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Like you, I also hate it (which I mentioned already). However, often it can be removed by adding user CSS (if you use a browser or extension that supports that) (which I did not mention already).
On the other hand, one understanding of the role of government in market capitalist societies would be contract enforcement and ensuring the pricing of externalities
No future is inevitable. That's what the californian ideology convinced you of.
The temperature has increased more rapidly in the last one hundred years than we can find it has at any period we have good data for (there is some evidence that at times in the distant past it rose fairly rapidly, though we can't tell exactly how fast, but that usually coincided with massive extinction events). This has been largely caused by the release of large amounts of CO2 in accordance with very well-understood warming processes. The idea that some nebulous "natural processes" of the earth just automatically overwhelm anything we can do is totally bizarre; we are a sizable portion of the active energy production on the planet's surface at this point (obviously, we have nowhere near the effect of the sun, but the sun's radiance does not and has not changed rapidly enough to explain the changes in temperature).
Ok, so what are the fluids that other crowd behaviour act in - if cyclists are minimising drag, what is the social equivalent for choosing which band to listen to or which film star to like, which policy to approve of?
Seems like it could go either way, its not like the bots themselves need the rights or become legal entities beyond a weapon.

Now maybe this weapon fires by you telling it to shoot that guy over there, or it's programmed to shoot anyone who enters through that door over there, but in the end it's still a weapon under control and responsibility of the owner.
What's bad about sharing IP with China? That's the companies' choice. They must have done a cost benefit analysis and deemed it positive to share their IP. Did China force them to make that decision? There is nothing immoral about this arrangement.

It think the problem is that you have a mistaken conception that those IP belongs to "You" and when the company shares it with Chinese companies, they are taking YOUR belonging and giving it to others. When in the very first place, you have nothing to do with the IP in the first place.

This is by the way, not against any WTO rules, or the US and other nations would have sued China long ago regarding this.

I honestly don't see it the way others do. China is having a lot of negative externalities imposed on it by manufacturing for multinationals. At least this transfer of IP does a bit to offset those externalities. No one wants to be a sweatshop forever.

Every major industrial nation rose by taking the IP of others by legal or illegal means. That includes Germany, Britain and the United States. Besides, IP as property is a very new concept historically and countries with IP will always believe it's immoral to "steal" IP as of course it is to their advantage for morality to be structured this way. Whereas countries without will always view IP in more flexible ways. Can ideas really be property? Humans are humans, we always try to rationalize and moralize the things we do even when the real underlying reason is stark naked self interest.
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I can't believe no one mentioned parallel[1] yet, it is basically a much more powerful replacement to xargs and available at most package managers.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
> Imagine some kind of hunter drone tracking you, finding you, and dispassionately killing you.

In this case, you need to surrender and become slave to survive. It'd be dumb to fight that killing robot.

But it's your fault to lose your own freedom. You should have developed the killing robots before your adversary.
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I think it's a fair question though. Obviously talent is tough enough to recruit that you don't tell engineers they're relocating and expect to keep them. But you can choose to build offices outside one very influential city:

- Google bought the Port Authority building, which is like 2 empire state buildings in terms of office space. They have plenty of engineers working there: https://www.wired.com/2010/12/google-nyc/ This year they bought the building next door: https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/...
- Apple has a large campus in Austin: http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/apple-austin-campus/
- Amazon's obviously diversifying "HQ" locations

The question is why companies hiring engineers by the thousands every year keep pushing to open more offices in the valley. Why is it ideal to shift HR and accounting away from the west coast but keep engineering local?
I'm sure there are counterexamples to my statement but I personally believe that it is true that most people would struggle with knowingly sending soldiers to their death. It's just my opinion.
I didn't like the IT Crowd but if you want something ahead of its time, track down Nathan Barley. It kind of foreshadows the rise of vlogging, memes and 'lad culture' but was released in 2005. Written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris.
A carbon tax is not in stark contrast to capitalism and would probably help quite a bit with reducing emissions.
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I don't think calling OPEC "legal" is particularly meaningful, considering the entities participating in the cartel are nation-states.
Military leaders don't decide to go to war. That's for elected leaders. Waging war and studying how to wage war are the proper roles of the military. That said, any civilian leader with a clue should ask their military commanders what a war would entail, those critical "how much" questions. And if the numbers don't add up, probably take a pass, look for a diplomatic solution. This is where honest warriors like Shinseki lose their jobs and people like McNamara, Taylor, and Westmoreland end up in charge.

As for reading up on the general principles upon which the Western world built its world order, how to know when a war would be just, the collected works of Plato, starting with The Republic, and the stoics would be a good start. I would advise Irvine's Guide to the Good Life as an introduction to the stoics.

I would also add Errol Morris's The Fog of War, including McNamara's separate 10 lessons (1), and, as counterpoint, Ken Burns' Vietnam series. The two together are an unparalleled view of the entry into war, and its consequences.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War#Ten_additional_...
I've thought about the idea of a "lock the thief inside" kind of alarm system, but you're right. How do you stop them jumping out?

I've also thought of this.

1. Lock doors, secure windows.

2. 100% throttle

3. after 15 seconds, 100% steer left

Of course, there are certain... moral issues... surrounding this idea which have prevented it leaving the notes on a napkin stage.
So Angellist don't want better Engineers?
I don't know exactly which website the case is about, but maybe the plaintiff couldn't claim copyright infringement because they don't own any copyright over the scraped content in the first place, i.e. the listings were posted by users.
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Also as I previously replied to your original statement capitalism != corporatism.

The large tech companies should have been broken up about 5 years ago.

The only reason that any of us have job is because capitalists in the 70s and 80s popularised computers so they were small enough and low enough in price for anyone to own. It really pains me that most are completely ignorant of anything that happened in computing before the mid-90s.

Regulation and Unions help corporations because it makes it raises the bar of difficultly for startups to enter any market.

As for working environment. I work from home and I freelance. I run a high end modern workstation with dual 4k screens, a nice sound system for music and my choice of caffeinated beverages. If you don't want to be a slave to the man, work for yourself.
> Capitalism != Corporatism.

True.

> We have a problem with corporatism not capitalism.

In the U.S., we have a problem with something much closer to capitalism. (People occasionally indicate that it is a problem with “crony capitalism”, but cronyism has always been a feature or capitalism, it is not an aberration or alien feature.)

In China (and even maybe Mexico, though much moreso during the PRI one-party era) there is a problem with corporatism, which is not th same thing as (even crony) capitalism.

Both are problems of global impact, to be sure.
> housing costs could be flat or even decrease if we simply increased supply dramatically

I have a feeling places like SF and NY have already tried this. Considering most of these foreign investors are most interested in these two cities over lets say Nebraska, it's hard to see how NY just needs to "build more supply" is a solution.

> If we had policies that encouraged always building

We have those in Australia, it's called negative gearing. We also have the most expensive houses when compared to average income and our cities have taken your advice and started to build up at rapid paces. Still hasn't worked.

The Aus government is now suggesting we lower our immigration cap from 1% of total pop yearly so maybe that will help.
In large parts of Africa we generally have two types of land. "Official" land that comes with a title deed and tribal land that you can be allocated by your chief or local leader. To build on "official" land you need your building plans approved. Inspectors will come and inspect your building during all the stages you are building. On tribal land you build whatever the hell you want. There was a time when upcoming African professionals shunned the village but now I sense we are starting to see things differently. Mansions are being built in villages. Less expensive than building in government areas. Less corruption too.
I'm not sure why picking the American seemed obvious in the choice at the begining? A poor country seems far more likely to see a large economic upturn.
I was listening to a friend's music podcast tonight and they were talking about how industry will seize on any shred of creativity so that they can use it to sell cars, and this contributes to people getting defensive about the things they like becoming popular. There is a latent fear that just over the horizon, some marketing asshole is waiting to get their hands on something that is meaningful to you, in order to abuse that connection so they can buy themselves a boat.

This post feels like it's edging way too close to that. If you want to attract "talent" by putting repos on Github or Gitlab, that's great. But if you are hiding bad engineering practices and/or a shitty work environment and putting up a facade which is carefully crafted as a recruiting tool (and not truly a reflection of what it's like to work on a project inside your company), you are making a huge mistake that will backfire and it will come back to haunt you.

That's not to say that we don't know that open source is a tool companies use to get more for less (everybody knows that). But if you keep a carefully-controlled open source repository around to show potential hires when there is a bonfire in the engineering team's side of the open-office floorplan because your actual engineering practices are abysmal, you should know the "talent" you want to hire is no spring chicken, and they will know almost immediately that you have been duplicitous in your hiring, and word will spread. And then you'll have existential hiring problems.
Source? I know ive heard trump say they are profiting off the US unfairly many times.
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> calling the lack of a tax that has never existed before a subsidy is more than just a stretch, it’s an outright distortion.

This is not correct, this is simply finally accounting for the negative carbon externality. Industries pay extra for all kinds of negative externalities, and without these regulations, markets are inefficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
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Unfortunately the Supreme Court already ruled that the second amendment applies to self defence irrespective of the “militia” part (DC vs Heller, 2008).
g-suite ate a huge chunk of Exchange's lunch, and a non-trivial part of the office lunch.

ChromeOS ate a nontrivial part of Microsoft's OS business.

Android completely obliterated any chance of a market MS had for phones.

Chrome (and Firefox, which was effectively funded by Google for a long time) dethroned IE(and edge), almost to the point of irrelevance.

It did not disrupt Microsoft's business model - but it ate huge chunks of it. Where Google didn't venture (e.g. database & server software), Microsoft is still extracting monopoly rent. Where it did (mobile OS), no one wanted Microsoft's offering, regardless of getting free money with it.

Facebook and Google totally, completely, compete with each other. If you have on-line advertising spend, you decice on the facebook/google split. They are in exactly the same vertical - extremely directed and trackable on line advertising. Don't confuse "users" with "customers".

Intel's business model was expensive high margin CPUs to all. They still do for servers. It was most definitely disrupted in the consumer space because phones exist - many people for which it would have been unthinkable a few years ago to have no PC/Laptop today, only have a phone, or have a very loe end laptop (which Intel makes very little on).

> it was a new line of business opening up, due to changes in the market place - where a major player in a related marketplace failed to achieve dominance

You have just given the usual definition of disruption. I agree existing markets were not overtaken. Mobile phones disrupted the land line business, even though that one is still alive. Linux disrupted the proprietary OS bbusines, even though that one is still alive. Amazon disrupted commerce.

Facebook killed myspace, and yahoo participated in its own killing. And there's definitely disruption all over.
Are you seriously suggesting that single motherhood is similarly dangerous as global warming?
fzf - command-line fuzzy finder https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Easy to overlook... I almost don't even notice it, but I use it more than any other application (every time I type).
> Crony capitalism is an economy in which businesses thrive not as a result of risk, but rather as a return on money amassed through a nexus between a business class and the political class.

No crony capitalism is not a feature of capitalism. Crony capitalism is a feature of corporatism. You clearly don't understand the terms you are using.

China is a totalitarian state that as long as those businesses keep in line and bring enough benefit to the state (which is run by wealthy elites). Businesses are allowed to exist if they don't challenge this status quo. In China an individual has no property rights unlike most of the Anglo-sphere. This is because property rights are an important pre-requisite to many of the other rights we enjoy in the western world.
>For instance if we wanted web apps it would have been better to make something separate

But then we need to make another app + browser version? Which defeats the purpose...
> Who else would describe everything turning to internet marketing as a party

I think you've misunderstood - "late to the party" is a common English phrase, where late is the more important word, not so much party. Imagine arriving when everyone else has already gone home. The meaning here is that promoting your work online was profitable a decade ago, but authors & musicians are only discovering that now, when it has stopped being profitable.

People here agree with you - we want quality music and quality art! But we also need to hear about it & be inspired enough to even try listening to it. A musician or author has to learn "marketing" to be able to build an audience (unless they just want to make music for themselves, and that's fine too).

Don't think of it as "marketing", think of it as trying to find & make 1,000 friends. A lot of the music I buy is because the singer is actually a friend or someone I could email with a question. Marketing can also be writing about how you make your music, or being creative in how you distribute it (like Nine Inch Nails mailing their CDs out in bags of dirt that were stuck in customs, that gets people talking about it).

All people are saying here is that writing is important (it's the product being sold!), but if a writer wants to be profitable, finding an audience who will buy it now takes much more work & effort & time than the writing itself. And that's why authors are now marketers first, writers second. A bad song that people have heard about is more likely to get bought than an excellent song no one has heard.

(And for what it's worth, it's the same for indie software developers - I only spend a small part of my time making the software, most of my time is spent on customer support & talking to customers, accounting & tax compliance, administration and marketing.)
And I frankly don't know a lot of senior military leaders who have ever been eager to go to war

Look no further than the cuban missile crisis.

If you dig into the history you'll find that the US military commanders were rather eager to start some messy business with our soviet counterparts.

The worldwide US Forces DEFCON 3 status was returned to DEFCON 4 on November 20, 1962. General Curtis LeMay told the President that the resolution of the crisis was the "greatest defeat in our history"; his was a minority position.[50] He had pressed for an immediate invasion of Cuba as soon as the crisis began and still favored invading Cuba even after the Soviets had withdrawn their missiles.[132] Twenty-five years later, LeMay still believed that "We could have gotten not only the missiles out of Cuba, we could have gotten the Communists out of Cuba at that time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
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The drawing screen lags a little for me. Kinda hard to draw precisely unless you move very slowly.
He also inherited that 600 mil in the form of NYC real estate, which of left untouched would be north of 10 bil now.
What you describe is not Autonomous AI that is driven by a dynamic mission, as the military AI will be. An AI killer bot can be developed that not only tries to achieve the goal specified by the mission but also alter the mission as needed to achieve a higher level goal, and the higher you go up in the goal specification the more autonomy you're giving to the machine.
Thanks for this effortful comment! I really appreciated your point about how the US system is good for those who push themselves. It makes me curious to consider the myth that the US system produces "creative" individuals in a way that China supposedly fails to do.

I agree that the US's academic and intellectual culture is good for the intrinsically motivated, but, speaking as a graduate student who teaches classes at a top public US university, most undergraduates arrive thoroughly institutionalized and are primarily motivated by their grades. I believe in project-based learning that gives students an opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge to problems they are personally interested in, but it is difficult to do this effectively when students have been trained to be motivated by their grades. I am not trying to focus here on criticizing the grade-based system (with which I have many qualms), but the broader culture that we see in early education. I think your point about teachers offering concrete feedback to students in terms of study skills and dedication is important. Much of the US middle class seems to expect success without feeling that they have to earn it, even as they expect others with less privilege to work harder. The US is experiencing the downside of an individualistic culture: those in secure socio-economic positions do not feel the need to work hard in order to help provide to the collective good.
And how did you get back the original investment of 2k$/month?
Trump inherited most of it in 2000 when his mother died. He had money before that from gifts though.
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If you happen to search Google for "poppy seed tea" out of curiosity like I was, this site pops up. I think it serves the intended purpose.
That is probably a valid perspective

Regardless, There are lots of opportunities to consolidate capital and run your venture SUPER quickly in China.

Also as we are comparing China and US, there are plenty of counterpoints that you would probably trivialize as a whataboutism.

So instead of that, honestly you should look at US prohibitions as an instruction manual for what you CAN do in China. Nuanced financial stuff you wouldn't have thought of on your own, just written in plain text and available to do in any growing economy

Many billionaires are minted there because even things like stock market listing standards are much more liberal. The main country's index being comprised of companies where only 1% of the float is trading, with the other 99% being owned by 1 person. They liquidate, you know. You wouldn't see this on the Nasdaq or S&P.

There are plenty of ways to make money from nothing over there, and the barriers of entry are almost impossible in the United States for a working class person with working class friends as you'll never be able to pull off a proper Regulation D offering because nobody can invest in it. You'll never have capital to cover all the bases and scale. You have to spend too much of your life to pull of your one shot, and that has a high failure rate so its back to wage work for you. Whereas the serial entrepreneurs already have a different form of stability and take many shots. Its like playing a game the first time ever and only having 1 life, versus the person that has infinite lives. China doesn't offer any of this in an extremely egalitarian way, but there are multiple extremely high growth regions and service providers that are willing to play ball such that the opportunities are just available.
Here is something to consider: how did your employer get to tens of thousands of Linux servers from whatever they were running on before?

And: do you really want to spend the rest of your professional career wrangling with a shoddy product, or do you want to actally do professional, cutting edge IT?

I can't write for you, but I did not graduate computer science at the top of my class so that I could spend the next several decades working with / on the shittiest, amateur knock-off copy of UNIX when I could run the real thing for free & cheap. That's not why I studied at a university and got a degree for. How about you, what's it gonna be, shitty Linux for the next 20-30 years or the real computer science with SmartOS or FreeBSD?
I love how Machine Learning has just taken over Decision Theory/Game Theory/Economics as well with Reinforcement Learning or rather "Inverse Reinforcement Learning" - like just renaming utility to reward.

There seems to be tons of scholars who have become big names by taking results and concepts from other fields, such as heuristic/approximate dynamic optimization and game theory...
Now I would wonder - were these independent discoveries, or did they just read it & not provide citations...