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I lived through the 90s too. It's been 20+ years since the peak of the Microsoft that gave them the reputation you're reflecting.

If "I lived through the 90s" was how I measured technology and companies, I'd sure as hell not be using Apple products - their technology was pretty terrible then, and the company was incoherent. Would any rational person say that the terrible tech and incoherence then translates to how one would accept what they produce in 2018? Some companies change, some don't (see: oracle). It seems a healthier approach is to measure the behavior and state of a company in the present.
Two points:

1. How, in layman's terms, are they reconstructing the history of the genomes from current genome samples? (I think that's what the paper you mention says, but I'm not sure.)

2. My understanding is that the creation of agriculture was separated by thousands of years between the centers (near East, China, etc.), followed by thousands of years spreading from each center. The figure in your first paper makes the bottleneck appear essentially simultaneous world-wide. What's up with that?
Albania is mostly an atheist country, and only 43% of people identify as religious, (and it includes muslim, catholic and orthodox).
It is part of NATO and it is in the process of getting into EU, and it is a staunch ally of USA, and probably the most EU/USA loving country in the region. (there are plenty of sentiment polls that have measured this).

I sympathize with the Kazasis. Albania went through a major shock after the fall of communism in 91, and it had another financial collapse in 97-98, where people lost of of their money on companies/financial institutions that promised lots of returns (pyramid schemes).

People of Mr. Kazasi's generation went through a lot, and have a deep distrust of both financial and governmental institutions for good reasons. Also, he was put into a catch 22 situation, where he couldn't declare the money until he went to New Ark (the port of exist), and had to deal with a corrupt system that doesn't care.

The back to back financial collapses of the 90's are the main reason that the older generations like him, prefer to deal with cash, while younger generations, (the one that become adults after 2000), embrace the modern style of consumerism (banks, ATMs, credit cards, etc).
About 58k, is exactly what a house/apt costs around non-prime areas, so this story checks out.

I hope they win, and more stories like this get covered by the press.
And what percent of the time did they EVER return all of it voluntarily?
To offer a different perspective from others, I really like the monochromatic theme of your landing page and its what drew me into reading the rest of the pitch.
It sounds like (1) they didn't notice you did that and (2) you didn't follow proper procedure because as noted in the article you're required to declare bringing in or taking out amounts in excess of $10,000. I've never gotten a jaywalking ticket, but that doesn't meant it never happens.
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Combine learnings from multiple sources and only apply the common elements during your own build.
> “But government should be applied very carefully, and probably as the last solution, after we see the failures of non-government solutions.”

You are advocating a Laissez-faire approach[0]. This is not the only view on government intervention. There are various other approaches such as developmental state[1].

I recall reading an posted to HN that discussed the success of the developmental state In the east. Cannot seem to find it now.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_state
I'm a layman, but renewables only seem to me to make that worse, not better.

You can't plop down a coal plant in a city, but you still have some freedom to choose its location, and you can scale it to the needs of the local area and just burn as much as you need. Meanwhile, solar and wind might go way down for a whole day or more, and so you need to ship energy from where it's being generated.
The government by the people can only be as good as its people.

This is the government Americans deserve.
The Tyranny of “Warm Introductions”
As far as I understand, the !g modifier doesn't search anonymously for you, it just redirects you to the google results page. It's useful when you know that ddg won't give you a result as good as google.

You can also use the !sp flag, that redirects you to the startpage result page, without passing through google at any time, so that's what you should use instead of !g.
Mirimir typically uses a three-VPN nested chain. Just now, rtt to google.com was ~260 msec. That's four hops. Just not with servers on the far side of the planet.
It sure doesn't sound like you're driving an EV with a 300 mile range, which is what this thread started talking about.
Mostly atheist? You clearly haven't been to Albania...
looks like the software itself is from 2006 - 2016: http://fex.belwue.de/fex.html
just so you know, i know quite a few people at both linkedin and microsoft and for the most part they are still very seperate entities. linkedin is still using google docs and slack for instance. most of the influence microsoft has had on linkedin in smaller isolated integrations. so anything youve seen go downhill in linkedn consumer app is very much due to independent choices/acts by linkedin itself.
This really irks me for some reason. One of the goals of the Go tooling in general is to cut down on the number of config files and differing choices that need to be made everywhere.

Gofmt is the canonical example (there is no configuration. It formats things like how Go code is formatted), but almost all of the go tooling sticks to similar principles and its fantastic IMO. No more pointless arguments about style because your config file doesn't match your coworkers, but you both have great reasons for why your configuration is the right one.

I guess it's less a problem with linting, so long as your local configuration is more strict than any run during CI, or other validation steps, but still, in this case I'd prefer to have less control to match the rest of the ecosystem.
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I think that's a very naive perspective brought on by the perception that the government is a big monolithic entity so when the government does something bad, its the government's fault but when a corporation does something wrong it's specifically BP or Google or just one bad apple. The target of the public's ire becomes an entity with much smaller and better defined boundaries, ignoring every other corp that is doing the same exact thing. This process is also very self reinforcing. The only reason you know so much more about government abuses of power is because government is more transparent - the very feature that makes it such a powerful tool also puts it at a PR disadvantage.

I've seen far too much unethical and down right illegal behavior by management from inside companies, especially when dealing with privatized government functions, to ever trust them to do anything that they arent forced to (essentially at gun point). While, as an immigrant, I have an extreme distrust of American law enforcement, I would rather them than any private corporation.

I say this as someone who has been on the receiving end of civil asset forfeiture. My grandparents refused to take a bunch of cash that I had brought them in case the economic situation in Russia got worse and was taken for $20k and some priceless family heirlooms on the way back through LAX. It took a year and more money in legal fees than was confiscated just so I could get back some sentimental artefacts.
Does this apply only to superpowers over a certain level of military strength? Otherwise one could wonder why Mexico or Canada which have no comparable military power to the US hasn't been invaded yet. I agree in principle that mutual assure destruction can be indeed a valid deterrent, though I hardly believe there aren't others in a civilized world.

To me also there's not that much difference between mutual assured destruction and severe damage. Let's say the US has 100 nukes and Russia only 20 (random numbers just to make an example), all of same power, and let's assume that most of them will be neutralized before hitting the targets so that in case of mutual attack Russia would be hit by say 30 nukes and the US by just 4. History 100 years from now would surely regard it as an epic victory for the US, but today anyone ruling over there would have to explain their citizens how on earth they couldn't take a step back and spare millions of lives.

It's probably much simpler than that. The US, Russia, China, North Korea, etc. have zero intentions to go at war with each other, but is in everyone's interest to keep fueling the weapons industry, so they keep playing the plot: citizens are hooked using nationalist arguments to make them supporting their rulers etc. Weapons keep being amassed until the day they become obsolete and can be sold to less rich countries for their smaller wars, new more advanced weapons take their spot and the business continues. It's a win-win scenario for everyone but common people.
The system is working as designed: shield state actors from liability while increasing police powers.

A few lose their jobs or get fined, but fewer go to jail or have to account for their excesses. I really question the motives of anyone who wants to be a cop in this environment.
I am aware of one reproduction of the experiment, the goals seem pretty darn explicit, and its results are public. He has stated the rules of engagement, and has said that he did it "the hard way". If nothing else, one should at least be confident that Yudkowsky is honest.

His claim that "a transhuman mind will likely be able to convince a human mind" is what his experiment demonstrates, not what is assumes, and frankly it is absurd to make it sound like he has not repeatedly given justifications for the statement.

What actual misinterpretations or other issues are you worried about?
Now you understand why it's so upsetting, welcome to the same page.

Edit:

The part that most filled me with rage;

The CBP seizure notice gave the Kazazis a number of options for proceeding with the case. They could abandon the cash completely, or they could make an “offer in compromise” — letting CBP keep a certain percentage of the seized cash if it returned the rest.
The 1/8 IP block, unlike anything from RFC1918, was never supposed to be used by anybody internally. RFC1918 was published 22 years ago so people have had ample time to stop being foolish.

With a totally internal DNS setup it doesn't matter even if ICANN does decide to create a ".ars" TLD someday. In such a theoretical setup, your clients are all querying your own internal DNS servers, and you are not publishing or pushing anything to the root nameservers. Your use of internal hostnames and rDNS for ".ars" internally does not conflict with or hurt anybody's use of their own domains in the real-world .ars out on the public Internet, and neither does their use of the domain affect your non-internet-connected management network. There is no "stepping over other domains".
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I think I agree. If there isn't a conviction I'm not sure how the forfeiture can really be justified.
>but that's a rapidly shrinking set of things

Doubt that. "Desktop" is defined by mouse, keyboard and display. A chromebook satisfies this. I have yet to meet a user who uses a smartphone instead of a PC to do stuff that are notably easier to do on a PC. (while having both)

I would also bet that every user would chose a keyboard over a touch interface to type text.
I found out the hard way the last left row on most planes has an inch less leg room, and the aisle seat has an inch less width... I had a last minute flight for work and was stuck in said seat... I'm 6'1" and fat... it was horrible... the person in front of my leaned back and popped my knee out of place. Not cool at all. Lots of people < 5'4" tall and < 105# that could have fit more than comfortably, but not one offer to switch.
I'm probably older than you, but thanks for the condescension.
The problem with goals is that you need to structure them like a food shmup (like Nemesis on the MSX); you progress just enough towards the goals to be satisfied and happy but you generally do not make it entirely. I set my goals so I need to become 1000 years old to reach them and then make stepping stones towards it as subgoals which are all very doable and those I make do give me happiness and satisfaction while I will never make the big goal (but who knows!!!).

> For me personally, it's going outside, breathing in the air, and just appreciating nature.

For me that has been the most important part and the reason I cannot live in cities anymore; whenever stuck or stressed, I hike up a mountain or through a forest. It solves everything; it is exercise but it also shows that my stressors do no matter in any scheme of things. If I am stuck in some code issue, I will not be after I am done walking.
Sure, there are many solutions.
I get where you’re coming from, I think, but the way you phrased this I can’t agree with.

200k in SF is vastly less than a bunch of smart techies are making. But it is far, far more than the median SF income, and it is a very livable salary in the Bay Area.

We should remember that even though SF is expensive, and tech employees can make much more than 200k, that much money is, in fact, after taxes, a lot of money. Even in SF.

The spirit of what you’re saying is, I think, that talented people who have demonstrated organizational/management skills could easily make twice that much. I think that’s true, and I think the $200k salary is reasonable for the role in the organization.
As someone who has always despised git for its complexity and being a movement more than a new technology I have been waiting years for this. Let git fracture and die. Maybe then we can get tools that work for us instead of the other way around.
We’re laughing about this. But actually I attempt to think about these things when setting a meeting or stopping by someone’s desk without an appointment.
Why would you risk carrying around that kind of money? What’s wrong with doing a wire transfer? Or just writing yourself a cheque?

Failing to see an honest use case for moving that much cash by hand.
I'm no electrical engineer, or Californian, but are you describing a situation like:

Old System- Centrilised generation distributed over a wide network.

New System - Decentralised Generation, distributed over a wide network.

Without knowing any specifics, wouldn't this increase the expected traffic through the network from something like O(N) to no. consumers to something like O(N^2)? With an associated increase in required infrastructure and maintenance costs? Could be quite expensive.
It's not stable enough for me. Well, my plugins aren't. I need to be able to reset state periodically.

Plus, I like to have separate instances of emacs with different groups of files from separate but related projects. I end up with a zoo of buffers commingled in daemon mode. It just doesn't fit how I work.

I wish it had an image based startup scheme... freeze an image of emacs after init is done.
They are? Most powertrain warranties are 100k nowadays. Recent cars have unlimited miles/10+ year corrosion warranties as well.

Yes, you're taking more risk with a used car. But I have multiple cars, and am a mechanic so it doesn't bother me.
This is just a modern newfangled manifestation of a problem artists have always had: When your rent payment depends on your art (I am deliberately sidestepping the question of "what is art?") you are in a shitty situation indeed. What used to be fun turns into a chore. It's better to have a day job, even though it means you can't spend the whole day doing your thing. (I wouldn't necessarily want to anyway, and I don't think I'm alone in that.)

Think of your art or fun hobby as like a horse. Making it pay for your rent and food is like throwing a heavy saddle on its back and sitting on it. If you let a day job carry you (or a patron or parent etc.), your thing is suddenly freed from your heavy ass and you can remove the saddle altogether. It will be a lot happier, treat you better, and incidentally run a lot faster too!
If they had listened, they would pull out immediately. Not sure if you realize that they'll continue working on this for a few more months before they are out...
oh, sorry, yes, households.
It still 'fits'. The box is just very weird and sometimes the object that comes out is slightly different in size, but at least it's predictable.
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You aren’t expected to do anything in analysis and mitigation for SOUP that you shouldn’t already be doing for all of your own software. The point is you can’t just punt on that stuff when you use others software. It doesnt have to be that onerous, but you do need to put some thought into it.
Nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop

And an illustrated book about birds
> to punish me for what I say.

But doesn't, unless you say something reprehensible that the society you live in agrees that you stepped way over the line.
Although I liked the article, I found the title and subtitle to be confusing. There's no tyranny in warm introductions themselves — it's in the "warm introduction filter" that VCs use.

The subtitle's reference to employee diversity is a little too nuanced. Basically he's trying to make the argument: in the same way that we shouldn't rely on employee referrals if we care about employee diversity, then VCs shouldn't rely on network-based referrals if they want diversity among portfolio companies.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Although the linter is configurable, by default it has the exact same behavior as golint.

The configurability is mostly due to allow developers to extend the tool with custom rules.

Allowing this gives the option to enforce even more opinionated style guide within an organization.

In fact, this is the main purpose of the tool - to provide a framework for static analysis and reduce the friction for creating custom rules.
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Why? I've been using Skype as my main video/text chat app since ~2002. It hasn't changed much after the acquisition.
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Perhaps you could also explain what the "Grapevine" is?
As an outside perspective, how do you quantify, that only "Few cops and agents are bad". If your job contains robbing people, I would rationally word it the other way around. Hopefully there are quite a few cops who dont follow the rules and subvert the system of organized theft. But if you take policies like civil forfeiture or for example police union cards for family members this sounds like organized crime to quite a few people not living in the US.