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> How about a Guaranteed Minimum Income for every American

> Screw welfare, and its tenuous political existence. Support everyone and the government doesn't need to invent more regulations

A guaranteed minimum income will without question lead to higher prices on consumer goods, putting us in the same position as before.

The regulations will not stop under this model - they will simply change. Where regulation exists now to keep prices artificially high and interest rates artificially low, the regulation policy resulting from a minimum pre-tax income will be that of price controls and the rationing of goods.
Right, but my assumption is that you'd just be able to load up a new VM every 10 failed attempts.
Oh, the system that will be used in .net mvc? So far I've only seen that permissions and roles can be modeled with claims, but could that not lead to the same problem like with roles (e.g user.hasClaim("foo") || user.hasClaim("bar") || ...)?
>It's kind of funny how expecting welfare recipients to work is "exploitative" but expecting workers to involuntarily support welfare recipients is not.

Well, if the stream of incomes directed at rentiers were instead redirected towards welfare recipients, workers would have to do no more supporting than they do now.

This could be done by:

* Raising land taxes

* Taxing wealth

* Taxing yield bearing assets

* Remove carried interest rule.

And then paying for welfare with that.

Or we could keep pretending that billionaire moochers aren't more expensive for society than welfare recipients.
I see a lot of people asking for alternatives. I spent 12 months trying almost every distro I could get my hands on and have some recommendations for those interested.

This was my shortlist at the end of all my adventurism and testing.

1. Linux Mint

2. Ubuntu MATE

3. Antergos Cinnamon

Pretty short list but those are what I found I settled on as possible choices for my own use. If the goal is getting down to business and getting work done rather than fiddling with the system I think those 3 would fit most people's needs. I was a longtime Xubuntu user prior to this adventurism, and IMO there are just better alternatives though it would probably be #4 if I had one, but I'm just not a fan any longer. MATE man handles XFCE.

I leave Mint at the top because other than these security concerns, it remains the best distro for me. I love their LTS update policy, continually delivering updates to Mint during the entire support span of Ubuntu LTS. Their desktop env is also just better IMO than alternatives.

Ubuntu MATE is pretty good and for the type of person like myself who is drawn to Mint, would be a really good alternative. It's missing a few features of Cinnamon, which is superior in general for me to MATE. But overall this is what I'll install if I decided to ditch Mint.

Antergos is just Arch with a nice installer. I didn't spend a long time testing this but it would be my choice for a rolling distro. Many people I know want that and they offer Cinnamon as a main, supported environment. Might be the best of every world for some. I prefer the slower updates of LM and UM, and install newer packages through PPAs or compiling it.

As an aside, I have completely given up installing other desktop environments onto distros that didn't originally ship with them. I see people recommending that, and it may work out but it's a mess if you want to switch back in my experience. I prefer to pick a distro that ships with the DE of your choice. I would not run for example, 'sudo apt-get install cinnamon-desktop-environment', anywhere at any point. :)

Hopefully this helps someone out there looking to migrate off of Mint. I'm still using it (on 17.2 here) but may move to UbuntuMATE or Antergos Cinnamon, depending on Clem's response.
I missed the exc question: yes, invalid_argument is perfectly acceptable in my opinion. However, if you want to inherit from invalid_arg that is also possible - this would allow you to catch only this very specific type of error.
You would prefer not to be queried as to the limits of your understanding, but we would prefer you stop commenting assertively on the basis of your ignorance.
Something tells me this isn't the only way they'll allow themselves to be contacted for bookinng....
I've had my first two annoyances with amazon, after years of having zero.

* Add on items. Can't buy them on their own, can't buy more than five. What's going on with these? Just let me buy them in bulk.
* Recently, I had an item that was prime, but wouldn't ship to a PO box. I've never had this – amazon always chooses USPS/Canada Post for PO Box orders. The item was small. I had even ordered it to a PO Box before, successfully. I was able to complete the order to a pickup point, *at* the post office, just not in my PO Box.

These are trifles. But the reason I buy everything at amazon is that they removed all trifles. I've been noticing more of them recently.

Of course, on the flipside, amazon.ca has massively expanded its offerings. Which is great. However, many of them are not sold by amazon/shipped by prime, and it increases cognitive overload. I have to calculate shipping, deal with third party merchant shipping emails/review requests, sometimes they don't ship to PO Boxes, etc.
I also think this really shows the disconnect in mentality between the younger developers and the 'older' ones (I quote this because while I am 25 I often find myself in the latter category).

Software used to be a thing you maintained, if you made a major release you would continue to support the old one for a period until users (in the case of libraries, developers are your users) had a chance to migrate off of it. This meant releasing security updates and bugfixes for the old release in parallel to the new one - or at least making it not impossible for these changes to be backported.

Now everyone wants to be evergreen - you're still using 1.2.x of my library that has glaring security issues that have been fixed in 2.x? Well, better upgrade, because I'm only supporting the newest release.

As someone who has to constantly deal with the headache that is NuGet for their day-job, I absolutely loathe this mentality and the idea that everyone should just use their language package manager. If any of the NuGet packages we use internally has some glaring security issue, I've got 20 applications to update, test and redeploy on a good day if there's no breaking changes - at least if for whatever reason the Fedora packagers can't backport a security fix for a python package I depend on it's easy enough to push a new version out in my local yum repository and have it automatically fixed for every application that uses it.
> You have these problems with carriers as well. They're technically interoperable but they hit you with prohibitively expensive rates if you try to do anything international.

And very poor transparency on those short codes... I once got some extra charges, because of a shortcode (it was actually Yahoo!) I happened use was international. (No way to tell that by the number alone.) It was surprising to hear from the carrier I didn't have any way to block international text, too.
I have seen such projects - real LTE PHY algorithms are much more complex than stuff in 3GPP.
You can write something 3GPP compliant in some simplified cases, but it would be totally useless in real network.

Secondly you don't really want to use FPGA for majority DSP processing in LTE PHY. Design cycles on FPGA are too slow and HLS techniques are still not trusted.
Beside that x86+fpga are some kind of specialized stuff - you could just put a PCIe accelerator with some major wireless SoC.
I'm staying with a friend who is is retired LEO, and he strongly believes Apple should/must comply. He wants big jail time if they don't.

He thinks a it's a matter of safety because terrorists. 14 people were killed, therefore the ends justify the means as you say.

We got into it the other night, and I think the case boils down to if we should be allowed to have secrets from the - secrets the government can never unlock, no matter what. he feels strongly that we should not be permitted to do so, because when a legal warrant is written, the government must have access to everything.

He also doesn't believe the Snowden leaks, and thinks that when it comes to the pursuit of justice, the government should be trusted with everything.
You can get a Part 5 experimental license, although a likely condition of getting such a license would be taking steps to ensure that your work doesn't interfere with devices outside of a small designated test area. Alternatively, you can do all the GPS experimentation you want inside of a shielded chamber without asking permission from anyone.
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The book is neither about Hitler nor fascism.

I would say it is a book about the magically industrialists that she wishes existed in her youth when her family was disposed by the Russian communists. They have ray guns and invisibility machines and everything, oh and trains don't forget trains.

Here is the thread I copied the quote from, but I have read the book.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11088704
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Isn't this basically the basis of the so-called American Dream? It's fundamentally measured by social mobility (it does rest upon the assumption that nobody CHOOSES to be poor and destitute or that people do want to become wealthier once they've made it up a rung or so) and there's conflicting analysis but most studies are showing that inheritability of class is another perspective and that it is growing stronger, not weaker (while it's different for other countries).

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/america-...

I also find it amusing you compared the US and Russia for social mobility when the Gini coefficient is actually worse for the US than Russia at present (granted, more of an indicator of economic disparity but almost nobody thinks that high income inequality is what happens with higher social mobility)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/business/8046055/G...
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For 99% of such packages all I really want is to be able to apt-get build-dep.

I suppose that in those cases guix would be the ideal system.
Probably manual RAII. That seems to be where most stable C codebases end up, with a simple object model.
We had to RFP each link, meaning we reached out to every fiber/wave vendor that was present in the data centers we wanted to be in that we could find, and had them submit routes with latency data. Then we tested to verify their data. It is really manual unfortunately.
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> People have begun to say this in the US

I encountered it first in the 1970s -- when my age was in the single digits. It might have been new then, but few people seemed to think it was noteworthy, so I doubt it. So, I think "have begun" is somewhat of a misrepresentation.

> Don't take an animal and twist it into filling your own emotional needs by treating it like a human infant.

IME, virtually none of the people who use this language treat their pets "like a human infant", and many of them have either biological or adopted children as well as pets.
I tried using the official encrypt client on my low spec VPS this weekend (cent os 6). It wouldn't install as when compiling it runs out of memory. Why so heavyweight. Luckily I found a python script which uses the acme tools stuff and that worked fine. Maybe providing binaries would be another option so I don't have to compile everything myself.
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Nowhere on the page does it show how it does these automatic code reviews. What is it using to determine this 'GPA' score for a repository? Is it configurable?
RIP, I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary someone kindly uploaded to youtube on his past, what a fascinating man, experience and history he has had.
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For what values of "full knowledge" - you bootstrapped your compiler and verify every line of source code you've downloaded. But then if you're up against nation state actors they can probably force your source code source to be compromised for you and only you - so those "many eyes" are seeing different code. You are after all checking that other people have the same hashes for the download that you use...

Then we're getting into compromised hardware, you verified that the chips actually are the same as the circuit diagrams after all.

There is only so much tinfoil you can deploy. If an advanced nation state truly has you in its sights there isn't much you can do about it, and to be honest that's the way it should be. We sacrifice individual liberties for the advantages of being part of an organised society, and the limitation of coercive power to the state is a key part of that.

A well regulated state in which the right people get targeted, with an acceptably low false positive rate that scales based on the degree of privacy violation of the targeting seems to be a perfectly sensible state of affairs. Apple's argument that they are being asked to do something that isn't justified fits just fine into that.
To be fair, I don't think multi-programmer gamedev teams really existed back then. You can't divide work very meaningfully when your whole application consists of eight kilobytes of assembly with zero room for abstraction or good coding practices.
I have a friend that is a published SF author and he spends a couple of hours each week sending out copyright takedown emails (and managing responses, etc). Usually it's someone who likes his work and just wants to share it, but several times he has caught exact copy/paste editions being put out there under someone else's name.

They have a reason to be paranoid about ownership.

Blatant promotion link:
http://www.amazon.com/K.-M.-Tolan/e/B005EXKWGU/
>The question is: "What would you do if you were a business and had something to sell?"

Make a high quality product.
How long would it take to catch up to the Voyager probes?
> HARQ loop in LTE is tight = 3 ms(3ms for ENB, 3ms for UE

Not sven sure how this is relevant. First of all the virtualization happens not on a global scale but quite local to whatever you can the base station in technical terms. Secondly there is no requirement in futuure standards to be as strict as LLE on that level. Lastly this is a few years out and obviously specialized hardware would be in place. It's kinda pointless to assume that this has to run on general purpose hardware.

Where does this idea come from that this virtualization has to happen on the other side of the world?
Have you tried Telegram?
I am a coder by day, but I'm nearing completion of a full length novel (100,000 words) and ready to self-publish on Kindle and possibly Smashwords. I'll have to take a look at this for some other works. I have some other short stories I've been kicking around.

I particularly like the bias against dystopian fiction as I feel the same way. I also eschew themes like moral decay in the future, since as humans I believe we'll evolve emotionally and intellectually. To put it into perspective, if you look at recent human history you will find slavery, concentration camps, overt racism, all of which have been mostly wiped out.
Would she be interested in another simple W2 customer? First year filing taxes. One job. No kids. Single.
I agree, my bad. I might just try to make an API with Crystal (cause boredom).
Amazon prices change constantly. Even minute-to-minute sometimes.

At least on most of the stuff I've checked on CamelCamelCamel, Amazon has the lowest price on something maybe one day out of ten. Which is another way they push you towards Prime; if you have Prime, setting a price alert and buying it the day the price is the cheapest on Amazon is simple (assuming you can wait). If you're trying to combine items to get non-Prime free shipping, though, one item might be cheapest but the rest almost certainly won't.
The music I like to listen to while programming is basically trip hop/acid jazz/lounge/world music/some techno.

Some songs that are probably not well known that I like are:

I really like B. Fleischmann's Album "The Humbucking Coil" (particularly "Composure" and "Static Grate").

I also like Meteorology by Overseer .. it sounds like Royksopp. Its a weird song but I like.

Anyway my playlist is here:

https://open.spotify.com/user/agentgt/playlist/7whQGAE4NSps8...
I have come to quite like the split pane and app resize features that others talked about. As per the bloatware that came with my s6 edge, I disabled most of those apps the very first day and haven't run into any problems because of that. My phone's battery life is very much comparable to my girlfriend's iPhone 6s, both of which last us through a full day with average use. The only difference being that because I have the s6, I get the Ultra power saving mode though which if turned on at 3% charge or so let's me make/receive calls, text/whatsapp my friends, browse the interwebs, Facebook and Twitter for another 8-10 hours.
Yes! Best way to keep up with blogs and websites I like, especially ones that don't update very often, and avoid a lot of the cruft that can make the websites themselves hard to use.

Moved over to Feedly after Google Reader shut down and it's been fantastic.
I strongly disagree. Anyone has the opportunity to change their own situation at the expense of others.

Think about it like this. No single individual can produce a billion dollars worth of output with his own bare hands. If I "choose" to be a billionaire I have to employ many people and pay them less money than their worth so I can skim the extra resources off the top. If everyone "chose" to be a billionaire who would be left to do the actual work?

Billionaires are only billionaires because they employ other people.

To be wealthy by definition means other people must be poorer than you and thus by definition if you choose to be wealthy you are choosing for other people to be poorer than you. If you chose for other people to be poor than those people never had a choice. Thus in capitalism there are Plenty of people who do not have the freedom of choice.
Of course it will bid down hourly rates. That will increase demand for such services, thereby allowing more people to enter the workforce [1]. Unemployed workers get jobs, consumers get more services - a win for everyone!

[1] It's interesting how the gig economy can reduce sticky wages, making inflationary stimulus unnecessary.
You want to be a publisher? That sounds great, writers need opportunities and someone willing to put in the effort to make that happen is something to be encouraged.

Yet that's a terribly sad page. No theming, no brand, no idea at all about who's running this thing.

Spend fifty bucks and get yourself a logo at least. Show that you care about your identity.
Yeah, I've seen that one, and it's a clumsy solution, at best; it has a custom USB driver and only works with that one piece of software (or did, last time I looked at it). It's certainly better than nothing, and it's cool that something exists, but the lack of general purpose USB audio interface support in Android is frustrating as hell, especially since iOS has had it for so long.
we could use a suitable size black hole to create lensing effect - that way we could capture sizable chunk of the sun's energy
Don't let the ridiculous paranoia on this thread discourage you. Writers you actually want to publish will look at your terms and submit. 99.99% of the people with "concerns" don't have anything you'd publish anyway.

Looking forward to your launch!
You don't understand the logic of "this is a better option than all others and removing it doesn't help unless that's part of some [effective] collective action strategy to a problem"? If so, that's a strike against your model of the problem, not in favor of your criticism.

If you could articulate the collective action problem that such a ban would resolve, that would improve my worldmodel to the point of seeing what insight you're offering here and possibly agreeing. If you can't, then maybe your position doesn't correspond to a better worldmodel than one that I and the original parent hold.

Also, it's not so much that "no one" forces them to work, but that Uber doesn't. My need for satiation "forces" me to buy food, but I hope that doesn't, in your mind, justify a crackdown on all food sellers.
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FWIW, we're taking on TurboTax in Canada, https://simpletax.ca.

The Canada Revenue Agency introduced an API this year that enables us to auto-fill much of the return: https://help.simpletax.ca/questions/how-to-use-afr.
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Shooting a 100kg mass off at 30%C wouldn't be taken lightly by whoever it hit!

Planet killer?
Thank you. This has always been one of my biggest issue with sting operations. For most such operations, there is little to no collateral damage, but in this particular case, they support the same damage that makes the action a crime to begin with. Yet somehow most people seem to not care. I have my own theory on why, based not on just this, but on looking at how people treat all sorts of issues related to this subject, especially when dealing with someone who hasn't offended in any way (including not having viewed such material as mentioned here).

I think that, while people do care for the victims, their main driving force behind their interactions is hatred of the entire group (both those who commit crimes and those who don't). Hatred they justify by the damage some do, but hatred that does not originate there. It is almost like there is some need to have a group painted as evil beyond any consideration, some group you can openly hate regardless of anything else which fuels it. This is one reason why I think support for treatment of non-offenders is so lacking (other than 'lock them up and throw away the key') and why people tolerate the police engaging in abuse of the very same kind to catch them.

And then, the small piece of my mind which loves a good conspiracy begins to wonder if this wasn't engineered as an constant backdoor into digital rights/freedoms. One only needs to look at laws greater than 60 to 100 years ago to see how vastly different society reacted (often there wasn't much care even when a victim was being directly victimized, especially if they weren't the child of someone white and well off).
This article seems to be talking about books, in particular.

I just checked and my free Prime shipping is still in effect.

What am I missing? Did Amazon once offer free shipping to people who didn't have Prime?

I'm pretty sure that they can't just change the benefits of Prime in the middle of my membership.
One big question: will carriers still charge exorbitant per-message fees?

And one huge question: will iOS support RCS?
all of the messaging apps WhatsApp, LINE, WeChat etc are terrible in that they owe a lot of their rise due to users lack of comprehension of sms vs IP and carrier lockin etc etc.

However - google and messaging is just a messy, and they're pushing this now? How about sort out your Messenger and Hangouts mess and get all of that consolidated
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I had the exact same experience coming from T-Mobile as well. No issues after the reset and enjoying the service so far, especially when I travel internationally.