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I don't understand what's the problem. That you can't include all the collateral tasks in your lists (I don't think you have to do that to be effective) or that these micro steps are a form of procrastination (in your example only the long phone call appears to be a bit procastinuous, yes I reserve the right to invent my own words ;-)?
You cannot just introduce tax and hope for best when the whole tax system and tax recovery is a joke that hurts mainly SMBs. Its not like big corporations will pay them anyway.

If you want to introduce a tax on something so intangible as emissions, you would need to build easy to track and easy to use tax system.
The main reason being ethical is considered to be difficult, and morality being a topic of study and debate is due to considering the question "why should we consider our own welfare over that of others?" - ie are there reasons to not act in a selfish manner 100% of the time. What is of higher utility to you, or what you consider your in group, is not necessarily moral. There's a big difference between physical survival and simply being more comfortable than one would otherwise be. Your rhetoric puts this as a question of survival in the same breath with different preferences. Surely no one is asking you to give up your life and die.
You see this Open Office virus thriving all over European startups. All the startups I've visited have this open office layout. The funny thing is that they're proud of it and list it as a feature in their job posts.
The reason why American artists deride something like "photo to painting" (even though Tony Soprano from the Sopranos and others commission portraits all the time), is that they don't see it as creating art. And that's mostly true. People are getting photos turned to art for the effect. Any deviation from the photo right now is due to artist error, and not creative interpretation.

Adding technology to the mix means more accurate renditions, and I don't think people would care because they're getting it so that it doesn't look like a flat canvas print.
If the choice is between people having electricity and clean, running water in India, or corals dying out, it isn't moral to choose the corals. Human lives matter.
Poor living in rural/exurban areas, spend more of their money on utilities & transportation overall

You're assuming here that the money will be spent on the poor, but we really have to make sure that will actulaly happen if we want the carbon tax to have fair distributional implications
You just linked to 20 screenfuls of text that explain pinning in general, without a single mention of "rogue".

The fact is that pinning as implemented in Chrome exempts installed CA's from pinning checks because they want to allow administrator-mandated MITM - apparently "market requirement" because it's a common practice in schools and workplaces in some countries that lack reasonable communications privacy legislation.
Can any one know about MLM business plan?
I just had a glance at multi level marketing business plans and there are lots of deviation. I find very difficult to understand. Can anyone explain in detail about the MLM business?
Because like it or not, westerners are more or less entirely responsible for creating the modern world[0], if we just decide to do away with the idea of a nation state and let all the people from not so nice places move freely en masse to the nice places, then we won't have any nice places left.

[0] http://alphagameplan.blogspot.de/2015/12/culture-and-civiliz...

Why should we deny equal rights (the right to work or move freely) to human beings based on their national origin?

Why should we prevent a woman from off the street from coming in your house and eating your family's food?

Sure we are all born on this and of this planet, but it is human nature to form alliances such that our groups are stronger than any one of us, these alliances and groups exist at multiple scales, from families to nations. Most political nations have a very high overlap with an ethno-nation, which are basically really big families.
Some people need to scrape together cash to buy enough gas to get to work. Poor people spend a disproportionate amount of their income on necessities like fuel for an aging inefficient vehicle, electricity or natural gas to heat a cheaply-constructed home, and factory-farmed food created with cheap nitrogen fertilizer.

All of those necessities get more expensive with a carbon tax, so we need a way to cushion the impact on those who struggle to pay for the basics.

While the impact of global warming does impact the global poor quite heavily (think of places like Bangladesh) it doesn't really hurt the poor in developed places much more than the rich in developed places. I was a lot less worried about El Niño when I rented an apartment, for example.
From the article:

> Musk, who has pushed for a carbon tax before, said the tax should be revenue neutral and phased in over a period of years. A revenue neutral tax means governments would still receive the same amount of money despite a change in the tax code. Under Musk’s scenario, taxes would be weighted heavily on carbon, and reduced in other areas. This approach already occurs, Musk said, citing how taxes are higher on cigarettes and alcohol than fruits and vegetables.

He's proposing lowering other taxes simultaneously, so the government gets the same amount, no tax hike necessary.
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i mean its not like they are building housing up there or something. at least its for science.
So many of these apps it's unreal. All have a similar idea. To meet new people. Honestly saying its for lunch doesn't really change anything. It's still meeting new people.
Gun related deaths per 100k in US: 10.5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...

Suicides using gun per 100k population: 6.7 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm

So already more than half of the original number is not what you would expect.

As a person that moved from Europe, I don't see any gun problem in USA. I see severe economical problems, social problems, racial tensions, ideological tensions. Mass shootings do happen, but they are like airplane crashes - exciting for media and common folks, but rather rare.

For comparison in US cancer death rate per 100k is : 166.4 http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/deathrates/deathrates....

When was the last time when "cancer problem in US" reached Hacker News?
Oh, or this investigation into programming language syntax for learnability!

> Recent studies in the literature have shown that syntax remains a significant barrier to novice computer science students in the field. While this syntax barrier is known to exist, whether and how it varies across programming languages has not been carefully investigated. For this article, we conducted four empirical studies on programming language syntax as part of a larger analysis into the, so called, programming language wars.

http://neverworkintheory.org/2014/01/29/stefik-siebert-synta...
Could you tell me more about gcm core? I've removed play services from my phone and for the moment accept that this means some apps dont work. I'd love a substitute, but a quick search for 'gcm core' didn't give useful results.
Actually overall violence is down worldwide over the last few decades, including Europe. See Pinker's book on the subject, "The Better Angels of Our Nature". I could easily give anecdotal evidence pointing out the latest mass shootings in the US - the attackers are by'n large white.
Why? SanDisk Extreme is faster except for 4K random writes, according to this table. I don't think 4K random writes matters much for most workloads you are going to put on a Raspberry PI.
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Spending is a lot easier than taxing.

A country could just offer to buy a increasing amount of zero emission electricity and sell it on the free market until electricity was no longer generated from sources that yielded carbon.

The same approach could work for battery cells that could be used in cars until non-electric vehicles were no longer competitive.

This could be funded by that country's current (probably) progressive tax system.

This doesn't cover air, sea, heating and agriculture emissions. But a carbon tax may not be an adequate incentive to develop electric aircraft or cargo vessels in any case.
"We were trying to do a boldly cutting edge Natural Language Processing startup, but without a top-notch Natural Language Processing expert."

It's worse than that. They're trying to do something very hard - a natural language system which can handle a conversation with state, and reliably understands its input. Very, very few systems do that. Things like Siri and Google Voice Search will punt to giving you a web page when they don't understand enough to give a concise answer. Those systems have huge staffs behind them writing rules for special cases.

There are commercial products which might make this do-able by a small team. Teneo has a natural language platform good enough for online banking.[1] It can do a conversation with state, and can handle business logic for the bank's services. Their dress ordering demo is amusing.[2] Not only does it do the order, it tries to sell accessories relevant to the dress. That could work; presenting the buyer with a few well-chosen options at the moment of sale is good sales technique. Amazon does that with "Others also bought", but it's not as targeted.

But no, they're trying to do it with open source software and nobody with a clue. They also seem to have completely missed that they'll need a back end system which looks at the results from the natural language system, notes when things didn't go well, and can be used to make the system smarter.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwOZaPnJIzQ
[2] http://www.artificial-solutions.com/natural-language-interac...
My point of view origins from the academic world, and the distinction absolutely matters, and it should matter in any theoretical discussion on the topic, otherwise we'll spend too much time arguing semantics, instead of just being clear.

> not strictly all self-balancing BSTs have all O(log n) operations.

You're right. You could have a self balancing tree that would simply guarantee it's height is n/2, but that entails that it's height is O(n), which, by most definitions mean that it's not self balancing. You want it to be at least O(n^c) for 0<c<1, in height.
??

You just tax sales of oil, natural gas, etc. and a few other specific activities, like raising livestock, it's super easy

If Congress can implement something as complex as the Dodd-Frank act, I'm sure it can measure and tax something as basic as carbon emissions
It's fascinating to me that many startups put their crown jewels on github, a company with an inexplicably high valuation due to investments from some of the most successful VC companies. Don't they worry about exactly the kind of insider trading you're talking about, or worse?

Same goes for slack.
Have you ever heard of post-publication peer review?
If you launch than it might go good or might not. Unless you try you will never know. It's being good if you fail as it will let you know what are your mistakes and what should I do not do. Improved your product by feedback.
Second edit your post and show the work. Really want to know what you have done. Here we can give feed back and you can start to launch from this post.
No, they have a different risk-reward structure. They finance those firms that probably cannot issue debt. They take equity for their funding. That's what parent is saying. Once you are in the league of issuing debt, you probably want to. Since it suggests that you are deemed to be an adequate counterparty. A small chance of default wreaks havocs on nominal interest rates.
I don't understand. They haven't been denied a permit, they had the permit. Construction had begun. They were given the go ahead, handshook on a deal with the state of Hawaii-- giving way more than any telescope before. And now, they've been cut off in the middle of full scale production.

It's a bit of a sucker punch because, for eight years, survey planning, software programming, building design, etc. have been underway with this specific site in mind. There are hundreds of people working on this. Tens to hundreds of thousands of man hours are wasted if this decision stands. PhD work on "site predictions for TMT" "Error estimations for TMT" "Optic Performance for TMT" etc. etc. are worthless.

This isn't a back-yard telescope you just prop up anywhere. This is a precision instrument that was designed for this exact spot. The optics designed Mauna Kea atmospheric seeing; the dome designed for Mauna Kea atmospheric temperature, air pressure and turbulence; the survey strategy planned for Mauna Kea weather patterns and sky visibility.
Clearly I am not talking about moral satisfaction
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In the link from the article, suggestions like: if worried about foreigners voting against the interests of current citizens, don't allow foreigners to vote.

Yeah, so just create a society with an underclass with no political power, sounds like a great way to create a healthy thriving nation...
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You should stop casting these guys as villains, it obscures the main point of your argument. You would probably do the same lobbying if you were in their position. (Rather, if you were a major shareholder in Exxon, you would demand that managers do it.)

Just think of this in terms of Exxon &c having an effective negotiating position for blocking the carbon tax. We don't have to buy things at current market prices, but at a discount. Recognizing that there's room for negotiation is what everyone overlooks.
I'm sure he's rich, but he never earned the kind of money other A listers earned, the tens of millions per film. And many other actors seem to have an unquenchable desire for more.

His lack of an agent and the difficulty of getting him to agree to actually do a film suggests that money is not a motivator for him generally.
I know this may not be useful early on, since Google may not have a lot of this kind of data that would make image recognition more useful, but I think it makes sense to have a plan for eventually making it possible for developers to integrate depth information. For example for those who have an XBox Kinect, or more recently a "Project Tango" tablet.
That sounds like a lovely economist's utopia, but probably we should be tackling our problems one at a time
Basically you're saying it needs to be a realistic option for it to be an option. Yeah, pretty much.

I think the knowledge from college is pretty useful and I enjoy having it. I also think the format sucks and it's really expensive and a mixed bag as to whether you actually have a good / useful experience doing it. Roughly 3/4 of my courses felt like bullshit at a top 50 CS university that is top 10 for engineering. Either they were useless to me (sorry gen ed, you aren't accomplishing your goals) or the profs really didn't give a fuck about teaching and often simply lacked the skills for teaching.
The article was a great read and very informative.

Turning to instapainting.com was a big letdown, though: the gallery is, frankly, not very exciting (and one figures that the examples shown are among the best).

In the "custom abstract oil painting" section there's one artist that I found interesting, named Yooseon Choi (https://prods.imgix.net/e0c87263c21b1921c4d9fc9f1b65bf5597f3...).

(Also, canvas sizes are described in inches only, which effectively chases away non-American buyers; if you're shipping from China why not target an international audience?)
> I'm fairly confident the entire thing was written as fiction in the first place

Nope. http://rollioforce.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/krubner

"Lawrence Krubner -- Lead Programmer at Rollio Force"
The interesting question to me is if Twitch would have done as well if he hadn't gotten rejected 9 months earlier. Unfortunately we can't spin up another universe, alter that one variable and run a test.
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I don't know why you're downvoted.

I agree a hundred percent.
People from stable democracies tends to underestimate how afraid people can be of chaos and how easy it is for some goverment to associate democracy with chaos.

When a moderate opposition starts to organize, a non-moderate one (or one that takes advantage of ethnic fault lines) does too.
Yes because the GUI is the hardest part of p2p networking.
That was where my jaw dropped. I'd start looking for new work the second I got home. How could you possibly do good work once it got that hostile? How could you still believe the startup had a chance?
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Ah. If you're only looking at the chart, and not the huge body of science that goes with it, then pointing out another
chart with a longer baseline isn't going to help you much.
> Wonder how other countries' embassies will be connecting if they block all the encrypted connections? Everything through a satellite connection presumably.

Or just getting official exceptions.
In my opinion a carbon tax is also interesting for oil and gas companies. As the carbon tax would enable them to compete on technologies that minimize the carbon output of their machines. It would enable them to differentiate from each other.
So, insightful consideration lacks in the intellectually challenged and inexperienced audience.

The Bullshit Bingo phenomenon isn't new.
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I challenge you to find a single study showing that any immigrant group (by country of origin.. by ethnicity) takes from the economy more than they contribute. The elderly with pensions, benefits, and healthcare costs, usually are the biggest net sink.

Please read the article and see re: opening up the Eastern European labor market, and how the feared outcomes did not materialize in Britain, including the scenario you've outlined.

Yet, when a part of the world is hurting bad enough, migration happens despite legal restrictions.

Also, pick your argument - are you claiming that the causal result of mass immigration an overburdening of the social systems, or are you claiming that markets will magically stay irrational and the benefits due to this magical irrationalism will not materialize? I think your argument is stronger if you claim that local governments cannot stay solvent, not due to markets being irrational, but due to a causal chain of events as a result of immigration.

Your argument breaks down again as we consider the intra-US case: People will not move to a more expensive neighborhood unless they can afford the bills, thus people making the move will have jobs, or failing to get jobs, would prefer if the cost of goods were lower like it is in their place of origin and stick to the lower-cost locations. Thus the distribution of people in wealthier and poorer regions self-regulate, just as it currently does in the United States. Why don't we have poor people overwhelming the school systems of wealthy neighborhoods? Because they can't afford the houses and taxes. They'd like to move in, but they can't. Economic reality still applies.
I am worried. Even if we switch to other forms of energy, aren't we heating up the planet? Or do we expect it all to be radiated faster to space over time?

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-...
The benefit of a carbon tax is that no one has to calculate whether the lifetime vs production CO2 cost is greater; it shows up in the prices of either.
We can rest assured there were plenty of beatings and tasings involved - that's a big part of why some "people" become police officers in the first place.

But the point is that the same thing happens everywhere. Not that long ago, Hong Kong's people protested against China appointing their rulers. They were beaten and maced etc.

Brazilians protested against a massive waste of their money on The World Cup (or some such), and got swiftly brutalized by the police. Venezuelans protested economic destruction etc, and got brutalized.

You see, as long as people just endure whatever bullshit their rulers are inflicting on them, the rulers don't have to give a fuck about them. But when people actually resist, they are violently repressed.

Otherwise the masses might start entertaining the notion that maybe they don't have to just take all the bullshit bureaucracy, massive looting/exploitation, surveillance and abuse they're subjected to after all, and their rulers definitely don't want that to happen.

The whole point of being a ruler is exploiting your subjects. Surveillance and brutality are mostly just a part of what it takes to maintain your rule over them.
My guess (since they mention using agencies, but never an in-house designer):

They bought this either as a template or as a contract gig, it was delivered with the expectation that they swap the demo social links out for the real ones, and the people on the receiving end just never looked that hard at it.
Really? What about running multiple nodejs process using clustering?
Dude handling multiple processing requests depends solely on the CPU core count NOT on the number of threads you create.

The benefits of single process with single thread are way too many compared to single process many threads model.
The parent is arguing for extreme subsidization to alter the market for electricity and vehicles (etc).

They effectively want the government to spend a lot of money to bankrupt the fossil fuels industry and fossil fuel vehicles, with subsidies toward the generation of renewables and producing electric vehicles.

They're wrong that spending is easier however. Republicans control Congress and the US made a massive mistake in taking on ~$15 trillion in new public debt between 2000 and 2015. Simply put, the US doesn't have vast excess spending room (which means it would require tax increases or new taxes). It would cost trillions over a few decades to pull off the parent's plan.
Denial really helps you stay calm in situations like these. If you freak out, it's for real. If you keep your head on, it's easier to fall asleep saying "maybe tomorrow won't be so bad"
Responsible adults need to step into the room and get this telescope built. Tribal voodoo about sacred dirt has no place in modern society. The indigenous people of Hawaii are just citizens, and while they get a say proportional to their numbers, they can and should be outvoted by reasonable people committed to scientific progress. They should get no special privilege to block scientific research because of their ancestors were or what they did.
There's a joke/aphorism, "that's like asking your barber if you should get a haircut."

Apparently it's not as well-known as I thought.
Finally, an app to solve the considerable problem of world hunger.
I'd like to suggest voluntary co-operation instead of exploitation by rulers. It's really not that complicated.
> It's pretty common for companies to get minority stakes in competitors to get an in.

Do you have an example of this? It will be conflict of interest and may bring anti-trust issues. No competitor will allow access to confidential information and board proceedings to be observed by competitor.

I have only seen this happening when two companies settle some legal claims (ex: QTM-Data Domain) or form partnership (not competitors, ex: MSFT-FB) when one party is private/startup and other public. Typically public company will divest the stake when startup have IPO.
Elon Musk's interests are 100% out in the open, so there is no conflict of interest in him giving advice. Compare that with the cloak and dagger approach of the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch, trying to influence people secretively for their own gain to the peril of the planet.
Wow! I wasn't aware shared hosting prices had gone down so much as well, but I guess they couldn't compete with VPS services otherwise.