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Generally Piketty is dealing with inequality produced by differences in income from capital, not labour. His reason for focusing on capital income is explained in depth, especially in chapter 7. In short, the distribution of capital ownership is always more concentrated than the distribution of income from labor, so we should be worrying about wealth inequality and inheritance. This is why Piketty proposes a wealth tax, not an income tax of the kind that pg says will 'be fighting a losing battle against increasing variation in productivity.'
Off-topic: every Taco Bell restaurant has a server running "Taco Bell Linux" (or did, a few years ago, anyways -- I assume they still do).
Yup, I have some gloss-black-on-matte-black examples of this somewhere.
Why are you beginning to feel isolated? Because of internet connection censorship? Or some combination of factors?
I am opposed to social wealth re-distribution or the idea that one should not be able to filthy rich. However we need to make sure that balance of level playing field is maintained (for example, education and healthcare remains affordable for all), political power doesn't get bought up by few and necessities such as real estate doesn't become investment tool to artificially constraint supply and inflate prices.
I had a similar beneficial response from magnesium supplements. I've always had a constellation of health issues, probably genetic, and constant anxiety and was one of the most detrimental to just getting on in life, and later I had much trouble sleeping, either not being able to get to sleep or not sleeping for very long.

I researched nutrition and genetics for many years and tried a number of supplements based on testing hypotheses I would come up with. I generally used the Linus Pauling Foundation guidance on RDA as they are annotaed with a history of how RDAs came about, whether the official RDA is optimal or not, various caveats etc.

Magnesium had a profound effect after I researched bioavailability and tried some of the organic forms. The two main ones that worked were magnesium glycinate and citrate.

I've also went through a phase of having a strong beneficial effect from high dose vitamin B12 (methyl form), which initially caused what I felt was deeper sleep but also intense nightmares; this effect wore off after a while and that might be due to correction of a deficiency.
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There is a nasty nest of people who seem to relish in the pain and suffering that they cause.

It is not an intellectually stimulating activity - it doesn't further any particular ideological cause, and I find it extremely troubling. Last night a friend of mine was set upon by a group of (self-declared) Libertarians for having the temerity to tweet about being disabled.

I can't quite get into the mindset of the people who harass others online. Is it juvenile lashing out? The uncontrolled rage of the impotent? Or people who get a sadistic thrill from detached torture?
What an amazing article! A few specific parts caught my attention:

"Human beings are good at turning whatever they’re dealing with at the moment into the Most Important Thing of All time. When dealing with a relatively minor client problem, our bodies can experience the same symptoms of stress as, say, a refugee trying to escape from a war-torn country"

and

"After all, your immediate emotion isn’t always the same as how you’ll feel after you have some time to think about it. However, it certainly has the potential to mess things up before you come around to that longer-term perspective."

I have felt this countless time, both as a client and a designer. As a client, I often didn't give enough time for a designer to iterate (which designers naturally do) and complained immediately, thus ruining the guy's peace of mind. As a designer, my first impulse is to take criticism personally and to get defensive. After I've let some time pass, I can usually understand where the client is coming from, and then see the shortcomings of the earlier design.

The author also made an interesting observation about how venting your frustration might make you more frustrated. This somehow seems related to the finding of psychologists that "you can't punch your way out of anger"[1]

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/200909...
Where I drive (UK), truck drivers are by far the worst drivers on the road.

It might vary by state, but in general in the USA truckers nowadays are pretty well behaved. IMO.

But go back 50 years and they were insane. They were usually the fastest vehicles on the road. They'd blow by you in the fast lane almost like you were standing still. Also truckers had licenses from multiple states and/or fake licenses. So they didn't care much if they got tickets. And if there were restrictions on how many hours they could drive, they weren't enforced. So, not only were they crazy, they were tired or strung out on pills. And the sides of the highways were littered with the carcasses of retread truck tires that happened to disintegrate with depressing regularity.

Trucker behavior really changed a few decades ago when the Federal government got more serious about enforcing various laws. E.g. time limits and not allowing truckers to have multiple licenses.

So then the worst drivers were the morons in SUVs, yakking on cell phones, oblivious to the world. Why should they care, they're in a giant SUV so they're invincible, right? Whenever I spotted a driver drifting around in his lane, or speeding up and slowing down erratically, the odds were at least 80% that a cell phone was involved.

It's gotten a lot better now, because many states have made it illegal to use a non-hands-free cell phone in a car.
I suffered from the same problem for years. I am now finally able to fall asleep in a few minutes. It's hard to explain but I let my mind unguided and coming with images and thoughts like I am already dreaming. Focused thinking completely wake up my brain (the worse being math operations)
I don't think this article was meant to be particularily insightful on its own.

Its purpose might be to bootstrap the insight machinery, which it accomplished, evidently.
I can totally see where you're coming from but I think it's a differing view on what it fundamentally means to 'build a nice city'.

In this competitive arena, your current 'city' is the culmination of each game you've played under a certain set of meta-rules self-imposed in conjunction with the nuances of playing as a particular civilization.

While an opponent may only see it for a fleeting moment, your actual, current city is how, given specific starting conditions, under the constraints above, your pre-game-plan and ruleset have been tweaked and optimized to the point where they are not actively in need of changing.

The only resource that really matters is time. A nice city is one that cannot be defeated by an opposing 'city' in any arbitrary amount of time and frees you up to focus on the more reaction-dependent offensive strategy.

edit: Experience is mostly from Empire Earth, YMMV
Ask HN: Opinion of highjacking zoom functionality?
If a website's functionality relies overriding a browser's native zoom functionality, does this annoy you? I've seen some hate in the past for scrolljacking.
I'm guessing parent means that the poor in the US are richer than the poor in the UK. (Not sure whether that would be in an absolute sense or relative to cost of living, nor have I verified it in either case.)
And physical activity of course, being physically tired definitely helps
Simply as a reference to how biology supports the human society and how biological signals can be gamed for short term benefit, this lecture was an eye opener for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRcHdeUG9Y
I think this website is biased!
mind yourself on that edge

or

not everyone can drive a Ferrari
I've added techniques to eliminate weighting analysis on the shuffled string.
Apparently, ZFS needs 1GB of RAM per 1TB of storage.
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Amazon Prime is successful for the same reason Uber or Lyft are: instant gratification relative to alternatives.

My mother, who lives in remote mountains in Japan, is a die-hard Amazon Prime fan. Why? Because it manages to deliver any item to her place across many SKUs. It's more convenient -and often faster- for her to order something on Amazon than to drive 30 minutes to shop at the closest electronics shop. I've been amazed with how good Amazon's logistics is even in rural Japan.

The elusive "aha" moment is actually not that complicated in theory: just provide value faster than alternatives while ensuring quality. In Uber/Lyft's case, it's a safe ride from A to Z arriving in a few minutes. In Amazon Prime's case, it's any merchandise on your doorstep. In AWS's case, it's computing resources at your fingertips in minutes.

It's easier said than done =)
I think people are uncomfortable with the fact that despite of razor thin margins, multiple members of Walton family are in top 20 most wealthiest people on planet while majority of their workers lives on conditions that borderlines poverty. So somehow mass accumulation of wealth was possible at all but the top. Logically, this argument is weak because even if you redistribute all wealth from top, each employee would gain barely a one time payment of $10,000 just due to massive size of Walmart and would not significantly improve their condition over long term. So wealth re-distribution is not the cause of poverty of Walmart condition.
> In regards concrete claims the ultra rich appear to far more to the economic right than the average person.

Are you sure that's true? It may be, but there are certainly plenty of counter-examples. Gates and Buffett immediately come to mind, as well as presumably many of the people on this page: http://givingpledge.org/
I'm not sure how to classify it adequately. It may be that classification is inevitably oversimplifying. But, I do think that it's a close relative of conservatism that's found in almost every culture and can often get very extreme.

Strict codes of conduct, dress, speech and such are a consequence of people instinctively creating and policing conformity. That can be thinking and voicing a dissident opinion about religion or politics, dressing outlandishly, speaking improperly or any other element of culture that's cohesive. It isn't a coincidence that in 18th century Japan and 18th century Morocco, people wore different hats. That conformity in hats happened as people themselves conformed to local hat culture and pressured those around them to conform.

I think you're right to call it juvenile. Juveniles seem especially vigilant about conforming and policing conformity. A 14 year old is more likely to berate a nonconforming classmate than a 40 year old.

Being online and anonymous tears down some of the barriers to both taking offence and offering it. But, I think that the instinct to find a core identity and violently defending it is, unfortunately, innate.
I understand this question is examined in Jon Ronson's recent book So You've Been Publicly Shamed[1]

I haven't read it but I've heard him discussing it on The Nerdist[2] and The Joe Rogan Experience[3] podcasts, both of which were very entertaining and insightful.

Though I never stooped to the level of harassing and shaming people, I did go through an angry white male libertarian stage, and having been through that I think the underlying motive for the asshole behaviour is something to do with entitlement and resentment. I.e., "I deserve better than this (more money/status/respect/sex etc), if the world's not gonna give me what I deserve, then at least I can make other people as miserable as I am".

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You%27ve_Been_Publicly_Sham...

[2] http://nerdist.com/nerdist-podcast-jon-ronson/

[3] http://podbay.fm/show/360084272/e/1436227565?autostart=1
As randycupertino pointed out, my comment was about teenagers being ridiculous. That is hardly newsworthy, but the extent to which the social-media-industrial complex has elevated this nonsense, should be.

Society, by dismantling the old illiberal structures (which I agree, were pretty bad) and offering no real substitutes, has done great harm to its future generations.
nope. I'm done. There are enough JS frameworks, client and server side. I don't need to look at another one.

I'd really like 2016 to be the year that everyone who thought of making another new JS framework decided to not do that and instead go fix bugs in one of the existing ones that people are already using.
> [?] QR: Afraid I'm not sure what you're referring to.

> [+] Cholesky Decomposition: Trivial to implement

How is it that you can judge Cholesky decomposition to be trivial to implement, while being unfamiliar with QR decomposition?

Cholesky decomposition is not trivial to implement well.

> Your post comes across to me as being rather cynical - but why not be supportive of the good work that's being done?

I had a similar experience to what's happening here myself. I worked on a project that had some very specific requirements for a high performance simulation (described by a differential equation). I worked on a very specialized piece of code for a long time to optimize this differential equation solver, eventually writing a JIT compiler to generate specialized code for each simulation.

I had a D advocate come along and rather vigorously argue that D can solve this problem, without really understanding it, and missing some key requirements.

This sort of comes off the same way, "a numpy replacement". numpy is big and does a lot of stuff. Like Cholesky decomposition, many of these things have trivial implementations, and then they have good implementations. The trivial implementations will take a few hours to write. The good implementations will take a few months, or even longer. Sometimes "not good" means slow, sometimes "not good" means numerical stability issues, etc. If you don't have the right background, these things may not even be obvious.

This is a bit of a pattern with D folks. Several times (this, my previous experience, and others), I've gotten the impression that a D fan comes along, invests a bit of time (a few weeks, months) in a particular domain, and starts making comparisons with other tools that they only scratch the surface of. It can rub people the wrong way.

edit: The symbolic expression reference in this post is another example. Computer algebra is an incredibly difficult thing to implement. I don't know of anything that is harder to implement well than a computer algebra system. Yet, you link a single file under 1000 lines as partially checking the box in your list for symbolic expression manipulation. D might be a highly productive, but it's not that productive.
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Possible to share the code? Would like to add few features to it for my personal use.
yes my Atlanta linode just runs a few old non essential services and has been failing on its own randomly over the last through months mainly due to neglect. I assumed it was failing when I got the first few pingdom alerts over Christmas and rebooted it several times.

They should have done a mail out.
There are: Apache Kafka, Apache ActiveMQ, Twitter Kestrel.
> then started methodically giving all that money away

Gates is still the wealthiest person, he doesn't give all money away. He is like Zuckerberg, they obviously run a foundation that bunkers their money. And to pay little tax money, they give away a few millions/billions. Basically they decide what they want to do with their tax money. That's at least what can read in independent news articles.
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But you choose to ignore the other extreme. I mean that of 100% abolition of property rights, i.e., a recipe for anarchy. Of course you can truly believe in property rights when they are set according to an evolved legal constitution. That's how human beings work to form a better society. There is no such thing as 'trouble from a philosophical point of view' unless one thinks that the space between ALL and NOTHING is blank.
Maybe "rigged" is the wrong word but googling: "The 1976 top federal tax rate on regular income was 70% while the rate on capital gains was 39.9%"

Had they left things like that, present inequality would be much less. We don't live in a world of unregulated capitalism. We live in a world of regulated and taxed capitalism and the wealthy have modified those regulations and taxes in their favour.
Flat assembler: x86 assembler that does multiple passes to optimize machine code
This is the first I've heard of Wishbone, which seems pretty harmless but Instagram is one of the most toxic internet substances out there at the moment poisoning our collective psyche. I think it should be fucking destroyed.
07.12.2015 means Dec 07, 2015. Germany (where this is from) uses DD.MM.YYYY notation. So this is not yet 6 months old.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
I once saw something quite the opposite. Some ditzy woman in a tiny car changed lanes right in front of a huge tractor-trailer. It was an urban situation and a light just ahead just turned red. So she immediately braked.

The cut-off truck behind her slammed on his brakes and swerved into the other lane and jackknifed in a huge cloud of tire smoke. But he did it, his cab wound up beside her and totally missed her car. He didn't turn her econobox into a grease spot.

I was too stunned to remember what happened afterward. But I think the woman just obliviously drove off when the light changed. She never realized just how close she came to dying that day.
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The term "bare metal" goes way back and wouldn't have been out of place in 1982 (IBM was Big Iron, after all). I don't think "automated tools" was in use, certainly not in everyday use, although I think we would have understood it. Maybe. That's a pretty fascinating question, really.
Submitted Engadget article rather than original forum thread because the thread has a low signal-to-noise ratio.

Did not retain title of Engadget article because it's so clickbaity.
Almost all recent snack vending machines in the UK support contactless payment. if it's economical to do for £0.50 snacks, it'll work for fuel pumps.
>he is responding to an often used argument that assumes wealth is a zero sum

This is not an often-used argument. It's obviously false that wealth is only ever redistributed and not created, and someone as knowledgeable as Stiglitz would obviously not believe something so silly. He even goes out of his way to explain that he doesn't believe this. And yet pg still decides to make out that he's fallen for the "pie fallacy".

The pie fallacy is, in essence, the fallacious argument that one person can get rich only at the expense of another. Approximately no-one thinks this is true as a matter of economic or metaphysical necessity. Some people think that as a matter of fact, the enrichment of the 1% in the U.S., in the last decade, has to a significant extent been at the expense of the rest. To deny this because "pie fallacy" is to commit the inverse pie fallacy: to assume that individual wealth is always gained from creation and not redistribution. How wealth was gained in any given instance is an empirical question, not a logical or moral one.
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I would guess that to the guy who did the copy protection it was his master work in decryption routines, funded by the sad necessity of putting a game written by some talentless hacks into it as the ultimate payload.
On Linux there is Trimage:

http://trimage.org/
I for one am monitoring this thread very closely.... I was admitted to hospital on Christmas day with acute Pancreatitis, and the advice after that is to avoid alcohol for good. I've accepted that, but am interested in the article and comments here because I used to be an extremely regular drinker. Not to get shitfaced per se, but it was a useful relaxant and sedative...

Sure hope I get the sort of boost in energy and productivity that he mentions in the article.
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I think the intent here is political rule rigging such as capital gains taxes which leads to situation where middle class has higher tax rate than super rich. There is plenty of political purchasing goes on every day by big shots as Donnald Trump often reminds us (he obtained several permits with phone calls to politicians). Personally I don't think mom and pops shops died because of rigged rules. They simply can't compete with economies of scale and selection. That's just evolution and survival of the fittest.
When working a retail job I once (and only once) saw a credit card with a photo of the person it was issued to on the back. It was also about the only card I really bothered to check ownership on because signatures were useless.

Thankfully we've now got chip & pin, completely removing the need for minimum wage retail staff to verify ownership of credit cards.
Nothing Woz says in the interview is false, but he's being very careful in what he says.

He buys uncut sheets from the treasury, pays a printer to make them into pads and so on, and then sells them to random people at a loss just for the fun of playing with their minds :-)

"By law it's legal tender" - true because they're genuine
"I get a printer [...] to make these pads" - they make them from genuine bills
"I'm not sure if it's the right President" - white lie, it is
"The serial numbers look suspicious" - yeah because they're sequential
Löve is not a German or Swiss German word, so the umlaut is simply gratuitious.

(Other languages such as Dutch or French use diacritics to mark a vowel as not-dipthongised, but that doesn't apply here either.)
There's Oh My Fish too (https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish), the very first and original fish package manager (or shell framework, as we like to call it). I use it because of the nice default theme and the node version manager (nvm) compatibility plugin.
Or just do what I have started doing: use cash a lot more.

This way I have to only worry about the ATM having a skimmer attached to it. Not every random semi-seedy place that I buy food or gas from.

Sure I know cash can be a pain. But CC fraud and skimmers are making using a CC a pain as well.
Sounds like they're a bunch of dude-nerds who want to handle every problem as if it were a technical problem. Their "process" seems tantamount to separating the two sides and telling them to sit down and shut up.

That's a not-unreasonable policy when we're talking about a technical debate that becomes acrimonious It's a terrible policy when we're talking about threats or threatening behavior by one party against another.

My experience is that most dude-nerds are oblivious by default to those sorts of non-technical, purely human issues. It's made all the worse because their behavior is more-or-less indistinguishable from genuinely malicious behavior. From the perspective of the person being threatened, it doesn't make much practical difference whether they're doing it out of ineptitude or malice.
Indeed, we have had redis running in production for four years now and I can't remember a single crash happening. If something goes wrong in our stack redis is the last thing we check. Antirez should write a http web server :-)
Indeed, let's tackle that big problem of barrel parts being stolen before it becomes an epidemic!
If you start working out 3 times a week, going to bed earlier and eating more healthy, you will notice a big change in how you feel no matter the drinking (depending on amounts of course). Good for the OP though that he has overcome something that was big for him. I am just not sure about the title of this post and the reasoning that it is _all_ due to not drinking.
"Recent survey of Swiss centenarians found that 83.4% drank at least one large glass of red wine per day, 86.7% included some form of light exercise in their daily routine, and 99.7% were dead."
Anecdotally the taste is lost when they breed tomatoes to not burst when falling 3 feet to the floor.
The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory (1962) [pdf]