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"Most vehemently against UBI are the trade unions."

Huh. I'll poll my union friends. This would surprise me.

(FWIW, apropos of nothing, union halls are temp agencies with collective bargaining.)

"The immigration fear mongers are against this..."

I assume nowadays economic immigrants mostly want to make their fortune and then go home to retire. I read a study that tracked immigration to/from Puerto Rico. Many (the majority) return home or plan to. Asking all my immigrate coworkers, I get mostly the same answers.

About the nativists: hater's are gonna hate. Just route around them.
But fire _is_ scary, technology is a mixed bag at best, and as for Edison, well, I'm not sure I'd put it past him after how he treated Tesla.

Seriously, I had to read that line twice to realize that it was intended sarcastically. I think I just Poe's Law-ed myself.
update: there seems to be disagreement, but no comments. My assertion is that the manhattanite homeless the author references are in the running against Eqyptian pharaohs, and I dispute the quoted claim as obviously false.
Summary:

Various media sites claimed apple recycled $40 million worth of gold from iphones, they were dead wrong.

What actually happened is that Apple is under statutury obligation to recycle a certain weight of e-waste depending on it market share or weight of electronics sold (depending on state laws). The e-waste doesn't have to be of the manufacturers own products.

Apple paid third party recyclers to recycle mostly CRT's and PC's (iphone have hardly any gold and are much more valuable refurbished, In fact, phones and tablets often don’t count toward the overall recycling requirements in many state laws.) and probably incured a loss rather than a 40 million windfall as claimed in news articles.

Original Article: 1500 words (~8 minute read)
Summary: 114 words (less than a minute)

The articles goes in to some more detail and analyzes the mandatory recycling laws deeper as well. There is also some commentary of how many other sites got it very wrong and overview of the e-waste recycling industry. Reading recomended if you want gain more knowledge on this.

If you'd like such summaries for all articles before you read them check out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11535695
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I absolutely agree with this. I see UBI as a solution to the tragedy of the commons in the Star Trek economy. Also, it communicates our collective intention not to enslave you. That is, not to subject you to one variety of shockingly immoral power differential. Once you (actually) get rid of slavery the next Big Social Problem is systematically enforced class relations. For which you have mentioned several possible solutions. The problem is that people filter so aggressively. Racism is a superficial component of this. It results from the way we measure correlates when we evaluate humans. Profiling is just too effective. Social classes emerge naturally from anything we can't obscure. If you had money in childhood for instance, you're much more likely to be educated and useful. There are various ways we encode the amount of money we had in childhood. Like straight teeth. Should we prefer to hire people with straight teeth? We need to overcome these artificial boundaries. They are shockingly immoral.
I wonder if there's a publicity effect here.

Much in the same way that police abuse has been going on forever but didn't get attention until everyone got a camera in their phone, I think bullshit "news" stories have always been with us. The net makes it much easier to debunk these, and for the news of the debunking to spread in the same way the original story did.

That's not to say the insatiable, screwed up incentives to publish on the net before fact checking aren't problematic. I just question whether shoddy/misleading/outright false "news" has actually gotten worse, or whether we just notice it more because corrections and factchecks in some cases become news in their own right (like here).
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Right - if Shake Shake complained about the $0.99 hamburger, it would be implying "... which is a perfect substitute for our $8 burger."

The issue isn't two laptop stands. It's that one laptop stand is claimed to be a rip-off of another - ie too similar. But it's cheaper so if it's too similar than the first one was a rip-off for the consumer. (ie same product, worse price.)

Yes, one man's rip-off is another man's profit margin but nobody is owed their margin. They can't expect anyone else to cry when their market-control is broken.
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Isn't it also now in the US rather than the UK after the Security Services embarrassing Snowden-hard drive sledgehammer incident?
IIRC you can `SET ROLE = ...`, query, `RESET ROLE` and be done with it.

Might need transactions, I'm not sure. I fiddled around with it a bit but it was too much overhead to work with.
It's not without rationale:

'Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired back saying “decriminalization actually gives a legal stream of income to criminal organizations.”'[0]

[0] http://globalnews.ca/news/2650706/canada-to-introduce-pot-le...
Would you implement binary search? A feature like git-bisect could be usefull to find breaking changes.
Did you buy this new?
Sorry. I have no idea what you are talking about.

Are you a biologist/ecologist or someone knowledgeable in the field?
A monopoly on pieces of metal shaped a certain way? I feel like both of your sentences are unnecessarily abstract here.
My game theoretic minded younger self was mightily impressed by Robert Wright's book Non-zero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonzero:_The_Logic_of_Human_De...

Transformed me from an Eeyore into an unrepentant optimist.
(I'm a layperson, too, for the record.)

"I know. But when you remove mosquitoes from the picture, aren't you putting selection pressure on the diseases to be airborne?"

Not necessarily that specific pressure. Except in carefully controlled laboratory situations, we can't specify the selection pressure being applied. There are too many potential pressures at work, and the mutation outcomes are too stochastic. At best we can force pressure in general. The outcome of that pressure might be entirely different from what we expect it to be.

Let's say we eradicate mosquitos. What other vectors of transmission does a virus like Zika have? What other hosts? It's possible the virus finds a new insect-borne transmission pathway: say, ticks instead of mosquitos. It's possible the virus 'focuses' (to use the term very very loosely) on other hosts, and effectively ceases to be a human concern. I'd wager that either of these outcomes is the more likely adaptation case than a leap to airborne transmission.

Evolving an entirely new means of infectious transmission seems to be a much rarer adaptation than adapting through other means (increased infectious potential; severity of infection; adaptation to new host types; etc.). It's popular in TV and movies to speak about a virus "going airborne," but in actual record, that's usually not what happens. Evolution doesn't have any agency or self-direction; it usually arrives at the 'laziest' and least costly alternative in response to imposed pressures. In this scenario, evolving airborne survivability and transmissibility is probably more costly than adapting to whatever enzyme prevents fleas and ticks from being carriers.

Source: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/141003_ebola
Thanks for the response. Agree about the Bamboo routing. Lashup is interesting. Is the conntrack data replicated then to all Minuteman nodes so if you were to lose one minutemen a client wouldn't lose its "established" state when it has to connect to another minuteman node? Or am I failing to understand the design?
> Does that mean that one can use system threads as frivolously as goroutines (e.g. spawning new thread for each incoming request)?

Yes. In fact, under Linux oftentimes spawning a thread and then running a system call can be faster than just running a system call.

> Conventional C++ wisdom advices against it.

With 32 bit CPU's you might run out of virtual memory quickly, since each thread allocates virtual memory for its stack.

With 64 bit CPU's there are no issues. (Also never forget that virtual memory isn't real memory, it's just a page counter.)
This author clearly twists the words from that 2010 Nature report[1], as

1) That quote "Life would continue as before — or even better." is not even the conclusion in the Nature report. It's in the fifth paragraph of the first part out of the three part report. I guess this author just stopped here and failed to read the rest parts of the report for his conclusion?

2) The other two parts of the reports talk about the mosquito biomass and its impact to arctic tundra ecosystem, food chains and even cacao pollination.

3) The original author Janet Fang actually concluded the report by quoting entomologist Joe Conlon "If we eradicated them tomorrow, the ecosystems where they are active will hiccup and then get on with life." And the more important part is the next sentence: "Something better or worse would take over."

The key is that there is a high probability something worse would take over when you tried to mess Nature's arrangement in the past 100 million years abruptly. As noted by other HN user, Chairman Mao also thought getting rid of sparrows was really a good idea.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11530336 and marked it off-topic.
Sorry about that. I'll edit my comment. If I still have your attention, actually, would you mind deleting my account and possibly the comments? I've seen lots of comments on here saying that it's difficult to get a response for deletion, so raising it here might work better. I've been spending too much time on here. :)

Edit: can't edit that post :(
It's almost as if standard and cost of living are incredibly complex equations that you can't boil down into an HTML table.
What's the difference between the two?
I would wager almost everyone skews numbers at least part of the time. This is one of the main reasons we have regulation in the first place. They simply can't be trusted to do the right thing.
I'm in East Java with my wife and 1 year old daughter. The rainy season was supposed to end a few weeks ago, but we still have rain, and mosquitos. I wish they would eliminate the two Zika vectors, and the Malaria vector mosquito as well. I am vegetarian for over two years nos, and feel compassion for all living things, except the mosquito. The article made me laugh as well.
Neither quote says or implies "there is no such thing as climate change".

In fact, the second one - "it is a theory that can never be disproven" makes it clear that he understands that climate change is constant and has always happened.
> With CRISPR and gene drive, it changes from "fucking hard" to "trivial", so it is not only likely to change, it's already changed.

The kind of hubris displayed here almost certainly belies deep ignorance. Please, doctor, tell us how trivial editing DNA is.
Amazon is not "Joe Random".
agreed, but at least it mentions what the "problem" is now.
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- http://www.marxists.de/statecap/binns/statecap.htm

- http://www.hetsa.org.au/pdf/34-A-08.pdf

- http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31567-socialism-means-abo...
I wouldn't be surprised if it had close to zero impact. As much as people like to talk about Amsterdam's legal marijuana laws, I'm skeptical many people visited that country only because of that. Marijuana isn't exactly hard to get and smoke in private in the places these laws are being enacted in.
Is there any website/service that allows US citizens to sign and send a pre-written letter to their congressman to address this issue, specifically pertaining to the Zika Virus and/or killing mosquitoes? Change.org campaign?

My wife is pregnant now, we live in Southern California, and I feel fairly powerless to do anything except ask my wife to DEET up, be on the lookout for freestanding water, add screens, and pray.
I'm guessing this is part of the telemetry Chrome gathers. IIRC when you first install Chrome, there's an opt-in (or opt-out) where it asks the user whether sending usage information to Google is okay. Firefox does something similar.

The total on that page is either the number from their telemetry or an approximation based on those numbers and the size of their user base.
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That's past uncharitable and into personal attack. You can't comment like this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11530336 and marked it off-topic.
Based on the following quote:

> “We will introduce legislation in spring 2017 that ensures we keep marijuana out of the hands of children and profits out of the hands of criminals,”

It sounds like they plan on legitimizing the whole thing.
That's a success story per theory of capitalism. Notice they're not griping about the fact that they could collectively do CEO pay at $100-300k with same results given underlings effectively run the company. They didn't even gripe much about her overdone ckmpensation. No, they were pissed that she tried a turnaround instead of something that would only benefit one group: the shareholders.

Serve's their asses right. A taste of their own medicine. She certainly did fail in the turn around because it was beyond saving. She succeeded as a capitalist. Now, she has the capital to invest in better models that care about stakeholders instead of just shareholders. Interesting to see what she does next.
This is a solved problem. If you're using an adblocker, now-a-days you need an anti-anti-adblocker like https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer

I've had to install this onto my family's machines even so they don't turn off their adblocker and malware themselves... repeatedly. Until the ad industry is free of malware and privacy violations (ie: a massive switch to first party only ads) I'm not going to feel a shred of guilt about blocking them.
Wait, so to you, a statement affirming part of the carbon cycle is equivalent to "there is no such thing as climate change"?

Wow. Wow.
I was about to say, this is all relative to the location.

Living and making $90k in Atlanta is the equivalent of living and making $150k in San Francisco.

http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/
Why do you make the assumption that anything that's not Google is infested with spyware?
Could someone compare this to Redshift? Seems like they solve similar problems...we use RS to monitor terabytes of time-series data.
Embassies worldwide often mail letters (party invitations, a check to pay for power, etc) using the postal services of host countries.

The vast majority transmit anything sensitive by diplomatic courier.

I suspect in this case the document was simply placed in an envelope and not actually mailed, while the individual responsible didn't realize the consequences of using an branded envelope.
Exactly! I remember reading firsthand accounts from, even 150 years ago, in the US, like Little House on the Prairie, and they all seemed to think it was pretty normal to just "not have food" sometimes. Many many pages were devoted to discussing how long food would last, what they would do when food ran out, how fantastic it was that someone saved the day by killing a food, etc. And they weren't even poor by the standards and culture of the day! They had incredibly advanced (relatively speaking) technology, specialization, and societal support!

I've been downvoted a ton in this thread, but I just think there's so much delusion here about the lifestyle and living standards of prehistoric man...
Wow, I had no idea git bisect was so easy to use
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Haven't thought about that but it makes a lot of sense to have that. If you don't mind, could you open up a issue on Github, explaining how you can imagine it to work to help you the most? https://github.com/VictorBjelkholm/autochecker/issues/new

Would appreciate that a lot and thanks for the feedback.
I purchased a 360 a few days ago so that I could play Street Fighter 3: Third Strike with my friends from back home. It's a fine console, but I was worried about the prospects of Microsoft shutting down Xbox Live at some point.
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As said in the intro video, ask the local handyman.

This is not out of reach, they managed to build those in Africa with whatever was available.
tl;dr: little guy takes the risk, big guy takes the profit
Then isn't the FDA's claim false, if people detect different effects from brand name vs generic?
Not that I would confuse CNN as actual journalism with investigative journalists but how many times a day does CNN say "we have not been able to independently verify" about a story, yet doesn't bother with stuff like this?

How can these places claim "freedom of the press" without having to prove they are "press" or what "press" even is?
Apple announced a robotics project last month called "Liam". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYshVbcEmUc It recovers "cobalt and lithium", "gold and copper", "silver and platinum".

The number "2,204 pounds of gold" comes from page 17 of this PDF https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Re... which prominently displays Liam on the cover page.
Eventually, a researcher who is genuinely responsible instead of merely professionally so will conduct the X-chromosome shredding experiment in the wild. There won't be publicity at first, but if it works as well as the Chickens Little fear then eventually, after the hymns of praise to the heavens have resounded for a few years, the researcher will reveal the key to a hash she had published years earlier. That hash will be found to be of her lab notes on the day she released the selfish gene into the wild and destroyed a scourge upon humanity for good.

Not only will this be good for the millions of human children who won't die, but we'll gain a better understanding of ecological principles at which we can now only guess. This isn't the last species we'll want to change, but there may only be a few we want to eliminate this way. The knowledge gained in the anti-Anopheles project will be useful for less destructive efforts as well.
Just to add to those two other points, the 360 was Microsoft's leading platform for developing countries and countries with heavy import restrictions.

For example, Brazil's incredibly protective trade policies requires electronics to be made locally if they are to be sold at an affordable price point. The 360 only went on sale there in 2011 when MS opened up a local manufacturing facility and it was the last refuge of the PS2 which only went on sale when local production began in 2009. The Brazilian market isn't large enough for MS to justify duplicate tooling and other custom production equipment needed to produce a local version of the Xbox One. However, the decline in demand for the 360 would have led to excess production capacity, allowing MS to set up a local plant with the excess equipment from underulitized original production lines.

Also, the 360-specific tooling and production equipment has long since been paid off which greatly reduces the cost per unit. The 360 provides MS with a budget offering capable of accessing developing markets which can't support the $300 pricepoint of a current gen console.
> Rather than put $200 per year away in a low-risk, low-reward savings account, some put $200 into high-risk, high-reward lottery tickets.

>It is crude yet important to point out that if America’s middle-class and poor were cheaper with their money, they would be richer. One fine policy would be to ban state lotteries

oh yeah, that whole $200 dollars a year is really going to help.

This article is complete shit. ugh.
I'm not sure if there's any 'controversy', the OP article doesn't seem to neccesarily think there is one, or that Apple has done anything wrong.

The OP article just says that the thing everyone's saying about 'Apple harvests gold from iPhones and makes $40 million" just isn't true.

It's not a question of 'controversy', it's a question of understanding what's actually going on in the world regarding our resource consumption and waste generation and where the costs of such are borne -- something we probably need to be more familiar with if we want to keep living on this planet.
Not that I'm a futurist, but I predict that 2020 will be the decade where AI becomes unsettling (beyond image recognition, which is already becoming unsettling), and that 2030 will be the decade where AI has serious economic consequences.
Ironically Target cards were the only safe cards when they got hacked. Visa/Mastercard is the one that took a hit.
Interesting. I keep hearing that name, and probably will look him up...
You guys really need to do this on GCP where there's zero Postgres competition.

Since GCP will be overtaking AWS in like 2-3 years (hah), good to get a head start now. ;)
Right, for a minute I forgot this was written in 1994.

"The DES algorithm is mathematically impregnable and has never been broken, even now, by any of the pirates."

I wonder how much use those large dishes have now; I still see them every now and then.
This is technically possible. I wonder what political aim of such a campaign might be?
That's interesting; could another approach then be to use CRISPR to switch the anthropophilic species to zoophilic, and thus sidestep the "ecological destruction" argument that is the main objection to just destroying those species?

I think a cost-benefit analysis supports gene-drive-based mosquito eradication, but this option might be as effective and more politically palatable.
And do you think Bill Gates would approve killing whole species ?

I honestly don't known but he seems to be a very clever guy and eradicating species doesn't sound to be a clever solution and really not a good long term solution.

What if you break a whole ecosystem ? What if those mosquitoes contain invaluable genes for future medicine? What if they offer a unique window on the evolution of insects?

But hey, who care? Kill them all..
Seems like a bit of a losing game to try to fight counterfeiters on a 15+ year cycle. Who knows what home printing technology will look like in 10 years? Even 5 years from now is hazy. It's already the case that home laser printers can make some very convincing forgeries if you can track down a reasonably similar type of paper and defeat the currency detection firmware.
Nice, the technology you built sounds cool!
And Tesla has a monopoly on making Teslas. Your definition of "monopoly" is inaccurate.

Android is 85% of the smartphone market. iOS is 13% of the smartphone market. Android is a monopoly, iOS is not.
No, they have promised legalization. However there's virtually no chance of this being a free-for-all.

What I expect the main features to be:

- Certified and regulated producers, though not numerically limited

- heavily-taxed.

- no problems growing your own.

- retail distribution depends on province. More liberal in BC, government-run in Ontario.

- separate certifications for places "serving" (ie, pot cafes). Can't take it home with you.
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This is why the XBOX 360 has had fairly long legs.

It's no longer "just a game console" and is really in the first generation of converged, internet-updatable consoles.

And in that generation? Even if your console doesn't run the latest games, there's still substantial value delivered for a lot of people through Netflix, social features, casual games, etc. And MS can continue backporting their UI updates.
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It's what she negotiated for based on her track record. Obviously someone who runs a company into the ground is not worth anything. But a CEO can increase the value of the company enough to justify their compensation package.