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Indeed. His plan would be massively damaging environmentally. It would encourage a huge increase in exploration for new deposits, and it would subsidize the worst types of mines.

The craziest aspect of it, is the assumption that you could pull a meaningful fraction of known mines off-line to accomplish the end goal of seizing up the coal market (essentially crashing it, such that it can't recover).

Here's what would actually happen: Gates & Co. buy up 10% of mines (at a huge $ cost), the price of coal rises say 50%, increasing the profitability of the other 90% of the industry. The other 90% then invests those gains into more output, more exploration, and they bring on-line what were formerly less profitable deposits (Gates & Co. will not be able to buy all of those, the planet is a big place, and there's an extraordinary amount of coal).

You would have to buy a truly massive number of mines, in an extremely short amount of time, to accomplish the plan. The moment you start trying to buy up mines, the price of each of them will rise, so you'd have to do it impossibly fast.

There's no scenario you can walk through in which it's a feasible plan. Not even close.
The point everyone is missing is the reaction time of a driver compared to a computer is so different. A computer have millions of cpu cycles to estimate the best decision during the time a human haven't even understood there will be an accident.
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The value of an APA membership is primarily that it makes access to published research affordable. If someone wasn't interested in accessing journal content, or required to present at conferences requiring APA membership to further their careers, I can't imagine why they'd pay to join.
> 20 files changed, 307 insertions(+), 746 deletions(-)

Two orders of magnitude faster and half the code size? That's nice.
It depends. I tried to switch to Simple, but at the time I was working as an independent contractor. The maximum size of a check you can deposit without mailing it to them is $3k. Having to mail in every check I received was a hassle that outweighed any benefits Simple provided over a regular bank account.
No, no, no. The reason the price moved is because market makers saw the trades on one exchange, then updated their quotes on others. This is normal, regular, to-be-expected, good behaviours. Calling it front running just shows a lack of basic understanding. Or in Brad/Lewis case, probably an ulterior motive (selling Thor or promoting IEX).

In fact, the book even shows it's not front running because Thor just delays orders so they hit all market makers simultaneously, so they cannot react.

There's no "market", but a group of exchanges. The orders to a single exchange execute immediately; there's no way to do what you're saying. And across exchanges, this behavior is exactly like it should be. Here's how to verify: increase the times.

Suppose the trader moving a big block sent an order to one market to buy up 10K shares. Then he sits for an hour. In that scenario, do we expect the price to stay the same? Of course not! Everyone sees the one order on that one market and reacts (canceling their outstanding quotes on other markets, for instance). That's all that's going on, except faster than humans can react. Why is it suddenly bad when a computer does it?

Front running is well defined. Front running is not just acting like a normal intelligent person and updating your quotes (or even trading) after a large order executes.
I tend to believe that centralization of power will lead to corruption simply by making it more possible/likely.

Do you think that something like Ethereum (https://www.ethereum.org) would enable us to sidestep these kinds of problems, at least on the web?

What other ways might we design our systems to be resilient against unethical treatment?
I'm not quite sure what you're objecting to here. That missionaries operate in PNG?
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One hypothesis I have myself, is that it could be possible for ADHD to be developmentally "caused" by venous/lymphatic insufficiency. In est, the brain notices early on that it can't drain waste amines from the neural cleft through the glymphatic system (because it's underdeveloped), and downregulates their production to compensate.

If that were to be true, then you'd expect to see a high correlation between people who have ADHD, and people who are very sensitive to heat. Blood would be pooling toward their extremeties—though not necessarily to the point of causing edema—and keeping them warm, but also making it easier for the environment to overheat/overcool their blood, somewhat similarly to people with third-degree burns.

It would also suggest that people with ADHD would feel positively about any medication that causes a parasympathetic response, pushing blood toward their core—caffeine being a primary example.
This will make DoS attacks harder.
Not later than yesterday I was explaining why syncookies on Linux aren't fast - you can't send more than say 300k pps of syn cookies for a single socket.

This patch seem to fix that. I wonder if this patch is merged yet.
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Well, if dang doesn't have a problem with it, why not? Apparently it works:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10479301
...and it's broken.

apt-get rekt

EDIT: "just a little hiccup with networking, should be full online in 5" - https://twitter.com/twitchinstalls/status/660548203054505985

EDIT2: It begins!
I used to write mostly comedy scripts (tone similar to Get Shorty) but only ever produced one (extremely low-budget) feature-length film which was more of a modern noir.

Still have numerous scripts that I want to finish (who has the time?) but my hobby took a turn a bit and I created Moviestud.io (http://www.moviestud.io) to help me produce that film. It supports Fountain import. :)

National Novel Writing month starts tomorrow which would be a great time to scratch that screenplay itch!
How should nations that sit on top of large coal reserves and lack any other fuels work without energy source?
Not everyone has enough money to build nuclear plant or enough wind for wind power plants, or enough high water for water power plants, or enough sun for solar plant.

More over, why do you want coal plants to be disabled now?
Developed countries used it for many years, until they got richer and have the luxury of choosing how they will get power. You want undeveloped countries to use more pricey power source from the start? This will slow down their development (in comparison to the first round of countries).
Given the trend to wetter seasons in the south I wonder if anyone is thinking about increasing reservoir capacity there?
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The second example adds statistical noise, but does not invalidate Graham's procedure. In the absence of noise, the distribution of accepted people will be H(x-C) f(x) for the main group, and H(x-C-K)g(x) for the other group (where H(x) is a step function, f(x) and g(x) are the distributions of quality of the two groups).

If noise is present, then you get convolve(H(x-C)f(x), k(x)) instead, where k(x) is the pdf of the noise distribution.

You'll need more samples to measure this, but it's completely measurable via Graham's method.
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I'm honestly surprised that Super Mario Maker doesn't just run AI marios through your course in the background (like a linter) to automatically give an estimated difficulty delta for any change you might make—or even an initial difficulty estimate for Course World before people start playing the course for real. Nintendo does have a good few AI people (working on e.g. SSB4 doing the Amiibo learning stuff), but you never see that learning applied anywhere else.
You're comparing # of cpu cycles to time taken to "understand" something. If the CPU can make a wrong decision REALLY REALLY quickly it's still gonna be wrong, whereas the human will have a continuous gradient of moving towards decision making.
Wind blows 24 hours, 3 times more water and more cheaply too:
https://youtu.be/9xYXWISWv5I?t=6m28s
Sure, they could. Things can always change for the worse in the future, but at least now the default state is different. Knowledge that something may change in the future doesn't render everything in the present futile, even for symbolic stances of self-governance. This is certainly toothless symbolism, but it doesn't make it meaningless. It's a reaction to the disgust most of the membership felt towards the organization. There will always be individual psychologists that will do what they're paid to do anyway, but I'd still prefer the body with the biggest political influence stake out a "not horrible" position on any given subject.

Relevant name for the comment, by the way.
I think it would be much better to make these obligatory consumer and employee contracts unenforceable to begin with instead of trying to fix this arbitration issue. They are predatory and exist only to protect the interest of these corporations. Everyday life shouldn't be a legal negotiation.
Upon defection of a click-through license (probably doable, given the formal language of legal contracts), examine the text for arbitration clause with opt-out text, and pop up a little dialog or sidebar that says "click here to opt out of the arbitration clause". That might require manual identification of how to do so initially, but I could imagine building contract signatures so that the process could be further automated for others.
A fourth is to deliberately select low-performing members of the discriminated-against group in order to game Graham's metric and justify the bias.
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Shady landlords try this all the time.
I think you're commenting on the wrong page. WeatherWest isn't paywalled.
Better be good! I ordered the book right away.

ty for the suggestion.
You are right, but the people I have steered towards Apple, expect a friend, especially when they spend $20,000 on various gadgets.

Apple used to be a pretty good friend, but they are slipping.
Personally, I never bought/needed the friend experience, and might be the only person thrown out of a Apple Store. (Still don't know if it was my comment I made to the Genius Manager who was barking orders to the employee helping me? I politely asked the Genius Manager, "Why are you checking the inventory, when you are walking with my item in your hands?". Yea, it was my fault, I don't like power hungry little managers. Why are they always little in stature? I had the incident video taped on YouTube, but felt sorry for the little guy, and didn't want him to loose his job. It was priceless though. It was a clear video of him holding the metal door, screaming at me to leave. It was priceless. I did question my own sanity after the incident though. Am I that bad, or was he having a bad day? I will never know.)

Back to my point. The people I steered towards Apple spent thousands, so they can have Geniuses hold their hands like a good friend would. I got tired of holding their hands while on a Microsoft product. I gave them to Apple. Apple can fix their whiny problems. Problems caused because they never bothered to learn anything about computing/programming. A problem Apple was complicit in? 'You don't need to think with our products. They just work! Sit back and push those buttons!' (Sorry, just finished helping someone who had somehow ended up with 12 Photos Applications on their computer, and I still can't figured out what they did.)

The problem is, these people, I steered towards Apple don't know an App from a website, so they wouldn't even understand this argument--and they would never get the concept of a "walked off garden". The people who spend the most at Apple seem to know the least about computing, so Apple isn't affected if the few people, like me, leave?

Until the masses stop buying their products they will still be selfish dictators? I hate to say this, but my Apple days are over. One--because I can't afford their products anymore, and will patch up my gadgets from the unending supply of parts on EBay. And two--I just don't like the company since Jobs died. I didn't want to think one man could make a company, but in this case it's arguable? Yea, I know it was "walked off garden" with Jobs too, but I didn't care as much back then, or maybe I was one of the clueless masses?
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This isn't true. I've been reading up on this, and there are markets that sorta do exactly this. "Call markets" instead of continous markets, I think? (Or a hybrid with "crossing" markets?) One example is POSIT where you submit orders and the matching rules are not a time line, but use other criteria (price, size of order). Even some continous markets give size priority. And to the extent you can "cut in line", that's the whole point of a quantized trading period. Instead of rushing to the best price, anyone that orders at the same price will get filled equally. This kills the need for speed. (The trick is probably in making cancels take place in the next quantized period.)

As far as sub penny, presumably different firms would have different costs, so the level of profitability would be different. While dominated by exchange fees (or rebates), at 8 decimals there's still room to compete. (Perhaps with new order types that allow displaying your quote rounded, so as to not trigger another feedback loop where firms keep lowering by 0.00000001.)
It's funny you say that. I always remark at how god damned similar Facebook is to AOL. Keywords and all.
I've often wondered why there wasn't a charity fund that would just buy up portions of rainforests to turn into nature preserves, similar to the way Norway paid Brazil to protect the Amazon: www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/15/us-climatechange-amazon-norway-idUSKCN0RF1P520150915
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This is the same thing as trying to corner the market by buying up the supply. It doesn't work. The supply will increase faster than anyone can buy it.
Google banned disconnect.me -- a popular privacy app that blocks various tracking mechanisms (without blocking advertising itself) -- from Android[0]. Apple had no problem with the iOS version.

It seems that each big centralized walled garden has their targets.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-google-banned-connect-mob...
Randomization usually doesn't work in solving such issues. But making trades execute simultaneously doesn't need to randomize. You can just give everyone a pro rated amount. A firm that submits large order gets more shares filled. This isn't really game able is it? If a firm quotes a price for 10x the shares, the run the risk of actually trading all the shares at that price!

(There's also more complicated rules possibly, like trades only execute when there's a certain demand, or other liquidity based measures. Not sure they're good but it's an option.)
As someone that used to hate Apple and still does, I use apple products (don't buy them myself). There are many reasons people use Apple products. From the support to the high quality of their products. There's also the fact that a macbook can run all 3 main operating systems at the same time, whereas no other hardware can easily and legally do so. Macbooks are also pretty much the lightest and smallest laptops you can get.

Some people also get them because of loyalty to Apple from the past, or because OSX is unix-compatible.

The point I'm trying to make is, you can disagree with Apple and still use their products. I hate Apple but my work provided me with a mac mini and a macbook, which I use every work day. I also have developed iOS apps even though I've never owned an iPhone.

Also, if you are talking about iPhones, you are going to see a lot of those everywhere because you really only have 2 viable choices anyway.
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Dunno but its the best framework I've ever used. Looking at you rails.
Wouldn't this be akin to creating an alternative to the world wide web and not the internet? It's still needs the internet or any other similar global network to work not to mention that beyond being excessively wasteful I don't really see the point of having a "proof of work" based network rather than other distributed peered networks like Tor or Maelstrom.

Also considering his constant legal troubles and his general some what self destructing personality I have very big doubts that anyone would actually fund this guy.

That note aside I don't really see the value of all of those wannabe "internet replacement" services, I for one would rather see investment going into self arranging, self healing multi-protocols mesh networks that you could seamlessly re-build local networked infrastructure in such events as natural disasters or complete government/infrastructure meltdowns.

A solution that will able you to construct an autonomous peered mesh network across Ethernet, WiFi, Radio, and P2P links like IR and Microwave which can provide internet and WWW like infrastructure when established networks fail or are intentionally shut down can actually be rather useful, while these attempts seem to try to re-invent what already exists and that is internet lock down/censorship bypass, heck even if a government shuts down their internet uplink completely as long as the local networks are intact you can still make Tor and the likes of it work, at least as far as hidden services go and it only requires a handful of exit nodes to have an internet uplink to restore internet services as well.
I'm objecting to the implication that we should be thankful that the people of Papua New Guinea have been "converted" to a different system of beliefs.

The "conversion" of various indigenous peoples to essentially a western system of beliefs is what I find disagreeable. Proselytization events such as these have resulted in a significant loss to the preservation of various cultures (and languages) around the world and I feel have contributed to a loss of identity especially among indigenous or aboriginal communities.

Forgive me if I seem overly sensitive to this, but some of my ancestors got to experience this "wondrous conversion" firsthand and it leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
Or some very ambitious consumer advocate needs to step up and form some sort of large scale consumer union. I would be "in."
"This is Africa we are talking about. An entire continent that is filled with tribes and small villages that at least at one time, were ruled by witchdoctors. "

Woah, woah, woah, hold your horses there, fella. I grew up in Africa and whilst I am a member of a tribe, I did not grow up in a small village governed by the friendly local witchdoctor. And no, most Africans do not use witchdoctors as their HMOs either. The trope that Africa is what you see on the Discovery channel is something that I, and a lot of my African friends, find somewhat irritating. It would be like showing video of a couple cowboys in Montana and playing it over and over to a non-American audience as definitive proof of what life in America is like for the average American. Yes, the video will represent what life is like for a group of Americans so it is true(-ish) but not close to being representative for the average American and so definitely paints a misleading picture.

As for the original issue of witch burning, I do agree with you that the idea of mainline churches in America promoting witch burning in Africa is ludicrous. Would it be possible to find one example of an American missionary doing this? Probably. But it would be a real stretch to say this would be acceptable to any church other than a very, very, very fringe group. Kind of like how the Westboro Baptist Church gets outsized media attention but no one seems to mention that the "church" consists pretty much entirely of just the family members of one kooky guy.

One media pro tip I found that works. Whenever you see a story with the format <person/group I know very little about / don't really have positive feelings for> did/said <something outrageous, 6σ deviation from normal behavior>, dig a little below the headlines and quite often you will find (a) it didn't happen the way the headline purported it did or (b) there is some context or reasonable viewpoint that shows what happened is not quite as outrageous as it appears. For example, there is this NPR story about a woman suing her 12 year old nephew for $100k because he broke her wrist whilst jumping into her arms when greeting her as she arrived at his birthday party (http://www.npr.org/2015/10/14/448544919/woman-sues-nephew-fo...). Your first thought will likely be "holy cow, what kind of monster would do such a thing. Where's my pitchfork?" Then you read the follow-up from CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/13/us/aunt-nephew-lawsuit/) which explains that in Connecticut, where the incident took place, you can only sue individuals and so for her to get paid by the parent's homeowners' insurance, she had to name the nephew on the lawsuit and in fact, the boy and his family were supportive of her lawsuit.

News media is broken. The news has always had an element of info-tainment but our nature as an audience is driving the media to focus more on the entertainment side of news and so we are being led down this path where stories cater more to our need to stroke our biases and encourage us to pat ourselves on the back for being good and better than "those" people
Buying up coal would raise the price of electricity. That's essentially a flat tax. You punish the poor of the world who use minimal amounts.
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I have a feeling that when someone at Apple who knows what CCC is wakes up on Monday morning, this rejection will be reversed.

Remember that these rejections are not the Official Word Of Apple From The Ghost Of Steve Jobs. It's just some random employee that has to get through a million of these in a day or something. The thought process is probably something like "hacking, jailbreaking, industrial espionage... nope" and they click a button to reject. Or it could even be a mistake.
Banning content on your site that discusses how to bypass security in apps from said company is not bad behavior of company but something any sane company should do. I happen to hate apple, but i'm honest enough to know banning this app is a non-story.
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At this scale, two solar panels, so something like 1200 watt hours of energy per day I don't think you'll find a wind generator and tower to beat the price.

24 hour operation may not be requirement. Clean water stores just fine.

I was going to list a counter example of a place where wind would be a better idea, but all the cloudy places I can think of have rain, so they probably get water from that. It's a big world though, I'm sure lots of places have bad enough sun that the number of panels would make the cost tip in favor of wind.
Probably a lot of reasons behind it (and maybe charities like that do exist -- there are a lot of charities out there) but some countries do not allow foreign ownership of land. I believe Mexico you can only get a 99 year lease on land when you "buy" there. Another reason might be distrust of government. Some countries with rain forests do not have the most stable governments (do they seem to be less stable the closer to the equator you get?) and it would be a shame to buy up a lot of land only to have it nationalized or laws not enforced (owners aren't here so who is to stop me from logging it?) when government changes.
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Politics.

"But politics shouldn't be a factor in software design. We should cooperate to work with the technologically most useful solution and not let personal or ideological differences get in the way."

Bless your heart.