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This is self evident.

Secondly nobody can argue that there are less things in the world that we want to do than there were 100 years ago. They are not the same jobs but can anyone really argue that nope, there is nothing left to do. Of course not, that's absurd. Technology has simply changed and expanded the areas to work in.
This might be freaking awesome, but I just don't quite understand what it does, even after installing.

I guess it creates web content (ie. a web page), judging from its name (and coming from Mozilla). But how can I find these web pages? What's the URL?
Exercising in London pollution is probably a bad idea.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33536989

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32233922
Actually there are a few videos. :)

But I guess all fail short how they really were.

http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=10

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=932

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
I'm curious if in the 21st century those jobs are created in the same country they are servicing.

Because India (customer service centers) and China (apple product assembly) would say otherwise.

Technology has simply allowed easier outsourcing while funneling the profits to fewer and fewer people.
Why are you telling me how to do my job?

OSX is a fantastic development machine. Most developers use it. It completely fits all my needs and is provided for me by employer so that I can be happy and productive and effective. Which, as you remember, was the original criticism. That Amazon DOESN'T do that.
Pointless article.

We know this, I don't think anyone has ever said otherwise. We also have had positive growth and increased consumption over this time as well.

When it will stop is the only interesting point now since there seems to be many indicators we are hitting limits.
I guess just putting files into dropbox is still easier for some people than messing with servers and hosts.
Do you really think that all or most people will share the same attitude towards life sans work as yours and won't fall into depression or trivial, aimless, meaningless or destructive activities?
Man, how I wish Kala and Dcron would just work together.

https://github.com/ajvb/kala

https://github.com/victorcoder/dcron

Fusing both would be AWESOME (I'd even like to help).

What Dcron gets right:

- Distributed by design

- Raft for the reliable parts, gossip for lightweight sync, a match made in heaven

- Linux mentality

- Dashboard included

- Good docs, nice website, looks serious

What Kala gets right:

- Built much more directly after Chronos, which has an amazing and battle tested API

- Using ISO durations instead of NIHing their own format

- Dependent jobs
Frustrating. I didn't even find a way to enter "1 pizza" (or "1 whole pizza" or "1 entire pizza" or "1 pizza pie", it keeps coming up with "1 serving of pizza" or "1 slice of pizza" - either of which are completely fluffy measurements that could mean anything from 1/12 to a whole pizza.
[Here is the link](http://readthedocs.org/projects/intermediatepythongithubio/d...). :) Cheers!
Then again, no-one ever said that you could learn a trade at 20, and that trade would still be relevant when you're 40. If capitalism is something you agree with, then you must also accept the transitory nature of your work. Although personally I do agree we should try to make it easier for people in that position.
Further, it takes a doubling in capacity/current to be worth commercializing. Nobody wants to re-tool for 20%.
"Manager approval" is no big deal. It's a rubber stamp. It's not like you have to write a report justifying why you need it. A good SDM should rubber stamp it, at which point everything is clear.

My first director at AMZN explained this to me early. Don't ask if you can have something. Establish that you need it, confirm with your manager that you need it, then go to people and say "I need this. I have manager approval." Don't ask, tell.
> What would be the inconvenients of banning car circulation inside cities?

Depends how the city is setup. Most major metropolis and almost all US ones are designed mostly if not solely for cars, banning cars requires significant improvements to the transportation infrastructure in general, both adding public transport and making existing ways more walkable and cyclable. Even in non-US cities the transition tends to be rocky (e.g. I believe Paris is progressively making the inner city less drivable and further improving public transport, the transition phase is no fun as driving becomes very tough but not-driving is not a great option).

You also have to figure out stuff like deliveries and garbage collection, which generally require trucks going through.

But some cities are planning it, Hamburg is trying to become car-free within 20 years for instance. Freiburg also has the "pilot" district of Vauban which was laid out with peripheral car parks (owners must buy a parking spot or sign a declaration of no car ownership) and following filtered permeability (the further in you go the less convenient cars become, and the more convenient walking or cycling). There are also no parking spot inside the neighbourhood. Cars are not outright forbidden (they're allowed "at walking pace" for pickup or delivery) their absence is mostly a consequence of social consensus.
I think it's a good idea not to be too Western. Median living standards in the West have improved a lot over the last century, especially since WWII.

But a lot of that improvement has been off the back of Rest of World, where slave-like conditions still endure. It's fine to have hairdressers here, but it's useful to remember that hairdressing is only possible because there are textile makers, miners, and farmers working in extremely harsh conditions elsewhere in the world.

And there's also been incredible damage to the planetary carrying capacity, with effects that will become more and more obvious as the century progresses.

So it's just as possible to argue that technology is more like a drug that works on generational time scales: you get a hit, you feel awesome for a while, then you fall apart.
Yeah, I'm dubious.

Edit: https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/issues/255
> Right now, you carry a computer with you in your pocket. Tomorrow you will have it in your head. And it will aid your thinking without you having to type stuff into a keyboard and looking at a screen.

You're assuming people will want it in their heads. I'd rather be naked and without tools, than become part of The Borg. YMMV though.
My girlfriend lives in Singapore and travels exclusively by public transport. She recently moved across the city and how she did this was by incrementally moving things. Moreover, when I visited her, I noticed she was good at being light, only packing the essentials when she goes out, which is something I try to do too, since I bike exclusively.

Essentially, it comes down to changes of habit. You learn to cope with not having a huge cart to carry things around with. With the loss of convenience you get better health, less traffic, less noise pollution, etc.
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Absolutely, you said it much better than I.
You are one of the brave few and I salute you! When flash fell out of favor I joined all the other devs who jumped ship. I really enjoyed application development with Flex/actionscript. It was a much saner ecosystem than client side javascript IMO.

I think it's a pity Adobe hasn't open sourced flash, I'm sure there are some rockstar developers out there who could help fix the bugs and boost the performance/efficiency of the runtime.
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Electronic voting machine implementation, testing and deployment also takes a significant time and effort. Tamper-proofness obviously has a original and natural physical implmentations that do not require first chosing two large prime numbers: tape and sign the damn box! Though you didn't raise the point, some argue that the time it takes to manually count is a problem, as if people seriously can't wait an extra half-day. Just WAIT. It's important.

The clear advantage of paper voting is everyone--the entire electorate-- can see and understand the process. The legitimacy of the outcome depends on this understanding and trust.
I don't hate cars. I have on myself and it is simply a major and wonderful invention. That being said, I vastly prefer the bike for commuting and the way cars are used in certain areas/countries is just infuriating to me - after all cars are very bad for the environment, using them to drive to a highway just to go stand in line there is silly and governments actually subsidizing (by making it interesting for companies to lease cars for their employees, as is the cae in e.g. Belgium) this whole principle is just insane.

Compare a country to a company. Suppose part of the company's production process is getting stuff from A to B. I doubt an engineer would stand up and figure out the best way to do this is put money into a transportation process which makes a super inefficient use of space, where the transport mechanism is seriously overrated for the weight it actually has to transport and where the mechanism pollutes the environment.
Back when I was carrying my Nexus S around, I would have happily paid $50 more for a model designed to contain a double-sized battery. [0] My hands tell me that the battery is quite a bit less than 25% of the total weight of the device, so the weight cost would also be quite small; no more than ~1.5 additional ounces.

It's not a rule that one has to choose between a relatively small phone with shitty battery life and a phablet with somewhat less shitty battery life. One could have double or triple-sized batteries in the smaller phones!

[0] The problem with all of the aftermarket batteries that I saw was that they required a new back cover that contained no NFC antenna.
This was interesting read, thanks!
I think this article completely misses the point. The technological revolution happening right now is unlike any other in history, and is escalating faster than anyone realizes. We are really just entering the ascent of the S-curve, and things are already starting to advance dramatically on a yearly basis. Comparing the effects of technology between today and even 40 years ago (much less a century ago) is the epitome of apples-to-oranges. It is a meaningless comparison for all sorts of reasons.

We're in a new and exponentially developing Renaissance, the likes of which we have no historical analogy for (not even the actual Renaissance or Industrial Revolution). It's incredibly exciting, but we're in for quite a ride over the next few decades, and our sociopolitical foundations are not prepared for it in the slightest. I think encouraging further procrastination of preparedness does a disservice to us all.
Not quite sure the article is making any point about technology that was not widely accepted before. Industrialization with its the social progresses, and the golden age post-WW2 are always taken as counterpoint in any discussion about impact of technology today, as is the article conclusion "where one avenue closes in the jobs market, others open.".

The actual problem that worries people nowadays is if there is a limit to the number of avenues and if we are close to hitting it ? And even if new avenues open, how easy it is to switch to them physically ( they open in another country ) or practically ( they require high qualification level ) The article does not make a case for that at all. Increase in caring professions, for example, is government policy driven. Is the article claiming that technology what the key factor that drove those policies and that further automation will drive the state to push for even more caring professionals ?

Anyway, I guess the only goal of the article is to give hope to Joe Reader. That is not a bad thing, after all, at the very worst, we are still only at the peak of employment and wealth and (without the singularity) the world will not brutally crash, it will slowly degrade leaving plenty of opportunities for everyone to get a clue. For others though, they would have guessed that with a population doubling during the same period and low current unemployment rate, it is obvious that some jobs must have been created somewhere.
In many parts of the US the average joe has to have a car to do anything. There is no safe passage to anywhere without getting in a car. Pedestrian and Bikes are discouraged, and there is no practical public transportation.
This is unbelievable. How did they even get certified in the first place? What standards are there for voting machines in the US?

A couple of years ago, a Dutch group of hackers (led by Rop Gongrijp) argued very strongly against the use of any kind of voting machine. Not because they're so easily hacked (I assume the Dutch voting machines were fairly secure), but simply because they're a black box and you simply have to trust that whatever comes out is correct, and there's no paper trail you can verify to check whether it actually is correct. If they've been tampered with, you most likely don't know, and even if you do know, there's no way to correct it.

Netherland has very specific voting laws to ensure that elections are reliable and verifiable, and when voting computers were introduced, an exemption was added to the law because voting computers couldn't possibly meet those rules.

The hackers successfully argued their case, so we're back to voting with pencils again. Cumbersome, but we know (and can verify) that it works.
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I remember arguing in the Magic Usenet group as to whether such a thing was even possible. I was on the "Yes" side, touting the virtues of object-oriented programming.
Why is there no related work section in this paper? I'm not sure simply calling it 'The' dataflow model is very friendly either to all the other previous dataflow models for parallelism that have been developed over the last four decades or so. Why can this implementation be the definitive one so much that it doesn't even need a qualified name and why aren't any of the others even worth a mention?
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I've used both. Localtunnel always seemed janky to me with occasional crashes or just not working for seemingly no reason. Ngrok simply works, and works well. It's also got a few nice features like being able to inspect requests in the browser. Was an absolute life saver when working with webhooks.
We use this here in Australia and I think it's worth the $197m[0] each Federal election costs. In some State elections, the upper house ballot paper is 100cm metre wide,[1] and if someone numbers all the boxes, their preferential vote has to be tallied manually.

[0]http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/australian_electoral_history...
[1]http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/2970592/upper-ho...
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Hardly. Average speed for the Paris marathon is about 6mins/km or 10kph. And that's people fit enough to be able to actually run a marathon, most of whom have substantially trained for the event, so not the average joker off the street that prepped for "a couple of months".

The fastest female runners are running at 18kph. That's Olympic standard. The average female marathon runner runs at about 9.3kph.

Only competitive male runners would be capable of beating that pace.

Edit: Disclosure - female, and I run a half marathon in two hours That's 10 minutes faster than the average woman and around about average for the entire field. To achieve that time I play an active sport, and train for longer running events (I'm the fastest long distance runner in my sports club). In kph I manage a bit less than 11, which is a long way off 14kph.
Would this be a fat tailed process though? In which case 140 years of data would not be enough to draw conclusions from the change in mean, in terms of a long term trend.
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LRU = Least recently used.
One of the first computer programs I ever wrote just put random dots on a screen and I remember looking at how 'lumpy' the results were. Intuitively most people assume that random distributions will be even distributions, but in fact they are usually full of clusters. Some mathematicians can reliably distinguish 'random' sequences created by people from truly random ones because people produce distributions that are too smoothed out. 'I won't put a dot here because it's too close to that other dot', but a truly random distribution doesn't care where previous dots were and won't avoid the conjunction.
In european center cities, car mean speeds are usually <= 12mph (<20 km/h). You can get faster on a bike if you are made confortable enough to do this (it boils down to bike infrastructure).
There's a very popular youtube video that argues this point and people often cite it.

The problem with this line of thinking is that you assume there are some new job types that come into play and they replace old ones. While it is true that we have some entirely new job types (i.e. programmer) majority of the shift is to jobs which were already defined.

Did we have architects and physicians before the industrialization? Of course we did. We just have more of them now, because we don't need so many people to harvest crops.

Do we have kindergarten teachers, ecologists, social scientists now? Of course we do. We will just have more of them after the digitalization, because we won't need so many people to take your money at Wallmart or drive trucks or do legal discovery.
I'm not sure if they've been ruled constitutional in Netherland, but in 2009 the government decided not to use them anymore after pressure from an organization called "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ("We don't trust voting computers"), lead by hacker and pioneering ISP founder Rop Gonggrijp.

I'm actually still kind of impressed that a protest from the hacker community was so successful in convincing the government.
which is secure?
>the world will not brutally crash, it will slowly degrade

I think if you look at the stats it's been slowly upgrading rather than visa versa. I don't see much sign of the trend reversing globally. Pessimists tend to look at worker living standards in the US where they have been kind of static, ignoring the poorest 80% of the planet where they have been shooting up. China for example has been transformed over the last 30 years.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Displayport 1.2 can only provide 4K@60Hz via MST, which is something like simulating two vertical displays as one? I've heard this approach causes problems with some apps/OSes. Why can't they just start making displays and graphic cards with Displayport 1.3?
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Which is part of the problem.
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No. It is not used widely. AFAIK.
> there have been studies that have linked earlier retirement to a reduced life expectancy

If you count retirement as sitting around doing nothing then I agree. But retirement shouldnt mean retirement from doing things - just retirement from working for someone else to be able to support yourself.

When I 'retire' I'll get much more personally meaningful things done, which otherwise would not earn me enough money to support a family.
It was posted today, but written last month. It will be presented at the Future of Programming Workshop at strange loop next month.
What nonsense. You expect all the health improvements of exercise to be negated by poor air quality? It should be noted that both of your links were not average days. There's a reason that made the news.
The land use favors the long trip. It's not just about cheap land. You have to pay for more infrastructure per person. More roads, pipes, lines, pumps, delivery miles, per person etc. All subsidised.
E-voting, at least to me, looks completely idiotic. Why would we trust our most important civic duty, voting, to a collection of hardware that's known to be extremely vulnerable to attacks in every other job we give it?

Having said that, I think you could make it work with a paper audit trail that contained both the current vote tally and the current vote -- and was distributed to the person voting at the time they voted. (Then do random audits) (And of course that information would be obscured in some way, perhaps using encryption)
> 1. Will they grow under new conditions ?

Some conditions don't change. An OAP with limited mobility will always require assistance day-to-day, and it's the sort of thing robots are really bad at. OAPs are also growing in number, as life expectation increases. Another one: you will always need someone to help give birth - in fact, as hospitals are deemed too expensive and scaled back, we will likely need more nurses, since home-births stop them from sharing their time between patients. Again, this will not be touched by automation. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.

>2. How much more can they grow ?

I think that's more a function of our social organisation than technology. The real question is basically "how can we pay these people?" -- morality and common sense tell us that a lot of these activities should not be linked to profit, but that is economically challenging unless we rethink how money is created and distributed.

> We're talking about 40% of jobs at risk due to automation in 20 years.

I find that number too high to be true. 10 or 20%, maybe; 40%, it's really hard to believe - that's 15 million people in the UK without a job, where currently we have 2.3million unemployed. It would mean basically 1 million newly unemployed people each year; I would argue society would not survive 5 years in such conditions, let alone 20.

In any case, I have no doubt we can create more office-based bullshit roles to offset the bulk of those losses (dedicated entertainment people in every office; corporate psychologists; continuous-change oversight; dedicated corporate tailors; and so on and so forth...).
Can they really be tamper proof? How do you know they're tamper proof? The only way to really be sure is if anyone can check the correct functioning of the machine. If it's only in the hands of a company and a few officials, there's no way for us to check. There has to be a verifiable paper trail that can be checked to verify everything happened correctly.

As convenient as it might be, I fear electronic voting will always remain vulnerable.
Oh no, the singularity is coming!
And there are differences in acceptable grammar/ writing styles in all of the English speaking country's

The USA is more permissive of double negatives for example.

And this ignores the fact that some candidates will have dyslexia.
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We've already tried various solutions to this problem and the one that seems to work best is to gradually degrade the road experience for motorists as demands on the space go up. First we take away street parking and left turns. Then we take away stopping / idling. Then we make carpool / high occupancy vehicle lanes and bike lanes. Then we convert lanes into transit lanes only. Then we completely prohibit cars / motored deliveries during rush hour. The last one is usually the hardest politically to get through because it is a major disruption to many businesses, but it is quite effective and usually leads to a great number of people switching to mass transit and bike lanes.