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That group sounds like a place where I wouldn't feel safe, or particularly welcomed.

The "homeless" analogy fails, because the Meetup isn't a city; it's an optional event run by volunteers. They don't owe a particular asshole membership, and they harmed the very group by allowing him to stay.

If we do want to try to stretch the analogy, with the meetup-as-a-social-gathering being our city, then the asshole was breaking one of the city's ordinances - a social rule of not being an asshole who harasses others. Homeless and homeful alike would be arrested and fined, or put in jail, if they flung bricks through the windows; someone who's breaking social norms and making others feel unsafe ought to be expelled from the group.
> Seems to me that the government has a much better way to stimulate the economy

The government has many better ways to stimulate the economy through fiscal policy, but that requires action by Congress, which isn't interested.

The independent central bank, the Federal Reserve ("the Fed"), has its mandates from the government with regard to the economy, and a sharply limited set of monetary policy tools with which to pursue them.

> If the Fed can afford to give negative rates to the banks, shouldn't it follow that the DoE can afford to give negative rates to students?

No, because the Fed issues the currency, and DoE doesn't. That makes what each can afford very different.

More importantly, aside from the issue of what they can afford, the Fed makes its own decisions on interest rates, DoE's decisions are made by Congress. Decisionmakers at the Fed have different priorities and preferences than those in Congress.
In the early days of Socialcast, I built what I called the "pinging wall" which was a bunch of RGB leds inside of ping pong balls and mounted on the wall, each employee had their own ball. Using the arduino ethernet shield, the arduino would poll our internal deployment of our own software, basically an internal company newstream and the pinging wall would indicate whether varying levels of red, yellow and green to indicate whether you had messages or @mentions and be green when you were active on the activity stream.
Oh... I should really pay more attention :)
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>"Or wage regulations (increasing the minimum wage)"

Evidence on this is mixed at least; the majority of the studies go against this being an effective policy. The Card and Krueger findings are somewhat convincing, but do not hold over a longer period of analysis.

>"Or labor organization (ie Germany)"

Labor organization may help transfer wealth from shareholders, suppliers, or consumers to the workers, unless it kills the host companies or causes them to move away. I have not seen evidence that labor organization helps the average citizen, though there is some evidence that it may help the unionized people; unless labor organization improves productivity, it can only change distribution, and I'm not sure who it really transfers wealth from.

>"Or tax regulations (shift tax incentives from machinery to labor)"

This may help raise demand for labor, but pay can never go higher than productivity, which usually requires capital investments.

>"Growth is over my friend, at least the growth that would be necessary for wage inflation (ie Japan)."

I disagree, and it is difficult (if not impossible) to prove which of us is right.
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Plan 9 was a realization of this line of abstraction, in a lot of ways. Even though I never used the platform for anything serious, I still draw inspiration from it all these years later.
> Labor organization may help transfer wealth from shareholders, suppliers, or consumers to the workers, unless it kills the host companies or causes them to move away.

This is by design. If we can transfer more wealth to workers instead of shareholders, we should. If workers can't receive an appropriate wage from a company, than the business is most likely not viable (see: people complaining their business won't work with a $15/hour minimum wage).

>"Growth is over my friend, at least the growth that would be necessary for wage inflation (ie Japan)."

> I disagree, and it is difficult (if not impossible) to prove which of us is right.

I agree that this will be determined by India, China, and to a lesser extent Africa. I believe these economies are growth-limited now, due to the fundamentals around how their economies are structured.

note: I removed a quote child comment responded to, referenced below.
This is a really fantastic deep dive into the practicalities of solving one of these Kaggle competitions. I'm at a personal level of graduating from taking online classes to trying to apply ML techniques to real problems, and found this really helpful.
The economy was destroyed by inflation of a particular asset class driven in part by irrational beliefs about that asset class (housing) [1], misunderstanding of large scale risk [2], fraud in the market from players on all sides [3], and deployment of financial instruments which pushed a huge amount of money into the market [4].

Many actions made the lending crisis worse, but it would not have come about without the huge pool of money that went looking for debt. [5]

The point is, it's really easy to make things worse rather than better with a huge amount of money.

1. "Homes never lose value" https://books.google.com/books?id=i2FKCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT115&ots...

2. "Real Estate Risk Model Inadequate" http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~lpederse/papers/MeasuringSystemi...

3. "Fraud in Real estate Market" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/upshot/how-mortgage-fraud-...

4. "Novel financial instruments in home lending" https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf Page 127 (156 in pdf)

5. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf Page xxv (26 in pdf)
That would be a good addition. We'll consider adding it in later iterations for sure. Thanks.
For people in corporate environments that can't run webpack/browserify are there any standalone tool alternatives?
Which leads to 127.0.53.53 on Iceweasel 38.5.0
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> The way I understand it, the banks do not simply get money from the Fed. Combined with negative interest rates that would be "money for free".

I don't understand this. Under a negative interest rate scenario, wouldn't the banks be paying the Fed for the privileged of keeping their money there? Where is the "free money" coming from?
>lowering student loan rates would probably just cause even higher tuition

Only at for-profit schools, which are currently a small fraction of all universities.
Let's keep going with this analogy. A city has some set of just laws - assault, for example: you can't just run up to strangers and scream at them and make them feel unsafe.

A meetup is a social event, and as such it has social rules, which are the equivalent of laws here. Making people feel unsafe and being an asshole is breaking those social rules.

A city can fine people or put them in jail; a meetup can forbid people from attending.

One key problem with this analogy is that everyone has to live somewhere, even the homeless. But not everyone needs to go to a special interest meetup. The organizers of the meetup didn't owe more to this one asshole than they did to the group, yet they made the entire group pay the cost of interacting with him.
I think it's safe to say that people are generally irresponsible, all things considered.

As for how to handle the mountain of student loan debt -- inflation used to work as a soft form of debt relief but banks screw with people by jacking up private student loan interest rates in lockstep. We need something stronger -- actual debt relief.
An oil tax is the obvious policy here. A good oil tax would capture some of that wealth transfer and use it to invest in alternative energy. Of course it will never be implemented because humanity is too stupid to save itself.
Monetization means inflation, right? That doesn't seem to be happening in Japan. In fact, it's almost the opposite of negative interest rates.
I am not an economist but I am pretty sure you could design tax policies that make it more attractive to pay higher salaries for the average worker or maybe give them shares in the company.

Can you imagine how much demand there would be if average wage growth would have kept up with productivity? People who make 30000/year would spend much more if they had 40000/year. I don't think a CEO's behavior will change much if he has 30 million or 40 million.

Obviously this won't happen but it's a thought that should be brought up from time to time.
This makes sense. My existing second-gen Nexus 7 does everything I want it to (basically, it's my TV when I'm home, and a portable paperback when I'm out & about); I'd get a new one if there were something better, but so far there's not. The Nexus 9 looks _too_ big: I really like that my 7 fits in my back pocket or the inside breast pocket of a coat. The Pixel C looks like a notebook which would be a pain to install Debian on — while it's great to have a keyboard and a mouse, without emacs and a shell what's the point of a notebook?
further: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-09-04/hey-pro-athl...
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I am reading much of your premise to be related to checking accounts (check writing and automated bill pay). Most people don't carry a large balance there so a negative interest rate on those accounts will not really have a large impact.

Yet on savings accounts, or those accounts whose intent it is to be liquid yet remain relatively unused, could be impacted by this. Which at that point, again under your premise of robbery, a person is essentially wagering whether they would rather be guaranteed to be fleeced incrementally, or run the possibly of someday being taken for all of their savings. At that point I think you would see many people start to withdraw large amounts of savings, whether to be stored underneath a mattress or into bonds or some other investment, while still keeping an active checking account.
The relevant measure is "cash in hand" vs. "cash in checking account", not the absolute value change.
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Yes, I'm sure. I certainly wouldn't stuff it in a mattress as cash, though. I'd start by finding a bank or credit union that didn't, as I'd be surprised if they all made that move at once. If that failed, I'd look towards accounts with a broker instead, or some other institution.
Indeed. Why not make it web-based in the first place?

(Also, why is this specific to programmers?)
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I thought it would actually run your code.
Yes. Which is why this is a stress test. Will the banks survive a financial crisis if the entire world switched over to negative rates?

Well, the Fed wants to know, which is why they're running this doomsday test scenario. The Fed currently expects to raise rates about 2 or 3 more times this year btw... so the scenario probably won't happen, but that doesn't change the fact that lead bankers are preparing for the worst.

In other words, the article is simply stating the following fact: big banks in America are thinking about various financial doomsday scenarios. I don't think that's a bad thing at all.
It's a small flaw... compared to not being on Windows.

I like the concept, but it's a non-starter while it's not available on... I don't know... the largest platform.
At the very bottom I've listed other resources, but they've been down voted... :(
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Do you have any examples of where actual, effective supplements have been taken off the market? And if you do, can you say why the removal was suspect?
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The later iterations on the concept were vastly superior to the original Eee and Eee clones. Netbooks in the $500 range typically had dual core Atoms (a big deal since the CPU was the weakest link), 10.1" screens that had a resolution that was actually usable (1280x720 instead of 1024x600), and usable amounts of storage.

That market didn't last very long as hardware costs dropped so quickly that full size, full power laptops suddenly cost the same with the only trade off being battery life.
I write, excited to have a conversation, point to a relatively polished portfolio, and an HR person comes back to tell me that the position is filled or they are hiring a stronger match.

No, actually they are hiring. They just aren't hiring you.

When companies say the position is "filled," it's just an artful way (or so they would like to think) of saying that they're passing on you -- but are still looking for a better match.

So when you see the exact same ad posted again next month, in the very same spot, don't be in the least surprised.

Yes, it sucks that things are this way. It's a sucky industry generally, when it comes to simple things like communicating honestly, and treating candidates is if they're regular adults (capable of taking a straight-up rejection), rather than children, who need to be fed a "line" so they'll go and play somewhere else.
Which wasn't really free if I remember correctly. You had to buy or crack it. Also, I don't think the performance really compared on consumer desktop hardware. As annoying as dual-booting was, it was the way all of my hobbyist friends and I preferred back then.

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If you're afraid of POTUS you should stay in the US.

The president's power abroad is much bigger than his domestic power. He can bomb a village in Newfoundland if he really wants to. But he cannot even stop and search someone on Times Square.
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Negative interest rates and interest rate policy in general is a Monetarist not Keynesian policy remedy.
Except that Babel has always ran in the browser, too and "hip code" is a constantly shifting target: ES2016 was just finalized (exponent operator, Array.prototype.includes), and much of ES2015 is already implemented in current browsers, but certainly not all of it and the sets implemented in each browser is different.

Hypermodularization should mean that Babel stays relevant with new standards (this month's ES2016 announcement, plus we already have a good idea of what should be in ES2017 with the new "continuous deployment" approach to the ES standards) and doesn't get bogged down in legacy code as browsers adopt the standards.
Renewable energy will have its time, when it is ready -- and that time is coming. By 'ready', I mean 'when it is cost competitive with other technologies'. I recently read that one Chinese solar manufacturer has achieved < $0.50/watt cost for PV module production, and it hasn't bottomed out yet. At the current rate of declining equipment prices, it doesn't matter how cheap oil is, eventually solar will be cheaper ... and when that happens, we will be living in a solar-first world faster than anyone can imagine.

The next question is how to deal with troughs in production due to the weather, and for that I really do hope we get back in the business of reactor innovation, because nuclear is the only option that provides the reliability of fuel-based power with 0 carbon output.
Right at the moment, markets are quite scared. Anything different means "run for the exits, then evaluate it, then get back in cautiously if I decide that it wasn't bad after all". Everybody has 2008 on the brain; they don't want to be caught holding the bag if everything falls apart again.
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If I understand correctly, we want to compute co-edges here. I believe there are algorithms to do this, I know SketchUp has this feature [1]; also Gmsh [2]; and I remember seeing Blender plugins that do the same thing (can't seem to find them now...) (edit: Actually Blender does this without plugins: "Join" 2 intersecting objects, use the "Intersect" feature, and it will generate and select the exact co-edges.)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=site:http:%2F%2Fper...

[2] https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000100 (last figure and text in the section "Subtracting one solid from another")
Storing cash is a safe deposit box is illegal in the United States.

Edit: maybe
Magic Leap's demo must be amazing, because investors wrote another check, bringing the total of three rounds invested to $1.4 billion.

One of the few people who has spoken publicly about a Magic Leap demo is the MIT Technology Review's Rachel Metz. Here is how she She described her experience:

"Logically, I know there isn't a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it It's an early prototype of the company's so-called cinematic-reality technology, which makes it possible for me to believe that the muscular beast with the gruff expression and two sets of swinging arms is actually in the room with me, hovering about seven feet in front of my face."
Ah, yeah. I understand perfectly why the decision "we're better of without you, bye" took like ten minutes.
This can be solved through the use of a local fallback if the request to the Google CDN returns 404.
I know I'm just a lowly programmer and engineer who shouldn't opine about economics very much, but I observe simply this: The "stimulus" didn't work. I find arguments about how it wasn't big enough to be null, because it isn't clear that we could have afforded much more and if the only way this stimulus works is to spend more than is possible, that is just a way of saying "it doesn't work" that saves some face but doesn't change anything about the practicality.

It's been 8 years now we've been on this policy. Nobody 8 years ago would have predicted what happened. From a scientific perspective, what you do with theories that fail to correctly predict future occurrences is simple.

But our elites really like what quasi-Keynesianism tells them, so the rest of us can continue to live impoverished lives for their benefit.
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FWIW the new owners of Sourceforge plan on changing that http://fossforce.com/2016/01/sourceforge-and-slashdot-have-b... , quote:

"We disagree with some of the previous monetization strategies from an industry and business perspective, and have immediate plans to discontinue programs inconsistent with our being a trusted and reliable resource for the entire open source community."

Sourceforge has nice features if you get away from the malware.
A "for dummies" style take on the command-line. Not a lot here.

When you learn enough X to be dangerous, the take away is you didn't learn X at all. That's why you are dangerous wielding X.
>" If we can transfer more wealth to workers instead of shareholders, we should."

This is a normative goal, but you are assuming that unions always transfer wealth from shareholders to workers, and I am not convinced of this. Shareholders will refuse to invest if the returns are not attractive, so it is difficult to retain them. It seems more likely that unions will transfer wealth from consumers or suppliers to the union members, which is a much less appealing prospect.

>"Can you explain the rational as to how zero interest rate policies can stoke demand on-par with middle class consumers, versus simply enriching lending institutions? If I'm wrong, I am happy to concede the point."

I'm not convinced that the Federal Reserve has much impact on consumer and corporate interest rates. All central banks believe that international bond markets are relatively free. All central banks also believe that they control their national interest rates. These beliefs are not compatible.

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Anecdotally, I find this to be pretty true. I would probably still be using my old 2012 Nexus 7 if the combination of flaky storage hardware and Android updates hadn't caused it to die a slow painful death.

Offtopic:
All this talk of tablets and blenders reminded me of this http://www.cc.com/video-clips/iymjih/the-colbert-report-step...
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Great summary, thanks. This helps with my understanding.

So in other words, zero growth is very likely something we do not want, unless it happens to come with positive benefits that are currently not measured in dollars -- e.g. sufficiently strongly reduced long-term demand for fossil fuels that climate change will have a much smaller negative impact on people's well-being.
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It doesn't use a digital display, so how can it be considered digital?
The question is, do you completely ostracize the immature and potentially abusive people or do you socially shame them but offer them a legitimate path to being able to be in a group? Geek groups are frequently the last resort socially - its way down on the social ladder (at least when I was growing up) and people frequently are way behind on both social skills and tact. As such, they end up being a catch-all, and the last place that they can go to grow without completely removing themselves from society. Should that mean that people should feel safe? Of course - thats why you meet in public, and have other people around.

Not defending this person, of course - just offering a wider perspective. I'd certainly pull this person aside frequently - if the group allowed for it constantly rather than shaming the person then I'd immediately look to leave the (now toxic) group if I couldn't convince them of the danger.
That's certainly what I'm up to. MLPs are on sale right now -- and they give interesting benefits (large guaranteed dividends and capital deprecation on your income tax forms) if you're willing to buy and hold. I'm aiming for 10 years to financial independence; I might get there in 5, with the way things are going right now.

I don't think there's much risk of bankruptcy for high-cap MLPs, and for low-cap ones the risk is priced into the stock (and then some). The price of oil has to recover sooner or later; the Saudis don't have an economy unless they have high oil prices, and they're the ones behind the current glut. Kuwait is already negotiating with OPEC and non-OPEC producers to raise oil prices again...
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Despite the name, "real" and "virtual" here are actually communicating something. What would be a better name?
3. Who is going to substitute something else for oil if they can, if oil is expensive? Everybody. Who is going to not bother (or not try as urgently) if oil is cheap? Many people. In practice, that's buying more oil because it's cheaper.