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> Inequity doesn't mean much wrt Bitcoin IMO.

I'm sorry, but you can't brush that subject off with a single sentence. It's a huge problem. If you want a real currency, that is.

You might hope that the free market will fix this problem, but I have my doubts. The current whales don't have a real incentive to sell.

And if Bitcoin would reach its goal, we would have some new, anonymous and untouchable overlords that would make the feudal ones look like amateurs. No thanks.
I 've watched most of his talks - the ones I could find - and its really such a pleasure to listen to him; he just shows up and rants about all kinds of subjects, without breaking a beat, and rarely if ever following a script or notes he compiled earlier.

I am not sold on the premise of VR myself; nowadays it comes down to novelty byte-sized demos or "games", with the occasional random mainstream game offering "VR support" (whatever that means, which usually doesn't mean much).

There's also the practical issue of strapping yourself to gadgets and wires, and on top of that, this is still expensive. That said though, I trust Carmack, Abrash and other smart folks elsewhere will solve those problems, and wind up building better alternatives and "next gen" killer apps that do justice to the term(VR) will be developed and we 'll all eventually experience it.
..and it's quite the charge to throw at the guy with the first commercial spacecraft and the leading electrical vehicle.
For a country that functions so well, it's amazing it can still have such occurrences of dysfunction and corruption. Sounds like this mayor would be a good prime minister.
When thinking about reasons for ageism you should account for consulting, which do not have this problem (or at least it is less pronounced). The cause is hidden in the overhead of full-time employment.
I want to understand your reasoning better. If a policy is fair, but disproportionally affects a certain segment of the population - is it bad? Why?

The whole reasoning as to why exactly racism and ageism is bad, in my opinion, doesn't have to be based on morals, IMO (since everybody has different morals). It's sufficient to base it on self-interest: in an ideal simulation, where there would be bazillions of employers competing over bazillions of employees and vice versa, racist and ageist agents would lose, because they wouldn't make optimal decisions. (Of course, ideal simulation isn't real world, and that's why we have anti-monopoly and other laws that help to make the system run as if there were a bazillion rational agents).

But if some rational decision making merely correlates to segments of the population, and is not directly based on information such as race or age, I fail to see what is bad about it and why it should be avoided.
Looks like n=20 from skimming. MEG and MRI scans were used.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.23724/epdf
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Developers, designers, explainer videos, website design, product design, .........
My rant's motivation is the usual lack of consideration for philosophy by qualified scientists, which is not bad per se, just when they create a title that reads:

> Is the inflationary universe a scientific theory? Not anymore.

Which is not wrong, just requires making sense to be wrong.
"However, if I want to spider LinkedIn to MVP my way to a new application they’ll lock me out."

Can you explain how this is different than how it has always been in the non-tech world?

For example: Home depot has deals with various partners to display their inventory and sell their products. But if i want to go into the stores and track the inventory and scan prices myself, they'll kick me out of the store.

You can even make this purely physical if you like, too.
If i start a store that doesn't even compete with costco (different target markets), but start recording their prices/etc, they'll also kick me out.

The usual response is "well, linkedin collected a bunch of data from users that they don't own and is now using it to make a business, and won't let me reuse it".
So?

That's also a thing that has happened since time immemorial, it's not like databases of this nature are new. They just got easier. Before you couldn't even make a product at all!

What you are saying applies, IMHO, everywhere. It's basically a complaint that existing businesses won't let you co-opt them to get ahead, and may not be willing to partner with you. That's not special to any of the tech companies, or tech, or, well, anything.
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Yet published at Medium, which is slowly becoming another walled garden. The irony.
Didn't you, yourself, just look down on OP?
Do you have a link for the article? It sounds interesting.
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Both of those are including the Network Grant; note the ORR document gives Virgin Trains East Coast as paying a net premium in 2016–7 (which I hadn't been able to find figures for before) even including the Network Grant.

Note that apportioning the Network Grant based on percentage of track access charges isn't entirely fair: Virgin Trains notably pays above average per km as a result of funding agreements for the WCML Modernisation programme in the 90s/00s, and as such given the different funding agreements for different network improvements (with the shortfall mostly coming from the Network Grant since the demise of Railtrack plc) it doesn't really make sense to apportion the Network Grant in that way.
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Impress me once, you lucky. Impress me twice, I'll have to talk about survivorship bias.

Impress me four times, and I'll start misquoting Napoleon: "If he's been lucky that often, he's the General I want for this"
You see what they did there?
I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for the info. This was the fallacy of looking at the past from a current perspective.
are people without a degree in type systems even allowed to express their opinion on dynamic vs static? because if their opinion is automatically viewed as inferior whenever a person with a degree chimes into a discussion, isn't dynamic typing stuck in the limbo of not having competent defenders and the only path for a defender to become competent is to spend years of their lives learning the opposite thing?

i think (as a person without a degree in type systems) that relative success of Erlang and Clojure are a testament that pragmatic approach works, and that is not in any way evidence that static typing is inherently bad or can't work.
Technology is already changing the world in the way he wants and profit is only part of the reason, but still an important part. Many people have, for non-profit and profit reasons, attempted to fix the issues of computers not being wide spread or fix connectivity problems in developing countries.

The two groups that seem most likely to solve the connectivity problem(s) have profit incentives behind it: Facebook and Google.

There are almost certainly others as well.
Have a read of segment's story on indie hackers, their whole product changed when they actually got an entreprise sales guy. Otherwise you need to do more evangelism work.
Rather than managing a PKI for your JOSE (and all the revocation headache that comes with that), why not just go with JSON Web Keys (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7517) and rely on your Web PKI for safe delivery of public keys?
I found some accompanying slides: https://www.troopers.de/downloads/troopers17/TR17_ME11_Stati...

That said, please note that this is partially outdated information (even to the extent of warranting a mod edit even though it's so recent) - the parts that mention how some compressed modules are unreadable are now irrelevant.

The URL for this article is /2017/04/ (April).

More recently (July, three months later), this same group has somehow (??) managed to derive the Huffman compression tables for the previously-inaccessible modules: https://github.com/ptresearch/unME11

I haven't read anything that explicitly states this (on HN; I don't read anywhere else), but I get the impression this is the holy grail, or at least one of the major pieces of the puzzle.

I found this random comment about actually using unME11: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15447841

This recent HN article suggests that it's also possible to get arbitrary remote code execution, but no details are (yet) forthcoming. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15298833
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Beaker uses Google's rendering engine, yes.

The Knight foundation has given dat money to pay attention to a specific use case (sharing of large data sets)

You have to be clearer if you want to insist that either of those things compromises dat (or beaker, although beaker is only a client for dat) as a project and makes it unsuitable for its other goals.
Astronomers conduct experiments. They make predictions then design a device that collects brand new photons in some way. Those photons may or may not agree with the initial prediction.

The critical part of experiments is predictions then new data such that the possibility of falsification exists.
I have a very good explainer video done by professionals (and paid good amount of $$ for it)
I have a great landing page. Professionally designed and it looks great

As for 3-How? That's the main thing.... Can't get people or more importantly, decision makers, managers, MDs, CISOs, CTOs to visit my page
I see a lot of comments here about increasing code quality, work with your customer on the spec, don't play the lower price game, etc. These are all symptoms of a larger systemic, cultural issue. I'm not referring to the different cultures between regions, I'm talking about the developer culture.

Successful agencies in the west pride themselves on being engineering focused and treating developers right. Treating them right means they are the cherished role in the organization, probably amongst the highest paid in the organization and roles are sought after by junior developers.

A common trend I suspect is cultural in India is that developer roles and most importantly senior developer roles are not prestigious enough. Titles seem to matter more and I witnessed many times competent developers are motivated to 'move up' into PM or manager roles either because of prestige or money.

Address this by creating a culture that attracts developers that want to be senior and grow within the role instead of simply a stopping point on their way (in their minds) to a CxO position that has the prestige.

If you can create a culture in your company where developers are cherished and highly paid, you will likely have higher quality as an output. Sure your price will have to be higher but maybe after a while you can beat your regional competitors on time too. Make sure this culture is actually in place and working before adding it to marketing materials.
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Fuck them ; low quality work , no empemthy for who the work for . Garbage in garbage out .
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The famous educator John Taylor Gatto thinks one of the keys of elite education is the ability to speak extemporaneously and intelligently for a few minutes on topics you know nothing about.
So do you - it's just that your priorities are different. Which is totally fine, but let's not pretend there is a class of people who cannot possibly take 2-3 hours out of the next 48 to do something. With rare exception, they're just making the (completely reasonable, completely okay) choice not to.

I am obviously only referring to programmers, knowledge workers etc.
Sorry, but I think you've completely missed the point of this essay.

Think for a second: why can't you produce a better working text editor that people actually use, if all current ones are produced on inefficient technologies by subpar engineers with impaired judgment that led them to current choice of techniques? What are the real barriers to do that?
Appearance matters so much in this discussion.

There are 40 year-olds who are obviously 40 year-olds, complete with greying beards, burgeoning bellies, and a wardrobe consisting of nothing but polo shirts acquired from years of conference attendance.

And then there are 40 year-olds who could pass for 30.

My intuition is that the likelihood of ageism being subconsciously or otherwise invoked in the former case is vastly larger.

In this sense, it is a lot like racism or sexism in the case of "culture" fitting. The desire to appear young and nimble, as a company, is a significant part of whatever demographic they are shooting for, outwardly.
Oh, I guess that's true in the sense that it doesn't map to objects but it accomplishes the same goal in a functional style. Maybe call it a Struct-Relational Mapper.
I guess most comments in this thread already show you the general perception you'll have to deal with. Here's my take at the three key issues as someone with deep roots in India:

First of all, excel at communications with potential and existing clients. Have at least one person on the team to speak English on a native level. In your description, there are already quite a few mistakes and when freelancers and agencies apply to my gigs, I filter the initial messages out brutally. I don't even look at applications that feature spelling and grammatical mistakes and miss details I specifically asked for. Also, have a person on the team who has been exposed to the culture(s) of the region you want to sell to the most, in order to be able to e.g. say "no" more often and to also admit when you messed up.

Second, never approach a client with an opening line like: "Trust me Sir we are best developers we will do best work and give you cheapest price." You have no idea how many of these I get on a daily basis. You simply don't get the best people at the cheapest price. Define your target group and either sell yourself as a cheap, low-quality sweatshop or continuously invest in great people and training and sell yourself as one of the few exceptional agencies in India that actually delivers great quality.

Third, stop chasing short term profits. This is the worst aspect of doing business in India - most freelancers and agencies rather deliver bad work and get some money, then really putting hard work into in and building great relationships that will create lasting value.

Happy to give you more feedback, just ping me via the e-mail in my profile.
Right, the whole purpose of war in the first place is to defeat your enemy's will to fight you. There are a huge number of ways to do this without an army, and Google is in a particularly powerful position to do this.
Agreed, it is only enough to qualify it as a scientific hypothesis. The article, and the critics, are right to point out that it too early to give it the status of scientific truth.

I think that it is overly polemical to say that inflation is not a scientific theory because the technical definition of a theory is hazy for most people, but calling something unscientific is crystal clear, and this is misleading.
Well, would you consider constructive criticism to be looking down on someone?
Thanks! I didn't know that people who lived far away were a protected class. I have hired, but only for small companies. I know about protected classes (in the USA that's race, color, religion, and the others listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class ). Can you point me to anything about "where you live" being a protected class, or is it part of one of the above classes?
I offered equity and share in the company. No one took it... They all have stable jobs, no one is willing to leave their stable job and take risk
You couldn't summarize it better. I'll second every point you have made. Experienced the same attitude, same code quality and have the same opinion about cost effectiveness.
Germany and the EU in general is a civil law system (the UK and Ireland being exceptions). Suing a company for simple failure is not as easy as it might be in the US (though I doubt that's very common even in the notoriously litigious US legal system).

Misusing client data is a criminal offence under European data protection laws. Doing so not only makes you liable for damages no matter if you're a sole proprietor or 'merely' a managing director of an Ltd-style company but it can also land you in jail.

Finally, there are no software patents in the EU so if you run a software startup you're fine in that respect.
Thanks for sharing your experience. As this thread shows, my generalization is apparently incorrect. :) Oh well.
This reminds me of one laptop per child and this is similarly misguided. Poor people don’t want this and can’t make much use of it.

What poor people want is clean water, a stable source of food, security, health care, honest government, etc, etc. They’ll be happy to have a cell phone, but it’s not going to change their life.

The problem of poverty isn’t the result of lack of access to information.
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This is real and it happened. That was from another startup. I agree with spending all on dev, but creating the top quality product with best developers (who are expensive, not 15$/hr devs) costs a lot...
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It is quite the growth spurt, given how short the Dutch used to be:

"Today, the Dutch are on average the tallest people on the planet. Just 150 years ago, they were relatively short. In 1860, the average Dutch soldier in the Netherlands was 5-foot-5. American men were 2.7 inches taller."

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/why-the-dutch-beca...
Go have a listen to this excellent podcast on delegation [1] from Manager Tools. They hit the same notes you’re hitting, but provide some additional actionable tips and tricks for figuring out when things are going well, about to go wrong, or going wrong.

[1] https://www.manager-tools.com/2005/08/the-art-of-delegation
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Is dat more-or-less in the same domain as IPFS? (I know the technology is different, but as I see they are being used mostly for the same purposes.)

If so, which one is winning?
There's nothing curative, but there's a fair bit of palliative care drugs, esp. for early stage, at this point. Getting on them a little early might mean another year or two of independence which is no small thing.
* Peergos is based on IPFS

* Everything is encrypted at rest

* We have fine grained capability-based access control

* If I share a file with two people, they can't see that I've shared it with the other person

* Access revocation with key rotation (on the same fine grained level)

* Peergos is resistant to quantum computer based attacks (unshared files are already safe, and shared ones will be)

* Peergos doesn't rely on out of band sharing of keys (we use TOFU on a publicly auditable append only PKI)
By the way he doesn't get to static types till 1:06:06 out of a 1:15 talk - there's a lot of other stuff.
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yeah I think it is a suggestion to immediately fire the weakest co-worker when you get promoted? great morale advice for the rest of the culture <3
> they won't know that "working 20 hours overtime per week is normal"

That was certainly my experience. I remember in my first job out of college, working 96 hours one week to rescue a client project (that was a lot of pl/SQL coding). The project launched and I got a six pack of beer and a t-shirt as a thank you.
Erlang & Elixir have a very interesting approach to typing. The support for pattern matching in function definitions provides a kind of structural typing for functions. And they both embrace typespecs for type analysis through a separate program analyzer. So a lot of the benefits of static typing are there without the static types.
I'm trying to get some base... But that's the problem, can't get anyone aboard. They all look for old technologies and existing products. No one takes their time to check the product, check our explainer video, check the datasheet, nothing. They think they are OK with what they have, but all the companies who are being breached had those old / existing technologies and none of them helped. Still can't get people to listen/try demo/check out our site
https://sipjs.com/
demo does not work. do I have to enable Google Analytics or something?

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These is also the appeal of developing in a well popular langguage/framework like .net or java. The hordes of experience devs available. Sure, you may not want to use these heavy weights when your discovering your product/market, but when you've got a fit and need to hire talent, it's nothing for a 15 year java dev to come in and be productive on day one using Spring, maven, intellij, etc.
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It sounds like you had expectations up front that you would be permitted to stay home from work if your kids were sick. If that's the case, it seems reasonable that your employer know about that before hiring you.

They're likely asking because they've already hired people who expect to be able to come in late after taking their kids to school, work from home without notice if their kids are sick, etc.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but: To me that's reasonable employer's discretion. If they're expecting you to work after hours and probing if you have kids to gauge that, that's one thing. But I've seen coworkers get allowances for kids for all kinds of things. Both parties (employee and employer) should be aware of what the expectations are ahead of time.

And if that means that I (as someone who doesn't have children, or lives near additional family who can handle those contingencies) come out as a better candidate, then that's not unreasonable.
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Having access to information is vital if you want to do modern farming and need to know about the weather, droughts and seasonal patterns. And you need to know market prices for your products and be able to contact fair-trade organisations.

Also if you have to walk 20 kilometers for the nearest doctor, you want to make sure that the doctor is in today. Same with water, supplies and food.
Is not every one "trying to get a paycheck while they look for something better"
which ui library are you using? not claiming to be an expert, but i always found it easier to test programs when logic is completely decoupled from event flow. but yeah, UI can be pita.

also isn't clojure.spec useful for describing and asserting the shape of data taken and returned by functions?