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It makes up for some of it, but definitely not all. Rich Americans are the richest.
Maybe we wouldn't call them jobs and many people could have turned their hand to a lot of things that different people in the tribe did but returns to specialisation applies even at very low levels. I bet the best flint knappers spent more of their time practicing and thinking about their craft than the ones who did that and hunted as well.
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> In the us a similar income would get you a nice house, a pool and even a tesla

In a comparable place in the US (i.e. NYC) a similar income gets you similar housing - and not much more in food/services.

If you go out into the boonies, yes US housing is cheap but so is the UK. And in both places few people manage to earn six figures outside the bubbles of NYC, Boston and SF/Valley (nationwide, $100k is 92nd percentile of income give or take).
I tried reading this article. But even as someone raised as a (Theravada) Buddhist, I found it confusing. Perhaps because it addresses something(?) that troubles mostly westerners? Even though I no longer subscribe to the rebirth/karmic aspects of the religion, the core of Buddhism is fairly self-evident to me. This article made me question my own understanding, and did so with a handling of the English language that, well, did not exactly help. Perhaps this kind of analysis comes across sounding different to those from a Buddhist background?
Abstract of referenced journal article

Background and Purpose—Bilingualism has been associated with slower cognitive aging and a later onset of dementia. In this study, we aimed to determine whether bilingualism also influences cognitive outcome after stroke.

Methods—We examined 608 patients with ischemic stroke from a large stroke registry and studied the role of bilingualism in predicting poststroke cognitive impairment in the absence of dementia.

Results—A larger proportion of bilinguals had normal cognition compared with monolinguals (40.5% versus 19.6%;
P<0.0001), whereas the reverse was noted in patients with cognitive impairment, including vascular dementia and
vascular mild cognitive impairment (monolinguals 77.7% versus bilinguals 49.0%; P<0.0009). There were no differences in the frequency of aphasia (monolinguals 11.8% versus bilinguals 10.5%; P=0.354). Bilingualism was found to be an independent predictor of poststroke cognitive impairment.

Conclusions—Our results suggest that bilingualism leads to a better cognitive outcome after stroke, possibly by enhancing cognitive reserve. (Stroke. 2016;47:00-00. DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.010418.)
Key Words: aphasia ◼ dementia, vascular ◼ language ◼ risk factors ◼ stroke

http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/early/2015/11/19/STROK...

Original press release

http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2015/stroke-191115
> Is "operating at their highest capacity" a bad thing?

Yes. This allows providers to say "guys look, we can not increase the traffic going over the lines, so we have to priorize things. Thats 3.50€ a month per uplink"
If they can demonstrate that this battery technology is viable for large grid storage uses, there is a potentially enormous market for it in Germany. The problem is that solar pv makes most sense in Southern Germany, where it's sunnier, but a lot of the power is required further north, so there is a requirement for major new powerlines to be built[1]. Also, there is wind power generated in the North Sea that is needed further south.

Providing massive, (relatively) cheap battery backup to these intermittent power sources could allow Germany to accelerate the transition away from coal, which they've been forced to use more of due to decommissioning nuclear plants. If the power companies are willing to invest heavily in infrastructure for renewables, it bodes well for them investing further in batteries to improve grid stability and prices.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/electrical-resis...
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I don't think it's quite as you put it. I think Hetzner is saying more:
===
We believe in net neutrality, but some of our customers have noticed that users of these telecom companies cannot access their services during peak hours, or the service is quite slow.

Since we cannot change market dynamics, we are offering our customers a way to offer their customers faster service during peak periods with this "pay per peering" option.
===

My understanding (which may be incorrect) is that Hetnzer is telling existing customers that instead of having to install servers within the ISP network, they can instead pay a marginal fee per month to bypass the congested peering links to these providers.
Just to note that Lithium is not a rare earth metal. It is a metal that is rare on earth. Hope that clarifies everything.

Rare earths are the much heavier lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium.

Also, doesn't it feel a little discordant for a French web site to be using the left-pondian spelling of centimetre?
> I don't entirely follow this part. Could someone clarify? Is "operating at their highest capacity" a bad thing? Is the implication "operating at their highest capacity [without expanding capacity when they should]"?

Yes. Basically existing links (thru transit providers) is saturated, if you(content provider) want good connectivity with these end-user networks you gotta pay more for direct connection.
> majority of the population providing non- essential services.

'essentiality' doesn't come into the equation. Those who managed to amass a fortune being more efficient will want servants and other people to serve them (entertainers, sex workers, etc etc), which cannot easily be provided by machines. The economy will revert back to a fuedal one, where you become "owned" by the rich. Unless, of course, the people rebel, and bring on a socialist/communist form of gov't. I doubt that will happen though, becase the rich will see it coming, and nip it in the bud.
'Job' is the input side to which "rent/mortgage" are outputs.

'Job' is about continuity and stability; the ability to make commitments to regular expenditures required to maintain a particular standard of living. Highly variable income is bad for this. That's one of the reasons why people push back so hard on the "gig economy"; it brings the fear that you might not be able to make rent/mortgage next month and therefore lose everything you've built up.
The latter. There is no incentive to pay for additional bandwidth if there is enough capacity for everyone, so supply is restricted. Thus the ISP saves on network infrastructure and gets additional income to prioritize higher-status traffic. What a clusterfuck, I'm embarrassed by my government.
Finland had a similar tax before. At least here the purpose of the tax was to offset the loss of income incurred from (perfectly legal) private copying (i.e. making copies for yourself or your close friends). In this sense our tax did not excuse piracy.

On the other hand one might not agree to offsetting costs from legal copying and use the tax as an excuse for piracy anyway.
Notice the result is a bit more nuanced if reading the paper, i.e.

> Our results suggest that, for large Java
programs, the correlation between coverage and effectiveness
drops when suite size is controlled for.

and

> While coverage
measures are useful for identifying under-tested parts of a
program, and low coverage may indicate that a test suite is
inadequate, high coverage does not indicate that a test suite
is effective.

They also propose an alternative as a "quality goal" for test suites:

> Of course, developers still want to measure the quality
of their test suites, meaning they need a metric that does
correlate with fault detection ability. While this is still an
open problem, we currently feel that mutation score may be
a good substitute for coverage in this context.
Well, it's not really a case of net neutrality. Packets aren't being given priority. It's just a simple case of: ISPs are at capacity, connection slow, use these servers instead.
So does Lithium.
One possibility being investigated by Siemens is thermal stone storage.

Basically you dig up a gigantic hole in the ground, line it with insulation, put the dirt back in and send hot air through it (500-600 C). Then when you need the power, you connect a turbine to it and can use the heat to drive it.

I'm glossing over some details, but that's the basic operation. Last thing I heard about it they were going to build a demonstration project in Germany.
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I think this might actually a good idea. Instead of just paying the peering fee quietly, they give customers the choice to vote with their money. Alas, "customers" here are not end users, but companies who provide content on the internet.

I really like that paying up to DTAG is not the default and is more bureaucratic. This might already be enough to kill the ISPs' profiteering schemes, similiar to what happened with the Leistungsschutzrecht (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_...) in Germany.
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Well, if the copying is legal, then noone deserves to be compesated for it, obviously.

Furthermore, I don't even agree with offsetting costs from illegal copying (since there are no provable costs), hence my moral interpretation of the tax.
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> They now also want to collect revenue by charging large content providers fees for access to their network

Isn't what they are advocating for the exact opposite of net neutrality? Everyone's connection is saturated, but they argue that because they are a large content provider they should get special treatment and not need to pay for direct access. Smaller companies are equally affected during peak hours, but they would need to pay for that same privilege? If not, what is too small?

There seems to be a trend of adding "free peering" into the net neutrality debate. Unless you're carrying equal bit-miles, free shouldn't even enter into the equation. If data flows unequally, money should flow the other direction.

I think a lot of companies are leveraging the current hate for cable companies to get out of properly engineering their infrastructure. People have leased lines, built out additional datacenters and paid for colos around the world for years and it was never "extortion" until a popular company twisted the definition of net neutrality a bit so they wouldn't need to build their own datacenters.
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"We at Hetzner Online do not support such policies and declare our support for full net neutrality."

Bullshit. In the same breath they offer something that is entirely antithetical to their stated ethos, no matter how they spin it.

This page demonstrates what they say and what they do are two different things. I interpret this as they're making a goldbrick statement of support in favor of net neutrality with the hope that they won't face a backlash.

I will never touch Hetzner so long as they act against net neutrality.
Sodium-Ion batteries have a few advantages - they can be completely discharged without taking damage. This is a huge deal for cargo (remember the cargo plane that caught fire because of lithium batteries a while ago?)
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It's more like "Your customers/users ISP (in practice DTAG, Deutsche Telekom AG) doesn't participate much in cost-neutral Tier-1 peerings and instead offers an expensive DTAG peering for additional bandwidth". DTAG can do this because they are (one of) the biggest ISP in germany.
Sodium is cheaper, so the battery should be too. This and the technology will allow solar to replace fuel, here is the revolution.
I think you are right about the implication. The providers tend to try and double dip by doing one of three things:

* Not upgrading their network as they should

* Discriminating against certain traffic, see Comcast and Netflix speeds

* or by not allowing content providers to connect their CDNs free of charge, which should be a win-win situation if the providers acted in the customers best interests.

I honestly believe that these bussiness practices are the providers digging their own grave. Best case scenario, they make a few quick bucks before laws get passed against this sort of thing, worst case scenario: the big boys get tired of dealing with them and start competing directly (like Google fiber).
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> Working 40 hours a week at a computer and then coming home for more is bad enough for your body.

If this is the case then how to get financial independence? Are you suggesting that it is good to work forever?
Another interesting thing is that many countries seem to have allowed home copying through taxing storage media but DRM prevents you exercising your legal friend/home copy right.
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Are electric cars defeating the objective? First of all, they still need electricity, which is most likely generated with non-renewable methods. Secondly, most, if not all, electric or hybrid vehicles have lithium-ion batteries. Lithium being relatively rare in the earth's crust. Shouldn't we be concentrating on developing renewable methods of generating electricity instead?
Correct, but I didn't claim what you are refuting. I just said that there is no upper bound to "how polynomiallly hard" a problem can get, i.e. Knuths intuition is wrong.
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Regardless of the law suit, I do not like the DNS system a bit. It is conceptually just a table that associates names and IP addresses:

name1 ipaddress1,
name1 ipaddress2,
name2 ipaddress3,
name3 ipaddress1
...

Nobody should have the right to manipulate or to censor that table. It should be entirely decentralized, just like the table storing the onion addresses on the tor network. So, if it helps getting rid of the existing DNS system, I am in favour of blocking the DNS entry for the pirate bay. I want to encourage them to destroy that system by thoroughly discrediting it. I don't want to block just one entry. I want to block all of them.
That has been going on since the dawn of IT. It is a red flag for a management team (or recruiter) that doesn't really know what they are in search of.
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It's advantageous for static applications e.g. grid load management and distributed generation. If the findings hold, a big sodium-ion battery bank in your basement for your rooftop solar would be cheaper and longer-lasting than a li-ion for instance.
I thougth you were thinking of ~dumbphones, but sure enough any smartphone these days is exceptional in most features. Just today I saw a chinese dual core smartphone phone for 34$... The thing is that unless you're already in the know you can't repurpose the board.

ps: funny, just an hour ago I was trying to flash an old nexus s with CM*.
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> It doesn't mention any real advantages of sodium ion batteries?

Price, ubiquity (no need to rely on a limited number of lithium providers) and lifecycle length (number of discharge cycles).

> Lithium is more rare than Sodium but that should be a minor disadvantage?

Rarer means more expensive.
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Here is a similar map for the Roman world: http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/201....
> If data flows unequally, money should flow the other direction

Ok, data flows (mostly) this way:

Hetzner (or any other DC) --> ISP --> customer

DSL companies want money to flow this way:

Hetzner --> ISP <-- customer
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They have been building it, AFAICT looks like it's in the dev builds.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Mesh_Gradients
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It teaches all the tips and tricks to make professional designs, a ton more practical knowledge than my university course or my first EE job.
>There is no contradiction in billions of people being not prudent.

That's in theory -- we're talking about reality. If you think poor people in India, Asia, Africa etc. are poor because they are not "prudent" or because "poor culture" dominates the whole society you probably haven't met many in real life -- hardworking, pinching pennies and raising families on a handful of dollars a month.

It's easy for people playing life in easy-mode to condemn the poor's "lack of prudence" from a first world middle/upper class existence, where prudence means not buying a new car every 3 years.
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I spent some time this summer learning about some of these issues if anyone would like a little context about the Philippines.

Remittances are a way for overseas foreign workers (OFWs, think jobs like maids in Saudi Arabia) to send money back home to their families. This is typically (but not exclusively) the mother of the household who sends money back to the father and children for things like food and school tuition. It's not uncommon for this money to be squandered by those back home (i.e. used on material possessions or vices instead of education)

Most remittance money flows through pawn shops who have come to act like small banks for the unbanked. This works because low income people are typically high risk lendees. So, pawn shops take physical collateral against any cash loans. Naturally, these pawn shops got so good at making lending decisions and moving hard cash around the provinces (low income areas), they've effectively become the standard for low-income cash solutions.

Coins.ph effectively is throwing their hat in the ring to compete against pawn shops and payment providers, creating competition in the cash market which will (hopefully) increase distribution and lending transparency and decrease fees (Philipino payment settlement is very fragmented).

My own opinion is Coins.ph is a really good idea for small retail solutions, but not for P2P lending. The reason is crime is a huge issue in the Philippines and Coins.ph is essentially a map of people who would be able to be robbed if they carried substantial amounts of cash. Contrast this to small retail outlets who can now be enabled to lend cash to customers using already-established cash-handling processes.

I feel there would have to be substantial differences in norms put in place to allow for actual P2P lending. i.e. stringent identity controls and social features which de-risk the transaction for the lending party.
Article proposes limited-time contracts though, quite different from the old (and failed) state-run media organizations we used to have across Europe.
Unix apps running under the same user account run in the same security domain, so a security boundary in the window system does not help by itself.

Qubes OS is currently the best thing for this on the desktop.
OS X sandboxing has proven to be pretty porous.
I'm hosting my server with Hetzner and using Cloudflare in front of my sites. So the connection for my site visitors looks like this: Hetzner => Cloudflare (local pop) => visitor.
Works perfectly without paying for an additional uplink as the connection between Cloudflare and Hetzner is quite fast.
I guess my questions are. Do Sodium batteries suffer fire problems like Lithium batteries? Can you use water on those fires? How is toxicity of the battery overall, are the other metals and such (electrolytes) less toxic?
Well, my work starts at 8am for more than 5 years now, still can't get used to that.
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I agree, grid load-shifting appears to be a stronger use case for these sodium batteries than anything mobile.

On a related note, there are other ways salt batteries are being explored for grid energy storage:

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

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There's a great and funny talk by James Kunstler about how are are doing city planning badly.

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...

He talks about similar issues with some other big buildings in the urban landscape.
Because people complaining is not necessarily correlated to product quality. Some people will always complain (in general), others will lament the changing of favorite features (while others liking the new functionality more), and a number will always have legitimate issues.

Is there anything to show that those "legitimate issues" are of graver importance and more damaging than those complained about in the past? I've not seen anything to justify that. It's mostly people not liking X or Y UI change -- meanwhile the platform has record sales, so it doesn't seem to have lowered its reach and popularity.

When people really get into the changes, like in John Siracusa's reviews, the story is different. While they might complain about this or that change, the overall verdict is positive for newer versions, especially including the non-UI layer changes (kernel behavior, new APIs, etc).