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> "Let's worry about that when it happens. My point is that it's premature to talk about introducing a UBI when there's so many needs out there."

The point of talking about an UBI now is to iron out any issues with it before it's needed. Furthermore, whilst the need for it isn't as strong as it might be later, there are certain benefits it could bring to simplifying and improving welfare even in today's society. If you're suggesting there's a risk people will not work, that all depends on the implementation (again, another reason why it's being discussed now). What I believe is likely to happen to the current job market if we had UBI is that people would be freer to switch careers, and as a consequence of this undesirable jobs are likely to have higher wages, and desirable jobs are likely to have lower wages. For example, cleaning jobs would pay more, and marketing jobs would pay less. In other words, the incentives for working would change based on the flexibility of the workforce.

> "Also, caring for children/elderly is not something that is necessarily desirable to automate..."

Most of that isn't paid work at it stands now, plus it's worth remembering that the automation of the future is likely to be more adaptive to individual needs (i.e. when it's driven by sufficiently sophisticated AI).

Lastly, the aim isn't to remove humans entirely from the world of work, the idea is to change the need for humans to work, the option to work will still be present.
It's not without its merits, but the question then remains whether emacs suffers when closed if it accumulated enough state for Steve Yegge to consider it "conscious" the way humans are.
I don't think Bill Gates pays his mortgage with money from the foundation.
Opus is mandatory for WebRTC, so presumably. That doesn't necessarily mean support for ogg opus in audio tags, though.
Yet the Double Irish has been already sentenced to death.
> UPDATE (2014-09-06): As Stéphane Bortzmeyer was the first to point out, RFC 7217 addresses all of my issues with “privacy” addresses. Let implementation come soon!
This is interesting. A good counterarguments against one of the most inconsistent diets I know of. Vegetarians that reject meat but do eat fish.

Edit: I guess only stress == hyperthermia but it's still a step in the general direction.
Why cancel? Even if it's true that people come for charisma rather than ideas, it's still an honour that people want to hear you speak.

Personally, I consider TED a form of high quality entertainment, and while I don't think it's changing the world, I do have a lot of respect for the people giving talks.

If I could talk like the people at TED, and was invited to speak about a topic dear to me, there's no way I'd turn down the offer.
It's a bit unfair for the writer to describe a nation's ruling elite as a 'criminal organisation'. You could levy that accusation at every ruling elite, of every country, of every era.

Nonetheless, the House of Saud funds 'schools' throughout Pakistan. These schools are known for spreading an extremist and violent philosophy [1], which clashes with the democratic and enlightened spirit of the educated-elite, at least in Pakistan [2].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pakistan-is-still-tryin...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/27/murdere...
Noma is much more than its geographic restriction. They experiment with insects, which are likely to be a important source of protein in the future and the novel application of preparation method, for instance fermentation. But the geographic restriction in itself is an important part of the future of food, in a world where climate change is a an existential threat and transporting bananas and rice 1000s of kms is not sustainable. Demonstrating to the world what can be done through local sourcing will be defining for the future of food.
That does make sense - I read your original comment a bit too literally.
It is rumored that they funded the research
Worth to note that Librivox also gives a significant boost to text-to-speech and speech recognition research, currently librispeech corpus based on librivox is the largest and quite useful corpus of spoken English. http://www.danielpovey.com/files/2015_icassp_librispeech.pdf
> Python is a solid choice of language for the back ends of web applications.

With caution advised when it comes to scaling. You might, or might not, pay a pretty hefty premium in the amount of hardware needed.
> Deductions on personal taxes are intentional provisions to encourage certain types of saving/investment/giving. Weaknesses in tax treaties are not designed to encourage people to repatriate their profits to artificial entities in tax shelters.

What you call "weaknesses in tax treaties" are very often exactly though up as intentional provisions to encourage certain types of saving/investment/giving
It is perhaps not the definition of "insane" that you are looking for.
You need to think about what makes messages distinct. Content addressing will help you as long as you have a rigorous definition of identity, which you might otherwise be doing ad-hoc when you assign UUIDs.

If the same message is meaningful at different points in time, your hashed content should include a timestamp (and of course you need to choose an appropriate level of precision). If your message is meaningful in different contents, it needs to reference that context somehow (ideally by hash).

The payoff for doing this well is 1. an elimination of double-sent emails, double-posts, etc. (when the software might not know if it went through the first time), and 2. the ability to deduplicate across a network partition, for example if a user makes the same change on their computer and on their phone and then syncs them.
Enlightened Elite in Pakistan? Pakistan is an Islamist garrison state that needs funds from outside to prop it up. Saudis and Americans (40 Billion US alone) are the only reason Pakistan is not economically bankrupt.
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The DS3231 RTC clock chip indeed has an accurate crystal oscilator inside the package, so, yeah, put em in an AVR why not!
I installed this in about 1 hour, and found it really hard to use. #new_experience
Would you think that House of Saud would venture into a price war if it felt vulnerable at home ?
TRIZ was not the only Altshuller invention.

He was mostly interested in how exactly to develop a creativity trait, and came up with something called a "Theory of a Creative Personality Development", a further generalisation of TRIZ.

There are some anecdotal confirmations from various schools across the former USSR that this approach is known to produce some stable results. So at least it worth looking into.
Technically, yes. In practice, what difference does that make beyond making ecommerce sales rates vary?
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This wasn't meant as critique, more like I would have found it good when some of those brands would directly support you (and also others who try to make tooling for embedded systems better) by providing some financial help or by contributing code. I'm working in the embeded domain myself, so I know there's usually a lot of bad tooling around and I'm happy about every try to improve that. I haven't tried out platformio because I'm currently working on some higher level stuff but from the first look it looks quite promising.
> JS is a much more powerful language than the normal preprocessors

Sure, but do we need it though? You already have media queries, keyframes, mixins, and you can already build meaningful abstraction using SCSS partials, Web Components, and probably a myriad of other tools and technologies.

Why try to reinvent the wheel when you already have the tools, the documentation and the conventions? No need to pollute the landscape of front-end development tech more than it already is.
All Google sales rep managing spanish accounts that I know of are spaniards living and working in Ireland.
Everyone please stop voting this person down, I don't completely agree with the post but it's a commonly held view in SA and is given politely and respectfully. I think it deserves addressing in the same spirit.

The SA government doesn't support Al Qaeda of course, but the government does heavily fund extensive networks of religious schools and charities that push a very intolerant and view of non-Muslims and non-Wahhabi sects of Iskam, to the point of preaching violence and repressive treatment. In countries like Pakistan these schools are recruiting and training grounds for violent groups. Whether this is a deliberate policy by the SA government or just the result of poor governance and oversight of these organisations and their funding is an open question, but the result has been a dramatic radicalisation of Islam in many of these countries, far more so than in Saudi Arabia itself. I think many Saudis would be shocked to discover how much Saudi money is being diverted to fund terrorism and preach violent Jihad and intolerance of others.

To your point on Iran, yes hey are in some ways an even bigger concern. Where Saudi Arabia is funding extremism largely by accident, Iran is doing so deliberately. Still, that is a question for dealing with Iran which is a separate issue. Unless you are arguing that it's OK for Saudi Arabia to fund radicals and terrorists because Iran does it? But I don't think that's what you mean.
> The allocation of the income between the different subsidiaries is almost completely arbitrary

Not quite. Each country has provisions in their tax code to assess the transfer pricing, and they tend to defend their tax intake quite aggressively. So much so, that e.g. in EU, the EU courts are often needed to reign in the tax collectors.

This is then headlined as "EU allows tax loopholes for Google" or whatever.

As a random example of pointing out how the transfer pricing regimes work in different countries, see https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Docume...

This of course only scratches the surface. A common keyword for the policies is "arm's length principle", which means that allocation of income is not determined by the company, but nor is it determined by the tax revenue activists which infuriates them. It is determined by a legal process - undoubtedly not always perfect, but certainly not arbitrarily decided by companies.

Too many people get their education about this from Internet memes.
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hey guys so I worked on this SaaS since 09. I've made probably 10k since then. Pathetic, yup. it took about 3 years to develop a mature product out but seems like there's just more and more SaaS charging cheaper and cheaper and there's just no more people that are sane as in they understand how much value they are getting but unwilling to pay for it (they can't).It seems that my product failed because I ended up catering and attracting people who didn't appreciate the value it brought them. There was just another guy around the corner who would heoretically do it for cheaper.So after 100k lines of code...I'm finally thinking of shutting down the Saas and I just had a super depressive period where I was in a full state of panic. I'm letting go of my 20s in it's entirety. I've sacrificed so much for so little in gain and it's so fucking depressing.

I just don't know where to begin at the colossal failure my SaaS has been. What was once a great source of pride and hope is now a standing evidence of my inability, my failure, my lack of skill. And as a result, I've thought about this in another thread before, and I've thought about it again, I should not be in technology. I have found a wonderful chance to be working at a new startup but I just can't for the love of god come back after pulling off kamikaze shit like this (my grandpa was one so shit runs in the blood) and just throwing away everything so I can build what I thought was ideal in this world and thoroughly rejected.

I'm 30 now and I'm living the alternate universe that I desperately wanted to avoid. I want to be intoxicated but I can't afford to. Literally, it feels like anything I start or do is going to fail by some divine will. Is this the wall of destiny that people run into? When you try so fucking hard and it's still not good enough. What do you do then? What could you possibly do after spending so long and sacrificing so much for something so inevitably irrelevant in life?
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But what is their fair share? The governments of Ireland, the Netherlands and Bermuda say they are paying their fair share. Other countries obviously disagree.
Maybe I'm too empathic, but I would always assume animals have feelings, feel pain etc. and try to prove otherwise. Not the other way around.
It seems that the old website is availible via archive.org[0], however it was part of a payment system at the time, so archive.org does not store a copy.

However, after some digging it turns out that Pluralsight put it under a Creative Commons license, so the git guide I think that you're talking about seems to be availible on Github[1].

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20121015074953/https://peepcode.c...

[1]: https://github.com/pluralsight/git-internals-pdf
Depends on what qualifies as live-editing, most Lisp software is produced by incrementally adding code into a live image.
> I've sacrificed so much for so little in gain

Learn to avoid measuring gain in $s. Think of all the stuff you've learned.

Nothing advanced my career better than a failed startup.
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Well, you said it yourself. The companies do lobby for loopholes, knowing they will be better off than other. As a results, the companies in question have at least the same share of blame as the politicians.
> none of the moral compass of a human

I find this notion laughable, that a "moral compass" prevents individuals from attempting to lower their tax burden as much as corporations. Individuals are no different than corporations in the desire to avoid paying taxes. The difference is that the amounts are smaller, so they can't afford as many lawyers, and the tax laws are less complex, so generally fewer loopholes are available.

If it was advantageous for individuals to set up European subsidiaries for tax purposes, I guarantee everyone would be doing it, "moral compass" be damned.
I think you've missed the point - which is not that Saudi Arabia will collapse for financial reasons - but rather that the corrupt infrastructure which composes the system of organization (it could hardly be called government) of the House of Saud is getting more and more unstable, and less able to be kept together with mere funds alone - since there is already so much money in the empire, that the costs of the corruption are rising at a rapid rate.

Its like, Saudi Arabia has all the oil money it would need, but it doesn't have an ethical/non-criminal infrastructure strong enough to deal with the weight of the corruption at the very top, and also (the article points out): the very bottom. The society has a systemic corruption problem, and no society ever in the history of humanity has ever lasted beyond the tipping point of this corruption. The article warns that this may happen sooner rather than later.

My issue with the article is that it assumes that the Pentagon doesn't run this model, pretty much monthly, in its simulacra exercises. It seems we've forgotten that the Pentagon has an entire army divisions worth of resources alloted to just this task. This is too naive a point of view; more likely, then, is that this article is actually propaganda to mask the fact that the USA and its military partners, do in fact model for Saudi collapse, and are in fact actually prepared for it. That is an even more terrifying conclusion, given the state of the region today, and the degree to which American foreign policy has impacted the stability of the enemy states; where enemy=anyone the Sauds don't exercise corrupting control over, yet, in the region.
One theory is that Saudi is keeping prices low to try and destroy the US shale industry.

Another is that OPEC is no longer operating as a cartel and Saudi couldn't persuade other governments to cut production to boost prices so they didn't want to lose their own market share.

Saudi may be in trouble, but we're more likely to see instability in other petro-states first, especially Venezuela.
To me, replacing SCSS or the like with JS would feel like a refactoring/streamlining of my build pipeline. I'd rather stick to one language unless there is a compelling reason to choose another. In this case, it looks like the JS syntax is just as easy to comprehend as LESS or SCSS but with added power, so I think that it would make sense. Of course, I haven't actually used it yet and I know from experience that problems tend to appear that I never thought of, so I am the first to admit that I could be wrong.
Qatar annoyed too many people when they won their bid.

Sometimes money can't buy everyone, and it only takes a few pissed off people to find the person with jurisdiction.

See Lance Armstrong for another example.
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Or this
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/evolution/research#/ev...
Would have been his birthday when this was published, no less.
Well, if Google keeps dodging taxes, I'll keep dodging any advertising and snooping they might employ. Not that tax-dodging was the only reason for that, but it could be a sole reason for it.
> Has $10 trillion of proven oil reserves, even at today's oil prices

Money isn't the only concern when it comes to oil. Reduction of CO2 emissions is a goal that is becoming more important. Supply with oil is a huge concern for militaries. So the oil demand might drop down even further. Meanwhile you have countries like Venezuela or Nigeria that won't reduce their output.
Specifically https://github.com/jbenet/multihash
Gives me a reason to put CSS as JSON into Openchain.

I was also thinking that CSS Documents in this way could be scaffolded as JSONAPI. Or maybe we need a CSSAPI — etiquette for sending small bits of CSS. My work on Openchain makes this relevant — where your CSS is loaded dynamically based on Unitary Reference Architecture that is expressed in the cryptographic ledger.

Then I was thinking "css-sempai" where the CSS file is imported like a Python or JS Module, like here https://github.com/kragniz/json-sempai/ — but for CSS... So like:

>>> from csssempai import magic
>>> import stylesheet
>>> stylesheet
<module ‘stylesheet’ from ‘stylesheet.json’>
>>> stylesheet.html.body.section[‘max-width’]

Would be neat for server-side variable loading of dynamic CSS Sekizai conditionings in Django.
Flask is using globals everywhere, and for very long time did not support Python 3.x.
I'm describing brokers too. Brokers are in a fine position to lose a little bit of paperwork and take a few customers' money for themselves.

(Which is an argument for mandatory auditing, not for licensing. Yes.)
At one end of the spectrum we have single celled organisms that respond to stimuli in specific, preprogrammed ways. At the other end of the spectrum (as far as we know), we have humans, with conscious thought, memory and feelings that guide us to our responses. I think of feelings as just another, albeit more advanced and nuanced, feedback system in the larger system that guides us. I think certain actions are easier to achieve with more complex systems (such as those that include rational thought and or emotions). For example, self sacrifice, working for a group goal, or prioritizing your offspring over yourself. It's possible instinct might work in some of these cases, but I'm also not sure how instinct differs from emotion in some cases.

So, what I meant was that I'm not sure response to feeding, or imminent feeding necessarily shows of any of the mechanisms I would associate emotions, in my naive understanding of the subject, purely on the basis that I think a similar response could be achieved without emotions. I thin human behavior is complex enough that emotions are evident in most cases, even on short observation. For example, viewing feeding in humans with more than a few individuals would probably show common groupings between the humans after just a short while. While it's possible that this could be the result of extremely complex or finely tuned automata, it's more likely in my eyes that there are more complex feedback mechanisms in place (which to be fair, could easily be classified under "extremely complex automata").

In short, I don't place a huge importance on emotions, as I think they are just an extra mechanism that develops in complex feedback systems for a more advantageous set of responses to stimuli. That said, I think we can look at how organisms respond to stimuli and make educated guesses as to whether emotions are in play or not, and to what degree. I also don't believe there's any real distinction between a machine and a human being. We've just developed feedback mechanisms so complex that they've generated new emergent behavior.
Yes, was about to say the same, the Convention for Promoting Universal Reproductions of Works of Art was in 1867. 3D printing of sculptures is hardly new...
Or you can do what I've seen every large C++ project do and not use templates other than for simple containers and wrapper pointer types.
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The poster recommended listening to "their media" for a balanced view on Saudi Arabia, which is nonsense in a country without a free press. And also suggested that the alternative to Saudi Arabia was Iran. Looked like a typical paid commenter.
Vegetarians that accept the lifetime of torture and misery of milk production but base their diet choices on a life with one bad moment of a death.

I've never understood that.