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I think saying that some people are "crazy communists", and that communism is failed, is not enough to discredit all the positive socialist measures that are likely leading to increased innovation and a healthy economy in the long run, in most developed countries.

- debt-free higher education
- free health care
- financial sector regulations
- tax poors less than rich
- taxes on corporations, which will be important in the future to deal with automation of most jobs, such as lawyers and truck drivers.
- basic income (only exists in Finland at the moment in 2016, was tested a few times in the last decades, with success apparently)

The "Communism is failed" argument is typical of the neo con media, it's disingenuous and completely misses the point. Socialism is very different from communism. Socialism improves on capitalism. Socialism provenly works. Most developed countries are socialist, to different degrees. The most successful ones in innovation per capita happen to be the most socialist ones, literally, scandinavian countries. The US is already socialist to some extend, not just capitalist.

An interesting point to add is that Milton Friedman, the guru of the neo conservative current, actually supports basic income. Basic income just got voted in Finland. Basic income is very different from communism, and was proven to work in many real-life experiments, without affecting people's drive to work. See interesting TED talks on that subject.

… In 1962, the libertarian economist Milton Friedman advocated a minimum guaranteed income via a “negative income tax.”
You are a terrible manager if you try to replace this part of your job with software. A lot is lost when people are expected to proactively update you on what they're doing, rather than answering questions that you choose to ask them.

More importantly, it'd be nearly impossible to get most teams to do this.
How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous. Meetings are toxic. Hours are bullshit.

http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-asynchronous/

I sometimes like face-to-face discussions too, but only with people who are smarter than me.
The philosopher Alain de Botton is trying to push the idea of a "secular religion", or more simply to recognize that religion filled a social role and that we don't currently have a good replacement. See his TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_atheism_2_0#t-1907...

Also see this hilarious "secular sermon": https://vimeo.com/10601416
Any comments on how it worked out with Lambda?
I think you mean "inferred". Japan is a "high context" culture in Edward Hall's theory, meaning that context in general is an important guide to behaviour, in contrast with other more explicit cultures.
How long until flat design goes out of style? (2004)
Please follow suit with SSD EBS pricing - 60TB should not be costing me 6k/mo.
But why is creating money out of thin air bad, regardless of whether a currency is centralized or decentralized? (Other than that it sounds scary.)
That person you hire can't split themselves into 10 people on demand, nor are they easily replaced if they go on vacation or get sick. This seems to me the PA equivalent of using AWS rather than owning and maintaining your own servers. There are some potential drawbacks, yes, but there are also a lot of potential upsides, depending on your needs.
That would make followers even more meaningless.
A majority of Spanish sentences leave their subjects implied. I think French, Catalan, Latin, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese have mostly implied subjects as the old Latin roots make it easy.

But you'll find most spoken English sentences have I or You or a grammatically empty placeholder ("that is..." without antecedent or "there is...") as subjects. That's why other languages can omit them. It's pretty easy to guess which of those you mean so English could omit them eventually, too, with no loss of specificity.
Aren't these extensions to the Bitcoin protocol (rather than core of it)? This question is curious interest, not a counterargument to yours.
They wouldn't necessarily have to. I'm sure there are events they attend that a sufficiently wealthy person could get a ticket or invite to. Then it would just be a matter of introducing yourself.
Wouldn't it be more price effective for you to hire a personal assistant; through one of your companies?
> cloud-storage firm must write a short story about data, spend a day working on a mock project and complete an assignment.

I guess they're selecting for people with free time, and no conception of their value.
I'm not gonna do a good job at explaining this, because it's far from my subject area, but the problem is that your demand for "the relevant part" asks for blunt evidence of a subtle phenomenon.

When we talk about politics, context matters. Someone like Yudkowsky doesn't believe stupidly racist things, like a KKK member or turn-of-century politician, or even modern anti-immigration people. Bond's targeting something much more subtle.

The point is that here you have a man who naively keeps trying to push the dialogue "beyond race" ("forget race"), in a forum where if you scroll down to the comment section, you'll see Jeff H. with 5 upvotes defending Watson's racist remarks, with Epiphany at 0 upvotes talking about the cultural reasons why IQ tests fail.

It's about the framework, and what it allows, and about what allows the people championing it to be naive or indifferent about what it allows. Someone discussing coldly and clinically the pros and cons of rape isn't a rapist, but there's something else about someone who can have discussion coldly and clinically. Some people take pride in their level-headedness about tough topics, others would take it as a signal of their lack of empathy with the victims, and the signal this sends to people who do feel passionately about it.

And so Yudkowsky will discuss race in this goofy aloof kind of way- "maybe black people are intellectually inferior, let's talk about it, does it even matter in the end?", and some people will believe that this is the right kind of coolness to produce neat solutions, and others will believe it robs the steam off of the emotional connection that would engage people in political action for change.

You have to suss this kind of thing out, and if you plain don't want to believe me that there's something enabling towards racism and sexism and other various supremacist ideologies in the LessWrong ecosystem, you don't really have to.
It's like someone from a future in which they can perfectly model the human brain and predict it's reactions wrote an article designed to perfectly stimulate all of the anger centers of my brain.

(I'm referring to the qz article, not pg's essay)
They don't need to know the password with db write access.

In fact, depending on how the sessions are managed the attacker might just need read access to log in without a password.
One standard deviation is fairly significant, though.

I think a lot of people would do mind training once per day for a possible 3-4 IQ increase, honestly. I would.

It's also possible that it only results in a fairly small general IQ increase, but a larger increase in some specific facet of recall or cognition.
No, just a 'greatest hits' compilation of the same things China detractors have been complaining about since 1995. Their analysis is no better than the already dubious "official" numbers.
Twitter already was tech jargon just a while ago. Maybe we just need the right marketing campaign. RSS = "I'm Ready for Some Stories!", the Oprah way: http://www.backinskinnyjeans.com/2006/09/how_to_explain_.htm...
It's color negative film anyway. Probably gives better quality scans and is a bit cheaper.

[Edit: And actually I don't believe Kodak makes a reversal Super 8 film any longer, although others do.]
Usually that's what I do but it seems that even doing it incognito does not work anymore :s
At least they built a mobile platform that works. Seriously tho, enough FUD. The two key premises of the article have been proven false at internet speed. Most would have withdrawn it already, but the Eich cabal are nothing if not persistent.
I've used Visa Signature concierge a couple of times and have found it to be very 'meh'. The last time I called them they seemed to have limited the scope of what they'd do to making reservations and travel arrangements.
Ask 99.9% of Sticher/Pocket Casts/Overcast/iTunes users what RSS is. They'll have no idea, and yet those apps rely on RSS to subscribe to podcasts.

The application can obfuscate the underlying technology. You don't need to know what RSS is to use it every day and love it, just as you don't need to know about DNS, TCP/IP, or most other internet technologies to enjoy the web.
Curious as to what you meant by this comment?
This is huff po we're talking about, right? They'll print anything as long as it drives traffic.
> There are some moments that digital just can't deliver

Isn't this the mindset that drove them into the ground in the first place?
It isn't just nostalgia.

Digital music can't simulate having a physical album cover, an e-ink screen won't ever be similar to a printed page, no music encoding will physically prevent loudness-wars mastering the way a vinyl record will (the needle would just jump out of the track), no printer will ever be able to fool someone into thinking a document was written on a typewriter.

You can tell the difference if a piece of mail was signed by a human with a pen instead of a printer, and it means something.

The limitations of analog media are very often their strengths, especially in corner cases. The limitations of a medium are often a significant driver for the creative process and losing them or approximating them makes lots of things worse.

Normally people (morally) opposed to analog media spout just as much pseudoscience in defense of their position. (normally people arguing about such things on the Internet are idiots anyway)
I'd actually argue that Edison made the first /practical electric light bulb for use in a lighting system/ Swans lamp was a low resistance lamp, meaning higher current demand and a need for larger copper supply lines to supply the lamp.
Currently sitting in a cafe in Osaka. Can confirm. Life is pretty normal. People appear normal. Will report back if situation changes.
the author must not have heard of the broken window fallacy.

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt explains it. Available free online
as a note: if you click the web link above, it'll automatically google the title for you.
If you are in the target group that is willing to pay $100/hour for a virtual assistant at the beck and call of an SMS, then the $0.20 or so for the SMS roaming charges seems like small change...
I actually have a personal assistant, but for many tasks, Magic+ is simply better (and completely responsive 24/7, which I would never demand of an employee).
I haven't used the $100/hour Magic+, but I've used Magic several times. I ordered sushi when it was first announced and the HN comment about my experience got a lot of interest.

Once I used it to order fried chicken from a deli that isn't available via any delivery service. That was nice.

The coolest thing by far was using it to buy a gift. I follow an embroidery artist on Instagram, and noticed she was doing a pop-up shop in Chicago (I live in Seattle). I directly inquired about commissioning pieces or buying her existing pieces, but it just wasn't possible – this pop-up shop was the only way. I showed Magic a few of the pieces I liked best on Instagram, gave them a price limit (no idea even how much they were selling for), and described how there were only a few of these things available and they'd probably be gone fast. They sent someone there and managed to get one for me and mail it!
s/he/she/, the article was written by Holly Wood
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Anything he says is based on a 25 years of first hand experience and research of living and working in Japan. Resorting to name-calling and unfounded ad-hominem attacks only shows a lack of arguments from your side and nothing else.
Almost any time someone tries to make a point about a culture based on their language, ignore them. Languages, for the most part, evolve on their own, independent of cultural considerations. For example, in Spanish, the word for house (casa) is female, just like (almost?) all nouns in Spanish are gendered. This does not mean that gender plays a stronger role in Spanish speaking cultures than in cultures that speak a less gendered language, it is simply the way the language evolved.

It is worth pointing out that English also lets you omit the subject in some circumstances, namly commands. For example, we consider "clear your room" to be a complete sentence, despite the fact that it omits the subject, "you".
That was an awful read.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

I found PG's opinion interesting, regardless of whether I agree with him.

Author seems to have unleashed a hateful screed, which optimally includes a world where opinions like PG's are silenced.

I guess the only thing she inspired is my distaste for her creative output.
Agreed. And editing is the hardest (but most important) part of writing.
I had to read that wikipedia article just to discover that Kodak was still in business, albeit a shrunken shadow of the former colossus that today is a niche player.

I grew up with Kodak products -- had a darkroom as a kid and every chemical, every paper, every film was made by Big Yellow. My camera was a Kodak Instamatic.

It is sad to see these organizations evaporate from disruption. Progress and all that, but still sad.
Apart from the breach and global password resets today.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-firm-linode-resets-user-p...

I have been a big fan of linode in the past, I still have a fair amount with them but honestly at this point I'm seriously considering AWS even at the increased cost (which compared to my time isn't that large really and reputational cost which is).
Here's a nice solution in search of a problem.
This is a perfect poster child for decentralized authentication. Centralized stores of passwords and secrets are just asking for trouble. When will we learn?
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The examples are a little outlandish. Maybe some more realistic ones?
That's really nice! Plain ol' Russian Solitaire isn't linked from the front page, though (it's my wife's go-to solitaire game). I found it by looking in the help for Russian Cell and seeing it linked there.
More automation isn't always better, full stop. I'm not saying that I want people to plant seeds by hand still, but I'm not sure that a completely automated factory farm where no people work is something to strive for either.

I'd like animals to be raised by people, not machines, I think.
0.2 standard deviations is a very large effect.
How can you claim a quarter of a std dev is statistically meaningless? Seems to me that's dependent on the confidence intervals involved not the standard deviation.
So, televangelist can claim that you need to send a "seed" (money) to get good fortune and get away with it making millions from the most gullible people around, but a brain-training app is penalized for deceptive ads?

Shit doesn't add up.
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Diamonds-in-the-rough are also a tremendous value. It's very cheap to hire someone that can't (or doesn't think that they can) get a job elsewhere. It really is surprising that more effort isn't spent trying to identify and hire them.
Good point for "enchanced networking" instances.
I didn't see OS specified in the article.
AMZN linux would have SR-IOV driver by default.
PV vs HVM might also have an impact.
Having worked sausage sizzles at both Bunnings and Masters I can corroborate this. Masters is empty in comparison.

Closer to topic though, when buying a new TV last week my wife and I didn't even consider Dick Smith. They can't really compete with Harvey Norman, Retravision, Good Guys or JB Hi Fi.

Meanwhile, Jaycar and Altronics have slotted nicely into the hobby electronics market that used to be Dick Smith's domain.
You can do that in C too with libsigsegv: https://www.gnu.org/software/libsigsegv/

Windows 3.1 even shipped with something that basically did just that: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150717-00/?p=...
PG is copping a lot of flack for his essay. This is fine, people are allowed to disagree in a free society.

But please, if you're going to respond or comment on any of these articles, keep things civil and pointed at their arguments. Instead of this is a stupid opinion, say why you think their opinion is incorrect.

Also, a (perhaps) less formal article along the same lines was flagged yesterday and it sunk from the front page within minutes. It was rather harsh in its wording but the act of flagging it let no one from the community talk about the opinions expressed or why they were wrong.
But you could _delete it today_ and it would not be lost. Right?
The technology kills jobs argument is so fucking stupid it's unbelievable, in 1700 we had 600 million people. Fast forward to 2015, we have 7 billion people the vast majority who are employed.

If technology killed jobs we'd have like 100 million people working instead of 6 billion workers.
Let's assume for a second that viewing and forking are clear and obvious copyright rights (they aren't), and that they somehow cover downloading and using (they probably wouldnt).

"By uploading their code to a public GitHub repository, they agree to GitHub's terms of service[1], which grants other users additional rights to this code.
"

This has literally never been upheld in court, nor is it likely to be upheld in a way that people want (see the above parts about what rights it really covers), to be frank :)

Additionally, it would be inapplicable in this case.

You can't give away rights you don't have.
Note that NaturalMotion didn't upload this, Justin did.

If you upload some Google owned source code, you haven't suddenly granted rights on behalf of Google, you've just likely committed copyright infringement.

Someone relying on the github license grant (ie a viewer or downloader) would still be a copyright infringer, and in turn try to use the "innocent infringement" defense (17 USC 504(c)(2)). They would fall neatly into the category of people who believed they had a license to use it. The problem, of course,is that this defense is eliminated completely by the presence of the notice.
See 17 USC 401(d).

So the people who downloaded and used it would be screwed as well, despite whatever github has written here :)

(I have no evidence or position on whether the result would be different if naturalmotion knew or acquiesced explicitly to the uploading to github. But then you'd still hit the same viewing and forking rights are not the same as downloading and using rights, and it's highly unlikely you would convince a court they are the same).
Because JumpCrisscross's post [0] implies that w1ntermute cherry picked a component of the Gwern meta-analysis to prove his point while the next paragraph refuted it.

[0] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846443
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I actually see both sides of this issue and don't think either essay is very good, both are preaching to the choir and neither will never convert anyone.

PG is arguing against a strawman using a very cold and clinical justification for his career—the wider social issues are not addressed at all.

Meanwhile this article barely stops to acknowledge that SV is actually building things as opposed to ripping people off with arbitrage and financial instruments. Beyond that it is just a frothy rant setting up another strawman about rich people telling poor people what to do (which is not really what PG was doing). Never does the author stop to acknowledge that they are probably fine with small mom-and-pop businesses, just not venture-funded unicorns, and that if we dislike the machinations of SV there must be some gray line papering over a pretty wide swath of the continuum between the two.

Personally I think PG would have been better off to just keep his mouth shut, because when you're rich it just looks like post-hoc rationalization no matter how you slice it. The social issues are real, and we are going to have to contend with what the effective replacement of labor with capital means for our society, but this is a conversation that the SV elite don't have the political capital to address.
> The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood

It is ironic how often this gets quoted, patronizingly, at people whose faces are literally marred by dust and sweat, by people who work in air-conditioned offices.
No one laments the lack of cow milking jobs, a world where humans don't have to work and instead can pursue creative goals is ideal, I want to see a world where food is just replicated from raw energy.
That's true, although the latest stock ubuntu HVM AMIs (14+, I believe) have the SR-IOV driver already and use it by default. Older AMIs need to have it installed and enabled on the AMI. I believe enhanced networking is only available on HVM amis.
Yeah this response isn't that great... While I'm not in PG or Thiel's camp (I think inequality is bad for the economy, bad for small business, and bad for quality of life), this author pretty much embodies all the stereotypes that people have about sociologists.
As someone who went to school in Rochester, NY (RIT), i love to see Kodak making a move that could possibly return them to a relevant position in the film industry. Rochester was once a proud city that has been beaten down by missing the innovation train. I hope this and other initiatives help to return it to some of its former luster.
It will probably take those 10 hours being on old for comcast to pickup. You think i'm joking.
Agreed with this part at least:

"But what the market deems valuable is not necessarily aligned with what is ultimately good for us as a society, or even what we want."

Negative externalities that harm the public good aren't factored into markets until a price is put on the value of public goods. When no enforcement mechanism is present, or at least decent incentives properly aligned, then the public good keeps getting screwed and we end up with climate change.
> The order also imposes a $50 million judgment against Lumos Labs, which will be suspended due to its financial condition after the company pays $2 million to the Commission.

The whole piece is pretty unclear about whether they're shutting down Lumosity, or shutting down Lumos Labs while somehow not shutting down Lumosity.
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