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Hey I'm doing the same thing!

We have little else in common though, mainly I just figured I really want to help people and tech helps in such an abstract way it doesn't feel rewarding. I do meditate though, so my own process isn't entirely devoid of spirituality.

Also, being from Canada, I find it really odd that you can just dive straight into the master's degree and become a psychotherapist (I know this varies by state though). I've had to start at the bottom again, it takes 7 years here in Quebec. It's worth it just to know you're working toward you dream job, but it's pretty awesome for you that you'll be done in only 4 years!
Perhaps it would, but surely the first step of fixing that is to stop adding to the problem, in millions of tons a year?

If there's a plant derived alternative with most of the benefits without the major downsides we could start reducing, perhaps to near zero, the amount produced from oil. That seems like a pretty significant and exciting discovery. A possibility of plastic that degrades gracefully and doesn't linger in the environment. Even if we're left with some specialist uses that must still come from oil it's world changing. For once, world changing for the better.

Hopefully we will also find a way to get rid of all the oil derived plastics already out there.
Complex networks of relationships between objects in the OO system are also difficult to maintain.

I tend to construct systems with the simplest concepts and the most basic techniques, syntax, and functions. Used to implement my mind, Pipeline Programming(The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow) is the simplest, stable, reliable and readable.
I've commented on this previously, but I think there's some aspects of the tech industry that really do lead to burnout, depression, and cynicism among the people who work in it - and this applies to both software dev and IT support.

We spend so much time dealing with tools that tend to be extremely pedantic and detail-focused. We're constantly thinking about all of the stuff that's gone wrong with our applications previously, what new things could go wrong with them now, and how we avoid that. For building robust software, or robust IT infrastructure deployments, that's a good thing, but I personally find it somewhat difficult to turn this mindset off at the end of the day.

I've been in the industry for 20 years now and this stuff still gets to me sometimes. The last year or two I've been trying to establish a consistent meditation practice just to help get out of my head a little bit and distance myself from some of the stress and cynicism, though I'm not sure how much it's actually helped yet.
"However, Nishimura became desensitized and increasingly apathetic toward the legal actions taken against him. Due to some of the more controversial activities and posts made by 2channel users, Nishimura was served with an impressive amount of lawsuits during his time as the site’s administrator, and lost at least fifty of them by 2008, the charges ranging from libel, defamation, copyright violations, privacy, and personal injury."

Here's one example where Nishimura ignored court orders.

[Defendant Nishimura from 2channel dodges the authorities, refuses to pay damages or take down the libel.]

QUICK RECAP OF THE CASE: From early 2004 onwards, anonymous poster(s) began systematically copying and pasting statements on a Japanese Internet Bulletin Board System (BBS) called "2-Channel", Japan's most popular website, with around one million posts and 20 million hits per day. Said statements were about Plaintiff Arudou Debito, a human rights activist in Japan. Calling him inter alia a "White Supremacist", the posts, which were added to just about any BBS thread regarding foreigners in Japan, attributed to him by name several fabricated statements, such as "he said he supports massacres of Iraqis", "he said he supports discrimination against non-Whites", with the clear aim of impugning his character and damaging his credibility in his campaign for racial equality in Japan.

Repeated requests both by electronic and registered mail were made by Plaintiff and his lawyers to remove these materials from the online archive, but were completely ignored by the founder and administrator of 2-Channel, a Mr Nishimura Hiroyuki. The posts in question to this day have been left up to spread further across the Internet. After Plaintiff sued for defamation of character, Defendant ignored all court communiques, and never appeared in before the judge to offer any explanation or defense. On January 20, 2006, Hokkaido's Iwamizawa District Court ruled in favor of Plaintiff, awarding him 1,100,000 yen in damages for negligence in the face of libel, and ordered 2-Channel to remove all the libelous posts. However, Nishimura continued to ignore court orders, forcing Plaintiff's legal team to take further litigious steps to enforce the court decision.

Source: http://www.debito.org/2channelsojou.html
>Can't tell you the number of times I've had someone insist that the internet was on satellites.

It has to go to space!
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My guess, which isn’t based on anything is that Tesla got pushback from potential buyers who didn’t like the idea of having to buy outright and then having to return an item for a refund if it wasn’t to their liking (that’s a pretty big hump).

There is much more peace of mind knowing that there is zero monetary commitment when going for a test drive. That’s not to say there aren’t other pressures, but that’s more psychological than anything else.
The new packaging products aren't better, just cheaper. And volumes of vegetable sales have only increased.

My brother worked produce when they switched from paper to plastic packaging. Moisture issues ruin lots and lots of produce at a much higher rate in the plastic.

The other driver is the industrialization and centralization of production. You need plastic packaging and controlled delivery to ship your produce from irrigated desert in California to Maine. Of course in the process you kill off all of the regionalized produce growers as the whole supply chain needs to adapt.

Even meats are this way. Meat is packaged in plastic because the industry was allowed to consolidate to a few fly-over states with awful labor practices. When I was a kid in NYC, whole sides of beef were delivered and cut in the supermarket or butcher. No packaging required until retail, and retail packaging was mostly paper. Now some dis-assembly worker butchers meat in Colorado or Iowa, which must be shipped in cyrovac plastic to the retailer.
However, the homepage claims "Our software was designed to answer most needs, from basic video editing to professional work."
That's not true. Estonian Conservative National Party is against e-voting also and nobody is calling them "russkies".
His arguments on siphash are pretty practical, not sure what did you find misinformed there.
I've been using Antergos for years now. It's a great way to get Arch on a machine.

I just replaced my GPU today. I ran `sudo pacman -S nvidia`, rebooted, and I was good to go.

As an aside: Arch isn't as "bleeding edge" as some people would have you believe. They have a testing repository, so packages get vetted before making it into the main package repositories. They often wait for a point-release of some software (like Gnome Shell) to help ensure that only stable versions make it in.

Plus, the Arch wiki is the most useful Linux resource I've found. I reference it even when I'm using an Ubuntu machine.
Which repo ? The latest commit on this repo is 1 year old.

https://github.com/flyingzumwalt/decentralized-web-primer
>"I've rented some of these lines as part of a financial trading infrastructure."

Unless you were lighting that fiber yourself you were renting wavelengths and not the physical fiber.

>"What's immediately obvious is the line is much faster than going over the public internet, and there's no jitter: every time you ping it comes back in the same amount of time, whereas the internet pings will vary by several ms"

Jitter is caused by congestion which happens at router interfaces. The absence of jitter is not due to the use of dedicated submarine fiber spans per se as the speed of light in fiber is a constant. What you are likely seeing is the result of a network operator who has optimized for low and consistent latency by having fewer hops in their network before and after the cable landing stations.
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Did all the journalists being targeted by this actually tell blue collar workers to learn coding? I've searched on my own and found articles about "this company in west virginia that's training coal miners to code" or "jobs that will be automated in 10 years - is your's next?", but I don't specifically see or recall journalists telling displaced workers that coding would fix their problems. If anyone here can provide examples of that, I would appreciate it.

If this was a widespread thing that many journalists spouted, I understand the outcry. If only a few journalists spouted this nonsense, then I don't think it's fair to punish an entire industry over some bad apples.

What I suspect is that the "learn to code" push was more of a society-wide meme trafficked by politicians, economists, and tech CEOs. And I have to imagine that some journalists gave those people a platform. But perhaps I'm looking at the wrong evidence?

EDIT: dexen's post found maybe one example: A Buzzfeed quiz that suggests coding could become the next blue collar profession. That kind of fits the "learn to code" meme. The other articles dexen posted were actually counter to that - An article where Michael Bloomberg said learning to code is unrealistic for many displaced workers, and another article about coal miners proving him wrong.

Is that it? Or are there more examples?
I wouldn't try to use physical property as an analogy. You can't even see what properties there are until you enter them. If the door wasn't locked you won't know until you're already inside.

Here's an analogy I think is closer: I ask you for all your personal documents and bank account numbers. You promptly give them to me with no questions asked. Was I accessing private property improperly? If you refused and demanded I identify myself as someone authorized to have access, and then I forcibly took them from you anyway, that would be criminal.

Web addresses aren't property, I think that's the wrong analogy. The web is made of requests and responses, and you don't know what response you'll get until you make the request.
The signatures are generated by government-issued cards. Doesn't it mean that it can issue any number of new cards and generate signatures using them?

Also, they cannot store signatures with votes because that would disclose voter's identity and their choice. They have to store signatures separately from the votes and it means that the votes can be freely modified.

Here is what Wikipedia says [1]:

> This criticism was underscored in May 2014 when a team of International computer security experts released the results of their examination of the system, claiming they could be able to breach the system, change votes and vote totals, and erase any evidence of their actions if they could install malware on the election servers.

Of course, the government can install enything on its servers.

Here is a quote from a report on vulnerabilities [2]:

> The e-voting system places complete trust in the server that counts the votes at the end of the election process. Votes are decrypted and counted entirely within the unobservable “black box” of the counting server. This creates an opportunity for an attacker who compromises this server to modify the results of the vote counting.

> ...

> The attack’s modifications would replace the results of the vote decryption process with the attacker’s preferred set of votes, thus silently changing the results of the election to their preferred outcome.

Read: the government can "draw" any outcome they would like. Maybe they already did it, who knows.

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

[2] https://estoniaevoting.org/findings/summary/
Happiness is overrated too. One needs to be content and aware first of all. Friendships are great to have but most can't do without them because they're truly afraid of being with themselves(e.g alone)
This is a big topic. I am assuming you are all centralized today given how you worded it.

Assuming the team has worked together in a central office so far, it is best to do this slowly and expect some headaches and maybe a false start or two. Start with going to a remote friendly environment where you allow remote work 2 days a week and work through the communication changes. Then open it to more days as you work through the process.

The biggest change is communications, no matter how small all communication has to be done in a remote friendly way. Even impromptu meetings can't have a final resolution until you include the remote participants. So essentially decisions will slow down, especially at first but it gets normalized after sometime. Also, recognize that not everyone can work remote because it requires a different mindset, for example, some people trying to work from home are totally distracted and aren't productive.

I have led remote teams for a long time, I am happy to answer specific questions or help anyway I can. The biggest thing is communications and making sure people always feel included and no one is left out. This is a hard thing to do, so do not underestimate the amount of effort it takes, especially if you already have an existing team since it is changing the way people work today versus starting that way.
Before a company will pay you for your data, you will need to prove beyond doubt your identity, by providing that company with all the id and data you have. “Sorry, you havn’t provided enough data to validate your ID yet”, is the get out clause in that business model.
The journey to hell, is paved with good intentions, and there are preists all along the way telling you which way it is.
https://github.com/arialdomartini/morris-worm
Cool fact: Niki Lauda is a former F1 driver who is most famous for having severe facial and lung damage from a fiery crash, then returning while his burns were still healing.

The doctors said he still had more operations to undergo to complete his recovery, but when pressed, admitted that the additional operations were for cosmetic reasons and would not affect his ability to drive.

He raced in F1 races with open wounds weeping into his balaclava.

To this day he's known for having only half an ear on one side and very little hair on his head, but until last year when he had a severe lung problem (likely as a consequence of his aforementioned accident)he happily appeared in public at F1 races.

He retired from F1 to focus on his airline, but un-retired and won another F1 championship.

He ran his airline for a while but now is more of a public figure for one of the F1 teams.

The Ron Howard movie Rush is a great treatment of his time in F1.
WebSub is now a W3C recommendation: https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/

A good starting point on the other stuff is https://indiewebify.me/

I'm not saying these technologies are slam dunks or anything. They do in fact make web publishing much more complicated of an experience. But they do work to decentralize the web for people who have time and energy to tinker with them.
You could make this argument for a toaster or a word processor. If you’re talking about a flying vehicle carrying 158 people it’s no more than a poor excuse. The pilots ought to be competent and properly trained and only then you can start blaming the equipment.
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They did try to offshore tech but it failed to fully displace for various reasons.

I'm curious were there attempts at remote industrial outsourcing in the past that failed? I know that Ford attempted his own South American rubber plantation that essentially ended up in literal rebellion due to being a control freak, cultural imperialist and poor agricultural planner.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlândia
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336925

Tim Apple himself is saying that colleges are not doing enough to teach folks to code! Acknowledging this underlying reality, even in a somewhat provocative way, is hardly "toxic".
Generally, companies evaluate the impact of a potential decision, and then announce the decision publicly. It seems like Tesla likes to announce decisions publicly, and then evaluate the potential impact.
Detaching emotion from the outcome is key. I've heard it described as professional distance or professional objectivity and it is a key component of maturity. It is more prevalent in other industries, but tech has grown so fast that we have a serious mentoring problem. There isn't enough good mentors, people with decades of experience, to go around. I grew up in part of the industry where people had been working for 3 decades before I got there; their mentality is much different than what I've found in young companies with young (as in age) staffs.
Glen, I really enjoyed reading this and found so many points of resonance with my own story.

My recent trip to Thailand and practicing meditation with Buddhist monks, getting one-on-one time with them to go deep until the lesson I needed to hear presented it self, getting vulnerable with my partner and with myself.. all of that along with my profound experience at a digital-detox adult retreat 3 years ago has put me on a path that is at odds with the corporate work that I do at a bank. The interesting thing is, the quality of my work as a product designer has dramatically improved, while my curiosity to explore music, lighting and deep human engagements have given birth to a new personality I call After 5, because it's after 5 pm where I deeply explore those experimentations as i consciously observe a new alignment with my values.

This has re-surfaced something important for me that I now realize could be a possible career stream. Thanks for writing about your experience and the thought process, truly.
Interesting - there was a ready-made pun there, and they mangled it in the headline. In the UK it's just called rocket, not roquette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruca_sativa
It was NOx, and they didn't self certify, they cheated the tests.
> There is much more peace of mind knowing that there is zero monetary commitment when going for a test drive.

Yeah. If I were buying a Tesla (which btw... I don't plan to buy any vehicle for another ~5 years or so...), then I'd be wondering if the return would refund my deposit... or if it'd refund the "delivery charge". Etc. etc.

There is a lot of fine-print there: I have severe doubts that the full price would be refunded. I mean, lets say I test drove the vehicle for 147 miles and then returned it. Who the heck would buy a "new" Tesla with 147 miles on it? So I know the value of the car has dropped significantly. I can't believe that Tesla would accept the car back without taking some cost to recoup the lost value.

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On a true test drive, there's no documents to sign. And the test drive is for a very short are (just a couple of miles). Its expected for vehicles to have ~20 to 40 miles on them due to test drives when you get them from a dealership, so the short test drives aren't a big deal at all.
Ten year's later, Ray Ozzie's Internet Services Disruption memo... http://scripting.com/disruption/ozzie/TheInternetServicesDis...
I agree, and paying people directly doesn't make a whole lot of economic sense.

But if it meaninfully increases the cost of using the targeted data, it could be an interesting trade-off.

Almost like a carbon tax isn't designed to raise revenue, a personal data tax could discourage the "use it by default" mentality, since it would come with a cost.
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There's a relatively sophisticated Calendar app already, indeed: https://github.com/HaikuArchives/Calendar/

It had working Google Calendar sync at one point, dunno if it still is. It could definitely use some work, though.
And what's the purpose of that? If anything happens in-flight, most likely you're all going to be dead anyway. It's very, very rare that passengers are actually able to escape a plane that's crashed; the "Sully" incident is one of the few that come to mind at the moment.
I quite like Quines :) Here's a bunch more of them: http://wiki.c2.com/?QuineProgram
Productivity could be treated as constant, every 10 yrs or so? Maybe even 100 yrs in earlier times
Not only is this an appropriate (and probably correct - time will tell) reaction by China, but it represents the Chinese government taking consumer safety and health more seriously than the US.

Does anyone know if this is the first such example?

They've come a long way from the scandal of having melamine in the milk.
While the situation in ex-USSR republics is complicated, it is not a good idea to force someone to learn and use some other language.
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Why is KDE software almost always available only as compile only for macOS ?
> 50% would refuse to work under Arab supervision? Again, this is ridiculous. I don't think money-sucking Jews would refuse to work under Hitler.

Got curious and googled. Couldn't find that last statistic, but it seems 58% (give or take) of residents in the city of Ashkelon were in favor of terminating public works projects (specifically construction of bomb shelters at kindergartens) where Arab workers were employed.

Whether this is an effective proxy for all of Israel or even for the question at hand is unknown to me, and it probably isn't the case considering Israeli AG Yehuda Weinstein warned the city's mayor not to execute the decree, but I'm not terribly focused on the decree itself as much as I'm focused on the population backing it. 58% of a city would appear to be fearful of an employed population because of their ethnic heritage... that's terrifying.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ashkelon-mayor-warned-over-arab...

(p.s. it seems mayor Itamar Shimoni ultimately backed off the move, possibly one of the rare cases where an elected public official made a more well-informed decision than what was desired by the official's constituents. https://www.jta.org/2014/11/23/israel/ashkelon-mayor-decides... )

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Disclosure: I'm an American-born person of Persian descent, though I'm likely unable (and certainly unwilling) to revisit Persia/Iran under the current regime.
Oh, I was looking at the github link at the bottom[1] but I didn't notice it's a link to specific commit, latest commit is actually from 11 days ago, I'm sorry.

1. https://github.com/ipfs/website/tree/49b7cc4cd170138388012c7...
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>I might test drive a Tesla

I don't think you can do that anymore
If they're going to do that, I'd leave the disbursement to the state.

That'd be easier for companies (just send one check), and provide a privacy preserving proxy between the payment and payee.
On tuesday, I aspired to be a carpenter. On wednesday, I went to my dayjob.
I harness that mindset-spillover by playing board games as a hobby.
Or, it will allow them to validate what data they have on you and charge more for it!
> There just isn't enough skilled IT people. The industry is immature and is bottom heavy. The top performers and seniors, are then overwhelmed with work and the business is unable to hire more senior people to reduce workload. Then the business keeps growing and eventually you get a death spiral of people quitting and making the situation worse.

If you’re right you have valuable skills that are in high demand. As patio11 would say

“Charge more”

By all accounts charging more also generally leads to better employers/customers and in the cases where it doesn’t it gives you the security to increase your prices until dealing with assholes or the highly demanding seems worthwhile instead of a hideous necessity.