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Healthcare is currently ~20% of the economy and rapidly growing. But the end game is probably highly effective drugs, highly effective diagnostics, high degree of automation ,and maybe even life extension - and those will probably offer great solutions to most major medical problems.

And after patent expiration, many of those technologies could become very cheap - because they are either dealing with information(i.e. labs on chip) which generally has moore's law like economics, or dealing with giving minute quantities of materials to people - and making that is either very cheap today - or synthetic biology would probably make it very cheap.

So i'm not sure healthcare will be a growth engine.But maybe living to 150 or forever will offer a lot of growth.
My understanding is that its hard to be competitive in this space because Blackboard is very patent litigious. Patent 6,988,138 “Internet-based education support system and methods” is considered overly-broad and has been used against competitors.

An East Texas jury gave Blackboard 2.5m in damages in a suit against a competitor in 2008 using this patent. Read the patent, it a complete cockup, by the already low standards of the USPTO. The abstract is laughable because its so broad:

A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whiteboard facilities, and the like, all of which are available to the students over a network such as the Internet. Various levels of functionality are provided through a three-tiered licensing program that suits the needs of the institution offering the program. In addition, an open platform system is provided such that anyone with access to the Internet can create, manage, and offer a course to anyone else with access to the Internet without the need for an affiliation with an institution, thus enabling the virtual classroom to extend worldwide.
Photos may be included.

"Here’s what iCloud backs up: Photos and videos on your iOS devices, unless you turn on iCloud Photo Library on your iOS device (iOS 8.1 or later)."

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12519?locale=en_US

The photos hit the same 5 GB limit, so it's not like excluding or including them really changes anything. Photos are the #1 reason people hit the backup limit.
> In this case the author assumes causation between energy production/consumption and economic growth.

Without increased energy use, vast swathes of the economy clearly could not exist. That is what he spends most of his time proving.
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Or perhaps it's the reverse. If you ask "white men" about the liberation status of women/minorities, you're probably going to find them MORE likely to say that equality has already been achieved. So when they write stories, they'll write them as if everyone is equal and living the same utopian dream they are.

On the other hand if someone comes from a background where they feel oppressed, they're going to write that into their work.

That's part of the point of the article. People continue to extrapolate from what they view culture currently is, as if it continues indefinitely into the future. I think based on that "white men" are going to view it as being more pleasant and fair (i.e. their own experience) than minorities.
Maybe something like PouchDB, lazily synced with a CouchDB instance on the server ? I'd love to see a better integration, where for example global state would be automatically saved in PouchDB. You'd get pub/sub, history and synchronization for free, at the cost of PouchDB's performance (last I tried, it wasn't transparent enough)
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OK. Imagine there are no more fossil fuels tomorrow. Is the economy going to keep chugging along, unaffected by this change?
It takes two to dance Tango ...

The perverted War on Drugs inflicted by the US onto Mexico and other countries could not have evolved as it did without corrupt governments in the first place.
Like a wise man once said,

"One does not simply delete something from the internet."
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The notion of a secret government agency murdering a (legally) innocent person doesn't bother you?
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This would be great data for one team to steal from another.
In practice, I suspect the reps earn commissions on rentals, incur no penalties at all for the frequent flyer bonus, and were quite happy once they'd satisfied themselves that the payments would be made and the cars were only going to be driven by the renter and would be returned in one piece.

The risk of some auditing process, computerised or otherwise, highlighting the error and not actually crediting the miles is still pretty high though...
Maybe writing lots of decorators helps you applying this concept when you need to solve some sort of complex problems. However, I fail to understand the usefulnesses of the examples given in all the tutorials I read about decorators. Sure, it helps to D.R.Y when you want to log something or deal with authentication. Yet I find they infringe the "explicit is better than implicit" rule.

When I read code not written by myself and see this:

@something

def foo(bar):

...

It is not immediately clear to me what foo actually does whereas

def foo(bar):

# some function calls here

# next: what foo does with these results

# some more function calls on what has been done before

gives me a hint without scrolling through the code.
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> but Mexico has come a long way in the last 25 or 30 years.

Do you really think Mexico made progress during the past decades just b/c they have malls and fast internet? I guess any untouched indian tribe in the Brazilian rain forest offers more original culture than what developed in Mexico during the past twenty years.
That's true. People from oppressed groups are more pessimistic about the future.

Or, well, pessimistic at all. One of the weird things about the post-war West is most people honestly expect the future to be better.
I am not sure what you mean by bullshit but I will try to answer this question.

Not really. I work in mid-size company driven by marketing and sales. Besides daily stand-ups which could be considered bullshit there is not much meetings. Lead developer needs to attend few more to scope projects coming from marketing but its not that bad. Most time we can focus just on coding. The worst part is probably UAT process, but when you deal with mature projects it always will be a pain.
What makes you so confident? The author does address the idea that somehow technology might fix our problems.
GATTACA is about genetic design rather than genetic testing.
Bet you that the officials will double down on this through the judicial system instead of acknowledging the truth about the absurdity of having a 'secured master key'.
It's JavaScript, so the client pays for it. If you're on an already slow browsers, you don't want to see it choke after you click on a button. So companies like Facebook ignore the problem on the client side, and solve it on the server side.
IIRC doesn't Apache require that the Apache user owns the files? This made it annoying when you wanted to use those files elsewhere on the server.
This future photographer will use some specialized computer software that automatically registers every photograph that ends up on their own personal website.

BTW, we're working on the underlying technology for this kind of stuff here:

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish
When considering the exploitation of these airline mileage opportunties, one should never forget the 'Pudding Man'. http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pudding.asp

Of course this makes me wonder about how the exploited companies respond. The exploiters can be identified (are companies afraid of lawsuits and public defamation)? Is such a story like an advertisement that may make someone (a reader) slightly more likely to use Avis (in this case) in the future?
Before SoftICE was ICE: In-Circuit Emulator. Originally developed by Intel, it was one of their crappy Blue Boxes with a special cable. You plugged the cable into your processor socket. From the blue box you could set breakpoints on bus conditions, step and disassemble. You could even break on I/O or writing to a location.

It was awful. The huge noisy blue box ran on floppies; it booted like molasses; it's fullspeed emulation was nowhere near fullspeed. It had an arcane debugger and an arcane file system. The cable was fragile (1-inch pins! that would crimp and break when inserting into the socket).

When Intel asked us "What do you want in the next generation of processor chips?" I knew exactly what to say. I requested special registers where I could set bus conditions and masks, that created an NMI (non-maskable interrupt) on a match. With that I could do data breakpoints, I/o traps, pretty much anything that a hardware ICE could do.

The next spec had my register(s)! It was one of the happiest days of my life. And the rest is history.
I don't really see blackboards disappearing. They just evolved into dry erase boards, then smart boards. The successors are still blackboards in function and form, but they are just better, cleaner technology. Now, my blackboard can be viewed in different places and at different times.
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It's true that it is more difficult to port from Common Lisp or other Lisp-2 dialects to Scheme, Racket, or Clojure (which are Lisp-1 dialects) than it would be to port to other Lisp-2 dialects. But that certainly doesn't make Lisp-1 dialects "not Lisp" while Lisp-2 dialects are "Lisp".
If only there was a process whereby you could propose corrections to existing standards or even propose a new standard to replace the existing standard instead of whining about it on Hacker News...oh wait.

Seriously if these things bother you then and you think you have a better idea write it up in an RFC.
Writing Terms and Conditions is like programming. You have to think of even unimaginable scenarios or face consequences.
Independent reinvention is a complete defense for copyright (you can't infringe copyright if you didn't copy), but not for patents (someone you've never heard of can sue you).
The hassle of syncing contacts, spam filters, calendar events, GPG keys (and emails) makes me think about replacing it with something like mailpile.

Did anyone here try that?
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The courts are less clear on that. There's no statutory language that gives you copyright to the idea of a novel (which is dangerously close to genre if you ask me).
I don't know as I'm not a game developer, but my guess is that individual Meshes may correspond to things that need to be created and destructed on a regular basis during runtime. If that's the case, then depending on the details it may be preferable to have an array of Meshes, and not try to pool all the Meshes together.

I think it's risky to say that it's misguided without the full context of the problem.
And in fact debt was ubiquitous long before the Industrial Revolution happened and economic growth increased to rates that made it comparable to the interest rates on debt.
There are a few suggested alternatives, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genuine_progress_indicator
Read surge's comment. There is a difference between culture and race and I don't understand why some people are incapable of separating the two.
2) It actually is a problem of carrying over obsolete conventions from prior init systems.

It actually is not. It's a problem of not knowing the conventions from prior init systems. emergency mode did not originate with systemd. It has been around since 1995-12-03 (Miquel van Smoorenburg's System 5 init clone, version 2.57d).
Post author here. Sorry you feel that way. I'm surprised you don't think that moving out the messy code into make_contiguous is a win. Isn't it good to factor out clearly reusable code into functions, so you can reuse it? Would you really prefer writing out code like that in a dozen places for a dozen classes that needed contiguous storage, to writing one function, testing it, and then calling it from all those other places?
That points towards either Debian implementing systemd poorly in this aspect, Debian poorly documenting well how to accomplish this after the change, or a failure on the user's part to find said documentation.

Systemd on Fedora supports this perfectly fine, so I can't really call this a failure of systemd itself.
Those people who are capable of those things and that level of corruption to make a few bucks on illicit drugs would still exist.

I just don't get this line of reasoning. If you take marijuana out of the equation, 80-90% of Americans think drugs should be illegal. They don't want drugs in their communities and in their society. And they're the bad guys for exercising their democratic right to regulate their own society, because some opportunists in Mexico are deranged enough to kill a bunch of people to circumvent those rules?
If you find decorators difficult to grasp, it's because of articles like this one :)
These things are interesting to read but it's also these kinds of things that cause companies to not do promotions like this anymore.

It worked out well for him but I think the scheme to buy dollar coins from the treasury and then use the same coins to pay back off the credit cards was brilliant. You also didnt have to involve employees in the schemes. I'm not sure what Avis will say to the branches he rented from.
This is really great advice. People overlook the importance of sleep.

I'd add that it's worth spending some money on a decent mattress, great pillows, and tracking just how restful a sleep you're getting. The return on investment will exceed just improving speed of decision making.
Maybe a bit more likely to arrive on the consumer market are EEG devices (non invasive) that can do more than detect that you've blinked or squinted your face...

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/136446-darpa-combines-hum...

There is a broad scope of work surrounding the use of such signals like the P300(& related ERPs) combining in mobile contexts, eye tracking, etc.

In effect, all this potentially could make it very difficult to hide certain things like recognition processes (I know the photo of that place/person) or anything connected with attentional orientation (e.g. that XXX rated advertisement in the corner of the screen captured my attention).

A google scholar for search for "rsvp eeg p300" or a look at work from some previous/currently darpa funded labs like LIINC show some of this early work under way...
[http://liinc.bme.columbia.edu/mainTemplate.htm?liinc_project...]

If one can get the gist of what various neural signals can index here from browsing through the literature, it's not too difficult to see Orwellian type applications that could be built. I'm thinking along the lines of airport security screening your brain to see if you recognize certain types of information such as recognizing a bit of a weapon somebody should not recognize or an instrument that might be used in a drug lab.

Putting issues like signal-to-noise and other confounds\limitations aside some scary applications can already be built and deployed with the most basic of available signals.

tACS, tDCS and similar techniques ("putting stuff in") are development and have been shown when used with careful timing and electrode selection that certain ongoing processes in the brain can be tweaked.
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24998643]

Before we go worrying about having probes shoving into our brains, I would begin to worry about the more practical implications and privacy concerns surrounding many of those cheap EEG platforms that everybody - could potentially - wear. E.g. Sam wears an EEG for attention monitoring in the workplace but with some basic eye tracking (via EOG) and coregistration with eye fixations/movements we can begin to figure out everytime he looks at Michelle's chest he and the 20 other people he works with have a 'P300' response. You get where I am going with this....

Example patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US7376459
> if you're willing to spend enough energy, you can optimize the state an arbitrarily large system as you please

Define "optimize" and "system"?
IDisposable's dispose is not an async function, there is no IAsyncDisposable interface with language support. There is however, a proposal https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/114 , I'm not dissing the language but things are the way they are.
In the end the resources available to a civilization can only expand as the third power of time due to the speed of light limit. That means that the laws of physics do prohibit an indefinite exponential increase in energy use, baring new discoveries that look pretty unlikely.
Just a story to support your point.

When I was a junior in high school, me and some buddies got into lock picking. Our goal was to be able to break into the school and explore places we weren't supposed to go. We could get in and out and no one would be the wiser.

One of my friends figure out the janitors only had two master keys they used for every lock in the school. We were able to steal one, and reproduce it several times for each of the team members and get it returned without them suspecting anything. For two years, we roamed every part of the school and discovered some amazing things about our school that no one would ever know except us.

For two years we had a run of the place, then turned them over to another group of incoming students were hackers like us. They did the same thing and it went on for several years and became somewhat of an urban legend. It finally ended when one group used the keys to break in and vandalize the school. Afterwards, the locks were changed, cameras and alarms were put in and all the fun ended.

But your point is spot on.
Because the Disney corporation doesn't want Mickey Mouse to fall in the public domain. I've said before that it may behoove us to simply amend copyright in a way that gives Disney infinite copyright, while everything else gets ten years. Call them an "irreplaceable cultural giant" or whatever else euphemism you want for "lots of money". Require a yearly tax that's just below what they pay in lobby money currently. To make it "fair", you could say "first ten years copyright is free, then it's X per year per work, then it ramps up until it reaches what Disney can pay.. I mean Z, which was determined after market analysis"
Presumably Facebook would have CSP headers set on some of the scripts they load to prevent JavaScript on the page from interacting with their own scripts.
In the 1960s, the idea that some sort of anti-gravity would be possible in the future wasn't so silly.

I don't think anti-gravity is a silly idea.

We're only starting to learn about the quantum world, and who knows what we will discover beyond that?
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This is a good point that may elucidate how such things are tested: someone conjures up the 'contract' / terms and conditions, then what? Is there a suite of 'unit tests' for the conditions, then a QA department? I imagine there is (or was) an economic analysis of this that leads to the decision to apply human resources elsewhere within the company. The 'loss' from a few exploiters must be probabilistically low and does yield publicity / free advertising (right?).
The start of some, at least.
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You dislike all of humanity because people sometimes make simple typos like angiopathy to angiography?
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I came here just to say the same exact thing.
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I considered that. The problem is that memory_block would need an extra pointer to know its size, which seemed like pure waste at that point. And ultimately it doesn't relieve you of writing copy constructors etc which should be the real goal; it scales much better if you have a class with other members that are not a part of all this contiguous stuff. I hope to solve that in the next post. I think your approach is good as well, just giving you my reasoning for not putting it in.
185,000 (frequent flyer) miles earned

I guess this is useful only if you fly a lot...
The protagonist doesn't wish his brother was born with his same gene for heart failure, he wishes companies would stop using genetic tests to filter out candidates.

Most of the movie deals with bad guys trying to find trace hair and DNA from imposters. Genetic testing.
The obfuscated program only uses its embedded key in ways it sees fit. You cannot sign arbitrary statements with the key.
Sure, but without cell service (as in a phone number instead of just data), aren't those just closed IM services?

Don't get me wrong, I use Hangouts over SMS/MMS whenever possible but while I can reach anyone on Hangouts if they have it installed, I can't install iMessage since it only works on Apple devices. As such, I have to fall back to SMS to reach people on iPhones who haven't or won't install Hangouts.

As much as I prefer IM over texting for the general features and speed, it's still useful as a fallback option if only because the various IM services aren't interoperable.
It seems like a game more than anything else: See who can get the most value out of the system for the least investment. I'm sure that there are some valuable "hacks" that they've discovered, but I'd rather spend my time on things that are more fulfilling to me.
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I don't really have any strong opinions, but I tend towards the "no relevant natural barrier" to growth side.

I think free energy in the sense that Facebook is free, is still a possibility. But, I think what we previously failed to envision is the depth of our consumption ability. If by energy, you mean the energy needs of a home in 1915, that's an achievable goal. But, the goalposts moved. Energy has been a constraint though, not the best example since we have't had good progress relative to other things.

Consider food though, the basic consumption good. In pre-industrialized times, calories so cheap that they're free would have been a "singularity" like end goal. "Free food" in the form of a box of grains with sufficient calories would be perfectly doable if people wanted to do it, <$100 per year.

But of course, we consume far more that $100 per year of food. It's just that calories are not a good measure of food anymore.

Education, at whatever quality can be delivered without a teacher will be free. Housing isn't on any kind of virtuous curve, that's a resilient cost.

Computers are getting close to "free." A Rasberry Pi is (on the scale we're talking about) essentially the same as a Macbook Pro. Even a fully cased and packaged laptop is moving towards free, at least in the sense that thumb drives are free.

On one hand, I do think a lot of things can get so "abundant" that economic models ultimately break down entirely. Anything that is entertainment, information, education can be free. Anything that's a physical manufactured good like underpants or iphones can get so cheap it might as well be free.

On the other, some things (housing) might prove more resilient to to accelerating change. Others things will discover levels of demand for more "quality". A 1996 cell phone for free is a bad deal relative to the $300 alternative. Basically, there are things we will want that still cost money. Another way to put this is demand distancing itself from "need." We need some stuff (food, water). Some stuff is a matter of definition (education). Some stuff (game of thrones) is squarely in the "want" bucket, but the want bucket produces economically identical demand.
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