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I, for one, would absolutely voluntarily give more taxes to my government for the sole purpose that all this shit infrastructure would be fixed up. Put people to work on infrastructure projects and I will gladly give up more money in the form of taxes.

Basic income on the premise of infrastructure renovations is something I'm fully behind and I think many more citizens would be too, specifically those getting by on food stamps.
Yeah. I've played around with asyncio and aiohttp in python 3.5 for a crawler and loved it. But then I ran into dependency hell down the line manipulating the data, so that was that (for now).
> Yes but all of that is achievable without a bloated hog that steam interface is.

Steam uses ~120 MB of RAM on my system. Google Chrome uses 300+ MB of RAM with just the Google home page loaded.

> ...with a task manager icon as only UI,

You can configure Steam to only display a system tray icon when you don't have the Steam window open.
The claim that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme is nonsense -- though it seems to fit the definition at first glance, if you think through it far enough you will see it does not fit.

Since a Ponzi scheme is defined as an "investment", it is therefore voluntary. A Ponzi scheme can only obtain such volunteers if it promises each volunteer investor more than it pays in. It therefore requires an ever-growing pool of investors. Since there is a finite number of people on the planet, a Ponzi scheme must fail at some point.

By contrast, Social Security is a mandatory scheme, and the pay-in and pay-out can be dynamically adjusted to ensure that it remains solvent. In particular, no guarantee is made that pay-out will exceed pay-in. Do not mistake the impending Social Security deficit for an inherent outcome of the scheme. The deficit could easily be fixed if politicians on both sides would stop pandering to their bases.
I use FreeBSD and I would love this.
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I would say if you anticipate any sort of data science and machine learning potential in your application, then you should choose Django (Python) because you'll be in the home turf for this sort of work and you won't have to deal with language context switching... But this is a big if and may not be worth considering.
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Very neat, but what besides being a neat hack is the exact point of this, I have never come across an old website that I needed an old browser for, usually the old websites work better than the new ones! So is this really a problem, do you have some examples where an old browser is really required?
I would call that tax avoidance, not evasion, but no matter.

Judge Learned Hand (a real person's name) wrote, "Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes."

I agree wholeheartedly.

I imagine that were I in their shoes, I'd be fairly confident that I could do more good for the world by private philanthropy, directed to causes that I felt compelling, than by fueling general government spending/avarice around the world.
Honestly, all branches of the public sector should strive for maximum transparency. I understand why you're asking this question, but in a truly transparent system, if someone is trying to smear a branch doing a good job, there is plenty of ammunition to demonstrate the opposite.

Incidentally this is why I'm a huge believer in open management models. They work great in FOSS. Being scrutinized by outsiders forces you to think more carefully about what you do. Within a company, employees are generally disincentivized from giving negative feedback and often don't have the full picture to judge with anyway. Outsiders don't have that problem.
What does the new admin style look like?
Matthew Green (a well regarded cryptographer) summarized it well:

> The UX is nice. The crypto is like being stabbed in the eye with a fork.
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/66668673163526553...

Which pieces of information do you need exactly? You can search HN for 'Telegram', it get's criticized nearly every time it makes headlines. Or just look at Telegram's interface and you'll see that 'secret chat' is not the default option, it's not end-to-end encrypted by default making it marginally more secure than HTTPS.

Signal/TextSecure on the otherhand has been the 'golden child' of the privacy and infosec scenes since it was released and their website has plenty of documentation on their protocol.
Most people wont fall for that trap. For personal projects that aren't full open source, I host everything that the code ever touches.

From source management, to email servers, to a hastebin for sending errors between my team. Nothing touches a public server if I have it my way.

It' partially a control thing, and also a security thing for me. I want to make sure that I'm never held a 'ransom'.
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I upgraded from hstore a couple days ago. I expected it would take me a couple days, but it only took two or three hours. I basically just had to replace the field in the model, and was surprised to see the test suite passing. But it turns out that all of the application code just magically worked as is. And it's also a security win since you needed to be a Postgres superuser to install hstore.
But did you actually sell at 20x yearly profits?
It's horsecrap. It's mostly just a case of companies with poor quality games that continue to be cash cows not wanting to put in the effort to port to HTML5 (because it wouldn't serve much purpose anyway, since their customer base are generally people who don't know anything about standards and probably instally any plugin they're prompted to install.)
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Some of the Facebook game developers may be able to use Unity's WebGL game tools as an alternative to Flash.
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Not sure if you'll see this, but I did run across a preprint with a few Rockwell authors that might be of interest, "Development of a Translator from LLVM to ACL2" (http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1566)
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The fact that it is compulsory while it would allow those who run it to extract more to prevent a collapse, would do nothing to assuage the damage were it to collapse.
What was data science before it was called data science?
This is my problem with Signal too. Chrome apps aren’t ideal either, given the weight and battery drain of Blink-wrapped web apps under OS X.
As Alblue says, Che seems to be a host-your-own alternative. I think this use case is something that I have been looking for.

Writing some huge web/analytic application that needs a huge cluster? Throw in a few docker nodes with applications that have APIs that are needed for running the project.

Good luck starting that on your laptop.

For me, I want to ultimately have my laptop be downgraded to a chromebook or something small, cheap, and with a long battery life. To do that, tools like this really fill a nice area.

Something I've been looking for.
Unfortunately wind instruments are one of the hardest instruments to manufacture from scratch, due to the unreasonable complexity of figuring out where the holes need to go to get a certain note. (String instruments have all the advantages there.)
In this example, equality means that if you act in your best nature, you deserve as much as any other person who acts in their best nature. If sitting on your butt is the best thing, then yes you deserve as much as the next person, likely though sitting on your butt is not the best thing.
If you're on OS X, it's SIGINFO instead. SIGUSR1 will kill it D:

(This has caught me out before. Oh how I wish these things were standardised...)
> Verb forms agree with the grammatical number of the subject, independent of the semantic number

That's what I find interesting: that "they" isn't actually being used grammatically as a singular pronoun that can be dropped in to replace "he" or "she." The entire grammatical construct is exactly the same as if "they" was referring to multiple people. It's the context that makes it clear that only a single person is being referred to.
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Whoever made this is a bad ass. Bravo!
It doesn't matter whether it's related to biological gender[1]; the fact remains that these languages force you to remember extra information that serves no semantic purpose, which causes the same problem as English does/did when forcing you to pick a gender for the pronoun of a generic person.

Whether you call it "grammatical gender" or "gender" or "noun class" is irrelevant; it all burns down the same cigarette butt.

[1] Although it pretty clearly is, since languages consistently lump in the female version of a human noun (cartera) with the grammatical gender of woman, and male (cartero) with man; the little-girl exception you mention from German is because that diminutive suffix (-chen in Mädchen) takes the neuter case with higher priority. The (fact that this is such a predictable, rare) exception proves the (general validity of the) rule.
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Social Security is an insurance program. Which is why it's formal name is: Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI). As such it doesn't promise to invest the money paid in at all. 90% of it is just paygo. Money comes in from working stiffs. Money goes out to grandma so she can buy catfood. The remainder is 'invested' in government securities.
Believing in this kind of argument is accepting corruption.

It's kind of like saying "why should the parties in power fix the electoral system if they benefit from it".
Even if you plug it in your Tesla battery?
A PR stunt, which this is, is not fixing any problem in the world. Besides, the guy is responsible for some of the world problems and his corporation is pushing to worsen some of those issues because it fits its own agenda and profit.

Let him clean up his act and his company's first, until then he has zero credibility.

This Zucker is no Manoj Bhargava.
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Beyond Google books-esque knowledge bases, those are void of context
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But do they fix the problems they have caused during their collection and transport to Zucker's pockets ?
The fact that the payouts will be adjusted is what will prevent it from collapsing.
Hate to break it to you but what you described about the "new" millionaires is the majority of all multimillionaires, regardless of generation.

See: The Millionaire next door
It wasn't intended to be an excuse for not using "correct" terminology or units.

The reason that these terminology and units were used by OP was because at a fixed voltage it is common for engineers to think about current instead of watts... even when their aiming to reduce power.

I'm not sure of the exact reason for this, but I suspect that it's because:

a) Measuring current is a more fundamental function of instruments. Quite a lot don't even measure power. So talking about current instead of power, even when you're aim is to reduce power, makes for a smoother process from a practical sense.

b) Batteries are usually measured in mAh. At lower power/currents you're usually using a linear regulator and therefore dividing mAh by mA is a very important measure. So you often keep everything in mA.
You're probably right. I haven't really thought about it that much, I'm just trying to articulate how I understand what I've heard.

I personally think that perhaps good ideas without execution have little value, but execution without good ideas probably has equally little value.

I say this because I've experienced cases where I had an idea that I thought was good, but did nothing about, only to (later) find somebody else who did the exact idea I had in exactly the way I would have. Clearly the idea had value for that person, but not for me - but the only difference is execution.
His daughter is clearly not the intended audience of this post. In fact, the fact he is having a kid has nothing to do with this post.
The mechanism is similarly structured, but the goals are entirely opposite:

An ideal Ponzi scheme pays out all of its income to the organizer and none of its income to the participants.

An ideal Social Security scheme pays out all of its income to the participants and none of its income to the organizer.
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Likewise, the fact that it would do damage if it collapsed has nothing to do with whether or not it's a Ponzi scheme.
> Most everyday Joes might not have the means to change the world but it is certain that when turn into billionaire, they rarely pledge the quasi-totality of their fortune to improve the well being of others.

> If this is narcissistic, just let it be and be appreciate that for once, a great deal of money will be put to good use. The world is full of Koch Brothers, Saudi princes and European heirs to prove that most billionaires are more concerned about evading taxes rather than giving back.

I'm not so sure that's true. The ultra-rich actually donate a huge amount of money. Just last July a Saudi Prince announced he was donating over $30 billion to "philanthropic causes". And back in 2012 a bunch of them pledged to give away "half their wealth."

And those are just a couple of the bigger examples I found in 2 minutes of web search.

Also, I've never heard of anybody volunteering to pay more taxes. Everybody tries to pay less, so it's silly to fault the rich for doing it just because they're saving more in absolute terms.

Link 1: http://fortune.com/2015/07/01/saudi-prince-alwaleed-donation...

Link 2: http://www.christianpost.com/news/over-125-philanthropist-bi...
Either way, if Zuckerburg doesn't live up to his promise, his daughter is going to be as schizophrenic as the world her father helped create.
I can't believe they're using PayPal of all things...
Good call, this is very important!

It's baffling that such a huge project, used by thousands of companies including at least one billion dollar unicorn, have such a hard time finding money to fund only one single developer. As a solo owner and happy Django user, I've donated what I could and encouraged others to do so but would love to find a solution to entice larger businesses to donate regularly.
Of course it is. That's kind of the point.

Just like everyone else, Apple does not fab their own chips. But unlike most others, they do design their own chips.

If Apple saw a competitive advantage in running their own fab, they would do so. I'm not sure what definition of "make" you're using here, but if it's just the production part you're talking about, then ok.. Correct but not strategic, in the scheme of things.
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Thank god for whistle blowers.