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I think people here are thinking too much into this. It just means to not do things that are against your current beliefs. The context is often that you don't because there is social pressure against you. For example, if your boss says something you consider bad and on asking you, you outwardly agree with him for fear of otherwise compromising your job. That's being not true to yourself.

Another example could be family pressuring you to get together with someone you dislike and agreeing to it despite not wanting to.

If your beliefs or wants change, it doesn't mean that whether or not you were true to yourself in the past changes.
That is what constitutions are for. You can have things that require a supermajority to enact and therefore a supermajority to repeal.
Or, you could just use LinkedIn
Are you referring to cash transactions or something else? I’m curious what you may have in mind for remote payments, especially internationally
Speaking of Kaczynski his manifesto points to quite a few of these problems that are happening now. Also, I'm not endorsing him or anything he did but do find it interesting that some of his technology fears are correct.
Due to Javascript Stockholm Syndrome it's more like "the vast majority of people forced to eat burritos at their day job like cilantro on their burritos."
Everyone's mountain has a peak. We have a finite amount of compute power in our heads, and a finite amount of time on the earth. That means we have a fixed amount of complexity we can work through.

That said, fixing someone's shitty microservice code is probably not bottlenecked by our cognitive capacities. It's probably bottlenecked by financial constraints.
Dozens if not hundreds of articles have been written about corruption around patent trolling in the Eastern District of Texas.

You have everything you need to seek those articles out. Asking others to do simple tasks for you indicates a desire to waste their time. It could fairly be interpreted as... trolling.
He is right though from a historical perspective. All he is saying is x86 won over the server space because its where people develop. If the arm development platform becomes a thing, then he will be proven right again.

I have a slightly different take. Arm on the server has a chance now because cloud and thin clients are increasingly common and so even your "at home" machine, as he calls it, could be in the cloud, the same arm machine used for deployment.
I don't think you even need a blacklist for this to be of real benefit - if every fancy bottle sold is expected to be accompanied by a blockchain transaction moving the bottle's certificate (originally produced by the winemaker, and unforgeable) then you'll only be able to sell a fancy bottle of wine if at some point in the past you've purchased an equivalent bottle from someone else with a certificate.

There is still the chance that someone along the way consumes the real wine or sells it (at a loss?) to someone who doesn't care about authentication, and then sells on a fake bottle with the real certificate - but:

- at least in that case there would be a well-defined chain of owners that should make it much simpler to figure out who's doing the counterfeiting.

- you can only do this once for each real bottle that you purchase, since you can't forge the certificates.
I think you're exactly right.

A key check on military abuse in a democracy is that military actions kill some fraction of voters. We have already seen that as that fraction goes down through better soldier protection technology, our willingness to go into battle increases. If we drive that down to near-zero, the implications are frightening.

A further consequence of this is that the fewer human soldiers you have in the field, the fewer embedded journalists you have. And, without those, it is even easier to conduct military actions without any oversight from voters.
The diversity of Seattle has increased with the number of Amazon employees:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-is-le...
Thanks for the tip!

After reading this, I tried it and it didn't work. Even jumped on a call with support and they told me there is no way to turn on 2FA without the security questions (at least for my account, maybe other accounts can).

The shitty thing is you also delete your account or create a new one with the same email without knowing the security questions.

Oh well :/

Still, thanks for the hope (short-lived as it was).
Yep, many of the applicants have experience in some kind of technology, whether programming or something else. We actually think this sort of re-skilling is going to be very common in the future.
The most common belief is that RNA came first -- it has both the information-carrying capacity and enzymatic activity.

As for why are there 20 encoded amino acids (+ selenocysteine and pyrrolysine)?

I've read that codon similarities hint at an original more compact alphabet of two base codons (allowing for up to 15 distinct amino acids and a stop).

I've also read that the "more recent" amino acids, like cysteine, are more readily oxidized and thus provided some advantage as atmospheric oxygen levels increased.

But all of these are guesses about the world before LUCA, which is really lost to us.
> For any other conceivable use case, a database and a contract between parties are a superior solution.

Except when banks are transferring money across borders. In order to have trust, they currently need what's called nostro and vostro accounts. Meaning, Bank A parks money in Bank B, and Bank B parks money in Bank A. So that if a transfer is fraudulent, there will be money to cover it.

How is that better than blockchain?
I really don't know how a team lead would find the time with all that turnover. Training is a bitch.
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No, because "they/them" is valid for everyone.
My sense is the set of scenarios where "you can't use contracts and the legal system to ensure trust between the parties" is broader than just illegal agreements. Contract often fail when the damages for breach are too small, diffuse, and heterogeneous, making class action unsuitable. And many contract provisions are often not honored in bankruptcy. Litigation is an unwieldy tool and preferably avoided where possible.
Neither does the person launching it though.

Software in the case of AI weapons is basically just enlisted personnel that follow orders perfectly.
It is good to remind people of the nature of legal enforcement which will essentially be required in such cases, but 'illegal stuff' is definitely not the only use case.

For example - banks could feasibly use blockchain for clearing trades.

Right now there is a 'single point of trust' for such things which even financial institutions want to break out of.

Blockchain could theoretically enable distributed exchanges.

The 'rule of law' is still essential in that context, but blockchain could work there.

This is only one example of 'regular real world use'.

FYI / caveat: the 'hardest part' about getting these more distributed systems going is getting large financial entities to agree on the nature of the exchange, and hammering out of the real world details. At that point, blockchain becomes a secondary and not necessarily essential component.
The they/them pronouns are used in place of he/him/she/her because they are ungendered. I fail to see how the use of ungendered pronouns are exclusionary.
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This, so much. It's where review comments like "why don't you just do X?" come from, where "X" is a systematic change. Condescension coming from a place of strength doesn't make it okay.
100% sure, since I asked him. Actually I identified him because he gave me and my buddy a lift out of a canyon, and there was someone who looked like he could be his son sitting in the front seat, who was wearing a shirt with the seal of my alma mater; several years prior, Steve Benner gave a talk and afterwards he mentioned that his son was thinking about my alma mater. I've also met Sydney Brenner, and I'm pretty sure Sydney Brenner would not have been able to ascend the mountain we were on.
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Or just use their name (“coleifer”), since the HN comment in question was already linked. Knowing gender is unnecessary in _this_ case.
Can someone redirect me to the section of the book where they explain how exactly kernel manages sockets, binds the port and keep tracks of bound/allocated ports.
Shouldn't Apple simply block the Facebook app from the App Store then? And similarly for all apps that pass data to Facebook?
There are various studies that suggest a genetic component to energy levels at different times in the circadian cycle. A quick search will find some for you. Just because your cycle can be adjusted doesn't mean that some people don't have longer ones or experience high energy levels at later times.
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Well, IMO, it's very easy to look good in the local community. For example, http://www.personalweb.com/ opened up shop when I was attending school there. They hired (as part-time interns) a bunch of local college students and built the bare minimum. They had small parties and showed up at a lot of community events.

They came to my uni to give a presentation to scout for interns. I asked them why they chose their location next to the court house, and they replied because of the patents they had they thought they would be at the courthouse often :).
Sometimes we need to remember that positive interactions make people happy, and negative ones make people sad. And that's what they'll remember about the interaction afterwards.

For a lot of people, these basics apply even to technical discussions. Criticizing their code makes them feel bad, and so you are a jerk. Meanwhile, you think you are criticizing their design to help them improve it. This is a mistake on the part of the person receiving criticism, but it's very rare to have a manager or mentor who can point this out to them, and help them dissociate their implementations from their self worth.

Couple into this other culture's aversions to even just saying "no", and we have a complex and challenging world to navigate. I'm constantly in search of the team where we don't have to do silly social dances to make sure everyone feels valued, and can just criticize and fix, since the members know they're valued by virtue of being part of the team to begin with.

But that is asking a lot of people - they have to have reflected on these issues. Since this is rare, and the larger a team gets, the more likely you'll have to deal with those who haven't dissociated yet. Makes for a great mentorship opportunity if you can find a way to have them "let you in".
I thought this is about weapons making decisions in the field autonomously. Like spotting a target and then also deciding to kill it.
It's not a generalization about hundreds of millions of people, it's a generalization about the public education system in the US, and it's entirely valid. The US consistently ranks at the very bottom of public education rankings of all industrialized nations. This isn't inappropriate, this is supported by reams of research and explains how people in this thread can be ignorant about worldly matters.
Very nice! I had a very popular G+ collection with hundreds of animations, which I deleted. Now, by looking at your photoblog, I wonder if I can suck all the photos from posts from [1] and then use your Odyssey [2].

[1] https://get.google.com/albumarchive/110322266958783287132/al...

[2] https://github.com/Libbum/Odyssey
The line isn't between Russians and Chinese and American citizens, it's between the power centers within them and the citizens in their own countries as well as the others, and these power centers will be more loyal to each other than the respective populations they "represent" when it's time to consent and pay taxes for something, but which they don't know at all when it comes to dissidence or poverty. Robots firing at robots or soldiers isn't going to the end result, robots firing at civilians is.

IMO the closing window of opportunity, that is, the fleeting opportunity that still exist, would be a culture of intellectual honesty and getting rid of moral double standards rather than goosestepping, so maybe people in Russia, China and elsewhere might think hey, maybe we'd actually like to be free, too. But, instead let's just play another round of this game. Remember the cold war, how giant that was, yet when it ended, the military budget just stayed as big? It's a racket.
TBH yes. I wish search engines had an "exclude branding" modifier to search terms. Too many products appropriate too many terms from other domains these days.
I feel this is why Ubuntu is one of the most popular server distros.

Ubuntu is pretty unsuited for servers IMO. It's just complex and error-prone, IMO. The packages aren't always server-quality.

But it's great for the desktop IMO, because Canonical actually tests against real hardware for you.

So the fact that people use Ubuntu for desktop/laptop development makes it popular in the cloud, which I've always felt was unfortunate.

You could do some extra work to test your web app on a more minimal distro or on a BSD, but why bother? Ubuntu works to a degree, so you save that step. Same with x86.
If you had the patience and available location you could publish an address sometime in one of your blog-posts.

I bet you'd receive a hell of a lot of postcards of thanks from around the world. Things like that feel more "real" than emails and words on forums.
This already occurs and has been occuring. Has zero relevance to blockchain. Heard of escrow?
I think this will sting.

Won't that create an opportunity for an independent local business? It won't be as convenient and nice as an Apple store. However, it will reduce the sting in exchange for some profit.
Yeah that I get. I was more asking about the source in general since they pollute my inbox.
> Every possible best pattern and practice (including the ones that were still a few years away) I'd already done them and perfected them.

Care to provide examples of the patterns? Genuinely curious

> I was so high up on the peak of the C# mountain that recruiters could no longer understand me, employers could no longer understand me, co-workers could no longer understand me

What sort of things were you saying that led to people not understanding you? I can't imagine knowing a language so well that others can no longer understand me
You'll have to pardon me for not finding time to read the manual and spouting nonsense! I'm going to get around to it real soon, just too much backlog!
Seconded. Spectre is small, fast, rich, complete, accessible (I think) and works great on low resource machines.
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If you look at the map in the article, you'll see that the Eastern District wraps around to include some of the northern suburbs of Dallas, suburbs that are filled with lots of malls.
This sounds more like how to make anyone hate to work with you.
Gitlab is great and I have used it for years but I recently switched to Gogs for self hosted repositories because it is much faster, easier to set up and walk in a park to maintain. It doesn't have all the features (bloat) that Gitlab has but it can probably satisfy >95% of git users.
Yes, but those slopes are indeterminate from an outside observer because success comes from within. For every person you think you might have pigeon-holed, I'll show you another that broke the mold. You see everyone starts off facing a metaphorical vertical cliff in anything they attempt. It's over time that you learn the passages and tools that make it easier to climb; that lessen the slope. Unless we're talking about physically dunking a basketball, anyone can be a savant in something with enough effort. But again that future effort is not knowable to a 3rd party, they can only base opinions on past observations. People can change and they can change in an instant.
The average engineer can afford a 4 bedroom house and 6 children in 2019. The same goes for somebody who might be called a software architect, but not for the type of architect who draws floorplans and rooflines for houses.

Maybe that doesn't work in San Francisco, but there are many other places to live in the USA. Most of the country is very affordable for somebody who can design software or hardware.

As I understand it, getting an above-average salary is nearly a legal requirement. Going below average is prohibited. (one could be exactly average I think)

To make a random example: $150,000 per year will have you living very well in Deerfield Beach, FL or in Georgetown, KY.
Being 'most litigious' does not imply they are patent trolls.

They could be pursuing legit defence of their IP.

FYI in your example - Apple in many ways has no choice but to sue.

If a company is not perceived to be defending their trademarks - they lose them.

When 'Crackberry.com' was popular, Blackberry had to 'sue' them - but funny enough, the relationship otherwise was great. Blackberry had no intention of damaging 'Crackberry' because of course they were helpful to Blackberry! But - there was always a case 'in progress'. Blackberry had to 'appear to be defending it's IP'.
At the point where all your practicing is just maintaining your performance, you've reached your peak. You can stay there, or you can go higher if you practice more (or better). But there is a finite amount of practicing you can do each day. (Studies argue that 4 hours is plenty.) So there is an absolute limit per individual.
This seems analogous to:

"No one will ever need a 100 megabyte drive!" "No one could ever use a 1 megabit network connection!" "No one will ever use more than 256 megabytes of RAM!"

But I don't know enough biology to understand if that's the case.
I think he tries to address this but fails to acknowledge it elsewhere.

> This is true even if what you mostly do is something ostensibly cross-platform like just run Perl scripts or whatever. Simply because you'll want to have as similar an environment as possible,

I guess if you're doing stuff with low-level packages using node-gyp or C++ bindings then sure, but pure node-based workloads don't care about the architecture and, as you said, are expected to work everywhere.
It’s not really risk that’s an issue, it’s a combination of expensive production, dangerous and expensive storage, and expensive deployment contrasted with a total lack of efficacy in killing the intended target. Unless your goal is to murder untrained and unequipped civilians, chemical weapons are just not very good weapons. Soldiers are trained, have vehicles with overpressure seals, masks and MOPP suits, detectors and a command structure.

The real use for chemical weapons is to terrify civilians and poorly organized/equipped militias. Most of all it’s a way to murder a large number of civilians without destroying infrastructure. Needless to say that’s not something you’d typically do in a war, where destruction of infrastructure is typically step one! As a result most countries recognize the economic and social burden of chemical weapons and their use, and strongly oppose them.
I'm not sure I completely follow you, but there's nothing preventing a party from making use of the legal system or contracts or whatever in addition to a blockchain.

I still think that making some common classes of dispute impossible is highly valuable.
> I dunno bro, did you read anything I said?

This type of comment isn't really productive to make. Yes, I read what you said. Because I replied to it.

My point is that I wouldn't work with somebody who wouldn't treat me reasonably-- I wouldn't accept their VC money.

I don't understand how VC advice can be self-serving, though, since in order for them to get a return on their money, your business has to take off. And you don't give up 100% of the company. So you win too. I view it as mutual, in that regard.

If you lose, they lose money. If they invest in you, they don't want to lose.
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Anyone treating a blockchain as a database is already off to a bad start. It's at best a prunable transaction log. Sure, you can use a blockchain to construct a database, but even the Nakamoto whitepaper talks about discarding old transactions.

There exist many cases in which something is not illegal but is inefficient, unjust, lacks sufficient trust to reach a contract or lacks sufficient incentives to comply with a contract. There exist many other cases in which people cannot afford to hire a lawyer to enforce a contract, or cannot afford to hire as many lawyers of as high a calibre as the other party.

So presenting blockchains as a) databases that are b) only good for illegal activity is doubly incorrect.

There are also many bad and unnecessary uses of databases and contracts...
it was a joke...

I met Steve for dinner once and we had a great chat about how badly the first Mars life-detection experiments were designed.
Wow, this really has the ability to open up the door for bootcamps for people that otherwise couldn't afford to do it, that's commendable!

I don't think 15% is a lot at all. Assume $60-70k for first job out of a bootcamp (which is more than reasonable) and you are essentially charging $10k tuition for a 5 month program.

I hope the numbers work out for you, as it sounds exciting!

I'd love a similar program for experienced or senior engineers that want to shift into an entirely new space (spend 4-6 months learning data science and machine learning, for example. Or low-level programming for embedded devices. Etc)
Correction: You will not have made the wrong decision if you enjoyed the experience enough to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.
New York is not a tech town.

It is a finance town. It is a marketing town. It is a fashion town. It has so many things that dwarf it's tech industry.

It's not a tech town, and I honestly don't expect it to become one.
And yet is only half what is required to test a single SpaceX Raptor engine.

https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/0...

It’s probably more about sensor packages and planned airflow requirements that the physical strength of the test stand.
USA is the new frontier for Indians and Chinese. If the laws get idiotic mostly idiots from these countries will flock to American shores. The brightest ones will go elsewhere.

In last 2 years we laid off entire QA department of my employer to move all those jobs to India. We then later moved half the engineering team in India and opened an office in Singapore to by pass US visa restrictions. US laws will not matter much to Indians or Chinese seeking better life, it is just that US society will waste a lot of wealth and opportunities to comply with them.
For me this often happens incrementally. Like they started with "if (FeatureNotDisabled)" and then locally refactored the code until it was "if (!FeatureNotDisabled)". The problem is that they then didn't go back for another pass before commit, and reverse the double-negative by changing the variable name and semantics. This could be due to laziness, ignorance (it works, what's the problem?), fear (it works now, let's not break it), or time mismanagement (it took long enough to get it working, no time to make everything "perfect").
Thanks for posting this and it is quite informative re: BOM pricing. I suspect that Librem is having to do quite a bit more work on the software side than the Fairphone as their development costs appear pretty minuscule. Even so, based on this breakdown it's probably not as big a piece of the final price as I had guesstimated.