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When reading an article about New Zealand restricting foreign real estate investment, I found their reasoning compelling. Housing can be used to house people, or for speculation, like Bitcoin or gold. If you believe that providing shelter takes strict priority for the limited housing stock then it is moral and necessary to restrict the demand from investors.

Quantifying the scale of the problem is another issue, but I certainly think that if people are buying houses for purposes other than living in, allowing that is the, or a, "self-inflicted problem".

If someone wants to invest and grow the supply of something, they should be welcome, but bidding up a resource that cannot be increased is not something people have to accept merely because of some misguided slogans or epithets.
I don't think you're facing what they're facing. Sounds like you make quite a bit more than the people profiled in this article.
It makes sense if you want to exfiltrate your money from the Russian mob, or Chinese communist party.
"The Bitcoin market could suddenly lose twice its value that this won't make any difference in the strategy returns."

Just FYI I think you mean 'lose half its value'. I doubt we're going to see BTC go negative.
Only where I've decided that I'm seeking people who find sarcastically condescending parentheticals amusing. Definitely a niche thing.
People often say that about climate change but isn't it fairly general and obvious that widespread problems hurt poor people the most? In a food shortage, the people who can't afford for food starve first. In developed coastal land shortage, the people who can't afford mitigations have their lives disrupted the most. When a war happens, the people who can't afford to flee get caught up in it. People who can't afford to move out of a high crime neighborhood are more often victims of crime. Disease causes more harm to people who can't afford medicine.

Is being poor really more desirable for anything? Perhaps instead of worrying about global warming, we should solve poverty, then they won't be affected so badly.
I've never heard of that rule, did you just make it up?
You are right, it is dual core. I forget the mobile variants can be dual core. *4 virtual cores :p
Schools should probably start teaching kids how to appropriately make a pass at a girl. Most movies seem to show guys “courageously” lunging in randomly for a kiss. The advice a kid gets from his friend’s older brother is going to be much worse. I’m sure 12 year old boys would appreciate learning how to know if a girl likes them, how to get a girlfriend, how to go in for a kiss, etc. as that’s 97% of what they think about. And doing things the right way early on and seeing success would probably translate well to good behavior later on.
Sure, if you’re a lab rat or a PhD student.
At the very least, they're related in that every attempt to implement the economic model ends up the totalitarian government. The Russian Revolution was the first of several experiments.
Right, block chain will do the same. The ongoing revolution is the fight against ruling classes, same as over the last 5000 years.

Not really true that it depends on the government. And even if it is, you only need like one government supporting it for it to be valuable.

Why couldn’t your argument be used to say the internet won’t work?
It’s worse than that: they’re not even payin* their fair share of property taxes either. For example:

- 157 West 57th St #77, asking $49m, paying $4,200 in monthly taxes [1]

- 301 West 53rd St #3E, asking $1.85m, paying $1,681 in monthly taxes [2]

Why is an apartment asking 25 Times as much only paying 2.5x the property taxes?

You can largely blame Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo for this.

[1] https://www.elliman.com/new-york-city/one57-157-west-57-stre...

[2] https://www.elliman.com/new-york-city/fifty-third-and-eighth...
Over the last four decades, the slow and steady annual inflation looks very easy to plan for: http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/united-states/histor...
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Cookie 5 and WifiSpoof look interesting, but USD 20 each is steep.

To spoof your MAC address from the terminal, this used to work (until next reboot), but haven't tried it in High Sierra (use the correct interface (en0, en1, en2)):

sudo ifconfig en0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
It is weird how I get persistently drummed out of engineering because when I write cron jobs, SQL queries, and React dashboards I make special effort to connect them to business outcomes.

Businesses, to a first approximation, don’t care about their tech stack except to the extent that it drives business outcomes. Can you articulate those pros/cons in a way a business cares about? Can you impact your deliverables to reduced costs or (much better) increased revenue? Then you, too, can look forward to a bright future where HN tells you you’re not really an engineer anymore because your rates are too high.
I find it odd that Bittrex isn’t even mentioned as one of the potential exchanges. I’ve found them to be more stable and user-friendly than other exchanges.
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> It's not that people can't develop those skills. It's that few want to, or realize that they have to

I sort of agree, but ... we all know the people who try to get in to programming/development, but just never get it. They can try, and maybe even land a jr role some place, but it never really clicks, regardless of how long they work at it. I think the non-tech skills are like that in some measure as well.

Also, while I'm probably switching examples a bit, I'm not sure how much experience you need practicing skills like showing up on time, or answering emails (and without being rude or condescending). There may be people who need to "practice" not insulting clients' employees in emails to the same client, but I'm not sure how much practice one should need to have basic empathic ability. If you don't have some of that, how many years do you need "practicing" those skills?
You have no business being in #1 cities if you don't have monetary capital to go along your skills.

In London home prices (average) increases every year by more than average salary. If you've not bought in, you're being better off somewhere else. No point in earning $200k (gross) if $50k (net) is hoovered up by someone in rent.
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Building your careers is 99% about making contacts. You make contacts much easier when you are all there in person. Once you have a good network it is a lot easier to work remotely.

To mitigate issues the best thing is to live in a city with a good community oriented around your specialty. That way you can take part in user-groups, small conferences, etc. That is you can network in-person, outside of work. It also allows you to find local jobs where you can start in person and transition to remote.

Also focus on small to medium sized companies. Companies where you can make a visible impact and there isn't as much of the politicking as there can be at larger corps.

The worst thing is to live somewhere remote, not near jobs or a community. You don't want to get in a situation where you have no options if you need them.
>Particularly relevant to the Jeopardy contestant that buzzed in when he didn't know the answers to block others from getting the cash.

But this isn’t how Jeopardy works. If you get the question wrong, I still get the opportunity to get it right.

Can you explain this in more detail?
Just a terminus bug, on openssh there's no password requested.
The money someone is willing to pay you, is roughly what it would cost to get the job done by someone else. If you have a good relationship of always on time, etc, that's worth some extra, but they wont pay you $1000 if they know someone else will do it for $100. But if everyone charges $1000 and you only charge $100 they will think there's a catch, even if you do a much better job. So the real trick is to find a market niche that people pay a lot for. Then go do that, and charge market prices. When reading success stories, like in Indie Hackers, the best info is how much they pay for different services. If you see something that is outrageous expensive, that you could do for 100 times less, then that is probably a good market for you. For example $500 for a single balloon ...
Lower GDP generally also means infrastructure works are cheaper.

Also, the problem here mostly seems to be not money, but government. As the article states “Nobody here believes in the greater good […] There is no trust”. Short-term, how much more expensive would it be to get clean water from the rivers flowing into Jakarta, instead of from those illegal wells?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994727 and marked it off-topic.
How do employees gain credibility that management and "The Board" will listen to, or is this question a dream?
I know this isn't an answer that you will like....but blockchain allows me to invest in high risk investments that would typically only be allowed for accredited investors. Having the shares/coins in a blockchain provides for transparency and authenticity and makes legit companies act in a way that is generally favorable for the small time investor
Making the company money is the not the only factor is it? Any engineer at google/facebook/etc are probabilistically making the company multiple millions per year too (terrible estimate from revenue divided by headcount). But probably only a handful of them would ever be able to demand the rate you charge because they are replaceable.

How do you make sure the company won't just take your advice and hire a guy to do this for 90k/yr instead of letting you work on it for three weeks?
I'm surprised this comment isn't #1!
I’m mid 30s and have been working remote for the last couple years.

The company has traditional offices, but I’m one of the few employees working remote (note: that I used to work at the office)

Since relocating, I’ve been promoted several times in significant ways and genuinely feel connected and valued at the office.

A lot depends on the company / team I guess. But for me, there’s been little downside and tremendous upside.

YMMV
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I didn’t read this, but think about it: if someone knew how to arbitrage BTC, or anything, why would they share it?
You're right in theory, but that's only really a risk if it actually works, which this doesn't.

Also, if the author is interested in increasing market efficiency, but not in exposing themselves to the risk of being caught in a halfway position when an exchange breaks, it makes sense to release as FOSS. The target users would then be the exchanges themselves.
This exactly describes my position as a software consultant.

> can be anything from a written recommendation to a turn-key, green field system.

Sometimes, we are there:

- to propose a set of tools or architecture.

- to migrate legacy systems.

- as staff aug (AKA "butts in seats").

- to do green field development.

Usually, it's some combination.

> contractor with some specialized experience that somebody values more highly than software development alone.

At least in our group, we definitely distinguish ourselves as different from contractors. At our core, we can do the contract work (and often do), but we also help out with the business side of things. Basically, we are contractors who know how to interface the technical side of things with the core business.

Oftentimes, we end up at a client who knows they want to build a system to help them do a thing, but that's step 10. They might know steps 1-3, but need our help figuring out and accomplishing steps 4-7 (e.g. defining actual requirements, organizing a good dev team, etc.).

EDIT: formatting.
This is of no use for me unfortunately. I don't miss OO syntax from C at all. OO by default leads to badly architected software, as learned emprically from many projects. I'm perfectly happy with the minimal OO support that C brings - Just pass an explicit "vtable" (struct of function pointers) in the few cases where it makes sense.

Instead of OO I would like to know if we can do something about the (mostly compile performance) problem that importing external interfaces is done by including text files, and that compilation means writing intermediate results to disk.

Also there might or might not be a nice solution for better compile time code generation (just for the rare things where it's really useful, like support for type-generic value printing when debugging).

Jonathan Blow has made some really impressive advancements with his Jai language (his own language) compiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWv_vUgbmug. Compiling a game engine and a little game (50K lines of code I think) in less than a second. Whether his ideas work out well in the end or just work for himself remains to be shown, but it's very interesting to watch the video in any case.
When is it expected for the mentee to pay and how much?
This is not just global climate change but loca ecological disaster, still the same end result but they have themselves to blame.
...and jumped back moments later. How many of these we're going to get?
The nice thing about remote work is that your downside interactions are minimized also. I find it easier to vent in a room alone about some bone-headed reason why a pull request is rejected, as opposed to an office situation where people could feel slighted over just my blank facial expression.

In some cases, even when I have nothing vested in a project, I feel like people get slighted by my lack of enthusiasm. (This is true even if I am willing to accept management's decisions. A sort of "disagree and commit", if you will.)

I face none of these problems as a remote worker, and I think this is a net positive.
Sharing this wonderful two minute '80s Japanese overview of British punk for no real reason other than that I happened upon it the other day: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ryjm
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Well, probably one of the biggest factors affecting the aquifer recharge rate would be the loss of forests and mangroves.
I am a consultant and yet distinct from a contractor or a freelancer.

I am not a freelancer because I work for a larger company.

I am not a contractor because, while that is a good chunk of what I do, I provide more than just software development. Oftentimes, I end up working with clients to actually determine what they need and how to build it. Then I help build it. Contractors typically just build it.
Thoroughly second this! I've been working remote for years and having a co-working spot has been a real life saver at times, including for networking.
When I was an employee, I knew my company's clients were charged $150/hr for my work. I also knew my company was switching to offshore workers so they could pay $5/hr.

Based on my past experiences, I'm not sure making lots of money is my goal, but I have the nagging feeling that it should be possible, just because it was no secret that people will pay that.
Wait, since when does GDAX allow short-selling?
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People downvoting this are missing the point, because you're absolutely right: the problem word is not foreign capital, but foreign capital and the extreme global inequality thereof.
It’s a packaging mechanism plus runtime, right? It’s just oriented onwards container...
> Well, with self-driving cars it's the reverse

It's not, and that's why we won't see actually practical self driving cars for a while yet.
I'm based in New York City, and I've been working remotely for a company based in San Francisco for two and a half years now.

Personally, I find it's been overall a net benefit to my career, though that's not to say remote work is for everyone, or that every company is structured to provide career opportunities for people who work remotely.

I actually wrote in more detail about my experience and the things I've learned in the process which have helped make remote working work well for me. https://adityamukerjee.net/2017/10/03/remote-work-2-years-in...
I think it's a shorthand way of saying, "I travelled there, I had nice experience. I would recommend it." People tend to use various phrases they hear over and over again, becoming automatic and it loses some of its literal meaning. For example, "Good morning", should not be taken literally. In the US, I also get tired of people saying, "Hi. How are you?" It doesn't mean they want to know your true feelings, just something they say. But, I just have to ignore it, or at least not tell people how much I hate it.
Extensive discussion of the original source a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15754988
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California Proposition 13, to me, has been a ticking time-bomb of a 'youth tax' over the past forty years. As much as I respect that it serves to protect the vulnerable and elderly from heightening costs, it has unduly shifted that burden onto everyone else.

I believe todays homelessness is surely in part being caused by this untouchable stick-in-the-mud legislation.

Property tax appraisals for neighboring houses are wildly variant, some times by a factor of 20x (eg, home market value of two million or more, but taxed on a state appraised value of 100-200k). So a young person buying their first home seemingly must always pay a significantly higher annual property tax when compared with the family next-door who've kept the property family owned for a generation.
Well they explain that they mean it differently throughout the article. Sometimes its used as freedom for the little guy from existing big business interests and other times its laissez-faire economics.

I think part of the point is that "The Californian Ideology" uses bits and pieces from other political thought, and is not as classically liberal as it might appear at first glance.
Why not blame the socialism?
It certainly helps to have the whole company, or at least whole team, be remote. Then it's a matter of constantly working on process and communication to keep things working smoothly, and with as little friction due to the remote nature as possible. We've experimented with various styles of meetings, collaboration and code review, project tracking, etc., to find what helps everyone on the team to work toward common goals as effectively as possible, while all working remotely. This can mean choosing the most effective tools for the team - chat software, project tracker, etc. - as well as laying out clear processes for how those tools will be used, so everyone is on the same page. (We also like to allow complete flexibility of working hours, which brings with it other challenges that we tackle in a similar manner.)

Finally, while I don't think managing a remote team necessarily needs to be more difficult than managing one in-office, I think the effects of a poor manager are exacerbated by remote work. A poor manager may not know exactly what everyone on the team is doing, or how to motivate individual members, but s/he can at least make sure everyone is there on time and appears to be working. Obviously this is a terrible approach, but with remote work you can't even do that. It's really important to be aware of the team's priorities, and how everyone is working toward them. Also, different developers will work better with varying amounts and flavors of oversight. While this is true of in-office teams as well, it's a bit easier to manage these differences when you have in-person cues to work from. So basically, for the most part, being an effective remote manager requires essentially the same skills as being a good manager in general; they're just that much more important.
Oh, okay, thanks! Great explanation.
You get the property appreciation, potentially leveraged; and you get what might be called the "option value" of being able to move into and sell it at a moment's notice.

Weirdly, many of the foreign moneyed people know that they and/or their family may have to drop everything and leave their country of origin at any point to flee a purge, and the property is a bolthole for that possibility and a financial reserve that is hard for China to seize.
'libertarianism', is a little more broad of a term than 'gun rights' and spans from left-wing libertarianism of the Paris commune sort to right-wing libertarianism in conservative regions of the US.

The author is talking about a form of libertarianism that emerged out of a mix of cultures. Combining an anti-statist attitude with progressive social values out of the hippie movement and the counter-culture, fused together with arch-conservative capitalism.
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This is a very weird view on inflation, given how hard central banks have fought to bring it down to manageable levels.
I can't imagine how much work it would be to sift through all the other "ideas people" who need an app next week and then they'll pay you once the cash starts rolling in.
As a strong proponent of functional languages, I would have to agree these are some good criticisms. FP solves many problems it cannot solve is code readability. Readability will always be a problem no matter what paradigm you work in. This is why I both appreciated and disliked this article. It brings up many valid points about how FP can be (and is often) written illegibly. But on the flip side, don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Just make the functional code more readable.

> Write stupid code

Also really agree with this. As engineers our job is not just to write something that works, it's to write something that can also be read and understood by others. This is why simple solutions to problems are praised over complex solutions.
Honestly I think the answer to your question is: giant fail by the tech community, because to my knowledge there isn’t anything actually comparable, free or paid.
Land of opportunity, eh? I bet there are plenty of people arguing that if you ever want to make decent money you have to be in the #1 cities.
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That's how china has been ruled for thousands of years.

You can't directly implant process X from culture A to culture B. The checks and balances and social norms between different cultures are different. You can implant an industrial process, if you educate a workforce, i.e. transform culture B to A onsite. Changing the culture of an entire civilization is considerably more difficult.

That's not to say I don't like democracy or markets. But a country does not become a western democracy by having an election an privatizing everything.

Labeling china as bad guys trivializes several aspects of differences between cultures. I'm not sure there are any good guys in global politics, so I'm not sure how the labels good or bad should be applied.
Similarly, during the late 1990s, people tried to make an internet version of EVERYTHING, even when it made zero sense. That’s where we are with blockchain today.
You’ve lost your mind if you really believe inflation has only been roughly 2% the last decade.
>Last few months I've been building digital musical instruments

Ha ha, that's a fun area. I had written this Python "piano" app for PCs a while ago; it's simple, but the comments on it about Western classical music theory (which I am a newb at) were interesting:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/04/play-piano-on-your-comput...

Edit: In fact, I had first written a BASIC version of this same program on my first personal computer, an IBM PC Jr., which I wrote about here:

Lissajous hippo, retrocomputing and the IBM PC Jr.:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/09/lissajous-hippo.html