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You're conflating obesity with teen birth... why exactly?

You're saying technology didn't spread the idea of having less sex; I don't even think the commenter you're responding to claimed as much, merely that for all the chatter about sex and violence on TV and video games and other media, teens are still doing a good job at not making stupid choices. Which is contrary to what many people believe today.

I don't think technology has very much to do with it, more the idea that if you're born into a household with five other starving kids, you're less likely to repeat what your parents did.

And, absolutely not. Tinder is legitimately causing hookups that probably wouldn't have otherwise happened so easily, just as an easy example.
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Neither is leasing out compute resources.

The devil's in the details. Scale, convenience, ease of use...
But people won't sell anything for enough of their own money.

So, look, the value of Apple is A + C, where A is the present value of Apple's business per se (that is, how much you value owning the thing that makes iPhones and sells them), and C is Apple's more-or-less cash stockpile.

Unless you think that A is 0 or negative (which is obviously absurd), Apple can not buy itself. Any money it has just raises the total value of the company. Any money that it returns to investors lowers the value of C, but not A. If 51% of Apple investors want their shares of C, they can literally just choose one of themselves, fire Tim Cook, put that person in charge, and order C returned to investors through dividends -- and they'd still have A.

Given that, why would they accept C money for an asset definitionally worth A + C?
> Because they own, by hook or by crock, the spigots...

Same could be said about Venezuela under Chavez and Maduro, and 'electricity and running water' are still a problem there.
That's been working so well in Brazil...
Oil prices dropped. Venezuela is a petrostate. To date the problems there from the dawn of Chavez is strictly ideological.
> I don't think so. Will people disappear? Where to?
They'll mostly stay and figure out how to live. People are good at that

No, people will go where they can get food to feed their children. Where there aren't bands of marauders sacking grocery stores every night, and where they can build a life.

See the Trail of Tears in modern US history, or any of a thousand other cities that have risen and disappeared in world history.
> entails millions of man-hours of work

Overstatement of the year.

Why on Earth would the OP start from scratch? Besides, though not a solo and OSS effort, Apifier does this; certainly without "millions" of hours having been spent on it.
No mention of the harsh sanctions against Venezuela. I wonder why? Perhaps because the conclusion without so much ignorance would have been: death by lost economic war against aggressive capitalist countries.
Of course you'd need two beams. If you used a single beam it would be a stellar rocket... which might be fun in different ways. Certainly gives the phrase "interstellar warfare" a different meaning.

I realize this is all space opera, not hard SF. It's still fun.
> If I posted an article about Linux 4.1 or something, I wouldn't expect to see comments saying 'meanwhile, I used Windows yesterday, and played GTA5, and it was good'.

Back in the 90's when there was more of a religious fervor around Linux the way there is around Bitcoin right now, yeah you would have.

The vitriol is no mystery, it's an obvious reaction to the way so many people have rapturously talked about Bitcoin as if it's going to make governments irrelevant.

We're at the beginning of Bitcoin being treated more like the novelty that it is, and possibly finding a niche where it can be useful over the long term. As it enters this phase where the hype around it dies down, the vitriol will as well.
Horses also have some interesting auto-pilot features, not to mention they are green. Their fuel source generates oxygen during development and some of their byproducts can be used to enhance your garden!
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Paranoia is medically treatable these days.
Hmm, Amazon killing it on distributed computing, Facebook killing it on Internet advertising, Netflix killing it on Streaming video. Bad news for anyone missing their earnings this season.
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You just demonstrated the concept to which I'm alluding. There is a balance of time preference versus saving preference for absolutely everything in an economy based on the subjective desires of all participants. For some people, this will be cell phones, or cars, or fancy shoes, or little purse dogs. They won't save forever, living just to get by, for some uncertain future when they can have more stuff. There is no deflationary spiral, there's a balance point where it stops.

This dangerous idea has been used to justify all forms of crazy economic intervention since Keynes formalized it. The notion of a currency having to depreciate is a direct consequence of these policies, all based on a fallacy. No matter how counterproductive these policies are, they're still applied. Look to Japan and Switzerland as recent examples. Japan has massive stimulus, the Yen is dropping, are people spending more, no, they're saving for the future, knowing that their savings will be worth less, so they need more of them to get by - no spending on unnecessary items. Switzerland is paying negative interest rates on savings accounts, so people have to save more to offset that.

There are lots of things to dislike about Bitcoin, but its value increasing over time isn't one.
Killed by collapsing oil prices, just like other big oil-dependent nations. (Russia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, ... or in the US, look at Alaska, Louisiana, etc.)

Before Chavez, Venezuela was nominally a democracy, with two parties, AD and Copei, but in practice, for 2–3 generations, both parties colluded to keep state power in the hands of party officials, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punto_Fijo_Pact – several of the presidents immediately preceding Chavez were hugely corrupt (even doing prison time for it), and the Venezuelan people were entirely fed up with the longstanding political order, which was why Chavez as an outsider was so popular. The general economic problems throughout Latin America in the 1980s – cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_debt_crisis – and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_banking_crisis_of_1... didn’t help.

I find Chavez’s particular brand of populism deeply problematic, but he doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and Venezuela’s main challenge at the moment isn’t lack of “high school economics” understanding.
Just had a browse of http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/delicious.com.html and it looks like quite a few people have the same plan (myself included)
Plausible. The recent advent of ready, instant, and varied access to video simulation of sex is also plausible.

Both are unpopular hypotheses, however, because all bodies are beautiful and sex positive porn has zero externalities.
Beets [0] for arbitrary files with available tags/metadata defined through config on a per-filetype basis.

Being able to organize and query all of my files on the same level I can my music would be amazing.

[0] http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
> C++ is unsafe by default and you have to write lots extra checks to make sure your code is bulletproof

No you don't, just use RAII and you cover almost all the safety issues. Put all memory allocations, file openings, mutex locking and other resource acquisition in constructors and the matching cleanup in deconstructors and it becomes very safe. Now, not only is memory cleaned up and exception safe, but several classes of file handling and multi-threading issues are categorically fixed. There are a few other rules to enhance this to the point of preposterous safety, but with just this technique I see fewer memory leaks than I do with some garbage collected languages.

The big safety issues occur when people take the unplanned style of treating C++ as if it were C with Classes. Something that exacerbates this is a plethora of bad training material (mostly old from before C++03) and even university classes that use manual memory allocations outside a constructor (naked new statments), exceptions and manual memory releasing in exception unsafe ways.

I am sure Ada can be used incorrectly, now imagine if in an old standard not all Ada compilers supported the same language features. Imagine the subset of common features was dangerous as hell. Imagine creating a memory structure like a linked list because only some compilers provided one prewritten and some are implementations were missing core language features. However, all the compilers ship with dangerous tools to build it wrong. This was C++ in 1995, and many people who learned it then never unlearned their mistakes.

C++03 laid down a bunch of technical fixes and a minimum benchmark for decent compilers. It could have been used safely with what I described above, but much of the developer community was change averse. Now with C++11 we are changing and really cool things are happening because the developers are treating it like a different language.
He can only be described as a conservative neoliberal (wow what a strange moniker that is). Go and check. He cites Ayn Rand and Peggy Noonan. He's a fellow at the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

If you want to understand how and why USAID works, read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by former Ashland Oil CEO John Perkins.
Who's going to accept ten millions people?

Of course, some people will skip the country.
And then they will send money to their relatives who stayed.
And thus some money will flow in and with them, food and ways of coping.

This is how many countries live. Armenia. Ukraine. Nepal. Tajikistan. They end up exporting work force, but they don't go deserted. Some people go, but most always stay.
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More posturing than insight.
While USAID does a lot of good things, it is still a front for US government interests and one of USAID stated goals are regime changes in unfriendly countries.

They do a lot of good things too though.
You're ignoring constant factors. Space empires will likely expand much faster than dictated by population needs, to the degree that, as it spreads out, it will presumably experience a reduction in population density. Sure, with multiple star-faring empires, there may be a limit to how far in space a given empire can expand, but a Type III society is capable of building all sorts of gigastructures, including ringworlds and dyson spheres, so even a moderate expansion out of a single solar system will provide plenty of room for population expansion. It's also likely that immortal or long-lived species will end up having a relatively low number of children (given effective immortality and complete control over reproductive capability, it seems likely that aliens will choose to have a low number of children over their lifetime and will likely wait much longer before having their first child, which means even a simple doubling in population will take place over a relatively long time).

Given these reasonable assumptions, it seems likely to me that most space-faring civilizations of this level of technology will never experience any kind of pressure on living space. If you've ever read the Culture series (by Iain M. Banks) then you might reasonably expect such a civilization to "Sublime" before running out of space. Or to eventually alter themselves so as to remove the desire to procreate in a deliberate move to "retire" from the galactic stage.

I said "most" because there is of course the possibility that some species comes along that has the urge not just to procreate but to have as many children as possible as fast as possible, and manages to achieve this level of technology without ever altering this behavior. Such a species that is driven to expand its population as fast as possible may then experience restrictions on living space, but such a species would eventually have to enact population control, which could take the form of altering themselves to remove this urge to procreate as fast as possible and therefore will become just like "most space-faring civilizations".
A variation of it is open source. The anti-spam features are guarded secrets.

They take a pretty conservative approach to adding features.
Shortages are the natural result of price controls.

If someone asked me what Venezuela should do, I would say "get rid of price controls and stop the inflation." The inflation would be a little painful because it would mean the government would have to stop printing money to pay its bills, but the pain will continue to deepen until they fix the economics.
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Not every petrostate is born equal.

Norway fares better than Russia, Russia better than Venezuela. Can't say about Saudi Arabia.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills -- wtf are these people talking about Apple buying itself? Has nobody here ever taken a finance course?
>The recent advent of ready, instant, and varied access to video simulation of sex is also plausible.

Not to mention easier to purchase/discreet shipping of sex products/toys.
Re 3: what if they are born into virtual reality and don't know anything else? In that case, they might never emerge from that reality?
For what it's worth, Marc has been my lawyer for several years now, and I have never found him less than fully honest.

In fact, I have found him to have nothing but contempt for copyright and patent trolls. Righthaven, in fact, was taken down in no small part due to his work.

http://vegasinc.com/business/legal/2012/mar/14/r-j-copyright...
From an email they sent out two days ago:

The following versions are affected:

8.7.0
8.6.0 through 8.6.7
8.5.0 through 8.5.11
8.4.0 through 8.4.9
8.3.0 through 8.3.8
8.2.0 through 8.2.4

Not sure why this wasn't included here.
Regarding immigration
I am on OPT-EAD visa and planning to start a business. But I am working for a company who is filing my H1B and yesterday I got a receipt number which on being googled showed me that it is being picked in H1B lottery. So assuming it would start from OCT. So what shall be done in this case if I receive H1B and have started a business on OPT visa.Shall I continue to work on same or what are the other options available for immigrant entrepreneur.
Here in AU, we're not comfortable with the proposition that security alerts should be delayed until it's convenient for where $SOMEONE_ELSE happens to live.

EDIT: Or, indeed, that security patches should be delayed at all.
I doubt you are lining up to provide material aid.

I would if there were a way to help.
They are. The linked article says so and discusses it.
The retail and video streaming are really just a massive distributed integration test for their cloud services. We're paying for the privilege of doing their QA for them.
What you are doing is conflating a commodity with a currency.

Anyways, why the Japanese is saving is that even 2 decades later they have a private debt overhang from the 80s boom.

Expect Europe and North America to follow much the same pattern (already a decade in shortly).
"harsh sanctions against Venezuela."?

I don't know if you have lived or ever visited Venezuela, but the ones that got born there would tell you a very different story... Talking about economic war is even more disingenuous when you take in consideration all the money that Venezuela received (and gave it away) during the first decade of this millennium. What is happening is the collapse that many of us were predicting since 10 ago, unfortunately few listened and now we are paying the karma
I've been thinking about writing some website-to-JSON scrapers myself and this basically solves that problem (since I would have been going after CSS selectors or xpath anyway myself). Nice job.
Am I the only one whose first thought was, "wow, del.icio.us is still around?" Yahoo bought them, kinda screwed it up IMO, I paid pinboard his paltry asking price, and kind of forgot about poor ol' del.icio.us.

After reading the post...WTF? They're migrating back to their original domain name and that failed? Didn't del.icio.us always resolve even after delicious.com? What am I missing?
> because ordinary Lisp functions are limited in how they can work with "context-dependent code fragments" passed as arguments. Rebol attacks this problem by making bindings of individual symbols "travel along" with their code fragments. The result is that many cases requiring macros in Lisp can be written as ordinary Rebol functions.

Bzzt, no. "Context dependent code fragments" are "lambdas" in mainstream Lisp dialects, which carry the environment (i.e. bindings of symbols) via lexical closure.

Now, indeed, one of the uses of macros is to provide some (usually mild) sprinkling of syntactic sugar to conceal lambda syntax.

> But packing code into a [functional/lambda] "black box" creates barriers to transformations that are a big part of the appeal of using a homoiconic language.

The history of Lisp has recorded considerable experience with the FEXPR approach to language extension. Lispers had worked out decades ago that this largely sucks, and so interest in FEXPRs waned. They do not appear as a feature in Scheme or Common Lisp, and it's not for lack of knowledge or experience.

Essentially, Lisp performed a "Rebol-ectomy" on its semantics by the end of the 1960's or thereabouts.

Anyway, to understand macros fully, you have to step out of the role of language user and put on a "compleat hacker" hat. Suppose you have complete control at your disposal: you can hack any aspect of the language, as deeply in the implementation as you want. You can add new features that cannot be made out of anything which is already there. In spite of that control, you still want macros. Because macros let you separate the concern of designing the low-level abstractions that are the most convenient for a given feature, and a user interface to them which is nice for the user. (Without macros, you face the annoyance of having to extend the repertoire of special operators, even in situations when it is obvious that these new ones should just expand to some other syntax in terms of functions, plus the old ones).

If I'm extending a language deeply at the implementation level, I'm doing something that can't be done with macros or functions anything else; yet macros help in a specific way that other things don't. I still want them in spite of having total control. If I add non-strict evaluation into the language core, I want macros. If I add continuations, I want macros. If I add functional reactive programming, I still want macros, etc. Macros mean I don't have to go into the compiler, or code walker or elsewhere and add new cases to handle special operators. I don't have to go into the grammar of some parser generator to add the syntax, where the parser action is just "construct a node for this new syntax, exactly like some equivalent longer expression would generate".

(If you say you already have all the syntax you would ever need and everything else is just done with that syntax, then you are not wearing the "compleat hacker" hat.)
That's just one of many areas where readers/viewers willingly suspend disbelief.

Superman is supposed to be able to do that; that's one of the benefits of being beyond human is (for him). A literal reality distortion field is actually the best explanation for all of the exceptions to physics that happen around him; Lois passing in to that bubble while being saved is just one more thing on the list.
Sadly, the concept that capital controls are deleterious is foreign to entirely too many people, and not just in Venezuela.
My experience with GCE customer service has been < 10 minute replies.
One thing often overlooked is that even if a battery pack has reached the end of it's useful life for a car (i.e. 50% of it's original storage capacity), it still potentially has utility for stationary storage purposes. It seems like Daimler is already working on reusing car batteries in this way:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/daimler-is-reusing-el...

... and I read once that Elon Musk talked about it, though I can't find a link.
The switching cost for retail is really low; one Google and you know where you can get the same product for a potential lower price. This means that to win in the retail business you have to accept incredible low margins or even periodically a loss. Online retail is almost a 'perfect' market.

While with hosting, it isn't as easy to switch. When you have chosen AWS, of course you can switch to another vendor, but that is not without an investment in time and money. The higher the switching cost, the more you can raise the price above cost without customers (immediately) running away.
DRM is a concept to be taken seriously, and I often wonder who is the equivalent of RMS in the literature world (?).

Imagine for a moment. Kindle books cost 57.59 dollars, only a few dollars cheaper than Hardcopy books. Along with hardcopy books, Kindle books have a concept of "renting", "monthly membership" to read it on your device at your home.

And at any moment, the document in the cloud can be wiped out with you knowing.

Writing software is a similar challenging task as writing a book and Fortunately, we do not face this problem in Software world, where high-quality software under various Free and Open Source licenses are available at all times.

RMS ensured that anything under GPL cannot be taken away in any form from the users.

We need an equivalent of RMS in the literature world so that we can have freedom to read anything, at any time, while at the same time, while ensuring the protection and credit for the author of the original work.
That is a staggering amount of possible Go games, no wonder tree search failed to improve without the Convnet pruning.

Makes me wonder if Deepmind could learn Go without first learning from the big dataset of expert games to train the convnet to prune the tree.

Which implies that Deepmind couldn't learn to play Go without first being taught by us (the expert games).

So AlphaGo learnt Go from us. It took a human brain to crack the problem of Go and the AI learned from our solutions it did not discover them itself - still a very great breakthrough.

Would Lee Sedol have won if he could use MCTS to assist his evaluation ?

( Arguably the MCTS is a non-AI component of deepmind & does not learn ).

MCTS = Monte Carlo Tree Search, where repeated random playouts evaluate moves by randomly sampling the tree of following (googolplex) possible moves.
Amazon's cloud products apparently don't have to be at the low end of the price spectrum. And yet they continue to dominate. That's much harder to achieve in retail.

Another difference is that Amazon already has the dominant position in cloud computing. Amazon's share of all retail (not just e-commerce), is not dominant.