Its $25K after the tax credits. Quit making excuses...you sound like the ranchers in TX that pray for rain as they deny Climate Change.

At least they should be fired for falling asleep while the bank is robbed. Where those involved fired?

Not illegal, just unenforceable. Big difference.

Doesn't mean that CA companies don't try to get you to sign Non-competes all the same. Of course, I've signed many documents over the years working at different startups that I knew couldn't be enforced against me. On more than one occasion, I've told the person asking me to sign, "Of course I'll sign this, there is no way it would ever hold up in court" and then told them here are the CA statutes you are violating and why this contract is worthless. Oh, and BTW, I've changed my mind on the salary, its now $20K/yr more because you don't know how to hire a good lawyer and the expected value of those options are basically 0 because of that. Shockingly, I've had some startups actually pay me the extra $20K...the others I just turned down and soon after found a better startup. Frankly, if a CA startup asks you to sign a non-compete, run simply because that startup is almost certainly going to fail.

Jobs was a sociopath, but the reason people reacted to him the way they did is because they believed what he was saying was the truth (or at least he really believed it was the truth). In our society, people are lied to so often that anything that looks like the honest truth is very appealing. I know what investors seem to love it when I talk in nasty brutal terms about software, our business, or our competitors. When it comes in an unvarnished form, things have a ring of truth that can't be emulated by a marketing droid, even when the marketing bot happens to be telling the truth. Jobs was able to coast on this fact for a long time before he had to learn to at least act like a decent human being.

No, not 25x more productive, try more like 1000x more productive. Or try this on for size, I've known quite a few engineers that had negative productivity ie if they stopped doing their job, their team actual becomes more productive. How many times more productive is an average engineer over an engineer with negative productivity? N/A? Infinity? The amount of time it takes to write a piece of code isn't about the time designing it, or about how long it took to type in the code, or the testing, or the plan. The ONLY major factor in speed of development is the debugging time, which is a sum of a sequence of random variables of random length. For better engineers who might average 1/10th the number of initial mistakes in the code (ie the length of the random sequence), and who might also find and fix problems in 1/10th the time, you easily get 100x more productive than some average. Or more likely you work in a cube farm far, far away from those 100X and 1000X engineers who have the choice to work other places.

Who mod'ed this terrible post as a 5? For the record, the parent is describing the exact opposite of innovation.

You are confusing the cost of the drugs and the cost of the prohibition of drugs. Its a bit like molesting someone and then complaining that they aren't stable later in life.

AFS (in OpenAFS) stands for Andrew File System. Andrew, as in Andrew Carnegie, as in Carnegie Mellon, not MIT.

So might you, his father was from Kenya, not Mississippi

From...http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~ramsey/Probability/PokerHands.html

This hand has the pattern AAAAB where A and B are from distinct kinds. The number of such hands is (13-choose-1)(4-choose-4)(12-choose-1)(4-choose-1). The probability is 0.000240.

I have an answer for why wouldn't this work. It takes about 60 minutes under ideal conditions to drive from a camp in BRC to the edge of the playa where you get on the little 2 lane highway. Packing times for an average carload of burners hitting the road is about 5 +- 3 hours. The ability of any group to predict when they can head out is highly variable given that they can really only choose when to start packing. Having 30 minute windows is a recipe for disaster. Nobody would hit their window. There would be disputes about what window we were currently in, etc. Practically, to anyone ever in exodus, this idea is patently absurd despite the solid mathematics. The problem is that the mathematically model used to do this analysis is woefully simplified from the actual complexities of exodus. Everyone ever been in exodus would know this. That's perhaps why burners keep suggesting you try it before trying to tell everyone else. There are perhaps 1000 burners who understand queueing theory better than this guy. Why do you think you understand something about the situations that we don't?

If you have ever been in the core of a major theme camp, you will recognize this situation instantly. Running a major theme camp is a huge undertaking with a 5 or 6 figure budget and a lot of complex engineering. Last year, our camp had 4000 amps of power distributed over 3 acres. There was a water system for processing several 1000 gallons of grey water, a full gourmet kitchen and facilities for 300 people. Every year some newbie comes up and tells us we are doing something wrong and we should do it differently. What they don't understand is that we tried their approach several years ago and it doesn't work for reasons that might not be so obvious. After awhile, it gets tiresome re-explaining the same things to different newbies each year and the crew starts getting jaded and starts just telling people if they don't like it, don't camp here anymore. Basically, this guy is getting the same response, just at a playa wide level.

Well, the population of the towns of Gerlock and Empire would be financially devastated if they did that. See, up road 447 is basically a few ranches and some old mining towns full of older folks who have lived there for decades and are now largely stuck there. Empire was largely supported by a gypsum mine that closed 3 years ago. If BM didn't occur once a year and inject about $5-10m into their economy, those towns would entirely collapse. The BORG is sensitive to that but over the last few years local government officials have become more and more greedy (the brand new $75,000 police cars for a town of 500 people didn't help). If the BM decides to pull up stakes and move, that area will be ruined and the locals will suffer greatly.
Also, the Black Rock Desert isn't really something that needs protecting. The leave-no-trace ethic is more of a political statement than a practical effort at 0 trace. Many people have misinterpreted this into an absurd standard. The rest of the year on the Black Rock Desert is largely unused except for the occasional small rocket launch, attempt at a land speed record, or a filming commercial that usually leaves about as much trash behind afterwards as the week of BM does. Largely due to the fact that they don't have to care if they litter as the local government is dependent upon them to get a bit of $$ to help support a largely failing local economy. Its absurd to think 50,000 people can be in one place for a week without leaving any mark. Its also absurd to think that BM isn't the closest thing that we have in the US to a true leave-no-trace event. If you've ever been around after a large event and seen entire stadiums covered in trash after a 2 hour concert, then the bit of trace BM leaves after a week is absolutely amazing. If you want to blast them for that, they you are entirely missing the point (perhaps they are too), but the ones that put the idea of leave no trace in to their head have accomplished their goals and then some. Its the cleanest gathering of people in the US every year when measured by the amount of trash or trace left afterwards. That's actually pretty amazing.

Right, cause this never happened...in the last 12 months?

http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

Look, people are involved and people are fallible and technology can't really prevent that. BTC as a protocol is solid and wasn't comprised. The very immature institutions that have sprung up around BTC are currently failing at their task that you have every right to criticize them. Hopefully the market will sort out some winners that can function in their institutional roles in the BTC ecosystem safely and securely.

But don't confuse BTC for a bank and right now don't confuse it for a currency. Currently, BTC is a commodity because of its volatile value against fiat currencies. Someday that might change at which point BTC begins behaving like a currency. It fills/will fill a real need for many people, probably not you but others and that's what really matters here. When the BTC institutions can behave in as secure and trustworthy a way as other financial institutions (and really is that a very high bar anymore) then it will be very much like any other currency with a measurable market cap and liquid exchanges. Until then its volatile and probably only for miners and speculators (and gamblers).

And a ponzi scheme always needs an increasing amount of money to keep going (ie next year more $$ needs to go in than last year). That doesn't seem to be a feature of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Ask any miner and they've gone through peaks and valleys due to volatile prices and changing difficulties that brings the system into balance. It always balances out, the good and the bad (ie bad you paid 47 BTC for a ASIC miner in August 2013 that probably will never mine 47 BTC, good your other 147 BTC are now worth 80k USD). Its hard and rare to get rich honestly with BTW but you can make a bit of extra cash right now and that's a feature of a healthy and growing market.

Bzzzzt....sorry but you are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off there. A pure EV can go about 3-4 miles/ kwh. An ICE at 33 kwh per gallon of gas / (40 miles / gallon) is about 0.8 miles / kwh. In addition, electric power generated in a central location is generated about 3x as cleanly. So an EV has about 1/10th the carbon footprint on a millage basis. So that's what, the equivalent of 400 miles to the gallon? Oh, and I forgot about the fact that ICEs waste 90% of their power in inefficiencies against the ideal and an electric motor is usually about 75% efficient. Basically, an EV produces 1/10th the carbon footprint of an ICE based upon mileage. But kept telling people that EVs don't help too much. You are really a credit to the human race.