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The goal posts are continually moved with AI because AI never seems to look quite like human intelligence (though why should it?). AI and ML coupled with robots that are relatively simpler than Rosie from the Jetsons are cheaply out-competing human labor in many sectors today, and an avalanche of new sectors is on the cusp (within 2-5 years, not 20 years). Driverless cars currently outcompete human drivers, and a enormous number of people are currently employed as drivers. The remaining hurdles are regulatory. AI is intelligent enough today to outcompete a lot of humans in the work which is currently putting food on their tables. And I haven't seen the burgeoning industry that readily turns former taxi drivers into productive workers in other industries. The industries that can readily accept taxi drivers are generally shrinking as well (meaning, they've got all the workers they need, more than they need, in fact).

Maybe you're right, and it will all work itself out. Some huge growth industry to which humans are uniquely (at least at first) well suited may spring up in the next couple years. But the crisis is awfully close (taking into account driving occupations alone), and there's no market solution in sight, so it seems like prime time to start looking for non-market solutions.
> Promises

Careful with that axe... Before jQuery 3.0, its promises API is not compatible with the Promises/A+ spec: http://stackoverflow.com/q/23744612/1233508

If you're used to jQuery's promises, you can be in for a few surprises when trying to use other libraries (or even when updating to jQuery 3).
Exactly. I saw the gp comment and feared there was lots of boilerplate, arcane incantations -- and the only slightly smelly thing in the (IMNHO) beautiful and short example is the use of an empty asm block to "fight" the compiler on optimizing out the busy loop.

I can't imagine the full C example for this is any prettier or easier to follow?

[ed: As for "no name mangling" - having such an easy way to turn it off when needed, and yet avoid collisions when you do need it seems pretty good to me. Perhaps just having something that's "extern" be umangled by default would be better -- but it's not like one needs to bend over backwards to get a "mostly safe" bare metal program here.]
This is a big issue in Vancouver, British Columbia.

http://www.theprovince.com/business/Vancouver+critical+money...
It's like that here in Thailand too. They drive on the left but walk on the right in two-way stairways and stand right on escalators. Doesn't make any sense.
They did the exact opposite... A recent bill removed a tax on foreign purchases...
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I haven't formed opinion on whether pg is right or not but if I were him, I would do the same. Honestly, what good does defending your opinion serve? except it being a huge time sink and a total "mind fuck". Whenever someone disagrees with me, I politely accept it, instead of defending my case because I know it will rapidly turn into an ego war.

The much better feeling than winning an argument is overcoming the urge to argue and defend.
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This could be a strong argument for and against doing a startup: For - act today on your dream, which uses a startup as its vehicle; Against - sacrifice years, maybe a decade+, of your short life, because you thought it would make you rich or is considered prestigious in your circles.
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I don't know why you're being downvoted, there are elevators with handicap signs at pretty much all subway stops in Toronto. If you're standing on an escalator it's because you're lazy not too disabled to walk.
Really? Because the past six decades have made it pretty clear that its first priority is wiping Palestine off the map.
hadn't thought about that, but something worthwhile, for example a coupon for a free meal
Why not accept that reality is different for different people? It's different for all different people, not just rich vs. poor.

It's your call whether someone else's reality is at all relevant to your own experience. But that doesn't stop it from being reality for them. You don't like it when someone invalidates your own lived experience. Why then turn around and invalidate theirs?
oh, that makes sense, thanks! Do you have a link to the formula?
The first thing that comes to mind is that this is probably due to something like a giant dust cloud somewhere close to the star or close to us, and we are or it is moving into position behind it, leading to this dimming.
If you aren't interpreting this in terms of US politics you are completely missing the context, so it makes sense how you could have misunderstood the essay/issues. PG lives in the US, works in the US, every word of what he says is in that essay is about US economics/culture. His essay is a response to the US movement to recognize and deal with income inequality, one of the primary issues US politicans are handling in preparation for the US presidential election.

And you used two paragraphs to state a rhetoric 101 textbook's definition of "straw man" -- that's not what I'm doing.
Why haven't all ad networks gone HTTPS? It's a straightforward infrastructure change and would avoid some of the network issues. HTTP ad servers also make it difficult for content sites to adopt HTTPS because of mixed content warnings.
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Unions were the only way unskilled workers could get leverage in negotiations with capital holders. Those systems have slowly been dismantled. That's one place governments can begin countering the rise of inequality. Another is guaranteed basic income, which will be vital once these tech companies begin wiping out inefficiencies throughout all industries.
It's a realistic argument nothing is black and white.

1. Documents are signed, UN regulations are passed so what, it's the actions that count.

I agree that the world needs less if any nuclear weapons, but there is a big difference who holds them.

Iran IS NOT clear about it's intentions, why would they say they want it specifically to attack someone? It's better to lie and say it's only for research, every country lies I would take the words of a fanatic murders country with a grain of salt.
I'm pretty sure bullshit is relative. I think cooking and driving are both bullshit, but there are tons of people who love both of those.
This doesn't seem to be true in 4.3.42, at least not by default. " echo test" shows up in both the output of the 'history' builtin and in ~/.bash_history.

Is it an option that needs to be set?
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> fully globally integrated market economy

You should hear the hoops rich Chinese have to jump through to expatriate their capital. Fully globally integrated market economy my ass.
The point of the new rules is to target current money laundering in the easiest way possible. Trying to inspect all real estate transactions would be incredibly expensive and cumbersome for the state.

It’s possible that folks trying to launder money will switch from doing a single $20M transaction to doing 20 $1M transactions instead, and not change their level of overall activity. At the very least it’ll be a pain in the ass for them, though.

This might not be the ideal policy, but it’s easily explainable if you try to look at it from government officials’ perspective. (So I wouldn’t really call it “odd”.)
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Then it's doing piss poor job at that as they are still here after six decades.

So either Israel doesn't want to or it's the worst ethnic cleaning in History.
The tax rules also favors mortgage debt substantially.
One thing worth noting: MooTools, Prototype.js and some other libraries were fond of extending built-in object prototypes. jQuery wasn't.

ES7 wanted to introduce an Array#contains method. But due to prototype extension issues like https://esdiscuss.org/topic/having-a-non-enumerable-array-pr... , they had to rename it to Array#includes ...
US, Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Iceland, South Korea, New Zealand, Spain, Israel

In no particular order, that's the vast majority of the richest, most well off, and highest GDP per capita countries on earth. Your list so far has Singapore and Hong Kong, now try to match my group - you can't get even remotely close.

What could you add to your list? Qatar?
China is changing, slowly but surely. The amount of instability in the regime is growing, newer generations are slowly opting out of mainstream values, protests about inequality are growing... These things take time. Look at Putin: the more you demonize and isolate him, the stronger he gets with internal public opinion. Same with China -- which is why the leadership is bent on provoking in the South China Sea: they need newer enemies to distract public opinion.
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Bruh, his wife could be lying. I mean, it's his wife, so it's a valid possibility.
Swartz.
>>Not really, it's a contributed guest post that I've made as objective and informative as I could.

There's no rule that says native ads can't be informational.
I'm surprised I had to scroll so far down to see this response. It's all subjective! Personally, I love the quiet, "zen" feeling of distraction free focus on technical work. For me, that's my anti-bullshit. I wish I could spend more time doing things like building PCs!

Of course, with all of us being different humans with different experiences and different mindsets, YMMV.
Tracking (at least by most ad networks) isn't about knowing your exact identity online but just to separate different requests into uniques as best as possible.

There's an exponential cost and very diminishing returns trying to get everyone's actual real identity - and this is actually why Google and Facebook are the biggest adtech players, because everyone has a login with them.

The use of all these headers and user-agent info is for device fingerprinting which has matured because of the loss of the 3rd party cookie. If sites start using server-side analytics then they can just set 1st party cookies and get around the whole need for fingerprinting.
pg's best essays are those on topics he knows well. Topics where he has unusual experience and expertise. A lot of his essays around new ventures and how new ideas work are worth reading because even if they're imperfect personal experiences, they come from a place of knowledge.

His worst essay was one where he has no real knowledge. The notion that entrepreneurship is valuable is not a terribly novel stand, and it's one that only a few extremists would argue with. But he doesn't have depth in the social sciences or politics; he doesn't have unique experiences and knowledge that bring an interesting new angle on the subject.

Instead he just created a silly straw man, burned it down, said good, and now said 'f the haters'.

Honestly... my hope is that at some point he'll realize that when he writes about subjects he knows well, that things are quiet and positive for him. And that when he writes on subjects where he's ignorant, that he gets a lot of bullshit. And maybe a way to avoid that bullshit is to stop writing on shit where he's ignorant.

I mean, I know that his ego is now bloated to a level where this notion won't occur to him. The notion that being rich isn't a qualification for all things won't go through his head... but hey... maybe he'll want to avoid the bullshit that comes with writing shallow social darwinistic bullshit.
I'm assuming you mean to hack of the fingers? But each finger doesn't have the same print.
I don't know if my experience is atypical, but nearly every light I my house is a CFL. They have survived 4 moves in 7 years, with only one going out.
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Out of curiosity - if that paragraph wasn't there then would you still consider it a native ad?
Yeah it's really not about inequality at all, but about the bad things. If there were zero inequality, with everyone in equal poverty, we should attempt to fix poverty. Likewise with non-zero inequality.
And C++, surely? (Although, I would probably choose C (or even assembler) over C++ for something this simple (loop, blink a light). And between all those, I think Rust is really interesting.

It could probably be argued that Rust doesn't add much on top of D (as a "better" C++) -- but between the mind-share and the focus on "safe" (and boxing in unsafe) memory access, I think Rust is really interesting. Not sure how run-time free D is coming along - believe there were some issues with the standard lib?

Ada was troubled by a confusing split between FSF LGPL Gnat trailing Ada Core GPL/commercial compiler with a release -- leaving people a little confused if there was a good Free Ada compiler that could be used for commercial (or just non-GPL) development. (Yes, it was a real issue, just as one needs an LGPL libc for c development etc).

But as I understand it the GNAT compiler has matured to the point that one can now use modern Ada without having to worry about that. Unfortunately Ada probably lost a lot of potential developers due to the confusion/issue.
Link to the World Bank report: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServ...
Megafauna in Africa has two different characteristics not found in the Arctic:

1. Scavenger species which would've nullified the prize of the prey [you can't easily drag an elephant away for butchering]

2. Things in the tropics rot fast. Your megafauna will either rot or more likely eaten by scavengers before you have a chance to hack something useful off. And, you're likely not keen on attracting predators who might see you as competition for the foodsource you just produced.
That won't lower the cost of housing (I.e. rent and owner equivalent rent). All it will do is reduce asset prices and investment in real estate.

The real solution is to allow development. Asset prices are high because its mostly illegal to build new housing in coastal cities.
Yep spyware and metro UI.
But I can't imagine it would be this hard to code 2 GUI/Themes, and put in a checkbox to disable all spyware.
The World Bank is mainly addressing/concerned with tech effects in poor/emerging/stagnant economies; you have developed countries in mind. [unions are not strong and are often in bed with gov't. they don't have the tax base for basic income]

Evenso, unions can't fight automation. Are they going to enroll "robots" or, in most scenarios, software?
The Shah already existed. He just used his power to dismiss Mossadegh (which was constitutional).
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See Graham Hancock's book, "Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization" (http://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Gods-Forgotten-Wisdom-Civili...) for a rebuttal to the archaeological model presented in this article.

Hancock's position is the archaeological model from this article is full of holes; created by multiple assumptions based on assumptions re: radiocarbon dating & general lack of critical thinking.

Instead he points to evidence of two comets hitting the ice caps in the last ice age (younger Dryas period), which melted the ice, causing "fire to rain" & worldwide flooding.

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

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Imo, there is too much uncertainty to commit to one historical model; yet I perceive Hancock's model to have more integrity.
South African apartheid? Sanctions were not the only factor, but I believe they are at least partly credited.
Mozilla has a hard rule that they can't use closed-software for anything. I bitched about their 20-year-old-technology mailing lists and they said they had no choice. They couldn't use google-groups, et. al., because they were closed-source.
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Ditto. I get incredibly irritated with this naïve revisionism.

I spent a lot of my child hood seeking out broken and junk electronics anywhere it could be found, including dumpster diving behind the high school and businesses. One of the opening scenes in Robert Cringely's Triumph of the Nerds is most instructive. In the first few minutes, you're introduced to a 10 year old kid named Edwin Chin. Take a good long look at that kid, imagine yourself being back at that time and ask yourself, "What adult, except an adult nerd, would ever encourage any kid, male or female, to be like Edwin?". I was like Edwin myself.

The number of people that I knew that were adults interested in computers and technology was exactly one, Murali Mani, and I lived in Chappaqua, NY, which was the very model of a privileged well educated community. This was a community where many people worked at IBM's headquarters at the time, but every person I knew that worked for IBM, were suits. The successful people at IBM were not the engineers, but the suits. No one encouraged you to be an engineer. Everyone encouraged you to be interested in being a doctor, a lawyer or a suit. Engineering really only started to become a desirable career around the first dot-com boom. And even in the first dot-com boom, mostly founding engineers did very well. After the founding engineers, suits still took home a lot of the winnings. It was only post-dot-com bubble that engineering truly became a desirable career that people encouraged and supported you in pursuing instead of pushing you to be a doctor, lawyer or suit.

Beyond Murali, exactly no one encouraged me to get involved with computers. I eventually moved to Raleigh, NC and went to a small private school, that like most private schools, preps you for university. Tech and engineering was never a focus even when I graduated in 2000 at the height of the first bubble. Guy or girl, you were not encouraged to go into tech at all. You would be more likely to be encouraged to play a musical instrument, do art or some sport than do anything tech related.

The revisionists really need to spend some time reading Meredith Patterson's "When Nerds Collide" essay, since most of their real beef is not with hacker culture, but with bro culture that became a part of tech at best a few years after the first dot com bubble.

https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c...

Another thing worth considering about computing history is that that there is a huge huge huge difference between computing pre mini-computer and post-mini computer. The culture in tech from the 80s and 90s didn't destroy the culture in tech pre-1980s described in this article because #patriarchy, but because the tech industry 1980s was entirely wiped out like dinosaurs with the move from 5" HDDs to 3.5" HDDs and the move from mainframes to hobby personal computers. Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" and AnnaLee Saxenian's "Regional Advantage" will do far more to explain why the engineering/computing world pre-1980s disappeared than any revisionist explanation.
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IE wasn't exactly a preferred browser because it had less issues.

I'd argue the opposite for newer Windows versions compared to Windows 7 (specially the shitshow around Windows 10 regarding privacy, updates and stability).

There's zero reasons or features to push Windows 10, but I guess they just manufactured one.
There's nothing wrong with metro ui, people just didn't like full screen start menu in win8. Win10 has the old start menu back
If you think about it economically, then this move and the lower limits are really quite straightforward. Money laundering through property surely has some marginal cost. The goal of the federal government here is to reduce money laundering, because any strategy to totally eliminate it would be irrational, because if the goal is total elimination then you're ignoring all other societal costs. (See: war on drugs.)

This strategy makes it more difficult to launder large amounts of money, and that's their goal. Hypothetically, let's say that the overhead to launder a billion dollars is 20%. If this increases it to 25%, then they've effectively taken 50 million dollars out of illegal circulation. That's a heck of a lot more effective than drug busts.

For clarification, I have no idea what the overhead on money laundering is, but I can't imagine it's cheap to move vast sums of money around off the books.
So pg was onto something with his article?
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On the other hand, the BBB has two dedicated on-chip MCU's for driving the GPIO's.
PG is throwing a tantrum. I can't believe he is upset when people disagree with him. Even normal people are misquoted and browbeatend.
I used to live in Hong Kong, it has a network (mostly linear) that (in total) goes a half of a mile sideways and 443 feet up.

Granted, the individual spans are less than that, but if you can rest on a landing between spans, you can also just... well, ride the step you're on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central–Mid-Levels_escalator_a...
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LEDs are great, but retrofitting them into the old bulb form-factor is the cause of most problems. The power supplies get too hot, the LEDs get too hot, and everything is generally cramped together with little room for cooling.
And the US had slaves, Europe murdered millions of people in Africa and the Americas.
48 is ancient history.

The actions of a single military unit going out of control (which can be argued) is not indicative mind set of the country and government.
There is a difference between directly attacking civilians and "punitive expeditions" and you have to put the whole incident in the context of the times in the 60's

I wouldn't say a nuclear scientist working on an atomic bomb is an innocent civilian, these are rumors, nothing more and even if are true so what? Iran say they are terrorist because they are anti state organization.
Life seems really short as soon as kids enter the picture. The best line I ever heard about kids and life was this:

With children, the days are long but the years are short.

These days, I find myself trying to find the "work/life balance", which is really just me managing the ebb-and-flow of time between work and family. What I've learned in that process is that while work provides some satisfaction that meets an internal need, it will never ever hug me back.

Take time, hug your kids, leave your work every now and then. The years won't seem so short that way.
It does look like it is almost time to upgrade. The OS of the majority of steam users (ie. the best supported) is getting close to going from 7 to 10...

Windows 7 64bit 34.81% -0.82%
￼Windows 10 64bit 31.25% +2.44%
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