Andaman
The Andaman Islanders are getting a lot of unwanted exposure after the recent killing of a missionary. In the video below I was surprised to learn that natives are aware they are in paradise, and actively avoid contact with foreigners:
Here is an interesting Twitter thread on the shenanigans of Maurice Vidal Portman
On the Patriarchy in native societies, some realtalk by Donald Tauzin:
By their very nature, it is said, women are the source of nearly all discord and litigation within the community. Through their ceaseless enticements to adultery, their notorious insensitivity to the sensible commands of father, husband, and brother, and their mindless passion for gossip and intrigue—in these and countless other ways women are the bane of a peaceful society.
Giacomo Leopardi
“…Trained all his life to pursue knowledge, Leopardi’s simple intuition was that, once found, knowledge did not help you to live. On the contrary, it brought despair. And once learned, it could not be unlearned…”
“…one can measure the extent of a society’s civilisation by the diversity of opinion it is willing to countenance…”
Communication, collaboration, colocalization
The recent decision by Amazon to locate in NYC and near DC reminds me of the “communication, collaboration, colocalization” propaganda shoved down my throat when my company BigPfarma moved to Kendall Square. “We will be near our MIT collaborators”, “Serendipity will enrich our research”, “the restaurants are great” (I kid you not - spoken by the director of research). For most of us, one way commutes increased from ~15 minutes to over an hour. That is two hours a day of commuting. Two hours not spent maintaining our property, enjoying our families, volunteering in the community. Multiply that by thousands. A huge cost extracted from the workers and, assuming there is some value added to the colocalization, transferred to the elites.
I cannot recall where I read that the overarching goal of moving to Kendall Square is to outsource the vetting of your employees to MIT. If you run a technology company, the most valuable employee is an MIT graduate. MIT, due to its reputation as the top technology school in the world, has its choice of the most intelligent, ambitious, and innovative students from around the world. If you hire an MIT graduate, not only do you get an extremely motivated and intelligent individual, but most likely that individual is young, unmarried, childless, does not own property, etc. essentially no other reponsibilities. That graduate will work 60 hours a week for their 40 hour salary. If all your employess were MIT graduates, you would have a great competitive advantage. If all other technology companies are moving to Kendall Square to hoover up the MIT graduates, you better move there also.
You can’t advertise for young, unmarried, childless MIT graduates but you can do the next best thing - move into their backyard such that you become an attractive employer. Furthermore you discourage parents of children from applying for your positions. Parents don’t want to live in Kendall Square where you never know what you might find on your street in the morning. Parents want to live in the suburbs where the schools are good, yards are large, and diversity is limitted.
So now we see Amazon utilizing a similar approach. They don’t want parents who might have to stay home to tend a sick child, or leave early for a ballet recital. They want careerists who will go the extra mile, step out of their comfort zone, show initiative, etc. etc. further amplifying the differences between the haves and the have nots.
Michael Seibel of Y Combinator knows the value of young people:
“Your 20s (are) your best chance of starting a company early, you wake up one day and you’re out of the game. Big companies know how disruptors get started. They take talented people, lock them down with stock options, and put them in the corner somewhere.” He continued, “What’s tricky about being a young founder enticed by big company jobs is that it’s at the time of your life when you have the fewest obligations. You can get a big company job at any point in your 20s but only at the beginning and middle of your 20s do you not have the mortgage and the family.” Seibel added, “It’s a massively underused period of time.”
America’s worst place to live … families are distractions…
You don’t have to be curing cancer
The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors
90 percent of growth in high-tech jobs happened in just 5 metro areas
Biotech living and walking dead
Cities aren’t the innovative incubators they used to be
Agglomeration is good for research scientists, even taking costs into account.
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation?
Anonymity
No one can be relied on to speak truthfully and candidly if under his true name connected to job that can be destroyed and face that can be beaten in {…and family that can be assaulted}. Jim
There are very few moments in a man’s existence when he experiences so much hostility, or meets with so little benevolence, as when he challenges fashionable perceptions of race. –La Griffe du Lion
Steve Sailer wishes he chose a pseudonym
Java Web Start
Configure server
Configure the web server so that files with the .jnlp extension are set to the application/x-java-jnlp-file MIME type.
Sign Jar File
keytool -genkey -keystore JWSKeystore -alias mbcladwell
keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore JWSKeystore -destkeystore JWSKeystore -deststoretype pkcs12
keytool -selfcert -alias mbcladwell -keystore JWSKeystore
keytool -list -keystore JWSKeystore
jarsigner -keystore JWSKeystore ./temp/bllmlkg-0.12.jar mbcladwell
Diagnosis
keytool -keystore JWSKeystore -list -v
Set up page link
Transfer jar and .jnlp file to the web folder.
Clear cache
On Debian with icedtea the cach is at ~/.cache/icedtea-web/cache
$itweb-setting for a control panel like manager
/#javaws -Xclearcache to clear at the command line
or
$rm -rf /home/mbc/.cache/icedtea-web/cache/*
to remove content; don’t delete the cache directory
Diagnose problems
ls -l /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/javaws
ls -l /etc/alternatives/java /etc/alternatives/javaws
dpkg –list openjdk-8* icedtea-8*
update-alternatives –install “/usr/bin/javaws” “javaws” “/opt/java/64/jre1.8.0_161/bin/javaws” 1
update-alternatives –set javaws /opt/java/64/jre1.8.0_161/bin/javaws
update-alternatives –list javaws
2019-06-26 had to install icedtea-netx to get the javaws functionality
Install on Debian
apt-get install icedtea-netx
Cocktails
The back cover of Cook’s Illustrated, November 2018, displays standard cocktails any mixologist should be familiar with:
Manhattan
2 Buffalo Trace Kentuckey Bourbon Whiskey
1 Sweet vermouth
Dash of bitters
Over ice
Pisco Sour
Mint Julep
Margarita
Mai-Tai
Old Fashioned
2 Buffalo Trace Kentuckey Bourbon Whiskey
0.5 Simple Syrup
Dash of bitters
over ice
Negroni
1 oz. Robust London Dry Gin like Tanqueray or Beefeater
1 oz. Cochi Vermouth di Torino
1 oz. Campari
Some history of the Negroni.
Featured at Uncouth Reflections
Tom Collins
Champagne Cocktail
Bloody Mary
Martini
Unemployed men are trouble
Andrew Yang, 2020 democratic presendential hopeful, prognosticates on UBI, automation, and gives some realtalk on the differences between men and women:
…I will say that if you dig into the data, you find that men and women experience idleness differently. …Women who are idle, I believe, would very, very naturally adopt this project-based approach that you’re talking about. The data shows that women who are out of work get involved in the community and go back to school and do things that are quite productive and pro-social. Whereas, men who are out of work spend 75 percent of their time on the computer playing videogames and surfing porn—and then tend to devolve into substance abuse and self-destructive behaviors. Men who are out of work volunteer less than employed men, even though they have more time. And so, men and women seem to experience idleness differently…