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tl;dr the war on drugs does nothing for us, the war on terror is a huge economic and foreign policy burden, the only taxation fixes split the country in two politically so we have no way out but bitter political turmoil

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The war on drugs was mainly a sort of war to enforce the US's policy of not legitimizing drug use, partly a method to keep the fervor over the crack epidemic and quickly worsening ethnic communities from bringing real social change, and perhaps partly a way to exert some control over the countries that generated the products.

The war on drugs didn't really help anyone, though it made a small industry (prisons) more profitable. I would say it's mainly about pursuing a simplistic political agenda, and less about money or anything else.

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The war on terror is a product of 9/11, a gigantic behemoth of a money-maker for the military industrial complex, and a way to gain influence over the middle east in order to control/influence the nations which have huge oil revenues - the most widely traded commodity in the world.

The war on terror has had a similar effect to Prohibition in that it reduced revenues to the country when it was in a depression. But it actually has been much worse than that: the deficit has increased dramatically in the intervening years, in part due to borrowing to pay for the war on terror, in combination with tax cuts at the same time, which is basically criminally stupid economics. But any tax cut feels good to the people being taxed.

Realistically, the war on terror should be making people way more pissed off than it is, but there's an ace up the sleeve in the vein of fear and patriotism. Both of those, when amped up to hyper-realistic levels, result in immense support by the population. All we would need is a new depression for people to start lynching Muslims - the way the English lynched innocent people living in the UK during WWII just because they were German, or the way we imprisoned civilian asian-americans after Pearl Harbor.

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At this point, the only way to make people happy and tax ourselves back to profitability is to take either the extreme-left or extreme-right options.

Extreme left: Heavily tax the wealthy, close loopholes for corporations to hide their taxable revenue, heavily reduce spending on the miltary and intelligence community, and further economic and foreign policy reforms.

Extreme right: Remove most "entitlement" spending, reduce regulations on companies to allow more exploitation of natural resources, continue to try to influence oil-rich nations in order to eventually control the cost of oil, give tax cuts to corporations and the rich, offload the rest of the tax onto the general population.

The problem with either of these scenarios, though, is in either one there will be a very loud group pissed off at either having less money or having less social services/environmental protection. Until you can find one solution that makes everyone happy, none of this shit will work.
As someone from a developing country, it really shocks me to read stuff like this about the US. Mainly because we kind of look up to their justice system to be better than ours. Yes, there are police harassments in my country as well. But it's not this bad. And apparently what they did is legal, which is really shocking.
The only thing that kind of advertising does is make me actively avoid that brand in the future out of sheer spite.
Why shouldn't I? What is the reasoning? Sorry, I don't have audio here so maybe it's mentioned in the youtube video.
Is the Linux Foundation "supporting" Allwinner? Or is, as I suspect, Allwinner paying them dues?

Both? The accusation being made is that Allwinner are bribing them to ignore GPL non-compliance.
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> Who paid for that $4.99 radio? Some people paid with the loss of their natural resources. Some paid with the loss of clean air, with increased asthma and cancer rates. Some workers paid by having to cover their own health insurance. Kids in Africa paid with their future: a third of the school-age children in parts of the Congo now drop out to mine metals for electronics.

the Stafford Beer quote "the purpose of a system is what it does" springs to mind.

what's the purpose of our economic system? to extract physical wealth from the environment and distribute it selfishly and unequally.

can we imagine other ways of running things? yep. one old idea is a centrally-planned globally optimized economy. e.g. model the USSRs economy as one giant optimisation problem, solve for the things you need to get people to do, then encourage them to do it one way or another. perhaps a more modern spin on things is china's "citizen score" system. if that was deployed and working tolerably, you might not need currency any more. citizen points might do fine. it'd sure have other very unpleasant problems, but it might be an improvement over the capitalist system in some respects.

are the alternative systems reachable from the current system? that's more of a challenge!
The point of ads isn't actually to get you to go out and buy their goods. It's to get you to remember their name, so when you are buying goods and looking at that product range you're more likely to buy their goods. Because you know the name that some how that makes you more likely to buy it. So ads are all about getting you to know the name.
Why would it?

Because migrating as many applications as possible away from Oracle is IMO the only prudent action for any company to take in the longer term. Instead of just reporting on the current situation, the article could have provided some value added by suggesting alternatives.

Oracle's business model (which it shares with many other companies) is to lock in customers and then to periodically shake them down for as much cash as possible. All IMO of course. This is not the first time I've read of audits like this.

Their business model is not "win win", it's (to steal from Goodfellas) "fuck you, pay me". If I were the CTO of a company dependent on Oracle, I'd run away from them as quickly as prudently feasible.

This is a new millennium. There are viable alternatives to expensive proprietary database software.
There are even some MIPS ones like the Yun which use Atheros SoCs.
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It's not a net gain for the populace since they will live in perpetual fear of being the next harvesting target.

False analogy; not even close to the same thing.
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> Folk who do live in rural areas won't be impacted much by cities transitioning to fewer cars.

Oh they will because non-automated cars will have their insurance rates rising (once again, a tax on the poor, because rich people tend to concentrate in urban areas while poorer people will be outpriced to rural), they will be banned from driving in urban areas, and there will be no parking in the cities for them.
A much more faster sorting algorithm implementation for hardware is sorting networks[1]. This can be implemented with just comparators and wires. Thus, there's no clock involved since it is a combinational circuit. It's quite simple circuit than can be built from bottom to top with logic gates. Knuth's TAOCP has a good explanation. Additionally, there are lots of information on the internet.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network
That's called psychological manipulation and exploitation.

When you understand and come to terms with the fact that that's what pretty much all ads are doing, it becomes much simpler to view the ads only with disgust and avoid the brands they are peddling in future.
Assault weapons hold a symbolic value and are key terrain in the moral battlefield.

The weapon itself represents the worst attitudes of the pro-gun lobby and form the crux of the argument about reasonable firearm protection.
"Revenue" meaning total money moving through the store, or revenue to Google/Apple only? If the latter then the numbers will depend on the cuts each company takes.
You do know self driving cars don't actually exist yet? When they do we can make changes, but don't start getting rid of parking ahead of time.

New York attracts workers from all over, many from places without trains etc.

London is also jam packed, I'm not sure it's any different.
I have returned RDF/N3 from my web services for years. And transformed that data into a Javascript graph of objects on the client with the library available at https://github.com/RubenVerborgh/N3.js.

It is very flexible. Each object has a unique identifier. That identifier is dereferencable as a URL.
Each object has a type (because the Semantic Web is all about typing your data, and applying your code on data of a given type). The graph can be traversed in any way I want on the client.

Honestly, this makes things quite simple.
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As somebody who hasn't worked with react before I find this talk very interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs

He talks about improving the development workflow by hot reloading parts of the application during runtime. Slow workflows affect every developer and the idea from this talk can be used to build tools for other stacks or languages.
Neat concept. Presumably lets all the sports-interested people congregate, while I assume also helping keep sports-related content away from folks who are not interested. There's probably a lot of pent up user demand for "what people do online while also watching the game" - I notice they position the feature as "second screen". Seems like a good tailored innovation for social media.

This will also potentially prove to be a way to claim some of the ad dollars spent on sports advertising. There are probably more advertising dollars willing to target messaging around a game than can afford primetime slots. Imagine the effectiveness of ads with the viewership of sports while targeted with the context of a user's FB account. They might be able to draw ad dollars away from TV, or benefit from pent up demand for more advertising opportunity. It'll be interesting to see how sustained its popularity proves to be during sports games - if consistent I suspect it will be lucrative while also making users happy.

Sports is an interesting nexus of the problems that FB has chosen to focus on. Content that's social, but digital, and real-time. I've noticed that, though I can obtain most TV and movie content that I want to watch online digitally, live sports are one of the holdouts. I wonder if success at Sports Stadium might help FB get a crack at streaming them live online, down the road. (1) The advertising could be way more effective if each user is shown a targeted video ad based on the context of their FB account - cable has limited (no?) personalized advertising (2) The alternating intensity and natural breaks in sports games means users accept existing advertising, and embrace it (Super Bowl Ads).

FB must be thinking about ways to leverage FB accounts for effective targeting advertising in more contexts while also delivering compelling user value at the same time - sports seems like an interesting candidate for expanding in that way. A user wouldn't want to link their FB account to their TV for no reason, for example, but if FB can find its way into user experiences like that naturally - such as streaming and discussing sports online - then they'll be able to capitalize on their ad targeting power.

I also see a potential connection to Oculus Rift here. Imagine if you could watch the game live in 3D over Occulus Rift - an extension of Sports Stadium and perhaps a viable application for Occulus. FB must be searching for the "killer app" that makes Occulus users both want to use it en mass, and also congregate online socially. Perhaps 3D sports is just the thing. It will probably take some doing to record and play live 3D video suitable for Occulus, but if they can pull off an experience that "makes you feel like you're there", with 3D and immersive audio, too, then given folks' interest in sports I could see it going somewhere. (Watching regular 3D movies on an Occulus is not so compelling by comparison. Live action sports or broadway plays will be something else entirely.) Killer app: put on the Occulus and feel like you're in the sports stadium watching the game right from the field.
It is based on my experience on how most companies I ever had any sort of contact, work with FOSS.

Also how the majority of everyone that I know, that isn't a technical user, deals with FOSS. They don't care if it is pirated or FOSS, just that they didn't pay for it.

Why do you think there is hardly any money to be done for desktop FOSS software, which usually isn't subjected to trainings or consulting fees?
Isn't that the same for both stores though? (30% of price)
A weapon which has it's primary application in the rapid suppression and/or killing of human beings not game or target shooting.

A weapon suited to military maneuvers of a fire team, platoon or larger formation attack.[1]

A weapon which falls outside the boundaries of reasonable use for home protection and includes modified components or additional lethality, magazine capacity or militarised amendments.[2]

[1] Military personnel are highly unlikely to conduct offensive action utilising sidearms. Sidearms are considered a defensive weapon system.

In addition, ammunition greater than the calibre 5.56mm is designed to kill human beings whilst 5.56 mm ammunition and below is designed to injure and maim but ultimately limit loss of life. Injury of military opponents on the battlefield is a greater asset than destruction.

[2] Home deterrence is as equally likely to be achieved whilst brandishing a single shot hunting rifle, sidearm or shotgun.
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Thanks, very nice screenshots.

Yet another proof that the success of AT&T meant a left turn.
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtI-lSvS028
It might happen,
and the next year or so will decide its fate.
Exciting!
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Because returns on equities are stable enough for rent. /s

Have you seen what happened since the year started?

If you're thinking of dividends, just for 1k/mo apt you need to have 400k worth of a 3% yielding stock. 400k in a normal us housing market gets you much better than the 1k rent.
I guess most people here have similar lists, and it takes a lot of guts to take them public, thanks for that :)

At some point I started to split them into technical ideas on the one side and business ideas on the other side. That helps to deal with them in different ways.

The technical ideas are usually stuff that would be helpful to have and that solve particular small problems, but on closer inspection they just turn out to be things you can just as well do with existing tools (usually like excel or other tools). Or they are really just ideas for some kind of library or service that could be a small OSS project. Most of those ideas are fun to play with, but the fun would go away if I looked at them in an economic way.

The business ideas are the ones where I would immediately think about competition, costs, etc. They are usually more fun to research and reason about. And for most things that you could think about that don't exist yet, the reason for that nonexistence is often much more enlightening and interesting than the original idea.
> No dog "alerts" by sitting, at least none I've ever seen. Dogs sit all the time, it would be a stupid cue.

These dogs are trained to alert by sitting down and not to sit down when doing their job. Just look at any video footage from sniffer dogs in training or working.
You can find Jack Ma's speech on Youtube easily. I love this sharing:
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The thing you quoted had nothing to do with scientific consensus. It was what the media reported.
Imagine if the connector was round...
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Real time score updates displayed on Google cards is also helpful, but creating a platform so engaging will be clean and unique.
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You also get crime. That's probably the biggest factor pushing middle class people away from poor neighborhoods. Nevermind that the innocent poor people stuck in those neighborhoods have to suffer the crime.
For those of us not quite so old, who are the BSA?

I presume you don't mean the Birmingham Small Arms Company
Anecdotal evidence and total sample of one person using actively both platforms, but I don't find many (or any, so far) apps for Android that I would consider buying. I have downloaded roughly the same number of apps on both phones, but I only ever bought iPhone and iPad apps (mostly from iOS-only developers, like OmniGroup). Is that just the part of platform identity, or overall software quality? Discovery issue, or reliance on well known software names before purchashing? I don't know, but I find I rely on Firefox on Android for mostly everything I do on that platform (excluding free communication apps), while iOS is far more varied.
> my argument is against focusing on throughput and measuring it by units of work, and particularly using estimates as the base of the measure

That's not what I'm advocating. All I meant to say is that when you have a lot of work in progress you get less done, whether or not you have deadlines.
> While there are physical limitations to what wireless can do, over the last decades we've had groundbreaking research which repeatedly has increased the BW available to wireless systems by orders of magnitudes.

And they have been outpaced by the bandwidth improvements on wired networking.

Why settle for some increase in speed (maybe, assuming you don't have signal quality problems – which only grow worse as adoption increases), when you can have a much larger increase in speed (guaranteed)?

Sure, wired doesn't always make sense: Anything that can be sensibly battery powered is a candidate for wireless connectivity. But if you're stringing wires anyway, why not use much more reliable wired networking while you're at it? We're putting power delivery into Ethernet and USB, and Ethernet into HDMI, so we're increasingly not even needing additional wires.
I recall being utterly astonished to read[0] that the USB C cable that comes with the latest MacBook only supports USB 2 speeds!

"You can also use the USB-C Charge Cable to transfer data at USB 2.0 speeds between your MacBook and another USB-C device."

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204360
I was a mailman in Sweden for about 3 years in the early 2000s. One year full time, temping while doing uni for another two.

Full time employees were salaried, with 8h work day averaged over a month. When work was done, you went home. If you worked 6h one day, 10h the next you would not get overtime. Overall, I would guess I worked about 80% of the monthly hours, and I never hit overtime. Longest day I worked was 13h, shortest day was 3.5h.

Temps were hourly.

The extra time cost of adding a piece of mail to a route is mostly negligible. There are a few exceptions.

The first piece of mail that will take you inside an apartment complex adds a good bit of time (since you have to get off your bike and go into the building). I may have occasionally have forgotten to deliver something that was going to the 4th floor if that was the only thing in that apartment complex on a given day, and delivered it the next day instead.

The first piece of mail to a house doesn't matter - 95% of the time delivering to houses is the transport time between houses, not the delivery.

For us, routes were typically limited by physical effort and in-between transportation time, not the volume.

Houses were limited by the time of going from house to house, to about 2.5h time total. Apartments were limited by the effort of going up and down stairs to about the same time.

A usual route would be ~600 houses, or ~80 4-story apartment entrances. High rises were more limited by volume (and were typically mixed with 4-stories for that reason) so that a normal route would be maybe 8 high rises and 70ish apartment entrances.
Next time the rights come up for auction all it takes for gaining the streaming material for sport is cash, be it NFL, NBA, EPL, MLB etc,
Live stream and chat didn't we have this in 2009?
>> Its success has nothing to do with looking in the other direction or not redefining Javascript: it solved a problem that a lot of Javascript developers were struggling with.

I agree with this completely.

Worth noting: for jQuery, the solution was aligned with the landscape of the time. Javascript support was a mess. Vendor implementation and feature support varied. A key benefit provided by jQuery was easy, performant 'write-once' code - the library provided an abstraction over often non-trivial issues.

Parallels can be drawn to the issues that the current generation of frameworks are oriented around. As upcoming browser features stabilise and become commonplace (i.e. web components, web workers etc), I think that the popular frameworks will consequently and inevitably evolve.
We don't owe struggling creatives a living.

If your business model fails without ads, I'd suggest you have no business model at all.
This data is bland. Google's revenue from its ability to use the additional data from this ecosystem surpasses Apple's 30% cut.

You know who looses? Developers.
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In the end, I get to decide what the browser on my machine renders and displays to me. It's a piece of software under my control, and I am configuring it to avoid annoyances and manipulations.

If advertisers don't like that then I'm not sure what I can say to assuage their concerns.

Tough shit?
> Plain text protocols suck. They give you the illusion of readability...

They don't, and the readability is a feature.

I'm not sure how you conflate XML and JSON as synonymous to "protocol" and also requiring tools to filter, but than imply that a "good tag/length/value" format would somehow be superior to the former.
I find that Quora answer interesting. I get the argument that Uber is building for the future, where cars-as-appliances just hang out and pick you up when you call for them. But if I know I'm going to need a car at a particular time, why wouldn't my Uber of the future want to know that it needs to adjust the random distribution of cars-for-hire, or logistically coordinate more rides to end up near me, for that time?

If Uber knows it needs a car at 3pm, it can push work availability notices to drivers near the pick-up location who may not at the moment be working. It would be a benefit to the driver to be able to have the guaranteed fare, and if the driver is late Uber can just give it to a different driver. Pre-booked cars can be priced differently for the driver or passenger to ensure the opportunities are attractive enough for the slight inconvenience of having to drive a bit more to pick up the passenger. And it's more convenient for the passenger to know a car will be there.

Pricing can still do its surge thing, or they could require a pre-booking fee or something.

I don't see how ^ would require a fundamental reengineering of the system.

(And, as a round-about way, I agree allowing pre-booking would be a reasonable requirement, if it's indeed an existing statue.)
The overhead of adding another type is nontrivial (which maybe is a problem in itself; nevertheless, here we are). For business-critical distinctions it's worthwhile. For differences that only matter in one or two places, or for less-critical functionality (e.g. GUI tweaks) it may not be.
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