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A euphemism, by which i meant "hard wired". Human's are like every species pre-disposed in so many way to be driven by the negative rather than the positive.

I've never been much engaged in FB,TW or Instagram or too many Social platforms. But I still have to disagree with Mr Linus, after all where would we be without the Slashdot effect?

Social media simply accelerates aspects of what we are as humans. Its well known that we humans are genetically more attracted to the negative than the positive for obvious reasons ... and just to be circular: when was the last time something positive Linus said made the news?

So rather than say Social media is an external invading disease i would rather say it is an expression of what makes us human.

It actually seems to be normal practice to quickly allocate blame, even when its quite clear that little if any investigation has actually taken place.

One of the effects of allocating blame is that large swathes of the general public will "switch off" and not ask questions of their politicians, who in turn apply little pressure to improve or advocate for improved standards (which big business and comfortable institutions see as too much government interference).

I can't recall any such incident where it wasn't implied that the it was the pilots fault, implying incompetence. The fact that most of us may have inherent and often unconscious racial biases (black and white and other actually display the exactly the same biases) just makes this play damage control that much easier.

Not to mention that being extremely fit or just trying to be means that your mind is being occupied by being busy, people will act more positively around you and you will also tend to sleep better.

Despite appearances we humans are much more animal than intellect, so that means the simple physical act will much more easily inform our mood and sentiment than just thinking alone.

Extra care should be taken with diet and rest to avoid lowering the immune system by over stressing the body too quickly. You don't want to catch a cold and interrupt your momentum.

So many times i have seen coders "promoted" to managing roles. It actually seems to be normal practice to do this because: the coder is intelligent, the coder knows whats going on technically, plus the idea that general experience is somehow related to management skill.

However the truth is if your not regularly training as a manager and consciously applying well known good management techniques then your probably not doing so well... as a manager.

As a coder you train a lot! then as a manager you should also train => proactively get training please!!

However management is a soft-skill, and coding is a hard -skill. Mistakes in management are not seen clearly to actually matter too much. Mistakes in coding clearly matter. When bad management techniques are applied (such as frequently requesting changes, imposing bad deadlines, not actually planning ....) then the outcome: bad or wrong code, missing deadlines will be seen as an issue with the coder and not the management. How many coders are being turned over before....

an anecdote:

When the emperor napoleon marched back to Paris after his 5 month sprint through the Russian winter, he was able to return as Emperor and remain as Emperor without too much trouble when considering the scale of the disaster, he was then able to then raise another Army and start a new series of campaigns.

:) https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters

Look closely at the ruling classes and then you wont be so surprised by these strategies

Egyptian Civilization was sustained because of the Nile delta productivity. Literally all the nutrients gathered over 1/4 of the of the African continent are deposited nowhere else along the river route but in Nile delta, this unique phenomenon of nature meant this area is extremely resilient and can withstand any level of exploitation.

Egyptian Civilization continued for over 3000 years (what we know about) which is ridiculous.

Egyptian Civilization lasted so long only because of the Delta productivity and ended when Greek and Roman conquest resulted in Egyptian grains being wholesale shipped northward out of the country by force ending the trade southward probably causing famine, and destroying the internal economy and culture which was centered there.

I think its easy to be hung up on the meaning of the word, but a Civilization would start with a common governance, and sometimes that includes culture, as the proper Britons and Franks of old will have always had a different culture compared to Rome but were part of Rome. But that's just technical.

Emotionally your Civilization is where you would feel comfortable, and that might be Western Europe and North America, Australia, NZ.

Many of these great "empires" were simply extended looting machines, once they ran out of looting opportunities they collapsed in the same way that a Ponzi collapses when it run out of new "investors". While things were good, it was all golden, glitter and glam, and many tall buildings.

Loot of course takes many forms, gold, silvers, the work of serfs, the work of slaves, monopolies on trade routes, monopolies on trades itself and of course looting of weak environments itself.

The aftermath is what is sustainable, but this difference between the glitter and the sustainable is very boring and what the historians call a dark age or dark period because its not newsworthy even thought it is actually the origin of the next age of expansion.

Buzzkill

If you don't read the news then how are you supposed to make a judgement about who to vote for or understand current trends or be alerted to issues with products recalls or where the great bargins are?

I stopped reading newspapers very a long time ago too, haven't watched TV in several years, and because of this i miss out on most of the above.

I'm not sure why this is modded down. There is a general trend up in the market over the past few days, and given that the FB price has recently been displaying a higher volatility than its peers, you would expect the kind of movement you are seeing with respect to the rest of its peers.

Addiction should not be seen as abnormal, it is actually extremely normal. Humans and all other animals need to actually addict to activities as this is part of the survival mechanics needed to perpetuate the species.

However this addiction function exists at 'lower' level than the intellect, which is why its so hard for the higher function (the tiny conscious part) of the brain to stop an unwanted addiction.

You grow out of addiction when the lower level brain decides that your addiction is not actually required for you to get food or sex.

You can accelerate removing an unwanted addiction by paying very close attention to the mechanics of the activity and by simply introducing new activities especially if those activities are completed with food or sex.

Can't comment on Sequel Pro yet, but even SSMS is in need of improvement.

> Is the choice to run a less valuable network really a choice?

Well yes it is, although people take Ethereum quite seriously the code-base led Vitalik has quite a distance to go before it completes the roadmap delivered some years ago. So it is fair for the foundation to patch hacks as well as provide other upgrades.

It you want to continue to use the hackable version because you believe that code should never change and be immutable and never change then that is also a choice.

The problem with centralisation is that it enables a kind of corruption: entities can engage in both financial censorship and arbitrary money printing.

That being said a cryptocurrency does not have to be decentralised.

However it is very important to understand the difference.

Today even decentralised cyptocurrencies depend on centralised-exchanges, and the consequence is that despite the constraints built into a blockchain algorithm are able to sell unlimited amount of the crypto to users without actually being in possession of the algorithm-limited crypto.

I think you are correct here, but also consider what a typical Java and C# programmer's are developing, they are writing line-of-business application's they are not data-mining, or doing a lot with algorithm's.

As you implied they are also less typically less exposed to doing the low level thing, however no one will test you if you can use the EntityFramework in the IDE while everyone will test if you can use SqlConnection, Open , Execute a query and parse the result "by hand"

Maintaining an independent browser has been of no benefit to Microsoft for very very long time. It has actually been an extremely costly effort with almost no result. That's my opinion.

The CEO Nadella however has no interest in this kind of thing carrying on, hence the Axe.

Pay attention:

With hindsight, perhaps the recent "crazy" efforts of the Edge team to increase usage and prove some kind of value were in-fact a last-ditch effort by sections of Microsoft to maintain a high-level of browser investment.

I only read personal mail in the web browser, its too much to maintain a mail app if you have to do more than enter much more than enter your username and password.

Your statements sounds a little confused. Everything stagnates, suffer from miss-direction, or just become irrelevant. Someone in an earlier post mentioned sourceforge for example. we just have to hope that this acquisition doesn't make it happen anytime soon.

andy_ppp was not trying to invalidate what Tim Cook was saying but just remind everyone that the motivations here may be less than altruistic

Humans are overwhelmingly emotional creatures. We are a bunch of monkeys with only a fragment of real awareness of why we are doing X and Y.

Human brains judge another persons whole life in milliseconds (we all do it, can't help that), but then struggle with what is quite simple math. That should tell you something about what we are.

My advice is don't ever forget that logic is only the smallest part. Demeanor and a strong image is much more important than it should be, simply presenting a "fact" is not enough.

Just to give unspoken point of view, a scenario which i would like to pose: That Income inequality provides a kind of fiscal stability vs uncontrollable inflation.

If you overlay a chart of inflation on top of the chart of inequality you will find that maximum equality appears to correspond closely to periods of maximum inflation.

Governments from both sides of the argument have focused on reducing collective bargaining and on ensuring that efforts to rejuvenate economies, like quantitative easing via the financial sector and tax breaks are focused on the corporations and wealthy precisely because of the low impact this can have on inflation

The effect of these measures tends to pump money into the already wealthy while bulk of the population experience no-change.

1835 "To finance the compensation (for slave owners), the British government had to take on a £15 million loan (40% of its budget) with banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his brother-in-law Moses Montefiore. The money was not paid back until 2015."

This is a very interesting timeline about the abololition of slavery in different places and peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slave... i think it is also good to see things in the larger context

Ok but why was air-gap so controversial ? Is it more than having isolated servers ?

Coinbase and other platforms have existed and been in viable state a long time before the huge December 2017 bubble

The sudden lift of mood engendered by drugs should imprint the idea that "the depressive cycle can be easily dismissed and is not useful in anyway" when as you unwind, recalling that experience is a key to permanently removing negative cycles without drugs.

I actually do more .net coding in side-projects than i do elsewhere! i like working with it

Xamarin can be pretty tough if you don't have a good appreciation of Xcode, iOS and UWP development and tooling, and underlying differences.

This might be interesting, the audio of the conference call with Nadella, Friedman, Wanstrath, & CFO https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/eudfciq3