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I have worked for many years at a successful software company. It leads the niche industry. We have been bought by a private equity firm. I am wondering what experiences others have had when you were working at a company during a buyout.
You can't kill off cash or other forms of anonymous payment. Humans will always find a substitute. Stamps is an obvious choice.

And then there are cryptocurrencies, which are about to teach the world economists all kinds of lessons.
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>Firefox is the most extensible

Not after quantum.
"These people really liked shiny aluminum platters and they kept them inside small, metal boxes. We presume it's some kind of ward against evil spirits because several of these were present in every home."
Not at all. I have great respect for front-end devs, just as I have great respect for master builders. I just don't expect either of them to bake me a wedding cake, or write me a desktop application.

The same snark would be directed at people thinking GWT is/was a good solution for Java dev's trying to create web GUI's without understanding html&css.
Insofar as Tanenbaum's original letter was basically saying "I chose to be powerless to enforce attribution, but would have appreciated knowing," Tanenbaum making a statement about the ethics of the use of Minix would similarly be a non-binding request.

However, as the creator of Minix, I think going beyond having an amoral stance, to having an advocacy stance, would be nice.
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>Your operating system is being used by Intel to, potentially, take full control of any machine powered by their chips.

I would phrase it differently.

"Intel has developed a product, which they sell (to anyone), to allow companies to manage their computers so that you can do things like re-image machines remotely, change BIOS settings, etc"

I honestly can't understand the mass hysteria around this. As a 'de-facto' sys-admin in a small company, I find this immensely useful.
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I don't think anybody's first paper will be accepted at a tier 1 conference. It takes practice to learn how to write a paper, not just in style but also the substance. In academia, your supervisors will typically help/guide you. It's going to be much harder on your own without any experience.
Sure. But assuming Logitech isn’t completely incompetent, that connection will be TLS and the device will refuse to handshake when it receives some random cert that doesn’t match the domain it expects (or is signed by a CA it doesn’t trust).
While I understand your point, that is a massive overstatement. Apple doesn't go into the parking lot business because it isn't in their corporate charter[0], which outlines the companies' objectives, structure, and operations. If Apple decided they could benefit by building parking lots then they very well might as long as they could justify the expense.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/corporatecharter.asp
> The fix for this can't be trying to appeal to their morals.

A public corporation doesn't have morals. It isn't a thing that thinks and feels, it's a social construct designed single-mindedly around the creation and accumulation of wealth.

You cannot shame one of these companies. You can enforce the law against them, or you can expose them to such bad PR that they change their ways.

The only "morals" internal to a corporation are their fiduciary duty to shareholders. We either need to fundamentally change the nature of corporations, or accept this and adjust our laws to compensate for immoral agents.
No, the miner vote and consensus is applied in an adversary setting to protect the blockchain, to allow only valid transactions on the blockchain. Miners enforce the rules of the blockchain.

However, When someone makes a new software with new rules (BCH, S2X), users are free to choose it and miners are free to mine it. Miners can't vote which version users should be using, or which version is the correct one. There is no 'correct one'. Miners vote doesn't apply there. There are now multiple blockchains and each one has miners who enforce the rules in that specific blockchain.

If there's a major user base for different versions, then there's a need for distinct names. If a majority of Bitcoin users agree to update to a new version, then it's called a 'consensus hard-fork' and the new version gets to keep the same name (and the old version dies). When the new version is a 'split-fork' (both versions has users), the new version needs a new name and the old version gets to keep its name. Miners don't have a vote in that. It's the users who choose which software they want to use and what they want to call it.

Only problem here is that because BTC mining is so centralized, small chains with same POW-algorithm are vulnerable to attacks. This leads to this situation where miners can potentially coerce users into using their version of the software.

P.s. If someone gains unfair advantage on the blockchain somehow (Blockstream etc.) and users lose confidence in Bitcoin's core developers, the majority of user base will then fork into something else and keep the Bitcoin name. There hasn't been a reason for that yet. I trust the larger Bitcoin community that it will happen if there's a legitimate reason.
Most (all?) of these companies have not been through a complete credit cycle since they were founded after 2008. I would be cautious about putting money into them that you cannot afford to lose.

Only after they go through a full credit cycle from boom to bust will you know how well they have managed risk and leverage. If they are transparent enough for you to be able to do the due diligence on their assets and leverage (and you have the expertise) you should probably wait and see how they do during the next recession.

I would also suggest you ask the question why would you would invest in them as opposed to using more traditional REIT or investing in real estate yourself if you are so inclined. Is it because you are expecting a greater long term return and you think they might be able to provide it? Again, I would wait and see how they do in the next recession (or credit crisis) to get more realistic view of their long term return profile.
Also see: http://vega.github.io/voyager/
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they did this a year or two ago with their old security camera system and revue set-top-box.
> Would that have happened to individual investments at Realtyshares/Fundrise/Realtymogul had they been around at the time? Doubtful.

Hang on. Are you claiming the real estate market's collapse wouldn't have affected stuff like Realtyshares? How so?

REITs got crushed because the underlying real estate got crushed. As did the rest of the economy.
Of course it's social media. The username and avatar is one's social identity on a forum. I think you have a very narrow experience with forums if you find it surprising that someone wants to change their username if you accept that they would also want to change their avatar.
Apples and oranges.

Bug in a specific DB or HTTP server implementation exposes confidential data: Patch it or shut it down.

Bug in a specific service: Patch it or shut it down.

Ethereum is equivalent to those things. It is not equivalent to the Internet, that would be "blockchain technology" (quotes because it's such an ambiguous and ill-defined space right now).

Ethereum is buggy. Plain and simple. It is ill-designed, ill-scoped, and ill-managed (there never should have been a hard fork for the DAO fuckup).
The opinion pieces are uncritically conservative. That's not a dealbreaker, mind. Personally, I find both left-wing and right-wing media tedious to read when they display their biases; it's normally when they assert something baldly without considering obvious counter-examples. I read both sides to try and avoid the groupthink.

For example: https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/11/scouts-dishonor :

Our first question on reading that was: is there anything that feminism cannot spoil?

The answer to that query, we are confident, is “No, it ruins everything it touches.”

I don't think feminism has ruined everything it touches; and I don't think feminist critiques of socially and economically embedded power structures are all invalid. There really is something there, and it should be challenged. But criticism of the hierarchy of victimhood is also legitimate (https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/11/devouring-its-ow... ); it's certainly gone too far.

The way I see it, criticisms are used as a way to power; the criticisms have effectiveness because of the truth of their claims, but people then pick up the criticisms and use them as clubs to bludgeon their way towards the top of the heap. The heap, and its hierarchy, never goes away.
Sounds like he's blaming Tanebaum for choosing a liberal licence. The same licence that allows millions to freely download and mess with Minix.

He's criticising Minix for exactly the reason he cites Minix being great -- it's open and free.

If someone wishes to use FOSS for negative purposes -- it certainly isn't within the FOSS community to stop them.
The WWI and heavy taxation took a major bite out of the old UK aristocracy.
"We have to reassert and remind big corporations that end-user freedom is the only freedom that matters. More than any license debate"

Actually, the license debate is the full extent of the debate over end-user freedom. It's the only tool someone writing software has to guarantee end-user freedom.
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I’ll bet you money there’s no legal self- driving car subscription like that in DC by 2023
People are already giving access to third parties for all the sweet sweet ad income. People don't care.
With fundrise and realtymogul I feel more like a partner in the investment. I'll talk about the fundrise Income eREIT for a second. The returns are solid with better transparency and diversity. With a single 50K investment I'm exposed to many properties. If some of those properties had poor returns fund performance would suffer and so would Fundrise's reputation. And part of it is deal size too. You think RealtyShares is gonna pursue that default on a 500K borrower the same way Fundrise is going to think about their $30 million investment in an apartment complex?
Sorry, I was a bit unclear on power law - I was thinking about the career side, not just the outcomes.

So power-law for surgeons would be doing the hardest surgeries in the highest-stakes fields, heading up a clinic, ending up rich and famous. A great brain surgeon doesn't save vastly more lives than an average one, but people like Ben Carson and Sanjay Gupta get exponentially more fame and status.

I think we agree though - it's a great example of a field with similar social dynamics to programming, and a very different societal role.
Why not just buy a reit and be done with it?
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This has been added back? That'd be awesome news.

It existed once, but was removed because of "complexity" and since then the recommended solution was editing userChrome.css manually (or using an extension that did so, but that of course doesn't work in 57+). Still haven't quite tied down what the CSS has to be in recent versions.

Here's the bug from back then https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574654 (yes, I'm still salty about the attitude in there)
I get it. I like ads in Japan because they're entertaining. You're the first person I've ever hear of who enjoys being a target of online ads, so I'm still convinced that you are very, very unique.
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I was looking for a way to get performance metrics around custom events (API calls, time for X component to render, etc) . Essentially like console.time only with pretty graphs and in the cloud across all users. I don't have access to our backend services directly (lots of microservices owned by other teams) so I started exploring this idea.

I put out some feelers to friends and there was some interest so I stood up a landing page to see if there is any actual demand here.
And, of course, Google Maps will be quite happy to serve you a litany of personalized advertisements for the restaurants in your area, but is devoid of any real route-planning tools, or information about places not worth advertising to you.
You should be aware that WhatsApp _is_ Facebook, or at least is owned by them.

It'll become crap over time. Watch this space.
I like the idea and fact that you can get info without being asked for CC on every page, but why the name/email requirement for getting a full report?
How did you get that to happen? Almost all emails I send are text but close to 100% of everything I receive is html.
Now that I think about it! that is not my most popular open source project, my most popular one is this one: https://github.com/arximboldi/gnujump

That is an oldie, that I did in high-school, just scratching my own itch (I was addicted to a game called XJump, but wanted a better version). The major marketing thing I did was submitting it to the GNU project, which helped it get some exposure. It also got packaged into Debian, which also got it into Ubuntu, which helped it get visibility and ease of install. For a while a few times a year I would receive recordings of "high scores" that people would send me to upload to the official website, where I kept a ranking. The website is now down sadly (ooops!).
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While they don't violate the letter of the law, they certainly violate the spirit of it. Minimally, I'd like to see them recognize their unfairly gotten gains and use some order-of-magnitude more of it for philanthropic ends or tax reform lobbying. That would be the classy move. It really bothers me how high regular business and personal effective tax rates are compared to these jokers'.
Yeah, I understand all that, but nowhere does anyone suggest that they care more about the awards than general backlash. They weren't even blocked from the major awards - academy awards, golden globes - just the regional critics association awards.
Don’t forget that it’s functionally equivalent to asbestos when it come to inducing cancer in the lungs. It doesn’t break down. Little carbon fibers just sit there and disturb the lung lining.
Well, no-one answered your question directly, so here: https://ibb.co/dVDSDG

That is cumalative wealth up to 100%. The blue line is if everyone is equal (poorest 20% have 20% of the wealth). The red line is linear increase where the richest 20% have 5 times the wealth of the poorest 20%.

The yellow line is the actual wealth. These figures are just for the USA; the world one looks too much like a cliff.
"Sounds like he's blaming Tanebaum for choosing a liberal licence. The same licence that allows millions to freely download and mess with Minix."

The first sentence doesn't have much to do with the second. You can use a free license that doesn't allow Intel to do what they have done.

"If someone wishes to use FOSS for negative purposes -- it certainly isn't within the FOSS community to stop them."

That's an odd statement. If I write software, I can do whatever I want with it. If I want to prevent something I view as evil or want to prevent corporate freeloading, that's not for the "FOSS community" to decide.
Changing the graph from "Share %" to "Average Income or Wealth" shows a much more optimistic looking chart, with every country ramping upwards, almost at an exponentially positive rate.

The world as a whole is moving away from poverty and quality of life is improving which IMO is the most important metric here. Far more important to the average person than the relative wealth ratios at the top vs the bottom, which yes I know will skew the bottom end upwards in these averages, but regardless is still on an upward trajectory overall.

This should be the primary metric which success is measured by. And I hope in the effort to balance the wealth ratios this progress isn't crippled in the name of some abstract concept of equality.
>their computer refusing to play nice with their printer

Yes, you reminded me of a very good point about local wifi communications:

If 2 devices are on wifi, it's easier if both are configured as clients that talk to a 3rd server (such as cloud). When both act as clients, they don't need to know each other's ip address to communicate.

The other option of configuring one of the wifi devices as a server is more difficult especially for non-techies. Now, you have an extra complication of discovering the ip address of the printer/camera acting as a "server" to receive commands. This requires a weird dance where the server device has to "broadcast" itself and you have the client computers "find" it. For my Canon wifi printer, I had to press and hold down the power button a certain way so the computer could "discover" it. For my wifi camera, I had to go the DOS prompt and enter an obscure ARP command[1]. The difficulty is compounded when the "server" device has no builtin LCD display so you're basically "flying blind" as to what ip address it got from the wifi router's DHCP.

However, the HVAC wall controller has a large LCD display and touchpad so configuring it as a server on local wifi shouldn't be that difficult.

[1] https://www.axis.com/ro/en/support/faq/FAQ2551
Where else would I be trying to find takeaway pizza? Are you suggesting that if I just search for takeaway pizza Google should point me to the best takeaway pizza place in the world and only if I specify "near me" should it provide me with information that might actually be useful?
Why does this keep getting posted over and over?
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That's a really cool one, thanks for maintaining it! The audio Linux space is kind of niche, but awesome people like you keep it alive :D

EDIT: I find it a bit misleading now that the website shows a screenshot of Zyn-Fusion (which is not open source) instead of ZynAddSubfx. It could be clearer what is what.
It is to me, given the level of subsidy and current tech! And there are always plenty of people who will believe that electric cars will never work for any significant chunk of a population. Even on seeing data like this they will probably retreat to "oh it's a European country, nothing like what I experience."

The level of economic tax break is such that a Leaf costs about the same as a Golf[1]. These are pretty equivalent cars in size, though the Leaf is more fun around town, and the Golf more fun on the highway. But the Leaf has a huge range disadvantage.

Wikipedia also says:

>Electric vehicles are also exempt from the annual road tax, all public parking fees, and toll payments, as well as being able to use bus lanes. These incentives are in effect until the end of 2017 or until the 50,000 EV target is achieved.

People are buying these largely as second cars (which is what everybody should be doing, IMHO). Once the battery costs come down so that 300-500km BEV range costs same cost as gas up front, BEVs become the primary car, and market share will increase even further.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...
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Everyone in the stock market winning does not mean everyone is winning.

That is, not everyone is in the stock market. MOST are not in the stock market.

Even more are not in the stock market in any appreciable, day-to-day way. If my 401k went up 100x, I'd still have to go to work and budget because my 401k is not liquid.
I'm not opposed to them but I don't think of them as real estate investments. REITs are stocks, so they tend to rise and fall with the overall stock market. Take a look at what happened to VNQ in 2008 (when the SP500 was down over 36%). VNQ got crushed as well.
The . is a common way in many countries (mainland European countries, IME) to indicate thousands places. So the proper reading with commas would be:

$100,000

They also swap the . for a , in indicating the fractional part. So if it had some change associated it would be written as:

$100.000,43

Compare to the typical English format:

$100,000.43
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No no no no no. This is based on Electron and is a non-starter.
The more the way things change ...

It's not new knowledge that "Cool URIs don't change" [0], and I sympathize with the desire to not get your rug pulled from under you like that, but the anger

> I can't even breathe

> completely broke out design

seems a bit over the top. If a change in font weight completely breaks a design, instead of just making it look odd or different, then I really don't think that's good design.

... the more they stay the same

[0] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
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