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Correction: corporations are not persons under the law. Corporate personhood is a notion that gives corporations some, but not all, of the rights of humans (e.g. to enter into a contract).

(It's frequently said that the Citizens United ruling completed the legal equivalence of corporations and people, but that is not true.)
He's done all that reading and still hasn't read Snow Crash? What the what...?

Edit: It's been on his "Still Haven't Read" list since 2010. Maybe it's some sort of inside joke at this point...
I use 2FA on my Paypal account.. ?
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You are drawing false conclusions up and down this thread. Both of the following can be (and are) true: Appalachia is a nexus of white poverty (and industrial decay), and institutionalized racism has lingering effects through the present day. The fact that racism existed (and continues to exist in some ways) does not preclude white people from ever being poor. Just like how your roommates' forefathers may have been discriminated against, but their parents managed to pay for their college. At the same time, your forefathers may not have been discriminated against, but you did not end up with a nest egg to work from. Local exceptions do not mean that systemic issues can be dismissed offhandedly.

While the income distribution may be screwed, in part, because "politicians are bought too easily by corporations", how one could deny that institutionalized racism in the past has lingering effects on socioeconomic status for members of particular races into the present day is beyond me. You are pointing out real issues, but none of these issues mean that racism doesn't (or didn't) exist.

EDIT: Also, where are those people that make millions off of the discussion of racism? (Do you perhaps have Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson in mind?) Even if there are some small number of people whose brand personally benefits from discussing racism, their existence does not erase the socioeconomic disparity between races (today) that stems, in part, from institutionalized racism of the past.
I have seen designs I would consider trivial, such as a slider made up of two circled symbols, a solid line, and a small box for an indicator.

I wasn't referring to the lines in the claim, but in the design. I was saying; for instance, if changing a solid line in the design to a dotted line may get you past the design patent, then they are worthless to begin with.
There is a TED talk about this study[1], probably an interesting addition to the article. Mandy Len Catron speech starts from this study.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/mandy_len_catron_falling_in_love_i...
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I've received the same type of email multiple times from DigitalOcean and its extremely frustrating.

With even the smallest of traffic spikes, DigitalOcean will detect it as a DDoS and immediately cut off your server for 3 hours.

If even a typical (< 100Mbit) broadband-cable connection hits your server with a spike of traffic for less than 5 minutes, your server will be taken offline for 3 hours minimum.

I've used multiple VPS providers and dedicated-server providers and DO is absolutely the worst when it comes to DDoS policy.
Anecdotes aren't evidence.
Touchscreen displays have been worked on since the 60s[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#History
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О, это отличная мебель, осбенно - кухни, уголки со стульями.
Only someone who knows nothing about shooting pistols would think that. How on earth is it a bad design?

A normal Glock with its single-action mechanism is pretty close to the best handgun design there is now. A double-action-only (DAO) design suffers from heavy trigger pulls, which cause terrible shot accuracy. Look at the NYPD and how many innocent bystanders they shoot because of their 12-lb trigger pulls. DA/SA are even worse because the first shot is double-action, so it's inconsistent. Both these designs should be banned from law enforcement use because of public safety.

The only thing wrong with Glocks is they only have the trigger safety, and no external safety (like the grip safety on Springfield XD pistols), so they misfire if you're clumsy when reholstering and something gets into the trigger guard, and this has caused a bunch of cops to shoot themselves in the foot or leg.
Why don't you consider different approaches and algorithms a part of definition of style?
Reminds me of https://github.com/intermezzOS/kernel

Do they work in parallel on same problem/same style/ veru similar codebases? When why not to combine efforts?
You need the time to teach yourself. There are hard limits on the amount of physical and mental work a person can do, especially if the mental work requires significant concentration. I don't see you taking account of that at all.
It's also contingent upon giving the AI complete control over an army of robots and telling it to do whatever it feels like while we completely ignore what it's doing (I think Bostrom's argument is that it also has the magical ability to exponentially increase it's intelligence in a very short time period). Like most of the AI-apocalypse, it assumes that a string of highly improbable things would all occur at the same time, and then says, "wouldn't that be terrible?"

Well, yeah. But CERN creating a killer black hole would also be terrible. But we should think about what's probable, not just what's scary.
IoT spending will grow from $699B in 2015 to nearly $1.3 trillion in 2019
If we observe how us human communicate, we see a lot of guessing. Human languages are all ambiguous and their great efficiency depend on (intuitive) guesses -- in expensive guesses. We make guesses as we listen/read, but we do not commit our guesses; rather we modify our guesses as we accumulate further information.

Now imagine if we forbid ourselves to modify our guesses, you'll see how understanding natural language a forbidding task ...

Compilation is essentially a guess of meaning with no room for modifications -- neither self-modifications nor post-hoc modifications. So it is doomed for inefficiency or un-trackable difficulties.

I believe the right way for the future of programming is multi-stage compilation -- with first meta-compilation followed with static compilation. Currently our compilation only refers to the latter. The meta compilation produces human readable intermediate result -- not much different from our current code in C or Java and it will be as easy to feedback from as we do today in C or Java. However the meta-compilations takes many guesses and quite often adventurous guesses but the coder can easily tell whether it is on-track or guessed wrong. When the coder detect the meta-compilation guessed wrong, he will simply modify his source code -- slight change styles or simply write the code in a different way (which is not much different from human communication when we say "what I meant was ..."); or, in a few specific or difficult cases, the coder may opt to directly modify the intermediate code (C or Java or any of current popular languages) -- not much different from natural language when we reduce to more specific way as we write laws and contracts.

I have been exploring such idea with MyDef -- a meta programming system -- and have been more convinced it is the more sensible way (than trying to make break-throughs in the mature field of programming languages).
It's often said that if he lived today, Regan would be a Republican pariah. While I'm of the group of people that thinks Trickle-Down Economics is one of the worst policies enacted in my 37 years on this planet, it's been so manipulated and abused as to render it almost nothing like what Regan was after.
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I generally agree that there isn't much we can do to stop it, and I also think that trying too hard could backfire in unexpected ways, but certainly it's not something that this reporter, who is not very well informed on the matter, can correctly dismiss as hysteria.
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No. Valuation might not be trivial, but LVT would definitely be the easiest tax to enforce. Don't pay the taxes on the land you own? You lose ownership.

Ideally it'd be the single tax, but that doesn't preclude it from being useful in conjunction with other taxes. For example, we could start by simply replacing property taxes with LVT, and that alone would spur economic growth.
Yes it is. I just submitted it.
I think the process kind of misses the whole point. Once two people have made the decision to fall in love with each other it is 'relatively' easy.

The whole 'roadblocks' that are in place that this process overcomes are completely rational. Its not difficult at all to fall in love, it is difficult to find someone who you 'should' fall in love with.
You obviously know more than me, I was just commenting on the capturing idea needing a reservoir to place it after capture.

I was also thinking of just storing as much as possible in a series of large inflatable balloons. You'd have to keep some distance between them in case one decides to explode I guess.
He's actually got two posts about it, that I've found to be insightful and useful to take back to my own reading:

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/02/22/reading/
http://blog.fogus.me/2012/05/23/extreme-reading/

I've always been a horribly slow reader, despite enjoying reading and reading at a high level. A lot of that slowness is actually about the time I devote to reading (toilet time and bed time, essentially), the level of interest I have in the material (usually "enough to continue"), and a symptom of my out-of-practice reading skill, which leads to me primarily subvocalizing instead of reading, and frequently backtracking. Spending 10-15 minutes every other day reading at 200 words per minute does not make for a quick journey through a book.

After thinking of it in those terms, I've started to apply the idea that the more I read, the faster I will read (up to a point), to actively avoid subvocalization, and to devote real blocks of time to reading instead of fitting it in at the edges. I find that I end up reading closer to 400 wpm during focused time, and when I want to, I'm able to average 1-2 hours/day of a week. Spending that much time at 400ish words per minute makes books fly past. Keeping comprehension up and realizing value is where taking some notes comes into it.

Beyond that, as he says, you have to know what you're reading a book for. For example, it's probably not worth reading the introduction and basic content chapters of technical books you're already up-to-speed on, and you can skip right to the important parts and just read them deeply.
The average income of the top 400 taxpayers is $335 million/year. Had those people been born and grown up in Bangladesh, instead of the U.S., I doubt it would be 1/10th as much, if that. So $56 million a year doesn't sound so bad for the privilege of living in a society that enables wealth creation like few others.
There are many such marginal cases that decide not to work (for cash on the market) due to changes in after tax income: housewives (who eg must balance the income against new childcare expenses and less free time), students, people near retirement, high-income professionals (surgeons), wealthy actors ("I have so much there's no point to getting out of bed for less than a million").

But yes, the "backward bending supply curve"/income effect you describe also exists, usually for primary breadwinners.
So all these truckdrivers that are being replaced with self driving rigs are going to get into biotech now?
The risk of Amazon shutting down your account, even as a Prime member, is too high to justify investment in any of their cloud services or hardware. Even if they don't actually shut down your account and just send you threats based on fictional terms of service that you've never agreed to, as they did to me, I would never trust them with anything sensitive again. I wouldn't be surprised if they start shutting down AWS services in the future for arbitrary violations not stated in any terms of service. This kind of behavior should not have to be tolerated by loyal, paying customers, yet Amazon has been doing it continuously for many years.
The next time someone asks me what love means to me, this is going to be my answer.
Thanks for the kid-gloves reply :)

I hadn't considered that there isn't really a central authority for controlling who runs a peer, aside from ICANN, but they have pretty loose reins.

Funny that everyone waxes poetic about bitcoin being a revolution in anonymous and tacit network management. Meanwhile our little Internet experiment continues to be a HUGE tacit agreement to adhere to a handful of network protocols.
> Why is it more likely that we're going to develop superintelligent autonomous insect drones than we are to annihilate ourselves with human-controlled mechanical systems, as we've had the capability to do so for many years now (nuclear ICBMs and so forth)?

Proliferation issues and barrier to entry.

They don't need to be super-intelligent if their task is just to find the nearest eyeballs and it's much much harder to stop someone producing killer insect drones - the industry for which has many uses - than it is to stop them producing an ICBM (the industry for which is fairly specific.)

We're talking about something someone could conceivably do, on a small scale, in their garage given a couple of years and very minor funding. From there it's just a matter of scale.
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The robots will still need to be maintained by people, for a while, but there will be less demand for jobs that like. The guy who gets that job will talk about how much he "studied, and sacrificed" to get the job, and will take it for granted that he has such a superior living to those who "needs get provided for".

My neighbor and I both work pretty hard on our lawns, but his always looks better because he doesn't have a giant maple tree blocking all the sunlight. He probably think's he's just better at lawn work.
I'm imagining a self-aware AI doing good all day then retiring to it's private realm to watch videos of paper-clip manufacturing.
In 2012, the top 400 earners reported average income of $335.7 million [1].

$335 million!

The ultra-wealthy get a huge allocation of "benefits and opportunities" from the government, much more than anyone else. $56M seems like a fantastic deal, as it pays for the system that is set up pretty much entirely to ensure these top earners make gobs and gobs of money forever.

1: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-400-highest-earning-american...
So, if we're talking revenue of billions.. cut taxes to 0.0001% and that's the peak of the Laffer Curve where we maximize revenue? That's the argument?
If people fork/clone the repo, then wouldn't it also update the count on the main repo?
My average for the last four years (since I started tracking) is 43.5. I think reading 100/year would require reading books instead of watching TV nearly every night.

Here's confessions of someone who read 164:
http://www.vox.com/2015/12/29/10634416/reading-list-books

Blogger/economist Tyler Cowan also advises quitting books that are a slog.
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This is perhaps the most interesting comment on this topic. The implications for such a licensing change would be enormous for the development community, I believe. The days of OEM's not releasing their source code, for changes to the Android ASL parts, may finally be over.

I'm curious, though, as to why you believe Google would expend less effort developing the runtime considering the different trajectories of ART and the JVM.
If I understand correctly, Phil started writing his series first. That tutorial prompted several people to start working on their own hobby OS, including Steve's and another one here: http://www.randomhacks.net/bare-metal-rust/. I think Redox was already underway when Phil started writing, but I may be mixing up my timelines.

Edit: There is also http://www.alexeyshmalko.com/2015/bkernel-a-rust-operating-s...

Phil has stated his series is basically for fun and learning. I imagine Steve's and Eric's are similar. You don't necessarily want to "combine effort" with someone when you are exploring ideas on your own.
I would hope it is obvious based on the extent and duration of the attacks that RTBH is not an option in this case.
Dude you are seriously retarded if you don't realize the discrimination.
Here is the article by The Hill that lays out the case and how it affects Indians , Chinese and people from Philippines.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/259076-why...

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/5/13/grass-greener-eb...
No doubt also different things for each hidden in the TOS. This same thing happens with "unlimited" web hosting providers (godaddy in particular).
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Exactly. I used to live near there, and the area is extremely dry and prone to wildfires, for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Ranch_fire
> But man, does it really need to be that way? Is it really so bad to "only" gain $40,000,000 per year instead of $49,500,000?

They didn't get that wealthy by understanding the meaning of the word "enough".
So annoying that Amazon unlimited is only available in the US.
this is disgusting
AWS ELBs don't forward DNS and NTP traffic to the backends, and ingress bandwidth isn't billed to you. So there's no impact on the wallet when the most common DDoS traffic is aimed at you.
Intelligence doesn't work like that. Take AIXI, define a reward in terms of paperclips and (if it were actually computable) you will kill everything.

Intelligence and any consideration of its goals at all can be completely unrelated.
That's was exactly my point. Bitcoin is not as decentralized as it was envisioned to be so maybe there are other sorts of federalized systems that can be just as good and easier to implement.
Good to see OVH getting some recognition here. I am a happy customer of both OVH and DigitalOcean but my usage has become strongly weighted towards OVH. The OVH web interface could be improved (I've had to open support tickets for basic things like activating auto-renewal), that's the only downside with them really. Range of products, network, disk speed and responsiveness are all consistently very good. Their new 2016 'Cloud' VPSs have markedly better disk speed than DigitalOcean's SSDs, which are already pretty fast.

For a quick side project I still like DigitalOcean's hourly billing and user interface, but any machine I plan on using for a month or more are all with OVH by default.
That being said, I think it has as much to do (perhaps more) with laziness and hubris as it does empathy for peers.

citation: http://threevirtues.com/
>The non-violent history of Norway is true.

I disagree, based on what I've read about Vikings. Those were some pretty brutal people.
An AI, well and truly advanced beyond the intelligence capability of mankind is by definition unknowable to us. Your speculation about an AI's utility functions is akin to an earthworm's nerve bundle considering your consciousness.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counselor?
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Not sure about the offshore reinsurer, but the charitable trust sounds like a charitable lead trust, probably a non-grantor charitable lead annuity trust.

The basic idea with a charitable lead trust is that it's organized for a certain term (a number of years, or life of a specific person or some combination) and during that term, the charity will get specific payments (subject to the trust remaining solvent), and when the trust ends, a beneficiary will get the remainder. If the trust is properly constructed, when the trust is funded, the present value of the remainder is determined and used as the gift/estate tax value for the gift to the beneficiary; if you can make that zero, while also investing assets in the trust in such a way that the remainder is not actually zero, then you've avoided gift/estate tax. I believe the donor also gets a charitable tax deduction for the present value of the payments to charity, spread over 5 years, and subject to clawback in some cases.

I'm not really sure how the private placement life insurance plays in, it's likely a way to avoid income tax for the trust (a charitable lead trust is subject to tax on its income), as life insurance proceeds are generally untaxed.
We do tax some wealth: property taxes. There are residential property taxes and business property taxes.

And wealth managers often charge fees based on a percentage of assets (at least for $1/2+ million accounts). So there is precedent for such a system.

The political reality of expanding on this is a different matter. Any change would have to be gradual, because taxation is a huge intervention in market forces. i.e. to just suddenly stop taxing income, and tax wealth or tax consumption would very abruptly change the dynamics of the economy. But we don't have a political system that incentives 10, 20, 50 years down the road sorts of end goals. We have a system that favors the catch phrase of the week.
Falling in love is not the problem. Getting that cute girl to fall in love with _me_ is the problem. :)
Mostly agree with your point. Word Lens for Google Glass was the only functional AR app, but a good one.
At some point we should be able to code these things in (a subset) of C++. Microsoft has made C++ AMP for GPU programming. Herb Sutter has said it or something similar has a good chance of being standardised in C++ at some point.

Some chatter along those lines:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p006...
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Not sure why you're down votes. But I know what kind of people are doing it though.

You're right. Female protagonists isn't a new thing. This is overblown. No one would give two shits if it was Gabrielle Freeman or Gordon. A good game is a good game.

And a shitty game with a female main is still a shit game. No down votes will actually change they. That's the satisfying part.
I'd be worried about general rough-lifestyle stuff affecting your brain's health as well. It is ultimately also a physical organ. Also, being unhealthy is not pleasant in general for many people.

Another approach might be to just slowly increase enjoyable risky behavior that's more or less all or nothing in its bad effects: driving fast, base jumping, motorcycle riding, helicopter piloting...
Fogus is the man.
This is one small detail away from being the plot of a horror movie.