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The article may have made this unclear, but just being happy about good news for you isn't self-promotion. Like if you just had a baby or whatever, and you share that news, that isn't self-promotion. Self-promotion is bragging to others about how awesome you are. It's narcissistic. "I'm a 10x developer." "You can't contradict me, I run big services in production at scale." "Everyone knows I'm the best PHP coder around." Okay...

So if people are annoyed by your bragging, it doesn't mean they are envious people annoyed by good things happening to you. It might mean that they are annoyed at self-absorbed, arrogant or full of shit you are. These aren't really good traits.

You say that being a self-promoter will "optimize your social relationships" because it filters out people who are simply annoyed that you have good news. I'd call people who simply hate others' mere good news just envious haters. But since self-promotion isn't just talking about good news but bragging, the people you are filtering out with self-promotion are not envious haters. They might just be realists who are into action over talk, not being anxious to take credit from others, not trying to look better than others and make team projects into competitions. That stuff generates conflict, it isn't nice, and the collapse of the reality distortion field can be painful. You probably want some of those people in your life, unless the whole point of your life is to service a fragile ego.
>> "72% of Europeans are Christians"

Using the link you provided there is also this quote:

>> "Eurostat's Eurobarometer opinion polls showed in 2010 that 49% of EU citizens did not believe in God."
Check the about:networking page and prefs.js in your profile directory regularly for finding more domains to block.
It "works" and is "successful" to flat-out lie to people. At least in the short term. So what?
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You are joking right?

There are a mass of articles and discussion about this that shows your 'reasonable' classification is in fact 'highly contentious'.

Whatever else you say about Uber, it's pretty obvious that the contractor/employees are in a grey area where they have some traits of contractors and some traits of employees.
Glad to see a hypervisor-generic way of doing unikernels is advancing. I never liked to tie in with Xen (or another hypervisor) when building an app as a unikernel.
Sounds like an outline for a TED talk.
The truth is, we'll never know the whole truth about why they did what they did. I find it hard to believe that social pressure played no part in their decisions.
If I win the lottery, and I tell people, that's not really bragging. It doesn't really mean I'm great or better than others, just that I had good fortune.
3x SDC is the normal rate.

I've worked at a few companies where we've been sold to VCs and the like.

Anything more, and the risk of no recuperating the invested money is too great. (unless you find a sucker to dump it on, which is basically the current buisness model for most of silicon valley)
I think that basically means Google offices outside of SV/MV.
The whole purpose of F-Droid is to provide an alternative to the Play Store for people who don't want to or can't install Google's proprietary code. Anyone who has play-services installed would just get Mozilla's official Firefox releases from the Play Store and not bother with F-Droid. They're removing support for that non-free library because their user base is people who've already decided they don't want to use it.
Better call Darl McBride to make sure..
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To paraphrase myself from last time:

I'm working on a sort of DAW-ish thing for iPad. Except it's not really a DAW — more of a musical sketchpad. When I was sitting down and thinking of what I would like in a music creation app, I thought of two things. First, the typical DAW grid structure (and sheet music before it) is far too rigid for modern music. It's really hard to annotate music with syncopation, pitch bends, and fluid rhythms unless you already have the song in your head — and even then, it takes forever. Second, the feedback loop in most DAWs is really large. By the time you've pecked away at your piano roll and fiddled with the dozens of switches, your song is no longer fresh in your head.
In other words, I wanted something akin to musical clay: a very simple, very malleable representation of music in space that focuses entirely on ease of interaction.

With my app, I try to solve both of these problems. In regards to the former, you have the option of drawing every note arbitrarily in pitch or time, as simply as in an ordinary drawing app. (Snapping is an option, too.) And as for the latter, the whole thing is a scroll view, so panning and zooming are incredibly simple. Furthermore, you have immediate access to undo/redo and can also rewind to the last place you played from, meaning that iterating on your ideas takes only a few seconds as opposed to the arduous process of controlling a DAW. The UI tries to get out of your way as much as humanly possible.
I should emphasize that this won't be production software; the music you create will sound like MIDI. Rather, my goal here is to make an app that you can freely sketch and create musical ideas in, which can then be used as a rough draft for working with a more featureful DAW.
Performance is a top priority, and I'm targeting 60fps on my iPad 3.

Here's a very early video with (mostly) mock UI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8OvnoxKQw

Hope to release within the next few months!
where are the 130k from? which countries?
UK local authorities are famously poorly funded and have been squeezed by the government further over the last 5 years. The one that sticks out for me is Newcastle Upon Tyne - here's some pretty astonishing figures from a long-ish article[1]

"In fact, the city’s predicament already seemed impossible. The council cut £37m from its spending in 2013-14, and another £38m is set to follow this year. Then, according to current projections, there will be further annual cuts of £40m, £30m, and £20m"

I think "cash-strapped" is putting it lightly.

[1] = http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/nov/24/-sp-is-saving-ne...
> It's super possible to lose money as an Uber driver... Say you drive around in circles in a place where you don't get rides. You will burn gas and lose plenty of money and make none at all.

I'm not trying to be contentious but why does your hypothetical Uber Driver have to drive around in circle?

Can't they park somewhere, or do their daily routine and wait for the app to announce a possible passenger? Cause I've met two uber drivers before from what they've talked about they just chill around, do their daily business and if there's a lead they decide if they want to take it.
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Seems like an odd list of criticism. I thought every phone booted slowly but it doesn't generally matter because it's so rare. I haven't rebooted my Blackberry since 10.3 was released and I don't remember that being especially slow.

Have you tried using an Android without creating a Google account? It didn't seem possible but I didn't really have any motivation to fight the prompts. I'm a bit surprised if iOS doesn't do something similar. Why not just create the account?

I've never seen an alert from my phone trying to sell another. I think your carrier is just spamming you.

I've not noticed a problem with cut and paste; what's so disastrous for you?
Those are mostly privately owned, the figure isn't quite as bad as it sounds.
Opinions, here.

There is a difference between bragging and letting people know when something good happens to you. Bragging is socially aggressive; it is attractive only to those who thrive on competitive relationships.

Bragging is the act of demanding social status and recognition of one's accomplishments or properties. It is explicitly a form of self-promotion.

Letting people know when something good happens to you means sharing your happiness (and perhaps even pride) with them. It means being happy and telling people why you're happy. It places them in a position of judgement over your accomplishment. It does not prejudge its value, or challenge them to recognize that value; it inherently risks rejection, and it is a conversation that occurs in the context of your relationship to that person.

The self-promotional message, no matter how well handled, is essentially a form of impersonal communication; the information one wishes to share needs to be shared with as broad an audience as possible.

I do not think that there are nearly as many people who are annoyed by good things happening to other people as there are people who are annoyed by bragging and self-promotion. Nor do I think that those who are not annoyed by bragging and self-promotion are necessarily genuinely happy for your success.

Thus I do not think that self-promotion will optimize your social relationships if their utility is considered to be their ability to support and nurture you as a human. I think that it would optimize your social relationships for the inclusion of self promoters and socially competitive peers, and the exclusion of those who prefer cooperative or individually unique, shared-intimacy-based relationships.
If you couple that idea with lowering taxes to a 10% flat rate for every single US resident, then I'd support that idea. Until then, the punitive and confiscatory tax policies of the United States Government are such that these potentially risky tax-avoidance schemes are preferable to letting te government steal your money.

It's insane that I got to give the U.S. Government 30% of my earnings from two jobs and I don't even live in the United States! The U.S. And Eritrea are the only countries in the world that tax worldwide income. If I worked less hard, I'd pay less taxes. That's completely backwards. Hard work and risk ought to be rewarded not penalized. So te reason people use these tax advantages accounts is because otherwise they'd be just throwing money down the taxation drain. With a simple and uniform tax policy: 10% of your earnings, no deductions, no credits, then the need for these complex tax advantaged "schemes" would disappear. However, Demicrats would never allow that to happen; they need the tax code as a means to penalize those that wouldn't vote for them in order to give things to those that would. If I hear "fair share" one more f'ing time from someone that pays zero income taxes while living in a rent stabilized apartment watching satellite TV, I'll probably kick a puppy. Meanwhile, it's Satrurday; I have work to which I must get back.
I'm not trying to imply that all of these concerns are fake, just that performance is one of the easier places to hide bullrun-style sabotage. All claims should be checked, of course.

The link in my earlier post to djb's talk also discusses this issue, if youre' interested.

As someone who has written an embedded webserver... including the underlying TCP/IP layer and the driver for the "supposedly NE2000 compatible" Realtek chip... on a Z80 clone using only about 4k of flash and ~1.5k-2k of RAM, I sympathetic to real performance limitations. (that device only handled once minimum-size packet only one socket at a time)

That said, if you have a 1.2GHz chip, you have enough CPU for crypto. 40ms is a trivial cost for crypto, especially as you only use DH and pubkey to negotiate a symmetric key that isn't going to cause the same kind of CPU load.

There isn't anywhere close to a real performance limitation on that kind of platform, and I would regard any complaint about the performance on a >1GHz CPU as highly suspicious. When you have 1/100 or even 1/1000 the CPU cycles, that something else entirely.
AFAIK xen is also in upstream kernel and there should be no difference in this regard.
>> are taxi drivers now also employees? Many of them (that do not own their own car) are ICs too.

I spent a few months as a dispatcher in a taxi shop, and drivers weren't ICs, they were more like part of a b2b transaction. They rented the car and medallion from us for a flat rate for 12 hours, and could pick up whomever they wanted off the streets. When we got calls to arrange pickups, I went down the list contacting drivers until someone would take the fare. We only made money from renting the taxis to drivers.
My point is that "envious", "self-absorbed", "arrogant", "hater", and "full of shit" are not objective qualities that a person can intrinsically possess. Rather, they are value judgments that one person labels another with. "Nostrademons is an arrogant twat" is not an objective statement; it is a subjective one, with an implicit "I think that..." prefixing it. "Pekk thinks that nostrademons is an arrogant twat" is an objective statement (hopefully false in this case, it's provided for example only).

For any given person's actions, there will be a cloud of value judgments around that action. What's arrogant and obnoxious to one person may seem self-confident and assertive to another. And in general, people are happier when they don't hang around people they find obnoxious. So there's some degree of self-selection going on. If taken too far, you may end up in the situation where nobody wants to hang around with you, and that's probably a good reason to tone it down a little with the bragging. Similarly, if you find that the only people who want to hang around you are folks who you don't want to hang around, you may want to either change your actions to attract folks you actually want to be with, or change your definition of who you want to be around. But there's no intrinsic good or bad level of self-promotion, only the level at which you personally are uncomfortable.
If by rent-seeking, you mean: using resources to obtain an economic gain from others without reciprocating any benefits back to society through wealth creation.

Then real estate is not "rent-seeking".

Real estate owners take the burden of home ownership off the shoulders of renters. Renteres choose to rent because they have an economic incentive to do so. Instead of a buying a home cash, or putting down a deposit, a renter can use that money for investing in other activities, spending on themselves or their family, or save. Of course, there are many renters who cannot afford a down payment at all. For them, the landlord is playing an even more important role by letting them rent in areas where purchasing would be impossible.

I do agree that most tax incentives for investing should be abolished. But I disagree that real estate is less productive than other types of investing.
The elephant in the room is that the tech industry is FULL of companies who are using contractor status to shift tax burden and avoid paying benefits. Almost nobody ever calls this out and those who do are likely to get blackballed.

If Uber is hiring drivers and treating them as employees while classifying them as contractors, that isn't special to Uber, it's just the application of the tech industry's way of doing things to taxi drivers.
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The entire article is all over the place.

> But what if the security blows up? Investors could demand their collateral back, forcing renters out of their homes, even if they never missed a payment. "We could well end up in that situation where you get a lot of people getting evicted—not because the tenants have fallen behind, but because the landlords have fallen behind," says Baker.

At the risk of invoking the "j_lev Law of Eating Hats" I can't see that happening. There is ONE private investment company which has a loan with ONE bank. Investors pull out, the size of the loan just increases by that amount. All the investors pull out and Blackstone Group is left with a lot of (high-yield) property and a large loan with DB. Worst case scenario the properties are sold (potentially at a loss, but the remaining loan is still the problem of Blackstone Group and DB).
>Blackstone has bundled the rental payments from more than 3,200 single-family houses, offering investors its mortgages on the underlying properties as collateral.

This reminds me of the stuff that caused the crisis of 2008 ... however, I am not that well-versed in these kinds of financial products. Could anyone explain a bit more to me how this works? They pool the collected rent and then they create a bond with that? How?

>Invitation Homes has described its strategy as "a bet on America."

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The way these studies are reported do more harm than good. The studies prove basically nothing but get reported in a way that people draw wide inferences from them and think they are based in fact. Even the discussion in this thread all just assumes that this study backs up what the title says.
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Local government is really broken in the UK, I think the root of the problem is people vote in local elections on national issues, there is little true local democracy in council elections.
I did not even find the GitHub link... This brings you straight to the meat of the project:

https://github.com/tonyday567/mvc-todo/tree/master/library/T...
> They didn't bend to social media.

https://www.google.com/search?q=eich+mozilla+ceo

> They made it very clear they were surprised by the internal reactions and that's why he stepped back down. Besides, social media or not, the primary reason the issue blew up at all was a lack of transparency in their organizational politics.

Eich wouldn't have been canned if not due to external political forces.

The core of Mozilla is gone, the organization's ongoing denial of it further sinks the brand off the deep end.

Create a wound. Deny it happened. When in history did that ever work?

It gives me the impression "mozilla are liars, they just don't care." Why do organizations continue to go along with lie as if repeating it rewrites history to washes away treachery like that?
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Clever. I'll probably turn it off but is much less worrisome in this way. Could you share the link to that discussion? Thanks.
As far as I can tell, that's the same text and illustrations in PDF format. I can't find anything extra in it.
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The interesting thing about the unikernel approach that we're discovering is how useful the portability of the resulting applications is. Because everything is structured as a graph of libraries, only a little modification can pull in a huge amount of useful functionality.

For instance, Martin's work on Rump+Mirage now pulls the whole safe OCaml stack into a bare metal environment: the type-safe TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, DNS libraries can all be deployed onto any target supported by NetBSD/Rump -- which includes some pretty small embedded ARM devices that we couldn't boot on before due to the Xen requirement!

On the other side of the spectrum, Thomas Leonard has ported a good chunk of the MirageOS stack to JavaScript, and built browser applications using the Irmin Git datastructure library: http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2015/04/28/cuekeeper-gitting-t...

We're working hard on getting all these pieces upstreamed at the moment, so it's not quite ready for primetime yet (the bare metal stack still has no network driver ported), but it's rapidly all coming together. I'm excited!
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> “Did we push the teams too hard?” says Lazaridis. “Probably. Can you show me a company that doesn’t? I’d be hard-pressed to believe you. The pressure Jobs put his iPhone team through was worse than anything I ever put on my team. The fact is, that’s how business runs.”

Asshole.
This is why unions and their seniority based system never caught on in tech.
The difference is this.

iOS devices boot in about 30 seconds - they don't give you progress reports or anything to tell you how long it will take to boot, just the logo and then it's on, all cylinders firing. It's a design decision which means you don't actually notice how long it's taking. The blackberry on the other hand has a progress bar which creeps along, giving a much longer perceived sense of time.

All phones need you to sign up for an account to get the best from them - the difference is that blackberry and android let you use the phone without one, whereas apple does not. Thus, the other two annoy users who haven't created an account with popups, whereas with Apple, you are never hassled because you have had to sign up to use it.

Cut and paste on BB is confusing - again, iOS is relatively simple (although not perfect) tap words > copy, tap empty space > paste

I'm not sycophantically promoting the iphone, but Apple understand that users want an easy to use phone. No hassling to do this or that, no 'launch pad' of apps which you then have to tap another icon on to get to all of your other apps, they are just all presented on the swipable screens. BB and Android both fail to 'get' this, still.
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RT is a Russian propaganda company and should never be quoted or used for a source.

added: to be fair, I fell for quoting/linking RT too when I first started seeing their articles - until I researched it a little
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In general you're right it's unfair to say that real estate investment is always unproductive and rent-seeking. However for major cities like London with tight supply, the flows of real estate investment that followed QE and zero interest rates haven't been matched by appropriate levels of home building. As a result affordability and ownership levels have reached historic lows, and many more people are becoming 'unwilling' renters, only able to service the financing costs of real estate investors. At this stage it becomes rent-seeking and unproductive, in my view, and there ought to be appropriate policy responses from government.
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It's disgusting the fact that being deliberately an asshole is the de-facto view of the awesome manager today. Quotes like "that's a price you have to pay", etc. usually follow shitty statements like the above.
> then initiates a powerful combo sequence which should be a guaranteed game winner, but Daigo blocks every single one of the dozen plus hits perfectly then retaliates with a game wining comeback.

He actually ~ parries ~ the hits which require frame perfect block inputs on EVERY hitframe (IIRC). Which makes his feat even more impressive. 30 or so frame perfect inputs in the heat of the moment ... amazing ..

If you look really closely, you see Daigo (Ken) shuffling backwars/forwards, he was waiting for it, he expected it ;)
Yet nobody has any issues with the New York Times, even though they are the US' propaganda machine?
And the actual Action sumtype is here:

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'On a scale of 0 to 10, if 10 means no way, then this project is an 11. It’s impossible. It’s something I would not be able to deliver.'

Project was doomed from that first meeting but it's the same story every time. It's not lack of innovation that kills companies, it's inertia from within.

Was waiting for the punchline where Storm faced resistance from BB's own staffers / engineers, and this article didn't disappoint.
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