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> If you propose a radical idea like "income inequality isn't bad", you need to expect a debate because the idea is far from proven.

Let's say that Bob is a farmer, and (with the same land) can grow twice as many crops to sell in a year as his neighbor nearby. In this scenario, it seems entirely appropriate to me that Bob has greater income - that is, the income of Bob and his neighbor are unequal.

Let's say that Alice is a video game designer. Alice creates an incredibly popular game called Clash of Clans that has 20 million users and earns $1.5m in revenue per day. Bob the farmer quits his job and creates a video game instead, which only sells 10 copies, since while he's great at farming he's a bad video game designer. Is it surprising or bad that the incomes of Alice and Bob are unequal?

Do you work for a living? Let's say a coworker at your place of employment comes to work and does literally nothing, every day. Does he deserve the same income as you?

No, it is not bad that people earn different amounts when they're differently productive. This incentive toward productivity drives society forward. It would be incredibly demotivating to most of the world if people were not made better off through their own efforts to become more productive, effective, and driven. I doubt anyone would argue that all income inequality is bad - instead, as a peer comment points out, the actual debate is about how much is bad, or for what reasons.

The purpose of PG's essay was to point out that income inequality has multiple components and is a complex phenomenon. He observed that technology amplifies this difference in productivity (consider the example of Alice who can make a video game and sell 20 million copies with recurring revenue; being that much more productive as a video game designer is simply impossible as a farmer.)
If you're holding your savings in cash you're doing it wrong.
I left C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++ out, because of the C compatibility.

The price of commercial compilers wasn't the only issue with Ads. It never had any friends in the UNIX culture.

UNIX culture always ignored safer system programming languages from the 60 and 70's.

If the hacker culture bashes Java for being verbose, what would they say about Algol languages like Ada?

Another problem was Ads was mainly a DoD thing, there were no commercial OSes using it.

So you either used the system programming language of the OS, if you were lucky to access to the official SDK, or bought one you could afford. There was always an option to type it all in as well.

So with these constraints it was hard to get Ada widely adopted.

It is now mainly used in avionics, train control systems and high integrity systems. All areas that the common Starbucks coder usually doesn't care about.

As for D there are some projects using it on micro-controllers, presented at D Conf 2014. In comparison to Rust, it might appeal to those that favour a C++ like syntax, interoperability with C++, GC support, great metaprogramming capabilities.

I like both, and think there might be space for both of them.
So Alice earning 10x poverty pays 9 (somethings), while Bob earning 100x poverty pays 18 (somethings)? Note that poor Carol earning 1x poverty pays nothing. I'd expect Alice to be rather unhappy with this system.

(Also, if someone ever manages to earn 0 in a year, you'll have to give all of the world's wealth to him/her. ;-) )
> articles like this, in 2016, seem divisive to me.

I dunno, this seems kinda like the "racism is over" argument. As long as there are many, many people who (consciously or unconsciously) believe that nothing of value was ever accomplished by a non-white non-male, there's value in pointing out that they're wrong.
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." --Einstein
Who are your family members that are poor? I hate it when a specific class of people tries to get us feel bad about inequality when we personally know through our extended families what poverty actually is and that inequality isn't whats propelling it, it's what's saving us. The just types of inequality of course bring us more.
Any way to do this in sublimetext? The only search result is for Windows.
Anyone who must use windows 10 should install Spybot Anti Beacon

https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

Works on Windows 7 & 8 too for older tracking/phonehome stuff.

And Windows 7 users should install GWX control panel to prevent forced upgrades

http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
I would assume that it's a quick way to turn cash into an asset. You buy the house to keep your money safe, then sell the house when you need money.

I'm curious if this could also work in a foreign setting. Like buying a house in another country.
In what way is he throwing a tantrum? He hardly writes anything at all! Human neurological uniformity is false.
This line of reasoning is so frustrating.

There is no reason to believe that God(s) exist. Someone who claims that they do has the burden of proof.

There is also no reason to believe that we Earthlings have the universe all to ourselves. It is an extraordinary claim to suggest that we do. Someone who makes such a claim also bears the burden of proof.

The idea that gods and Type II civilizations are equally implausible is, to put it bluntly, ridiculous.
You understate the difficulties actual people have. My parents were VERY confused and frustrated with windows 8 until I "fixed" it to work exactly like 7 which they could not figure out how to do on their own.

Most users don't even change defaults or even know how to find and install alternatives this is why software intended to be used by noobs really requires good defaults.
I disagree. This is an important topic in life. Too bad he published this one just after the previous ones about wealth inequality.

Having lost my parents some time ago and having two kids I can concur with his sentiments fully and can confirm they are spot on.

The incentive to respond to acidic comments and trolls in online discourse is a pervasive feature of the medium - and it seldom creates any value. Thus it's a perfect example of useless bullshit. The discussions are usually ephemeral in nature - quickly forgotten - and not influential. This is not to say there are no influential discussions - but that at the heat of the moment most discussions feel more important than they really are.
You're using the colloquial definition of productivity while PG was using the economic definition. The economic definition has nothing to do with how hard you work--it has to do with your economic output. Bill Gates working at McDonalds would be tremendously unproductive (by the economic definition). A farmer who works the land manually is much less productive than one who uses a tractor, even though the manual laborer is probably working "harder" than the technology-enabled one.
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How would it know it's a password field and not just some text input box that uses * characters?
"In China, they discovered a man born with three eyes.

LensCrafters said they could make glasses for him in about an hour and a half."

(An old Jay Leno joke. For context, LensCrafters slogan of the period was, "Quality eyeglasses... in about an hour."
I had those experiences as a youthful nerd too. There are some fond memories and some bitter ones.

I'm not sure why you think that your experiences as a youthful nerd make some sort of point about racism and sexism in modern tech-corporate culture, though. I mean, your entire post seems like a non sequitur in the context of the post you're responding to.
This is also an attack that is possible against MacOS and Windows. My app can make the screen "go dark" or throw up an Apple-looking password prompt.

As I kept saying (and once emailed Steve Jobs about) the way to properly handle this is:

1. Establish a secret phrase or icon when the account is created, that the user can recognize

2. Show it in the iframe when the user places their keyboard focus into the password field

3. Do not allow outside code to grab it -- in browsers, use the cross domain security model, in MacOS use the anti-DRM preventing screenshotting a certain window.

Now, it's true that on the web, the secret phrase or icon has to depend on the user already having a session they've logged into. This authentication prevents an attacker from simply getting the secret phrase or icon.
The search on the windows 10 start menu is oddly broken. Really a lot of 10 is quite buggy right now.
Security updates, etc too. PCs in the past few years have been growing more and more towards being Systems on Chips that have a few more interesting ports on them. One of the reasons MS is doing this is because the underlying hardware is changing pretty severely, so the OS needs to change to match.
For sites that really matter, don't use lastpass or any system other than memory or a written down hint system.
Please note that I'm not the author of the presentation. Made by Quentin de Laroussilhe http://underflow.fr

I had to make a copy to my Google account to keep the slides.
Except cs degrees don't teach you anything about properly writing software. I've encountered plenty of graduates from top CS curriculums that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. Understanding finite automata and formal methods does jack shit to help you write maintainable code. So your example of a 10-dev team maintaining code would apply more to a fresh CS grad's work than someone that has any experience writing software.
Thanks for the nerd collide link, as its something that has been itching at the back of my mind as of late.
The article doesn't go so far as to say so explicitly, but it implies we're seeing spectra of gold, platinum, and uranium, among others, in gamma ray bursts. If that's the case, I don't think the a priori improbability of the story much matters.
Please see my response to RustyNails above. I feel like you're rebutting an argument that the original poster never made.
I don't think they rename them. They make a new version that unhides the update, but it keeps the same KB number.
But under rodionos' suggestion, it would: stealing bread is also a crime against wealth. Wealth is not just "money".
I think you're giving it a bit more credit than necessary. Don't get me wrong, it's cool that they've got it running on a RPi, but it's almost word for word what you'd write in C (right down to needing to inline assembly to get a busy loop to work). The C implementation wouldn't need to bring in a bleeding edge nightly build, worry about name mangling etc..
You can't give a "maybe don't read this" spoiler warning without saying what it could spoil. This is more of a "don't ask what book".
You sound like an idiot. How in the world is this comparable to something oprah says?

This reminds me of how Karl Popper critiques people's opinions, at times he rejects both the pro/anti side of something, as he did in anti-naturalist history vs naturalist history arguing that both were based on a misunderstanding of the logical content of the thing in question.

In this regard you have misunderstood the logical content of the essay in question, drawing a contrast on two things that are not.
> “People ought to be entitled to what they create” is not a universally accepted principle

Yes, in the society and economy we are discussing this is a universally accepted principle.

Bob is a farmer. He has the same amount of land as his neighbor, but he works twice as hard, and grows twice the number of crops to sell in a year. He has twice the income. No one would reasonably claim that he's entitled to none of what he produced. Bob's greater productivity than his neighbor is a source of income inequality - he earns twice as much!

There is a mainstream view that society has the right to tax Bob's income, so he does not receive all of what he creates. That's the debate: how much is fair? Maybe it's fair for Bob to have twice the income of his neighbor, or maybe less than twice as much. Unless Bob gets the same as his neighbor, there's income inequality because of differences in productivity.

No farmer is going to singlehandedly earn a million times what his neighbor earns. However, because of technology, this is now possible in some industries. For example, Notch is a game designer, and he singlehandedly makes a game that sells 20 million copies. Notch now has a vast income that far exceeds the typical game designer. Is this bad? What is bad about 20 million people choosing to give Notch their money in exchange for his game? I don't see anything wrong or unjust about this.

PG's essay points out that income inequality is a complex phenomenon, with multiple causes, some that are good (small groups or individuals creating amazingly valuable things) and some that are bad ("kids with no chance of reaching their potential"). PG's essay from my perspective serves to make the point that perhaps not all income equality is bad, and that there deserves to be more thought on the topic of "how much is bad?" or "what causes of income inequality are bad?", instead of treating income inequality as a one-dimensional issue that is intrinsically bad.

From my perspective, PG's point is fair. Income inequality is not intrinsically bad: when people work hard, improve, and become more productive, they earn more, leading to income inequality. This incentive to improve and produce is good, in my opinion. Perhaps what we as a society should be tackling are bad problems like "kids with no chance of reaching their potential", rather than considering income inequality to be a problem ipso facto.
> Filling in knowledge gaps with the the word "aliens" is a laughably childish approach to science in my opinion.

You are talking about probability of life in the universe based on a tv show, replace aliens with "earth is round" and you will see how ridiculous it sounds.
The fact that they remain a trusted arbitrator for certain investor classes is concerning, because it implies that as useless as they are, they're still more competent than institutional investors.

There's another interpretation: by "trusting" these rating agencies, institutional investors can shift the blame when the investments go wrong.
I think PG highlighted pretty well the mechanisms which drove away wealth inequality in the last century. I think PG commented only on the upper end on the wealth distribution scale and was of the opinion it is not a problem. He did not comment it's ok for people to be poor. These issues are not completely linked. Economics are not a zero sum game. The wealth distribution curve can hypothetically have any shape. That it tails to ridiculous numbers in the larger end is not the problem. The problem is the price level in the society, and how the wealth distribution is spread in relation to this average level. I don't think he expressed any opinions on the shape of this distribution. And this has at least three things of concern, not one. The average price level , the shape of the wealth distribution and the total wealth in the society are all dynamic.

Anyway I read his argument as "please ignore the tailing and focus on other things". This is at least my interpretation and if it's correct I agree. Jealousy never hurt any one. Extreme poverty, on the other hand, is quite detrimental to an individuals life.
Yes, I know what a straddle is, but it has almost nothing to do with the initial claim: "Its actual value is probably unchanged."
Leave the pun threads on Reddit, please.
Win8 and Win10 are objectively worse than 7.
We need to talk about TED
Ah, indeed. Fair point.

I think my argument still stands, though--even a hundred years for something of this scale is beyond any science we can reasonably hypothesize about. Doesn't mean we can't speculate, just that it's not terribly constructive speculation.
thanks.
Very weird to see this discrepancy in the media.
The policy makers are always wrong if they assume terrorists will be like normal people, agreeing to follow the laws, they will always find a way to circumvent the rules, that only the good people freedom that will suffer.
A call to Trigger does not call start go routine https://github.com/GianlucaGuarini/go-observable/blob/master.... I agree it can be nice to add a check to skip Trigger calls on non-exsisting channles.

I don't know how you use the observable patterns but normally you first set you listeners and then you trigger the events, the other way around makes no sense
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And it also comes with lots of bloatware. What annoys me is that they all are set up with firewall rules that enable them to do pretty much what they want.

As for the get skype! Get onedrive! Get office! nagging bloatware, now even building your computer makes you feel you purchased a cheap laptop at walmart/tesco...
Awesome! This is great! Will try and get this running on dokku. Thanks for the link!
Ok thanks I will try to add some performance tests
Of those three issues, I see not sectioning off unsafe code as the only real defensible choice when comparing C to Rust. Whether you should have to type "unsafe" is a legitimate tradeoff; if all your code is unsafe, the unsafe keyword adds noise.

Undefined behavior and the lack of namespacing don't fall into this category, though. C would be a better language all around if it required that null pointer dereference trap to an error handler (at least on hardware with an MMU or MPU). It would also be a better language if it had a module system.

Not every engineering decision is a tradeoff. Sometimes certain decisions are just better all around. I think that modules and error handlers fall into this category.
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> How does eliminating a massive portion of the demand not reduce the price?

It reduces the price of owning a home not living in a home. We have this Chinese real estate money 'problem' in Toronto. It makes it so renting a luxury condo is actually cheaper than buying it and paying mortgage interest + property tax + maintenance.

Effectively rich Chinese people subsidize our cost of living in exchange for having a safe place to park their money :)
Hold space bar and press a key to launch/open something (Karabiner config file)
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don't we have plenty of elephants in asia?
pull requests and issues on the repo are really welcome!
London could benefit from anti-money laundering policies around real-estate transactions as well. There are plenty of stories of corrupt elites parking their money in London real-estate to keep it safe in case the regime gets overturned in their country.
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Are you saying this will affect the prices in normal real estate markets?
No, at least not without them being drastically cheaper. I don't really see what they offer that I can't get with Slack and Google Hangouts, other than very occasionally not having to ask someone to move the laptop I'm on in a meeting.
Sure but altering their genome subtly so that it appears natural it becomes impossible to police as the murderer is very far removed from the murder.
Yep, Falcon's Eye. I played it every day as well but liked BRE more. Both of them were great games!
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Securing low interest loans to buy assets that appreciate in value with relatively low out of pocket money is basically investing on margin. The ROI on just the downpayment portion is many times more than if you'd lock up all the money by paying the entire amount. A game that only the rich can play.
I think the windows 10 UI feels terrible when used with a mouse. These massive dialog boxes and menus are ridiculous, as the idea that a UI should be all shades of grey. They reduced the density of the information presented on screen, which means more clicks to do the same thing.

From a UI point of view I think the only real improvement over windows 7 is explorer, which was really slow and doing a lot of unwanted things in the background. Deleting files would leave windows7 thinking about it for seconds for no obvious reasons.

But there can be other reasons to upgrade. Virtualization in windows 7 is no good. And win10 is the only way to get http2 in IIS.
> Not every engineering decision is a tradeoff.

Scratch the "not". For example, if I have a small-enough code-base, a module-system, is not worth it, unless it has zero cost. Or if the module system doesn't fit my needs, it will often be easier to create what I need if I don't have to work around what is there. Same with error handlers.

Every engineering decision is a tradeoff, though you may be in a space where the tradeoffs obviously point in one direction.
Let's say you want to publish a library that for example logs the global keyboard events. If you want to simply notify any keypress in a really simple manner you can just use myLib.On("keypress", func() {}) and no matter where the "keypress" event gets dispatched you will have always a callback listening it.
Blake's take on this:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.
You can already do this. If you want to rest you step to the right. People walking continue to pass on the left.
Not quite what you're talking about, but see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%E2%80%93Mid-Levels_esc...
Judging by these downvotes you all actually think that pg's wife knows him better than psuedonymous hn posters? Ridiculous.
If you read your own link #1, you will see that Israel is not even a signatory to the treaty, so they aren't "skirting" anything.

Iran and North Korea are signatories but violated it anyway.
>"As long as there are many, many people who (consciously or unconsciously) believe that nothing of value was ever accomplished by a non-white non-male"

Nothing good will come of trying to forcefully change those peoples' minds. Because such actions are incredibly divisive, even if you sugar-coat it with noble ideals.
For the sake of argument, say there have been 100 drugs tested in the past. One of them killed someone, the rest were completely harmless.

Now the next drug comes along to be tested and you know absolutely nothing about it. You need to estimate the risk, and all you know is the information above. Of course your estimate must be 1%. Unless you have more information to update that probability, 1% is the optimal baseline prior.

You seem to be confused about what probability is. It's just a representation of uncertainty.
Why not? Can you please elaborate on that? I definitely like the diverse array of topics that come up here at HN.
Sure you can. Lots of Manhattan is only 3-4 stories tall - its just legally impossible to build bigger in many places. (E.g. east village, full of the most entitled activists outside SF.)

Foreign investments in Manhattan are usually rented out and are part of the housing supply.
I am not reinventing the wheel here I have just tried to add a pattern I really like in other programming languages that I was missing in Go. You can use it however you want, and if you don't like it just use something else.

> Have you ever done that sort of thing before? yes I did that's one of the reasons I had to code go-observable
A module system is always worth it because every program needs to use library functions. Even if you think you don't, LLVM will generate calls to library functions for ordinary code; for example, if you move structures around on the stack, LLVM might just decide to call memcpy(), even if you didn't ever import string.h. (Checking your code after the fact to verify there are no library calls doesn't get around this because a new version of the compiler might add a library call where there wasn't one before.) Now you want some mechanism to isolate your code's names from the library's names. That's a module system.
Opened the comments with the same sentiment, +1

Using an ordinary mouse with X11's standard acceleration settings I don't have enough precision and keep hitting the walls - it's so bad I can't get past the first 3 or 4 seconds :(