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It's a hilarious book but it's not too thick on good advice, the most actionable bits boil down to 'be ruthless'.

Felix Dennis rode a wave and rode it well, there are more Felix Dennises in the world (every European country had their own it seems), so it was more a matter of place and time than anything in particular about Felix Dennis.

I found his take on being wealthy very refreshing, for that reason alone it is a good book to read. But do pirate it, wasting money on books with titles such as 'How to get rich' is counter to the writers wishes ;)
Binance did an ICO last year. They made more money than Deutsche Bank did.

But they're the exception in the scamsphere of Ethereum tokens.
You have been able to run ChakraCore on Node for a bit now, with potentially more engines to follow. That can presumably later also have ramifications later for Electron and Lambda, both of which are built around Node.
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Well... "The owner of this website (inc42.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (X) from accessing this website." ;-)
You can create software/automation system that works/creates value for users. As a creator, you can ethically derive wealth from that value even when you are asleep.

Added as part of a reply:

Certain systems create value in excess of individual components you put into it. (That system may include a variety of resources that you pay market costs for, not only just your personal labor.)

The creator of the system can earn that excess value because it wouldn't otherwise exist. There is a term for this in an Intro to Economics textbook I read a long time ago, but I can't recall.
Not every website ships internationally, and most only tells you that you can't ship to EU once you reach the shipment page (after giving your billing details).
Space is a concept from math which basically means dimensions. It's just a fancy way of saying "there are more career opportunities now because of internet".
I don't understand fully what it means for a language or piece of code to be "totally deterministic", but it reminds me of a couple topics that arise in discussions about JavaScript: about an advantage of TypeScript, that a strongly typed language allows more strict error checking at compile time, because the compiler can map the behaviors of functions (which sounds "deterministic"?); and an advantage of functional programming, that each function should be "pure", without side effects or dependency on global state - which, if I remember right, is sometimes called "deterministic". I wonder if these topics are related to what you mean by "untrusted code to be totally deterministic, so that it cannot exploit Spectre or any other side channel attack".

This is an intriguing idea: "a JS engine where any given Javascript event handler and all the synchronous APIs it can call are deterministic, so that all interaction with the nondeterministic outside world is through events".

It seems like that would be a significant re-think/re-organizing at a fundamental architectural level, that it would almost be a new language. Maybe Web Assembly could achieve this?
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Not to mention selectively purging all of the rules created (I assume) at every edge server in their network that were blackholing all of the traffic to the resolver. There's probably a command for it, but all in all 17 minutes seems quite a respectable turnaround time.
I have always been puzzled by why we as computer scientists give such importance to P vs NP. I always thought that even if P = NP the solutions might still be much harder (but only polynomially) to find than to verify. I always get angry when people say that P = NP would mean that problems would be equally as easy to solve as to verify. So, because of that, P v NP always seemed irrelevant to me.

But in the article, there is an interesting section on that:

> If P = NP, even with a high exponent on the polynomial, that means that checking strategies from the past becomes only polynomially harder as time passes and data is aggregated. But so long as the combined computational power of financial market participants continues to grow exponentially, either through population growth or technological advances, then there will always come a time when all past strategies can be quickly backtested by the then-prevailing amount of computational power. In short, so long as P = NP, the markets will ultimately be efficient, regardless of how high the exponent on the polynomial is; the only question is when, and the answer depends on the available computational power.

So this section, if I understand it correctly, says that problems in P are easy because the computational power in the world grows exponentially and we can assume that they will at least once become feasible to solve.

That's an interesting way of looking at it. Is this really the reason why we consider polynomial problems much easier than NP-hard ones?
The issue is taking engineers who likely NEVER signed up for military work ("that's not in my job description!") at your company and throwing them at military contracts. If Google wants to pursue this they should either hire experienced government contractors (who have the benefit of existing government clearance) or Alphabet should spin up (whether buy or create / fund) a government contractor focused on this sort of thing. It would likely yield better results given the types of resources Google has available. But don't just expect someone whose never done government work who might not want to to just roll over and do it if you force it upon them.

Disclaimer: I work as a government contractor unrelated to Google but I chose the type of company to work for based on the TYPE of work they do. If I don't wanna build kill drones I don't work for companies known to do weapons or related engineering.
The interest can be treated as finance cost, and amortized over time.

Rather than going straight on the balance sheet, it goes on the income statements (which are change in balance sheet) a little bit each statement period.

This makes the company's performance look less spiky, making it easier to reason about (from a pure profit/loss perspective, not a cashflow one) and less scary to shareholders.

It also matches with the way the rest of the balance sheet is reported (current value). For example: if you have some aspect of the business which you believe will appreciate in value over time, you probably shouldn't immediately book the increase at the as-yet unrealized future value.
Everyone's telling you to involve a lawyer. You've stated you don't want to involve a lawyer, so assuming that you're putting your foot down, here's what I'd do (other than involving a lawyer):

Put together a letter that succinctly lists the following points:

• You have not agreed to any loan

• You are aware that you have been illegally underpaid, and your former employer is liable for back pay, benefits, and taxes

• You have intellectual property rights to the code you produced and reserve the right to exercise those rights

• You would like to consider the matter closed but if they want to persist in harassing you, you will use all legal means at your disposal to get them to stop

Mail copies to all individuals involved, and do it so that everybody sees everybody involved. cc'ing a private attorney is free, though as a courtesy, you might want to consult with one prior (many will initially consult for free) and ask if they'd mind.

Assuming you're US based, you can also file a complaint with your state's wage and franchise tax board or equivalent. The complaint is free, will get the desired results in the long term, but if you never had taxes paid on that income, the state may "borrow" some of it from your bank account or tax refund until things get worked out. Sucks but it sounds like a relatively small amount of money.

You can also take them to small claims court to get some back pay. This needn't involve an attorney, and while I realize your goal isn't squeezing more money out of these people, it might shut them up or get them in so much more trouble that a lawyer would be more likely to take your case on contingency (you pay nothing directly).

Stick with option A for now, since it's cheap and probably effective.
Though as with sites that refuse entry if I have the adblocker active, I'll take the "if I'm not wanted, I just won't go" option. I doubt I'm missing anything life changing that I can't get elsewhere.
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My grandma feeds wild (hooded) crows and seagulls. She claims to know all of them by name, she even claims they have preferred food (like bread, sausage etc...) and she seems to have a very strong emotional connection with them. Whenever we go to any sort of trip that makes her away from home for a few days, she invariably starts talking about her crows and seagulls, complaining she wasn't able to feed them.
While I agree that excessive GNOME-bashing is unhealthy, one of the problems the critics of GNOME (disclaimer: including me!) have is that GNOME frequently rejects submitted, complete patches, so unfortunately your argument doesn't hold.

GNOME-supporters will probably reply to this that the (main?) reason such patches are rejected is that they go against GNOME's design vision, which is sort-of fair enough, but then conversely, why would you expect people who have different preferences to work on implementing GNOME's vision, which they don't agree with.

Fortunately, there are projects like MATE or Cinnamon which give an outlet for the people who dislike the turn GNOME has taken.
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Technology Connections for pretty in-depth technology coverage that we take for granted: color TV, stop lights: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q

Joshua Bardwell's channel is fantastic for geeks who race with drones: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX3eufnI7A2I7IkKHZn8KSQ

Simone Giertz builds crazy robots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ
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I'm not sure what you mean, could you elaborate? Do you mean they might be able to figure out how to steal the meat in the freezer, escape, play with the printer machine etc...
It is on the Server. But V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, and Chakra are all running the same code on the web, and most people target all four.
Apple has the same functionality and does all processing locally, though I'm not sure if that's an argument for or against your assertion that it doesn't scale.

It does work, but it's not nearly as seamless as Google's cloud implementation. I have many tens of thousands of photos in my Apple Photos library and I think it takes over a month to process everything if I start from scratch on a new computer. Somehow it seems much faster on the phone, and I'm not sure if that's because the processing is better hidden from me, it's much more efficient on the custom chip, or maybe a bit of both.
technically, yes, but you had to work to create it, and probably have to continue to work to maintain it in the face of competition.

If you have created some kind of lock-in which allows you to extract rent indefinitely from some initial effort, then you have some degree of monopoly, which would be ethically questionable.
Agreed.

Some pages that discuss negative freedom in a book I'm reading: https://imgur.com/a/xXN4ivm
Great ideas on power, money and influence but you really need to be lucky as well ;)
I don't think you deserve to call anyone stupid with a bio like that. You are nurtured by an amazing country and all you could muster up is independent film and some essays.

I have done so much more ballsier stuff in less amount of time while being attacked by savages in all 4s.

You are a dumb pig with the intellectual capacity of a fucking earthworm.
I switched away from Comodo because of the Dun And Bradstreet requirement, and I didn't really want to support Comodo anyway after some of the shady stuff they've done.

GlobalSign were able to help me, they were a bit more expensive but vastly better support than Comodo. Super friendly phone & email support. I did need to get a Yellow Pages listing for my business for them to verify me, but Yellow Pages offer a free online listing tier in Australia. You might be able to ask for a discount if their prices are a bit too high for you & you're switching from Comodo.

If you must have a Comodo cert, you could try buying through K Software (http://codesigning.ksoftware.net/). Mitchell Vincent is great to deal with, and I used his services for years. He could probably have helped me deal with Comodo verification, but I was just too exasperated by Comodo's support drones.
If we define rich as not having to work, it could be achieved with a low income, but low expenses. At an extreme, perhaps, self-sufficiency, using knowledge and technology (even robots?) instead of back-breaking stope subsistence farming.

You would be rich, but also poor.
I didn’t like this attempt to get you to install the messenger app either. However, I found out you can access messages on mobile using mbasic.facebook.com
Arm emits Cortex-A76 – its first 64-bit-only CPU core (in kernel mode)
That's a problem for the big software companies, not for the consumer. Namely, to optimize for on-device training and patches.
>I don't think a proper con-man would go to the trouble of actually launching rockets/building cars/digging tunnels though...

Why do you think that? Wouldn't it just give away the fact that he is a fraud? A smart conman will be able to run the con as long as possible with as many victims as possible...

>You can argue whether or not he is conning people but to me it seems that even if that were true it's not on purpose.

May be he is a natural then. I mean, he is as stupid as the people he ends up fooling. I really think that might be the case here. So in that case he is not smart. He is just dumb is a way that is just in tune with a lot of dumb people out there, who then buy into his "vision" and invest in him, because their understanding of the problems are as shallow as the perp who is proposing the solutions...
Haha... this really needs to be framed somewhere
It's bigger than that. It's about disenfranchisement of the people. Less than 2% of accredited investors are black, less than 5% women. Capitalism in tech can be thought of as voting for the future with your money.

The JOBS act is like saying blacks and women can vote, but only on 10% of issues and their votes aren't counted as heavily.

Right now there's the biggest disenfranchisement of our lives and most people don't even see it. It's selling the future out from under the public, and not even giving them a chance to buy in. It's racist and sexist to start off with, then it gets worse as you look. And it's completely state sponsored through authoritarian laws built for 'protection'.
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I’m going to take a contrarian view and say: figure out why you want to be rich, first. For most people, money is a proxy for respect, status, power, security, social skills, romantic attraction from others, free time, or otherwise.

If you can ignore the constant “only rich people are meaningful human beings” message that is blared 24/7 from western culture, you might find that it’s easier to just go after what you want, directly.
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Time and solution are usually abstract concepts here.

The time a turing machine takes to solve the problem can be considered local and in absense of general relativity, it doesn't matter much.

When you talk about time in NP/P, you usually talk about the O Notation (Big O and friends) which gives you the driving factor of the time needed to solve.

Ie, O(n) = 2 + 3x + 9x^2 + 9^x is n^x complexity because this part of the equation will grow much quicker than the others. In reality of course, it can take a while for the biggest part to overtake which is why searching an array linearly in CPU cache can be faster than a hashmap.

The solution in NP/P is usually reduced to either a predicate being proven true or the answer being boolean or can be reduced to either. (ie, solving a jig-saw puzzle can be reduced to "is this jig-saw puzzle solvable" which can be proven by presenting a solution)

The problem you present is not in the scope of NP/P. You're already involving multiple computers and generally here, people still assume general relativity doesn't exist. Plus NP still holds because one computer simply accessed a blackbox function (oracle) while the other solved it in NP.

Time-complexity isn't the only complexity either, you also have space-complexity.

SC tells you how much memory you need to solve a problem. Or rather, how quickly that memory need will grow. You can trade a lot of NP problems to P problems if you have "NP" space complexity.

SC complexity won't spit out a byte-accurate estimation of memory but it can tell you that O(n) = 100 + 100*x will grow linearly in size (O = x) and O(n) = 100 + x^2 will grow exponentially in memory usage (O = x^2).
Yes! And that paper is a fantastic example of making clear criticisms with actionable fixes and the code to perform the comparisons properly.

Preferential attachment is such a beautiful theory because it gives power law distributions of node degree. But real world networks seem to have systematic deviations from power law so often one wonders why more work wasn’t done to find schemes that generate, e.g. lognormal distributions.

It’s possible that preferential attachment isn’t even a good theory for the underlying principle, it’s just that the underlying principle gives fat tails in degree distribution and power laws give okay fat tails.

Sometimes, though, one doesn’t care if it’s a power law per se or just that it has fat tails. In that case why use a power law and not just a better fitting lognormal (or say kernel density estimation)? But power law seems sexy because of its importance in physics (eg scale free, renormalization stuff), so people ran with that when network literature blew up in the mid 2000s.
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> "The allegations were "highly technical" and involved "an area of financial markets activity that has not been considered by any Australian court" or by regulators, Citigroup said in a statement."
So they found a highly technical loophole with no legal history. Very bad for PR because the public will not understand it and believe any negative simplified summary. They also stand to be slapped with a huge fine. I don't understand why they would take such a big risk. Must be desperate times.
There is no Russia in Russian Federation at all, because original Russia (Rus`, Русь) renamed itself into Ukraine to avoid any associations with bloody Russian Empire.

So Chechnya is the same region of Russian Federation as any other region.

PS.

Look at folk culture, especially at folk songs. You will found that each region of Russian Federation has it own language for folk songs and none of them are in Russian language. It because Russian Empire was formed by clumping together nations and bolting Russian language at top of them by forbidding all native languages. (It's why Russian Empire was called as Jail of Nations).

In contrast, there is 15 thousands of folk songs recorded in Ukrainian(Rus`) language (200 thousands if variants are counted).
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Well, I think every child deserves a prize just for participating.. It would make the contest/game of life a little kinder, if every person got at least a consolation prize for giving a good try.
Or, probably more accurately, mathematicians borrowed the analogy of space to describe sets.
A few days ago I decided I was done with Facebook for good. It just makes me depressed nowadays. I listened to a talk given by Chamath Palihapitiya and another given by Sean Parker and they both used a phrase that kinda freaked me out

About 2 weeks after I stopped, I no longer even wanted to use it and actually thought it was a little weird how I ever wanted to. But in 2007, it was cool and fun.
The efficient market theory is that all information, public and private, is incorporated into all stock prices at all times, so there's no point to researching companies to try to outperform the stock market. I don't think anyone believes it is literally true, just that it is a good model for most stocks most of the time. If everyone believed it then no one would bother to research stocks, and the markets would be less efficient.
> Today, shipments are flown from the three major islands (which have cities and airports and such) to small rural islands in 9-seater planes. When a plane rolls to a stop on the grass airstrip, it’s met by someone from the local health clinic—but that’s assuming that one of the few trucks on the island is available and in working order.

Why do small parcels need to be moved by big trucks? Why not motorcycles? Cheaper and easier to operate and maintain, and off-road models can be used where trucks can't. Motorcycles are ubiquitous on the islands and is an appropriate technology. Drones are the exact opposite.

They already have the planes, motorcycles can be sourced in a matter of weeks. Whereas this will take a fortune and years to develop, and it's not even certain it will work before they run out of money.

I've been there and I know how Vanuatu works. This is clearly some elected retard in Vila playing games with the national budget as every other one has done since 1980.
> The current bug tracker has 40 pages worth of bugs that are more than 11 years old.

No, it does't. The bug tracker might list over 40 pages of reports that were filed over 11 years ago, but that doesn't mean each entry represents a an actual bug.
Interesting. I wonder, is there something like a Yelp/Glassdoor for VCs? A site where people can post about their experiences with VCs, how they were helpful (Like you mentioned, some VC may be great for retail tech while others for moonshot ventures), where they were unhelpful. How hands on or hands off the approach they took was, how much they look at investing as a culture of growth rather than a business (both are valid options IMHO) and so on.

Would really help entrepreneurs make the right choice when it comes to approaching investors right. Of course, this can further boil up or down to investment firms rather than individual investors, based on seried of funding etc.
Bat-Ulzii Luvsanbat claims to know about MSVC.

* https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2018/05/07/announcin...
Many things do not have identical competitors. Books, music, apps, and restaurants with unique recipes (within an area) come to mind. The creators of these products/services earn the value derived from the uniqueness/utility that customers value and pay for.
True, but remember that 4,000 people died in four days in London during the "pea souper" of 1952, when visibility was about a metre or less:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-42357608/death-by-smog...

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/grahamsrealm/great-smog-of-1952/...
Government is obviously much more efficient than the market. Venezuela, Cuba and North Corea are a good testament of that.
Also their codebases are beyond incompatible. Facebook uses Hack, a PHP derivative while Whatsapp is Erlang. You'd need to completely rewrite the latter to integrate it but you'd lose the incredible efficiency of Whatsapp doing so.
In fairness, the question could be interpreted as "would anybody, who is not facebook, ever run this in production?".

This is an interesting question the answer to which is definitely not certain :)