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Agreeing and amplifying your first point: it's worse than that, it's ($12 + incremental expenses [expressed hourly]) / (1 - marginal tax rate). You have to use marginal rate, not average rate here, of course. Incremental expenses (commuting, wardrobe, lunch, and other work-related costs) are surprisingly higher than most people realize.

For a couple in even a middle marginal rate, where the second worker would drive only 20 miles round trip [including to/from daycare site twice] ($10/day) and pay $5 more for lunch than eating at home and pay an extra $1000/yr for a work wardrobe, it's easy to need to cover $4000 just for the expenses of working, plus the ~$26K or so for childcare, so you need to earn $50K just to break even if your combined marginal bracket (fed + state + local + FICA + Medicare) is "only" 40%. It's even worse if the second full-time job requires an additional or better[more reliable] car, paying for parking, or any other recurring expenses. If the stress results in needing extra spa days, meals out because everyone's too pooped to cook, vacations to get back family time, etc, it can really sky-rocket.

In terms of time, you save two adult trips to daycare, the full commute, and all the coordination overhead of dealing with childcare provider issues (family daycare providers get sick, take their own vacations, and in our case, randomly closed on short notice sometimes).

My wife is highly educated and left a very good position because she would have otherwise been working only for her 401K contributions. Several years in, everyone in our family is thrilled with that choice, it's way less stressful overall, and I'm convinced our children are way better off for it. (Though our daycare costs and marginal rate were somewhat higher than the figures in this example, there are many cases where the economic cost to one spouse staying at home is quite low.)

On your second point, I don't agree that the tax system needs to be patched for this as a special case. IMO, we should reduce taxes across the board, but failing the will to do that, we should accept that the system creates these incentives and educate people as to the math and the reality that, with more than one kid pre-K, it's almost surely a low (or even negative) cost for one parent to stay home.

Taxing a stay at home parent for imputed childcare costs is a crazily slippery slope. Must I pay taxes if I do my own dishes, clean my own house, cut my own grass, do my own laundry, cook my own dinner, fix my own brakes, clean my own gutters, fix my kid's broken toy, etc, etc?
With Basic Income enabled, why would we need welfare workers? Just put the welfare workers and labour organizers on basic income!
The Australian Geographic had many pictures of the Simpson Desert and the Birdsville Track. The pictures show a stark, raw beauty.

One day I'm going to have go there, given I live in this country!
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I was on the fence for this argument, but your dojo analogy solidifies my complete agreement. Moreover, parents with lagging children often turn to tutors, many of whom (last I checked) are just slightly older children -- older enough that they know the material, and young enough that it's still fresh in their minds, educationally.

Offtopic, I can't help but wonder how much the tutoring reinforces what they were probably certain to forget anyway. In the same way that blogging about a subject reinforces your understanding of it (e.g., if you can't explain it, you don't know it), I suspect that tutoring a younger generation would help those tutors cement that knowledge more deeply into their minds than just retaining it long enough to pass whatever tests they're given in the short term.

At the end of the day though, your dojo analogy is most precise -- senseis don't just promote every student to assistant instructor. They carefully curate based on knowledge, discipline and behavior. Having every older child tutor the younger is probably unnecessary, and would likely lead to chaos, but if teachers chose only those students capable of helping out the younger children, even assuming some failure rate in selection, it would probably be a dramatic improvement over the current situation.
So, a compiler.
Are you being sarcastic?
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It's also important to keep in mind that this depressing perspective is a contemporary, anthropomorphic one.

It might be the case that communications using electromagnetic radiation are an unremarkable blip on the timeline of technological progress. The modern era has only been in full-swing for a paltry few hundred years!

I like to think that the size and scope of the universe suggests that there absolutely are many many ways to travel and communicate faster than light (and presumably well beyond), that we haven't even imagined yet. Zoom out enough, and any speed or distance scale appears tiny.
This topic is covered in significantly more depth in his book Thinking Fast and Slow. I highly recommend taking the time to read it, if this article piqued your interest.
Fascinating! This is exceptionally well-written. I can't imagine it being very easy to communicate mathematical concepts and the excitement of the discovery (!) in ways that even the uninitiated (like myself) can relate to.

His discovery (albeit not identified as such) contributed to laying the foundation for work in string theory and he had no clue.
Dance.

I'm serious. In dancing your bodily similarities and dissimilarities to your partner are in your face all the time, the fitting of them is (in a way) all there is to dancing. You both have to be aware of it and not fight it, you have to work with it. You have to learn to let the differences flow (so it is not enough to learn the choreography, you need to be able to enjoy the dance).

Words do not make justice to the experience.

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If everyone who used OpenSSH donated 1 dollar to OpenSSH.... well you get the idea.
This entire article seems to carry the premise that lifestyle decisions are a thing to adjust with social policy, as if people are children of the bureaucracy.
Yes. This is WIP and isn't suited for production code yet.

Ultimately I want to make it a framework for developing applications for android in common lisp with the android-studio and sl4a integrations (there are some active forks so SL4A is far from being dead despite what some people say).
Well, here's a model I propose. So-called "market equilibrium" is actually a steady state of various powers at oligopoly-oligopsony price point (therefore, there are non-zero profits and above-subsistence wages, unlike in the ideal free market, which predicts zero profits and subsistence wages). This implies some sort of "social contract" about profit sharing which can be enforced by strikes of either party, because they essentially need each other.

So capitalists to pay less means breaking that contract (with consequences, that's why you cannot easily do it). However synchronized breaches of the contract may take some time before this settles into another steady state, because of information asymmetry - the information about contract breach takes time to propagate to all interested parties.
It's pretty clear since they even wrote about the motive in the article.

>I'm the bad guy in the news that's targeting the US government for funding Israel.

> US government to stop funding Israel and for them to stop
killing innocent people

> Did you know there was over 26,000 civilian deaths due to war-related violence in the Afghanistan war

> Did you know the US military bombed an Afghan hospital?
[0]

So, basically it's about freedom from the US government suppressing other states.

[0] http://pastebin.com/KtN8FqPu that is linked in the article
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Hmm, that's odd. I've noticed this with lots of remotes, I usually just look at them to tell if the batteries are dead. I wonder why I can see it.
A Finnish speaker manufacturer has been making studio quality speakers with fraction of cost of that.

http://www.genelec.com/

You see this stuff in professional anechoic chambers and mixing studios. I have friend who has PhD in audio signal processing and he doesn't see much point going beyond genelecs. The only downside is that you might get "too accurate" playback for hobbyist taste.

EDIT: Actually the price point is quite similar. Sorry.
Just a gut feeling. Properly solving this might require solving the halting problem: you don't know the variable is unused until you actually evaluate the code. Otherwise you can only aim for detecting very trivial cases.
yeah, but that seems ridiculous
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I no longer care.. fuck it. Let them break the internet. We will not be the only one to face the consequences.

I for one, started hoarding data, scraping good websites for valuable information while I still can.
It takes a while for the effects to bubble up.

Assume that the children taught with this book were 15-18 years old. Add 30 years to that, and you get ... 45 - 48. Prime time to enter politics.

So, if the effects are going to be seen, they should start hitting right about now.
Depends if it's a horizontal asymptote or an oblique asymptote.
We launched CloudRail with a new technology and are looking for feedback :)
It is a universal API for Everything. Means a single API / SDK to integrate arbitrary RESTful APIs. The idea: you configure your custom API with the services and functions you need. Example: I want to integrate Dropbox and need a function to upload a file and Philips Hue with a function to switch on the light. CloudRail bundles all that in a custom API which is then exposed to your App via our SDK.
We started with some connected services, but the cool thing is, you can add further clouds or smart devices. It is designed to be a community driven tool to easily integrate 3rd party services. From developers for developers :)
A bare standard of living in the administrative unit in question, in this case the USA. One of the reasons people move to cities is to find work - with BI they wouldn't need to do that, so they wouldn't need to move to cities (and could move out if they were already there, without risking penury).

BI increases market freedom, allowing society to utilise all available resources (such as land), without the positive feedbacks inherent in a system where a significant fraction of market participants cannot make free choices.
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I think that's about right price point for audiophile who wants return for investment. Beyond that it will be about appreciating the engineering feats, not something you could find in blind testing.
> I don't understand why you don't write your compiler in Swift so at some point you can compile your compiler with your own compiler

Is there a solid technical or user requirement for that to be done? If there isn't, why do it?
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most places in the UK don't run AC even during the summer.
How do companies handle tax/payment for remote workers?
Just wondering when one is working remotely and say the parent company is in United States, how does the company handle tax/payment for remote workers ? I assume payment is wired but what about tax ? Parent company does not have any branch in the country remote worker is living.
France already has RSA, which is 650€ per month for everyone who doesn't work. Degressive if you work or have unemployment benefits. Costs about 200€ per months for those who earn 2000€ net a month (4000€ gross - our median net is 1730€ net). Unemployment benefits is 80% of the salary for 2 years.
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Don't get me wrong, the evenings were great because Dublins night live is great. The intentions behind the Night Summit might be good but I can't talk to anyone in a disco. At the end it worked out for us because we talked to really cool people and had a great time at Dublin's pubs.
Hint: The bomber the US used as the backbone of the Strategic Air Command wasn't used in Korea.
> How is it possible for a country with the resources of the U.S. to miss such important areas of technological security

The US is a democracy. Most of the voters are not very intelligent. That means, most of the politicians elected to run the government aren't very intelligent either. I mean, voters would have to be intelligent themselves in order to tell the difference between a dumbass political candidate and an intelligent one. And I think it's the politicians who usually hire the people who run intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies etc.
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And for those not familiar with relativity, in any case of course after traversing 1480 light years the civilization you intend to meet will be at least 1480 years in the future.

If two civilization were to meet the most efficient way of communication might be mediated through an AI. Exchange computer with some clear protocol for communication (probably based on elementary mathematical/physical principles) with an AI capable of conveying the intentions and the cumulative knowledge that you want to share.
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Interested in hearing thoughts on the idea for an app that helps organize Daily Fantasy Sports pools. The aim would be to help DFS players increase their chances of winning without having to pay more money.
Never is a strong word.

For one, we know nothing of the remote party's biology and medical achievements. In fact we don't even know whether the remote party would be a biological entity at all. They could be an engineered AI built by a species long gone or marginalized. Bottomline is we have no clue of their lifespan and mortality.

On the other hand, we can also change beyond recognition within a single roundtrip so if human progress is sufficient then by the time the conversation really gets going it may become possible.

Also, the nearest interesting stars are much closer than 1480 ly [1]. Generally under the most primitive assumptions about star distribution (uniform) we have a fast increase (O(n^3) within distance n ly) in the number of systems we could talk to.

[1] http://www.space.com/18964-the-nearest-stars-to-earth-infogr...
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For the same reason the Midway class aircraft carriers never saw action either...
Good info. I had to solve this problem a couple of weeks ago and ended up coding up my own solution.

I had to calculate (well, estimate) the SNR of signals for which I had little useful information. So, I needed to isolate the 'signal' (my signals had only one peak) from the rest of the waveform to get an estimate for the noise. Bah, not fun.
Two additions to the probably positive effects on health:

1. The author rightfully mentions it, but I'll repeat it nevertheless because fermented foods are often only characterized as "healthy" without any mention for their taste properties: it can simply be delicious. I stopped drinking soda in favor for water kefir [1], and I'm not missing Coke/Fanta/... It takes me 10 minutes to brew every two days and it's yummy.

2. When you make it, you know what's in it. My homebrew kefir is just water, sugar, figs, lemon, sometimes ginger, sometimes maple syrup (and kefir, of course). No concern for unknown colorants/conservatives/additives.

[1] http://nourishedkitchen.com/water-kefir/
Alastair Reynolds is a hard scifi author with a PhD in astrophysics, and most of his works deal with this in some fashion. One is Pushing Ice (SPOILER IN REST OF POST), which tackles your question about civilizations not really having the ability to communicate with each other, not only because the galaxy 100,000 light years across, but also because it's billions of years old. That is, you could have lots of civilizations rise and fall, even in the same neighborhood of the galaxy.

So the big idea revealed at the end of the book (most of it is structured as "what is going on!?") is that one of the early civilizations planted lots of moons around the galaxy that would lure in and trap ships and then accelerate off somewhere. At high accelerations, for various small amounts of subjective time, millions or billions of years could pass. By calibrating all the moon traps then, lots of different civlizations from different corners of the galaxy, each originating in different eras, would be arriving at about the same time/place.
Of course you can. Powerful remapping tools exist on both OS X and Android.

You can also access the system's api directly, instead of buying hardware to do that for you under the illusion that you hacked something.
There is a German firm which goes by the name Beringer. They cloned a genelec model:
http://www.thomann.de/de/behringer_b2031a_truth_aktivmonitor...

Many people refuse to acknowledge that you can work professionally with their products. However, I've seen those speakers in many studios where professional work gets done.
the real issue on this is you don't know what you don't know. the IT directors/management may even have a security dept which is doing "work", but doesnt have talented enough folks who recognize the real risk and address it. Im sure some project manager in the department has been producing vulnerability reports and defects closed to management, demonstrating how secure they are.
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Don't forget there were two experiments, they also did a lineage of super aggressive foxes.
> “CWA did, indeed, have access to everybody in USA’s private information, now imagine if we was Russia or China.”

You can safely assume that many organisations and governments would have access to a database like that.
If you liked this post, check the BBC podcast Series "A Brief History of Mathematics"[1] and also "The Music of the Primes" from Amazon. It's from the same author.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b/episodes/downloads
> "Then, assuming we already know what parameters are used outside of function calls"
This is something that needs to be done, I guess my confusion was that you already have this information and that should be sufficient to finding the unused parametres.
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I would sign up my project for it, if it can generate more revenue than is worth the effort
"By the people and for the people"? What's up with the political message on top of this?
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Internet has been around for years, email for 4 decades and consumer internet and social media now. What would be the mode of communication in 10-20 years from now? Realistic one unlike Star Wars kind.
Whenever I think of Ramanujan I wonder if he would get founding at this time. I personally doubt someone so much ahead of his time would.
Do you have a problem with that?
This is simply a shame since leaving Dublin over money (besides making a shitload of it either way) is just uninspiring.
No, I'm curious. Aren't you? Or does everyone besides me already know what it means and what the connection is to the software?
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One main development might be the specialization of the construction industry and the advent of professional management after WWII. When homes are not built by home owners but by development companies, a totally different set of incentives might fall in place, and with professional management one might start looking for metrics and optimizing against them.
There are a couple of things that are not very precise in the article. First of all the history of modern Italian is not quite right: standard Italian actually comes more from the dialects of the center, especially Tuscan and there is literature in standard Italian that far predates the unification of Italy (for example the 14th century Petrarca is still perfectly intelligible by contemporary high school students.

The other thing that is overly simplified is that taxes from the wealthier north are really not the cause (or at least not the single cause) of the emigration from the south. Many regions were really poor and not yet industrialized at the turn of the century and not only in the south (Friuli in the northeast was also very poor). I think the main cause of emigration is really lack of employment opportunities and the destinations of these emigrants have been many: there are huge Italian communities in Argentina, Brazil, Germany and Belgium for example.
Probably an unsuccessful formula. Consumers aren't going to pay much until the product is great. It'll be hard to bootstrap a product like this.

For the same amount of effort it might be better to build a b2b business. Different attitude about spending a few dollars
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Yeah, I am curious, too. I misjudged the tone of your comment, bad assumption on my part.
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The reason why delta wing is good is twofold. It allows supersonic flight and it gives you sharp high angle-of-attack turns.

The bad thing is that the high AoA turn is based on upper portion of the wing generating shitload of high energy vortexes. This "energy bleed" slows you down and limits the number of consecutive turns you can do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_lift

F16 has relatively small wings to carefully match the wings lift with the engines power surplus. The result is very high sustained turn rate.

These days it's more about missiles, radars, stealth and increasingly infrared search and track.
It sounds less about the states the U.S. is suppressing and more the people the U.S. is oppressing, the states are just side effect of that.
Utopia is a horribly misused word - the entire point was that it was an impossible idea - it literally means "nowhere" see Thomas More. He was mocking the idea of a Eutopia, which would literally be a "happy place".

Either way, this all feels far more like dystopia - so I suppose the answer to the question, intended or not, is yes - we are indeed on the road to nowhere.
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...this is exactly what Ramanujan came up with. His work on the K3 surface he discovered provided Ono and Trebat-Leder with a method to produce, not just one, but infinitely many elliptic curves requiring two or three solutions to generate all other solutions. It's not the first method that has been found, but it required no effort. "We tied the world record on the problem [of finding such elliptic curves], but we didn't have to do any heavy lifting," says Ono. "We did next to nothing, expect recognise what Ramanujan did."

There's a joke in Dr Who where the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) gives a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to geniuses on earth in order to convince them he can prevent annihilation by the Atraxi. He basically gives them "Fermat’s Theorem. The proof. And I mean the real one. Never been seen before. Poor old Fermat got killed in a duel before he could write it down. My fault. I slept in."

That always makes me wonder - was there and is there indeed a better, shorter and more elegant proof than the one we have?

Who knows, maybe Ramanujan was on his way to developing one!
Convair B-36?
Update:

The keyboard boasts itself as a the ultimate hacking keyboard, yet the only "hackable" thing that can be done with it is configuring keys and macros, which can already be done for free on any OS and with any standard keyboard. The keyboard doesn't deserve its name in my opinion. It also costs 220$ (200$ as an early bird) .

Rhetorical question: Who will benefit the most from this project?