The key is to quickly drive attendance by grabbing the transient eye of social media darlings long enough to make a quick buck before they get bored, the mainstream media catches on, and the inevitable backlash begins.
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However, if you think financial regulators are at all happy with the nature of ICOs you only have to read between the lines of what they have said.
Now reality has intruded and I am glad, though I predict they'll continue to maintain that Swarm is a first class platform for a while, then quietly let it wither on the vine until one day it's forgotten about.
Also of note is Rancher 2.0's dropping support for Swarm and Mesos and focusing solely on K8S going forward.
e.g. Dan Kaminsky's discovery of DNS cache poisoning had a 5 month responsible disclosure embargo.
Though they couldn't have known it, these two events were major catalysts in London's renaissance and evolution into a financial and industrial megacity.
There's something remarkably and utterably English, however, that when disaster struck, the first urge was to blame neither god, nor simple misfortune, but the French.
Finally some geek cred for the ME.
I love Clojure, it's a beautiful language, but its march has stalled, perhaps even reversed, and I lay the blame of that squarely at the anti-community practices of Cognitect, especially surrounding Datomic.
The focus on meditation as a treatment for anxiety and depression is relatively new, the focus on reducing or eliminating intrusive thoughts isn't.
For one thing, NICE (the UK NGO responsible for analysing evidence and making recommendations on the efficacy of treatments and their cost effectiveness) and an all-party Parliamentary group found signifcant evidence to recommend Mindfulness as a treatment for anxiety and mild depression along with traditional cognitive-behavioural therapy and SSRIs.
Secondly, mindfulness feels, to me, closely related to CBT, a tried and true therapy. It appears to be very closely related to CBT in what it helps to control: intrusive thoughts. The increased focus on meditation is why it's more effective for anxiety and mild depression.
It's most certainly NOT recommended for serious cases of clinical depression. As often, selected application of evidence and over-generalisation is the problem here.
Mindfulness can help with a range of relatively-minor mental health issues, and it can also help prevent relapses in those that have recovered. For those of us who have been helped that's really not something to diminish.
It's not that there's no evidence for its effectiveness at all. There is.
(Disclosure: Mindfulness helped my anxiety a lot. I believe it to be more than placebo, but then I would, wouldn't I?)
Essentially we're all locked in ever shrinking echo chambers, reinforcing our sense of moral correctness by ensuring we never encounter any challenge to our beliefs no matter how tiny and harmless.
That CANNOT be healthy.
But my point is that Uber's reputation plumbing the abyssal depths, and to a lesser extent AirBnB's, is dragging down the reputation of the rest of the valley.
That would be Uber. A company so sociopathic, so awful, so entitled, so full of loathsome self-aggrandising bullies they became an unwitting figurehead for hatred of the Valley. And Uber make it so easy to hate them.
Cognitect decided to repurpose Clojure as little more than a tool to sell licenses to their proprietary database, Datomic. This, for obvious reasons, pissed off a lot of people who'd previously supported Hickey and Cognitect, and stopped trusting their motives.
And given that Cognitect control the ultimate design and direction of Clojure, the fact that the community does not, cannot trust their motives is proving to be an existential threat.
Nobody wants to sink their time in learning a language that looks increasingly, for all the world to see, like a marketing tool for Rich Hickey to get rich off Datomic.
It fascinates me that something so widely regarded as Bad and Wrong, proved so hard to replace when it’s baked into a system. I think there’s a cautionary tale about the necessity of getting your core APIs right, because you might never be able to get rid of them.
Having worked with Gerrit in the past, I can say without a shadow of a doubt, it’s an abomination and I’d lop off a limb rather than voluntarily use Gerrit again.
Am I more or less likely to order something that contains endive, or is a ponzu? I don't know what either or those things are, so I'd have to whip out wikipedia to find out. Based on your leanings you're either way more, or way less likely to order something that you've never heard of before.
In my case it's more, though the internet tells me that endive is licorice-flavored cabbage which sounds disgusting so...
In UK law, failure to enforce a claim or right is taken as reasonable assertion that the owner doesn't see the right as conscionable.
For better or worse, the FSF/SFLC is risking, through inaction which allows Canonical off the hook for claimed non-compliant behaviour, of having the soi-disant 'virality' of the GPL potentially ruled unconscionable (in Europe).
Angry blog posts doesn't cut it. The nature of law and precedent is that unless the FSF or SFLC sue Canonical Ltd. soonish for their distribution of OpenZFS Linux modules, their assertion that the GPL doesn't generally apply to kernel modules will become legal precedent by default.
Now, I know the SFLC say that litigation is a last resort. But, it's been 18 months since the last Frank Exchange of Views happened over ZFS and the mutual incompatibility of the GPL and CDDL, and no observable legal movement by either side has happened.
Does that mean the FSF/SLFC are frightened that Canonical Ltd.s' legal interpretation would prevail should it ever come to court, or is there another reason the self-professed guardians of software freedom are allowing Canonical to, according to them, wilfully violate the terms of the GPL?