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How do you know he “gambled in an extremely irresponsible manner”? Was he misrepresenting the risks he was taking in some way? The domain “optionsellers.com” suggests he was rather transparent...
> This is true of all laws. This is how society works. If you don't like it, in a democracy you can campaign for change.

I am well aware this is how laws enforced by governments work. It does not necessarily follow that is how society works, or that it must be so. I'd rather stay on topic than turn this into a criticism of democracy, however.

>You seem to believe you have a fundamental right to copy someone else's works. If the author of those works grants you permission (open source) - then fine.

On the contrary, you seem to believe you have a fundamental right to use violent threats to intimidate me into not copying or modifying code.

>You seem to suggest that people shouldn't profit from their work.

I absolutely do not suggest that. There are ways one can profit from software development (or other creative and technical endeavors) that don't involve threatening people with violent force.

>I just don't think FOSS software alone is tenable.

I understand that. At least acknowledge that you are the fundamentalist here, taking the approach that because you don't believe it is "tenable" for software to be free, you think it is pragmatic and therefor acceptable to use violent force to prevent others from copying or modifying code.
Seems like a non-apology. It was all the "rogue wave" that "capsized the boat."

If a fund can't manage volatility surges, the blame isn't the rogue wave that, out of nowhere blew everything to smithereens, but the guy who steered right into it.

It's the difference between being sorry that the house you destroyed with a car was in your path vs. being sorry for having left the party drunk.
What rail got destroyed since 1990?
I'm sure this was fun for the guy who submitted it but in the end just useless noise on the mailing list.
I don't care about FLOSS people. Actually, I'm grateful to them and I also have my own set of FLOSS libraries [1], because I feel we as a dev community should work together and not have to reinvent the wheel all the time. What I take issue with is being criticized for writing proprietary software. It happens somewhat regularly. And the silencing that takes place is simply unacceptable.

1: https://github.com/mherrmann
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Nah, his “family” clients knew very well they weren’t buying into the Red Cross charity or the Orphans & Widows fund.
That's the idea behind Nicholas Nassim Taleb's most recent book "skin in the game". People should be exposed to the downside risks of their actions.
I missed that - meow_info doesn't really convey that its an explanation have the same noticeaion.
But if it's being done by the mob, the police and the courts are on your side; in this case, the courts are against you, and the police can only shrug and say, "Tough luck.". I'd rather have inarguably predatory lending be on the wrong side of the law, even if it can't be eliminated.
Z's memory subsystem equally impressive.

It can detect, correct and survive normal bit errors of course. But then it can detect, correct and survive power regulator, clock, DRAM, lane, controller and channel failures. RAIM (Redundant Array of Independent Memory) eats up 20% of the memory capacity.

If you want Z CPU, then you might want the memory subsystem as well. If you have them, you probably want the redundant IO as well. Then it's easier to buy the whole thing.
Good on you mate. I love this approach.

I'll be doing the same thing my self with a few products I'm developing with my brother.

"Keep it simple, keep it stable" is what I like to say.
> Lots of people have no sense

This population tends to select itself out of the hedge fund LP investor community. (Into, for example, cryptocurrencies.)
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Orange/Apple IMO

That said I forgot banks were working on crypto currencies. Still I'm tired of bitcoiners ~analysis. Enjoy your ride
Also - remember at least one thing from each of those interactions that you can use again.

E.g. when you ask Sarah what she's up to on the weekend, remember she said "canoeing" so you can ask the following week how it went.

I find that helps so much when you're feeling confident enough to move past the "hi how are you?" stage.
Meanwhile, it's time to go fight 4 groups of 99 berserkers again.
> Drastically cut service or increase fares

There's another option: disband the MTA Union, the primary driver of operations costs. They have blocked technology and safety upgrades for decades to keep 'those darn computers and robots from taking jobs from poor workers just trying to make a living'.
Over the summer The New Yorker had a story on the president of the NYC Transit Authority. Entitled Can Andy Byford Save The Subways[1]? I found it interesting. They had a rather optimistic take, but this article 4 months later makes me think its not going well.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/can-andy-byfor...
>Bush’s contracts with Yellowstone show that the company advanced him a total of about $250,000 and that he paid them back more than $600,000.

how do people get tricked into agreeing to terms like this
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You have to up and up hard bilk your clients or do something illegal to get the bar pissed at you.

Sometimes it's not the lawyers but the clients with deep pockets. My friend spent ten years litigating one case over MOSFET patents for an unhinged client. And they lost 95% of the time against another well funded company.
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Conmen look for people who are so desperate they will suspend disbelief. It’s no surprise that all the marks in this story were struggling to save their livelihoods.

I wonder if part of the Yellowstone MO was to use fax? Over email, you have to compete with the Nigerians, Russians etc, somehow fax would seem a little more legit.

Sad story this. I hope the victims can achieve some sort of redress.
This is a nice add for reviews, but they should not have applied it retroactively. Its really a slap in the face to developers by changing the visibility of their work behind their backs. I would go as far as to say they could possibly be held liable here.
This is bad, but $150M lost in the natural gas market is not the worst I've seen. There was Brian Hunter of Amaranth [1] fame that blew up a $9B hedge fund with a bad NG trade. Amaranth had to liquidate assets for pennies on the dollar to cover the margin calls. Wikipedia is note entirely correct, here, though. It says that JP Morgan & Citadel bought the assets, but it was Citadel that bought them all at the end of the day. My understanding at the time was that JPM couldn't calculate in time the risk involved with the assets they were planning on buying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Hunter_(trader)
When I listen to a beautiful piece of music it can bring a tear to my eye. I shed a tear when my grandmother died. I have emotions. But can you explain how the hell this could bring tears to your eyes? Frankly, I just don't believe you.
Only Muon Man, but he decayed in 2.2μs so he wasn't very well known
I think what a lot of people miss sometimes with science fiction is, it could have been that way. Wikipedia (and the early Internet) had a pretty intense open access culture, and I wouldn't be surprised if part of that was influenced by these stories directly.
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I don't think this is a misapplication of the term "fundamentalism," as it does fit the textbook definition of the term. The parallel of the term to radical terrorism is unfortunate, however. While I don't think it's really accurate to compare this to Godwin's law, you have a point about things quickly escalating to a state of hyperbole.
The problem is that the old successful technology is being thrown out for broken technology anyway. Blockchain voting might be a way to prevent “them” implementing that awful stuff.
> How do you know he “gambled in an extremely irresponsible manner”?

He got wiped out by a single delta. He was repeatedly taking leveraged bets, and ultimately losing strategy.
...and I just learned that Richard Garriott named his island city after something real.
> Educating people about these issues will take decades (& it will be too late). Only way forward could be if some constant external pressure is put on their governments using agreements/accords (like Paris Agreement) and some system is setup which will monitor issues like plastic management and carbon-emission. If countries are not following some standard they should be penalized.

The history of CFCs[0] is a very good sketch as to how these issues play out. Granted, there were very good and cheap-ish alternatives to CFCs. Still, using CFCs as a guideline indicates that real action is about 10-20 years away (~2030 to 2040). Going to Wikipedia and putting in the year 2040[1], we see that large parts of the EU will have banned petrol burning cars by that year and that space based solar power should be coming online.

So, yay!? These things take time, but don't be discouraged. We are making progress and I feel that we will do it 'in time'. We need to work hard and be vocal to try to accelerate these timelines, of course, but have faith in your fellow man's intelligence and labor (please ignore that whole Daylight Savings Time insanity, though).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon#History

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2040

EDIT: I figured I should include a link to the year 2030 as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2030
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Wow, easy there... a lot of ordinary people and foundations were wiped out by Bernie, not to mention other funds where clients didn't know they were investing with him...
I really like your sentiments but I think the full underlying issue is simply power. These contracts are simply a catalyses for the total power of the state and the legal system to be used as a weapon by those who seek to exploit others. Fundamentally it is the enforcement of exploitative (either by knowlege or position) contracts that needs to end. This is likely what you were hinting at in " Ultimately, we would need to really rework the legal code in ways that I think everyone is more than a little uncomfortable with."
Oh man, we make ourselves so obvious. I was here for the Ultima Online reference as well. There's something Baudrillardian here about the simulation and the simulacra.
It's pretty obvious that when people at Microsoft say "processor vendor" it's a euphemism for "Intel".

Not as true anymore now that they support arm but... Still kinda true.
So much wrong information...

Ripple Inc only controlled all validating nodes until stable third party nodes were established. Each node decides which other nodes to trust. There is a default Unique Node List (trusted nodes) provided by Ripple. But, the UNL is not a list of all validating nodes.

At this time Ripple only controls 39% of nodes on the default UNL. If Ripple Inc turned to dust the XRP network would continue on.

https://minivalist.cinn.app/

No entity, not even Ripple Inc., can freeze XRP or prevent you from sending it. Assets can be frozen by the issuing entity but XRP cannot ever be frozen.
Got it. Seems weird anyone would sign up for something like that.
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Wonderful story :)

From date in mail list (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407) seems like [2014] should be appended.
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Wait, I don't understand, I can differentiate between nakedness and sexual nakedness, even with sexual partners. The distinction would be hard to describe beyond "trying to be sexy while being naked," but it's there.

I do see a difference between pornography and simply art in which someone is nude.
It’s more like learning the alphabet if you want to read.
Reducing service, unless you want to do it really painfully, is unlikely to do much in the long run. A good chunk of the costs are employee related (health/pensions) and debt service. The MTA shouldn't default on its bonds, and in NYS you can't constitutionally modify government pensions after they've been given. And the MTA hires as many drivers and buys trains and buses based on peak demand; cutting off-peak is unlikely to do much since you wouldn't be reducing the absolute number of drivers you need.

In fact, cutting off-peak services would probably worsen the budget outlook long-term, since the marginal cost of an off-peak service is very low.
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What bothers me about k8s is that it promises a lot ("15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google" at your fingertips! yay!) but it's in fact still a young, ever-changing solution.

Even developing an app locally with minikube is a PITA for a lot of reasons. From Helm to Telepresence to Skaffold, every tool out there is just unpolished and overambitious.

Don't want to imagine how those problems might amplify in production.
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> I'm sorry - this advice, and most of your comment, is bad advice.

I am diagnosed bipolar and ADHD, but meh I don't really care that much about labels.

What helped me become stable and happy is going to a therapist. What helped me succeed in the workplace is reading books and applying what I learned.

> Burying your head in books and overanalyzing your social interactions isn't going to solve your social anxiety. Go play soccer.

Not everyone is able to play soccer, or naturally athletic. And honestly it comes off as very "pull yourself up by your bootstraps, bro." So fine. You hate therapists and cured yourself. Congratulations. I'm just saying what works for me.

HOWEVER, I strongly agree with your assertion that "introverts" tend to be stuck in their ways. Branching out and trying new activities, joining clubs, and being physically fit are extremely important to a person's mental health. Having more interests other than video games, anime, and internet culture goes a LONG WAY in having better social interactions with people.
Perhaps it's not abundantly clear, but I'm trying to draw a distinction there. I get that there are things like cancer that cannot be sufficiently financially prepared for. However, for things like needing a new roof, car tires need replacing, etc., that is precisely what contingency money is for. If you cannot save sufficiently for said expenses, it's time to consider a downgrade on that particular item until you can, or curtail other non-essential expenses for a while.
You can put everything in containers and still not need much orchestration, though. My personal projects run in dozens of containers, and the "orchestration" consists of a Makefile include pulled into each project that creates a systemd service file based on some variables, and pushes it into the right place. The service files will pull down and set up a suitable Docker container. The full setup for a couple of dozen containers is 40-50 lines of makefile and a ~20 lines or so of a template service file.

Of course it won't scale to massive projects, and for work, I occasionally use Kubernetes and other more "serious" orchestration alternatives, but frankly it takes fairly big projects before they start paying for themselves in complexity.

Meanwhile, my docker containers has kept chugging along without needing any maintenance aside from auto-updating security updates for several years.

I do agree with you that Kubernetes may encourage patterns that are useful, though. But really the most essential part is that you can find relatively inexperienced devops people who have picked up some Kubernetes skills. That availability make up for a lot of pain vs finding someone experienced enough to wire up a much leaner setup.
>I manage dozens of apps for thousands of users. The apps are all on one server,

How are these backed up?
Is there a reason you've quoted this large chunk?
Would you make an exception for The Weather Channel?
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Done! I didn't notice the date when I submitted the link, thanks for the suggestion.
It’s pretty transparent at my company that no one in the engineering hierarchy has any authority over the physical plant, not even the CTO.
I'm sorry, but the fact is that all lenders and banks are like this.

I once missed 3 payments in a row during the last 6 months of a five year car loan (never missed any other payments). OK, not great, my bad (hey, I was broke). The GMAC loan company then set The Machine in action. My car was repossessed as one would expect. However, everything was stacked against me recovering the car: It was sent 100 miles away to be auctioned off, with any amount of the loan not covered to still be owed by me. Yes, they could sell the car for $10, and I'd owe the rest. To get the car back, I needed to pay off the rest of the car loan in full, plus interest, plus penalties, plus "storage" fees (per day - this really pissed me off), the city of Menlo Park charged me with something as well because of the tow, and I had to get myself out to Vacaville somehow and go to the regional distribution center with all the paperwork to get the car.

This happens so infrequently, the people there were shocked when I showed up (I had gotten a loan from a friend, and spent a week on the phone getting it done before they auctioned the car). Standing in the line with all the dealers looking for cheap cars at auction and repo men who just arrived with BMW's they just stole (ahem, recovered) that morning. It was surreal. They had my car in the middle of a sea of other repossessed vehicles parked bumper to bumper. It took them an hour or so just to fish it out. All my possessions in the car had been thrown away.

This doesn't compare to the horror stories from the subprime loan craziness, nor the abuse in the article, but it just shows that when you take a loan, you are at the mercy of the lender, and they are never merciful. They are normally giant corporations who farm out the work to thousands of happy conspirators who make a living from other people's misery, justifying it because the person who took the loan must somehow deserve the treatment.
One thing it should be done in US is the super market shouldn't provide the plastic bag for free, and also shouldn't overwrap the staff when checkout out.
Already exists: https://github.com/qntm/base65536

It's actually pretty useful for compressing data in Unicode-aware environments, like Twitter. Which makes me wonder if Unicode support is universal enough now that an encoding like this could replace MIME/base64 in email.
And here I am spending my afternoon tracking down a null reference error...
To my knowledge, Yellowstone farms out acquisition to a network of tons of shady brokers. So if they do fax spam, Yellowstone's hands are clean. I know of Yellowstone because they are one of the biggest subprime SMB lenders.
Nice attention to detail! Perhaps, if you have some time later, you could read over the Linux kernel docs?
So Tether seems to have been hanging out at about 0.97 lately ... isn't that a massive problem? If anyone really believe they were worth 1.00 USD we'd be vacuuming up those 3 pennies.
Sure, but it probably also wouldn't have taken off without its license either.
Not all of them, but I go when I can. The last one I went to was packed full of neighborhood residents overwhelmingly against the development who were worried about traffic and parking. Though the development was right next to a Caltrain station, which is exactly where mid to high density development should be happening.
A Lawyer in a box would be great, an android app. But the problem is these companies are pushing a loan as a cover to take assets. They are setup to force a failure, so they can collect.

The subprime loan fiasco, a good portion of people could make normal interest rates on mortgages, but most had arms with big baloons. Many people re-finance their homes thru the government, with normal interest rates.

If you are making your payments, why would you think the loan would be called in all at once? Its a scam, thats why.
Conmen look for people who are so desperate they will suspend disbelief.

They look for people who are both desperate and also naive or gullible or unrealistic or something. I spent nearly six years homeless. I was also extremely ill at the time. I absolutely was desperate.

I also refused to be sucked into certain things. No, I was not going to sleep with someone for money and risk getting AIDS, being arrested, etc and having my problems become drastically worse. No, I was not going to accept an offer of temporary housing that came with a huge and obvious downside that well could have left me in much worse straits than I was already in. No, I was not going to make use of homeless services that expected me to leave all my worldly possessions, including my computer that I could not afford to replace, in an unsecured area where anyone could walk off with it.

I looked for options that had clear and obvious benefit without huge fuck you potential.