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Yes. One sounds like being anti-people-who-know-it-better, just because they disagree with you, the other is being anti-people-we-usually-listen-to-but-who-don't-actually-know-it-better. The former would be dumb, the second is completely understandable.

Of course, the question is to what extent it is true that experts don't know better, but I'd prefer being wrong due to misinformation than due to sheer dumbness.
I think this is a side-effect rather than intentional.
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There definitely are cases where that's not enough, but it's a 95-99% solution.

The problems you mentioned:

Classes could change equals to accept subclasses. Then subclasses could not alter equality themselves.

T implementing `equals(other: U)` for some U solves a lot of other use-cases, but could make equality asymetrical.

Reference equality would still exist, but would not be the default, e.g. Java's `equals` is Scala's `==`, and Java's `==` is Scala's `eq` operator (which you almost never use)
You call researchers administrators?
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> What should a psychiatrist write on a doctor's note if his patient claims to suffer from cancer, no other evidence given than the claim itself?

Probably nothing? I don't think it's appropriate for the psychiatrist to inform the employer of possible Munchausen syndrome.
I feel like most animals are less disgusted by feces than humans are; I wonder if our aversion yet obsession with poop is socially constructed.
What's wrong with wolfie?

https://youtu.be/MT_u9Rurrqg?t=45s
The point is that, to a VC, a small return is indistinguishable from losing all the (not "your", since they rarely have much, if any of their own money in it) money.

Given their economics, VCs have a very strong incentive (or an imperative, according to that article) for "forcing everyone to 10X+" (and I would argue it's more like 20x+), no matter how small the likelihood of that outcome. Without at least one outsized exit, they're a failure.

Put another way, their LPs aren't paying them to, in any way, play it safe. Near-zero chance isn't the same as zero.

So, yes, the choice for a typical VC isn't difficult. It's just the opposite of what you're proposing.
They have 16,600 employees, with $5.1 trillion under management. They only have 400 funds, which typically would have just one or two fund managers. That's a ratio of 20:1 admin staff to fund managers, assuming two fund managers per fund.
>> The scope of this protection extends to any natural person in the EU which can mean users, employees, vendors, partners, customers or even members of the general public.

I hadn’t considered GDPR from the perspective of a company collecting/maintaining data about employees (as opposed to clients, prospects, website visitors etc.). Do the same rules apply inside a company for an employee as they do for a user of a web service? Can I, for example, request a copy of all identifiable data collected and maintained about me by my company in the same way I might request it of Facebook or Twitter?
I contributed to David Graeber's new Bullshit Jobs book. And this week published: "Dissecting two academic trolls’ review of 'Bullshit Jobs: A Theory'":
https://medium.com/@nouri.pennywhistle/dissecting-two-academ...

The OP asks a key question: "In an efficient market, why would profit-focused companies employ a bunch of people who by their own admission aren’t doing anything valuable?"

Anyone wondering this should skim the book, which squarely addresses this concern: "This is always represented as exactly what would never happen under capitalism. The last thing a private firm, competing with other private firms, would do is to hire people it doesn’t actually need. If anything, the usual complaint about capitalism is that it’s too efficient, with private workplaces endlessly hounding employees with constant speed-ups, quotas, and surveillance."

Don't know if I should spoil the explanations. :)
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A Lorentz transformation can be written as a rotation matrix using hyperbolic trig functions instead of regular ones. This machine works by having grooves in the shape of hyperbolic lines that the blocks follow.
Most bullshit jobs are well paid
What blows my mind is aside from the frame, wheels and batteries the whole thing is LEGO
There is no way to say this without sounding smug, but I'm reminded of talking with new roommates in San Jose about 10 years ago

* them: "we all split the tv bill, it's $45 a person"

* me: (gasping at a $220 per month tv bill) I actually don't watch tv

* them: (in disbelief) but what do you do after work???

Nowadays this would probably be less weird since we have more streaming options but this whole idea that time is an expanse to be filled as trivially as possible is concerning. What do you do with your unfree time? Is it more purposeful than what you do with time you have at your disposal?
No one. There are now fewer shares outstanding.

ie. before there were 10M shares outstanding which represents all the shares owned by employees founders investors etc, now (as an example, these are not real numbers) there are 8M shares outstanding because the Series A investors no longer have shares those shares are taken off the market by the cash.
This is what frustrated me after reading the "E-myth" book. Apparently, the recipe for successful business is to enshrine everything in superdetailed Book of Procedures, and have employees follow its content like they were programmable automatons. Now maybe this works, but eliminating human agency like this doesn't sit well with me for some reason.
Non existing. Basically every building in Holland is build on 'stilts'. 40-100 feet long beams of wood or concrete that reach through the 'bog' surface until it reaches a stable layer of sand.

See https://youtu.be/5GEGWP95HFw?t=2m0s for an example of how those stilts are placed. Note that until 2:30 it's basically just using a big weight. From about 2:40 the machine starts to get serious.

Beyond dikes we've had mills keeping ground water levels steady since at least the 10th century.
It's funny I had a few friends locally raving about how good dyson vacuum-cleaners were. I thought my existing vacuum was just fine, but I borrowed an upright from a friend for a few weeks and when I did I was hooked.

I started out by vacuuming the floors with my existing machine, and used tried the dyson afterwards. The amount of stuff it sucked up was very surprising.

Sure the dysons are a lot more expensive than the generic machines, but I have to say that I loved mine. It's only because I live abroad now, and I don't have carpets that I've not looked into getting another.
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But they have "digital" motors. A concept that hurts my brain.

But seriously he probably just wants to be like Bosch. A desirable place to buy you electronic components. Otherwise reinventing cars is what sunk Sinclair...
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I can't help remembering the last British-built electric vehicle, the Sinclair C5:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
Except that we know from history that people invent superstitions and act upon those superstitions. Look at all the effort that was wasted telling people to turn off cell phones in flights. Once electronic devices became ubiquitous and there was push-back from passengers, they finally had to admit that if the electronic interference of a handheld device was enough to interfere with onboard instrumentation, natural atmospheric electricity would have rendered flight impossible. The security theater at airports is still ongoing and equally superstitious.

In the case of the OP, the author is pointing out that there is no authoritative test that actual medical doctors can do, so the doctor is not adding any authority to the check. The business is incorrectly ascribing authority to a doctor to form the basis for a prohibition. There is enough information there to pass judgment.
Yes yes yes

We live in an age where the ability to say "no" has become more important than saying "yes". It used to be the other way around. I grew up in the 80s and all I had was my VC-20 learning basic and later assembler. That's it. Then there was the library or bookshop, where I would find once in a while something really interesting. Nowadays, the possibilities are endless.

On top of that, I have realized that my brain has changed over the years. Feeding it constantly with new stuff is not healthy. The good news is that this process is reversible. Things like practising meditation can help a lot.
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This is a joke response, right?

In case not, you’re way over thinking this. In points one and three, you’re looking to try and give something like compensation for these individual things. You’re not looking at (1) the value of being an accommodating, inclusive company or (2) that an individual who doesn’t take advantage of those particular accommodations enjoys other ones.

Your whole point about point four is silly. You don’t need some gigantic transparent democratic process to let some enterprising employees take it upon themselves to do a cool project like blackbirds. Just let them go do it.

About the women in tech conference, Grace Hopper allows men to attend; seems reasonable to follow their lead.
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Yes. Currently access to modern hardware features are either via cumbersome APIs (e.g. NUMA, AVX intrinsics), handled via the OS (e.g. paging, scheduling), or handled via the hardware itself (cache memory hierarchy). The problem will get worse as modern CPUs and machines continue to diverge from those originally targetted by C in the 1970s.
Note that the Tower of London is actually outside the walls of the city of London, so even it doesn't qualify as living inside the city of London.
I much prefer Citymapper. It's less buggy (I lose the current directions at least once per direction with Transit...) and much faster (searches, times). It also displays where you should be in the train so you can get out faster. But in the city I currently live, only Transit exists
James Dyson pitches himself as a sort of British Steve Jobs. His products take commercial fan technology and put it in consumer tech, with lots of silvery plastic, and sell for a lot of money. Engineering wise it's nothing particularly special. They have done well out of sueing competitors who do similar things.

Sadly it's a company that invests more in boasting about how great it is at engineering as it does in actual engineering.

There is no way in hell a Dyson electric car is going to have any impact on any market. This is more of a PR stunt than an indication of any real product. It's more about building the brand (of Dyson and Sir James Dyson) than anything.
Which market value of labor are you speaking of?

This seems to be a common fallacy, because people call it the 'labor market'. However I would claim that there is no labor market in the classical econ 101 sense.

A market needs to be transparent, have low transaction costs, be voluntary and have a sufficient number of buyers and sellers.

Otherwise you might still call it a market but it will not have any magical properties that the government shouldn't mess with.
That's not true - Sanremo did a decent business with Brits getting the train to the med in the late 1800s. Here's a link to the nyt report of Queen Victoria going there in 1888 https://www.nytimes.com/1888/02/25/archives/queen-victoria-a...

And one of my recent trips was to walk a bit of the Camino de Santiago which has the oldest known tour guide book published around 1140. Though people have been walking it before Jesus was around.
>Software technologies like MP3 came out of Germany.

With one of the most restrictive IP licensing scheme I've encountered in my professional life. Way to promote innovation indeed.

>Companies like SAP

At the risk of sounding sarcastic, I have a very hard time putting SAP and innovation in the same sentence. They're basically the Oracle of Germany.

> Green technologies and automotive is dominated by Germany.

I do not know enough about green tech to comment, but for automotive, I strongly disagree: incremental improvement, yes. Innovation? certainly not. Case in point: how many German company dominate in self-driving cars? All the German car makers are buying the tech. from elsewhere.

As a matter of fact, thanks for picking that example: where did Sebastian Thrun have to go in order for his ideas to take flight? Why did he not choose to do his thing in Germany?

>Overall I think Germany has plenty of risk taking engineers but the capital is more risk averse than in the US. Capital includes angel investors and pension funds and everything in between.

You are correct that Venture cap in Western Europe is risk averse. All they invest in is European versions of stuff that's already been proven successful in the US.

But what you're not seeing is that the aversion to risk from European VC is a symptom of a larger/deeper problem: statistically speaking, there is no appetite for risk and innovation in Europe. VC risk-averseness is just one facet of that.

And why should there be? Given the regulatory and tax burden you're going to be subjected to when you try to do anything over there, why even effing try?
Could you elaborate on the summer education loss? My understanding is that grades drop across summer/fall breaks, but the (little amouht of) research shows that shortening the breaks doesn't actually resolve the problem.
MS Teams has become pretty popular, but they haven't marketed it nearly as much as Slack.
The point is that if all startups behave like that, thr VC business model doesn't work out, will vanish, we will all have to stop playing the startup game since there is no one providing that kind of funding anymore.
Programmers are not researchers; lab techs are not researchers; many other people who do work for the academics are not 'academic staff' (and can't be paid as such). It's not hard to imagine what that sort of structure leads to.
If you have cash to start a VC fund, are you really worried about how much you can pay yourself from your own money?
I suspect that's true in a lot of places. I moved to Finland, and while I didn't speak Finnish I managed to buy a pair of flats, get my brain-scanned (!), and deal with the local tax-offices.

So everyday life is was just fine, people dealt with me in English. But to integrate, to have local friends, and to really be a part of the country I know I have to learn Finnish. (Which I'm slowly doing.)
Well:

intello m, f (plural intellos)
(informal, derogatory) highbrow
(informal, derogatory) nerd, egghead

Also, "intello coincée" and such.

It can also stand for just shorthand, as many terms have dual informal derogatory and friendly use (for that matter, geek has also been used positively in the US as well for a few decades).
How about the following:

contract Addable(t T) {
t + t
}

func Sum.<T Addable>(x []T) T {
var total T
for _, v := range x {
total += v
}
return total
}

It has the nice property that it's somewhat analogous to type conversions, the grammar should be unambiguous, and it's much less visually confusing than re-using parentheses IMO.
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As a solo founder with already too much to do. I simply looked at the GDPR and decided to kick that can down the road for 12 months after launch of my start up.

Although a UK Citizen, will be bootstrapping the startup in the US and simply blocking EU buyers from accessing the site.

Why you may ask?

- I don't have the funds to hire a DPO.

- I don't have the funds to hire out an expensive company to go through the platform in minute details and prepare it for GDPR.

- I don't have the resources to deal with inquiries to that nightmare letter or any questions for that matter.

- I don't have the resources to monitor the 3rd parties privacy policies that I send data to use their service and constantly update my own.

From my perspective this is just burdens my company with more costs in doing business with the EU. I'm more than happy to concentrate on the US and the rest of the world.

One issue that I'd like to point out as well. Some commentators mention that the EU is ~22-25% of the worlds GDP to be accessed. Well, that's a complete fallacy.

The EU unlike the US isn't a contiguous block. There are 28 nations and 24 languages to deal with. You simply can't launch in the EU like you would in the US. Each country has it's own idiosyncrasies to deal with. Which is why some companies just launch in France, Germany, UK and then push out the other smaller markets years down the line and in some cases not at all. There may be other local regulations to deal with.

My opinion is that the GDPR over the long term, will hamper the ability of EU companies to do business on the world stage, even more than currently. But that's a completely different topic for another time.
Certainly not crazy.

I started programming on a VC-20 doing basic and later assembler. Just this for years. Glorious times.

What helps a little is to go deep into the history of computer programming and see the big picture. The fundamental problems defined in the 30s ~ 50s are still very much relevant. Kubernates, node, react etc are just ripples.
Honestly I think one of the best ways to find this out is to have people regularly take annual leave, you get a chance to see what they were doing from a different angle when they are not there. Making people take this leave is a really good way to fight presenteeism as well.
Key Transparency [0] uses the same model. Too bad the project seems inactive.

[0]: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/01/security-through-tra...
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I've heard Russia was very popular among German tourists at that time
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Old diodes were painted black for that reason. If you scraped off the paint you had a pretty good photodetector. Old transistors ditto (OC71 for instance), the housings were made of glass so already transparent.

The Germanium ones were more susceptible to this than the Silicon ones.
I need to get a job in a diffrent field. Things like this make me remember how stupid everyone in IT really is.
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I have been using a bagless vacuum for some years (no Dyson), and I am quite happy. You have to clean it sometimes, and it is a bit messy, but you can do that in the sink after emptying it in the bin, so it's not like dust is going to be flying around.

I am happy to avoid buying and changing bags.
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According to this [0] calculator, $150K in 1965 is nearly exactly $12M in todays dollars (not sure how to inflation-adjust euros back into the sixties :-) ).

[0] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Henry owner here: totally agree.

Also, unlike a fancy Dyson, it's designed to be bashed around, yanked around and generally abused. It's the Nokia 3310 of vacuums. And if a part breaks, because they're used commercially it's cheap and easy to replace.
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People paid to pretend being busy doing something useful get good at their job, too.
Apples and oranges. You also need to factor in the weight of the engines and the reenforced fuselage you need to support jet engines. It's not just the fuel that is heavy. Electrical engines are really light and compact. The resulting planes can be much lighter.

Also electical engines can be throttled up and down with much better granularity. An idling jet engine still produces a lot of trust and burns a lot of fuel even before it leaves the ground. So the efficiencies you get from better control over the output are substantial as well.

Basically the current state of the art gives you a flight time of typically 1-1.5 hours with most electrical planes. If you double or triple that capacity through better batteries you basically get planes that can do short haul. The expectation is that that is basically happening over the next decade.
You first-worlders are damn lucky. In my country, it is considered a good day when you get paid half the money you were promised for doing some hardcore high-skill job. Which is still like 10 times lower than what you would get in the first-world, living-costs adjusted.

Real elephant in the room is the resource flow from the colonies to the first-world and the Western financial institutions that enable it. That's probably the thing allowing you to bore yourself to death with bullshit jobs.

No one likes talking about it though.

"Why do we have every resource and service available but half the population has to do bullshit jobs? Probably because of technology - yes, that must be it."
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I remember, as it was yesterday, my birth as level one Night Elf. I was a veteran PC player already but this... This was catharsis. I remember beautiful and kind of sad island of Teldrassil, wandering around the dark forests at twilight, boldly visiting deep caves full of spiders where no 6 level player have gone before, magical wells, rich lore and true heroes from the past standing in front of me, giving me tasks whole world depended on. All this in the company of epic soundtrack, which I still have and listen to when the wind of nostalgia comes. Only few times in my gaming life I was so immersed in the fictional world - this being one of the best experiences of my life. And even though I've visited plenty of other areas during my play time, on both sides of the conflict, I've always kept Teldrassil closest to my heart. That atmosphere can't be compared to anything else.
You can still walk right up to the parts department counter and order OEM replacement parts for anything on the vehicle, just like the dealer can.

The computerized bits are well isolated control modules and are generally treated as black boxes which either work or are replaced as a unit. But that doesn't encompass the entire vehicle, the vast majority of the vehicle is still very servicable, all the mechanical bits haven't really changed that much from the 60s.

I've rebuilt engines on cars and motorcycles, modern and old, many computerized with EFI, you generally don't worry about the inner workings of the computers unless you're modifying things.

In my experience the more modern stuff is actually simpler having fewer vacuum lines and archaic rube goldberg machines for control systems.
Since you'll be earning your year's mortgage during a month, how about asking to work remote, or just take leave without pay for the month?
I am not claiming anything in favor or against the theory of peak oil. I am just saying that the challenges posed by a technological overhaul are very well described in the Peak Oil literature.