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I thought about passive income but I'm more of an active income type of persons. I'd rather bet on my ability to generate money from my own sweat. That's what would drive me... Especially if everything else is taken cared of (house, retirement, debts). That means less pressure and more focus.

Also, passive income is unfortunately not the best tax optimizer unlike a business where you can use a lot of tax write-off.
As a frequent flyer, I find this kind of thing immensely irritating. Sure, if it was a long haul holiday-of-a-lifetime flight from Europe to NZ the Hobbit epic has its place, but when they do this stuff on short-haul business flights I'm just praying for them to shut up and leave me in peace. British Airways had some charity effort last year featuring various smug celebrities that felt like it went on for ever; meanwhile Lufthansa would continue doing the in-person demo, bilingually, in a fraction of the time, so I could go back to thinking about work or doing whatever else I wanted to do with my time.
> They have the data, so obviously they know more about the effects of their tweaks than I do, but:

> It seems like I don't really get fresh content anymore. It seems like a few, mostly stale stories from people I barely talk to. That makes it harder to be engaged in the service, and it makes me use the service less.

It's entirely possible that their algorithms fail for your personality/usage patterns, but are successful enough on other accounts to make up for your loss of "engagement" from Facebook's perspective.

> What I wish I could have (by default) is just a chronological list of things that people have posted.

> Maybe there is a team of facebook who needs to justify their jobs or something? I don't want my feed optimized at all. I do the optimizing by selecting who I follow.

They don't want you to do the optimizing for yourself because that means they can't nudge you into doing what serves them the most.
The article is trying to make the traveler feel guilty when to me the burden falls on local governments of these tourist destinations. If there's an impending ecological disaster isn't it in their best interest to have more regulations, eg by increasing fines/citations, limiting visas, increasing prices, etc?

If AirBnB is displacing local residents then ban the service, many cities have started to do so.

If the mangroves are being destroyed then disallow tourism to that area.

Easier said than done of course since tourism is often driving the economy and everyone wants to make a quick buck.
There’s nothing in Python that prevents you from using any architectural pattern you can implement in Java.

You know why you don’t have mature IoC frameworks in Python? Because you don’t need them! You can easily inject and mock attributes in dynamic languages
This is a great paper. It helped us think more rationally and helped us realize that we were not alone having difficulties running ML in production.
I'd wager they got some kind of discount or exclusive pricing as well? Big ticket companies (which Gitlab could arguably be called in the tech world) moving to a cloud platform could generate a fair bit of buzz and free marketing?
The one problem I have with FB is that quite a lot of companies directed their customer-contact to facebook and it's virtually impossible to get in touch with them without having account - for example the other day I wanted to contact KLM and their Contact tab (https://www.klm.com/home/us/en#/tab=hpTbContact) lists:
* Send KLM 24/7 a text message via WhatsApp to +31206490787 >
* F Ask KLM a question 24/7 via Facebook >
* M Ask KLM a question 24/7 via Messenger >
* T Ask KLM a question 24/7 via Twitter >
* (phone-icon) View the contact information for all KLM departments

So no e-mail, no contact form and 3/4 of those services belong to FB :/
This is not stable behavior of a CEO of a billion dollar company.

Edit: This is not the first time that he's been calling "sabotage":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/implication-...

(Open in incognito mode for the paywall.)
No country has that kind of control level, as far as I know. But you could enforce it for example by preventing hotels/Airbnbs from legally accepting tourists with no visas for their region.
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There's another overlooked class of people in the hype/fraud cycle: normal people like you and me, via our pension funds.
This is not normal.
You'd probably want for a try catch:
Try catch (0)
Instant
Split Second

Exile a card from your hand. You may cast a card from your hand with CMC greater than or equal to the exiled card as though it had flash. That spell gains "if this spell is countered, you may play the exiled card without paying it's cost".

... Of course, it's not perfect but it's closer. Doing things like "reset the game state" are not defined in the rules very well, especially since the state wouldn't be the same (there are ways to make it illegal to undo). So that would just be a mess.
Tesla doesn't publish current mileage or crash incident reports under autopilot; given their willingness to lie about Wei Huang's conduct before his crash I'd be surprised if their statistics actually held up as beneficial. The numbers I recall seeing were specific to Uber, who were attempting to operate a fully autonomous vehicle (Tesla doesn't claim to, except when Elon does press).

In any event, if you're going to compare injury and crash rates, you should compare Tesla to other luxury cars with FCW+AEB. Those systems alone create 40% fewer crashes in at least one analysis[1] but don't come with the risk issues of automated lane changes and steering control that create driver inattention. That improvement is over and above passive safety improvements in luxury cars.

1. https://orfe.princeton.edu/~alaink/SmartDrivingCars/Papers/I...
From my perspective, in common law, the company (ultimately the stockholders) would have civil liability for the damages it caused. These would be people stuck with a car that is worth less because it's more polluting than it was advertised, people harmed by diesel emissions, and perhaps a bunch to the government for health care costs.

Additionally, this was not just an innocent mistake. If it were merely an error on the company's part, they would still owe damages for the harm they caused. However, this was deliberate. The executives have criminal liability for defrauding the regulatory authorities and their customers. Even if the damage had been negligible, they would still have been guilty of defrauding the regulators. In this case, executives who signed off on false regulatory declarations or asked others to, should go to prison.

Now I know Germany has more of a civil law system, so it might be different, but the common law approach I suggest above seems just to me.
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Reliably? What kind of investment pays anything reliably? You can't get 3% from gov-t bonds, but if inflation picks up, you are in trouble. That's the whole point: there's nothing reliable, except death and taxes :)
What’s the difference between ICE using Azure, GCE, etc., or rolling their own Dell servers? If they went in-house would the call be for Dell to not sell to them, and if so do we then ask Ford or Toyota not to sell vehicles to them and so on?

What about Cisco, Apple and Microsoft selling to kingdom of Saudi Arabia, China, etc... let’s not fly Boeing or Airbus because their other units sell to govts we don’t like.
"Hey wait, we left this thing in an affordable state. Can't have that, better fix this oversight ASAP."
> Pulumi doesn't seem to be designed to support deployment onto bare metal.

In principle, there is no reason we couldn't support bare metal, provided we have an orchestrator. Pulumi bottoms out on raw CRUD operations that can do anything. It turns out that, when targeting existing cloud providers, that means invoking their APIs. As you say, this is just a layer of abstraction, but the key aspect at the center here is diffable immutable infrastructure.

I was, in fact, inspired to pursue Pulumi in part because of the experience of building a distributed OS that ran on bare metal. Many of the same challenges Pulumi solves around configuration, composition, and the application model, were inspired by this experience, and we've taken some of those lessons and applied them to cloud programs.

> you can keep more of the abstraction in the language, and thereby avoid complexity in the underlying architecture.

I look at other ways we've integrated with systems as inspiration here. For instance, we can productively code using tasks, and async await, these days, and reap the benefits of concurrency, despite there being massive differences between threading, I/O, and scheduling behavior across different systems. There was abstraction in the language, but it bottoms out on a set of primitives.

In a sense, I view the current APIs we're using as the syscall layer for a given cloud, Kubernetes included. (Also note, we don't require depending on Kubernetes.) That's not to say everybody will want to eschew the syscalls -- there's always a time and a place -- but we can be more productive by using the abstractions.

I believe that frameworks are languages, in that they give you a set of nouns and verbs you can use to express yourself. I do think there's opportunity for language-level innovation here, but if there's one thing I've taken away from our industry experiences building PaaS's, it's that it's a losing battle to bet against the incredible momentum of the public cloud vendors.

> I'd be much more interested to see an attempt to replace the Kubernetes API with a library.

We are just getting started, so expect to see a lot more progress in this direction in the weeks to come. The foundation of languages is a huge enabler for us, and we already have several projects in the works that I think will make you happier than this initial release.

YMMV, this is just my opinion, and I really love hearing the feedback. Thank you for sharing. This is a vibrant space and time and I'm enjoying the diversity of perspective.
So you went from saying I'm crazy for thinking we're going to militarize space, to saying that there's really no option but to militarize space, all in a single paragraph.
Interesting. We have had very different traveling experiences. Traveling and learning about other people and cultures has completely transformed the way that I think about myself and the world.
Was surprised to see no warping on the hockey sticks!
Yes, of course. However, "badly written" is poor grammar.
Loved part 1. I have been waiting for an update from r2d3 for a while! Can't wait to check this one out.
Moderate inflation is easily factored into repayment terms.

Constant inflation is easily factored in. But inflation varies greatly depending on prevailing conditions. The ruling party has an incentive to push for inflationary policies to stimulate short-term economic activity, leading to bouts of inflation that can wreck lenders over the long term.

What inflation penalizes is keeping your money under your mattress.

Inflation also punishes prudent investors - the kind who save for retirement.

Rising inflation leads to asset bubbles as pre-retirees seek to avoid being destroyed by inflation. Stocks without earnings and real estate, for example. They all get pushed up to ridiculous levels in the name of chasing return to avoid getting clobbered by inflation.

Not to mention the harmful ecological consequences of inflationary policies that encourage consumption over saving.
I guess it depends what the priorities are. Are they trying to increase the university endowment, increase diversity, teach bright students, run a winning college sports team, etc.
I liked this interview with the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta1DqI4xDRw
It appears to be the original IBM-PC.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I do believe some traveling can open up your mind and teach you a few important lessons about the world.
Even if it's true I doubt the wisdom of publicizing it. It could derail any internal investigation, not to mention potentially looking like bullshit excuse-making.

Industrial espionage is real. I've heard plenty of stories. Usually it's handled very quietly and internally for exactly these reasons.
Youtube John Carreyrou, he's done many 30min+ interviews in the last month that summarizes the story well.
"Defends" it from what, exactly?
In my circumstances, I'd pay off my house, replace one of the cars, and pay off my kids' student loans. I'd put the rest into a retirement fund, and see if I had enough to retire now.

In your circumstances, I wouldn't pay $500K for a house. Out here, $500K doesn't get you a "decent house", it gets you a mansion. You, your wife, and your baby probably don't need 5000 square feet of house. (Seriously, $500K can get you that. And seriously, don't do it - it's a huge waste.)

The other part that bugs me about what you propose is that "I want to work for myself", "no boss", "I feel super lucky to give it a shot" is not a plan. You can waste a lot of time and money trying to figure this out - certainly you can burn through $100K. It's far better to have a realistic plan before you start, even if you don't have all the details figured out yet.
When capitalism encourages extraordinary levels of investment in technological advancement which will save millions of lives, I call that a win-win.

Unclean water killing millions of people a year is a compelling reason to encourage investment in more affordable solutions for cleaning water.

You know what else kills 1.25 million people per year? Human driven cars. That’s a pretty compelling reason to encourage investment in eliminating the steering wheel. The best way we accelerate the advancement of this technology is, generally, not to regulate it out of existence.

> People are primarily developing these technologies to make money, not prevent deaths, and the idea that society as a whole should shoulder the burden of additional risk to greatly enrich a few individuals seems morally indefensible.

They can’t make the money unless they can prevent the deaths. The benefits to society as a whole as the technology is perfected is worth trillions. The idea that we would want to perpetuate a system which kills 1.25 million people a year because an extraordinarily rapidly progressing technology isn’t yet perfected is what seems morally indefensible to me.

I don’t know what you’re on about society shouldering a burden to enrich a few individuals. Economically speaking we all become richer with self driving cars.

The way I see it the question is simple — increase regulation now and shift the adoption curve to the right - resulting in on the order of millions of net additional driving deaths... or eliminate roadblocks and stimulate investment in self-driving R&D and shift the adoption curve to the left - saving millions of lives.

The fact there are those calling for clamping down on regulation and stymieing self-driving development after exactly one singular fatality in which self-driving technology may have played a contributing factor (but where the police on the scene ruled that the car was not at fault) appears to me to be a fearful mob type of response.
Microsoft isn't known for playing fair, so it seems smart to reduce the risk by migrating elsewhere.
Cellular devices can get rough location fixes very quickly because the cell towers cue them with assist data, plus they can download the satellite constellation ephemeris data in advance. Stand-alone GPS receivers are much slower since they lack all of those clues. And if the device was just powered on and hasn't gotten a fix near the current location within the past few hours then they can get really slow. If you take your cell phone out in a canyon somewhere with no cell coverage, turn it off for a few days, and then turn it to get a GPS fix expect it to take a while.
> It would go a long way towards making the experience better if the interviewer/TSA guy stated right at the beginning said "I realize this experience is degrading and it sucks to be treated like a liar/terrorist but I'll try to make it as pleasant as possible. " ?

That's why I volunteer to be massaged. Can't be forced into something you've already went along with.
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> Good to take a step back sometimes and think: Is my work making a positive impact on the world?

Good thing here that Trump is making people do this now. ICE was doing this during Obama times[1], afaik but no one cared back then which corps ICE is working with. So perhaps this is a silver lining of trump presidency? Hope media doesn't go a back to being quite when "their guy" is in office.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obama-administration...
Extrapolation = guessing.
"Plebs are needed!" is still a phrase between my brother and myself whenever we need an arbitrary increase of effort.
You should tax what you want to prevent in the way that harms the least things you want to continue.

So for instance if you can show that car co2 use more drastically helps the most vulnerable amongst us while air co2 is largely a subsidy to rockstars then you can compellingly argue taxing air travel more on a per co2 basis is fine.

Note: I don’t know enough to have an opinion.
Some free quality resources, ready to use:

- Intel CPU programming guide https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...

- Calling conventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Disassembly/Calling_Conven...

- Web compiler output viewer https://godbolt.org/

- Operation code (opcode) reference http://ref.x86asm.net/

- Disassembler/debugger https://github.com/eteran/edb-debugger, https://x64dbg.com

- Disassembler/Reverse engineering tools http://hte.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/radareorg/cutter

And this: https://github.com/codilime/veles (binary analysis tool)
I find this comment extremely frustrating. Just because you didn't find satisfaction in travel doesn't mean that others won't in the same way not everyone will with a passion in programming. Similarly, you give yourself a pass of having gained the life experience of having done it, which takes an extraordinary amount of resources to be able to travel the globe in it of itself, but want to disallow it to others? While I appreciate the sentiment that it's not some magic bullet to life fulfillment this whole comment to me feels like "rules for thee but not for me." Similarly the article and the articles that the article quotes seem to point at other travelers as the problem, but always are able to do the mental gymnastics to carve out exemptions for themselves.
It seems like many people visit Bali as tourists because of geoarbitrage — dollar for dollar meals and housing are so much cheaper than in the states, and overall it's a nice place to work remotely (except internet) or vacation.

It does sound like tourism has the potential to be exploitative. Maybe they can find a way to charge more only to tourists borrowing tricks like "resort fees" from Las Vegas. Or doubling prices and giving only residents discounts somehow.
So you are saying OP could start a country and setup taxes as an income stream? :)
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Not all forms of CO2 emissions are equal.

Aviation emissions at elevation "have a climate impact that is commonly estimated to be 2.7 higher than the same emissions if made at ground-level" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermobility_(travel)
I don't know what that means
> The smart thing Zuckerberg has done is to keep acquiring the next big things.

Though that strategy requires the cooperation of both the government and the leaders of those "next big things."

The founder of the next big social network may prefer to be the next Mark Zuckerberg rather than the next Kevin Systrom.
It's just the method for communicating the destination coordinates quickly and accurately. Google Maps can do the actual routing from there.
> working with ICE seems directly at odds with a company that depends on immigration and guest workers to fill out its workforce

Why? ICE doesn’t deport legal immigrants.

Yet another article dishonestly conflating legal and illegal immigration.
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I might still have the disks to all except d3.
Officially you can, but it doesn't respect it. It won't share the posts directly, but it'll still suggest you to your friends based on it.
I disagree with this sentiment. After reading Bad Blood as well, I must say that nobody at the company deserves much punishment. It's Theranos's investors and Theranos's business partners that are mostly at fault. They didn't do their due diligence and simply assumed (hoped) that the technology worked. They were too concerned about missing out on the "big one", which clouded their judgement.

No patients were harmed. The only losers in this are the investors that invested in Theranos. Given that they blindly trusted the pitch, without verifying that the technology worked, that makes them very bad and unskilled investors.

Unskilled investors losing a lot of money is, in fact, a very good thing for the Silicon Valley ecosystem. It's how bad influencers are flushed out of the system.
By the way, slowly nudging a large asteroid towards collision with your least favorite country is much cheaper than building hundreds of icbms. That would be possible with non-exotic technology and it's an order of magnitude more destructive than nuclear weapons.
That amount of cash is not trivial for the vast majority of Americans.
> This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties.

How do "false usernames" work in a modern development environment where all commits are tied to a single real-world user?
The plan to move to Google Cloud was in motion for many months, way before talks about a potential GitHub acquisition started.

They adopted Kubernetes relatively early, and as they progressed their reliance on Azure-specific services went down. At that point move to another cloud was a purely financial decision.

The move to k8s was not strictly a means to allow cloud migration. GitLab sells their Enteprise product, and the Kubernetes-based deployment helps customers with product trial and adoption. Cloud migration is a welcomed side-effect of that initiative.
I'm curious whether this would require disclosure with the SEC as a material event, as well as whether a police report would have been filed.
Backpacking through the poorest parts of the world is a very different experience than drinking margaritas on a beach. "Travel" is so vague.
Millions more were never given the chance, because they couldn't get that kind of funding.
PS: As an American it's very easy to internalize freedom of religion and separation of church and state. But, historically and even today that's far from universal.

After really thinking about what I posted really gave me an appreciation of their value.
COBOL is usually asociated with the tuple [ Old, Mainframe ].

In tech you can get a job easily learning a new technology that's getting traction and hope demand is bigger that offer. This is a classic first job / career reboot case.

For old techonologies usually demand is lower than the offer. I don't know the exact case about COBOL; but I guess since boomers are retiring now, COBOL demand out there might unexpectedly grow.

And for the Mainframe stuff... Everybody says they're expensive, even without having seen an actual Mainframe bill, so it can be wrong (and might be a competitive advantage for some).

Bit since the 90s everybody has been trying to grab that Mainframe dollars, and that's too much time. Some succeeded with Client/Server, others with Java, Linux, Virtualization...

So, COBOL land looks unsexy. When it is already stablished it gets the job done; so don't expect headlines about COBOL except when something weird shows like Y2K.