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I thought Google was building the little 25MPH self driving cars for senior communities, campuses, and such. But they're running them on El Camino Real.

They apparently registered the small self driving cars as what California calls a "Neighborhood Electric Vehicle".[0] A NEV is limited to 25 MPH, and cannot be operated on a road with a speed limit above 35 MPH. It's one step above a golf cart. Local municipalities can limit their use on faster streets, if they so choose, but they don't have to.

There's a related flap over high speed electric bicycles. They're supposed to be limited to 20MPH, but some can reach 40MPH, and a few can reach 50MPH.[1] They only have bicycle-grade wheels, brakes, and pothole tolerance[2], which is a problem. At what point is a driver's license, or a motorcycle license, required, what's allowed on a bike path, and do you have to have pedals?[3] There are now three classes of electric bikes in California, one of which doesn't have pedals but is still considered a "bicycle". There are also electric mopeds and electric motorcycles.

Trying to fit all these vehicles on the same road and bike path system is difficult.

[0] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_...
[1] https://www.electricbike.com/stealth-bomber-review/
[2] http://www.levassociation.com/worldwide-legislation
[3] https://www.electricbike.com/california-ebike-laws/
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I believe if Lux has root access it changes its behaviour to also change the actual color temp rather than using an overlay.
It actually can be zero sum.

Solve the problem with a poor 50% solution which most people can't understand, and you may be stuck with it for another 20 years.
There's something similar here in Portland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Bubbler
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This is a missed opportunity. As Shirky points out, social media is "publish, then filter", and you've found a powerful filter that lets you reap the benefits. (And he also points out power laws--10% of the people in your feed post 90% of the garbage.)

While I don't log in to Facebook more than once every six months, your observation gives me hope that I might be able to find some utility in it.
Yes, they saw a bunch of new relays, starting in February 2014. And they weren't doing anything obviously alarming. But once Tor devs had seen the Black Hat abstract, they figured out what to look for. Once they were monitoring relevant parameters, the attack was obvious.

In retrospect, more monitoring seems an obvious approach. But that would probably hurt performance. And threaten security and anonymity. Maybe there's a middle ground.
Not sure why WSJ thinks this is exposé-worthy. Just a clever tactic on Sequoia's behalf, probably a good example of why they've been considered top dog in VC for so long.
It's one of the standard arguments against a minimum wage. What follows is that by implementing it, you inadvertently hit the early-entry work force the hardest (in the US that would typically be teenagers getting their first jobs).
Apart from the general arguments against price floors and ceilings I think the other major argument against the minimum wage is that in the current systems (which a cynic could call lobby capitalism), minimum wage laws actually benefit "well connected incumbants" in low wage sectors who can use them to make market entry a lot harder for the competition.
German minimum wage in the postage sector could probably serve as a decent example if memory serves me well.

There's a chapter on minimum wage in "Economics in One Lesson" that picks up the argument of the parent post.
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Quitting for a week, and quitting forever are two different things. Life off facebook has its own challenges too. How does a 1 week study draw such categorical conclusions?
My anecdata: I did some work at an Australian university engineering department and there was a cultural disconnect with some of the Chinese students; they did not understand that the university wanted them to figure out problems individually -- supposedly they would get together with the smartest students to figure out the answers, and then share them among themselves.
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I was going to down-vote you, then I saw the wonderful caption: "A so-called Sanitary Drinking Fountain" with the kid's face right in the mix.

So I'm assuming your comment is circa 1950.
I hate seeing cyclists on the very same road in question (El Camino Real in Mountain View). There is a substantial bike 'boulevard' network of side streets made safer for bicyclists, so it's mostly ignorance that brings people to bike down El Camino.

Check out the line of red dots in this accident map:

http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2012/09/13/over-200-bike-relate...

Considering that cyclists are expressly encouraged to use other roads, this thoroughfare is MUCH more dangerous to a cyclist than most of the rest of the city.
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I would like to point out that several EU countries have minimal basic income. It translates as 'minimal liveable income' and is paid to people who have no other income. It is about 60 euro/month in Czech republic. In Germany it is about 300 euro/month, but can easily go up to 1000 euro/month with all extras.

Problem is that one has to prove he does not have any other income. That could be problem for some people, for example illegal foreigners. Or divorced fathers who have income on paper, but everything gets confiscated for alimony.
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What makes you think there's a conflict of interest here?
could you perform a benchmark?
You claim that basic income can't possibly work, and that unemployment increasing over time is nonsense, but you've not provided any reason why. How is basic income so similar to communism it should be written off without trying?
Just use control+shift+v that drops any formatting on the clipboard and keeps the text part. Incredibly helpful for wysiwyg editors too.
There is a huge potential downside from political correctness. When ideas are not allowed to compete on their intellectual merit (because someone finds them offensive), everybody loses.
It's no more dangerous than driving a motorbike. People do that all the time without worrying about the risk.
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Dude, can you calm down? David is a nice person who is doing work that grows the economy. He isn't polluting rivers or clear-cutting forests. Stop treating these people like scam artists, they're just trying to help capital move around more efficiently; maybe you don't like the circles in which that capital is moving, but at least it's moving.

And for the record, David and I do not have any sort of financial/business relationship and I haven't seen or talked to the guy in like 10 years.
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If the Neovim hadn't existed by now, this would quite probably have convinced me to switch to Emacs. A sane, and actually elegant, programming language to interact with my editor? Gasp!
Quantum entanglement doesn't really send information.
The existence of things like MacKeeper seem to indicate otherwise.
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> ... and is paid to people who have no other income

So, are we talking about unemployment benefits? Because one of the things a guaranteed / universal basic income aims to do is eliminate the so called "welfare cliffs".

An example of a welfare cliff would be: let's say you can get 300 euro / month being unemployed, or 310 euro / month working 60 hours a week. Does it make sense to get the job? With a UBI scheme, you'd get the basic salary, and you'd go do the job as well, kind of a win-win. Of course the overall picture is much more complex than that, but that's the idea.
Yes it is. There is nothing impolite about that whatsoever.
I am not sure I follow how you arrive at the conclusion that "many users" would prefer this. What platform are those users on? It appears that many users (certainly a financially measurable majority) have indicated their preferences already.
Thanks! That MV police blog post says the traffic officer stopped the car to "educate the operators about impeding traffic per 22400(a) of the California Vehicle Code."

That section of the vehicle code says, emphasis added:
"No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, unless the reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, because of a grade, or in compliance with law." https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/vctop/vc/d11/c...

If Google's self-driving cars are limited by law to 25mph, and the car was not exceeding 25mph, then it was "in compliance with the law" and 22400(a) doesn't apply. It would be allowed to impede or block traffic, even if we human drivers would really prefer it to be going 45mph.
I didn't say Basic Income should be written off without trying. I said it should be tried so that it can fail and be seen to be utopian nonsense.

I didn't say that unemployment increasing over time was nonsense, I said that blaming automization was nonsense.
Being an asshole isn't that effective. Not as effective as being a scheming, manipulative backstabber.
I regularly exceed 40mph on my road bike, on downhills at least. It's fine.

I'd agree that you shouldn't be in the bike lane at those speeds (though in much of the UK they are few and far between and mostly consist of a bit of paint on the side of the road). That's what roads are for.
As someone who grew up in italy, I was always puzzled that the simple "nasone"[0] design is not used more commonly abroad, at least in open areas.

I.e. water goes down instead of up and the sink is level to the ground, so it's easy to fill a bottle or bucket with it. The pipe has a hole on top if you want to drink from it more easily, as by obstructing the bottom the water sprinkles up as in the US drinking fountains. They do not prevent the "kissing" of the pipe though.

I guess it might be related to the availability of water, which Rome and most of Italy have plenty of.

[0] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasone#/media/File:Nasona_a_vi...
[1] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasone italian, sorry
I think the only way for basic income to work is a very clear definition of what is and is not luxury. I think a lot of the issues with minimum wage and welfare debates stem from different people having different definitions of what should be paid for by those services.

We see this with the minimum wage debate -- everyone's definition of a "living wage" is different. Does basic mean house, car etc in a nice area or does it mean that if you're not working you can afford to live only where the cost of living is low? I think this needs to be really clearly laid out so down the line the intention of the money is clear.

If it's clearly laid out ahead of time, then in the US situation for example, someone complaining that they cannot afford an apartment in an expensive area without working is not evidence for a need to raise the basic income, it's evidence they need to move or find a (better) job.
You can use whatever language you want provided you can AOT to native code.

That ban only lasted a few months, then their allowed everyone again.
Google cars pay attention to emergency services workers already - they talked about it in their TED talk earlier this year - link: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_...

Skip to 10:00 for the police man halting the car, then waving it through.

The whole video is worth a watch, to be honest. It's amazing how well they cater for edge cases.
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I mean, that's cool. The question I was answering was,

> I often wonder how much of what I see today as "normal"
> will be perceived as horrible / offensive / wrong in 50
> years time.

And technologies that are polluting our environment for selfish gains fits!

I'm sure we could dig [0], and find a majority who thought ethnic groups were somehow not actually 100% human and thus, OK to treat as such, and only with scientific evidence, that was overturned - perhaps that was the #1 excuse for abuse of ethnic groups, and I'm talking genocidal proportions.

There are people who now still don't believe being gay isn't anything but a choice someone makes. Which I'm sure you and I know understand as a bat-shit crazy stance.

I mean, you tell me - how long ago was it that the majority around you thought along similar lines when it came to trans-folk? A few months? Do you think scientific evidence is going to help, or hurt these people live much better lives?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch
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I read a lot of great essays/articles by Marshall Brain. They're interesting, and have some interesting ideas how to fund it. I like the study of minimum income a lot since it involves questioning so many assumptions about our economy.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
It's absurd that 24 mph in a 35 zone is considered "too slow". This is nearly equivalent to driving 40 km/h in a 60 km/h zone, and there is not a single traffic court in any Canadian city that would uphold a ticket being served for that difference. How is this even a thing down there? In a 60 km/h zone here, you'd have to be going 25 km/h to even warrant being pulled over at all (ie: doing 15 mph in 37 mph zone).

If 24 mph is too slow for that particular road or neighbourhood, then the speed limit should be 45+ mph, not 35. Clearly the average citizen is already driving 45+, or the "slow" wouldn't even be noticeable.

Edit: wait, this is even more absurd. The traffic violation quoted is https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/vctop/vc/d11/c... which mentions "highway". 35 mph or 56 km/h is residential street speed, not highway speed. This whole thing makes no sense to me.
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Definitely an interesting scenario (not sure why you were downvoted). New enabling technologies may promise the potential for utopia, but human nature persists. If the standards for the technology can't come from competitors cooperating, we're left with regulation. Forgive me for repeating your point, but it seemed lost on some, perhaps unintentionally.

Where we will we get the new rules for a new road?
When you deal with a commercial product your are subject to what vendor wants the product to be.

Don't like it? Buy elsewhere and help other vendors.

I do not care for those that give the money to Apple and then complain.
I'm glad someone tries it but remain very skeptical.

If you take the proposed eventual 800 Euro and assume every single citizen will get it (roughly 5.5 million in Finland) that would be 52.8 billion Euro/year.
For comparison the net domestic product of Finland is 216.9 billion (bad indicator but one i could find with a quick search)

I think if you do this, every citizen should get the base income and only income above it and corporate income should be taxed. Currently the average income in Finland is about 3.1k/month. So on average that's 2300 Euro taxable income (once again grossly simplifying). You'd need to tax that at roughly 35% to refinance the base income.
Not sure if the corporate taxes and hiking the 35% to say 50% (+savings on all the stuff that is now covered by the 800 like unemployment, retirement) can make up for all the other costs (infrastructure, education, health care, police, military etc.)

There's also the standard questions of "why not ask for more" and "what will people do with the free time, why should they work". Which are the interesting questions that an experiment could help answer.
It would also be great when a traffic light turned green that all cars started moving at exactly the same time, as opposed to the delay where every car waits for the car in front of them to start moving with human drivers.
Not sure about MS languages, but some date utils make the distinction: week of year (1/1=1) or week (1/1~=53).

Same with year of week vs year, where 1/1 could be year-1 if the year starts in the middle of the week, for instance.

Yes, dates suck.
I'm California USA, driving too slow is considered a hazard. It's kinda fuzzy to be honest. They can still pop you for speeding whenever they want but they're really looking for the person who stands out.
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I second that sentiment. I mostly use C# for work - about half web stuff and half OpenGL-based user interfaces, and it's a real boon to be able to do all my work in Linux. Some other C# devs here work on Macs. We all appreciate the Mono team's hard work.
If you can read German, here is a really great article from an UBI supporter arguing against minimum wage: https://www.grundeinkommen.de/05/07/2013/warum-ein-allgemein...
> It's sadly not surprising how many people are killed on the roads.

In 2013, US, total number of traffic deaths was 32719. Total number of miles driven: 2,946,000,000,000.

Miles driven per one death: 90,039,426

It's not even one-in-a-million chance of dying. It's one-in-90-million chance. That is really very good odds. Driving is really quite safe and getting safer all the time. Cars manufactured today have safety systems and braking ability, traction control and other safety measures that are basically incomparable to cars made 20-30 years ago. The speed limits are still the same for everyone though. The whole point of a car is to quickly get from one location to another.
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Being able to sense the design speed of a road is completely unrelated to someone's estimation of their driving skills.

The design speed of a road is, in fact, something you're probably only partly consciously aware of as you're driving on it; it's something you get not from a speed-limit sign but from cues like the way curves are built, the length of merging ramps and exit lanes, or how far ahead of something a warning sign is posted. Whether you think you're an above-average driver has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that you will, consciously or not, learn to pick up on those cues and you will adjust your driving to it unless you're constantly watching your speedometer (and even if you do, if you drive significantly below the design speed, there will be times when you're uncomfortable doing so, though you might not realize why it's making you uncomfortable).
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Remember that basic income displaces payouts from other social programs. How much do social welfare and unemployment programs pay out in Finland?

Also remember that, although everyone theoretically gets an equal slice of a basic-income pie, there's nothing stopping a government from making taxes more progressive to claw back the wealth transfer from anyone who was living comfortably on their own income and didn't really need the help.
It's very easy because it's not necessary. It's only hard for the people still on facebook because they can't reach you or feed off your posts.
In California, if you aren't driving 5 mph over the speed limit, the car behind you is going to tailgate the hell out of you. It's ridiculous, I know.
Maybe not quite that small, but if you look up some "lightweight block ciphers", you can find some candidates.
That's amazing-- I had both read that book and seen a few of his appearances on Numberphile, but I never connected the two.

This same phenomenon happened to me not long ago actually, when I discovered that two of my all-time favorite bands shared a guitarist (Greg Edwards of Failure and Autolux). Is there a term for discovering that two people you know of are actually one and the same? I find it to be a rare pleasure-- you can almost feel the mental connections linking themselves together, and afterwards the world feels like a smaller, more logical place.
Due to unfortunate phrasing, "no person" was driving at such slow speed ;)
We ship Tuesday Night Football as an included program in our free Applesoft BASIC interpreter Discorunner, if you want to mess around with it.

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Since it's a BASIC listing and there's some intrinsic educational value in being distributed in source code form, we believe our distribution of it falls under fair use.
They should be asking things that are relevant to the job.
One might assume that marginal taxes at the higher end of the spectrum will go up to compensate?
>they're just trying to help capital move around more efficiently

One of the companies was not told for 3 years were the investment money was really coming from. Growing the economy is not a valid excuse for being deliberately misleading.
It's a fun example of Jevon's paradox though. The more efficient the insulation ... the more heat is needed to warm houses (because people don't consider the cost of heating anymore is the reason usually given).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
No, I did mean “conflating”.

Lazare was talking about the first issue, and braythwayt responded as if the answer to the second issue was the answer to the first one, implicitly conflating the two issues.
The fact that entrepreneurs are regularly encouraged to drop out, so the investor and professor roles are potentially in conflict?
Not too surprising, considering the level of complexity in a modern browser and javascript engine I suppose. I wonder if the next generation of phone operating systems will have something more akin to a true exo or micro kernel to help mitigate these sorts of attacks.
Bizarre. The author seems to be implying that only one definition of the first day of a week can be tolerated (and that his is implicitly the correct one), and later in the comments field that it's intolerable that the 1st of January could ever not be in the first week of a given year.

ISO8601 [1] is pretty clear on how you determine the first week (as noted on the wikipedia page, these are functionally equivalent) :

o the week with the year's first Thursday in it (the formal ISO definition),

o the week with 4 January in it,

o the first week with the majority (four or more) of its days in the starting year, and

o the week starting with the Monday in the period 29 December – 4 January.

While it's doubtless fun to scream into the wind (of International Standards), and perhaps we may churlishly expect MS to instinctively resist anything labelled as a standard, comments like this:

> The customer wants to know if there is anything we can do so we
> get the correct result.

are somewhat distressing.

The customer already has the correct result, just neither party understands what the correct result should be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
Post is deleted, may I inquire what message is your response to, and who exactly it was in response to?
I think it's universal behavior. Driving at speed limits gets you angry looks, below speed limit and people wanna hurt you. All that so they can reach the red light earlier.
I'm a (male) PhD student at Caltech, and didn't really believe gender bias was prevalent in academia till I spoke with female friends and learned about the kind of problems they faced. Believe me people, the problem is real.
Also note that, unlike welfare/EI/disability programs today, a basic income isn't regressive toward those who want to work. You don't suddenly lose your basic income when you take that $2/hr job, so there's no disincentive to taking it.