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He didn't really care about money personally, or at least not the material things money can buy. At least that's the image he worked very hard to portray by driving an old Volvo, living in a modest house and wearing clothes bought in a second hand store etc. He obviously cared a lot about his companies making as much money as possible. Although if you asked him he'd probably say that all that tax avoidance was just him being frugal.
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Yes, things are improving on a global scale, but that doesn't mean that the sense of unease within the United States is baseless. Quality of life for the lower and lower-middle classes has been declining, particularly in rural areas. Medical, educational, and housing costs have been increasing far faster than inflation. Social media combined with legalized bribery and gerrymandering threaten or have destroyed our democracy, with social media in particular amplifying everyone's us-vs-them mentality to the point that everyone feels persecuted. Anxiety, depression, and suicide rates are up. Economic growth is mostly limited to a handful of large cities with high costs of living that complain of labor shortages, yet more affordable rural areas continue to suffer from work shortages.

Global growth and improvement is great, but if pockets of instability don't get addressed and corrected, those trends may change.
This is why my respect for Bill Gates has gone up so much over the years.

It’s cool when folks like Warren Buffett pledge to give away their personal fortunes when they die. However, his personal sacrifice is actually quite small, as he only gives it up when forced to by death.

Bill Gates, on the other hand has two valuable resources to offer and he is actively giving away both right now: 1) much of his vast fortune, 2) his time, expertise, and influence to champion causes for the greater good.
Apropos Getty, my understanding is that the gentleman cared about fine furniture and classical (Roman) sculpture, which were housed (along with some paintings, namely a Corot) in the original Getty Museum.

This museum was a fine replica of a Pompeian villa (complete with herbs garden patch) in Malibu, and according to the deal with the upscale neighborhood, you either showed up with a bus ticket or made an appointment for parking in the premises. One day last century they were kind to a foreigner who showed up early but unannounced with his family, having just seen a small sign in the road.
> btw VMWare employees: your PKS blog and cloud blog say this is happening mid december 2017... status update, maybe?...

I'm at Pivotal, we're working on it with VMware and Google. If you want to kick some of the tires, start playing with CFCR, because that's a major piece of PKS.
Ouch. This wasn't unexpected, but as much as I'd like to revel in schadenfreude here, I can't do it in good conscience because this is going to hurt a lot of good people who were naive and got caught up in the hype.

I remember seeing the news circulating in the Canadian media about the couple of spent their life savings on Bitcoin mining ASICs [1]. Even though they'd should've been way more cautious, I don't enjoy seeing people potentially get wiped out.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bitcoin-mine-canada-1.443614...
Ah, did not know that. All tho' I do bet Facebook will do everything they can do clickbait you into making a Facebook account once you already have Messenger as well.
You're not wrong - there are a lot of crappy contractor teams out there working for the government... just like in the private sector.

But I've never seen a gov. contractor purposefully add analytics code.

It's far more likely that one of those free frameworks, ui-kits, or fonts, benevolently provided by one of the privacy-invading Silicon Valley behemoths, ended up in the code base.

Anyway, there's a good reason that the government doesn't hire their own developers. Hiring a GS14 (at least), who writes code all day, is going to end up being far more expensive than a contractor after paying the lavish benefits, pensions, etc. which federal employees receive.

Furthermore, most government projects are only a few years long. The government uses contractors because they can get rid of the dev teams when they're finished with the project. Can't do that with gov workers.

Every decade or so, there is a push to use less contracts and hire more in-house Federal workers. And then the payrolls become bloated, and the next administration goes back to less feds, more contractors.
Can someone explain why this (can't stop those puns) is a big deal?

1. I mean why hasn't it existed before? Surely an editor can figure out which object you're in and auto-complete this on the basis of that.

2. If it is hard for some reason, how did they do it?
Initially I though it was done via an Ajax request from that picture that was posted on twitter.

However this is much more sophisticated and quite clever.
[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bitcoin-mine-canada-1.443614...
He didn't care for the lifestyle that money can bring. He was living in a nondescript suburban house near Lausanne and kept his old car for 20 years. Much like Warren Buffet, he was one of these self-made fortunes for whom money is a way to keep tally.
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I don't think Result would be seen as an acceptable replacement for exceptions without the macro/special construct. But I should've been clearer.
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How very convenient; that way, nobody will have to pay taxes.
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I surely have a raw volume problem because "cannot force yourself to push the send button fast enough". The main reason is I'm not sure I have an attractive offer as I'm asking strangers for help without really offering anything. And that feels weird.

> There are ways to position "talk to insiders to figure out how I could help them" that are attractive to the insider and ways that are less attractive.

Could you tell more about those attractive ways? I struggle with that.
If you consider that the cereals are made of wheat and corn that with traces of pesticides, sugar, synthetic ingredients, and so on, all of which cause health problems, the cardboard box starts to seem more appealing.
Thanks! I added it, but I wouldn't have realized it was missing if you hadn't posted this.
Heh that's a pretty cool use of technology!

The best use of Google Cardboard I found was doing exactly this: Using Street View to "visit" new places.

Related: I wonder if exposure therapy is an avenue anyone's looking at with VR/AR - it seems like a (relatively) cheap way to do it.
In Austria all the driving schools I've seen so far have their own branded cars. I'm pretty sure I also took the test in one of the driving school's cars, since they had their own test course right next to the school, and it was all paid in one package (theoretical and driving lessons, written and practical test).
I guess you have to pick your battles. Either do it manually and not worry about a big bill or do it automatically and accept you might get a big bill. How much is the convenience worth?
Haha, you're welcome! It was fun adding someone else's footnote :)
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I think in the name of decency the headline should reflect that this is about butane-powered novelty toy, not a defence contract.
fees have been as low as 0.5$ for a couple of weeks now
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What is the current mining profitability threshold for BTC?
Left fb about 2 years ago.

- Gained a few hours everyday.
- Gained a solid amount of battery time on my phone.
- Increased my happiness as I dont have to look at all the hyped up, over advertised, 'Look, my life is a bed of roses' posts from everyone.
- Better focussed on my own life.
It depends where you live ;)
Oh nice, if he thought he could use the money better, then sure, please carry on not paying taxes. Can I do the same? Or is that a privilege reserved for the mega-rich?

Or let's call a spade a spade, and let's call tax evasion tax evasion.
What's interesting to me about this dip/pop is that the money isn't rushing into Tether (USDT). Normally in a dip people sell for USDT, which drives up the price of USDT over $1.

But right now Tether is at $0.97. It seems that the money is flowing back into fiat (as there's no other obvious place for it to be going).

Perhaps people have finally figured out what a scam Tether is.
Thanks for your answers, I appreciate it. And same to the others who answered my original question!

> I do have a side business building custom electronics, but I think I still qualify as hobbyist :-)

Taking this even further off-topic, could you elaborate a little? What kind of stuff are you doing? I imagine there is a niche for one-off or small batch stuff, but OTOH on aliexpress (or whatever) you can find almost every electronic gimmick you can imagine (and plenty you couldn't imagine!) for ridiculously low prices.
The graph may still have gone up during 2017, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about the derivative.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/38482/was-the-s...
Nevermind the global warming
In the context of the article, I'm pretty sure this relates to nutritional value for ducks, not humans. Birds and people can eat a lot of the same food but our metabolisms are optimized very differently. I read one article that compared raising horses on a diet of corn to raising children on a diet of chocolate. After all, horses' metabolisms are optimized for extracting nutrition from grass. I would imagine ducks are on the opposite end of the spectrum.
Because of growth difference is why you see a difference in P/E between Google and Apple.

iPhone unit sales actually declined for Apple YoY.
I think it has valid points about over rationalization and getting too far over our skis on very tentative experimental results but the idea that it was pushing that science had no place in cooking is ridiculous.
I was about to suggest the use of a sextant for this. As far as I know, navigators are still trained to operate them in this day. Of course, the same operational principle can be integrated into a dedicated device.
Interesting considering humanity strives for 100% and is nearing an all time high in technological capabilities.
It's actually a great time to buy in. We've seen way worse than this in the past, and we have always recovered. I have buy orders at $6500.
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Have an upvote.

You are correct, but even banks and brokerages have limits (AFAIK) that they can invoke as needed.

Those soft-caps are significantly above $10k/daily, however.

My main point was with Coinbase you can do the required prework to request the higher daily limits and receive similar service, but you need to think about it in advance vs. having it automatically in place.
Buffett doesn't exactly spend it now (he's got famously cheap tastes). He's also giving much of it away while still alive: $3bn more in Berkshire Hathaway shares to the Gates Foundation last year. Forbes claims that's 40% of his BH holdings given away so far. http://fortune.com/2017/07/10/warren-buffett-donates-gates-f...
RefControl is a great add-on, but it isn't compatible with the new Firefox Quantum (57+). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/
The average non-technical person doesn't understand bitcoin. I mean they don't understand exactly what problems it solves and how. More importantly most people don't understand it's limitations. This makes it hard to determine what the market value of a bitcoin should be.

My social media feeds were filled with amateur Bitcoin speculators and even hucksters trying to sell crypto based investment strategies. That told me everything I needed to know about the Bitcoin bubble.
Sold my Facebook stock and stopped using it for anything but the messenger app on my phone three months ago.
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Evidence is evidence and until it's found, we don't really know much.

That said... ancestors of Polynesians, melanesians and Micronesians were navigating to remote islands 2-3kya. They found nearly all of them, essentially surveying the entire Pacific. Their wider language group ranges from Indonesia to Easter island, Hawaii & Madagascar!

That is evidence of feats that "western civilization" did not master until the 1700s, in Darwin or Cook's days using industrial era technology.

I think it's very likely that ancient voyages contacted south America, Australia & Africa & asia at least to some degree.

Doesn't say much about the particulars, but ancient long distance ocean travel happened. Eric the red is (now almost certainly) real. This suggests (imo) the stories of the St Brendan voyage west and North American voyages to Europe are totally plausible.

Even Plato's Atlantis (10kya) is back on the table, especially considering the finds we now have from these very early periods.
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As a kid I enjoyed the Rubik snake which I could contort into interesting patterns. My brother who was a few years older had a few other cubes, such as some with many more angled faces etc.

As for cooperative invention, it would seem that humans are not as unique as we think we are. In exactly the same way we have doppelgangers that look like we do, we also have people that overlap with us in behaviour, personality and ideas. Side by side invention is just one facet of that.
Oh yeah the US is a lost case.
The difference is ads is a business model versus a product.

So say a TV channel only had one popular that would be a concentration.

Google not only has search but also has YouTube and I would guess others also contributing.
> However, the keyword here is "best effort". That is, it is in practice really hard to consistently bring a system from a random state to a given state X, because of the randomness of your starting state.

This is the logic that BOSH follows. Why try to converge to a desired state if you can just recreate it from a known-good state?

Why do you care about grooming individual servers when your goal is a distributed system?

Configuration management tools make the classical sysadmin's life much easier. "I have a small group of giant expensive machines to run". The constant struggle of impinging chaos on the systems that Must Not Stop Ever.
The value depends on how you call the function at runtime which requires much deeper code analysis than something like syntax highlighting.
The Swedish flags predates the Swedish welfare state by several hundred years (and IKEA predates it by a couple of decades).
Now I'm writing this comment on a website hosted in the US, about a article from a US newspaper, to a person who probably live in the US. And I'm not from the US.

But I think the point of the article is to point out: sure, the US is getting worse and worse (maybe) but you can't just throw up your hands in the air and say "the world is going to shit!" as the world isn't going to shit. Most of the world is improving, but it's hard for the US media to present that view (maybe because good news doesn't sell? I don't know). The author points out that news focuses on bad news, and in the US, probably on US news. But there are other places in this world too.

I frequently see people from the US claim that the world improvements will end, because the US is getting worse.

But the good news is, the world is in fact getting better, even though the US might not be improving a lot currently.

> Global growth and improvement is great, but if pockets of instability [in the US] don't get addressed and corrected, those trends may change.

I've added the text in the brackets. If I understand your message correct, you're saying that if for example housing costs in the US doesn't improve, global growth and improvement might slow down? I'm sorry but that seems small-sighted and exactly what I'm writing about above.

Edit: fun thing to do, search for "world worse" on Twitter or social media of your choice, and see how many people are writing about how the world/everything is getting worse, on a article about something US specific that won't impact anything outside the US borders.
If you think there's a good reason for the future to look like the past then you are absolutely right.
It seems like it is roughly equivalent to a company releasing their software as open source when they go out of business -- it acknowledges that the profit was simply not there to sustain the company, but makes it possible (not necessarily likely) that the idea can still be sustained without profit.

I really like it.
I've taken to checking FB a few times per week, spanning less than maybe ten minutes. It's not quite worthless, it's a notch just above that. I find I can catch up with the posts that are valuable extremely quickly.

I abandoned Reddit entirely, in the lead up to the election. I was a daily reader/contributor there for years. It got so disgusting on all sides I couldn't stand to be around it. Politics seemed to invade everything.

HN is the only community I still read daily. I credit the fairly strict and consistent moderation here, and the effort to stay very close to its foundational premise.
> that doesn't mean that the sense of unease within the United States is baseless

Nothing prevents from moving to a different country. Just like the immigrants fled the UK in the first place for various reasons.
It seems to be the case, like clockwork.
Bitcoin affects global welfare in three ways:

1) Positive sum: facilitate buying goods and services

2) Zero sum: move money from later to earlier adopters

3) Negative sum: warm up the planet

Right now (3) is destroying much more value than (1) is creating. Moreover, all trends show that (1) is falling and (3) is rising. So it would be better for mankind if Bitcoin didn't exist. Regulation is probably the best way to achieve that.
Forgive my ignorance but that makes no sense to me. Things were good when they were good. But Bitcoin has proven to be incredibly unstable. I want my currency to be consistent. My understanding is that currencies like the USD have a central authority that pulls levers and knobs in attempt to make its value consistent across time. What mechanics exist within Bitcoin to do this?
Please cut the ’avoidance, not evasion’ bullshit. This scheme is outright evasion, legalized by lobbying in Brussels against national law. You know that otherwise you wouldn’t care to point out this nuisance.
Do you have any evidence to back up that claim? All of the data I've seen suggests that the average fees are still $8-10.
Ah, this so much.

I don't care about bandwidth unless on mobile (where all the advertisement makes usual browsing semi-unusable experience even with uBlock origin).

But - when I look for something, I go for series of reviews in well-known webs, forums, then amazon reviews, then product tech specs pages from manufacturer till I +-understand the domain. Did you notice anything ad-supported in my list? No, it's not there. In fact, if I see a lot of adverts on the product in that category, it tells me company probably spends tons on marketing, which inevitably means product is subpar than similarly priced, less advertised products. And opinions of many users aggregated mean so much more to me than some more or less intrusive adverts.

I went recently through experience of figuring out some used hi-fi components to have some cheapish hi-fi setup (never ever done it before). Luckily this is niche market, so no bad advertising experience (which is a rare experience). Proper companies like B&W or Marantz don't need any advertising, community knows who's who and how good the products are.

But this ain't something advertising people want to hear, and maybe it doesn't represent general population's mindset and behavior.
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I hope so. The sooner the general narrative shifts from “USDT is a valuable hedge in a down market” to “USDT’s structure doesn’t make a lot of sense, and it’s risky to use” the better.

If it’s going to implode, I’d prefer it happened now, rather than to have the crypto asset markets reach a point of consolidation and rebound, only to be clobbered again when USDT issues inevitably arise.
From the article:

"I'm not planning on taking money out on a daily basis to live off of — I have a job for that," Ingram said. "This is for the long term. It's basically taking all of my savings so far and putting it towards it. It is a little risky, but I'm young."

Sounds like he knows what he is doing, so I am confident he will be fine.
It’s been a great time to buy every day since the market peaked, according to experts.
There will definitely be such a case in the EU, that GDPR has some pretty impressive fangs and either a healthcare provider, an ISP or an insurance company is going to make an excellent example.

Coming to a courtroom somewhere in Europe in 2019.
I presume there is a very large proportion of years in the history of humanity which were record best, so not sure how newsworthy this is.
All well and good, except the Rig Vedic people no longer exist today, nor do their civilisation or thought. Only we do. We need to move forward not look back in nostalgia. It is the same as modern Westerners looking back on ancient Greeks and Romans. There's not a whole lot of good all of this is going to do to the present and future except in so far as there are valuable lessons to be learned.

WE must not make the mistake of being proud of ancient people. We are as far removed from them as the big bang. We should be careful not to identify too closely with imperfect knowledge and scraps of evidence that we have.
I say this as a loyal and very happy Stripe user: I'm not sure you can describe a bunch of JavaScript widgets as bare metal.
I've done several transactions over the last week for less than 10 sat/byte, usually less than $0.25

See https://bitcoinfees.earn.com for what it looks like now

Unfortunately lots of wallets/presets are still recommending the higher fees from when traffic was higher.
A minor question/quibble with the article: it states "The first hominins to leave Africa — whoever they were — carried with them oval- and pear-shaped hand axes used to pound and scrape food — a technology called Acheulean"

I thought that Oldowan[1] technology was older than Acheulean, and had spread across both Africa and Eurasia before the appearance of Acheulean tech.

Regardless, the Levallois technique is considered to be much newer than Acheulean tech, so it's still an interesting find.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan
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I really believe these will be considered great days. Ignore the political hyperbole, see the actual good being done.
> Rig Vedic people

What exactly do you mean by that?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, so I'll answer as though you're sincere.

Yes. Those classes are literally in the Constitution of the United States. They are: race, religion, and sex. These are the basic federal protections that apply to all states.

There are statutory federal protections for people with disabilities (Americans with Disabilities Act being the most important), as well as to prevent discrimination based on age in some contexts.

Some states have chosen to add additional protections, e.g. sexual orientation and sexual identity.

Regardless of where the protections come from, they are spelled out in black and white in documents available for anyone to read for free.
How long did you have to wait for confirmation?
Previous drops of Bitcoin price were pretty random. Current drop is fueled by events such as governments passing, or at least considering, regulations that would make Bitcoin illegal. That's why this time it won't be so easy to bounce back.
What if these pulsars are their 'GPS satellites'?
Thank you. I came here to make a Hawkwind reference and I'm pleased to see someone beat me to it :)