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jrn··on How Technology Is Destroying Jobs
No, there are unlimited amounts of jobs, technology frees people to do jobs that previously weren't done. Read Armen Alchian.
jrn··on Useful Unix commands for data science
I know manta, has default software packaged, but is it possible to install your own like ghci, or julia? Or is that something that needs to be brought in as an asset. This isn't necessarily a feature request, just trying to figure out how it works. https://apidocs.joyent.com/manta/compute-instance-software.h...
jrn··on For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to "collect it all" observers say
xbox one?
jrn··on If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? (2012)
I thought it was a good approach as well, but I have a hard time fitting it into the math I know. I've been learning category theory so I may take another stab at placing it. But this all takes time.

And the book's layout is fairly disjointed.

I may just begin experimenting with the theory, rather than placing it, my life is short.

jrn··on If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? (2012)
I've read the book, a scattered 2 times and couldn't give you a tl;dr.
jrn··on The NSA slide you haven’t seen
Just an update, on India's lawful access. Apparently BES customers; read corporations, will not have their email communications intercepted.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-07-10/news...

jrn··on Ask HN: I'm tired of development. What should I do next?
Northern bc, or ab. 40+$ hour plus 150 a day loa.
jrn··on Ask HN: I'm tired of development. What should I do next?
Consider pipefitting in oil and gas, similar to plumbing better wages.
jrn··on The NSA slide you haven’t seen
blackberry for phones, not sure about facebook alternatives.

edit: also bbm is going cross platform soon, so that may give an encrypted social network alternative, haven't used it though. also I think they gave india/dubai a backdoor a couple years ago? so who's to say, whether they would be compelled to cough up to the nsa as well.

jrn··on I'm Canadian and I want to found my startup in the USA. What are my options?
I think canada's an alright jurisdiction. fundica.com usefull for grants and vc. Alberta has the 10% flat income tax, corporate tax at 20%. Not a lawyer. Just check the govs websites, on registering a business. The feds have an accelerator program in the valley http://www.tradecommissioner.gc.ca/eng/document.jsp?did=1323... I just don't know what residency requirements, etc, maybe pop in the tradecommissioners office.
jrn··on Prism Break
american;

edit subject to the rulings of the fisa court etc.

jrn··on Prism Break
I'm paying hushmail. But I suppose it's no better, they still honour warrants, and I haven't actually used the encryption provided, other than notes to self. I left google, when they changed the privacy policy last year, all google services build one personal profile etc. This is a ramble, but hushmail works, thus far.
jrn··on A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail
thanks
jrn··on A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail
Does anyone know, if I used z-push for a product, would I be liable for not buying a license from Microsoft, for Exchange ActiveSync? It seems they are fairly litigious with activesync patents.
jrn··on NixOS - Declarative configuration OS
took me a while to figure out. nix-env -qa * | grep "package you are looking for" nix-env -i "package"

need to add different channels if you are grabbing packages from places other than nix-pkgs.

I had a hard time, getting some haskell packages to work, because nixos symlinks all the binaries, and there was some encryption library dependency, hard coded in a cabal file, and it was a headache/ gave up.

Eelco also provides a pathelf utility for modifiying dynamic linker in elf files, I haven't used it.

I'm on ubuntu again but I can't remember why. Oh ya, I couldn't get Blackberry's SDK working on nixos. Anything that doesn't go through nix-pkgs, will take some work. I didn't get to the point where I was writing nix-expressions.

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