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Good questions, but you ask as if there were no intellectuals out there discussing postcapitalist futures or social movements trying to build (or "prefigure") a postcapitalist world. Granted, they often aren't very visible, but publications like Jacobin are a good way to keep up with these efforts.
It's a trade-off. One thing that's definitely going to get you more and better interviews is a section on your resume that lists major open-source projects you've contributed to. But yes, once you hit the interview you still might hit the old-style puzzle questions depending on the company.
If we launched a proxy satellite into the solar system to help communicate with these probes, would it make things easier/better? Or is it better to just communicate directly from the Earth?
Eh many states passed state-wide franchise laws that eliminated city-by-city rules. It didn't help much.

Installing fiber is damn expensive. It is a hugely capital-intensive business. A sword is constantly hanging over your head as the entrenched monopolies can cut prices to $10/month at any moment in any market where you are laying fiber (trivial when they are bringing in $100/mo per customer where they are the only choice).

The only reasonable solution for natural monopolies is a regulated utility or government-owned infrastructure. Electrical choice is often done via the former, roads and water are examples of the latter.

In either case one entity should lay fiber to every home, then charge $cost + $expected_future_capital_contribution (and +7% profit if a regulated utility). Any ISP that wants to compete puts in the order and the fiber owner routes a drop to their equipment at the local CO.

Some great new technology enables 10Gbps? Not a problem - your ISP owns the ONT and can swap it out. The utility only maintains the fiber, which unlike copper doesn't have water-infiltration or degradation problems.

Even though I have sonic fiber in SF it is actually a waste: on the poles in front of my house there are three completely duplicated pieces of communications infrastructure: copper phone lines, copper cable lines, and sonic fiber. If ATT ever bothers to install fiber then I'll have duplicate fiber lines. That is a deadweight loss for basically no benefit and only enables 2-3 competitors rather than potentially 20 or 30.

No system is perfect and free markets are simply terrible at handling natural monopolies.
Not just local. VNC and other remote protocols are vulnerable.
Looks like Apple is having trouble hitting deadlines this year. iOS 11, Xcode9, OS X all came out rushed. Maybe because they're moving to the new building. Or maybe they're trying to do to much stuff on a yearly release cycle now.
I know you added a /s, but real answers could include: 1) they want to ride the bubble, and 2) they want to sell services to people who use the fake internet bubble money.
They are in fact called "professional schools" -- this captures what both of you are saying.
People get way too hung up on what I'd consider the theoretical government + economic label a place runs under, and overlook the power structures and how the powerful operate with respect to the needs of people. Along those lines, maybe we have something labelled democracy in America, but the power structures responsiveness and effectiveness (esp with the current tax vote), is getting closer to a communist dictatorship rather than moving away.
I have a hard time believing that your less technical friends are even following Apple news. The average person that walks into an Apple store and buys a Mac probably has no idea about the original vulnerability, let alone the multiple patches for it.
We share many opinions! I need Windows or Linux. I can't do with restricted OS like android or iOS.

I also have a stack of thinkpads. When I need to travel, I grab one. At that price, I am not concerned about forgetting it in the plane, or a thief. And thinkpads do swivel!

I agree with your analysis of small computers ; besides all the things you list, I would love to see an eink display. In fact, a swivel with 2 screens would be ideal: one eink, one lcd.

A small run can now be done for cheap, and there is demand.
Hopefully, someone will want to make a nice profit and deliver what we want.
I could go and point out all the things you are wrong about and why. Or you could go, and do some research before commenting. It doesn't take a long time to look at a project, their code, or whatever. Or to look at the "PDF of promises", for that matter.

It's even more absurd because Tezos was one of the few ICOs that had some actual technology, not just PR technobabble.
I'm currently using the default DejaVu fonts.

I used Firefox earlier and jumped on the Chrome bandwagon when it became popular. I just made a switch back from Chrome to Firefox and it feels a lot faster than Chrome.

I have installed Microsoft fonts on my Ubuntu and Chrome uses these fonts. Now, I'm trying to make Firefox use the same fonts but I don't seem to figure out the font names for Serif, Sans-serif, and Monospace.

I'll add these details to my question.
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There are high gain antennas on both ends, and use of error correcting codes, as well as extremely high grade low noise amplifiers on the Earth side.

The Voyagers have a 3.7m diameter parabolic radio dish, larger than the Hubble space telescope's mirror even. That alone provides a huge amount of gain on communications. Additionally, the spacecraft have 10s of watts of power available for transmitting signals, which is a fair bit considering (while on the other end the ground stations have up to hundreds of thousands of watts to transmit). The ground-stations in the deep space network (DSN) are tens of meters across, a small antenna is 34m, the biggest ones are 70m across. That also provides a huge amount of gain alone. It means that there is more area to collect signals from the spacecraft and it means that the beam from the ground station to the spacecraft is much tighter, concentrating the total transmission power into a smaller cross-sectional area at the distance of the spacecraft.

The spacecraft also uses error correcting codes, which involve transmitting many more bits than the underlying data, but in such a way that errors due to noise are not only detectable but correctable.

On top of all of that you have the state of the art low noise amplifiers in the DSN antennae. A typical low noise amplifier is a carefully built electronics assembly made by experts. The DSN amplifiers? They use 99.95% purity ruby rods chilled to 4 degrees above absolute zero to form microwave MASER based amplifiers.

There's a neat little video (series) here on the DSN and contacting the Voyagers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRP1qdwPKw
Does Apple not require engineers to write regression tests? I really hope there is a blog post or press release explaining what happened.
Isn't the author a free rider on the states legal infrastructure?

Writing books, making movies and composing music are some of the things that should we should never have an interest in creating externalities for.
> One thing that makes mathematicians leery of physics-inspired proofs is that physicists accept mathematical transformations that produce correct experimental results but that have not been proven axiomatically.

That's interesting. Any good examples where this turned out badly, in the sense that the formalism turned out to be inconsistent or something?
LPE's are very serious for the countless college campuses, public libraries, and design print shops like Kinkos that offer public access to Mac computers.
How so? Didn't the people elect congress?
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Google already has a history of favoring their own products and services, and I don't trust them to be neutral if they're acting as an ISP.

Without a law mandating neutrality, no ISP is going to ignore the possibility of making extra money selling preferred bandwidth. Maybe they wait until the uproar dies down, but no doubt they'll look into it eventually.
I meant that from looking at the character you can't determine how to pronouce it
LPE matters a lot for enterprise and educational customers.

What do you mean by exploited from within the sandbox? This is exploitable from any login prompt where the user has the ability to enter a username, including ones in the shell.
The foundation is doing exactly nothing. They are not spending money on development, marketing, education, outreach, nothing. They are sitting on about a billion dollars raised for the project, and twiddling their thumbs.
sounds like a typical extra-super-hyper-important-emergency effort under the constant gaze from the very top through the thick E/S/VP/etc. layers of CYA mediocrity eager to report up the successful completion of a glorious effort to the glorious leader in a typical BigCo where engineering culture is faltering while nobody who matters cares (or even able to care) Well, at least it was that way back at Sun :) ... Or may be it was just a one bad day at Apple. Though many people like to argue that engineering culture is exactly to prevent the "bad" days from happening...
If the value is in "search engine that uses the PageRank algorithm", then theoretically you can take that idea and execute it to get the same value.

The difference isn't in the idea but the execution - hence the value.
Yes, there are things like cube-sats. Problem is affording the launch price. ;)
I mean, a down round doesn't indicate a downward trajectory in the minds of the investors. They're still investing. SoftBank expects Uber to be worth more than $50B. In their minds, it's a correction, not a slippery slope.

Down round are really bad for existing employees, unless more equity is given to make them whole. But that's not the perspective that matters here.
I read those links because I'm really curious but I clearly lack the prerequisite knowledge.
You don't need to be following "Apple news" to hear about this. It has been all over the news.
Back to old fashioned service and perks maybe? I still have drawers full of engraved metal spoons, branded playing cards, and even "Junior jetter wings" that I collected 3 or 4 decades ago when flying.

I look back at these mementoes with fondness, and while I cannot actually remember the flights or the destinations any more, it does elicit a strong emotional tug towards that airline.

What will it cost an airline to give each kid that flies with them a set of metal or plastic wings? $1? Get that brand association and pride in early!
Citing market power as a reason for special regulations in cellular, where in almost every major city there are 3-4 completely fungible carriers, makes no sense. Verizon and AT&T have about 1/3 of the market, T-Mobile and Sprint have a little under 1/3, and in any given market there are smaller players like Boost Mobile.

That's an entirely normal level of competition for the economy at large. In smart phones, in contrast, Android has 82% of the market, Apple has 18% of the market, and Windows is well under 0.5%. In search engines, Google has about 2/3 of the market, Microsoft has about 1/4, and Yahoo has a bit over 10% (but they use Microsoft's back-end). In soft drinks, Coca Cola has 42%, Pepsi has 27%, and Dr. Pepper Snapple has 17%. In parcel service, UPS has about half the market, FedEx about 30%, and the Postal Service about 15%.
if you delete the key near the code that sets/smears it, it's easy to just delete the range of keys: key1, key2, key3.. as needed

You can send all such commands to memcached at once, so you don't suffer more than one round-trip to multi-delete.
Poe's Law is kicking in pretty hard right about now.
I don't believe companies want "hard-working generalists who operate autonomously and have high risk tolerances." I mean obviously, yes, they would claim to want that, but that sort of employee is fundamentally incompatible with modern business. Modern business is predicated upon the idea of employees being as replaceable and interchangeable as possible. It is a common idea presented in many management books that if an employee becomes important to the company, they should be fired immediately. The thinking is that if your company grows in reliance upon this person, they might one day ask for more money and when you fire them at that point the damage done will be worse so it is better to nip the problem in the bud and bite the bullet and get rid of them when you notice their importance and deal with the smaller amount of disruption. Any hard-working generalist who operates autonomously will, by necessity, be building systems which they have all of the domain knowledge about. And despite companies wishing to believe domain knowledge is not valuable, it has substantial operational and financial impact when lost.

>The hardest problem in B2C is distribution.

This confuses me. Distribution is trivially solved. Anyone can get a product to a customer for quite low cost anywhere in the world now. Is something else meant by "distribution" aside from 'getting things from point A to point B'? If I had a warehouse in my back yard and a customer wanting a product from it, I could ship it to the customer just as easily as Amazon could. Their advantage isn't in being able to distribute things. It's in aggregation and many other different things but not distribution. Distribution was the most valuable economic activity of the past century, but it's commoditized now.

>Weak-form efficients market hypothesis is a good heuristic for evaluating the public markets

The efficient market hypothesis says that profit is an error, an inefficiency which will rapidly go to zero as it will be stripped by underpriced competitors. This is not a good heuristic.
> Technical literacy in the broader population can be approximated with the Thanksgiving test: what sort of questions do you get at Thanksgiving? That's the ambient level of literacy.

At my Thanksgiving table there's two professional programmers, a CS student, and a CS professor. While I'm doubtless an extreme example, my general point is that "your Thanksgiving table" is still a bubble. That said, sure, for many it will be closer to representative than friends/coworkers.
I generally stay 1 release behind (kept patched) for this reason, plus ensuring my workflow is not broken for a few months of the year.

The latest version isn't always the most stable or secure, either.

Someone had mentioned in a different post that Apple may not apply all security patches to Sierra. If I can find some support to this I think it will be picking the lesser of two evils.
Thanks for this, feel like there is too much FUD out there on Citizens United.
If it's difficult to prove that IQ is relevant to the job... Maybe it's not. Also, I doubt that's the reason.
Man, what is going on over there lately.
Any Idea how to find a company that hires on that abstract skillset, potentially by throwing one into cold water to test for it?

~Someone with little resume-driven experience but good grogging skills
3 years ago, timewarner was doing the same thing[1]. They throttled YouTube and then makes the page that explains it disappears from THEIR internet. It doesn't matter what they say about their position, they are in the business of making more money and Net Neutrality means not more money.

[1]:http://idiallo.com/blog/timewarner-you-suck
I had an accounting professor who liked to say “If you become an accountant at a company or CEO, you have 3 weeks to find the dirty laundry. After that it becomes your responsibility, and your problem.”
Because, if they can quickly convert it to real money, they're hopefully safe.
Maybe they won't be aware of this particular vulnerability but issues like the the iOS autocorrect bugs[1][2] get memed to death on all sorts of mainstream social media platforms. Even the original "root" tweet got 10k+ retweets.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/6/16611756/ios-11-bug-lette...
[2] http://bgr.com/2017/11/27/ios-11-problems-keyboard-autocorre...
So personal projects that extend the material you learn in courses and take 1-2 semesters to complete? I think plenty of schools already do that as part of a BA/BS graduation requirement.
I'm sorry, I don't follow.

EDIT: Oh I see what you mean now. By "you", you actually mean me. No, I couldn't, because Google has parlayed their initial good idea into a monopoly based on network effects, specifically the accrual of proprietary data (clicks) which I have no access to.

The idea was valuable in 1997. It's no longer.
Yup. That paired with what appears to be the lack of a decent test process.

Maybe 2018 is the year of the Linux desktop? ... one can dream...
Hearing that you've reduced your fear of daily life since your younger days is exactly what I needed to read right now, and I didn't even realize it. Thanks for the optimism.
No, the people do not elect congress, until every congressman/woman runs without a single dollar from donors, and uses only public platforms to promote themselves.

Money buys politicians, which buys elections which buys what they do/don't do in congress. It's all an organized but legal crime syndicate. Extortion, bribery, etc are legal in politics, because politicians make the rules.
Except gambling has the odds stacked in the house's favour. There is no such problem with a startup.

Will revenue double forever? No. Will revenue double for 100 years? No. Will revenue double for 10 years? Hmmm. Will it double for a year? Lets just say yes. Solve for between 1 and 10, and place your bets accordingly.
With all the pressure to produce novelty gimmicks, it's a little unsurprising :/ and unfortunate, I'm a huge fan of osx. It's nice to have a commercially supported unix system that also has a decent UI.
Agreed.

I always forget the pagination and simply ctrl+F for "physics" and "Seattle" and act accordingly. If there are no hits of interest, then I move on.
As a pretty long term subscriber, I get the impression that things are OK at the moment. JC and Co are probably not millionaires but it seems pretty comfortable at the present. They have had their moments in the past.

A recent series of articles were about accounting software (ie getting away from proprietary software) which is the sort of navel gazing that wouldn't happen if things were bad.

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Or they are planning to downsize the accelerator program and are looking to start making the workspaces self sustaining so they don’t have to close them down.
I hear you, and I have the same problem (hi, Dad) but it is worth noting that this latest re-occurrence of the bug happens only to machines that were not up-to-date when they downloaded (or rather, when Apple remotely installed) the security patch.

If a machine had 10.13.1 (the latest version of macOS) installed when that happened, it is OK.

If the machine had 10.13.0 installed when Apple installed the patch, however, then the update to 10.13.1 will bring the bug back, and necessitate both re-installation of the security patch and a reboot before the machine is again safe from the "root access for anybody who can spell 'root'" bug.
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I think data from LDS Church would be more interesting.
Do you have any specific articles?
The big extinction event killed just about everything that could not go on a crash diet for 2 years. At least that was my interpretation of that most recent explanation of what happened.
That’s quite the accusation. I understand capitalism quite well. It often optimized the wrong thing. I have no problem with being in the socialist democracy of canuckistan with regulations and all.
>the foundation arm of the token's development appears to be operating in a reasonable and pragmatic way along their planned roadmap

Oh, yes? What have they done?
The top gold-producing country in the world is China
Price sensitivity doesn't depend on every user obsessively tracking prices.

If Lyft becomes a better deal, a vanguard of users notice it, they word of mouth it, and the equilibrium shifts somewhat. Not all the way, there are price insensitive users. But there are also price sensitive ones too.
I think that they're independent goals. I don't think that competition would guarantee NN. Competition promotes better customer service and faster internet at lower prices, which is also good.
I feel weird reading comments here ranging from excusing the developer to blaming him, for its lack of unit testing or anything. Let’s make this clear : management fcked up badly. Human process. Not code, not unit testing, not a single line of code is responsible. And you know why ? Because when you’ve had the greatest security failure in a decade publicly shaming your company and your team, you personaly make sure it doesn’t happen again in the next release.

And it’s not just one manager. The whole management is screwed, it’s a disaster. I think now is really time to say : would you imagine this happening under steve jobs ?