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95% remote for 5 years now and enjoying it. I agree with all of your points and have some to add:

* Create a really pleasant and tidy work space for yourself. My work life improved considerably when I did: http://ma.rtijn.org/2016/01/03/standing-desk.html

* Be among people. This is part of 2. but worth pointing out. I work at a co-working space 2 days a week, and at cafes some mornings. I don't care that I don't actually interact much with folks there. Being among humans is enough to break the isolation.

* Take care of your body. Don't do any work before you have given yourself time to wake up, shower, get dressed, have breakfast. Set a timer to go for a walk around the block. Have a glass of water on your desk at all times. Eat healthy. These things apply to all desk workers, I just feel it's even more important being remote.

* Start the day checking in with a colleague. Doesn't need to be about a work problem or question. Just see how folks are doing at HQ, anything special going on? Just having a laid back conversation with a colleague before you head into the day helps start me off with a positive, social attitude.

* Build confidence that not being always-on is okay as long as you deliver. Work on trying not to read too much into the phrasing of chats / emails.

* Insist on good practice in meetings. It's very easy to ignore someone not in the room. If you can, have them project your video on a screen so you're "there". Remind people to speak up and to point a camera at whiteboards etc.

I'm probably forgetting a bunch of things. Good topic for a blog post that focuses less on the drawbacks and more on recipes to make remote work a joy. Any links folks can recommend?
This methodology would completely miss the point of the 538 story, which was to report on access.
Off topic, but can you recommend any resources for getting into the subject of AdS/CFT correspondence? I’m loosely familiar with it, but I’d love more depth. Thanks for any links or hints!
I did not :) good catch!
For me, #3 was key because when you start deviating from the 9-5 it's easy to work a few hours later into the night to finish up the task before all the working memory is lost to sleep. This inevitably causes adverse sleeping patterns which can cause all sorts of malaise
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stop providing care for "self-inflicted" injuries?

It’s a question that won’t go away. In the UK the NHS spends £11Bn of its £125Bn annual budget on Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes UK reckon that 80% of cases of this condition are caused by or could be resolved by lifestyle choices. NHS underfunding could be fixed in, not overnight, but in a few months surely if those choices were made... and everyone knows it.
The money supply isn't the currency's value. Of course it is a factor in what traders are willing to pay to acquire it...but weather can be as well. Do you conflate the trade balance with the value of a currency too?

Market cap is money supply * last trade price. It mathematically can't be analog to money supply, any more than density can be analog to mass.
Funny to read this here, where emojis are actively filtered out. I like them, I don’t get the curmudgeonly stance towards them which is seemingly shared by, well... a certain sort of person.
Is smoking an addiction? Is it a mental health issue?

How about overeating (thus obsesity)?

I ask because right now the UK's NHS severely limits access to healthcare for smokers and the obese.

I think the more realistic distinction between anorexia/bulimia on the one hand, and smoking/obesity on the other -if there is a distinction in NHS's "mind"- it's that the former are more sympathetic. But I dunno, I'm just guessing. I have no idea what the mandarins at NHS and similar are thinking, or, rather, will think when their resources become even more constrained than they are now. That is, I suspect they (NHS) make choices about whose healthcare to restrict... entirely on the basis of a) scarcity / need to ration, b) how sympathetic a particular target group is. How else would they (NHS) make such choices anyways? how else could they make them even remotely palatable to the polity?
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Is it horribly broken because it is completely overwhelmed? Also, we're talking about US Govt. employees here...
We usually have one main meal, and another that is lighter and more like a snack.

If you have the main meal in the middle of the day then it is called "dinner". The snack you have at the end of the afternoon is "tea".

If you have the main meal at the end of the afternoon it is "dinner". The snack you eat in the middle of the day is "lunch".

The difference probably depends on if you go home for a meal at mid-day or not. The later is probably more traditional as people used to work or study much closer to home. And there was somebody around during the day to prepare a meal. But nowadays going home for a main meal in the middle of the day is unusual so we all just have a small snack.
Yes, I get that blockchain transactions are not reversible (excluding threat of force/imprisonment).

But I think you may not have fully investigated your assumptions about what makes a bank TBTF and what it means to be "bailed out."
The number zero rule in security is that if a malicious adversary has physical access to your device, all bets are off.
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> "toward the lake" means "north"

Fascinating! Lake Nicaragua (which is what I'd naively assume a person in Nicaragua would mean by "The Lake") is in the south of the country, so that's really unintuitive.

Edit: OH, I see this is in Managua, which lies on the southern border of a different lake. I guess it's like New Yorkers using "downtown" to mean "south" (or rather, southwest)
Interesting enough, in Armenian tea is pronounced as 'tey' and Armenia is surrounded by countries where tea is pronounced as "chay" - Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran.
That's fine. But you need to use the site as intended. That means remaining scrupulously respectful of others, not using the site for flamewar or ideological battle, and the other things at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I've read my take of shit ones. Most of the time, the writer hasn't bothered to think about it past the initial idea and needs the developer to help them understand what they want. That's not the developer's job.
W3W is proprietary, has commercial aims (you can purchase short-codes), cannot be used offline, is completely dependent on the provider, and a simple transposition of words will result in somewhere completely different.

Simply using lat/lng or one of these deterministic systems (geohash, plus.codes, etc) is a far superior option for something to be adopted globally.
I agree that it's possible but at a price. I could be wrong but I think it costs about 50k USD for 3 IVF attempts (marketed at buy 2 get 1 FREE) in the SF Bay Area. Monetary cost isnt the biggest issue either; it's not entirely safe. Anecdotal - I know someone who developed major thyroid issues after 3 IVF attempts.
this usage of 'dear' seems passive-aggressive.

why is it okay to demand a game designer to not design as they wish? in comparison, is it okay to demand that musicians not compose the music as they wish?
> As long as people bought bitcoin and ethereum, they probably will end up positive.

This isn't possible - the bitcoin market is literally a zero-sum game. One person's gain can only come from another's loss.
I agree. There are some types of illness you can't treat yourself: those should be prioritized. This may sound a little callous: but all she had to do was listen to her body and eat more. And, unlike many illnesses, she knew what the problem was and she knew what the solution was.
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They rise and fall mostly with Bitcoin, Ethereum has shown recently to be more independent, but the biggest drops are usually spurred by panic about crypto regulation.

Regarding 2018, I'm your fool...here are my predictions:

Bitcoin will remain top market cap and crypto numeraire. Majority of the newest projects like IOTA, Tron, etc. will be down significantly.

Burned by vaporware projects, investors will become more cautious about "new" ICOs and enormous token issuances. None will rise as quickly as TRON, EOS, and others did.

Ethereum will remain #2 but at least once will have had a great run against Bitcoin, hitting 80% of bitcoins market cap.

Overall crypto market cap will rise 200%-300%.

Ethereum will continue to have most transactions, enterprise, and developer support. Could change in 2019 and beyond, but has a huge lead right now.

Ripple will crash further, but the platform will gain real world usage.

BAT will rise and support becoming common on enthusiast sites, like tipjar services.

Most of the smart contract chains in development will make no real progress, but I expect at least one "ethereum killer" to become a reasonable alternative.

Disclosure: I own Ethereum and Bitcoin, would buy some others but maxed out on my crypto exposure.
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I would draw the line at "really want to". An argument could be made that only rich people should have children and that would be fascist in the other direction.
I've heard two theories about capped upload bandwith: making possible to upsell premium hosting services and P2P damage control.
To the extent that either is a problem, the solution is market-pricing water. High water use farms will move out of drought prone regions for basic economic reasons.
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Thanks.

To be honest, I am way too invested already to not finish this thing, despite whatever response I get from posts like this. Sometimes I do get curious though. A surprising number of people I've asked in person simply are not interested in saving things from the internet. I guess if all you are into is watching Snapchat and Instagram all day, why would you?

This makes me think I need to tap into the larger business-type market and has me looking into what it would take to implement a permissions system for teams/multi-user editing of notes/etc.
why are the expected 'to communicate'?
I doubt it is possible to be done on JavaScript. Timing cache access is a challenging task for such high level language. The key to the attack is to figure out latency of memory access.

A JavaScript app that is dealing with 100 layers of intermediate code before it actually gets to the physical memory could not see a difference between reading from actual memory or from cache. It is too slow to notice any change. Should be a pure assembler code to reliably estimate the effect of caching.
If you do what Jesus said to do, doesn't that make you a follower or a student of his teachings? (the greek word for student is often translated as disciple)

I find it interest that just claiming a title is meaningless if you don't follow the rules associated with that title. But if you follow the rules and don't claim the title, what does that mean?
If that's your definition, I could say that my Bitcoin is backed by mathematics and proof of work because "violating" the rules (by taking my coins without my consent) requires either guessing my secret key or mounting a 51% attack on the whole network
We are 7 billions people, it's actually a good thing that people have less children. 7 billions people who want a house, a car, a job, that eat meat, that travel and so: it's not sustainable.
Overall they do such a good job of that. They seem to really value self-improvement and reflection. Its part of what keeps me as a regular reader. One editor even does a yearly public review of the work he did that year, what he did wrong, and how he plans on improving it.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/mea-culpa/
> The USD is pretty decentralized already.

The decentralized aspect of using dollars in cash form(!), is something I would rather call permissionless. And that is exactly what Bitcoin set out to approximate for the Internet age.

(Indeed the "cash" reference in the whitepaper title refers to fungibility and permissionlessness, not tangibility or pictures of old presidents. This idea is much older than Bitcoin.)
The airlines miles were just an example. There was much more.
Oh, I definitely care. I'd prefer at least some of them have biological kids, but the odds of that are good with my buckshot approach.

I think mine is actually the simpler explanation, and yours is reaching a bit. We're surrounded by vicious competition for genetic reproduction, I don't know why humans would be the exception.

And I don't want a clone, I want to pick a partner with all kinds of good genes to bring to the mix and toss them together, which I did. A partner I'm attracted to in part because of a lot of cues she gives me indicating her genes.

I think when you've had the pride of a son or daughter who is the spitting image of you, or walks just like you, or is noticeably muscular in the places you are, it's hard to deny exactly where that is coming from..
Where does your 20L/day figure for a single grown plant come from? That sounds absurdly high, given the size of a grown plant. I admit I have no domain knowledge, so I'm prepared to be wrong (and surprised). But I'd like a citation or some kind of source for that order of magnitude.
Right, only applicable in Managua! But Managua is the largest population centre, so that covers a large percentage of the locals.
Dogecoin is kinda like a control/placebo for real cryptocoins. And the fact that it exploded without providing real distinct utility apart from existing coins is an indication that something is indeed wrong.
Please don't: (1) troll HN by making veiled references to outrageous things; (2) post unsubstantive comments, such as ones that go on about how you do or don't like to comment and how other people fail to appreciate this; (3) use HN for political or ideological battle, or for flamewars.

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I've been doing Node.js, Postgres, Redis, React.js, Angular, Ruby, Python and pretty much anything that else that I've wanted to do on Windows for over a decade.

IMO and in my experience, if you can't be happy with Windows and make it work for you then you're probably too picky and/or biased.
«Once the cryptocurrency price bubble pops and takes all the hype with it, will the community be able to recover the energy it needs to build real, innovative technology once again?»

Of course it will recover. Blockchain technologies are so transformational that you need a lot more than a simple price crash to kill cryptocurrencies. Of all persons, the creator of a cryptocurrency (even a joke one) should understand this. In fact, people always seem to forget that Bitcoin (actually the crypto market at large) has already experienced 4-5 major crashes in the last 8 years where prices lost between 50% or 95%(!), sometimes remaining depressed for months, but the market has always recovered.
I would be interested in reading about men's reactions later on after having had vasectomies. That's something I've never seen discussed.
Mostly I think its just exhaustion and desensitization.

I spent a year in a child unit. Pretty much anything you do can be labeled as non-compliance. Staff got very callous out of necessity. Sometimes there were 20+ restraints in a day and once someone has spent hours restraining screaming/violent/suicidal kids, they don't have any patience or sympathy for someone crying in the corner.

And basically anything you do can be labelled as non-compliance. I remember a nurse waking me up in the middle of the night to ask me to look at some paperwork. When I got pissed off (as anyone would) she put in the handover that I was being non-compliant.

It's shitty but it seems to be a common attitude. Her experience isn't particularly extreme.
You want something that is intrinsically expensive (a large home in a high-density urban area) to be cheap, which is understandable if not very realistic. It is not because of greedy developers, or bad zoning, it is because of simple market forces. Tiny condos don't sell and in the suburbs and big SFHs are too expensive in the city for most people. Everybody trades off a variety of concerns when choosing where to live, but pretending that if only you were in charge then everything would be better is just silly totalitarianism.
Marketing trying to be "bro"?
FYI: A gigabit comcast connection is commonly only half that advertised speed. Upload speed included with their gigabit plan is 40mbit. 40mbit. And the upload is always 40mbit in my tests.
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We're mostly in agreement. By "fuck it" I meant "fuck it" to having kids, not towards contributing to the greater community. Anecdotally the "get a dog"/DINK married couples I know are probably the most active in community building, local political and social issues, helping out the underprivileged in their area... all that good stuff.
I think Intel can take the same approach as AMD for some of the issues. For this remaining issue, I think there might be solutions with minimal performance impact when you are doing a full chip redesign. For example, have a separate branch prediction hardware for privileged code execution? An additional cache area for speculated reads?
And how are you determining the correct number of people and on what criteria? Or do we take your word for it?
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I get a downvote for speaking the truth? Someone from the Kraken dev team I assume.

Feel free to explain to me how the current result from http://kraken.com/ is at all even remotely professional.
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There were only half as many people in the world when I was born!
I think it's because they know what to expect, so there's less fear of the unknown. They already know what to look out for, and they already know people inside.

Plus, life for an ex-con is pretty hard on the outside.
No I don't think we should deny treatment to anyone; I wasn't advocating for that.

The question is more, is there a theoretical end to care when the patient has failed to respond to treatment? Is there a point at which we prioritise those resources for someone else who is also in need?
Just a couple years ago they were worth 10% more. Then oil tanked.
Do you eat uncooked meat? Wash your vegetables.
The problems here are only first-world due to the number of zeros at the end of the dollar-amounts.

Many other estates with independent administrators and much less value end up similarly screwed up, but don't end up with eye-popping verdicts because no one has enough money left to fight the administrator.

It just so happens that these folks did. It is a total shame that it takes this much money to fight, but one can hope that this big of a verdict makes some of the smaller fish rethink their strategies.

One can hope, anyway.
Don't be silly. We've already seen multiple examples of stolen coins with no recourse -- exchanges taking the money and going bankrupt, people issuing new coins and then just taking the money, etc.

And I don't have to guess your secret key -- I just have to steal your computer. Even if I get caught stealing your computer and have to give it back, if I've already compromised your wallet and moved the coins, there is nothing you can do to get them back.
They did come to exist for a reason: geography. Primarily, they served as a way to deposit money in one physical location and withdraw it at a different one at a different time. In the modern era, more and more of the economy as a whole flows through these institutions who do nothing more than shuffle numbers down a network link - and yet they charge a percentage cut of the transaction. It costs no more to transmit a larger number, yet they see fit to take more and more depending upon its size. Payment processors are taxing bodies. Mostly unregulated and entirely non-governmental bodies that have as much, if not more, control over the supply of money in the economy than the Federal Reserve.

If the Federal Reserve sought to increase the supply of money in the economy, but the payment processors disagreed, who would (or even could) stop them from raising their rates for payment processing to directly counteract the actions of the Fed? No one. They could do it, and they will do it eventually. How anyone could be comfortable with middlemen who provide nothing of significant value sitting in on almost every single transaction which occurs in the entire economy and skimming off the top I have no idea.
It's especially good for the people who do have children to convince others not to.
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Obviously. This is Econ 101.
By « the world » I guess they mean « English »
Search for the same phrase? There are plenty.

Also, I don't need a smoking gun because I'm not bringing anybody into a court for trial.
Portuguese went to India for the tea? That doesn't sound right at all. Who was importing large quantities of tea to Europe before then? They went there to take the valuable spice trade.

Tea was imported by the Portuguese from China and became popular in Europe after that. The British then started producing tea massively in India to obtain it at a lower price.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tea

"The history of tea is long and complex, spreading across multiple cultures over the span of thousands of years. Tea likely originated in southwest China during the Shang dynasty as a medicinal drink.[1] An early credible record of tea drinking dates to the 3rd century AD, in a medical text written by Hua Tuo.[2] Tea was first introduced to Portuguese priests and merchants in China during the 16th century.[3] Drinking tea became popular in Britain during the 17th century. The British introduced tea production, as well as tea consumption, to India, in order to compete with the China monopoly on tea.[4]"
The people who invested in CDOs SHOULD get screwed.

The rest of us who weren't stupid enough to do that shouldn't be forced to cover their losses.

That's the point.
> The sort of activity which led to the financial crisis would not be mitigated by the establishment of a decentralized currency.

It actually would deal with the issue that led to the GFC.

Remember --- the problem wasn't that there were fraudulent mortgages -- it is that these mortgages were packaged and repackaged in ways that deliberately obscured the risk involved so that people were buying stuff that had no underlying value. The lack of transparency is what encouraged the fraud and created the incentives for it, which is why the behaviour only stopped when there was a 65% fall in the value of pretty much all mortgage-backed-securities.

A mortgage CDO built on something like Ethereum would be programmatically transparent and anyone could look in real-time to see the value of their tranche. It would be trivial to distinguish between good and bad investments. And while there's still the potential for people to purchase things that do not have value, it becomes pretty much impossible for 2008 to happen again in a financial system run on crypto fintech -- intermediaries in the financial system would simply not be able to deliberately obscure transparency into which assets were owned and covered by which securities: if you wanted to check repayment rates you could script something to do the work in real-time by simply monitoring the blockchain.