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I think what you have provided is a far better solution than how most people were using redis. :) I was just hoping to convince people that they should think a little deeper before going straight for the global lock.

Hope you're doing well BTW!
Indeed, unless enough people get annoyed at the situation and vote for different Congresspeople over the next couple of elections. Might require fixing gerrymandering first though
Yes. And, the tax code was filled with so-called loopholes. Anybody with a brain and a competent accountant were able to cleverly avoid a lot. Many of these were eliminated in the Reagan-era "tax reform" (and more since).
highly progressive compared to what?
What's wrong with learning new words WITHOUT looking them up?
As other commenters have mentioned, Elon has stated that they plan to keep the first one ever returned on the ground. Reflights won't happen until they land another rocket [1].

They have done a static test fire of the F9 core, where they run through about the first several seconds of a launch while holding down the rocket with large clamps. In that static test fire, everything was mostly nominal though they did mention fluctuations in one of the nine engines. Elon has stated that the fluctuations may have been due to a small amount of debris that entered the engine during the landing procedure.

I share your sentiment, though! I absolutely cannot wait until they fly their first mission with a re-used core!

[1] They have a launch of SES-9 on Feb 24. It's been stated that they may attempt to recover this rocket, though it sounds like if recovery is attempted it will be a fairly low-likelihood of success attempt.
Actually, the conservative theory was that tax revenue would increase because all of the new economic activity.

If this sort of plan was enacted, you'd probably see all of the big investment banks revert to partnerships.
There's a reason why protocols (such as HTTP) intended for use in the public space refer to a client connection as a "request". I am asking them for a specific set of data, they are welcome to choose whether to provide it or not. Once I've received it, and it's on my computer, I get to choose whether or not to let it run. In the case of advertisements, I have more security concerns than mere annoyance, so I choose to block them. If you don't wish to serve me content, go right ahead, just be aware that there is nothing you can do to force me to expose my system to your potentially malicious advertisements.
Is leader election somehow a usage of a global lock? I do agree it should be avoided actively though.
No he's not. He's assuming that losing a large percentage of that income would be enough impetus to leave it.
How would a global lock fix this? Presumably you would have a process that is trying to decrement get a global lock and then crash, and eventually release the lock anyway, right? So you get the same outcome.
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This would be devastating to athletes. Take the NFL as an example. A player's earning window is very short. Once their career is over, they often suffer from health problems and lack of training to do anything else. I don't like the idea of taxing these guys at 70%+ when they're giving up their bodies for money to last them a lifetime.

I know many athletes continue to get endorsements, speaking fees, and other income after their playing days are over. But that is only really significant money for the stars, and continues to decline as they age.

Obviously pro athletes are a very small percentage of the population, but it's still interesting to consider how this impacts different professions.
Successful entrepreneurs often make huge lump sums when their company is acquired, usually after many years of hard work and low pay.

Sanders' plan to make taxes on capital gains equal to those on ordinary income and to increase the marginal tax rate to effectively > 80% (once state taxes are included if you live in CA or NY) is effectively a wealth transfer from the most productive part of the economy (new enterprise creation) to the least productive part (government).

Its a shame that we have a presidential candidate with this level of economic illiteracy that is still taken seriously by a large part of the country.
This bit from the judge's ruling underscores how ridiculous the lawsuit is:

> In addition, at oral argument, Plaintiff did not represent that if given leave to amend she could allege that had she known the second reCAPTCHA word was used to assist Google with its other services she would not have completed the reCAPTCHA. To the contrary, counsel represented that he had not asked Plaintiff and he did not know what she would say. (Dkt. No. 60
at 20:23-25.) Such question, of course, should have been asked and answered before this lawsuit was filed and pursued in two states. Regardless, it defies common sense that the answer would be yes.

[1] http://boothsweet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Google-Orde...
> Government isn't technically competent by itself, and doesn't know how to select those who are.

This is just dead wrong. I think you're conflating "Government" and "Politicians". The government pays tech very well and hires intelligent people. I once did a consulting gig and went in with your exact mindset. It was the only time I've ever been fully confident that I was the dumbest person in the room.

The reason they'll always lose is the sheer quantity of attacks. Every day we have front page posts critical of the US government. That sentiment (clearly) extends far beyond the front page of hacker news. I'd wager you wouldn't have to put much effort into finding anti-governmental rhetoric in the comments section of a cooking website.

Beyond that, the weak link is rarely the technical side, e.g. Snowden. I think we all can be confident they will lose the information, but I really don't believe it's because they are technically incompetent.
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> We should have much better healthcare, education and intolerance of greed

And, isn't that what our current "Hope and Change" was supposed to bring? Just what we need... another 4/8 years of ineffectual leadership that changes nothing because this will cause nothing but gridlock.
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It's irrelevant. A top of the line laptop that's reliable costs about $3k regardless of manufacturer. At least last time I checked.

And no, not on Windows because in my experience it's the most terrible system for developers. Might've improved in the last 15 years.

And no, not on linux. In my experience it requires constant tinkering with the system. According to my friends still on linux, this hasn't changed in the last 3 years.

So yeah, I guess only mac is left. Which often still requires too much tinkering, but feels like less than linux. And I honestly haven't used windows in earnest in 15 years so hard to say.
Of course, this assumes Sanders even makes it to the general election. Despite his polling, the skeptic in me thinks that the Clinton campaign will be the Democratic candidate on the ticket in November....public support be damned, she's the candidate that the establishment wants.
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It's quite common for companies to constantly want to reinvent themselves and to continue to implement new strategies to simplify their process in conducting their work. One such strategy is the cloud. The cloud is a kind of Internet-based computing, where shared resources, data and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand. Fairly simple concept to grasp. However, some fear the power of the cloud. It's mysterious. It's infinite. It’s ubiquitous. It's also a technologically inexperienced person's nightmare. Organizations put the cloud on a so called pedestal that appears to be unattainable. They fear the unknown.

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I am the author of this book.

I have been using a combination of Laravel and Lumen to write applications and I've published a book about writing APIs with Lumen. The book uses test-driven development throughout and would be a good introductory read.

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Please don't muddy someone's learning experiment by rehashing a tired flame-war
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I don't know what is worse: the ageism you are showing or the mentality of an 18th century economist.
You could add a CPU write buffer or cache lines as an intermediate step between the code and memory, and allow the player to choose when those get flushed to memory, constrained by memory barrier operations.

This kind of problem comes up very often in the context of the Linux kernel. And the ability to deal with it is as even rarer among programmers experienced with concurrency than experience with concurrency is among programmers in general. A tutorial of this form for memory ordering issues would be invaluable.

I'd be happy to help with problems and game-element design for a memory-ordering version of this tutorial.
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It does sound as an interesting experiment. I wonder if there's a thesaurus mapping English to (a) simple English...although I can imagine that output of such experiment would not be exactly fluent.

I'm not sure that I'd be able to keep up with all the state - 1.story, 2.visual, 3.spoken word, 4.simplified subtitles and their map to 3 (even "normal" subtitles are pretty distracting).

edit: Let me abuse another classic for an example - something like that (emphasized words would be the subtitles)?

"All ancient land name is split into three parts, one of which the tribe name live, the tribe name another, those who in their own language are called tribe name, in ours tribe name, the third. All these differ from each other in language, what they do and laws. The river Garonne splits the Gauls from the Aquitani; the Marne and the Seine split them from the Belgae. Of all these, the Belgae are the most brave, because they are most far from the Roman cities and development of [our] part of the world, and sellers not often go to them and bring those things which tend to make weak the mind; and they are the closest to the tribe name, who live beyond the Rhine, with whom they are all the time making war; for which reason the tribe name also are better than the rest of the Gauls in being brave, as they fight with the Germans in almost daily fights, when they either chase away them from their own lands, or themselves attack on their borders.
Yes. In fact anyone earning that much has already shifted away from ordinary income. Famously, this is what Warren Buffet does to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary. The solution is taxing capital gains the same as ordinary income.

The next level beyond that is to shift earnings into personal corporations which are taxed at a corporate tax rate and enjoy other protections. This is like what Zuckerburg recently did.

The final dodge is to move earnings overseas much like most corporations do today.

With enough money there are always loop holes to exploit. I'm in favor of closing as many as possible. If there's someone out there rich enough to found their own sovereign nation in the Pacific, there's not much we can do about that.
I thought the same thing, the fact that "Young people ignore X's age limits" is not new.
I don't think so, there are distributed leader election schemes that don't require a lock. The simplest is using HRW hashing[0] so that each node independently determines the same leader.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_hashing
The data [1] is pretty noisy, but dissatisfaction with "the way things are going in the US" is pretty common in (presidential) election years. This shouldn't be shocking, all of the media is basically talking about how things are going wrong.

[1]http://www.gallup.com/poll/1669/general-mood-country.aspx
The tax rates during "trickle down" were hardly much different than they've been for the last 40 years. For instance the top capital gains tax rate was set to 20%. Exactly what it is today.
Because while Reagan lowered the top tax rates, he also eliminated many loopholes that were allowing top earners to effectively pay very little in taxes.

At the end of the day, pre-Reagan, a 1 percenter might have had a stated tax rate of 70-80%, but due to the massive amount of loopholes and write-offs, were only paying 25-35% in practice. Reagan's reforms allowed for less loopholes and write-offs, which curbed the effort many were willing to go to for tax avoidance, while also meaning that people were paying about the same as before, but paying closer to their actually stated tax rates.
> the middle class pays very low income taxes in America

Citation needed.

There's "fees", "taxes" and all sorts of hidden ways that eat into the middle class. Not only that, but how much "Fees" were in the eggs you bought? None, right? Not really: they're just bundled in and hidden.

Ever get a speeding ticket? That's a fucking tax. Property tax, car "license plates" - tax. Gas has taxes, and a lot of them. As does alcohol. And then there's sales tax- just because you sold something. Hell, there's taxes for dying.

But myopically, it looks small. I'd wager that these 'little bits' here and there by far exceeds the percent paid in taxes than the top 1%.. and we know it hurts the middle class far worse.
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> It scares me that in our political structure that we feel like we need to experiment with the whole country

How else do you expect to improve anything? You have to try something, and many, many other countries have tax structures close to this, so you know it's not going to fail.
"Congresspeople" has got to be the most ridiculous, awkward word in use today. Member of Congress is must better and is still 100% gender neutral if that's what your aim is. Both members of the House and Senate can be referred to as your representative (small 'r') in Congress.
That's a real problem. Wealth and income are radically different numbers for people at the top end. High income taxes end up punishing the upper middle class instead of the truly wealthy who own assets.
I just realized that decentralization is awesome for privacy and all, but for social networks sucks big time.
He just said that his livelihood partly depends on OSM.

That means that the answer to your questions is a resounding no. While on average we're better off, not everybody is, he in particular is worse off.
It's better for people to be angry and express frustration such as through occupy, blm, rural anti federal blm, anti open borders, etc., rather than allow things to simmer unnoticed and then suddenly erupt. These movements allow politicians who want to take notice to do so and address grievances slowly with input and participation from others, so that the outcomes are at least marginally palatable, rather than intractable.
Being halfway thru reading "Atlas Shrugged", I find it bewildering that on a site devoted to promoting the best of capitalistic productivity, so many posters adhere to compulsory redistribution of wealth confiscated from the productive.
Very true, I didn't consider it like that.
If so, that might improve the job prospects of many up and comers in those fields. I think your point is clear that there's potential for loss because of the retiring talent, but that can incentivize investing in talent down the pipeline.
I love his spirit but absolutely nothing Bernie is selling can pass Congress which means absolutely nothing will change if he is elected.

You really think he could survive running for re-election at 80 years old?

Anyone old enough to remember Reagan will know what happens to people that old in the white house.

Not crazy about Hillary but I could live with her.

If Trump is elected, I'm somehow moving to Canada, not because of him, because of the 51% of people who elected him and having to live with them after surviving Bush.
27% of X, where X>0, is more than 100% of 0.
Aside from Ecuador being awesome (which it is), here's the takeaway, buried at the end of the article:

But perhaps I simply never learned to travel luxuriously.

It's absolutely possible to get the novelty he's after while living well, but it's not the sort of thing you can switch on or off. Getting comfortable with affluence is a process.
How many of these people make over $10M a year? Also, even if they do, they wouldn't be taxes that high on the first $10M.
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Bernie may be a democratic socialist, but he has decades of experience bringing together both sides of the aisle to pass legislation. His opponents may not agree with him, but they respect him.

In contrast, Hillary is pretty much universally hated among Republicans. In my opinion she has a much lower chance of getting anything done if elected.
What do you mean by "reflectDOM method"? Can you explain a little bit how will you deal with this? I've searched the repo but couldn't find anything regarding reflect. Thanks!
Well, it depends.

The POTUS is the head of the executive branch. And as far as I understand it, can order anyone of that branch to do stuff. That's also how "executive orders" work: because the POTUS is their boss.

It's also what Obama's doing to break the gridlock: make rules that you have to go to SCOTUS to solve, or pass bills that supersede them.
From a practical perspective, tons of parasites. From a moral perspective it becomes much harder to trust someone who no qualms about eating you.
Every tax plan is an experiment. ("Trickle-down effects?") Every law is an experiment. ("Three-strikes?")

Remember, this NYT article was written by a conservative, who previously was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think-tank with the goal to "develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility". Before that he was a "commercial real estate banker at Wells Fargo".

There's no need to believe that any of his statements are false, but I can't help wonder why there's a focus why "Bernie Sanders’s Tax Plan Would Test an Economic Hypothesis" when every one of the candidates has an economic hypothesis to test. Even if it's the most extreme (and I think continued tax cuts for the rich and funding multiple overseas wars are also rather extreme), I can't help wonder if there is a bias towards which sources to draw from when writing this article.
Neat! I couldn't find an example of doing a background task from a view with channels. Any ideas?
I wonder why "Bathed in pervasive, inescapable advertising scientifically tuned to elicit feelings of inadequacy while being bombarded by fear-driven news/politics" didn't make this list?
The really shocking bit of data is near the end -- many Americans would be deeply upset if their child were to marry someone of the opposite political party. This is making politics way too personal! I'm not sure how the country is going to recover from this state of polarization. The media isn't helping, and none of the current crop of political candidates seem to be addressing the need to rebuild the American consensus held in past generations, although this might change once the primaries are over.
> I'd imagine it being pretty unsettling to watch a bank balance fluctuate.

Banks have generally solved this by batching updates, but yes, it could be unsettling for the customer in a similar situation. There are ways around that though, for example you update a cache that stores the data instantly and then let the eventually consistent source of truth update the cache again if it is not in sync, or perhaps have a short timeout on the cache, so the customer gets a consistent and smooth experience but the source of truth is still accurate, eventually.
Unlikely, a lot of americans believe they'll be rich soon.
By what freaking magic is Congress going to pass ANY of this???

Has no-one been paying attention the past eight years?

You think he can do any of these changes with an executive order?
I'm also curious about #2 here: Some would certainly be offset by the new employer paid taxes... but my employer currently pays significantly more than the proposed tax in premiums now (of which I directly pay almost nothing). When I plug my numbers into http://berniecare.org for example, it says I'll pay $800 more. I know this is a very simplistic calculator, but it definitely seems like this plan would give some employers an opportunity to effectively cut salaries by a sizable chunk. Does anyone know if it has been studied or a transition like this has been observed before?
I don't know about most of the hospitals for sure, but I would assume they are similar. MD Anderson which is the top ranked cancer center in the world according to patient outcomes, doesn't turn anyone away based on their ability to pay. They either work it out or do the work as charity.
- team work, unless somebody learned this skill in other way

- SCRUM - it would be hard to teach oneself SCRUM without job environment

- jargon (I didn't know what "pull request" or "ticket" ment before I went to the first job)

- courage, self-assurance (because of lack positive feedback from other programmers - people who learn programming on jobs are in better situation than self learners)

- realism, cynicism (Self taught programmers are sometimes too optimistic or too pessimistic and dont have sense of reality).
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What's so special about a job queue that it can't use an rdbms? I never understood that.
People are so quick to point this out, but the reality is that so many hospitals in the US lack basic standards of cleanliness & care. The CDC recorded 722,000 Hospital-acquired infections (often staph or UTI's) in 2011, one of the highest such rates in the modern world. This is simply unacceptable for a country of our resources.

The WHO's assessment on overall access & quality of care doesn't even put the US in the top 25 in the world while our per capita expenditures remain some of the highest worldwide. We may have a handful of exemplary medical institutions to brag about, but so much of our system is in terrible shape.
I just successfully changed it, but it was a janky experience. Until I added an account to the mail app, the preference used to change the default email reader remained greyed out because I was being prompted to add an email account. Only once I added a fake account did the preference option become available and let me change the default mailto handler. Removing the fake email account caused the preference to become greyed out (but it retained Outlook as the default).

Here's another example: Try and change the right click -> search with google menu option to 1) not open in Safari and 2) search using another search engine.
Why do we need less 'greed' (if you can even define that)? Is that quantitatively better for the country in some way? If so, how?
Right, but we're not making AAA games. When comparing Unity Pro licenses to UE4 and others (now Amazon) for smaller game studios, UE4 is still compelling technologically. That said, it's licensing for a small studio like ours if far more expensive than Unity.

My point was basically that Amazon's pricing isn't outrageous, comparatively.
>Why would Wired care about people that use ad blockers and never visit their site again? They're really no value to Wired so why expend resources on them?

Blocking users that use ad blockers and will never visit their site may potentially block a significant chunk of their intended audience. That audience may then share interesting articles with others who are not running ad blockers. I would assume that the cost of serving a single article to a portion of users who will not view ads may be insignificant in comparison.
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Good luck trying to pick the highest bidder when all your potential patients are in the same single payer scheme.
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