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It's not bogus. Congress is largely in the pocket of corporations, but it's still a democratically elected representative body. None of the appointed treaty negotiators are democratically elected.
In certain cases you would save a whole ton of money for exactly the same drug since India has much less patent protection (you can't patent the drug, only how you make it, and for a shorter period). According to their Wikipedia page, they have the 3rd largest pharmaceuticals industry, but only 14th in total value.

It seems like you could get some pretty good prices on drugs at comparable quality. Hopefully the TPP agreement doesn't interfere.
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Why is that?

Because nobody gets fired from their paying job for criticizing puerile bullying on a mailing list.
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> Example: there are many stressed out people who don't smoke, it doesn't matter how or how much you try to convince them.

I wonder if it isn't because companies are severely restricted in their means of convincing people. Consider historical figures[0][1]. Between 1950s and today smoking rates in US dropped from around half of the population to around one in five person. Have the citizens of US suddenly became less gullible, or did their lives became less stressful? Or maybe as smoking changed from being a social custom to something despised (which can be partially attributed to regulations, though some would say[2] they were just following the social trend), 90% of smokers quit.

Manufacturing a social custom is hard, but if you can pull it off, it's basically a superweapon. People will buy not because it's good or needed, but because it's expected. De Beers has managed to do that for diamonds[3] decades ago, and guess what people are still buying for engagement rings.

That's only one, albeit an extremely effective way to trick people into parting with their money. There are others. Different people have different needs so if they avoid one trap, they'll trip on another. Sometimes the traps are less obvious. Let me give you an example.

I can honestly say there's no advertising that could convince me to chose the grocery store on my street over the one little further but much cheaper. And yet I often shop in the former one because they employ mostly nice, pretty students, and I love to chat with them. Simple as that. I've bought many things I didn't need only to have a pretext to go there and talk with the crew. I've made friends with the entire staff, hell, I met my SO there. But the point still stands that I've been tricked into economically worse option by a simple management decision of hiring nice girls. Everyone has their weak spot.

[0] - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig...

[1] - http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762370.html

[2] - http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html

[3] - http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/82feb/8202diamond1.ht...
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It was quite a big hit, look at my activity graph https://img42.com/g8maM+ . Other than this instance CF has been rock solid though.
Which is funny because eugenics is fundamentally a form of artificial selection, much like the one practiced agriculturally for millennia. You're trying so hard to indict Darwin on this, when virtually all of Social Darwinism is unrelated to him.
This is called "friction", and you're right -- it's the core reason microtransactions have never taken off.

Now, you can remove the friction by devising some automated system that pays sites some amount of money based on how long you spend there, but then you have to build an entire fraud-detection system to make sure people don't try to game the system and take more money than they are owed. This would add significant transaction costs -- and these costs would be high enough that very small transactions would no longer make sense to process. Keep going down this road and you'll eventually realize that you're just another credit card payment processor and have a similar cost structure. Bitcoin solves none of this, btw - you still want to make sure whatever micropayment scheme you use doesn't hand over your Bitcoin to a fraudster.

So now we're back at the user being the "filter" for good vs. bad transactions by making them explicitly authorize those transactions. And the friction problem you describe is very real: something like 90% of buy flows are abandoned at the credit card entry page. Micropayments are an intractable problem in my mind; they would solve a lot of business model problems but I don't know that they're very attractive to consumers.
You think it's a bad thing that the Republican Congressperson from the 4th district of Alabama, which itself contains no major US city, is unable to tack additional requirements onto a trade bill that binds the citizens of Vietnam, Malaysia, and New Zealand?

If Robert Aderholt doesn't like the TPP, he's perfectly free to vote against it.
In terms of Medieval people hating cats, there was a proclamation from Pope Gregory the 9th in early 1200's where he issued a bull against a cult. This bull apparently included "When the meal had ended, the sect would arise and a statue of a black cat would come to life, walking backwards with its tail erect. First the new initiate and then the master of the sect would kiss the cat on the buttocks"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_IX#Demonization_o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_in_Rama
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From my experience with CUDA, parallelism doesn't require any functional like programming. CUDA is very non functional from my perspective since parallel units of work have no return values and their only way of persisting information is to write to a global namespace.

Also parallel algorithms are often clever and sometimes take advantage of domain specific details to cut corners for more performance.

It seems to me that eventually people will have to use a more complex programming model to get past performance hits.

One question is whether the majority of programmers will encounter performance hits in the future
Old, old news: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartp...
I have never seen that you are forced to get a vegetarian option.

Where can you get a "gourmet healthy" email when eating out for $10? That would barely cover a Shake Burger + fries.
And those democratically elected legislators voted and agreed to take TPP as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition, which they will again vote on in 90 days. I'm missing the failure of democracy here.

As idiotic as it would have been to allow the Congressman from the Arkansas 3rd, home to no major cities unless you consider the headquarters of Walmart a city, to directly alter trade law, Congress could have done that. They retained the authority to filibuster or amend the TPP enabling bill.

Thankfully, several months ago, they voted and agreed not to let that happen.
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Yes, that is true.
However, China had been putting it's whole country's effort to make this happen. Thanks, China!
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> Now, if you really want to appeal to democracy, then it's pretty tough to criticize democratic sovereigns delegating their authority to other parties.

The problem is that TPP is a one-way transfer of power -- the costs of (democratically choosing to) flaunt these courts would be overly onerous to citizens of many signatory states.

Because TPP is de facto irreversable, your argument here is structurally similar to the argument that dictators make when their transition to power happens via reforms approved by democractic mechanisms.

I.e., just because a democracy at one point approves of a reform, doesn't make that reform tautologically democractic at all future points in time.
I still have Cloudflare disabled.... is everyone sure it's safe to re-enable it?
Los Angeles has a very large aerospace industry and long history in it. Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and SpaceX all have a large presence in Los Angeles's South Bay. It's not as large as it was during the "cold war" but a lot of skilled employees still live in the area.
If you google for "Bizspark plus", you will discover that they are giving a lot of credits for startups to use their cloud.

That's the reason.

When will be out of BETA, we can enable almost every other public cloud provider to deploy on.
Was it from a Walgreens near you? Wondering if the delivery person just finds the closest source to your location.
The tutorial specifically addresses this. Seems like a fair tradeoff to keep the game simpler and easier to implement.
People != Corporations. Although I can see some similarities between Yelp and Peeple, they are for rating/reviewing two fundamentally different entities.
> Then how do you explain the success of Yelp, which is basically the same thing but for businesses?

Businesses aren't people. You can't bully a business into suicide, for example.

> Or the school system, which is already designed around rating people?

On academic merits. And sure, there's social rating, but it's not a public Internet page saying "untrustworthy liar" that anyone can find.

> Or safeorscam, which was the same thing but for drug dealers?

See businesses.

> Or LinkedIn testimonials?

Perhaps a fair comparison, but that's not evaluating objective worth or something, it's evaluating employability and is as cordial as business tends to be.
It would be wonderful if Congress was not allowed to amend any bills. It seems to me that a major problem with our political system is adding pork to bills to either kill them or sneak in some unrelated legislation.
Looks like it to me https://img42.com/g8maM+
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There is a significant difference between rating someone in a market context and rating someone in a social context. People hold different norms between the two, and what Peeple failed to realize is the reaction people have when those norms cross over and are violated.

Imagine rating your friend's dinner party the same way you'd rate a restaurant on Yelp, and you can get a sense of the difference.
Who says that they do? Amazon is well known for having a rather high level of acquisition of new talent and a relatively high level of turn over. Their HR department literally looks all over the world for new talent constantly. So I would say they don't keep their best engineers from quitting.
> All I want to know is what does the one have to do with the other? What does a butterfly logo have to do with the concept of sexism towards women? That's it. That's my question. I have no idea how to state it more simply.

By being gender neutral and inviting in an industry with is definitively male dominated, and arguably male-centric.

> It was my response to your saying masculinity is misogyny

I did not say masculinity is misogyny, please don't extend your argument to my statements providing and alternate interpretation. My interpretation is this: You can fight misogyny by being open and inviting to all sexes. Being overtly masculine can hamper that. Let's not be overtly masculine.

To be clear, I think the root difference in our points of view is that you seem to have attributed a very specific meaning to one particular statement of his. I think there is not enough context to make a definitive assertion as to his meaning, so out of the possible interpretations I chose one that is more positive.
No, not "we".

Random samples means pollsters will be bothering only a "few" people at a time for their opinion. A statistically significant sample. Instead of everyone turning out to vote for a guy or gal who will MAYBE represent them, policy will be informed by what a random sample of America thinks.

The idea that your vote counts, when Public Choice Theory says it's irrational to vote, ... and then that the representative will actually do what they ran on, which most of the time every representative would do roughly the same thing ... and that lobbyists have just as much as voice as huge blocs of Americans, which a recent Princeton study showed when it claims America is now an Oligarchy... all this shows that maybe the idea of representative democracy is a dangerous fiction.
It occurs to me that there are (crude) parallels between guns and atomic weapons. It seems inconsistent to be in favor of gun control (because too many people are proving to be irresponsible with them), but against nuclear weapons control (because surely those people will be responsible, right?)
Those tariffs are really well explained on this Planet Money podcast: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/12/414029929/episo...
> the success of Yelp

Extorting businesses to suppress bad ratings, probably.

> the school system

Do you really think the quality of education is "successful" or something to be proud about?

> LinkedIn testimonials

That's a source for good reviews, not mixed reviews.
How do they even improve performance with Redux?

If the whole state is one immutable tree, then the next state is a new tree and the whole app had to be rendered again.

I know it probably doesn't work like that, but this is what I think when I read about immutability.
I'm just being descriptive. Certainly social movements were related to him; his was just the spark with world-spanning consequences.
to be fair, someone did decide to put a new design right thing next to the Vatican, and Via della Conciliazione[0] is widely criticized.

(Yet, nowhere as bad as the clock tower, I would say).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_della_Conciliazione
Maybe instead of repeatedly providing an example that the treaty specifically excludes, you could find one that would be enabled by the treaty.
Looking up the driver info in Linux,
it appears to be manufactured by Lite-on,
who do indeed still manufacture Thinkpad
parts for Lenovo.

[...]

So perhaps that's it: IBM is still making
Thinkpad-style keyboards for its rack-
mounted servers, possibly only in China.

I'm confused: how does Lite-on == IBM?
What's bad faith? If I have a product that someone will pay a million dollars for, why wouldn't I charge a million dollars for it? Because the alternate is death? So what—I'm not a charity.

There's a morality question here, and maybe I'm an asshole in this scenario, but being an asshole in of itself isn't a crime.
Thank you, a lot of the papers in DL/Sparse Coding aren't as clear as the sources you shared.
How were the WTO and WIPO able to conduct multilateral public discussions with many countries and stakeholders? Those agreements influenced trade in many countries, without mandating TPP-style secrecy during negotiations.
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Sure and I used to watch SNL for free over the air, now I pay $8 a month for Hulu. Things change.

The market, like all markets, is defined by people's willingness to pay and their next best alternative. Make the transaction cheap and nearly frictionless and it might be the choice with the highest utility.
"That said, I really hope there aren't any journalists in sensitive territory using this."

Fixed that for you...
Do you really think it's a good idea to put ISPs in the position of doling out micropayment money? They would need to collect a fee for processing it, and what business rules are in place for transactions smaller than the fee?

And similarly, how do you prevent fraud? WAP was a walled garden experience; if I can send money to any site on the Internet by clicking a button, what's to stop a malware author from using their malware to send lots of clicks (and thus money) to a site they run?

Technically, micropayments aren't a difficult problem to implement. The business rules around financial transactions (which exist for good reasons) often present an intractable conflict with what would be a viable user experience.
There are some important points to examine to make when it comes to trade rule harmonisation...

1. Are the agreements designed to reduce import tariffs, or are they designed to link up product standards and business practises?

2. Are the changes being driven by governments or by businesses?

If a trade agreement is just to reduce import tariffs between certain countries, then there's less of a problem.

The problem arises when free trade agreements are driven by by businesses and designed to link up product standards. I can't say much about the TPP, but if it's similar to the TTIP then the latter is what we appear to be getting.

Businesses generally want less red tape, not more. You could argue they'd push for higher standards to cut out competition that couldn't follow suit, but if that was the case they could already compete without the trade agreements.

It appears to me that the aim is to lower standards to open up new markets, and use the ISDS clause to discourage any strengthening of standards, but perhaps you have a different view on this?
When texting started it was almost universally $.25 or $.10 or so per text.

When texting started, it was free until the phone companies figured out that my wife and spent more time texting for free than we did talking for money. When I'd be on the road, we texted until our thumbs had callouses. Imagine our disappointment when Verizon (and everyone else) started charging for it. (Caveats: U. S. on Verizon using pay-as-you-go phones, and at least 12 years ago.)
Much danger there, sure. But representative cannot be doing much the same thing, or there would be no distinction of Democrat vs Republican? I see them doing very different things, all the time.

Myself, I favor a proxy system, where you can delegate your vote to anyone - your minister, your boss, your sister-in-law. They in turn can delegate their proxies to another. Up the graph somewhere (with loops dealt with somehow) are those with 100,000 or more proxies, who make the bar for voting on national issues directly. Stories have been written about it.
Ng is one of those great profs that combine the rare gifts of being able to teach as well as be a leader in the field at the same time. I've had profs that are far less accomplished and far more arrogant. There's probably a correlation between those features, now that I think about it.
That was an interesting read. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but doesn't this mean a rogue ISP could take down a large chunk of the internet if they wanted to? If Moratel hadn't fixed the issue at their end, would Google have stayed down indefinitely?
The WTO isn't able to do that, which is why there's a TPP and TTIP in the first place. The WTO is perceived as impossible to reach agreement through.
In other words a handful of multinationals, prepared to pay millions in endorsements in hand outs to corrupt politicians, have got exactly what they wanted.

So much for the democratic process and in fact stuff the democratic process.

This deal gives a handful few even more power in controlling the world economy. It lets them screw not only the local worker, but the ability to screw ever worker in the world, in the name of prosperity.

While I hate the fact that such an obvious power grab is happening, what I hate more is the youth of today seem to let this shit happen.

Use your voice and vote out that crap!!!

Sadly my prediction will be, nothing unlike the last ten years, where as the minimum wage remains flat (or maybe even declines), the corresponding CEO wage will see ten fold increases thanks to this amazing free trade deal :(
> SpaceX [doesn't] really require day-to-day CEO attention

Really? What's special about SpaceX that it doesn't require a full-time CEO? I'd imagine, considering the scope of their task and the scale of their ambition, it'd require more hands-on time than most.
That seems silly to me. Is every bill supposed to be perfect the first time? Amendments exist so that people concerns with a bill can be addressed. Getting rid of them would simply prolong the process of passing laws.
I bet that the stagnation of the American lower class standard of living has come at the expense of the rising standard of living in 3rd world countries with which we deal.
> Endure it, fix it, or abandon it.
[..]
> that whines about community

Sarah Sharp is one of the people who has tried to fix this the most. I have great respect for her, and while I'm sad to see her go I'm not surprised -- being one of the few people pushing against such toxicity must be stressful.
Similarly, the ISDS tribunals are agreed to by elected representatives. The comparison is quite apt.
Terrorism is about finding an "in" group. How do you combat this?

My favorite quote about how the internet impacts terrorism:

"If we see terrorism as more of a tribal or gang activity than political activism or warfare, then online connections become especially important to our analysis, otherwise we will be fooled by so-called lone wolves. Earlier ‘lone wolves’ like bombers Timothy McVeigh or Eric Robert Rudolph turn out on closer inspection to have ties, social & otherwise, to like-minded people; McVeigh lived with several other extremists and was taught his bomb-making skills by the Nichols, who also built the final bomb with him, while Rudolph remained on the run for several years in a community that wrote songs and sold t-shirts to praise him and was ultimately caught clean-shaven & wearing new sneakers. Lone wolves who genuinely had no contact with their confreres, such as Ted Kaczynski, are vanishingly rare exceptions among the dozens of thousands of terrorist attacks in the 20th century, and as rare exceptions, otherwise implausible explanations like mental disease account for them without trouble."
I have seen ever-lower TTLs in the wild, sub-minute even, in the past few years. Even historically, TTLs have in my experience always been respected.

I think what really tends to happen, and this gets the folks confused, is that the initial TTL is high (say, 3 days), then the sysadmin wants to do some changes, and because they want to be able to keep changing the IP quickly, while they're working on it, they set the TTL low (say, 1 minute). Only you cannot retroactively lower the TTL of the records that have been sent previously, they'll expire whenever during the following 3 days.

Your point still stands, mostly. The probability of the old record with a high TTL to be evicted from a resolver's cache during any given short period of time is low.
Just do it already without drama and stop busting our balls with this non sense.
Also LinkedIn Testimonials are approved by the person being reviewed.
I mean if the Subresource is common place, someone might do this with a third party. The spec does not seem to address this.
Los Angeles in general is pretty supportive of aviation. Not just adjacent to LAX, where you'll find SpaceX and Raytheon, but throughout the North from Pasadena into the West valley.

The trend has been decreasing for a long time, but amazingly there are still a lot of activity in aerospace. Most of the big names have left and their campuses turned into shopping malls, but there are still a lot of small specialty shops working on prototype parts.
I tend to agree but I'd like to see a frictionless system in the 5c-50c per article range. There would need to be a decent preview so you have a decent idea what you're getting (like Benedict's newsletter or The Information). And one-click.
We're talking here about the dispute resolution process, which the commenter upthread is presumably commenting about because it was the topic of a Last Week With John Oliver episode a few months ago. The dispute resolution process excludes tobacco, according to the NYT.
Yes, but it certainly bears repeating, until it is also widely known.
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