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I think I have reached a critical point in my career where I have to choose whether I work to live or live to work. I prefer the prior, so I will be going that route.
I'll be resigning on Wednesday.
15g a day is a truly insane amount, i'm shocked the person mentioned didn't die... I've known 1/2 a gram leave people catatonic for hours.
Since I would have sympathized with this viewpoint earlier in life, I’ll give you the just-the-facts version:

He took an offline business in a regulated industry (wine) which he inherited and ~20Xed it online, got Internet famous, built one of those social media marketing companies which has fairly little lasting impact but (like Madison Avenue) has a metric truckload of money run through it, got deal flow, invested, etc.

At least one thing he's done is worth watching for many HNers: someone said "It's easy to make money when you have connections but I don't have connections so boo hoo" and he said "Watch me. Suppose for the sake of argument that I own a beer blog, instead of the blog I actually own. My new name is Steve. I Google beer accessories and see this company is advertising on AdWords, so I know they have an advertising budget. I will now cold call them live, as Steve who runs a blog no one has heard of which doesn't exist, and sell them ads on my beer blog."

He then does.

Edit: Found the video. In the intervening years I had misremembered some of the details. Very little of what I watched in 2008 I still quote in 2018; I think I will probably be able to quote this video with that level of detail in 20X8, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG7WFxT1ySY
I think that is extremely austere, and misses a large part of the value of science and philosophy. In some ways the questions of cosmology matter far less to the vast majority of humans, and have in practical terms less qualification and quantification for those people than subjective experience communicated by drama, poetry and art. Stating that this is meaningless ignores the suffering and joy of humanity, and makes an unwarrented and low utility judgement about the set of beliefs that are legitimate in finding how things are.
If you have a Python script at the other end JSON is nicer to decode and debug, and for such a low amount of data the few bytes overhead doesn't really matter.

Also, once you go with binary encoding, using a fixed-point integer format is almost always the better choice over sending float numbers. Depending on the needed spatial resolution (which isn't much in this example), you can reduce message size by using 8-bit or 16-bit fixed-point integers, or if you need more precision than float in the same space, a 32-bit fixed-point number.
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Thanks!! It's kind of amazing how skewed our view of reality is. Saying "I don't care about terrorism" gets you dirty looks but is a reasonable approach to life if you live in wealthy country and are are trying to worry about things most likely to affect you.

I care about gun violence and knew it was overreported, but it blew my mind to find out that there are about twice as many deaths per year from just asbestos are there are gun homicides. I wonder how many other misconceptions there are? (Total gun deaths is much higher due to suicide and accidents)
Because the number of confounding factors if you look at whole countries is so huge that you couldn't attribute it to alcohol even if you found an association.
You realise that insurance is all about calculating the statistical incidence of events right? They don't make life insurance more expensive for alcoholics and smokers because they are evil but because they are more likely to pay out a claim earlier.
Exactly. In windows 2000 the UI was pretty much unified, a button looked like a button, window borders were consistent, the start menu had a simple tree structure, icons were ugly but they were iconic (they at least tried to represent something, noone thought that one day a grey letter will be an icon, or a user will look lie a circle and a line). No touch nonsense, everything worked with a mouse or a keyboard (mnemonics were visible by default).
It seems like Bitcoin network has never been hacked, but distributed applications were hacked with spectacular monetary losses, for example, "The DAO": https://www.coindesk.com/understanding-dao-hack-journalists/

Blockchain technology has different attack vectors like:

* Bugs in smart contracts/DApps

* Bugs in a client software

* Incorrect handling of private keys by users/admins

All these vulnerabilities were exploited numerous times.
I am an heavy keyboard user, and prefer it to the mouse.

I find that Windows 2000 has the best support for keyboard users among GUIs. Better that MacOS, better than all the incarnations of Gnome/KDE, better that the following releases of Windows, that "forgot" about the keyboard and focused on other input systems.

You can see that in many small things, like sane keybindings and reasonable sequence for selection through tabs (for example, going from the path bar on the top to the folder content requires two tabs in Windows 2000 but four in Windows 7, unless one does some find tuninng of the UI).
There could be confounding variables, i.e. a government or culture that bans alcohol or consumes little alcohol may be likely to have other attributes that lead to worse health outcomes.
That does seem confusing (unless the gp was formulated incorrectly). Most tax systems have some progressivity such as a large base deduction which could effectively make your first salary tax free and quite possibly make the last one of the year be taxed at over 50%. It would be confusing to say the least. I'm guessing the GP was just poorly formulated and that doesn't happen and "exactly what's needed as you earn it" is still involving at least a multiplication with 12 as the prediction for yearly income from monthly salary.
> "Choice" is a powerful illusion driven by our hypercompetent rationalizing system, whose purpose is to hide our true intentions in order to help us better operate in a social world. In the end, we are just elaborate stimulus-response systems, that is unless you believe in a "soul" or pseudoscientific quantum magic.

This is ultimately a very big argument that is hard to have over the text.

But I have had this way of looking at things earlier in my life, and I've rationalized it in about the same way that you do in your post, and have now had more life experience that showed me that it is a dead-end.

Choice is only as much of an "illusion" as everything else: as science, as physical objects, as chemicals, as determinism. Once you start getting deeper into nature of things, you'll see that those concepts are not much better, not any less illusory than "choice". So anything being an "illusion" does not say so much about nature of things, because everything is.

The ultimate difference is in your personal life. If you see yourself as "elaborate stimulus-response system" - you'll have a hard time making hard choices and changing your life to the way you want it to be. (Do you even believe in wanting anything then? Besides just what you can rationalize with evolution (sex and food)?)

If you allow other categories, you'll find that your mind and yes, soul have many more resources and much more energy to create extraordinary things in your life and in lives of people around you (ie, in the consensus reality).

One difficulty is that this difference is sometimes hard to logically talk about because of how unconscious people are. To quote Jordan Peterson (highly recommended) - people say that they like determinism and science, - and yet they act is they were sentient moral beings with choice. There is one thing that people say and think - and another that they do. For example, many people might be thinking about determinism and chemicals, and yet in their personal life they make choices like helping others, like building a better future, like sacrificing instant pleasures or even all bodily pleasures in order to achieve some higher goals, which will not even bring them any of those stimulus-response-based evolutionary candies.

Just because someone is not conscious about being sentient, does not mean they are not sentient. (There are different definitions of the word `sentient`, of course, but this is the one that I am proposing is the most useful one.)
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When I first learned of it, years ago, I was stunned at two things - the scale of loss of life, and how little known it was ...
Hacking a crypto exchange is not the only way to steal coins. Decentralized applications/smart contracts on a blockchain can be attacked as well.
That was true 5-10 years ago, these days it's much better (except for some old offenders like Nvidia GPUs or Broadcom WiFi modules). My Asus notebook never lacked any support even though I bought it just three days after that particular model was first released.
Yes, healthcare sounds pretty screwed up. But even though ketamine for depression might never get FDA approved, I think it's still good that these positive effects are still being reported on. The fact that there are new articles on ketamine shows that there is still some interest.

And this interest isn't completely fruitless just because the pharma industry will never support it. Individuals (admittedly, only those who can afford it) can still try to benefit from e.g. off-license prescriptions.
>The answer is for it not to be on their server at all. Have it be on your server. Operating a server should be as simple as operating any other home appliance.

But... operating non-computerized home appliances is difficult, too. Remember all the jokes about the VCR blinking 12:00? This was because every damn thing had it's own completely non-standard, unique interface.

I mean, we've got fewer and fewer clocks we've gotta set, but back in the day, I remember I was the sort of person who would have to jimmy with a friend's car until their in-dash clock was right... and almost nobody I knew had a clock that was right year round, just 'cause they couldn't be bothered to look up or figure out how to set it.

Now, with connected appliances? (as any of your 'social network' appliances would have to be) if you didn't apply the security updates (and maybe if you did) the data would be even more public than it is now.
Would have been nice if the reporter let us listen to the road without them talking over it.
https://adisinsight.springer.com/drugs/800037644

The very article you're commenting on directly contradicts what you're saying. Big pharma is actively running studies and trying to get this fast tracked for treatment in the US and Europe.

Granted the article is somewhat poor reporting because the title should read "esketamine" not ketamine.
I heard that DOSBox can run Windows 3.1 to run 16 but Windows games. I also heard someone hacked Win95 and Win98 to run under DOSbox. You could just use QEMU emulate a Pentium box and install 95 or 98 under that as an alternative.
Tell me about it. I entered this IKEA three months ago. I hope to some day find my way out.
Within the Amiga community there's a certain level of admiration for HaikuOS, as BeOS/HaikuOS is seen by these individuals as a spiritual successor to AmigaOS. As you point out, AROS is the open-source reimplementation of AmigaOS, so it's worth mentioning it, I just wanted to clarify why the Amiga+Haiku link might have been made.
Factory five and superformance kits, i hear, are kind of a good experience to complete.
In a cryptocurrency wallet the security is up to you and the developers of the wallet and the developers of the blockchain.

If you run some chain like IOTA then chances are you get hacked despite doing the best security possible under the circumstances because the underlying chain sucks.
To echo the comments before this one:

a) lots of people do have an intuition for Venn diagrams. Just look at the number of Venn diagram gags on xkcd.

b) it is a great mental image to have if you move on to measure theoretic probability.
Nah, the worst SoundCloud has done in my experience is to blacklist an app I registered with them that called their undocumented APIs after watching what their apps called.

Fair enough, I guess it violates TOS but a bit annoying since public API is basically abandoned and lacks a lot of features.
Great example!

> With regard to currency, I imagine BitCoin is better than the currencies of some governments. I don't think it's better than US currency, by a long shot. US currency has flaws, but I don't see that BitCoin actually addresses them

Out of curiosity why do you think Bitcoin won't replace USD? What flaws should a new system address?
Reminds me of when I was playing with an Oculus Rift DK2 kit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlc-epzkhb8
My substantial point still stands.
This reminds me of the short story "The Monkey" by S. King.
They had less fun in that story though.
XMPP - Didn't use it in a long time. OTR wasn't a good experience.

Matrix - Works well, but UX is too techy for my non technical friends.

IRCv3 - never tried.

Currently, I am using Tox P2P, so far it's working best.

I am looking for a web client because native clients don't provide me Telegram like feel.

So, if I find some time, I'll be writing my own web front end.

I am also looking to hire people to work on my Tox web p2p frontend.
I feel like "quite-ok Windows 7" is underselling it. Response was largely positive and it wasn't even that different from Vista. It simply didn't suffer from the same problems, since hardware manufacturers caught up.
You are correct that TV programmed isn't so much specifically about the effect as such but about the whole way advertising, marketing and the like is pervasive in aiming to convince people to do things that they might not do otherwise.
Nice. One comment. I think the world is moving away from totally flat. For me the rounded corners to indicate touchable object still requires context to make sense. Here we using hackernews with the same approach, however, I never really liked the idea that users are mature enough to implicitly know what is action or nav. The demo page uses a green button for scroll, download and href. Which, while this is clearly example usage, highlights my concern. The button metaphor should indicate change, think before you click. Vs link which you might expect to take you somewhere but not have an "action". I feel like depth expresses this difference because of the reference to the realworld button. Not sure what the majority of users feel, thats just an IMHO.

Looks good on the device i'm using. Non-standard android.
I don't see the point of introducing sigma-algebras if you're not doing probability based on measure theory.

As others have said I wouldn't suggest this exposition to someone learning probability for the first time, but it's not as bad if you're familiar with the material and need a quick review.
Do you think something like "FDA-approval of Ketamine" could be successfully crowdfunded?
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His primary skill is being adept at Internet marketing. His other keys to success are inheriting a successful family business and gambling on Facebook.

Some variation of this story accounts for about 95% of "personality entrepreneurs"/bullshit artists of the Tim Ferris ilk that plague us these days.
It was hacked atleast once and the hacker assigned themselves a couple million coins.

Last time I worked out the numbers, Proof of Work runs about the same cost as the average US state's bureaucracy. All of it. And the US state's paperwar machinery does a lot more than bitcoin.

Centralized systems have much better options at running efficiently, decentralization is necessarily inefficient.

>They don't need to spend money on security, because mathematics is the security

Everyone working on quantum computers disagrees. The security of current wallets hinges on QC not existing since the ciphers aren't QC-secure.

And until we find something that is provably NP-complete in QC and normal computers while also being easy to use for cryptography, there will always be the hovering Damocles Blade of "your crypto has been cracked".
The web barely offers the things you describe. The platforms vary so widely in terms of display and input hardware, the standards change so much and are implemented with enough quirks/incompleteness, that it's really not a stable platform.

What you actually end up with are apps that are really hard to test, very poorly integrated with 100% of the platforms they are used on, hard to find and difficult to use if your connectivity isn't consistent.

And it's only going to get worse as WebAssembly really takes hold.
Why do i have to choose one of the three?
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Isn't the whole point of studying these things to find out if what you're saying is true? While it is possible you are correct, I'd really hesitate to say it's obvious in any way, especially as there is a large swathe of population that doesn't particularly care about art. On the other hand, the segment that really doesn't at all like candy is much smaller.
I am bemused by companies that allegedly pay men more because they are men. Companies pay as little as they can to everyone.
How did this not get more points and comments? o.O
You are mixing things up. While it's true that Cryptocurrencies try to solve a different problem than BitTorrent, Git and Email neither of those applications rely on a single centralized server owned by a single company.

As for your question regarding practical purposes I think that a blockchain run by multiple banks or states can provide the same benefit for people as a fully decentralized system. I get that this is where censorship and control comes in but do you really want to live in a world where value can be moved around arbitrarily without regulation?

Also, while the blockchain itself is run decentralized the development is still somewhat centralized and most folks do not have the understanding or interest to investigate changes being made to the source that powers such blockchains.
Its turtles, all the way down. All users of computers must deal with the abstraction handles and layers for which they are comfortable - and which produce results. Not just data-science people. Pretty much a user maxim.
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16,000 employees. Salaries, benefits.

Global facilities and infrastructure.

Numerous exploratory business ventures, like Uber Eats.

What you're saying is that you've never built a $10 billion sales, global corporation before. Which is very understandable, few have.
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See also "Never cross a river that is, on average, 4 feet deep." ad nauseam by Nassim Taleb.
I think we've passed the point where there will be a 3rd smartphone operating system. You need $$$ in order to build develop and maintain, serious hardware partnerships in order to get your OS onto phones people actually want to buy, and serious serious negotiating power or leverage in order to get your OS + phone onto the carriers people use.

In all honesty I think it is irresponsible of these companies to take huge kickstarter payouts to develop hardware or operating systems that are doomed before they have begun.

I think that Google or Samsung cannot make a good android tablet shows how hard this is.
Tight game-loops can be a battery drain, and especially if there are local 'go-lang' things running, inevitably, alongside the SDL bridge. I'd put it in as a clever and educated 'packages may damage your battery' fair-warning, myself.
My feeling is the problem with the link between humans and computers is that the people funding things like Facebook and other high-profit digital services are applying an economic model which may have worked in an age before computers, but is completely absurd when it meets computers. Let's think of Facebook for a second as a "public meeting space", like a dog park. How many dog parks do you know valued at hundreds of billions of dollars?

You could run a social media platform instead as a service for users funded by donations, in the vein of Wikipedia. This way you don't need to convince most people to pay. You only need a small passionate few who keep the service going for everyone else. I think the business model would generally incentivize much more user-friendly operational decisions than an ad-sponsored approach does. And since this is a digital service, the operational cost can be scaled proportionally to the donations received.
So you say it is fine to charge daily - e.g. the invoice would mention "1 work day" even if you "show up"/work 2 hours on that day?

Or, in case of weekly billing, invoice mentions "1 work week", and you've "showed up"/worked only 1 or 2 days on that week (and even not "full-time"/8h on those days).

Or, do you mean to never mention the time in the invoice and just bill for particular completed tasks?

in the latter case, you will be in a constant negotiations/agreements regarding the scope and costs of particular tasks. The time-based charging doesn't have this issue - again, I mean when you have an "open-ended" work inflow, so you don't say/negotiate in advance how much time you spend on particular task... So it is work/get_paid as you go.
Time to read up on SCP-3008[1], hopefully some hints in there on how to survive. Good luck.

[1] http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008
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I have similar fond memories of doing amazing code editing with strange character sets in PC-Write:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write

Which had ways to load in alternative charsets ..
This assumes a lot of technical aspects. I'd like to learn more about the actual capabilities of the network before making assumptions like this.
Mechanistically, there is a large difference between ibuprofen and ketamine. Ibuprofen does not work on the NMDA receptor, as ketamine does. NMDA activity modulation is associated with psychological phenomena:

"""NMDA receptor antagonists can mimic these problems; they sometimes induce "psychotomimetic" side effects, symptoms resembling psychosis. Such side effects caused by NMDA receptor inhibitors include hallucinations, paranoid delusions, confusion, difficulty concentrating, agitation, alterations in mood, nightmares, catatonia,;ataxia, anesthesia, and learning and memory deficits.""" (From Wikipedia)

Ibuprofen hits the COX enzymes, for which no psychological effects are noted.

Edit: of course I'm not discounting your own observations, just regurgitating some textbook knowledge.
One part of it, at least for me, is the psychadelic "converging on rebirth" feeling. It's a very geometric type of high, most likely due to the NMDA agonism, induced dissociation / depersonalization. Much shorter duration than LSD, and less chance of bad thoughts/actions since you are pretty much sedated and unable to panic. Ketamine is really therepeutic mentally.