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For me, the combo was:

1. Establish healthy habits: eat well, exercise regularly, sleep well, feel gratitude, focus on the people in my life.

2. Derive my sense of self-worth from anything and everything not related to work.
Seems like a capitalistic society will never get away from products with built-in planned obsolescence. It's all about the profits. Buy and replace consumers...

There's a great documentary on planned obsolescence for those that haven't seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdh7_PA8GZU
Maybe the software industry will discover constraint programming the way that it discovered functional programming over the past decade. If it did, that would almost immediately increase programmer productivity for non-performance-critical tasks (since the compiler could supply the implementation), while making formal methods more easily applicable to production code & supplying the prerequisites for more clever automatic code generation methods.

(In general, software engineers becoming vaguely aware of tech invented in the 1960s and 1970s is a huge productivity boon. If you, as a developer, want to impress your peers, you should take a couple hours to read what software engineers thought was obvious prior to 1980, when software engineers had a strong background in software engineering.)
This has worked for me, especially for startups. It doesn't take long to find the CEO's email.
I've been a happy Conkeror user for years. Recent changes to Firefox seem to have broken it, so I'm sticking with the older version for now. Chrome/IE/Edge/Safari/etc. aren't FOSS so I don't touch them.

Firefox and Chromium are getting increasingly slow and bloated, plus their chrome takes up a bunch of screen space, doesn't follow the system theme particularly well, and they rely far too much on the mouse (there are extensions which help, but they're still not particularly good).

Out of the two I would still recommend Firefox over Chromium, since Mozilla seem more ethical than Google, contribute less bloat and churn to Web APIs, etc.
I've voted in every election I since I turned 18 and nothing seems to have been done about this and many other things. But issues that megacorps care about happen right away.

Voting isn't a real solution to unchecked corporate lobbying.
Once you're sharing space, you're sharing space. In some ways, I'd think a shared office creates more pressure to interact with the other people in the office than in the case of an open office plan.

An office with a door is IMO clearly the best option for most employees. I don't even really buy the collaboration argument. Every place I've worked that had offices had at least an informal open door by default policy. You shut the door if you needed to really focus on something or have a private conversation. But otherwise people felt free to wander by.
That's how I feel about it. The crazy thing is, communities I used to go for information have died, the forums are still there but they're essentially dead. Some users went to Facebook, some to Reddit, but I can't go to those places and actually get the information I want, like I used to be able to do. The current corporate internet gobbled up everything without giving us anything in return, and now they want to complain about not making enough money. Boo hoo.
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This model may work when you don't have a kid but most people do (ie the size of the workforce is stable). It does not account for situations where workforce drops by large % and there are much more retirees than workers.
I agree completely, and this is actually the main reason why I moved it to a coffee shop, because my office was lucky enough to be directly underneath a quiet coffee shop with comfortable seats, lots of table room, and most importantly a relaxed and quiet atmosphere.
The few podcasts I listened to with obnoxious ads won't lose much with my lack of listenership (Tim Ferriss podcast)

They usually require more than just a few skips also (last I listened the Tim Ferriss podcast had 4-6 minutes of ads at the beginning and due to the variable length I couldn’t just set an auto-start to when the actual show starts).
There can be a huge difference between "income tax expense", which will be the numerator for any headline income tax rate and "income taxes paid".

For Netflix this is true for 2018. In fact they paid $131 million for income taxes, which, as a percent of their income is way higher than "$0" which the original article claims in its.

Also, the article makes no mention of R&D tax credits, which saved NFLX $141 million in state and federal income tax credits (the second biggest component).

It would not have been difficult to find this in NFLX's 10-K.

Netflix says the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 _cost_ them an additional $79 million

[0] "In accordance with the Act, we recorded $79 million as additional income tax expense in the fourth quarter of 2017"; https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528019...
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I get the impression he has never actually worked a day in his life or has a naive view of reality.

Admin assistants, for example are a linchpin of a successful office and an important and irreplaceable part of client interactions in small businesses.

Perhaps, the wikipedia article lacks context or nuance, at face value his entire concept seems laughably idiotic.
How do chains which value absolute immutability deal with this? Such as Ethereum Classic.
I am relieved to hear people saying that.
My home area is Austin but I've traveled up the east coast a few times and through New Mexico. Many areas of CA are hard since there are a lot of NIMBY anti-homeless laws. The midwest has a ton of BLM land so it's one of the easiest places to camp, so long as you don't mind being in the middle of nowhere.
Not a fan of that non-JS svelte magic or the direction these frameworks are going. Fewer lines of code, true, but at the expense of understandability. I just want to get my work done, not learn yet another flavor of the day with non-intuitive implicit behaviors.
Maybe a positive feedback loop. Clojure made experienced developers feel right at home with something neither too esoteric but concise, fast enough, safe enough. Hickey had 20~ years in the field too, I guess he shared the same concerns.
You can update the program to special-case those blocks, with old hash values and replacement hash values.
I have an LED fixture that I got from home depot that is dimmable, no flickering. It's connected to a normal dimmer switch. I bought it about a year ago.

My other LED fixtures were ordered through aliexpress. The fixtures were fine, but the transformers that came with the fixtures all failed and had to be replaced (overheated, melted the plastic casing). This turned out to be tricky, because the LED drivers available on ebay and aliexpress are never the same, there are constantly new shoddy ones from noname brands, and the ones I had bought before tend to be nowhere to be found when I need a new one.
A different but related point:

Having a map is not the same thing as knowing the way.

This is one reason why documentation isn't nearly as useful in software development as people think it should be.
My father is J.R.R. Tolkien nut and my family would have parties to celebrate Bilbo's birthday (September 22). The meals would slightly vary each year, but kept with the hobbit theme. We usually had bean soup, "a mighty dish of mushrooms and bacon," a roast, Yorkshire pudding, and a desert like a tart. The evening would conclude with a reading from his Lord of the Rings collection [1], which he would call The Red Book. He hasn't done one in a few years, but this was a tradition of his for almost 20 years.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/LORD-RINGS-Fellowship-Towers-Collecto...
That is oversimplifying. Would it have been wrong to avoid paying taxes to the Nazis, or the Stalinists, or the Maoists, or the Khmer Rouge?

You are implicitly incorporating the morality of supporting an unspecified government into business behavior.

If you believe that, on balance, expenditures by the US government of tax-derived revenues produces more harm in the world than good, you would therefore consider it a moral virtue to legally and lawfully minimize the amount of taxes delivered to the IRS. If you believe that expenditures by the US government of tax-derived revenues do more good than otherwise, then you would consider tax avoidance to be morally wrong. But then you also have to consider whether a corporation has a greater moral obligation to maximize value for its shareholders, or to pursue a specific purpose as stated in its charter. In either case, the corporation should seek to retain as much control over the disposition of its revenues as is possible.

In your "legal murder" hypothetical, I would consider it both moral and ironic to murder the person responsible for creating the legal murder loophole, along with any other person that has ever used it. I might still refrain, as that means I would be losing some of my morality-based protections against being murdered, with the knowledge that my legal protections are already nonexistent in loophole-compliant circumstances.

But I am a natural intelligence with moral agency. A corporation is an artificial intelligence, programmed by bug-ridden legal documents, and its program executed by its lawyers and C-level principals. It isn't a paperclip optimizer, but it is a banknote optimizer. It has no moral values that humans can readily recognize. It isn't a psychopath or sociopath; it's just alien. In order for a corporation to exhibit moral behavior, the morality has to be included in its programming. That's difficult. It is much easier to incorporate by reference the entire body of public law, and then allow the corporation to pursue "any lawful purpose". And tax avoidance, aside from moral considerations, is still "lawful".
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>If a modern government can force every young person to to join the army.

"Joining the army" and "Fighting a battle every day" are two different things. Most of the time armies are not doing anything. And when they are, it is a significant threat to ones continued existence, something humans are highly optimized to fight for.

Keeping the old people alive has a few problems. First, if you take grandma to the roof and throw her off, it does not directly affect your continued existence (unless you consider law enforcement action, but we'll leave this out for now). In this case you are economically better having a geriatrics purge. Second, taking care of old people is insanely depressing. Throwing most people to these terrors is just going to increase the suicide rate in young people.

Third, and separately, how does the government 'force'? Right, they take young men with guns and point said guns at the population. So you're telling me that the larger old population is going to vote to tell part of the young population to take guns, point them at the other young population and have them take care of the old one. Um, so you want to have a revolution, ya ya.

Also, young (working age) people create wealth. Old people consume it. Where is this government going to get its tax dollars from?
Seconded. This "soldier" group is a little sensitive because they aren't primary producers in the sense of they redistribute or safeguard distribution of existing resources rather than create anything. That is a perfectly acceptable form of value add; clearly helping make and execute decisions around distribution is important.

The sensitivity is that if there are not enough resources then there is little to be gained by redistributing them (if there is not enough food, someone will starve even with the best executed and fairest system). That isn't an arguments against having the jobs, that is an argument that their ability to add value is context sensitive and they don't emerge until there is a bit of a surplus to play with.
That won't stop companies from giving customers the run around, therefore it won't obliviate the need to publicly shame companies to get issues resolved. It's not even clear what "1+ year warranty" would mean for many industries in which there isn't a physical good being sold.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for business regulation. I support mandatory warranties and the like. But it's not going to resolve the perceived social issue of customers shaming corporations for bad behavior, because companies will always find new bad behavior that skirts the law. Even if you have a legislature that's on top of the situation, there will still be a delay between when a company invents new bad behavior and when the legislature can create a new law against it.

If it's not clear, I disagree that this behavior is even an issue. People shaming companies isn't the problem; companies doing things worth shaming is the problem.
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Atlassian is a UK company.

Obviously half employees including directors are in Australia, so that opens up to pression anyway, just like Japan could in theory compell a director of a foreign company by threatening to jail him on a fortuitous tax accusation. The directors would never be so square as to not comply, right?
Is there a difference? Is it easier to pass laws specifically outlawing something, or to dismantle something with current laws?
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Video editing software has always been somewhat lacking on Linux. None of the big proprietary ones like Premiere or Final Cut are available on Linux, and the open source options are mostly either missing features, buggy, hard to use, or ancient and unsupported.

This certainly looks quite professional and polished, but I can't speak for the features and usability compared to other options.
Answers from the 10-K:

#1: "Excess tax benefits on stock-based compensation": (191,323)
#2: "Federal and California R&D tax credits": (140,749)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528019...
I can recommend Anker SoundBuds. They're pretty hopeless for listening to music but OK for YouTube videos and other general purpose computer audio listening and I've never had any issues with the Bluetooth functionality at all.

Considering my overwhelmingly negative experiences with Bluetooth in the past I'm only just now realising how lucky I've been with them, especially considering how cheap they were.
The same could be said about every product...

Appliances back in the days could last decades. Now you're lucky if they don't break in a few years.

What do they say about the best type of customer? The best customer is a repeat customer :)
If you look at the histories of many politicians, you see them making honest efforts to represent their people... in the beginning of their careers.

A major problem is that there's so much money in campaigns that in order to get enough money to compete, a politician must make deals with donors. Often these donors are small groups of high wealth individuals or industries.

Now the politician is effectively in the pocket of the monied interests, or else they are out of government cone next election cycle.

Until campaigns are equally financed by "the people", the results will not have a chance of being representative of what the people want.

But ironically, to make that change would require the current government to take action that most of the big industries do not want. Thus, it will not happen.
If something like this becomes popular, one might expect sites concerned about non-human verification to add a captcha to their verification page before the account is considered verified.
I actually think it's more likely Microsoft will acquire them. A strong history of on-prem solutions, mixed reception to their Slack-killer Microsoft Teams, and a newfound mandate to create open and interoperable solutions make it a clear option.
It surely changed, I remember how every clojure conj was a source of enlightenement. Reducers, Transducers .. Many Hickey talks were iconic(sic). Now it's not as trendy.. even clojure 1.10 felt ~meh in a way. But taking a bit of distance I thought .. it's better than having people changing the language every 6monthes leading to js fatigue like symptoms. Slow is good. It seems that clojure users are happy with what it is now.
Piracy.

If they are okay paying no tax I'm okay not paying for their content.
The easiest solution is probably just limiting how much data you can add to the ledger. There's no real reason why people need to add more than 10kb of information to a transaction. Cryptocurrencies aren't meant to be image hosting platforms anyway.
Was SF a jurisdiction uniquely concerned about that? It seems unlikely.

Openly carrying a replica firearm like that can be unwise. In SF, it is still unlawful. It seems like restricting brandishment and not ownership would be the minimal and reasonable legislation.
Better yet - campaign finance reform: https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Version-Lawrence-Lessig...

I think there are good people that want to serve, but they have to play the money game to survive (costs millions/billions to get elected?? What?!). Which eventually corrupts them ...

Term limits might be nice too.
This makes me wonder if we shouldn't have an AC and DC circuits in the house. I mean, it could be all AC coming in, but at the box it splits into (at least) two different circuits (an AC one and a DC one).

AC circuit would still be used for things that have motors, but everything else uses DC.

Imagine how simple LED lighting could be on a DC circuit. Just an LED and resistor.

I only took a few electrical engineering classes so correct me if this is a bad idea.
> Reminds me of the time someone tried to legislate pi=3 There's absolutely no way to give police a back door into encryption without giving criminals the same back door.

Most secure N party communication systems can be made to be secure N+1 party communication systems. If that +1 is the police, then arguably you have in fact given police a back door without giving criminals the same back door.

Criminals who want in would have to do so the same way they would before the back door--compromise one of the parties to the communication--except now there are N+1 parties to try and compromise instead of N so the attack surface is larger. How much this lowers security depends largely on the competence of the +1 party.

The popular model of a back door seems to be some wide open spying interface protected only by running on an undocumented port or something like that, and that all the bad guys have to do is get a copy of one client, reverse engineer it to find the access info, and then they are in.

For some reason, people tend to overlook that a back door is really just another communication channel, and the mechanisms modern cryptography provides for securing communication channels apply to back doors as much as they do to any other channel.
There's a lot of junk to be sure but tens of Philips & GE bulbs have been doing great for me for a couple years now. They don't run that hot either.
Okay, here's my take on the implicit narrative here: Clojure is done. It will continue to improve, people will continue to use it and build cool things with it, but maintainers are burnt out, mostly because there aren't enough of them and partly because of the passive-aggressive relationship Cognitect has with the community.

There's a whole bunch of languages with small dedicated communities doing interesting stuff. D and Julia occur to me off the top of my head. It's not "failure" that Clojure doesn't really challenge Kotlin or Scala for mindshare. It's nonetheless disappointing for people like me who used to be really excited by Clojure's potential.

Could it have been different? I don't know. The powers that be could definitely have been more committed to growing the base, but it never seems to have interested them. Would it have made a difference? I honestly don't know.
This is short sighted.

1. The law applies to all tech companies who have users in Australia, regardless of where the company is incorporated.

2. Atlassian offers primarily self hosted products, to which this law does not apply.
> Just doing your hours, dont volunteer to do extra, and figure out what you enjoy that makes you happy

Im only 28, but I don't feel burned out despite working very hard at growing my abilities.

I take breaks, lots of breaks. I do my best to enjoy as much as I can. I block out and forget the annoying crap.
Alzheimers patients need 24/7 care. This isn't something that small families with 3-4 siblings can do by reasonable means next to having a job, raising the next generation, and living in the neighbouring town or even further than that. In the old days, poor people just died young because of exhaustion and rich people well they have the means for proper care per definition.
And why is he comparing to Incandescent anyway? He should be comparing to CFL, and against CFL LED bulbs are rather poor - more expensive, same energy efficiency, same life. Why do it?

I have LEDs in my house, but only because my local utility pays for most of them. If not for that I'd use only CFL's - they are cheaper, and just as good.
> Sure, eventually, but without further context this obsession with light bulbs always sounds a little bit penny wise and pound foolish to me.

Might be, might not be, it all depends on the usage of the various items e.g. let's say I've a 100W incandescent kitchen bulb, it's lit 5h/day on average, an equivalent LED would be 12~15W for ~$5 and will save ~3000Wh per week.

Going from a Class A to an A+++ washing machine would save ~500Wh/cycle. And I can buy 50~100 bulbs for the price of the washing machine, so that'd be both penny foolish and pound foolish.

Maybe "without further context" you should avoid hard and fast assertions, should run the numbers and should help people try and profile their energy usage instead of putting down their efforts?
Rather than be mad realize that this is actually good.
If you still believe the big bad government is afraid of cryptocurrencies, you must have missed the last five years where governments generally adopted positions from just not caring to genuine curiousity to some mild action against the worst fraud at the extreme.
Fair enough, I think a lot of that had to do with how these powerful men learned what the "truth" is - since they were not qualified to understand the details of the technology from a scientists/engineers perspective, they relied on expert opinions, and many of those "experts" were also enamored with her charisma and youth, and so everyone gave her a thumbs up because everyone else had given her a thumbs up.

And to give credit where credit is due, she masterfully cultivated these relationships and used that mutual reputation network she built to create her own "truth" with her lies. Had she stuck to politics she may have been President. Hell, had she gone into software, her "fake it till you make it" strategy might have worked (not saying I'd want to work for her). Her downfall was simply that she applied this loose relationship with the truth to medical devices, which have a much higher bar for objective truth than other technologies.
Likewise, mine work pretty well.
Given the high failure rate of drivers, do these new bulbs have higher reliability?
It's not new and exciting anymore.

Same reason you don't hear about Haskell or nearly as much about Rust despite them both being conceptually exciting projects.

Hype can be trending, while the underlying thing being hyped, is stable/mature. The aforementioned Haskell is an excellent example of this.
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