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People with higher incomes give more to charity. People with more disposable income give more to charity. Government "charity" consumes about 70 percent of the money in bureaucratic overhead. Private charity overheads are typically below 30 percent, and much better in many cases. What you want is more money in the pockets of people so that they can give more to charity. Any dollar spent on voluntary charity vs taxes is much more efficiently used to help the needy directly. If you really care about poor people you should want more money going directly to private charities not the government. In fact, private charities were a much bigger part of day to day society before the welfare state and poverty was decreasing between the 40s and 60s. When the government steps in it changes people's behaviour and takes away more and more of their disposable income. I know you'll find this hard to believe but its true the richest in our society give more than anyone else to charity.
This is actually really cool, but it took a while for me to figure out what exactly it does. Perhaps you could emphasize the fact that it allows you to preform a text search on the text of the video?
It means what it means. Do you want me to define each word?

It doesn't mean ignoring devs who have foresight; it means looking at the options and picking the best one. Not endlessly debating. We agree on the approach but I think you misread my comment as being a unilateral decision all the way through. I'm just saying you have to be able to make a tough decision without waffling and without all of the facts but with enough conviction that people fall into line with you.
Surprisingly, no. Or at least they're not claiming so. They say it was a problem with a database server.
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Back in the day, when porn was in the big online bubble state, sites would offer over $.50/click to their site. When I first started (ab)using that system, the sites immediately bumped it to $.25/click and then $.10/click, and now I think its like $.000034/click, or basically nothing. They would also give you additional money for actual sign ups, and had a bonus day on every month where you made a significant amount more for sign ups.

Ultimately I think I cashed in like $7000 when I was 12 before shit hit the fan and the company my buddy and I were using sent him a check that bounced. It was tough explaining it to our parents, but ultimately everyone knew about alladvantage and we would always say it was something similar to that. We also cashed in on alladvantage, I think it was $20/month just to have the thing on for a few hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage
A little bit of metric, a lot of non-metric tradition. i.e.: "18-yard box."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_pitch
I forgot to add, if you don't like the job a charity is doing, you can give your money to a different charity. With government, not so much.
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Hey Brian!

I remember stopping by the office back during the fireplug days and having a chat with Travis and the team! Happy to hear of the ambition progress in the press
I read the article and i just dont agree on some points.

One point is that basic income would mean an increase in new businesses forming. The problem is that while yes, more people will have the ability to start a business. The increase burdon of taxes and most likely, regulations that go along with it, will make it difficult to move from the startup phase to actually running a profitable company.

Countries like denmark and sweden are great examples of this in action: small companies are scarce,the majority of investors avoid them, and most people either work for the government or a large company.
That was a different "Git and Mercurial over HTTPS slow or not responding" outage from yesterday (or "02:00 and 03:00 UTC on 15 October 2015")

The more recent one started @ Oct 15, 20:19 UTC, they don't seem to have root cause on the status page for it yet.
Because women commit vastly fewer crimes than men in almost every way.

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/...
is it just me? I could not play the video at http://www.apple.com/researchkit/ , other video sites play well here, running FF under Linux.
My gut says a majority, I believe that the war is truly inward. A flagging system wouldn't be too difficult. You could even flag people who aren't dead and yet haven't raised a flag in some time-frame (Unibomber). Statistical analysis, the data's all there. Set up keys that resemble the analyses's output. Find what you're looking for. Unfortunately, those keys are controllable. You'll always find people who fit a certain profile, you will always find who you're looking for. Unfortunately, you'll require some vagueness to ensure that the net you've cast doesn't have holes too large.
There is one kind of preparation: having graphics programming as a hobby, or failing that, an interest in everything under the sun and nonstop studying.
I guess ... but how "technical" do you have to be to know to resist typing in your password in a phishing scenario?

We don't say one needs "technical" knowledge to resist giving out your SSN and bank PIN on the phone to someone who calls claiming to be your bank. It's just common sense.
90% of people guessed CGI. Author just lost a lot of bets.
Well, you can't prune the blockchain until you have fully downloaded and verified it anyway. So if no clients are hosting the full, complete blockchain then you won't be able to sync at all, which will be bad for everyone.

You could theoretically get around this by starting sync from a known (hard coded) recent block + UXTO set, but at that point you are losing _all_ transaction history, not just your OP_RETURNs. So, I don't think OP_RETURN data added to the blockchain today will be going anywhere fast.
And now Brazil has twice bad crippling inflation that threatens a drastic revaluation of the currency (the first time they even had to rename their currency the "real" - who knows what's next) which threatens to retrace much of the progress made in reducing poverty. Who knows how much of that would have happened anyway due to economic liberalization and technological improvement?
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Well the problem is a lot of welfare that we have now wouldn't have typically exist as welfare before it's institution. An example would be the destruction of the family unit which has lead to an entire class of single mothers who depend on welfare who simply did not exist in previous generations.
Oh wow cant believe my school is on yc. Also just to note the next game is this weekend.
What the flying fuck

>1) It assumes that, just because you're a member of homo sapiens species, you ought to get resources that others produce. Why? I care more about my dog than I care about most people. If someone kidnapped my dog and 100k random people and told me: "You can either save your dog or 100k random people. Choosing one will mean me killing the other". I would choose my dog to live and permit 100k people to die.

If you thought the trolley problem was a nice ehtics question, that right there is pure neglect for the value of human life. Can't do anything about that for you mate.

>2) Something very similar could be applied to dating and reproduction. Why not? You could argue that you live long enough to reproduce and that reproduction is the basic, biological purpose of life for all organisms. So, if someone is unattractive, just create a Basic Reproduction Guarantee. The same reasoning used for redistributing money could be used for redistributing sex. Since Basic Income is not considered stealing, then Basic Reproduction should not be considered rape.

The term "basic" income is stupid, and should not be used. What is basic is being able to live in reasonable conditions. As it stands, the only way to do that reliably right now is to have a guaranteed income. Sex is not necessary for you to survive.
And contrary to what you might think, no, basic income is not stealing. Taxes are not stealing. That's part of living in a society. If you wish to not have things stolen from you, I highly recommend going to live in a remote part of the world, where noone will prevent you from doing your job. Of course, your job is probably only possible because of the whole framework that your society has put into place.
Confirmed, this issue more or less took down Amazon's Merchant Web Services API today.
I went to brazil last year and i saw some of the poorest people on my entire life.

Brazil isnt a good example of this idea working...
I don't see this as a compelling argument.

When I was 8, saying all the other kids did it too didn't make whatever I did ok.

If a student gets caught cheating in Rice's class, and says 'but the other students were cheating too' that wouldn't make it ok.
Not sure how welfare programs, which already exist, don't have this same problem and yet, we manage.

But even if you did this on a global level and gave everyone $20, think about what that impact would be. It's an interesting thought experiment. Consider the impoverished nation where an extra $20 would significantly impact a person's life. Would the dollar replace the local currency there eventually? Would that strengthen the dollar overall? Would it stimulate the world economy such that we'd all benefit?

I don't know the answers, but this sounds like it could work for just the U.S. and experiments in the past with it during the Nixon era have had positive results. Why would it not work on a global scale?
When people help each other it's called "community". Its a social behavior as old as history.

Community cannot be coerced.

Unrelated - money is no longer on gold-standard it is on labor standard. One US dollar is equal to an amount of productivity. They cannot be decoupled without dangerous effects. Gold was once an efficient measure of labor and was hence a form of money. Labor is and has always been the unitary method of exchange.
I have 2Gbps in Tokyo. Connected by gigabit Ethernet to the router I consistently get over 500Mbps symmetric, but with the wifi i never get over 50/20Mbps. Probably because every single 2.4 channel is occupied by several networks.
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And indexes on expressions! And a new full-text search module, FTS5! And slightly less restrictive partial index support! And some other things that look nice but don't get exclamation marks.

This is a big release.
You need to understand how this game works. The word mistake does not mean what you think it means, just like "collect" and "interrogate" doesn't mean what you, and everyone else, thinks it means.

How convenient that it was a "mistake". Reminds me of the time the US "mistakenly" bombed Al Jazeera's offices. [1]

So the US will offer full support of the MSF's calls for a War Crime tribunal investigation?

What really amazes me is that no matter what information comes out, no matter how stark the facts, how brutal the reality, how corrupt the politics, how illegal the tactics, there is always a band of American apologists ready to step up justify cold blooded murder.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_bombing_memo
Interesting that you mention that. I just now finished Permutation City and in my opinion it was pretty terrible ... as a work of fiction. Pace was off, characterization was horrid. I guess Incandescence wouldn't work out too well for me. Permutation City is the first Egan novel i've read though. I had no issues with his short stories though so I suppose I will stick with that format anytime I'm hunkering for some rigorous hard sci-fi.

Incidentally I read Permutation City right after Surely You are Joking Mr Feynman! While the Feynman book was an obvious page turner the Egan book was slow going. The difference to me was quite jarring and must have contributed in part to my disliking of the book.
America is already pretty anti-immigration

It has failed miserably, then. Of course, there were land law and exclusion acts enacted as legislation throughout history. Nonetheless, the USA's arrangement of basing citizenship on the principle of jus soli as opposed to jus sanguinis means its identity is a national/soil-based one and not an ethnic bloodline division, making it nominally inclusive. Hard nativism is a rather rare sentiment these days, too.
As part of transitioning to a career in data science/AI, I'm currently enrolled in Udacity's Data Science nanodegree. As part of that, one of the projects was to pick an interesting dataset to perform some exploratory data analysis on using the R programming language. I chose to explore some MLB statistics in relation to Fanduel Scores. Thought some of you might be interested.

This analysis doesn't even come close to exploring all the available relationships, but was a fun project and I discovered some useful information to aid in building a predictive model.

Hope others enjoy it.

-Cole
Can you go into more detail?

In particular, can Emacs deal with cases where the Unicode RTL algorithm gives nonsense, such as editing HTML in Arabic?

(Because HTML tags are made of punctuation, Roman letters, and attribute values that could be in any language, you can end up with LTR segments that may include half a tag and some adjacent text. At that point you can't even see visually what they include; you have to reason out what Unicode is doing. You might even end up with a tag that begins with an open angle bracket that looks like > and ends with a closing angle bracket that also looks like >.)

I ask this not as someone who knows any Arabic, but someone who has to deal with the results of complexities of text such as RTL formatting. To make mixed-direction text editing "perfect", someone would have to put a lot of task-specific design into it.
Attributing all WW economics to HR hiring noise is a bit of a stretch, I think. There are many other factors, from psychological "we must produce maximum to guarantee victory" to huge belic investments leading to advances in key technologies.
Thanks for your comment. First time use is key so I'll definitely work on that! I put up an "about" page but it's not easily accessible (bottom of the page).
Check out https://github.com/odeke-em/drive if you are interested in Google Drive support on Linux. Its far from perfect, but has worked quite well for my uses.
Alaska solves this partially solves this problem by setting a timeframe. You must live there for 1 year. Same idea could potentially be used (but maybe extended because of larger $)
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It would be interesting if basic income were tied to some combination of the Gini index and inflation rate. It would serve as a nice automatic offset to deflation, then fade away as the economy took off and wages increased.
It has succeeded spectacularly. Have you tried to hire a foreigner as a startup? It is absurdly difficult and essentially creates dramatically unfair advantages for large corporations that can afford to streamline through the bureaucracy while startups cannot. Additionally, once the employee is sponsored by a company it is unfairly difficult for them to move in the job market, once again helping the large corporation at the expense of the worker.
It's not that there was no motive, it's that you don't know enough of what's going on to see the possibilities.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-06/did-obama-bomb-doct...
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I still don't see how that's an argument. How is it unfair to offer US citizens the resources collected by the US government? That is the express reason the concept of a "US citizen" exists.

US citizens pay taxes. They choose to distribute that money among themselves. That is the purpose of the US government: to protect and serve the interests of US citizens.

If you feel that this is morally wrong, then I don't see how you can't argue that every single aspect of any government is morally wrong. The fact that I live in the US and not Syria is unfair, but it's not morally wrong.

"If however, you offer a check that the person can use at their discretion (and thus choose to for example use it for vacation or gambling or any purpose they choose), then it is unfair and morally questionable. I think this is obvious."

Do you have a job? Are there stipulations on how you can spend your money? Because you are arguing that paying people without such stipulation is morally questionable.

And furthermore, Immigration is already controlled. You don't get US Citizenship without the approval of the federal government. How does this change that? They let fewer people get citizenship? If these immigrants are benefiting the economy, then surely they are worth the basic income we'd be paying them for that benefit.

Which gets me to my point: You're not handing out free money for nothing. You're paying people to be economic participants. There's no reason to require stipulations on that, and no reason for you to think it's considerably more unfair to anybody than the regular variation in life's circumstances.
Yep. You should never ever be on the critical path

1. If you don't deliver and you hold up the schedule, you lose authority as a leader because really … if you can't, then you can't expect others.
2. You WILL be diverted to other tasks that will hold you up

Knowing #2 and still causing #1 is fatal.
The target of many scams are folks in their 60s and 70s. This isn't a question of lack of common sense, but an issue with deteriorating mental faculties.

Go beyond, most folks just aren't savvy enough to recognize a technical risk. Folks who spend all their time in tech forget that what we do is complex and confusing to the average person. People expect their technology to work like their cars. Given the way technology is marketed, this is not an unreasonable expectation.
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This might be politically impossible because of my mom:

Mom: "The democrats are taking away Bush's tax credits. They're a bunch of idiots. It's my money, not the government's."

Me: "Yeah, I think it would be great if we established a basic guaranteed income."

Mom: "But that's socialism."
I haven't had much experience with LED bulbs, the early ones I saw weren't omnidirectional, cost a bunch, and needed good ventilation for a reasonable lifespan. I earnestly tried CF for awhile. Maybe due to early technology or cheap bulbs I had to replace them way more than incandescent (I suspected inconsistent power affected lifespan). In addition to that, the extra price and bad color temperatures or flickering bothering me made be go back to grabbing incandescent bulbs when I've had to replace lights. I do plan on doing research and switching to LEDs--I've noticed some LEDs have flickering that annoy me I hope I find something I like after some research.

A year or so ago I bought a recharge pack (Microsoft branded) for my 360 controllers. After only a few charges they wouldn't hold a charge anymore so I went back to alkalines. Either it was a poor quality battery, poor charger, or poor charging habits.

Taking time to research and paying more for a quality solution can be too much for most people. Prematurely releasing technology or poor implementations can also turn people off.
worked for me w/chrome on linux.
I highly recommend "The Psychology of Computer Programming" by Weinberg to this list. One of the best books about programming that I've ever read.
Parenscript is indeed pretty amazing: Well documented and extensible.

I am not a fan of "write javascript in language X", but for code generation (say: generate js-equivalents of existing DAO class definitions in cl) parenscript is a real gem.
Content-addressable memories are also available in the semiconductor world. They enjoy a lucrative niche in networking hardware boxes as address lookup tables, usually embedded in the processor core.
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Cool, thanks! It's funny that I and other potential target audience members here, were apparently unaware of this; the internet is a big place. It's a bit too expensive for me, I think -- at least the pre-assembled version. I may steal the smartcard idea, though (or some other form of hardware security.) It might be possible to coerce a phone's SIM slot into serving as an interface to a card.
Because the campus killings score political points and that is the only game he plays. He certainly isn't going to hand points to opponents; here or at home. He portrays a random shooting as an epidemic while totally ignoring the violence in minority areas of US cities where far more die than in the college shooting.

Its all politics. Obama loves guns when they serve his political interest. He doesn't love those he owns, he uses those which support his position.
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So I just signed up for a Mikandi account, you know, just to explore a little...

A couple of things:

1. I tried buying account credit (aka "Mikandi Gold"), but it wouldn't work, looks like jQuery isn't being loaded, error from console:

> ReferenceError: $ is not defined [1]

2. Do you guys accept Bitcoin/cryptocurrency? If not, why? Seems like the perfect venue for it, I would think most geeks wouldn't want those types of purchases tied to their credit card.

[1] https://mikandi.com/account/buygold
But how did this compare to other states that did not legalize marijuana?
Confounding variables can be quite pesky.
It was MUCH worse before. a 27% reduction in poverty is pretty impressive in 4 years
Nonsense. There were plenty of single-mother families before welfare. Men often died in industry or off at war. Life was excruciatingly difficult for these people, and private charity simply did not cut it. This is the kind of things that 'widows and orphans funds' were for, but they were never enough.
Being an NLP guy myself, I think this is a big BIG BIG deal and was really hoping that it would be Apple that would provide a way to hook into the voice recognition interface back when they were talking about their watch. :-(

Voice recognition has begun to come to our devices in the most unexpected way. The old way of thinking was that voice recognition would come via a powerful process running on a powerful PC, locally (remember Dragon Naturally Speaking?). In fact, if you look up many US patents re: voice recognition, you will see inventors who explicitly say that it's not possible to have voice recognition over a streaming connection.

Today, the easiest way to access free voice recognition is in your Chrome browser, with Google only very recently bringing Speech to Text to the Mac version (they've had Text To Speech for a while, I think). Firefox's bringing it out real soon and MS is... well... I dunno. They've got Cortana and Satya Nadella recently enjoyed using it so much that he probably doesn't want his users to have anything else :-) .

The unintended side-effect of this slow creeping of voice recognition tech into our devices is that it's gonna spawn a whole host of Medium articles on Design and I'm probably gonna have to subscribe to them to have some artist tell me how users would like to use my tech :-(
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So pretty!

IMO, the variable connector width in Arabic script seems to make letterforms less distorted compared to the variable-width letterforms than in Western scripts.