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> According to https://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/03/two-thirds-of-billionaires-m..., about 2/3 of billionaires have self-made fortunes.

> So clearly family connections help. But that doesn't appear to be most of the picture.

That's a very simple view of the OP's statement - notice that OP did not say inherited wealth, but instead 'family connections'.

For example, if you received personalized advice to invest a lot of money in a business that later became wildly successful, are you a self-made individual? There are even more subtle examples of how relationships can lead to wealth.

Anyway, perhaps a better analysis is asking what happens to children who grow up either in poverty or in wealth: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...
What's the problem? Nobody said anything bad about FP at all.
My impression is that much of this "instability" was largely the result of American military/intelligence intervention that came in response to the local government seizure and nationalization of these industries.
The upside of self driving vehicles is so immense that I can't help but find in favor of giving leeway to companies developing this tech. I would vote legislation limiting the accident liability of 'qualified' companies developing self driving tech. No, I don't know what separates 'qualified' from 'not qualified'.

Try looking at this a different way: there were 37,461 vehicle related fatalities in 2016 in the US alone. In the current risk-averse climate, would we - over the early 1900's - ever allowed the development of public infrastructure to support an invention leading to so many fatalities? Likely not, but the benefit we enjoy from motorized transportation far outweighs the cost of those 37k yearly lives. The point is that continuing with a risk-averse, liability-obsessed development culture will stifle invention that can otherwise lead to great quality of life improvements.
In my previous company I had a friend who worked on production support. His main task was ensuring that whenever a ticket landed in the support inbox it was redirected to someone. The maximum number of tickets he had to redirect in a single day was 20. Each ticket took around 5 minutes to redirect.

So the maximum he had ever worked in a single day was just over an hour and half. On most days it was half an hour of work out of the 9 he had to be available.

It continued for 3 years. No one bothered him since he was a billable employee.

In a fit of frustration he resigned one day. Although his job was very unskilled, there was no one else who wanted to do it, and to retain him he was given a pay hike. He accepted the hike and continued for a couple of more years before resigning for good.

He now teaches at a school and is very happy.
Agreed. This game gets a lot of hate left over from its rubbish launch state, but the game as it exists now is easily my favorite game in the genre since the original. They've very much done what Blizzard has always done best: take a great game and make it accessible but without losing the depth. It's actually the first game that really got me to even give a shit about the high-level buildcrafting. Best 20€ I've spent on a game in a long time.
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Good thing L5 self-driving can be done without low-latency LIDAR and that Tesla didn't defraud many Model S owners by selling them cars fundamentally incapable of providing L5 self-driving.

/s
Somebody just updated it[1], ironically from NY state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BitLicense&action...
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Oh, sorry, I thought the comment I was responding to was nested under the 'freeablo.net' discussion, and not the main thread. You're right that this person is distributing stuff they shouldn't be. I'm guessing it will be removed from github shortly.
What is a command injection vulnerability? Can you find the vuln in the app?
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>How about currency monopoly? Hyper inflation?

Not real problems in most countries.

>Debt slavery for all mankind?

How does crypto stop people from borrowing lots of money?
It's a shame that Square is getting caught up in this scam. It makes me no longer want to do business with them.
He also styled himself as a progressive, and was largely supported by progressives. He specifically took rhetoric from the Progressive Party platform.

Donald Trump bears little resemblance to Reagan or Lincoln, but he is still a Republican. Wilson, likewise, was a progressive - even if he did other things we might consider anti-progressive.

The definition of progressivism, like Republicanism (and conservatism, and liberalism), has also changed significantly in the last century. Prohibition of alcohol, for example, was a central plank of most progressives of Woodrow's era, but it is not considered such now. Likewise, opposition to racial inequality is often associated with modern progressivism, but it was not so explicitly supported by many early progressives.
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I think the talent pool is getting smarter about how much their equity will likely be worth (hint, it's $0). Those who are joining startups now, are either naive to that fact (not good once they discover the data), or they care more about working on the problem than they do the compensation (which is the perfect employee if you can find it - but the cost of living in SF has made that nearly impossible).

So when the company you are going to work for is going to pay you less in cash, likely require you to work harder, and not offer any guarantee that they will be in existence in two years, you are taking a ton more risk for less reward. Financially it does not make sense, so you better be in it because you enjoy the work that much more than a big company.

Bottom line is that startups are going to need to pay more money to attract talent. The secret is out on common shares and what happens with liquidation preferences.

As for how YC could solve this, perhaps they offer an unemployment supplement to those who are laid off. Help talented folks reduce their risk and you will find it easier to recruit.
> "In order to avoid regulation and the banning of plastic products they used, the beverage and packaging industry pushed municipal recycling programs."

This is tangential, but I'm not sure I buy this. It's not as if glass, cardboard, paper, and metal containers were evaporating into thin air. Pre-recycling, these were also all headed to landfills with few exceptions (e.g. glass Coke bottles).

> Apple isn't doing the same thing, because they aren't literally trashing the world, this 911 feature does not create anywhere near such a negative externality, but to say that "we already pay our government for this" doesn't mean that the the corporation is off the hook, "we did our part, now you handle the 99% of effort and costs of getting this feature we are promoting to work, oh and you will need to assume the blame if and when things don't work". I don't think it should work that way...

As you noted, this situation is far different. It creates no negative externality, because call centers can simply not upgrade and there is no change for them. Or they can upgrade and realistically that will involve paying a fee and they'll be done. The call centers are not bearing "99% of the effort and costs".
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When I read a blog about "cloud development platform", I expect to understand how it fairs vs. Terraform. I'm already using Terraform. All the cloud "consultants" I know of, use Terraform. In order to not use it, I need a reason - I need something that Pulumi can do, and Terraform can't.
> According to Jurannok, a Blizzard representative on their Support Forums, the game has been discontinued and Blizzard has no current plans to update it or start selling it again.

> Sources:

> https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/13595100072#post-...

> https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/14611181553#post-...

> As far as I am concerned, that makes Diablo 1 abandonware, so feel free to download this iso, legally.

That's quite a jump of logic! Just because they don't publish it now doesn't mean they don't reserve the right to publish it in the future.
I made a more detailed title, but someone changed it to the title of the blog post.

It's not a VT series terminal, but a Type 340 CRT vector display. The "Type" designations were used with early DEC products.
I love this place--it's one of my family's go-to destinations when the weather's crappy. They have a terrific exhibit right now where they recreated 1980's arcade--got the second highest score on the Centipede cabinet after a 30 year hiatus.
>There's a reason much of malware is spread from porn sites.

I thought this was no longer the case
> Those talented, hard-working people

I can assure you that most people in the world have neither of those attributes.
You need the actual game DVD to bootstrap it. It’s a brilliant way to side step any copyright concerns for modding under first sale doctrine.
Soooo they used Android? Unsurprisingly, it's cheaper when you don't have Apple's classic markup.
One of fujifilm companies located in south carolina now, thye use to process them in mexico. Fujifilm processes those disposable cameras that are still very popular at weddings, etc. People buy a bunch of them and set them on tables, so guests can use them.

You mail them in, the film gets processed, and the plastic camera gets cleaned and recycled and re-sold.

If you wondered where they went, its in the USA now.
It's super illegal. Irrespective of whether you need a commercial release of the game in order to actually play Diablo with this engine, the fact is that they're distributing a derivative work of software copyrighted and proprietary to Blizzard, which is illegal under copyright law without authorization. And that's not even getting into due diligence w.r.t. other IP concerns; there could be third-party code or trade secrets in there.
It'd be interesting to compare PDP-1 and PDP-10 Spacewar side by side.
Did you know tmate? Looks pretty similar to that one
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Call centers can elect not to opt into this if the costs are high. It's not as if Apple has done anything to degrade the existing emergency service process.
Several years ago, my employer created a similar tool with this exact same "feature". What we've found is that while standing up entire stacks in non-prod is kinda cool at first, it's a real drag at scale. We've had to walk back that feature with some hackish workarounds. We've also found that all the API calls necessary to determine what needs to be created can result in us being throttled by Amazon (the dread "Rate Limit Exceeded" error).

Still, this looks very cool, in that it's a real programming language and not YAML/JSON (which is another of our problems).
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Any Bluetooth mouse will work. You don't need to use the dongle on Mac, they have bluetooth built-in (unless you are on a really old Mac Pro tower, in which case you can add bluetooth to it).
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I wonder how Reuters got all the way up to nine!

> With the Square approval, DFS has now approved nine firms for virtual currency charters or licenses, while denying those applications that did not meet DFS’s standards. DFS has also granted licenses to Xapo, Inc., Genesis Global Trading Inc., bitFlyer USA, Coinbase Inc., XRP II and Circle Internet Financial, and charters to Gemini Trust Company and Paxos (formerly itBit Trust Company).

from the Wiki citation [21]

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/press/pr1806181.htm

looks like two are charters, not sure how that's different than a full BitLicense.
You could make yourself invulnerable in multiplayer games using Great-BoBaFeTT's trainer.

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The KW domain was removed after Iraq invaded Kuwait. [1]

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domain...
DC overwhelmingly voted for HRC. I think it was something crazy like 98%.
+1 for Mastodon. It's pleasantly weird and small. I very much enjoy the instance(s) I'm on. Check out joinmastodon.org to find one that suits your interests and needs!
The USAF didn't manage to kill the idea this time, eh?

I remember this (or something similar) being proposed a few times over the last couple of decades.
I don't know, I find it pretty irrelevant.
It just makes me hate the page. Well not hate, just "dismiss" the page. This site has none of these requirements, and just goes to show it's not required.

If I load this link in lynx from a machine in the US, I don't even have to reject any cookies, thus proving they don't need any cookies to serve their content.
If your intention is to avoid scaring newbies off, I'm not sure if 16bit real mode, PC boot process, BIOS services and all that arcana that follows is the best place to begin.
Yes I would be interested in your notes. My email is in my profile.
It's automated decision-making.
I think it was more a matter of total control, over the OS, the hardware specs, etc. They needed to provide a better turn-key experience for their users, including taking into account what long-term maintenance is like.
I believe the implication is that youtube has replaced the human reviewers with an ML-based system.
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Sometimes it's not the white board part of the interview that is the problem but the anxiety and general anger the w.b. interview generates. It's a little like getting groped by TSA at the airport.

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. " ?

A part of the reason we have this current interview process is because there are people out there who can really "sell" themselves and have bogus resumes so they have to screen these guys out i.e. "this is why we can't have nice things".
You can upload videos to facebook though. In fact, that's the only way to get videos to play inline in peoples' timelines.
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The theorized upside is immense but that doesn't mean the practical difference now is even positive. If Tesla (Uber's already out of the game, probably) wants to keep operating autopilot in public, they owe us actual statistics on safety so that the public can make an informed decision. The private data laundered through the NTSB two years ago is incredibly suspect, and the fatality rate for Tesla since then appears to exceed what the average human piloted car would do.
If the Bitcoin community gets lightning network off the ground (it's very close), it solves the problem of micropayments. This is a problem many people likely have that they are not aware of. Ability to pay a fraction of a cent for each article you read online could eliminate the need for both annoying paywalls & ads.

Traditional payment systems are actually quite expensive, you just don't see it since the merchant pays. Typically 2.5% + $.10 for most credit cards. That cost is still baked into prices & goods.

Safer is definitely true though, it's just too hard for the average person to properly secure cryptocurrencies.
i feel i am in the same boat. any tips that have helped ?
I absolutely agree that it's a tall order, but it seems at least possible that development could happen in tandem, and some kind of standards could be agreed upon for what kind of technologies would be used across the board. I'm picturing that if some new infrastructure and cars implement that, those could be roads on which self-driving cars would be permitted to drive, and a shift would happen gradually.
Depends what you're going for. Maximizing your financial returns? Possibly.

Not dealing with the hassle of shoe-shopping every 6 months? Totally worth the money.

And time is money too.

Also, get factory seconds and you'll pay WAY less than $500 for a good pair of shoes. I think it was $~200 for me.
No, because it doesn't work just as well, because everyone comes up with different words.

The NATO alphabet isn't just used by NATO, it's used worldwide by civil and commercial aviation personnel (pilots & ATC). There's a reason for this: these words were carefully selected because they're unique and won't be confused with other words.

It absolutely should be taught in school; it's not hard at all, and everyone has problems spelling words out on noisy communication channels (like cellphones).
You know, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the talent in Saskatchewan. There are some incredibly smart developers here doing some very interesting things. Saskatoon in particular has a couple of very interesting startups. Our winters are an incredible advantage and people here, particularly older adults (75+) always root for innovation. Our media landscape is also very solid and if you're launching something, you can assume you'll be able to get meaningful coverage. The coverage isn't always as critical as it should be, but every place has things to work on.

I bet that if you ask around, you'll find some local Cobol. Heck, I bet there's some running at some of the credit unions.

Good luck to you!
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So what? Some people are smarter than others, some are better looking, some have a bit of both. Some grow up in wealthy families and others in poor families.

You get dealt a hand, and you play with it. You can be good looking and do horrible in life. You can be not good looking and become immensely wealthy. It doesn't matter.
Thanks! I'll be doing this from now on. Had no idea about that.
I was intentionally keeping 'for y for x' loops.
Improving the 911 EMS system won't improve police response time in Oakland because Oakland, like most of the US, has an ongoing shortage of police officers. There isn't any easy way to make the job of a police officer more attractive.
Totally agree. Most problems with Java are cultural.

It seems the more experince people get with large team efforts the more they value Java and other well supported type safe languages.

I'm a perfect example myself as a person who used to think that a number of other languages would be better but after having to maintain my own (yep, not only someone elses bad code, but also my own precious code) in a number of languages I've come to really prefer Java.
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I played Diablo II on a 55.6 kbps modem. Worked fine.
This pattern isn't as complex as it looks, it's just the same pattern as you've always used with some mathematical terms added to it. Having a "stderr"-like output on a filter can also be expressed as a Monad. Instead of Either or Maybe, or in general error monads, you could use a writer monad like WriterT. (Haskell, not sure about F#.)

You can then keep your call/return architectural style or use pipes/filters. Haskell and F# are pretty good at providing ways of describing these things mathematically and making them easy to compose, it's just that the underlying math is obscure enough that we get blog posts about it. Fortunately, there are enough mature libraries that you don't need to understand the math to leverage this stuff.
Thank you. Kudos for doing the right thing :)
By this point, is the the only difference between breaches by Google (and its ilk) and Equifax is that in the case of the former we can opt out using it?
Wouldn't this be a direct violation of the Outer Space Treaty?
There are plenty of blogs and sites out there that expose these women for what they are really doing. High-end prostitution. Sorry but that girl is most likely just a prostitute. Sure they have some relationships with companies for branding and whatnot but the numbers never add up.

I've seen the proof and looked at the absolute made up lies that their Instagram or whatever account claims are doing besides prostitution.
With the death of Flash, if malware ads are getting past Chrome’s sandbox isn’t there like $100k at Pwnium just waiting to be claimed?
>No, I don't see how you think it's opposite.

Because you're misunderstanding the issue at hand.

Greece and Macedonia aren't having an abstract argument over sets. As the article explains, Greece has two specific objections to its neighbor using the name Macedonia: that the name (and certain actions) are thinly-disguised territorial claims against its own province of Macedonia, and are an attempt to lay lay claim to the historical/cultural legacy of the ancient Greeks.

This is why the US situation is the opposite, because the US as a separate nation predates all of the other nations you mentioned in the Americas. It therefore can't have been claiming territory of other neighboring states because there weren't any, nor were they claiming anyone's cultural legacy (except arguably the natives, but that's a charge that can be brought against every modern nation in the Americas).

It might help to recall that after the American Revolution the 13 colonies became 13 separate sovereign states that would only come together as a single nation in 1789 with the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. The new nation was a union of all then-extant states on an American continent, hence the United States of America. That other independent nations eventually came to be in the Americas has no bearing on what America chose to call itself at the time of its founding.
If you've got more than two braincells to rub together and are communicating with an ignorant listener, the off-the-cuff improvised toddler friendly vocabulary version probably works well enough for you.

The problem is when an improvised phonetic alphabet is being used because the speaker doesn't know a standardized phonetic alphabet. These people almost never take care to pick words that don't sound like other words. They think they're being helpful but often they're being less intelligible than if they weren't trying to use any phonetic alphabet at all. That is where the real benefit lies in teaching people to do it properly. It doesn't take long at all to teach a child the NATO phoenetic alphabet; your objection to the time it takes reeks of anti-intellectualism.
Then you and other people like you can volunteer to work at a test track as obstacles. Leave the rest of us out of it. You’re entitled to your utopian fantasy of what might be, and the best way to express that is to put your life on the line instead of volunteering others to do it.

Statements like this seem to be trying to make the point that any amount of increased public risk is unacceptable unless everyone opts in to accept it.

No, statements like mine reject the notion that sacrificing lives today for the possibility of an unproven improvement sat some unspecified later date is morally reprehensible. My answer is to invite the person endorsing this to put their own life on the line instead. If we were talking about medical testing on humans instead of cars, maybe it would be easier for some to understand. “It’s so bad today, the only course of action is to act recklessly to improve things as fast as possible!” is a thoroughly rejected argument.
More detail here (but not much more):
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/president-trump-directs-pent...