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Exactly this also happens in Canada.

A business (usually a chain like Walmart, McDonald's, Canadian Tire, etc.) opens and wants to pay staff minimum wage. No Canadian will take that rate of pay, because the standard of living it provides is too low, especially in high cost of living areas like the North. In that case the business should either pay more, or it doesn't have any business existing.

Instead those businesses have a rubber-stamp deal with the government to bring in foreign workers, who they can exploit with the power of deportation for years. I personally have been to houses where 2, 3 or 4 entire families are living in a single house, because that's all the can afford.

So the final result is that local Canadians don't have a job, the standard of living for everyone in Canada comes down, and (yay!) those businesses make ever more profit, in a location where they have no business operating.

(Disclaimer: I myself am an immigrant to Canada and went through this process. Yes, I'm complaining about the hand that fed me. I'm a Software Engineer, I was told by my local member of parliament the best way to immigrate was to work at Walmart for 2-4 years because they always get approved.)
Well if it was the same price, then you could just add a chromecast or such later, and it wouldn't be a big deal. I definitely agree under normal circumstances where smart TVs are way more expensive.
What you are describing is different from what I'm talking about. You are talking about how tax rates can go up over time if the brackets are not adjusted for inflation.

What I'm talking about is the fact that you can have a nominal gain that you pay taxes on that is not a real (inflation adjusted) gain at all.

These are two different problems. The first we handle by adjusting the tax brackets every year. The second we do not handle. I suppose we could, but it would be a lot more complicated.
The report also pointed out that many of the foreign workers lack the communication skills to defend themselves from mistreatment.

Even if US citizens are in some cases less productive, denying citizens jobs is wrong, and the big point I get from this is that neither the H-2 workers or the US workers should be paid slave wages.

Capitalism is driven by consumerism. What's the point of having it when the people don't earn enough to consume commodities. I think this is part of the reason why our country is trillions of dollars in debt. The distribution of wealth is not balanced at all. Please don't get me wrong. I don't think the nations economic capital should be divided equally among every person, but as it stands the inequality is just off. Clearly all of this explodes into many complex topics. It just hurts to see people with money and power act so poorly.
> that foreign workers are more productive.

Yeah but we still have to explain why. Home come they are more productive?

Do they have different, more powerful genes. Did they go to cherry picking academy as children? Have longer arms?

They seem to be more productive even living in school buses and pretty terrible conditions!

Of course I am being sarcastic here to illustrate a point. They are productive because they are scared. Put a gun to anyone's head, and they'll be very productive. Threaten their children with starvation back home, and you'd be surprised how early they'll rise and bike through the snow or rain to their job.

The other side of the coin is ugly too. Are the immigrant workers more productive because somehow American workers looking for these jobs are un-productive as a group. That is a tough topic to discuss without getting into dangerous waters. The article brings those comments up from employers' perspective.
BUT WHY ARE we SHOUTING?
Should call this place Censored News.
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Comments in parentheses are a feature of MIME, and have nothing to do with delivery of e-mail: those comments are not valid in the envelope header as parsed by SMTP. (Put another way, there is no "the RFC": there are multiple RFCs used for different purposes and which have different rules.) MIME certainly has no relevance to your address book, and if your structured address book database is attempting to parse an e-mail address as if it were inside of either a MIME header or an SMTP envelope, you should absolutely complain: that should be considered a bug :/.

Think about this: one would hope that if you use characters in that field which would normally need to be escaped if used in a MIME message, and that e-mail address were to end up in a MIME message, that the e-mail client would get the unescaped e-mail address from the database and would then escape it correctly--and by "correctly", we mean a different way of escaping it for MIME vs. escaping it for SMTP--the same as we would expect its usage in an HTML page, an argument to a shell script, or a value in an SQL statement, to also be escaped for each specific purpose.
They were a popular choice for building supercomputers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/science/an-economical-way-...
The situation is often worse that that. The suicide to whom I was most closely related wasn't investigated by anyone. (Self-inflicted GSW, but still...) A medical examiner's assistant pronounced the death, then left and was never seen again. (Later the funeral home people arrived.) The medical examiner for our county lives 70 miles away and basically never comes to the county. When later we had to prove certain circumstances to certain parties, we were hampered by the fact that not only was there no completed paperwork, but no one could be found whose responsibility it is to complete paperwork. An actual coroner would be a big improvement in this county, but apparently that's an expense we can't afford.
Thanks! I'll check it out.
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> It even quotes a guy pointing out that you get significantly worse value for money hiring americans...

Of course you can squeeze more effort out of people you can physically retaliate against (deportation).

>less conspiracy theory and more capitalism.

More like corporate welfare. The machinery of low fines and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a kind of subsidization. From an economic perspective, foreign labor is forced to price themselves below their real value because they are left with no choice in the matter.
Maybe. I guess it depends on what you consider "super high". It'd take a few years to build up $1m from a $1m salary, and there's no guarantee the job is even kept that long.
I am not sure what you mean. If by "matrix addition" you meant adding vectors then it's obvious but adding actual matrices won't give you any translation operators because no matter how many matrices you have added together you still end up with a matrix, which, indeed, can only represent linear operators.
It's crazy but Buzzfeed has actually improved some of its reporting. They have an actual "reporting team" now that do real investigative work and not just listicles. I know that's almost impossible to believe. But they've impressed me with a few articles recently and I was really surprised!

Edit- see this article about how they are hiring actual reporters:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2015/06...
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> A big portion (most?) of the best American universities are private. 80% of hospitals in the US are private. Private is good.

Mark Zuckerberg's Op/Ed piece[1] specifically makes the case that Free Basic's is valuable likening it to public healthcare, public education, and public libraries.

So yes, private good. But private also is private, and not beholden to the public. Free Basics isn't private, though Zuck et al would like it to be accepted and lauded as a public service.

[1] http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/free-...
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Concealing algorithms and executable code is actually very difficult, consider that to run, a program must first be decrypted. Also consider the decades long war between crackers and proprietary software creators. Obfuscating algorithms has been the subject of quite a lot of academic research.
Or, at the very least, more barrable.
Ha ha ha… sigh. It's funny, yet also sad, because it's true. As someone who's been building web sites since the late '90s, page weights seem to have grown even more radically than the proportionate growth in the typical home connection speed. Connections get faster, but page loads get slower.

Don't forget the CSS "frameworks," gratuitous fonts, and gigantic auto-playing background videos, too.
Eh, if you're in a position to know a legitimate account like that, you should already know whether you're authorized. In that case "it let me in so surely it was okay" is not a very strong argument.
This reminds me my favorite name while testing: "McNulla". I have seen quite a few webforms which had a regex to remove any NULL string, because of which it would not take this name as it has a "Null" string in the name.
Instead of repeating my response I'll link to our previous exchange: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793258 (edit: updated the link)

Meanwhile I'll point out that this sort of disdain coupled with a demand that India accept a Faustian bargain ("Who could possibly be against this?", as Zuck says) is exactly what prompts people to think of this perspective as a variation of the "White Man's Burden".

I reject the idea that if someone comes up with a plan for a country, upon turning it down the country has to provide an immediate substitute. If I say highly-polluting cars are affordable and will give more people mobility, it doesn't mean opponents have to immediately provide less-polluting cars at the same price.
As a Sierra Leonian (by Birth and upbringing...otherwise US national), I'd like to think Sierra Leone is not as scary as you think :)...really, it's all relative. To someone only familiar with a western sense of security, a place such as Sierra Leone is definitely very scary.

In a situation like that they really just need to recruit a few "Good men" (friends, cousins...etc) and they should be safe.
"...making their OS specific to their computers..."

As a non-Linux open source project OS user, I am continually faced with driver deficiencies as a result of hardware specs being under NDA.

A recurring idea I have which I am here sharing for the first time (apologies!) is: why not just pick a single item of hardware and build an open source, free OS project around it?

Why?
Hopefully, more control, to the extent possible (notwithstanding Intel ME, etc.). Coreboot, support for as many peripherals a possible, etc. Most importantly, the elimination of the issue of hardware support and the notion of a list of "supported hardware".

Why not?
Performance, latest advances, etc.

Hasn't this been done?
Maybe. OpenWRT, etc.? But my understanding is that the use of Linux on this router was initially the non-public work of a company, Linksys, and the open sourcing by Cisco was neither anticipated nor intentional.

How is my idea different?
The project would be free, open source, but intentionally focused on a _single_ target. Big tradeoff, but maybe some interesting gains.

To be clear, I like the idea of hardware that is more or less "OS agnostic", e.g., RPi and booting from SD card.

But I am tired of watching volunteers struggle to keep up with the latest hardware (many thanks to the OpenBSD and FreeBSD contributors who write drivers for networking, etc.), or having to settle for binary blobs.

Maybe I am just dreaming but I could forsee such a project potentially growing into a symbiotic relationship with some manufacturer if the OS developed a sufficiently large, growing user base. And these users were all purchasing a very specific item(s) of hardware, known to be supported by this OS.

If you comment, please remember I am not a Linux user. And hardware support is not quite the same under BSD. As such, it is something I often have to think about and cannot just take for granted.
My best guess about the direction of the real estate market is that algorithmic valuation, and virtual currencies will allow homes to be bought and sold instantly by eliminating the 2 market problem of buyers and sellers. This will be done through the introduction of a third party which holds the property in an "un-owned" state.

The virtual currency is created for the previous owner when properties enter this state, and destroyed when a buyer uses the currency to buy a property. This currency essentially becomes a real estate backed currency which floats in relation to national currencies as the real estate market fluctuates.
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It's not quite so simple. Many non-essential things are cheap (e.g. iOS games), and many essential things are expensive (e.g. housing, transport). The line between essential and luxury is also subjective. So you have to start categorising, and things get messy.
> lots of jurisdictions in the US are moving toward privately owned schools

Jurisdictions are moving toward charter schools because their teachers are not unionized, and can therefore be paid less salary and benefits than public school teachers, with the side “benefit” of breaking public schoolteachers unions. Additionally, charter schools help rich white people redirect their tax money away from funding public schools in poor brown neighborhoods. Finally, charter schools are much less regulated w/r/t the salaries they pay their management or the services they purchase from other firms, which makes them a booming profit center, and gives plenty of slush to spend on lobbying, bribes, and PR/marketing.

Alternet isn’t the most neutral source, but check out this lengthy piece for a decent rundown of some of the sources of profit in the charter school world: http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/who-profiting-charters...
Ski resorts are notorious for doing this as well. Also a casino I worked at in New England did this- they bused in undocumented asian immigrants from NYC and paid them in food and under the table to do their cleaning, laundry facilities, etc. They would work for two weeks, sleep in shifts in this local motel and then take the bus back to NYC to send $$ back to their families.
Why isn't facebook running this programme in USA? There are 50 million Americans without internet. Although 50 million is not as big as 600 million Indians without internet, it is still bigger than populations of many countries Facebook is running Free Basics in. The Americans without internet are usually old and poor and internet connectivity can do a lot for them. A lot of these people cannot afford the internet.

My only question...would Americans think it would be wise to destroy Net Neutrality?? Just asking. Perhaps someone should try and get Facebook to start this in USA.
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You've linked one level too deep into the conversation.

My arguments about the power of the free market are not limited to India or any particular country. I preach the same for America. The American government is incompetent and is holding back growth.
1. Free Basics and Facebook (aka FB). Definitely not a coincidence.

2. What services are available on Free Basics? It does not seem very easy to figure out what you can get access to.

3. Internet.org by Facebook.

4. Facebook is the gatekeeper of what sites are available on Free Basics.
It's a super fun project, thanks for sharing!

I think you might have fun with some variations too:

One way you can use the Voronoi diagram to influence your point selection is Lloyd's algorithm: iterate one or more times, and at each step, move each point to the center of mass of its associated Voronoi cell. It's super simple to do once you have a Voronoi tessellator, and spreads your points out beautifully. Wicked fun to watch and play with interactively, and often surprising how long convergence can take. (though just one or two iterations will often get you most of the way there, and make things look really nice.)

For point selection, try rejection sampling according to brightness. Combine with Lloyd's algorithm for a good time.

An altogether separate approach, but one to still implement and compare, is to render Voronoi tiled images using webgl or some other 3D rasterizer. You can do it in linear time by drawing a cone at each point, somewhat larger than you expect the cells to be, and the z-buffer will create the Voronoi effect for you.

Also, since you have the Delaunay/Voronoi mesh, you can, among other fun things to do with them, easily use a simple recursive maze generator to knock out edges and make big organic mazes. Combine with the image based point selection you used and/or the techniques I mentioned above, and you can make some pretty cool mazes.
It is hard to think of a country where the citizens are as physically shapeless as those found in the U.S. - the problem is obesity and tied in to the 'corn based' U.S. diet. By the time an American gets to the workplace they have eaten a lot of empty calories. They lack the power to weight ratio needed for hard labour (farm and factory work).

I would never tell a person that happened to be large for their size that they were fat, but I would not be honest if I were to imagine America does not have a food standards problem with consequences. Quality diet is not exclusively for the rich but then it is in certain parts of America.

The rest of the world does not have that corn-based sugar that American food is laced with. Fix the public health epidemic manifested in obesity and the elephant in the room goes.
I feel "evil plan" is a stretch. The worst case of malice you can attribute to FB is they are trying acquire huge untapped user base but disguising the fact under sheet of public good.
Very interesting.

I'm glad they were sufficiently pushed to eventually start thinking about remoting.

I get that X protocol was not that good -- but I'm still not convinced that their model is, not even talking about future proof, suitable for present needs; you have to at least provision for multi-dpi, touch and changing form-factors; you also have to provision for multi-gpu more seriously (his answer: client pb and very difficult) and multimedia (sound synchro, ideally including in remoting cases).

I'm also not 100% convinced that the argument that gedit round-trips too much is a good one. You have to rewrite toolkit to use Wayland anyway, so why not comparing that approach to a mere cleanup of the way they use X?

And to finish, you will still need quasi perfect retro-compatibility with X for lots of users.

So if eventually all of that is handled properly, why not, and given how he said they orient the protocol descriptively more than imperatively this is possible that this can be added in a second time without falling again in X situation full of workarounds, but even in this best case scenario it will still be very late to the party, especially if they feel so much in the mood of stuffs like touchpad driver rewrite (why is that not in a common lower layer anyway?...). And even then, this will only go as far as the client who render every pixel will be able to do anyway... I get that this is more or less what is largely already done anyway by some software, but guess what else is also done today? Using X... so not a really good reason when you are already breaking everything anyway.

And also guess what a really efficient remote protocol focused on bitmaps would intrinsically be kind of equivalent to for a lot of use cases? Describing transformation operations on previous images already known by the server. There are tons of operations which today exists and that are reimplemented in web browsers as hacks of e.g. javascript and tilled jpegs; either future "display" stacks are powerful enough to model them efficiently, or we abandon all hopes and the native graphic stack should just be a glorified frame buffer and the real UI should be implemented in a browser -- after all, that's also what is partly already done!
>the underlying problem here is not surprising... that foreign workers are more productive.

You should probably stop outsourcing production for the cloaks that you hide your racism under. They're getting quite thin.
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I think the new chips are advanced enough it's feasible for many people/orgs. Not sure if a nation state or private investor. I see motivation for both. China doesn't like BTC. There could be short sellers. There is also a growing contingent of people upset with BTC as a whole given recent arguments over forks and the future.
How do you slow it down?
"However, the company remains overwhelmingly comprised of white men — 69 percent of employees are male and 54 percent are white."

63% of America is white so if Apple is hiring 54% white, then that makes it more diverse than America, not less.

Of course, the reason this is the case has nothing to do with diversity efforts and entirely due to Apple retail stores comprising the bulk of Apple's workforce which draws from lower income demographics who are less white than the average American. Plus, the disproportionate representation of Asians in tech.
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NO, it was all those compromised Microsoft Windows desktops out there on the Internet.
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>said the developer is Black Pixel, a well-regarded digital studio

Not well regarded if you paid them money for their Kaleidoscope app, which is pretty poor quality.
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Agreed. They removed Other OS three and a half years after launch. That's well out of the initial discounting period.
There always seem to be a couple such articles in Buzzfeed that are so well-written and on a credible topic, that I have to double-check the URL a couple times. I guess this is there way to redeem all the senseless click bait crap they pollute the internet with.
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