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I'd like to strike at the core of this ...

Why is that every such time a system is extorted/exploited to the point of disaster, the same individuals who pushed it to that point then want to say 'We need to deal with the problem'.. The problem they very well and knowingly created.. And they never speak up before this point.. It's only after they've sucked every last drop out of the system.. And Oh' b.t.w:

> lets not solve it by fixing the exploits that created the problem in the first place

> lets not go after the individuals who exploited it the most and their gains

Lets solve it by :

> extorting/exploiting the income of everybody

> Putting a band-aid on the problem

> And Oh', btw, lets put the people who created the disaster in charge of administering the program

Is this supposed to be a joke? And why does society fall for it every-time?

And I like how socialism is being promoted as a solution while the very same jokers who decimated American culture/free market capitalism are pumping in illegals by the boatloads. It's as if they're already prepping to tank/exploit the next system that gets paraded as a solution. Yeah, so there's not enough jobs and the jobs there are don't pay enough because we allow corporations and individuals to extort the crap out of everything a person needs. So, lets ignore all of that and have :

> Guaranteed income

> Free healthcare

And since there isn't enough to go around in way of jobs, lets have :

> Open borders so people can overload the system

> Tons more legal immigrants

> Tons more illegal immigrants

And lets not focus at all on education so people can actually be productive... In fact, lets make it harder for the educated individuals by importing tons of competition from outside the country...Yeah, that'll work out great

Who pays for all of this? Certainly not those who create/created this disaster. But yeah, socialism will fix things. After-all, it works in Europe where they have all of the things we don't have :

> Far more strict immigration

> Far more Homogeneous culture and population

> Far less exploitative economic system

> Far more educated and involved populous

> Far less corrupt government

*Facepalm .. Here we go again .. For anyone who doesn't see that this country is in sharp decline, I wonder.

Every time, America puts the foxes in charge of the hen house and then people wonder why it ends in disaster...

When you fix a bug, do you target the root or do you try to find the most inefficient and indirect way of fixing the code issue? If you have an unreliable code base (economic equality), do you initiate an unbridled code blitz among your worst software engineers (Unbounded illegal immigration)?

I feel like I'm in the twilight zone sometimes in this country... But then, I stop and look around and I decide to see it for what it is and then things don't see that strange after-all.
I'm with this guy, it alternate-routed me around traffic in Seattle a few weeks ago. Without a question saved me lots of time, and I wasn't the only one snaking down that same exact route.

(There was an accident on interstate 5 south, the backup was obviously affecting traffic on the highway but also the surface streets leading up to the onramp. GMaps had the most direct route, of following the traffic to the nearest ramp as the alternate route, with the default route being a snaking journey down some streets to the next ramp that was beyond the traffic.)
Fr the record, $55,180 in 1945 is the equivalent of $727,917.20 now.
I don't want to endorse your position as a monopoly owner of both air and water, and yet I want to reward you for boldness. There isn't a button for that.
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I hated this quiz, since it is propaganda to social science, which doesn't deserve to use the word science.
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Most of the problems involving people are hard to solve. The human brain isn't always logical and can become emotional and irrational in some situations.

I live in Ferguson Missouri, we have riots and looting here. It is much more than the death of Mike Brown, it is government corruption, it is decades old racism, it is racial profiling by the police, it is politicians cutting the budget of education and the police to pay themselves more money, it is police officers using deadly force when if they had a taser it would have been different, it is lack of good paying jobs, it is a ruin down houses and condos and apartments, you got non-violent protesters and then you got some violent ones with them that throw rocks and bottles at police officers and even some shooting guns. I can't think of a solution to all of that. But it is a bigger problem than workplace shooters.

In my case the society is sick, and it is only sick because of injustices and perceived wrongdoing by the police. You hear protesters saying they want to kill the police officers, because they have killed innocent black lives.

Again I don't know of a solution to that, I'm trained to solve problems involving computers, math, science, and using logic and reason.

Racism does not pass intelligence tests, it is not logical or rational. It is based on hate, much the same as workplace shooters are based on hate and don't follow logic and reason.

When a human being isn't being logical or rational and goes with emotions like hate and fear, you'd almost have to get into abnormal psychology to find a solution.

Yes there might exist better answers.

As a mentally ill person, society generally looks down on me and does not support me anyway. They see my mental illness as a weakness and either want me gone from the workplace or in a mental hospital, nursing home, or dead.
And by that logic we should be giving WalMart and McDonalds tax breaks for their recent wage increases. The rich don't need more money. They need to be stopped from destroying our society.
We shouldn't experiment with sick people, at least with their informed and voluntary consent.
We've made resistant starch a big art of what we optimize for in MealSquares because there are 30 years of studies showing health benefits and the mainstream just never seems to have gotten the memo. Resistant starch is starch you can't digest but your gut bacteria can. When RS2 is heated and then cooled it forms into RS3, which seems to be the most beneficial version. Mostly from oats, though we have experimented with cassava (the starchy root used to make tapioca).
I spent time in Nairobi and Cape Town and Apple Maps was equally good (each were better in some areas).

I thought it was quite interesting how quickly Apple has come up to speed. Or maybe how slowly Google has been once they started to dominate.
Is there any evidence that can distinguish the effects of a state-induced monetary glut from the effects of an inequality-induced capital glut?
> There are a ton of deductions available to reduce taxable income.

FTFY. They wouldn't today, either.
Do you think they have a special deal w/ Amazon? Otherwise I imagine that's a really expensive bill.

Do you think they're doing it because its cheaper when you account for things at a larger scale? Like, reduced liabilities, payrolls, CapEx, whatever? Or is it more expensive but still "easier" and they go with it?

I really REALLY would like to hear everything from everyone about this, because right now I'm facing that decision for my company. I'm not as big as Netflix obv, but it is a big deal for me. It is really attractive to have all the scale you need at will and forget about maintenance at all; even if it is more expensive I would gladly pay as much as double my operating costs if I can rest easily at night. I would even eat as much as 10%-20% of my profits if I don't have to deal with that.

But the devil is in the details, I think is relatively easier to go full-cloud than to later find out it was a mistake and try to migrate back to your private premises. So, what could be the downsides of going full-cloud just as Netflix did? Also, taking into account that I'm not a personal friend of Bezos neither another Netflix, I would be just another smallish guy and I'm pretty sure that won't get me all the perks that come with the former.
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Thanks! Added another table with modern day $$$. Big numbers!
This article is incoherent. Title discusses income inequality, then 13 paragraphs discussing issues which are completely orthogonal to inequality (mobility, "poverty" and overconsumption). The article never actually addresses inequality at all.

Then it starts comparing unrelated statistics (productivity and wages) and cribbing about how they diverge, and ignoring the real cause (the rise of non-wage benefits) for the divergence.

Finally, it devolves into random peripheral solutions like reducing share buybacks. Because somehow it'll be good for America if Qualcomm can't return money to shareholders to invest in Tesla? I guess it's better for CEO's to spend profits on empire building than for investors to seek returns?

Why is this nonsense here?
How does your anti-regulation theory explain that until the 70s wages and productive increased together, afterwards wages have stayed flat with all gains going to shareholders. Is the idea that after the Reagan revolution regulation has increased significantly?
Some of the wealthiest people in the US were born just a few decades ago. Not all US billionaires are not crotchety 80-year-olds.
That's misleading. Marginal tax rates on the highest tax brackets were nominally high, BUT there were way more deductions and loopholes. There was no Alternative Minimum Tax like there is today. A big part of Reagan's tax reforms was eliminating these deductions while bringing the rates down.

Also, America was the only game in town during those years. All of the competition was still recovering from WW2 and/or being suffocated by communist rule. And it was a single market the size of the rest of the Western world combined. If you had money, America was the place to invest it. Major technological breakthroughs, even when originating overseas, generally took off in the US.

On a moral note, I think that an 80% tax rate is oppressive. That money would otherwise be flowing into business investments & consumption, charity, and civil society, the natural institutions of free people.
For better or worse, "public cloud, in which users share the resources of a service provider" is now an accepted term of art in the industry. It doesn't really matter whether it agrees with people's commonsense understanding of the word "public".
> I'm looking up the paper itself, because it occurs to me that a mainstream news outlet is pretty likely to misreport the study's design, results, discussion, etc... and it'd be unfair not to assume that the article writer (or I the reader) misunderstood something.

I really wish we could convince science journalists that giving a proper citation of any new study they cite is an absolute requirement for meaningful coverage. And for web journalists, there should absolutely always be a link to it if it is in any way available online, no excuses permitted.
Thanks Dang. I generally agree with the guidelines, but in this particular case, I don't think joshuapants should be required to give a full refutation of Ayurveda in order to state his opposition to taking health advice from such a practitioner.

I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but the term "woo" is a pretty widely used term in certain circles to describe fields and ideas that, shall we say, may not be self-critical and self-questioning enough in the ways you need to be in order to get to the truth. (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo)

Thus, I'm not sure if I would even classify it as "calling names". Ayurvedic practitioners might find it derogatory; I'm not sure. But it's a clear communication to a certain population of the what category joshuapants believes Ayurveda belongs to, and also a hint of what qualities of these peoples' thought processes might make joshuapants nervous when it's applied to other areas.
Yeah but with drives and machines so cheap, most users can keep all their data live, on active drives. Actually on 3 or more drives geographically dispersed.
Your use of "screen" seems to suggest that you group e-ink displays and lcd displays together. Do you really see no practical difference between the two in reading experience?

A sincere question because I don't enjoy reading on a tablet but a kindle to me in terms of eye strain is identical if not better than a book.
More kids than ever before can afford to go to college.

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If you watch any of Cockcroft's presentations you can see that there's nothing easy about it. They developed a significant amount of tooling just to work around quirks in EC2, but apparently the elasticity is worth it.
They likely get a good deal, but either way their content licensing costs are huge in comparison and make their Amazon bill a drop in the ocean.
This all just beats around the bush. What's killing incomes for some and raising others is automation. One day soon, the only asset people are born with (minds and bodies) will be essentially zero value. Until now, everyone has at least that asset and now they won't.

That might imply we need guaranteed income. And maybe we do. But if that's coming from the government, remember who we're talking about; they lie to start wars, they're replete with corruption. If we ask the government to redistribute out wealthy, they'll redistribute it to their friends. The power to take everyone's money is too tempting for anyone to have.
Congratulations and good luck on a new stage of Octopart!

I met one of the Octopart guys at a YC at NYC event one time and we briefly chatted about Griffiths' QM book, what customized site would be like in the future, and other random things. Brief conversation, but walked away thinking they were nice people working on a cool idea. very cool to see this.
I think you'll find few who disagree that there's income inequality (it will always exist, however, it's at extreme and unsustainable levels currently). However, hiking up taxation to extraordinary levels is absurd.

It's a trend to try and take from the rich and give to the poor. If you truly want more distributed income across the people (I wouldn't call it income equality because that's impossible.) then you'll find instituting more taxation does little to fix that. Most of the 1%'s wealth doesn't come from their income. There's a reason many CEOs take $1/year as salary.

The entitlement system is absolutely broken. I'm all for a smaller government, but if we could replace the broken system with some sort of basic income (and that idea seems quite contrary with my political beliefs), I doubt it'd cost more than what's currently being paid out -- and it might actually be better.
Netflix is still running its own CDNs / using CDNs outside of Amazon.

"The company, which competes with Amazon in the video-streaming business, elected to keep control of its own content delivery network."

So Netflix is still probably doing the bulk of their traffic themselves. Application servers with AWS is probably not a huge bill versus massive video traffic.
One of the things he suggests --raising minimum wages and medium wages as well, I think would go a great way to curb the disparity... (the extreme example is the Seattle company having a $70k/yr minimum salary... but I'm also afraid this would make quite a few low-skilled people permanently unemployable as it becomes cheaper to invest in automation.

Young adults can be retrained, but there are lots of people in their 30s 40s etc. who don't have a secondary education some of which never finished elementary school in their native languages (thus illiterate). What happens to them? Do we let them find themselves back as they can't find a job and contribute to a high-skills economy?
The ignorance of economic systems here on HN is just unbelievable. Scandinavian countries are very pro free trade and capitalist. They have that alongside a relatively large welfare system. That is not socialism. They are capitalist with few regulations and few state owned enterprises. It's shocking how the myth continues to persist among the economically uninformed.
I'm not sure exactly what you think will happen if the tax rate is 50-60%. My tax rate in California is already over 50%, and I just see my dollars funding the murder of lots of brown people.
No we don't. Socialism failed for a reason instead we should encourage people to be less jealous.
You could for example hook up the radio to a CANbus that has a minifirewall/proxy in it, allowing only read from the radio and write/read to the radio.
I've always heard about things like "entitlements cliff", but what specific things work like that? Most things I've seen work on a sliding scale.
The basic idea is that this wouldn't have happened in the first place if it required physical access.
I do not think basic income is a solution.

I know programmers are thrilled at the magic of modern AI but its very simple to tip it over even theoretically.

Self Driving cars are not even that good, they are better than the average and that is an immense amount of creative labour destruction. But if you look back at history there has been a greater amount of labour destruction both physical and mental.

Coming back to basic income.

Do you think the way we use resources in the modern world is anyway efficient ? Speaking from Physics we are still way off from having solved major problems in society.

Right now 1/2 of adults in the UK are on entitlement which puts immense debt burden on the other half.

Both US and Europe are heading in that direction.

Both US and Europe need a massive restructuring of their infrastructure if climate change is to be dealt with.

Not to mention helping african countries get on their feet.

Right now that burden is shared mostly be china who are helping build roads and other developed nations within africa like nigeria.

The faster we can get contraceptives to africa we can stop the problem of the african baby boom due to industrialization right at its toes. We know from data that the country of Nigeria alone will have 750 Million people by 2100.

These are real problems facing the globalized economy.

There also the problem of deflation.

Economically once the poor global south industrialize there will be immense downward pressure of wages for all forms of jobs.

We know what happened when 700 million chinese joined the global economy. What happens when the rest of the 3 billion join ? Most of them of younger age and would constitute higher labour productivity.

China as a country is already much more efficient - they have high speed rail links connecting their entire nation. No need to buy fossil fuels when all their transportation is powered via electric. which is generated by solar panels in the gobi desert.

They have one of the most sophisticated supply chain producing all our iphones and computers.

Now they are interested in doing the same in central asia which geographically is the most mineral rich regions on earth.

Yes all of this doesn't matter if you are in Europe where the population is low enough and the resources is high. But the cost of production will get lower and labour gets cheaper along with resources. We will end up with a situation where something in Europe costs significantly higher than produced in africa.
No, Dalvik is not a fork of OpenJDK, but a clean room implementation. If it would have been a fork, then Google would be protected by the GPL license.
In the UK some stuff happens, but the violence of American police is completely shocking.
Assuming Amazon can do it slightly cheaper than Netflix could (i.e. Netflix doesn't have to duplicate Amazon's fixed costs, such as engineering), and that Netflix has enough bargaining power to pay Amazon very little over what it costs them to provide it....seems like an economic decision to me.
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Having little choice but to sign yourself up for a mortgage-sized debt that can't be discharged isn't the most obvious definition of "affordable" I've ever encountered.
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In a lot of cars, this break-the-glass is still your ignition/car key. Big problems start when you have a "break-by-wire" model.
>can you expand upon this..

It is more of a matter of breaking a general principle, which is don't mix executable stuff (expressions) with non-executable stuff (strings) implicitly. This has been a frequent cause of various security issues in the past eg: Sql injection, xss, various remote code execution vulnerabilities.

Strings should be dumb and without any ambiguity. On top of breaking this general principle of not mixing data and code, this pep also want to introduce numerous rules regarding various edge cases, which further makes it harder to reason about it, which increases the chances of slipping a vulnerability. For example, right now, you see a long string, you only need to look at the argument list to see what possible things it can do. Because the string itself is dumb, it cannot lie, and whatever execution that is required to produce that string, happens in the context of code itself. With this pep, this changes. Now a string is not dumb. It is smart. It can do 'stuff' on its own. It can 'hide' things, it can lie and masquerade as something innocent. I think this is bad.

Take an example of PHP. You can embedd php code in what ever content. In fact you can embedd php code in a valid image file in the metadata fields, and pass it as an Image. if you can call the image file as a script, then the embedded php code will execute to do your bidding. This has to be one of the most commonly used technique to hack sites running php. Here is one from last day [1].

Those are some of my reasons for the concerns..I know I am not still giving anything specific. But if we could easily think specific cases about how something could be exploited, we wouldn't be implementing that in the first place. So sometimes we must rely on general principles learned from the past while assessing the issues associated with something. Hence my concerns.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/3gq3mh/my_site_was_hac...
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But there is quite a difference between the 635 and the 640: non-HD vs. HD, possibly 512 MB RAM (depending on the version) vs. 1 GB RAM, 5MP vs. 8MP camera.

I agree that new flagships would be nice though. Especially with Continuum.
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Productivity and wages are most definitely related. Increased productivity is surplus value created per worker. In a strong labor market workers are able to demand some of the generated productivity surplus as wages. When workers have no power all the gains go to the owners which is what causes inequality to rise.
My first thought was perhaps Amazon also got to pick up some of Netflix's employees in a deal but that seems like it would be difficult to enforce.
I found waze pretty bad at directing you to your target and pretty amazing at locating jams. I stopped using it for directions when I visit Israel although many people there use it religiously. Google maps on the other hand was great at taking me there, but less so knowing about the road conditions. After the buyout I noticed Google maps gets a lot better at knowing if the road is blocked by traffic and how long a stretch of jammed Road takes to clear. I think that marriage worked well, at least for my driving experience.
I'm a bit mystified.

The link goes to an empty article but if you google the exact title, you will be taken to the full article which... has the exact same URL.

I don't know what kind of wizardry this is.
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