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While watching a video from The Hill[0], I came across this[1] interesting video by Russell Brand where they are discussing the unilateral decision making of the tech billionaires to "change/save the world".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ5DavuOkcM I didn't know about this channel, it just came in my youtube feed and that is how I came to know about the Bill Gates controversy; I am not from the US :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_8owv2dtP0

I read the email most of the time but usually ignore most of them. Some, who I feel will be of help in some way in the future, I accept their linkedin invite. Emails, I ignore.

My past experience have been that very few recruiters actually understand what they are recruiting for. So most of them just spray and pray.

> If OP actually has 10PB on S3 currently, the OP may want to fallback to leaving the existing data on S3 and accessing new data in the new location.

I remember asking an Amazon executive in London when AWS was very new and they were evangelising it to developers; I asked him what is the cost of getting data out of AWS if I want to move it to other service provider, or how easy it will be? And he avoided giving a straight simple answer. I realised then than the business model from the start was to lock-in developer/startups/companies in to the AWS ecosystem.

Instead of (just) downvoting him, why not correct him? Look at his age!

Isn't remembering a memorable passphrase always easier than a cryptic password even for people with good memory?

I know about Theo as well even though I am not a user on any of the BSD distribution. And that is my point. I knew about him because there was a discussion about him similar to the discussion that happens on rage of Linus. "Squeaky wheel gets the oil" as they say! In this case oil is publicity.

You have to understand that the Linux Foundation is using his "rage" as a PR exercise. He was outspoken from the start, even as a kid. His reply to Tanenbaum when he first released the Linux kernel is well know. But the Linux foundation realised that they can capitalise on this "rage" by making it more visible. Any publicity is good publicity, as they say in PR world. Negative news makes more impact than positive news. How many people outside the BSD community know who the lead developers are for BSD OSes? How many of them are interviewed at TED talks[0]? It is all about publicity.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_lin...

> Poverty doesn't just cause immediate issues it can also cause long term issues that can effect not only adults, but the children who grew up in that environment.

This is absolutely true!

> This is largely because families in poverty tend to also abuse their kids at higher rates (this includes mental abuse) or at least foster an extremely unhealthy environment due to the stress it causes.

This could be true with some families, but most parents try at least not to go below the financial level they are at. I remember my parent use to get all jittery even at a slight stress on the finances fearing that they will not be able to sustain. They had prioritised education, food, clothing in that order. Unfortunately, after education and food nothing was left! I remember wearing same set of clothes for almost a decade. Even now, even though I can afford to spend, I got into that habbit of wearing same clothes most of the time. I still use clothes that are almost 10 years old! I remember we(I and my friends, they too were from the same financial status) use to wear same worn-out/torn school uniforms by doing something called "rafoo". That made us kids understand value of money and the determination to get out of the situation as soon as possible. The problem we faced was lack of information and support network. We had to build it ourselves from scratch, most of the time stumbling. It also dents the confidence as you don't know how long it is going to take to achieve your goals, if at all it can be acheived!

How is this different from other accounting tools? Is there a roundtrip from spreadsheet to monethq and back to spreadsheet?

I want to learn corporate finance and valuation i.e. both sides of the table. I should be able to do finance management of my own business as well as value it from the perspective of the outsider. This will also help me in valuing other businesses.

Any link to the app(mobile/web?)?

It is not just academia that these problems are visible. It is same for engineers who have spent more time behind the desk in a software product oriented company.

I use this to avoid distraction: https://switchoff.neocities.org

Apple was not an overnight success. It had its dark days. The reason Apple became a 1T company was because Tim Cook blocked the world and its dog from the supply chain in the early days of the iDevice launches(that is also the reason he became the CEO and not Scott Forstall). If a company has to become 1T then it has to have a very strong moat. It does not matter whether it is from YC or not. Some YC companies do have the advantage of building strong moat. But it all depends on the management of those startups. So will next Apple come from YC, who knows; because it does not depend on YC but on how a startup exploits its moat.

This just made my day! The policy name is just very creative.

Have you tried C++, Rust, Java or any other language? They all at some point in the development cycle become a maintenance nightmare. I will let you on a secret, we software developers create problems and then solve those problems. That is how software developer jobs are retained :)

Wrong timing!

Ultimate++ has a RAD tool for GUI development. Tutorial is here: https://www.ultimatepp.org/srcdoc$CtrlLib$Tutorial$en-us.htm...

This is what I use: https://switchoff.neocities.org

Gets the job done.

> which gives more credibility to his statement than the partial citation you used. It is still anecdotal of course but given the history of the region the culture does not shift dramatically as soon as you cross the border.

This gross generalisation is nothing new about India. People who do that(even if they are from a "neighboring country") do not understand the many contours of a vast and very diverse country! Indians have now become used to this partial vision of others about the country. The rest of the citation you included itself would have given you a hint: "similar kind of community in its neighboring country". Comparing a community to a whole country is quite a leap!

> Any studies or citation or is this your personal experience extrapolated?

Well, the OP's citation is "Not really an Indian,..." So you don't require more credibility than that when someone is commenting on an Indian story!

I developed an addon[0] for myself to avoid online distraction. It has a small price tag so that I don't get overwhelmed by support requests :)

If you have any feedback or suggestion on the addon then please do let me know at the email listed on the addon.

[0] https://switchoff.neocities.org

I will be more interested in a tool that will reduce, if not eliminate, technical debt :)

A country where people give excuse such as "second amendment" on the topic of gun control when kids get slaughtered in schools I don't think US citizens have the ability to think of a revolution. Revolutions require amalgam of intelligentsia and people with courage. The elites in US(and some other countries) have successfully dumbed down the general populous and rendered them ineffective of revolutions. The people in US will be sold more guns and underground bunkers to hide and kill intruders than to join a revolution.

> A negative income tax would only discourage earning money

How is that so?

> ... and there are so many fun video games to play?

This!

I use to be a proponent of wholesale UBI. Not any longer after I saw first hand what unfettered welfare system does to people's attitudes. Sex, drugs and video games is what people spend more time on! This is ofcourse from experience living in a developed country in Europe. I think this will apply to developing countries as well because human nature is same everywhere. What people on the left and right of the political spectrum don't take into account is human nature; the left does not take into account "laziness" and the right does not take into account "greed". A system should be designed in such a way that it should not unintentionally promote either laziness or greed.

Damn! I am in midst of designing screens for almost similar web app(the Submit screen looks almost same)! You beat me to it! Very well done!

If you are coming from imperative land (more specifically C++) then nothing beats articles and videos by Dr. Bartosz Milewski:

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LbkfSSR58&list=PLbgaMIhjbm...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmElia1eCEZNv...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEn64WVX4B08...

> But, I think this trend might lead to extremely hard to read code, and there is a good chance that this hard-to-read code will be treated as some black box/voodoo.

Boost libraries fall into this category.

There is a policy at a very well renowned company I worked with which stated that team members should not have affair/marry within same team. If they do, then one of them have to leave the team or company. This was to avoid situation where there is either favoritism or animosity if things don't work out. I was told that this was from the past experiences.