it's incomplete analysis. I partly agree but what makes the Desktop Environment problem is more an issue of culture and education. People creating distro are implementing what they saw and it's often recent similar efforts. If people knew how OS2, Xerox, BeOS worked they'd have a different desires and goals.
I keep wondering when we hit "peak office", the point at which total office workers starts to decrease. "Peak factory workers" in the US was in 1979.
It’s all a balance act. My last startup went bust in part due to the fact that we avoided hiring as long as possible in order to save money. In doing so we missed our inertia when we first started and we’re hot, and as we dragged on we didn’t have the diversity of talent to help do the things we were bad at (and didn’t want to do) ourselves.

Obviously super fancy offices, lavish meals, etc should be red flags, but you can’t generically say “be stingy” – it’s more like find the most efficient way to use your capital (which may include seemingly inefficient things that are actually required).
You seem to think that Euro-clearing is the only thing that banks do... And you're forgetting the nuclear option.
Not necessarily, if one make bio-char from the wood the carbon is stable for ~10k years, even if buried in the soil (terra pretax). This can be done successfully during the gasification process for producing heat, syngas and electricity. Also any items made from the wood that do not rot will not release their CO2 for the lifetime of the product.
What's unsafe about using one of the C libraries that do bounds checking, etc?

The argument about assembly is a red herring. Let's compare:

1) In addition to writing your business functions, learn these additional control structures to obtain safety

2) When writing your business functions, also use these well reviewed functions that enforce type and memory safety when moving code across interfaces.

3) Port all of your code to assembly, write you own memory safety control structures from scratch.

You see the difference? The choice in your mind between "add control structures to the language" and "do everything painstakingly by hand" but we are advocating a third option, which is: use well reviewed libraries written with only the basic control structures.

The reason I am advocating that is the more control structures you have the harder it is to analyze code. You end up slowly moving your codebase to a point where only people with deep deep knowledge of an advanced programming language can read it.

I think culturally, in 2017, programmers underestimamte how much can be done with just functions and literals and well written helpers.

The reason for that is we are rewarded (psychologically and professionally) for learning new control structures, but not as often for writing better code using the beginner structures.
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Thanks for posting this.

This is probably the most informative comment of the whole thread.
This is a bit OT, but it reminds me of the much under-reported aspect of Aaron Schwartz's document collecting:

As I understand it, he intended to analyze the resulting data set for patterns. Meta-analysis of said scientific literature, so to speak.

Of value in itself, for several reasons. Scientific. Personal interest -- interesting language and rhetoric.

One very important one -- that can be lumped under the important work of science as well as that of understanding human endeavor in all its aspects: Fraud detection.

We all have been reading about both mistakes and deliberate mis-representation in scientific publications. Including in some very influential works, subsequently retracted.

ArXiv is a step in the right direction. When we have all these scientific results locked up to the point where such meta-analysis and subsequent science is impossible, we've greatly shackled the process of scientific research and our own human endeavor and progress.

By the way, with respect to recent public conversation with respect to economics, some view this as another form of rent-seeking. People who don't produce but rather gather the "rights" to the results of production, and then divert as much as they can of its value into their own pockets -- often diverting it away from investment in the actual work from whence it comes.

Or, eating your seed corn.
> But you can't teach empathy.

I very strongly disagree. You can learn empathy, and teach it. There are whole books about learning to model other people.

"How to win friends and influence people" is, in many ways, all about empathy, for instance.

(Let me distinguish for a moment that there are people out there who have psychological conditions that make it incredibly hard for them to model other people. I don't know how to address that, offhand.)
The "I'm confused" response requires the signal getting past the amygdala. The other type of response that you mentioned doesn't require that.
>There are a myriad ways to make a company fail, but only two ways to make one succeed. One of those is to make a product that fills a heretofore unmet market need, and to do it better, faster, and cheaper than the competition. That is incredibly hard to do. (I'll leave figuring out the second one as an exercise.)

Is he implying some sort of unethical behavior as the second way?
Being a good investor takes a certain kind of temperament. Can't really teach this. For most, as Buffet says, stick with the index fund.
I think the idea is that the master password can be memorable enough by picking say 6 random diceware words and still strong enough to resist all (pre-quantum) brute-force attacks for a long time.

The arithmetic then looks like this:

(7776 ^ 6) = 221073919720733357899776, because there are 7776 words in the diceware list.

(7776 ^ 6)/(10^12) = 221073919720 seconds to try all such password if the imagined hardware accelerated hash cracker can do one trillion hashes per second. In years this is:

(7776 ^ 6)/(10^12)/(365 * 24 * 60 * 60) = 7010 years.

So on average, it will take about 35 centuries to brute force the password when using hardware that can try one trillion guesses per second.
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I believe remacs is already having some sort of positive impact, yet not a user visible that is true. But for decades emacs core was somehow a blackhole. Now it's been modeled in another very different language. That's very nice.

Also maybe it will help testing emacs, and even improving faster since rust typesystem is said to help refactoring tremendously.

We'll see.
Download media. I have Sonarr+Radarr+Plex. I don't spend much time looking for media.

Code reviews. Using something like CodeClimate to automatically check code quality before anyone actually reads the code.
Describing criminal drug peddlers as "tending to the health" of people is a very odd way of putting it. It's also rather beside the point when talking about today's epidemic.

Having meaningful things to do is not "inherent."

I never heard of Depo-Provera before but calling it "chemical castration" and putting "birth control" in scare quotes seems like hyperbole and inflammatory. The drug is a progestin, a synthetic hormone that is administered in a number of forms. Depression is one of the possible side effects of the shot, but that doesn't necessarily mean it would exacerbate an existing condition and you've not mentioned whether the doctor was also treating her depression.

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/birth-...
That could definitely be true, but at least in my experience there are clear personality differences as well. Certain personality traits are necessary to get into senior management, and a lot of those traits tend to lead to valuing direct feedback.

> they could probably get another decent job pretty easily

This is actually pretty false. Management jobs take a lot more time and effort to find than lower level ones. In tech especially, IC job hunts are way easier than any sort of management roles.
Preparing purchase form for university library and letting me know when books I order become available.

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Also... I have dug the emacs sources for a while and i can testify that many times, function have two, three (sometimes more) actual implementations that gets actually built depending on configuration (example: sunos va dos vs linux vs win32 version of function foo).

So... Yeah. The c lines are in a way, "overcounted".
Well, this report isn't really focused on making predictions. It's more looking at adoption and investments and McKinsey does have a pretty good understanding of where enterprises are investing time and money for strategic initiatives.

As far as expertise, I suppose it depends on what you mean. Active AI practitioners. Probably not except to the degree that they pay outside experts for input. But they certainly have people who follow technology fields closely and have technology background. e.g. one of the authors of this report is a CS PhD, former CIO, and I've seen him speak at CIO conferences on a couple of occasions.
I worked or a large company on several web-based apps right around the time React came out. There were some UI issues I thought could be sorted easily using React.

After going to our lead dev, who in turn went to our project manager, we received an email from our legal department a few days later that simply stated we would not be using React due to "certain patent constraints."

Having not done any prior research, I looked into what the problem might be and was pretty floored with what I found. At first I scoffed when they said no, but after reading about the patent situation I totally get it.
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Rather, they are in tension.
Should we solve all problems on earth before attempting a mission to mars? And this is ignoring the fact that allowing immigration is not some purely benevolent sacrifice for helping others, countries generally benefit from immigration as a whole.
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Oddly, economics is one of the fields where you're probably better prepared for graduate work in economics if you major in something other than economics. Math, physics, or engineering may be better prep.

Of course, one solution is to just major in Econ and make sure you take those classes. The US undergrad path is very different, it's not as specialized as it is overseas. There's flexibility - well, use that flexibility to take math through diff eq, linear algebra, some proof based stuff, and perhaps some numerical analysis or computing.

Also - some universities essentially offer two tracks. My alma mater, UCSD, does this. When I was there, you could major in Econ or "QEDS" - quantitative economics and decision science. I think they've changed the name and modified the curriculum since then but it's a similar track - it requires that you sit with the engineering, math, and hard science majors for the first couple years of calc, linear algebra, and DE's, and offers upper division work that draws on this background. The basic Econ major required very minimal calculus from a shorter and less rigorous sequence.

This split is present in a lot of US universities, as far as I understand. You really can't know just by looking at the name of the degree, because a "BA" in economics at some universities actually does reflect a mathematically rigorous program.
> Searching for papers/PDFs on specific topics (built a Python wrapper for arxiv/Google/others that goes and fetches the top 5 matches across them and files them on Dropbox)

Any chance you would post your code? This looks interesting, especially if it integrates sci-hub/libgen
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Looking at what other people did and how that turned out is completely useless because the things that matter are the day-to-day details which you can only get by immersing yourself in the process full-time for a long time. So sharing that data would be worse than useless. At best it would serve to satisfy some prurient interests, and at worst it would cause someone to act on what cannot be anything other than hopelessly incomplete data.

But there is one detail I will share with you: I decided to start not in high tech because I thought it was too risky, but to get my feet wet by starting with less risky investments. So I decided to invest in a real estate development in 2006, thinking that even in a worst case scenario there's an asset there that will be worth something no matter how badly things go wrong.

Like I said in the OP, you will be shocked at how things can fail. (And this is far from my only horror story.)

FWIW, I've also had some winners along the way. I'm not poor, just poorER than I would have been if I'd just put the money in VTI.
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I don't work for this company, although while researching them I felt the moral obligation to post this. Chose employers wisely guys!
> Virtually 100% of teenagers

[citation needed]
The author makes good points here. While it's true that YC and other venture investors invest in many companies to increase the chances of large returns on the best of their portfolio companies, there is another significant advantage to YC having a bunch of companies in each batch - the teams that are not doing so well are a source of talent for the teams that are doing well. At some point YC can and has encouraged teams they think aren't making enough progress to join teams that are. A friend in one batch described his batch consisting of: 1/3 working on great ideas/products that could be big, 1/3 working on mediocre ideas/products and 1/3 working on bad ideas/products, and those in the bottom 1/3-2/3 still had good team members that could be sourced for talent for the best 1/3 and for previous YC companies doing well.
Beautifully written, sir
Yes.

[UPDATE: before you downvote this answer you should know that I am the OP.]
> How did they create it?

They mislead doctors about safe usage of their product.
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The original word has a plurality to it; I think it is we who did violence to "maths".
The problem definition is so wrong, the solution does not bring any real improvement. There are many problems with the government system, but the election part is not the root cause of the problems and it will solve almost nothing.
As people learned how democracy works and they are already manipulating it, what good will do minor patching? How it makes it better for a system where incompetent people vote for everyone else, where the vote of someone that have certain beliefs will eventually make it mandatory by law to do things that I don't want, that others can decide by vote how I can and should live my life? Solve this, don't waste time and energy on distractions.
I think you mean "eccentric".