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I cannot do the work I am currently doing--the work that people are willing to pay $400/hr to a contractor business for--as an individual without clearance. The other work available locally, subtracting those opportunities, pays less on average than I am now making as an employee. I don't want to move again without some sure way of paying those moving expenses. Taking remote jobs puts me in competition with both India and Indiana.

The math works out. I, specifically, am better off as an employee. I already took my shot at self-employment and blew it. I won't get another. I'm lucky that I even got one.

If I still lived in an area with more potential customers, with more money, the story might be different. If I wasn't absolutely crap at sales and administration, the story might be different. If I were better able to build a network, such by being more attractive or having better social skills, the story might be different. If I weren't still paying off debts from the first time around, the story might be different. But it's not.

I'm not blaming bureaucracy. It's me. I cannot run my own business. I tried it once already, in the Chicago market, which should be plenty big enough for anyone with an iota of business ability, and it didn't work out. It was a dismal failure. Nobody wanted to hire me. Nobody wanted to refer me. I couldn't get the customers. Therefore, I must have zero business ability--not an iota; zero. If a bunch of money magically dropped into my lap to start a business, I would still have to hire someone else to get me customers. But without already having a customer, I could not afford to hire that person. Easier all around to just find a person that does that already and be their employee.

Do you understand this? Can you fathom how a person might have one valuable skill and be completely unable to exploit it alone? What would you say the difference would be between an aircraft designer that worked as an employee for Boeing or Airbus and one that sold mail-order kits to hobbyist pilots? The former has a whole bunch of people multiplying the value of their labor, and probably gets a smaller share of the gross revenue. The latter might get 75% of their sales, and still make less total.

Besides that, people don't like me. You may underestimate how important that is in the realm of economics. People prefer to give money to other people that they know and like, rather than the people they don't. I know there are loads of resources out there on how to get other people to like you, but it seems like they all rely on some secret sauce that I just don't have.
What happened to cocos2d?
Games like Destiny, For Honor, that kind of game, are just pure money grabs. You get early beta quality releases with the full price game ending up being north of $160 even before whichever flavor of micro transactions are in that day. Currently, loot boxes are the way to fleece teenagers.

The good news is that these games can be avoided, and should be avoided at all costs.
I'm tired of hearing coal miners complaining about their work conditions. It's not like they're child slaves harvesting cocoa in the Ivory Coast.
Even so, that's not an "industrywide evaluation" but a single firm acting responsibly. If there is a concerted push in tech to deal with sexual harassment and/or sexism I'd love to know about it.
It isn't absurd. You need to distinguish between participating and non-participating preferred. Participating preferred is a lot worse than non-participating, which is always converted into equity in the success case.

The scenario this is trying to block is that entrepreneur raises $1mil for 10% of the company, and it's flipped tomorrow for $5mil. The investor gets 500k=50% loss in one day. It's completely reasonable and fair IMO that an investor should want protection in this case.

What's not reasonable is the way silly SV journalists treat preferred as equivalently-valued as common. It's not, it's worth a lot more, making it incorrect to say that "10% of company is 1 mil => whole company worth 10 mil" when that 10% is preferred. It's probably more like 5 million, or 6. Because that downside protection is _worth something_ so those preferred shares by rights, are worth more than common.
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Supporting a browser that actually has your interests in mind, so they have some power at the web standards bodies might be it.
Very good analysis of this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks5lgcCFvvE
> What would happen if America didn't spend more than Switzerland's entire GDP on defense?

Then they could afford universal healthcare and quality public education?
Only a very small segment of society can work at a university. Even a lot of PhDs are getting forced into the private sector due to the lack of available space on faculties. Anyway, just because I'm not doing basic research doesn't mean I can't benefit from reading the methods section of a research paper, particularly in this day and age where biotech, data science, and machine learning are exploding and it's actually very practical for people in the private sector to take advantage of the same technology used in cutting-edge research labs.
Tobacco advertising? No it's straight up illegal. Weed advertising should be too since it's effects on developing minds is even more pronounced.
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The foreshortening seems off. The taller mountain is much taller when at the back, but roughly the same height as the other when at the front.

Just a small concern; looks pretty cool!
I would prefer we "make life difficult" for companies based on their behavior, not their size.

At the risk of sounding like a libertarian, I'm of the mind that monopolies aren't inherently bad until they start buying politicians and bills that reinforce their hold on the market.

Tesla is huge for electric-only car companies, but I don't hear the average person screaming that they should be shut down in states where they are trying to bypass dealership-protectionist state laws. In fact, there are anecdotes of people buying Teslas used from other states because they (aren't|weren't) available new in some states.
I have been lucky enough to have encountered very few jerks.

We are in a field where cooperation is encouraged and leads to benefits for everybody as long as the team culture allows it.

I did have to work with one jerk in a team of 19 people. He was meh as an engineer. Not awful but not nearly as great as he thought he was, he only had experience for him.

He was the only person extremely protective of his turf (for exemple, he was the only admin on the jenkins server).

It mostly seem to come from poor character and insecurity.

In the end many people (including me) did just not really work with him most of the time and in such a large team it was not really an issue.

The bar for being a jerk brilliant enough for people to bear your insanity is extremely high IMO. There are many great engineers who are also great people, so little reason to settle for a jerk.
> Would the segment of the UK that voted for Brexit in order to deport Poles cheerfully come to the defence of Poland?

Are you aware that the UK has a large presence in Poland literally right now? And has been exercising their for years to prepare for needing to be able to defend Poland? And that new troops have gone out there since the Brexit vote?

I think most people in the UK remember Poland coming to our defence in WW2 and would do the same for them today, regardless of their opinion of immigration policy.
I wouldn't be surprised if he got a Turing award eventually.
Not disagreeing with you at all; simply pointing out there may be a good reason why Google is more tolerant of brilliant jerks than other places. I do have to say that most "brilliant jerks" don't end up being worth the time you put into them because they're usually the first to jump ship when something better comes along...
How about not restricting ourselves to a false dichotomy?
Britain is no more and no less bigoted/racist/xenophobic than any other country. (I say this as a moderately well-travelled Briton who recently left Blighty to live and work in Europe). The only difference is that it was decided that an exercise in direct democracy would be a good idea, and thus those with less savoury opinions were given an opportunity to popularise those opinions and enact social change, when in other countries they either don't need to because they rule the roost, or they don't get the opportunity to because other governments know that direct democracy is a stupid idea.

> "formerly great"

Define "great" – if you meant: "formerly the largest empire in history" – then I find your opposition to racism and bigotry rather at odds with that sentiment. You think Britons were less racist when they reigned over much of the world? You think colonial rule over "barbaric" nations was a mark of greatness? Or is racism justified when you have such power?

Alternatively, if you meant "formerly a contented member of the EU, that appeared to be a champion of globalisation, diversity and tolerance" I fail to see how the country has lost its greatness. It's still a largely open and tolerant country, this hasn't changed just because a misinformed public voted to leave the EU. I would hardly say of the USA that it was "formerly great" because its citizens elected the current president into office. I believe the American people are still largely tolerant, those who are intolerant were so already.

> "improper in this time and age"

You overestimate humanity.

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Ultimately, your mistake is to equate the UK's decline to its leaving the EU. The UK has been declining in influence for a long time. It was nearly bankrupt after WW2. The years after WW2 saw the continuing rise of the USA and the former USSR. The UK's empire has been dismantled over time and without the resources of the world at its disposal, the UK's influence could only decrease until it was at a level appropriate for a country of its size.

The UK will probably miss its privileged membership to the EU, and it will decline more in the short and medium term, but in the long term it will bounce back. What the UK needs now is a government with some modern economic, political and technical acumen. Unfortunately I do not believe any party currently in existence in the UK can provide such government.

I miss some things about my home land, but in so many ways it is stuck in the past, because government after government has dragged its heels when it comes to updating infrastructure and public services.
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> ...I mean... surely, surely that's the one bit that should be most gigantically normative? Right?

No. "Security and privacy considerations" sections of standards documents are typically used for a analysis or discussion of the security/privacy posture of the standard. The security features are "baked into" other portions of the document.
I'm scratching my head as to the point you are trying to make. What's the chart got to do with the topic?
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Oh I forgot "internal hosts" in the comment.

If you want external access you can still use your own CA. I think one can assume that an employee (with an employee device) has the CA installed. If this is a public host or you can't control the employee devices, then use a public cert, or live with the error message.

This is not an unsolvable problem.
Planetside 2 is exactly what this sort of reminded me of. In PS2, you can have over 1k players within an entire continent, which is a seamless quilt of many zones, each of which can have up to several hundred players (north of 250 is the most ive seen). The beauty of it being that there is no delineation between areas for players, but clearly the servers are somehow breaking down the continent in some way. So you can have a single battle raging across 2 adjacent areas with 96+ vs 96+, with the perception of being on a single battlefield.
> I have never felt high at all from people smoking strong strains near me. I am a fairly big guy with a high tolerance though (i haven't smoked though).

It's you. I'm an average sized guy with low tolerance and contact high is a real thing. I wonder what effect it would have on kids nearby...
Will it sync with another browser though.

That's asking a lot (chrome does not do that AFAIK) but that's the only way to allow me to use multiple browsers on different devices fluidly (and also to continue using chrome where it has an edge, like on mobile with chrome tabs)
The game limits multiplayer interaction big time. It's no more than 3 parties allowed in an instance at any one time, and that's where a single person can count as a party. So really how tough does the netcode be when you really just have instance based coop.

PVP is basically csgo in space. Not too many people on each team. Only 2 teams. Etc.

As an aside, as a gamer - terribly displeased with destiny 2. Huge dissappointment. Mostly because of it's multiplayer and communicated drawbacks.
The internet makes a lot of the concepts behind copyright fundamentally ridiculous. We honestly need to rewrite many of the rules from the ground up to take into account modern technology and what would best benefit society given the accessibility of information.
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But by that definition, every not-yet-extinct species is intelligent. Or at least, every species that responds in any way to external environment in order to enhance survival and reproduction... which is pretty much every species.
Rome was still primarily a slave/servant based economy, and one based on expansion and conquest. They lacked the mathematical and scientific foundations to radically change metallurgy, chemistry, and the other basics of industry. This article focuses a lot on economic possibilities and social change necessary for a revolution, while largely ignoring larger issues.

You cant have an industrial revolution without then revolutionary power of modern industry. Good concrete and slaves fanning fires to heat water isn’t that.
You should, but it isn't a disaster if you don't, unlike with GC languages.
I understand that it's much cheaper than a 3G/4G/LTE connection, but if it's going to become non-functional in the foreseeable future, I'd like to at least be aware of that before building something on it.
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The game would change, they would just do as much behavior as they can get away with until they got large enough to change the law.
> My point here is that the statement in the article "the world’s most important research is inaccessible from the majority of the world" isn't exactly true.

This statement is still true even with your trick. The vast majority of people don't know about this and also even if they did know about this it would be technically difficult for many of them who aren't tech savvy. This is a huge barrier that shouldn't be discounted.
> Quite the spoiled and childish attitude. Most NATO members aren't contributing the minimum and instead effectively externalize defense to the US.

There is no minimum. There is a non-binding spending target at 2% of GDP for 2020.
Much of Eastern Europe is understandably already hitting that.
Some of western Europe won't hit the targets.

I for one understand why increased military spending (and international deployments) is a sensitive subject in Germany.

But, nobody says the US have to be a 3.6% of GDP. Maybe you should target for 3% of GDP and spend some money on free education and healthcare. Maybe you could even go to 2% of GDP.

See: http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/25/news/nato-trump-defense-spen...
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Yeah, I think this is where things start to get fairly pointless with avoiding being tracked. I'm imagining that even at a basic level they can match up any Google searches / GMail you use to your IP address and then follow that via Google Analytics.

I'm happily using DDG as a replacemet for most Google searches. But I guess I need to stop using GMail.
So glad that this app exists. It was kinda hard finding a good multiplatform video editing app with a decent amount of features before that.
I agree with your sentiment completely. In this case corrupt politicians created a crisis, and it is a shame that hangs over American international politics. As someone who believes in a smaller role for the American federal government, the idea that the American taxpayer actually paid money to destabilize a region and create an enemy that has routinely harassed us and our allies is sickening.

But not that long ago in the Pacific Theater the US intervened to stop a very determined Imperial Japan. Without that intervention China and other Asian nations may not have been able to survive.

Nowadays, Japan has no need for much of a military as the US is more than happy to help out one of our now good allies and trade partners. The idea of Japan being threatened by a possible North Korean attack provokes a protective response from most Americans I know.

I'm sure our Japanese allies are very grateful that they can focus their government spending on other things that matter to them like the incredible standard of living they enjoy.
This all mozilla's bragging about speed is premature. They should've published this article after firefox 57 reaches stable.
A further example is the case of the earlier mentioned KöMaL.
It faced closure this year after the government reformed the funding of journals targeting exceptional students. In the new system it was destined to receive only 1/3 of its operational budget from the government: only 16K EUR instead the necessary 48K EUR / year.
Possibly it was an oversight. After public outcry and some donation from common people to keep the journal running eventually the agency in charge promised to provide dedicated funds for the 124 year old journal.
Probably this case is more indicative of the Hungarian Approach today than the one in the article. The KöMaL helped countless talents throughout the modern history of Hungary (excluding wartime but including the communist block years) to learn and master mathematics. It is the benchmark of the best high school students. Yet it almost got sacked just over ca. 32k EUR / year (while money flows almost freely in certain non-educational directions). This is more indicative of the Newest Hungarian Approach where continuous structural reforms, forced and urged changes in teaching methods (many times just months before exams), increased bureaucracy and cutting down of even elementary independency and financial self control - with retorsion in sight for "renegades" - of the teachers makes the moral very low in the education system and the outcome unreliable, unsustainable.
I'm so sick of IPAs altogether. I'm a big fan of sours, which I guess some people find intolerable, but overall I'd just like more choices instead of everything either being mass-market (I mean like Bud or Coors by that) or else an IPA most places you go.
What do you mean you can "only meaningfully do 22 different factorials within the bounds of a 64-bit architecture anyway"?
If you are in a room with five people smoking steadily for a couple of hours, that's not a contact high: that's second hand inhalation.

And I'd hazard that it would be mostly the hydrocarbons, which would square with your experience.
The fact that we have to low-key pirate research papers is just silly, though. The academic publishing system is just goofy, and I hope one of the projects that are currently trying to establish something better ends up taking hold soon.
If you're anywhere near France, and free in December, there's https://www.botconf.eu/2017/math-gpu-dns-cracking-locky-seed...
The message was sent loud and clear when Damore got fired. This is not a topic that is up for discussion.
I've heard of longer exercise periods for ISOs, although these were while still employed. Is the 90 days post-termination encoded into law?
AMT started off with reasonable intentions but 47 years later it ended up effecting way more people than intended due to inflation. I feel like the $100k limit will end up doing the same.
Django is quite good. It might not be as "cool" anymore but the language is really simple and the framework is battle-tested and has support for pretty much everything in your list, short of type systems (Python isn't strongly typed).
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> "It's driven by rational and irrational forces" isn't an explanation.

Nor was it posed as one, it is your condensation of my description (which also includes specific examples in each category) of broad classes of sources which we understand very well that produce the described effect.

> So you're saying the bridge scenario didn't and can't happen?

I was not saying anything about the bridge scenario, which is structurally unlike a UBI and thus a non-useful analogy. Though, sure, I would say that the bridge example reads a lot like more like a parable than a historical account, and politicians constructing such parables with weak, if any, factual basis is about as uncommon as ocean spray containing salt. More to the point, it's exactly about one f the specific examples I gave of effects we understand quite well.
>I also remember it being nightmare fuel when I was as old as 11.

You were a sheltered, sensitive child.
As someone who has been smoking weed for at least 15 years and who lives in Washington I have never had as much control over how high and what type of high I got. Before legalization if you didn't have a medical card or you didn't know several illegal growers you might be lucky to find a dealer who "stocked" 3 or 4 different strains, but even then it'd be hard to know if s/he knew what they were talking about. Now the percentages of everything I care about plus often a list of pesticides used is printed right on every package.
The biggest reason is probably chronic un/underemployment and similar social ills and not marijuana. If you ask me.
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Then what the hell is incentive for drivers to come out and drive during peak hours?
There is a solar powered Bitcoin mining company. www.c0in.us
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+1 for test case generator, some of our libraries even have a dividing path between optimized vs brute force modes just so we can be certain of correctness in unit test and what not. Correctness first with all the testing infrastructure and TODOs to at a later time go in and lay better algorithms down/execute general refactoring.
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In this case we are talking about government debt though. Congress does have some control over it with "appropriations" I think.
>At what point does explaining things become frustrating to you?

After the third time I get asked the same exact question
Plenty of paid games have dedicated servers. All of the Battlefield titles for example.
> If this is a public host or you can't control the employee devices, then use a public cert, or live with the error message.

> This is not an unsolvable problem.

You literally just did not solve it.
If we're taking the beer analogy then I see a difference. My neighbor likes to drink Bud all day (likes the action of drinking). I'd rather have a few IPAs or craft beers (likes the taste). Different people, different preferences.

But if we're talking the big alcohol companies joining the race, I'm sure they will do this and provide a wide variety of products.