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I think there is an immense opportunity for open-source here. So many techies are yearning to get back in touch with nature, and contribute to the planet. Using your spare time and expertise to develop robofarmer software helps from both angles. Not only software - the hardware could be open sourced too! Seems like the perfect opportunity for 3D printed components and small machines.

The next Red Hat could come along and get paid to implement and support it all.
There was, but not so much on PC compatibles.
Even if most people saw their share of the aggregate wealth shrink, they are still individually wealthier; this is not a zero-sum game, there is more wealth in society now than there has ever been. It is fine to argue that the system is unfair in how that wealth is distributed, but let's not lose sight of the fact that the debate is not about whether or not people are better off, it is about the degree to which they are better off. Remember that a century ago plagues were considered a fact of life in America, and today we are arguing about whether or not people can afford treatments for rare illnesses (I personally believe we could do a better job of giving people access to life-saving care, but the fact that we even have such a debate is a sign of how wealthy our civilization has become).
Hey, I actually have your Gopher client installed on my Windows machine. Great work!
> Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption. The measure of social status, of social acceptance, of prestige, is now to be found in our consumptive patterns. The very meaning and significance of our lives today expressed in consumptive terms. The greater the pressures upon the individual to conform to safe and accepted social standards, the more does he tend to express his aspirations and his individuality in terms of what he wears, drives, eats - his home, his car, his pattern of food serving, his hobbies.

> These commodities and services must be offered to the consumer with a special urgency. We require not only “forced draft” consumption, but “expensive” consumption as well. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, and discarded at an ever increasing pace. We need to have people eat, drink, dress, ride, live, with ever more complicated and, therefore, constantly more expensive consumption.

-- Victor Lebow, "The Real Meaning of Consumer Demand", Journal of Retailing, 1955
I'm no physicist or engineer but isn't it easier to deal with the absence of pressure (a vacuum) than with lots and lots of pressure?
However oppressive the Prussian Partition could have been, they did recognize the law, in this case at least.

Under communism Drzymała wouldn't be unlikely to get threatened, beaten up or even killed by "unknown perpetrators" (secret police).
Self-employed here. There's a middle ground where you do neither. Work 2 hours a day, enough to feed the family.
More costly than building thousands of tiny robots or pollinating plants by hand?
I meant for the fees to cover the replacement costs, not that people would stop losing their cards.
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"analyzing every aspect of the customer experience to drive loyalty and referrals"

I guess as companies spend vast amounts to get visibility online (e.g. where Google and Facebook revenue comes from) they need to be able to measure what they are getting for all that money.
> One only has to imagine an alternate reality without technology where every conversation between two people has a cop nearby listening in.

Listening devices have long been a staple of the police. The FBI took out many a mobster with a bug in a lampshade, say.
And currently it looks like we're headed for "nothing is agreed" - No Deal. Nightmare.
Although there are exceptions to it, eg. "budżet" (or budget) is typically pronounced as if it were spelled "budrzet", apparently owing to the French origin of the word.
you can try to use the camera on your computer. Just put it on the right place where can shoot your sleeping bed, open it and turn on the camera to start video shooting.
Every friend group has one or two people that interact with others like you do: It has to be on their terms, they have principles that get in the way, etc. That's beautiful and all the more power to you for doing so, but if you believe it doesn't impact you much more heavily than you make it seem here you are deluding yourself. You've made it so that including you in anything is effort. Effort that people need to expend consciously, and will not be the ground state. You've isolated yourself (to a certain degree) for your principles.
I don't think that setting the DNS server is an option on Android prior to Pie.
Inspiring article, I am also going to try it out in my IoT project with different data from varies of sensors
This shouldn't be a surprise though - Ever closer union has been the slogan since 1983. The EU has always been more than an economic entity, and is better for it IMO - economic union without political union is unstable and untenable in the longer term (just as one example, people in states like Greece have no effective political power over a brutal fiscal policy which impacts them deeply).

I suspect the intention was always to promote a political and cultural union via economic and fiscal union first, then gradually political union. This is why the Euro project is so misunderstood - in isolation between Nation States it is madness, if viewed as a necessary step to a federal European state it makes lots of sense.

Perhaps a federal state will always have too much concentration of power, however our short experiment with nation states over the last couple of centuries shows they are not a very good alternative IMO, and we'll hopefully find better forms of government (perhaps far more local power over tax/policy down at the county or town level with overarching federal entities for foreign policy and trade).

The nationalism we've seen resurgent across the globe, of which Brexit is a celebration, is the easy answer, but is not the answer we need, and will in my view lead us only to war.
> What part of that is an over simplification?

Because it’s really not about people it’s about aspects of people.

Let’s say Sam is a Packers fan. Now Bob is a member of the Packers football team so on Sunday their part of the same in group.

But, on Election Day Sam is a Dem and Bob a Republican so the must fight.

But their both Americans who are part of the army reserve, so they are brothers in arms willing to risk their lives for each other.

But, they are part of different faiths, and ...

So, this vilification is about context. The football team you need to beat today, may need to beat some other team next week to get you into the playoffs etc etc.
An apples-to-apples comparison should not care for what the fundamental unit is, unless it can be argued to be the equal in terms of what it does to the problem being solved. The common factor needs to be the same problem given to both to see how much power is consumed. Or alternatively, we could compare what they could do with a given amount of power with a common output performance metric.
DPRK? Nope...
China? Erm...
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I think they project their worldview onto the EU. The UK is a collection of countries where the large country decides what happens. So therefore the EU is painted in the same cynical terms. That's not to say that large EU countries don't have more clout, but the EU is not a Franco-German empire as some like to imagine.
I heard that what you have to pay for a company is something like what the company will be able to make in 20-30 years.

Not sure if you couldn't build it your own for that kind of money.
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I have no idea what 'should the people serve the nation' means. Sounds like you wrote something that sounded cool but completely forgot that phrases should actually mean something.

In a representative democracy, the people elect others to represent them in the legislature (and sometimes if it is separate, the executive). There are different ideas as to how representatives should operate/vote. But you would hope that for issues that are too complex for the public at large, the representatives would make the decisions as they are in a better position to do so. Government being accountable to the people has proven to be the best form of governance, but governance by the people has never and will never end well.
Historically, the world's "peasants" are enjoying the best quality of life in humanity's history, even if the gap on paper is widening.

Capitalism is far from perfect but it seems to be the best system we've come up with so far.
From the article:

> SAP CEO Bill McDermott preempted the IPO with an all-cash offer that was more than 75 percent higher than the company’s projected valuation. McDermott said in a conference call that SAP had to pay up because Qualtrics roadshow was going well.
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Yeah that was my first thought. If they were honest they would compare the numbers from a different year before Brexit. For every 10 companies leaving in 2018 if only one did in 2014, then sure you can say Brexit is causing a large outflux.
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It's also a harder technical problem. The pressure difference between the inside and outside of a spacecraft is pretty small (less than the pressure in your car tires). The pressure difference at the bottom of the ocean is several orders of magnitude higher.
It may be helpful to look at one of the academic fields underpinning their work. Take a look at Industrial/Organizational Psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_and_organizational_...

Qualtrics basically brings the concepts from that field down into SaaS products and makes them more approachable.
The comment to which you're replying wasn't intended as a jibe at capitalism, just pure observation of unrealistic expectations of a college / university graduate in an ignorance-is-bliss kind of naivete.

Faith in the reciprocation of loyalty with thine employer can be just as misplaced as with your government, whatever shape of ideology it follows (any system is corruptible; gosh-darn humans).
Yeah, I was being flip there, not really offering a serious thought.
I have tested Gutenberg and while it does allow you to write markdown, the editor still feels like a WYSIWYG editor. Also I often find myself just wanting to write blog posts without worrying about formatting, blocks, etc which you can do within the plugin using your favorite markdown/text editor.
This is a bubble price. Qualtrics is a nice service to roll out surveys but $8B is a lot of money for something so niche.
It's trivial for them to auto-ignore such reports when they are coming from an account with abnormally high report rates. The effect of your protest will be, effectively, null.
It's not so much the "direction" of the pressure as it is simply the scale of the pressure you have to deal with. ~15psi (space) vs ~15,000psi (ocean).
True.

But the bootstrapping community is filles with its own kind of people.

Not much overlap.
Usually IPO will offer 10-20% of shares. So even if the price is slightly higher, it reflects the fact that majority of the shares are non floating. In this case 8 billion seems to be upfront cash deal. This actually seems to be a pretty bad deal for SAP.
Is there any way to get (nick)names to show up instead of just phone numbers? I tried revoking the contacts permission then realised how it could be quite difficult to find a chat in a long list.
It's explained in the article

>Qualtrics had filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. and was planning to raise about $500 million. SAP CEO Bill McDermott preempted the IPO with an all-cash offer that was more than 75 percent higher than the company’s projected valuation. McDermott said in a conference call that SAP had to pay up because Qualtrics roadshow was going well
This comment suggests that you are trying to support a political point by using obfuscated technical terms you do not understand.

"Workers" do not show up on a balance sheet: they are neither an asset not a liability "technically." There may be a payroll liability briefly, though it will then be paid out and taken off the books. Accrued vacation is a liability, which is why we have "unlimited PTO" policies.

It is impossible, in double entry bookkeeping, to "increase assets and reduce liabilities." Every asset must be balanced with a liability. That's the fundamental basis of that accounting system.

To the extent that we're speaking metaphorically, workers are assets. To the extent that we're speaking technically, it's clear that you tried to apply jargon that you didn't understand to confuse others.
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If it helps with your inspiration, here's my story: I launched my company (Wingify) on HN when I was 22 and bootstrapped for last 8 years. Today we're not Qualtrics scale, but we're doing ~$20mn and have never made a loss in our history.

My guess is that businesses like mine are more common than VC funded ones but we only get to see VC funded ones because that's what the news covers.
So bear in mind:

1) those are 2017 numbers, so if we assume they grew by the same amount, they’re over 400m this year, which makes it only 20x

2) the article mentions that SAP is paying a 75% premium over the IPO valuation, because the road show was going well, they felt like they had to do it.

3) a 10-12x revenue valuation is not unreasonable for publicly traded companies

So, they’re growing like crazy, IPO plans going great, Sap comes calling and qualtrics basically says “why should we sell? We did all the annoying IPO work, what are you going to offer us to make this worth our while?”

It’s basically the perfect negotiating position.
It does depend a what level you are working at for example my main client is a major beverage supplier.

They have 200+ brands sold over about the same number of markets.

Its useful to provide high level dashboard summarising key metric.
3 years was the standard for a long time. It still is the standard outside of tech as far as I have heard. Tech gets different/higher valuations because of the expected hockey-stick growth pattern, which makes future revenue non-linear, so you pay a higher multiple if you have that level of growth.

Even so, Qualtrics got a really good exit here.
I'm not so keen on the marketing fluff either, but there are definitely needs being met. The cases I'm most familiar with are in psychological research, which consists of having people fill in a lot of questionnaires (asking about mood, stress-levels, or testing cognitive skills). Qualtrics provides a service to easily build these questionnaires, send them out to respondents, and collect their response (and export the data for later analysis in packages like SPSS). With a little bit of extra work, you can even do highly interactive tasks like Stroop through Qualtrics. For the average psychologist this would simply be undoable without this type of software.

Similarly, class-action lawsuits often require sign-in through filling in some sort of questionnaire. Previously, these questionnaires would be handled through live phone interview, which is obviously very intensive for both the interviewee and interviewer. The questionnaires are often quite interactive, with different questions being asked dependent on answers to previous questions, or aggregates of previous questions. It would take skilled interviewers a while to learn to interview for any one questionnaire. Qualtrics (and similar survey software) makes this process much, much simpler.

You then also have your regular marketing research, the value of which can be debated... but it is obvious people are willing to pay for the creation and distribution of such questionnaires.

Beyond this, I'm sure there are a bunch of other applications of the software.
Could it be that our species has had time to develop an instinctual fear of deep water that we haven’t had the chance to develop for space travel?
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It's not normal for stable companies to be bought at 20x their stable revenue.

However, if the revenue is $190m followed by $290m followed by $400m, then that shows that the expected future revenue (which matters for the valuation) likely is much larger than $400m, so it takes a much smaller, more reasonable multiplier to reach $8B.
Are plumber wages really going down, though? I am not familiar with the situation in the UK, but in Denmark where I live, demand for plumbers (and construction workers) has outstripped supply for many years now. It's difficult to find a plumber who's willing to pick up the phone let alone commit to a job, and when you do find one, they are outrageously expensive. In this environment, I have a hard time sympathising with anyone who complains that e.g. Polish workers are coming and offering to take the assignments for less money.
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It's a bit worrying that the two main links in the rebuttal are no longer functional.

Edit: the two links I was talking were likely linking to the following:

http://unhandledexpression.com/crypto/general/security/2013/...

https://web.archive.org/web/20171213214126/https://moxie.org...
Because they can charge at least 4x the prices.
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You make it sound like Facebook doesn't know how. Of course they do.

It's just that ads is significantly more profitable than having to run sales teams in the 200 odd countries around the world. Especially since ads is largely self service even down to ML models monitoring abuse.
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There's a few things involved, and they're not all BS!

You want to build a couple new features. You have 60 person-hours at your disposal. Which one do your users want?

Build two quick prototypes and see which one people actually use more.

You need to convince people to give you money (aka "get customers"). You're not sure what the best way to convince them is. Try 3 different approaches (Landing page with tech details? Youtube ads with customer stories? etc) and see which one works before you spend all of your budget on something nobody uses.

Out of a thousand people walking down the street, only one _might_ be interested in what you do. How do you make sure you focus your efforts on that one person?

Or "we have a million f2p video game players. 99% of them will never spend a dime. 0.1% of them will buy a $100 package once. 0.01% of them will buy a $9.99 package three thousand times. When should we present this package to them? Will we sell more $100 packages if we ALSO have a $200 package? Will we sell more $100 packages to Jane Doe who takes the bus to college at 8:45 AM and plays for 34 minutes 5 days a week?" (obviously that one gets a bit more troublesome)

The above comes with some severe implications re: privacy, filter bubbles, etc. but it's not there for no reason. Though there's plenty of people who just want pretty charts for their own sake; having worked in analytics the toughest question is "we have these charts.. umm... so what now?"
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Is it? How many hours for you to set up something similar, and then what do you get paid per hour?
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I struggle a lot with OCD. I have a therapist. We have techniques and routines to try and reduce the anxiety and compulsions to some reasonable baseline. Some days are O.K, others are torture.

My frequent OCDs include:

1. Leaving the cooker on
2. Leaving the taps on
3. Leaving a window open or a door unlocked
4. Some kind of electrical fault burning down the house
5. Causing harm to other people, particularly when driving
6. Searching the Internet for illegal content
7. Doing something awful/unforgivable and being criminally prosecuted or losing all my savings in some kind of civil case

I never usually experience them at the same time. They come and go one at a time and some I have learned to manage better than others.
No need to do anything complicated. Just name them leo-1, leo-2, ..., and have a page with info about the orbit path for each (visualized, as well as in e.g. keplerian elements)
Lions in the desert are smarter than we are then. We've "built" a far less quality world around us than even ants, bees, apes, birds. They at least have authentic bonds left. We have arrangements and schemes.
I talk to my anxiety peaks. It's a bit like a meditative distanciation device.
Pythonista has been on the App Store for 6 years. The first programming environment on the iPad I ever used was Codea which is based on Lua which was released in 2011, but there are many more. Genuine programming environments directly hosted on iOS have been around for a long time.

The main restriction in the past was on apps that downloaded code to run. For Pythonista and Codea and such this meant you had to either type in or cut-and-past in your code. However Pythonista has had the ability for you to write or paste in a dropbox sync script or FTP server script, etc, for may years, they just couldn't include it as standard. Since then this has been eased up so Pythonista now has a built-in feature to sync scripts to iCloud.
You jest but labour law in the USA and the UK descends from the "master and servants act"
I sincerely wish I were wrong.
Considering "the economy" determines whether or not we can eat, have somewhere to live, get access to healthcare etc. (rightly or wrongly), I'd say it's pretty central to everything that we do as a species.
well, looks like they finally have to compete again.
The truth is, there are still 5+ competing options within NASA, with each center having staff familiar with different tools, and with a generally large learning curve for new tools it is a hard sell to use something new. Most of the time, the tools you used on the last mission are the same tool you will use on the next mission.

We’ve seen remarkable uptick in OpenMCT usage at different centers purely because it is open source and folks can use it for free. Other similar products require you to contact the supporting org, request a delivery of the software, spend days/weeks deploying and configuring it for your mission, before you can even begin to evaluate the software. We’re finding that by lowering barriers to access and by allowing others to modify it to suit their needs, we are getting much better buy in from operators and missions.
It's interesting to me that you bring up the topic of churches, because I've yet to find a museum that can rival the feeling of visiting a "proper", Gothic cathedral. I think the main difference is that a museum feels like it "just" holds art, while a cathedral "is" art.

About the future of art galleries, I'm reminded of a Reddit post where someone mentioned visiting a Goya exhibition. The audioguide gave enough background on the pieces that you could trace the evolution of Goya's state of mind, and as a result you could understand the man through his art. I've always been jealous of that story: I love art galleries, I've visited plenty, and yet seeing lots and lots of art has not really improved my understanding of it.

I imagine art galleries could follow a path similar to libraries: a place where you go not because of the paintings themselves, but rather as a place to learn and where the (curated) selection tells a story.