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I think VAT is great, if we can lower overall taxes. For example, I wouldn't mind seeing a high tax on luxury items. But a balance needs to be found within existing tax systems. In general, we shouldn't tax investments and labour as much. Those both create value. If I'm actively investing and getting great returns, I'm helping the economy.

Personally I'm quite a big fan of the Estonian tax system. You pay tax once you take money out of the company (i.e. when you want to spend it)
ACID transactions in a highly available distributed system are hard and often fail in subtle ways when done wrong at the edges. Any implementation will take years to mature in the lab and in actual production usage. This isn’t a knock on the Rethink guys; their product looks pretty awesome and is moving quickly.

For a solution today, MarkLogic is a transactional distributed document database. Cross-document and cross-partition transactions have been a key tenet of the architecture from the beginning (like, 2002 beginning). Take a look at https://developer.marklogic.com/blog/how-marklogic-supports-... for details.

Full disclosure: I’m a Product Manager at MarkLogic.
That doesn't have anything to do with roles and permissions.
You missed my edit. The RFC clearly states you are not to enforce encrypted SMTP with STARTTLS to the public internet.
Perl 6 doesn't use IEEE 754 by default at all. It internally stores decimal literals as rational numbers, with numerator and denominator in separate fields, and it only resolves back to a decimal number when you convert it to a string.
I did have a look at Raton and surrounding roads on Street View earlier and actually thought it looked rather pleasant.
I'd imagine that building a proper bomb, i.e. large and efficient one, is quite hard --- the geometry and timing of the implosion charges is complex, fiddly, and difficult to get right the first time.

However, building something which squibs, i.e. undergoes a partial criticality and goes bang in a reasonably large but not city-killing way, and spreading a bunch of radioactive material about, is probably much easier. (This is the 'dirty bomb' thing that was getting the press excited a couple of years back.)

(Fun fact: if you're locked in a room with a nuke on a timer, your best option is probably to beat the shit out of it with an axe. Provided you can physically damage it enough to upset the implosion geometry, it won't go off properly. Of course, you'll still die, but...)
In the fraction 1/10, the denominator is 10.
The prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5.

Binary does not contain the prime factor of 5 necessary to represent 1/10 cleanly as a decimal. It only contains the 2.

Similarly, the prime factors for 1/6 would be 3 and 2. In a base 10 number system, you only have the 2. So you end up with a repeating decimal (0.1666666).
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I was arrested while hiking and acquitted because I did nothing wrong. But the police never returned my expensive sun glasses or my expensive optical water purifier. "We don't have them."
Unless you personally know either of the people involved, I don't think you are in a position to make a judgement as to whether it was "love, sacrifice and reward" or "prevailing cultural pressures at the time that were always regretted later"
The difference is that the amount of taxes and how they're spent are determined by a legislative process by elected officials.
I had a similar experience learning a bit of Groovy recently

on the surface it looks quite Ruby-esque, but a bunch of surprises lurking in wait because it's Java underneath
"For most applications" is very very misleading.

Most applications believe it or not are business modelling problems, which are overwhelmingly relational. SQL was invented to solve these, so no surprise it is actually the best tool for the job by far.
Definitely not genetic. There just happens to be a proliferation of fairly terrible, rotgut baijiu in the world.

We'd use this terrible-quality baijiu and Malort for hazing/initiation/pranks in grad school. The former ALWAYS elicited disgust, horror, and loathing.
Yes, I'm not sure the parent realizes KiB (kibibyte) is different than Kb (kilobit): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
Unfortunately, under currently dominant monetary regimes, such outcomes are entirely predictable and inevitable.

Edit: Ok, I had a nice reply to someone, but then their comment was deleted, meaning my comment had nowhere to go.

I'll put it below.

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>[Deleted Comment] Unfortunately without further information on your part is hard to know if you have deep insights, carefully thought out, or it is just a naive cynic comment like those that abound all over the internet.

It is a fair point. Unfortunately, any given text posted on the Internet is unlikely to be read much or given much credence by the few that do read it. Therefore, I try not to waste my time expositing large amounts of English text.

I don't know if I have deep insights. I do know that most seem to have no idea of the basic mechanism of the dominant monetary regimes and that such a mechanism easily explains many of the "bad things" which occur in the economy. For example, it's just a fact that debt must rise (assuming non-decreasing population and many other "standard assumptions").

>it's probably best if everyone buries themselves as far into debt as they can

This is basically the only possibility, except that the debt isn't forced to be spread uniformly. Instead, debt accumulates in regions. The steady state is basically: banks hold interest stakes in all debt, perpetually. Banks survive, while everyone else must deal with the wake forced on them by the massive amount of debt product which the banks produce.
Is it more common? Citation requested.

On the East coast, I've heard of many small businesses that self-funded (savings and/or spouse) to get started, and never took any funding. Never heard of even one incident of a small business that was invested in. Obviously it's a different world in Silicon Valley, but if we look at the nation or globe, what is more common?
Is most wealth inherited? I thought it was fairly established that after 3 generations a personal fortune is usually lost.
I agree with you except for one thing.

> It's very hard to shoot down an urban myth as virulent as "Swartz faced 35 years in prison"

Because that is in fact what the DOJ sent out to the press in this document stating the non-mythical number 35.

Trying to understand why 35 years is a myth the public continues to hold on to: Pragmatically you are saying that could not happen but the empirical evidence of DOJ communication to the public is 35 years.
Yeah, I've noticed the caching problem a few times, though all of the prices I listed were actual prices I sent friends who purchased or I validated by following the process to the actual fare page. Though sometimes the really cheap fares are with budget airlines who upsell for carry-on and checked baggage lifting the price.

There were a few too good to be true Air Canada prices (sub $400 to India) I saw a few weeks ago, but those didn't exist once checked.

I've been able to convince friends to purchase tickets who would otherwise not have traveled by posting the fare to Facebook. Chicago seems to be a popular one my friends want to go, and they end up being convinced when they see a sub $100 RT ticket from California.
Unfortunately for this argument, the word "reasonable" means pretty much the same thing now as it did in 1787, and is clearly meant to delegate most of the answer to this question to the people (in the form of the legislature), and not the philosopher-kings of the court.

You will of course come up with many arguments, virtually all of which I'll agree with, that asset forfeiture is "unreasonable". The problem is that other people disagree with you, and, specifically and distinctively with this particular item in the bill of rights, the court is supposed to defer to the legislature as much as it can.
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Yes, but they aren't that common* , especially in very large installation pretty much since the 60's and 70's most nuclear reactors that were build were light water fast reactors.
The advantages of breeders started to fade away when the cost of enrichment dropped significantly and when new stockpiles of Uranium were found, after the fall of the USSR when Russia became an exporter of Uranium it made them pretty much non-viable.
They are still used to create medical and research isotopes, and Plutonium for either weapons or for nuclear batteries.
Today there are 2 maybe 3 actual breeder reactors that are used for commercial power production.
Most next-gen reactor design are breeders, or breed-capable (you can alternate between power-production and fuel breeding cycles) but none of them were built as of yet.

*Pretty much all reactors are create new fissile material even in normal fission Plutonium is created in the fuel rods and about 30% of the thermal energy produced by a power producing reactor comes from PU decay and fission.
But breeder reactors are ones that designed to breed fissile material from fertile material (reactor based enrichment) so they create more fuel than what they consume but they can't really be used to produce power at that time. Some reactors combine the 2 and they'll have a power producing phase and a breeding phase usually they'll have several cores and move the fuel around to either breed or burn it.
Fully based on XMPP there's also Movim which bring social network features on top of it https://movim.eu/ . P.S.: I'm the author of the project.
"property rights" is an abstract concept that doesn't exist without government in the first place.
It might be of use for a couple of reasons. One, you can compare the purchased material to that which you're trying to produce. Second, with the purchased material you can assemble and test-detonate a bomb, which not only causes other countries' intelligence agencies to question the value of their sources but gives you leverage in future negotiations.
Identity theft is still uncommon in Brazil. Also, people are used to filling out long forms because of our national bureaucratic mindset (it's not just the government, private enterprise is also very bureaucratic).

The result is that nobody blinks an eye at giving away _all_ their data. If you ask a complete stranger for his CPF (a number given by the Tax Service, a common Primary Key in many databases), they will give it to you.

We're lucky that most of our criminals just aren't very sophisticated (yet).
So they have money for drugs but not moving?

Some people feel that they not only have the right to never move, but others should come in and help them, through aid or whatnot, for their bad decision.

you want to live in a barren waste land, that's your problem; Don't complain about it.
people want to pay as little as possible to get as much as possible, that's natural to all of us.

I'm not sure about that. There are plenty of businesses that do very well selling less at a higher price - there is perceived value in buying an ethical, artisan or luxury good. Perhaps people wouldn't mind paying a bit more if it meant society was better off if they could actually afford to. The notion of doing things for the "maximum possible happiness", even if it means you're worse off yourself, isn't new. Jeremy Bentham was writing about "felicific calculus" more than 200 years ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicific_calculus
If you drink too much at night, you'll get a hangover in the morning. The same is true of spending and debt.
>so there's no disincentive to taking it.

Only if you assume one's time is worthless.
Unknown Russian black marketeer OR an unknown state's spy agency with a very effective honeypot for targeting and eliminating terrorist organizations? If the latter its a terrific self-funding operation taking some very bad people off the street. If you're going to worry about nuclear detonation then concern yourself with command and control of existing weaponized stockpiles. Stewarship is a challenge for developed nations, its got to be a nightmare for developing countries.
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I like the approach to describe permissions but I also think that a good data model to sit behind this that includes roles and capabilities ultimately is needed in most applications. Users and use cases will almost always arise that require arbitrary roles with a mix of capabilities...
Apparently i2p is better protected against this type of attack but it might not be perfect.

"This sort of attack is powerful, but its applicability to I2P is non obvious" [1]

"Without protocol scrubbing or higher latency, global active adversaries can gain substantial information. As such, people concerned with these attacks could increase the latency (using nontrivial delays or batching strategies), include protocol scrubbing, or other advanced tunnel routing techniques, but these are unimplemented in I2P." [1]

[1] https://geti2p.net/en/docs/how/threat-model#timing
I don't think having the black bar being a link goes against that sentiment. When a footballer wears such an armband, an observant (but out-of-the-loop) spectator would ask "why are they wearing that black armband?" and either be told by the announcers, friends, or have to look it up. We just don't have the technology to attach a "link" IRL to an armband or a flag flying at half-mast. In this situation, a link would be beneficial without taking away from the respects being paid, IMHO.
Democracy has been bastardized over the past 150+ years to the extent that governments are now effectively nothing more than organized criminal organizations. Police serve as the enforcing arm of these organizations.
Even if it's necessary, how do you manage to move if you have zero dollars, empty tank (or no car), constant calls from collectors (if your phone is hooked up)...

Sometimes it's not hard, but impossible.
My university IT (which also runs a huge hospital network) seems to have no idea how to secure their data. Their solution is to encrypt everything, as if disk encryption and VPNs are enough to prevent data theft. They rolled out a csmpus-wide VPN requirement recently based on a Juniper networks system - the exact same system that led to the Anthem data breach that lost 80 million patient records (because Juniper had a slow patch cycle after Heartbleed). No two-factor auth on the VPN, so any one of 50,000 employees with phished credentials could give an attacker VPN access. Meanwhile all the actual patient databases are old, leaky systems they seem uninterested in upgrading. Sheer lunacy.
"Fiacre compared the challenges of running the Windows 3.1-supported DECOR to the issues faced by NASA with its Voyager program, which was launched in 1977."

Except that Voyager 1 is 20 billion kilometers away while this system is sitting right at there the airport. ;-)
> many ex-soviet states (i.e. Ukraine) were stuck with a nuclear arsenal they couldn't maintain and didn't want.

An important side point: Ukraine definitely wanted nuclear weapons, in particular as a viable threat against being re-annexed by Russia. Ukraine gave them up only after receiving a solemn promise by the US and UK that they would protect Ukraine's territorial integrity.

"On December 5, 1994 the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Britain and the United States signed a memorandum to provide Ukraine with security assurances in connection with its accession to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine
I don't really care who's to blame.

I'm certainly not defending the DOJ. A very thorough and compelling study of mass incarceration published earlier this year suggests that prosecutorial overzealousness probably accounts for more of our prison population than any other factor.

But the "35 year sentence" claim has nothing to do with Swartz's predicament. He had excellent legal representation, both formally (he had a series of well-qualified criminal defense attorneys) and informally (he had a support system compromised of several of the most respected legal scholars in the country). Every one of them would have told him that he could, and should, ignore the "35 year" figure from the DOJ's press release --- the DOJ writes a similar press release for every headline prosecution, and in each case applies the same absurd heuristic of adding up the maximum possible sentence for all counts, ignoring the sentencing guidelines and offense grouping rules.

The 35-year sentence is also mooted by Heymann's own initial negotiation with Swartz, where he threatened Swartz with a 7-year sentence. 7 years was his ambit claim; it was the worst possible case Heymann could generate, and a fabulously unrealistic one given the CFAA sentencing guidelines.
It's better than 2.7 REPL, definitely. It's a bit different than 3.5 REPL. 3.5 does more for you on auto-completion front, but MicroPython is much better on smart- and auto-indenting. Give it a try - it's easy to build it for any Unix-like system, let us know what you think about its REPL!
Perhaps they planned to do it already, but they had to move their timetable up in reaction to Google's own efforts. If they felt giving google too much time might create a significant first mover advantage it could certainly make sense.
Thank you!

How much of that production between the US and USSR is weapons-grade?

If you have links or books to recommend that would be great.

Cheers!
During the oil 'crisis' in the 70's, when there were long lines of cars at the gas stations, my dad remembers seeing fully loaded tankers stacked up at Tampa for a long period of time. The speculation ranged from (a) the president wanted to use the crisis to drive a different energy policy, to (b) the oil companies were waiting to offload as the price kept climbing.
> ill-advised adventurism on the part of Western powers

Let keep the picture clear: ill-advised by the USA. It was the USA who wanted the conflicts and did everything in their power to 'persuade' their allies to bomb along.

It was all lies and just see what we got in return.
> whereas the transition from Java 6 to later versions is proving to be next to impossible

I've never heard of anyone having issues going from Java 6 to later versions, at the language level or JVM level.
You're not actually denying what I said. If they arrest you without a warrant, then they seize that gun without a warrant.

As for whether they should ever be able to seize a gun without arresting you, I'll defer an opinion--I feel like my knowledge of the variety of cases isn't up to snuff.
Off the top of my head, I think plenty of service businesses start out this way. E.g., consulting companies, legal firms, cleaning companies, hair salons, etc. Sometimes they start accidentally: a person does a friend's tax return or a little legal work on the side from their day job. Eventually they build up enough of a reputation and a client base that they say, "Now let's make it official."

I think the same trick can be pulled off with food. A good SF example is the Creme Brulee Cart:

http://www.thecremebruleecart.com/story/

It started out with one tiny handmade cart, grew up to a food truck, and eventually added a physical store.

For startups that are service businesses, the Concierge MVP is a great example of ways to go after early revenue. For example, consider a friend's startup:

http://amazingairfare.net/

This is the kind of thing that at scale would require sophisticated software. But for a small number of people, you can just do it manually.

Another good concierge MVP example comes from my colleagues at Code for America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqTFi2U2Ebc

They aren't getting revenue here, as it's a public service, but you can see how the manual-to-automated approach can work incredibly well.

If you're near to one, consider dropping by a Bootstrappers' Breakfast:

http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/
It depends on exactly how much skill these guys have. It's trivially easy, compared to getting the weapons-grade materials in the first place. It's also impossibly difficult, compared to building suicide bomb vests and such. You do need enough of a science and engineering base to be able to build something new, based entirely on theoretical calculations, when you've never seen an example before.

If ISIS starts turning out their own rifles, ammo, truck repair parts, maybe some drones or something, or otherwise demonstrates dedication at a societal level to designing and building things, then I'd start to worry. As it is now, it's pretty hard to buy.

And speaking of potential damage, a nuclear blast is just the start of the potential issues. The real question, if somebody managed to pull that off, is how would the target of such an attack reply? How would the allies of that target think and expect, and how would any countries that are rivals to the target and/or allied/sympathetic to the suspected attackers react to the response?
There's also pretty large subset of stdlib available: https://github.com/micropython/micropython-lib . But it's targeted primary at Unix port - you can install it even on a low-cost Linux board with 4MB of Flash (~1MB free space after Linux kernel and minimal userspace), and rock away!
Yes. It does. It absolutely does.

http://www.productliabilityprevention.com/images/5-PostSaleD...

http://www.cassiday.com/maa-dri-productliability/

If a post-sale modification of a product is foreseeable, and the manufacturer has not properly warned the user of its risks, then the manufacturer can be liable. It is really that simple.
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Typical rates are between 4 and 7 percent.

Agreed about the issue of compound interest, but everyone's case is different. I think that's all he's saying: "Take the time to be unemployed and figure out what you want to do. Three years of CI is less important than knowing what you want to spend your life making money at."

Now one might argue that this decision should be made prior to going to university in the first place...
Is the point of a musical career to get rich, or to make a living?

There may not be as many rich stars as earlier medium generated, but I bet there are more 'garage musicians' who got a critical mass of fame, enough to make a career out of it. RJD2 comes to mind.
Pretty much why I prefer distributed markets like OpenBazaar.
I felt like "the plot thickens" was written more to be eye-catching than informative.
Scala is my favorite language at the moment. I've used (professionally) Java, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, and Swift. I played with Go and started writing a simple library (https://github.com/joslinm/validate) to get acquainted with it.

Above all else, what always gets to me with Scala is its powerful generics. It truly is first-class. I'm excited for macros as well.
I completely agree, and I find it an interesting contrast of the current political feelings of protecting the middle/lower classes (I don't know what the acceptable term for "lower class" is).

College cost

Problem: college needs to be more affordable for lower-class kids

Solution: give them cheap loans to go.

End result: college prices rise because there's no downward pressure, kids graduate with enormous loans, and we're having this same conversation ("how can we stimulate spending?").

Housing

Problem: the poor can't afford housing.

Solution: Legislate it such that the poor can get access to loans to buy housing, with the government (really, society at large) subsidizing the cost.

End Result: Housing prices rise because loans are cheap, people get loans they can't afford, eventually people default on loans, pushing costs of loans up, the poor can't afford to buy housing. Cycle repeats.

This is where the conservative side of me thinks that government intervention really pushes this cycle along faster and faster, and makes things worse and worse (with the best of intentions). I think it was in the 90s that suddenly it became politically smart to think that "everyone should be able to own their own home", which sounds great on the surface, but there's so much more to it than a simple quote.