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yay, blockchain. :(

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766085037248512

"Finally, new technologies have emerged to make a decentralized approach more viable. Blockchain points to a series of decentralized solutions for open and durable hosting, governance, and even monetization. Much work to be done, but the fundamentals are there."
“The moment you stop learning is the moment you begin to die.”

This quote MADE the article for me. I've been saying something similar for a long time now.
This was policy makers dictating to corporations, not the other way.

It was a product of (1) intense focus on wage freezes during the labor shortage of World War II, and (2) the growth of unions, which focused on winning concessions from management, not government.[0]

I agree it's a terrible policy. Corporate management now accepts and exploits it. But it was not a decision by 'capital' to spite labor or self-employment. It is the consequence of 'progressive' tax, regulation and labor policy.

[0]http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/ArtWeb/67493CA6B8...
I honestly don’t find what is so controversial. On a specific surface that you need to custom order, you need to use a special cloth.
I don't understand why people are so upset about this... it sounds like a special kind of glass that obviously doesn't play well with coarser materials. It's the same reason you get a microfiber cloth with your glasses
Sadly both of the reasons you listed ring true.
I mean, compared to chemo it's great... But yeah, ouch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/global...

This is saying it puts you in the 67th percentile when adjusting for purchasing power, which is still saying a lot.
Self-driving truck delivers butter from CA to PA in 3 days
I divide my working time sth like 50/50 for actual tasks solving and learning. My company doesn't understand it, but I work remotely and no one notices. But soon I'm back to office.

I've joined my current company two years ago. We are small (but constantly growing) company - about 10 programmers at the moment. 10 separate programmers, lack of notion of any "team". Time (and money) lost on problems arising from that fact is XXX% or even XXXX% per project.

The most important thing about learning is not accumulation of knowledge by individual, but accumulation of knowlege by group, making knowledge common, therfore creating higher level being called "team".
Part of it is just people - I had a co-worker once that their supervisor (remote) did the same thing, bought training courses for them, instructed them to make it part of their schedule to do the courses and learn more, assigned another developer to try to mentor, etc. But this person was also overloaded by said supervisor with day-to-day operational work and felt responsibility to accomplish that work at the expense of their own personal development. [and had personal life situations that they could not easily spend extra time outside of the time they were in the office] They sat next to me for a few months, and so once on whatever afternoon that they had blocked off on their calendar for training, I physically went over to their desk while they were gone, unplugged their phone, and when they came back, reminded them this was their training time and they needed to spend the time the company was giving them on it. They did that day, but then got some flak from another non-co-located employee for not getting enough operational tasks done, and I don't think did much training again after that.

If the entire org doesn't encourage learning, grant the time for it to happen, and protect employees from operational reprecussions of spending time learning, it is hard for individual employees to make it happen.
> Perhaps the progressive movement should dig a little deeper for "proof" that a mere difference in rates of participation.

This is the basis of "critical X theory", the new non-scientific, default theory for all of society's woes! So if there are any differences between two groups of people, it is assumed from the outset that there is a systematic (evil!) force causing that difference, typically to the detriment of a (perceived, in the case of women) minority group!

So, for example, if there are more men in high-paying jobs, regardless of what the job is, that is Prima facie evidence of current systematic sexism against women to keep them out.

Same with the fact that there are higher rates of Black people in prison, or lower standardized test scores for Black children are, in themselves, proof that there is current systematic racial bias against them by White people.

This has resulted in incredible "solutions" from adherents to this type of theory to this, such as The Progressive Stack, in classrooms[2]

It is noteworthy, that this does not go the other way around! So, for example, the fact that such a small rate of East Asians are in prison, or higher rates of high salaries, or higher standardized test scores, are not evidence of pro-East-Asian bias, it is simply accepted as a combination of nature and nurture that works out for them! However, the fact that a small percentage of East Asians are represented in film and TV, is taken as evidence of coordinated, systemic bias to keep them out.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_stack
Traffic lights are more akin to the latency of hardware switches, which affect everyone.

FedEx does control which locations they stop at and make pickups/dropoffs.

You can pay more to make sure they only stop with you.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
Federated means you’re part of a giant tree with some authority on the top (like DNS has with ICANN).

Decentralized means there is no center

I would add that Distributed to me seems there are no inherent “domains” you need to belong to, like for example email is federated but with scuttlebutt you’re identified by your public key and a hub is just a dumb relay and you can have many.

Non-federated routing alternatives include Kademlia (used in BitTorrent) and simple flooding/gossipping (like in Kazaa) or ad-hoc networks
Currently you can import GuitarPro (gp3, gp4, gp5) files directly.

You can use free software like TuxGuitar to easily convert other formats to GuitarPro, but for now that's something you would need to do manually before importing into FATpick.
For some reason, possibly because it is overly dramatic, ridiculous and has no real data sources the article immediately felt made up, aka fake news.

Then I saw this in the Wikipedia about one of the alleged sources labeled as "interviews by MintPress":

> By 2016, MintPress News had begun reprinting copy from RT (formerly Russia Today) and Sputnik.
What's the status of Kotlin Native for writing backend apps? I really like it but I wouldn't want to get dragged into Gradle, JARs and JDBC again...
The second can only occur because of the first. It’s also why I said keep a bank ledger :)
> That messiness cannot ever be "abstracted away", it can only be hidden.

How would you hide something without hiding it behind an abstraction?

> You can't derive a better software stack from first principles.

What do you consider "first principles"?
Decrease expectations in other areas? If it takes me 8 hours a day to do all the work you expect, and you say “oh it’s fine if you spend time learning”, am I supposed to stay for 9 hours a day to do the learning?
"Invasive" tends to mean "chopping a hole in the patient" in this context.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21762780
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Clickbait and outrage culture is what makes this a headline.
It is reasonably small for a debt load for someone who has a degree, has been frugal, and is on an income based repayment plan. Most americans are not those things, and too few are frugal.

I recall my grandfather being proud of only having a $25 electricity bill... granted, it was about 20 years ago, so prices were a bit lower, but it was for a two story house.

Edit- also, that $400 was chosen for the payoff period, not a minimum payment. I believe the minimum on that would be closer to perhaps $200 a month.
https://muninetworks.org/communitymap

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3np4a/new-municipal-broa...
Prepare to be downvoted, the average Hacker News reader really dislikes this fact.
I get that, except I've had to send people home who were clearly past the point where they were doing any good, but felt that they "should" stay and get the thing finished. There's a lot of that kind of thing around - people feeling that they need to work long hours in order to keep their job, or show that they're committed, or whatever. Sending them home deliberately reinforces a culture of not doing that, of being responsible.

Working longer hours does not "get more done". It just creates more problems.
“Free speech” twitter alternatives exist, and invariably turn into cesspools (see gab.ai).
You also need to maintain out-of-state business registration in the state you reside. I would not get fancy until you can afford a CPA to ensure this is all up to date
Why the Earth Must Be Mapped
The alternative is death right? So give me some pills, knock me out, and go to town.
The average Hacker News reader can identify a misleading statistic.
No because inheritances can have stepped up basis. It may never be taxed.
> Remember Bernie is talking about straight up forgiveness: the debt just disappears.

I don't think this would harm the financial system. Debt held by the govt disappears, privately held debt is purchased by the federal government and then disappears.

I don't know the structure of student loan backed debt but this sounds the opposite of the cataclysmic: the government is guaranteeing they will "print" all the money needed to cover debt owed to 3rd parties, which should mean banks will do better than ever.

I'd be more concerned of cataclysmic outcomes if we changed laws in a way that fundamentally shift the risk profile of student debt as held by 3rd parties

> He probably won't be the next President

He IS a top polling primary candidate, but more to the point I don't think even a democratic Congress would pass a lot of his policy
This article with its tale of moneyed interests perverting the courts and democratic processes reads like Sallust's accounts of the decline of republican Rome. [1] The sad part is that America seems to have lost the ability to fix problems like this. For that we have no one to blame but ourselves.

[1] http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Sallust/Be...
First of all, I literally read the spec (and related specs) last week in detail.

Secondly, there's a massive difference between decentralized and distributed systems (I build distributed systems for a living). Perhaps you're confused about that difference?

Thirdly, if you're going to knock a collective effort like ActivityPub by calling it a "horrible protocol" without genuine technical substantiation, you're effectively just trolling. Show us that you know what you're talking about by doing some in-depth analysis of the protocol and where its shortcomings are in terms of being decentralized.
Our political leaders in the US attempt to knock-up all their constituents as well, but to a much different effect.
Next Big Wave of Tech Unicorn Listings Could Be in India
While it's probably just an extension of Jack's obsession over blockchain, it's a bit interesting that you'd have to use Twitter to apply: there are a few truly-decentralized/or federated solutions that have been proposed and have an active userbase, and the authors of the good stuff don't tend to be on Twitter.

For example, one of the people working on one of the most prominent pieces of software implementing the ActivityPub specification has proposed/is ~close to releasing a reference-implementation of one [a non-AP distributed protocol], which seems to solve most of the issues that Twitter would need to solve for privately-scoped posts (a major problem with most federated and decentralized social media), with plans to ~eventually get around to solving publicly-scoped things:

https://socially.whimsic.al/notice/9p6cjMLaIZxtCKyNto

(Pleroma doesn't really do per-user threading, so the responses to the original post are mixed in with the author continuing the original thread. Reader beware, etc.)
> Of course it's not "totally harmless". It's just better than the alternatives.

Not using herbicides is totally harmless to humans. It just reduces profits.

Personally, I'm for options that prioritize humans over money.
Well, I’ve been in situations where I was expected to learn this or that, but I was also expected to complete 30 or so “story points” per two-week sprint, and be available to troubleshoot production problems, and attend planning meetings - and the only things anybody ever asked for statuses on were the bug fixes and new features, so I always had to end up choosing before meeting my mandatory learning goals, meeting my mandatory feature implementation goals, meeting my mandatory bug fixing goals or meeting my mandatory meeting attendance goals; “learning” always ends up taking a back seat.
capitalism is crony capitalism, it doesn't work any other way, you can see this going back since the beginning
Assuming you are talking from a US point of view, https://www.newsweek.com/court-rules-defendant-must-disclose...
suggests that a person can be completed to provide passwords that unlock incriminating evidence

If you are talking globally each country has its laws or no laws on the matter (as you’d expect there are also contradictory court rulings within a country/ state )

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
http://archive.is/JVWfg
Not sure about other older cities on the east coast, but the problem you describe is a good description of older parts of much of my city.

We have a lot of dense 30’ city lots with no parking, and narrow residential streets not wide enough for parking on both sides. If people park legally, larger vehicles like emergency vehicles cannot pass. So most people park on the sidewalks in residential neighborhoods and it is tolerated. This blocks sidewalks for pedestrians and the disabled, and the sidewalk crumble, look awful, and are a hazard to walk on when cars aren’t parked on them.

Back when the neighborhood was built, there was a robust transit system and everyone worked and shopped in the city center. But now, we have shopping malls, suburbs, and office parks. No longer can a person shop and work exclusively in the city center. It’s too spread out.
Whatever you do, don't Google "prostate brachytherapy" ;)
> Also why can't men take care of the children and women work?

They can, and often do. I know of several executives where I work who have stay at home husbands. This arrangement may not be as common as the traditional one, but it's more common than you think
Well, We should respect contributors. It is upto contributor to release their code unless he is redistributing app with viral license like GPL.

Here neither big companies nor the sole maintainer is breaching any license clause.

If anyone want to get the project mainstream, just find and fork the last open-source code version available, fork it and contribute/maintain/re-license as needed use case.
another options is to, hire/contract the sole maintainer to develop needed feature of current version.
you’re on a board very nearly dedicated to startups.

perhaps the s&p500 is no longer a good place to do r&d, compared to smaller, vc-backed startups. if they see significantly reduced gains from r&d compared to smaller companies then we should be crying years of joy that money is flowing out of them so it can be reinvested into smaller firms.
Absolutely. What we are witnessing is people extracting as much money as possible from healthy and unhealthy companies just because they can. This has been going on in the private equity/hedge fund world for decades, buybacks are the mechanism that is now being used on the public markets in similar, unethical ways.

Oracle is betting on not having a future, they are extracting as much money as possible from the vehicle before it goes off a cliff.
Odyssey: Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
Every time i read these threads i feel criminally incompetent in finance. You would think that putting your money to work for you would be incentive enough to dig deep, but i don’t seem to have the mental stamina to figure it all out. There’s probably a latent fear that I’ll also realize just how much money i haven’t made and regret that too.

I need a course or something that i can walk into with $20k or whatever and do all the things. Self-directed education doesn’t seem to help and Edward Jones just wants to sell me their shit.
The buyback money presumably is the money after corporate tax so it has gone through one round of taxation. The stock holders selling the stock will pay capital gain tax again, so the money will go through another round of tax.
That's toxic. Especially when you're making junior developers feel they're not doing a good job because their PRs are being rejected for not adhering to not-published standards. Wow. I'd be looking for another job in a heartbeat. Life is too short to be working with people like that.
Do not skimp on your llc. I said $500 to protect yourself. You can go the cheap route but then your name is associated with your business and scams come out the woodworks. Plus it’s hella unprofessional and You may miss out on contracts because you don’t meet their vendor reqs
You give them a stack in the companies long term success.

Once the goals align, it will become clear to everyone that employees must both have deep understanding of the current company and an eye towards the future.
I think scrum, jira, backlogs and always tight deadlines condition people to never sit back and systematically learn something. Instead you feel the urge to always “produce” and feel guilty if you don’t. At least his happened to me. Lately I am making a conscious effort to work from home for a day and take a Udemy class or read a book about something where I feel i don’t have enough background in. The modern frenetic workplace discourages sitting down and systematically learning something.

So as manager take a look and see if your environment makes people into ticket closing machines or into people who have the freedom to allocate their time where they feel it’s most useful.
Can I ask what you do now?
I'm programming for one and half decade and wonder about moving to something else. But it's bit scary as software is only thing I know.
How long has your company been working with him? It sounds like this change was made two years ago.
Every time a new Mac Pro or related product is released, we see the same "a fully loaded Mac Pro costs $____!!!" and similar headlines.

I know there's no easy alternative to ad-based revenue models for news, but it's led to such lazy and low quality "reporting" that is so obviously focused on getting clicks above anything else.
Kids' smartwatches have security problems as simple as 1-2-3
My system (windows 10) has no issues with Hindi, but doesn't always render emoji. That said, when Hindi started to exist and how many countries have emoji as an official language?
The Next Model for Voice – How Platforms and Builders Can Work Together
Just when I was freaking the hell out I read this and realized, yeah, knock me the hell out. Don't even wake me up till long after.

I'm wondering if it's just that the tool scrapes it out or something. As painful as it is to think about.
> CC is not open source and does not get to pretend it is.

CC is not a closed source license either, which is what GP claimed. That's the point.

> Come up with your own marketing name.

... and the second point is that OSI zealotry doesn't make anyone any good. "Open" is an ambiguous word. It's the same issue as with "Free software", which is almost universally followed by the "free as in speech, not as in beer" explainer. 25 years in use, still ambiguous.

"Open source" is a misnomer, it doesn't mean exactly what it says. Ideally, it should've been called "libre source" or some other made-up name, but that boat has sailed. And so flipping people off because their understanding of the term is different from the OSI definition only serves to antagonize them and needlessly paint the whole open source movement bad.

Saying this as someone with all side projects released under OSI licenses, some as far back as in mid 90s.
That money doesn’t just disappear, right? It gets spent to private contractors on all too often outrageous terms but it goes back into the economy, too.
Gee, and all my college buddies did it for beer money.
Great question, this is what I was wondering as well.
> the biggest enemy of performant gameplay is lack of servers, or incredibly shitty netcode.

If an ISP were down-prioritizing unknown packets (such as most games since they don't usually use HTTP) then how would you notice that instead of "incredibly shitty netcode"?
That doesn't make any sense. The market is the most efficient capital allocator because shareholders are the market, not companies.

Companies are giving their cash back to shareholders because each individual company thinks their shareholders can better allocate the cash, rather than the companies themselves. This is equally true for both buybacks and dividends.

This is because most companies have no wish to operate like broad VC firms or investment firms. While plenty of shareholders do.

The government has all the infinite "dibs" it wants, they're called taxes. If the government wants to tax buybacks further it doesn't need any particular logic of "dibs" to do so. And right now buybacks are taxed in exactly the same way as capital gains, which is the same way qualified dividends are taxed too. And corporate profits are already taxed too.
Informal fun is not allowed here!!
you hedged your bets and you lose... except not because rules don't apply to use and if they do we will change them.
Name calling is rarely a good argument tactic. See http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Doesn't matter. Apple is a gatekeeper, and that was exactly my point. They cultivate such kind of approach, and maintainer becoming a gatekeeper simply mirrors their own attitude.
Recently I sold my first project for $23k and I write about it
If we're being cynical, I think they would forgive the debt and bail out any large financial institutions who are damaged by the act of doing so. It would be very in character.
NNTP FTW!

He's CEO of twitter and Square. His plan is for square to be at the center of decentralized payments via cryptocoins. Africa will be a huge place to start, as the incumbents in the west will sabotage any such effort
Sounds less invasive than slicing through tissue.
"Computer with 1.5 terabytes of RAM is expensive!!!" Truly fascinating stuff.
No one should trust them to do it without making it favorable to them and their business model. Microsoft was just the first to get caught and punished for embracing, extending, and extinguishing in the new century. The pattern is as old as time.
Technically you can borrow money very cheaply and do buybacks with it, which is actually happening as much as using profit.
There is, but it's smarter than that, because you normally start to use the first states of flaps (and slats, at the front of the wing) before putting the gear down.

The terrain warning system is aware of where airports are and will also call "too low, gear" if you're approaching an airport without the gear down.