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If what you're saying is true, why don't Dan Price's employees arbitrage the difference between what Gravity is paying them ($70K) and their actual "market value"? If one housekeeper can make it worth her time for $10/hr, surely a large group of individuals can make it worth their time for $35/hr?

But actually I think you're on to something - basically Dan Price is saying he thinks the true market value of the labor provided by his workers is actually $70K a year. And what I'm really saying with my housekeeper is that I like her so much that in order to prevent any risk of her defecting to another employer I'm willing to pay $20/hr instead of $10/hr. She can try to arbitrage, but that means working for someone else for $10/hr, but since I assume she actually wants to work, why would she work for anyone other than the person who values her work the highest? So we're still in capitalist land.
See also: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/svn.html
I have no hope for either side, the right we had 4 years to see how they are and it speaks for itself, the left considering the anti-euro speeches of the extreme ones makes me fear that if they manage to form a government will not reach an understanding between them, I remember reading that Jeronimo de Sousa does not want any written and signed agreement with Antonio Costa, that also makes me very distrustful of them.

While I can understand the motivations of Cavaco Silva to label some of the parties unfit for government (anti-euro etc), it does indeed make it sound like he is favoring one side, and to make it worse they are the same party, but I do believe he is being neutral about all this.
It's more than just how you play the kickstarter crowd. Introversion have a knack of writing really playable games. Darwinia was incredible.
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And yet people habitually tip 15-20% on top of what they're required to pay in restaurants, almost universally. Lots of things aren't rational, but they could still be culturally accepted (and done without coercion, even).
It's pretty clear that everyone only thinks the drone program is a valid approach "over there" in the "wild east". This is particularly clear when considering British jihadis; there haven't yet been drone strikes in, say, Leeds. But we've already crossed the threshold of a British national going to Syria and then being bombed by the RAF.

Surely this cuts both ways. Terrorists over in Syria and Yemen have a very limited capability to harm us. They can be effectively banned from planes once they're identified. They have no long range missile capability. (There's a problem of shortrange missiles being fired from Pakistan into Afghanistan, though). So the whole thing resembles colonial policing: the small group of westerners trying to balance power among the local factions for their own political advantage.

(Anyone going to suggest that drones should have been used in Northern Ireland? Or that when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found he should have been taken out with an airstrike in suburban Boston? No?)
I cant' read anything on the thumbnail.
How seeing the poster a bit larger? Paywalls again...
Non paywall link: https://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
Most of my friends here in China just do good without the open internet. Like the article says, for every major blocked application or website, there is a home-grown substitute. People can get the information or the service they need from these substitutes.

I personally find that that the Chinese version of Wikipedia is blocked is annoying.

If the Great Firewall must exist, I'd like it to be more advanced. This way, it can block in a finer granularity. Instead of blocking a whole website, it can block an individual webpage that annoys it.
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> I spent the next few months after work writing a small component which uses the same heuristics.

While not unheard of, I find it pretty peculiar you spent several months of your personal time:

* Developing some speculative software which is very likely to be protected IP from your company.

* Not telling managers you were using proprietary data to build an application for which they are your only possible customers.

* Only after all of the leg work is done building an app to process info do you yourself process the only info you had all along

> I know some of the analysts are single mothers or people close to retirement.

I mean, what were you doing this whole time where this didn't occur to you until hundreds of hours later?

Just casually break out your GUI interface via visual basic, plug the ip address into heuristics, lookups, guesses and techniques[0] and get missing, incomplete or incorrect data?

It's not an impossible task but in several months I find it hard to believe you alone would be able to find the correct address for "Dan Palmer from Kansas" or identify that he moved from the apartment a few months ago. I would assume if you were clever enough to pull this off you would have been forward thinking enough to consider the ramifications.

[0] list of arbitrary nouns related to prediction.
I read about a scheme in the USA, where they had built single-room accommodation on the edge of some town. These were small huts, no larger than a shed, and held a very small studio/bedsit setup. These were standalone units, basically sheds/huts.

The huts were cheap, and being self-contained they were good tools to help someone re-enter the world of housing, of taking care of housing, of cooking for oneself and cleaning, etc. Training grounds for all the skills you need to survive when you finally get somewhere larger, but also large enough not to give you shelter, security.

They had other things, like a central place to go and socialise, to get used to humans again, and counsellors and support people... but the key thing is a very small space that is yours.

That would be enough... a shed.

It need not be permanent, just enough to lift someone from the very lowest point in their life to a point fractionally above that.

In effect I did this too. For shelter from snow over Winter I would trespass onto building sites after they had closed and would sleep in the site office. It was shelter, there was generally a heater and a kettle. I could make a bed, I would leave the place tidy. But most of all, it was safe and I always felt confident I would survive the night (something I wasn't sure of the times I lay shivering violently under bushes in Manchester).

Little steps, lots of support, understanding. Just giving someone an apartment isn't the answer, it's about supporting people, to help them re-integrate. A home isn't a magic bullet for people not ready to live in one.
XHTML was just a slightly different syntax for HTML, it did not change anything about CSS.
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Ah, this explains why running a file on the .o file said it was lua bytecode. This feature of luajit makes it much more appealing. Thanks for the info!
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I think many popular sites will be a false positive because some browsers ship with a list of HSTS domains.. visiting them in HTTP first wouldn't happen. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/n...
Something which is not backwardly compatible with the current web? This will never happen.
This is awesome. Thanks a lot for these cartoons. Please keep going, you have found a great niche!
For anything else other than .NET development a POSIX compliant environment is highly advantageous over a Windows environment.

I speak out of experience.
> ... emergent virtual economy.

Virtual economy, like in World of Warcraft? Not sure I follow. Is this a bitcoin reference?
As a Type 1 diabetic I've been watching these hackers with interest. There's clearly some great opportunities for linking continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pumps, particularly for young children.
Compared to old-school closed medical devices it looks like we might get much more data and much more control over what's going on.

But it's easy to see why the commercial companies haven't produced this yet. If a bug in this means you get too much insulin then you'll end up passing out and it could kill you within a really short length of time.

I spoke to one of my doctors about it and he seemed slightly scared at what these people are trying. There have been doctors researching this for years in carefully controlled trials, and now there are hundreds of people just plugging together phones and trying it out for themselves.
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"and teaching him React + Flux (Alt.js) "

Can I ask what do you use for routing and if you have good results with that mix?
> We're unlikely to see high-pressure H2S lines running through residential neighborhoods any time soon.

That wouldn't be necessary to make the technology commercially viable, though. Forty years ago Cray sold over eighty Cray-1s, initially priced at the equivalent of about USD 35 million today, and there were probably much larger numbers of mainframes, scientific computers like the PDP-10 and so on that could go for about $1m in today's money. If anyone today could offer much faster single-core execution speed at comparable costs I'm sure they could sell similar numbers of systems, especially since the infrastructure for remote timesharing and job execution is much better and more widespread nowadays. It's the titanic pressures needed to keep the material solid at all that make the idea infeasible at present I assume (how would you even whittle a circuit out of it?)
Not to mention that sunlight, air and water are pretty much free. Most fruits, vegetables and game are also free (though it requires some effort to take, you're not engaged in a traditional capital transaction with another owner), provided you don't hunt it to extinction. Then again, freezing to death in a snow storm is also free. There's lots of free to go around.
You can confirm what ptpttptp said? But you contradict him. He said the coalition with the most votes will rule (which seems to be the left-wing coalition), whereas you claim the party with the most votes will form the government, even if they have less than 50% of the votes (which would be really odd if there's a majority coalition willing to govern).

It sounds like the losing side is stealing government despite losing the election here. Unless of course that largest party can form a majority coalition with a moderate left-wing party. Then everything would be fine. But forming a minority government against the wishes of the parliament, should not be possible.
When did I say that?

If you believe I'm advocating for women being raised to become engineers then you and everyone else who downvotes me is silly.

I'm talking about gender roles. They are here, they aren't changing, and no, you cannot do anything about women equity in tech without changing the values that are ingrained in human culture.
Informative answer; thank you for that and I wish you the very best in your path to re-integration.
Thanks for giving me a spray my cup of tea all over my monitor laughing moment :-)
If this scenario exists as OP describes they would likely be bound by IP laws. Possibly having their employer owed the output of software written by the developer surrounding the business, and certainly using proprietary data and information to seed the program with, as well as test it.
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The President can invite whoever he chooses to form government. Therefore, he's choice being right or wrong is a matter of opinion, not an "affront" to democracy.
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Antonio Costa (from second most voted party) has an history of anti-democracy and putting is personal ambitions first [1].
(Sorry, portuguese language only. Anyway we seem to be in majority in this thread :)

[1] http://www.jn.pt/opiniao/default.aspx?content_id=4835053
It's a pretty famous example of a great chart. "Napoleon's march" in Google image search returns a bunch of results, eg this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard
De-identification has its limits and information can still be learned even from anonymized datasets. An alternative to this is something like Sharemind [1][2] where sound cryptography is used to make secure multi-party computation possible.

[1]: http://sharemind.cyber.ee/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAp_aZgX3B0
I don't get it. How does the math work out?

Let's suppose the market wage is $10/hr. If I offer a lucky housekeeper $20/hr, why wouldn't she just happily take the money and continue to work? Union workers don't arbitrage themselves (but they should, under your scheme, because they collectively bargain for higher than market wage).

If the cost of deceiving me is greater than zero, then she's being irrational. She can earn no more than $10/hr anywhere else, and hiring someone else to replace her would cost $10/hr (since that's the market rate). So lets say she hires someone else at a cost of $10/hr, and then goes to work for someone else - she's still earning $20/hr (the arbitrage amount plus the value of her labor) minus the cost of deceiving me. So assuming she wants to work for wages (which she must, since she offered to work for $10/hr in the first place) I don't see how it's at all rational to arbitrage the opportunity.
Oh, I'm done.

I've been off the streets for years, and now have work I love, skills I enjoy, an MSc, and stable accommodation.

But that never lessens the rawness of the memory. Those memories involve traumas, and those don't fade. One lives with ones scars.
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Alone yes, but the whole XHTML alongside all the XML modules that were being defined was a vision oriented towards to what XAML or other native layout engines offer.
That would be the hypothetical idea, yes.
Minority governments are fine, but only if no majority government is possible. For a minority to steal the election results against the wishes of a majority would absolutely be undemocratic. If there is a majority coalition that can find an agreement and is willing to govern, then they should form the government, not a single minority party.

Only when all other options have been exhausted, will a parliament generally be willing to support a minority government. It's not impossible, and it's even likely when the opposition is extremely divided (which might be the case in Portugal; I don't know), but if there is a majority coalition, then they should govern. Denying that is stealing the election from the people.
> write my ... journal using vim with markdown annotation and with embedded multimedia (screencaptures, mostly).

Are you asking for a WYSIWIG editor (one that shows you markdown and/or rendered html and pictures), or are you asking for a workflow where you dump some images in a folder and edit post.md, and link to images with markdown tags?

I don't (yet) actually need/use a blog - but just to see what I might be able to recommend others that ask, I had a look for stuff that works with github pages, and found Jekyll Now: https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now

I wouldn't say it's a great work-flow (there are gnarly bits with Jekyll, with using git, with hosting on github, with tweaking the themes...) -- but overall the out-of-box experience is good. It's not a WYSIWYG-happy-blog type situation, but it is a sane-defaults, not that-hard-if-you're prepared to install some things -- and crucially, it can run in a local "serve" mode that watches the filesystem for changes and gives a near-live preview:

Local Development
(...)
gem install github-pages
(...)
# Clone down your fork
git clone git@github.com:<uid>/<uid>.github.io.git
# Serve the site and watch for markup/sass changes
jekyll serve

I should note that "jekyll serve" is part of standard jekyll; so you don't have to use "Jekyll Now" by any means.

[edit: I should probably add that what I've actually been using myself lately is just IPython (for solving assignments in basic calculus and statistics). Sadly doesn't work with the "It's all text!"-plugin/external editor for vimperator as it doesn't use "plain" input-fields -- so if you do "real" writing, rather than just some code (and graphs generated from said code), you'll probably be better off with something more focused on the Markdown part, like Jekyll]
I was hoping that in om next boilerplate will be cleaned up, but seems like it's not really different from original om. No reify is nice though.
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I 100% concur. If you look at PakG1's post above he links several similar Reddit posts. The OP is active in every thread defending their decision/POV.

This thread is silent either because the troll got bored or because they didn't want to influence the discussion as they would compromise the objectivity of the exercise.
Since when is WIFI considered low tech?

I think these definitions need a bit of a rehaul, flying baloons are much more low tech then WiFi antenna IMO.
I think that he is trying to imply that society imposes men the burden to endure things. We cannot complain nor show suffering. If we do so, we are discriminated.

I see this behavoiur a lot.
This is probably the best introduction to Flux I have read. I think people (in general) respond better to visual representations of complex processes- and this visual story nails it.
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This one looks very similar to Ractive

http://www.ractivejs.org/

Which isn't a bad thing :).
That doesn't change the fact that this is a situation that should not occur. When it happens, someone fucked up. Maybe pedestrians are throwing themselves into oncoming traffic, or the car has already made some pretty terrible mistakes.
There is a following guide to Redux and its differences to Flux at the end of the article[0]. Great explanation!

[0] https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-intro-to-redux-3afb77550...
I have the same opinion and said the same thing in discussions with some friends. Being powerless is the element that needs to dealt with, by being homeless against your will for example.

I could imagine myself being homeless just because I choose to do so. I could also imagine that I'd live in a home and feel imprisoned by obligation. Between those two cases, I'd prefer self-chosen homelessness.
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I write my own research journal using pandoc[0] and a simple mkfile[1]. My requirements are a bit different from yours, though. I don't need embeded multimedia, but I rather use a lot of Unicode characters for mathematics.

Maybe you could use write markdown and convert to HTML5 using Pandoc? Your multimedia could be included with some embedded HTML. If you automate the compilation process suitably, you can have your journal open in your browser while writing in Vim, and see the result almost real-time.

[0] http://pandoc.org/

[1] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/mk
Thank you for your reply, I should've been more detailed in my question. I think I would prefer a setup where I edit using vim and the rendered html is instantaneously rendered next to the vim window. However, I think that embedding images from clipboard is tricky using vim, at least to my knowledge. So I don't really know how to setup an efficient workflow regarding that.

I think I will have to take a look at that jekyll now next. :)
I didn't at all think about the terminal/computer difference when I wrote the above. You are absolutely right that this wasn't the best example.
Yeah, I had something like that in mind. I even thought using latex (with Texmaker) but haven't quite managed to pull all the pieces together yet.
I have a toy which allows <script type="text/smalltalk">. The scripts get transpiled on-the-fly to Javascript.

(Although the process you have to go through to hook a new script type is painful. There are, like, four different cases you need to consider, and scripts have to be processed in the right order but handled synchronously, and...)
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If we're flinging anecdata around: I don't currently own an Apple Watch (but will get a rev2) and I know at least 10 people that do (some have bought more than one for partners, etc.)
"the most left-wing parties would be the weakest part of the coalition".

Nope. Their votes would be as necessary to govern as the ones from the major party. Without them the coalition would break apart. It would be just a matter of time till they show their power.
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>Taxation is not partial slavery because the money is not yours to begin with

Ah, we have found the key contention. An interesting thought is to consider a world of fully mobile people - who will move and who will stay in a country with universal basic income and high taxes?
>We need to come up some better language for people who could afford a house in another town, but prefer to live in the open in order to be in some particular geographic spot.

How about "homefree" for voluntary homelessness? Much as people who deliberately choose not to have children have adopted the term "childfree" to describe their lifestyle, as opposed to "childless".
Unless, she's already compromised your browser and the two previous comments are in fact placed by her!

In all seriousness, I appreciate the added context your (particularly this last clarifying comment) add to the discussion.
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I spent about an hour looking for a note taking app today. The problem with most markdown editors is that the note taker rarely reads the note in absentia. I mean, I read my notes as I write them and edit them, but more often than not, I am changing them as I read or consult them.

The mou/macdown/classeur approach is to have a preview that can be toggled or visible in split screen mode. Conversely, notes.app on Mac works really well and you can write and read notes on the same "space" but it doesn't support markdown.

Maybe I am an edgecase, but I would like to write notes in markdown and have them render line by line[0] so that I have one document and not an editor and a display. Almost wrote one myself but the opportunity cost of spending weeks making it (if I could even deliver) would likely not offset the bit of frustration I get using another editor.

If this exists, I want it bad.

[0] or like 3 lines at a time or whatever.
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The right-wing parties ran as a coalition, single box in the ballot. The left-wing parties ran isolated and want to form a coalition after the results. The problem here is one of perspective: there are no winners or losers, there is only number of seats in parliament, and the left has the majority. The President can invite whoever he chooses to form government and he chose the right.

There have been successful minority governments before. In this case, the left (if they can reach an agreement) is claiming that they will pass a vote-of-no-confidence on this government.

There is another issue here. The President himself is on the way out and he cannot call for new elections. But everything is proceeding according to our constitution, so democracy is safe.
What is a "domain"? Its a name attached to some organization and an entry in a database. The problem is you have middle-men controlling that database, which means its structure can't change.
RE Edit: Yeah, I'm just too lazy to care if there isn't a confusion point when I'm on a PC (I'll go find an o-umlaut for schoen if I'm feeling adventurous). Apple makes i18n support like that much more convenient, I wish Microsoft would as well. Memorizing ASCII codes for characters isn't particularly nice.
Pandoc can include LaTeX math, and render it in HTML in a few different ways.