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Elon Musk gets a lot of props and he was never been an automotive worker or a rocket engineer before founding the technical companies he is famous for.

Are you arguing that he succeeded at running a rocket company because he once programmed for a computer game?
Not at fb, but if this is a genuine call to promote disruption via career activisim, its heartwarming.
That said, i feel like it may merely delay some timelines as tje queue for working there is large
People don’t recall but when the USFL popped up in the 80’s it was actually pretty successful as a “Spring Time” football league. Playing in Spring they didn’t compete with NFL or College Football and provided a product people wanted to fill the gap between seasons.

It was good old Donald Trump who lead the effort to change the season and compete directly with NFL by changing the season to Fall. Of course the USFL went bankrupt and Trump sued including a claim anti-trust/monopoly. The Court famously agreed NFL was in fact a monopoly but awarded Trump damages in the amount of $1.
Violent crime is not incompatible with a slow paced way of life.
>Anyone can index the web and anyone can build a social network and Google/Facebook aren't going to crush you with lawsuits or some other nefarious tactic to maintain their position (AFAIK).

Maybe but you're also almost certainly going to be acquired by them.
I guess that if her computer does end up being part of a botnet she would at least be mitigating damage by doing that :)
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I'm curious about your mental model of AWS. How do you reason about AWS?
I think that's taking the teeth out of it a little bit. I believe that he began working for Hogan in secret seeking revenge for being outed.
IBM has never struck me as that clueless about open source, and I imagine Red Hat management would fight that as much as possible realizing how much of a long term strategic blunder it would be.
What's the used cars example?
He's talking about utility not profit.
The question was "is there any ICO that actually delivered what it promised?" The answer is obviously yes.

If you were to ask "are startups who run ICOs more likely to succeed than fail" then of course the answer is no. But that's a reality also faced by angel investors and VCs.

You might also ask whether ICO token prices on average went up or down, but that has nothing to do with OP's question at all.
> because the energy travels at the same speed as our fastest communications systems (actually, faster...)

Radio waves propagate at the speed of light, and electricity is slower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity
I'm assuming mainly spinoffs of the NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...
Anyone know what AI and blockchain it has?
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Exactly, and especially and the advanced age of his parents, any active should beat no activity.

My grandparents (85ish) do the same, they go on walks and occasionally bike rides together. Not very far, around 5km. But it beats just sitting around doing nothing!
Not quite exactly about "lucrative yet monotonous", but The War of Art is definitely an extended meditation on "putting in the elbow grease". It's not a manual of techniques about how to get things done, but it is inspirational for getting out of your own way, shutting up, sitting down, and writing.

It's written by someone who mostly writes movies, but it applies to anyone who does anything remotely creative, where your project has a lot of uncertainty and many opportunities to stall or talk yourself into giving up.

Highly recommended.
"Investments in IT" by the german government means we somehow funnel money to the big companies to make sure they dont fire people. Deutsche Telekom daughter T-Systems decided in september to cut 6000 jobs in germany (10k worldwide) to save 600mio €/year. Now the Government spents 3B on "AI". Coincidence?
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Indeed. It was quite the entry to the company for me as well. "What are you working on?" "Fixing Dave's code." "Good luck."

But my most auspicious entry to a company was where the guy I was replacing had been arrested for stealing data from a competitor. My first two days were spent recovering logs, downloads and other traces of what he had done and handing it over to the lawyers. (the circumstances were not mentioned in the hiring process)
How about you shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you have some previous experience in auto industry? You need to know the game...
Indeed, Btrfs is uniquely capable and important. It has lightweight snapshots of directory trees, and fully supports NFS exports and kernel namespaces, so it can easily solve technical problems that currently can't be easily solved using ZFS or other filesystems. Btrfs is also used now for ChromeOS's Crostini Linux application container.
When you say you powered it off, was that a safe shutdown or did you just pull the power?

Most file system drivers delay writes, I suspect some variant of your test (if it was unsafe shutdown) could be reproduced on almost any system.
I know, that broke libguestfs too :-( Btrfs was the only Linux filesystem that let me create an 8 exabyte virtual filesystem in a reasonable time.

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/05/nbdkit-for-loopback-pt...
Where I work we have many PI 1 and PI 3 in our facility. They have been running for almost 3 years, 24/7, 365 days a year. We got a few instances of corrupted cards so, about 6 months ago, in order to reduce writes on the cards, we decided to reduce logging done by our software running on them, and they have been working perfectly since then.
> Transformer explosions are inherently harder to isolate from flammable material in the American distribution system design than they would be in a European 240v system, that's because the US system has to keep LV (110v) runs short so has extensive HV networks with pole-mounted transformers feeding a small number of properties each. 240v systems can tolerate longer LV runs and use larger pad-mounted distribution

Wait... In the US for household single-phase it is 240V from the pole transformer to the breaker panel, where the 120V is derived by taking one hot or the other against the neutral, and the range/drier/etc 240V circuits are simply across both hots. So there is no difference between EU or US distribution voltages until it gets inside the house. All the US does is add a neutral so that it is easy to get 120V.
Right, but for government agent in charge of cyber security, they would need a pretty high level of IT knowledge for it to make any difference. I don't see how that's feasible for career politicians. I also don't see how it's necessary, they in the end are just managing people.
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Just because people think something is not funny doesn't mean they're humourless.

I'll make my point a bit more specific, how is that comment funny in relation to the comment it is replying to? It doesn't even make sense as a reply to it. I could see it as being more humorous as a reply to the comment I was replying to.
Your analogy is too literal. GP is saying some relevant experience has value, not experience in every little aspect. So, with that in mind, GP is arguing he succeeded at starting/running a technical company because he once started/ran a technical company.
let's say this Cyber Security Minister has trusted subordinates who do actually understand the technical aspects. how do they even begin to communicate with a person who's never used a computer? purely in metaphors?

there needs to be at minimum some common language between managers and what they're managing. otherwise it worse than broken telephone.

without a certain level of understanding, it's just a useless abstraction level for the sake of filling a govt position.
Not every trader has an open relationship. You are just brushing people with a broad stroke. Buffet is his own individual who had his own arrangement with his family. You are insinuating that he's the same as all "traders" while also insinuating the things "traders" are notorious for. No one's perfect , but time and again Buffet has set a good example for principled investing. You allege that he took a wild swing and got lucky, but he follows what he learnt from Benjamin Graham and then invests. He's always done that. For the layman he suggests just resting and vesting in index funds which have time and again worked over a long period of time.
having read some of your other comments maybe you're making a point about UX -- where the tradeoff between a biometric password or some long and obtuse string of characters (which is thus more likely to be saved in the browser or written on a sticky note) is not as obvious as it seems: which is worse? that's a valid point.

and then about usernames: maybe you're just saying, hey i can't just swipe my finger at gmail.com because which gmail account am i logging into? do i need 1 finger for each account (business, personal, etc)? lol that's kind of valid point too but nobody is proposing that the biometric identifier is the only part of the username anymore than your browser fingerprint is (which google does indeed utilize; sign in from somewhere else and you'll get 2FA vs on your own device, etc etc). think of your biometric data more like your phone number in 2fa. its yours and can help to verify your identify but its not secret and your authenticator should be secret
Some of the best managers I know, especially in tech, are the ones that admit their teams are far better qualified to make those decisions than they are. We're not talking about an architect here. A team lead is different than a V or C level, my understanding is that the minister has about 3-4 layers between him and someone pushing code or writing policy. If I have the choice of putting someone at the head of a division of 200 people with excellent people management skills or good domain knowledge the former will trump in almost all cases. Domain knowledge is great, but it can actually make you less open minded and unbiased.

I've seen some pretty scary discussions about underlying technology in executive management with seasoned industry veterans and it's the usually the person with no domain knowledge that asks the right questions that lead to a good decision.

You depend on your team to execute. They depend on their team and so on.

That's why the minister expressed that he preferred the questions in advance so he can distribute them with his team (the experts) and get the right answers instead of answering on behalf of them.

Also it's pretty hard to get hacked when you don't have a computer. If anything the fact he rose to his position without the help of modern devices is a pretty strong testament to his fundamentals. Most managers and executives in tech would find their day-to-day pretty difficult without modern productivity tools.
I don't think that is a helpful comment, especially considering I did say I am working closely with my doctor to monitor my health and mood.

The practice of medicine is not actually that hard. It's all about risk profiles and benefit tradeoffs. The Lexapro I have been prescribed for my anxiety and the Advair for my asthma could very well be more dangerous for me than any trans-dermal Nicotine patch might be.

Our Food and Drug Administration has decided that it's relatively safe for me to buy Nicotine in whatever amounts I want without any more restriction than me being more than 18 years old. They've decided that Advair and Lexapro have risk profiles worth forcing me to go through my doctor before allowing me to have any.

We have thousands of years of data that shows Nicotine doesn't just randomly make you want to kill yourself. We have a lot of evidence that smoking tobacco can increase risk of cancer, and that the additives in commercial cigarettes can increase that risk a lot, but that doesn't apply to Nicotine specifically. There is some evidence that any sort of lung irritant can increase the risk of lung cancer, so even vaping might not be completely safe, but neither do we know the magnitude of that risk, especially separate from the many other irritants we're exposed to on a regular basis.

I'm not trying to advocate for using Nicotine. There is a risk of smokers pointing to information like this and saying "see, my disgusting habit is not that bad". That's not at all what I'm saying. But just because I don't have MD after my name doesn't mean I can't make informed decisions on my own about my own treatment. I'm just sick of this infantilizing concept that intelligent adults can't figure out a few things on their own.
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The short answer is, "the Web happened". The Web platform is a stack of approximately five[1] different programming languages (SQL/Python/Javascript/HTML/CSS). Each layer generates source code for an adjacent one, creating a level of cascading complexity which makes it impossible to create a workable a WYSIWYG GUI editor like (eg) Delphi's.

We cut the Gordian knot in Anvil (https://anvil.works) by replacing pretty much everything in that stack with one language (Python). You need to get rid of that complexity if you want to get anywhere close something like Delphi.

Anvil got pretty well reviewed on HN a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584124

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[1] - You can quibble about the exact number of languages, but they all have syntax and they all have source code you need to edit and run to see a result. And a successful injection into any of them is usually game over.
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I know I'm being extreme her but just playing devil advocate here for a second and responding to your question regarding acceptance amount:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

If you read it carefully you can see each one of them never truly felt they are at any blame till their last breadth. If as humanity some of us could be put in charge of putting fellow humans through gas chambers and treat it as "just another job", then I doubt some engineer at Facebook coding all day would have a guilty conscience.

Edit: I stand corrected - only FEW of these felt like they were at any fault at all.
Sounds like it, and I agree. How else should you judge this?

And what should you call it when people are less successful than they could be, and can't see that the cause is their counterproductive habits and apparent lack of self-awareness? - because 'smart' isn't the first word that springs to my mind.
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The command line has the advantage of presenting portable, terse and editable instructions that can be cobbled together into a recipe which can be abstracted and automated.

It's a very powerful interface.
> What matters is whether it's hard for others to offer alternatives

It is monstrously hard to offer alternatives. The barrier to entry is the massive engineering effort to compete.

Google is not just a search engine. It is an email server and client, a calendar, an online office suite, a cloud provider, a mobile platform, and I can go on listing things to fill up several pages of what Google is.

Even if DuckDuckGo is a better search engine, it offers 1% of the feature set and can't compete. The engineering effort needed for it to compete effectively is astronomical. Imagine what it would take to build out all of those Google services that are tightly integrated and not just build them out (like Microsoft), but build them out well. That is the barrier to entry.
If you lean against a wall and the wall falls over (killing people), are you liable?
Following link listed on the man page https://man.sr.ht

https://man.sr.ht/root

also gives a 404, but in a little better format. :)
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If you live on the East Coast then you take the wind for granted. On the Pacific Coast, the winds blow fast and furious, especially as you go up in altitude. Its very hard to control a burn here on most days, especially given the water cycle here. There is vastly more fuel in October and November than earlier in the year as the last rains are about 6 months past.

Controlled burns are probably done best during a short 1-2 month window when ground cover is dry enough, but those are also typically high wind months. To have any control of a burn here you need to be lucky (low winds for a few days), it needs to be a very small prescribed area, and probably needs to be at less than peak fuel.

This all amounts to a very small window for doing a prescribed burn. Given how big many of the forests are, and how much of the state is covered with them, I don’t see how you can have much of any control over a prescribed fire started there.

Certainly not without the heroic effort it takes to put out wildfires. I don’t know how we can ask firefighters to risk their life for a prescribed burn.
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If you don’t want to sometimes worry about forest fires, don’t build your house in the woods. It isn’t that complicated.

Yeah, like Malibu. Very wooded.
> as low-carb diets are done mostly by people who do IF

What? Maybe, but I think citation is needed there. The most widely popular keto diet, Atkins, doesn't say a thing about fasting - when you boil it down, and don't do any of the stupid carb-replacement recipe trickery that a lot of people do, Atkins equates to: take your normal meal with meat, starch, and vegetable, and stop making the starch, eat a little more vegetable if you want. Voila, there goes 500-1000 calories a day, more if you're eating starchy/sugary snacks. And you won't be hungry between meals. It's not rocket science.
Even a good you're compelled to buy can be obtained through a free market. Cars are the perfect example because contrary to your understanding, they are actually a basic requirement for a huge number of people. In addition, the vast majority of healthcare expenditures are not emergency, and aren't complicated so there's no reason why people can't obtain a diagnosis from one place and then seek out the best place to actually receive the treatment.
> I don't see how that's feasible for career politicians

Goes to show that's not who should fill the position

> I also don't see how it's necessary, they in the end are just managing people.

But not empathizing with them, a trait most would say effective management requires. Also, you are completely ignoring the decision making aspect. It's not like 100% of decisions will be deferred.
> this comment is ridiculous - what could you possibly have to back that up ?

Let's start with Palantir?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Controve...
I'd like to add contacting Github support on the list. I once had a similar issue and after deleting the repo I asked them to flush their caches and delete backups. The support person redirected me to someone on the technical staff. They confirmed with me after verifying my identity and went ahead with the backup deletion.
After that I pushed my fixed code to a new repo of the same name.

The entire process took less than an hour considering that it was 2pm in India when the issue happened and the support staff was most likely in the Americas.
What is the deal with George Soros anyway and why is he such a bogey man to the far right?
I'm not sure they need to code and know every detail but...having actually USED a computer and having a basic understanding of how it works would be a good start.
> - Then why not directly make one of those experts actually the Minister?

If you watch Yes, Minister (and Yes, Prime Minister), the show's thesis is that the system is mostly set up so that the civil service can run things regardless of whatever policies the politicians are trying to implement.
It's called OTC trading. It's been a thing for more than a century.

Blockchain trading is simply a dark pool with less protections, and dark pools have also been a thing in finance for decades.
Couldn't they simply charge more for their product/service to enable them to offer the higher salaries needed to attract workers?

I get the feeling that when they say they're struggling to fill jobs, what they really mean is "our current employees are overworked, and it would be nice to hire more and eek out some productivity, but no one wants the salaries we're offering so oh well".

If their struggle to hire was truly affecting their ability to produce, they would quickly offer more money, just as tech companies do to attract engineers.
Look into EAP-SIM and EAP-AKA for some concrete examples.

I believe mobile payment also uses the SIM card, but I'm not sure.

For a more general overview see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_integrated_circuit_c....

There is apparently a toolkit to design applications to run on the SIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USIM_Application_Toolkit

I don't know of any other implementations. An SSH auth module using SIM would be pretty cool.
You do realize the areas of California mountains we are talking about (Paradise area) the mountains are granite?

“bury” is, as we say, “non-trival”.
> there were no standing armies, so naturally the monarch could not be a professional soldier.

In medieval Europe, after the fall of the Roman Empire, monarchs and noblemen were supposed to be trained knights - unless they wanted a career in the Church (and even there, you have the Borgia...). The whole vassalage setup was built on the assumption that civilians would defer to rulers precisely because they could defend them in lawless times - something that required money (for horses, armour etc) and long and specialized martial training. That's why quite a few princes died or were captured in battle, or why disabled or physically-unfit rulers were extremely despised: they were supposed to "get stuck in" on the field. A lot of non-firstborn nobles ended up as professional mercenaries simply because they had the skills and training already. There was no standing army at what we would consider "national" level just because there was no concept of "nation": a ruler would own as much territory as he could afford to physically defend at any given time with his most direct vassals.

This is also part of the reason why they fought all the time: because that was all they knew.