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The most recent edition[1] of the Long Now Monthly Seminar series[2] focuses on this:

Eric Cline: 1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed
Released: Jan 12, 2016

Consider this, optimists. All the societies in the world can
collapse simultaneously. It has happened before. In the 12th
century BCE the great Bronze Age civilizations of the
Mediterranean —all of them— suddenly fell apart. Their
empires evaporated, their cities emptied out, their
technologies disappeared, and famine ruled. Mycenae, Minos,
Assyria, Hittites, Canaan, Cyprus — all gone. Even Egypt fell
into a steep decline. The Bronze Age was over. The event
should live in history as one of the great cautionary tales,
but it hasn’t because its causes were considered a mystery.
How can we know what to be cautious of? Eric Cline has taken
on on the mystery. An archaeologist-historian at George
Washington University, he is the author of 1177 B.C.: The
Year Civilization Collapsed. The failure, he suggests, was
systemic. The highly complex, richly interconnected system of
the world tipped all at once into chaos.

[1] https://overcast.fm/+lWf-Pr7g

[2] http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/
>> We're entering a post-scarcity period of abundance.

Let's say that would be the case. Doesn't it really break most economic theory we're used to and we'd have to design our systems and measurement tools from scratch ?

And even if it's partially true, and we're in a strong deflationary period, doesn't it makes gdp measurements much less valuable ?
Done via participation...
Would my kid have any problem living in a simpler society (hunter-gatherer group) ? Definitively not.

I know some children like that. Children who cannot keep quiet while hunting would not fare well in a hunter-gatherer society. Indeed, young members of a hunting party who move around too much and make too much noise are in danger of being eaten themselves by larger predator animals. I'm not sure that there has ever been a selection advantage to having difficulty maintaining attention focus.
It's interesting people always cite the UK's stamp duty on share transactions as an example for how to stop high frequency trading. The rate is 0.5% when buying and 0% when selling. Market makers (of which high frequency traders are a subset) do not pay this.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/16/section/97

Edited extract:

"Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on an instrument transferring stock of a particular kind on sale to a person or his nominee if—
(a)the person is a member of an exchange
(b)the person is an intermediary"

"an intermediary is a person who carries on a bona fide business of dealing in stock and does not carry on an excluded business"
awesome idea, kind of similar to the idea that financial market firms were much more prudent when they were partnerships, whose top members had most of their self-worth tied up in that company. Once outside shareholders owned the stock, it made it much more sensible to make big bets, if you win you get a huge bonus, if not, they cant take away all the money you made in previous years.
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Admittedly, this is a sideshow: The typesetting quality of this document considerably lowered my confidence in its technical quality. It is appalling. More than 40 years after troff and more than 30 years after TeX were invented, computer science as a discipline should be able to do better.

Addendum: I don't want to imply that Troff and TeX are not adequate. Quite to the contrary. This PDF from Word is so bad that it doesn't match a quality that we surpassed decades ago. And even while using Word, the typesetting could be much better.
Kettlebells. They're a good, time-efficient way to get a bit of aerobic and a bit of anaerobic exercise. Especially useful if you have problems that stop you running, e.g. foot problems or knee joint issues. Just make sure to get the technique right before you push yourself with them.
> I think the current situation, where exchanges basically "tax" those who take liquidity and reward those who provide it

I like you explaination, but exchanges are nowadays mostly private companies so the 'tax' goes to shareholders and not to the state.
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In Portuguese we also say motherland. I doubt it's a Saxon thing, given Portuguese is a Latin language.
I try and practice mindfulness when I run, thinking about my breathing and steps, etc... I leave all my technology in my locker. A shuffle would be better than a phone, though. I've been considering one but I'm a big Spotify user. Sorry to hear about the post-run low :/
I'm thinking more along the lines of a junior enlisted soldier with a clearance who tests positive for pot during a random urinalysis.
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If you're not intelligent enough to know that law enforcement interactions with the public are recorded on dashcams, maybe you shouldn't go into police work...
What happened to common sense spirit of the law violations ? The 4th amendment is plain English. Why do we let lawyers pollute the system with "translations"
I think that works some but for me it has been messier than that. I think self reflection and friendly peer feedback helps. Also some personality assessments help. I have found that "Strengths Finder" has helped me in my career find a place that is satisfying and where I can be extremely competent. As a ADHD with Dyslexia I had to slog through the boredom of the growing my skills till I was competent in programming.

I also try to see if I am in the flow with hobbies or work, But being competent enough to be in the flow takes a lot of skills before you get there.

I have two girls that seem to understand well what their are meant to do both for hobbies and work. We practiced a lot of self-reflection with them when they were growing up and both have strong feedback loops with people they trust.

But it is messy. Maybe that is what we are meant to do. That is find out what we are meant to do. Kind-of meta.
Exactly, which encourages competition - exchanges can either reduce this tax (earning less per trade, but encouraging more volume), or maybe even increase it (rewarding liquidity more, and so improving the trading process).
Would that work? Part of a basic income is the knowledge that it's guaranteed to be there. I'm not entirely certain that you can do a short term test for it.
But that's part of my point. When most cops became cops that wasn't the case at all.
There are lots of strength training programs out there for beginners (Starting Strength, Stronglifts, Greyskull). Most studies I've read suggest all that really matters is that you are strict with your form and stick to it. A program's success depends largely on you showing up...

That said, I'm a big fan of the Greyskull program. You increase the weight 2.5 - 5 lbs per session (provided you hit the goals of your previous session).
Yes, this, as simple as this. This isn't a rogue "bad cop" - it's systemic, criminal abuse of power, and the very reason we have separation of powers - so this kind of activity can be checked all the way back to its origins.

Which is pretty much the origin of my disillusionment, since it isn't happening at all, in the face of red-handed evidence.
"Presumption of guilt" - that's not going to fly is it?

I think the selective absence of evidence where it would normally exist is something that a jury (or investigating organization) should consider within the totality of the evidence presented. That way we can go start from a point of innocence and work our way through.

Why are there options to turn the audio off anyway? In the grand scheme of things what you are trying to protect by turning off audio is likely much less important than the criminal behavior that is coming under scrutiny.
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The thing with ADHD is that the difficulty to maintain attention is often highly situational. As someone diagnosed I personally have a lot of trouble focusing on a lot, but when it comes to something like juggling or playing counter-strike it's pretty remarkable how well I suddenly tune everything out and get extremely engaged. Probably more so than a "neurotypical" person and their preferred activities. I'm also generally hyperactive, but not impulsive. I move around constantly at home, but in other social settings I'm able to sit still if it's socially unacceptable for me to be walking around or fidgeting.
Just to clarify, I'm not criticizing Newegg. I'm just somewhat disgusted at what this story and others illuminates about the legal system.
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The US Department of Justice does some of this. They sue for civil rights violations, often resulting in a "consent decree" where they either take over the police department or place them under a variety of restrictions.

Ferguson just agreed to one: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/27/464610005/...
I thought about it and found it a bit too social and too insular - having "rooms" as a central feature feels odd to me who would rather use a global search of the whole file-sharing network.

Also, having to run a desktop client was putting me off. But then I just found http://www.museek-plus.org so I might try that... But it is disappearing from Debian: https://packages.qa.debian.org/m/museek+.html - not a good sign...
> The only way to make the police comply is to make it in their self-interest (or at least in the interests of the city that would regularly have to pay out presumptive damages) to make sure they are working.

Part of the problem is that it becomes the cost of doing business for a city. What should happen is that the individual should have to pay those multi million dollar fines out of pocket. Of course, the people who are suing for money know that they'll get more money if they sue the city.
Too bad, so sad. It's either give them cameras or take away their guns, and we know what is not going to happen in America.
"Since its 2007 creation, IPRA has investigated nearly 400 civilian shootings by police and found one to be unjustified."

Alrighty, then...
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I don't know what the game is like, but I've said the premise sounds exactly like Myst. Even the video supports that. Here's a brief from the linked page:

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home.

The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas.

Difference in the premise being instead of your amnesia and finding about you, there's a book and you're finding about island's characters.
If I imagine my kid hunting, I see him quiet, hyper-focused, fully committed to get the beast down.
But he doesn't have the clearances for even non-compartmented classified material and that stuff is everywhere.
When did most cops become cops? Shortly after discharging from the military. Amped up on PTSD and adrenaline addiction. Yeah, I want a camera on them every second of the day, whether they are on duty or off duty. The mentally ill should not have guns. We've had a steady drum beat that "common sense gun control" should include a psychological test. I don't think most cops coming into the job straight out of the military would be able to pass the same test proposed for civilians.
Psych does have a bad history (e.g. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01541182) and maybe present. But the things you're raging against can help a lot.

Therapy is horribly difficult and can fall short for all sorts of reasons, ones out of anyone's control. It's helped me tremendously day-to-day, but my ultimate problems are pretty intractable.

> patients whom are not on long term medications have a better quality of life

Perhaps that their quality of life isn't so impaired is why they're not on medication? Such a short anecdote can be interpreted as suggesting anything.
Hahahaha, this article is funny. This explains why migrants from "the 3rd world" can take away jobs in "developed" countries ... we took notes with a pen... not by choice but because most of us could not afford a computer. How ironic.
What do you mean? That comment was useful.

We can't have unclosed parentheses or the compiler will throw an error.
Most cops don't sign up to do what they end up doing. Having been on a few ride-alongs, and knowing a few cops personally, my impression is that the job is much more paperwork than it is actively saving the community from the bad guys. I'm not belittling the importance of paperwork, mind you, it's just that cop work, just like every other kind of work, is not like TV.

These reforms don't happen overnight. The city council, the police chief, the mayor, the police union, the prosecutor's office, the governor -- they've debated and discussed dashcams for a long period of time, because it's not just about policy, but also effectively implementing it, with all the speed that most government contractor work happens at. These reforms didn't happen at a speed at which even the old cops were blindsided at. They had plenty of time to consider a new career without resorting to criminal obstruction of justice out of petulance.
The "it's just a few bad apples" excuse is especially egregious, as bad apples need to be disposed with rapidly before they rot the rest of the batch.

Farmers who encounter a bad apple don't shrug and say "eh, there'll always be bad apples, nothing we can do". It's really weird how what should be a saying supporting police reform got twisted into something promoting indifference to abuse.
> Why let the program behave buggy when llvm can see that undefined behaviour will occur?

It's not quite that easy. Because compilers these days have a large number of phases/optimization passes it can be prohibitively difficult to trace back from the location of a potential UB to what might/does trigger it (in the source). So what compilers do is ASSUME that no UB can occur, hence there's no need to generate a check for "b=0".

You can run clang with -fsanitize=undefined, though, and get runtime-checks for many UBs. It'll cost you runtime performance, though.
Space Gremlin is another good one for OS X. and it feels a little more "Nativey" than Disk Inventory X (which I've also used and is also good).

http://www.spacegremlinapp.com/
You didn't deal with question in your title, except maybe extremely indirectly. Drug dealers are in it for the money, so they're not going to be applying for a basic income. There are so few terrorists in the USA that the number is essentially zero.

Nothing is perfectly good, or perfectly evil. What we have to do is figure out if the imperfect policy will (a) solve the solution, (b) not make other problems, or make othe problems worse, and (c) is cost effective. That's what the research is for. Slapping latter day scare words like "terrorist" or "drug dealer" doesn't really help.

P.S.
You missed "pedophile" in your title.
If you're more productive in Lua than in Python then I support using Lua 100%. It's switching languages to gain a measly 200MB of disk space that I'm objecting to. For 99% of projects 200MB is just an irrelevant consideration compared to how much difference language productivity makes.
Anyone knows the music of the first teaser ?
Looks like it's getting panned in steam reviews as people play it. Very surprising.
It's somewhat controversial, but schizophrenia treatments can be (arguably) completely ineffective and worse than the disease itself. Robert Whitaker has written multiple books[1][2] about it. (See wikipedia[3][4] for reception by the medical community.)

The argument is essentially that schizophrenia medications were originally developed as a chemical replacement for lobotomy, the newer versions ("atypical neuroleptics") only had to prove themselves no less safe than those original treatments, the drug companies skewed the research by giving patients one large dose of the old treatments versus several smaller doses spread out over time of the newer ones (meaning the new neuroleptics may have actually been less safe than the drugs developed for chemical lobotomy), and recovery rates are actually much, much higher for patients never treated with anti-psychotic medications. The argument claims the US actually has among the lowest schizophrenia recovery rates (~5% in the US vs ~45% for untreated patients who receive non-medicative care) due to the reliance on medication. (Some charts on that: [5][6][7]. Better sources available through [1] and [2].)

IANA doctor or psychiatrist, simply summarizing the anti-medication position. Drug companies and many psychiatrists clearly argue they're necessary medications, and for the absolute worse cases they probably are, and you can certainly find a lot of people who claim they or their family members were "fixed" by medication (though it should be noted that, historically, the same arguments were made for lobotomy and electroshock therapy as well). Schizophrenia also affects people differently, being completely disabling for some and less so for others, which obviously complicates deciding when benefits from medication outweigh the risks.

[1] http://robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Mad%20in%20Amer...

[2] http://robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Anatomy%20of%20...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_in_America#Reception

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_an_Epidemic#Recepti...

[5] http://images.slideplayer.com/24/7027169/slides/slide_5.jpg

[6] http://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Harro...

[7] http://www.yoism.org/images/LongTermFollowUpSchizophreniaOut...
Of course sedation is dangerous. Sedation and nitrous both have dangers but so does avoiding dental work because of patient anxiety. So does a patient moving during the procedure due to anxiety or being uncooperate. Its all a cost benefit analysis, like everything in medicine, and each patient and case is different. Nitrous is fairly safe and very effective and should probably be suggested more as an alternative to sedation.

You could open up my abdomen and take out my kidney while I was awake and it would not bother me as long as I didn't feel it. Go near my mouth or eyes though and I have unbearable anxiety. I'd let all my teeth rot out of my face before undergoing tooth extraction awake, its that bad.

This is a fairly common fear.

Even without anxiety my oral surgeon strongly recommended at least nitrous due to the procedure being performed.

Your procedure was simple enough for a dentist to perform, and didn't require an oral surgeon, so pretty simple.
Glad you agree. I think there are plenty of good suggestions for police reform, but I can see how things like body cameras can descend into messy micromanagement (what's a minimum uptime? What are the penalties? What about mistakes?).

Make bad behavior a huge disincentive and police departments will largely sort themselves out. If they are empowered to make their own decisions as to how to do so, they will be more willing to adapt. At the moment there is huge pushback from the public about police abuse, and cops are understandably frustrated by a public - that doesn't go into harm's way on a daily basis - trying to tell them how to do their jobs.
It's basically the same scenario: the clearance will get pulled until the investigation is complete. The difference here is that the drug case will be resolved in a few days, as opposed to this prolonged federal criminal case involving millions of dollars and potentially dozens or hundreds of defendants.
That's not a better idea, and it stores the difference between size and capacity which is exactly the trick SSO-23 uses in SSO.
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Flint was at the end of a long term agreement with Detroit for water. It was going to go in with another municipality for their own pipe to the lake. Except that wasn't going to be completed by the time the contract with Detroit was up.

Detroit, being hard for cash, and realizing that Flint was going to be a short-term customer, had proposed higher rates in the short term. Flint thought that was too much and decided to use their river.

I don't know if Flint could have negotiated a new long-term agreement with Detroit for water rather than the construction of a new pipe to the lake.
"The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier. "

- Serpico
I just watched a review yesterday that I thoroughly enjoyed: http://youtu.be/xH7nnPnc56Y

Made me very interested in playing it!
Sun = son, 2 hours, so can't edit anymore :|
That look at 0:50 perfectly describes how I felt playing Braid.
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For many people who have nothing and earn little, being free of debt is an absolute core value, far beyond the mere numberical delta. To people who perceive zero debt as a central measure of personal achievement and self-valuation ("at least I am not in debt"), going deep into the negative for some quasi-entrepreneurial investment that may or may not pay off feels extremely wrong.

People on HN may ridicule them for being stuck in an optimization for a terribly low local maximum, but the danger of feeling "rich" on a fat loan is real: "if it's ok to burn through a decade worth of low wages to get to where I can easily pay it pack, what difference does it make if I burn through a few years more?" Valuing debtlessness is the established safeguard against that and going deep to exit high would be perceived as close to amoral by their peers.
I'm sorry but this is hoplessly naive. It's Chicago. One of the most historically corrupt machine governments in the USA. Nothing gets done without dozens of people getting paid off if not in cash than in favors or quid pro quo. It's not even something that people on the inside find unusual. It's just how it is, and always has been.

It's a much bigger problem than just mandating tamper-proof cameras.
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I never understood the fear of leaving the system's package manager's packages.

It's trivial when you have a handful of machines, all under your control. It's somewhat less trivial when you are dealing with 1000s of machines under the control of dozens of different people/departments.
At least sometimes kids with ADD symptoms are capable of very focused attention on the things they're actually interested in.
> ...or at least in the interests of the city that would regularly have to pay out presumptive damages...

Key challenge with this strategy is the big latency between paying out damages and consequences for the police officer or even department. The bigger the metro, the bigger the latency. Large metro budgets can temporarily cover for the few million dollar payouts that happen to make the daunting gauntlet all the way through to a final, no-appeal judicial judgement, even a few every 3-5 years over a long, long period of time. There is a natural impedance in metro political circles to "protect" the police unless an incident is sufficiently egregious.

I'm believe this adverse behavior pattern won't stop until a legal concept similar to the corporate veil is established for police officers (all the way up to and including police chiefs). Some kind of legal doctrine that spells out when certain conditions are met, individual officers must be deprived of city and departmental support; their "blue veil" so to speak is "pierced". They can still obtain support from private sources like the union, but they are on as much the same footing as a civilian as can be legally established. As a society we can hash out what those conditions are. Some might argue just destroyed dashcam data is sufficient. Others might argue for a much, much higher bar.
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a concerted and coordinated criminal conspiracy

Yes. It's Chicago. You've just described city government in six words.