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Thank you for your kindness. You are 100% correct in everything you say, but your kindness is truly inspiring. I owe you - you taught me a lot.
My partner wants to do more travelling and I said sure, anywhere you want in the world except the US.

Which is a shame there parts of the US I'd love to see but not at the price of entry.
Another personal data point.

When I was in college I did have to take philosophy 101. It and all of the other core classes such as biology and English were nothing more than annoying hurdles. I do enjoy learning about philosophy and such, but that is not at all what happened while I was trying to get my degree.

Though to be totally honest, to a large extent I considered the entire degree earning process to be little more than an about hurdle to entering the job market. I spent practically zero time reflecting in any of it during the process.
Funny story, my neighbor is a partner in the law firm that represented Aleynikov.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/07/goldmans-secret-...
If you show that you cooperate yet you can't provide access to anything (because your phone is empty for example) they may treat you better or - if you're a foreigner - not deny you entry.
It's a good question.

The VC situation _outside_ of SV is generally considered much worse as far as I know. Such that characters in the HBO show would be depressingly accurate or even lightened up a bit.

There are great investors everywhere, but "a deal with the devil" can be the nature of most VC investments if you're not lucky/careful (disclaimer, 2nd/3rd hand)
IT, like Medicine, is seen today as a pathway to a good job and financial security. So there are tons of people entering the field with no real interest in it.
First: that debt will be repaid. The people who own those T-bonds will redeem them and get their money. This is an important distinction; you buy T-bonds because you know they’ll be paid back.

The total value of the debt is an almost meaningless number. As long as people keep buying US debt, we’ll have the money to pay the debt off. (Strictly the US could just print the money it needs to pay the debt right now - the question is whether the resulting inflation would be worth it).

The rest cost of the debt is interest payments. As long as those stay at a manageable fraction of GDP the US is just fine. If GDP increase 10% but debt servicing only increases 5% then the servicing payments are effectively 4.5% smaller.

In the next decade our problem is less likely to be total quantity of debt than increasing interest rates (which are very low right now).
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I donated to the ACLU on Trump’s first weekend in office when he made such a cock-up of his travel ban. Then the letters started coming begging for more money. I like their ostensible mission but I don’t want more junk mail. At this point I’m pretty sure they’ve spent more money mailing me shit than I donated, and destroyed all my motivation to give them anything more. It’s too bad, because we do need organizations like this, but why do they have to piss off the people who want to support them?
I'm not sure for how much longer it will keep working though. With the increased fragmentation of streaming services (and geoblocking), pirating content is starting to feel more convenient yet again.

When it comes to music, I can most of the time listen to it legally via Spotify or Google Play Music/YouTube Music. When it comes to movies (and especially for older movies), the rights holders give me no choice but to pirate because they simply don't make it available for me to obtain in a legal way.

As an extreme example: I was looking up an old childhood movie "Hugo: Djungeldjuret". The rights holder have stopped distributing the movie and they no longer sell it, but they do issue copyright claims and take-down requests towards anyone who hosts it. How am I supposed to watch a movie like that in a legal way when the only distributor has stopped distributing it?
I think you're right but there's more to it. When you can succeed by using your brain and technology, it doesn't matter so much who your parents are. The thing is we still have a massive legacy of wealth and power fueled by inheritance and other non-meritocratic systems.

This is why you see old media, non-STEM academia and other classic playgrounds of the rich first in line to bash tech. It's an existential threat to their power and control over society.
The turn-over of employees in aerospace is often quite quick. It's very likely that most of the people that designed this system are long gone, and the current design team are the ones picking up the pieces.
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Like you I don't do Facebook and I have every Facebook domain blocked. No one except my immediate family believes I don't use Facebook and considers it an affront when I say I don't use it in response to their request "What's your Facebook?" Many people can't imagine anyone doesn't have a Facebook account. Anyone who says they don't is presumed a liar who is socially rejecting them by refusing to connect.

With TSA/Customs you need to be truthful. If you don't have an account say so. If you have one and say you don't that's a felony.
interesting link https://a16zcrypto.com
If you're lazy about learning for long enough you'll end up stupid.
Maybe, but you can also hand those over to a trusted party. Would be nice if email services lets you lock your email account until a trusted party unlocks it again.
That's because tenure is a tool for research, it exists to ensure a certain level of freedom of research. For every n researchers who use tenure for slacking off or pursuing a crackpot idea (those two are indistinguishable from the outside) there will be one who makes a valuable contribution that would have been impossible without the freedom granted by tenure.

Granting tenure has many downsides, but there is also possible upside which is why tenure exist. But that upside is exclusive to research, it simply does not exist in teaching. Don't get me wrong, it's great when tenured positions are held by people who are also good teachers and many are, but it would be wasteful to base selection on teaching. If you want to improve teaching, create better teaching positions outside of tenure.
> the fundamental job of almost every market participant

Not true. You might make an argument that this is the effect of having them together in a market, but that's not their job:

- Market maker: hang around the market offering to trade with anyone (pref retail) at a spread. Doesn't care whether TSLA is gonna be able to make all those Model 3s.

- Pension fund: make sure they can pay the liabilities that are coming due. If that can be locked in, happy to pay a bit more than fair value to do so.

- Hedge fund: make absolute returns. Buy before it goes up, sell before it goes down. Whatever form of voodoo (or skill) fulfills this is fine. This doesn't have to mean finding the right price (could just mean you guess which way it's going), though of course often it is part of the objective.

- Broker: finds people on both sides of a trade. Doesn't care terribly much except to create excitement.

- Banks: lend money/securities and offer services to all of the above. Create research to make people trade. Securitise stuff so people can trade it. Often do a bit of everything.

Source: used to run hedge funds.
> How then to account for new sources of methane observed by recent observations?

If you read the article, they explain where the methane is coming from.
You are right, it does not produce more O2 than it consumes. Burning the forest is by far Brazil's greatest source of CO2. The forest also regulates the release of water to the atmosphere. It release as much water "transpiring" as the Amazon River estuary.

And the burning of the forest is increasing a lot in Bolsonaro's government. Well, it is increasing a lot since the president DiLma was ousted.
Note the part about Intel limiting pcie lanes. It is a story that has been mostly ignored but it has shaped the pc industry in many ways, mainly to the detriment of Intel because it eliminates some of the seasons to buy a computer instead of a phone.
The reality is not far from this - AIUI, the Internet Archive does have a fairly sizable archive of very early Usenet that was extracted from backup tapes stored at a random zoology department somewhere in Canada. So dangerous snakes were very likely involved, at least.
This looks really great. I want to try it out. Working on a couple new things, and new things are always the easiest to try other new things on. ;)
What is an RIA?

I know what these things are: hedge fund, private equity, wealth management, venture capital.

Which is A16Z now closest to? Or is there a class of financial firm I'm not aware of?

Edit: I'm also curious, does this place any material restrictions on their startup investment activity?
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I have no idea of the facts in this case, but based on how organizations function in general, one possibility is that the redundancy issues of MCAS were raised internally by some engineers without result.

In that case, the engineers were probably not thanked internally back then and are probably not thanked now either.

If their potential concerns would had led to changes on the MCAS design they would probably not have been thanked either, but rather seen as the people who unnecessarily made the project more expensive or less profitable.

In conclusion, people who avert or try to avert risk are seldom proportionally thanked in organizations in general.
>Customs can temporarily detain you, but they cannot refuse entry

What's the definition of "temporarily" in this case?
OK and engaging full blown paranoia mode: What if they ask me to log into gmail and Office 365 (I use both) so they can see what I was trying to hide?
exactly, but my point is that most of the players don't have a good product, so why would they force people to use it? In the last few months I've used Prime Video, Crackle, FXNOW, WWE Network, NJPWWorld, and HonorClub. All of them are awwwwful, and it would only benefit them if they could come up with an api standard for content, and let other vendors take care of the front end.
That is an amazing amount of public and private debt. It's an interesting thought that I have had $0 of private debt for at least 10 years, which means someone else is picking up a lot of slack for me. Reminds me of an old Square One TV episode that talked about the average number of donuts eaten by Americans -- and I concluded that someone (or multiple someones) must have seriously been picking up my slack there as well :p.
Now you got me curious. Was the response ... a bit unethical ?
It seems like phantom traffic jam. https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7276027/traffic-jam
My understanding is that the recovery scenario wasn’t supposed to be complicated at all, because in the event of a MCAS failure, it would always manifest as a runaway trim scenario, and that pilots are trained heavily on recognizing as correcting for that scenario, and that by following the standard runaway trim solution/checklist/process that this would necessarily involve disabling MCAS whether the pilots were aware of it or not. So the question is, did they, and if so did this fail, and if not, why didn’t they? Is this actually a direct problem with MCAS or is it closer to an issue of basic pilot training that only happened to involve MCAS? I suspect as the investigations unfold that our understanding of the accidents is only going to get more complex and nuanced.
It's a bit disingenuous to say that BB's don't have a stake in HFT.

At the time of Aleynikov's case, Goldman was routinely at the top of the NYSE rankings with regard to programmatic trading volume.
Creative comment spam: https://www.google.com/search?q="Concert+goers%2C+Broadway+a...

If there's a good reason to use a hard CAPTCHA on comment forms, stuff like this is it.
Alright, but the point is the transfer is to founders for the most part from somewhere.
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I looked into this awhile ago and came to a similar conclusion about the web. Here's the examples of pre 1996 websites I know of (some are recreations):

* The famous first web page: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/T...

* The Global Network Navigator: http://oreilly.com/gnn/gnnhome.html

* Trincoll Journal: https://web.archive.org/web/20010413164311/http://www.trinco...

* BBC Networking Club: https://archive.org/details/bbcnc.org.uk-19950301

Anything pre 1994 is very hard to find.
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Can you heat up your coffee by stirring?
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You are basically not qualified to make that decision. There is no amount of informed consent for either the known unknowns or the unknowns present in say a clinical trial. It would also be a net negative to society because we would get no information outside of proper studies and it would be a huge waste of money.
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Typing only on the keyboard can be very nice for posture, but I feel that Vim users may think slightly differently if people invented a better keyboard with a pointer device attached.

Then you wouldn't be "taking your hands off the keyboard", you'd just be engaging in a different motion.
>TSA

Common mix up, but the agency in question is CBP, not TSA.
care to share your list? because everyone I follow (jack, woz, YC, winkl bros, naval, draper VC,sergey and others) are pretty much allin block/coins
Or simply just leave yours at home, buy a burner phone on arrival.
I suspect that at least part of it is that mirroring copyrighted content is a gray area of law. The fact that the Internet Archive is a non-profit archive may give them some leeway and, in any case, they're a less tempting target than Google would be. Look at the ongoing issues that Google has around news sites for example.
How are they expected to work without a degree of opacity? If the police were transparent for the sake of vigilant privacy nerds and the public, their targets would stay two steps ahead of them and never get caught.

I agree on the accountability front - some agency somewhere needs to keep a comprehensive record of all of these 'black budget' 'operational secrecy' kind of things. Otherwise (as evidenced by the runaway CIA/NSA), having the option of secrecy becomes too alluring and therefore the norm.

At this point American citizens have pretty much zero idea what these agencies are doing on a daily basis - it's nice to believe they operate with our best interests in mind, but if not, how would we ever know?
I also liked this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWEjxkkB8Xs
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People will also argue that people have used written communication and done without eggplants and whatnot for centuries -- even though it would have been even easier to do so with pen and paper (i.e. free drawing in hand-written letters).

Other people would argue that Emojis are an illusion of communication. People right here are commenting that the difference in their graphic representation on different platforms sometimes change their meaning!?

I would argue that we didn't need anything beyond (basic) ASCII smiley. The rest are toys, not communication devices. When you have dozens of them you need some sort of dictionary, and at this point I suggest you should learn Chinese instead, if you like to write with symbols that much.
Either way, abuses will happen. Would you rather be abused by the government or by random strangers?
At least 15 years[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saifullah_Paracha
April fools article? I seriously doubt this is actually happening.
ooo, I was just about to choose thinkpad over xps mainly because of the keyboard. Does XPS have any advantage?
I got sued over copyright infringement a few years back, and most of the evidence against my company consisted of screenshots of my sites/blogs from the internet archive. It is a good research tool for "who came first".
Google used to have a timeline showing key points in Usenet history. The first mention of Madonna. The first reference to AIDS. The first mention of the Gulf war. There were articles in Wired on how they recovered this stuff from long-lost tapes. This was such an important piece of internet history and they just abandoned it.
> If you explained the entire internet to an alien, and then told them that Google aren't the ones running the Internet Archive, they'd say "Seriously?"

They are running an internet archive. That's what their cache is. There's more than one internet archive; why would Google necessarily be running all of them?
>there's no use to do the same job twice

And why bother looking both ways before crossing the street, or even testing your backups?
Any other copywriters here think this would make for an amazing swipe file?
The beta release looks great, I'm excited to try it out!
Oh lord, I wish I could find the article!

It was a while ago, but it was a study out of ... Michigan State (?) that looked at the bottom 10% of students that got into the elite colleges. Not the legacies and the athletes, they controlled for that. But, based on selection criteria like ACT, SAT, GPA, etc. Kids that got in, basically, on the strengths of their essays.

The press article talked about a kid that was in Stanford. He was from Arizona, and his grads were iffy and his scores were okay-ish.

But, the kid was SUPER passionate about the local state park that he hiked in all the time. He managed to raise a bunch of money for the park to keep it open through the 2008 downturn, he went to the state capital and lobbied legislators, all that jazz. The kid essentially applied to Stanford on a lark and wrote about his efforts with the park. He got in.

The conclusion of the study of these kinds of kids was that they were really spiky and not well rounded. And, they really didn't need Stanford and all the others, Stanford needed them.

Sorry for the years later recollections and likely misremembering. If anyone else knows the source for this, I'd love to know as well.
even before that: the plane is a bad design because making a new plane that works properly with the bigger engines was also off the table. so hundreds of people die.
Have a password you can't remember, so it's in your password safe which is not on this device. According to another comment, 1password has a special travel mode that supports this.
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This reminded me of an issue with emoji in slack...
then you type ":)" slack changes it to the emoji, but when you hover over it you see ":slightly_smiling_face:"... the first time I saw this I thought that the message was passive aggressive... it was later that I realize that slack does the change automatically
> FOSS people love desktops

I disagree. FOSS people love webapps, machine learning, and other big-computing stuff on the whole. Hardly any work is being done towards personal "small-computing" and, frankly, hardly any ever was. I can guess at a bunch of reasons why, but it mostly comes down to the problem space just not being interesting to very many people with the skill set to do anything about it.

Big and Small computing: https://hackernoon.com/big-and-small-computing-73dc49901b9a
"Organize" is just a weasel word for "censor".
Parent didn't claim the inverse as you say. That's bad logic, it assumes a weak position that wasn't made and is easy to refute. Post hoc
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Then they shouldn't have any personal guilt..
TrueCrypt had hidden volumes with plausible deniability.

Aside: don't use TrueCrypt anymore for other reasons.
Just let the Wookie win.
It's going to get even worse now that entertainment media is being "streamed" and DRM is preventing users from making copies. Today's game servers and loot boxes are very short lived, and they aren't even selling physical disks for people to preserve and enjoy.
If someone wants to donate $70 million and maybe their kid gets a free pass into the university, I think that’s a win-win.

Presumably that $70 million is being used to provide a tremendous amount of resources for everyone who attends the goal. A lot of kids get full ride scholarships on the back of that $70 million, or a pretty sweet new building gets built on the campus.

Obviously there’s a trade-off in fairness and at some point ($7 million? $700k? $70k?) you look at it and say, no that’s not worth taking a spot away from another student.

Bribery obviously is a different matter, because the gains aren’t going to the university and therefore the students in any form.
Care to share more?
that's a feature to combat hyperinflation. to whoch country's economy would it be adjusted to if its a global financial instrument? individual currencies will be adjusted for sure. Bitcoin can act like a global Gold reserve
I thought they meant like in vivo in 3D, such as the scene in Independence Day
That is nominally the purpose of a pilot. To safely operate the machine within the envelope for which it is engineered.

There is always a trade-off with these types of decisions, and like it or not, every airframe certified airworthy has the potential to kill everyone on board without proper piloting.

I'm not saying that I'm letting Boeing off the hook personally, but as someone who has an avid interest in engineering things, I do understand the optimization points they were going for with the MAX, they found a physical design that could accommodate those optimizations, but they skimped or didn't put enough emphasis on communicating changes to pilots.

The pilots are the single most versatile safety system on the plane. Hiding or keeping from them the information they would need to form a checklist to handle this type of failure is the major failing here (given we assume there were no other physical configurations that could have been grandfathered in that wouldn't have involved an MCAS like system for certification). The root cause of that omission though may be traced to the minimal retraining requirement, which was absurd in the first place.
Not a US citizen, so not relevant.
That's right, the online maps problem was solved in 2000, so we should just keep using those 19-year-old maps.
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"I do trust that employees can exercise their professional judgement. I don't expect that every employee can perfectly align themselves behind a strategic objective without guidance."

That's strange to me, because the former surely seems to be much more difficult than the latter.
I recently learned that when you connect your Paypal account to your checking account, there's two verification methods you can choose between: 1) the good old fashioned, we'll make two small deposits into your account, tell us what they are; and 2) just give us the login info for your bank's web site.

But Mint works the same way, doesn't it?
I can’t find a definitive answer (and one may not exist until an appropriate court case happens) but from what I do find, it’s some hours.
Paracha's detention might be unjust but it's only indirectly related to this thread. He is not a US citizen.
He's not a US citizen.
They could start by describing and making accountable the systems that protect and audit access to surveillance data.
Have fun using any product. If your company gets big enough the probability that one of its products was faulty because of negligence slowly approaches 100%.

Any big company has a scandal, learns from it, the people that learned the lesson leave at some point, a new generation of employees makes a similar mistake again, wash rinse, repeat.

You probably can't fly any airplanes if you will not use any airplanes from a company that had a scandal like this.
Something relevant from the creator of cock.li https://vc.gg/blog/so-its-been-a-while.html