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Eh. You have wrong it.

Market keeps going up because we continue to have global growth. Over 66% of countries are showing positive GDP and growth. US growth is also fairly high. Historically GDP averages around 1.8%. The talk of 3% is just politics.

In addition, technology has created a lot of efficiency providing healthy profits for businesses.

In addition, there is a high feedback loop of spending by all major businesses. Example: apple produces phones that require a lot of software and hardware to work which means a lot of other companies involved which also creates competition among multiple phone companies to also produce something similar and so on.

Yes we are at a fair valuations and I sincerely hope for a 10-20% correction. But we are in a 20 year bull run with minor bears in between.

About money printing. Yes I agree some day one of the central banks will be trouble but other will bail it out.

Also cheap money is good. It helps mid to lower income families come up. Micro loans are good example of it. Why can't lower income generating families have access to cheaper money ? Why do they have to pay 8-10% interest?

Imagine if you were from a low to mid income family, wanting to go to school won't you want cheaper loans. And if people abuse that privilege then they will pay for it. If you are just getting out of school and need some house loan etc. won't be bette to have easy access to money? Or do you want 8-10% interest ?

Yes I agree a lot of money has been printed but it has created healthy money vilocity that has gone appropriately to create value for everyone.

World was much worse 15 years ago just go back and look.
Just think how bad the victim felt!
> I just wonder why Outside magazine still picks up the phone when Armstrong’s PR agency calls. I mean, is there anyone left that cares?

There's a trial set for November 6, 2017, to decide if he "committed fraud by doping"[1].

Though, there are some bits that give some insight into his (poor) character - mainly, that Armstrong was so angry about the whole situation, that he felt unfairly singled-out as the face of doping in cycling (when everyone was doing it), that he thinks he did an ultimate good fighting cancer, etc, etc. There's clearly still a big part of him that thinks his doping was justifiable.

One question related to the trial - the article says,

The Postal Service paid Armstrong’s team $32,267,279...and Armstrong ­personally, could be forced to pay back three times that, or $96,801,837...The Postal Service’s own commissioned studies, four of them, showed that its contract with Armstrong’s team was worth close to $140 million in global media exposure, showing, in other words, that the USPS got a good deal"

What does this mean for the trial? What does it mean for Armstrong if they find the USPS benefitted from the fraudulent contract?

There was also uncertainty about whether "Armstrong’s deceptions and aggressive behavior" would be allowed in testimony. What testimony along those lines would be relevant to the fraud case?

1: https://www.bicycling.com/culture/doping/lance-armstrongs-fr...
So vk.com uses plaintext as a storage medium for their files?
I really hope than once we have the technology to robotically construct elevated cities, we have already solved most of the problems of people with reduced mobility with by some other means that let them integrate with standard-mobility society in a more seamless way.
What he said was correct, its more a comment on the fundamental relationships than a prediction. The only thing that is priced in is the expectation of what is going to happen. No one knew for sure what the FED would do or when.
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Aside -- I was a little confused, I'd only ever seen it spelled "Quipu" before. I assumed it was a Spanish or Portuguese word and shouldn't need to be transliterated (thus the multiple spellings). It's not -- it's a word from the native Peruvians and therefore does need transliteration.

From the wikipedia article [1]:

> Quipu is the Spanish spelling and the most common spelling in English.[citation needed] Khipu (pronounced [ˈkʰipu], plural: khipukuna) is the word for "knot" in Cusco Quechua; the kh is an aspirated k. In most Quechua varieties, the term is kipu.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
GNU IceCat would be a better choice of "last outpost".
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Totally valid. And yet imagine how much more effectively emergency responders could operate if they didn't need to compete with the general public given there were better alternate transport modes.
From the OP, by the time my solo, sole founder startup has $10,000+ a month in revenue, my startup will have plenty of cash for very rapid growth; cash for growth will not be a tight constraint; and no VC need call!

The OP is significantly about applying to YC: From what I've heard, YC doesn't much like sole, solo founder startups!

Why should no VC need call? For my startup, a PC server from $1500 in parts kept on average half busy 24 x 7 should generate well over $200,000 a month in revenue. Thus there would be plenty of cash for more PCs at $1500 each. Even $10,000 a month in revenue would yield plenty of cash for more servers.

SUSA Ventures claims to want "technical founders". Alas, it doesn't look like the SUSA partners are very technical!

"Warm introductions"? SUSA and many want "warm introductions": But VCs and I do not have associates in common. So, I can't get a "warm introduction" to a VC, and no VC can get such an introduction to me. E.g., I might be able to get a "warm introduction" from one of my Ph.D. dissertation advisers, at one time President of one of the world's best known research universities especially famous for their STEM field graduate programs, including computer science and AI. However I doubt that that person knows any information technology VCs. E.g., recently Tom Magnanti, Dean of Science at MIT, gave a technical lecture on the foundation of the Internet at a lecture series named for Professor X. Well, Professor X was the Chair of my Ph.D. orals committee; maybe I could get a warm introduction from him; but likely he knows no information technology VCs. Net, my background is technical, but VCs are not qualified to be my technical colleagues or associates -- VCs don't measure up.

For the people I know, the best form of an introduction is a good peer-reviewed paper of original research in a STEM field, preferably applied math complete with significant theorems and proofs. It appears that there are few or no such information technology VCs anywhere in the US and similarly few who could accurately evaluate such a paper.

SUSA Ventures claims:

"We seek out highly defensible companies that leverage data, economies of scale, or network effects to build value and achieve longevity."

"Seek out"? My experience is that SUSA ignores such things even when they land in their e-mail inbox.

IMHO, for the OP again, all the advice on pitching information technology VCs is noise and filler and useless except just one word, "traction", preferably in the form of after-tax earnings significantly high and growing rapidly. But for a sole, solo founder startup, by the time the business has traction enough for a VC to write a check, the founder likely will no longer accept such a check.
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Why would they care? If you are an unproductive, substance dependent addict, you'll probably be fired or not hired.

It would be a pretty useless metric to judge a population on, considering alcohol is legal and far worse. Or prescription opioids.
Ignorance != agreement
I don't think most people working at home during WWII were primarily motivated by concern about their allies abroad. Instead, I'd argue the motivations were:

* supporting a friend or family member serving in the military

* capturing a new economic opportunity (government contracts, etc), following the shockingly hard times of the Great Depression

To that point, there are currently millions of people suffering at this moment around the globe. If you were motivated by compassion, you'd probably find a different job and put in long hours.
You mean 42 trillion?
Brandon did very well at Dominos; Bain Capital, Dominos' owners, certainly thought so, because they later hired him to run Toys R Us.

> Since Dave left Michigan, the interim AD hired Jim Harbaugh, and the football program is now regularly in top 10 in the nation.

Harbaugh's record through 2 seasons + 3 games = 23-6

Brady Hoke, the coach Brandon hired, through the same period = 22-7. Hoke also beat Ohio State during that period and Harbaugh hasn't. At Michigan, beating Ohio State is almost more important than the rest of the season combined; ESPN called it the top rivalry in all of sports at one point.

But more important to the University of Michigan than winning a children's game played with a ball, at least before Harbaugh and that interim AD, was the student-athletes' welfare and their development in the classroom and in the community. By those measures Hoke and Brandon far outperformed anyone. I know sports fans don't think about those things, but remember that it is an educational institution and the athletes are students (and if they aren't, they should be paid like highly talented employees).
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Are there any good examples of that besides that one Paris district?
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Flip side is paper documentation is poor UX.
> A month later, he reached an agreement to do podcast coverage of the Colorado Classic stage race, but concerns raised by USADA prompted organizers to cancel the deal.

That seems pretty awful. Sure, he's banned for life from cycling, but should he be banned for life from commenting? That seems too much for me, too much by far.

> His WeDu partner is a former professional racer (once part of the U.S. Postal team) and Silicon Valley executive named Dylan Casey. “To be a good cyclist, you have to love suffering,” says Casey, who until recently worked for Yahoo.

I'm sorry, I know it adds nothing to the conversation, but seriously … I snickered. There's no way the reporter didn't do this on purpose.
Either way, the fact that you can even have that conversation with a person at the store is a huge difference from the kid who'll read you the card on the display if you ask him about a product at Best Buy.

And yeah, I used sharkbite to book my dishwasher up, but it's definitely on the list of "get that replaced next time a plumber is in the house".
Try post-stroke Stephen Kovacevich. He was already a maverick before, the loss of much of his physical ability forced him to review his approach and the result has, at least, forced me to reconsider my view of many pieces I thought I had done and dusted (e.g. Brahms 4th Ballade). Hearing him live was both terrifying and awakening. His Beethoven cycle is unique and changing over time.

I also think that if you can abstract from the visual, Yuja Wang's playing has a ferocity and hunger for life that reminds me of the Russian School at its peak without the tragedy, and the technique to back it. I've not heard it in anybody else of her generation. It is a bit of a shame that her repertoire choices are so conservative, but to be expected given how she is marketed; I am very keen to hear what she will sound like in 40 years.

Stephen Hough has a sensitivity and big picture awareness rare since the death of Richter. Sitting in a 4 hour masterclass on Franck, I learnt a dozen new things, almost as if new dimensions unfolded about the art (I got the same impression from reading Neuhaus' book - ideas clicked into place seeming so obvious ex post, unreachable ex ante).

Finally Zhu Xiao-Mei has had an incredibly full life (from risking her life smuggling a piano and sheet music into Mao's reeducation camps and playing that piano in a meat freezer, to cleaning houses in LA before becoming a Parisian ghost wonder after accidentally playing a friend's piano and getting standing ovations in German concert halls that had greeted her with audible disdain) and it comes through in her playing. As a bonus you can "rediscover" a fair amount of Schumann this way.
The EPA's rationale:

> ... values are typically reported in units that match the aggregate dollar amount that a large group of people would be willing to pay for a reduction in their individual risks of dying in a year...

> Suppose each person in a sample of 100,000 people were asked how much he or she would be willing to pay for a reduction in their individual risk of dying of 1 in 100,000, or 0.001%, over the next year. Since this reduction in risk would mean that we would expect one fewer death among the sample of 100,000 people over the next year on average, this is sometimes described as "one statistical life saved." Now suppose that the average response to this hypothetical question was $100. Then the total dollar amount that the group would be willing to pay to save one statistical life in a year would be $100 per person × 100,000 people, or $10 million.
>You cannot see, or feel, the pain he experienced when many of his friends and colleagues deserted him or when he was forcibly separated from his cancer-fighting foundation.

Literal LOL on this - Oh poor Lance... I forgot the part of the story where his friends deserted him, and not the other way around.

If you want a real glimpse into all the people he screwed over, check out the documentary 'Stop at Nothing'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ofoGHNTXs

In all honesty, as a cyclist, and a fan of professional cycling, I'd be able to forgive the cheating, everyone was doing it during that era. But the way he handled everything else was a complete disgrace.
Battery life and data minimization should take precedence over extras. It is time to standardize on precisely the bare minimum necessary to render content, and that certainly excludes DRM and auto-play video ads and other endless cruft.

Simply put, I don't want my battery burning through unnecessary restrictions-addition software (both downloading and running).
The compromise mentioned in the article would have only helped with making it more secure.
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Interesting how almost everything he wrote in that article turned out wrong.
Couldn’t that same argument apply to the stock market? People prefer holding on to stocks, but every once in a while will cash out on their increase?
cheap money have created the next bubble of housing prices again
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281139
Someone was kind enough to tape it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJUiUaMXi9M
And Lego's not doing so well either
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/business/lego-sales-toys....
I honestly don't know who to trust. I don't think it matters which company you are in. At some point in time, we as users are being used by these companies either for profit or research. It's the price we pay for using really free.

I hope with the rise of cryptocurrency and decentralization, we can finally gain and own back what's ours.
This is really incredible. I'm a quadriplegic student and you don't really see people in my position in tech, and definitely not in executive roles so this means a lot in terms of proving it's possible.
Here's a course page with materials to help you get up to speed, if you want to spend a lot of time on it: http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/

(I only glanced through the OP, though.)
I will check these folks out! Thank you.
That article seems like a winning buzzword-bingo game by someone selling blockchains.Anyone who wants to sell online already can and there are plenty of people who do with either no middlemen or by picking a third party who shares some philosophical goals. Similarly, unless you're trying to sell completely illegal content it's trivial to buy or sell content which the major players choose not to carry — e.g. iTunes and Netflix not offering porn hasn't seemed to prevent anyone from watching it.

The actual problems here are discovery and piracy. The former increases the benefits (real and perceived) of middlemen with promotional channels, speaking to both to the creators wanting their work to be found and anyone finding it. The latter is similarly important: most artists don't make money so every lost sale counts and for every artist who believes content should be unencumbered there seem to be more who demand DRM, especially the mainstream ones with the most customers.

Not addressing both of those is fatal: if customers can't find what they want easily, the service is unlikely to make it out of the indie market. The key thing to remember is that outside of the diehard anti-DRM community, nobody sees this as a problem – most people find what they want on a major service, pay an acceptable amount, and leave satisfied.

Blockchains don't solve those problems and add new ones, like performance and irrecoverably failing open if there's a bug, which are likely showstoppers.
Urban planning and design is hugely important; and I love seeing the few examples of interesting concepts around the world. A few I've noticed and visited recently:

- Chicago: the 2- or 3-level streets around the riverfront are pretty awesome. Separating local traffic from through-traffic and commercial traffic. Loading docks and heavy traffic can all be hidden from view underground.
- Amsterdam: as one of the most biking-friendly cities in the world; there are bike lanes everywhere. Bike lanes are separated from the road by parking lanes, and intersection also separate the bike lames from the road by giving them independent crosswalks with a raised curb for protection. The canals also allow everyone to enjoy a trip anywhere in the city center via boat.
- Shanghai: the CBD's main buildings is connected via elevated walkways that go above the road.

I think the future would have all car traffic underground or pedestrian and bike friendly on elevated walkways.
The "difference between killing and letting die" has quite a lot of importance in "real life". One example that come to mind are the intense discussions in some countries about the possible decision to shoot down a highjacked plane (killing some to save many). It's official policy in the US, but the German Supreme Court considered it unconstitutional when they examined a law intended to codify it.

Another example is the discussion about the algorithm's decisions in kill some/save many scenarios in autonomous driving.

In philosophy, the Trolley Problem and its many variants are about exactly these sort of problems.

I wouldn't say that philosophy has given any "answers" to these problems, but the debate (and politics/law/software) would certainly be different, or just not happening, without these efforts.

Effective Altruism is another well-known concept that can be called "applied philosophy". As are "responsibility to protect" ("do world power have a duty to protect people in other countries from, for example, genocide"), and anything in economics and criminal law that requires some sort of common understanding of what is "just".
You're describing exactly https://hyper.sh.
Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... there seems to be a relatively strong correlation between universal health care and lower rates of road traffic deaths.

Which I guess makes sense; if the state has to pick up the health care tab for the traffic incidents it is also strongly incentivized to continously work on improving the design of the road traffic system to minimize the number and severity of the incidents. It's a very direct and effective feedback loop.

(The US has a 2-3x higher rate of road traffic deaths than e.g. Sweden or the UK, depending if you count per capita or per distance driven.)
When politicians mention "capping energy bills", that means trying to cap final consumer tariffs. What I mean by "price-cap" is a regulatory model which determines how governmental contracts for public utility might be written. It's also called the "RPI-X" regulation model.

It does not determine final consumer tariffs directly, but instead establishes a maximum revenue per KWh for the regulated firms. And this model has been in place in the UK's transmission and distribution sectors since 1990.

Also, you cannot choose who distributes energy to you. If you could, the sector wouldn't even need regulation. But you can choose who supplies that energy. These are two different sectors, and they're regulated in different ways. The distribution sector is a natural monopoly, while the energy generation sector isn't.
Any thoughts on the impact to housing, and particular the Bay Area's crazy market?
Hm. I what the distribution of latency vs bandwidth is like, whether 14kB or 2 round trips takes longer for most people?
I left my day job at the end of July to finally start working my way through a laundry list of ideas I've accumulated over the years. I had often toyed with the idea of side projects, but finding and sustaining the motivation to complete one just wasn't happening after a full day at the office. My current "self-employed" life may turn out to be unsustainable due to lack of income, but the jury's still out.

My current project is Move by Numbers [0], a sort of "Twitch plays chess" type of game with a comfortable pace, points, and levels. The idea of cooperative gaming has intrigued me recently, and this is my first foray into the space. Building it has been entertaining, but finding users and gathering feedback has been a struggle. I'm learning first-hand how difficult marketing is.

I also just published an article on tracing 2D metaball outlines [1], so if you enjoy visual explanations of algorithms, check it out.

Up next on my list is either a declarative charting language and cross-language interpreters for said language (data visualization is something I worked with a lot in my previous job), or a Japanese grammar textbook I've been dreaming about writing for several years now.

[0] https://movebynumbers.com

[1] https://eightsquaredsoftware.com/articles/metaball.html
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> it's a lot more cognitive overhead for what amounts to a little syntactic sugar.

This isn't really accurate with respect to meta languages like SCSS that add new features not present in the underlying language, like variables.

You really are missing out on a lot by not using the meta languages.
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If you squint, a "team" looks a bit like a friends list. Couldn't everyone create their own?

Depending on how big a team can be, how many teams you can join, and how easy it is to forward, this may just be a matter of UI and scale.
Yes, exactly the same problem. I don't get how lawyers could have signed off on bundling without documentation. I mean, databases can store BLOBs.
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On running `pip install -r requirements.txt`, I see error `__main__.gdal_config_error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory`. Any idea why?

Edit: nevermind, I didn't install the prerequisite GDAL I think.
>1) Futures on US treasury bonds are going to fall, as the DOT unloads 42 million of them. This is a lot, and it will affect the value of your investments/401k in a non-trivial way.

I think its important to note that the Fed is not going to start selling their holdings, they are going to stop reinvesting the proceeds as much (they haven't bought any additional assets since 2014, reinvestment aside). This should have a much more muted effect on the market -- letting a ~1%/month of bond assets mature without reinvestment is not the same as selling 1%/month.

>4) Foreign interests will have a "fire sale" of US debt available to them for purchase.

Again, the Fed isn't selling anything. They are partially curtailing demand by reducing reinvestment which will likely affect bond prices and yields, but not nearly as dramatically as selling them pre-term.