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Most software corporations are actually wary about LGPL more than BSD. There is a valid reason, at the same time, it may be interpreted as trying to screw LGPL choice.

Yeah you can use LGPL software, but with libraries and stuff that can be incorporated into the product, it's tricky.

I think it's a hard problem because you cannot really fault developers for not wanting to change the world (in a fashion similar to what RMS did). So they accept wrong moral choice for the same reason most people accept wrong moral choice, that is, the right moral choice is a lot of work (and sometimes even risk).
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In Germany, you can juggle maternity and paternity leave as you please---the state only cares about the sum.

In Sweden, there's fixed maternity and paternity leave of the same length.

German fathers don't stay home for the kids much---it's almost all used by the mothers. Sweden's use-it-or-lose-it approach seems to work better if you goal is to get fathers to take time off.
Worth researching the concept of "Controlled Foreign Corporation".

If I live in Missouri [1], have a manufacturer make a computer in China, sell it China, and run everything through my Chinese company ... the IRS would still tax me as if the profits came through the USA because the foreign company is deemed "controlled" through the USA. So Apple, due to their size and structure (many more shareholders) can create subsidiaries and shelter revenue to avoid tax in a way that I cannot.

[1] I'm not 100% au fait with US Tax Law in this regard. Being an Australian and UK Citizen I know those jurisdictions more intimately, but understand the US is similar. This is separate to the USA's "citizen-based" (rather than residency or territory based) tax system, which chases income/tax for citizens around the world. The FEIE alleviates some of this, but Eritrea is the only other country that "does that".
Bullshit. The current state of music uses WAY TOO MUCH dynamic compression. Most engineers agree that the peak of mastering quality was the early '90s. Since then, music mastering has gone to shit.
Agreed, elderly people are also tragically isolated from their traditional role of helping and being helped by children.

And people complain of all the same problems with the elderly: they need to be looked after, and it's expensive, and caregivers are underpaid.
That's why we should also lower barriers to entry.
Plain bullshit. I don't see the point of posting article behind paywall, they definitely are not worth it.

Without Einstein, we'd just use Poincarré and Lorentz, whom Einstein plagiarized.

Remember that Einstein didn't get the Nobel for relativity, but for the law of the photoelectric effect.
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There's no contradiction, you are misunderstanding my statement. Older children need to go to school to learn stuff like mathematics, history, sciences, languages, and so on. Hanging around and taking care of younger kids all day would be a hindrance to their development.

It's too much to assume that an average child can productively solve problems that are related to raising children with various family backgrounds. How to deal with shy or angry children, conflicts with the family members and so on. While I don't know how it's done everywhere in the world, contrast that to kindergarten teachers that have academic education with focus on teaching (including methods, subjects, psychology, and so on).

If you claim that education hasn't advanced in 100 years tremendously, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. For instance, think about the education of children with mental or learning disabilities. It has advanced a lot in my lifetime, too.
It seems like your argument would work for any service job?
Encouragement to work in the US Digital Service is altruism along similar lines.
I guess you're right, that's a big loophole. In any case, I actually don't like trade secrets either. If anything, they are completely against the logic of free market (free choice).
> What's wrong with Common Lisp?

Nothing. But Schemers just passionately hate it since the 70s because it doesnt enforce their religious dogmas like recursion, continuations, unusable macros, and other similarly silly pretexts.

The fact that the GNU extension language became a Scheme instead of a Lisp is primarily a very personal decision by Richard Stallman. Early Lisp Machine companies like Symbolics refused to copyleft their stuff, so RMS started to hate them with a passion.

So even as he was a Lisp fan early on, which can be seen in Emacs, he for political reasons switched the GNU projet to Scheme, even as the GNU project had no working Scheme implementations but had two Lisp implementations (CLisp and GCL).

So to answer your question: Nothing is wrong with Lisp, but the dear leader hates it, because the Symbolics guys were meanies when he was 25 yrs old.
The potential impact on education and healthcare was the only concerning element of this criticism that caught my attention.
There are a lot of engineers out there work on higher abstractions. If the task is to write a map reduce or spark job, for sure, most of the time I don't think you need to know what happens with your application at assembly level.
Yes, if I recall correctly, Maria Montessori suggested a 50 to 1 student teacher ratio!
Lossless upsampling the 44.1 kHz recording to, say 192 kHz is trivial for the reproduction equipment. That the LPF on the reproduction end wants the DAC to run at greater than 44.1 kHz has no bearing on the sampling rate of the distribution format.
You would probably be "restricted" to roads with little traffic.

Just like horses are forbidden from highways, most of the high traffic road network will probably be allowed only to driverless connected cars. Not at first, but eventually.
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> Now that crypto ransomware is a threat that won't be going away any time soon, there's been a fair amount of debate about whether victims should pay the ransom as demanded. Recently, an FBI agent reportedly told businesses it may be easier for them to pony up. The comments generated howls of protest among security professionals, who warned there's no guarantee the fees will ensure the encrypted data is restored.

What exactly do security professionals recommend instead? If you've lost business-critical data to a cryptolocker, even a 50% chance of getting it back is worth a lot of money if the alternative is closing up shop and laying everybody off. "You should throw away your livelihood to discourage criminals in general" sounds nice, but it's not actually a reasonable thing to expect someone to do.
It is very much a cost issue, although a small one in terms of the overall price of the house. However, money that goes into 2x6 vs 2x4 studs, drywall, doors, insulation, windows comes out of the overall budget. People shop by price because they have to. Fancy appliances vs sturdy floors? People will pick fancy appliances 99% of the time.

I built a few dozen homes and only once had a client request 2x6 construction. I tried to sell it on all the others, citing sturdiness and better insulating properties, but everyone looked at the features it excluded and went for flimsy 2x4 builds.

It gets important if you are a developer building subdivisions of homes. $10k saved on every house is $big profit. 25 home subs is $250k+ savings...very much an issue.

My own house is 2x6, and properly insulated top to bottom. My neighbor's slap job summer cooling bill is not quite double mine. Close to same sqft and same interior ac temp setting.
Don't confuse lack of hierarchy with flatter hierarchy.

> Don't a lot of traditional software companies have a sort of hierarchy?

Yes, see what kind of crap they produce.

Of course, not all software companies, but the ones that really innovate can't survive certain environments

> What about software makes it incompatible with hierarchy?

The sheer level of independence that every part needs.

In a hardware project you pick your parts (you have some requirements, some limitations in size, power, vendor, etc so it might be a choice between a handful of parts), then put it on a PCB, solve placing, routing, EM compatibility, etc. It's complicated, but you don't have too many people doing that. And more importantly, your boss knows more or less about everything and if he doesn't believe it there are hard constraints that serve as guiding (power consumption, EM emission, performance, etc)

Good? Now, you want to build the software for the iPhone. Or for the Macintosh, same thing

Development is separated in many areas (design, base system, user APIs, drivers, etc)

And the overlap between areas is significant. You need information flowing freely so you can come up with the best solutions (this is not 'design by committee')

You also need independence and not justify every tiny decision (and why didn't you go with the 'safe' solution).

This is the complete opposite of what happens in Japanese work culture

http://www.hierarchystructure.com/japanese-business-hierarch...
I don't think anyone is suggesting that we engage in a Lord of the Flies situation where the children are in charge. Rather, that children participate in a helpful way as a part of their own growth.

If an 8-year-old is helping a 6-year-old with math, then they are both learning, and the teacher is spending a lot less time watching either of them.

I think what we're seeing here is a general problem with outsourcing: you try to come up with a clean separation of responsibilities, but you end up with a costly mistake instead. In this case, thinking of all children as customers that are served by your employees, it would make a lot more sense to make it a collaborative effort between expert caregivers/teachers and students of various ages.
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Even then Germany was a parliamentary system where the Chancellery goes to the biggest party or coalition in parliament. And the NSDAP was the biggest in the elections in 1932-11 and 1933-3. There were enough idiots who voted for Hitler and his party in those early years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March...
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>This is clearly not a cost issue

Whenever something is done cheaply and it looks like it's not a cost issue because it's only miniscule part of the total cost of the product, it's usually actually is a cost issue. The buyer of the final product might not mind spending a little extra to have that one thing done a little better, but for the supplier of the sub-sub-contractor whose entire profit comes from doing that one thing, the "miniscule" part becomes 100% of the cost.

Not only that, but this is only one of many things that could be done more expensively. What if you add better fire resistance, better insulation, more weather resistant paint, more carefully assembled parts, etc. it ends up becoming quite a lot more expensive. It's a bit like the difference between a Mercedes and a Toyota. They both seem to be basically the same, but the Mercedes has slightly more expensive parts scattered all through it like a few dollars spent on fluid dampers on the adjustable seat backs compared to no damping.
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> In the field of psychology, counterintuitive things happen all the time.

But can only be replicated a few times.
> In the field of psychology, counterintuitive things happen all the time.

But can only be replicated a few times.

That said, there is (in general) much too little evidence-based policy around, we don't need less of it.
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Daycare should really receive government subsidy - the extra income tax they earn can be used to cover the gap.

In The Netherlands we have a 33/33/33 model - parents pay 33% of the costs, the state pays 33% and the parent's employers pay 33% (which is an extra charge split over all workers).

In recent years they've tweaked the model: parents with 2 x modal income pay 100% of the costs (and their employers also pay 33%). Only the lowest incomes hit 33/33/33.

For the 2nd+ children the subsidy is much higher for all income groups.

We send our son to daycare for 2 days a week, costing ~700 EUR/month. My wife works 36hrs (4x9) and I work 40hrs (4x9,1x4 at home). Grandma/pa do one day (the other grandparents live in the UK). I really like this mix - he gets 4/days week of parents, 2/days a week playing with other kids and 1 day of being spoilt by grandparents.
It's advanced a lot...? And your example is to cite how a tiny tiny minority is now taught differently... Even though the broad structure of a school, class, teacher and curriculum and learning outcomes hasn't changed significantly since Plato was at school, in fact the ancient Greeks model was pretty effective if extremely exclusive.
Came here to say exactly that. Not sure why folks wouldn't think that the same philosophy which overtook manufactured goods post-war wouldn't also apply to construction.

I mean, I'm sat here in my living room, place was built 1798 (relatively modern), near as damnit everything is original. Stone floors. Stone fireplaces. Stone walls. Lath and plaster ceilings. Lime plaster.

They knew what they were doing, this shit is built to last.

These days, they also know what they're doing, but a house has a shelf life of 30 years, so you can tear it down later, not feel bad, and stimulate the construction industry. In theory. I. Practice people live in leaky shoeboxes made of twigs, paper and tar.

Finally, the insurance industry drives this. Ever try insuring a 100 year old slate roof in America? Good luck with that. They'll insist you rip it off and replace it with tar shingles, because no roof more than 20 years old can be any good.

My other property has a 13th century stone roof (limestone, stacked), and it's barely been maintained and is in perfect nick after 600+ years.
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> For example, with basic income

Oh a UBI communist again. Sooner or later every problem discussed leads to someone suggesting the good ole "tax the rich".

> paying people to stay home to care for their kids.

Why should I pay somebody else to stay home with _their_ kids?

What you and other UBIs are suggesting is nothing else than "redistribute other peoples wealth" communism.

It _only_ works if you take (by force) from one guy and give it to the other guy. It is not a _solution_ in any form, it is simply mugging.
Any service job where most people who are polite and literate can do the job well - there's no goods produced and no labor specialisation benefit, and so get hit more heavily by taxes.
Is there any way to have sequencing done anonymously? I would love to get the data, but I'm not crazy about multiple corporations and/or governments having a copy of my DNA forever, to do with as they like (privacy policies and such notwithstanding).

Edit: Ah, it appears that anonymously handing over your DNA may not even be possible: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/509901/study-highlights...
I think you are confusing limiting with compression.
> If you know how to quench fires like this one: http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/11/nodejs-in-flames.html

Awesome article, thanks for sharing. However, doesn't say much about JS per-se. The problem was a bug in Express.JS (see here[1] the resume) not in JS :-)

[1] http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/12/expressjs-burned-netflix
We've seen a spread in the market to where the cheap end
is now affordable by everyone, and the expensive end is
even better than (and more expensive than) the best of
the best was 20 years ago.

I've worked for a household-name European electronics manufacturer about 10 years ago (as an embedded programmer). Afaik their high-end offering differed from the low-end ones mostly or entirely in cosmetic details.
I would say go and have a look at a well run martial arts school. Ever wonder how a single "master" can teach a class of 30 people at different levels and ages without it being a complete mess?
He probably spent hours (invaluable hours!) thinking about those ceiling panels. I dunno, should their office be a hovel? Because you appear to have some sort of issue with this founder outside his attempt to make their office a nice place to work.

And why on earth would I finance ceiling tile purchases for some random company? There's something wrong with you.

ps -- while it's fine to be surprised at companies lighting money on fire, gloating about a company laying people off is all class.
What you propose is a free market solution - make property out of it. (And I don't think free market is actually desirable for most people but that's for another debate.)

From a practical point of view, it's complicated to dual license their code to the employer. If the employer refuses to license it, then the employee has to find the job which lets him license it (if he wishes to use it). That may be difficult.

In other words, if you have software as property, the idea "I want to work on the same code base in the future for a living" may contradict with someone else's idea "I am paying for it therefore you do what I want". In theoretical free market this should work out, but in reality there is a lot of frictions.
> I don't think any tool can do so with accuracy.

Perhaps not, but it sure would be funny to see the results. Imagine a vending machine or other public machine that spoke to you in different languages (or dialects) based solely on how you look. That would give a good laugh. At the same time, someone would get offended.
That's not because of dynamic range compression; it's because MP3 discards some phase and frequency information, e.g. so harmonics that wouldn't have clipped get phase shifted on top of a peak and clip.
I find it interesting how people love tearing everything down and starting again from scratch, whether it's developers doing a complete rewrite, a new government scrapping the previous government's entire plans, or an architect suggesting to demolish an entire city to be replaced with their own design. I'm just as guilty as anybody else, so it's not a judgement. It just seems to be something innate in many successful people.
I've been thinking that the best way to introduce UBI would be by pairing increases in the UBI with decreases in the minimum wage (potentially during economic slow downs to boost the recovery.)
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If there are cinderblocks on the inside, then the outside layer isn't structural. Depending on how old the building is, it might serve a purpose for insulation - either an 'air gap' or to sandwich proper insulation material between two layers. But the building will stand without the brick. This is actually the 'normal' way of building anything under, say, 4 stories in most of Western Europe.
With these online tests, can anyone shed some light on how browser/plugin codecs come into play? I recently took Tidal's test to see if I could distinguish their lossless Flac option from 320 kbps AAC. Using a decent DAC and some Sennheiser HD202's I managed to score 0/10, which is somehow impressive.
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"Compression is the best tool we have for accurately reproducing the musicality and emotion of a musical performance. Without compression, most recordings would be unlistenable."

That is your artistic choice, as it should be.

"The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice." -- Neil Young. [0]

Not every artist wants this to happen. They have no choice and listeners get a fraction of the sound recorded. This was not the case with vinyl.

@mborch, the exact compression method is of less importance than recognising that for all the compression being discussed, is a retrograde step from vinyl. Why?

[0] http://allthingsd.com/20120131/neil-young-and-the-sound-of-m...
> because too many people want to live near each other

Your market analysis is incomplete. For example, http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/01/rich-oversea... says "only 27% of new homes in central London went to UK buyers, while more than half were sold to residents of Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Russia." These are not people who live there, but want to invest in the London real estate market. By taking housing out of the market, they also increase the market rates through artificial scarcity.

> if not price then what

Different taxation for residents vs. non-residents. Rich people tend to have large places, so taxation based on square footage per resident. Set up building requirements that give preference to low-cost housing. There are many ways to tweak the economic landscape.

> If you set up your lifestyle ..

You make it sound so easy. Why not just set up your life to earn another $100K/year?

> you must be doing something fantastically productive

Why does that follow? If I inherited my $1 billion, I'm certainly able to afford a quaint $10 million penthouse in San Francisco even if just leave the money in an index fund. If I am a dictator who funneled money out of the country into my personal foreign bank account, leaving the country in poverty, would you say I was productive? Or if someone discovers oil on my land, and I exchange the drilling rights in exchange for 1% of the extracted revenue, making me rich enough to, say, move to Beverley Hills, was I really doing something fantastically productive?
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