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True, which is why we'd rather talk about power than about happiness, which may be a very subjective matter, under the axiomatic assumption that we'd like to reduce gross power inequality as much as possible (which, of course, may conflict with other values that we try to balance).
Couple of smaller local banks here in the UK are using kit I recognise from the 90's.

Co-incidentally the other bank I use with state of the art kit (relatively at least) is worse in every other way.

I don't much care what kit they use as long as they get the important stuff right.
It's not like foreign governments could meddle with Indonesia's internal affairs.
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Very informative thanks!

After doing a quick web search, you can play spot the difference in air quality in these pictures: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/singapore-indonesia-haze-interactiv...
This analysis misses the knock on effects of the oil economy. In Calgary or Edmonton for instance, the centre of the oil economy in Canada, all jobs depend on oil. If you don't work in oil but work in a geographic region fuelled by oil profits, your profits will drop as well. All retail and most all service industries are being hit.

Canada was absolutely enjoying an oil boom. It can be hard to see the connection between a new highway or hospital and oil prices at 100, but rest assured they are intertwined. Yes people who owned oil production facilities benefit most as they took on the most risk, but all of Canada benefits when they do well. It is sort of like being a cafe owner in Silicon Valley saying, "I'm not sure how I, as a normal hard working person, benefits from all these rich programmers around."

Further, oil revenues are a major component of the tax base to Federal and Provincial governments. With those revenues drying out, transfer payments to non oil provinces, and social programs across Canada are threatened. Oil is absolutely fundamental to the Canadian economy at this point.
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I would think it is somewhat difficult to define who is a "foreigner" in Singapore. "Born outside the country" might be something you can clearly derive from papers.

But 200 years ago the island had about 1,000 people living there, almost all of them indigenous Malays. Current population of 5.5 million, mostly ethnic Chinese, likely does not have very many who would be descended from them?
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Because relative inequality is also a core problem. Beyond a certain level, relative inequality might be a bigger problem than absolute inequality.

There was an article recently from some conservative think tank about how if countries like Sweden and Germany were U.S. states, they would be among the poorer ones. That's true--per capita PPP income is 75-80% as high in those countries as in the U.S. But I doubt very many Germans or Swedes would rather their country be like, say, Maryland (the richest U.S. state, where wealthy suburbs surround the relative poverty of Baltimore).
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indonesia is shit
Author here :)

Yes, you are right, it is just easier for a lot of people to reason with the idea of containers. Also binary packages is difficult to distribute, that did facebook show when the scrapped the c++ hiphop compiler that made a big binary.
Yeah I have ADSL and it's 14/1Mbit down/up. Which means that uploading files to OneDrive is super slow and it takes out the download speed for the whole house while it's doing it.

It's not something that Dropbox has an issue with - not sure if it is coded specifically to avoid that.
The fax machine's popularity seems to be an evergreen story for slow news days. I remembered a story about it that mentioned that restaurants in japan still took a lot of orders through fax and in looking for it found lots of articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/world/asia/in-japan-the-fa... (the one I was looking for from 2013)
another from 2012: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-japan-f...
and the bbc itself wrote another one in 2012 as well http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19045837
"The lack of certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seen as a major hindrance for international sales."

no kidding.

China's current reputation (fast and default to crappy quality without extreme oversight) doesn't really fit what I'd want out of an airliner. Optimistically, this project succeeds and changes a bit of the culture around quality and shortcuts in manufacturing. If "Made in China" could gain some equivalence to "Made in Germany" without exploding their cost structure. That'd be an interesting world.
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Accepted that SQL security is pretty optimal with statics. How about security of your data when buying through 3rd party JS stores, commenting through 3rd party add-ons, being tracked by 3rd party snippets, etc.

Hard to deny that the additional functionality most people end up wanting beyond a simple online journal brings additional security risks, whatever the framework.
Your retirement fund was part of that "Elite."
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and if its a good one you don't just take one bite of it

(I can recall only one fairy tale with seven dwarves where it was poisoned ;-D
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"we have seen competitors actively exploiting our good faith by using our open source code to compete with us directly in commercial products. On the flip side, we have received almost no meaningful contributions to our open source code."

The first indicates that they unwisely picked a license that allowed their competitors to do that and hoped they would share out of the kindness of their heart, the second indicates that they failed to find people interested in working for free on their commercial product.

Maybe if they had been less generous with their competitors they would have paid them money which could have made it possible to keep it free.

So no the "freetards" didn't kill it and by using such terms instead of logical arguments you reveal the quality of your intellect.
Really? If you don't go outside much, those materials are great. But a lot of synthetic gear is worth it. Cotton is cold when wet. Wool is warm when wet but moths eat it. Down is worse than useless when wet.
and the profits pretty much exclusively went to private businesses and the elite

That's not true. The Alberta gov't (where most of the oil is) has a royalty system. One of the reasons why the Alberta gov't ran a surplus most years was because of all the oil royalties. That money was spread around a lot in Alberta and it had one of the lowest tax burdens and generous welfare benefits.
> Not sure why Indonesia's GDP keeps getting over-estimated by such a dramatic amount in this thread.

Sorry, that was just a bit careless looking up of numbers.
$850 billion is nominal GDP, $2.8 trillion is the PPP adjusted figure.

For Singapore, the nominal and PPP adjusted values are much closer to each other ($300 billion vs. $450 billion).
I assume that's meant to cover taxes as well.
Early in my career I signed CLAs like this and contributed code under them. Later down the road I wizened up and realized it was free work for a commercial entity that was then relicensing my work under a closed source commercial license and making a profit. They are welcome to a profit, sure, but not if it is via closed source licensing of work that I contributed to the OSS community.

So, no more CLAs for me. If they require a CLA (that lets them relicense my work) then I'll just never contribute to them.
I'd love to do that. But wool itches; down coats are very prickly. Drives me mad. And cotton gets even a little damp, its miserable.
That's not "cost of living" salary, it's "cost of living nicely" salary.
The thing is the cost of living in X should have nothing to do with the demanded funds to complete the project. It should be only based on the value delivered by the project. Maybe people will think that $20,000 for a Haskell Web Dev book is justified, personally I don't.

Even professional authors working with legitimate publishers rarely make $20,000 from a book. I do hope she can write this book cause I would really like to read it, but I also think she's a bit delusional regarding what authors in tech niches actually make for a book.
I think that Static Website Generators, aren't by them self the next big thing.
Mostly is about how the codebase influence on the content of the website, and use the the power of the existing versioning tools is indeed an advantage.
Instead by them self are quite limited.

IMO, they are the next big thing if their are contextualised in Micro Service Structure, so that's why I build Monera - http://github.com/Ideabile/monera

What you think?
Just for comparisons sake, 1000 PPM is a good deal higher than the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, which is ~345 PPM.
Would be great for parties though:

"Hey, what's that thing in pantry?"

"Oh, that's just my barrel of crude oil."
In a private property absolutist state, the farmers would be liable to all the damages caused to the surrounding properties (including to human bodies) in the form of spreading fire and pollution. They'd be sued to the ground.
Thanks! I never knew about this site, it is very good, particularly with the date sliders at the bottom.
>pretty much exclusively went to anyone with a retirement account.
> The issue is the savings in salary costs doesn't go to the consumer, it goes to the executives.

This is a bit simplistic. Some of the savings do and some go to the consumer by way of competition among firms.

Inflation has been pretty flat in recent years and that's not because governments stopped printing money. It's because prices on goods and services have been under a lot of pressure due to globalization. That means consumers are paying less than they would be if that weren't the case.

Granted, those at the top are raking in the cash. But money is worthless unless you spend it and when they spend it, somebody has to do the work that the money is being spent on. That creates jobs.

Certainly everybody wishes they were making more money and in some cases, the grievance is legitimate.
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Yeah and at one point too much bad news mean we tune it out.

I really can't suffer for Indonesia, Greece, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria and many more without going insane.
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> I'd be willing to bet that Google is collecting way more information than Signal is.

I don't understand this sentences. It's quite obvious that Google is collecting way more information than Signal and almost anyone else. I'm curious, what did you mean?
To be fair, Linus is the boss. He is the one who controls the Linux kernel development and just like at any firm, if the employees aren't doing a good job, they get shouted at. The difference here being that Linus' rants are in the public because of lkml while the scalding meted out by other bosses remain in the confines of their respective offices. Just another day at work here.
Interesting hypothesis.
I found little reference to fax being used in China early, only this http://mentalfloss.com/article/33586/idea-fax-machine-has-be....
They cannot take away licenses already granted nor stop existing holders from redistribution however I would think that the other poster would agree that such contributions are effectively wasted if the company discontinued the oss version.
Well "Made in Germany" brand took on a hammering, the only other country manufacturing planes en masse is Russia, but their plane safety record speaks for itself.

It will be a steep hill for China to climb, the question really is how much technology and knowhow was "appropriated"

Cheap toys and phones is one thing, planes are another
Interested to hear about Swift projects that are "Linux ready" - those projects which don't link with any platform specific libraries.
There is something captivating about watching two master-AI's battling it out on the Go board, it's almost Art in a way ;)

Facebook's AI lab will probably reveal more technical details at NIPS 2015. Here's the workshop on Reasoning, Attention, Memory (RAM) they are organizing that will seek to address some of the challenges around advancing from classification and prediction tasks to simple cognition:

http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/ram/
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One overlooked reason is that it's just plain harder to build searchable indexable clean databases with the writing system (kanji, hiragana, katakani, romaji and English all in use simultaneously). Manual methods often work better.
... Next Big Thing For Minimally Dynamic Sites

If your content doesn't change frequently and/or the costs of regenerating the static content is minimized for you, great.

At what point do we see static sites take a fair share of the top-X-trafficked sites? Top 100? 1000? 1,000,000?

This is probably great for a small corp's info site... but then the client asks for a contact form or members/admin secured area, and there we go down the rabbit hole again.
Companies like Activision are too big to innovate and they know it. They exist to provide stable cash flows to investors, and big payouts (exits) to the companies that do innovate. There's nothing wrong with that; but growth by acquisition is a double edged sword: a few bad purchases can sink your company.

The video game industry is largely moving toward the studio model used by Hollywood as a result.
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Thanks, I wasn't sure where I had the reference.
A fancy templating engine can be a simple templating engine by just not using all the features.

Statsi Site Generation is one of those thing s where I think Not Invented Here is a legitimate point of view. Your exact use case is never going to match the exact use case of other people so you should roll your own rather than trying to customize an existing solution.

Plus writing a SSG is super fun, it's like the most 1960's thing you can do (Input Docs->Processing->Output Docs)
Jekyll (and probably most other generators) works fine with HTML, you don't have to use markdown.
The slow upload is also a way to limit the backup size. I currently back up >4TB on CrashPlan and it took a few months of 24/7 upload.
Great sentiment, however please consider not buying wool [1], down [2], or leather [3]. Fortunately it isn't to too hard to find comfortable, fashionable, sustainable clothing that uses cruelty-free materials.

[1] http://investigations.peta.org/australia-us-wool/
[2] http://www.peta.org/features/down-investigation/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnZBJjqWe4
Have you tried Middleman (mentioned in the article)? I've used it for a few years and found it incredibly simple.

https://middlemanapp.com/

I built a very simple admin-interface with it,

input:
https://github.com/lms-io/scormfu-admin/blob/master/source/i...

output:
https://github.com/lms-io/scormfu-admin/blob/master/build/in...
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Another notable excerpt from the linked state safety agency document (http://www.michigan.gov/documents/cis_wsh_cet5041_90142_7.do...):

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Two employees of a fertilizer company in Riga, Michigan, were assigned to install a new float valve in an old 35-foot deep cistern for a new 300-foot well. This cistern was covered with a concrete slab with entry through a covered manhole. The first worker entered the cistern and as he reached a plank platform six feet below the opening, he was instantly overcome and fell unconscious into the water below. The man on the surface immediately ran to the nearby plant for help. Several workmen responded and two of them entered the cistern to render aid. They met the fate of the first worker. A passerby who had been drawn to the scene by the crowd which had gathered was told by an excited bystander that several men in the cistern were drowning. Upon hearing this, he shouted, "I can swim, I can swim" and pulled away from a company employee who was trying to restrain him. Now there were four bodies in the well.

Shortly afterward the fire department arrived at the scene with proper rescue equipment. The fire chief entered the cistern wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus. After reaching the plank platform, he removed his face mask to shout instructions to those on the surface and he, too, was instantly overcome. All five persons died in the cistern.

Tests of the cistern atmosphere revealed that H2S in a concentration of about 1000 parts per million was present when the five deaths occurred. The water pumped up from the deep well contained dissolved hydrogen sulfide which was released in the unventilated cistern.
...then exemplifies that very trait.

Inspired by the Principle of Charity, I choose to read incongruous lines like that as allowances for the "double audience". Of course destroying the rain forest and choking millions of people is worse than some theoretical threat that's mostly relevant to politics. However one can't simply write that in the Guardian. Even if one could, there's nothing wrong with appealing to people of varying ideologies.
Who am I to argue. You could use a standard modem software to create a data channel over voice.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150303132755/http://www.privat...

ZRTP/S

ZRTP/S is an extension to ZRTP protocol. It is designed to make ZRTP-secured calls work across Circuit Switched communication channels such as the traditional telephony networks (GSM, CDMA, PSTN, ISDN, etc) where internet protocol is not available.

On these telecommunication technologies peers can have a sort of “serial connection” through which they send and receive raw digital data.

The communication channel is so narrowband (9.6kbit/s) that it is not possible to run IP (internet protocol over IP) over it.

So, PrivateWave and Philip Zimmermann jointly designed and implemented ZRTP/S. It is a transport and security protocol for Voice over Circuit Switched channel, carefully adapted to be extremely narrowband and minimalistic.

After a year of researching and development, PrivateWave created a library, libzrtps. The library allowed PrivateWave to release the 1st version of PrivateGSM product - PrivateGSM CSD. It allows users to communicate securely in a point-to-point fashion with the ZRTP end-to-end encryption protocol and with a bandwidth as small as 5400bit/s.

Full specification of ZRTP/S and Source Code will be soon published. Anyone willing to create his own project, improve and eventually establish interoperability between Circuit Switched secure telephony (ZRTP/S over GSM) and Packet Switch secure telephony (ZRTP over IP) can benefit from the publications.

Interoperability represents one of the design goals of the ZRTP/S protocol.
The thing is that what professional authors working with legitimate publishers make from a book has nothing to do with the demanded funds to complete the project. It should be only based on the value delivered by the project.
Or a licence like Affero GPL, which requires you to release the source code (and changes maybe?) if you make it available online.
I did this recently as well (though for a different purpose, chemical testing). it's even more difficult than the journalist describes. No refinery wants to stop processing or halt flow in their pipelines, and so getting WTI or Bakken oil is immensely difficult when you're not at the source. There are small mom & pop ~2-3bbl/day producers who are willing to sell their oil at a premium, however.

Ventilation is a huge problem - H2S emits a very foul smell. Quickly open and close a small bottle of crude in a room, and the scent lingers for a few minutes or more.
The Indonesian government's attempts to stop burning are hindered by a lack of proper land ownership data. From the Jakarta Post:

"The one-map policy — a comprehensive map of land ownership to provide clarity on the exact boundaries of land owned by companies — should be fully implemented. Experience over the past decades has shown there is an acute lack of transparency when it comes to maps on land ownership. Without a centralized, public map, the task of pinpointing errant companies or landowners becomes murky.

"The government also seems to have been reluctant to make its existing concession maps publicly available to public forest-monitoring platforms. If we are serious about tackling the appalling air pollution, the government must release data that will facilitate public monitoring."

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/10/27/editorial-prot...
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"Cotton is cold when wet"

yes, I see that point. For mountain climbers this is bad.
For runners, its ok. At least I only stop when I am done and then I take a shower. Even in winter I run with a cotton t-shirt under a cotton sweat shirt. That's fine down to -15 degrees centigrade.
Relatedly(?) When I had a diesel car, I bought and stored a small barrel of biodiesel in the basement of our apartment (saving like $0.05 a gallon!). I was told that diesel doesn't burn except under extreme pressure, and that you could throw a match into an open cup of diesel and it would just go out.

Never actually tested that out.
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Huge respect for Moxie, but the requirement of a phone number really is a dealkiller.

1. Phone number requires a service provider
2. Service provider owns the baseband and root of your phone.
3. $government makes a "lawful request" of Verizon et. al.
to install keyloggers/screenshotters on your phone.
4. Your "secure" commms are compromised.

Signal needs to work on comprehensively rooted devices connected only via wifi for the above threat model to go away.
Movabletype anyone? Its older than wordpress.
On the somewhat related note of system-level things that can be done in web browsers... here is a project that I've been working on for several years now that is meant to be an entire desktop userland: https://yc-prototype.appspot.com

(I just submitted it to YC in the recent application batch)

There is a Terminal application with a fairly complete shell implementation.

I am currently working on integrating the *nix command line environment by bringing in PNaCl implementations of vim and python. So far, I have vim working as normal in my local development system, and python integration is underway. I should be getting a decent numpy/matplotlib developer environment up and running in the coming weeks.

It is Chrome-only, due to the dependency on the HTML5 Filesystem API and PNaCl.

ps. If you are trying to use the Terminal and it doesn't seem to respond to key presses, a simple refresh of the page should do the trick. There is a weird bug that I have yet to start tracking down.
This link to the accountability index might be better: https://rankingdigitalrights.org/index2015/
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Thankfully I had my money in HKD and Euros for several years now...

Seriously though, this is what happens when you base your economy on primary industries (aka. resource extraction) and commodities take a huge hit.

Canada has a major infrastructure deficit, no competitive industries, major brain drain (and why not, you can go to the US or Europe and get paid way more, and pay less in cost of living), and absurdly expensive real estate. Even the cost of meat has gone up to the point where it'll make an Albertan think about going vegetarian (then again, a cabbage costs like 3$).

Not sure I'd even want to start a tech company here - people are too cheap to pay for services, and good luck ever getting any funding - maybe a small government grant or something...
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