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Comparing ads to direct payments is false dichotomy, there are countless other ways to monetize content. Also, most ads as we know are not fast nor passive.
Imho content blocking is just a harsh realization your content not worth as much you thought until you could force everyone to pay for it through ads, and now you have to play catch up. Let the market handle it.
> * Robots do not act cruelly unless specifically instructed.

Well, sure, but have you used computers recently? It's often a fucking awful experience and while the computer clearly isn't trying to make your life frustrating that's often the result.

PC LOAD LETTER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QQdNbvSGok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8

Do we really want the people who make printers to make autonomous killing machines?
But to what extent are physical factors a rationalization? We can mix-and-match the genders and degree of manual labor involved and see exceptions; men working in construction; men working as engineers; men working sedentary office jobs; women in nursing; women in education; men and women in animal husbandry.

To me it's not obvious what the dimensions are that are relevant to professions that humans have a gender disposition toward, and what percentage of out current distribution of professions should be explained by cultural ideas rather than such dispositions, and it may never be obvious.

Regardless, (and this is a tangent to the current comment thread) I understand the current push for gender diversity in professions to have several purposes that is not contingent on there being no gender disposition in professions.

1) Maximizing individual capabilities. The idea being that proponents of profession diversity wants to increase the number of fulfilling career paths an individual is able to make by removing obstacles, real and perceived, by the individual and by the industry. Obstacles include, for example, pay differences, glass ceilings, stigmata, workplace hours.

2) Increasing manpower, which is related to the previous goal, but from the perspective of government. When people able to perform well at a job but instead work at a job where they provide suboptimal utility due to gender discrimination, that is value lost for a society. When professions and gender are rigid, that is resilience and flexibility compromised. A competitive society thus has an incentive to decouple professions from gender.

Thus, whereas a gender disposition may explain present distributions, it nevertheless does not invalidate the reasons behind
Jacques,

I also wouldn't mind hearing the context.

Thank you.
Just so we understand, your parents would answer the phone, say "hello", and the person who placed the call would then say "who is this?", really? That seems quite rude to me. We don't carry phones for the purpose of sudden challenges to our identity! I have gotten that sort of "who is this?" call before, but I just hung up.
>What's really needed is a workable, simple, micropayments model where users can pay just one monthly fee and the sites they visit are compensated automatically.

You've described a multi-site subscription rather than micropayments. Something like this could work if enough quality sites signed on. I'm not going to pay Wired $4/month. (Heck I think I only pay something like $1/month for the magazine.) But I might consider paying $4/month for a subscription covering a wide range of content.

One problem then is that you're putting loads of content behind some sort of paywall. Which means, among other things, that every time someone shares a link of HN for example, people complain. You do some variants of this with digital magazine subscriptions for example, but none of them have taken off.

In addition, if this approach really succeeded at the broadest scale, you're effectively talking about making a large chunk of the Web subscription only.

True micropayments have their own problems. A lot of people have taken a run at this going back to Web 1.0. The transactional friction associated with getting someone to plop down that penny or nickel to read just seems too great--in addition to the issues with a cross-site subscription.
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Living in the Pacific NW as an avid motorcyclist- it's been a semi bittersweet transition. It was 22.5mi from driveway to (free motorcycle) parking garage- which meant I was riding on average 425mi a week. I used to average MAYBE 2500mi a year, excluding summer road trips, before commuting every day on my bike.

Especially during the spring and summer- I missed that nice, gorgeous, Seattle morning ride as the morning transitioned from pre-dawn light. I'm probably going to have to find a really inneficient and long way to get to the office some mornings now that I think about it.
TV ads are not tracking you, taking data from you and/or providing an attack vector for malware or other cybercrime.

So literally not the exact same thing.
> for sane enforcement of proper ordering, you have to rely on some sort of explicit mutual exclusion.

Oh, see, we got somewhere. You seem to presume that it's ok to implement an event loop that doesn't guarantee mutual exclusivity of callbacks. But that's not the case, the whole point of event-driven programming is to guaranty that exclusivity, so you wouldn't have to think about synchronization. So, your arguments do not apply here at all.

EDIT:

> example, make that callback get called without waiting in some cases, and bam, you've got a synchronization problem

There is no such thing as waiting for callbacks in event loops. There is giving up control to a callback and getting it back once it returns. Or it's not an event loop otherwise.

> And what if I told you that you can keep track of resources and accept signals from, well, anything, in cooperative (or non-cooperative) threads? Because, you can.

No, you can't. Because of the way blocking code is written there is no guaranteed state of mutual exclusivity of everything where your signal/message handler can execute and operate in the same scope, without causing havoc.
I wish there was a tutorial like this that included starting an X server in every one of the linux VMs and connecting them some how to your desktop. That way you can open windows in them and segregate different applications to VMs (Web Browsers, Untrusted Applications,etc.. )
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When you are at the cutting edge of your field (able to publish in Nature or Science), you know exactly who the peer reviewers are (there is usually only 5 to 10 teams in the world who are experts in your area). So you know it's one of 20 to 60 people (roughly).

That part is actually very easy. The job the journal does is to randomly and anonymously assign the reviewer (sometimes not entirely randomly, giving it to your critics). But all that could be automated (taking into account top publishers in the field, newcomers to the field, conference publications, etc).
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They don't need to go wild to cause more civilian deaths than soldiers would.

There is much less risk sending a robot to kill than there is sending a human. Humans fear death. Robots do not.

Contractors claim that drones are accurate. However that can never guarantee that the human controllers are accurate. Humans controlling robots may err to the side of killing too many than too few, to a greater degree than soldiers would.

So yeah I think there are some reasonable arguments against them. Jet fighters and bombers are somewhat limited by personnel and higher equipment costs.

Drones do not require as much training to operate and will not have as much of a personnel constraint in the future. They could be as dangerous or worse than nuclear weapons for a country that is being attacked by them in the future. Rather than wiping out a population, drones could create slaves.
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Yes, there is lots of room for innovation. Too bad the big media companies have no feeling of need for innovation.
They lobby for laws against adblockers. They look to blame the customer and the ability of the customer to block their ads.
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> An ad that could hook me up with exactly what I want, when I want it would not only be acceptable, it would be fantastic.

It's telling that you don't seem to have found one.
What the article doesn't clarify is that the researchers mapped the locations of Banksy pieces against hand-picked locations of interest, such as the home addresses of people who were in the past said to be Banksy.

So, the fact that the researcher's model "fingered" Robin Gunningham is not as surprising as the Economist makes it. In fact, Gunningham was "fingered" by the model because he had been fingered in the past by others.

The Economist's article fudges this considerably and makes it seem like the model can just converge on a correct location on a map just from the signal, which is very doubtful.

At best this is a good guess as to what past guess is a good guess; in this case, about Banksy's identity. In the future, about the usual suspects, probably.

Edit: Original study (behind a paywall):
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14498596.2016.113...

Here, we use geographic profiling, a statistical technique originally developed to prioritise large lists of suspects in cases of serial crime such as murder, rape and arson, to assess the evidence supporting one prominent candidate.

The research identified 10 "suspect sites" that were used as _input_ to the model. Most of them are associated with Gunningham:

Suspect sites in Bristol included Gunningham’s house in the Easton area of the city, The Plough in Easton (for whom Gunningham played football), and their playing fields at Baptist Mills Primary School, as well as Gunningham’s old school, Bristol Cathedral School.
I don't agree with this.. I compare the internet ad situation with my TV (in the Netherlands): since about 10 years there's been more and more ads on many channels, and i stopped watching at ALL of them. There are currently about 5 channels (of 100+ total) that i still watch, the ones without ads.

And I don't mis much because in my opinion most of the commercial TV channels (the ones with ads) also have low quality content.

I really hope ad blocking keeps growing and all the bad quality content on the internet dies together with the ads.

And i'll hapily pay for quality internet content without ads, at an acceptible price, just as i buy apps in Apples appstore, and pay for Netflix.
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It's the UK, we probably have enough CCTV cameras everywhere to trace a masked hijacker all they way back to their house. Add to that that the trucks will doubtless be recording everything that happens around them and be able to be remotely disabled, I doubt we will see any of them stolen. Plus, is any truck driver really going to go above and beyond to stop someone stealing TVs off the back of current trucks?
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Seems more complicated. The criminal amendments apply, but the second is disputed.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/255281-yes...

https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/24/ilegal-aliens-have-second...

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/12/court-illegal-ali...
I'd argue that China, Russia and the US have already passed this point w.r.t. nucelar weapons: Every side is sufficiently armed so that a war between any of them cannot be won. As soon as you start winning in a conventional scenario the other side might as well use nuclear weapons, just to ensure you'll lose too. In short a war between nuclear powers makes no sense, since the "victory condition" has been removed.

I'd assume that this is the same in asymmetric conflicts: If you are fighting a guerilla war, you "win" when you kill some of your enemies troops and demoralize them. However if enemy sends only machines, then cannot win as long as the enemy is capable of producing more of these autonomous weapons than you can destroy. As you've said the cost savings do enable that. Hence the guerilla side also loses its victory condition. This is a scenario I'd actually like to see, since it might put an effective end to the kind of fighting we've seen in the middle east.

Your argument is of course correct when we consider two countries which are both capable of producing such weapons and neither side has a nuclear weapon. Saudi-Arabia and Iran are candidates which could probably fall into this kind of an arms race and that would indeed make the situation there even worse.
The internet can handle it, there are lots of services that make payments across the globe possible.
This system would be rolled out per website that wants it.
I didn't drink until my early 20s, probably in part because when I was a kid my mum would mix white wine with orange juice as her preferred drink. If I found a glass of orange juice sitting in the kitchen, chances were it'd been 'poisoned' with wine. It wasn't until I tried bourbon and coke a lot later that I realised alcohol can taste good.
There seems to be a genetic component to how we perceive the taste of some of these artificial sweeteners [1]. Personally, I also think stevia is gross -- bitter and metallic aftertaste.

The best AS for me is sucralose (Splenda). I can't tell it apart from sugar. I've also never seen any results about it that would concern me, and it's been studied more than almost anything else we eat.

[1] http://news.psu.edu/story/284556/2013/08/20/research/multipl...
This just debunks the claim that the current influx of welfare claimants into Europe, especially Sweden, is in toto a net plus for the economy while it is in fact thinly disguised voter importation.
>"'Non-invasive advertising' is an oxymoron. Truly non-invasive advertising would be no advertising at all. Why should any of us put up with being advertised to when we have no interest in giving our attention to advertisers?"

I don't find well done advertising invasive, I actually rely on them sometimes, like when Adwords started... it made sense in the context.

The author say later that as ad blocking usage grow the websites owners would find other forms of funding. The thing is, we have been there already. The majority of the volume traffic don't want to pay, and the ones that do aren't enough to support a big website operation.
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I don't see how clicking on click bait means you pay/nearly pay. You're only paying if money leaves your bank account. You're just wasting a little time (not much though; just click the back button) and feeling a little stupid for falling for it. Just don't click on linkbait, and make a note not to ever visit that site again. Actually, it'd be nice if adblockers let you blacklist sites and turned their urls into the text "linkbait url removed". I think people DO hate linkbait generally because nobody likes being lied to, which is essentially what's happening.
The slice of the population that can just take their pick of an arbitrarily large pool of choice jobs within cycling distance is really tiny. Others will choose to move around which works somewhat if one rents and has less stuff than I always did--and don't have SOs, kids, etc.
Then again, the printer is just not working. It's not randomly printing things you don't want. In the same sense, a broken autonomous tank would just stop dead in its tracks instead of suddenly killing everything that moves. Those failure modes have always been very rare.
Radiant looks a little more native too
> Some CEOs do think that it's OK to cause environmental damage, outsource to sweatshops or conduct mass layoffs - as long as it's a lawful act.

I actually think that any of those three might be appropriate in the right context as long as they are lawful. Essentially every company causes some amount of environmental damage because every company uses electricity and has employees that drive to work. It's important that we as a society decide how much environmental damage is acceptable because if we leave it up to individual companies then the worst will profit and out compete the best.

Mass layoffs are unpleasant but if the alternative if bankruptcy then it's better that they occur. It's hard to have an economy that allows new companies to be created and grow without allowing other companies to shrink.

And as to sweatshops I'll let Paul Krugman talk for me:
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...
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Yeah, but I think that largely depends on the degree of security you want to have in your blockchain. For example you could use something of a multi-party signing-scheme for consensus that regularly stamps hashes of it's own table into the bitcoin blockchain - this kind of scheme would be significantly less expensive to implement since you could pack thousands of transactions into a single bitcoin transaction. I'm not really sure micro-payments are the answer to add blocking to begin with though -
This is ridiculously optimistic. Perhaps many toy programs can be easily converted, but real programs that use libraries other than base will not be so easy to migrate.

I've used the Haste compiler which IS Haskell that supports ALL GHC extensions except TemplateHaskell, supports the Cabal build tool and in practice it has its own ecosystem; most of Hackage will not compile on it.

Frege doesn't implement all the language extensions (very commonly used ones, such as MultiParamTypeclasses, are not supported), it doesn't share a build tool. It would be a great deal of work to port any non-trivial program.
To me, continuous integration/build is a different class of process than the others. I mean that test coverage at 8am on a Monday is going to be pretty much the same as at 2pm the following Wednesday. On a large code base it's going to be hard to move the needle on test coverage in a day and a half.

The second thing I see is the permutation problem. The combination of Java, Go, JS, Python, Ant, jacoco, junit, pmd, and checkstyles means that the odds that there's an existing tool that works across all of them is very low. The odds that there's something that works across all of them the way you want is pretty close to zero.

I think it's going to be hard to get what you want the way you want. To me it looks like a moderate devops project.

Good luck.
I’m a mobile dev now?
re: truck driving, it's even less friendly to women than software: http://jezebel.com/unhappy-trails-female-truckers-say-they-f... http://truckerdesiree.com
You must have been being coy when you wrote that ;)

Led Zeppelin Loses First Round of Plagarism Lawsuit: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/led-zeppelin-loses-first-round-i...
Good point, I also noticed URLS that have been already discused, submited again, after couple of weeks. Some duplicity check, would be helpful.
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I was with the article until this statement... Appendicitis is a medical emergency and suggesting you can just take antibiotics and it'll go away, or that antibiotics (a group of medicines with their own problems) are preferable to an established and very effective treatment feels irresponsible to me. Even if that's true, if you are experiencing appendicitis you NEED to talk to a doctor and you likely NEED to consider surgery.
Those with 'improved brain function' generally eat more chocolate. Now I can say with impunity "I prefer chocolate because I have improved brain function."

Chocolate improves brain function. Now I can say with impunity "Chocolate is improving my brain function."
Not a tutorial but there's a distro which does this.

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/architecture/
It's called a sublease. They're regulated.
I have seen several mentions of James-Stein estimator being almost an empirical Bayesian estimator, but this article made it more clearer. Thanks for sharing.
I think the point here is not which prior to use for effect of chocolate, but how to account for the differences between actual and self-reported chocolate consumption, which itself might be correlated with cognitive ability.

Maybe people who ate chocolate but did not report it (because "eating too much chocolate is bad for you") tended to have lower cognitive ability - they did not realise that by reporting incorrect intake they introduced bias in the study.
There are 90% and 95% cocoa chocolate that taste really good, you don't need a lot of sugar to take the bitterness off. Look for shops making their own dark chocolate, or smaller brands. The most well known brand people associate with dark chocolate tastes bitter and powdery (I suspect they use too much solid and not enough fat)

Note that cocoa itself makes the brain release large amount of dopamine.
I use an ad blocker because I hate the idea being tracked. Hiding ads is simply a plus. I like the idea behind Webpass but they do nothing to prevent the tracking part of the whole ad blocking discussion.
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That's the thing about a constitution - it only applies to citizens. How else do you think that FISA can be constitutional?
Scientific publishing is different from other things.

If it is an ordinary book or a movie or something, the creator(s) of the creative work gets paid for it through royalties.

Scientists, for the most part, receive public money to do research, and then Elsevier expects to get paid again for what we already paid for. It seems to me that if my taxes go to support research I should be able to read it, and if it is the developing or developed world it doesn't matter.
Last I checked so did the Google Play website player.
Sure. GOV has no obligation to represent either side in a bit between private parties. The curve for me is that the children in question are on the other side of the "v." from United States.
I should point out that if you are a perfectly immortal government that takes a strictly instrumental view of your population then the value of the typical 1st world citizen's life is going to be about $5 million. The government can't extract all that value from its soldiers but it should still consider their long term productivity forgone by them dying as much the cost of training them if you're being smart.

Of course that only enhances your point.
Laugh all you want. Laughter doesn't change facts.

And facts are -- nobody is indebted to companies who snuck themselves in the content we're interested in. I didn't ask for them there. Did I sign a contract mandating me to not use ad blockers? No. Your move then.

What's so hard to comperehend here?
On the other hand, the legislative powers have recognized that SLAPP lawsuits are a problem - there are certain issues that need to be decided equitably in court even though the power (read money) differential between plaintiff and defendant is just to great. Patent trolling is probably a subset of SLAPP.

Following that reasoning it's fair, I think, that a minor in immigration proceedings should be appointed a lawyer by the government.
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I found it here. Great short article after which some meditation is in order:

http://gamblers-united.com/winning-ways-what-the-worlds-best-poker-players-and-entrepreneurs-have-in-common/
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