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Indonesia is barely secular. This secular, not secular reality is really cramping effective gorvernance IMHO. Pandering to the muslim community had launched the political carriers of otherwise ineffective and underqualified people. It has also recently landed politicians in jail for blasphemy..
Thank you. Same wishes to you.
The folks at https://sweetbridge.com/ make a case for supply chain being a natural fit. Some of the low hanging fruit here is international trade between less developed countries, where settlement has to be done in dollars, and independent truckers.

The thesis is that huge amounts of capital is tied up in invoice settlement all along the supply chain. (And supply chain refers to every thing from the dirt -- grown or mined -- all the way to the end consumer.) Settling invoices on the blockchain would eliminate a huge amount of friction and open the possibility of immediate low interest (or even no interest) loans on a substantial amount of outstanding invoices.
Its always sad to hear how people doing the right things getting caught up in circumstances that puts them on the wrong side of the power curve with respect to keeping their heads above water.

I looked into the safe parking initiatives a bit. I've noticed more folks living in RVs around town in various parking lots or on quiet side streets. It seems a bit like a no-brainer that if you have some extra land that isn't doing anything you should be able to just let people park on it without the fear of being hassled by the police or community members. But when you look at it closely what you are talking about are re-inventing the trailer park. Try to get a permit to build one of those in the bay area, not easy.
Doubly amusing because Sears was the Amazon of the 1900's.
It has at least one psychological use. For many it is a vehicle of self-deception, wherein they persuade themselves they are in the purportedly honourable class of investors, connoting productive use of wealth. They must understand somewhere underneath the fakery that they are speculators/gamblers.
This is fair. Anyway, sanctions of this sort are absolutely immoral unless a government is willing to take on all affected refugees, which is very very rarely the case. Human rights abuses are difficult to solve without open borders, but unfortunately open borders are politically infeasible.
I would like to remind everyone that the trillions of US debt is financed by a global elite who LITERALLY own America.
That would be a contractor or contingency worker for me. They are hired to do X. When they leave their work stops, a critical difference with a consultant.

Consultant does mean something. Means you temporarily hire experience in a field you are not familiar with to bring competency to your company, train/knowledge transfer to employees, and have a quick up ramping of a project which can continue when the consultant leaves because now you have a proper architecture and your employees are trained to use it, work with and extend it.
Not sure where you are in Turkey, but there are technical US military folks there in places like Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, etc.

I suspect one of them would love to be a mentor in exchange for some guidance on local shopping, food, customs, etc.
If phones had active cooling and could thermally sustain a maximum CPU+GPU load for 40 minutes, they would discharge that fast or faster.
Here's a great mini-book that explains how NumPy can improve efficiency, at an appropriate level of detail for what you're asking: http://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/
It keeps saying I'm in "incognito mode" and not allowing me to view the page.

I have an ad blocker, so I can only assume they think that because the google ad services aren't loading, that I'm browsing incognito.
Let us not forget that all countries today face major problems politically. The world is being polarised in multiple ways and those countries that at one time had the appearance of moral superiority have fallen to the same levels as those they oppose.

Totalitarianism comes in may forms. Countries such as China and Russia have specific characteristics that US, Britain, Germany, Canada, Australia, etc, etc, etc are trying to emulate.

Freedom is a lost art today and jingoism has risen its head again.
The people who are so poor that they don't have reliable access to banking services very often are lacking reliable access to internet connected computing devices and sometimes even electricity. Additionally, trading cryptocurrency for spendable money is time consuming and expensive. The idea that cryptocurrency is a viable option for the participants of third-world economies is absurd. I'm not saying that nobody in the third-world uses cryptotokens but its very uncommon.
Where did I suggest that's anything to go by?
But I can easily relate to a situation where signals are misinterpreted, which goes both ways: Missing out on advances by others because you don't realize them as such or you interpret them as such and fear of having it misinterpreted and as such don't act on them.

The last time I had "body contact" with a woman she literally had to rip my clothes off and throw me on her bed, even tho I wasn't comfortable with that situation at all and stated as much to her, that I'd rather not have intercourse on the first "date".

She didn't care and I was overwhelmed by that situation, only way out there would have been to handle her roughly. But she assumed I was at her place exactly for that, while I was at her place for exactly the reason we talked about: Seeing how much stuff she had because I wanted her to help with moving out. Sorry for not sticking with the old stereotype of "if a woman invited you over it's to have sex".

That wasn't pleasant at all, she supposedly didn't remember much of it due to being too drunk. I probably could push charges, if anybody would actually believe me, but to what end?

I'm only writing this to put context to my previous statement: People are complicated, social is complicated, for some among us even more so than for others.
In that regard, I find it really sad that we readily apply Hanlon's Razor to all kinds of problems but rarely, if ever, to social interactions.
You think Russia did a better job after getting rid of their communist party around the same time?
This does rely on there being enough people to make co-working possible. I live in a town of 20000 in Belgium there's literally no-one doing remote work. There's a local company that's tried to open a co-working place. I'm the only one there. Going to the cafés in town in the mornings, again there's no-one else. Maybe two or three people over the course of a year.
Congratulations, you've produced a straw man!
It varies wildly. Property taxes in Texas, for example, could easily be $15k for a $450k house.
It’s the second one. If you have some expertise/ mastery of best practices in your area, then you can make a good living by implementing those things for organizations that would benefit from them, but don’t want to invest in staffing up that area permanently.

That’s consulting.
No, the discussion is about whether if you had a thousand Tom Bradys they could all play quarterback in the NFL.
I agree - the why skill is crucial and difficult. I won't claim to be any good at it (it's actually one of the things my current manager excels at intuiting and I want to learn from him).

One tactic I can suggest (if your manager isn't a totally unreasonable cartoon tyrant) is to simply be explicit about it and ask "can you explain more about why you need Foo?" and then "what's driving the deadline of X?" Understanding the business case is generally necessary - though not always sufficient - for coming up with an alternative solution.

I suspect that part of the gap between people who are and are not good at this is how well apprised they are of the general conditions, initiatives in other departments/teams, and short-term strategic goals of the company.

Some of that is on the person who may or may not put in the effort to remain informed; and some of that is on the company's management that may do a good or a poor job of communicating those things proactively between departments/teams and from senior management down to junior management and line workers.
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No. You can build circuit to accommodate small voltage fluctuations without crashing things, defeating the need to drop the clock speed 24/7. Lots of other chips do this. Apple dropping clock speed as phones age is a very convenient excuse for an anti-feature to sell new phones.
It gives the tool for new oreo phones to handle this correctly, but it is still up to the OEM to do it.
New Yorkers?
Many people do put their lives into things without ever becoming world-class talents.
Ultimately the resources a nation has are the skills of its people and political will. No nations resources are limitless, and the Netherlands has far fewer real resources but much better skills and organizational capabilities.

The fact that the Netherlands was a former colonial power doesn't give them any "colony juice" that they can squeeze onto the ground and dams rise up like apple trees. They still have to design and build the thing given their smarts and labor, and Indonesia has to design the thing given their smarts and labor. The only difference is in the pool of available talent and the organizational abilities of the government to marshall that talent. Given Indonesia's much larger population and greater abundance of natural resources, it's a joke to suggest that it has no resources to build a dam whereas a tiny nation with fewer resources is able to do it. Indonesia's problem is that they are more corrupt and disorganized, and can't marshall their resources effectively.
I paid $3600 on $100k property in Detroit 10yrs ago. Property tax in most places is not based on the amount the house will sell for but based on what it original sold for and then it grows slowly. So Perhaps your landlord bought the property for $200k many years ago and the property tax was $1k and has now grown to $2.7k.
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Republicans are just serving their true masters. [1] Studies show immigration has a net positive on the economy, whereas the foreign owned real estate equivalent shows it has a deleterious effect overall with a vertical plus for those selling and moving elsewhere.

But this is a function of too low taxes at the top end, and cheap borrowing costs. There's a glut of money that has to go somewhere. So it's getting stuffed into the stock, bond, and real estate markets, rather than into businesses and workers.

[1]
Graham: 'Financial contributions will stop' if GOP doesn't pass tax reform
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/359606-graham-financial-co...

It's all about financial contributions, and ensuring there isn't a level playing field with the competition in particular in primaries. Just imagine how difficult it would be to convince them to get money out of politics entirely.
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Even if we generously assume this is the case we still have the problem that the demand is limited.
I recently swapped the battery on my iPhone 6. I can tell you that if the battery is too weak it is due to space constraints. Mabe that's what you mean by design, but given the form and space available, I don't think the battery could be stronger than it is.
Trying to get a mentor is a little like trying to get a Significant Other. In theory, you can "just ask", but in practice you have to fundamentally understand the other person before you can 'ask'.

This article sums up how to get a mentor:

https://pindancing.blogspot.com/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-m...
There are also countless starving aspiring actors so I doubt actor supply is your problem
> A .. startup is upending ... industry

Of course it is.
10k/wk * 52 wks * 70% is $360k/yr. A good number of engineers earn this amount in total comp in W-2 gigs without being famous.

At $5k per wk, you're looking at Junior engineer at AmGooFaceSoft comp levels.
is Google and Apple only companies in this whole world anymore can create mobile phones ? Why is whole world following these 2 companies ? Is this the "internet / mobile phone" ghetto ?

Almost like google and facebook, is there anybody who could leave these services and understand, they are created to spy you, just like your mobile phones.
For cheap fruit & veg, do what the locals do and shop at the wet market. Far cheaper than the styrofoam packs at the supermarket.
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There's no real sources there that say that Google has custom LANai silicon.

And, from what I've seen when the register writes about subjects that I actually have signed the NDA for, they just blatantly make shit up, knowing that no one is going to break their NDA just to correct them.

AFAICT, Google was just given firmware access to Myricom's chips, and wrote an LLVM backend.
You should be required to pass a test on what the word "socialist" means before you're allowed to start throwing it around like this.
The simplest answer I like is:

Employee: Does what the boss says, and works when the boss wants them to work.

Contractor: Does what the client asks them to do, but has the flexibility to do it on their own schedule and according to their own way. In the US, the IRS may want to reclassify you as an employee if you dictate too much of how the work is done.

Consultant: They review what the client is doing and recommends what they should be doing, often performing that work too. The key difference to me is the client accepts they may not be the most knowledgeable in what change they want to make.

To give examples for programmers:

Employee: works on a app in the office from 9-5 adding the features requested.

Contractor: adds requested features to the app.

Consultant: reviews the app and proposes some features to add.
Unisys ClearPath

I've been trying to find an emulator for Unisys for years, as I've come in contact with those systems twice in my career, but both times it was "oh, those are used by [hushed tones] the legacy team" which isn't good for learning about how they work.

Do you know of something akin to Hercules, or even eBay something, which would allow a sufficiently curious person to kick to the tires on a Unisys OS?
It's true.

Very easy to have a couple drinks on the rooftop for X event, see women as sexy then go back downstairs for mischief.

Of course, that's both sides wanting it.
I used to work for these guys https://guardtime.com . They do keyless digital signatures/timestamps based on block chain way before bitcoin and are quite useful.
Do these printers use Dual_EC_DRBG too (in addition to Extended Random), to make them
actually vulnerable?

> Ironically, the printers are now the only thing that still exhibits the features of this (now deprecated) version of BSAFE. This is not because the NSA was targeting printers. Whatever devices they were targeting are probably gone by now. It’s because printer firmware tends to be obsolete and yet highly persistent. It’s like a remote pool buried beneath the arctic circle that preserves software species that would otherwise vanish from the Internet.

Pretty chilling, but on the other hand:
If this was true it should be possible to prove digging through firmware archives and
actually finding these targeted devices.
My dad's company is an international medical device manufacturer and I am keenly aware of the regulatory hoops (some of which I will even admit are legitimately unfair and should be reformed!) that he has to jump through and the sheer amount of money it costs his company to make sure they're complying with regulations. It, without a doubt, is an economic burden on them.

I still don't want someone dying because a faulty medical device was used on them. I think that the trade-off between ease of new innovation and public safety is a decision we have to all make collectively, and I think that the necessarily massive gulf between consumer and producer information necessitates that government be involved. Market solutions are bad for situations where there is wide information asymmetry.
Thing is, is blockchain as of today the internet-financial http or gopher?
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https://www.fastmail.com/

It costs $5/month if you want to use your own domain. I've pretty much stopped using Gmail, etc. and switched totally to them.
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Why Bitcoin will fail
Personally I believe in blockchain, but not current blockchain.

Like anything it will take multiple steps and failing several times before it works.

The perfect example is the internet, it was so wrong at the start, so ugly, and so naive. But it was free and open. Everybody said "internet is the future", and that created the dotcom bubble when everybody agreed and wanted to profit from it.

I had friends at the time that got rich in the process, and I have friends today that have gotten rich with bitcoins(they have already sold all of them).

At the end of course Internet was the future, but not "that Internet", it has evolved a lot and will continue evolving.

With blockchain the same is happening: we have a tremendous bubble right now that will be painful when it pops. But it will continue evolving into something extremely useful in my opinion.

It will be no bitcoin, it will something else be easier to mine, with more transactions, and so on...it will evolve over time learning from its errors, like anything in the History of mankind.
> Climate change is inevitable

You sure about that? https://xkcd.com/1732/
> I'm not a lawyer but I hear lingering after the event qualifies.

That sounds so undefined, I wonder where the cut-off point is? Considering that co-workers can also be friends in private, so private social gatherings following up on company events are not really that rare of a thing.
> what else are they supposed to do? Work in Dollar General in a city of 12,000 people their whole life?

And here we go... it did not take long. Why on Earth would living in a 12000 inhabitant city be infamous, be a failure, be a shame? Not fancy and shiny enough for you, eh?
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What is the distinction between "material that you can't identify" and a "whole new type of matter?"

Unless something is interfering with the efforts to identify a given substance, there aren't a whole lot of options left besides it being something "new" (which is to say hitherto unknown).
Github and the linux git repo are merkle trees with a variety of governance controls.

I will die on this hill if I have to.
Right, which is why they exit scam. Build up a good reputation and when the amount you can run with equals what would be years of "honest" work profits, you then run away, set up a new account and start over again.
...Mongo isn't run by a bunch of morons, contrary to the Hacker News and /r/programming hate circlejerk boner for them.

The level of vitriol on these communities about anything new is really getting old.
I meant that if you buy it in stores, you are generating a lot of taxes that are used to do shit like bomb the fuck out of Libya, fund the mercenaries that intelligence already knew were going to shift from FSA to fighting for ISIS (because we knew ISIS was taking over certain areas in the drug trade and certain oil fields. The ~1M people dead in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last dozen or so years because of our interventionism without any serious plan for success.

I don't care if the patients have my politics. Most people don't. I just want to help people that have serious shit going on.
That is pretty cool, I have not seen it. I knew he was getting something new but this is pretty cool!

Steve Roberts and I have been friends since the 80's. Back in the Winnebikeo days he showed me how to create fiberglass enclosures using glass over corrugated cardboard structures.
Lego city is still popular, and playmobil do a large selection of various castles.
The winter holidays are, generally speaking, an amazing example of how hard it is to scale for massive, sudden, short upticks in the real (not virtual) world. You see it everywhere in the : services losing jobs because they don't have the manpower to service a surge in orders, customers skipping stores because they can't find parking or don't want to wait in line, packages not getting delivered on time, inventory being sold out.

You even see it much closer to home. We're having Christmas dinner at our house this year, a total of 11 people - almost 4x more than normal. We don't have the cutlery, plates, chairs, etc for that many people. Do we buy it? Do we borrow it? Do we rent it? A small thing, but it shows you how even one night can be very demanding.
Anyone have an opinion about 4 days remote, 1 day in office?

(The whole company doing this)
Some folks get nervous when they have to justify the actual value of their work. Sometimes it’s because doing irrelevant work well or relevant work poorly. More often, I think the business impact connection is just difficult to make. The further you get from pure sales, the harder it is. Regardless, you should always consider answering this question as part of your job.
That was some of it, but often it was just because cash could be tied up in shipped product for a week or two if you didn't FE. It kept "good" vendors from being able to grow because they weren't able to increase their supply to list new product on the sites.
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I have a product built on blockchain, it has real, paying customers. It was not funded through an ICO and we do not have our own coin.

Https://hydrachain.io/
> `class` has `self`, which is some kind of implicitly shared state that will bite you (harder to reason about, test and maintain).

For reasoning about and maintaining, you can just think of `self` as an extra parameter to the function that gets bound to the thing to the left of the dot. In some languages, like Python, this is how it actually works, so the testing argument doesn't apply either:

>>> class C:
... def __init__(self, x):
... self.x = x
... def f(self):
... print(self.x)
...
>>> c = C(3)
>>> c.f
<bound method C.f of <__main__.C object at 0x7fdb6b9b9240>>
>>> c.f()
3
>>> C.f
<function C.f at 0x7fdb6b9b1ea0>
>>> C.f()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: f() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'
>>> C.f(c)
3
> But you can't sell prospect of a nuclear war against China, because people have iPhones made in China

There are other reasons why going to war against China wouldn't be that advisable.

http://www.businessinsider.com/navy-chinese-microchips-weapo...

https://www.wired.com/2011/11/counterfeit-missile-defense/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fake-parts-in-hercules-aircr...
I've been working remotely with UK companies from Belgium since 2010. I'd worked with both companies in the UK before I left. Both companies are great and treat remote workers well. But I knew the people well before I went remote.

They pay me to keep doing what I do. I don't see it as some kind of career path.

In the side I'm continually doing coursera courses and learning other languages or computer science fundamentals just in case the jobs change.

It's a pretty lonely existence and really hard to work consistently, but you get to see your kids grow up.
I think I have a better idea than you do and your seelioning here BTW the way the NFL etc are set up is very similar state controlled enterprises where run under more socialist regimes British Leyland ICL and so on.
These days you often have multiple systems. One for rock solid storage, one for fast moving development on the same dataset. Apache Ignite tries to become the database you can trust that kind of data, but it's "not there yet" to be used as the only storage.