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Net Neutrality fight was lost because it was a fight between billion dollar companies cynically peddled as a fight between "little guys" and "big evil companies". And that is exactly what it is.

On one side there are Google/Facebook/Youtube and likes and on another side are Comcast/Verizon/ATT/Sprint and like. Let me see do I care if Comcast screws Google and makes it pay more? Nope. How about Netflix? Nope. Wait, do I care if NetFlix makes life hell for Verizon? You guessed it, I do not. In fact, I would like them all to beat each other up into total destruction so we can go back to the world with lots of content providers and lots of ISPs.

The average consumer is the same way. He or she hears that Google has billions of dollars in cash. He or she hears how VZ is screwing taxpayers with their broadband roll outs.
Yep. They turn a blind eye to all of it because they profit from it.

If I weren't so politically burnt out right now I'd call for a Reddit boycott.

Either way this thread has reminded me to block it and delete my account because I'm done with that site after 10+ years.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I would be very skeptical about using NASA as a good example for much of anything, but especially software development.

My bonifides: I'm 49; have spent roughly 25 years as a systems programmer, systems administrator, and general bit wrangler; and I worked for 8 years at the Marshall Space Flight Center, specifically the NASA Enterprise Application Competency Center.[1] (And yes, that's a thing. Started as IFMP (Integrated(?) Financial Management(?) Program), and was IEMP (Integrated(?) Enterprise Management(?) Program) when I started.) If you're a NASA employee, you might recognize STaRs (I worked on the rewrite, post Perl 1 and Monster.com), NPROP/Equipment, or DSPL/Disposal. And IdMAX, which I noped out of shortly after moving to the project.[2]

* NASA itself is a massively disfunctional organization, in my experience, and a failure to "cut through the bullshit" is a major reason why. For software development specifically, while I didn't do anything with "man-rated" development or the other important bits, I have strong doubts that they are any better than other avionics, automotive, or other embedded development organizations.

* There was no mentoring. People tried, it didn't go over well, usually with the mentees.

* You have to trust each other's potential, because there is no damn chance of getting any two projects to agree on anything. What goes on in that other silo is their business, no yours.

* I did say, "I don't understand." A lot. Frequently pronounced "WTF?"

* The list of "unreliable sources of knowledge" looks rather like a checklist of how things got done.

[1] NEACC is also the acronym for the North-East Alabama Community College, which I find ironic for no good reason.

[2] Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of me looking arrogant. Sorry.
>generous access to capital

Increases total number of opportunity chances.

I don't like the lottery metaphor, because the math doesn't work out (you can't buy out the total # of lottery numbers to guarantee a win and still profit), but basically, the more money you got, the more tickets you can buy, the higher your chance of winning.

Mark Cuban said something along the lines of "You only have to be right once." Get your first couple million, and from there on it's just intelligent investing, which you can literally pay an intelligent investor to do for you.
I think at a certain point it becomes a mod issue rather than a site issue. I visit /r/tattoos and the mods are quick to get rid of comments that don't adhere to rules and because of that you get comment that are constructive, with even those who say they don't like a tattoo will explain why.
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I'm not sure that is fair.

FPGA tools come with a lot of IP that may make use of hard blocks such as memory or network controllers. If you look at ARM SoCs, the peripherals are often bought in from IP libraries.
Exactly, and it's easy to make this look like a positive feature to the uninformed consumer. As for "Going to see..." this is already how many mobile data-plans already operate - not charging extra for the exemption, but using it as a way to prioritize a particular service(s).
I was in the same position as you a couple of months ago and I went for Linode - the $5 plan. You're probably conscious not to spend a lot of money from the start as - let's face it - you don't know if your project will be as popular as you hope it will be (mine wasn't!). On Linode you can easily upgrade by adding ram/disk etc and the pricing is straight forward.

If your project lifts off and Linode doesn't cover you, you can look at AWS then.
Well put. In short, it's(they are?) insidious.
Exactly! What I love about IH is that it doesn't define success as 6+ figures revenue streams, many of them are in early stages or making <$1k/month and are people happy with what they are building even if it is not their main job yet. Which is good to divert from the nonsensical thinking that only unicorn status/IPOs/acquisition equate to success often spoken in the startup world.
Months? The Magic Mouse was released a few weeks later, not nearly enough time to develop the product based on the paper.
Yep. This is super-scummy behavior. No surprise Google and Microsoft engage in it!
I have definitely read in one of those exact type of books that surrounding yourself with successful people helps you become successful. Same for surrounding yourself with the rich. Something about feedback loops, and greater access to opportunities through networking.
I've never played in real life with the deck, but I first came across this version on a software version of Catan I had (I think Xbox?). I really enjoyed it and my guess is that in real life it adds a substantial angle to negotiating placement of the robber. In particular, bribing people to put/not put the robber in a given location - if the deck is 7-heavy or your good squares are already drawn, no big deal.
> In the end, we will be left with a results array like:

[1, 1]

Is that supposed to be [0, 1]? If not, how does that correlate to ["Hey", "Hello"]?
It also says: 'Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.'

So calm down.
It sounds like I don't have the exact story because... I don't like Milo?

I've read his tweets, I've watched him speak, and I've read explanations of his value to society.

Like most humans, I still don't like him. Many people are much better at protecting free speech without advocating dangerous, regressive ideas.

I'm not a sheep just because I haven't drawn the same conclusion as you after reviewing the same evidence.
There are a number of factors at work. One of them is existing factions. There are existing political power blocks that stand strongly against "solutions" to "the gun problem".

What do you want to see? What would you consider an ideal world here?

I know how you feel. It's utterly ridiculous that a society should so heartlessly abandon the most vulnerable among us who struggle so needlessly. We should do better! We can do better! We MUST do better! It's a moral imperative.

Yet, for all that, it's possible that resources are limited. And when resources are limited, questions of sustainability, achievability, returns, and cost-effectiveness become relevant. This is particularly true when there multiple goals to be chased - would you be happy if all Medicare funding for the elderly was stripped away in favor of treating opioid addiction?
You forgot an important one (probably a prerequisite): fix the political system.
War has been a part of society for as long as society has existed. What has changed in your mind to make post-war era possible?

Also does post war mean war never again happens? Or just happens less frequently?

I truly believe a post war era (war not happening for millions of years) will not be possible without genetic mutation of the human genome.
Man, people just looooove to link 5 year old blogs about fault tolerance, meanwhile that isn't even relevant anymore, and honestly, it wasn't relevant at the time either, because changing the write concern is trivial.

The real nugget of truth here is this; don't use tools that you don't understand... PERIOD.

Further, there are a plethora of alternative engines for Mongo that do have fault tolerance in mind.
For live video, yes, but even a many twitch highlight reels still end up back on youtube.
Thanks for the tip! I do know that one of our engineers did verify that our public job postings sites for compatibility with screen readers before. I'm not sure we tried Safari with VoiceOver specifically. Will report back.
"You need to understand what situations it works best in"

I always hear this, but with no "such as" examples given. Could you please provide some?
Unfortunately I think you're right.
That's probably because you can't do it without using special Google-only API - I don't know of any other Android app that could do it.

So this is a monopoly problem again.
He specifically recommends niche magazine ads, which then and today will probably get you a print + ad on their site. So like, take an ad out in PCGamer, and get yourself an ad on their website as well, if you're making an indie game. Better yet, find a magazine + website that specifically is about indie gaming.

I can't think of a single magazine that doesn't have an accompanying website.

EDIT: Might as well include my thoughts on the book. For me, it was the second "success genre" or "self help" style book I had read, the first being How to Win Friends and Influence People. I was about 22 at the time, fresh out of college, living abroad in Taiwan, trying to figure myself out and find myself. Very impactful time, so for me it was a very impactful book. Not so much for anything specific, but because the specifics were there. Here was a guy laying out concrete plans, concrete schedules, to making money. It guided me to how it really was possible to make money on my own, to live the kind of life I wanted to, to work remote etc. It planted a seed that took a long fucking time to grow, but it did grow, and the result is by the time I was 25 I had managed to sneak my way out of my liberal arts degree'd relatively futureless life into software engineering. Now my goals and objectives are framed by that first read - I haven't looked at it since, though I should.

In short, it's a great book for those new to the whole concept of working for yourself, creating a life for yourself, stepping outside the "normal boundaries" of life (go to school, get job, poop kids, die). Those on this site reading this may not think it's such a big deal, to those of us here it's pretty normal to step outside the box, but there's a reason I'm here now and this book contributed in a big way to it.
Real live stupidity.
Player preferences aren't within the bounds of the rules of the game, though.

You can have 100% knowledge of the bounds of the game's rules and still have a tremendous amount of difficulty in ascertaining player preference. The article makes it clear that the process of iterative playing of computationally complex decision games does not assure very significant approximation of preference.

In other words, you need to do something more than just play in order to reliably reach a place close to equilibrium.
tptacek is referring to the chain of trust that's used to validate that the issuer for a DV certificate is someone we trust to perform DV.
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I'm not arguing that we have the optimal trust system now. I'm saying that the argument that we should have started with "privacy" for everyone and made trust optional is invalid. A different key infrastructure may very well have been better than the X.509 PKI! But not having any identity in the system is an unrealistic goal.
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We (Quiki YC W17) are currently using Otter to make our entire contract/agreement process self service, and it's been great. I can answer any questions from a customer perspective.
Solr is not a document store. It's a search engine.

If you actually tried using it as one you would realise how ignorant your comment is. Both the Solr and ElasticSearch have gone on record before stating that it should never be used as the source of truth.
I didn't think dilbert was that male oriented. Male oriented sure but 94%?
Using the power of 2 idea that was recently posted here. Choose two random songs and play the one that was least recently played.
> If you want client persistence, you have localStorage, sessionStorage and IndexedDB.

I really wish that we had a persistent, non-ephemeral web api for local storage. One that has to be manually deleted by the user, searchable by domain, just like a mobile app. It should ask you to allow it just like notifications or webcam usage, and allow you to set a maximum size with a reasonable fallback default. Until we have that, and full support for service worker features, mobile apps will be a necessity for many developers unfortunately.
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Netflix did it to VZ when VZ refused to do more PNIs with NetFlix. NetFlix folded within a couple of weeks after VZ offered them a slightly better deal.
I've noticed that it's easier for me to get to a state of flow on smaller screens vs big or multiple screens. The tabbing between applications (e.g. IDE and browser) doesn't tire me either. It's like the simple keystrokes for tabbing between applications are far less intrusive than having to turn my head, search, and regain focus. To me that makes sense.
Best case, that much solar generates about 38 horsepower for about 5 hours per day. The engine generates about 4000 horsepower. I would be astounded if this lowered fuel usage by 1% after you count the added weight of the batteries and electronics or if it lowered costs by anywhere near 1% due to the added maintenance issues.
I agree, it's better to make a "beta price" or "pioneer price" that you honor, when I see "Free for now" I worry about investing effort in a product that the company does not have enough confidence in to put a price on. Especially one where I may be storing what is private intellectual property and trade secrets. I would much prefer to see a price and a commitment.
I actually agree with most of what you wrote, an LLC is cheaper/easier especially when you have no money and need to focus on building product.

But when do you bring on employees? ie non-partners. I hugely recommend giving them equity options and now you have to convert, which is more costly than being a C corp from the start.

Also your 10% figure isn't close. investment comes from family, angels, and VCs. Probably over 50% get some type, and now your tax returns and theirs just got much more complex. As does future investment.

If you can afford to start as a C corp, it's often worthwhile.
You're subbed to the wrong subreddits. You could be getting a lot more out of reddit than you are. The comments here make it sound like 95% of all conversations are about race and politics, but if that's what you're seeing, then that's really just a reflection of what you're reading.

There are subreddits about everything. Most of them don't include conversations about police shootings or Islam.
You can participate in only certain subreddits, but you'll still get a lot of trolls. As far as I'm aware, this is more of an issue in trans and feminism related subreddits. This is the reason for having certain "safe spaces" like r/creepypms. Outright banning people who don't go along with the topic is far easier than policing discussions.

Brigading in reddit has always been an issue and it's likely not going away for a very long time. That's also a cause of inter-subreddit mixing that can lead to abuse.

You're mostly correct that if you stick to the smaller and more moderated communities, you'll avoid a lot of the crud.

Edit: and to be further on topic, the r/opiates subreddit also gets a lot of outsiders going in and flinging abuse at the users there.
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No, I really can't think of any situation where installing, managing, updating, maintaining, and crying over a mongodb cluster would be easier for a flat-file datastore than say, a file system, or S3. In fact if one is on AWS, then nothing beats just dumping them in S3 and processing them as necessary. If I'm a startup and I really wanted some querying then PostgreSQL looks great, with Amazon handling the maint and backups.
The techniques used in the 2016 US election were developed by western governments to interfere in 3rd world countries' elections. Heck the same subcontractors were used. Classic example of a weapon being turned on the maker.
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the price is a key part of product functionality.
I use Firefox on Android exclusively - because it has uBlock, and thanks to my country's carriers, I have very limited mobile data budget, that I can't afford to spend on ads.
Actually, it is supposed to be [1, 1]. The actual value of the element corresponds to the score it has, and the index of it refers to the index in the data.

I'll add a note in the article.
> I'm curious whether the disproportionate concern has more to do with the perception of drug addicts as weak and deserving of their fate

This. The AIDS epidemic in the 1980's was the same. Tens of thousands of people dying every year, with more than forty thousand per year at jts peak, and more than 600,000 dead to date. Because of homophobia, the public at large didn't care about the victims - most people, if they took notice at all, only expressed groundless fear in catching HIV just going about their business.

Opiate addiction isn't a disease in the sense that there's a biological virus or bacteria that can be transmitted from person to person, so "normal" people think they can't "catch" it. And so without public sympathy for the victims, no wonder there isn't some mass political movement trying to get Congress to fund a proper response.
TBH I like the current uniformity of the item spawns. It varies the gameplay and forces you to adapt.

If every house had one pistol and one rifle it would get pretty dull. Raiding 3 houses and only getting a crossbow, bandages, and SMG magazines is frustrating but it's exciting. Just last night I got to #3 or #4 with a crossbow and a pistol.
I couldn't quickly find the 4.17 release, but gdb 4.17.0.4 was released at the end of June 1998. The release notes mentioned Linux kernels in the 2.0-2.1 range.
Wow - that is cool!
I knew this existed but I never knew the name thank you!

I suffer from this in many ways, not just shipping a product, but even when just starting a dumb side project it is easy to get sidetracked with simple decisions, such as language, framework, etc.(the infamous JS fatigue)
At first I was confused, because statistical models that aren't temporally independent are very common.

But it's very clear from the comments that having dice that aren't independent between rolls is incredibly in demand :o, and having the right words to google can be tricky.

(I feel like there's an important lesson there)
Yes, I read the article and it inspired my question.
Sometimes bending explicit policy is part of providing exceptional customer service. Not every situation is the same. If companies never bent the rules, you would never get these wonderful PR stories that companies love -- as an example.

intrinsically this is part of the problem -- we are reducing decisions down to basically a hard set fast of rules that I am sure AI will implement and arrive to the correct rules better than any human can -- but we aren't robots. There is no correct set of levers to pull, and you can't take emotion out of decisions that are made. Nobody likes strict legalism, and you can't possibly make rules for every single situation.
Sounds like typical Fed guidance :) Don't get carried away, focus on fundamentals, think long-term and don't get caught up in the hype/froth.

While I'm a big fan of ETC I think his statement is a beneficial consequence of very early ETH investors likely being billionaires at the current valuation.
The drug is toxic in humans but I think it also means we can't do comparative trials on the mechanism in mice. There might be something to discover about the mechanism that could be brought by a different drug that doesn't have the cardiotoxicity.
I agree, pretty much entirely.

I am Micmac, Irish, and African American. I don't care if someone is racist. I don't care if they say racially charged things. I care only when it manifests physically.

I don't believe I've the right to control the thoughts or speech of others. I don't let them control my emotions. I do not cede that power over me.
Wait, what?? Where did I say anything remotely like "trust no one"?

Trusting governments has worked out so well historically though. That got us many wars, untold numbers of people killed, incarcerated and/or experimented on. It got us untold numbers of people inhibited from creating wealth and a better future for themselves, so the existing elite power base could preserve itself. It got us civil asset forfeiture, the "War on Drugs" (aka, war on civil liberties), horrible nutritional advice promulgated by the USDA and their ilk, which has ruined people's health (hey, eat lots of carbs, fat is evil!). It's got us entrenched systems which promote the morality of one religious group (Christians, in the US) regardless of one's personal beliefs. It's got us MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, Room 641a, etc., etc.
Mass extinction due to meteor strike is just one hypothesis.
What I was referring to was the proportionality, obviously it IS being discussed (I linked a prominent policy maker discussing it), so really what I'm saying is that the amount of airtime/attention given to stories on the opioid crisis was far less than the combined number of stories attending to gun crimes or self-driving car successes/failures.

I remember seeing a Vanguard episode on the "pain management" industry in Florida called the Oxycontin Express [1] back in 2009 (won a Peabody). And yet it's only in the last year or so that I've actually heard about it being addressed more publicly.

If you're telling me that I'm wrong and that actually more people, dollars, and attention are going toward saving people from opioid overdose than automobile accidents and gun crime, then I would be happy to be wrong and would want to see numbers.

Otherwise it sounds like you're telling me to tune my news inputs so I hear stories in a proportion that would please me better?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGZEvXNqzkM
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> a government that is utterly unresponsive to its people.

Isn't that what is meant by "not being heard"?
> You can only fight ideas with better ideas.

The problem with this is that human beings will reject ideas that don't agree with what they want to hear, like the populations of coal towns in Appalachia that want to blame "Liberals" for their lot in life because they've hitched their wagon to the (dying) coal industry and don't want to change.

It's like the Simpsons Principal Skinner meme. "Could I be wrong about something? No! It's definitely everyone else that is wrong!"

Also, ideas don't woo people in and of themselves. Why do you think that charismatic leaders can swap entire populations to follow horrible ideologies that offer simple and easy solutions to their problems by throwing other people under the bus to pave the way to a better future for a select few?
> In that sense, he argues that Amazon RDS is a form of NoSQL today

Lol. What?

RDS is literally hosted RDBMS SQL databases.
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While your statement is true and funny, it also illustrates the conservative stewardship that a large stake engenders. Not really a bad thing.