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> That tendency exists quite strongly in humans, yes. Unfortunate, but true. On the other hand, businesses also have the tendency to want to make money. If I've got a business, and I make it hard for group X to buy stuff from me, they're probably going to try to find someone else who wants more strongly to make money and/or less strongly to be a jerk. And that business will get their money, and I won't.

Which is true, although there are a few rubs:

1. It's not so easy to start a business, and if the group you exclude are small there's very little [edit - forgot to finish this sentence, sorry] incentive to open a new business just to cater for a small proportion of people. Depends on the business, obviously.

2. You're ignoring any influence other customers have. If 90% of your customers threaten to boycott you because you (bake cakes for gay weddings || print leaflets for republicans) it'd be good business sense to not serve that small percentage of your client base.

With 2, consider a "realistic" situation. In the future, all sex offenders will have their photos published on some public crime database. Cue outrage that sex offenders are being served in the local bar (or choose the establishment of your choice), they are then banned. Are people going to open up bars with the motto "sex offenders welcome here!"? To make people more wary of this, what happens when it thinks you're a sex offender because of a false positive?

I'm always really concerned when people argue that the free market will remove discrimination, and perhaps they're right in the long term but I don't think it's unreasonable to say that there was a fair amount of time when people in the US were discriminated against because of the colour of their skin (not to get into a discussion about now as it's not too relevant).
It isn't brazen arrogance. Limiting the number of countries that have nuclear weapons is a clear (though not explicitly stated) foreign policy goal. The U.S. wants to preserve the current balance of power, and prevent big wars that could disrupt its interests in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Keeping one state from getting nukes and forcing other neighboring states to do the same, or raising tensions like has happened between India and Pakistan fits right into that goal. So does stationing troops in Germany, Japan, Korea, and keeping a fleet ready in the Middle East. And it's not really about ultimatums, as much as using every tool it can to change the cost/benefit analysis of nukes to keep most countries from going for them. No one wants to be the next North Korea, and that's one big reason why the embargo against Iran helped to bring them to the negotiating table.

The U.S. policy on Israel has probably done more to irritate other states than the nuclear policy as alot of states hate Israel, but most don't care as much about getting nuclear weapons. Japan and a number of other big countries could get them if they wanted. OTOH, a number of countries "hate" the U.S. but wouldn't want to take over the cost of playing policeman all the time, and overall like the stability policy brings.
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Pete, thank you so much for your feedback! Love everything that you've said, it nailed everything I was confused about. I appreciate your advice a lot. And its cool to hear that you were thinking about doing the same idea earlier. I'm happy to provide you with a forever free account. So whatever happens with the website, you'll always get free access :)

And you're spot on, with regards to pricing, quiz availability and crowd-sourcing. Those are definitely the hurdles at the moment. I'll explain a little about them and would love to hear your thoughts on them.

On pricing: I took advice from Dan Martell, Noah Kagan, and Derek Sivers whom all said to first set a price and let the users provide feedback. I'll probably remove the subscription in the coming days. I really don't want to make a book recommendations product, because there are a lot of them out there. I'll have to think about the pricing/business model more. Do you have any other thoughts?

Can you delve a bit deeper into why you wouldn't pay a one-off $5 or a $10/per year price? My reasoning behind it was (1) it's a similar price to one ebook, (2) $5 or $10/year is a small expense for someone that is actively interested in self-development (best-selling non-fiction book reader) and (3) Blinkist creates book summaries and sell their service for $10/per month. If you've taken the sample quiz, you'll see that BookGym is a combination of quiz & book summary (detailed feedback).

On quiz availability: it's a project at the moment and I'm validating the idea. I didn't see any point creating many quizzes if the market isn't interested in it. However, if there is enough interest, I'll set an official launch date. It's true that there won't be a lot of quizzes available on launch, but I don't plan on creating a "startup" or taking outside capital. I think I'd like to keep this a small project and grow it slowly over time. I'm happy to help a very small amount of people. Eg. if you're a paying customer, I'd be creating quizzes based on your requests.

On crowd-sourcing: an end-goal would be to make BookGym a place where people can contribute their own notes, learnings and questions about a book. We can use this crowd-sourced information (as well as our own research) to create summaries, courses & quizzes based on best-selling non-fiction books. I don't have the resources (money & time) to do this straight away, but if I did, I probably would! Nevertheless, I can always start small and grow into that. But this is just hypothetical right now.

Thanks again, Pete. Hope you're having a great day. If you're on twitter, I'd love to follow you. I'm @hazzajay.
I briefly worked with a company that made a facial recognition app for Google Glass (http://www.nametag.ws). Google officially banned us but you could still sideload it. The two major issues were assembling the database of faces (we used mainly LinkedIn photos but you really need multiple photos per person in different light/angles to train it well) and hardware performance (we had to do processing server side but even the basic part running on Glass killed the battery and made it run very hot). The hardware is Glass is basically an underclocked original Moto Droid (the one that launched Android 2.0), and is extremely underpowered for doing local face recognition on a large corpus of faces. I imagine a Glass-like device created a few years from now could be much more viable for this sort of thing. As for the database of people, there are companies that will sell you that (FullContact, Spokeo, Pipl, AllThePeople.net, etc) although the photo quality can still be an issue.
That particular chart seems to show significantly lower numbers than most I've seen. Sub 10% since 1985.

This one shows 20% as of 2010. And over 40% in 1990.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/USAID_Pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty

Also from that article. "n 1990, the percentage of the global population living in extreme poverty was 43.1%, but in 2010, that percentage had dropped down to 20.6%." That doesn't line up AT ALL with your image which says 10% in 1985.

So I'm not sure what's going on here exactly. But I don't think it's as simple as absolute vs percentage deception.
Url changed from http://qz.com/516809/if-you-hate-ubers-surge-pricing-youll-p..., which points to this.
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Ah, I see where you may have got confused.

I meant regarding the automatic application of rules based on profiling.
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Only thing I care - can apps now write to my microsd card?
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That's definitely true in this story, but is this general statement true?

> the woman needs to know she's pregnant before her habits change.

There are always stories of people who don't realise they're pregnant, do their habits change in a reasonably identifiable way?

This wasn't particularly relevant to the point, I just wondered and thought it was an interesting question.
I absolutely agree that the raw numbers are important and they are quantifiable way to assess risk. But I very much dislike that they are directly compared to each other. The social impact of murders seems so different to death by smoking related disease that a comparison of the two numbers could be meaningless in determining which one is more "important" to reducing total death and suffering. They both seem incredibly important, despite one being much larger.

> You absolutely should ignore mass shootings. Paranoia about terrorism has created the NSA and TSA, and all sorts of other nonsense. People watching airplane crashes on the news think that airplanes are incredibly dangerous and drive instead.

The problem is we don't ignore mass shootings or airplane crashes. We are not ignoring them right now and they are affecting us deeply. And maybe we will never be able to ignore them. If that is the case (and I'm not saying it is) then there may be benefit to solving such things which is larger than the numbers would have us believe.

> The news actively misinforms people about risks. It creates irrational fears and behaviors. The "social impact" you are talking about exists because of the news misinforming people. It's an effect, not a cause. If the news reported on every traffic crash instead, mass shootings wouldn't have any impact on our society or people's behaviour.

I'm not sure I agree. A mass shooting is vastly more terrifying than a traffic crash, and seeing every traffic crash would simply numb people to traffic crash reports — not terrify them. We are almost becoming numb to mass shootings, which is a scary thing in itself.

I believe the "social impact" would exist regardless of the news. Social media already does a better job spreading this information as-it-happens, and events which are terrible and random will continue to be propagated by the humans who witness them. We can't rely on humans not to speak about such things as a solution to reducing the terror they cause because it is unlikely to happen. It would be best to formulate a solution which accounts for this reality.

> Our goal should absolutely be to minimize death and suffering. Everything else is secondary and subjective. We should strive to be more rational and consistent, not embrace our irrational fears of rare things.

I agree with you but my position is just that there isn't a direct path from the raw numbers to how we should attempt to minimise death and suffering.
The problem is better stated that we're not that interested in it. If we were interested in it, we'd know how.

I've released a couple of things that were tested to exhaustion, so far as anyone knows. One advantage of the event-driven approach is that you can do that.
15% and growing. From what I gather bigger than their print subscriptions revenue too so if that's the case then definetly encouraging and one of few "old" media slowly changing their business model succesfully.
Let's say a country established a law that prohibits alcoholic beverages...
At least on iOS it doesn’t, unless you gave it the permission yourself.
You're conflating regulating what software you can write with regulating what data you (or anyone else) can collect, use, and share.

It is perfectly possible to restrict, say, the systematic collection of facial images or the commercial or government use of facial images or the transfer of facial images to another party, without impeding casual, incidental use such as taking your own personal photos that sometimes happen to catch someone in the background.
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The tobacco exemption only underscores the danger, as there are many other health and environmental regulations to which companies may take exception. This site has lawsuit history from a cross-section of countries that were sued by companies in the health, energy, financial, environmental and essential-services sectors:

http://www.isdscorporateattacks.org/
Url changed from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-quantum-cats-game-concepts.html, which points to this.
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I had a similar situation at work recently. I've always been a high performer and natural leader. People love talking with me, they trust me with their problems, and I do the best I can to help them out. I lead from behind, and try to guide people forward. I've been a manager of a large team, and was up to be promoted to manage an even larger team. I left instead to start my own company. That company got acquired and I got a new manager. The new manager was terrible, and had no idea what was going on with the team. He regularly skipped 1:1s, and after almost 2 months of not talking with him, I get my review feedback.

He mentioned a lot of really positive qualities (great at technical work), but his one criticism for me was that I could "show more leadership". He failed to expound on that when I asked him for examples. He was so uninvolved with our day to day, he was rarely present. Little did he know, I was the one working behind the scenes keeping his flailing team together. This struck me down pretty hard, it was my first known experience with racism in the American workplace. My confidence shattered, and I started doubting myself. I hope to put this experience behind me soon, but it left some serious doubts for me, and honestly, it made me reconsider my previously ambitious aspirations. After this experience, I started really emphasizing with the experiences of women in the workplace.
The Online Etymology Dictionary agrees. It dates back to the French Revolution, it seems. [0]

[0] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...
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This is the third article I've heard about people moving from social to newsletters. Every single one mentions TinyLetter. I guess they have a really good social/marketing team.
Apps have been able to selectively write to external storage for some time, have they not?

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm...

If you were asking something else about SD cards, then you probably want to check this part of the review: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmall... (which would have been found if you'd searched for "sd card", it's in the table of contents)
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm sure the GUI works great for anyone used to it but it really is not logical, I simply can not count the times or frustrations I've had, going through each menu reading each item just to find that darn feature I was after.

Luckily they are redesigning the GUI for the next version, I'm hopeful that they will rearrange it as well (even though that will obviously be awkward for everyone already familiar with it) but I don't know, haven't paid attention to the development.

Case in point: Reboot, shutdown and Backup/Restore ought to be under the "System" menu, right? Nope. It's under Diagnostics, which is a large alphabetically sorted list (not by functionality or anything else, so if you are unsure of which term was used, well, you're better off consulting google).
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Some of that's pretty silly.

An unquestionably rigorous proof is indeed "I know it when I see it", give or take a few differences. (E.g., my adviser Andy Gleason told me to take a theorem that had been proved by Tarski-Principle hand-waving and see if I could find a constructive proof for it. I did, by invoking a theorem from Vol. II of van der Waerden. He was pleased.)

A published proof is a claim that if one tries to flesh it out to an unquestionably rigorous one, one will succeed. (Errors are however distressingly common.)

The accusation of Platonism in the article is mainly hogwash.
Just browse / instead of /subreddits to see frontpage content. Not sure why this thread links to /subreddits.
Not to nitpick, but the judge was female :)
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You could put a bunch of smarts in it too. RFID reader to prevent use by someone other than the owner. Maybe even geo-fencing to prevent it from being fired somewhere it shouldn't be.
I definitely don't think this is true, and I'm Asian as well. I think the parent has a better hypothesis, it's the higher bar for immigration. I bet the demographics of Asian immigrants is way higher educated than the average American. My dad has a PhD, my mom multiple Bachelors, and pretty much all of their Chinese friends had at least a Bachelors, most likely a Masters of PhD.

I would say it's very possible that genetically, the Asian population in America is smarter than the average American. Combine that with a culture that emphasizes hard work and education and you'll have extraordinary results. But don't think that Asians are more intelligent as a whole. There are plenty of idiots back in China to balance that out.
Looking at the data for American poverty it hasn't budged that much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#M...
Actually, MS did have something called the "Windows NT Add-On Subsystem for Presentation Manager" that permitted one to run 16-bit OS/2 GUI applications.
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No you don't. How would you filter traffic based on apps on the vpn side?

Or feature? I'd love a firewall rule that could block any traffic that contains my contact list. Wouldn't be possible even if the traffic wasn't encrypted...
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> Haha have you been to China?

No, and I have no intention to. My girlfriend spent the month of August there visiting her family and complained non-stop about how much she hated it and wanted to come home (and she's a well-off Canadian immigrant from Shanghai).

> The controls on internet access is not as extreme as portrayed in western media.

I write software for a living and it still took me hours to find and set up a VPN + traffic obfuscation solution so I could get my girlfriend on Facebook while she was there. Play Store and Google didn't work at all. Foreign sites that aren't blocked entirely barely function. Even developers at top Chinese tech firms routinely download XCode from sketchy Chinese versions of Dropbox because downloading them from Apple is too slow [1]

> If you're talking about poor factory workers being constrained, well poor people everywhere have a hard time being mobile.

I was referring to the Hukou system (aka the caste system of China) [2]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/09/21...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system
Many "profitable" websites have the newsfeed style and works wonders for them. I believe it's a valid attempt to make reddit's UI a little better, obviously not everybody will like but it definitely has a public.
Re. 'non-lethal', though, bear in mind there's no such guarantee. I think 'less-lethal' is the term of art.

E.g. assuming the thing is somewhat like a Taser, good luck if you shoot someone with a weak heart, or a pacemaker. Or maybe your target falls badly and dies from a head injury. Or falls off something. Etc. etc. etc.

This is why self-defense is a moral imperative. There is no way to employ force against someone without risking his or her death.
I wish I could store apps on my SD card.
Not to mention, accurately measuring independent download times on a web page (or a native app screen) with 40 assets is next to impossible because of the overlapping request, persistent connections and all sorts of other confounding factors.

The actual latency you should measure for such a download is the total time taken to get to a usable view for the user. How to do that is left as an exercise for the reader ;-)
I think you misunderstand. The only way for me to verify my authentic name as a transgender individual if I understand the page correctly is for me to go and take out a magazine subscription (to match with my mail and another non-matching photo ID). The other identification options are all required to match my legal name.
Yes, the problem is that it doesn't allow insiders to rig the game. See bitcoin et al. Good idea though.
This makes sense. It could also spur an opportunity for "Newsletters as publications" as opposed to blogs, i.e. all content only available on a newsletter and nowhere else.
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The banks are doing things, perhaps not exactly what was described, but your facebook history, linkedin, other social media accounts are taken into account when applying for a loan. Even when you browse the bank's web page, where you hover the mouse, what pages you look at and variour other metrics. One example of a company providing such service is http://www.bigdatascoring.com/
I think the unnecessary use of word "oppressors" makes me less likely to think you're unbiased in your assessment.

I think the fact that China and India (as well as some African countries) see globalization as a way to emerge from underdeveloped and poor economies speaks to their opinion as to whether globalization is good. Millions of people in India and China are no longer subsistence farmers or beggars because globalization brought with it capital inflows, job demand, skills improvement, and with that better education and strengthening of the local economy. I think it's no accident that most developing countries clamor for foreign investment (aka globalization). Many women in those countries are now independent and don't depend on arranged marriages for their future --they can earn their own living.

Yes, it means some people in rich nations will see their income relative tot hat of poor countries stagnate and they won't be able to afford a McMansion or Tesla car and will have to rent an apartment and take transit or own a Honda, but this is ten times better than what people in developing counties have. And workers in developed economies will not have viable careers with all but a high school diploma --those days are over. You now have global competition for jobs and millions of erstwhile poor are grateful.
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