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I’ve made a bunch of assumptions about what you mean; I guess you asked a broad question so you’d get a wide range of answers :)

I’m a software engineer by trade but now I teach others how to write code. When I’m not doing that I work with clients to write teaching material for the products they own, and I run a non-profit in my spare time. I hate the phrase “digital nomad” but I’m writing this from a co-working space in Morocco, so the shoe fits. Here’s a brain dump:

* There’s an expectation that when you start a project you’ll be able to hit the ground running; clients don’t want to pay for you to ramp up to become productive. Luckily, starting a new job is something you get better at with practice; you learn how to phrase the dumb new-guy questions and abstract just enough that you’re competent quickly. Part of this is showmanship.

* That said, you’re a subject matter expert in your field.

* Perhaps you’re able to work off-site, in which case you’ll need better time-management skills than you might need at a traditional desk-bound job in your field. Perhaps you travel a lot for work or otherwise.

* Unless you’ve got a solid client-base you might find yourself hustling for work. Certainly your client-management and self-marketing skills will be better than someone who changes jobs once every three or four years.

* You might get to choose your holidays. I’ll be working over Christmas.

* You’ll have more cash money but no benefits unless you pay for them yourself. I’m from the UK so I don’t have quite the same healthcare issues as my friends across the pond, but I’ve got to manage my relationship with the state explicitly.

* I’ve got a fucktonne of airmiles.

* Maybe you’ll work unpredictable hours in weird places, so explicitly making time for your family and friends is important. I don’t bump into mates any more, so making friends is just something you have to make a point of.

* You’ll be more exposed to boom and bust hiring practices - supposedly, you’re charging more money as your position with a client is more mercenary.

* Unstructured work isn’t for everyone. I don’t like the idea of going back to an office job with a boss any more, but it’s different strokes for different folks. In the last month I’ve worked in New York, Montreal, London and (now) a small town in Morocco. Next month I’ll be in Ghana then London. I love it, but that much solo travel puts a strain on whatever kind of relationship you enjoy with people.
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While it may be too late for the author, it's possible to port you Fi number out to a different carrier, like ATT / Verizon / Twilio as long as your account is still active. I also believe there is a 6 month hold period on the number until it can be put back in the pool for use.

When I moved away from Fi the first time (I'm back on and love it) I used it to port my number to Twilio.
And on the main channels, the limit is 7 mins/hour - these are averages across the day, but there are further restrictions for children's programming, including that programmes of 30 mins or less cannot be interrupted by adverts.
I have been living overseas for some years for major client work. Google Voice is a blessing, and yet constantly feels like I'm walking on thin ice. I'd happy pay 20$ or even 30$ monthly to have a commercially supported product because it provides so much value.

But there are so many bugs. There seems to be no way to even submit bug reports (not even major ones like now-deleted forwarding numbers still ringing.) It would be awesome if they could just spin the division off into a startup, or start charging via a business tier. What is the thinking around these gray-area products?
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Google fiber charges 70$ a month for Gigabit network speeds without throttling in the USA. And get this it's profitable for them without subsidizing it.

https://fiber.google.com/cities/atlanta/
Obviously there could be something we can't analyze.

But it would need to be based on a different structure than atoms, so not some new element or alloy but something completely different. Say some hard matter based on some condensed unknown field.

This sounds highly unprobable. But if true, this would have implications about all of physics, not just some new material science.
It looks like something that just gets complied to VHDL and friends? Is there some way to make the description available to user code/GHC? Now that would be interesting.
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I have Indian coworkers who struggle with English, and on top of that we have 0 shared cultural background.

No media, no games, no shared experiences. It’s drudgery trying to come up with a conversation topic.

Game of thrones? Haven’t seen it. Latest games that came out? Don’t play them. Building an app? Nope no entrepreneurship. Dating? Nope arranged relationships, or no relationships.

It’s impossible and I hate every second I’m forced to deal with these people.
Businesses accepting Bitcoin typically do it via third-party payment processors. The intermediate takes a cut, shields the vendor from the risks, and pays an agreed price in fiat.

The system has been in place for years, and it works reasonably well. More competition would still help. And yes, a better network and better systems to cut out the intermediary would help even more.
One thing that helps is the increasing number of non-car roads (pedestrians and cyclists only). Obviously that's not very friendly to drivers, but a well designed city with good public transport really doesn't need cars in the city.
This is what I miss about the old internet. The one I grew up with, when everyone was (rightly) told to keep their personal info off the internet. I didn't have to spend much time worrying who I was talking to, and how it could be tied back to me. Conversations felt more honest, because I could focus on the merits of the conversation, rather than based on the "credentials" of who was having the conversation.
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I don't think so, or I wouldn't have thought so.

But Mason Simon seems to think so. I'd be interested to hear an elaboration.
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At first, I thought this 21M cap causes exponential increase in BTC price, until I saw your comment about BTC being infinitely divisible. A bit search on the internet though proves this hypothesis wrong:

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/19670

Turns out, BTC is only divisible down to 8 decimal places.
Umm actually, it's originally called Blockade.

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However, we all know that quarks and more exist, so you don't think it's possible that an advanced race could make a material that skips that atom part?

This sounds like pure sci-fi to me. AFAIK, everything we know about physics suggests that there are no stable substances made up of sub-atomic particles in a way that "skips the atom part". If that were possible, it would be in the realm of "entirely new physics".

Not to say that it's not possible of course... you don't know what you don't know and all that. But the Standard Model seems to be pretty firmly grounded and I haven't seen anything to suggest that it allows for such a thing. Personally, my bayesian prior on this being possible would be awfully close to 0 right now.

Then again, maybe it's Dwarf Star Alloy.[1]

[1]: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Dwarf_star_alloy
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It really isn't.

What the material scientists are saying is that there are techniques which would allow them to identify any physical material given that our understanding of the way that they universe works is approximately correct. If a material was discovered that was unidentifiable the government would not be putting it in a warehouse, anywhere, it would be in a massive secret lab. All the people who SA interviewed would have been co-opted into joining said lab. Undergraduate education in Physics and Chemistry in the US would be grinding to a halt, NIST grants and DARPA grants would be zero for any other topic, publication and patent rates would be falling precipitously.

Why? Because such a find would be "all bets are off" everything would be up for grabs, not only would every scientist be scrambling to be involved - all the others would be encased in dark depression knowing that what they were up to was essentially worthless.

There would be questions in the UN, threats of violence against the US, allies would be sending worried missions and publicly begging for inclusion (unless they were included in which case they would be mouth shut deferential and smug in company..)
The last few days have been delightful for longer term holders - it’s just been wave after wave of panic selling, with everybody seemingly forgetting that there are futures contracts out there for Jan delivery at $16k+.

I think what we’ve just seen is a bit of a forced sell off, to drive the price down before the next big speculative bubble, which will likely mirror the one after thanksgiving.
It sometimes can be better to mark it as spam. There was a thing a while back where the unsubscribe link was just verifying that you still check that email account, and you click on links, so they'd send you more spam.
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> Drug sale and use is not victimless. The costs vary with the type of drug and the enforcement regime but the social costs never go to zero.

You could substitute 'drug' with just about anything and that would be true.

Sell cars? They put out poisonous fumes.
Sell electric cars? People still crash into each other with them.
Sell kitchen knives? People stab each other with them.
Sell toilet paper? People flush it into the municipal sewer system.
Make a funny TV show? People will watch it when they should be spending time with their children.

Drugs aren't special. There are societal costs to every technology. No product is victimless if the criteria you demand is that the societal cost is zero.

I don't even disagree with you on practical matters. I just deeply resent how you have defined that word. When no action is victimless, there is nothing that cannot be outlawed. In fact, that's the same line of reasoning that is used to ban books (via 'corrupting public morals').
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> "One explanation is that dissatisfied customers are substantially less likely to give feedback"

This is given as a truth in the article but the opposite seem to be the truth for the app stores. From a pool of around 300k app users using our apps, organic reviews are much more likely to be negative. The explanation to this is believed (at our company) that unhappy users want to retaliate where the majority of users, the satisfied ones, doesn't have the energy or incentive to leave a review. The way we develop apps nowadays always include a prompt to rate after $conditionOnlyActiveUsersMatch is met. This skews our reviews to the positive side, leaving us with 4.5+ ratings. If we didn't artificially "game" the stores by asking happy users for reviews, we would be at one star because of the organic reviews being from 0.001% angry users.
The problem with that now, and the reason why Steam stopped accepting Bitcoin, is that the peg expires by the time the transaction comes in, which can take hours.
Possibly, but I’m still stuck automating using SQL*Plus. If it just had libreadline [CURSOR UP] history functionality, it would be really powerful (the official documentation on it is 600+ pages). pgsql and Vertica databases don’t need any more client enhancements, but the one database which does doesn’t get one. Talk about a missed market opportunity!
Another interpretation is that the phenomena themselves are deterministic but our ability to know/measure is what breaks down.
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The main reason is that the underlying Linux container tech has (especially in the past) such terrible usability. Try to use cgroups or other older tools for running your browser, for example.
We already know for a fact that there are units of matter smaller than protons/neutrons/electrons.

Yes, and everything we know about them suggests that they either:

Decay almost immediately when encountered in the wild

Immediately clump together with other particles to form larger units

Do not interact with normal matter

Etc.

IOW, there's little or no reason to think that any kind of stable material, anything that you could store in a warehouse as a clump of "stuff", is made without atoms.

If it is possible, as far as I know, that would be deep into "entirely new physics that violates a lot of central tenets of our current thinking". So yeah, that could happen, but you have to ask "is it likely"?
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Depends (on the CNT's) If you sent it to them anonymously in the post I agree, it would probably have been binned. But if you said "this is special and interesting, can you tell me why and here's $100k to do the work" then my guess is that about three days later you would get a visit from a red eyed and overwhelmingly excited person who would shout at you about allotropes of carbon that could be conductive.

Then you'd get the "so how do we make them long enough to use and have a reliable process that costs in" discussion, and I think that you'd be there for about 70 years. Sadly, maybe longer...
Is there any readable book that's "right for the right reasons"? I'm interested in learning more.
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Recently I had a similar experience, thankfully with my work account. Even then, with having GSuite support, it took around 2 weeks to resolve the issue. If you lose access to your personal GMail account, well....you're fucked :/ Since then I have slowly started migrating my personal email and all logins to another mail provider, where you can actually contact support, as to not rely on Google.
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I couldn't agree more. I'll add, if you are interested in making money there are plenty of coin's, including BCash, to spend your time with. Go for it. But if you are interested in something beyond speculation, it's pretty hard to ignore the shady reputations and ecosystem of many of the most valuable blockchains. Dash written and rewritten to centralize everything to Evan. Ripple is basically the first ICO with all token being issued in the same manner. It's pretty surprising these issues don't matter to anyone. The only outlier really is Etherium. I think there should be both centralized and decentralized systems and Etherium fits the former well and with the least amount of scammyness in it's foundation.
TV is not getting dumber, it's just your brain recovering from the abuse ;)
> run your own private email server

Why not? It works for a lot of people. I don't understand why some people are so eager to hand their personal data out to 3rd parties. This is a very do-able solution.
i find unite.vim very useful

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This sort of stuff scares me so much. I see many people relying on one basket of eggs all the time (AWS is a fine example) with no backup plan.

I’ve actually considered running my own mail server again now DKIM/DMARC is around.
Also the NYTimes would not be allowed to print it, to the extent of the editor disappearing.

Also people posting on hacke
Madagascare is currently one of the only places on the planet having bubonic plague.
I think the argument is Node.js projects are often stitched together from many packages with different APIs and are therefore a good example for stitched together programs that work.

The argument isn't very good in my opinion. Combining independent services differs from combining libraries.
It isn't enough that the processes are affected. The processes must be affected in such a way that the idea of determinism at other scales is compromised.

In any event, positing some sort of "QM consciousness" does nothing to save the concept of free will. Where is the "free will" in a fundamentally random phenomenon? Whether one accepts determinism or not, the notion of free will is incoherent.
That is why I would never use a google service for my mission critical stuff. Except AdWords if the channel works, I mean what can you do
I've always wondered whether people on the autistic spectrum could benefit from something like this; a way to get rid of most distractions in their peripheral vision and avoid being overloaded by sensory input in crowded places. Add some noise cancelling headphones, and even commuting would be a lot more bearable for many people.
This problem is exaggerated on dating sites due to their nature of "good" users exiting the system, but it applies to pretty much all reputation systems since there's always something to be gained from unfair damages, whether that's emotional release or perhaps competition. And people are usually more motivated to post bad reviews (for whatever reason) than good.

I think if we don't bother with a total score the way many rating systems do and instead show the count of good/bad reviews and show the reviews side by side, it should represent the depth of those reviews and a reader can then try to determine from the review contents whether the good or bad reviews are more likely to be true. It takes a lot more effort to write a compelling negative review than it does to simply rate someone/something poorly.
Afaik most countries in Europe have at least a couple of TV stations that are really restricted when it comes to commercials. Usually supported by the government and/or citizens.

I remember that we could receive government funded Austrian ORF 1 in Germany. They usually showed the same movie as other German commercial TV stations at the same time but without ads. Saving around 1 hour per movie.
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I am on the go, so cannot explain much.

Graphical workstations, where the development environment was the genesis of modern IDEs, and the CLI was a REPL integrated with a live debugger, into the whole OS.

Think Smalltalk, Lisp Machines, Alto with its Star OS and XDE developers environment.

To actually provide better links I need my notes, but can leave you with the computer museum one.

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/34...
The comparison being to conflict diamonds (and conflict-free diamonds) - a lot of wars are fueled and escalated by revenues from natural resource extraction, and a pretty simple kind of ethical consumption is to decide to not buy diamonds from, say, the DRC. The market will adapt somewhat, especially if the good is a commodity whose origin can be obscured in the supply chain, but substituting a whole different good avoids that problem. Buy gems other than diamonds, for example.
> zero risks of malware

This is factually false. You download subtitles from a website (generally, opensubtitles.org); if somebody has maliciously uploaded a malware to that website, you will end up downloading that.

Whether the carrier is effective or not (it's dubious that downloading malware masked as subtitles will be executed) is besides the point.
Which is one of many reasons we need total transparency when it comes to government. Every "state secrets" arguments falls well short when it comes to the need for the public to know everything in order to make informed decisions. Without informed consent we simply live in a police state. "National Security" is always a distant second to the need for transparency. Democracy dies behind closed doors.
Commercial pot growing in California comes with some serious illegality (especially when it comes to environmental regulations), but as far as I know the level of violence involved is relatively low.
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People still watch TV?

You got to be kidding me. It has been 15 years of no TV.

Isnt it child abuse to allow your kid to watch almost 2 weeks of their waking lives in a year on ads?
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There is one! It works acceptably http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sqlcl/over...
This EULA change are not acceptable.
For example: If a game developer creates gameplay video for customers at the data center it will be the violation of the EULA.
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Your list is missing verifiable. What makes hashing < vale is useful is you get a high probability that someone handing a solution actually did a lot of work. Someone getting lucky could find a solution within a second using a CPU miner today, they are not going to keep getting lucky for 100 blocks.
While I agree that journalists are often wrong (sometimes intentionally and sensationally so), it's 100% fair to say that the top metallurgists among us almost certainly cannot identify every extant pure metal and alloy in the entire universe.

There are other thermal, gravitational, and energetic environments in the universe that we probably haven't even begun to understand.

We are still learning how the universe appears to work.

What kind of scientist can draw a conclusion without having conducted any sort of observation? That kind of closed-mindedness is totally damning to human understanding.
Pokemon has a competitive scene, and that's turn based. Also a series that rewards strategy and knowledge of the game's mechanics a hell of a lot more than timing.

So hey, perhaps that could be a good eSport for older generations.
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No need to give anything like a 'top 5' etc, but maybe say what was new and what was important about each.
Military loves funding. I wouldn't be surprised if military guys were fanning the flames of the UFO claims in front of the right legislators to get the funding they want.

Find out what a person truly believes in and you can rule them.
Not to be nitpicky, but why would these patients (who will be depositary of your good will) think any different from you as to "it's only conflict free if you grow it yourself"? They may as well use this moral standing to reject your crop.

There has to be trust at some point right?
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Mining inherently means whoever is most efficient ends up with 51% of the market. If companies X spends less than anyone else per hash they will end up at 51% unless they intentionally hold back.

However, proof of useful work could be a public good. Though that makes coming up with an algorithm much harder.
The article says federal government is funding ($40M so far) the program that in part educates people on climate change and rising waters and people are appreciating the honesty.

It also talks about oil and gas exploration as one of the reasons for coastal erosion. Lastly they'll force people and their properties out but still allow commercial development on the property(I guess more oily and gassy things?).

I am not sure what to make of it all but at least they're doing something about it.
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I will do it when my device dies, maybe by then Google has had the guts to force OEMs to actually push Treble updates.

My WP 10 has received more updates than all my Android devices altogether.