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I work for the Stanford Med School, so where do you work?

But regardless, you're rationalizing your own biases and agendas on outdated techniques and racing to the bottom with a disrespectful, ad hominem approach. How pleasant and humane of you. Maybe you should look to the future instead of attacking what isn't in your narrow focus, because you come across as a troll.

Watch this, and learn something: https://youtu.be/ilVjSnE5t44

Keltner and Piff pretty much settled that enriched people feel entitled to not give a fuck about anyone other than themselves.

Mouse models are rapidly becoming obsolete as it's becoming easier than ever to model entire, differentiated tissues grown from red blood cell-derived adult stem cells.

It's also now possible to do clinically-useful testing of targeted treatments using genetically-edited control tissue cultures against unedited tissue cultures.

The point is that it's better to test something that is as close to the patient as possible, not guess with other species or even other people whom express genes differently.

FYI: making a new mouse models requires lots of chopping off heads of mice whom don't possess the desired gene. While transgenic, highly-edited living models might be nice, there's probably a more humane/simpler/reproducible way to do the exact same thing.

Hippies often did the same thing. It's pretty dumb to just throw compounds in your body without having a guestimate about their effects.

In the future, medical clinicians won't have to guess as much because adult stem cells can now be created from red blood cells, allowing personalized medication with a petri model of actual patient tissue, to screen problems like interactions and allergies before administration.

It seems they wanted to get caught to show off and get publicity to further that.

It was a pretty impressive heist but the after-execution flopped like a plane made out of mercury.

They gambled on the courts not prosecuting old-timers for compassionate reasons.

Yet, the coolest thief/ves wouldn't have let themselves be caught and would be basking on a warm tropical island they own.

Work-life "balance" isn't... there's a finite budget of seconds that goes to this or that; so it's how you spend them, how impactful are their results... whether it's enjoyed / "success" by whatever is your interpretation of it's meaning. That said, maybe some people find some reward while simultaneously killing themselves to fit in like Walmart executives (whom jockey to arrive earliest) and newbie startup founders (hopefully they keep enough equity and retain/sustain passion to ship something people love and don't shut/meltdown when they succeed out of fear of the unknown) ... the two former conditions aren't necc. mutex. (It's only lack of self-awareness anticipating likely outcomes that would be a failure.)

It's not how early one comes in or late, how may hours, ... these are all "process people" behaviors that aren't focused on the content impact of their effort.

Finally, inspired by Sir Branson's take on work-life... it's the same thing, act in a globally-consistent manner. Much easier than the insecure, naïve person trying to wear "boss" or "worker" costumes... it's value-subtract business theater.

I could just be old or completely full of shit, either is fine.

There is a strong incentive for SN to stay anonymous now: extortion, GBH threats, kidnapping, tax evasion, etc.

This could be some guy feigning humblebragging to fool prospective customers, or the vaguest individual Wired decided to hoist the label onto because it garners eyeballs in a Daily Mail way that's hard to repute.

The raid is explained because many governments want evidence for tax evasion and evading the conventional banking system... control SN = control BTC.

Couldn't that be the heart of why Seinfeld doesn't play university campuses anymore and Bill Mahar's critique of us millennials as pampered p%ssies? An inability to hear differing viewpoints without them being shouted down and Yale Halloween costume girl screaming at guy she helped elect? It cannot be a legitimate, honest academic environment when the groupthink, thoughpolice are in charge, or when students are merely customers to appease at every moment... respectful debate and challenging of views, assumptions and ethical rationale gets lost.

Doesn't it seem currently (as also dramatized by SP) to be a war of emotional extortion of whom can most, disproportionately bully others with their micropain and force the rest of us to change our language every other week and walk on eggshells? (Sure, real sensitivity to prevent actual offense; and address actual bullying.)

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There is a subtle danger in only selecting candidate (people) whom think, act of look like you... the venture may end, not for a lack of talent or capability, but for a lack of ideas or questioning the normative, cultural convention.

Hire tortoises, hedgehogs and hares, introvert and extroverts, peacemakers and activists ... so long as there is respect, civility and productivity, because it's the "pulling" away from the center of gravity and institutional momentum that leads to exploring other great opportunities of venture successes that weren't originally founders' core product.

Perhaps a "magazine" HR/engineering uses to promote inbound candidate flow and knowledge sharing.

Or Mongo may need to refine collaboration with partners to sell more deployed customer solutions... that's the only takeaway from this I see.

The author tries to paint Mongo as an embarrassingly short-sighted, pseudo-enterprise company that can't share its toys with others.

Mongo could refuse this by demonstrating collaboration efforts and solutions with a solution marketplace similar Atlasssian and VMware. On the partner side, cross-selling, cross promotions and collaborative sales/product strategies can reduce conflict and wasted/duplicated/unaligned effort that can lead to sour partner experiences.

Not a big concern given the number of angel-like investors whom have tons more cash to help barely seed-stage ventures than in the past.

Thiel skips the fact that Chernobyl is uninhabitable for thousands of years (save bloggers on motorcycles), all of the dispossessed persons and extra 40k+ cancer deaths. Plus Fukashima. Big PWR/BWR reactors will always be too inherently dangerous because of high pressures and too expensive to build, regulate and insure (in the US, without insurance and NRC approval, there is no project). And the risks of dual-purpose reactors and long-term storage for large amounts of waste.

Taylor Wilson's TED talk on low pressure, molten salt, modular reactors built as standardized modules with a scram / recycle pool underneath and made in a factory is one of the best ways to go. Smaller, isolated, modular setups limit failure risk compared to a single reactor having a big, explosive meltdown. The other one is thermal generation using chip-like technology with tiny amounts of radiological material isolated in individual "wells" making it safer, more efficient and scalable for many types of battery and generation use-cases.

I think we can do fission safer, cheaper and smarter, responsibly, but repeating the same failures by taking the same risks without learning from the past is inherently dumb.

Disclaimer: nuclear energy consultancy alum

It can be if it's standardized as Taylor Wilson suggests... build uniform, low pressure, high temp molten salt reactors in a factory.

This old one again. As someone who's actually worked in the nuclear energy industry, it's a common but wrong refrain... diffusion of petrochem radioactivity is much less of a liability than the very real, concentrated dangers of radioisotopes, even factoring in all of the other many negatives of coal.

Doubtful. Email and social graph correlation is usually how sites monetize to keep it "free" and survive.

FB likely buys, sells and aggregates graph data from numerous other social sites and applies deep learning in order to pre-stalk possible connections and make other suggestions for users' "convenience."

yaml is a disaster.

json or toml.

WTO and TPP globalization's aim is to rollback consumer and environmental protections to the least-common denominator, making it cheaper and easier for businesses to thumb their noses at safety, antropogenic climate change and species extinction. WTO could have set the bar to a sensible, consistent level, but instead decided that sensible and responsible measures which stopped dolphin deaths were unimportant.

The chip is being rolled out to keep up with VISA/Mastercard's deployment of chip. Note however that chip transactions are far slower than proximity or magstripe uses, making it completely redundant except for a malfunctioning magstripe reader.

It would have been as much software update to have implemented PIN and would've brought security to the level of ATM cards.

The generation and provisioning of card numbers is limited by other systems which includes fraud detection, account processing, auditing and other backend systems.

Nope. SSNs were commonly used as ID numbers in K-12 and community colleges up until about the late 1990's, until they were forced to change.

There's at least two broad classes of error correction and detection: at-rest and in-flight.

Each storage hierarchy component (RAM, SSD, CPU caches, etc.) and interconnection (chip-to-chip, add-on card, cable to another box) needs to be looked at for risk of nondetection/data loss based on risk consequences of the intended use.

For example, billing database servers for a successful company probably should use RAID array/SAN/NAS (say RAID6 or ZFS with RAIDZ3) and Chipkill ECC memory on an enterprise-class box with decent vendor support.

CDN boxes for serving free, static content can be almost anything.

For larger shops, they have the economies of scale to ask from OEMs and ODMs to build custom boxes that are more optimized than COTS gear at Dell, HP or CDW.

When Jeff's venture takes off, they might explore gear customized for running Ruby and/or partnering with 37signals and the like to have OEMs/ODMs folks develop better performing gear and open source it like Facebook has.

Cost is king in a commodity market where IBM, et. al. left for more profitable waters.

Dell was pretty good at shaving pennies and providing WalMart-ized desktops and servers.

I think the offerings need to be optimized and reduce and cut features to just what's necessary based on actual, intended uses rather than guessing or throwing every possible feature into a retail desktop or offering a blizzard of different, poorly-explained SKUs (what's the diff btwn A78Z-VX and A78C-VX+?)

Related, see also: http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html

The other big change that would be beneficial in (?:Obj)?C(?:++)? would be const-by-default, requiring something like `var` for anything that's truly a variable, since `mutable` has a specific meaning in (?:Obj)?C++. It would be consistent with the theme of least-privilege, and allow for more optimizations of one-time and per-loop iteration values.

Another great, modern C++ feature: `constexpr` functions, methods and compile-time constants have the potential to put most, but not all, macros out-of-business... Macros are powerful for DRYing C/C++ similar code sections which cannot be expressed with templates, lambdas or function pointers, for macro pasting identifiers together and for project configuration management for (ie, kernel hardware support). Defines also don't occupy space but also lose semantic value in debugging because they're computed at compile time and spread out wherever they're used... debuggers encountering `constexpr`s should offer both the computed value and a way to debug or debug (not program code at all) how that value was constructed: gdb and lldb should be able to handle that with plugins.

Here's also how we compile most our code, using both gcc and clang, on both stable and head:

    clang++ -std=c++1[14z] -Weverything -Werror -Wno-c++98-compat -Wno-weak-vtables ...

    g++ -std=c++1[14z] -Wpedantic -Wextra -Werror -Wformat=2 ...

I would also really like to see C++1[7z] concepts implemented by major compilers, because this will make our code a whole lot simpler by reduce the hacks for runtime and compile-time type checking, and make generic programming much cleaner by being able to constrain requirements via arbitrary bool constexprs.

Biomedical informatics is often better compensated and has more potential for venture opportunities, but it also often requires a CS PhD, an MD, an ability to code and entreprenurialness in the same person... That's at least a decade and a $300k+ investment.