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"This is how the internet and the tech industry in general have worked."

Well I don't think that IBM, Sun, Nvidia, Oracle, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sandisk, Cisco, Ebay, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Facebook, Snapchat, Wechat, Instagram, Pinterest, fall into that category.

AirBnB, Uber, some weed companies ... DraftKings, Kik, Telegram ... I suppose fall into that.

But 'hotel permits' and 'cab permits' are in another league altogether from 'selling drugs / gambling' or 'unregulated securities', so I think ABnB and Uber really are in a middle category.

Selling 'classically licentious stuff' like porn, drugs, gambling - and also selling financial scams - these things are as old as time ... and there's good reason we regulate it, even if we don't always agree on the thin red line (i.e. should weed or prostitution be illegal?).

That doesn't leave to many real companies skirting regular law and waiting for regulation to catch up.

ICO's I think are a special case.

The one's the SEC has said are 'cool' are basically the token-only one's and I think they are all de-facto scams, to the extent I highly doubt any of those tokens will be viable.

The SEC is missing one thing - and that is the speculative nature of the coins and that they are not bought up front as 'currencies to do stuff'. No - they are bought with the hope of massive increase in valuation of the currency, thereby making them more like securities than currencies. Or rather, they are 'financial options on some future currency'. In which case, I think they need to be regulated, at least lightly, or at least in some basic way, i.e. requiring minimum amounts of transparency, at very least the executives have to register with the CEO and can go to jail if they just run off with the money willy nilly, which it seems they can do today ...
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I think you are right that it's not the work itself that imparts the meaning.

The interesting question is why does some work feel so much more meaningful than other, similar, work?

If you can figure that out bottle it please and send me some!
But you'd have to switch to that tab, close the tab again, which is all at the top and not too easy to reach for my thumb.

I have to say Safari is better with having tabs at the bottom but that is not available cross-platform so I can use it on my windows based machines.
Deutsche Bahn operates their own grid and gets about two thirds of their energy from power plants directly connected to that on long-term contracts (the rest is fed in from the public grid with some inverters).
The original plan was to somehow make the whole thing profitable and publicy trade a large partion of shares - so they bought a lot of companies and hoped that they can refinance the train operations. Turn's out it's not so easy...it was just typical management failure, neoliberal politics and pipedreams - so they stopped it in 2005 - Hartmut Mehdorn the CEO at the time is now infamous for basically destroying everything he touches.

It's still not a government entity so they don't need to be that transparent and have more leeway to keep wages down.
> Only 10 of around 130 Scotch Whisky distilleries are independent, the rest owned by international conglomerates like Pernod Ricard.

Why does that matter? What's in the bottle is either good or not, and whoever signs the paychecks of the people who make it is not relevant. Many of the distilleries owned by LVMH or Pernod or Suntory/Beam make an excellent product, and they would have gone out of business years ago if they had not been saved by large conglomerates. Many of them have total control over their distilling operations and benefit from the marketing and distribution know-how of their corporate owners.

In terms of the variety and quality available at all price points, there has never been a better time to be a consumer of whiskey. That would not have happened without all of these luxury liquor conglomerates.
childish and irrational

Aren't we all.
You will get to a point where that mastery is no longer enough.
I’m minoring in economics from a top 5 school. I understand the fundamentals of how the economy works. I respect the tools economics gives us for modeling our world.

But economics is just that— a tool. We mustn’t follow it blindly, especially in the case the “optimal” configuration is one that leaves many more persons impoverished, homeless, and even dead who may have been able to been saved from such a fate.

Externalities, by their definition, are hard to quantify. And unfortunately, too often economists discount the pricelessness of human life.
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haha, you're the first person to ask! I once wrote a BPM / Workflow engine using serializable continuations and it worked quite well. I've since been surprised that they don't seemed to be taken off.
It's the sheer number of administrators. Stanford has only 1,761 instructional employees, of which 834 are tenured faculty. The Redwood City facility will have 2,700 administrative employees in the first phase alone.
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In terms of GDPR compliance the fundamental element is pseudonymization of internal dataflows and data management -- that'll work with any data store.

I mean, there is some possible advantage by having all users in their own actor-namespace, for bulk deletes and concrete mapping of data-usage, but IME you're always stuck with a need to preserve the operational state of the application and the quality of its legacy data.

Regardless of sharding strategy, somehow your datawarehouse needs to be able to pull out or confirm data from the previous quarter...
I keep hearing for about 30 years now, how writing correct code in C is just a matter of being good.
Automated testing is not a choice in many industries.

If you're not familiar with TDD, you haven't yet achieved that level of mastery.

There's a productivity boost to being able to change quickly without breaking things.

Is all unit/functional/integration testing and continuous integrating TDD? Is it still TDD if you write the tests after you write the function (and before you commit/merge)?

I think this competency matrix is a helpful resource. And I think that learning TDD is an important thing for a good programmer.
If I recall correctly that's literally how the book starts.
The other thing that needs to be considered in political office is the long-term effect of shaping an institution.

In Australia, P.M. John Howard (1996–2007) slowly centralised a great deal of policy making power by moving it from departments (each headed up by a minister) to his own office/department, PM&C.

Clearly he was capable of the demands this put on him, and was able to construct a Cabinet (inner-circle of top ministers) to help in sufficiently.

Since 2007, this change seems to have destabilised several governments by allowing a micro-managing figure to bite off more than they could chew, infuriating their own party, who then threw them out, partially because of internal stresses on the party strucutre. Particularly the first Rudd gov. (07-10) and the Abbott gov (13-15).

This is a very specific interpretation however, other Australians may well disagree.
Overengineering. You can always refine chaotic code, but cutting down and simplifying abstract code can be almost impossible.
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I would also point to Paul Grahams insight around hackers and painters[0]: the population who wants to create such projects is fantasizing about coding, hacking, publishing, bug squashing, and launches. Documentation isn't necessarily pulling them to their PC after a heavy dinner.

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[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
QAM is using both carrier's amplitude and phase to encode information, so I/Q can be thought as [1]:

I = amplitude*cos(phase)
Q = amplitude*sin(phase)

[1] http://whiteboard.ping.se/SDR/IQ
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The fashion industry is another example of an area that has thrived because of a lack of copyrights, as argued is this TED talk :

"Copyright law's grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry ... and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley. In her talk, she talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion's free culture.."

https://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashi...
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I am old and bitter and twisted so perhaps my opinion is now irrelevant, but I take most companies' stated values with a pinch of salt. Every company claims it wants to be diverse, gentle on the environment and kind to employees and small furry animals. The reality of most tech companies is it's a grind pure and simple. While they may grant you a day to work with your favourite charity, the rest of the year is coping with inbox explosions, crisis management, overwhelm, 60 hour weeks, and unrealistic deadlines!

Told you I was a cynical whatnot! :D
I was an ivy league admissions officer for a few years after college.

Race is only a proxy for what really happens in these admissions processes. Imagine your job is to create the best possible 2000-student freshman class for Harvard from the 20,000 students who apply.

You review the applications and notice to your horror that 600-1000 of them all have perfect or near perfect test scores, boring essays, so-so extracurriculars (Overwatch tournaments and robotics club doesn't cut it), play an instrument (well, but not remarkably), and want to study pre-med.

Their grades and scores are STELLAR! But if you admit these students your campus is fucked. Half the freshman class can't do pre-med. Once the pre-med spots fill up what will the rest do? That seems like a very horrible situation to put students in. There's just not enough spots.

What's going to happen to campus social life if half the class has a history of not being social at all? Who's going to produce art and go into politics? Who's going into investment banking to pull down big bonuses 10 years from now?

So you work your way through them and try to take the very best of them. The rest of them you reject. They'll get into fine schools and be successful, there's just only so many slots of students like that in the class.

This cohort of students happens to be massively asian. No one was out to discriminate against asian people when I worked where I worked, their applications were just very problematic at scale.
Can you elaborate your views here?

Why would US independence, let alone one when numerous founding fathers had written against slavery, be seen as 'regress'? The British Empire would not 'abolish slavery' for 65 years after US independence. The reason I put 'abolish slavery' in quotes is because when the British Empire 'abolished slavery', they specifically excluded various territories, as well as all properties under possession of the East India Company. In other words, it was abolished in regions where it was, more or less, convenient to do so. Had the British Empire retained control of what would become the US, history would certainly have played out quite differently.
The new "War Mode" mechanics sound neat. It's an opt-in experience you set in a capital city, and then when you go out in the world you are in a _balanced_ shard of only others who opted in as well.
A lot of these concepts have been carried forward to some popular frameworks and languages. Akka (or Akka.Net & Akkling), is a great example. Railway Oriented Programming (https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/), has gained some traction in the .net sphere and, along with F#'s Result<'success, 'failure> type, emphasizes structured and exception-less error handling.

It may be a poor mans Erlang, but better than nothing ;)
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Male humans do the same thing.
For instance, the assumption that a single card riffle into a deck will put it in a random location. In reality it would probably be something more like a bell curve around the middle.
This is a very strange idea; I'd say everything should be taught based on how it has developed historically. (For example, I'd argue math should be taught this way.) This gives you a real notion of things (as opposed to a mere definition). A notion is a minimal working model of a thing in question and the best place to find those minimal models is to look at the beginning. Imagine you want to understand radio. Where would you start: with a minimal radio receiver that has like five parts or with a modern state-of-art radio station?
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Facebook developed flux since they had a lot of problems with MVC.
> Yes but that doesn't necessarily you will find your work will be meaningful.

Agree.

> I work at Google and of the coworkers I've discussed this with, their motivation is to retire or support their family.

My plan is to retire early pure and simple.
I've paid for 2 months of CBS All Access, once at the end of each season of The Good Fight. That one show only gets me to pay a bit less than $1/month.

Comedy Central doesn't have a streaming service, so I have to pay for shows individually on Amazon. That also ends up being a lot cheaper than CBS All Access, and it cuts me off from learning about their other shows. I think all the Comedy Central shows I used to watch have been cancelled, so they won't be getting any of my money going forward unless I somehow learn about their new shows. That's a lot easier to do if my existing services start recommending Comedy Central shows to me.
It didn't help that Maraudon was in Desolace, and the only place harder and more time consuming to get to (for Alliance, at least) was Feralas. It was something like a half hour journey to get there, counting boat travel, gryphons, and riding yourself, so you ended up often only playing with people who were already there, or already questing in the area.
Can 7 riffles fully reverse the order of cards?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess.

I remember reading somewhere that the control room at the Chernobyl nuclear plant looked like someone had taken a grab bag of knobs and dials and thrown them at the wall. The report concluded that the design of the control room made safe management of the plant more difficult.
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Not necessarily naturally, but it's reasonably easy to learn - it's ultimately the same underlying mechanism as singing different notes.
There's something else here here. Sure, ultimately everything is ephemeral and futile. But still, there's some ordering to things. The ordering that makes me doing yet another CRUD form that will make some executive slightly richer at the expense of someone else strictly less meaningful and valuable than the stuff Musk does. So even though nothing ultimately matters in the longest of runs, we still have to do things, and we still end up valuing some kinds of things over another.
Keep a book as your journal. I use a hardcover school exercise book to keep track of my projects with sub-items for features, bug fixes etc. It's also a doodle book.

I note dates when I think of an idea, or when I begin coding them, the reasons for the choice of tools and of general progress. Whenever I feel exhausted/bored or completely disillusioned by anything I'm currently working on, I leave it, I walk away from it. But I make sure I write down my reasons for choosing to leave the work and, most importantly, my emotional state around that decision. I journal as I think.

Many days later, sometimes years, I simply read my journal, paging though and recollecting my thoughts and emotional states. Many times I have found that things have changed in the intervening time such as my workload, improved skills, better understanding of the problem domain, or general state of energy. Many times I have resumed abandoned projects/features to completion.

Good luck!
I had envisaged my 'manager' variable above as type widget_manager. Having a global manager of all things, or independent manager makes no difference to my argument.

The manager has to live in file-scope or above since there is no room in the handle to save a reference to it. At that point, you're creating a singleton and reducing the flexibility of the module. You now have all the usual issues with globals and singletons.

Unless of course you're passing around structures containing a handle and pointer to its manager...
We have the nexus for music and I assume for books, not sure why video is still a hold out except I believe music and books are more regulated.
Just like James Harden. If you have superior technical capabilities you know when to rest, when to slow the game down, how to orchestrate a successful dribble and wait for your colleagues to get into position. Most coaches understand that, fans often not so.
> However, the underlying design philosophy doesn’t fit very well into a classical OOP world

These problems indeed belong to a non-OOP view of programming. In OOP, the behavior is concentrated in objects while here a significant part of the behavior is concentrated in references.

I have been working on one possible generic solution which is called concept-oriented programming [1] and where references are first-class elements of the program where a great deal of the program behavior is performed during object access using these references.

One of the main ideas is that each object class is accompanied with a reference class. Such a couple is referred to as a concept (hence the name of the model). If reference class is empty then we get normal OOP. If object class is empty then we can model normal values (which are passed by copy). Of course, we can build a hierarchy by inheriting the behavior of references and objects (which is different from the classical inheritance but generalizes it in case we have only object classes).

COP is still on early stage and cannot be used just because there are other quite serious unsolved problems. But I see that the problems described in this post are not exceptions - describing how objects are represented and how they are accessed is an important piece of custom functionality in any complex system and it is precisely COP tries to formalize (along with some other tricky problems).

[1] http://conceptoriented.org Links on concept-oriented programming (COP)
I'm skeptical that Myhrvold is an honest actor, based on his terrible strategy with IV and his life as the world's worst patent troll. I try to be neutral, but if nothing else he needs to demonstrate he can be fair and honest.
And thus another pyramid appears...
I like what you're saying, but there is quite a bit of comfort and safety that comes with a $100,000+ job compared to starting up your own business. While many of us are ok with that risk, others may very well have responsibilities that dictate taking the "sure thing."[0]

0. https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
But you can't access the Internet if you don't have an uplink on it - and it's shared.
Today most of the stuff you bring home from the market was either made with slave work, or with machine work. The latter is not unlikely to have even worse impact on human lives on a great scale.
I rarely have to do presentations and know little of latex but gave beamer a try recently when I had a presentation to do. It's very simple syntax and I learned nearly everything I needed in a couple of hours.

The last time I used powerpoint (several years ago) I found the learning curve much higher and even after I started getting the hang of things had to keep fighting it for stuff like code snippets.

Throw in a makefile with an inotifywait watcher and you've got a WYSIWYG interface.
aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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One thing I've found to be a big step to using the modelling products is the user experience. Guitarists want to make music not fiddle with menus and software. A physical amp has all the options visible and they are simple. One knob per feature is much more intuitive and faster to learn and use than one that changes it's behaviour per patch etc. So what is described as conservative could just be a shortcoming of modern products' interface.
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I was an ivy league admissions officer for a few years after college.

Harvard and the other Ivies don't want to keep out asian people. They want to keep out boring, myopic applicants who spend all day studying to achieve the grades and scores they have and show little sign of interest in contributing to the outside world beyond getting a well-paying job as a lawyer or doctor and raising a family comfortably.

The Ivies get thousands and thousands of applications like this: with incredible academic credentials but nothing else to recommend the applicant. They could fill their entire classes with just applicants like this. And this cohort of applicants just happens to be very very very asian.

In a way it's not dissimilar from how VCs want to invest in founders looking to go big. Founders working on lifestyle businesses are not worth their time. Ivies want to turn out a lot of professionals yes, but they also want to turn out artists, politicians, bankers, military officers and so forth.
They have an incentive to be honest

I think influencers have more of an incentive to be dishonest than to be honest. If they tell a hotel "I'll promote you to all of my followers if you give me a week's stay" and then they go on to tell their followers "This place is crap, stay away", that's going to reduce their future business.

If they tell their followers to go to a crap hotel, then they can just say "Oh, it must have changed since I was there". And indeed, by revealing themselves to the hotel beforehand, they've tainted the experience, the hotel is going to treat them differently.
Many sites that probably had next to no EU traffic have blocked the EU.

In practice I don't know anyone who has come across those blocks other than in response to [some site has blocked the EU] headlines.
thanks, that's what I thought :) Actually I need the same for one of my ongoing project.
> Well I don't think that IBM, Sun, Nvidia, Oracle, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sandisk, Cisco, Ebay, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Facebook, Snapchat, Wechat, Instagram, Pinterest, fall into that category.

I don't think you're right about that. Congress waited to pass laws about software patentability. They waited to hold Craigslist accountable for potentially illegal ads on their site. They took a conservative approach in applying things like libel laws to the likes of spam filters, to Wikipedia and social networking. Instagram and Pinterest definitely skirt the law when it comes to copyright violations and they could have easily ruled early on that if you publish something on your website, you're responsible for the legality of that content. YouTube (not that you mentioned it) grew out of illegally hosting copyrighted material before they learned to play nice with the big corporations by implementing contentID and the like. The government could well have regulated these websites like they did with television: banning the use of profane language or sexual content. You severely underestimate the wild west that a lot of these companies were operating under. Hardware, fine, but I don't know of what regulations a person might want to place on them to begin with.
Also what about women today? They make 78 cents on the dollar compared to men! How is that not modern slavery that is enforced on women by the patriarchy?
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Ah yes, I didn't mean that Twitter actually was a utility, just that Jack had positioned it as one; and I was highlighting the differences between what he said then, and what the Twitter legal team's current argument was.

I think it is worth paying attention to as a court case, since it might influence how Twitter, YouTube FB etc. are viewed by the courts...
Wow, Facebook has changed a lot - only thing that tipped me off that this was an older (but still relevant) article.