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I've never been able to work for someone else for too long (starts being noticable after a year).

So I started freelancing / consulting. You don't have to be an entrepreneur and build a product or a company. It's not a grind (or at least it doesn't have to be - you can choose how much effort you want to spend).

But you do need to take business side of things - finding clients, making them pay, making sure your financials are in order and other non-"tech" tasks.
what outrageous fees? you can send a billion dollars for 10 bucks.
> Not using any indentation or newlines seems pretty extreme.

You can certainly use indentation and newlines, my examples were just demonstrating the ability to "obviously" not invoke layout since there's nowhere layout information can be.

Whether to use layout (braceless) or explicit structuring (braceful) is solely determined by a brace being present after a listed keyword, you can have any whitespace you want around it, and you can make that decision on a keyword-by-keyword basis[0] although it will apply to the entire block, so you can write

module Main where -- no brace, layout rules

main = do { -- brace, no layout
let { a = 3 };
let { b = 5 };
print $ a + b;
}

Now here the let statement (rather than expression) is a bit tricky because if we don't use the braces the ; will bind to the "let" which is not using layout, resulting in a parse error. An alternative — and the way do blocks normally desugar — is to use ; as a separator prefix, a style also used by e.g. Elm:

module Main where

main = do
{ let a = 3
; let b = 5
; print $ a + b
}

[0] this is very very useful when generating code which must surround user-provided code: the generated code can be braceful and the user-provided code can independently use layout without conflicts.
IOTA is however fundamentally flawed. It can never be decentralized if it ever even becomes useable.
I seriously hope you're joking. Can't be sure nowadays.
you mean that the omission of the above lesser known engines was a mistake and they will soon appear? I grant that you're responding to a "response" that should have been a new thread, instead, since it's really a new topic -
but it's not alleging the switch was malice.
Great service man, so simple to get started :D
Not sure what is going on in this thread, but every comment defending lightning or current bitcoin implementation or bitcoin-core is being massively downvoted... And they are substantive or at least informative comments.
The reality is that most IQ tests do not go all that high. It is quite challenging to get an accurate IQ score above a certain range. It requires not only the right assessment tools -- ie tests -- but a trained professional administering it. Gifted kids mess with test administrators all the time, sometimes intentionally so. (Plus, to get a super high score, you need to test the child by about age 7. After that age, we just cannot reliably assert that someone's IQ is, say, above 200.)

If the test administered to Feynman only went to 130, as some do, then a test score anywhere close to that, such as 125, can be assumed to have "ceilinged the test." It can be viewed as a floor for the person's IQ, a minimum score suggesting it is at least that high.

Thus, Stephen Hsu's assertion that it must have just been a bad test with a low ceiling suggests to me that Mr. Hsu knows a great deal less about IQ tests than I know, so I see no reason to defer to his opinion.

Yet, also, IQ tests are strongly influenced by cultural knowledge, good scores in kids strongly correlate to kids coming from upper middle class families with well educated parents, etc. So I think there is quite a lot of room for saying that if you take any child and feed them excellently well, dote on them, invest a lot of parental and societal time, effort and other resources in them, they will tend to perform better than average, both on IQ tests and in life generally.

I am not just screwing with people here. I have studied the space and I think there are serious problems with talking about IQ like it is concrete, unchangeable, primarily inherited with minimal influence from environmental inputs, etc.
THe premise of this video is that what he says is interesting because its steve jobs whos saying it.. theres that authority built into it. It makes sense to attack his authority as a response to this video, thats not fallacious I don't think. Most of what hes saying isnt backed up by evidence (I mean that hes not citing stats, not that the science falls against him), even if some of it makes sense.
Anyone who thinks this is a great idea should take a trip to Cuba.

Seriously. I had the same affliction and about 8 days into Cuba I was totally cured.
This is not totally new as many places have volunteer fire departments - this extends the concept.
Tesla received a fraction of the subsidies the Big Three and oil industry received
For the purposes of your invoking your right, it doesn't matter. You have a right to a lawyer of some kind, and the purpose of saying that is to make them stop asking questions. You could just as easily say "I want to speak with my lawyer," if you've already got one, or, "I want to speak with a public defender," or something similar.

> What lawyer do I get? A random public defender? A private defender?

Generally speaking, somebody who's arrested falls into one of these categories:
A. They have a lawyer already, and will contact that person or instruct the police to contact that person
B. They don't have a lawyer, but can afford to retain one, and can contact someone who will take care of that for them or do it themselves
C. They don't have a lawyer, and can't afford one, in which case they will be given a public defender

Courts generally won't give you a private attorney if you request a lawyer and can't pay for one - that's what public defenders are for. (Sometimes, private practice attorneys work with the public defender's office and take cases that way, but in that case, you still are not necessarily the one paying them.) In any of those cases, a person is always free to fire their counsel, retain different counsel, or represent themselves.

The basic rule - don't talk to police without a lawyer - applies no matter which case you fall into.
>I don't find this at all "remarkable" because I don't think this has anything to do with the curvature itself, but the relative contrast of the lines against different backgrounds, and the, for lack of a better term, dithering that occurs in the brain as it is interpreting the borders of contrast

That's because you didn't understand it.

For one, the "the relative contrast of the lines against different backgrounds" is the same between the lines that appear curved and those that appear "straight", because both are the same exact line (both curved) against the same exact background part (the gray).
> (Yes, some people can pursue and sustain excellence without the heat of competition. But not everyone is like that.)

Sounds like an argument for pluralism, not for "one size fits all".
<Insert BS misconception of the illusion, and why you know better than the researchers> here.
> And quite frankly, I don’t even know how I’d go about looking for or evaluating a lawyer.

You're not alone. Here's a great guide to getting an attorney for someone who's never done it: https://www.popehat.com/2011/05/27/how-to-cold-call-a-lawyer...

(I'm not Popehat and I get nothing for recommending him, but his work is excellent.)
Can be a freelancer. You're your own boss, you can pick who you want to work with and you're in control of your time, but you don't need to risk it all on a "risky big idea".
Bank 2.0 could also run its ledger of debts and credits on a public/easily auditable blockchain, and make a lot of guarantees that Bank 1.0 can't.
> Has anyone ever felt this way? What did you do about it and how do you cope with it?

Yes, same here. Good question!
> So the demand for USD is only indirectly due to demand for goods and services; after all, there must be some reason why merchants are pricing their wares in USD. The direct driver of demand is the law itself, hence "fiat" currency.

That's exactly what I was saying: the goods and services are priced in USD because the legal structures require USD. I just used taxes as the most simple example.

But the whole point of the legal structures requiring USD is to get people to offer goods and services for sale in exchange for it. That way the government can purchase goods and services from the private sector to use as public goods, without having to first "get the money" from somewhere else.
Note that this may entail using your job as a means to fund what you actually love to do.
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Agreed

Like the current autism diagnosis explosion
Look into the financial independence/retire early (FIRE) communities.

Here's a good starting point.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...

It's important to note that (Mustachian) financial independence isn't about making money so you can retire (despite the name). It's about designing a lifestyle for yourself that makes you happy without the need to buy things or experiences to sustain that feeling of happiness. The rest is just bookkeeping. And (as a neat side-benefit) you generally become healthier and fitter, gain more skills, and reduce your consumption levels, thereby helping save the planet.

Knowing that you're building a future life for yourself makes the hard days at work easier to take. Once you have the financial security of being FI/RE you are free to take career risks or try things that interest you but may not have much money-making potential.
For those of us who can't go to Cuba (I'm sure there are a lot of us), could you say more about what was wrong with it? Also there are lots of other factors I'm sure that could contribute besides just that its socialist.
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Join a startup early enough where you get enough equity to feel like an owner. Just search on Angelist or similar sites, such as the job postings on here.

Start a small services business- or freelance. If you're just worried about unpaid overtime, an hourly bill rate gives you a little more freedom. You do have to do a bit more sales work to find customers, but there are numerous platforms to assist with that.

While both of these options have higher potential returns, they also have higher risks. What it sounds like is that you are not factoring into your analysis is the low-risk nature of what you are doing. You are trading off "the grind" and that risk for a lower maximum payoff, but a higher minimum payoff. If that's actually what you want, just keep job hopping every couple of years as you get sick of things and ask for a 10% raise instead of 2-3%.

Maybe the real problem is presuming that what you are doing is bad when it is really the path that is best for you. Not everyone is meant to find a place they love and stay there forever. Even when people do find such a place, the place changes as time passes, and they change as well, so what was once right does not always stay that way. Not everyone is set up to take the stress of having 95% of your net worth tied up in a venture that is likely to go to $0. Hopefully, Model 3 production continues to ramp up, and you can get your Tesla anyway.
But it is somewhat dishonest. You could color the lines in the same color as the background and then you would have "illusion" of dissapearing lines, right?
There’s a thing between being entrepeneurship and working for a company: freelancing. It’s for those that feel no attachment to a company, but do have a very developed skill set or trade.

In our free market economy, there will always be a system where someone hires you to create value, which costs less than it makes them, in the end. If you want a bigger slice of that pie, you need to make it a viable business case. Hiring a top freelancer to create value, without the hassle for the employer, is worth a markup. Being scarce helps too.

To me, it sounds like your main issue is that you feel you don’t get enough of that added value you bring. If normal compensation schemes don’t cut it for you, you surely must be able to ask a major hourly rate as a freelancer, or a royalty.
You can talk about rights and due process all you want, I’m not disagreeing with any of that, that’s great for people who can afford it. I’m talking about the practical outcome of this for average Americans.

The practical outcome is that for every 1 time this advice prevents you from accidentally incriminating yourself, there will be 20 times that it just makes officers dislike you and abuse their authority over you, especially if you’re young and especially if they can tell you’re poor.
How about instead "If those words don't mean anything to you, go read their wikipedia entries before continuing"? Not every article on IPFS needs to have its own separate introduction about what IPFS is.
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Well, unless you win the lottery or get an inheritance, you have to work for someone else, in the US at least. There's no way around that. So in that case, you should try to find a job that you loathe the least. I suppose there are other options, like begging -- but that's still working to convince people to give you money, or welfare / disability -- again, same issue. No matter what the arrangement, until the end of your days you will have to justify your consumption of resources to your fellow humans.

I'm reminded by 2 quotes that may be of use to you. The first, by Paul Graham, who founded this forum:

"Startups are not magic. They don't change the laws of wealth creation. They just represent a point at the far end of the curve. There is a conservation law at work here: if you want to make a million dollars, you have to endure a million dollars' worth of pain. For example, one way to make a million dollars would be to work for the Post Office your whole life, and save every penny of your salary. Imagine the stress of working for the Post Office for fifty years. In a startup you compress all this stress into three or four years. You do tend to get a certain bulk discount if you buy the economy-size pain, but you can't evade the fundamental conservation law. If starting a startup were easy, everyone would do it."

And the second, by Mr. Money Mustache:

"In real life (even New York City real life), you get paid for getting really difficult shit done, better than anybody else can do it."
Socialism is only a valid answer if you don't understand technology. If you think there's a fixed pie and we have to forcibly break it into rations so that everyone gets at least something.

But technology offers a much better solution, which is grow the pie large enough that everyone has as much as they want. There are no physical limitations to this concept. The universe is rich with everything we need for billions of years. Karl Marx didn't understand asteroid mining.

And it turns out that unchecked capitalism is shit but it's just the right kind of manure for the garden of technology to bear its fruit of panacea.
There's really no need; that's exactly what you would expect to see in a thresholded population ("elite players").
Most people find extreme injustice in seeing the value of their labor being stolen by the capitalist class.

Nonsense. Most people don’t think their labor is stolen or find extreme injustice in getting paid for their labor. You need to get outside your bubble.
Still, it's invalid.

It's up to the judge to decide what is valid and not. The court has the power to decide on each clause individually and the contract as a whole.

It's the normal outcome that when one minor clause is deemed invalid, only that clause is dismissed, not the whole contract.

It doesn't costs anything to write it down to clarify. That's exactly why it's written in every standard contract. There could be a different jurisdiction somewhere one day that decides to invalidate entire contracts by default for any stupid reason, I don't know of one in the western countries but I suppose it's possible.
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Cuba is a cherry-picked example and is misleading.

Other socialist countries that are doing better: China; Denmark; Finland; Netherlands; Canada; Sweden; Norway; Ireland.

Don't forget Cuba has been forced into economic isolation by the US. And places like Venezuela and Detroit were overly dependent on too few industries and are plagued by massive wealth inequality.

You can also find persistent systemic poverty in capitalism: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0185084916...
Everyone draws the line somewhere different. Certainly, if someone's life is in danger and I can help save them by telling a police officer who is nearby immediately, I'd do that. If I were in a traffic accident and I needed to call the police to document it, or I was the victim of a minor crime, I'd probably talk to them about that, too. I've gone down to the station to talk to the police about an incident report on a traffic accident. Even doing that is a risk, but it was a very minor accident and I had already agreed to pay for the damages, so it didn't seem like my exposure was high.

On the other hand, if I were the victim or came across the scene of a major crime - e. g. a robbery, a murder, etc. - once any immediate danger was resolved, I would probably contact my attorney and tell them. (Your mileage may vary; not everyone has an attorney to contact right away.) It's easy to go from a bystander or victim to being the suspect. If police showed up at my home without warning, and I didn't call them, I wouldn't talk to them.
While I agree with this, it's really only easy to recognize this after you've figured it out. I also want to emphasize I'm in a position now with equity do not adhere to the philosophy below.

Focus on enjoying the people you work with and spend less energy thinking about your work. Stressing over work is a fool's game unless you have skin in it.

I had a pretty low point in my career and I simply changed my focus to collecting as much money from the wealthy bosses as I could while providing as little value as I could. After all, that's what they're trying to do on the other side of the relationship.

Now again, what I have said is easy to grok and enact once you've had some success. I don't advise this attitude for folks just entering the industry, but after 5-10 years you'd be amazed at just how valuable you are, even when not really working too hard.
I don't know why people take it on its face that hating their job is something that is fixed, and not changeable. What if rather than seek a different lifestyle, you try to learn to love your job and be ok with working under others? Why does everyone assume your feelings as they are are ok, in the sense that they shouldn't be worked on and navigated. Does everyone here just work off their first impression, for instance, that they wouldn't consider their feelings the problem on occasion?
His government has murdered thousands of people. If that's not mass murder...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/07/world/asia/ro...
I'd like to know if "they" really don't know, or simply someone(s) were tasked to come up with some arguments and those in power really don't care how accurate it is or not.
In Costa Rica I saw a few houses deploy some type of lizard around the property to take care of spiders, mosquitoes, and scorpions. They appeared just pet-like enough not to freak out most visitors, were anti-social to humans, and seemed to have a voracious appetite for pests.
LOL, made me choke :D
I know, I know, you said "a bit", but there's such a gulf between "a bit eccentric" and "literally suffers from schizophrenia" (my understanding of Terry Davis's situation) that I'm not sure they should be compared like that.
This is not socialism.

Imagine being not able to work. Imagine getting a percentage of your pay while staying home after that needed surgury (which was free, paid by all of us who can still work). This is socialism.
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I have a question about your use case: using openssl makes sense for prod code, but whenever I want to experiment with fancy cryptosystems I usually reach for Sage. Is your goal to bridge that gap, or are you really just focused on prod code, or something else?
Absolutely.

>I resent spending 48 weeks a year in an office and stressing over issues that will only make the company's owners richer but won't change much for me. I say don't change much because a 2-3% raise once in a while is nice, but it's nothing in comparison to the thousands/millions extra it will make the company, while the only result for me is that I get to keep my job and do more of that.

Who wouldn't resent it? Who wouldn't resent the fruits of their labour being reaped by someone else? Who actually thinks it is fair that you work hard to make your boss millions?

We need to radically rethink our current system of wealth distribution. Propaganda and US intervention have succeeded in preventing socialism from taking off anywhere in the first world or succeeding anywhere at all. How else can the majority of people tolerate feudalism in the 21st century?
You can build your socialist enterprise in any capitalist system, it's not like it's forbidden as long as you pay your bills.
"When tomatoes ripen in California, for example, they’re harvested in a 12-week period that has sorters running round the clock, up to 24 hours a day, processing as much as 800 tonnes of vegetables an hour."

Fine and dandy... except tomatoes are fruits.
it all depends on definitions...
Another question: is your PRE scheme published? Which papers should I go read to know what it does? (Admittedly, I haven't read the Python implementation yet, maybe I should just go do that... I'm familiar with BBS98 but not much of the work after that.)
Public sector employee plus FIRE sounds like a great combo to try.

Maybe freelancing too but I think that’s closer to entrepreneurship than some here are willing to admit.
There will always be derivatives of underlying assets. Preventing that is not the “entire point” of bitcoin. Replacing the underlying asset, currently fiat currency, is the point.
It only works for Slashdot because it's a very homogenous audience.
I felt similarly often, even though I was working for a great company with great products and with a very humane way of working. At some point I just could not stand the worker-owner fundamental power imbalance. There is a lot of pretending in our industry that this conflict does not exist, which often ends up in quite schizophrenic logic. I had to go. And Since I don't want to inflict such pain in other people, become the typical entrepreneur (i.e. a capitalist) was not an option either.

My solution for now is to freelance and consulting. It comes with a hole different set of contradictions, but it is a good learning experience and great way to experiment and explore what you want to do. It also buys me time to do open-source and research, but it requires more self-motivation.

My long-term dream is to start a worker-owned coop with other people in the future.
I have some experience with this feeling and for me it comes from mismatched expectations. I believed that simply getting into the workforce was my goal, the proper goal, and that would be a satisfying end.

At some point in the working life some people (you!) become acutely aware that satisfaction and purpose matter. Now you have to reach outside of everything you have tried and everything you were taught to find something you actually care about.

Take up hobbies, personal projects, travel, and through trial and error find a way to connect your talents with a meaningful end.

Most importantly, you will have to solve this yourself. Friends online can't tell you what you want any better than your boss can!