(Part 3) Best industries books according to redditors
We found 2,397 Reddit comments discussing the best industries books. We ranked the 738 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
![The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team [Includes a New Afterword]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51pmp9feawL.jpg)
No, no, no. Wrong. I have a PhD in media studies. I've studied this particular area of media studies extensively. This fact was not made up by a blogger. It is a fact studied most extensively by a great social scientist and journalist named Ben Bagdikian. He tracked this phenomenon in a series of 6 or 7 books called "The Media Monopoly."
It's very unfortunate that this blogger did not cite his sources and this is a huge part of the problem here, but I have no doubt that the work of Ben Bagdikian and other researchers in this area are the source of this information. It saddens me, actually, that a blogger like this would present this information unsourced because it (A) leaves the information vulnerable to this kind of criticism and (B) it presents the information as if the blogger came up with the information himself.
Note: there are many reasons why it's important to cite your sources, and this is a great example why.
Other authors to check out on the subject include Robert McChesney, C. Edwin Baker, and Eli Noam, among others.
Funny how an extensive area of research gets posted by a blogger and then incorrectly "refuted" by a random, anonymous Redditor.
If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...
(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)
Medical:
Where there is no doctor
Where there is no dentist
Emergency War Surgery
The survival medicine handbook
Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine
Special Operations Medical Handbook
Food Production
Mini Farming
encyclopedia of country living
square foot gardening
Seed Saving
Storey’s Raising Rabbits
Meat Rabbits
Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step
Storey’s Chicken Book
Storey Dairy Goat
Storey Meat Goat
Storey Ducks
Storey’s Bees
Beekeepers Bible
bio-integrated farm
soil and water engineering
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Food Preservation and Cooking
Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing
Steve Rinella’s Small Game
Ball Home Preservation
Charcuterie
Root Cellaring
Art of Natural Cheesemaking
Mastering Artesian Cheese Making
American Farmstead Cheesemaking
Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse
Wild Fermentation
Art of Fermentation
Nose to Tail
Artisan Sourdough
Designing Great Beers
The Joy of Home Distilling
Foraging
Southeast Foraging
Boletes
Mushrooms of Carolinas
Mushrooms of Southeastern United States
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast
Tech
farm and workshop Welding
ultimate guide: plumbing
ultimate guide: wiring
ultimate guide: home repair
off grid solar
Woodworking
Timberframe Construction
Basic Lathework
How to Run A Lathe
Backyard Foundry
Sand Casting
Practical Casting
The Complete Metalsmith
Gears and Cutting Gears
Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment
Machinery’s Handbook
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
Electronics For Inventors
Basic Science
Chemistry
Organic Chem
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
Ham Radio
AARL Antenna Book
General Class Manual
Tech Class Manual
MISC
Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft
Contact!
Nuclear War Survival Skills
The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm
Honestly, I think that's because we have a massive blind spot to everything that happened before WW1 where Germany is concerned. Germany had a high population (twice that of France), had made huge leaps in technology, philosophy and science and their industrialization matured quickly in the modern era. It was said at one point, English was the language of commerce, French was that of diplomacy and German was the language of science. We're used to thinking of Germany as a backwater but that stops being the case in early modern period. The other thing that helped ironically is Germany didn't unify until 1871. So scientific inquiry had less impediments from a centralized government.
If you want, there's a great book on the advance of the sciences in Germany, The German Genius
There are multiple layers to this.
Firstly, this is a society of predominantly Catholics and Lutherans who were taught for hundreds of years that the Jews were pariahs of society for many reasons, particularly their supposed role in the death of Jesus and also many "un-Christian" practices such as charging interest on loans and so forth. By the time Hitler and the Nazis came around they have a very rich field to sow in that regard. This of course wasn't unique to Germany as all of Europe held similar views towards outsiders in general, including gypsies. The interesting thing is that in Western Europe (including Germany) Jews were treated reasonably better than in Eastern Europe, especially at that time. After all, it was Russia's treatment of their Jewish population that gave rise to the Zionist movement and eventually the birth of Israel as a safe home for their people.
Anyway, most of those feelings in Germany were latent and it takes a lot to motivate an educated society to act on them, or at least be inactive when others are. Remember Germany at this time was a premier intellectual, along with economic and military, power. There's a great book on that written by Peter Watson called called The German Genius.
The way you motivate people in this way is claim to be pursuing a higher ideal, and asking those who see the same as you to rally around the same flag. This was very appealing to the German people because their dire economic conditions and humiliation at the Treaty of Versailles didn't match their idea of German exceptionalism. This is where Jewish discrimination comes in. In the revival of the German sense of self, there had to be perceived antagonists in the equation. Externally, it was Germany's European rivals. Internally, it was the Jews, Gypsies, communists, and whoever else were considered to be on the periphery of society.
Otherwise intelligent Germans allowed this to happen for many reasons. Some were truly biased. Others feared being viewed as resistant to Germany's revival. Still others truly tried to do something for it, and as time went on they suffered the consequences. But overall, the main focus of the day was the revival of Germany and the restoration of it's prestige and power. That's not a hard thing to gather a lot of momentum on, and when it's there, other things are just a distraction and a hindrance to the cause. The modern parallels to this are countless, and aren't only limited to racial discrimination.
This isn't unique in history and still happens all the time today. In a nutshell, the seeds are sown with the sense of exceptionalism. This unfortunately is part and parcel of being part of any race and nationality - it's a natural human tendency. Slobodan Milosevich did something really similar in the 1990's when he invoked the national trauma of the invasion of the Turks hundreds of years earlier to embitter the Serbs against the Bosnian Muslims.
If you want a very interesting parallel that occured in the United States, check out The Third Wave experiment that occurred Palo Alto California in 1969. This is about the least likely place you'd see a replication of the rise of the Nazis but this schoolteacher unintentionally sparked a movement with similar characteristics as a way to teach his class how this happened in a highly educated country. There was also [a book](http://www.amazon.com/Wave-Todd-Strasser-ebook/dp/B008LMD20O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394658999&sr=8-1&keywords=the+wave_, an afterschool special movie, and a feature length German movie based on this story. Really worth checking out.
for me, it was when I couldn't touch my feet anymore and had to sit down and put my foot on my knee so I could tie my shoes.
My recommendation to anyone out there is consistency. Do something that you can continue doing. People often try to take on too much at first and end up failing out eventually.
Build up your drive by picking shit you can consistently knock out. After a lengthy track record of success with your tasks, then maybe you can start adding to them. Focus on the consistency.
For me, i made it a priority to traverse 2 miles a day, 6 days a week. I would run as far as I could and power walk the rest. At first, it was only a couple hundred feet. Took me a year to knock out a full 2 mile run.
Also, i made it a priority to consume my 3 meals a day (eating breakfast like normal people do [used to skip it]). Lastly, i committed to not eating at night (trying to eat about 3 hours before I slept).
In a weird way, you need to harness the curse that anorexic people have. There are people who can convince themselves they aren't hungry. I'm not saying to starve yourself, but I am saying that you body is a fucking liar and will tell you you are hungry when you don't really need food.
Just like with everything, there are fine lines. Don't starve yourself, but think about your hunger objectively. Also, i'm not a doctor. If you have medical conditions that fuck your metabolism, I'm not sure what the recommendations are. However, if you're a generic human with no metabolism or other medical abnormalities, I think you can go to bed a little hungry. Especially if you're fat like I was. I began to embrace being a little hungry before I went to bed. I'd wake up and actually enjoy my breakfast, where i used to eat so much i'd wake up and not be hungry and skip that meal to be 'healthy', only to make up all that ground with bullshit later.
Good luck to anyone out there trying to lose weight. Fuck anyone who says you can't. They don't know shit. People discounted me my whole way through. I was 300+ and now i'm below 180 and in pretty decent shape. Most of those fucks that fucked with me are less healthy than I am today.
TL;DR consistency.
Also, I highly recommend the book Fat Chance (which i just recently read [I've been back in shape for almost 10 years now])
Lastly, if you think you can't do it. Scope our David Goggins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSTk1083VY
I agree with /u/maxmackie. It's not that there's anything inherently wrong with OJ, there's just a lot of carbs and it's easy to pour yourself 12-16 oz of OJ because it's 'healthy' and then have slammed a lot of carbs. I was probably consuming almost as much sugar, even though it's not added sugar, as I was drinking soda. OJ is a treat drink for brunches and the like.
Also, you might find the book Squeezed to be interesting. It's a fascinating study of the history of OJ and the OJ industry. The discussion on 'addback' is the stuff of crazy chemistry. The OJ you're drinking has an insane amount of stuff done to it to make it taste like the 'OJ' you expect. But, because all the items are derived from oranges they don't have to list anything but oranges on the label.
Chuck Cowdery is the author of Bourbon Straight and is one of the more reputable sources for American whiskey news.
TLDR;
Sazerac, the company which owns the Buffalo Trace Distillery (makers of Eagle Rare, Weller, Van Winkle, etc), Barton Distillery, A. Smith Bowman Distillery, and others poached the George Dickel master distiller to run their recently acquired Popcorn Sutton distillery in East TN with the intentions of making aged whiskey rather than just moonshine. Not long after, they also poached his protégé who was again the current Dickel master distiller. Now it looks like they are relocating to Murfreesboro to directly compete with Jack Daniel's and George Dickel.
Toyota really was the pioneer of lean production. I was in college when "The Machine That Changed The World" came out, and it was required reading for anyone in business or engineering at the time. When I went to work at Ford in 1992, they were all gung-ho about JIT, lean, and the rest of it.
Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-That-Changed-World-Revolutionizing/dp/0743299795
the cuckoo's egg by cliff stoll -- http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/0743411463
takedown by john markoff and tsutomu shimomura -- http://www.amazon.com/Takedown-Pursuit-Americas-Computer-Outlaw/dp/0786889136
nonfiction, actually--early-computer-age stuff about chasing down hackers in the dot-matrix days. I enjoyed these when I was younger.
>Fat Shaming is probably the single most cost effective way of keeping people from getting fat/getting people to lose weight.
Actually, it isn't. It just exacerbates psychological issues that reinforce the causes of obesity.
The most cost effective way is educating people about the interplay between leptin, insulin, and blood sugar. If you're genuinely curious, I recommend reading this book.
The British invented the term at the end of the 19th century to classify German goods that were seen as inferior.
Germany was industrialized later than Britain. Therefore Brits viewed the Germans as laymen when it came to industrialized production. But in fact Germany could use the already optimized industrial methods without having to make errors that would only cost money. Thus German factories became more efficient than British.
One of the main goals for the German economy was to replace the imported British products with German ones and export their products into the world. Around this time the British invented the "Made in Germany" label, which later became a guarantor for quality.
Therefore Germany invested much more in Research and Devolopment than Britain for example, in order to increase quality and efficiency of producing.
And by the turn of the century Germany was already an industrial powerhouse and a world leader in science.
If you want to know more about this topic I can recomend you the book "The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, The Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century" by Peter Watson
Buy this book
Managed Services in a month
It covers moving from a break/fix to MSP very thoroughly.
Well, you can characterise it as declaring war, or as giving them a gentle nudge to start adopting new technologies to better service their markets.
There's ample evidence to show that the car industry, petroleum industry, and fossil fuel industries would prefer climate change not be discussed, and not have to react to it. And while they have responded in some ways to pressure by their customer base, they've also resisted change because it's not in their long term interest.
However as Tesla enters the market, it takes market share. It's done this to the luxury vehicle market and will do so to the other markets. This is the most effective way to ensure that these industries respond to the challenge of climate change - either they respond by producing competing products, or Tesla will over time ramp up volumes, take more market share, and disrupt them out of existence, just as has happened to Blockbuster, Kodak, Nokia.
Shareholders of companies in these markets are on notice - the long term viability (10 - 15 years) of your business is at stake. Many brands we know today will disappear. This new technology will also create new business models and opportunities - but the incumbants will have to act fast!
More on disruption of the energy market by solar/battery from Tony Seba's book and this great presentation in Oslo a few months ago.
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The 1996 Telecommunications Act wasn't the beginning, not even close. Benjamin H. Bagdikian wrote a book in 1983 called The Media Monopoly, in which he warned that mergers and deregulation had caused 90% of US media to be controlled by 50 companies. Critics called him an alarmist. By 2011, 90% of US media was controlled by just 6 companies.
Read Soccernomics.
The authors frequently return to Moneyball and how its principles can (and sometimes are) apply to football. It's also a really interesting read in its own right.
To answer your question more directly: Lyon is a great example discussed in Soccernomics. (thanks to /u/5uare2 for pointing this out).
Also, Damien Comolli (previously Director of Football at Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal et al.) is a close friend of Billy Beane and used some of his ideas at the clubs he was working at to influence transfer strategies.
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It's generally not fresh-squeezed here: fruit juices are left to basically ferment for months and months in barrels and then "re-flavored" before packaging. The book Squeezed is a fascinating look into the orange juice industry, if you're interested.
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B078Y98RG8/
Yes, I'm serious.
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Alternatively:
https://www.amazon.com/Network-Warrior-Everything-Need-Wasnt-ebook/dp/B004W8ZL3W/
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Oh, wait I missed your last sentence.
Come on, is /r/sysadmin really the best place you could think of for personal organization?
/r/GetOrganized
/r/organization
/r/organized
I was mostly just giving you a hard time. It's a silly article, but, yeah, Miller is super rad. Would recommend his (and former Effectively Wild co-host Ben Lindbergh's) book to anyone that likes baseball analytics and fun.
General
Bourbon
Scotch/Malt
Its hard to sum up on what makes it worth watching, the drivers have a lot of personality, the level of competition is very high, and with 43 cars on the track there is always something going on.
The quality of racing is very good if you like a lot of passing (overtaking for the F1 terms). Depending on what track they are at, it can very close quarters racing with very aggressive driving. Lots of strategy involved on any given week.
A couple of books I would recommend are:
http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Devil-Southern-Moonshine-Detroit/dp/1400082269/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309974163&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Cheating-Inside-Things-Winston-Pursuit/dp/1893618226/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1309974122&sr=8-1
Why do I love NASCAR?
Again its kinda hard to answer. Like all the things I've mentioned before and also the access viewers can get. A lot of drivers are on Twitter which gives you insight into their day to day lives you don't normally see. You can get complete access to radio feeds of the teams during races.
What caused me to become hooked?
Probably just growing up watching it with my Dad mostly but what really hooked me was going to see a race live and sitting in the stands watching it first hand. Just like with F1, its a life style or its own culture. If you ever get the chance I highly recommend going to a race.
https://www.amazon.com/Only-Rule-Has-Work-Experiment/dp/1250130905
This is simply not true. In fact, lean manufacturing, which was developed by Toyota, is one of the most significant advancements the auto industry has ever seen, and is "copied" by all major auto manufacturers today.
A great book to read about the subject is The Machine that Changed the World.
Stone actually released a book with recipes for some of their beers a few years ago.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Craft-Stone-Brewing-Co/dp/1607740559
Basically. For storage, everything that makes it juice is removed. Then concentrated flavor and sweetening compounds are added back in. Here's a good article explaining more..
These two are both great reads
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Fat Chance by Robert Lustig, MD
In my mind, a DevOps PM is a technical role responsible for aligning project management (scrum masters), technology strategy, and developers. If the business says 'we want to push new code every 2 weeks' and 'we want the ability to A/B test different features,' it's up to the DevOps PM to make sure that the product is architected in such a way that this doable, make sure project management understands the challenges, track velocity for new releases, etc.
I'd recommend reading The Phoenix Project to learn more. A little outdated given the rise of cloud computing and microservices, but the ideas around agile and finding the most efficient way to release code still hold true today.
Okay, you've caught me; there's beer and wine books, too. Here's what you're looking at:
I run a cocktail bar, and I've been meaning to share my library for some time, but I have a knack for lending my books out to friends and colleagues so I keep waiting for it to be complete. Then I realized my collection keeps growing and will never be complete, so I may as well just share a snapshot of it.
Top row:
Sippin' Safari: In Search of the Great "Lost" Tropical Drink Recipes... and the People Behind Them by Jeff "Beachbum" Berry
Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: From the Alamagoozlum to the Zombie 100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them by Ted "Dr. Cocktail" Haigh
The Joy of Mixology: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft by Gary "Gaz" Regan
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg
The World Encyclopedia of Beer by Brian Glover
How to Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Beer Right the First Time by John J. Palmer
Jigger, Beaker and Glass: Drinking Around the World by Charles H. Baker, Jr. (aka The Gentleman's Companion Volume II)
Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink by Randy Mosher
Michael Jackson's Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch by Michael Jackson
The Ultimate Guide to Spirits & Cocktails by Andre Domine
New Classic Cocktails by Mardee Haidin Regan and Gary "Gaz" Regan
The Book of Garnishes by June Budgen
World's Best Cocktails: 500 Signature Drinks from the World's Best Bars and Bartenders by Tom Sandham
The Complete Book of Spirits: A Guide to Their History, Production, and Enjoyment by Anthony Dias Blue
Cocktails & Amuse-Bouches for Her & For Him by Daniel Boulud and Xavier Herit
Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar by David Wondrich
Middle Row:
Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers
The New and Improved Illustrated Bartenders' Manual; or: How to Mix Drinks of the Present Style by Harry Johnson (Espresso Book Machine Reprint)
Michael Jackson's Bar & Cocktail Companion: The Connoisseur's Handbook by Michael Jackson
The Craft of Stone Brewing Co.: Liquid Lore, Epic Recipes, and Unabashed Arrogance by Greg Koch, Steve Wagner & Randy Clemens
The PDT Cocktail Book: The Complete Bartender's Guide from the Celebrated Speakeasy by Jim Meehan
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas by Brad Thomas Parsons
A Taste for Absinthe: 65 Recipes for Classic and Contemporary Cocktails by R. Winston Guthrie & James F. Thompson
The Bartender's Guide to IBA Official Cocktails by Jenny Reese (Espresso Book Machine Printing)
Punch: The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl by David Wondrich
The Home Distiller's Handbook: Make Your Own Whiskey & Bourbon Blends, Infused Spirits and Cordials by Matt Teacher
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving: Elegant Garnishes for All Occasions by Hiroshi Nagashima
What to Drink with What You Eat: The Difinitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea - Even Water - Based on Expert Advice from America's Best Sommeliers by Andrew Dornenburg & Karen Page
The American Cocktail: 50 Recipes that Celebrate the Craft of Mixing Drinks from Coast to Coast by The Editors of Imbibe Magazine
The ABC of Cocktails by Peter Pauper Press
How to Make Your Own Drinks: Create Your Own Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Drinks from Fruit Cordials to After-Dinner Liqueurs by Susy Atkins
How to Make a World of Liqueurs by Heather Kibbey & Cheryl Long
A couple of good books that take on this question in detail are:
Superintelligence, by Nick Bostrom, who is a philosophy professor at Oxford, and
Life 3.0, by Max Tegmark, from MIT
The short of it is: we may be able to keep superintelligent AI with motivations not aligned with our own under control through restrictions on access to the outside world. However, superintelligent AI can, by definition, outsmart us, and may be able to figure a way to weasel out of any restrictions we put on it. The consequences of that could be very bad.
Therefore, it would be much safer for us to figure out how to design AI with motivations fundamentally aligned with our own.
This is a problem that researchers should probably start thinking seriously about now, since superintelligent AI development may turn into an arms race, and organizations may cut corners on safety unless there's already a body of work on the subject. To that end, Tegmark has been organizing science conferences on AI alignment, and organizations like MIRI are funding papers.
The origins of Lean are a bit murky, but the most famous example is the Toyota Production System. You can read about it in two books:
The Machine that Changed the World
and
Lean Thinking
Both are easy reads and present the core concepts of Lean in a very easy to understand way. I loan my copies out to my employees on a regular basis. The Japanese are the most famous practitioners of Lean. To them, it's like a religion.
I highly recommend reading Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits by Bob Bennett
While it may seem like a "natural" way to go, the health risks are simply not worth it especially if you're breeding for meat. The current breeding generations are so far removed from their "free range" ancestry that they don't care about the freedom and don't have any instincts to survive outside of confinement. All you have to give them is proper individual space for their breed. Provide adequate ventilation, isolate the bucks from the rest of your stock, and give the does a break between breedings (especially during the summer) and they'll live longer. Bucks will fight each other to the point of castration, so they should absolutely be separated.
https://orangebook.tetrapak.com/chapter/processing-juice-packer
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ask-an-academic-orange-juice
https://www.amazon.com/Squeezed-About-Orange-Agrarian-Studies/dp/0300164556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312826335&sr=8-1
Many members of my own family were moonshiners back in the day, I have even heard rumors of a still being found on our property and destroyed sometime in the 1920's or 1930's. Driving with the Devil is a fascinating book on this topic, and one I recommend any Nascar fan or history buff should read. The material is interesting as fuck.
I think "Eating Animals" was a much better book - you should check it out http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Animals-Jonathan-Safran-Foer-ebook/dp/B002SSBD6W/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415253966&sr=1-1&keywords=eating+animals
Since you don't eat meat, unless these are Angora rabbits they'd just be pets.
If they're not useful, you should probably find somewhere else for them to live. While their poop is nutrient rich, so is hen poop.
Do you eat eggs?
Highly recommend you get this book if you're going to keep them. Best time to read up on livestock is before you get any, but we have to deal with the situation at hand.
But first - do you want two pet rabbits?
Do you have housing for them? Will it protect them from the elements and predators? Can you keep them separated? (they usually don't do well sharing one hutch) What are their genders?
Also, why would someone just give up two rabbits? Were they Easter Presents or what?
This book Driving With the Devil gives a pretty accurate representation of how NASCAR got it's start and has some great stories. I highly recommend it!
This. Well i listened to the audiobook on the way into work!
The first video is just a summary of Tony Seba's most recent book, which is well-cited. As I said, I have some small issues with the details, but the general picture is accurate: it will be cheaper to produce electricity 24/7, including overcapacity and storage, with solar than with any fossil fuels everywhere except the high latitudes by 2030.
The key assumptions this case makes are that 1) Swanson's Law will continue to hold in driving the cost of PV lower for at least 15 more years, and 2) the assumption that battery storage will continue to follow its current curve of around 8% improvement per year (although Tesla's gigafactory is likely to put us slightly ahead of the curve starting in 2017).
If you want to argue against the 2030 projection, you have to argue that one or both of those assumptions is wrong. Few people are doing so, including most notably the utility sector which is already withdrawing fossil-fuel-based generation capital investments in high-insolation areas like California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, etc.
This is the latest sector report from RethinkX, the think tank founded by entrepreneur and technology theorist Tony Seba who literally wrote the book on the Clean Disruption of energy and transportation.
A few highlights of our findings from the report:
Industry Impacts
Food Cost Savings:
Jobs Lost and Gained:
Land Use and Environmental Impacts:
Health & Food Security:
Geopolitical Implications:
> What is to truly do?
Dunno. But, I've been retired for a while now and am seriously enjoying it!
I went to a lecture and book signing, but haven't yet read the book, called
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark. It explores this topic in depth.
We need to, at a minimum:
There were many more points on the topic that were made by Max Tegmark at the lecture. I expect there are even more in the book. When my wife is done with it, I'll start reading it.
If you want to know the science as well as anecdotal evidence supporting low carb and against the Standard American Diet, here's a list of books for you to read:
Jimmy Moore is a lot more anecdotal but it's a good place to start if you want a simple way to understand keto, in my opinion. The rest contain lots of studies and evidence to convince you.
Taubes is also bringing out a new book. I've not yet read it but I've certainly pre-ordered!
The Case Against Sugar
That was my assumption.
Amazon link for anyone who's curious. Great read on lean manufacturing.
A great book is Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits
https://www.amazon.com/Storeys-Guide-Raising-Rabbits-4th/dp/1603424563
His book, The Only Rule Is It Has To Work, about trying to run a minor league team using sabermetrics is good ( and genuinely funny) as well.
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century, by Peter Watson.
This was a thought provoking book that made me think more carefully about what I eat. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002SSBD6W/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_XWqKub11FT03B
I second this recommendation. It’s also worth noting that it has been revised and updated.
I've posted this before but I'll repost it here:
Now in terms of the question that you ask in the title - this is what I recommend:
Job Interview Prep
Junior Software Engineer Reading List
Read This First
Fundementals
Understanding Professional Software Environments
Mentality
History
Mid Level Software Engineer Reading List
Read This First
Fundementals
Software Design
Software Engineering Skill Sets
Databases
User Experience
Mentality
History
Specialist Skills
In spite of the fact that many of these won't apply to your specific job I still recommend reading them for the insight, they'll give you into programming language and technology design.
Ten years before Elon Musk gave his rant about "the machine that builds the machine" toyota literally wrote the book on manufactering.
They created "The machine that changed the world"
It is the machine that builds the machine.
Tesla is not a leader in the automotive world, they are a lagger.
An overly expensive one at that.
Take a stroll over to Tesla Motors Forums and notice that they all have to wait months for simple repairs.
And Tesla just keeps saying we are young we will get better.... for TEN YEARS NOW.
>Don't you get it? You're demanding what no other company claimed or achieved.
What on earth are you yammering about now?
The chevy bolt is a fine electric vehicle for inner city driving.
And it don't cost 100K
>But I realize, maybe this is the wrong sub to call for realism
Like getting you to realize they don't know how to produce cars.
> I receive downvotes
I never downvote anyone, just argue with them while playing video games
Masters of Doom was a good read.
While not about video games, Dreaming in Code is close to the spirit of the wired article.
I've read many video game history books, they all have this anecdote in them but none have any real proof. However, the NES originally launched in New York City and Nintendo had to make the promise to stores they'd buy back all unsold stock. So that does help support the claim a little.
btw, Game Over is an awesome read.
Here are a few books that I really enjoyed. The first couple are stats-oriented, while the third is more narrative-driven.
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball by John Feinstein
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060760230/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_APLkDbRHM98VW
The Myth of German Villainy by Benton L. Bradberry (2012-07-03) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FEK8ZKM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_6PLkDbMHHQVZJ
> I've been very interested in ideas like Toyota's かんばん
... Two interviews with the author:
ETA a paper worth reading: The Darker Side of Lean:
An Insider’s Perspective on the Realities of the Toyota Production System by Darius Mehri, 2006
Somebody in another comment mentioned Kevin Mitnick.
In addition to Mitnick's book, I'll also recommend:
Steven Levy's Hackers. It's a classic exploration of the birth of the computer age and hacker culture, with a lot of insights into the mindset of computer people, both white-hat and black-hat.
The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll, which is an account of him tracking down some serious hackers waaay back in the day. It's kind of vintage now, but I remember it being very well written and engaging. It's more like reading a novel than some dry academic piece.
In similar vein is Takedown, by Tsutomu Shimomura, which is Shimomura's account of pursuing and catching Kevin Mitnick. Also quite good, as it was co-written by John Markoff. There's a whiff of Shimomura tooting his own horn in it, but you definitely get a feel for the chase as it was happening, and learn a lot about the details of what Mitnick (and others in the underground hacking world) were actually doing.
Weird fact: I had no idea at the time, of course, but during some of Mitnick's last days before they nabbed him, he lived in an apartment building in my neighborhood in Seattle, right across from the grocery store where I always shopped. And about a year later, I ended up dating a girl who lived in that same building at that time, though of course she had no idea Mitnick was there either or even who he was. Still, I always wonder if I ever happened to stand next to him in line at the grocery store or something like that.
I agree with /u/NoyzMaker that you'll have to leave to get away from this. On your way out, toss this book on your boss' desk:
The Phoenix Project
It's a story about almost exactly the same situation you're in.
There was a book that came out about the secret life of orange juice a year or two ago; I've been on a backlist to get it from the library for a long time but I understand it to be a quality piece of work on the subject.
Squeezed: What You Don't Know about Orange Juice
Why is this being downvoted?
Once the best athletes in the country start choosing football over football, the quality will only go up. It's already started happening.
Also, if you've never read it, the book Soccernomics gives some greats reasons why the US, along with a few other countries, will eventually field world class players.
I don't know of a good general spirits book, but I cannot recommend Charles Cowdery's Straight Bourbon enough if you're looking for a book on bourbon.
The Foundation Bible of starting an MSP: Managed Services in a Month by Karl Palachuk Amazon Link
I'll also throw a vote in for Traction as a general business book.
And my personal people/team management bible that I bring into every company I work with: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Amazon Link
Your audible link takes me to a redirect and just shows the main page, is this the book you are referring to? Managed Services in a Month - Build a Successful It Service Business in 30 Days - 2nd Ed
Start with Soccernomics.
Lots of statistics in there, but it's very interesting.
Btw I'm using amazon links for easiness and because it's easy to read reviews of the books there, but i'm sure if you shop around you can maybe purchase them for less.
"The Only Rule Is It Has to Work" is a pretty interesting look into the inner workings of the Independent league and a good audiobook for the car.
What do you mean? The book I read came out in 1996.
It is. Really good book. Long, super detailed. I got my copy back in the early 2000s but never finished it. After Hiroshi Yamauchi passed away, I dug it up and re-read it in full. Really glad I did.
It's long out of print, but there might be some used copies floating around. I did notice it's on Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-Conquered-World-ebook/dp/B0060AY98I/
Totally worth $10, a must read for any Nintendo fan.
There are at least three books published about the History of Nintendo. I'd say start with Game Over by David Sheff. Here's one listing of an apparently out of print version, any decent sized library should have a copy.
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-Conquered-World-ebook/dp/B0060AY98I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1503836937&sr=8-2&keywords=game+over+book
A good starting point might be Saison du BUFF. It has all 3 of those herbs, IIRC. I think the recipe is in The Craft of Stone Brewing Co.: Liquid Lore, Epic Recipes, and Unabashed Arrogance. When Greg and Sam did the G+ hangout w/ Wil, Greg mentioned that they'd publish the recipe on the Internet, but I don't think they've done it yet. We should bug Greg about it. :)
Founders at Work
http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1590597141
I'm going to suggest a few books that aren't textbooks that'll teach you a specific topic but are certainly brilliant at passing on viewpoints that are beneficial to your overall understanding of computer science and software development.
One possible reason but it doesn't sound like it quite fits, I read this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B078Y98RG8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=phoenix+project+devops&qid=1554156363&s=gateway&sr=8-1
About a guy trying to turn around a dysfunctional it department, and one of his concerns is that everything depends on this one tech guy who knows everything, and no one can get anything done without consulting this one guy, so he takes various measures to basically ease the guy out of the various processes and force the rest of the team to fly on their own and develop their own skills.
Hey! I'm in a similar position to you – trending veggie since last Thanksgiving, officially no meat since April 1, hoping to be vegan eventually. Initially I started down this path for health reasons but was having similar lapses... "just this once" / "I'm so hungry" / "it's all we have in the house" etc. etc. etc... I know how you feel!
Not everyone can stomach it but I found it really helpful to start looking into the environmental and animal welfare side of things. I read Eating Animals to get real familiar with the downsides of factory farming. This has really helped me avoid the animal proteins altogether, even when I'm really craving them. Hope that helps!
This is a great book, you should get it.
And, if you're starting out, get Managed Services in a Month https://amzn.com/0981997856
Maybe something like this
No joke, all brands of orange juice are a scam.
You think squeeze a bunch of oranges -> put in bottles, but no.
They squeeze oranges, heat it up to remove all the flavor, let them sit in giant vats for a year(!), add water and then add 'flavor packs' to them to make them taste the way you think it should.
It's been a while since I read it, but here's a book called 'Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice'
Search through the sub for old Book recommendations for more info.
Ones that immediately come to mind:
If you look through older posts there are dozens of other recs.
Final personal one isn't about MLB, but about softball in New York. Link Here
Old professor in college wrote it, thought it was pretty unique.
http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software/dp/1400082471
WL Weller special reserve is a great wheated bourbon to start out with. Good price and taste profile is sweeter than the ryes (my preference)
I've always been a fan of the 1792 Ridgemont reserve. Rich and velvety is what it says on the bottle and it's spot on.
After that, Old Overholt, George Dickel No 12, Old Grand Dad (Bottled in bond), Old Forester, and Old Fitzgerald are ones I prefer.
Try different bottles to see what your palette prefers.
Also, Bourbon, Straight is worth ordering.
Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski has been an interesting read so far, if you're interested in the business side of the game. Another good one was How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, which was comprised of case studies that looked at all sorts of different trends in the game, not just globalization.
Both of those books are well-written and -researched and offer good insights, and give historical contexts for, trends in the game.
I'm really enjoying the Stone Brewing book. Lots of great photos of their operation, stories from when they were getting going, and recipes for their beers at the end. It's $16 on Amazon.
Edit: non-mobile URL added
Are they into learning about this stuff? If not, no amount of training material will make a difference. This sort of thing is what got me hooked:
The Cuckoo's Egg
Takedown
I like recommending the book The German Genius by Peter Watson to people. It is easy nowadays to forget how absolutely overwhelming Germany's cultural dominance used to be.
To put it in Civ5 terms, Germany was on top of the culture victory race until the World Wars happened.
I'll just leave this here: Squeezed.
Heh, what is a "non-racing fan"? "Whoo-hoo, I'm a fan of these dudes not-racing!" ;)
Pick up Driving with the Devil, amazing book!
I might as well start.
Skunk Works -- This is a memoir by Ben Rich of Lockheed's Advanced Development Programs division(AKA Skunk Works). If you're interested in aviation, I'd highly recommend it! Ben Rich lead the Skunk Works during development of the F-117 Nighthawk and the development of stealth technology(including a stealth ship for the Navy that never got the green light). He also worked on the U-2 Dragonlady, and designed the engine inlets for the SR-71 Blackbird.
The Machine that Changed the World -- I'm currently working on this one, so I don't have a fully developed opinion just yet. So far it's pretty neat. This is an expositional work about the Toyota Production System, and similar aspects of industrial engineering(dubbed Lean Production) that were developed in Japan after WW2. The authors have a tendency to proselytize it seems like, but maybe that's for good reason. It's not my area of expertise.
Here's a summary. Of course, the book that got me interested is here, The Machine that changed the World
there‘s a lot of possible outcomes. one of them would be our extinction, yes. not because AGI is evil, but it may be misaligned with or goals.
check life 3.0 by max tegmark:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598
and the youtube channel by robert miles:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLB7AzTwc6VFZrBsO2ucBMg
I recommend 3 books to get your started.
You'll learn how brands and distilleries were started, shuttered, shuffled, and sold. You'll learn who influenced and inspired brands and names.
The two authors of the three books are arguably the foremost authorities on the subject of bourbon, most especially its history. Besides, the books are phenomenal reads IMO.
Driving with the Devil is by Neal Thompson
I was also going to recommend it.
The problem is that the consolidation is probably a lot worse than you think it is. It's a little dated (but there have been updates), but The Media Monopoly is a great read on the subject.
From what (little) I know of the winemaking process, they squeeze the juice from the grapes which is full of sugar, and then let loose yeast on it. The yeast digests the sugar into carbon dioxide and alcohol (specifically ethanol), and at some point the ethanol level becomes toxic and kills the yeast.
So even the most efficient yeast leaves a little bit of residual sugar, 0.5% by weight (don't quote me on that). The term "dry" in wine means "no perceptible sweetness" but there's still a little ... but lots of things have that much sugar. Milk, for instance, has loads more sugar in it (10x to 25x as much).
But you didn't say you have problems with milk, so this makes me think that you might be sensitive to a specific kind of sugar. The usual culprit in milk is lactose, which an enzyme (called lactase) in your digestive system breaks down into glucose and galactose. If you have no problems with milk, you're probably fine with all of these sugars. Furthermore, the carbs you eat like bread and pasta are broken down principally into glucose, so you're probably ok there too. (I say probably because most of the glucose produced happens during digestion, and it could be your reaction is produced further up the alimentary canal than where this is being produced ... I'm kind of out of my depth here, just kind of brain dumping, so don't take any of this to heart unless you talk to an actual doctor that, like, knows stuff. :-) )
The principle kinds of sugar left in wine after fermentation is fructose and glucose. Assuming you're ok on glucose, then fructose might be the culprit, which is the big sugar in fruit. If you have a sensitivity to fructose, this would also probably mean you have an aversion to run-of-the-mill table sugar, which is sucrose. As soon as sucrose hits your digestive system, each sucrose molecule gets broken down into one fructose and one glucose. There's the fructose again. (If you want to find out more about fructose metabolism, check out Sugar: The Bitter Truth. Dr. Lustig also has a book on the subject that might interest you.)
None of this accounts for white wine, though. There isn't very much sugar and very few tannins in white wine...tannins come from contact with the skins, which is what makes red wine red. When pressed, all grape juice is white, but in the winemaking process to make a rose the winemaker throws the grape skins back in with the juice to ferment for a bit. For red wine, the skins stay in a lot longer, which is where a lot of the tannins come from, the rest comes from aging in oak barrels. So tannin sensitivity is consistent with aversion to black tea. This is my problem: tannin in the absence of protein is free to do its thing and aggravate your sensitivity, which is why when I have green tea or black tea with milk, no issue. Only on an empty stomach it gets me. (I never drink red wine on an empty stomach, but this could be because slight nausea I may not have attributed to it has put me off of it, now that I'm thinking about it.)
Coffee has some tannins, but I don't think it's anything comparable to red wine. Also there are, unfortunately, different kinds of tannins, and I believe coffee has the different kinds in different concentration than red wine, so may or may not be consistent in your case. I'm not sure the effect of roasting on tannins, but I would expect if anything that it either concentrates them or breaks them down, so if you notice you're more sensitive to light roasts than dark or espresso roasts, that could be a good data point.
This is what leads me to think in the case of white wine, you might be sensitive to sulfites (not sulfates, btw). This is easy enough to test: You can find sulfite-free whites. Try one, if no issue, then you've very likely nailed at least one sensitivity. Your ability to eat dried fruits and lunch meats makes me think this isn't a problem.
End of the day, if you have food sensitivities that are changing, I would take it seriously. It's one thing if you've always had them and they're constant, but changes can be concerning. It's probably worth going to the doctor and checking into it. In college I was friends with one person that aggravated their system and brought on Crohn's disease which docs say he could have put off at least many more years if he'd known to avoid certain things. I know another that had IBS in his family and, same story, college diet brought it on full force. 15 years later and he's still living with it.
These are probably nothing to do with your case, but after knowing those two I prefer to run a few tests and get out in front of whatever I can. Also, it's very possible you'll get sent for a allergen test and find out exactly what the issue is and how to avoid it completely.
Anyway, sorry if I bored you with all this, but how often do I get to hold forth with such a store of useless knowledge I've managed to collect over the years? =)
This book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Craft-Stone-Brewing-Co/dp/1607740559
Has updated versions of the recipes which they apparently felt were more on-target for home brewers. Either that, or they like selling books.
Read the Phoenix Project this week. Seriously. It's a great parable for fixing your stuff. https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B078Y98RG8
This book was first written about the subject in 1983. He was very prescient.
It's on my reading list, but I've heard good things about https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598. It's a non-fiction book that looks at the effects AI will have on the world. I'm also writing about an AI, and I hope this book helps my understanding as well.
Beyond that and the suggestions I've seen below, Westworld is another show with AI in it to check out.
I know this isn't what you're asking for, but I'm currently reading Bourbon, Straight: The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey. So far, it is quite engaging and informative, but solely about the American bourbon history and industry. I currently have it via interlibrary loan, but plan to buy it for book shelving and reference at some point!
I'd actually like to find something like this book, but about Scotch Whisky if anyone has read this book and has a Whisky paralleled suggestion.
I've not read any of the suggestions by Ralfy (review ep. 6), as they're not available locally in my libraries, but I imagine they're good ones, and plan to check them out at some point in the future.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1590597141
I recommend chapter 6 of Tony Seba's book Clean Disruption for more on the real-world costs of nuclear. Nuclear hasn't actually been as cheap as has been promised. Frequent large cost overruns, plus the taxpayers are often stuck with decommissioning costs.
For all the people who say "maybe now we can end the subsidies for solar," without bailouts, federal loan guarantees, and the government acting as the insurer of last resort (because no insurer will take on the liability for a nuclear accident), there would be no nuclear power industry at all.
Definitely handle the breeders. Treat them like pets. Otherwise getting them in and our of the cages is very difficult. An adult feral rabbit is fierce. We got one as an adult, and she was so violent that we couldn't even reach in and get her nest set up without her attacking our hands. Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits was a big help when we started out.
Hello! Here's a book that is fantastic, and it's cheap!
http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Devil-Southern-Moonshine-Detroit/dp/1400082269/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289933281&sr=1-4
It's a great history of NASCAR. Hope this helps!
I pretty much only read non-fiction, so I'm all about books that are educational but also interesting :) I'm not sure what your educational background is, so depending on how interested you are in particular subjects, I have many recommendations.
Naked Statistics and Nate Silver's Book are both good!
Feeling Good is THE book on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
The Omnivore's Dilemma is good, as is Eating Animals (granted, Eating Animals is aimed at a particular type of eating)
Guns, Germs and Steel is very good.
I also very much enjoyed The Immortal Live of Henrietta Lacks, as well as Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman :)
edit to add: Chris Hadfield's Book which I haven't received yet but it's going to be amazing.
Checkout founders at work
http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1590597141
Similarly, Takedown is an interesting novel along the same lines. It's about the search for the legendary social engineer Kevin Mitnick and his arrest. It's non-fiction as well. The one caveat is that the novel is written from an highly biased point of view by a guy with a big ego, so that may turn you off.
Full disclosure, my wife is the rabbit boss. She started some years back with fancy breeds (like English lops, Mini Lops, English Angora...) but gradually moved away from that. She now raises a commercial breed exclusively; I'm just the hired help. I don't have much experience with raising chickens so I can't compare them for you, but rabbits are pretty easy (and they taste delicious). Jokes aside, they taste remarkably like chicken, but are a bit more versatile I think.
I asked her about online resources and she suggested a couple of these extension sites for some basic starter info:
Penn State Extension
and
MSU Rabbit Production
The Rabbit Talk forum is a decent place to learn and ask questions, she said.
The rabbit raising bible, however, is Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits. It's an excellent book, though maybe only if you've already made the decision to start.
Being able to use the pelts for blankets and clothes is an added bonus.
Check out this book about the development of the modern German intellectual community.
Started out on a dare (much like yourself), then kept going for health, then I read "eating animals" and now I'll be vegan until I die.
(I also like that it's better for the environment, but I found that out later)
Here are all the books with amazon links, Alphabetical order :)
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https://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software/dp/1400082471
Yes, most scientists (but not all) do believe in an AI singularity. And when polled AI researchers' have a median prediction of that occurring within 45 years.
The idea is that once you've created an AI smarter than us (or at least better at AI programming) it will be able to program a better AI than us. Since we were able to program it and it is better at programming AIs, it will be able to program a better AI than itself. You would then have iterative generations each one smarter than the previous.
Some things to note however is that this won't be infinitely smart. Physics puts some upper limits on how much information can be processed how quickly and with how much heat and entropy. That being said those limits are huge and scientists don't know how much smarter it'll be than us. But even the idea that it could be just a little bit smarter than us but that you could network a bunch of brains just slightly smarter than us together is pretty scary.
Scientists also don't agree on how much of a risk this poses to humanity, but most believe it is a risk that needs to be taken very very seriously. But many also believe it is a risk that when taken very very seriously can be properly managed. Look at how successful Bezos or other Billionaires are. An AI like this could absolutely run the world if it wanted. And forget about shutting it down. It would be smart enough not to do anything that would scare us enough into shutting it down until it had protected against that possibility.
Where the world ends up after the AI singularity depends so much on the goals of that initial AI superintelligence.
For more information on AI's check out this computerphile video. That researcher has about 10 or so videos on computerphile on the same subject. If you want a really in depth view on the state of AI super intelligence, I'd recommend Life 3.0 which is by an AI researcher who has been organizing AI saftey conferences and been working with Elon Musk and others to fund AI researchers' work. They discuss what are the different types of scenarios we could end up with and asks interesting moral questions about where we want to end up. For example, do we want to be in a world where nobody has to work or would that lead to lack of fulfillment in people's lives? Would we want an AI who would only minimally interfere and mainly function to prevent malicious AIs from emerging? Or would we want one that would push the frontiers of science for us?
I highly recommend The Craft of Stone Brewing Co. It's one part history of the brewery, one part recipes for their beer and one part recipes from their Bistro.
I haven't read Brewed Awakening but it's got some good reviews on Amazon (and one oddly, scathing review so who knows?)
> We can't consume our way out of climate change.
I don't want to be completely dismissive of your statement (I know your heart is in the right place), but there is a strong argument that, paradoxically, consumption is exactly how we're going to solve climate change, because the more solar and wind are bought, the more the price goes down and the more lithium ion batteries are bought, the more the price goes down.
The fossil fuel and ICE car industries are being disrupted by cheaper renewables and electric vehicles, and it could be happening much more rapidly than anyone thinks. Please see this book if interested, by a Stanford professor who has researched this subject very deeply:
www.amazon.com/Clean-Disruption-Energy-Transportation-Conventional/dp/0692210539/
In general every path is different, so take all advice with skepticism. Study of entrepreneurship has shown that reality differs from traditional teaching. For example, business plans tend to be used after the fact for improvement rather than seriously up front. This is covered well on Effectuation. The E-Myth books cover important basics, though most of those books say the same things and it does not always apply. Paul Orfalea's Copy This is pragmatic and inspirational. An old but still good book with various lessons about doing business is Startup by Jerry Kaplan. The book Founders at Work has lots of real stories that drive home how much work startups are and how different and in a way alienating the work can be, as starting something is not like having a job.
For ideas and inspiration in general the Change This site can be a good source. Good luck!
Dreaming in Code
http://www.amazon.com/Squeezed-Orange-Agrarian-Studies-Series/dp/0300164556/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1409076975&sr=8-2&keywords=book+orange+juice
The only book that I've read (currently reading) is Managed services in a month, haven't got to the part where they (if they) talk about that stuff. You're well established so I'm not sure if it would help you.
Still a GREAT book! Here's the link:https://www.amazon.com/Managed-Services-Month-Successful-Business/dp/0981997856/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473283679&sr=1-1&keywords=managed+services+in+a+month
>so as long as they dont have any biological part in them and they have no actual feelings
Lol. What makes you think you have actual feelings? I think therefore I am. It thinks therefore it is, and it will think quicker and better. It will have a larger brain and more room for improvement.
>I think its just farfetched to think that a robot AI woman made for acting as your partner is ever going to get out of control and use a gun to shoot stuff, they will make sure that it will be a safe tech obviously, its going to be their number one priority, to make sure such a thing isnt going to ever happen with an AI robot.
You can't box in an AI like that. You can make it safe enough for market, but sooner or later one is going to go rogue and one is all it takes.
>I think robots are not to be afraid of at all, the real threat to humanity is humanity itself...
How many AI's have you built? How much do you know about the topic? I'm glad you're more of an expert then idiots like Elon Musk and Steven Hawking. AGI is rediculusly dangarous, and using that tech for a sex toy is beyond stupid and irresponsible. Then again we're more then likely to get AGI over the next couple decades and this Reddit will stay that lang. So when some abused AGI goes back and starts looking for who to blame... well I wouldn't want to be you dude...
Here is a book to read https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1101946598&pd_rd_r=VRR6AQ5K4WE1BXNWW0EP&pd_rd_w=FIKob&pd_rd_wg=x2u0q&psc=1&refRID=VRR6AQ5K4WE1BXNWW0EP
Look man if you're unhappy Openwater will give you matrix you can be anything in
https://www.reddit.com/r/openwaterBCI/
Dev kits this year, consumer product the next. As soon as they get enough data and they will they will be running a full blown matrix. Smell, touch, everything... No need to endanger humanity by messing with stuff you really shouldn't mess with. AGI is better off doing more significant things.
>Reality is I don't even have any way of knowing that what you say is true. In fact, given your post history and utter failure to back up what you have to say with any sources whatsoever that it's not accurate.
Verifying everything I said is pretty easy for anyone that knows how to do basic research, especially since I broke down most of the points.
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>Why didn't I think you were a journalist? Because most people who say "THE MEDIA NEEDS TO COVER THIS" aren't a part of the media.
I didn't say the Media Needs to Cover This, I asked a question, " Why aren't any news outlets covering the truth about what's going on with Vaping and Big Tobacco?"
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>They're capable of recognizing that it's a complex ecosystem filled with different competing organizations with different competing interests.
It's more like competing journalists and it's not that complex of an ecosystem given that there is even more lateral movement in the industry today than there was twenty years ago and there was a lot back then. If you're not a Chomsky fan you should at least check out Bagdikian.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Media-Monopoly-Completely-Chapters/dp/0807061875
If you are interested in this subject, check out this book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Media-Monopoly-Completely/dp/0807061875/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_1/192-6714861-5499914?ie=UTF8&refRID=1FRF0HBTPN9ZTXGSTCV4
As a short-term goal, I would say creating AGI, which should lead to the technological singularity. I like to believe that once that happens, what we have created (and has self-improved) will be "smart enough" to solve things that will (at that point, not now) be "trivial" for it: climate change, poverty, war, free energy, etc
I started reading Life 3.0 14 months ago (switched from reading the book to listening to the audiobook a couple months in). I'm deliberately reading it slowly (and often going back to re-read slightly before where I left off) so I can savor it
I would love if everything turned out as awesome as that book paints a picture of humanity's future
Post-singularity, the possibilities are (nearly) endless: colonize Mars and several moons, maybe a few O'Neill cylinders and then spread throughout the galaxy (either in person or sending out robot ships while we all relax in our own VR worlds)
I've recently been reading this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/dp/1590597141
which is full of anecodtes about the early days of Adobe to Yahoo (including reddit favourites like Viaweb and Fog Creek). It's interesting reading (better than tryint to find another nuggest of wisdom in the latest AJAX book :) )
Read this book. Or listen to it on audible
The first short story presented at the start of the book is compelling
https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598
Lactose and galactose are metabolized very differently in the body than fructose. If you are avoiding sugars for health reasons (preventing metabolic syndrome, etc.), then don't bother counting lactose and galactose.
Also don't worry about eating whole fruit that still has the fiber intact. Fiber slows the absorption of sugar into the blood stream, which basically cancels out much of the harm of sugar consumption. And fruits contain many healthy compounds such as bioflavonoids. Berries are particularly healthy. Fruit juices have the fiber removed, and therefore should not be considered healthy. Stick to actual fruits.
Fat Chance is an interesting read on the biochemistry of sugar and how sugar consumption may contribute to obesity and metabolic syndrome (when consumed over TDEE mostly). Just ignore his negativity towards diet and exercise interventions.
Oh, and of course all calories/macros should count towards your TDEE.
That's a weird one.
I've seen this version recommended; it doesn't have a Kindle version that I know of: https://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Press-Start-Continue/dp/0966961706/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481671222&sr=1-3&keywords=Game+over
I have the Kindle edition of this version that is still in print: https://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-Conquered-World-ebook/dp/B0060AY98I/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1481671157&sr=1-1&keywords=game+over+how+nintendo+conquered+the+world.
I'm not sure how similar the content is between the two. The version out of print was published in 1999 and has chapters added by a different author. I suspect it is an updated edition of the version that is still in print.
This Love is not for Cowards by Richard Andrew Powell, about the Indios of Ciudad Juarez. At the time the book was written (and maybe still), Juarez was considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. The book does a great job a telling the stories of both life in Juarez and a difficult season from multiple points of view - that of the players, the die-hard fans and the author, a US ex-pat living in Juarez.
Upvotes also to Soccernomics and Inverting the Pyramid.
You know what the requirements are? This is worth buying and reading too.
Go read this book... it covers their business strategy very well including their approach to hardware. Yamauchi was a notorious hard ass about making the best use of inexpensive materials.
Game over: How Nintendo Conquered the World
I can't find a clear link with quotes at the moment though.
I know. The New Media Monopoly (book)
Manufacturing Consent (documentary)
Independent liberals are allowed to talk about these things. Right-wing corporate whores are not, and attack anyone who does as being a "socialist" who "hates America." That's been my experience, anyway.
Pretty much.
You should check out Soccernomics.
I'd start by watching Ken Burns Baseball documentary.
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As far as books, Moneyball is good, and The Only Rule is it Has to Work for an in depth look at how stats affect the game.
> None of them seem to have any effect on the exchange of (legal) ideas or an attack on legal activities on the web.
The actions I listed redefined what was legal, so yes they had a huge effect.
It used to be legal to 'crack' computer games (because you owned them); software was even sold to do that (CopyIIPC). It was legal to reverse-engineer data formats that incorporated encryption/obfuscation code. It was legal to implement anything in software without fear of a patent suit (because software could not be patented).
Even the idea of 'unauthorized computer access' wasn't set in stone legally: Operation Sundevil was largely a prosecutorial failure.
The digital landscape changed so much between 1990 (when I got on) to now that it's largely unrecognizable. These things you think are reasonable actions were beyond the pale power grabs 20 years ago.
> Copyright belongs to the owner of the copy-written material, be it corporate or personal. I am a designer. Are you trying to say that my freelance designs are owned by corporations?
Before the DMCA, copyright offenses were a civil issue up to a reasonable dollar amount, i.e. no prosecutor would care about a few copied CDs but they might go after a counterfeit manufacturing ring; today you can be jailed for 20 tracks. Reverse engineering was strictly legal in all circumstances; today, foreign nationals who decode eBook formats can be apprehended at our airports on a layover. Used to be content could only be taken down if it was stored on machines that were themselves evidence for a criminal investigation; today it can be taken down with just an email from the right person (no judicial oversight). Perfectly legal material is now routinely pulled from the web just on the say so of a large corporate entity. Established musicians who have copyright to their own songs find songs on their own sites pulled by takedown notices from their label's parent organizations. This is what I mean.
EDIT: Forgot to respond to this:
> As far as the lack of expectation of privacy on the web is a given.
It didn't use to be. The idea of automatically scanning of all emails for interesting stuff was so far beyond what technology could do that Tsutomu Shimomura bragged about his ability to sample just the traffic at one mid-size ISP (Netcom) to find Kevin Mitnick's data, and he needed Netcom's admins to give him permission for it. No one had the CPU power to do it on a large scale, and every network was the jurisdiction of its admins. Today all traffic is routinely monitored and no one is asked for their permission.
In summary, some of the limitations were technical, some were legal, but the general thrust has always been more government power over the data flow and more restrictions on what exactly is 'legal', to the benefit of corporations over regular citizens. Not a knock on Obama, this is fully bipartisan. But 20 years after I got on the Net random strangers I chat with think this unprecedented level of information control is both normal and reasonable.
If you're doing a technology startup especially, a couple of books from the YC guys: Hackers and Painters and Founders At Work.
4 sets of these.... $17.44 with shipping
If it has to be one item, this is $17.40, if you have prime!
Thanks for your insight and wisdom, that is really what makes reddit great and internet forums in general. Someone like me being able to learn and discuss with someone like you. And hopefully the other way too, so that we all are enriched and the community benefits.
Kevin was around back in those years, with his nose to scene, but I wasn't. Do you feel there was anything good that came out of all that sega experimentation, even if it didn't directly benefit sega? Maybe it helped other companies, other tech in the industry, or just certain people who got good ideas or knowledge off of sega's mistakes? Was there anything positive that came of it in anyway?
I used to work at IBM, I was told to read some books, http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Magic-Politics-Personal-Computer/dp/0816013918 , and game over, http://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-Conquered-World-ebook/dp/B0060AY98I/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426550681&sr=1-7&keywords=game+over and many other books, to learn the history of companies from various perspectives, I always like to read and learn more, can reco any books on sega history?
Losing the money badly, do you think if they had say, a 2 billion dollar cushion like Oculus supposedly does today, to just test all kinds of hardwares, softwares, just burn through zuckers money at free abandon kinda, could they have kept squandering it to a point where they began to make money? If so, speculating of course, how much money do you think Sega should have needed back then to turn it around? Do you think that 2 billion oculus has today, can keep them competitive to the likes of steam, msft, apple, google, etc, is 2 billion all that much against such competition? Carmack had strongly suggested he wanted minecraft for oculus, well now MSFT bought that IP, steam has Half Life 3d more than likely, so just from a computer historian point of view, I am interested in learning all this history, even as it is happening, and peoples view points on it.
I never bought any of the systems you mentioned, the dreamcast was the only one that interested me. What do you think sega could have done to not get developers to hate them, and again your speculation is useful, because maybe the ideas you have could be used by people/companies today, to not make those mistakes again. Could sega have been more supportive of developers? I will not name names, but I would like you to know some general stories I am hearing right now, about various solutions of many things. The developers have hardware in their hands, some of these KEY AAA developer types. And they see problems in various softwares, so they want to fix these problems, well one company has closed source the softwares, and wont share the code, so the developers had to go through this one key programmer that is the code master at the company to suggest changes, (lets call him carmack, but that is just a placeholder name, in no way am I saying it is oculus or carmack in this thought experiment) here is the problem though today, this carmack code master decided he wanted to get paid a higher salary for all the slave code work that was being heaped upon him by all these new issues, and he went to his bosses, give me raise! They are saying FU, we can get a billion coders from india and china to replace you for pennies on the dollar!! So what I am hearing is he is getting mad, and he is one of these code masters that believe in job security, so he didn't document code very well, in fact he may have done lots of tricks in his code to even make his job more secure, I understand the code masters reasons for doing things, I understand the companies reasons for doing things (closed source wise), I understand the developers frustrations that they can't make progress because of these things, but the rest of us, the consumers, are all being hurt by this apex of scenarios. What is the solution from the macro scale, to best benefit the most number of people?
As to reputation, I agree it is very important, people want to feel they are being treated somewhat with freedom, respect, dignity, decency, like a human being and a gentleman. They dont like to feel they are being dictated to by a tyrant, controlled, lied to, backstabbed, used, threatened. Kevin has tried to advise time and time again to certain companies NOT to make the mistakes of the past, the mistakes of previous cycles of VR, the mistakes of a Sega, and he sees them being made again, and so few will listen at sage advice like his, and yours, to consider the past, learn from it, or be doomed to fail from repeating it. I have tried my best to impart to many companies, and even certain people in those companies, how IMPORTANT it is to listen at people like you, people like Kevin, for just reputation affects alone, and they seem to not wish to do so.
I have often said, what does it gain a Padawan Palmer to own the whole neuromancer metaverse, if you snowcrash your soul? I guess the big takeaway, if people don't like your reputation, they will just stop working with you, and that could hurt the whole industry, where we could instead have bridges built and cooperation that does well for the whole industry to benefit us all. Thanks for your time, I appreciate it greatly.
The other two answers are excellent. I would recommend that ANYONE interested in questions like this should read Soccernomics.
It answers A LOT of questions like this. Can't recommend it highly enough.
If you do TnM you will never have any leverage in the business. Even if you're a one man show you'll struggle to take a vacation. If you build a large business your revenue will always be trading dollars for hours.
The MSP model, while tougher to get started, will get you much further in the long run. You should try to create 3-6mths of buffer to get started, it won't happen overnight, but don't get discouraged. You can shorten this period if you win a client before leaving your current job.
This doesn't mean you can't build up some TnM clients before you start to sell an MSP offering, just don't get stuck there forever.
I have a blog post about what the "best" MSP pricing model is you can check it out here.
Karl Palachuck has this book that would be helpful. The book has some specifics about what to include and how to price etc.
Tech Tribe would be useful as well. Currently closed, but can register for the waiting list. Tech Tribe is run by Nigel Moore, who you can listen to interviewed here. He also has a book coming out that details the specifics of building a pricing plan.
Here it is. Excellent deal for the content. If you want to "cheap out" you can preview any page in the book and snag the recipes. I do however suggest buying it. Nice coffee table book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1607740559/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1382240061&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70
http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software/dp/1400082471
> The self driving car is a creative industry, that depends on creative problem solving within a specific domain.
Not sure your background? But you really do not want to run your software engineering organization like this.
You really want it to be more like a system. You really never want to be dependent on any one person.
You want to put together the processes such that you are not dependent on any single person. There is an awesome book on this.
Well there is a series but if into software engineering I would first read the Phoenix Project and then read the Google SRE book.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078Y98RG8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Or read the first one then Phoenix project and then the Google SRE book. They all go together. The first one is called the Goal. That is how I did it. It will change your way of looking at things.
Waymo is applying what R&D done at Google brain and with DeepMind.
Google is where the AI breakthroughs come from and then applied by Waymo. So where AlphaGo and AlphaStar and GANS and capsule networks and word2vec and TF and a zillion other things.
Google shares this research at NerulIPS. As you can see they lead in papers accepted. This is a year old as we do not have the new numbers yet. But as you can see Google is way out in front.
Google's AI Research Dominance Shown via NIPS Papers -
https://medium.com/machine-learning-in-practice/nips-accepted-papers-stats-26f124843aa0
But ZERO from Waymo. As it should be. Waymo is applying the R&D done.
BTW, this is the old and disgraceful name. It has been changed because of leadership from Nvidia and Google. It is now NeurlIPS.
> It doesn't matter that they're furthest ahead at the moment, there is currently no thing under Waymo's roof that is irreplaceable.
It does matter. Because Waymo has to use to get to scale and that is your moat. The self driving aspect will be replicated. You secure your spot by having scale. Scale can't be easily replicated.
It is why I keep harping on the business model of MobilEye is a very weak model. Reason is they are behind the scenes. They do NOT have the customer relationship. It makes it so you can be easily replaced. It gets you weak margins. Low multiples.
Perfect example is MobilEye won Tesla business. Messed up and killed someone. Then was fired and Tesla doing their own. They got nothing out of it. But a blemish on their reputation.
ALL the "breakthroughs" comes from Google including DeepMind. That is how it is supposed to work and is working. Waymo is responsible for applying those "breakthroughs" as you indicated applied science.
But it is done using the model from the Goal, Phoenix Project and applied with the principles from the Google SRE book or some other DevOps book.
Google has done this for a long time better than anyone else. They literally have written the book. It is how they have been able to achieve not a single quarterly decline since day 1 and through the greatest recession in my life time. They are now growing at 20%+ for the last 10 quarters without any end in site and a big part is using these principles.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267606/quarterly-revenue-of-google/
How everyone today runs their clouds was invented by Google and shared through papers. It was done by creating a new approach. It is why when you wake up in the morning and type Google it always works. If it did not you would think something huge must have happened in the world. That there is much bigger issues than Google not working.
That would never work if Google was dependent on a person. Let me know if this helped. I hope you consider reading the books. Or listen to the books.
You make valid points too. Everyone has red lines they refuse to cross. For some it is the environment, others health, and others their hearts.
For those who make the moral argument, it is hard to stay logical and be free of emotions. It's almost a religious argument at that point.
The book "Eating Animals" is a good read and it tries to take a balanced view of the issue. The author used 2 independent fact checkers to make sure he keeps truthful. It also contains chapters from people who work in the industry on their viewpoint.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002SSBD6W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
For me, the biggest new idea in the book was that small farms are being put out of business by large corporate farms. It's similar to how Walmart has taken over small businesses in many towns.
It's a hard problem to fix. Just like the environment, people don't take it seriously until it personally impacts them. A 99c cheeseburger sounds great, but the true cost has been externalized to the environment and the community.
I appreciated hearing your thoughts! Good chat!
I recommend this book if anyone is interested in how he was caught. It's not the best literature, but it's totally readable.
I'm currently reading through a book called Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the US, Japan, Australia, Turkey-and Even Iraq-Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport and while I'm not yet halfway through reading it, its brought up some interesting statistics and theories that I didn't know before. Good points regarding sales of players, the most overpriced and underpriced positions, nations to buy from, etc. Its a really good Moneyball style book that I'd love to hear someone else's opinion of who has made it through all of it.
Don’t take my word for it:
Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692210539/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_zk.7Ab6XXDYSB