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But that's not really up to you, is it? If it's my store, my platform, then I get to decide what products are going to represent my brand.

If I was running the Disney store, for example, I would want all my third-party products to be family friendly. It would be crazy for someone to yell "censorship!" because I was disallowing products with mature themes from being sold at my store. This is how shops work: they pick what represents their brand so that customers who like their choices can just walk in and browse their products.

Apple wants their App Store to be family friendly. They don't want apps that deal with serious or divisive political issues, they don't want apps which represent them in a bad light, and they don't want apps that are going to shock or horrify their customers.

You and I can make these decisions for ourselves. That's why it's great that we can download code from the Internet and build it for our own devices.
First of all, making a group 9x larger doesn't change the shape of the distribution. The distribution would look like 9 exp(|x|), not exp(9|x|).

Secondly, I calculate a p-value for this test here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10484309

It's proportional to the smaller of the sample sizes. I'll have a more detailed writeup soon. Also, this test is non-parametric, so you don't actually need to know either C or the distributions f and g - all you need is a certain level of uniform regularity in f and g.
AEI does have very well-credentialed members and prestige, but if you look at their history they are still partisan hacks, providing intellectual justification for dangerous partisan nonsense. I used to try to be even-handed and give people like them equal credit, but it was a false equivalency and they are parasites on that open-mindednes. There are reasonable conservative ideas, some of which I support, but climate change denial, torture, the Iraq invasion, absolute refusal to increase any taxes rates, default on the US debt, and many others are absurd and outside the pale (I don't know AEI supports all of those). It's time we started calling it what it is; the damage is too serious. (There are partisan left-wing think tanks, though not as many AFACIT, and I think they are equally absurd.)

> There were of course the very right wing bigoted "John Birchers"

The backers of the modern Tea Party are John Birchers by a new name. The policies are similar and the Koch brothers' father, for example, was either a John Birch Society founder or at least a leader (IIRC; I don't have time to check the details, sorry).

> But in the middle, people were willing to debate the issues and listen politely to the opposition. It appears that this willingness has disappeared

It is the right wing fringe that has created this situation, and it's still mostly a problem of the right. There is no influential left-wing equivalent of Fox' propaganda, by far the leading cable news channel, the Wall St Journal editorial page (the NY Times isn't nearly as partisan), or of right-wing talk radio (Limbaugh, etc.). For example, the Tea Partiers in Congress refuse to respect that their fellow citizens should have a say in the nation's laws and oppose everything that doesn't go exactly their way. They literally try to do serious damage to their own nation's government and economy to get their way. There is no equivalent on the left. Democrats and the few remaining moderate Republicans (not voted out by Tea Partiers) are willing to make deals.

It hasn't always been a problem primarily of the right; the radical left was ascendent and probably equally problematic a few decades ago. But it's a dangerous delusion to overlook the problem on the right now.

The real division needs to be between moderates and radical idealogues, who will sacrifice the rest of us to their dogmas. The idealogues of 2015 are mostly on the right.
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>OK, so capitalism is fundamentally about choices.

Not so much. Capitalism is really about the pre-eminence of capital (it's right there in the name).

Treating the labor market as an undifferentiated commodity to be exploited is one way in which the needs of those who own capital (capitalists/rentiers) are placed above those who are part of that labor market. That's how we get QE, austerity, TTIP, bank bailouts, extra strong patents and a bunch of other gifts from government to billionaires.

This is part of what has caused the rise of the professional managerial classes.

>You can treat this as a failure of union outreach, that Uber drivers should unionize and demand relief. But it's not like they can't organize.

Unionizing is a constant uphill battle. Uber drivers' lack of success at it says no more about the merits of unionization than the failure of 95% of entrepreneurs does about entrepreneurship.

>No, most Uber drivers choose to keep driving, the arguments that they're being exploited seem a little thin when you realize that Uber drivers could be doing just about anything else to make more money if they were really truly being exploited.

The fact that they choose to do it says more about the other choices they have available than it does about Uber. What can they do? Go $150,000 in debt to get an education and still not be able to get a middle class job? Learn javascript and discover that the tech industry is exactly as cliquey as it says that it isn't? Source $1 million in capital from thin air and start their own business and take those 1 in 20 odds?

The major failure any economic model designed to "prove" that we're living in a fair society demonstrates is an underlying assumption that is completely, utterly and stupidly wrong. This is your presumption.

>Being poor in America isn't nearly as horrible as it used to be.

Try living on a minimum wage for three months and then start lecturing us about how easy it is. With dependents.

>People can choose to be poorer

You know that your ideas are half witted when they demand that you believe that people choose to be poorer.
> Conservatives openly dismiss the value of academia compared to alternative pursuits like commercial industry

An good point. I suspect there is a strong conservative bias in the population of Fortune 500 executives, especially in the fossile fuel industries. Perhaps they need more political diversity too.
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Thank you. On a "motivation" note it would be interesting to know when the insurers policy on brand vs generic came in and when Valeant started using Philidor in earnest.

One would assume this was not begun as a scam, but at some point they looked at a sudden decline in revenue and thought, if only that pharmacy group we almost own could help ...

Nah. It's a scam. They took pains not to own the pharmacy ... I am too forgiving.
Url changed from http://factwide.com/2015/10/how-man-sold-eiffel-tower-twice/, which is cribbed from this.
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The big question is where the packet came from. If a program just produced it, it's probably in cache. If it came in from an I/O device, it probably isn't.

This is why message copying isn't a big cost in modern microkernels. Create message->IPC->copy message->process message is an in-cache operation, if the scheduler and the message passing system are on speaking terms.
> But we need to attract the people who have always assumed that healthy food has to taste like straw.

Do people actually think that? They must have never tried good Vietnamese cuisine. You find plenty of tasty, healthy dishes in Thai food as well. Not to mention a simple salad... Where does this myth come from?
I'm guessing google etc. have had similar or better improvements in place in their internal stacks for years. Good to see progress not locked inside one company's datacenters!
> Functional programming is for the top 1% of the programmers

That's a little presumptuous, dont you think?
>Poor people don't think of it that way. When they borrow $300 for a short-term loan and have to pay $30 for the privilege, they're making a rational decision that the $30 later isn't worth as much as the $300 now.

They're not making a rational decision. It's an amygdala based decision. The same part of your brain that deals with panic, fight / flight, etc. The resource constraints they are under make it impossible to think long term the same way that you stop thinking about your pension plan when you're running away from a bear.

This is why it's such a profitable business (non-rational decisions -> profit), and why, when you take payday loans away, poor people actually end up better off (there have been studies on this that I know for a fact you will not attempt to research).
Ha! Football truly is so ridiculously complicated that I didn't even try to learn how it works, and still don't fully understand its absurdities.

Intuitively, as a child, I suspected that football was over rated based on the apparent reality that it was men running in circles, and then slamming into each other, without any obvious goal. Randomly a ball would be kicked for any reason, maybe.

I was 20 years old before I figured out that the basic rules of the game were 4 tries to move the ball 10 yards from the "line of scrimage" before the other team gets an opportunity to do the opposite. With this in mind add umpteen thousand technicalities.

More than a decade of elementary school, middle school, high school, video games, Thanksgivings and Super Bowl Sundays, and no one spelled that out for me. Not parents, not uncles, not coaches, not friends. I had to dig through a few books, before picking up some sort of For Dummies/Idiot's Guide book to find something that clearly stated that.

4 hours of TV time, to express one hour of clocked game play, in which almost no actual game playing happens. Bah! May as well watch golf.

Oh wait, already do. Yet another awful thing I have to watch at family gatherings.
Oh yes, what screenplays look like is very standardized and hasn't changed much for the best part of a century.
> I think that the information derived from what people say with money is more accurate than what they say verbally.

OK. But I still don't understand the point you're trying to make.

But even if markets were more honest, it is still not good enough argument to have them. War may also make people more honest but it's not a reason to have it either.

> People who try to lie in markets don't do well.

I wish it would be true. You probably come from the U.S., which has an extremely strong culture of fairness (although it slowly weakens), expressed in its justice system. But in other nations, this culture is not strong. The problem is that markets cannot really punish anybody; once you successfully cheated, you get more money. If you have been found out, you at most lose a little bit of investment (and a mark, but those are dime a dozen). You can generally start another company with different name and continue with dishonesty. In other words, I don't consider losing a good job or opportunity to be a punishment; it's just a bad luck.

> How many Bernie Madoff stories are there? Not many.

In Czechoslovakia, shortly after the Velvet Revolution, there were many. The justice system didn't understand the new economic system and wasn't capable to deal with cheaters. Our prime minister, Vaclav Klaus, had the opinion - free markets are of primary importance and the justice system is secondary. What happened during the era (before we passed enough laws to be compatible with EU) was just huge "gold rush" of embezzlement.
Doesn't this logic assume that there are the same number of darts thrown total at both boards?

The issue with founder funding is there are fewer female applicants than male applicants, and the applications aren't published.
>I wouldn't suspect there's as much of a chance of a march on Uber Headquarters

Didn't that already happen?
I'd like to be doing:

textplay myscript.fountain > myscript.pdf

but textplay relies on a non-free thing called PrinceXML for its PDF export. So instead I'm doing

textplay myscript.fountain > myscript.html
wkhtmltopdf myscript.html myscript.pdf

which is in no way big deal, it's just a minor annoyance. I have a tiny wrapper (shell) script that does the above anyway.
If you modify a form letter before sending it back without notifying the other party of the changes, I'd say it's reasonable that the contract is either invalid or should be treated as unmodified.
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Done in Shanghai

http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2015.html

First page of Google.
It looks nice, and I assume the underlying code is less gnarly than vim's, but I don't see the radical improvement over vim which would make me switch (also, obviously, it's not going to benefit from the huge ecosystem of vim plugins).

What I think would be a killer for a vim successor would be to keep the best-in-class editor functionality, add decent extensibility (not vimscript) in the core product. Then add support for stuff commonly found in IDEs: notion of projects/subprojects, API to support plugging syntax parsers easily, source control integration, etc., and offer core plugins for a few popular languages.
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> Federal Reserve officials hoped wages would begin rising at today’s 5.1 percent, but economists are increasingly saying the rate might need to fall to 4.9 percent or lower to push wages higher

Whenever I read something like this I have to wonder: do these economists have a server farm running models to backup statements like this or do they just pull it out of their asses?
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Modification is notification.
Really really old story.
Maybe they had reasonable expectations of non-modification.
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"I did a Google N-grams search [how often a word appears in books] for wantability. The term enjoyed some popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, then exponentially decayed. After the Reagan-Thatcher revolution the term was gone."

Sorry to steer off topic, but how much can we trust google N-gram researches? Are they accepted in scientific papers?
Just a curiosity of mine.
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There is a nice comparison. We have a newspaper distributor in Germany, having 54% of market share. I one paper would print a story, reporting some shady ongoings inside this distributor, he would be forbidden by regulation not to distribute this paper.

So it is his walled garden, but policy has thought about such things happening if one market player becomes strong enough to hamper the "free" flow of information.

The content that is shown by the CCC app can also be watched in the YouTube app or in safari. Do these apps have to go?
Indeed. It would have been different if he hadn't used their form but his own layout. Or, if he had marked the change clearly as such.
The key is "all but name". If I'm Andy Davenport, Philidor's CEO, I immediately get together with my brother Matthew Davenport, also mentioned in your link, to get my story straight. Because it is their name on all the documents.

Sarbox has put a damper on the Sgt. Schultz defense of "I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!". CEOs can go to jail even if they claim they were just ignorant figureheads.

So if I'm the Davenports I immediately go to the Federales and cut a deal. I rat out Mike Pearson (Valeant's CEO) and claim that he put them up to it. Note that its in the Davenport brothers interest to lie and make up shit if they have to, because that's probably their best way they avoid Club Fed (or worse).

Like I said, this could get interesting pretty quickly.
Things should be as simple as possible but no simpler.

We all agree with you on the 'simple as possible' but you need to spend some effort on the 'no simpler' part.
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It is a pitty iokit is not ported with other userland stuff.
It's unfair to claim "academia believes diversity is good" in this case. Nobody thinks all kinds of diversity are good. You could use the same premise to complain that universities are prejudiced against the "homicidal maniac community", or against the "comatose community".
Is there more to elaborate on? How else would one notify of a modified contract, but by producing the modified contract?

It is not the receiving party's responsibility to determine if something they receive is another party's form letter, or other spam-like.
This is a lengthy write up that does an excellent job of pointing out technical details regarding my top issue with systemd. That is, it just doesn't make any damn sense. Everything is confusing and buried underneath layer after layer of indirection and dependencies. You can't do anything without touching several files and multiple directories. Try as I might, I can't get on board with systemd. It doesn't in anyway feel like it belongs in a Linux OS.
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As with any new code, it may have bugs. The kernel could deadlock or crash due to insufficient locking.

You may want to start small and report any bugs that you find to help improve the code.
They pull it out of a simple linear model in Excel .

just an educated guess based on my occasional economics study.
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This is being used from another thing posted here about making your own lisp: http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

Pretty nice and simple. I'm on Chapter 8 of 16.
Your comparison is so far off anything, that I have a hard time answering.

Nobody asked Apple to publish the videos on their front page. There is an app that let's people access CCC content in a more friendly/more easy way then say Safari or YouTube.

Apple blocks said app, but does not do so for all the other apps that can show this content. And the reason they give is, that this app shows content, that does show how "secure" some Apple products are. Content mostly from renown security hackers?

So why is CCC-TV banned, but not Safari? Not any other browser? Not YouTube?

Why does Apple get to selectively punish smaller organisations and all the fanboys run to their defences?

btw.: Written on a Macbook Pro, but not from an iOS user.
Obligatory mention that I only started this project about a week ago, and I've got the REPL for arithmetic, and just about nothing else.
I'd be more interested in an update
If it did, I had and have a hard time understanding how.

I assume that's the part about 'homesteading', right? In the historical context, that's when a European power uses military force to take over land which was controlled by a native population, and re-purpose it to fit the European, and predominately British, way of life. (We don't, for example, talk about the Spanish homesteads in the American southwest.)

But here it's used with a specific libertarian definition, which I can't help but think echos the historic meaning. Based on this essay, it's the process of taking unowned land and assigning initial ownership. (I point to Iceland as an example of what truly unowned land was like. Not the American historical context.)

In this case, no, the essay didn't establish what it means by 'unowned'. It asserts that we should view things as "spectrum". That's a specific philosophy that was created by regulation. It's not a natural definition. Before we had spectrum-based continuous-wave radio, we had spark-gap radio which generated broad-band signals.

Over time, legislation banned these radios because, in modern terms, they are noisy and interfere with the spectrum. The government could do that because these are the public airwaves, under public control.

Take that away, and where do you reset? Why shouldn't the original uses be allowed again, and what other historic uses did the government take away? I don't know, but the fact that I can point to one suggests that there were others.

Of course, viewing the topic through a post-regulation framework makes it easier to justify a specific apportionment, just like how the historic homesteaders used the simplicity imposed by government authority to justify occupation of land that was in use by others.

Even that philosophy aside, no, it doesn't answer the question. I'll phrase it a different way:

Can I buy radio silence for my land? (That is, I have my own radio telescope, and want no artificial radio signals in a given frequency range with power levels above a certain threshold.) If so, how? If not, why not?
As opposed to bank clients, who apparently have no reasonable expectations that a contract doesn't contain nasty traps hidden in dense legalese.

I'd say if a contract is so long and convoluted that the drafting party can't be bothered to manually verify it's still valid when returned, they have no business drafting that contract in the first place. After all, it's hardly reasonable to assume the other party read it, apparently.
This is especially true if you are teaching yourself new programming languages. I'm currently learning Elixir because it looks fun. I've learned the syntax and stuff but I'm having a hard time learning OTP/BEAM/processes/etc because well, the most advanced thing I've done is a collage image generator in Node. I just don't feel like I need it (though I'm gonna try my hardest to!).

It's the same thing with all these functional languages like Elm and ClojureScript. I've had fun playing with them, but I've only been seriously programming for fun for a year and a half. I haven't had the pain of managing state in a large application that the people that hype those languages have.
It emerged when people wrote screenplays on typewriters, and there isn't really a good reason to "fix" it. Nobody uses any other format, because a) people who read scripts can make reasonable judgements about timing / pacing etc if you use the standard format and b) writing in a non-standard format is a good enough reason to immediately discard your script and move onto the next one from the neverending pile.

Apparently Mad Max: Fury Road was written as something more like a storyboard than a traditional screenplay. There may be other exceptions, but not many.

Maybe there's a small element of cargo cultiness to it as well. And you can write any old shit and put it in The Format and from a distance it looks like a proper screenplay. But really, there's not much reason to do anything else.
These are complex parts of the kernel and since they impact virtually any user getting anything wrong is bad. It takes a while to merge such changes and to even just get them right in order to feel fine with submitting such changes.

I've worked in an area close to that (TCP performance tuning), my patches never made it to the kernel. Someone else later came and took a slightly different approach and wrote a much cleaner code and got the changes in.

Small patches are rather easy to get applied, more intrusive ones (and changing locks is highly intrusive) is much harder. Not impossible though and the reward (for the community) is high, the internal feeling for succeeding is also great :-)
That's a little bit ironic, considering the hijinks Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak got up to before they started selling computers: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/the-de...
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I know you are writing this tongue-in-cheek, but imagine if the US postal service made it a felony to send a letter to anyone that had "hate speech" (by their definition) in it. Or that you had to be verified and "white-listed" (via SS #, or facebook) to even post your parrot link before it could be rightly rejected.

The reason people get up in arms about these sorts of things isn't that companies should do what they want regardless profit or existing business strategy, it is that once you successfully take a decisive action on something that most people don't care about, it makes it that much easier to do it with something that is important in the future when it is difficult for people to choose another option or vote with their wallets.