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Total click-bait headline from the Washington Post? Wow.

It absolutely makes no difference what race the poor people are.
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I think the 650,000+ number is misleading. Do they rally have 650,000+ subscribed business or that is just the total number of small business in USA?
Firstly, minarchist-Libertarianism doesn't preclude legislation.

We only support legislation that is rights-respecting (e.g. no forcing people to do business with customers they don't want), reality-based (e.g. no environmental legislation without provable harm), and consistently administered (e.g. no free passes for particularly rich criminals).

Secondly, even in an hypothetical absence of regulation, mediation would be preferable to court action in a lot of cases. That's true even now; private mediation is frequently used to resolve disputes before they ever see a courtroom.

Edited to add: Also, in a rights-respecting State, the list of criminal acts would be a lot, lot smaller than it is now. No censorship (obscenity, blasphemy, etc.), no war on drugs, etc. etc. It's likely that justice system workloads would drop significantly.
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Yeah, I decided to work my way through Practical Common Lisp. I haven't gotten very far yet, but I'm dividing my attention between that and a number of other things that I've been putting off for way too long. Like, as I sit here in front of the computer tonight before going to bed, I'm working through some of Learning R.
You seem to think there is some sort of schism in physics, with one side on GR insisting it is "correct" and one side on QM insisting their model is what the universe "really is". That's not the case at all and I'm not sure what's leading you to that conclusion - everyone knows both models are incomplete and it is not at all controversial to say as much.

You're not really kicking a hornet's nest, rather you're just talking nonsense. You're so off base it's impossible for anyone to take you seriously enough to be upset. "You're not even wrong" as the saying goes.
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I think that'd be worse because a goal does create a rallying point, and is also used as a signal for how realistic funding this project is (keeping in mind that people irrationally want to back a sure thing).

Yes, it's a problem, though not like IndieGoGo's flexible funding. But I don't take it in isolation - determined creators can make a lot happen with a little money, I know.

I look more closely at the level of detail of what has been done and what needs to be done, and judge whether I think these people have few enough unknowns to complete it. But that's not a metric that most people are able to judge themselves, which is why it's a problem, and also where the Kickstarter community of other backers should kick in.
"Lots of unnecessary pain" -- such as?
The reference collection of polynomial approximations is: Approximations for digital computers by Cecil Hastings Jr. The method to derive the polynomials is described there as well as coefficients for many common functions. It isn't as complicated as it seems. Intel has probably automated the procedure.
It does. I found a list of factors and posted it as a comment on the blog post:

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2015/08/26/what-does-th...

In the data I posted, which is from /usr/share/pmenergy/default.plist, kgpu_time is 0.0, but in all the other plists it's nonzero.
Most of the senior staff have prior experience building successful enterprise-storage solutions from the ground up. You're trusting your data to some of the best engineers in the industry.

And I have full faith in our sales team to communicate that fact to potential customers ;)
They had logic analyzers in 1984, right? I think that's the general rule the author is trying to stick to.
Relevant to my interests! Here's some stuff I would have enjoyed learning prior to learning it the hard way:

a) Databases. What's the right way to work with them in Golang?

b) Suppose you're building an API which has some shared state. (Like, I don't know, a stock exchange's order book or something, to pick an example randomly.) What's the best way to model that such that you can access it concurrently in an arbitrary number of simultaneous HTTP requests?

c) Supposing that one understands goroutines at a Golang 101 level, where does one go from there? I ended up having lots of fun on e.g. fanning out data incoming from N sources to one channel back out to M consumers which each need a copy of everything on that channel. This felt excessively painful to me. How do I do it in a way which is not excessively painful?
Did you know if a pharma company takes an old drug and a new chemical to it to change its effects slightly, the patent is renewed, and that way it it never actually becomes 'old' enough? India will go on and ignore these patents to make generic drugs. Millions of indians have access to affordable medicine today. We can worry about the future benefits when you successfully petition oil companies to stop drilling for oil and invest in renewables instead. The Indian pharmaceutical industry is vibrant and thriving, that is why it has the capacity to reproduce generic versions of patented drugs at will.

You can live a perfectly fine, if frugal, life in India on USD $2 a day, but not if you have to pay for USD $1 tablets.
From what I recall it has only been in the last several years when Google has actually started doing any lobbying.

Also when it comes to lobbying involving a lot of money and for draconian measures you should take a look at Hollywood and the entertainment industry. They've been using lobbyists for decades to pursue even more draconian agendas.
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The hypermiler thing always seemed kind of dangerous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-efficient_driving

59 mpg in a plain old accord is impressive though.
... which is the purpose of class-action law. When you have a small number of plaintiffs with large claims it's not really the right way to go.
RackConnect was intermittently flaky when we used it. We moved off their public cloud in favor of a pure private cloud footprint.

If you can't get your issue addressed and if you've already tried escalating through your AM on the dedicated side, start tweeting @Rackspace. They have a social media team that monitors these things closely and will escalate for you.
Based on the tweet streams shared by the former employee she labeled her 'exit interview', I'm more going to side with the anonymous employee. The former employee basically went on a complete rant ripping across Mozilla on twitter, but when it came to specific details, we end up with "never got a firefox t-shirt that fit me" and "nobody listened to my ideas" Talk about embarrassing yourself while burning a bridge. That kind of bridge burning is indicative of the kind of coworker she would be to some people.

Where does this weakness come from? Is it mental illness or just a parenting thing? And she also seems to conflate the ideas of software accessibility with "safespaces." If that's the kind of ideas that she was peddling to her colleagues, I'm pretty sure they aren't going to buy into that.

I don't know if it's a feminism thing or a LGBT thing but suddenly there are these new words that were invented, showed up in sketchy sociology classes and these people reform their individual reality by them and expect the rest of the world to suddenly be part of it. But they never asked whether these things were actually truthful or useful. Suddenly people are supposed to refer to themselves as 'CIS-gendered' and worry about 'safe spaces' where you won't 'trigger' anyone from too loud of applause.

The CEO should never have brought up this issue in a public meeting. It's an internal matter. And his misunderstanding of hate speech is disappointing, I have no respect for Mozilla as a company at this point. CEO needs to be removed, not the person who spoke their mind anonymously on reddit.
"Supreme Court member Ruth Bader Ginsburg has an honorary degree from every single Ivy League School, with the exception of Cornell, which doesn’t give them out."

...except for her actual undergrad degree, which is from Cornell.

(Hey, when you don't have presidents, you take what you can get. And we'll take RBG over several presidents.)
Yeah, no thanks. After that line in the sand the CEO drew supporting radical feminism, I don't see myself touching another Mozilla product. Not planning on updating any of my extensions.
What struck me wasn't that this was a bad deal (it isn't) but that it's a bad deal for them. If I personally, being of sound mind and making a good wage, were offered a similar buyout of a structured settlement I'd take it.

The future value of 63k with 7% compounding earnings over 35 years easily outpaces the value of the monthly payments. And over that long a time horizon 7% would be easy to get - it's well under the market growth for any given 35 year period.

But that's me - I don't need the money to live off of every month, i don't have a disability that makes me unemployable, and I don't need those checks every month.

If those were my circumstances though? I'd be pissed!!!
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They're talking about baltimore you ass. Have you ever been? It's as black as the cast of the wire and the people there have been systematically taken advantage of, which is significant because white people or people that happen to be white aren't systematically the targetted by these scams. Yes, they are scams if they take advantage of a person with brain damage because of lead paint.
Very interesting article .. it demonstrates that big ivy league institutions used it as means to obtain funding and built connections for their institutions. An "honorary" degree cannot be compared to a degree won through sheer hard work and dexterity ... society should know this and highlight it
That line of reasoning is a double-edged sword.
This is where you need to do some research on what Libertarians really believe.
> So what is the point, really, of sandboxing if it does not thwart highly technical attackers?

It thwarts the attackers who aren't highly technical, and frustrating the script kiddies could have flow on effects when beginner attackers don't get the reinforcement to motivate themselves to refine and build their skills.

Secondly, exploits can be patched over time. Ten years from now, is OS X going to be better off for having the sandbox? Do you expect a lot of trivial exploits to be discovered after another century of person-hours are invested in the sandbox?
But they are poor, with very little sense of stock value and market returns. While you might think more educates about it, they sadly dont. So they blow the money quickly for something they need at the time. So no, it really wasn't a good deal.
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They suggest the demographics support the title.
What struck me was they target a lead poisoned cohort of a marginalized group. That's fucked.
This is so flawed. It just shows how english speakers use Google search. Do they really believe the top question in Marocco is how much it costs to ride a camel? Or in Ecuador how much a Panama hat costs? That's only interesting to (english speaking) tourists.

"Cost Obsession of english speakers researching the world from home."
Title is a reference to Jim Blinn's excellent (although a bit dated) collection of 3D graphics articles, "A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline" [1]. A clear, useful, and often humorous take on various computer graphics topics, including the legacy "fixed function" 3D pipeline. Highly recommended!

1. http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Blinns-Corner/dp/1558603875
Thank you for correcting me. I didn't understand why I was being downvoted. I've confused the incompleteness of both theories with being conflicting. I've learned from it now.
Sometimes on long motorcycle rides you can take a few minute break behind a semi. Especially on a bike with no windscreen, your arms get really tired of pulling you against 60~ mph wind for hours. Pull up close behind a semi and the wind will disappear. Keep alert, like you said though.
I added "cu" (Portuguese for "ass"), but I'm not able to get it to match. Guessing there's a size limit?

I wonder if it makes sense to add "ku" as well? When I was a kid, I'd always giggle at the American candy bar "Kudos."

This is really cool....

Kudos.
You're right, that's a good point. And it seems Google has started to move away from BigTable with Spanner, which F1 is built on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_%28database%29
Sometimes, the easiest person to fool is yourself.
Oh come on. The majority of people involved in this deception are not leisure-class millionaires.
Isn't this article really more about the problem with the food service industry relying on tips instead of paying their workers a proper wage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vivC7c_1k

Postmates isn't intentionally preying on the industry, the industry was set-up this way, with the expectation of tips being paid by customers, but the model is changing.

If the restaurants charged the actual price they expect to get for their product, then the issue would become what the couriers get paid, which may be too low, but then the market would/should decide on what is fair.
And yet the CEO is using a public meeting to air the dirty laundry of internal matters, making the whole thing worse. Really bad decision. Very un-leader like.

Public attack? Yeah 6 anonymous comments on a website, what an all-out "attack." Oh no, her credibility was tarnished. Oh wait, she did that to herself already by leaving a twitter rant-stream mult-day bridge burning criticizing the company but providing no helpful facts, just rants and complaints. hence the good-riddance
Actually these topics are actively discussed at CS programs in higher education - MSc and higher. At least in the department I'm working at, the specific topics you name are very active conversation topics among students and faculty alike.
Yes, how dare he say that an employee being abusive towards another employee is unacceptable. How very dare he.
There should be a distinction between an "honorary" degree awarded because a "real" one would be superfluous (Richard Stallman, Increase Mather, etc) and those awarded because of donations or co-branding.
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When the country has systematically denied access to capital to a certain race of people, and continues to support and legitimize this practice, it absolutely makes a difference what race these people are.

Black lives matter.
Top autosuggestion for/from Germany is how much postage for a letter costs. Followed by a child, then electricity, followed by a divorce.
Interestingly enough, the business examined by this article (Access Funding LLC) is Better Business Bureau accredited. [1] What kinds of businesses aren't BBB accredited these days?

The owner and CEO of Access Funding LLC, Lee J. Jundanian, started a business called Rapid Advance LLC in 2005. [2] This company specialized in structuring advances "on terms that experts say most small businesses, especially distressed ones, would have little hope of meeting", doing a large amount of business during the financial crisis. The advances are not considered loans because there is no set payback period; therefore, "the industry is completely unregulated, and companies can charge customers whatever they want."

Calculating the cost of an MCA [merchant cash advance] is a bit complicated. Because it doesn’t accrue interest over time, the more quickly one repays the advance, the more expensive it is.

For example, if a merchant agrees to pay $70,000 for a $50,000 advance, and it pays it off in six months, the effective annual interest rate is 80 percent. If paid off in three months, the rate jumps to 160 percent. Pay the advance off in a month and the rate skyrockets to 480 percent.

Funnily enough, Mr. Jundanian was awarded with the prestigious "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" by Ernst & Young in 2008 for growing Rapid Advance so quickly. Clearly they were impressed with his ability to find such a profitable way to use questionable accounting to legally prey on vulnerable business owners.

Seems like he's found a new avenue for his talents.

[1] http://www.bbb.org/washington-dc-eastern-pa/business-reviews...

[2] http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/07/19/sto...
Yeah - that's what I said, it's not a good deal for them.
Except that the article is about brain-damaged people selling their settlements.

The whole grey area here is about the brain-damaged people not being able to correctly evaluate the value of the document they are signing.

Even if 100% of the brain-damaged people were black, that still wouldn't make it OK to include their race in the title, because the article is not about that. It's about brain-damaged people.

Now, it would be different if the article was directly about blacks, about how they were specifically selected, but it's not.

Here's an example headline to show the difference:

"An individual robbed a bank this afternoon"

VS

"A black man robbed a bank this afternoon"

The important event here is the bank robbery, not the race of the person who did it.

You could have a study that showed that 90% (or 10%...) of all bank robbery were caused by black men and THEN including the race in the title would be warranted, because that's what the study is about.
The article said structured settlements are preferred over lump sums specifically because these individuals wouldn't do well with a lump sum. I think it would be really interesting to compare what the lump sum value would have been against the structured settlement buyout value, and that could be a reasonable approximation for whether or not the price is fair.
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here's something I agree with.
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No doubt the NSA would get involved if the robocallers started selling e.g. nuclear materials or certain herbal extracts, but they would still deny any role to avoid revealing sources and methods.
In Canada it is a crime to charge more then 60% per annum. I would not be shocked if the States had something similar on the books. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/page-179.html#d...

Edit: It's a States issue. It looks like Massachusetts has some rules http://www.mass.gov/courts/case-legal-res/law-lib/laws-by-su....
so, basically slower than a pro on a bicycle

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No one would be telling sob stories if they thought that they might pull a Warren Buffet w/ their payout. $60k was more than enough to get buffet to billions. Maybe the company used the wrong discount?

Really roughly those discounts seem pretty generous, they're approximately stock market investment rates. Meaning if the poor recipients put the money in the "market" (maybe not this week) they'd average the same amount of total payout.
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In Germany two of the largest email services (30m users) started introducing encryption based on PGP.

https://www.mailvelope.com/en/blog/gmx-and-web-de-launch-pgp
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It absolutely makes no difference what race the poor people are.

Yes, in theory; but if you had read the article, you would clearly see that this article is talking about actual corrupt practices that have taken place within the actual evolutionary history of this simulation.

When did it become cool to assume that the logical possibility of discrimination is on the same order of effects to our free markets as actual discrimination? How did you people get past high school?
Half-baked response: I like the goal, but I worry that an opt-in system would be too easy to ignore. I imagine the exploiters working for Access Funding could come up with a pretty convincing pitch as to why their client should bypass such a service.

Personally, I wish that there was more due process around this sort of thing. So, for instance, as part of the settlement a lawyer had to be there to advise the recipient throughout the process.
My contract says my title is software engineer, but titles don't mean much in a small company. Which I kind of like.

That said, I didn't study Software Engineering at university. And so, in almost 10 years in various roles writing software, this is the first one in which I've allowed this title to apply (previously I've had: Systems Analyst, Software Developer, Bioinformatics Technologist, Instrumentation Engineer, etc).

I also didn't study systems engineering (which is a real discipline responsible for remarkable achievements such as taming the complexity of massive systems such as modern airliners), but not that Systems Engineering, I mean the wishy-washy, everyone's-an-engineer sense of Systems Engineer as typically used in software land - that's what I think a more accurate title for my role would be.

I work on the hardware for our widget, as well as the user-facing software. I set up our automated build system that builds everything including our ARM Linux OS image, including kernel and bootloader. I established the production and Q/A checklists. I actually do some of the assemblies. I determine what components we use, and I work with real engineers to validate and test and update customer spec sheets accordingly. I answer questions like, "what kind of power system would let us get XX hrs runtime at YY% duty cycle".

I have a complete picture in my head of the product, its capabilities and limitations. When it goes wrong, at any level, I'm the one that has to fix it. I've never worked with a Systems Engineer at a big tech company but it seems as if this is the sort of scope they work with. Except they probably don't have to write the userland code as well :)
I really would like to see a set of laws and government regulations that libertarians would support. Has anybody ever created such a thing?

Would there be regulations on cigarettes, selling alcohol to 10 year olds or lead paint? Who would prove the harm if there is no EPA? Who has the money to go against big corporations and their paid experts? It took forever to get a shared understanding that smoking is really harmful.

I don't want to be dismissive but most libertarians I talk to seem to live in a dream world and avoid real-world scenarios.
And as usual, Thomas Jefferson's foresight was about 20/20 in this case.
"It sounds like you've made decisions without community input, why?"

I guess it's good that they acknowledge that they didn't get input from those that write extensions before they made this decision.