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I have a very different reason. In most large companies, you pay some sort of productivity overhead - for X units of work, you have to pay say 30%X for internal marketing, coordination(meetings) and other random activities. When that ratio crosses a tipping point, and that may vary from person to person, a startup becomes way more viable than a large corporation.

The other more important reason is that startups (at least the ones I've built) are far more tolerant of "failures/mistakes" than large companies. And thats pretty much the only way to learn to build a successful enterprise. Experiment without fear of failure, and then adapt.
Great point. Also let's not forget Microsoft messed up the browser game too. Internet explorer was a colossal catch up game to Netscape... And they were off by a few years here and never able to catch up.

I'm also surprised Gates is so hard on himself about Android.
Pretty sure the "instant on" sets also caused premature aging to the CRT. They'd keep the filament partially heated all the time.
I hate myself as I write this, but Mac OS was always closer to desktop support than Linux/*bsd. If Mac support has always been sparse in 3rd party apps, it was even less for os/2 and BeOS, Nextstep.

I really wish BeOS had taken off though!!!
I don't think he intended or expected that the Boni would essentially force him to wage a war of total victory against them.

Bringing legions to Rome as part of political struggle had already been common practice for centuries, but it had never fully destroyed the Republic. Caesar himself witnessed several such occasions by Sulla and Marius.

Edit: responding to edit, my point is that Caesar was not fighting to gain. "Crossing the Rubicon" means taking a risk, but I don't think using it to describe creating a startup really fits.

He was fighting (illegally, it might be added) to defend himself against the political tactics of his Senatorial opponents. While he held an Imperium he could not be brought into court for his actions in holding it, but the Senate had voted to make him lay it down. Their intention was to bring him to the courts and ruin him politically and financially. Caesar was simply too proud and too arrogant to allow that ruin; that he was the foremost general of his age meant that he was in a position to pull it off.
I didn't put them on a timeline.

The neonazi invasion happened around when both tended to show up in the same discussions. More people know about punks than skinheads, so I used one to give context to the other. The recent movie about the late '90s punk scene, Bomb City, even had a skinhead with an anti-Nazi jacket.
It could probably be faster if people cared to optimize it, e.g. some experiments to boot an embedded linux system to the console prompt in less than 1 second (https://fossforce.com/2017/01/linux-zero-boot-second/), or to the Qt Camera Preview app in 3 seconds (https://www.e-consystems.com/Articles/Product-Design/Linux-B...) or to a Debian desktop in "5 seconds" (https://wiki.debian.org/BootProcessSpeedup#Tests_results_of_...).
I don’t get the appreciation for it. Back in those days every time I tried to do something in VB it felt like I was wearing oven mitts. Everything was so clumsy, “easy” in the wrong ways.

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Hi there, John Stuart Mill.

Bostrom's argument is not at all that bad people do bad things so therefore we need total surveillance.

It's that some technology (which may be in our near future, but isn't quite here yet at least) may be so dangerous and so ubiquitous that unless you can reduce the number of crazy or misguided people (terrorists, violent nihilists, bored teenagers, or whoever) to zero, civilization will end.

Lamenting the death of classical liberal values is not an argument. If such technology is feasible, there are only two options: accept the end of civilization and perhaps humans, or try to prevent use of the technology through mass surveillance and elimination of privacy. Or drugging everyone, or some combination. e.g. 1984 or BNW. The counterargument is that those schemes fundamentally don't work, but that really depends on the nature and reliability of the surveillance or the drug, doesn't it? Even if they don't work, the choice is between trying something that probably won't work, and the certainty of the end of human civilization if nothing is tried.
It feels weird when you go to a doctor and they start googling in front of you, for what seems something relatively common and simple.
Lots of angry people in here which I am a bit surprised at.

Have you all forgotten what it was like before all these new TLDs became available? You couldn't find a decent domain due to squatters. This affected everyone from the layman to startups.

What is the entire region of the geographical Amazon going to do with a whole TLD? How is that going to possibly improve their situation? With this new TLD expansion, they have so many more options to work with now: Amazon.whatever.

If they really cared about TLDs so much, why not get .forest? .amazonia?
This is also partly why specialists exist. An infectious disease DO/MD would know both what the alternative would be and possibly even the appropriate dose calculation off the top of their head because antibiotic management is their bread and butter.

If the physician you were at felt unable to make the right call, he could have referred you to or consulted with someone who could. An 'irritated look' might instead be a flurry of such treatment paths going through their mind.

'Can I figure this out on my own? Should I consult? Should I refer out? Should I just check UpToDate? What does the latest literature I read say to do? What was done for the last patient who had this? Has the literature changed since then? What is the hospital policy on this (if any?)? What did my microbiology class say to do for this? What do the boards think is right to do in this instance?'
> At some point, pulling energy out of thin air will end up cheaper than doing expensive drilling operations.

A lot of people seem to believe that abundant clean energy is a sufficient solution for our environmental problems. A huge part of GHG emissions is due to deforesting and cattle, which has little to do with energy consumption.

History also seems to show that giving humanity abundant energy will only lead to it wrecking itself in some other way. Sustainability is simply not compatible with our crazy paradigm of unlimited growth and consumption.
Or how about just disallowing all remote content. Sure marketers wouldn’t be able to track “opens” anymore but I don’t care and I doubt the average person would want that either if they were educated on how it all works.
Anything that could be affected by prerender[1]. Analytics and statcounters, but also state changes executed by visiting a page.

It'd be quite problematic to load www.example.com/delete-account/confirm, for example.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/#dfn-prerender
according to people briefed on the operation.

The article smells of Soviet propaganda machine by claiming to conduct a successful offensive yet providing no way of verifying even the very fact it happened.
Young, inexperienced people tend to not know their worth and are easily manipulated into working longer for less.

Sometimes the hiring calculus maximizes quantity over quality.
Has any? I thought that was the point of the 'indie-' part...
Some people get high on big frogs in Arizona. Or so said the urban legend. And then a few weeks ago Youtube suggested me a video (Joe Rogan maybe ?) where the differences between ayahuasca DMT and frog DMT were discussed. In the comments someone said. "It happened to my chihuhua ! I was walking my dog (I'm from Arizona) when that huge frog squirted his venom at her. The poor animal convulsed for 30 minutes."

Amazing.
What an interesting example. I'd never read about this before. The article is [1]:

"In accordance with the interests of the people and in order to strengthen and develop the socialist system, citizens of the USSR are guaranteed freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly, meetings, street processions and demonstrations. Exercise of these political freedoms is ensured by putting public buildings, streets and squares at the disposal of the working people and their organisations, by broad dissemination of information, and by the opportunity to use the press, television, and radio."

[1] - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Un...
But now the cat is out of the bag. What if russia or china launch a similar payments system that bypasses banks? No no, facebook's libra must go through.
Right, and this why I believe that FPGAs aren't competitive with GPUs for computationally-bound tasks.

FPGAs are weak here because (a) routing costs power, (b) Most ALUs need to be implemented from LUTs, (c) high-order data flow needs to consider timing of all dependencies, manually, and getting this wrong is very wasteful of resources.

GPUs have an apparent weakness where their ALUs are overly general for most tasks. If you're doing primarily INT8 tasks then all of that floating point hardware goes to waste, and it appears that an FPGA has an advantage (INT8 is cheap and predictable there.)

However, ALU volume isn't the constraint on GPUs -- it's memory bandwidth. Every prosumer GPU make in the last decade has had an excess of ALUs and a shortage of memory ops per second.

This is where we're seeing specialized TPUs, deep learning accelerators and image processing accelerators that provide the right ops paired with the right types of memory in the right places. They're seeing large performance and power improvements over GPUs, at the cost of being further specialized.

FPGAs have an advantage for low-latency applications and where predictable timing (nanoseconds) is required, but I don't see them displacing GPUs for compute-bound tasks.
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We haven't even studied what damaging side-effects could occur, yet already we're trying to talk ourselves into Drill Baby Drill. No time to understand its role in the global biogeochemical cycling of Earth... there's money to be made!

This seems like transparently unwise behavior for people such as we — residents of a fragile spaceship — to engage in.

>this can't happen if aquifer is already under the sea.

Sure it can: a fresh[er]water spring venting into salt water is still a spring. These types of fresh/salt transitions are seen by divers all the time.

These springs and "meetings of the waters" are often hot beds of life underwater, and shutting them down will have unknown hydrological and biological consequences.

>in this case it will be seafloor subsidence, which will have much smaller impact than land subsidence has.

How do we know that? Just because the impact is less obvious or "more distant" doesn't mean it's less costly.

>also huge profits for the governments taxing these companies, and for people buying the resource cheaper.

Taxes? Lower prices? Sounds like someone's not optimizing for Shareholder Value, citizen. :-\

[Un]fortunately, real businesses do. They use regulatory capture to dodge taxes or otherwise avoid contributing back to the public coffer (see the numerous stories of aquifers given away "for a song" to private companies) and they use anticompetitive monopolistic/oligopolistic practices to avoid lowering prices. These practices are economically inefficient (ie they make the society poorer overall, and by utilitarianism reduce the society's overall happiness), yet they are common.

So I question your claim of automatic huge profits for governments and consumers. It could be that all the profits go to the companies, and any economic profits for third parties get cancelled out by the economic losses incurred by additional income inequality.

Not all profit is profitable. If I give an extra dollar to the local warlord, have I made the society richer? Happier? Free-er? Does it make any difference if the local warlord calls itself "Nestle?" (actually that's not quite fair: Nestle has a body count most warlords would give their left arm for, but that's a separate issue)
Depends on how you use it. 1. OCD level organisation required? One note has got you covered. Books and tabs and what not. With tagging. 2. Want to toss everything in and forget about it? OneNote does the job. Windows and iOS supported. Plays well with my handwriting.
Rest of platforms haven’t checked.
Startups do not have a monopoly on changing the world. The biggest change in our world in the last ten years was the proliferation of smart phones, and none of that came from a startup.

"Changing the world" is the siren song startups sing to lure in starry eyed graduates out of college and hire them for cheap rates on the chance that maybe their stock options might someday be worth something, because even if you don't become a millionaire, at least you can still feel proud that you are a "world changer". Except that's a lie too, because startups that fail (which is most) don't change much of anything.

Real change doesn't happen with the heroic actions of a small startup sailing against the wind. A startup has to grow huge to first have the ability to make meaningful change in the world, and by the time it's huge it's just another drab corporation that people love to hate, and bears no resemblance to a startup. The change comes from the small actions of its employees toiling everyday toward a common goal. Not really something that makes for a riveting read.

And at the end of that dream day when you have changed the world, you might find the world will want to change whatever you did anyway.

The point is, if you care about making change so much, change lives on a small scale. Even with this post I may be changing someone's life, maybe some young engineer working at a startup will be sitting there with a thousand yard stare coming to a realization they are in a trap, and take steps toward a better life and career.

But please, let's not continue to disguise ambitions of making a ton of money with noble stories of how you want to change the world and making everything a better place. This is the same as an idea guy who pitches out "amazing" ideas for new apps and then wants someone else to do all the work. The true motivation behind what they say is clear, and their charade is insulting to those who simply want people to be honest in their interactions. When your goal is to make a ton of money it's easy to start piling in a bunch of extra goals that sound nice, but the tune will quickly change if you tell someone they can accomplish all their extra goals but end up dirt poor.
For new install and first (cold) boot for a Multics system, the system is loaded from a Multics System Tape. As part of this process, the entire MST is loaded in Multics memory; Multics is partially started up to configure all of hardcore for the current hardware configuration; Multics then transfers back to BCE without shutdown.

BCE captures this configured Multics hardcore memory image, and saves it to a file in the BCE disk partition. BCE then returns control to Multics hardcore, so it can continue system start-up.

Subsequent (fast) boots from BCE boot the preconfigured Multics memory image, loading it from disk into memory, and transferring into the image, just as was done when the image was first saved.
No worse than the billions of 'how to dress to look successful' and other bullshit books, courses, videos and seminars that capitalism spews every year.
France derives 71% of its electricity from nuclear energy. In the US it's around 20%. So while nuclear power can't replace everything, even with current technology they could power the great majority of electricity generation.

Sure we can't simply build them everywhere. But the main barriers to building enough of them to make a big difference aren't technical.
Yes I'm sure - unfortunately most of my references are French, so I don't think it's useful to share them here.

I do agree with the sad statement that we're generally lacking a scientifically rigorous and pragmatic leadership in climate activism.
Found a 3 minute version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73xdpoQFLQk
Israel is not part of Europe.
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I think saying something demonstrably absurd about the black community is a form of racist thinking or belief. Do you also think that white people turn to crime because of “lack of expectations”? If you do I’m willing to give this a pass. If you don’t I don’t understand why you’d think someone wouldn’t consider it strange for you to single them out like that.
It's basically what happens when technically incompetent and inexperienced people wear management hats. If I was running a firm, the engineers would dictate to management, not the other way around.
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Or perhaps there is a middle ground in which people have some ability to distinguish themselves from others but not to the degree that they alienate themselves.
The analogy I give is this - when you fly SF to NY, the pilot does not have exactly the correct amount of fuel to make the trip. That would be foolish. You'd want to have some reserve (say another hour or two of fuel) as insurance. Sure, that costs you equity, but its insurance equity.
> Email is completely different than the web. You cant do more than basic html like displaying text and pictures. Embedding videos? Slideshows for products? Interactivity like forms? Display realtime information? EVERYTHING IS NOT POSSIBLE! But it will be with amp4email.

This alone is the reason I oppose AMP email.

I want email to be a simple, static text-based communication platform.

None of that full HTML application-stack bullshit.
Inertia, tbh.
Really, you can't think of anything? No offense, to me that's a kinda bleak outlook. Money is sorta necessary, but to me it'd always just be the fuel that makes or keeps the interesting things happening.
Ah you mean the alt right guy who was sporting a Peaky Blinders cut - he would have lasted about 20 seconds down summer lane back in the day.

For those of you not from Brumingham Summer Lane was the really rough area - think the street that had the Garrison pub in the first season of peaky blinders.

I can remember hearing my grandparents mention that the police dint go there in threes they went in platoon strength.
What could possibly go wrong?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hehe.
> no one will believe anything they see, hear or read

Yes they will. That's the one part, which is why there is a problem here in the first place. The second part is that people will stop believing media, which might actually be a good thing.

The real problem with deepfakes is when the latency to modify something goes from hours to minutes to real-time, and even a live stream can no longer be trusted to be genuine. We're pretty close to that point, and for some use cases have passed it already.
This is so hypocritical it is hilarious.

Phoenix

Los Angeles

Vegas

etc

The US and many other western countries will face this crisis soon enough, and at a lower population than India.
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I am one of those developers who never switched from Firefox. Early days IE was the market leader and now it’s Chrome. Firefox seems to always the underdog.
If you haven’t tried Firefox in the last year, give it a try and see for yourself.

To me Chrome is IE+Flash+PC Bloatware+Spyware.

Just check your Task Scheduler on windows and see for yourself.
Anecdata:
I work in a healthcare startup where we need to interface our software with medical devices. We’ve found that nothing other than .NET works well with the device drivers. I’d wager that at least in some fields which require a lot of device integrations, you’ll find .NET

Update : forgot to mention. We use C# as the language.
Because that still relies on trust.
In the medium to long term, the absence of logging is always more expensive than its presence.
on (sic) of the reasons of the downfall of the West is that women were given (still fortunately limited) decision power about money.

I missed where the OP discusses the downfall of the West (past tense) and/or the role of women being “given” economic power.

Did the author say this? If not, are you claiming this?

I don’t want to rush to condemnation, please clarify what this statement is doing in your comment.
It is impossible to use AMP as a standalone Custom Element library and still validate as AMP. Valid AMP is required to dynamically load the library from Google's unversioned CDN.
I thought it was neat that they talk about trying to parse the "J" programming language.
Instead of complaining about the quality of the article, I’m thinking about the open question at the end. What would be a higher level abstraction for FPGA development?

Is it possible to create a language around FSMs? Most hardware seems to have two parts: the actual logic that implements some functionality and then some FSM that implements the control logic. The FSM may also have a lot of implicit/assumed states (like a counter for some timeout). Maybe a higher level language can expose these design pattern in a nicer way and hide all the messy low level details (like sequential/combinational logic, connecting ports and wires, matching signal widths, etc).
I don't think there's a single factually correct statement in this comment from startups being invented in 2005 to no one succeeding with .Net
I’m not sure if I understand you- FOMO is just the fear of missing out on investing in a company that has a likelihood of making it big.

In the case of Magic Leap, VCs bought into the team’s background and expertise and banked on the likelihood of their success/impact if successful and decided to risk it. It doesn’t mean they were 100% sold- just that the risk/reward calculation they made was favourable.

Had they waited for Magic Leap to be a ways farther in their tech, (and had Magic Leap delivered), the price of entry to invest would be astronomical and the opportunity would have been ‘missed out’ on.
I believe this is more along the lines of testing attention span, memory and other experiments used to measure cognitive performance.
I've never contributed to what I consider to be a major FOSS project like this, but you've certainly got me seriously considering it. This is awesome and IMHO a very important project. Stuff like TenFourFox, which, if it wasn't so developed, I'd probably contribute to as well.

Anything that re-invigorates life into old devices like this is not only fun from a tech angle, but also good for the environment.
I'll post the basically the same comment I posted the last three or four times that pmOS made it to the frontpage:

This is insanely cool! But can I make/receive phone calls and browse the internet yet? Is there a reference phone that I can be sure will work?

(btw: I have already played with a Nokia N900 while it definitely works, I wasn't able to make nor receive phone calls).
1970 (NORSAR) from 1968/1969 (beginnings of ARPANET) is not 'a very long time' and predates DNS by over a decade anyway.
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No idea is good enough when you start off with it. Suspend disbelief, iterate on the idea. Do this with 20 different ideas, and you will narrow down on a few that are very viable. Also build up skill sets outside of engineering so your communication costs in a small team context are minimal.
I get what you are saying, however, Brazil(br) "hosts"-has it in- The Amazon; as do the other countries. I would expect a resolver to go to a top level namespace- i.e. a country that has people to run the infrastructure and not a river- and all those places scope out certain features contained with in them.

In my mind:
.(root server) > (global feature/country/company) > (feature/host) e.g.

. > .br > amazon

makes more sense than

. > amazon > ccTLD.

I think a better example for your point would be `.ocean` as the logical way to divided it would be pacific.ocean, atlantic.ocean, etc. however no one entity "owns" the whole or said parts of the ocean and dolphins do not want to administer DNS servers. That said, naming things is hard.