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It seems to me that this recent book got it mostly right. The root of the credit collapse was improper or missing underwriting of mortgages resulting from heavy pressure by Congress and activist organizations to expand home ownership. The financial sector then did what it's good at, laying off risk through repackaging of mortgages into structured bonds and marketing them around the world.

There was also a good deal of greed involved including manipulation of the markets and the regulatory organizations by the likes of Hank Paulson. And yet few were punished. The fines imposed were small compared to the profits extracted. People in government who were responsible for the debacle were conveniently put in charge of the clean up.

Lehman should not have been allowed to fail. That failure destroyed confidence in the system and triggered the panic.

There have been a number of excellent books written over the years describing the complex events from different perspectives. Enough time has elapsed to produce an even-handed re-evaluation.

The book makes the point that Dodd-Frank has made the financial sector more brittle than it was before by removing flexibility.

"Future crises are inevitable, says Ball, but “under these rules, future Fed leaders may be helpless to counter runs on financial institutions,” even when rescues can be backed by collateral."
I'm not sure what your environment looks like, but the .NET runtime is not even close to hundreds of MB in size. Unless you distributed a large amount of resources in your self-contained distribution (e.g., many massive images) would it come close to approaching that size.

A development environment includes the .NET SDK, shared framework, and NuGet packages. So that's going to be large in size. But you should never distribute the SDK with a published application. That's pushing a development environment onto a production machine.
No, it shouldn't be about my parade at all. So why are you making it about my comment? Why aren't you making comments aimed at actually referring him to useful resources instead, which is what my first comment here does?
Loosing your mind is not as bad as it sounds.

My Yoga teacher used to remind that a mind full of crap is not very useful.

It also puts the focus on letting go, which is key to making progress.
That's absolutely something an individual can pull off. Changing international environmental policy seems way more difficult.
The author kind of glosses over a lot of conflicts with friends, family, employers, and briefly mentions mental health problems. It sounds like that could be contributing a lot to his struggles.

I burned out of my first job because of poor mental health, which I didn't prioritize because work was all-consuming and being sick makes it hard to seek out help. I took a few months off before interviewing, and realized that I needed to get a job and really fight to break the cycle I'd been trapped in.

I don't have any great suggestions for the author getting back on his feet, but once he does he should prioritize building a 6-month safety net and working through whatever he's struggling with. Yoga, running and medication all helped me.
There are some good maps showing the changes here:

http://www.raymondcmartinjr.com/njfreeways/Interstate_95_Gap...
I am also a homeless dev and when I was in hs I only programmed and could not do school work.
One thing that could help is using youth hostels, when I lost my apartment I was able to find a $25 a day youth hostel where I stayed for 3 weeks but I was able to hold on to my office job without anyone finding out I no longer had my own place.
Two glasses of water is perhaps barely enough to wash my (fairly unimpressive) hair with shampoo, and the hand better be steady. Is there some special technique?
Yeah, but Joe Startup can address that as much as these hospitals -- and will potentially be better at it since manufacturing drugs isn't the core business of these hospitals.
Apple Maps provides exactly the same feedback on user corrections. Try it out.
And in fact I run a Jabber server off my home IP. But if my ISP catches me at it, they could point to the line in their contract saying "no servers" and demand that I turn it off. (Or just block it outright.) They probably won't, but still.
If you want to make progress in tech, don't let "progress" (in quotations) live rent free in your mind. Focus on actually building stuff.

I hate to use oppression Olympics as an argumentative avenue but I'm a Slav, the word slavery comes from the enSLAVement of Slavic people.

It's often an accurate description of the relationship and even if it's just slightly inefficient, still works great. Why pollute your mind and thought stream with such trivial qualms. Build. Learn. Don't sweat dumb crap.

Same with whitelist / blacklist. From an English perspective these and master/slave have been archetypes for as long as the language has existed. Don't make problems where there are none, and don't TRY to pollute my mind by making me think there are problems, where again there are none. Enough people outside of tech are doing that to the populace.
Maybe they... Like working there?
What do you mean by many jobs. Outside of standing outside of home depot I don't know many jobs that don't require a permanent address and a phone number and an email. Entry level employment is like 99% massive corporations that make no allowances for the realities of hard lives.
Wikipedia has a decent summary of the history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95_in_New_Jersey#Hi...
Honestly, this seems like another instance of Intel dropping the ball, and AMD is more than happy to pick up the slack. AMD is already testing their 7nm Epyc chips with OEMs to be released Q1'19.

My takeaway from this is that server manufacturers are starting to recommend Epyc is a solution which will increase AMD's market share. This will just create more competition between Red and Blue which will give consumers faster innovation and better prices.
There is no such thing as a near zero crime rate for homeless people.

Some things that increase safety on the street:

Don't take any disrespect off of anyone. Push back or walk away at the first insult. Otherwise, it escalates.

Try to stay clean and look middle class. Short hair and cleanliness can get you mistaken for a tourist. It helps.

Camping in a wooded area is a good thing. Don't sleep too close to housing. They will call the cops.

Try to not be a trouble-maker yourself. The cops are much less likely to hassle you if you are merely dirt poor and sleeping outside somewhere.
It's not that bad... In practice startups don't have worry about these things before they grow large.

I've yet to be fined for not having a cookie popup on my blog :)
Why not publicly funded R&D?
Pain is feeding from fear, which can explain these:

* you feel less pain if you cause it for yourself (you've already conquered fear)

* mindfulness eases pain because of more knowledge / seeing, less fear
Do you have any counter argument to the actual article? It cites a study of events that could be described as censorious and evaluates the political stance of the people being censored. Can you produce evidence showing that this is untrue?
Open Match: Flexible and extensible open source matchmaking for games
They don’t want to lower the price to you. They simply don’t want to pay the middle man.
I am already focusing on how the debt-based economy currently works and its problems.
Wayland does not support network transparency because you're supposed to use a VNC server. Making the X protocol network-transparent worked because draw commands don't make for much traffic, but today you'd be hard-pressed to find any X application that does not just send entire bitmaps (or rather, OpenGL textures) to the X server. It's similar to how Mac OS moved away from a PostScript-based display architecture, if my knowledge of Mac OS history is to be trusted.

Having said that, I don't know if there are working VNC implementations for Wayland. Due to Wayland's security architecture, a VNC server (or any other thing that grabs screen contents) requires permission from (and thus cooperation with) the compositor.
Auto-updates are being applied, so whatever latest is, it just updated today in fact.

The only plugin I have installed is uBlock Origin.
I live on a box truck and collect cryptocurrency bounties on random public wifis. Homeless dev here. Problem is capitalism.
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I'm curious as to what privacy you think you'd gain from storing your mail at home? Unless everyone encrypts everything they send you, most likely most of that mail will go through a government monitored connection at some point. It wouldn't be that hard for them to reconstruct your mailbox if they wanted to.

Also, why not keep it on a hosted server somewhere? You could encrypt it at rest to prevent anyone coming in and getting the data, which would make it as private as storing it at home. And then you don't have to worry about deliverability or backup power as a nice side bonus.
X2Go (the OSS fork of "nx - no machine") works really well over a network. Though I really think it might be best to do the rendering client-side and push video frames. Though I do concede that the two models are really two separate ways to do computing, based on where your actual compute resources are located. With X11 forwarding, the rendering happens server-side, at the user's terminal [1], while with e.g. VNC the rendering happens client-side on the remote machine and the video frame is presented to the user, who is basically sitting at a dumb terminal. HTML delivered over HTTP would be the most wide-spread technology that uses user-side rendering today.

[1] The terminology might seem weird to you with the server-side being the user's side, or what you'd usually term the "client", but it makes sense - you run the X11 server on your PC, then connect over the network to a remote host using e.g. SSH, so now you have an X11 server and an SSH client running on your PC, connected to an SSH server on the remote. Then you open a socket on the remote side connected to the X11 socket on the local side via the SSH tunnel and remote programs initiate connections to your X11 server. You type at your terminal, that gets picked up by your SSH client and sent to the SSH server, the SSH server relays your typing to the remote shell, which execs the remote X11 client, which connects to your X11 server. Simple!
I found Hoverfly to be a good alternative: https://hoverfly.io/
At the very least, you could damage someone's brain faculties to the point that they can no longer philosophize their way out of suffering. And that is likely unnecessary, some drugs should suffice.

"Suffering is optional" is a concept that dies immediately if you apply even a tiny amount of creativity to the question. It also fails if applied to animals.

It's really only available to people in a specific range of situations, and often it's stated not because it's actually true, but because it makes people feel powerful in situations where they're rather powerless. Which is mostly the point of stoicism anyway, as it is a philosophy developed during a time when people felt that they couldn't change anything about the world.

Of course, this means it's a poor philosophy to follow if your interest is in things improving, and not in just you personally not caring about them, something that many people already accomplish all too well...
Maybe that's the issue. For him, programming is an abstract notion. Whereas it's really just a practice. You work on it, figure out where you are being dumb, then go home and take care of other stuff.
I am thankful for your response. The longer story would be fairly juicy, I guess. I want to write more on it but it is painful and I am embarrassed by many decisions that I have made. I've been to jail several times for activism and for someone else, for example...but I've never been because I did something considered immoral, I guess is the right way to put it. I want to write on these things and your response motivates me to do that. I will think on it a bit and figure out how to approach this.
Should orphan processes be renamed as well? What about brainfuck?

Terrible connotations don't mean anything when you treat a word objectively and technically. I am not thinking about people when I am having issues synchronizing a slave db.

The same terminology is still used in bdsm and I would argue most instances of partners engaging in the specific dynamic is out of love.

I do agree that better terminology is available and should be used. Negative connotations, however, do not apply when the application in computer science is so far removed from what the author alludes to.
I don't think you are aware how much background other writers grab from them and no one credits them, ever. They have a reputation of knowing lots of insider stuff and there's a reason that they can survive with a paywall while hardly anyone else can (I can't think of a singe site writing about hardware that is subscription based?).
> delegated everything

Did one thing correctly.
I'm not super familiar with HPE's product lines but I'm just kind of surprised they are still using the Apollo name.

Maybe we'll see some Silicon Graphics branded HP gear too?
Very nice. I will make sure our server teams know they can get Epyc. Hopefully we are already testing the Spectre impact on Xeon vx. Epyc.
I mean it doesn't seem feasible, but it doesn't seem like a stupid idea, either.
Should have gone pesca-pescatarian.
Feels a bit like Apple's resurrection from the dead when Jobs came back to take the helm after having been 'fired'... now AMD is eating Intel's pie left right and center.
How does this make any sense in the concept of animals who are suffering because they're hurt, hungry, etc. What are they indulging in?
X, along with FreeBSD and Lisp have been dying for a few decades now at least. I think the quote goes "doesn't look any deader than usual".
> The service had a feature on the app that let drivers tag passengers with phrases like “long legs” and “hot as hell.” All Hitch drivers were able to read the tags, which have since been removed from the app, and they were also able to specify a preference for female or male passengers,
I was meaning shrink is derogatory for a mental health professional.
Sounds like you never learned how to do anything outside of coding. There is more to succeeding in life than being able to code.
Wikipedia also mentions that this account has been questioned:

> However, according to a dissenting account by hacktivist and MindVox co-founder Patrick K. Kroupa, subterfuge prior to The Transmission elicited a betrayal of trust which yielded the uploaders the text. Kirschenbaum declined to elaborate on the specifics of the Kroupa conjecture, which he declared himself "not at liberty to disclose".
Advantages of Elixir vs. Golang
"zero crime rate" often means "police harass the shit out of homeless folks because their mere presence makes the middle class people uncomfortable".

Police regularly steal and destroy homeless folks' belongings in most major cities. Every time a "tent city" is broken up, it means that everything someone owns that they can't carry on their person is being sent to the dump. Any time a homeless person is arrested, even for small infractions or for warrant violations because they couldn't afford to pay a ticket (I know several homeless folks who've gone to jail because they were ticketed for sleeping on public property and then couldn't pay the ~$300 fine), they probably have to start over when they get out...anything of value they had will be gone.

Homelessness could be much less destructive than it is, but people don't want it to be. They want "tough on crime", they want police to "clean up the streets", etc. Most cities, and their police, are actively out to get you on a daily basis if you're homeless. It just adds to the pile of uncertainty and stress that the very poor endure, and it's part of the cycle that keeps people homeless.
It sounds like he has a phone number and an email.
He could get a mailbox at a fedex as a permanent address.

This individual sounds more stubborn than your average person but also that he's had a tough life.

Hope the world works out for him.
You said I was raining on “your parade.” I admitted that I had no resources on mental illness. The best I could do was Google it. Getting him another job is just dealing with the symptoms. He had a job, a car,a place to stay etc. and lost it all because of the emotional issues he admitted that he had.

Why would things be any different this time without dealing with the underlying issues? I’m not judging him any more than I would judge someone with cancer. Mental illness is just as real and could benefit from treatment just like any other illness.
The number of question marks and exclamation points in your original post does not fit the relative severity of the issue you are describing. If you used that many question marks to describe a car with an imperfect auto-braking system, I can't imagine how many you'd use to describe a car with a human braking system. In the U.S., those humans fail to brake, with consequences, 2.5 million times a year. https://www.scmitchell.com/blog/2017/may/rear-end-collisions...

Even when self-driving cars become popular, people will still be injured and die in them. And it won't be just a subset of the people who would have died without such cars. It will almost certainly be a different, randomly selected group of people. If it's your time to go, does it matter to you whether you died because a texting teenager slammed into your stopped car? Or because an edge case triggered in a car's software? The former case is just stupid. The latter case is something society can learn from and prevent from ever happening again.

If you are in favor of more people dying in "normal" accidents, then by all means, please continue expressing your outrage.

The cost of progress in this area is computers making mistakes instead of people making them.
Replying to that piece of text out of context is really boring.
I also went through both of those downturns while working in a rural area. The first time, which was early in my career, I voluntarily left one job to join another during it all. I found no issues with the job market at that time. I have found that, in general, tech jobs are often easier to come by in rural areas as tech professionals prefer to not live in such places, leaving no competition for what jobs are available.

The second time, later in my career, I did find myself without work, but with the substantial savings I was able to accumulate thanks to a low cost of living, I didn't even bother to look for another job. I essentially took a couple of months of vacation during the worst of it and then employers started knocking on my door again when things started to turn around.

I am sure another downturn will come again, and if that means having to move, so be it. I also have no qualms about working in other industries. I'm especially fond of the agriculture industry, which is convenient for me. But, as you well know, having a tech career for long enough to have gone through those two downturns, we're getting into the position that we could start to seriously think about retiring when that time comes. While the average career may not have that luxury, you can save a lot of money with a high tech income.

The risk seems overblown to me. If the worst case scenario is having to move back to where you came, that's not a very big risk. You will be there even if you stay put.
Actually yes - this perspective would discount the immense value of brand, design, narrative and belief. And before you think that that stuff is "not real", consider that the reason you do anything is because of some dominant narrative you may or may not have reflected on.

Narratives are what get people build rockets and go to the moon, or build them and go to war instead.
Warming is driving much of the Colorado River's decline, scientists say
Entry level employment is like 99% massive corporations

This seems unlikely, given that the majority of jobs in the US are provided by small businesses.
You sound pretty out of touch. In Iowa there is an enormous agriculture industry - an industry not known for asking a lot of personal questions about origin or current status. If you can show up and do the work (and maybe pass a drug test), you're hired. And often paid cash.

Outside of agriculture, there are the usual suspects. Bars, restaurants, cleaning jobs, roofing, painting, other forms of low skill construction, landscaping/yard work, and with the unemployment rate so low, other jobs are becoming available as well. Many of these jobs have someone who drives, and a passenger or two to help with the work when they arrive. I know several folks who do not have licenses due to DUIs, and they are gainfully employed without owning a car, in places where cars are almost a necessity.

I never said it would be easy - but it certainly is doable.
this isn't available system-wide, unfortunately. it's up to the application to implement it.
Screwing up in the past and having bad credit would make it nearly impossible to rent a home. You generally need good credit and deposit money. With a high income you could have the deposit but it won't fix your credit.

If you have a high income at least you can get into AirBnBs or hotels, because they don't do credit checks.
How do you "study" and "program" without being able to focus?

Because when it's time to study biology, all one thinks about is how to distribute units of work across GPUs for that thing they're working on. Kind of like the two pit bull terriers I have at home. Oh, they can focus like a motherfucker. Too bad that when they're focused on a squirrel they have no bandwidth left for my commands.
The expensive generics are the ones where there isn't much demand and few patients. Not much of a population to develop a co-op from.
I have always assumed that if I explain something to someone and they dont get it then I need to do a better job at explaining it.
Its like the difference between a magician and a scientist.

A Magician takes the trivial and shrouds it in confusion till one is astonished by the reveal.
A scientist deconstructs the reveal into the simple and trivial.

I loath the magician.
Nope. You're totally in the loop. The employees may be drinking the kool-aid there are definitely some customers drinking it up as well, but I think most people over the age of 23 realize WeWork isn't doing anything groundbreaking.
In his book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running", Murakami does not claim it as his own. I do think it captures both running and meditation well.
Super-curious: have you seen much customer-driven demand for AMD EPYC, i.e. for reasons other than Xeon availability? AMD processors have been affected to a lesser degree to speculative execution exploits, they're cheaper and (if I'm not mistaken) offer more PCIe lanes, etc.

Also, do you expect 7mm EPYC to do well in your space?
Thanks!
> Oh noes, you have to have the platform from the company to make apps for the platform from the company. The horror.

Useless snark.

> I honestly cannot take seriously any complaints about having to have a Mac to make Mac apps. How on earth are you testing if you don't have the platform you're supposed to be targeting?

The point is that you don't have to buy dedicated hardware for the other two big platforms (Windows, Linux). The fact that this restriction is essentially arbitrary makes cross-platform developers reasonably annoyed.
Can you comment on the September/October availability claims?
An even better example would be the Google bid for wireless spectrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2008_wireless_sp... It didn't want to win in the first place, but it forced openness on the winners.