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Buffett's returns today, while still very good, are a pale shadow of the returns he put up in his first decade, or even his first 30 years. Somehow all these "sweet deals" haven't moved the needle for Berkshire.

The real reason current returns are lower is that the constraints on Buffett have grown over time and now are the heaviest they've ever been. Investing a $400B portfolio offers him far fewer opportunities than a $50M or even $10B portfolio did.

And announcements of his purchases are very damaging to his returns. Typically only has a month or two before he's required to file with the SEC disclosing significant new purchases. So accumulating billions of dollars of stock in most companies in those months without driving up the price is either impossible or really difficult. Once he files his SEC report, the prices almost always increase substantially from 'free riders' trying to piggyback on his trades.

The stock price popping up quickly not good for Buffett, in fact it's terrible. It forces him to stop buying what he regarded as a bargain. He never flips his positions, he's going to hold them for many years, usually many decades. The free rider problem means he has to invest less, and make less on each investment, hurting his returns.

And the "sweet deal" allegation is pretty ludicrous. Berkshire is a very special financial source, a CEO can call Buffett directly and get a hard price almost immediately. The price he gives is never very good, but for businesses that need money badly they know he will always close the transaction quickly without trying to renegotiate or bailing out.

Goldman Sachs during the 2008 crisis was a good example. Goldman is owned/run by hard eyed partners, but during the crisis their backs were against the wall. They had to add more capital, and were being forced to sell shares at really horrible prices to raise it. They got $5B from Warren in an emergency phone call, and in preferred shares were less dilutive than selling common shares.

No one else on earth was willing to step up during that immense crisis and give Goldman a better deal, more likely any deal at all (Lehman had just filed bankruptcy). If someone else gave them a slightly better offer, the sharks at Goldman would have taken it.

And Buffett is always laughed at when making these deals because wall street execs claim he overpaid. Its not till years later when the results come in that revisionists says they were obvious sweetheart deals. Yet somehow the revisionists never picked up the phone to get in on them.
He's not an opponent; he's just some random guy on the internet, who, by his own admission, has no idea what he's talking about, because he writes about a subject he has not studied nor shown interest in studying. Many of the people arguing against him or for him are other random guys on the internet, and your entire opinion on this very important matter, which has occupied hundreds of researchers for decades and affects the lives of many people is based on some online debates you've read between various random guys on the internet. Do you see how ridiculous this is? It's like forming an opinion about Bell's theorem by listening to debates among fourth-graders who've heard the term "quantum mechanics" on Rick and Morty.

He's famous only because his office shenanigans caused such a massive PR shitstorm for his employer, that the CEO of Google had to cut short his family vacation to deal with the mess this low-level employee had caused.
Walmart also sells ice cream that doesn't melt.

Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/walmarticecream.asp

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SozZHZAWS64
What we got here is a failure to communicate.

An appeal to authority is a type of fallacious argument; in attributing the quote to Einstein, your subtext is that his endorsement is your argument. But, of course, context-free quotes from Einstein aren't sufficient evidence of anything.
Well nothing is stoppimg you from setting up a Gitlab clone/fork and advertise this. I guess.
Thoughtful SOA. Morals and ethics are baked into the code.
2) This is a very bad idea
I have to reluctantly agree with this (the noisy failure position) much as I like and have followed jon's maxim for decades.

Right now, for me, the worst "offender" (I.e. "faithful observer") is USB type-C. Hook up two high speed thunderbolt devices using a cable that supports only USB 2.0 speeds and it will "work", but slowly. There's currently no way to tell which cable is which by visual inspection.

I can see why this is a triumph of engineering and back compatibility, but I can also see why it's a problem.
The amateur radio population is getting older. Most hams I know are running Windows anyways (on at least one machine) -- for controlling their radios, weather stations, and such -- so most of the software they write is also for Windows. I imagine the target audience here (amateur radio operators who run Linux on the desktop and have a desire to use this protocol) is very small.

(On a side note, you should write your own open source Winlink client for Linux. Then, you can use the latest VCS-of-the-week and host it wherever you like. Apparently the author preferred to use Windows, CVS, and Sourceforge. It was extremely rude and disrespectful of him to not check with you first, so before you get started make sure that you ask me which language I want you to write it in.)
What's holding back a mobile port is 2 things:
1) It's written in wxWidgets, which has an unfinished iOS port and no Android port. Even if these ever get finished, mapping the UI 1:1 would probably make for a really bad mobile app, and would have to be adapted specifically for mobile. An alternative route is to rewrite the UI in Qt or OpenGL or something, but that's a huge amount of work.
2) It would need support for cloud storage.
Their history dictates their motives, and having never offensively used a patent as of the moment they clearly have good motives.

You are attacking the player, not the game. Software patents shouldn't exist. But in reality they do, and as of this moment I would much rather Google own the patent than a troll.
Indeed, scrambled egg are ready in no time. You can even scramble them in the evening and keep in the fridge until morning. If you have a stove with a timer you can just slosh them in the pan and eat without stirring after a couple of minutes.
Visual Studio does that for Python. It occasionally fails (e.g. it doesn't have definitions for built-ins like map()) but overall it's pretty decent.

(It also does that for C++ and C# and whatnot for inferred types, but I thought I've seen other editors do it too...)
That's a good practice, but it's more orthogonal to the concept of flow than you think. I do basically the same thing when I design new components or systems, but I'm very much in a flow state while doing so.
One big standard is the ability to recognize oneself in a mirror and, insofar as I'm aware, humans are the only ones who have yet to pass it consistently. (Perhaps a few great apes have done so since.)
I recommend taking a look at how Angular 2+ does it - the Angular team originally intentionally omitted it, but they found a way to make it work in a technically sound fashion (output changes being evented).

The side-effects problem was certainly true with Angular.js - it is not true with Angular.
> we've "proven the existence of dark matter"

The article says we've proven the existence of dark energy, not dark matter. They're not the same thing.

That said, if it does turn out that the SN1a "standard candle" scale has to be revised, that might impact the finding of accelerated expansion on which the dark energy model is based. It will be interesting to see how other cosmologists respond to this paper.
Workplace flexibility is the way to win the war for talent
Oh, so you meant the groups of counter-protestors that protected the clergy from a mob of heavily armed white supremacists? The same group that was later victims of a domestic terrorist? Alright then.
No, but they've never used that power whereas trolls always use it for bad.

The fact that you'd rather have a troll own it than Google is literally retarded. That's like advocating you'd prefer North Korea have nukes than the US, because the US already has too much power.

Why would you rather be sued in real life over a theoretical fear? Is absurd.
Sure, ok, but I've worked in companies large and small that are ruthless about their hardware landscape, and this wasn't tech or SV.
I tried to like VueJs but just couldn't. Seems just like another Angular 1.x like framework. I am done with HTML template API's. So many failed attempts using this concept. Anyone remember Polymer? That's what I thought.
Years ago I went through some neurotherapy with a local doctor [1]. One part of the process had clips on my ears and a sensor on my head to read biofeedback (or something along those lines).

The game was simple: there's a silo on the screen with a hot air balloon on the left side. When I get into 'the zone', the balloon goes up and around the silo. This will loop for as long as I can hold it.

It took about two sessions with minor success, then suddenly it clicked. Now I can easily enter that state on demand.

This might sound odd, but the neurotherapy helped eliminate a lot of the negative parts of ADHD without losing the edge that a lot of medications take away. I still have a lot of energy, but I can always sit and focus on the task at hand when I need to.

[1] http://www.swingleclinic.com/about/how-does-neurotherapy-wor...
What am I supposed to see here? (Are you, by any chance, be confusing the word "sexism" with the word "misogyny"?)
Well, there are themes that are evolving that are worth cataloging in a new logical model that can help guide further innovation. I agree though, the model itself isn't the root.
By focusing on audio recordings and putting those on a mechanical medium, did Carl Sagan intend to address it to primitive civilizations lacking the means to read digital media? In that case, the platter would have to come down into an atmosphere, greatly diminishing its chance ever to be enjoyed, wouldn't it?
It's quite flexible in how you structure your data, so besides rows and columns, "tags" can be children or parents. It even has an explicit tagging feature where you define tags that can easily be applied. See also the "Hierarchy Swap" feature as a powerful tagging related feature.

On the downside, the built-in search is purely textual, not structural, so your example query can't be done. Structural queries would be an awesome addition though.
Why this news, posted 2 hours ago, slided from front page to 40th position in about 2 minutes? It's got 251 points, 52 comments which is way more than anything on the front page?
This post had 251 points in two hours. It was no 1 post for some time and now it was downgraded to 42ND position in the list. 2 hours after posting with 251points. How is it possible????
I think Github could create a good nucleating community for federated networking. They could host a giant pod of Github users (could be the next venue following slashdot>kuro5hin>reddit>hn), and they could also create 1 click tooling for Github users to create pod for their own project communities.

Would be a good kickstarter for generating sufficient network effect value to use in the first place, evolving the platform software through real world tire kicking, and getting it out to the wider world. And being github, as well as a sufficiently technical userbase, there's already a business model around freemium hosting which could be applied.
We're probably not talking crazy money to be qualified as an investor in a developing country. But there might be a requirement to invest a certain amount into the local economy.
More than 90 % of its revenue comes from ads so I don't see a way they would be affected.
The only valuable brands are Youtube and the search engine(android could even operate as a nonprofit funded by Google). Progress but hardly a "win".
Thank you so much! This is what i've been looking for!
If you are looking for a matured and easy to use solution, which follows convention over configuration pattern, so it helps to be the job done, I would highly recommend Ember.js Especially useful for us who come from backend world, so many concept will be familiar. You can learn the whole framework in a few days from www.yoember.com or from www.emberjs.com

Especially the toolset and addon ecosystem will suprise you, so easy and fast. You will love it.
Again, your reaction to the word sexism suggests you may be confusing it with misogyny, but anyway, here are some starting points, and you can follow the references from there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political) (pretty much a prerequisite to understanding any social research)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
Same here.. I made a comment somewhere saying the same as you, but I feel like I'm in the middle of the thing your looking back at.

I really do feel like a junky, that has found a pile of whatever it needs and the world encourages me to get better in 'using' and keeps paying me more to get higher and higher.. it's such a strange 'unethical' feeling.. I'm programming for about 8 years now in full throttle, and it keeps feeling stranger.. I'm somehow glad others experience it also...
So much incorrect stuff in the text, I stopped reading.
Southeast Asia is a really interesting case study for me when it comes to political ideals vs. optimizing for life situations. There's a growing creep of authoritarianism in different nations -- given what we know of the military regime in Thailand and their propensity to arrest people for expression, it would be somewhat ironic to preach for the "open Internet" while living there. The tradeoff, of course, is much lower costs, higher security as others have pointed out. But I do wonder about the greater costs involved -- those perhaps not weighed on foreign workers, of accepting that this is the way things happen to be there.
What is the most advanced computer program?
I will never ever buy the "we are forced to do evil things for the greater good" argument.

Especially behind real inventors' back.

You can't just dictate your own distorted ethical vision just because you are too big.

Edit: plus I don't even give a shit if they limit their use of this patent to defend themselves against competitor claims. Clearly even in this limited case this patent still would have (a very good) value, so at least propose the REAL inventor to patent it and sell ultra limited right for that purpose for a few millions. Then this would be kind of ethical.
A lot of UI issues on the Mac are indeed being held back by wxWidgets.

The file format is documented and open source, but it is binary for speed and compactness (especially since it may contain images).
We run marko in production. My favorite part about Marko is the automatic dependency management. If you already defined a `Modal` component, you can just use it in other components / pages by writing `<Modal />`. The JS files AND the CSS files will all get auto-bundled into your page.

Marko is also the only framework that supports server-side rendering streaming. This means that your user will start to see HTML even before the page has finished rendering. Afterwards, the page is bootstrapped and components run on the client side. It's very fast.
Well they could've used an early version of SGML, the text encoding we still use after all these years ([1]). Would've confused the sh*t out of them aliens :)

[1]: <http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/jasis.htm>
> ripping out all kinds of stuff

So, they weren't starting over. They forked, refactored and removed things no longer needed. Completely different thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeni%27s_Splendid_Ice_Creams

Check out Jeni's for a premium brand that has some national distribution, as well as direct to consumer shipping from their website. It's $$$, but I used to be an ice cream connoisseur of sorts, and I think it lives up to the hype.
All socialist governments are plutocracies. Witness Venezuala where Chavez divvied up the economy and gave all the pieces to his closest friends. Those in power always enrich themselves just as Putin and his cronies have.
Creating notes is not the problem people are trying to solve.
They're trying to make managing them easier.
I'm claiming that corporations hold cash offshore to avoid paying federal corporate taxes. Kansas is categorically incapable of doing anything to solve that problem, so I don't see how your Kansas example is in any way relevant, unless there was an epidemic of Kansas businesses keeping stockpiles of cash in Nebraska for the purpose of avoiding state taxes.
>theoretical fear
Profit is always the bottom line. Google isn't some humanitarian project. Get your head out of the clouds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/57w79c/why_you_real...

/edit and the author of this post is ........ kataras, Gerasimos (Makis) Maropoulos. The one who stole source code for Iris, lied about everything, faked benchmarks, flattend git history quite often to hide his tracks and behaves like a dumb kid who got caught.
Reactive Relational Programming with PLRelational
I wonder if potential aliens be like 'oh great, valuable metals - let's go and scrape that planet.'
Why doesn't PS4 use LEDBAT for background downloads? Wouldn't this address the latency problem without sacrificing download speeds? AFAIK, Macs do this at least for OS updates.
Separate control and data channels is quite a .. "telco" design. Also present in the much more recent SIP protocol.

Do remember that FTP is very, very old. It's from 1971.
They will come to MacBooks (and other mainstream platforms) if and when there is a user-centric utility to them and they can be integrated painlessly and economically.

Ignoring the latter criterion, GPUs are integrated because they benefit the typical user experience by enabling high-end graphics and have the side benefit of providing an alternative mode of computation that can benefit some restricted use cases required by some users. TPMs will need to fall into a similar use-case before they are even considered for inclusion.

There's loads of very flexible, useful hardware types that have been around for ages and are not included (general-purpose DSPs, FPGAs, SDRs, & cetera) because despite being useful for some things done by a few users, there simply isn't a reason to make them default.
Ok this article seems to be willfully ignoring two advantages of PoS:

- Liquidity and capital-over-time that you have to “burn” (which makes PoS just another type of PoW) is actually capital that was fabricated from thin-air. So while PoS is not less wasteful, the act of switching-to-PoS is a gigantic act of wealth-creation.

- A much bigger point, relevant to the future of humanity on Earth: there are externalities to PoW which makes mining cost more to society than its $ cost to the miners. Instead of lobbying to include those externalities in the mining cost via various pollution taxes, we can sidestep it entirely by doing PoW with something that doesn't do physical damage to the earth: PoS.
Yeah but writing web apps in HTML/CSS/JavaScript is not the same as using C++.

I would prefer the lower layers also to be written in a memory safe systems programming language, but having the userspace 100% in such a language, would already be quite an improvement versus the current situation.
So ultimately patents boil down to the deepest pockets. Not that I'm naive, but that's a pretty shitty way to do such things.
The end to end principle pretty much made the flow control and re-transmission functions of the LLC sublayer of the data link layer obsolete. So now we pay a 6 to 8 byte penalty (8 bytes if the MAC can tell us the packet length) on every frame transmitted. Wired/optical Ethernet does not normally use LPD (LLC Protocol Discrimination, i.e. 802.2 LLC/SNAP) but unfortunately WiFi does.

So in 2014 while the author is advocating for the data link layer to ensure packets are received by other devices on the channel like the current OSI model does, the IEEE is encouraging new standards to use EPD (Ethernet Protocol Discrimination) instead of LPD. The IEEE just wants the LLC sublayer to only do multiplexing of protocols now.

The author completely missed how the upper layer protocols, i.e. TCP/IP, has made some parts of the lower layer protocols unnecessary. Having a basic model is good thing for classifying different parts of the network and makes discussions clearer. But in the real world things rarely fall into categories that neatly.
Thanks! An Android port requires either wxWidgets to be ported to Android (which doesn't exist yet), or TreeSheets to be rewritten to not depend on wxWidgets but something else (Qt? OpenGL?). These are both huge undertakings.
And it's stolen from different sources and hated in the Go-community ........

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/57w79c/why_you_real...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/57tmp1/why_you_shou...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/6hmlod/githubcomkat...

https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter/issues/148

etc. etc. etc. .................
This resonates with my own experience as well. I have been programming since I was 10 in a country where I was the first of my peers whose family got a PC. I got bullied both by the "jocks" and by the "nerds." The jocks bullied me because I was a nerd while the nerds made fun of my ambitions and disparaged my looks. Fun times!
The hope is, we will reinvent new jobs, like we always did.

But we have to reeducate people when their job gets rationalised away before they pensioners
The 90% agreement rule
...and hellbanned again for comments in this thread actually. HN doesn't like disturbances to the appearance of right libertarian consensus it would seem.

(That's completely fine in the context of a private community with its own specific set of values but it should be clearly advertised so that participants understand it's not a wider consensus in the world at large and that they aren't getting anything like an open discussion with a range of views.)
... complete with lingo ("toxic") that is vague enough that it cannot be defined or disputed. Convenient!
Can you be more exact what you mean by synchronization?

Currently, you can save your TreeSheets file in, say, DropBox, have it open on multiple computers, and any save will automatically reload the document on other computers (if they don't have unsaved changes, otherwise it will ask).
Cabbage-ex/cabbage – Story BDD tool for executing elixir in ExUnit
They don't exist because your OS will only succeed if you're a successful monopoly (in at least a couple of market segments) with the market leverage to force adoption.

And if you're a monopolist with the market leverage to force adoption, you're very unlikely indeed to also be a leader in OS R&D.

A more fundamental problem is that this wish list is only really of interest to developers. The average user doesn't care about OS configurability or the kind of OS-level task programming that's being talked about here, and they're unlikely to use these features unless there's a super-simple UI to make them accessible.

Personally I'd love to see more debate about OS design, and more movement and improvement. IMO all the modern OS options pretty much suck in many ways.

But realistically I know you don't get much bottom-up invention in a market driven economy when niches have already been filled with okay-I-guess solutions.

You only get commoditisation and tinkering, and those are a long way from streamlined genius-level excellence.